MEN WHO ARE CHANGED.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1916, Page 5

MEN WHO ARE CHANGED.

GERMAN SURGEON'S IMPRESSIONS, Professor Ludwig Schleieh, one of Germany's greatest surgeons, lias spent some months at the front, and also a considerable time in charge of a military hospital in Berlin. In his impressions, now published, he speaks of a strange, almost awful look in the faces of those released I'rom the firing line. They are etill willing soldiers, some of them eager to get back to the trenches, but the more highly civilised a man is, Professor Schleieh says, the better educated, the deeper his feelings, the more does he bear that indelible something in his face, the sign that he has seen terrible things. Physically, these soldiers may be hard as iron, yet, they are not Intact. The officers nearly always develop an uncanny, marble, staring look, as though they had been accustomed to gaze unshudderiiigly at all the terrors and desolating orgies of destruction, as though they had been obliged to witness this with unblinking eyes, and finally felt that their eyes had become a mirror of the horrible." It is as though a claw of a demon had seized their faces and made their eyes sink deeper into their hollows. They are all changed, says Schleieh, they have all seen the head of the Gorgon in the Region of Night, they have all been beaten by the pinion of the iron bird of Destiny.