THE CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6, 8 February 1900, Page 20

THE CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN.

A letter from one of the workers with the ambulance corps at Elandslaagte, at Rietfontein, and at Lombard's Kop, gives details of wounds and deaths that are too harrowing to print ; but one passage, which tells in an allusion of the presence of Catholic chaplains where they are most wanted, we permit ourselves to make :

There was one officer, with his head half blown off, and his right leg just hanging with about an inch of skin to his hip, brought in on a gun-carriage, and he died while they lifted him to our ambulance waggon. Then a gunner came in ; he had lost his leg. and his inside was hanging out, but he was just as sensible aa you or I, and the pain he could not bear any longer. He called on the doctor to poison him, but the doctor could offer him no bodily respite. The priest, however, approached ; and whispered in his ear words which gave him comfort, so that he lay down for a while.