New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 12, 1915, Page 5

TURKISH WOUNDED WELL CARED FOR Health of Troops at Gallipoli and Dardanelles Fronts Is Good {Correspondence of the Aszociated Press.) Constantinople, August health of the Turkizh troops Gallipoli and Dardanelles fronts good, and the wounded from these theaters of war are well cared for. To this may be added that the Turkish medical staff has shown much re- sourcefulness and that the occasional paucity of materials and medicamen's is met in a spirit one would not ex- pect to find in an organization of which so little good was said during the late Balkan war. The capacity of the hospitals inspected by the Assoc- jated Press correspondent is over 3,000. Camp hygiene is well administered in the Ottoman army. Trenches vis- ited were found to be scrupulously clean. The food of the men is well cooked and care is taken that none but good water is drunk by the men. Every effort is made to keep the clothing of the men frec from vermin and to facilitate this retorts, in which infested clothes may be baked or dis- infected, are built wherever they are needed. Great iagenuity has been displayed in this. As a rule, the re- tort is nothing more than a large/Ziole in some convenlent hillside, similar to a bakeoven. Iits floor 1is paved with brick or field stone, and under this two other holes are dug for the fire that is to heat the retort. The . construction is extremely simple ,and not a single piece of iron is used ‘n it. Even the door of tne retort is generally a large rock. Latrines in Excellent State. In the camps visited all latrines were found in an excellent state. Lime was being used as a disinfectant, be- cause other chemicals can not be had in Turkey at present. To combat the fly pest messes and kitchens are placed so that air currents can sweep through them. This method is not as effective as screening, but screens are hard to get in Turkey. It may be said in this connection that the experience of the Turkish troops oa the Gallipoli peninsula with flies has been a most trying one, bus that, so far, the fly has not proven as great an agent of disease as has been charged in other parts of the world. It is thought, however, that this is largely due to the fact that the Turkish soldier gets very littls uncooked food or cooked food which . has been exposed to contamination long. His mess of rice, beans, peas, THE CURRAN " DRY 600DS CO. Advance Showing of . 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All Troops Vaccinated. All men at the front have been vaccinated against typhoid and ty- phus—vaccinated men are given a certificate. The -gonstant changing caused _by lossegianl reinforcements makes “frequent ‘pectioms of these certificates necesdry. Men who fall to’ produce a certificate are imme- diately re-vicginated. The same is | true of men ‘whoSe certificate shows | | | | that the period of immunity resulting | from a prior vaccihation is about to expire. 'So- successful has beeén" this | method that on June 24, when the correspondent visited a lazareit for | contagious cases, the entire Turkish force on the peninsula had but three | cases of mild enteric fever and nons of typhoid or typhus: Sick and wounded are never admit- ted to the same hospital nor are they treated in the same tent, even at the front. i Model Institution. One of the lazarettes for the sick visited was a model institution of its kind, and,. 6dd to relate, the lack of material” and: other unfavorable conditions had made it so. . In its former location the. lazarett had been bombarded by an allied aviator, to whom the large white tents had been a welcome target. So the lazar-! ette had ‘to be shifted. Major Jack Messim, chief physician, then discov- eted that his tentage had suffered considerably from the aerial bambard- ment. The new site of the lazarett was well wooded, and led to the build- ing of large permanent booths of pine timbers and boughs. The boughs on the roof and sides of the booth do not permit the hot sunlight to enter, while giving free access to the breeze, and the fragrance of the rosin and pine needles is a good deodorant. The old tenting has been converted into sheets that may be stretched over the booth in case of rain. It is doubt- ful whether the sick of any other army are as well situated as those in care of Major Messim and his staff. His loses through death from all cases are $o far less than two per cent. only are treated in his lazarett. Similarly constructed are the “buildings” of the hospital for severe wounds in charge of Ismes Bey, cap- tain-gtirgeon. The Messim and Iemes | good ventilation at | environment helps. the establishments lie under the same hill and are separated by a gorge in whose shelter the bacteriological and chemical laboratory of the two in- stitutions operates. Best of Hospitals. Ismes Bey cares for all the sever wounded of the Turkish Avi Bournou group. His hospital is probably one of the best to be found anywhere. Its booths and tents are located under tall pine trees and are well kept. The beds. though none too comfortable, perhaps are scrupulously clean and the well- being of the patients is promoted by having men from the “working 1 serves” keep the flies from them witu white clothes fastened to long, thin poles. The construction of the booths does not permit “fly proofing” and the same time, and since the fanning against the flics also tends to keep the men cool, Cap- tain Ismes Bey, decided upon the method of fly-chasing employed. Ismes Bey belongs to the class of | that pleasant patient to speedy recovery. With this in view he has caused flowers to be planted where the patients can see them. Parts of his “forest” hospital remind one of a well-kept rustic garden. Good care is givén even the walks. Most of them had to be cut into the steel hillside. They were then care- fully revetted and covered with grav- el from the neighboring Dardanelics. Only Severely Wounded. In the Ismes Bey hospital only se- verely wounded are received. The o erating room is a large tent W wooden floor, is fly proof and the dust s guarded agaist by ground nearby constantly sprinkled. The medical staff of Ismes Bey is probably one of the best in the field. Its members are young men with training and experience gained in Germany and France. Their work is quick and thorough, as watching a number of operations and amputa- tions seemed to indicate. Extracting a large shell splinter from the upper surgeons who believe arm of a soldier, an operation whaich | necessitated the. splitting .. of the muscle to the bone, took less than ten minutes, for instance. . When a severely wounded patient has become “transportable,” he s shipped to one of the city hospitals. Ismes Bey hospital loses only from three to four per cent. of cases in which operation has been necessary. The total lots of all cases is from seventeen to eighteen per cent., many of the severely wounded dying shortly before or during the operation. Camp for Slightly Wounded. Near the Ismes hospital is a camp The Effects T | their infancy. | receive opiates in only then if unavoidable. \ | dose them willfully with narcotics. Castor signaturo of Chas. H., Fletcher. Genaine Castoria always bears the si l The administration of Anodynes, Drops, other narcotics to children by any but a pi:ysician cannot be too strongly decried, and the druggist should not be ». need the attention of & physician, and f ria contains no narcotics if it bears the of Opiates. HAT INFANTS are peouliarly susceptible to opium and its sarious preparations, all of which are narcotic, is well known. smallest doses, if continued, these opiates cause changes in the func- tions and growth of the cells which are likely to become permanent, causing imbecility, mental perversion, a oraving for alcohol or narcotics in later life. | Nervous diseases, such as intractable nervous dyspepsia and lack of staying wers are a result of dosing with opiates or narcotics to keep children quiet Pr(\, The rule among physicians is that children should never the smallest doses for more than a day at a time, and Even in the Cordials, Soothing Syrups and rty to it. Children who areill P is ‘notning less than a crime to Zo Tz, gnatare of keeping the ! | water as well as by land. ITOr the lightly wounded. It consists of a number of large tents and booths in which the men sleep. 'The day is passed in the shade of the trees. | Wounds are examined and dressed at stated intervals of the day.” The sta- | mina of the Turkish soldier makes any other care superfluous. Whether a man is able to walk out of the firing line or trench, or must be carried out on, a stretcher, estab- lished in the Ottoman army his status as “lightly” or *“severely” wounded Lightly wounded are marked with large white pasteboard ticket with one red bar running down the center. Severely wounded have a similar tic- ket with two red bars. With the ex- ception of foot wounds the lighily wounded are required to walk to the field hospital To the base hospital they are carried in ordinary escort wagons. Severely wounded are cai- ried to the field hospitals in an am- bulance, known as the ‘‘Brussa” am- bulance, which has almost complete- ly displaced the American ambulances i formerly used in the Turkish military service. The atention given the se- | verely wounded at the field stations covers imediate needs only. Bears Pain Heroically The Turkish soldier is not very sus- ceptible to pain. He gives little ! trouble when wounded, and his almost | extraordinary frugality makes him a | patient who is easily cared for, Med- |ical men are of the opinion that the | total abstinence of most Turkish sol- diers reduces the possibility of wound infections lessen the shock susceptibil- ity anq aids in the recovery of the pa- tient. Ultimately all severely wounded are brought to Constantinople, where | about a score of well-appointed hos- pitals are being maintained. Those visited by the Associated Press cor- respondent left little to be _desired. Thes2 hospitals have every modern | accesory of surgery, such as “X'"-ray department, plants for the steriliza- tion of dressing materials and labor- atories. Patients in whom the wound has caused a temporary paralyzation of motor nerves and muscles are sent to one of the many mineral baths in Turkey, and recently an institution for electro-theurapetical treatment has been opened for the benefit of inval- id soldidrs. It is admitted even by the Turkish army surgeons that their service w a total failure during the late Balkan war. That, however, cannot be said | j of the work now done by the medical department. Surprising as such a statement must be, it is claimed that so far only two cases of tetamus have | developed as the rcsult of thne Gal poli campaign. A statement as to the total of casualties cannot be made at this time, because if there is one thing upon which reliable figures ca- | not be had from Turkish ofMcial sources it is information as to memn- I bers of any sort affecting the Turkish forces in the field. PETROGRAD NOT IN DANGER. Russian Fleets Success at Riga Re- lieves Tension. London, Aug. 12.—Discussing the possibility of a German attempt to reach Petrograd, as indicated by thelr activities in the Kovno and Dvinek regions, the correspondent of the Evening News at the Russlan capi- lal says: “The success gained by the Rus- slan fleet at Riga has reassured the | capital, as no advance against Petro- | grad is likely unless the Germans ol- tain command of the Baltic, giving them a line of communication Uyl June i von Sanders | the Ottoman army. 'indofat!glblr‘ worker in that capacity, | and the splendid conduct of the Sul- itan's troops in this war may be said | bare. 'ayor 's Home at Aspach-Le-Haut Directly 'WILL DRIVE BRITISH | In the Line of‘Fire of Contending Armies OUT OF ARI BURNU Turkish Field Marshal Tells A. P. Gorrespondent (Correspcndence of the Associated Press.) | General Headquarters, Gallipoli, 14.—"There are no secrets around here. You can go anywhere | rou please,” said Field Marshal Liman Pacha to the Associated | Press correspondent, when the latter | presented his credentials and asked | for permission to visit the front. “1 may add that the military situa- | tion is most favorable for us,” he con- tinued. “We intend driving the Brit- | ish out of Ari Burnu before long. But are in no hurry because we can achieve that without making the sacri- fices which might still to get rid of the enemy.” The supreme commander of the Turkish forces on the Gallipoli Penin- we j sula is a man somewhat advanced in vears, but remarkably well preserved. He is about six feet tall, and well pro- portioned in body; there is a soft quality in the lines of his face and the expression of his eves. Liman Pacha came to Turkey in the summer of 1913 to assist, as head of the German mili- tary mission, in the reorganization of He has been an to be largely due to the reforms in- stituted on his advice. Outlines Course of Events. In his conversation with The Asso- ciated Press correspondent, Liman Pacha outlined briefly the course which military events on the penin- sula had taken since the landing in the last week of April. “In forty-nine days (the interview occurred on June 11) the allies have | done little beside losing ground stead- ily,” said the commander. “Their offensive collapsed as soon as we were able to counteract their tactics. It must be borne in that this happened despite a superior- ity in artillery that left our own arms of that character no chance whatever. For 'days -and days the allied ships bombarded and searched every part of the peninsula with an artillery fire as severe and incessant as, on the whole, it was unproductive of results favor- able to the British and French troops. I will say that the moral effect of a heavy bombardment is not as lasting in the case of Turkish troops as the allies may have expected. Our brav Ottéman soldiers are not easily fright- ened by noise, owing to their splendid nerves—and this is a war of nerves, a war in which strong nerves mean vic- tory.” Inspection of Sectors. Later in the day the correspondent was given a letter by Liman Pacha in which all commanders at the front were requested to permit an inspec- tion of their sectors by the holder. On the following day, June 12, the position at Ari Burnu were visited. But in the Aegean sea two British cruisers were manoeuvering when the ride to Ari Burnu began. Since 5:30 a. m. they had kept up a rather severe bombardment of certain parts of the peninsula. Passing through the sec- tion under fire it was obvious that in- direct fire, without observers, is a waste of ammunition. The fire of the crulsers was purely ‘“chance” work. No aeroplane or captive balloon was up and the heaVy shells exploded in the open and on the wheatfields. Ninety were counted and the result achieved is represented by zero. The bombardment ceased about 7 a. m. A little later the Ari Burnu position was reached, and the journey covered ground formerly occupied by the British troops, which at Ari Burnu are exclusively contingents from Aus- tralia and New Zealand. £ Long Outer Trench. The center of the British position is Ari Burnu, or Cape Ari. Here a long outer trench has been dug. hind this outer trench the British have established a second line of defense, consisting of two short sectors. Back of the southernmost of these sectors lies another trench, serving, evidently, as a support to an artillery redoubt located on the summit of Cape Ari it- self. This may be called the center of the British position, though the left flank of the British consists of a single short trench on a hill about 400 yards north of the extreme point of the northern sector. The British right flank, or southern | series of entrenchments, is located on the southeast of the Korkou-Deresi | creek and follows the course of an ad- | vanced trench and two supporting sec- tors. Position Crescent Shaped. With Ari Burnu as pivot, the Brit- ish position is cresent shaped, about 2,800 yards long from north to south, and 1,100 yards wide in a line drawn across Ari Burnu. The site is rather There is a small spring on it, and most of the water needed by the | British troops hag to be brought from the adjacent islands. The Turkish trenches are in one casé only two yards from the British | trench. At another point the trenches of the opposing forces are only ten yards apart. Constant sapping by the Turks is the cause of this interesting condition. Already the British trenches have been blown up by the Turks in three places. Hand grenades and large bombs thrown by a capapult are | used by the Britsih. 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Essad P opinion that of these o was a feint, insisting at’ the assertion of the | Kum Kale landing sham manoeuvre is du | of the mighty bayonet charges by the | that |.hv allied vtrunpl the ground they had tal | Turks. Most of them did not like landing at Ari Burng [t ”':”‘""""h . ‘a flank attack upon | i A | torces opposing the &) [T is something un- | cany in men rushing a trench silently | g~ 0“0 gtaT o ip S ing the narrow part of { with bayonets fixed. Noise has a | stimulating effect at times, while its b | absence acts in an opposite direction,” "S;::,’;a:,”_f;r::‘,l e raid ¥ " H g hemmed in at Ari Burn | British Aeroplane Drops Bombs. ! eut off the land line | tions of the Turkish tro Bahr. Meanwhile the. at Sid-el-Bahr were to and in so doing take the. on the European shore nelles from the land sid forts taken the water stantinople would have | tar as Nagara. Prompt | Turkish army ruined ing about what Gen commander of the ¥ is said to have feared. | stood in well-informed stantinople that G the subject of study of some Turkish officers. The' bomb consisted of a cast-steel outer shell, 2% inches in | diameter and about six inches long. | The shell contained an inner tube filled with an explosive. Mecets Gen. Essad. About noon Essad Pacha, comman- der of the third army, and during the | late Balkan war defender of Janina, | was met by the correspondent. Gen- | eral Essad is a man of medium height, | slightly gray about the temples, of | dignified, military appearance, and courteous demeanor. “The situation here, at Ari Burnu | and Sid-el-Bahr is very favorable,” | he said. “The British and French | | have been obliged to assume the de | fensive, which, I should say, is not | what they landed for. We hope to get them out and before long. The allies have come to respect the bayonets of | our soldiers.” | Essad Pacha then recounted what ! some of the British prisoners thought | The afternoon was made interesting | by a visit from a British aeroplano | which aropped three large bombs. Throughout the day the sniping | | from both trenches continued. A | Turkish battery on the British left | lank added to the picture by taking {a pot shot at some part of the op- | ponents’ trenches. The British pieces | on land did not reply for some time | but finally were also heard from. No British or French men-of-war could | be seen near Kaba Tepe, their former station. A single hospital ship, paint- ed gray, lay off shore. 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