New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1915, Page 19

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1915. - LED AUSTRIANS IN ATTACK ON SERVIA GENERAL KOE General Koevess. one of the leaders of the Austro-Hungarian troops in dheir victorio sht on Servia, which has overrun the entire country is highly esteemed by the authorities | of Germany. Before the war he| commanded an army corps with head- | quarters in Transylvania, ONLY SANITARY SPOT N BALKAN REGION French and British Hospital Ships in Roads of Saloniki (Corresnondence of the Associated Press.) Aboard the French Hospital Ship | Charles Roux, Harbor of Saloniki, | Nov. 30.—Quite the most agreeable fate that can overtake an allied sol dier in the Balkan campaign is to e | ill—or slightly wounded. Not that thg hospital facilities of the ancient | Turkish city are famous, or even adequate. They are not. But there are four French and one British hos- pital ships in the roads of Saloni and they constitute by far the most comfortable not to say the only sani- tary spot in the Balkan peninsula. The French have been better pre- | pared from the very outset of the; pribent Balkan campaign in every de- | tail of military organization than their | British allies. No better example of ihe thoroughness of this preparation | could be given than the arrangements for caring for the sick and wounded. Long before there was actually any need for it and simultancously with | the landing of the first contingent of | Fmnch troops on Greek soil, thel French hospital ship Sphinx was lying | ready in the harbor of Saloniki. As| the number of troops disembarked in- sed, automatically more hospital put in an appearance. TFirst the Dugay Trouin, with its sheltered | decks and its high stern like the poop | of g Spanish galleon, all porches and | aw¥ngs and lounging places for the | convalescent: next this ship, the | Charles Roux, with its operating rooms, its surgical clinics and complete pro more seriously the Canada—all wounded: and finally | with full comple- | ment of nurses, surgeons, physicans. | fisters of charity and all the Test of | the paraphcrnalia of the aftermath of | battle. «Principal Operating Theater. | Tn many ways the Charles Rou | he most interesting, especially it is | the principal operating thea of the joating hospitals of Saloni and | especially as the Surgeon Major Dr is one of the most dis- | ed and best known surgeons | The ship was converted | fromi one of the larger passenger | steamers that in time of peace made | he vovage from Marseilles to Alger. lAg such, it is roomy enough, for not -nly have the saloons not required as | | perating chambers been turned into | vards to add to the accommodations i the cabins, but the great broad have been glassed in, making | - agrecable of sun parlors in | hich cots are set in long rows so hat the sick and wounded, in the armth of the afternoon sun, may lie fet and look out at the splendid | lew the Bay of Saloniki affords, Here, too, the convalescent, propped by with pillows, sheltered, excellently arcd for and competently nursed by olurgeer French women who have | assed the necessary examinations and ad the requisite experience, gather rength against the time when they | ay go back and “have another o | ‘em,” as the “poilu” in the next bt to the Associated Press corres- | ondent put it. Under such circum- | ances the wounded soldier has all the vantages and none of the draw- ¢ Naples of the Orient” call Saloniki. If ot is on the south side of the ship, has before him the new snow- pped crests of the mountains of Richis, those three fingers of landl Qur | changing beauty of th ‘BIGGEST MONEY-SAVING _EVENT of the yeacr Semi-Annual Clearance Sale Is Now On . Twice a year, each season, we clear out the stock on hand by the Power of cut prices—Prices cut so low, that they are irresistible—so low, that Prudent People can not afford to pass our inducements and are, therefore, forced to buy! Now Is This Splendid Opportunity The time, that every Man and Boy in the Family should be Clothed to the limit of his wants. We've cut prices right and left—offering values you will be able to select. DON'T THINK OF LETTING THIS CHANCE ESCAPE YOU We Don’t Want Profit These Days --- We Want Customers Here are Clearance Sale Prices that no man can resist, unless he is bargain .proof! 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The rare and clouds above these snow-coifed heights, the sing:- lar coloring of the sunsets are joys to the patients aboard the French hos- cilities wounds. necessary for searching Rows of glass cases contain shining instruments, white porcelain tables display shallow glass dishes for sterlizing the instruments, each dish covered with a heavy glass plate to keep out an extraneous substance. Each specialist has his own operatisg room, in addition to which there is a | very complete pharmacy, a biological | laboratory, an X-ray apparatus with | the necessary facilities fo | graphing the insides of the patient and a pe velop the photographs. fectly equipped dark room to dc In comple- tion of the picture, there are the silent efficient little sisters of charity, their great, white, wing-like head dre: bobbing and nodding as the wearers hurry hither and thither, a chain upon which are hung the keys to the sup- pital ships in no wise lessened by odors, the noises and the discomforts of life ashore in Saloniki. On the other hand, should the pa- tient be placed on the north side of the ship, the view is no less attr: tive. Saloniki itself, charming fr a distance, straggling along the cu ing shore, mounting the hill behind the town to the walled citadel that |morning sun. caps its crest—dozens of exquisite. | Below deck white minarets like altar candles {and every oper: proud and slim, their balconies hung All of th men o France—the known as the “Succor for Wounded Soldiers.” whose committee even now is in Saloniki, looking after arranges ments, criticising, making suggesti and charging themselves with ing from the groat hearts of French women all that may bo meeded to see that the soldiers of the French republic, however far he may be from home, shall have every proper oare and comfort. with lanterns against the fete of | is the wor Ramazan; long walled and secret mys- } the wo: organization terious house with projecting, lat- ticed balconies; walled secret gardens, revealing only lofty monument of a single cypress ren ’ spots on the peopled hillside that are cemeter the grey-white of their jumbled headstones gleaming the and the in a tin of baked and sterilized bandages under one arm—or a packet of books and magazines destined for some con- valescent pationt, 211 is ready for any tion. Every kind of electric light gives the surgeon all fa- | ply closets dangling from their waists, 1