Weekly journal-miner., 1914-12-23
WOUNDED GIVEN
 BEST OF ATTENTION

GLEIWITZ, Germany. Dec. l5.- Correspondence of the Associated Press; by courier to Holland. )-Thc hospitals of Gleiwitz and Cosei, hlled mainly wi,h wounded from the bat ties before Ivangorod and Warsaw, present striking contrasts to those farther from the front, which are noi SO unattractive.
 Here are gathered men who were worn. haggard and suffering long be fore they were wounded. Many oi them had not removed their clothing for four or five weeks, and had slept in mud and filth. Water was scarce and food scarcer. A large number lay on the fields for a day or two after being injured before receiving medical attention. Followed then tourney of a day or more in JoltinS peasants carts and three or four days of nerve racking riding on railway trains until the base hospitals finally were reached.
 : These delays caused at least 90 per cent of the wounds to become in fected. making the problems of the surgeons more difficult. Every effort is made in the American hospitals to save as many limbs as possible, re | gardless of the length of time the | patients must be kept To the core spondent of the Associated Press were pointed out several men who, ! the surgeon said, could have been discharged days before if amputation | had been resorted to. But bone and ] skin grating is thought to be more ! humane, even though 1t takes longer. 1 It is no reflection upon the Ger man sanitary arrangements that the wounded suffer as they do. On the western front conditions are better. The wounded in France and Belgium come back rapidly to comfortable 1 beds in field and base hospitals and ! receive speedy treatment which heads ] off infection The wounded who are l expected today or tomorrow from the l battlehclds just across the Russian 1 frontier will be in far better shape | than their predecessors. because they ! have been wounded but few miles | from good German roads and few hours from clean hospital beds and adequate medical care.
 Only few of the wounded will die. Nearly all will recover evcntu- ! ally, although recovery can not pro cecd. nor broken bones knit, until suppuration ceases. Many of them 1 will spend Christmas in the hos pitals. Some can write postcards, read the daily war bulletins, play checkers or even shufflc about the wards and corridors. Almost all can
 eat. and the dietary prescribed for
 these seriously wounded soldiers would make many an American phy-
 sician gasp. Dinner today comprised for each patient two large slices of meat, sev-
 cral large spoonsful of cooked sauer-
 kraut. several potatoes and spoon ful Of gravy, all served in Q large
 bowl. Each man gets large loaf ot
 rye bread daily which he keeps be
 side his bed to cut from whenever he
 Is so inclined. Food Is served in one form or another five times a day Not all the wounded. but most O!
 them. get this dietary. which was
 laid down for the American surgeons by German experts familiar with the
 reeds of the German soldier.
 The Americans have been most
 welcome guests in Gleiwitz and Coscl
 and their presence is appreciated not
 only by the medical and army author
 ities. but by the civilian population 1 At Glciwitz the president of the dis
 trict court. on service with the troops
 turned over his villa and servants to
 the American surgeons for resi-
 dence. The nurses arc quartered al
 the hospital Surgeons and nurses at
 Cosel have been furnished quarters
 at the hotel.
 FATE OF WAR