Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-12-16
ARMY Of COMPASSION FOLLOWS
ARMY Of DESTRUCTION IN BATTLE
System That Has Made the Kasers Fighting Forces Military
Marvel Is Applied Also to the Organization Devoted to the
Alienation of Pain and Misery-Empress and
Peasant Women Alike Engaged in Work.

dyne remedies, an especial aim being
to diminish suffering, even if other
help should be out of the question.
Staff Physician Doctor Neumann OF
Elberfeld claims that modern weap-
ons are more humane than the old
fashioned lead projectiles, in that
those who are not killed outright are
better off than in former wars. In
addition to complete equipment of the
Red Cross, each individual soldier OF
the German army is fitted out with
two packages of antiseptic dressing
and carefully drilled in its appllca-
ton. This enables him to dress his
wounds himself in case Of emergency.
And already reports are coming In OF
the success of these precautions in
aVerting infection Of wounds.
During a battle the physicians of
each company establish first-aid sta,
tons, "Verbandplatze,'' as near as pos
sible to the immediate 'front.' in po-
sition shielded from rifle fire and artil-
lery fire and easily accessible, where
the men can lie down protected by
windshields, portable tents and shell
tering ramparts. The Red Cross of
Geneva fiutters above these little ha-
vens of rest and shows the way to
those who are but slightly injured and
still able to walk. The others are
brought in on stretchers by the nurses,
who continually plunge into the fray
to succor the wounded. The nurses
are all fitted out with first-aid appli-
ances so that in case of supreme need
they can minister help right on the
battlefield. Urgent operations are per-
formed, wounds dressed and eZamina-
tions made at the first-aid stations.
The wounded are at once divided into
three classes:
First Class-Wornded able to walk.
Second Class-Wounded able to
stand transportation.
Third Class-Wounded unable to
stand transportation.
Tagging the Wounded.
Each patient receives a tag, the
shape and color Of which denotes in
which of the three classes he belongs.
On this tag the physician makes a de
tailed note of the nature of his in
jury, thus saving the man the pain
of renewed examination as he passes
from one hospital on to another, and
in addition saving the physicians much
valuable time. From these first-aid sta
tons the wounded are later conveyed
to the field hospitals in ambulances,
every army corps having IL field hos
pitfalls, each with a capacity of at least
two hundred patients. In the pres
ent war, with it's pathetic accompani-
ment of civilian warfare, which re-
spects no Red Cross, it has become
necessary to give the ambulance trans
ports their armed body-guards, who
take terrible revenge on all francs
tireurs," shooting them at sight and
blowing up their homes.
Night for the Red Cross soldiers
brings an arduous task When the
scenes of horror all about them have
been covered with a blackness torn
only by the fitful CLEAN Of some burn
ing village on the horizon, these men
again leave their station by the red
lanterns of Geneva and dispense over
the battlefield, searching for the
wounded, as we'll as for the hyenas
who plumber and mutilate the dead
A soldier Of the Red Cross risks his
life over and over again day and night.
He needs as much daring, endurance
and sacrificial spirit as the soldier Of
the Iron Cross.
Becomes War Hospital.
Once in the field hospital (Which,
following in the wake of the army, is
always quite distance from the act
ual battlefield), the wounded soldiers
receive regular treatment. They re-