Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-11-11
HAS FIRST AID KIT.
Every German Soldier Carries
Dressing for Wounds.
AS a Result of Foresight and Care In
Providing Equipment Slightly
Wounded Are Soon Back
in the Ranks.

Chicago.-The Daily News prints
the following from its staff CORE
spondent with the right wing Of the
German army in France:
mo detail of the German army is
worked out to greater lengths or with
more foresight than the care Of the
wounded. One detail of this work
shows the German army at its best.
Every soldier has sewn under a
corner of his coat strip Of rubber
cloth. Under this strip is a piece of
antiseptic gauze, a strip Of bandage
and plaster and cloth for the outer
bandage. This cloth bears in simple
pictures directions for dressing every
sort of wound.
when a soldier is wounded either
he or some comrade rips open this
package and applies at once the life
saving dressing, which will last at
any rate until the soldier is taken to
a station where the first scientific at
tention is given.
Through this simple and inexpen-
sive device thousands of German sol
diers who have been slightly wounded
in battle have returned to their conn.,
rades within a few days, completely
cured, and have taken their places
in the ranks once more. Without this
care large percentage of the wounds
would become indamed, as has been
the case with hundreds of wounded
French prisoners captured by the Ger
mans.
1.-The ordinary procedure of caring
for the wounded in the German army
is for the sanitary corps, which is
well provided with stretchers and
bandages, to gather up the wounded
on or near the firing lines and bring
them to the gathering point little
behind the lines. Here the army sur
geons are ready to begin at once upon
the most urgent cases.
''They are assisted by members Of
the corps, who remove the temporary
bandages and put on dressings which
will last until the soldier reaches a
hospital. Then from the first gath
ering point the wounded soldiers are
put on stretchers in Red Cross wagons
and carried to the field hospitals.
where doctors and nurses are at work.
t'These hospitals are usually estab-
lished in village churches or town
halls. From these little field hos
pitfalls, as soon as the men can be
moved, they are taken to some gem
eral hospital in the nearest large
city, where several thousands can be
cared for Such hospital exists in
this neighborhood in the building of
a normal college where every corner
is used in housing wounded men.
81 made a quick trip through this
building, and the memory is one Of
the most heartrending pictures l have
Of the war Room after room was
filled with the victims of the conflict.
Every man was seriously wounded.
Some had suffered amputation and
the heads Of others were so bandaged
that no feature could be seen, only a
tube from the nose permitting breath
ing.
Slightly wounded soldiers are
taken to the field hospitals and thence,
after a. short convalescence, are load
home for recovery. Later they re-
turn to take their places in the regi-
mentS.
Near the large hospital I visited
was a graveyard where there were
scores of neatly marked fresh graves,
each bearing a cross or tablet with
the name of the soldier and his regi
ment, division and corps marked on
It. In some cases comrades had add
ed word or two of Scripture.
''The identity Of each soldier is
easily determined from the name plate
which he wears in a little leather
purse suspended from around the
neck. After a battle these plates are
gathered from the dead, and from
these the lists are made out"