New Britain herald., 1915-12-17
ONLYSANITARY SPOT
 IN BALKAN REGION
French and British Hospital Ships
 in Roads Of SalOniki
tCorrespcndence of the Associated Press,

Correspondence of the Associated Press.l
 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 De itl-or slightly wounded. Not that the. 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 Saloniki and they constitute by far the most romforta ble not to say the only sani- tary spot in the Balkan peninsula.
 The French have been better pre- rared from the very outset of the present Balkan campaign in every de- tail of military organization than their British allies. No better example of the 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 simultaneously with the landing of the first contingent of FE4nch troops on Greek soil, the French hospital ship Sphinx was lying ready in the harbor of Saloniki As the number of troops disembarked in- creased, automatically more hospital ships put in an appearance. First the nugay Trouin, with it's sheltered decks and it's high stern like the poop cf a Spanish galleon, all porches and awnings and lounging places for the convalescent; next this ship, the Charles Roux, with it's operating rooms, it's surgical clinics and it's complete provision for the care of the 8 more seriously wounded; and finally the Canada-all with full compile |fment of nurses, surgeons, phys1Cans' ksisters of charity and all the rest of the para phernalia of the aftermath o1 tbattle
 .PrincipaI Operating Theater.
 In many ways the Charles Roux is khe most interesting, especially as it is yfIle principal operating theater of the |tfoating hospitals of Saloniki, ant Especially as the Surgeon Major Dr Heitz-Boyer, is one of the most d1s- tinguished and best known surgeons In Paris. The ship was converted from one of the larger passenger steamers that in time of peace made 8the voyage from Marseilles to Alger As such, it is roomy enough, for moi 87nly have the saloons not required a. 0perating chambers been turned into wards to ada to the aCcOmm OdaL1On Alf the cabins, but the great broad ecks. have been glassed in, makins
 he most agreeable of sun parlors il
 hich cots are set in long rows SC I hat the sick and wounded, in thu
 yarmth of the afternoon sun, may li' bs,iet and look out at the splendit
 lew the Bay of Salonili affords.
 Here, too, the convalescent, proppet kp with pillows, sheltered, excellent, 4ared for and competcntly nursed b.
 olurkeer French women who hav'
 passed the necessary examinations an:
 lad the requisite experience, gathe krength against the time when the.
 hay go back and "have another s;' |t ,em," as the "poilu' in the nex
 lot to the Associated Press cores kondent put it.. Under such circum
 ances the wounded soldier has all tn
 lyantages and none of the draw
 ckxf of ''the Naples of the Orient
 it's inhabitants call Saloniki. !
 < cot is on the south side of the ship
 has before him the new snow
 pped crests Of the mountains 0
 alchis. those three fingers of lam