Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1915-12-16
Associated Press)

IADOI AIND A "A N ROUS (the French Hospital Ship), Harbor of Saloniki, Dec. 15.-Quite the most agreeable fate that can over take an allied soldier in the Balkan campaign is to be ill -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 hospital ship in the roads of Saloniki and they constitute by far the most comfortable, not to say the only sanitary spot in the Balkan peninsula.
 The French have been bet ter prepared from the very outset of the present Balkan campaign in every detail of military organization than their British Allies. No bet ter example of the thorough ness of this preparation could be given than the arrange mentS for caring for the sick and wounded.
 Long before there was ac- tually any need for it and si- multaneously with the land ing of the first contingent of French troops on Greek soil, the French hospital ship, the Sphinx, was lying ready in the harbor of Saloniki.
 As the number of troops disembark' ed increased, automatically more hos pital ships put in an appearance. Fir~t the Dugay Trouin, with it's sheltered decks and its high stern like the p9cl' of a Spanish galleon, all porches and awnings, and lounging places for the convalescent; next this ship, the ChaS Roux, with it's operating rooms, it's sur sical clinics and it's complete provision for the care of the more seriousl? wounded; and finally, the Canada all with full complement of nurses surgeons, physicians, sisters of charity and all the rest of the paraphernalla of the aftermath of battle.
 In many ways, the Chas. RouN Is the most interesting, especially as it Is the principal operating theatre of the floating hospitals of Saloniki, an1 especially as the Surgeon Major Dr Heitz-Boyer, is one of the most distin- guished and best known surgeons in Paris The ship was converted from one of the larger passenger steamers that in time of peace made the voyage from Marseilles to Alger. AS such, 1t is roomy enough, for not only have the saloons not required as operating chambers been turned into wards to add to the accommodations of the cabins, but the great broad decks have been glassed in, making the most agreeable of sun parlors in which cots are set in long rows so that the sicl and wounded, in the warmth of the afternoon sun, may lie quiet and look out at the splendid view the Bay Ot Saloniki affords.
 Here, too, the convalescent, propped up with pillows, sheltered, excellently cared for and competently nursed by volunteer French women who have passed the necessary examinations and had the requisite experience, gath CT strength against the time when they may go back and have another go at em," as the "poilu" in the next cot to the Associated Press correspond ent put it. Under such circumstances, the wounded soldier has all the advan- tages and none of the drawbacks Ot 'the Naples of the Orient" as it's in habitants call >Saloniki. If his cot is on the south side of the ship, he has before him the new snow-capped crest of the mountains of Kalchis, those three fingers of land that stretch into the Aegean, with convent-crowned Mt. Athos tipping the last finger. Or, to the west, confused with the clouds, he has the peaks of Thessaly-Mt. olympus, the home of the gods of an cient Greece, and beyond, Mt. Osso; and perhaps even, dim in the distance, Mt. Pelion, both of mythological fame. The rare and cahnging beauty of the clouds above these snow-coifed heights and the singular coloring of the sun ofc f0 hn oh