Norwich bulletin., 1916-07-31

this city, who has been with the hos pital corps ill the English army in Northern France in the locality of Le Basse since last December, returned home Saturday evening after an ab- sence from this city for a number of years. pr. Cunningham was forced to quit the frontier owing to & fractured ankle received while performing his duty.
 Hurry Gall at a. m.
 It was about o'clock in the smorn- ing when Dr. Cunningham and two hurry cali and in the confusion of the moving of the artillery pieces back and. forth the driver of the aTn- bulance lost the road which was sog@ gy and muddy owing to weather con- ditions and consequently the machine tipped over, pinning his ankle 6e- meath it. Dr. Cunningham Sllisted in the hospital corps during the month of December, 1915.
 Crossed the Channel on Sussex.
 He left Folkstone on the Sussex which was later destroyed On land ing in France he encountered one of the severest winters that France na3 had in number of years. especially in the southern part of the country, and the trenches where the men were fighting were sIush knee deep and with the severe weather many were frost bitten. The Indian soldiers who were in France gradually disappeared owing to the climatic conditions which they were unable to withstand, so that today there are only few who have been able to hold out. The doctor has talked with hundreds of wounded and convalesCing soldiers who have ever seen German sol- dier or has any idea what they look like. There are thousands of thesa poor fellows who arc wounded and killed and have not even got a glimpse of their adversariies because of the methods used in modern warfare in the trenches.
 Perils of Trench Warfare.
 They are stationed in these trench. es and there is rarely charging as Ip our Civil war as at Gettysburg. A sol- dter dares not pop his head up over the trench if he does so he Is ill dan ger of losing 1t owing to the shippers who do very effective work. Not only are the snipers dangerous, but the mOnstrOus heId pieces securely se- creted with boughs of trees. branches, leaves, grass. are there at hand are most formidable and deathly.
 The trenches have altered war fare in many ways. The British army where Dr. Cunningham was had a se- ries of perhaps four or five trenches arranged in tiers back of one another. The foremost one was used as a sort of out post and Sn case of retreat the soldiers move back to one next and so on and unseen by the enemy. It is understood by the officers in the re- zion of Northern France that the Germans have a long series of such trenches.
 Role of the Aeropianes.
 Probably one of the most distinct features in this war is the use of the aeropIanes and Dr. Cunningham says that the machines which the British are now using are superior to any of l the others and more adapted for the purposes in which they are used. Dr, Cunningham reports that two ma chimes set out together. the first used as scouting machine and followed shortly after by the second which is adapted for fighting purposes and serves as @ protection for the scout ing machine. Although Dr. Cunning ham saw many of those machines he never had the fortune to witness a battle in the clouds.
 In London When ZeppeIins Came.
 Before enlisting in the hospital corps and while residing in London, Dr. Cunningham happened to be ill that city at the time of the German Zeppelin raids The populace was cX- tremely frightened and fiOCked to the tubes that correspond with our sub- ways in the larger cities. In order to protect themselves from deadly gas es which might come from Zeppelin bombs many of the inhabitants pur- chased aspiration masks but all the missiles hurled down from aloft by the Germans contained no gas. but power ful explosives instead.
 Snapshots of Hidden Field Pieces,
 In speaking of the benefits derived from the aircraft in modern warfare, Dr. Cunningham mentioned their great use tn locating concealed field pieces, hidden batteries and artilleries. The aGronaut sWOoDs close enough to earth to snapshot the hidden weapons of war.
 Injuries Are FrightfuI. Some of the cases which Dr. Cum ningham was called upon to lend med ical attention were fTightful; some of the poor victims were arnless, legless or both, parts of their bodies torn away, while others were shattered. The wounded men are rushed by ambulance to the hospital base, where medical attention is rendered immediately and from there most Of them are sent to southern France, where many of the l hotels have been converted into con l Valescing wards. When they are able 1 the wounded Oiles are sent back to | England as soon as possible, where l they can receive better attention, and | thus doing saves much expense. In 1 some towns where Germans have been proprietOrs of hotels these have been | seized and turned to tha same use | as the others. In Mantoin there were | some 40 German prOprietOrs whose | buildings were thus utilized.
 British Are Thoroughly Equipped. i At the present time England has at 1 least two million men in training, waiting to go to the front. Every