Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-17


r. Judd Of Honolulu. now on the
French front France, In hospital
work..
JULY, April %, 1916.
Dear Sir: We believe that some let
tiers have never reached us. They have
either been lost in torpedoed ships or
perhaps held up by the censor. Many
of your letters to Us have been opened
before we received them. Possibly
some OF our letters have not gotten
through to you.
We have been having lot Of rain
lately and IL has been quite cold. The
leaves are coming out and the country
are away ahead Of the others.
are away head of the others
We usually 90 to Paris every Tues
day-on the way stopping at Hopital
Rigotini at AulTay sur Bots where |
look over our former patients who
have been sent there. II there are
any requiring further operations. as
for removal of pieces Of dead bone. we
bring them back here again and fix
them up. Reaching Paris about noon
we have q good lunch. Il IL surpris-
ing how many fine restaurants there
are. We like to 60 10 different ones
and have been TO over 40. Then there
are always q lot of errands to attend
TO, At a D. n. Is the meeting OF the
JULY Committee Of the American
Ambulance in which report what is
going on and get the help of the mem.
bers Of the committee on different mat
tiers. We sometimes stay In to dinner
but usually leave for Juilly right after
the nesting.
Busy With Many Wounded
Since they have begun sending the
wounded from Verdun this way we
have been full and very busy. There
has been some hitch about sending
men over from New York as assist
ants and / have been handicapped by
lack Of help. DR.. Hutchinson OF
Neuilly kindly loaned me two young
doctors who helped out lot. ex-
pect two men from New York some
timo next month. We have had the
extraordinary good fortune of not los.
ing patient this year so far although
we have had some very close calls.
This makes a good record Tor as and
Is 4 great satisfaction.
About q mile away from this little
village 10 q small valley with woods
and tiny stream. On our side OF the
valley The, badger blereau In French
have i1ade their homes and dug out
q lot Of underground passages. One
of our convalescents is a veritabie wild
man. He lays traps OF wire and has
caught 4 fox, several badgers and rab-
Bits. One badger he caught alive as
the snare settled around its shoulders.
The beast looks like huge gray
guinea.pig. He has become quite tame
ana follows him around like dog.
Perhaps we have written that there
Is q large aviation camp about 5 miles
from mere and that our hospital at
tends to their accident cases. There
are about 500 men at Plessis- Bellyille
and Il IL q great sight to see the aero
planes In action. There are some
American boys there who have been
over 10 see rs.
Avlators Of High Degree
We have q number Of damaged avia-
tors AZ the hospital now and they are
usually ! superior lot of men. Two
of them here now are from old fam
files and their mothers and aunts are.
Maruuisses and Countesses. When
they are visited by their relatives We
usually have tbs pleasure Of entertain
inr the Countesses ct al at lunch. We
find that these people usually speak
English better than we speak French
but we hammer away at them IN
French as Il is good practise.
Today Is Easter Sunday. The day
started III clear and beautiful but al.
.tcfwards elouded over. About $3.50 a.
m. we received 1e wounded from Yer.
dun. none of them very bad cases. One
81 the wounded showed me his steel
helmet which had q hole tn it. The
force OF the bullet was broken and ne
only received q scalp wound. These
helmets are very generally worn and
are OF great benefit.
TO celebrate the day, the blesses
had with their Sunday chicken din
ner cheese, coffee and cakes and
Easter esq candy
Malls are plsorsanixed.
JULY, lie Z May, 1915.
You spoke OF having sent us sew
efal long letters from the Voica1o
House. As we only received one let.
ter we expect that some of the mail
has never reached us This is not
surprising in war time and we have
often thought that We are privileged
to write as freely as we do. The
home news always interests Us and
we are glad to hear all the details you
write.
The spring time here is so beauti.
full that ii lisa real recompeRse after
the dreary months of winter. all ma
ture is now at her best The trees
are all out now IN fun leaf and the
chestnuts and apple trees are in full
blDonl. The woods are carpeted with
Wild flowers; you can imagine how
much we enjoy it.
We have at the present time 215
patients in the hospital. Most of oul
doctors from New YORK about the
come from yeIdun. We expect two
cases received the past month have
cHlRoPRAcTIc MEANS