Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-06-19
british PLAN NEW DRIVE IN MA CEDON7A
MANY GO THROUGH
WAR AND ESCAPE
DEATH, MAJOR SAYS
Dunbar Canadian Officer Here
With RotarianS, Says Troops
Are Much Safer in Modern
Fighting Than Formerly

when q man goes to war II doesn't
necessarily follow that he gets killed.
On the contrary, a great percentage Of
the chaps I fought with have been in
the trenches since the war began and
ere alive and kicking yet. Some of
them are wounded. but that matters
very little Fifty per cent of the men
that are wounded are able to return to
the trenches in six weeks"
Pipe Major Charles Dunbar, in At
lanta with the Canadian Rotarians, was
speaking, and he ought to know. for he
has served IN the British army for near
ly twenty-five years, fighting through
the Boer war and through the present
European struggle until he was wound
ed Courcelette. on the Somme.
This Is the healthiest war the world
has ever known" he continued. TT Is
three times as healthy as the Boer war
when typhus knocked out men by the
thousand. There is practically no death
from disease in Europe. and that too,
when IL is impossible to keep conditions
in the trenches from being insanitary
The war is healthy because, since Il
began. the doctors and surgeons have
made gigantic strides. They have found
cures for practically any disease that
can be caught in the trenches. and they
can save a man who is shot to pieces.
The first thing they do to a man
after he has been wounded is to innoc-
ulste him against tetanus, the lookjaw
which has been the terror Of war in
years past. There is hardly any lock-
jaw or gangrene in the armies fighting
in Europe.
That is one reason I say tha5 a
man stands every chance of coming out
alive when he goes to the trenches. The
average American has the idea that
when he enlists he has signed his own
death certificate. That is utter non
sense,
He probably thinks that because he
hears of so many that are killed and
does not hear of the many. many more
that are not killed. While it is true
that there are millions of men who are
manned and wounded In England and
Canada today and that after the war
is over, the allied nations will be thick
with one-legged men and one-armed
men, the majority Of them will come
out of II alive"
Pipe Major Dunbar is himself a good
example Of one of the ones that came
out alive. He went with the first Cana
dian contingent to the front in France
and for many long weeks was in the
trenches. The night before his regt-
ment was to "go over the top" he was
wounded by shell fire. That was in
September. 1916, on the Somme. He was
sent to his home in Hamilton. Ont, and
came to Atlanta with the Hamilton Ro-
tary club as their guest
Major Dunbar wears his Highland
kilt and carleton and plays the bag
pipes wherever he goes. He wears the
distinguished conduct" medal and was
mentioned three times i'm dispatches
for services rendered
Major Dunbar is very anxious to go
to Fort Mcpherson to see the interned
German sailors.
From what I have heard" he said.
81 imagine they are much better on
than are the prisoners in France. There
the Germans are behind barbed wire
and they have a dead line If any
goes beyond the dead line, they are shot
down by the sentries"