Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-25

Tommy ~one mark, if he had any de-. posit downstairs. We were not all lowed to have more than that in our possession at a time. Of course we had, but didn't ten everyone about it. We all had camp and escape in view, and for that purpose hoarded our money. It might prove very useful. It was all made of paper with the exeep- which were of iron.
 . One day the police office s<e a tip that the English ofi1cefs nn4 money. An orderly came and told ITS that a our room. He went out of the door for a minute. We St4mpeded to the cupboard, slipped some of the paper money between the leaves Of books ed. Presently in came the poffce cor pcraI and several other hospftei ofil- cials, but no officer It had been a bluff to make us declare erythir1g. marks apiece. We admitted that we had, and opened the drawers of our lockers for inspection. They rum 1 maged around and found we each had from five to ten marks more than the allowance. We apoiogized profuseiy and said that it was an oversight They carried this money off in tri- umph. We really had about thous- and marks between us at this time.
 -:- Always Had Balance.
 Through an: arrangement with the British government leach month a marks, forty of which were deducted for. hospital food This. with the ad- dition of the money that was sent from home. assured us at all times of credit balance with the Feldwebel.
 During that first day learned that Noodle had been taken prisoner in an attack at Loos September, 1915. He had been shot through the left ankle just as he reached the barbed wire in front of the German trenches and had been unable to go back when: the oth- : CTS were ordered to retire. Ever since that time he had had his leg in plaster. Two or three times it had been renov- ed. but the ankle joint had become so stiff that the doctors had been obliged to break it again and reset it in the hope of eventually giving him some movement in the joint. He was abso- lutely fed up with German hospital life. '-
 Gray was an observer in the Royal Flying co.ps. His machine had been shot down by the famous aviator Boell<e, in January, 1918. His pilot was killed and he. was picked up un- conscious Boelke sent him a signed photograph with a package of tobacco and cigarettes. These were all shown to me as cherished souvenirs. Cray s left arm had been badly broken by the fall. The ends of both bones were pretruding. At the field dressing sta ton, four men poSed the end. of the bones into rosition with bits of wood. When he arrived at our h15pital his arm was at once put in plaster by 'sGyps Meyer''-nicknamed for his fondness for putting everything in pla aster- They succeeded in getting one bone to heal. but the ends of the other bone were one above. the other and about an inch apart
 A Wonderful Operation. -.
 Gray was turned over to the sur- geon of the hospital, who did 8 won derful graft operation. putting piece of bone from the shin at right angles to the unhealed bone, and thus join ing up the two ends. Immediately after the operation Gray was put in charge of Doctor Meyer, who could not wait to see if the graft had been a success or not. He took the spiints off after less than three weeks. and commented violent assage, which broke the arm again. This happen ed just after our arrival and Gray was dissusted. Doctor Meyer. put his arm back in plaster. Continued TomorroW.)