Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-02
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with which I was connected had done l a great deal of buying in Germany. | We had a German agent who wrote | me very nice letter asking about my | arm aad wanting to know if there was i anything he coud do for me. l was not allowed to answer this letter, but l :he inspector did it for me. received later on. another letter from German who was a naturaliSed American citizen and represented large firm with whom we had done business. He also asked if there were not something he could do. was per ' nlitted to write an answer on the back of his letter and requested that he should send me if possible, a couple of English novels and French dictionary. In a very few days l re- ceived these articles together with box of very good cigars and some cig- arettes. This man came to Cologne to see me and spent three days there interviewing officials. He was not ev- en allowed to look at me to satisfy himself that I was well so that he could report to my family.
 Barnes of the Engineers
 One day we were surprised at the arrival of another ofTicer named Barnes, of the Canadian engineers, who had been taken prisoner on June but since that date had spent his time in another hospital in Aachen. He had been sent to Lazarett vI to have one of his eyes removed which had been damaged by the explosion of bomb, and was placed downstairs in the same room as the French captain in order to be directly under the care of the head specialist.
 Barnes managed to give us some new information regarding the events of June 2, and I was particularly in- terested in hearing that he had been in the hospital with a man named Martin, who was also an officer of the Fourth c. M. R. and who had been badly wounded in both legs.
 Barnes eye was removed by the head specialist who used the opera ton as the subject for a lecture to some students, who come regularly to the hospital for instruction. All he had to deaden the pain was a very badly applied anesthetic.- The stu dents sat around in semicircle while the doctor shipped each nerve and muscle separately, calling out their names and going into explanations as to their functions, while Barnes drew blood from his lower lip with his teeth in trying to keep from scream ing out with pain ,
 Trouble Over the Bath.
 Across the hall from our ward was Q bathroom containing four baths. It was in charge of two. Russians who kept the place very clean and always had hot water on hand, which was provided by two small stoves in the room. Nearly all the beds on our. floor were occupied by Russians, many of whom had filthy diseases. We object ed strongly to bathing after these men no matter how the tubs had been scrubbed out. We were afraid of hav- ing our wounds infected, and finally made arrangements to have a batf curtained off at one end of the room for the exclusive use of the English men. As soon as this had been ef- fected an assistant doctor, and all tho saintaires located on our floor, admir- ed the arrangement so much that they decided to seize this bath for theil own private use. Hallam had an al terca;ion with a sanitaire over thi and just restrained himself from strill ing the man. He got into great dea of trouble, and as a direct result wa! later on sent to camp. We eventuall! succeeded in having another bath al lotteG us.
 Soap vas non-existent in the hos pital. 4 greasy sort of substance il tins, somewhat similar to soft soar was supplied for washing purposes The Russians in charge of the bath room used to do our laundry, but tti soft soap stained everything a weir combination of green and yellow. .Il
 We were always looking for some thing to vary the monotony of our ex istence. and one day thought of in vestigating the pig pen. The man ii charge had no objections to our doin this, and we went inside. Some on noticed an egg lying on the straw an slipped it quietly into his pocket. W thoroughly investigated the pigs, col lecting about five eggs in doing SC The next morning, with the assistanc of our little spirit stove. we had
 wonderful breakfast and laid plans fo the next day. For nearly a week thos pigs got more attention than the ever had in their lives and we ha better breakfasts than we had sine being taken prisoners, where as tt inspector, who had been counting 0 these eggs for has own meals gre more perturbed every day. We mad the horrible mistake of taking all tn eggs we could find. and large pad lock was put on the pig pen.
 Toward the latter part of Augu; parcels began to arrive for all tt Canadians who had been taken pris oner on June 2. The Canadian Re Cross parcels were particularly we comed by those men whose familie were not in a position to keep thel supplied with continual stream food Those of us who had friends i England were especially fortunate receiving parcels both from this sourt and from our homes in Canada. ,-
 The Englishmen envied the lot /, the Colonials, as they said that W were looked after better than the