“One of the finest examples of charity given during the war is a splendid Red Cross train entirely equipped as a modern hospital, even having a first class operating room.  This was given to the German army by the citizens of Wilmersdorff, who also employed an excellent surgeon.  Scores of lives will be saved through a small outlay of money.

GRAVEYARDS ON BATTLEFIELDS

“Near the large hospital I visited was a graveyard where there were scores of neatly marked fresh graves, each bearing a cross or tablet with the name of the soldier and his regiment, division and corps marked on it.  In some cases comrades had added a word or two of scripture.  The deaths are too numerous for an imposing ceremony at each burial, but for every one an army chaplain reads scripture and offers a short prayer, while a few comrades stand by with bared heads.

“The identity of each soldier is easily determined from the name plate which he wears in a little leather purse suspended from around the neck.  After a battle these plates are gathered from the dead and from these the death lists are made out. [It was said that after the battle of the Marne no fewer than 68,000 of these name plates or tags were found collected in one place.—­Ed.]

“After a battle where the deaths mount into the thousands some field will be shut off for a cemetery and there the bodies are buried, each grave receiving some kind of a cross wherever it is possible, but here no names can be attached.  There will be many homes in which there will be vacant places and where it will not even be known where the absent ones are buried.

KAISER INSISTS ON ENTERING

“While here I heard a touching story about a lieutenant who was dying in the hospital, while the Kaiser was inspecting it.  The Kaiser came to the room where the officer lay and the attendants asked him not to enter, as a man was dying.  The Kaiser immediately pushed his way in, went up to the lieutenant, put his hand on the officer’s shoulder, and said in German:  ‘Hello, here I am!’

“The lieutenant began murmuring with his eyes closed.

“’I have been dreaming and I dreamed that my Kaiser came to me, put his hand on my shoulder and spoke to me.’

“‘Open your eyes,’ said the Kaiser.

“The lieutenant obeyed, smiled a smile of recognition, and then closed his eyes in the final sleep.

SURGEONS WIN IRON CROSSES

“So far, according to official announcement, there have been between 50,000 and 60,000 wounded and immediately after a great battle the sanitary corps has been unable to cope quickly enough with the work, but under ordinary circumstances the provision made has been ample.  The number of the sanitary corps was determined upon the experience in the Russo-Japanese war, in which the losses were by no means so heavy as they have been in this war, but where in a few cases numbers have been lacking the surgeons and their assistants have put forth herculean efforts.  Many surgeons are now wearing the iron cross for bravery, winning the insignia by dragging out wounded from the rain of bullets.  TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR