Show FRENCH TROOPS prostrated TL SCENES IN madagascar HOSPITALS very few of tho the patients completely recover bodies devoured by dogs three thousand succumb paris sept 21 mall mail ad ices received receive 4 hero from madagascar repeal a deplorable plo rable condition of affairs in that island in hospitals calculated for the accommodation ot of men are crowded sick french soldiers lying on improvised pro bunks and attended by doctors and nurses lit in each hospital hundreds of patients are lying on the bare ground and suffering tor for lack of medicine and food while the filthiness that prevails everywhere about them Is indescribable the doc tors form are doing the best they can for or the alleviation of the 0 of the ick and the mortality to Is surprisingly small mall nhon hen the existing conditions are taken into consideration very few 0 of the patients haxe haie r recovered completely most moat 0 of those attacked with sickness so reduced by anaemia and so subject to strange hallucinations luci nations as to be quite lor for faither service in the hold field the somali coolies have proved lazy ma linger lingerers ers the other coolies are a willing but bul are debilitated from rom laa of 0 food and are victims of brutality at the hands of subal subalterns terns in many cases the bodies of french soldiers have been devoured by dogs docs before they could be burled buried in a letter to the minister of 0 war gen duchene op openly enly admits that the hardships 0 of f n march larch and bad commissary sen serice ice have sent soldiers to the hospital and that the bad cumbte Is pro prostrating his troops |