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Show WOUNDED OFFICERS AT HEALTH RESORT Special Cable to The Tribune. COPENHAGEN, Feb. 27 Wiesbaden on the Rhine, whither many of the world's celebrities have rushed at the first twinge o rheumatism, has become a war resort for wounded generaJs and officers of high rank in the German army. The whole place has been taken over by the military command. recent arrival at Wiesbaden Is Field Marshal Hindenburg's nephew, Lieutenant Lieuten-ant von Mauetein, who brought very severe se-vere wounds with him from the west front. Most of the big hotels are shut. The gerat Festival hall, with Its palm trees and balconies, is still open, but the band Is a military one, and it plays to an audience almost wholly composed of wounded officers and ladies who are making mak-ing bandages and knitting socks for the men at the front. Over the tea cups the officers are telling the women folk how thev grot their wounds. It Is difficult to escape the wounded In Wiesbaden. Officers of the highest rank are to be seen In bath chairs in the Wilhelmstrasse on a fine afternoon, but the lirst remarkable thing about this famous fa-mous promenade is that nearly every man la hobbling on crutches or leaning on a stock. Kverv motor In Wilhelmstrasse flies a Red Cross flag. Nowhere In Germany are the horrors of war brought home so painfully. The contrast con-trast with peace conditions, indeed, Is greater in this famous spa than in the ordinary humdrum towns of Germany. |