Show WITH WIT THE iff A ka waff WOUNDED V aj victims of balkan war saved from death by new surgery wonderful work of docurro and nurses at hospital in belgrade men shot through H had iad or heart often Re recover cofer belgrade servia serela the hitman buman side of war as shown in tho the improvised military hospitals of belgrade riel Vel grade presents many touching scenes evened every school tn in servia has berti beb turned into inta a hospital here where there are aie a great many wounded from the battle of Kouma nova and from the skirmishes about Mo Monas monastir lr not only the tha schools but every available building including the local barracks and a sugar factory has been transformed into wards warda with neat rows of white while beds practically every country in europe has baa sent a corps of surgeons and nurses to the war the united states has done its share by contributing to the work of these devoted red rea cross toilers boilers about biora than an any other nation the surgeons are all greatly interested in their cases for modern warfare with small powerfully driven steel bul bullets bulldis leis presents remarkable wounds at the time of the american civil war armmand arm sand legs were lopped off by thousands to prevent blood poisoning in these days of antiseptic surgery there Is a almost no amputation am one soldier was shot through the middle of the finger his whole finger has been saved A number were struck when firing from lying posture the bullet passing through the head straight down through the heart and out at ai the thigh the lives of several so wounded have been saved it used to be considered fatal to be struck in heart or head bead in these hospitals there are men who have been shot right throy through gli heart or head bead and who will re cover often it Is not considered necessary to extract bullets which have lodged in the body the wo wound la sim ply dis infected and allowed to heal nothing Is more significant of the fine quality of the servian peasantry than the speed with which theli their wounds have cicatrized the surgeons are amazed and lay the phenomenon to pure blood untainted by alcohol many brought here within the last two months have recovered and gone back to the front one st the most interesting hospitals is in charge of the russian corps in the local exposition building nearly all the nurses here are women of lot good family a number of whom got experience in tn the russo japanese war enter this ward that blond young woman ironing sheets near thedoor the door in ln the corridor Is the daughter of the russian ambassador these are wounded servian officers in here it la Is the visiting hour in servia it is he custom to congratulate a soldier aho vho receives a wound in comes a dumpy old peasant woman her wrin led ded face beaming and drawing forth in orange from her clothes she toddles toward oneff one of the beds where follows a tender greeting between her and her soldier son speak to this nand handsome some young fellow yes sir air I 1 was one of the serviano ians who went to help the bul bill garlans around Adria nople after our own work was done I 1 was wounded in a skirmish in the trenches but you should talk to that officer over there he is a major and a hero 1 I got my wound at Kouma nova or rather my five wounds his face lighted up with pride as he be spoke we bad driven the turks back that day dav and at night they tried to retaliate wo we charged them through the dark and I 1 was caught in their volley the servian officer sir is always at the head bead of hla his men in the next ward are borno sorno private soldiers lold lers nearly well one la Is playing 6 a rustic tints flute and other clr are e dancing kolo 1 I the national country dance with some of the pretty russian nurses hero are more serious cases that thai 01 old d man what Is he doing hero yes sir I 1 am a last def defense defends enss man I 1 was engaged others in the rca rear guard burying some dead when a band of moslem villagers suddenly fell upon us I 1 was waa shot before I 1 could drop roy my spade we drove them off though and they ran up into the ithe hills upstairs la Is a large ward of turkish wounded do not imagine because russian sympathies are with the ser serviano i vialis ians that these stricken enemies get any n tho the worse treatment on the contrary it Is almost ns as if the doctors and nurses took a n pride alde in being kind to these ones |