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Show WOUNDED MEN WELLCARED FOR Bordeaux. Sept. 24, 6.30 p. m. "Treat the German wounded the same as our own," said President Poincare during a recent visit to the hospital here That his recommendation is being carried out to the letter was Been by the correspondent today at the Bordeaux high school, which, after aft-er weeks of hard work, has been converted con-verted into a seven hundred-bed hospital. hos-pital. Here are sixty of the worst esses of German wounded, most of the wounds having been received in the battle of Marne. Tn rhrff nf tho hncnltil la nn American, Dr Melville Westermann of San Francisco, and a Bordeaux doc tor who has given up a large part of his extensive private practice to devote de-vote himself to aiding the wounded. Dr. Wastermann and the Bordeaux physician are being assisted by a well-known Dresden surgeon. Eight members of a German bos pital corps who surrendered to the French and were requested to care for the wounded and came on hero with them soon will be sent back to Germany, as provided for by the Geneva Ge-neva convention. The Germans are being treated In the lofty classrooms of the high school, which look out over the sunny sun-ny school garden. The men seem to suffer more from home-sickness than their wounds, which they bear with patient resignation. The cheeriest of all the men is a Berlin street car driver, who has a dreadful wound in the head, which already has destroyed one eyo and threatens the sight of the other. He always has a smile for the doctors 2nd nurses and his delight when a kindly doctor places a cigarette between be-tween his Hps is pathetic. Iu another ward is a young giant, the back of whose head was almost shot away by a fragment of a shrapnel shrap-nel shell He tosses about on his cot calling out in his delirium for his mother. Near him lies an emaciated youth with a shattered thigh. In most cases the men in the high school hos pital are suffering from shrapnel wounds. As a rule the Germans In the hospitals hos-pitals here are more badly hurt than the French soldiers In addition to tho first dressing of the German wounds having been inadequate, the wounds also are infected The physicians say that a large majority of the wounded will recover, however. |