A WONDERFUL OPERATION

Evening Star, Issue 16033, 9 February 1916, Page 7

A WONDERFUL OPERATION

A wonderful operation has just been performed at a London hospital on a British officer who was taken prisoner by the Germans and allowed to rotitrn to" this country, as he was incapacitated for further service. The officer was wounded in one arm bv German machine-gun fire during a ciiurge, and asked a German soldier who found him helpless on the ground iur a drink of water. The German’s reply was to thrust his bayonet through tho officer’s umvounded arm. After lying in the open for some hours the British officer was removed to a German hospital, where both his arms were unnecessarily amputated, “as if they had been chopped off with a hatchet,” and so as to leave no stumps. Since arriving home he has been in the hands of on© of tho most brilliant London surgeons (says the ‘Daily Express’)- By means of a bone taken from his leg and a flap of skin turned back from his body, he has now been provided with a stump, which will in time enablo an artificial arm to be attached. The same operation will possibly be repeated on the other shoulder. His delight knows no bounds, and, as a friend of his says: “ He really seems to believe that new arras and hands will grow before long.”