GALLIPOLI WOUNDED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15947, 18 June 1915, Page 8

GALLIPOLI WOUNDED.

TROUBLES OF AMBULANCE. SLIDING DOWN HILLSIDES. [BY TELEGRAPH.—OWN CORRESPONDENT.] Christchtoch, Thursday. The following are extracts from a letter • received' from Dr. Neil Guthrie, written 2 shortly before he left Egypt for the Dar- --.| danelles on May 3:-— ,f , "Yesterday afternoon I went with — and —, and we met Professor Ferguson at the. School of Medicine. We had a technical talk for au hour and a-half, and then went into the wards and saw a lot of the wounded men from the Dardanelles. None of the men were seriously wounded —all the serious cases are at .Alexandria. They were all extraordinarily cheerful. >. They all tell the same tale of trouble with §j enipers. These men would hide in the ; ; scrub and ft, was extremely hard to .locate them. They tried to pick off anybody with distinguished rank. When they were . found, if at close quarters, they would drop their rifles and put up their hands. But it was too late lor the brutes. "The din was tremendous, the casualties very heavy,' the difficulties in attending to .the wounded enormous. Many wounded : M were slid down the steep hills to the shore m in mackintosh sheets; it was too steep ; ■-' to carry them on stretchers. The less seri- ."f ously wounded were left to themselves, to §5 elide or roll down the hills. It was in- *JB teresting hearing their description, and •.-■; their praise of the support given by the 0 naval guns." „"j • ■ f: OFFER OF HOSPITAL WARD. A meeting of pupils and their friends j$ was held on Wednesday afternoon at the St. John Ambulance Station. Rutland Street, to jnsp ct the preliminary arrangements which are being made there for a voluntary aid detachment hospital ward y of 30 beds. The work has been carried on during the past few weeks by Major .•.; Girdler, N.Z.M.C, who has been lectur- .?; ing and giving practical demonstrations % to a class of ladies, from which it is pro- • a posed eventually to form a voluntary aid ".; ' detachment in accordance with the regulations laid down by tho St. John Ambu- , lance Association for hospitals equipped by them and placed at tho disposal of ths military, authorities. The intention is to complete the ward in every detail, with a view to its removal at a few hours' notice to any building , decided upon by the authorities, and when it is no longer needed for the use of the wounded, to present it to form ono of a series of cottage hospitals in remote country districts. Several donations _ and many offers of help have been received, but many more are needed, and Mrs. Whyte, acting-lady superintendent, of Castlebar, Khyber"Pass, will e glad to receive offers of help in the work.