THE TUBE AT BAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16039, 4 October 1915, Page 6

THE TUBE AT BAY .

QUIET FOR SOME TIME. -*• HUSBANDING AMMUNITION. j Farther references to the life cf the New Zealand and Australian forces at Gallipoli are contained in a despatch from Mr. Malcolm Ross, official New Zealand'.*' war correspondent, dated July 30. "-= "There can be no doubt now that we have the Turk at bay on his own peninsula 'V-t's. states Mr. Boss. Far Borne time pastes} he has been very quiet, and a threatened ~" attack from a reinforced Turkish army has not, so far, materialised. We were told that Enver Pasha was getting together another army of 100,000 men to * drive us into the sea. In the meantime our forces are, more or less, marking jj> time. The monotony is varied onlv bv "?■ bomb-throwing -in places where the rival forces are but & few yards apart, and by , bombarding on sections where hundreds of yards intervene. Occasionally, how. 3 ever, shrapnel and the high explosives ; * burst with a diabolical accuracy on an v enemy trench only a few yards beyond 1 our own lines. At this latter form of 4 - warfare we have a decided advantage % over the Turk, for not only have we more S guns and rhells on land, but we have | also the ships that patrol the Gulf jf V Saros. The Turk, apparently, has to Se f sparing of his field-gun ammunition, and there are now also indications that he is endeavouring to exercise a greater care - in husbanding his cartridges tor rifle-fire. ' " The New Zealand in common with the other troops, are anxious to again fight the enemy, and on all hands disappointment is expressed that he has not advanced. For the time being,, the safest place on the battlefield is in the trenches. That is one of the anomalies of modern warfare. "The remains of an inflammatory shell which was fired into our area of defence came under notice -a few days ago. The charred case was 3in in diameter and 15ia long. The shell, which evidently came from a mortar, made a small hole" in the ground and covered an area of Bft diameter in flames. The same evening, at Achi * Baba, the enemy threw liquid into one • of the French trenches and endeavoured , unsuccessfully to set it alight with bombs. It is somewhat strange that in the " warfare of the present day, when all the M destructive inventions of modern science I are utilised upon the battlefield, one of i our men digging near the New Zealand Field Ambulance Station should come upon a relic of ancient fighting in the shane of a round stone cannon-ball. A '''; soldier who was in the last Balkan war ' states thai similar stone cannon-balls used in the time of Napoleon were dug tip there . in the Albanian trenches, and at the old | forts pot out of action by our battleships § at Cape Helles there are still many such cannon-balls to be seen. "The allied forces have taken quite a "f number of prisoners, and there have been M several deserters from the Turkish lines. Such prisoners as are seen apnear strong . and hardy and well fed, though rather V" fll-etraipped in the; matter of clothing. ; Their clothes are much too. heavy for a-,! summer camraign, and frequently" a man is seen with has' bare toes protruding through his boots. Most 'of the prisoners " seem only too nleased to be away from. their own firimr-line. One who surrendered - to the Otaeo Battalion complained of ill- ? treatment from his own non-commissioned f -£j officers. He said his corporal had S quarrelled with him and had bitten him.

RE-MAKING A FACE.

PARIS SURGEON'S DEVICES. " ■ -

CHEEK;! UPS, AND NOSE RE-

PLACED. 3r .

I* a man has neither"nose"-to'smell -with, nor * lips to drink i -with, - nor a- cheek to chew in, is no or can he become a nafcl ■ Not without a miracle perhaps. .-,: ; « * Bnt there ,7 are ; surgeons, "? and v among them Deb.- Moreetin and Tamer, of the Rothschild Hospital in Paris, who perform the miracle, the miracle of reconstructing a man from his own rains. | v M. Cristini,. a correspondent of tie Journal des Debats of Paris;- was admitted recently to the Bothschild Hospital to see for himself the miracle in question. An attendant asked him to look at the photograph of., a man wounded in the French trenches ,who had been admitted the hospital i It was a terrible picture. "The face lacked tthe lower portion of the left cheek, it lacked the chin/and the lips and the nose. Can that be Ia • man? I could not help thinking of Victor Hugo's description, * His marrow was no : mows in his bones nor in his voice in his gullet. Had he ever possessed an eye, and if so ■where was .'it „.->,'-- '■■■- '■■'■-. ■■>:---.■- -■■;- •.--.'•..?•, „,-■

7ev Marks Bemain. ; While the " correspondent was looking •„- ft this appalling picture the hospital assis- J ■ tant made a sign to one of tie patients "jf of the hospital who was just going out to spend an afternoon at a kinematoeranh I performance. '» -.'.. •-■-„ '.-.< -..- """"a : "Here is our man," said the assistant. ~'' The correspondent stared ■ uncamphehend- 1 ing, bat the assistant added with a"amik,i§ » 1 *» I assure yon, this is the patient whose photograph yon have in your hand; the man who was brought into hospital without cheek, without jaw, without chin* without lips, without nose." - '-,- The correspondent at first thought the assistant * was "pulling his leg." For the patient who was just going out bore few or no signs -of the terrible wounds indicated in the photograph. His left cheek was the twin brother of the right cheek m he had an excellent chin, lips that just a opened in a genial smile, and a nose with 1 an irreproachable contour. His face only •? bore the rapidly vanishing traces of some m cuts and a few white marks of surgical M sewing. The ; patient himself proceeded to confirm 'the assistant's assertions, talk- ' ing in the slang of the French infantrvman: "Yes, .it's myself; 'twasn't anvil good the Boches spoiling mv portrait the * doctor tricked them after all As you sea M he has manufactured for, me a very decent ; face. /or. myself, I think he's improved it, and I believe they'll find me more of , aknut when I get back into the countrv.** | Then he lit a cigarette and went off toll his kinematograph while the assistant con- jfj tinned the story of the miracle. "^S^ '"' ' : ----"-'- • -' ■■ " • ■'■ , '-,^h - - -.; - Patched Up. '"3M " The great point," he said, "was that J the vital organs were still intact. After i a few days of continued washing and® antiseptic treatment, the terrible wound* bad practically cicatrised. Then Dr." Alorestin began his miracle. He took »3 portion of the patient's back and used it I to replace the cheek. With the skin offf the back he fashioned the lips. Then hall took a portion of the man's short ribs to make 'the nose'and the substance of the chin/ From the" forehead be took the skin I W* the nose and from the stomach the * skin for the chin. Finally, when the man ; was practically refashioned and could be * permitted to look at his new face, Dr. r * I Morestin asked" him if there was anvi thing he regretted. The soldier replied; §§ Yes, my moustache." "Oh, don't \<§ £§ worry about that," said the doctor, antff without even applying an anaesthetic beg took from the hairy nape of the neck a % small strip of skin "and grafted it on the upper lip. "I can't promise you," said thei surgeon, "that you will have as vie- •■: torious a moustache as that which you left in the trenches, but in anv case you won't : be hairless." " ■$$&£ The assistant added that though *Jgm man would certainly grow a moustache atfi present he goes "English," that is, clean- . shaven. i Subsequently the corretpandentl was informed that the Rothschild , He??'tal alone contains over 30 convalescents who proudly displav noses of flesh i 1? ants blood sculptured for them bv Dr. -MoragS fan.. And :at the St.- Louis' Hospital there : i nave been ? countless Wounded • men %&>§§ whom the miraculous -surgeon has ,r recoa- ' j structed a part of the face. .; <•%