THE SERVIAN WOUNDED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13731, 20 March 1915, Page 5

THE SERVIAN WOUNDED.

TERRIBLE CONDITIONS -

DESCRIBED

SHORTAGE OF DOCTORS AND

NURSES

Received March 19, 11.30 p.m.)

London, March 19

Captain Bennett, the Red Cross Commissioner in Servia, makes an urgent appeal for help. He describes Uskub as a vaUey of the dead in consequence of the horrible overcrowding of the hospitals. Six doctors and twelve orderlies, without nurses, attempted to attend to 1800 sick and wounded. Half the doctors and orderlies have since died or been stricken down. The patients are dying from sepsis because their wounds are not dressed. Scores of doctors and fever nurses are wanted

The Servians are doing their best for the prisoners, but of 750 in one camp only twenty are able to stand, and sixty are dying daily. There is nobody to remove the dead. When strangers enter the silence of the camp is broken by moans, "For the love of God give me water," of "For God's sake give me bread."