PROVISION FOR THE WOUNDED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13816, 10 July 1915, Page 5

PROVISION FOR THE WOUNDED.

HOSPITALS INSPECTED BY SIR

F. TREVES

ADEQUATE TO REQUIREMENTS

HIGH PRAISE FOR AUSTRALIAN

RED CROSS

(Received July 9, 9.40 p.m.) . London, July 9. Sir Frederick Treves states that ho visited the hospitals at Malta, Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, and Mudros Bay, and he unhesitatingly says that the arrangements are adequate. Many of the beds are unoccupied, and there are plenty of doctors and nurses, and a number of operating surgeons cf the highest class from England and Australia. The work of the Australian Red Cross is simply magnificent. Sir Frederick Treves adds: "I had an opportunity of seeing in the freest possible manner all the arrangements made in the Mediterranean area for the reception of 'the sick and wounded from the Dardanelles. "The Royal Army Medical Corps has maintained the high reputation it has i earned in this campaign, while of the vast Colonial Medical Corps I can use no stronger terms of praise than in saying that the Australian army doctor has done as well as his comrade in the fighting line. "The casualties are very great, heavier I imagine than was ever anticipated, and owing to the sudden arrival of large convoys- of wounded there have been periods of severe pressure and; urgent stress, just as in the early days of the campaign in France. These dire emergencies have been, met heroically, and with no little success, especially when it is remembered that the distances are great and communications not too easy, while the difficulties in connection with transport are often insurmountable."