Top-Close view of the first Handley-Page bombing aeroplane built in America. It is proposed to fly these planes across the Atlantic under their own power, driven by Twin Liberty motors of 400 H. P. each.

Bottom Submarines of United States Navy at base in an Atlantic port awaiting orders for coast defense duty. (Copyright, U. & U.)

Above African troops of the French army en route to the Riviera to enjoy well-earned rest after the battle of Douaumont, in which their ranks were considerably depleted. These colored fighters of France are commanded entirely by white officers and have done splendid service. (Copyright, U. & U.)

Below-Colored Canadians imitating the Germans that they captured in this dugout near the Canal du Nord, as they put up their hands and shouted "Kamerad!" (Canadian Official Photo, from U. S.)

Wounded Canadians being carried to the rear by German prisoners taken in the pursuit of the retreating Boche army in the fall of 1918. (Canadian official photograph.)

CHAPTER XX

THE WOUNDED AND PRISONERS

Typical Precautions Used by the German Army-The Soldiers' First-Aid Outfit-System in Hospital Arrangements-How Prisoners of War Are TreatedRegulations Are Humane and Fair to All Concerned.

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ODERN armies take the best possible care of their wounded and none has brought this department of warfare to greater perfection than the Germany army. One detail of this work shows the German army at its best.

Every soldier has sewn under a corner of his coat a strip of rubber cloth. Under this strip is a piece of antiseptic gauze, a strip of bandage and plaster and cloth for the outer bandage. This cloth bears in simple pictures directions for dressing every sort of wound.

When a soldier is wounded either he or some comrade rips open this package and applies at once the life saving dressing, which will last at any rate until the soldier is brought to a station, where the first scientific attention is given.

Through this simple and inexpensive device thousands upon thousands of German soldiers, who have been slightly wounded in battle, have returned to their comrades within a few days completely well and have taken their places in the ranks once more. Without this care a large percentage of the wounds would become inflamed, as has been the case with hundreds of wounded French prisoners captured by the Ger

mans.

The ordinary procedure of caring for the wounded in the German army is for the sanitary corps, which is well provided with stretchers and bandages, to gather up the wounded on or