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THE JAPANESE AMBULANCE, &o. 125
yet everything can be easily and accurately
handled.
But if little can be learnt from their organization
or equipment, any army would be proud of a staff
so efficient, so brave, and so untiringly hard-
working as the Japanese medical staff. In a
single day as many as a thousand wounded have
come into one field hospital, and although, inevit-
ably, many had to wait for their turn a long time,
the doctors gave themselves not a moment’s rest
until every man was properly treated and bandaged.
It must be remembered also that in this campaign
the wounds were of a much more hideous
character than those inflicted during ordinary field
operations. As the above statistics show, the
percentage of shell wounds was more than double
of what it is under ordinary circumstances, and
the number of bayonet and sword wounds was
comparatively large. Quite a number of men were
wounded by dynamite and hand grenades also,
and all of these wounds are very horrible and most
difficult to treat successfully. There is still one
other point to be be noted. During this siege
much rifle firing at close range, within fifty or a
hundred yards, took place, and at this range rifle
bullets inflict extremely dangerous wounds,
resembling big pear-shaped holes, in the human
body, similar to the wounds caused by dum-dum
bullets. All praise, therefore, to the Japanese
army surgeon. His hard and difficult work has
been done without flinching, and it has been done
well.
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