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Wound Shock. The bane of medical officers in France during World War I. "wound shock" is a condition of "lowered vitality" which follows wounds, even trivial ones. Unchecked, it causes death. Wound shock comes from pain, loss of body heat, bleeding and toxemia. Lack of water balance, due to excessive sweating and short water rations, makes soldiers ready victims. The loss of fluid thickens their blood, produces a high concentration of poisonous urea. Best treatment for wound shock, discovered in the last year of World War I: 1) small doses of morphine for relief of pain; 2) an abundance...
Even more disturbing than the lack of censors was the virtual absence of any news whatever from the Allied fronts. Reporters, barred for the present from the scene of war itself (though a limited number are expected to go later), were dependent on brief and cryptic official communiques. Europe had some 10,000 newspapermen covering the war (including A. P.'s 664,* U. P.'s 500, something like 7,750 men employed by foreign agencies) and most of them had nothing to report. Result was that they picked up rumors where they could. All week long...
...word henceforth would be weighed in the light of his own injunction, which he now laid upon the Press, to stick rigidly to the facts because "that's best for our own nation-and for civilization." His deeds and those of his subordinates would now be examined for lack of bias as the nation watched his "every effort" to keep...
...bearing a banner reading "Churchill" who bumped into Prime Minister Chamberlain on his way to Parliament, the newspaper articles written by journalists who admired his style, the exasperated middle class outraged at too much muddling-these scarcely loomed big enough to conquer Mr. Chamberlain's hostility, the lack of confidence of the people. Bigger news was that last week's staggering events clarified in a stroke Churchill's concept of the Empire, made understandable what had been puzzling and contradictory about...
Epee, foil, and sabre flash under the supervision of Rene Peroy, coach of fencing. Owing to the lack of experienced material in the first-year class, the beginner often makes the team...