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...Wars; New Wounds. Russian statistics show how mechanization of war has changed the military surgeon's problems. Says the Red Army's Chief Surgeon Nikolai N. Burdenko: "The percentage of bullet wounds is comparatively small; most casualties are now due to bombing, mortar fire and grenades." In World War I, 50% of wounds were caused by shrapnel (or shell fragments); today 95% belong to this category (counting each wound separately-one man often receives several wounds at the same time). Next to wounds of the arms and legs, the largest group of major wounds involves the skull...
Bearded, 51-year-old Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Nikolai donned his pall this week to attend the first meetings of a Soviet Government committee to investigate atrocities and evaluate the material damage caused by Axis armies in occupied Russia. Other members of the committee...
Soviet Trade Union Chief Nikolai Shvernik (chairman), Communist Party Secretary (and No. 2 Bolshevik) Andrei Zhdanov, Writer Alexei Tolstoy,* Aviatrix Valentina Grizodubova. It was the first time in 25 years that a high church official had found himself in such company...
Captain Poter Cochrane, D.S.C., of the Cameron Highlanders, Raden Kadir, a student from the Netherlands East Indies, Miss Yung Wang, who recently escaped from Hong Kong, Nikolai Krasavchenko, leader of the Moscow Youth Organization, and Vladmir Pchelintsev, Russian sniper, will make up the visiting party...
Fellow delegates escorted her to Washington: Sniper Vladimir Ptchelintzev, 23, credited with killing 152 Germans in 154 shots; pale, studious-looking Nikolai Krasavchenko, 26, in charge of keeping Moscow supplied with fuel...