Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1914 — MUST HAVE FEET CUT OFF [ARTICLE]

MUST HAVE FEET CUT OFF

Fifteen Hundred British Officers and Men in Hospitale With Extremities Frozen. London. —Officers invalided home from the front say there are at present about hundred British officer* and men suffering from frozen feet in the base hospitals in and about Bou-logne-sur-Mer,'France. Fully 1,000 of this number must have one or both feet severed, owing to the deadening of the nerves, which makes futile all attempts at treatment. Chilblains and frostbites have been depleting the ranks worse than bullets and shrapnel, and once a man’s foot is frozen he is through as far as fighting is concerned for the rest of the war.