Secondly to lack of sanitary skill on the part of the French in taking care of their wounded.) Austrian, 2 deaths to 7 casualties. British, 2 deaths to 11 casualties. (The low rate of mortality among the British is due to the great number of motor ambulances which they possess, to the smallness of their army, to the efficiency with which they care for their wounded, and to the short distance which separates their forces from their home country.) * * * * * The numbers of prisoners held on February 1st: IN GERMANY: British 18,000 Belgian 39,000 Russian 350,000 French 245,000 IN AUSTRIA: Russian 250,000 IN ENGLAND: German 15,000 IN FRANCE: German, approximately 50,000 MEDICAL CORPS The battle practice in the French army in handling wounded is as follows: When a man is wounded he is carried to a dressing station in some partly protected neighborhood within the battle area. He is generally taken there by the stretcher-bearers attached to his company. After field dressing, he is removed to a field hospital one to three miles toward the rear. The means of transportation are varied, and made to suit the particular battle conditions, the principal means being stretcher-bearers, motor ambulances, and horse ambulances. In case of heavy casualties, all the men who can possibly stagger are obliged to go to the rear by themselves and are sent in small parties so that they may assist one another _en route_. The field hospitals are nearly always established in village churches with overflow into neighboring houses in case of heavy casualties. All the furniture is removed from the church and the floor is covered thick with straw, upon which the wounded are laid out in long rows. The altar is made the pharmacist's headquarters, the vestry is converted into an operating room, and a Red Cross flag is hung from the tower or steeple. These field hospitals are generally well within the zone of artillery fire, and are frequently struck by shells.