’ lateto. savemy life. ; He was a good doctor, very. friendly and easy to get along with. I called himby ‘his first name, Roberto.

The doctor spent a great deal of time in conversation with me. H-e had graduated in Paris, and spent several months in London and Berlin. He was a staunch supporter of the Repub» lican Party and was keenly interested in the activities at the front. When Teruel was captured by the Republican army last December he ran into my room, overjoyed, and grabbed my hand forgetting that it was still bandaged. This same feeling was shared by the entire staff of the hospital.

He .worked tirelessly. A little boy, nine years old, was brought to our hospital. He was wounded during a bombard» ment of Madrid. Gangrene had set in. His right leg and right arm were affected by it. . His arm was amputated at the shoulder, and the leg at the thigh, but the good care of this doctor saved his life. His mother was killed during that bomr bardment and his father died at the front some time before. He was at: very pleasant and intelligent boy. Doctor Roberto was very "proud of him, bitterly remarking that this young Spaniard afa__ce_s life with the stamp of the Nonelntervention Committee on him——a stamp that could never be erased from the thousands of other such cases in Spain.

Roger Hargrave, an American University student from Iowa, was in the same room with me from the third day after my arrival in the hospital. He was an old timer in the hospital l1a‘ving beenthere three months. His condition was serious Hezfwas unable‘ to’ move his leg--and one arm. On the night of. December. 12th, when the Loyalist offensive had started upon ..Teruel, the fascist artillery began shelling Madrid. Over three hundred shells hit the centre of Madrid. About fifty of them whizzed over the hospital, one of them exploding ten yards away. It is difficult to describeswhat we felt. We were on the third floor, laid up in bed, unable to move, as the shells sang their death songs over our heads and around us.

Roger was smiling. After three months of suffering to save his life, was he i‘ to be killed by a shell dropping in a hospital? - iv“ " '

He a medical student and was First Aid’ man- .-

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