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MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1932.
MAGIC HANDS FIGHT FOR LIFE
MIRACLE OF SURGERY.
AM going to describe a scene overhead light pouring on his pitiful the shirked for ten chest. The white figures surround
white mask whose skill may save this life.
TAK
His Lordship will preach his years: a life or death operation in him. I look at the man in the
St. John's a great London hospital farowell sermon at
It is 2 p.m. Cathedral on Sunday, and special
His eyes above the gauze are con- The scene is one of the magni- arrangements are being made by ficent operating theatres in the dent, cold, intent; his hands, red- other Churches for their congrega Charing Cross Hospital. It is a brown in thin rubber, seemed filed tions to listen to the Bishop's ser-
an uncanny vitality. A mon, which will also be broadcast. room of grey marble and white with
In order to allow worshippers to tiles. It smells of disinfectant, woman's hand in rubber gives him
queer and a little, shining knife ..... attend at the Cathedral, the usual. It contains as many service at St. Peter's Church, West complicated instruments the My desire to look away is so great engine-room of a battleship, that I will not allow myself to do so. Point, has been cancelled. St. An-
He takes the knife, and with a Everything in this room-each drew's Church, Kowloon, hopes to glass-topped table, each wheeled gesture as strong, as sure, and as receive the sermon by radio.
trolly, each, electric switch-beautiful as that of a great violinist occupies a position decreed by moving his bow, begins the opera-
tion, experience.
OBITUARY.
Death of Mr. Omar ·
Kitchell.
LOCAL BROKER,
5
and
+
I feel nervous and apprehen- Of all the things that happen in sive. I put on a white sterilised London every day, this is surely the gown that ties at the nape of the most fearful and the most wonder- neck. I put on a close-fitting|ful; a life poised on the point of a a few moments in which white cap. I look through the knife; window and see-for I am on the everything is reduced to yea or top floor of the hospital-the nay; a white room with the wings clustered roofs of Charing Cross of Death beating at the windows. and the Strand.
And I look at it, surprised that it And into this white room where is not horrible as Rembrandt's The death of Mr. Omar Kitchell, we are about to fight with Death "Anatomist" is horrible. It is a well-known local share broker, oc-
comes a muffled, uniform roar magnificent sight. Ten people work- curred at his residence in Leighton the sound of London far below ing together with the skill of long Hill Road, Happy Valley, yesterday rushing about the business of training to save a life. morning.
Life. Odd sounds penetrate now There is no sound but the tinkle He had not been well for some and then; the shriek of an en-of metal against glass and a hiss of time, suffering from acute heart gine in Charing Cross Station steam from another room. Yes, trouble, but recently he showed and the wail of some beggar in there is another sound! The sur- as his sure Japan is feared in America, such improvement that there was the streets below playing a baggeon talks to himself
hope of his making a recovery. pipe.
hands move above the wound; » and that to some extent, no Death intervened rather unexpect I long with a coward's longing, I know instinctively from the doubt accounts for the outburst edly yesterday.
to be down among this healthy, atmosphere created, by the tense- Mr. Kitchell was one of the hearty chaos of Life; but I turn ness of his assistants, by the gravity of anti-Japanese feeling there.
and of the eyes above the white gauze, If this fear still exists, after the original members of the Hong my back to the window
Kong Share Brokers Association watch the white room.
that this muttering is a sign that excellent stand made by the and was at one time a partner in Five nurses take up their he is dealing with Life and Death. Chinese troops against the well-Messrs. Razack and Kitchell. On positions with the precision of And it is a tremendously encourag- nations has undergone a change trained and equipped Japanese several occasions he served on the Guardsmen. Three doctors whis- ing sound, because it it so full of
anaesthetist affirmatives: as a result of the Sino-Japanese military, is another problem committee of the Association and per together. An
was very popular in Ice House examines one of the queer ma- "Yes," I hear him mutter, "that's dispute. No country can exist which may be discussed at a later Street, where he had a large clien- chines.
all right.... yes; now here we are; tele among both foreigners without friends and enemies and date.
Everyone wears a white gown, yes; yes .... good, yes Chinese.
a white cap and a strip of white Nothing has surprised him. The whatever China's troubles are at It is possible, too, that Japan
The sympathy of many friends gauze tied over the mouth. This poor little body has not puzzled him. the present, it can safely be said fears America more than she and acquaintances is extended to makes the men look rather sinis-He is like a man who has opened a that the first-named outnumber fears Europe as she knows that his widow and several children in ter, but enhances the brilliance deed box and found everything as it
of the women's eyes.
should be. His hands are incredible.. the last-named.
no European Power will take the their bereavement.
The funeral, which took place atj Suddenly the door opens and They have altered! When trouble broke out in initiative individually, America,
the Muslim Cemetery, Happy Val- something like a Summer breeze No longer are they the hands Manchuria, European thoughts on the other hand, is compara-ley, last evening, was largely at- comes in. He is a man with which held X-ray films and put on a were not particularly directed to- tively a closer and more import-tended, the gathering including re- greying hair, a young face and white cap. All the strength and wards the Fer East, but this ant neighbour of Japan's than presentatives of the Share Brokers a manner that radiates confid-power of his personality now seem Association. There was a large once. He wears an open-necked concentrated in those hands. They trouble soon attracted the atten- any other country in the Old
cricket shirt and a pair of white have a life of their own. They are tion of the entire civilised world. World. The States absorb most
flannels.
not ordinary hands. Though they "Good afternoon, sir," they say to do so much,. their movements are and shortly afterwards the mat- of Japan's silk crop, and Japan's News in Brief.
him with great defcrence.
economical. They never move an ter was officially referred to the vast cotton textile trade is de-
This is a famous surgeon. His unnecessary rich. If they want League of Nations,
pendent upon the Southern States
(kindly loaned for the occasion) at striped trousers and Mack coat something they just open for a of America for its raw material. noon yesterday, an Easter service, hang in his dressing-room. He second and a woman's hand offers a as to the merits and demerits of Japan cannot afford to risk an conducted by Dr. Reichel, was held comes in as if clothed for a game little shining thing the respective viewpoints, but embargo either way.
for the Norwegian community, and Selence his racquet and Death his
tennis ball:
"X-rays, pleasel" from the very first China an-
Whatever the motive inspiring was largely attended.
A doctor hands films to him. He nounced her intention of abiding American. action, the fact re- Whilst engaged in working by the decision of the League, mains, satisfactory to China, a brick machine, at the Wing Ching looks at them closely, and then, Building Contractors' premises, Fa without a word, moves over to a and neither by word or deed has that the weight of her influence Yuen Street, labourer named place where a nurse holds a white
The cheerfulness of nurses, the she strayed from that intention. is thrown in the scale together wong Wai (26)
was slightly in-Overall, a cap, a gauze mouthpiece,
bravery, the willing capacity for Japan, on the other hand, ever with that of Europe.
jured, and had to be taken to the and a pair of rubber gloves.
I now forget the sound of London service how can you explain It? since her early action in Man-
Such friendships, made in the Kwong Wah Hospital for treatment and the life below us in the streets. I wonder if some part of this is due churia, the justification of which hour of China's severe trial, may Whilst walking in Great. George All the drama of the world seems to the fact that they work under the
concentrated within
white autocratic direction of men whom was possibly debatable, went from be consolidated, and should Street yesterday, an elderly woman, length to length until the whole prove of material use to the re-named Chau Sin (62) of 18 Russell walls. Men are being killed in they mostly admire and in an atmos- "Are you interested in anatomy" world stood aghast at the horrors public in the near future when Street, was struck on the head by China, people are suffering and phere of stern discipline ....
a piece of wood which fell from the dying all over the earth, bat nothing were inflicted upon the China is permitted to relax from first, four level of a house under seams as important as this struggle says the surgeon's voice.
"No!" I reply in horror. helpless civilian population of the ever important task of self-construction. She was taken to the Charing Cross. Chapel and surrounding districts. defence and may direct her Government Civil Hospital.
In the face of this China main-energies once again to economic tained an attitude of moderation | reconstruction.
At the outset, opinions varied
which
while the efforts of Britain, France, Italy and Spain were 'directed towards effecting some immediate relief for stricken
AIR SUPREMACY.
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The door opens. A noiseless Whilst playing football at Happy stretcher glides swiftly into the Valley yesterday, a violent quarrel room; and I see him for the first rose between two youths, Leung Sau time, writes a correspondent to the
Singapore Free Press, (18), and Hung Siu (15). The latter is alleged to have struck the
The hands grasp it and continue. The women are amazing. An ad- miration I have always felt for worst nurses-the
paid and
most self-sacrificing women on earth increases as I watch them bent above the body.
**You can come near," he says, working all the time.
I summon up courage and ap prosch:
It is over.
"That was killing this man?" he He is a poor little elderly man aays, and I look at the little breath- It will be recalled that but for the former with a knife causing an in-that Fate has kicked to the earth. ing body and see inside it a thing The surgeon stands back. A generosity of Lady Houston,, there cised wound on the left side of the His shrunken body has suffered. larger than a few hay seeds.
nurse takes glass tubes, wraps them Leung was removed to hos- His eyes remind me of a dog that no Schneider face.
died of distemper in my arms. The race re-pital for treatment.
It seems impossible that he was in linen, cracks them, dips sterillaed permanent solution of the whole Trophy for Britain.
sulted in a walkover for Britain, problem between the two great but even so the machines engaged
The luxurious
Matson world-ever well and healthy, that he ever cat-gut in disinfectant and gives length after length to the eager hands. Asiatic nations.
had to conform to certain standards cruise liner Mariposa left for the eat at a table in some suburb and North at 5 o'clock yesterday, after carved a Sunday joint, that he ever kissed a child. The Press and many sections of behaviour and speed.
thin, alabaster of the community were less dif- In the construction of those ma-noon. As she steamed out of the loved a woman or chines, experience of real value had wharf, and passed the Star Ferry He looks like some fident, and there was scarcely an been gained which was of materiat wharf, lusty cheering and shouts of Christ taken from & cross.
The anaesthetist goes to him organ in Britain that did not use to the Air Force, stated Sir "Good-bye Hong Kong" could be
He lies now unconscious, a bright appeal on behalf of China. Philip Sassoon Introducing the Airheard from the tourist crowded
And the hands that played with America's position is some Estimates, in the House of Com-decks. The next place of call will
mons. Though Britain was Afth be Chinwangtao, after which the Yesterday being Easter Day, St. Life and Death take a cigarette and what different from that of the in the world as far as numerical air Mariposa will call at Shanghai, Andrew's Church was, as usual, light it. They have altered. They European nations. The United strength went, she was first in con-Yokohama and Kobe, and then re- prettily decorated with flowers, are now ordinary hands. We look States not being a member of struction and design and in training turn to America via Honolulu and Holy Communion was administered down on Charing Cross, where the
the Panama Canal.
at 7.15, 8.15 am and at noon. The life of London thunders restlessly. and efficienty of pilota.
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The surgeon goes to the ante- room. He removes his vell, his gloves and his cap.
"Have you saved his life" "Yes; I think so,"
"I must go and clean up," says the
the League, and Insofar as she Thua is the value of the competithe present it must be remembered preacher at the morning service was │A young doctor comes in with a has assisted the Powers over the tive element illustrated, and thus that advancement does not come to the Vicar (Rev. W. Walton Rogers) sheet of blue paper. It is the next Far East problem, she has done is the deprecating attitude of the those who allow things to lapse too At 8 p.m. a service for children and fight.
young people, conducted by the so in the nature of a stranger late Socialist 'Government towards longing to p
At the evening surgeon, the whole business exposed. It le In view of the reduced strength Vicar, was held within the household, assisting believed that the races will be allow of the army and navy, Britain can service the preacher was the Rev. And in the white room the tonsk temporarily, during domestic ed to layer, and while this would not afford to allow her new fighting E. W. L. Martin MA Warden of ed men and women stand silently at
doubtless be the wisest ~ course for. Arm to take s bacic placevalso; i
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