WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932.
DEMPSEY
AND
HEENY
IN
TOWN
MEETING
ON
THURSDAY,
21st. April.
IN AS ROUND
BOUT FOR A
KNOCK OUT
OR NO DECISION.
ROUND.
FIGHT
AT THE
KING'S
H. V. Morton on
MAGIC HANDS THAT FIGHT FOR LIFE
LIFE OR DEATH OPERATION.
In A Great London Hospital.
I am going to describe a scene | that I have shirked for ten years: a life or death operation in a great London hospital ...
It is 2 p.m.
The scene is one of the magnifi- cent operating theatres in the Charing Cross Hospital. It is a
room of grey marble and white tiles. It smells of disinfectant. It contains as many queer and com- plicated instruments as the engine- room of a battleship. Everything in this room-each glass-topped table, each wheeled trolly, each
My desire to look away is so great that I will not allow myself to do so.
He takes the knife, and with a
tion.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
SHAUKIWAN
AFFRAY.
Coolies Engaged in Heated Quarrel.
ONE INJURED.
A cutting and wounding affray occurred in Shaukiwan in the early
FOREIGN FIRMS” IN'
DISPUTE
Mr. Pinguet Makes --
Frank” “Admission,
OF PRICE WAR.
The dispute between Messrs.
hours of this morning, according to P. M. Pinguet & Co., of Hong Kong, the Police report from that district, and the Compagnie. Optorg, of A number of Chinese coolles were Shanghai, over an alleged agree- engaged in a quarrel, during which
one of them is alleged to have in- ment for the sale of fancy plece Aicted knife wounds en Yam Tung goods from Paris, was taken a step (85) of 6 Sal Street, first floor. further before the Chief Justice The man was removed to the Gov- this morning, when Mr. Eldon ernment Civil Hospital auxering from injuries to his back, head and Potter, for the defendants, cross- right hand, but they are considered examined Mr. Pinguet.
to be not serious. His assailant is Mr. Pinguet said that it was stated to have absconded.
known on the local market that he Other Incidents.
these contracts were "chopped by
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Pressed by Mr. Potter on the last point; Mr. Pinguet said that all
gesture as strong, as sure, and as Another similar incident happen- would undersell Optorg by 5 cents beautiful as that of a great violinist ed in Queen's Road yesterday per yard. His firm had secured) moving his bow, begins the opera-evening, the victim being a male, about 20 contracts at $4.80 per Fak Sheung (30) who lives at 266 yard, and about: 60 per cent, of Queen's Road Central, who was sent to hospital suffering from cuts on Of all the things that happen in his arms, alleged to have been in-the dealers. London, every day, this is surely flicted with a knife by another the most fearful and the most man, who fled.
A third case was reported from the "chopped" contracts, were re- Hfe poised on the Po On Lane, where a male, Yau turned to him with the chop.erased. wonderful; a point of a knife; a few moments in Shau-san (32) is stated to have This was because the dealers had which everything is reduced to yea sustained cuts and abrasions, in- found out that Optorg were selling switch-occupies a position decreed pay; a white room with the dicted by a Chinese woman, it is at $4.70. per yard. They had been wings of Death beating at the alleged, with a blunt metal instru- told so by Optorg's broker. . The *****, D. ment. The woman was taken into only chopped" contract he had was windows.
And I look at it, surprised that custody. it is not horrible as Rembrandt's "Anatomist" is horrible. It is a magnificent sight. Ten
people working together with the skill of long training to save a life.
by experience.
electric
I feel nervous and aprehensive. I put on a white sterilised gown that ties at the nape of the neck. I put on a close-fitting white cap. I look through the window and see for 1 am on the top floor of the hospital-the clustered roofs of Charing Cross. and the Strand.
And Into this white room where we are about to fight with Death comes a muffled, uniform roar--the sound of London far below rushing about the business of Life. Odd sounds penetrate now and then: the shriek of an engine in Charing Cross Station and the wall of some beggar in the streets below playing a bagpipe.
I long, with a coward's longing, to be down among
this healthy, hearty chaos of Life; but I turn my back to the window and watch the white room.
Five nurses take up their posi-, tions with the precision of Guards- men. Three doctors whisper to- gether. An anaesthetist examines one of the queer machines,
Everyone wears a white gown, & white cap and a strip, of white gaze tied over the mouth. This makes the men look rather sinis-
ter, but enhances the brilliance of the women's eyes.
There is no sound but the tinkle of metal against glass and a hiss of
from
Yes, another room. steam there is another sound! The sur- himself as his sure geon talks to hands move above the wound.
COMMERCIAL CHIEF.
Going In For Politics.
SIR BASIL BLACKETT.
London, To-day.
from. Sincere's. This firm usually signed and returned contracts quicker than other dealers.
Straight Forward Business. Asked why he did not bind Sincere's to their contract, Mr. Pinguet said that he did not want ty do so because they were doing! straightforward business, and if they reduced the price for one dealer they had to do so for all.
Mr. Potter. referred to a tele phone conversation:. between, Mr.
I know instinctively from the at- mosphere created, by the tenseness of his assistants, by the gravity of Sir Basil Blackett, in order to be inguet and Optorg's representa- the eyes above the white gauze, relieved of executive work and so tive in which Mr. Pinguet used that this muttering is a sign that he devote time to other public in-auch strong language that Optorg's is dealing with Life and Death, terests, has resigned the Chairman-man cut him off, but Mr. Pinguet
denied this. And it is a tremendously encourag-ship of Imperisi Inter-Communica
Mr. Pinguet admitted that he ing sound, because it is so full oftions Limited, and Directorship of
Cables and Wireless Limited from told Optorg's representative that! affirmatives: ..
the would sell the second quality at "Yes," I hear him mutter, "that's to-day.
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all right ...yes; now here we are; Mr. J. C. Denison Pender,184.10 In spite of the fact that he yes; yes.... good; yes ..." Governor of Cables and Wireless could get $4.90, and commented that Nothing has surprised him. The will be temporary Chairman of Im- a man could not keep his word the deserved no consideration. Mr. poor little body has not puzzled him. perial Inter-Communications.
He is like a man who has opened a Sir Basil Blackett is standing as Pinguet insisted that there was deed box and found everything as a Conservative, in support of the difference of opinion only with te It should be. His hands are in-Natina Government, in the gard to the second quality, and he credible. They have altered!
action of Marylebone bye-election in appost- did not think that his
NOT GUILTY.
Manslaughter Charge Fails at Assizes.
No longer are they the bands tion to Captain A. S. Cunningham selling this quality on March 8 at which held X-ray films and put on Reid who has been adopted official $4.10 ruined the price for the first a white cap. All the strength and Conservative by the division or quality. He admitted frankly that Suddenly the door opens and power of his personality how seem ganisation's majority vote Reuter, he sold at $4.10 to cut Optorg's.
The case is proceeding. something like a Summer breeze concentrated in those hands. They comes in. He is a man with grey-have a life of their own. They are ing hair, a young face and a man- not ordinary hands. Though they ner that radiates confidence. He do so much, their movements are wears an open-necked cricket shirt economical. They never and a pair of white flannels.
unnecessary inch. If they want "Good afternoon, sir," they say something they just open for a to him with great deference.
second and a woman's hand offers a This was a famous surgeon. His little shining thing. striped trousers and black coat hang in his dressing-room. He comes in as If clothed for a game-Science his racquet and Death his tennis
ball:
"X-rays, please!"'
A doctor hands films to him. He look at them closely, and then without a word, moves over to a place where a nurse holds a white overall a cap, a gauze mouthpiece, and a pair of rubber gloves.
I now forget the sound of London and the life below us in the streets. All the drama of the world seems concentrated' within these white walls. Men are being killed in. China, people are suffering and dying all over the earth, but nothing seems as important as this struggle for one life' above the roofs of Charing Cross.
The door opens. À noiseless stretcher glides swiftly into the room; and I see him for the first time.
la
move an
The hands grasp it and continue.
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TURVA
MOTOR DRIVER SET FREE.
At the Assizes, this morning, the jury returned a verdict of "not The women are amazing. An ad- guilty" In the manslaughter case; miration I have always felt for which had cccupied the attention nurses--the worst paid and most of the Court since yesterday. self-sacrificing women on earth- The accused was Wong Kam- increases as I watch them bent leung who was charged with the above the body.
manslaughter of a man named Lo
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LOCAL: SHARE MARKET.
Firmer Tone.
QUIET OPENING.
·।,;"
The official summary issued by the Stock *Exchange to-day
says:-
Markets opened quietly steady, The cheerfulness of nurses, the Ts-uen, and the case arose out of with, if anything, a firmer under- bravery, the will capacity for sera motor accident in Waterloo Road, tone and less signs of a sagging vice--how can you explain. it? Kowloon, on February 17 last. tendency.
wonder if some part of thin is due The accused was the driver of a
to the fact that they work under motor vehicle which ran into
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the autocratic direction of men hand truck pulled by two coolles whom they mostly admire and in an and steered by the man who was atmosphere of stern discipline, killed.
“Are you interested in anatomy ?” says the surgeon's' voice?
a
As soon as the jury had returned its verdict, his Lordship (Mr. Justice J. R. Wood) discharged the accused.
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"No!" I reply in horror. "You can come near," he says, working all the time, it is
"That was killing this man!" he VALET'S STERLING FORTUNE. says, 'and I look at the little brị th-
ing body and see inside it a thing
Since 1929 a walet de chambre
no larger than a few hay seeds." employed at present in a hotel at The surgeon stands back. A Amiens has been a millionaire-in He is a poor little elderly man nurse takes glass tubes, wraps them france-without being aware of the that Fate has kicked to the earth; in linen, cracks them, dips 'sterilised fact. His shrunken body has suffered. cat-gut in disinfectant and gives? He Is M. "Adrien Lacoste. His eyes remind me of a dog, that length after length to the eager Several years ago he pur- died of distemper in my arms. A hands.
chased through a "Bordeaux It seems impossible, that he was It is over.
bank sight Corporation of Lon ever well and healthy, that he ever The surgeon goes to the ante don bonds, and apparently |carved-a Sunday "joint, that he ever room. He removes his veil, his thought no more of his investment.
sat at a table in some suburb and ↑ gloves and his cap...
In 1929 one of his bonds was drawn
| loved a "woman for kissed a child. "Have you saved his life?" as reparatie at £10,000, but. the |He looks like some thin, alabaster Yes think star karui Frenchi bank with which He had
Christ taken from a' cross.
And the hands that played with deposited his certificate failed to The anaesthetist goes to him .... Life and Death take a cigarette and tracey hin He lies now unconscious," a bright | Ulight it."- They have~iltered.
Be like now been found and th- overhead ligit pouring on his piti are now ordinary, handd. We look formed that the sum of ** $40,000r Tuf: ches
res aur down on Charlagu , where the (capital and inter
51-520 at
round
the man" In | life of London: thunders red
par, stai
A young doctor
sheet of blue paper.
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