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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1951.
"Then after tea we could spend the evening in one of those little-
boats on Battersea lake, ..... ?
London Express Service
The girl
girl who
SLEPT
116
N the Nuffield Wards of the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, lie two people
in a sleep from which they cannot be wakened.
by
has
AN ASTONISHing londoneR TELLS HIS LIFE STORY. TO THE AMERICANS
Foreign Legionnaire -from the No. 19 bus
New York,
THE kids down the block seem to think I am some sort of guy out of Beau Geste," said Alfred Perrott-White in a confident middle-western ac-
By FREDERICK COOK.
sudden leap to fame as a keeps the fles writer of a best-selling book something wicked."
off-it tickles
"Me that never wrote a By the time World War II came the ex-bus-driver was decent letter in me life
through his basic training and to his surprise was the ill alive. He was with
to cross to France. There he
Perrott - White- now a somewhat
American naturalised
cent. "Blimey," he added in was born 50 years ago at Arat contingent of Legionnaires still unimpaired Cockney, Twickenham. is family neatly completed the circle by "me that used to drive the were Indian Army people. arriving back at Dunkirk just old No. 19 from Clapham He was taken to India as in time for the end, for a wound Junction to Highbury Barn baby, returned to England and to be captured.. Zut alors mon vieux}"
to school at the age of eight
Escaping from the Germans and hated it so much by killing his guard, he made There is perhaps somo "beastly cold it was after his way back to Africa excuse for Mr Perrott- India”—that at 12 he decid- there rejoined the Legion. White "It was always Alf ed to run awey. in the old days in S.W.11”— diaplaying a certain con- fusion as to whether he
should be talking English,
American or French.
Just 2s. 6d.
and In
1943, when his time expired, he Joined up with the Americans at Casablanca and ended the war interpreting for them Paris.
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The chance to go to the United States came when his old commanding oficer offered him
butler's job.
I knew," he told me in his neat, five-room brick house Not only is he a London outside Cincinnati, "that ships
went to India from Liverpool bus driver who has soldiered So I packed some apples Into with the French Foreign paper bag and set off with half- Legion. He is the only Bri- a-crown. I found a big old four. eyed and Alt,
Today, sun-bronzed, blue- he owns D driving school At Cincinnati
ton ever to win the Croix master and stowed away. Four while confidently awaiting the de Guerre four times as far days out the rals had finished eascade of dollars
they have
as he knows-to try to walk my food and I had to surrender. told him to expect from his to India-to stow away in Then I found the next port of
The skipper
gol in
a sailing ship for India only call was Melbourne." to land Instead at Mel- bourne-and to end up with an American passport and a
FOR DAYS
ROBERT GLENTON
Meantime....how do the parents and families carry on?
touch
with the boy's father, who ap prenticed him,
and he sailed the seven seas until 1017. Then he Joined the Royal Flying Corps.
"When war ended T utili hankered for India," he said, "so I attached myself to the 19th Hussars and went with them to the North-West Fron- tier returning to England in J926,"
After three years in Canada- apple-picking, gold mining, working on forms he decided in 1929 to make another stab at India. This time he thought he would walk there.
"I hadn't made a penny in he sald, all my wanderings," "rolling stones, you know-lota of fun but no moss.
ALFRED PERROTT-WHITE
...sailor, soldier, buzman, butlar.
I hiked book,
"Foreign Legionnaire," across France and over the from the Alm he hopes it will Miss Sanis' father, Major Alps. In Turkey I fell ill with make, and from the fat lecture Hector Sents, stays in his anti-malaria and some English peo- fees that may be forthcoming. que shop in the grey stone
times there is permanent para- teen weeks before she opened Somerset village of Norton St. Ple pald my fare home. That
lysis.'
her eyes again,
There was 17-year-old factory girl Betty Baxter, who two years ago lay unconscious in a Sun-
Betty Sants, aged 31, has
Each case is different. Even been unconscious for 116 the cases of Betty Sants and
Bhe days, since
came in Robert Aldersey, collision with a car while
The baby sleeps like a used derland hospital for six weeks. cycling. Robert Aldersey, child. His breathing is soft and When she awoke those seven- aged two, has been uncon. even and his dark hair is tous teen years of her life were a scious for 96 days, since a led. His eyes are always closed. blank. They are still. horse kicked him on the But although she lies sun, head while he was toddling Betty Sants sometimes opens her
eyes and they move, beside his mother,
In their screened-off beds they lie... in a mental no- man's-fund
and the doctors stand by and wait.
Little is known about sleep and unconsciousness.
hundreds of
Every year people suffer a head injury
which turns them from creatures with a mind into vegetables. That's the pet name given by medical
men.
and
This is worrying to the ever watching shitta of nurses and the doctors. Can she seg understand or is this eye move ment just я nervous reflex? Medicine is not so advanced that they can tell.
Philip.
when I became Was driver in London."
"Whai can I do," he says, "except wait?"
'Fed Up'
a bus
There is only one thing wrong! the climate.
"I thought knew what it Was to be hot," he said, "but the Sahara at its worst lan't But each week his wife, makes DERROTT-WHITE switched to like Cincinnati, Ohio, on a sum- the long journey to that quiet American again. "Lots of mér's day. Ninety-nine in the cubicle, sweetly scented with guys would probably have been shade-that la not exactly cool.. many flowers, in Radcliffe Infix-content with it," he said. "It But the 95 percent humidity mary where her daughter lles wasn't a bad job. But I got fed that flattens
me, brother, oblivious of the sunshine and up with Clapham Junction. sure does. She had to make friends anew the rain. with her father and mother and
"In 1938 I went over the
*1 201 two-way fans 'in every Channel again and joined the window. But there are days French Foreign Legion at when I long for the Sahara,
Boy, was that a The Legion? You can have that. The American' Legión" is enough for me,now.
her brothers and staters. Now
have her first baby. she is married and soon.
will
pence
י.
'I REMEMBER' AN ND on the family farm, out- Dunkirk.
Worcester, sido
Robert's mistake!" The doctors in Sunderland
What was wrong with li? General Hospital are
very in mother does all those little jobs terested.
• a farmer's wife means to do but
"Soy, I just got back 'frèm a a bit like big parade seldom gets round to. The
"Well, it wasn't
through the town. has never looked the movies. The pay was up. They made "When the baby is born," they farmhouse
me drum majori The e day,
climate Cor, they wouldn't half laugh if speculate, "her memory might more beautiful.
absolute hell. A hundred and they could see me now In return."
"But I never seem to dish thirty-five by day, near freez S. W. 11. Twenty-eight-year-old Jenny a job," she told me. "I starting by night. Aitken, of Anstruther, Fife, fell and work for a little while, but and the from a bus on 6th August, 1938. soon I remember. I was 159 days later that she "What is there to do except opened her eyes again.
walt....and pray?" That famous specialist Pro- And that in fessor Sir Hugh Cairns, who is doctors.. On an X-ray plate the air watching over Betty Sants and. "When we have found the shows as black patches and the Robert Aldersey, knows all the movement of the brain can be hazards.
BRAIN X-RAY DOCTORS have found a way to
X-ray the brain. By means of a spinal injection....or, more commonly, an injection through the skull.. air is pumpea into the brain's cavities,
seen.
'They eat and breathe, but no longer think. By tube and
There is nothing to be done by Infection they are fed
But that doesn't tell the except to watch and to wait. liquid
milk, and medical world what goes on in eggs,
the mind of inn unconscious glucose,
person,
Do Do they dream? titey think? Regularly, as they lle, they are moved in their beds so that no ill will come from maintaining one posture.
There is little more that science can do.
Says one of Britain's greatest "We do not know. specialists, Dr Wilfred Harris: The whole question of what sleep is and unconsciousness
Is very speculative.
We do not even know whether patients, dream when they are unconscious. We ques- flon them but they cannot re- member."
the feeling of
answer," a Harley Street brain \specialist said, "we shall have found one of life's great secrets."
-(London Express Service)
CUT PRICE WAR
MAY HOT UP
From R. M. MacCOLL
NEW YORK.
BEHIND the rough-and. foved has just ended at 71
Private Life of
WAITING
JOHN ERSKINE, for whom life (OMETIMES. a delicate brain
novel, "The operation. will lift the
The length of time Betty York department-store prica Helen of Troy," that life can broken piece of bone that is
•Sants has been unconscious, Is crushing consciousness out of a patient's mind,
by no means a record. A woman war there looms, in the begin at 40.
Ho was 40: when, from tho
Sants and baby Robert the ex-t
cure.
of
book
called Anna Swanepoel slept for view of many, experts, the quiet, academic background But in the cafes of Botly 31 years in Johannesburg. prospect of some really Im- Columbia, University, he sud-
produced the Patricia Maguire, a beautiful portant price falls over the, denly
was translated into. 10 parts are hoping that time and typist of Oak Park, Dunots, slept country before the summer which the enforced rest will be the for five years and seven months. is oufiș
languages and brought him fame and fortune.' in the After the Korean outbreak it
WHAT is
belleved 16 WEEKS
was the retailers and not the first case of suicide by a head-
Storm Wat unconscious because of a head HERE are many such cases in public who went in for panic on car crash has been recorded Lake, Iowa, John buying. injury. The brain which medical records. Sometimes u semi-duld is Jarred. It may the sleepers die. But often they do now the retailers fiave Simms, aged 32, swerved his Mrd Paul πόνο α
much as half an inch live and have to be, told of the got 30 percent more goods on car into another. The other
their shelves than:
an they had a driver 22-year-old and the shock brings: darkness wars, the disasters and the trous
Doctors know now what hap- pens when gamecha, becomes
to the 50 bilen that have beset the world Celling prices set by the ARMING
Some recover completely, eventually, The brain slowly BABIMESLS, Ermal position.
since they closed their presomes of Price Control, and now dreads the
WEST
of the In Britdin there was Mrs Ivy being posted by retailers, are in grasshopper. But, because of Bmith, of North Harrow, Milde many cures out of date prices George Bawday a pioneer
mjane shaya i skidded a fur below the rancher in Calliomie, 231,
VADE TWEE A3) 31-August 1907 15 and there is enou: PODPOREN 2 de baing spent invápraying
w: When she del Dott. Kiven the TUOL
A lough outßt fancy neckpiece that
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