THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, JULY 26, 1937.
DOCTOR PLANS TO FOUND A REPUBLIC OF HEALING
War Dream on Verge
of Realisation
INDEPENDENT ISLAND WHERE MAIMED WILL BE HEALED
PLANS
are on foot to set up, on a tiny island in the Ægenn Sen, an independent State which will also be an international sur- gical centre, observes the Never Chronicle.
Here, if the Greek Government agrees, will be estab- lished a new centre for "structive surgery,” to which maimed men, women and children from all over the world may go.
The poor will be healett free and caught to work, so that when they return to the outside world they will be useful members of society.
Behind this project is Dr. He lectured to the Medical Sidely Johannes Samuel Esser, to whom to Atliens and won over the profess during the war were brought sors and statesmen.
some of the worst eases mutilation and disfigurement.
*1:0 KAIK of Greece Juned his committee; the of Government feat him a dessuyer
Out of this experience grew the idea of the centre of healing.
FAMOUS IN 1914
in 1014 Dr. Esger was already fat- ous as a leading exponent of what later
was known as 'structive site- gery.
Working in the principal hospitals | ira Central Europe he performed operations in care that had been given up as hopeless.
He made new lip eats. tuses grow. Under his hands new bones) and new skin grew and healed. He
that he could visit the islands in tire | Aegean Star Bouk for a suitable
spot.
island.
Among flic found at leal place.
Exame
It is the island of Kyra Panaghia. Tiny-less than 18 square miles— It has a well, a flat space where aeroplanes can land, and smaller islets close to its coast.
It is 75 miles from Saltkatt 12 hours' sail (com Pireaus, the port for Athen
"ABSOLUTELY FREE"
Dr. Esser and the Institute are not Tasking merely that Kym Panghin
restored shattered limbs and even shall be ceded to them by the Greek
heads.
Government. They are stipulating After the war he set up, with his¦that a Free State shall be established friends to whom he had revealed his thery, with an autonomous Govern- idea, the Independent Institute of ment.
Structive Surgery, with headquarters | in Paris.
At Brst the Inst(lute bad not the funds or the organisation to develop Dr. Esser's plan.
Now, after 20 years. il hus, the backing of big financial Interests, and some of the greatest doctors, surgeons and statesner in Europe.
The Island must be self-control-
ed pulitically and financially and secured from any European inter- ference.
They want freedom of Customs, taxation, passport laws posts and telegraphs.
if the present negotiations fail, the centre will be established elsewhere. Dr. Esser has had four interviews with Signor Mussolini, who would like the Surgieat Free State in his territory: Humanta and Bulgaria are Dr. Esser recently went to Greece interested. He is certain now that
the dream will be fulfilled,
Negotiations for a suitable loca tion for the centre are in progress with the Greek Governmeni.
in search of a site.
Woman Need
Need Not Pay Poker Debts
(By C. H. D. GOFF)
6 INTEND to go on suing such people who do not pay their card-room losses, even though I lose my cases,
for it is the only way to stop this practice.”
Mr. Matthew L. Lyttleton, managing director of the Maitland Bridge Club, Cleve-road, West Hampstead, expressed this de- termination to me after Mitties Ltd., the proprietors, had lost their case against Mrs. Horwitt, of Willesden Green, N.W., at Marylebone County Court, for the recovery of £54 which she maintained she had lost playing poker at the club.
"I have found," he continued, Judge H. B. Drysdale Woodcock. "that the majority of poker players K.C., ruled that debts incurred by can easily afford to pay their losses. debts and are not recoverable, and means of poker ehips are gaming
gave judgment for Mrs. Horwitt with costs.
11 STAKES
"The members here-and there are nearly 1,000 of them-re well- Apart from gorning, he said, chips to-do people, and for poker the were sometimes used in payment for maximum stake at the high tables is meals or refreshment. They hud 21, with a 10s, rise,
also been known to be used to pay for Jewellery, and even for model "A win or loss of £200 in an even-hats, or a player might sell some of Ing a exceptional. I have hardly his
chips to another player for ever known of anyone losing more, and when I see a member losing steadily invariably advise him to stop.
"Bridge ranges from 3d, to 2s. 6d. a 100, with 60. as the average stake.}| "Members of this club who are £100 down at the end of the year are heavy losers. And for that £100 the member has find fairly good value in spending his evenings with people he knows and likes, and din- ing and entertaining his felends.
CHIPS TO PAY FOR HATS "Nowadays women as well as men are poker enthusiasts, and many of them are first-class players."
TAKES OFF 41 Lbs.
Miss F. S. Min- neapolis, U.S.A says: "My Mother had such wonder- ful results from BonKora that I tried it myself. I fost 41 pounds in:
8 weeks. 10 incies off hips and can wear dresses two sizes smaller. I look 10 years younger. A at the life of every party, Whether you are five pounds or fifty pounds overweight, 'try BooKors. At all chemists, pied data
money.
Tab
"The Rev. R. Anderson Jardine, who suddenly rose to fame when he mar- ried Miss Warfield and the Duke of Windsor, is here photographed on his way to America where he is to make a lecture tour in aid of various charities.
PEASANTS CELEBRATE A ROYAL BIRTH
Bulgarian peasants walking through the streets of Sophia to the Royal Castle with presents to the Kh; and Queen on the occasion of the birth of an heir to the throne,
Even a sheep figured among the
presonis,
COLIN CLIVE DIES LONELY, EMBITTERED BY HIS FILMS
Hollywood, June 26.
At eleven o'clock this morning two white-clad attend. anta rushed along a corridor in the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood carrying a cylinder of oxygen. A doctor came out of a door and said grimly: "Mr. Clive won't need that any more." The man remembered by millions as Captain Stanhope in “Journey's End" was dead.
Thirty-seven-year-old Colin
Clive, fated to play villains' roles in Hollywood, died a lonely and embittered man. There were no hysterical girls such as mobbed the hospital gates as Jean Har-] Jow's life flickered out a few! weeks ago,
Film Made Him Rebel
(By Paul Holt)
40 FATAL R. A. F. CRASHES THIS YEAR
(By Dan Rogers) United Press Staff Correspondent
London, July 1. The Brits Royal Air Force has
had 40 fatal crashes resulting in 02 deaths of pilots or observers since
ministry January 1. On Inquiry. the air making the totals official.
confirmed these figures,
1936.
The
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There are several times more non-
There Agures only cover_fatalities. | COR STORY-TELLING PICTURES fatal crashes than crackups in which personnel is killed, officials admitted. A London newspaper's unoMelat timate places the total of all B.A.F. crushes
the past five montis al 400 machines which cost more than £1,000,000.
Air ministry
officials said this "looked a bit high" but were unable to give either definite figures or es- timates on total number of crashes or the financial loss Involved. Just a Hitle group of one who COLIN CLIVE never went to R.A.F. Jasses already have exceeded With 1937 not quite half-gone, the knew him stood outside Die room where he lay. In another room Sandhurst when the Armistice reached the total
the war; he was a endet at the entire year 1935 and almost have urar by a woman sobbed-Joan
for the whole of Blondell, taken to the hospital came.
But he was the one: three days ago for shoulder treatman, more than any other, to were killed on Empire Air day last
More than dozen R.A.F. remind a post-war generation, month during flying displays. She had sent Clive cheering mes-only too eager to forget, of the largest military air show yet staged sages as he made a desperate fight reality of war. for life. But his wasted berly failed!
-was reviewed by the King an this display, a June 20. During "Journey's End" ran for 507 per-single mass formation of 250 bombers HE WAS DOOMED
formances, was acted in a year by and fighters flew past His Majesty. seventy-six companies throughout
INVESTIGATION PLANNED pumped oxygen into his tent in the box office.
this morning flocters had the world and took £1,000,000 at the the accidents of Empire Air day will Air ministry officiais devoutly hope
effort to put new vigour Into his į
not be repeated, Lody. But he was dying slowly all He waited a year, and
But it brought CHve no other work. Of the 1937 toll, 32 crashes caus-
when thating 51 deaths the time. Dr. Frederick Bergstrom patience brought nothing from thetish Isles: the rest were in overseas "Hongkong Telegraph,"
aths occurred is the Bri- British stage or screen he made up squadrons. This percentage is logi- his mind to go to never saw a man less eager to go.
Hollywood. 1cal for of course almost all training is done on home fields and. In ad- dition,
the weather of the British Isies probably is consistently more erratie than in any part of the em-
meal,
him
All
who attended him, sald:
"Clive was doomed five days ago, I think he knew it, but he struggled against it like a coldler. For the last few hours he was in a coma. Perhaps if he had come here sooner; he would have been alive now." The actor's wite, Jeanne Casalis, had cabled messages daily! from London, and had made frequent, inquiries at the hospital by Trans- jatlantle telephone. But Clive hud noj relatives or close friends in Holly-1 wood: nimost his only June Roberts. attendan!.
visitor waa
soft-spöken.
The day he left he sald:-
Hving."
the
really to
men
The
that Lord
"I say quite frankly that I leave pire-especially as concerns fog, the with bitterness in my heart-that fliers arch-enemy. de!
bitterness which any Englishman
It has been suggested feel when he is forced to go to Swinton, air minister, is planning a a foreign country to make his general investigation to make RAF training safer, but this was dented He had more bitterness to face in at the nir
ministry. Various reasons have been advanc Hollywood a studio makes exile. He found that
wanted him only
played to account for the tremendously vicious roles.
increased number of R.A.F. crashes. Colin Clive was B
One
is that pilots are said to be [homebird type of man who did not The crisis came when he was cast trained in slow machines and called understand Hollywood very well, for a part in "istory is Made at upon to fly fast, modern planes be-
Alm starring and whom Hollywood did not try Night,"
Jean fore they are ready. This is most very hard to understand. He used Arthur and Charles Boyer, which to say he preferred his pipe to any played in the West End of Londen enphatically denied by the air minis-
be recently. Again
played the The most likely reasons are two: vicious, husband. He had lost thirty pounds In
(1) the rapid expansion of the R.A.F. But this time he rebelled. When is a vital part of Britain's rearma- weight since he had entered hospital Lor an operation for pulmonary he saw the film'he complained bitment, with the consequent produc- tion of hundreds of young pilots that the part he had been atiment. He had been told he was terly
had been given to tish military flying has been put on ing years of experience, and, (2) Bri-
a war basis-pilots fly regardless of By reshooting and cutting they the weather, more often bud than had made him out to be a murderer. not, becouse as one squadron com- He felt that the part would finish mander remarked tersely "War his career as a film player.
doesn't wait on weather,"
company.
a sick man months ago, but had made to play was very different from Kully qualified" technically but inck-
the operation the script he refused to undergo until he had completed the film read. "History is Made ht Night."
When the last scene had been shot he walkert in calmly and told the doctors to go ahead.
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