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THURSDAY, ·DECEMBER-- --28, ---- 1987.
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Wife May Spend Years
SHE
Only Half Alive
HEARS, DOES A.J. Cronin Tells NOT TALK
(By Mary Welsh)
Doctors at Middlesex Hospital bellove that
Smith, Xira. Ivy twenty-two-year-old mother who fell from an Oxford-street store roof to a sun-blind on August 14,
semal
may liyo for years la conscious condition.
It is though that, just as an invalid who stays long in bed forgets how to walk, Mrs. Smith has forgotten how to talk, She has spoken no word since her fall.
She makes no response of any kind to noises or to the daily pleas of her should young husband that she speak.
thousands of cells and fibres in her brain might be causing the semi- consciousness,
Nerve specialists who have studied the slim, dark-haired patient have voiced the possibility that, although she hears consciously, her sub-con- sclous brain refuses to allow her to respond. A normal person frequent- ly does not listen unless he wants to reply, they point out.
Mrs. Smith's food now consists of citrated milk fed through a tubo every two hours.
Nurses to Strike
New York, Dec. 1.
Dr. A. J. Cronin, author of The Citadel, arrived here to-day in the Queen Mary, Ho is going to lollywood, where his best-seller 1 to be filmed.
the
British nurses, lie said, should follow the example of Americans by forming unions and striking for better conditions..
He attacked the "health racket" of unnecessary operations and added:
"Tho rich can get pneumonia serum when it is needed; but can Üle poor get it? Certainly not!
"Socialised medicine is the only cure for present abuses,”
'Japan is on the Road to Singapore"
It is believed that her fall thrust out of line the "sound track" or nervous co-ordination of her brain. It is nla doubtful whether her hearing faculties are functioning. Lately there have been olher General Sir Ian Hamilton, speaking evidences that Mrs. Smith's nervous at a dinner of the Royal Scottish system is still seriously upset. Her Corporation la London recently, muscles are in a constant state of declared that Japan was on the road tension, so that if her hands Are moved they tremble and then snap back to their original position.
CHINESE BULLION
FOR LONDON to Singapore, Britain's Far East base. Nothing less than Europe, he said,
SILVER SENT TO SAFETY could hold up the Emperor's advance. seem to
to From a Special Correspondent Only for her first three weeks in "How monstrous it will
During recent weeks millions of hospital was Mrs. Smith totally un-posterity that throughout 1937 the conscious, it was revealed yesterday. European nations should have been pounds worth of bullion, in the form a bone of Chinese silver dollars, has been During that period she lay, quiet as quarrelling like dogs over death, the puplis of her wide-open about Spain, which has not the sent by the Chinese Government to brown eyes not focussed, making no smallest intention of allowing herself London for safe custody during the
fighting in China. response to any sound or touch. to be gnawed by any outsider.
"And this at a moment when we ought to be living military conversa- lions between the general staffs--not
HUSBAND VISITS
HER EVERY DAY
Suddenly one morning it was dis-of France and Britain wontot covered that she had regained semi-Europe.
The Emperor is marching from consciousness. One of her attend- ants passed a hand in front of her the island of the Rising Sun, Hls eyes, and she blinked. That was a road is clearly marked-Hankow, day of rejoicing for her husband, Hongkong, Singapore, Burma, Assam, who has seen her every day since Bengal. ahe was carried into the hospital.
On that night no one in the hospi tal thought Mrs. Smith would live, her breathing was so faint. All that could be done was to stitch up the wound in the back of her head-now completely healed and inject blood, sallic, and glucose into her veins.
Her condition would be ex- tremely, difficult to correct through surgery, I was told. Any of the
"Nothing less than Europe can definitely hold up that army.
"Some may think I speak wildly. I do not. In 1913, as Inspector- General of Overseas Forces, I put a brigade on board ship at Singapore.
"I sailed out of sight of land and no one knew where I had gone. In the small hours I came back and captured the island with, I regret to say, the loss by drowning of two Sepoys of the 1st Brahmins.
The latest consignment, consisting of several hundred tons, arrived at liner Cathay. Other consignments Tilbury on Friday in the P, and o are on their way.
An official of an Eastern bank said
that the buillon is sent from Shanghai via Hongkong
The consignments have been ar→ riving almost weekly. The bullion is packed in boxes each contaning 3,500 Chinese dollars."
"My report naturally comes under the Official Secrets Act, but the facts were a perfectly open secret.
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"A land army can lay slege to and capture Singapore exactly as Port Arthur was captured,
"It is too near the main power of OBTAINABLE Japan and too far from ours."
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