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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1988.
CUT A LEG OFF TO CURE IT
It Can Be Sewn On Again Afterwards
SOON
it will be possible to amputate a gangrened leg, cure it, and then sew the healthy limb on to the pa- tient again, says a Sunday Referec reporter.
For years Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the world- famous air ace, and Dr. Alexis Carrel, a French scientist, have been engaged in research to this end. To-day they are within reasonable distance of achieving their object. Lindbergh's own invention of the "artificial heart" has played
a major part in their research.
For many years before he met Colonel Lindbergh In 1020 Dr.
Correl had been growing human and animal tissues apart from the body in fulds made of blood, blood serum, or artificial serums.
But he was hampered by the lack of a germ-proof pump which would prevent contamination
issues.
of such
The "artificial hourt" bus solved this difficulty.
are
"Dikeased organs could be
moved from the body and placed in the Lindbergh pump just as patients placed in hospital," writes the sixty-live-years-old French scientist in his book, 'Culture of Organs,*
They could then be treated far! more energelically than within the! organism, and If cured replanted in! the patient."
SIR ABE'S LEGS MIGHT
HAVE BEEN SAVED Such a discovery, had it bern available, might have saved Sir Abe Bailey his lega
And recently, t. I learned of another discovery which might have saved the life of King George V. and which will save thousands of lives in future.
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HESE two stamps, one REPUBLICA ESPANOLAY
illustrating the gallant
defence of. Madrid, the other commemorating
Spanish-American friend- ship, are likely to be much sought after by collectors.
DEFENSORES,
Just issued by the Spanish Government, their circula- tion has been unexpectedly limited. A German bomb which wrecked the office where they were being printed and killed the staff. also destroyed the engraving
plates.
Worst Friend
'Boy's
Mother'
His
FATHER A GOOD
SECOND
"REALLY, it is a pity that we have
to have parents,” said Mr. Ray- mond Henniker-Heaton, writer on psychology, speaking to the British Union of Practical Psychologists at Southport recently.
"No one will deny," he said, "thut life to-day is chaotic, a condition for which the individual is responsible. I should have said the parents of
Already the new drug M and B
is saving many elderly pneu monia patients in cases previously the individual. thought hopeless.
The drug is believed to operate by dissolving the "shell"
encloses pneumonin germs.
"Who," he asked, "is the potential-the most. which deadly enemy of the boy?-the mother. And with the father comes a good second." out their shell, technically called a "capsule," the germs are destroyed Linued Mr. Henniker-Heaton. Girls were also. In Boys were not the only victims of parents, con- by the white blood corpuscles.
It has been used in more
the days of East Lynne, when a 100 cases of pneumonia at Dudley-girl had been indiscreet she was road Hospital, Birmingham, where ruined. She probably mortality from the diseases was con- know it, but that siderably reduced.
thun
Forger's Love
Sent Him To Gaol
people suid.
didn't Was what
conuen
"Yet it is part of knowledge that the lives of more girls are ruined by excessive ‘de- voted mothers' than by wicked lovers."
Not long ago such evidence as an expert gave in a recent murder case, namely, that the prisoner was suster- ing from a "split mind," would have been treated lightly.
THE OLD BRIGADE London, June 22. Through his love for his
SHOULD mayors and M.P.s haired niece-beautiful cosmopolitan dark-
who are not ex-Servicemen Beatrice and the clue of K 172, 0ft. be allowed to march in an of Friedric Beckert, German adventurer, ficial British Legion parade? went to four years' penal servitude The question was raised at the on- last night.
Six years of mocking at the trups Newcastle,
nual conference of the Legion at of German, French, Belgian English police, six years of whole-time member of
Mrs. MacGregor "White, sale international forgery ended In R.A.S.C., who represents the War- the dock at the Old Balicy.
dour-street branch, supported a re- Beckert, forty a steelworker in solution that none but ex-Service- Luxemburg, decided to come to Eng- men and women should be entitled land to learn colour photography in to fali in at any official parade.
She said that last year four me career tried to stop her going on a parade,
1927.
The inside story of his
and
a war- the V.A.D. and
as the cleverest counterfelter over "But none of them could stop me." Yard rends she declared. "I am an ex-Service-
known to
Scotland
like the most sensational
fiction. woman."
He misused his genius as a pioneer
After the chairman, Sir Francis
of colour photography to make per- Fetherston-Godley
fect forged notes,
prisoner, who spoke five languages.
But by a scotland Yard man un-juveniles who had left school of 34
tive work, a masked him as
It was
the
Os Beckert.
through some
who noticed
about the mystery man. Acting
G
hours, with a George Hatherlil,i
plus bank holidays. reading
Mr. J. Biggs, of London, newspaper, nounced this at the nunuul the small paragraph terence of the National Association
on of Head Teachers at Nottingham.
With regard to girls, they had decided that household duties of young workers should be strictly Investigated, and bilnd-alley jobs be barred.
hurch he travelled to Faris.
One look at the prisoner in Sante
Prison catisfied him. It was Beckert,
Arriving with his wife in New York, Lord Robert Crichton-Stuart, second son of the wealthiest land-owner in Walus, emphatically denied his father had sold half the city of Cardiff for $100,000,000, to invest in American securities. However, he admitted his father, Marquia 'of Bute, who owns Cardiff Castle, would dispose of some of his holdings.
Woman Spy They
Forgot To Shoot
A woman who twenty years ago was condemned to die before a firing squad as a spy, left prison to become a nun. For a few hours, on her way from prison cell to convent cell, she was at liberty in a world she had not seen since 1918,
A pale, white-haired figure in black, she passed through the gates of Rennes Prison in Brittany. She stopped and blinked at the summer sunshine. There was fear and be wilderment in her eyes as she looked at the bustle and listened to the noise around her.
She Was Forgotten
It was a very different world from that which Marie - Duerel last suw when, at the age of twenty-two, she was sent to pri- Hon. She had been well known to British soldiers in the camps, near Abbeville and Amiens. In 1918 she was arrested on the Somme front and brought before
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an Allies' court-martial, accused of spying. She had given the Germans secret information about French and British troop more ments
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Information. She
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Des Guitares")....M. Tino Rossi She was condemned to be shot. Orchestre:
Marcel
Carlven: authorities have agreed on should be but that promise had not But it was then October 1918 and Natacha: of brilliant detec- a maximum working week for been carried out.
Marche in the excitement of the last offensive French G, G. Film 'Les nuits mosto-
Tzigane While this was happening the let-she was forgotten.
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..Alfred Rode et ses at-chester, having been sent there by commuted to imprisonment for life. Tziganes; L'Hotel Du Clair De Lume,
to Scarborough telling of its arrival, con-mistake. An urgent message was sent CHAPLAIN TOUCHED Valse (Simonot and Gerard):
Le Tango Des Filles. (Delettre and In prison she was consumed with Bayle)....Lucienne Boyer with Or- but most of Use delegates left in the remorse for what she had done. She chestra; O Cara Mia Brodszki, arr. beller that the Labour Party had not sought peace and solace in religion. Pager); Pucha Digo (Pesenti)....A. replied.
She was a perfect prisoner, quiet. J. Pesenti et Son Orchestre; M'Aimes diligent, plous. Sho hordly ever Tu? (Fred Pearly); Lo Secret De Tes
Her leisure time was spent Caresses (Varna, Cab and Ala).. spoke, In her cell reading the Bible,
Tino Rossi with Orchestra; March The prison chaplain was touche
Of The Little Leaden Soldiers. ed by her penitence. The nuns
(Pierno); Parade Of The Tin Soldiers who visited the prison took - a
(Jessel). special interest in her,
Regal Orchestra. Her cell was the one occupied by week, said that since the general council of the Trades Union Marla Mancini, the pretty Corsican hud been dealing with this girl who was sentenced to penal of children's question nearly 2,400,000 workers servitude for life for having parti-
with teeth by a dentist behind a had got a holiday
for the cipated in the famous vendetta which pay Arst time in their lives in
caused the death of several Corsicon blackboard during school hours
1037, "Before 1940," he added, "we hope bandits, On the premises, pollen alleged, was mentioned by Mrs. B. V. Parker, that the 11,000,000 workers who have
HER ONLY WISH of prealdent of the National Union of not yet got holidays with pay will Trachers, at the 70th Co-operative have gone a long way towards this," Inspector Ifatherülj told Beckert Congress at Scarborough.
AIR RAIDS & SCHOOLS. ↑
But the
the German refused to
knowledge his identity.
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Hatherfli had him stripped. On
his shirt, almost invisible,
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MR. H. H. Elvin, general secre-
Miss E. S. Whyte, of Barrow-in- tary, speaking at the an- Furness, saki that when it came to nual conference of the National
from school for girls,
Union of Clerk ut Leicester on and became alla resolution dealing with the 40-
laundry mark K172. Back to Englund exemptions and the long, uring search among cases
of nervous debility'
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too common excuses,
N.W.,
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He succeeded at last. A house at Shoot-up-hill, Cricklewood,
Beatrice
was located and searched. With his THE extraction
Beckert, vivacious, twenty-six, Beckert hud
nleco, Mlle.
lived there.
he had mada £750,000 worth
falso holes in seven year.
that his niece was under
arrest.
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a pardon for her. She declared that
Efforts were begun to try to secure ti 28
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If she were released she wanted no Cricket Test MatchEngland Mrs. Parker said much treatment TMMEDIATE preparation The forger cracked up, agreed to was described to her by the head plans for the evacuation of thin, but younger than her forty-two
thing of life but to enter a convent. Australla, dozen of When she left prison she looked very (Continued on Page 4.) master. at a school she visited last Therd was a mystery woman Ini week,
pupils from Industrial areas in years. Becker's London Illo.
Sho was criticising the ""alum" the case of air raids were called for in She went straight to the secluded Mr Charles
Date-schools of the country and over-ai resolution at the annual conter Convent of Ecommor, where she is to avenue, Edgware, who worked at crowding in classrooms.
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