Tuesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 21, 1940.
SAME SOUVENIR FASHIONS
DARTMOOR FUGITIVE
THIS A FLAT IN SOHO
PILOT
IN
LANDED Bodyguard Protects The
IN
REICH
Man With A New Face
-And-Asked The Way!
THIS is the
R.Á.F.
"No, sir," replied a man who asked if peasant. "This is Ger- he was in France and many. The frontier" was told no 2003 in
-ho pointed to the
Germany.
When peasants ran west-" is 25 kilometres towards a British away."
bomber which had So the crew of fluo landed in the half-
light of dawn, he asked scrambled back into them, "It is France, the plane and headed Isn't it?
HE
for home.
By ALAN HODGSON
"RUBY" SPARKS, the man who escap ed from Dartmoor on January 10 and has created a record by remaining at liberty for 14 weeks, has been living in a flat in Soho.
He has another "hide-out" nt Slough, Buckinghamshire, where one of his closest friends, a smash-and-grab raider, recently took a house.
The two men have been seen together in Soho clubs and public-houses,
£250 For Now Faco
A man who knows Sparks and his associates well gave me this information. I have every reason to believe his statement,
This man, whom I will call Mr. X, told me that Sparks paid £250 for a plastic surgical operation which has entirely altered his facial appearance.
performed by The operation was known to crooks as "The Doc."
a man
"The scar on his right check has been re- moved and something has been done. to his eye- brows which makes him look a different man," Mr. X said.
"For some weeks now he has been living in a street just off Piccadilly. He has made fre- -quent trips to Slough, where he has stayed for two or three days at a time."
In Club Raid
While a special Scotland Yard squad detailed to search for him, has been combing West End almost criminal haunts, Sparks has been seen nightly in public.
He is always one move ahead of the police. Recently picked Yard men raided a Soho club. Sparks was there, but he made his getaway
DEFIED WAR
"Narks" Silent
TH
It's a new war, but they're still bringing back the old German hofmets-that were such popular souvenirs in the last.
Tuberculosis Toll In H. K.
Summary Of Cases In Queen Mary Hospital
The number of deaths would have been even larger, but for the fact that some cases were transferred to the Tung Wah Hospital, and other Incurable cases preferred to return to their homes.
Lung Infections
It will be seen that tuberculosis of the lungs accounted for over 75 per commonly known as "con. sumption"
ho
with a few seconds to spare.
Someone had "tipped him off."
The following article on the sub-cent, of the cases listed above, and when this is coupled with the fact Spearks is accompanied by a body-ject of tuberculosis in Queen Mary that the case mortality rate was over guard wherever he goes. Their job Hospital is written by Dr. D. J:200 per 1,000, it becomes very appar
Director of is to warn him of any trouble brew-Valentine, the Deputy
ent-urgently 50,--that the malu jing,
Medical Services in charge of that
force of any attack in an anti- hospital, and to forwarded by the tuberculosis campaign must Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis Amocla-directed against Infection via the air- If he goes into a club one of them tion:"
passages. WAR did not daunt Leslie Dyer, young Manchester is left on guard" in the street. His
fact In view of the
thal keen: Methods of diagnosis--Nearly all
cases could textile manufacturer. Three days after it broke out he men are posted at back entrences to interest is being taken at the present the respiratory
time in the campaign for combating diagnosed without difficulty on clinical bought a disused six-acre poultry farm at Woburn Sands, the premises,
Police "marks"-criminals who will tuberculosis in Hongkong, it would grounds. A history of poor health, Bedfordshire. Now he has a factory working there, sell information to the police have not seem out of place to give some wasting, chronic cough and haemop- turning out collars, handkerchiefs, frocks and blouses by been offered good rewards for in- account (mainly statistical in nature) tysis could be obtained from the formation legding to the capture of of the cases of tuberculosis treated majority of cases. However it is the rule at the Queen Mary Hospital to the thousand each week.
in the Queen Mary Hospital. Sparks.
On the one hand, it may help to have the diagnosis confirmed by both
and radiographic | Nobody has dared to "split." "Some have been threatened with further stimulate public interest: on bacteriological
the-other-it-cannot-fati-to-show the examinations.
scrious
Duration of symptoms.-A remark violence if they dare open their need for malding a more
short of patients, is the relatively mouth to the pollee," Mr. X sold to attempt at coping with this terrible able feature revealed in the histories Several recent big jewellery raids In the absence of sanatoria, where period during which they have com- are said to have been the work of specialised treatment can be given, plained of any untoward symptoms. Sparks. Ile is believed to be plan-it behoves all hospitals in the Colony As many as 50 per cent, of the cases ning more.
to take their share of this work.
He declared: "I am employing sixty local girls already. Soon I expect to have-jobs-for-200 and there are orders to last until Christmas. My two other fac- tories will now probably be moved to Bedfordshire from
Manchester."
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date the onset of the disense to within In the Queen Mary Hospital, two two months and 80 per cent. so within An identification parade was held at Dow-street police station yesterwards, one for males and one for one year..
females, each
In many cases this information is containing twenty
the advanced day to try to pick out men concerned in a Regent-street smash-grab raid beds, and named "Pott" and "Night-not compatible with
arc Ingale" respectively, specially state of the diecase as revealed on a fortnight ago.
assigned for the accommodation and examination. One can only attribute down the men concerned in liat raid suffering from
The police think that if they track treatment of the poorer class Chinese this disparity to the stoical nature of tuberculosis. Both the Chinese, who have accustomed they may secure Information which these wards are always full to themselves to endure discomfort and will lead them to Sparks.
capacity, indeed it is more the rule, minor symptoms of l-health with rather than the exception, to have difference. extra beds on the
Are Distribution verandahs. In addition, there are always a few cases Tuberculosis is essentially a diseato which manifests itself in early life. in other wards and private rooms.
For obvious reasons it is not This fact is borne out at the Queen ossible to admit all cases of tuber- Mary Hospital where 58 per cent, of culosis seeking treatment, so that the cases were under the age of thirty. tubercle bacilli discrimination has to be exercised. The age at which
Corporal Hitler Was Always Rude
His French Billet Is Now Tommy's —A-BRITISH-8oldfor now sleeps.. in the bed Hitler occupied when he was billeted, as a corporal, in a French village in the last war. This is revealed by a correspondent on the Western Front who interview- ed Hitler's former landlady,
No Manners
In this way, cases are selected where first gain entrance into the body is a reasonable ameult to ascertain. Of the cases it is considered that
cent. were chance of recuperation will accrue under review, 15 per from treatment. All too often, how under the age of ten. One in every for humanitarian reasons, three of the 400 "tubercular" cases patients have to be admitted who are under treatment belonged to the age beyond all hope of recovery. group twenty to twenty-nine,
ever,
No physlelan on the staff devotes Sex No special significance can himself exclusively to the treatment be attached to the fact that two-thirds of tuberculosis. Some of the cases of the patients were males-females are under the-care-of-the-Profossors are less inclined to seek hospital of Medicine and Surgery and others treatment; on the other hand, males are treated by Government Medical do not stay in hospital so long, so that the turn-over of cases admitted Officers.
is greater.
Treatment-Medication plays an For the year, 1930, the dally average insignificant role. In the treatment of total of patients in hospital was 451 tuberculosis. Far more Important
Daily 'Average 55
At the Queen Mary Hospital:
10 ez
0.48
"Of course I remember Hitier," The dally average of tubercular cases are nourishing food and rest-both she said, "and now he is creating all for the same period was approximate physical and mental. this trouble I am less likely than ly 55: This represents, roughly ever to forget him. I see by his speaking, a percentage of 12.
The total number of cases (all special dietary has bom worked out for the beneft of cases of tuberculosis. photographs he has developed em- bonpoint. But that is the only dif- causes) treated in the Queen Mary The fat content, mainly in the form ference. He is a dictator now. He Hoopital, during the year 1989, was of fresh cows milk and butter, pre- was a dictator then, or wanted to be. 10,640. Of this number, 416 were dominates. The daily total calories cases in which a primary, diagnosis "With everything he found fault.
of tuberculosis (all forms) was made. amount to 3,127. The meals.
arranged as follows: This represents a percentage of 3.0.8 m. Muk This small percentage in no way re- Breakfast Bret, pork or liver 3 oz. His own comrades didn't like him. presents the true incidence of the 9.30 . Lu They were fed up with his grousing, disease in the Colony. It merely, as much as I wan Even then he shows the limited attention that, hinted the French. He was always owing to so many other pressing grumbling about the way they demands, wo are able to give to this TimN smoked.
type of case. "Perhaps worst of all he had no The apparent discrepancy between manners. When he had occasion to 3.8 per cent. of total admissions and address me he spoke rudely.". the 12 per cent. dally averago
hospital is explained by the fact that
PEPSODENT
TOOTH PASTE and POWDER
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TRIUM
FOR GREATER CLEANSING
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Beans Rics Vegetables Duller "Beef•
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Kiem
Muk
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Sugar
Grudz
the average length of stay of tuber-
Use average length of stay in hospital o par
cular case about fifty days, whereas pinner` · Tika or chickeni
for the ordinary patient is only six- teen days.
In by far the greater proportion
of the 400 cases did this disease affect 7 the respiratory system. The tribution was as follows:
Respiratory systemi osecan Central nervous systerc Alimentary nervous system Vertebral columna. "ONE""DONES-und-jointe
Lymphatic systemi
Genito-urinary system
Disseminated tuberculosis
diam
Case Death
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Congee
Custard
Vegetables mulier MUK Bread Butter
10 oz.
7 oz. 9 silces
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