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In the long, brave story of bombed Britain too little has been heard of our Doctors. They are heroes. But the discipline of their profession imposes silence. Here, for the first time,
A DOCTOR TELLS HIS
STORY
of all that happened in one dreadful night of bombing. His name and the location of his hospital are not published
I
HAD just finished an operation and was on my way down to the surgeons' dining-room for dinner when the warning siren sounded. It was about seven. We get everything in readiness, as soon as the Alert goes, but we don't go to our action stations until the sound of gun-fire or bombs dropping tells us that danger is im-
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I hoped to have enough time to enjoy my meal, but I had just dipped into my soup when I heard the first whishing downward rush of a bomb. We'd had occa- sional raids before, but somehow I had a premonition that this was going to be a bad one, and as I went to the wall to switch on the yellow action-station lights through-
the United Fress Associations, who re- out the hospital, I remember saying to the other sur- either wholly or in part without previous geons: "Well, fellows, I feel we're going to get it to-
Arrangement
JAPAN'S DILEMMA
EVER since it became obvious that
ume Japon
time
sal
night."
A
other surgeons to their theatres; to him they found him cringing I took the main one on the in bed and muttering in English. second floor. We had made "Too much bomb-too long!
Bdows in my operating
My own action station is to patrol the wards and cor- Japan could never gam a sufficiently riders just to see that everything is shipshape. I walked elaborate preparations about Too much bomb?" decisive military victory in China to make it possible for her to achieve through the maternity ward from the dining-room and classifying the patients as they the subjugation of that country, noticed that all the patients had been placed under their for detailed examinations. All came in, but we didn't have time
Y this time the win- economists and politicians have been speculating as to what length of beds, with their mattresses over the top of them. we could do was to divide them
can maintain economic
roughly into resuscitation cases theatre had been blasted out and suficient to pursue her ced potley of expansion in the
Nother beds down from had put his foot through a surgery.
TURSES were wheeling ining the roof the day before and those requiring immediate a bitter cold wind was blowing across the room. It was too cold Pacific. It has been difficult to obtain a true plcture, but there are
the top floors and lining them rotten section and the hole had The resuscitation patients to uncover the patients and too certain facts available which assist along the ground-floor corridors, not been repaired.
nurse were whisked into beds and cold to operate, for I was shiver- in reaching reasonable conclusion. away from flying glass. Since passing along the top-floor cor- given electric blankets and ing from head to foot. The win-
Japan, by throwing in late of we haven't any underground rider happened to look up and oxygen to help them
recover dows of the second theatre had Powers, runs the risk of being rooms, that's the best protec- saw the incendiary perched on from the shock of their wounds. also been blown out, so we deprived of imports wh
which are essen- tial even for her normal peace time tion we can offer.
the edge of the hole.
The immediate surgery cases were forced to move into the such 05 Iron steel, I went on up three flights of dus, non ferrous metals,
She gave the alarm and the were divided among the three ground-floor theatre, the win- stairs and stepped out on the fire was put out before it could theatres. I suppose I did about dows of which were, protected and raw materials for her textile manufactures (except silk). Also flat roof of the main building. get hold, but we decided to 15 operations throughout the from blast by an outside brick she runs an even greater risk of i could hardly believe my eyes, evacuate the building and bring night, some of them more intri- wall. It was an amazing being deprived of
which All around the hospital grounds all the nurses into the main sec- cate than others, but they came scene. of market provides foreign exchange that englowed literally hundreds of in- tion: Again we were lucky. No too fast for me to keep count, than the descriptions I've heard abics
her to pay for these imports in
bombs, like lights sooner had the last nurse left The other theatres handled of the front-line casualty clear- very few cases where she would be cendiary able to find alternative sources of twinkling on a mummoth Christ- the building than a heavy ex- about 10.
ing stations of the World War. Japan has now neither mas tree.
plosive crashed into it and ex-
Patients were lying head to We couldn't work rapidly. traffic nor foreign investments
Half a dozen small fires had ploded on the thick concrete top Wounds are very tricky in this toe on every inch of space. The and her gold and foreign exchange
xcan already started in the hospital floor. That was our first direct war of bombs. The majority of nurses were marvellous. With reserves amo
amount to no more than
imports out- buildings; flames were licking hit. of value of her annual elde the yen bloc. One third of through the roof of the laundry Japanese exports goes to America and almost another third to the British Empire. Alternative markets could not be found if these markets were closed, especially for textile manufactures which make up more
disastrous.
than half the value of Japan's export trade. Results to Japan would be Row Silk stands in a category by itself for one third of Agrarian house- bolds of Japan depend solely or partially on this one export 95% of which would be cut off by closure of market of British Empi
Empire and U.S. The social and economic effects of the great fall in silk prices in 1831-32 fires in both storerooms might will not have been forgotten by any destroy all our supplies except of the Japanese.
At that time the distress
was those on hand in the hospital, * countryside largely the cause of aggression by the just enough for a normal night's Japanese military party in power in | work. 1931; but now the Japanese peopic realise that only result has been to
it the
Poor Child
It looked far worse
hurricane lamps and hand cases were lacerations About 8.30 another shower of injuries-to-limbs.-..
of torches they moved about among and another blaze was going on incendiaries started fires on top
the patients, comforting them the roof of the emergency store- of the men's medical ward, the power went off but I continued water. That was about all we About midnight the electric and giving them little sips of room next door to it. From the women's medical ward and the with the operation I was on by could do for them. roof the hospital superintendent eye ward. With the other sur- the light from two small bulbs was shouting instructions to the geons, the orderlies and nurses, run by
It was bitterly cold through- hospital's auxiliary fire crew and even some of the able male lighting system. By this time I windows had been blasted out, our own emergency out the hospital. Most of the down below and before long patients, I ran across the open was feeling pretty shaky, I walls had been blown down and they had their hoses going on space between the main build- admit. both buildings.
not a ing and these wards and began
door remained in its I wasn't exactly frightened, frame, As watched, however, transferring the patients.
we
We issued extra but the sound of a bomb whist- blankets to all the patients, but flames leaped from the roof of
ling down from 5,000 to 6,000ft they kept coming in so fast that the main storeroom. We were
above you isn't a comfortable we didn't, have time to make pretty worried by this time for
one. Every few minutes the them comfortable, nurses and the anaesthetist
By 4 a.m. I couldn't keep a threw themselves under
the steady
hand. I had taken operating table as the bombs nothing to eat except a sip of roared down. I didn't like to soup since lunchtime the day follow them, but every time one before. Then our emergency whistled uncomfortably close I lighting failed just as I was in instinctively pulled, the knife the middle of an operation. We away and ducked sideways. quickly rigged up an auto- Whenever I began to think mobile headlamp to a battery too much of the bombs, how- set and I finished the job. ever, I thought of the patients Bombs were still crashing lying all over the hospital, just down, but by a great miracle trusting to luck that they would the only casualty was a soldier such in emergency, was ready
not be hit. Up on the top floor who was lending us to give each incoming patient a
a hand. of the gynaecological ward we While he was crossing a court- had 15 preliminary examination before
women whorn
we yard a bomb fell directly on tagging him for the type of The nurses wheeled the beds couldn't move. They stayed in him and blew him to bits. treatment required in the wards outside while the rest of us their beds through it all with-
hoisted or operating rooms,
patients
I left them fighting the fires and went down to check up on
lead them to long drawn out still the reception building where the
vi China incident and into
freater danger of a breach with Em-casualties would arrive.
Dire and U.S. In comparison with
the ruin that would overtake her it
she were completely cut off from markels of the British Empire and U.S.A., the distress that Japan suffer.
THE reception ullicer, a
surgeon who had wait-
ed ther and is suffering now ised night after night for just certainly insignificant.
No truth lles in the Japanese com plaints that restrictions Imposed on are a deliberate attempt to Supplies strangle the economic life of Japan. The only restrictions Imposed are those rendered necessary by our own wor needs and war economy and by the hostile attitude of Japan who attempts to supply our enemies with
row material "which we are deter-
Herod, the king, in his
raging,
Charged he hath this day His men of might, în his
own sight, All young
slay.
children Lo
That woe is me, poor child
for thee!
And ever morn the day, For this parting neither say
nor sing.
By, by, Jully, lullay, -Anonymous, 15th Century.
and
on
carried
our out a complaint, although a them bomb that smashed the staff
we got orders to evacuate the whole
I had just about completed my shoulders
JIEN daylight Anally brought -
an end to the rald, it was inspection when the real fun pickaback across to the main quarters next door covered them the most welcome dawn I have ever mined shall be cut off. Therefore started. First an incendiary fell hall. There wasn't a murmur with glass from their windows seen-only to be marred when war- on the roof of the nurses' home, from one of them, although and plaster from the ceiling. dens rushed in to report that they certai restrictive measures uro
In another wing we had to had found a delayed-action bomb necessary, but
"of Fortunately, a workman exam- some must have been pretty ample suppiles
buried just outside the ground-floor recessary materials are still being re- ambitions in the Enst leaving China gave them.
badly hurt with the jogging we leave a dozen fracture cases operating theatre. All the patients ceived by the Japanese.
The Japan-
All night long they lay on their in the main building within range ese assertion that these moderate and exclusive lebensraum. The ab- Providence must have been.backs, unable to move, hung up. of the bomb had to be evacuated im legitimate restrictions would justify surdity of both these calculations is watching over us. As I reached on their frames, and watched mediately. aggressive nction ugalnat Great self-evident. In fact, Japan would Britain is a a characteristically futile attempt at intimidation in advance. had the fate of all other dupes who the door of the main building the Jerry planes cruising about But no sooner was this done than trusted Hitler's word while with the last patient on my the fire-lit sky through a huge hospital full of patients to other The pain they inflict is insignificant Germany would dominate China and back a bomb screamed down hole that had been blown out of hospitals In neighbouring towns. The ambulance and stretcher men, but Japan is alarmed because they the Far East. have demonstrated to the business These truths have now begun to
and plunged into the mon's the wall. and industrial world in Japan the dawn
The morale was stupefying, who had been on their feet and out business and Industrial ward. upon
in the debris-littered streets all night senselessness of the policy which world of the Japanese who realise
We put the patients on Throughout the packed hospital on
long, worked hour after hour. By the Japanese Government has elected that aggression is leading them not to stretchers and blankets along there was not one cry of fear, five that afternoon the last am- to pursue.
prosperity but to starvation. Bilter the main-floor corridors, which not one sign of panic. We bulance rolled away from the doors, economy of Japan is such that sacrifices Involved In a prosperous future can only be nation's
djusting were already so crowded that didn't have a case of hysteria till and I sat down to my frat meal in trade and industry to
28 hours. assured by maintaining friendly totalitarian basis demanded by n we had to tread carefully to get night long.
We were without power and steam. relations and free intercourse with war economy wore accepted long from one end of the hospital to The only word of complaint we had lost, hundreds of pounds. the U.S.A. and British Empire.as it was possible to hope that some the other. Then the casualties came from a wounded German worth of supplies when the store Japan, under her present Govern-day
China incident would be settled, ment, has elected to turn her back and Japan would resume her normai started to come in from outside, airman, who'd been in the hos rooms were fired and were certainly pital for a few days. He was on didn't feel that our jobs was finished. hot in shape to operate, but we upon this
prospect and allow her trade relations with market of world; self to be drawn within the orbit of but the end of China Incident recedes
the top floor of the main build- That night we had an emergency the Axis Powers. The belief of the even further in the distance and
OM then on overy ing and I noticed that no one casualty station set up in the sur- Japancao Government is that Ger- beyond that now loome spectre of a
thing flashed past me scomed to want to risk his own.geons dining-room, with our Instru», many will defeat the Britlah Empire breach with the democracies and the And America and that a victorious ruinous effect that this would have like the action in a speeded-up life to bring him downstairs, menis bolling in a pan on the fire, just in case Jerry paid us another Germany will relinquish hor upon Japanose 'bconomy.
film. I remember assigning the When the orderlies finally went visit
The
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