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In the long, brave story of bombed Britain too little has been heard of our Doctors. They
are heroes. But discipline of their profession imposes silence. Here, for the first time,
the
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-
Thongkong Telegraph. minent.
Friday, May 23, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong
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- THE prenx "special to the Teleksional raids before, but somehow I had a premonition is used by the Hongkong Telegraph
Telephone: 26613
indicate news which is strictly copyright
under the provisions of the Telecommuni- that this was going to be a bad one, and as I went to the bears the indication "up" I received in wall to switch on the yellow action-station lights through-
cations Ordinance, 1934, Such news
Hongkong on the date of publication by
serve all rights and forbid republications, alber wholly or in part without previous arrangement
the United Press Associations, who re- out the hospital, I remember saying to the other sur- geons: "Well, fellows, I feel we're going to get it to- night."
JAPAN'S DILEMMA EVER since it became obvious that
the
ecting as
to
achieve
Also
we
for detailed examinations. All we could do was to divide them
blankets
Bdows in my operating
we
other surgeons to their theatres; to him they found him cringing I took the main one on the in bed and muttering in English. My own action station is to patrol the wards and cor- second floor. We had made "Too much bomb-too long!
preparations about Too much bomb!" Japans could never gain a sufficiently riders just to see that everything is shipshape. I walked elaborate décisive military victory in China to through the maternity ward from the dining-room and classifying the patients as they
Y this time the win- make it possible for her to
subjugation of that country, noticed that all the patients had been placed under their came in, but we didn't have time
been and politicians have
to what length of beds, with their mattresses over the top of them.
roughly into resuscitation cases theatre had been blusted out and time Japan can maintain economic
TURSES were wheeling ining the roof the day before and those requiring immediate a bitter cold wind was blowing stability sufficient
Nother beds down from had put his foot through a surgery pursue her
across the room. It was too cold announced policy of expansion in the Pacific.
to uncover the patients and too It has been dieult to
the top floors and lining them rotten section and the hole had The resuscitation patients but there are certain facts available which assist along the ground-floor corridors, not been repaired. A nurse were whisked into beds and cold to operate, for I was shiver certain
electric a vun
and ing from head to foot. The win- dows of the second theatre had tr. reaching a reasonable conclusion, away from flying glass. Since passing along the top-floor cor- given
haven't any underground ridor happened to look up and oxygen to help them recover Japan, by throwing in her lot with Axis 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
the edge of the hole. of imports which are essen- deprived
The immediate surgery cases were forced to move into the tial even for her normal peace time tion we can offer.
She gave the alarm and the were divided among the three ground-floor theatre, the win- Industries such 13 iron
I went on up three flights of sleel petroleum, non ferrous metals, salt 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 hier textile
flat roof of the main building. get hold, but we decided to 15 operations throughout the from blast by an outside brick It was An amazing manufactures (except ailk).
scène. It looked far worse being deprived of market which All around the hospital grounds all the nurses into the main sec- cate than others, but they came she runs an even greater risk of I could hardly believe my eyes, evacuate the building und bring night, some of them more intri. wall. provides foreign exchange that ens glowed literally hundreds of in- tion. Again we were lucky. No too fast for me to keep count, than the descriptions I've heard ables her to pay for these imports in
cendiary bombs, like lights sooner had the last nurse left The other theatres handled of the front-line casualty clear- ing stations of the World War. very few cases where she would be twinkling on a mammoth Christ- the building than a heavy ex- about 40.
of able 10
Patients were lying head to plosive crashed into it and ex- And alternative sources
We couldn't work rapidly toe on every inch of space. The neither supply.
Japan has now
Half a dozen small fires had ploded on the thick concrete top Wounds are very tricky in this tourist traffic nor foreign investments and her gold and foreign exchange
hurricane lamps and hand cases were lacerations buildings; flames were licking hit.
or torches they moved about among vulue of her annual imports
About 8.30 another shower of injuries to limbs.
the patients, comforting them alde lieven bloc One-third of through the roof of the laundry
About midnight the electric and giving them little sips of Japist another third to the 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 Japanese exports goes to America and another blaze was going on incendiaries started fires on top British, pe found if these markets room next door to it. From the women's medical ward, and the with the operation I was on by could do for them.
Empire. Alternative were closed, especially for textile roof the hospital superintendent eye ward. With the other sur- the light from two small bulbs It was bitterly cold through- Own emergency out the hospital. Most of the manufactures which make up more was shouting instructions to the geons, the orderlies and nurses, run by our trade. Results to Japan would be hospital's nuxiliary fire crew and even some of the able male lighting system. By this time windows had been blasted out, down below and before long patients, I ran across the open was feeling pretty shaky, I walls had been blown down and "Raw silk stands in a category by they had their hoses going on space between the main build- admit.
ing and these wards and began itself for one third of Agrarian house both buildings.
As holds of Japan depend solely
we watched, however, transferring the patients. partially on this one export 95% of flames leaped from the roof of
off by closure which would be cut
the main storeroom. We were pretty worried by this time for fires in both storeroums might destroy all our supplies except
mas tree.
reserves amount to no more than 50 already started in the hospital floor. That was our first direct war of bombs. The mujority of nurses were marvellous. With
markets
half the value of Japan's export
disastrous.
or
of market of British Empire and U.S. The social and economic effects of great fall in silk prices in 1931-32 the will not have beer. forgotten by any At that time the
of the Japanese co was those on hand in the hospital,
distress in largely the cause of
by the
just enough for a normal night's In power in work. Japanese milltary papanese people
but now the
19e that only result has been to
I left them fighting the fires .
SESSES tead and went down to check up on
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In comparison with
the ruin that would overtake her it she were completely cut oft from markets of the British Empire and U.S.A., the distress that Japan sufter- ed ther and is suffering now is certainly insignificant.
those
HE reception officer, a
Tsurgeon who had wait-
Poor Child Herod, the king, in his
raging,
Charged he hath this day His men of might, in his
own sight,
All young children
stay,
to
That woe is me, poor child
for thee!
And ever morn the day, For this parting neither say
nor sing, By, by, fully, lullay.
one.
our out a complaint, although a
I
end
our
not a door remained in its I wasn't exactly frightened, frame, We issued extra but the sound of a bomb whist blankets to all the patients, but ling down from 6,000 to 6,000ft they kept coming in so fast that. above you isn't a comfortable we didn't have time to muke
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 lay follow them, but every time one before. Then
emergency whistled uncomfortably close 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 get and I finished the job. ever, I thought of the patients Bombst 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 not be hit. Up on the top floor who was lending us
a hand. ed night after night for just such an emergency, was readyAnonymous, 15th Century. of the gynaecological ward we While he was crossing a court- No truth lies in the Japanese come to give each incoming patient a
had 15 women whom we yard a bomb fell directly on that restrictions imposed on
The nurses wheeled the beds couldn't move. They stayed in him and blew him to bits. plies are a deliberate attempt to preliminary examination before strangle the economite ilfe of Japan. tagging him for the type of
* restrictions Imposed are treatment required in the wards outside while the rest of us their beds through it all with-
hoisted patients on The pered necessary by our own
them bomb that smashed the staff WHEN daylight finally brought war needs and war economy and by or operating rooms.
I had just about completed my shoulders and carried the hostile attitude of Japan who attempts to supply our enemies with inspection when the real fun pickaback across to the main quarters next door covered them the most welcome to the raid, it was raw material which we are deter started. First an incendiary fell hall. There wasn't a murmur with glass from their windows scenonly to be marred when war- mined shall be cut off. Therefore on the roof of the nurses' home, from one of them, although and plaster from the ceiling. dens rushed in to report that they In another wing we had to had found a delayed-action bomb restrictive certain
burled just outside the ground-floor measures Fortunately, a workman exam- some must have been pretty
operating badly hurt with the jogging we leave a dozen fracture or but ample supplies
theatre. All the patients necessary,
All night long they lay on their in the main building within range recessary materials are still being re ceived by the Japanese. The Japan-ambitions in the East leaving Chino gave them.
ob- lebensraum. The
Providence must have been bucks, unable to move, hung up of the bomb had to be evacuated Im- ese assertion that these moderate and exclusive legitimate restrictions would justify surdity of both these calculations is watching over us. As I reached on their frames, and watched mediately. aggressive action
we got orders to evacuate the whole against Grent self-ovident. In fact, Japan would
of patients to other Britain is a characteristically futile share 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 attempt at intimidation in advance. had trusted Hitler's word while with the last patient on my the fire-lit sky through a huge hospital full
in neighbouring towns. The ambulance and stretcher men, The pain they inflict is insignificant Germany would dominate Chinn and back a bomb screamed down hole that had been blown out of hospitals but Japan is alarmed because they
the Fa
Far East,
The morale was stupefying. who had been on their feet and out. have demonstrated to the business
These truths have now begun to and plunged into the men's the wall.
In the
debris-littered streets all night and industrial world in Japan the dawn upon business and industrial Ward.
"We put the patients on Throughout the packed hospital long, worked hour after hour. By Renselessness of the policy which world of the Japanese who realise the Japanese Government has elected that aggression is leading them not to stretchers and blankets along there was not one cry of fear, Ave that afternoon the last am-
pursue.
prosperity but to starvation. Bilter the main-floor corridors, which not one sign of panic. We bulance rolled away from the doors,
in adjusting. involved
28 hours. The
economy of Japan is such that sacrifices
can only be nation's trade and Industry, to were already go crowded that didn't have a case of hysteria all and I sat down to my first meal in We were without power and steam. a prosperous future unjured by maintaining friendly totalitarina basla demanded by a we had to tread carefully to get night long.
The only word of complaint we had lost hundreds of pounds relations and free intercourse with war economy were accepted so long from one end of the hospital to
it some came from wounded worth of when the Japan, under her presont Govern-day China meldent would be sealed, the other hen the casualidos irmant, who'd been in the hose rooms were fired and were certainly to operate,, but wa shape and Japan would
her normat
pital for a few days. He was on didn't feel that our job was finished. ment, has elected to turn her back relations with market of world: her- trade
the top floor of the main build- That night we had an emergency upon this prospect and allow self to be drawn within the orbit of but the end of China incident recedes
AROM then on every-ing and I noticed that no one casualty station set up in the sur the Axis Powers. The ballet of the even further in the distance and
thing flashed past me seemed to want to risk his own geons dining-room, with our instru
ments in a on Japanese Government is that Ger- beyond that now looms spectre of many will defent the British Empire breach with the democracies and the and America and that, Victorious ruinous effect that this would have like the action in a speeded-up life to bring him downstairs, many boling Jerry paid us another
film. I remember assigning the When the orderlies, finally went voit, a Germany Will relinquish her upon Japanisse: economy.
to
resume
a
FROM
cases.
not