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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1940

WOMEN WHO PUT WINTER SPORTS BEFORE HAVING BABIES

UNBELIEVABLE SCENES IN OUR CONSULTING ROOMS, SAYS LORD HORDER

London, To-day,

WHEN WOMEN who put going to winter sports SOVIET AIR

before having children go to see their doctors LOSSES IN

FINLAND

"some of the scenes in our consulting rooms are unbelievable,” said Lord Horder, the King's, physician, speaking to the Eugenic Society in London.

London, To-day. The Finns brought down

DAUGHTER BORN TO QUEEN FARIDA

Cairo, To-day.

Queen 'Farida of Egypt yester- day. gave birth to a daughter, the second princess born to King Farouk and Queen Farida since their marriage In January 1938.

Both mother and daughter aro doing well-Reuter,

NAVAL

240 Russian machines dur-RATING Mrs. Dorothy Thurtle, who was the minority of one ing the Finnish-Soviet war,

on the inter-departmental committee on abor-declared Lieut.-Colonel Lor- CONVICTED

tion, had earlier said:

"A woman who wants to go winter sporting, or who finds that a pregnancy would interfere with her activities during the season, has no difficulty in persuading certain medical men to perform a suitable operation at a price."

She added: ""The working wo-terest and what, I understand, públic man, on the other hand, whose con- opinion would welcome." dition might call for such an opera- tion, has the greatest difficulty in getting it."

EACH CASE TREATED

ON ITS MERITS

(Mr. Aleck William Bourne, an eminent gynaecologist and, obstetrt- cian, was charged at the Old Bailey with unlawfully using an instrument with intent to procure the miscare

entz, commander of a fighter squadron of the Finnish Air Force, in an interview.

He added' that until the middle of

January, Russian bombers undertook raids unescorted by fighter aircraft

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and this made the task of the Finnish fighters easier.

this period, During

hundred bombers were shot down. Afterwards, fighters came over with the bombers and the Finns were up against heavier odds.

Despite this, however, 140 Russian planes were brought down during the

Lord Horder told the meeting: "Iriage of a girl-aged 14. He was found latter half of the war. The losses of am familiar with those ladies who not guilty and was acquitted The the Finnish fighter force were in- want to go to Switzerland for winter girl had been criminally assaulted). | fnitely small. sports.

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"Speaking for myself and for my SHE DEFIES ORKNEY RAIDERS

fellow-practitioners in medicine, I must say that each case is treated on its merits.

"The reasons which are adduced by women are so numerous and co trivial that they spoil their cases be- fore they finish.

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*"The Bourne case made it per- fectly clear, and case law has it, that a doctor has a free hand to con- sider other aspects than the mere question whether a pregnant woman will die if she is not given the facility of abortion.'

"It has been laid down that the doctor may take into account not merely the question of life and death in deciding whether he shall relieve a woman of her pregnancy. DOCTORS PUT IN THE PILLORY "But we do ask for cover because

every now and then, as in the Bourne case, a doctor gets pilloried, and maybe mulcted, and so much de-

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ONLY WOMAN LEFT IN DESERTED VILLAGE

London, Yesterday.

BRIDGE OF WAITH, the tiny Orkney village bombed by German raiders, now has only one of its regular in- habitants left-a woman." She is Mrs. Ellen Farquhar, a.70- year-old widow,

Her son, William, was hit by bomb splinters as he stood near her in their little confectionery ›› shop

Every window in the bullding was blown out.

It was the same bomb that killed the tenant of the adjoining cottage,

James Isbister.

Mrs. Farquhar tells the story as

"William. helped Lily to carry Jim to a bed. He was dead. A bit of bomb splinter got him on the head." Mrs. Isbister's home is shuttered and silent. She has gone, with her three-month-old baby, to live with. relatives.

Half an hour before her husband: was killed she was pleading wit him to remain indoors.

pends upon whether he has a judge she serves customers from the sur-OFF THE RECORD

who really knows what the position is, and whether, he has colleagues who will come forward and waste a day or two to give him support.

"It would be good if we could get these archaic laws off the Statute Book so that we could have really a free hand to 'carry out what the case law gives us permission to do, what is really in the patient's in-

BEQUEST

rounding districts with chocolate biscuits, lemonade and cigarettes.

END OF CREATION The guns were firing so fiercely that the house was trembling and rattling," she said.

"You would have thought that it was, the end of creation.

"Then we saw a German plane go by. It was not very high, but was big and fast.

"Ten minutes passed and then the worst gunfire of the whole raid be- gan. I stood here just inside my door and quaked. I was not afraid of

TO SPEAKER anything happening to me, but the

noise of the shooting got on my.

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"When - the bombs suddenly fell here we heard no plane. It must have been very high. William was in the doorway, and I was four or five feet behind him holding on to

nerves. London, To-day. Four valuable pieces of ivory” bé- queathed to the Speaker of the House of Commons by a Shropshire lady who died last December will join the other treasures which are passed on from Speaker to Speaker.

The pieces include figures of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Elizabeth, and a cholce statute of Charles I on an ebony globe which opens to show the scene of his execution. Reuter.

SIR SAMUEL HOARE

BEGINS WORK

London, To-day..

the lemonade counter,

BAGGED BACK

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I come down.

The whole earth shook and thought the house had Beyond William I saw a vivid blue flash, and a tremendous explosion dentened me.

"He sagged back against the side of the door. I went to help him,. but the sight went from me, -and when I came to William was helping Sir Samuel Hoare, at the Airme Instead of me helping 'him.' Ministry, received the officers of the "I was not hurt, but William was Dominion Air Forces who represent bleeding terribly from the thigh. He their respective forces in London, to shook me to my senses, and said, 'Sit Subsequently the Secretary of there till I see about the others.. State visited a number of RAF. Just then, Lily, stations in the vicinity of London, ter, came ruming from her home including the Command Headquar- next door. She was crying, ters in the district-British Wireless and help me with Jim

"Mr. Winterbottom'

Here Luck

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A British naval rating, Leonard Traylor, 18, was charged before Mr. H. G. Sheldon, K.C., this morning with stealing a jacket, fountain-pen, and a wallet con- taining $15, belonging to a mer- chant seaman, Mr. T. A. Hudson.

The theft is alleged to have taken place to-day in the Sea- men's Institute in Gloucester Road, Wanchai, where both were staying.

Accused pleaded not guilty, Hé was remanded in naval custody after conviction, the Magistrate expressing a desire to consider the

case.

Taylor inade no statement mitigation.

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According to the evidence givén · in Court this morning, accused was found by the manager at '3 a.m. to-day outside room No. 28. Complainant was awakened and, asked whether he had lost any- thing from his room, discovered his jacket was missing.

Sergeant Morrison was called, and accused taken to the No. 2 Police Station where, on being searched, $15 was found hidden in his socks. The fountain-pen and wallet were also found in his possession. The jacket was later found in one of the lavatories in the Institute.

It was stated that accused when brought to the Police Station ap- peared to be under the influence of liquor.

By ED REED.

EWO BEER

Tel 30311