1952-02-02 — Page 5

THE CHINA - MAIL,

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

1952.

AT LAST, A TOOTHACHE, AND THE FAMILY REJOICES:

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Try a NEW kind of BREAD

Angela Christopher (right) 'and" friend.

Surprise for the girl who feels no pain

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UPTON (Dorset).

"Only prompt treatment saved HEN eight-year-old Angela from becoming a cripple

Angela Christo for life," said Mrs Christopher, pher popped her red hend round the kitchen door and said: “Mummy, I've got toothache," her mother re- joiced.

These were the happiest words heard in the Christo at Pine pher's cottage: Villan, Upton, for years. For Angela is famous in the medical world as "the child who cannot feel pain."

And when she came in . holding her cheek, mother opened Angela's mouth and -found-a-decayed-tooth.

This tooth achieved what doctors had tried and failed to achieve over two years.

Throughout her life, from birth until the toothache, Angela. has never known the meaning of pain.

Her rare complaint was described in the British Medical Journal,

Injured and

not know

Mrs Christopher told me: "Some people think Angela is lucky to be able to have.

out teeth

without and, feel no

anaesthetic

paln.

an

CX-

"But It is very worry- ing, for while she periences no pain she can also aufler grave injury' without knowing it."

Angela could put her hand in the fire and keep it there without a whimper. the The burns would be

of injury. only indication Her

could not parents understand why, when she a baby, she did not cry after knocks or falls, which

was

bruises.

"How she broke those Bones we shall never know. She cen not remember an accident. We belleve she received her injuries: Jumping from a 5ft, farm gatej for the entertainment of other children who could not do so.

"She would not realise

dangers."

the

under famous nervous

see somebody's mother isn't prepared to pay the Board of Trade's extra

sixponce in the pound for laundry.”

Dirty boots-but what

fine soldiers!

A

LONG Istanbul's narrow, cobbled, high street today the scene is re-

of wartime.

Turkish troops

London Express Servico

in action In Koroi, They're fine marksmen, but they excel in hand-to-hand fighting with the bayonet..

Angela has been

Turkey sils astride the observation at three

Dardanelles. She is vitally Landon hospitals for

important if only because diseases.

the bars Soviet Russia Doctors have pinched her,

lium the Mediterranean pricked her with pins, and

and the rich oil wells of miniscent given her heat and cold-water

the Middle East, treatment-and-electric-shocks. Snow-caked pavements are

racingthe...nineteen... Not once did Angela wince. jammed with Service men.

Turkish divisions are an riflemen estimated 32 Soviet "The doctors

in say they know Drably dressed

the Caucasus Mrs salute Turkish admirals in divisions of no sure," Jaid Christopher.

Bulgarian divi- -plus 11 The only hope, their braided RN-style uniforms.

Air force officers swagger by in slona. (supported by, Russian it seems, is that she will grow

Banks) in satelli.e Bugarla. people have well-cut pale blue greatcoats..

Turkey's membership of the Here is the dilusion of a coun-

Western defence who has been helping to train-If Russia attacks the West Today, in fact Turkey-Britain's latest ally pacf the North Atlanta, Trentythe Turkish army for four years atem bort from those ctrips Organization, has bean approval hd me. Put him in a position will strike at the industrial hesri on a near-war footing..

Only the routine of ratilleation and order him to hold it and of Communist Russia. This country has an army of by the member parliaments re- the Asicer will never leave it nineteen tough divisions and

(Britain, mains

France and I mean tough including six Canada haye ratified), Panzer-type armoured brigades, in the field., Half a million men' are under arms and the number could be trebled on general mobilisation.

out of. Other

done.

"Her toothache, is a good sign. We hope it means the beginning of.a normal life, when she will feel pain like anyone else."

But Angela

Bure. is not so What's a spanking, anyway, when you don't feel anything?

Joseph Garrity

try

at war,

CATCHING THEM

WITH GLASS

THE CHAPMAN. PINCHER Column

TAKE a few million fine

strands of glass, cement them together with plastic, and you get this powerful, resilient fishing- rod, which is yet another

German wide-awake

idea for winning British trade. caused serious The Germans are exporting the bare lengths of glass-

'mixture her plastle

Britain, are being made where they into the elegant type of rod 'pictured here.

burned She once hands on a stove, but felt nothing.

At first they attributed .her 'reactions to some quality, of endurance or stoicism.

highly developed

But she did

not wince

An-

But the secret of gela's complete insensibility to pain was not discovered until she was. ġlx.

One day she mentioned that she could not jump over a tennis

to

The fine line, which stands up to the powerful strain exerted by the doubled-up rod, alsɔ somes, from Germany. It is made from perlon, the German scientists' answer to nylon, ·

After thoroughly testing the outât on a pilce pond I believe that glass rods of this quality will give serious competiton 10 conventional rods made from cane or steel.

Price of the rod: £8 s., in- cluding purchase tax.

DOGS, SAVED

net as easily on usual, Then: THE FIRST succéssful treat- her legs began to swell.

For weeks she was treated for rheumatism. Ultimately X-ray revealed that her right thigh was broken and both hor heel: bones splintered.

NANCY

Germany again ...

מסוtממ-12

The question now. -how strong is this new ally? The an- swer: comfortingly strong,

Turkey unlike some NATO members has the will to

alive.".

The herolam of the Turkish brigade in Korea is now legendary. When 5,000 volun- teers for Korea were called for, more than four times that 'hum

Here there is no "THE"ber: stepped forward.

no defeatis,

no

Bith column. The Communist party is banned. Disloyal ace tivities carry the death penalty. The Turks are tough, ftar less and con~ Alent.

They

are born fight- ery ready 10 fight any in- veder-especial- ly the "Mos- kots," they ell the Rus- sians..

Backbone of tė Turkish defence forces is the ordinary private, th'e. "Akkor" —

in- stolid,

acfaugsole Del

hard. a s

is

2

Fighting a rearguard action which helped save the US, 20 Division the Turks suffered 25 percent. casualties.

HENRY THODY

(now in Istanbul describes the Turks

IATOK latest ally!

it cepts £175

a year to equip. feed, house and pay a Turkish soldier about: д quarter of what It cris any Western. government.

The "Asker," essentially a rifisman, uses a Turkish manu- factured bolt action rifle, a

of the old сору German Mau-

ser, and locally made Brens, *

tal

natis. Hé, ches:fully puts up; · Since 1942 u Brainn Mary with conditions which would stir Mission has helped to other Western troops to mutiny. Turkish officers and N.C.Os ir latest techniques, and Britain has shipped, supplies including tanks and artillery.

The "Acker" Is paid on un believable token pay at 30 kuruş month-about tanpencel He pay "tras Ironically calls his parast"-thave money.

Offers and N.COà erg rterui

It is a drug which is also being widely used for treating whooping cough in children.

Using the drug-called chio

Michael romycelin Mr Tousey. of Wimborne, Dornet,

saved the lives of 05 valu- red directly from more educated and are expectally important In⋅

has

able greyhounds.

In 1947 an American mission began to take over our commit ments. Today, although British Instructors are still in Turkey training the I.N.-modelled navy, the flow of new equipments més

The dogs went down with the townsmen, and are usually Re- severest form of the disease,gulari. The average "Asitor", 18. from America. - which attacks the nervous sys-a son of a peasant. tem and causes the pads of the dogs' feet to harden,

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US military equipment values

On parade he would break a at £175,000,000 has been pour- in Tablet waves by mouth British sergeant-major's hearted Into Turkey and the flow is form. Within thren in ill-atting battle-dress of rough only just beginning. *. days most of the dogs were native wool, and boots, which ||

well. Some developed havo never known pollth, he is

but eventually the world's untidiest soldier, Toosey claims in

tiona,

An air force of four air groups, including latest et Bghters, is being built up. U.S. civil en- ment" for "hard pad," n my-

But he steps in his one gineers are building new 12,000rt. sterious disease which has killed his case report.

The greyhounds are now uniform, rolled up in one blanket reinforced airstrips throughout thousands of dogs in the last

being trained for

Coursing and covered by his greatcoat the country, capable of laking four years, la claimed by a

the B30 Atom-bomber and large- hares, young: British veterinary "sur-

He obeys orders blindly and planes still on the drawing | geon.......

heroically. A British sergeant boards....

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