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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1953,

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FORMBY shows how to beat an illness

• The • announcement

that George Formby is to

star in a London ravuo

· next month' turns

atten- tion towards the illness that many people rogard with foar: coronary throm- bosis.

⚫ Seventeen months ago Formby's doctors told him ho could never go back to

the stage. But Formby

com-

has recovered. Doos this mean hope for other sufferers from this plaint? Or in Formby subjecting himself to д risk by working again at full pressure? Here is the Answor of A WIM- POLE STREET · DOCTOR:

EORGE FORMBY needl nut be troubled with his heart aguin. For coronary thrombosis is now a curable illness.

It is a serious one, none the less. For no known reason The flow of blood to the muscle of the heart is slowed down to stopping-point.

Coronary thrombosis can kill. It often does. Bul CURCA ilke George Formby's are common today. More and more pallents develop

thrombosis coronary every your. But recovery rates the victions are pove, and mostly restored to full heälth,

Who have most to fear from ronary thrombosis?

It 18 live

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Its attack, Doctors, business executives, publik

entertuiners are the connonçai victims. People who lead quiet lives enjoy eemparative Jesa. munity.

High blood pressure

ni or factor.

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London Express Service

ANYWHERE, SOMEHOW, FOR A STORY...

COLOMBO (Ceylon), Friday, Amir Amin Didi, of the Maldive Islands, has resigned only eight months after his 99

as election cent

per

Reporter

Mohamed Didi, form first uesday.Faise vative in Telative was ill power." trapped the ex-President of the new Maldivian Republic, Amin Didi, who is now a prisoner on

thal

He was Legislati Male. m and (waj

was

After only eight months in office the first President of the palm-clad Maldive Islands— once a British protectorate, now a republic---

forced to resign, then arrested and imprisoned on a lonely coral atoll. To find out what is happening on the islands reporter JAMES LEASØR travelled 400 miles by motor- boat in the Indian Ocean, He tells of his journey in his first article...

James Leator

THE SHARKS AND I

-and then a

storm hit

the Hyacinth

MALE, Maldives.

AM the first Briton for 50 years to arrive on an unofficial trip to these islands in the Indian Ocean, so the acting Prime Minister here assures me. And as such I am something of a showpiece.

I am living in a white bungalow near the sea, fenced off from the road by a long concrete wall just the height of a man'a shoulder.

All day this is lined by half a hundred seemingly disem- bodied hands of the curious on the outside looking-in. It gives me some idea how royalty must feel-always

in critical focus.

MALDIVE ISLANDS

INDIA

COLOMBO

TIT

MALE

INDIAN OCEANS

For that matter, the Queen is very popu- The trail of JAMES LEASOR across the Indian Ocean

tar in the Maldives and most houses have her framed photograph, either

--RECOVERY George Formby after his illness.

blood-vessel of the body, and its small bore le out of all pro portion to its importance. For the heart must keep on working. and it cannot do that if it is deprived of nourishment for here. more than a few moments.

at the Trooping the Colour; his mid-fifties, wearing or with the Duke of Edlin- sarong and vest. He spoke burgh, in the porch over the a few words of English.

Under their stare I felt. front door, which is the honoured place for pictures vaguely like a new boy in a

school dormitory.

Churchill is also displayed Sudden stoppage of nourish- ment

reason he death. And this-and for seems more frequent than I would least suspect. One of

means

a

♫

The captains

3.80 in the morning with a loin-clothed crewman holding a slopping cup of ten in one hand and a hur- ricane lamp in the other.

"Tea, tea, ten," he said in the only English he knew. I tried to drink, but the effort was too much. All of it was lost as the boat lurched.

liko crushed

The third day I Wak awakened

sever. There seemed to be no set reveille in Maldivian ships. Work started when the cook woke up and brewed tea. worse.

+

The $40

was

For safety BECAME concerned about Outside, in an electrle storm I the

of keeping really is because it often strikes the aims of the deposed THE crew, also in sarongs, black ico,

the sen looked

prospect the sky shot with afloat, and asked the Maldivian people prominent in the public Maldivian President was to

and indistinguishable blue streaks. The engine roared business man: "What are life- eye. Tommy Handley was

abolish smoking; he said it one from the other, brought unexpectedly as the propeller in arrangements here

boat for caused sickness, dulled the in a third camp bed. We the stern left the water as we

the crew and two lifebelts on wita and the brain. There sat and waited and looked at rolled.

the roof of the cabin." "Who Formby supplies part of the upon out came photos of the each other.

are they for?" I asked. "For me and the old Moslem," ho answer: just "guts."

replied.

саве.

How do victims of coronary thronibosis recover?

I lay spreadeagled in bed braced against the rolling, and

most famous smoker of all, "When do we start?" I longing for day. That commodity runs through, his cigar triumphantly be- his breed. His father invalid for many years, but tween his teeth.

WBS

never allowed illness to impair

his performance,

Formby

senior used his. ill-

ness in his act. His classical gag

was: "I'm not coughing so well

Monsoon

asked. "Possibly today, possibly tomorrow," said the business man. "Only Allah knows." He had been wait-

Flying fish

ing since early morning and FIRST DAY. The old Moslem

Wis up first

with his

bout

shrugged. "There is

He

I spent the rest of the day looking round the ship for a useful piece of wood to which I could cling in an emergency, Maldivian passenger, anxious to show his knowledge of English, recited such scraps

The

tonight." For he had tuber is fine boing the first Was resigned to stay ar. prayer mat, ond turned towards of English poetry he knew an

culosis of the lungs.

But medicine, as well as guts, has saved Ocorge Formby, 1953, from an Invalid lite.

Hin cure really started in Texas; a quarter of a 020.

died

!

Mecca. As a devout

Moham-

mat

a medan he knelt on this

Briton here for so long: 80

A cry outside and but I wish there had been

reach the rowing boat bumped along. another way to

side. "Captains are here,' Maldives than by the an said the business man. cient motor, bont that "In the plural?" I asked. brought me here 400 miles from Colombo.

Open sea

Ave times daily.

I lay in bed. "The shade of night were falling fast-dron- i upent most of the days ing co, beating Time with "his among Ast on my pillow as he spoke,, leaning over the rall,

He other

watching the

meant well, so I said things

nothing: anyway, with waR patient sharks.

nice when it stopped.

A six-inch flying fish flew on board. One of the crew caught it and stuck it in his pocket to oat later as an appetiser. wings and all.'

Calm at last CAME

"Of course. All ships in the Maldives have two cap- This good ship Hyacinth, tains one for the day and century built an unknown number of one for the night," he re-

ME the last day. Everyone years ago in Topsham De: plied, surprised.

was up early. The Maldivian The crew of 15, whose duties. Many cattle

for no von, was intended for mild

were scanty and not clear, flag was looked out and run up. apparent reason. Without injury trawling in gentle English

pijlow molly lay about in the sun on. It has been used for a they bled 10 death, often

seas, and came off badly internally.

straw bed mata, en hatch-tops, by someone. or in an old lifeboat.. Across I realised that in the whole Investigation showed that against the mighty clover, as it rolled, produced a of the Indian Ocean at the UR boat began to shake the deck the helmsman steered voyage: I had not seen a singlo

toes wrapped oth which prevented tag-end of the monsoon.

as the old engine start with one feo!,

And her ahip. The only signs of blood from clotting. It caused

life were flying fish-and the I joined the ship in ed and we headed for the so we pliched on into the ahorks condition

the parallel to

Colombo harbour on a open sea. The boat rolled accond day, human' Illness haemophilia.

Scientists cxamined that Saturday afternoon. She from side to side, with the clover. They Isolated the anti-was 56ft. long, 20ft. wide edge of the deck dipping cloiting substance, identified it and manufactured from coal ut her widest, and had a under the water.

substance

waves

.

round the wheel spokes

Foaming sea

In the distance a pale trans- lucent day hung over the coral reef islands.. The waters were calm at last. We could do fully the seas were wurso, four knots now. The sharks deck cabin for three. We did not stop this an- Ntugo, mountains of Water dropped behind, disappointed.

"clean tax it appears

When I got: aboard two easy motion. until we tied roaming ille, soapsuds bearing Ahead, worn Today mexan. But there is a note of camp beds were already sat up in Malo Harbour in the down on us continually.

own over noting to progress instead of made from, a table, warning: 1 can be used only up. On one sat an old Maldlyes five days later. The engineer announced ahol against a hatch. And only in under strict control, ',". and white bearded Monlem At the outset twarz sharks

Tromean saves more more cases of coronary throm-crunching his teeth? Ha fell in behind us on other and loved Inte

Tro-

must

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the engine, the dimmer distance was the

Aimlar: trials on the return every year," It L taken spoko no language I bould side, keeping their distance bowale of the book, thought that we must undergo

to Colambo understand, and neither all the way, slowing when engine led and we vorage could he understand me we slowed, spoeding when wallowed in horribly for two

reappodr

bosis by mouth,

And now George. Formby ha proved that coronary, throm bosis, met Intelligently, can be

On the other bed was do sped. I was awakened smiling: Zuging good, now, jugue Maldivian Business man in from a queasy slumber-at we hoped

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