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THE

CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1956.

KNOW YOUR HONGKONG? GIVE UP SMOKING?

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WHAT

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HO are Professor

A. Bradford Hill' and Doctor Richard Doll? Until recently their names meant nothing to the or- dinary public,

Indeed, they did not even mean very much to the medical profession.

these sent

NONSENCE!

I say the doctors have proved nothing

By JOHN JUNOR

EDITOR OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS, LONDON

cite

Hoko,

Kingdom immigrants than for native New Zealanders. And for those who were 30 yours of oge or more on entering New Zen- lond, the riske is 78 percent higher.

Nor is thore any buggestion that immigrants to New Zealand smoke more when they get there thats the native population.

"What then in the answer? Why should the man who has travelled Zealand from Birming- hom by more susceptible is lung cancer han his next-door neigh- bear who was born in Auck- land and who throughout his life has moked precisely the same number of cigarettes?

to Now should also on which port at the cigarette tobacco But whilo Professor Hill and cigarette Yet botween them

ot dives the harro Dr Doll may be distinguished have the highest incidence Lwo men have

Ta this any sort of evidence to men in their own field, it should lung cancer. hypochondriacs by the hun- be emphasised that in this parti- But do the figures show this? accept as a reason for stopping dreds scurrying to the cular case their own field is They show nothing of the kind. emoking?

For diagnostic

United

doc. #) Next there is the question of In the

States, X-ray machine, and caused neither curative

example, medicine.

whether any cancer-causing the consumption

Do Hill and Doll really believe thousands upon thousands

tobacco per head is nearly twice agents have been found in eigar-

that it can be due to cigaroties? more to give up life-long ACCOUNTANTS as much as in Britain.

Yet the incidence of cancer of and Doll say they have. Is it not jafnitely more likely and pleasurable habits.

they nor Nolther of them-unlike the the lung is less than half what it But neither

anyone that there is something inherent Professor Hiland Dr Doll

environment in elo his proved that theep agents in their early inte Sir

is in Britain. Alexander Fleming-

Brital which gives the British are, of course, the two

of every 100,000 vxist in large enough quantities in 1952 out

to men who have proved to has discovered a drug which can spen of man. Increase the le

that not even do farm lo mice. 61 lung cancer.

cancer?, Could

something their own satisfaction that Neither of them--urile the late Wales 81 died of l England and to do harm to men. Why, they immigrants a predisposition

At universities up and down not be the stench of diesel and In the U.S.A. the figure was LOT cigarette smoking is the Lord Hurther has etched

Britain rats and mice are being petrol fumes in our over-crowded C brilliant name

name in the only 20.

"Nor cause of cancer of the lung. bise

and treatment of

this an isolated example, dosed with tobacco funes which industrial areas?

Australia, the make cach animal the equivalent Cartado, Indeed, one of them in THE FINDINGS

and New Zealand, to is 89-a-day man. Profesor Hill-is, according Netherlands,

to Who's Who, not even a doctor the

consumption

per medicine of

bead is higher than in Britain. They are primarily statisticians. In such and every country the When they talk about cancer of incidence of lung cancer is ap the lung they are talking not sureelably lower.

these figures mean any- dortors but as accountants. And

How much attention should be Let me paid to their findings?

suy this deliberately and with all tire emphasis at my command: declare that Professor Hill and Dr Doll are talking utter non- Eense if they believe for one [second that they have gone any way ncar proving cigarette smoking to be a cause of cancer. They have proved nothing of the kind.

discase.

men

und

tobacco

EXCEPTION

the

LONGER LIFE

And the result? Not one single tulmal has died of lung cancer. Smoking mice in Canliff actually lived longer than other micel

Does this sound if tobacco were a killer?

Theo there is the mystery of why the death rate from lung career in towns is two to four imes higher than in rural areas. Statistics show that tobacco consumption in the towns is not more than one-third higher than In the country.

us accountants they have pro- thing they would seem to mean

one smokes which that the more duced figures through

safer one is. anyone so Inclined could drive a

How then do your statisticians norsc

and cart,

What do Look at the glaring weak- explain them away?.

they say, for example, about the nesses in their case.

If Profesor Hill and Dr Doll U.S. g have To begin with, let us

Tight which they are

say Professor Hill and Dr Doll dis- statistics

that prove

heavy mount from their pedestals, smokers are most susceptible to

They say this:-- There is a tendency among loy- jung cancer, then this should

"An exception, with mren to accept medical opinion as mean that those countries which

have the highest consumption of relatively low death rale, is the U.S.A. The reason is not known, but it must be realised that the What should make a cigarette national statistics of cigarette putted to Piccadilly more harm consumption relate to cigarettes ful thari one khaled in purchased and not lo cigarettes smolted. Observation would

infallible.

ANOTHER OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES

THE 'HOUDINI' OF NEWGATE

W

By C. D. T. BAKER-CARR

the sleight of hand of reputable magician crammed more crime

while the Newgale warders were busy drinking.

For the good of his health in the Sheppard spent a spell country- Warnden in North- amptonshire-but after a week the quiet life palled and he re- turned to London.

He raided

watchmaker's shop in Fleet Street, cluded the He chase but was recognised. fled to Finchley, but was soon apprehended.

111 the skill of Bailey for polly theft, found and sentenced to by loudini, the guilty

burnt in his hieving hand. clusiveness of this did not deter him, and he Jack and Flanel-Foot, and juted forces with

rob Inns. any lgworth Bess to

be shops and houses. But soon Tom was convicted of stealing undi into

transported for fe two short years than many

A crook turned informer, of

Dartmoor's most

James ("Hell-and-Fury") Sykes, His then lured Jack Sheppard proficient guests.

to offences led him the public-bouse and turned him gallows on Tyburn before over to the law for the sake of

This time he Was put in he was 22 years old, and his the ward. Juck was put in the St Giles's rotundhouse AN RIOS

Newgate's strongest cell, "The name has gone down in

he It was dark

Castle" handcuffed, loaded with history as the wonder-boy through a hole in the roof.

fettered 3001b, of Ironmongery,

of of crime.

and chained to the middle Caught pleking a pocket In Lebeester Fields, he was clapped the floor. He could move only n

of New into Newgate Ward Prison-with Fdgworth Bess as

suspected accomplice.

In 1702,

Jack Shoppard was born Spilatfelds in December,

hardworking

son of an honest,

carpenter--but Jack and

elder brother Tom turned

was later

his te

car-

Visitors provided

Into

escaped

Jock with

few feet.

his

17.1

A George Cruikshank draw- ing of Jack Sheppard escaping with Edgworth Beas from the New

Clerkenwell. Prison,

the

Why then, if cigarette smoking is the cause, are the country folk reaping?

do not say from all the thuat cigarette tobucco has been proved innocent as a cause of cancer.

I do say It has riot been proved quilty

And that until it has been

proved guilty there should be fur less of an ottery against 1,

not

It may be asked why, if the figures I have given are correct (and they are), the medical pro-

whole has fcision as a challenged the theories of those declers who believe that cigar- elte tobacco is the cause cancer of the lung.

SILENT

of

I have reason to think that of the most prominent roms doctors in Britairs think as I do. The reason they remain silent in the present controversy may be that since they cannot post- tively prove the Innocence ot Aberystwyth?

hesitate to go on suggest

that the American citizen 4 But perhaps the most damning tobacco they

of all against the record as publicly denying its viderize with

his English tallalicions compared

comes from New gui

gullt. counterpart more often discards

I think they are wrong to keep. hs

Leto reaching cigarette

There figures have been kept quiet. The harm caused by the bitter (and query more whereby the number of men born tobacco could well be les by far highly

carcinogenic) end!" When he heard a maid return

bi New Zealand who contract thre the damage done by a fear from showing a guest out of the If this were true this sugges- lung

be completdy cancer. can be compared which may street door he slipped into thelon would be of immense im with the number of immigrants founded.

The public need gukienco fromi house and down the stairs, portance. Yet do Hill and Doll hom Britain who contract it. clutching his irons to stop them support this ussertion with any The results are devastating. the most responsible physicians

the land. That guidanc rattling.

sintlylleal evidence? Not a shied. They show that the chances of,, In

hours of sleep to restore nerves and his energy.

his

He was out in the street and a free man once mure

Sorgt days' Later a passing shoemaker was successfully bribed to remove thé fèg Irons for £1 and Jack returned

20

his former hunting grounds. He took lodgings in Newport Mar- ket and a few nights later broke into a pawnbroker's shop Drury Lane, emerging with. sword, a brace of pistols, clothes, stuffboxes, rings and watches.

in

a

for

ปี

his

Zealand.

It appears that they have not dying of conter of the lung are should not be deriled.

bothered to collect statistics 30 percent higher for all United

Eyckl

(COPYNIGIT)

PARTIES MUST GO ON,

SAYS THE

BARONESS

PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

does probably Paris. which WOMAN who was emuunt to more than

a year. formerly a human

Finally she is an American, and cannonball in a cir-

dress

the monotonous

drosy

1956

to

Bs

not of the fact that there is a war Arrayed in his ill-gotten gains.

£10,000 going on in Algeria. Sheppard strolled into a tavern

As a

Besti gulá result the in Maypole Alley on the last day

and the Lopezes are lying low of October and sent for bla

not announcing úny "who lived not mother,

will be at the away. She came and drank cus has fired the opening and that imparts a crisp fresh parties. They

parties, however.. Ured which the moje

Con-

QUOTES three-quarterns of brandy with shot in the Paris social sea-s to her approach to people barones's him and then he wandered round gon. She is an 84-year-old finentals cannet match

Sho Communist painter Fougeron: gin-shops and taverns celebral American from Chicago who has two houses, 900 In Rome De-Stalinisation has not solved ing his escape with Edgworth

all the problems confrontlog remains wedded to a former and one in Paris. Bess and Maggoli.

the Communist painter. husband's title,

Her energy appears to be But he was recognised by

Priner Mouley Hassan, of Not only does pot-boy and arrested by a gang

He was a Sicilian nobleman inexhaustible.

Doeing

desimers But just within reach on the

of angry warders. This time he and, although she has survived he give parties, but she attends Morocco, who has been in Paris

them with crime. Jock was brought up by escape tools, and soon he had floor he found a small nail and

was guardeck, day ghd night by her husband, she remains the regularity of a debufante. Her design a uniform for the now a Mr Kneebone, of Bishopsgate, nies off his fellers, removed on with it picked the lock on

four warders who never left his Baroness la Monaco

(no rela- gregarious

army: I feel nature, is outraged Moroccanı when his father died and he tron bar from the window, unly tothering chain, But his fetters loft through a trapdoor in

cell.

4ion to Rainier of Monaco). Here he forced two

by anyone who gives a dinner though I am the Christian Dior of the Moslem wirkl'ortho to find that they, were 25 feet had been put on by a black- ceiling.

Sho is woman whom, it is Street, who was porter in enticed to a

above the ground. A blanket and emith and had no lock.

more doors and

the reached

But still Jack did not give up

A type which party for less than 50 people. n Joy to meet.

Modem Dior of the Christian acknowledged to be д

Her principal passion to fancy worth bard a sheet were fastened

prison roof at about 8 p.m. After hope. He had a khite in to the Young Jack absconded iron bar, Jack lowered Bess and

these oc- master.

The warders had carefully in six hours hard labour he found pocket and planned to cut his Dourishes in the cosmopolitan

balls and on which Jack that the nearest adjoining roof bonds on the way to Tyburn and area of Paris.

casions che -has made Gen- after four years-only a few then climbed down himself. The spected the irons.

had replaced, at 2 p.m. on Octo- was too for below his apprentice- outer wall, 22 feet high, did not

for ú safe escape through the crowd; fail-

· Her main object in life ap- tonal appearance as Nero,

do months before

for her 15 and left him alone

ind that he would cut himself ship was due to end.

deter them. They climbed up

jump.

to be a

und: a near pears

dedication to God

Gaille, Straight

down from the scaffold in

ihrowing bigger and better member of the Royal Family. In the Black Lion aichouse in the great locks and bolts of the the rest of the day.

away ho cemoved his chain,

last desperate" attempt. But

partics thon anyone clou in Her most massive door and

memorable appear- Drury Lane he fell under

handcuffs and weights. By sheer

wander named Watson, og Paris, but for various reasons ance, however, was at a recent frfluence of two young women-

brute 'strength-though he look-

There was only one thing hand badly and Jock's only hope "abandoned" was the term then

ed a weaking-he broke

abengalgans which do pot Palais de Glace. named Elizabeth Lyon and

short chain between his leg do. Jack made his way back was confiscated.

leave a bad taste in the mouth.

friend dressed Poll Maggott. Mistress Lyon

Irons. Then he climbed up the to "The Castle" and collected a

is

due to probably

a Catherine the Great of Russia, blanket to serve as a rope, Re- was known as "Edgworth Bess"

chimney.

Undaunted to the last be be- This

she drove Exer on to the rinkin after the town of her birth and up

About six feet up he came to that although the blanket

turning to the roof he found leved that if this body was cut variety of factare.

То begin with there is this a sleigh, dressed as a Russian 318 down Immediately and wrapped the other simply as "Maggott," "Blueskin' hired

near Horse Ferry. Westminster, an fron bar, which he removed short he could risk a drop from in several blankets ho seould frail, almos: tiny, woman who coachman complete with beard Jack began to seek an casier which they used as a depository by picking at the mortar with Its lowered end to the roof of a

combines girlish zest with a brid Federace nose. revive. and offered for stolen goods,

opened broken chain link. He climbed turner's house below. He landed

ripe old age (estimates living than carpentry

Her eiress training stood her BOOT While working

He was hanged at Tyburt on well over the century rich negotiations with London's lead-on and come out in the room silently on the leads and found

mark, in good stead and the drove _aboc—a Toom that had been

November 10. Over 200,000 but she confesses to only 84), round the rink at a Ian's

house he would slyly ng fence, William Field.

spanking an opers dormer window. of silver,

Yocked for at least seven years.

looived on, and a riot pocket small articles

cracking her too, she is not over pace, Field got the best of the bar- There he found another

Inside - ho could hear several broke out among

Whip tia Inter to adorn the latterly

the upstairs was put down by armed troops,

gly rich. Indeed, almom'

throughout Agure of Edgworth Bess. Unde pain. He broke in and stole the larger nail. Using that and his voices in ons of

"He died with difficulty." impoverished by Paris standarde All this in splendid stuff,

said tected in this pilfering, the de- entire contents of the stable, chimney bar he forced off the rooms. He moved a little care-

kind' His which gives ber a

d of copecially as I have to report a cibed to housebreaking, then passed the word to Jack's door lock and let himself into a lessly and his leg irons clink- one contemporary account.

enemy, Jonathan Wild, passage. Another door faced ed.

party maddening piece of news but amateur status At once a woman's' voice

from Maggott persuaded him to rob hated the stone of a textile broker in Thief-Catcher

In o patient buried him in the old graveyard She has survived three hus- this Our millionaire Intin White House Yord and Jack had Sheppind arrested on July drew the bolt-all this without tone: "Perhaps the dog-or

his bar ho pierced the door and A man replied

a of St Martin-in-the-Fields, bands, two of whom, with the American friends in Paris have a deceptively tender 20m 13. 1724. He was tried at the disturbing a single warder. Bwoy with a roll of

cat." Sheppard wafted, breath- where now shade the National excap ion of the Sicillan baron Cycloped of all things, a social Tulian, Old Bailey on August 14, con Soon he found himself in the less, for some time, then went Gallery.

(ho was number two) have conscience. It all has comething returned later, removed a bar victed and eentenced to be

(CORINIQUT) prison chapel, and reached the up to the roof for a couple of

bestowed on her a folni income to do with a vague recognition from the seller window. and

hanged. collected cash and goods to the value of £22,

in

Bome

the escape.

made

★ ✰

their

Jack teamedi At large again,

with Joseph Blake-itnown

stable

3

the

and

д

through Jack's pockets, cut his hars are the type of social charity ball given at the Paris

General," who him, bolted on the far side. With called out: What color is that? ainda aid cut him down

be was beyond revival and they thrower.

But the court was at Wind- KOT, so Jack's death warrant could not be signed until the end of the month That - gave him time.

But suspicions were aroused ...and Jack's trunk was searched

Alomo in the condemned cell find there was the furilan. Jack, who was out at the time, heard at Newgate he found that a dark about this, broke into his land. passage lod up to a heavy tron Jord's room and stole the cloth grille not in the prison lodge. szafo Without this material to anable bridges to epeak to evidenon the case against him their visitor. Once again Jack faded away, W

frictie smuggled in instruments. bf cacups. He cut almost Soon afterwards Edgeworth through one of the iron bars, in Bess was saverted and lodged in the grille so that it was rendly the St Giles's purish lock-up, to be snapped off at the appro The beadle" refused to ndinit priato moment

Jacke, Sheppardy, who - prompily One night Edgworth Bear, and knockod him down and carried Mastgott they DOOMGA” US" share ofx, kale ghido the delight § of Jació a favours quito amfoab And Tidies of Driley-Land Patrol parze to woo him: The ber VIASATum 1723, Jaak's brother whippini out and Jacic. STORTY OWN ECOight up at the Old thecusts: bond' true for tree

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