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THE TUBE' IS NEW CANCER HOPE

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

NEW treatment for

A cancer, hailed by doctors

as "the most promising ad- vance in 20 years." is being tested at St Thomas's Hos- pital, London.

Are SD en-

No cures are claimed yet. But early.resulta couraging that live American centres have stready adopted it."

British selentists found that X-rays are far more effective in killing cancer evils if they are #ven in the presener of a rich supply of oxygen.

Son thick steel cylinder in which patients can be put under high-pressure охуден whille they are being given X-rava has been set up at St Thomas's.

A team led by 38-year-old Dr Ian Churchill-Davidson has treated more than 50 patents

aged seven to 77 in this way.

Many of them are still alive

VIETS USE

VETO

IN ON ASSEME

THE CHINA' MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1957.

THE WOMAN WITH THE LOUDEST VOICE IN QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL SAÝS;,

"Rich People are so miserable!"

MRS

send

by

GERRY

XAVIER

TRS TANG NUI'S Buc- Following a successful separn- cess dates back 36 lon, (successful, because it pays years when she sent her dividads in American dollars.

which her husband "good-for-nothing" husband periodlenlly) she went into the to America and, by so doing, newspaper vending business in turned him into a successful partnership with her mother.

Tang Nui occupied, and and almost famous Chinese still occupying a aland at the me but the law won and I was couk In a New York restau- corner of the Hongkong Hotel aned $3 for selling newsprint directly opposite Shell House, my licence did not apcelty,”

Her mother, the late Mrs. she said. Tang, occupied Blue Bird'a corner.

rant.

ACOBALT

BOMB

COBALT

LEAD CASING

1" THICK STEEL CASING

OXYGEN

INLET

FEED

SLIDING PLATFORM

The latest cases have been the MOSL successful because Dr Church11-Davidson is now using a "cobalt bomb" as a source of more powerial X-rays,

The 'mb" is a thick lead sphere containing a charge of the metal cobalt which has been coolted in an atomic furnace until it is intensely radioactive, 'THIS is what happens to the

-ome with no signs of cancer, patient in the new treatment:

If you appreciate

precision as well

as quality

HOW IT WORKS

He is lightly onæsthetised, then covered with lead sheet- ing to protect those parts of the

which arc not body X-rayed.

bn

He is pushed into the cylinder on a trolley.

The door is screwed down and oxygen pumped In unt the pressure reaches about 42tb. to the square inch.

Ask for the new

TANK

is

gether, they eked out

and brought up two sons, By a stroke of luck, a kind Engilshman, one of the many taipans who buys his newspapers from Tang Nui, came to know of this cheery woman's brave battle, felt sorry for her, and helped subsidise her elder son's education.

WEARY & WORN

Then remittances began to

come more regularly from hubby from across the Reas, and son number two received a similar education.

But she had no ambition to be- come a Rockefeller'. She says "Rich people are a miserabic lot."

She odduced this from the weary look worn by talpans after a day's work, and the capers they cut on a drunken Saturday night - all of whicl she observes when they pass her be at the corner Hongkons Hotel.

She is a part of the scenery of the central district, and she is proud of it

"All the people in the offices around here. are my friends," she en exuberantly..

Tang Nui went on to cite one example:

A pelice sergeant, many years ogo, tried to drive her away from her stall.

down from his managerial ɖesk in Shell Houte to intercede for

But the story goes further than that, for Tang Nui la "by appointment to Shell," the only hawker allowed on the premises. Her awkward loud voice and malicious brashness. which would have gotten any verson thrown out of an office such as Shell Houte, is toler- nted there, although many an indignant clerk keeps frowning at the way she chides them when they do not buy a news- paper as she makes her rounda twice a day.

Maybe that is why Tang Nui does not want anything other than just to be a news vender.

"WHAT'S THAT SLIPPING SOUND? THE BRAKES?”. "CAN'T BE. THERE AREN'T ANY”

BY BUS

to

BRITAIN

Guingamp, Brittany,

"The show of aggresalon," said the woman, "g=thered a crowd and brought Mr R.Y. Frost,THE dusty lorry chugged Tus way along a bumov, former General Manager of the Shell Company of Hongkong, hedge-lined country lane on a spring day in Brittany.

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No. 2 In the new series about the

men who broke a way out of Europe

by FRANK TOLE

The driver, 60-year-old Francois Kerambrun, mut- tered under his breath at the slow pace, for he was on very important business, and it was impossible to conx any more speed out of. the motor.

poultry breeder Franco's Kerainbrun's lorry, family man in peace-time, and ran on charcoal, with one of clandestine lender with A those curious looking stove gadgets beside the bonnet, such as you often saw on the roads of France in war-time.

-HALTED

NLY Germans and collabor-

and

qulet

pries on his head in war-Ume.

For nearly 100 airmen who чего kmuggling back to England after bailng out in occupied territory it was “ihe last bus for home,"

Eight times it went down the German patrolled lanes at night towards Bonaparte Beach from

airmen

CURRENCY JOYRIDE

hotel

Wild Courisht dy arrangement with the kľanchester Guardian

Eight times Francois took the wheel--each time he risked death

FRANCOIS...

** I'm

not

here for a

friendly chat."

keeper at Chatelaudren, the door ready to make a last early months of 1944 before the, the

who had been: Germans eailed to requisition fight for it breathed a sigh of Best waves 02 Allied troops smuggled through France by an her holet and asked her to show relief. came ashore on the Normandy escapo chain. benched.

But Herambran WAY sure that the day of liberation oferta his country could not be far. -off, and he smiled to himself

as he thought "If only

-A TRAP

NEXT WEEK:

thom the rooms,

"They tell me I was as white They inspected them all ex- as a sheet when I answorod the cept one with a locked door. German officer," she says. "But "Who's in there?" asked the my impression wag that I officer-in-charge.

blushed scarlet." TAVERY #Ime he took the "Only some railwaymen who wheel Francola Kerambrin work at night and should not risked his life-for the penalty be disturbed as they sleep dur- for helping airmen was certain ing the day," she said. death.

Once the lorry, coldng ko a an.1

covered wagon with its canvas, road

top, stopped with its fron wheels in a trap dug across the road by the Germans.

Boche knew what was in the back of my lorry to help his departure he'd be surprised.?” At that moment be heard. the

"ALT" command there before him on the was a German patrol.

ever

sca

For one moment Korambran had a vision of his family wait- Ing

at home and thought anxiously: "Shall I

hem again?"

But, to his astonishment," the Germans were all friendly smiles. Could the driveg, give one of the soldiers a lift to the next villager

A dozen British airmen Inside wore told: "Jump out and hick in the bushes."

But not a German was in sight; The airmen came back heaved the larry out of the trap and drove on aga n the house at the top of the

was their cliffs which

last stopping place in France. Another night it was a grous

So into the back climbed the man with his rifle and sat down on a heavy steel cylinder, used, for welding.

of French gendarmes--no lovar Franco Kerambrun might of the Germans-who stopped have explained that he was Francols Kerambrun and asked taking the cylinder for a him: "What are you doing out at special job, but the soldier this time of night?" spoke hardly any French and Francols spoke no German, so no questions were asked.

-PISTOLS

THE German got down of the village and walked away with a "Gutan tap.” Francois Kerimbrun finished his mission, and left the cylinder in the yard [of 'his garage, where the Ger- mana saw it as they pissed every day, and never took any notice.

A

"Don't waste my time." sald] Kerambrun sharnly, "I am father of alx children, and am not here for a friendly chat. I have 18 Alled nirnien who must

be taken off tonight for land."

Eng

"Right," said the pollen.

The Germans walked away, and six alimcn crouched befund

The toughest escape route at all.

BRITAIN CAN NOW 'BLIND' RADAR SETS

'Bombers or missiles'

By RONALD WALKER

A COUNTER-MEASURE to radar detection-

to "blind its eye"-has been discovered by a British firm.

It offers the first possibility |

The Dulces bounce back when "But don't go down that way that radar warning defene's can they hit an enemy aircraft.

na the Germana have fast mined the road."

-SEARCH

be defeated, whether the attack

Is made by bombers or guided The receiver which rroris

missilco,

The discovery was disclosed In a brief statement Issued by

NO for five-miles the police the Plessey Company.

This stated You can see it there now and lod the lorry with its load

detour where there firm had "an the lory, too, both a little rusty, nieng, a

"bonus

the return pulses automatically works out the height, range, and position of the target aircraft. NO BLIP

simply that the

Sa far, there has been na extremely later-

means of foxing radar detection. re- cannot be fammed or bent. roder pulses instead of flecting them. A

The Plessey Company's techni- structure

at the critical moment.

if you ever visit this part of were to mines, and then, with a cating material that absorbs Brittany. A very ordinary look allant handshake and a Ing gas, cylinder not worth a chance" wire gone. second glance. The top part is To talk to Francole Keram covered with the material bs clans have devised a material Just what it purports to be, but brun you would think it the, comes invisible to a radar which cuts the radar. pulses off If you unserew it half-way mest natural thing in the world beam."

Instead of bouncing back to down you find a nice, cosy con- for a father of six to risk his

Radar tainer for pistols and band te on such 'midnight missions.

was used by British' the expfctant receiver, they, aro grenades, Just the job for the "Have I bren awarded a radar stations to track German absorbed. French Resistance.

décoration?” he repeats. "What bombers, It is based on-the -As a result, no tell-tale blip This was only one exploit of would want with a decoration principle that it sends quit, a' shows on the radar screens. the old lorry in its very special at my age?” ·

constant series of pulses, liko · The “ayo" so far relied on an work for the, resistanco · group Ho laiked about his neigir»: tennis balls fired in split-second the basis for, defence organika- of M. Mathurine Brancheias, Uk bour Madame: Rosalie Cardinal, murcessions mayẨM - tion ja -atterly ·blinded.