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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958.

This fantastic

Cyprus situation

Turkish

Espriet

COMMENTARY by CUMMINGS.

BRITISH STAY IN CYPRUS

and protect us from the Greeks!

FROM THE

MAN THERE— A STAGGERING REPORT-

TO STARTLE THE NATION

BRITISH DONT

GO HOME!'

and protect us from

The Turks

WHAT! THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION!

Smart... and straight "Who are we fighting today, Sarge?

from the heart!

HOLLYVOGUE

California ties

for your Valentine (Feb. 14)

++

I

-that's how mixed-up everything is

from DONALD WISE: Nicosia.

.

Smoking, a doctor,

and good advice

THE most definite medical

pronouncement on the

巍

dangors of smoking yet made is published as 18-page pamphlet by the British Medical Association.

Yet the official who wrote it,

40-year-old Dr Harvey

Flack,

is an inveterate smoker cigarettes and tas no

of giving them up.

of

intention

Dr Flack, who is editor, of the association's · health journal, Family Doctor, and writes under the pen-daina of Dr Harvey Grahoma; answered questions which every worried smoker would like, to ask. ・・

Q: In arging people to stop smoking while you carry on, don't you fool Uko a parSOA who ta, secretly an aiheisi?

Dr Flack: As a doctor it is My duty to give the best medical advies to others. I can take any risk I like with my own body.

Q: Have you tried to give up smoking la view of the risks yan claim are proved?

Dr Flack: No. I like it too much and it helps me in my work. But I have cut down from 50 cigarettes a day to 25.

Q: Is 25 a keto limit?

Dr Flack: No. The evidence suggests that 16 la the safe limit tut I consider that the pleasure which 25 cigerottes bring me outweighs the fear and danger of possible lung cancer,

Q: How do you square this

ning with reasoning

the repeated warnings in your pamphlet?

Dr Fläck: I don't. For addicts of

My risk

liko me it is a question balindog riks." In my case K prefer to accept the risk of lung 10, Mohammed, Young National Service-

give ermeer rather than endure the withdrawal symp- N death men look so commander-to an atomic their teeth in rage and told

me: "If only we had a men of the Suffolk Re these tidings to the faith-unpleasant small and the two warfare course in Britain.

policy in Cyprus."

giment, which did yeoman ful Victory is from God toms I should experience if I unshaven, ragged The Chief Secretary is on

service against Communists and triumph is very near. cave up smolding altogether. Who is giving toured Turkey-town in Malaya, are bewildered. O, opener of doors, open for

I Turks looked very dead sick leave.

governing directives to today with Turkish leaders Who are we fighting today. us the best of doors," it and very small,

Suleiman, Raouf soldiers and police on the Yumit

Sarge?" asked one in his runs.

Well, mortuary doors Their blood reddened the brick-and-burned-rubber Dentash, and the son of the rolling country accent. The

Q: Having weighed

up the And no statistics, how do you tes yellow stripe running round battlefield that Is Nicoslä? mufti (religious' leader). little dead men in the taxi, opened for them. the waist of the beat-up old

At roadblocks, in alley as things turned out. one is any the wiser. Tur-your risk of contracting lung And what is the policy?

key is our ally and Cyprus cancer? taxi, and their brother,

Dr Finck: I estimate my Turks have stood by us in chance we None of our fighting men ways, in the streets, they

as about standing next to me as

1. in 100 I doubt if there is pleaded for calm with mobs British baying for blood looked at them, sald furl- knows. ously: "Harding would never a policy.

blood. Bitter as they were, have allowed this."

they beseeched, yes, be secched, their people to go

But Sir John has gone. So has Sir Hugh Foot to An kara.

So has Major-General Jon Kendrew, security forces

The two little corpses in the taxi helped us during Eoka troubles.

'Disaster”

TURKS got hold of me to day and said: "We wanted to celebrate because

IMPROVING THE PREVIOUS BEST the radio said you British

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LIGHT VALUE INDICATION

Built-in range/view-finder coupled with lens. One glance, one adjust- ment for sure, sharp focus every time,

had agreed in principle to partition. Now you dil us,"

Titled officers of the Blues who recently played a series

of polo matches against the

Turkish Army in Ankara sat glumly in the turrets of their Ferret armoured cara. This is disaster," they said. The little men were shot dend when they burst

four

roadblocks through

Film on.

The Turks inaldo had been

Tidings

THEY died beneath a roll- home.

ing Arabic inscription The tear gas from yeater- written on the gate through day's riots clung to the wet which British troops march- streets and was as effective ed to lease the island from sa if it had just been fired. Turkey in 1878.

N

ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY

risk

hard times,

The best of doors should stead of I in 800 which is the

the non-smoker runs, it bo opened to them and the kept on smoking 50 a day I politicians and the soldiers think my chance would be about So by balving my and everyone who has been in 60.

cigarette consumption I have also halved my personal risk. loyal to us,

Q: How do you expect other aaddlots to follow your advios?

There must be a policy. Playing for time here is poker game with death.

by CEDRIC CARNE

BUT IT'S STILL ASPIRIN

the drugs that have atarred have been penicillin, streptomycin, recent year the dramatic names have flashed across the lights of the medical world while older ex-stars remain on the shelf. Yet aspirin, though discovered in the wineteenth century, is still playing a merciful and vital part to this day, deals with villainous headaches and florid temperatures.

It

"Surely taking that sort of to dose leads to somo skle effects?"

Oscar sald, surprised.

At worst the patient suffers from heartburn or giddiness or noises in the ears, but it is not' very often that the doctor has to worry about such complica- tions.

And now? Why,.ask any a hundred and one conditions,

from influenza manned by troops. The friend of yours suffering varying Loading camera and film trans. troops quite rightly opened from Influenza whether he'd arthritis,

Mistaken notion those ordinary, white portation has been simplified and fire when the driver pressed prefer caviar or a couple of

tablets. is completely foolproof.

"Oh, I take an aspirin oc- counting device is fully automatic.

Yet Mr Oscar Perkins casionally," Oscar Perkins admit- in combined Double and blank exposure pro-given the okay by someone looked down his nose when tod. "Often

to rush a wounded man to I prescribed aspirin. It tablet containing phenacetin and hospital and spoke до

was as if I had insulted English.

him. I could tell that he properties to aspirin and is asthmatics and those who suffer

Phenacetin has very similar body elso's

Confusion, death,

and was thinking "I haven't almost as safe while codeine is from hay fever may occasionally

come all this way for A of great use in suppressing hevo hatred.

consultation Just to be pre backing cough which may keep only one aspirin. scribed aspirin."

vention mechanism.

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Pink or brown

Sir John Harding believed in law and order. By mak- concessions to the Ing Greeks releasing Foka detainees and prisoners — and by his personal appear !ances in the villages Sir you acetylsalicylic acid." Hugh has won some admira- tion from them.

As gestures they were magnificent. But the Turks feel they will be betrayed by him.

Bitter

"Right,” I said, “I'll give

codsing."

a patient awake at night.

Of course, a few people will break out in a rash almost when they see an aspirin in 20m0- And handbag.

taking

a reaction after

Still the star

.

But then there are a few-un-

I

Dr Flack: By waming off the young people, like my own sons Robin, aged 18, and Alan, aged 12. As an extra Induce ment I have promised

them

£100 each if they do not smoke before

21. they are Q: How old were you when you storied to smokor

Dr Flack Twenty-one.

suggest

Q: You

pamphlet

the

that Aller - Up

ofgarelies may

be safert

you smoke them?

Do

Dr Flack: No, I loathe them.

I can see no point in a cigarette unless you get full satisfaction from IE

Tricks

THE pamphlet, called "Smok

Ing-the Facts," good further than any previous indicting medical statement in tobacco. "Cigarette smoking is 4 cause of lung cancer: that's thunt, and you can't talk your way out of it,” it says.

Dr Flack liste "imple tricks for giving up smoking" in_ 'the Family Doctor. Examples: Carry round a Hille ginger root in your pocket and nible it when you feel like a sucke

Resolvo never to smoke before a certain time of day or while driving a car. Gargle with a wook "solution of silver mitrate.

I asked Dr Flack if he had ever tried any of these tricios. "Of cotuse not, because I have revor wanted to give up-smok- "But if I did I Ing." he said.

There is no evidence that the soothing actions of such pain- killing combinations is greater than the sum of its parts. The main advantage is that such lucky ones who are allergie even compound tablets keep the dose to a weak git and strong tonic. of each constituent well below Recently, doctors have discussed would try the ginger dodge." Bounds better, its toxic leosl **That doctor," Oscar said, happier at Inst.

hust.

"Ab, then you admit aspirin can be poisonous it taken too

Side effects

act how aspirin may stomach irritant,

11

G

"Certainly, people who have

ulcers particularly should be

wary of taking aspirin unless

X-rays

prescribed by their doctors," IOF all the ingredients in the

said.

"medicine" De Flask pre- scribes for others he takes only

It Beome familiarity often," Öscar cried. That is breeds contempt, why doctors have to revert to aspirin's other namo-

In the same say thom who one himself to have his chort acetylsalicylic acid-so that

It is surprising how many are suffering from a hangover-rayed every year. That makes him feel reasonably · safe to go patients don't go off in a people have the mistaken notion should not rush to take an on smoking until the next X-ray.

that aspiria can damago the aspirin on 怎么 Own as Gu

Dr Flack does 'riot deny that heart. They will suffer head stomach wall may already be

there is a degree of self- In order to disguise ache all day, rather than take irritated from last night's binge, deception in his mecimen for THEY raged here when

further doctors this simple magic remedy..

As be he said on his arrival | aspirin

"But it's still the star of them continuing to obe. have to give it in

draws deeply on a cigaretta it is in Turkey that he thought oven

The most common cause of all," I said. "Even in the treat-

obviour that he “enjore smoking that Grooks, and Turks Technicolour in pink or heart disease is rheumatic fever. ment of rheumatoid arthritis

so much that life would Zone And in this condition doctors acme doctors believe aspirin-fo

much of le savour without ita could live peaceably to brown tablets. gother, Sir John never be. Yet. It is a most valuable prescribe as many as 30 tablets be as valuablo sa cortison

maniguelo, Tanta somit of aspirin'a'day for many weeks.”“

So it was aspiries for Oscar leved that. Nor do they.

kills pain. Ti also has the ability. They do this knowing that the Generals, administrators, as beige down high, lompery drug cannot-ever dimage data sed, come to think of it, my and pollesmen have ground turones Husen its importance in already suspect hoert.

Oscar for sapirin.

Chapman Pincher