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ACTION FOR DAMAGES

AGAINST. HOTEL *

The complaint of, a diamond broker. Mr Joseph Williams, of Florencecourt, Maida Vale, that a chiropodist injured his foot, was Investigated in the King's Bench, Division recently.

The action was against Strand Hotel Ltd., owners of the Regent Palace Hotel, Piccadilly, for neg- ligent treatment by one of their employees, a man named Jones.

The defence was a dental of negligence, it being contended that the treatment was proper and eklifül.

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Mr. Williams, in evidence, stated that after having been up all night playing cards, he went to the hotel to have a shave and, while sitting in the chair, took off his shoe. He told the man that his foot had swollen and was advised to see the chiropodist,

"As I was being shaved I fell asleep," he said.

"While you were being shaved!" exclaimed Mr. Justice Greaves- Lord. "Some

people are more trustful than others. Nothing in. the world would make me go to sleep while being shaved." (Laugh- ter.).

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"DOPED" WITH JODINE

Mr. Williams said he was awa- kened from his sleep, while being shaved. by the burning heat of a lamp at his foot, Jones sald he had "doped his foot with iodine. He added that he was in bed for three weeks.

Cross-examined by Mr. Fearnley- Whittingstall, defending, Mr. Wil- liams denied that he was being shaved, manicured and having foot treatment at the same time.

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He admitted that the treatment he received relleved the pain. In his foot for a time.

A doctor who "attended Mr. Wil- liams sald the foot

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TRAMP

SHIPPING'S NEW START

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LORD RUNCIMAN ON BRIGHTER FUTURE

Viscount Runciman, the former President of the Board of Trade, sald recently that, if the recent depression in British tramp ship ping had continued every tramp shipowning firm in the country would have become insolvent. In- stead, the industry had made a new start.

part of British shipping. It would have reduced our powers of defence to a dangerously low ebb and, would have meant distinct weakening of our Imperial connec-

tions.

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"The subsidy granted by the Government was intended to be the basis of a new understanding He was speaking after the unvefl-

among shipowners. Co-operation is Ing of a new portrait of himself an essential element in the grant which is to hang in the council

"We have made a new start." chamber of the Chamber of Ship-added Lord Runciman. We have ping of the United Kingdom in

got out of the worst of our mis- London. The portrait, which was fortunes, but the way is not all Painted by Mr. R. G. Eves, was clear yet. With another two or unveiled by Sir Richard D. Holt, three years of the present heal- President of the Chamber.

thier conditions, I have no doubt that we shall see ourselves estab- lished on the "uld foundation of prosperity."

"During the last few years, we have had some very bitter exper- lences," Lord Runciman said. "I went into office for the second time in 1931 feeling that it was an

almost hopeless task to exercise" any influence for the recovery of British trade, but I also had it Axed in my mind that with the appro- val of the House of Commons I would stay In that office until I saw shipping on a sound footing.

"Very few people outside realise how near a very important section of British shipping was to extinc- tion. Another two or three years of the experience of 1932 to 1934 and there would have been no tramp Arm solvent in the United King- dom

DANGER TO DEFENCES.. "This would have meant the loss to this country of a most important

SPECIALIST SUED BY PATIENT

Denial Of Neglect

At

At Operation

X-RAY DISCOVERY

A Harley-street specialist, Mr. Horace Powell Winsbury-White. was sued for damages in the King's Bench Division recently by a com- mercial traveller, Mr. Arthur w Ilam Morris, 61. of "Arundel-gar- dens, Goodmayes. Essex, who al- leged negligence in the conduct of an operation.

The defence was denial of the allegations.

Mr. J. P. Eddy, K.C., for Mr. Morris, sala the action arose from an operation for the removal of the prostate gland. It was perfor- med by Mr. Winsbury-White in two stages in November and December, 1933, at St. Paul's Hospital, Endell- street, W.C. The hospital had no responsibility in the matter.

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The complaint was that. specialist permitted a piece of drainage tube to remain in the bladder for four months. For about half that time, Mr. Morris was in a private ward as the defendant's patient. The tabing was discovered on April 11. 1934, at an X-ray examination. Mr. Morris's health had been ruined.

"PILLORIED HIMSELF Lord Rundiman recalled that, years ago, a number of letters which frankly criticised shipowners appeared anonymously in a news- paper, and there was & good deal of speculation about the identity of the author. One suggestion was that the author was his father, the shipowner, who died in August.

"It was a shrewd guess and it was quite right." Lord Runciman said. "I suggested, that he should get one of his friends to write an article about himself, but he said he could not trust any of them.

"So it happened that he wrote an article, whereupon his friends said 'He can't be the author be- cause he is pillorted like the rest."

ALEKHINE REGAINS

CHESS TITLE

The Hague, Dec. 8. Professor Alekhine is again World Chess Champion, after the Dutch teacher, M. Euwe, who gained that title from, Alekhine in 1935, resigned after the 25th game of the return match, when Alekhine. in 43 moves, had manoeuvred him Into a hopeless position..

LONDON SHORT

OF POLICE

There is a shortage of recruits for both the City of London and the Metropolitan Polley Forces, writes Home correspondent. Among the reasons given to me by police officials were:-

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The high percentage of refec- tions owing to fallure to pass the physical and education stand- ards;

The fact that the pay is no longer higher in London than in the provinces:

The better prospects in the provincial police, especially for men who have been trained in the London forces; and

The attraction of miore con- genial homes, with gardens, in the country.

serious in the City of London. One The problem is rather more

of the executive officers told me that the 6ft. minimum and the weight and chest measurement re- quirements cause many rejections. PERCENTAGE OF TEÉTOTALLERS

Many of the applicants who have stated their height to be 8ft, have been found wanting by two or three inches. A large number, fall to reach the minimum of 37 to 38 chest measurement and 11-stope weight.

Before the Wer the average weight of a City of London police- mar was between 15 and 16 stone. Now it is much below this. explanation is that a high percen- tage of the force are teetotallers.

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Another suggestion is that the new recruits were children during the war years, when food was rationed. It is also stated that the wish for a slim figure is not con- fined to women

Because of the shortage pen- sioners have been recalled to duty. In the Metropolitan Police the shortage is partly attributed to the short-service' scheme, under which men are not bound to complete their term, and may give notice. The shortage is not regarded as serious, and is not causing suffl- cient inconvenience to warrant a Professor Alekhine's regaining of publicity campaign. the title is without precedent in

"The height minimum 1a the the history of chess, since on no Metropolitan force is 5ft. sin., but occasion previously has a once de-

in cases, where the applicant has. throned champion succeeded in re-exceptional qualifications this is gaining that position.

reduced to 5ft. 8in.

On the other hand, M. Euwe is the first holder of the Champion title to give the previous holder a chance to recapture it, by agree- ing to play a return game.

It is believed that Alekhine, who is not bound by any contractual obligation to the International Chess Association, will not agree to any challenge for one or two years.-

Transocéan News Service.

WAR COUNCIL REFORM

Reduction Of Age Of High

Command Officers "

London, Dec. 7. The ney War Office policy of reducing the age of those holding high Command led Lieut-Comdr.

T. H. Fletcher (Lab.) to ask Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, in the House of Com- Mr. Eddy said that Mr. Win-

mons to-day, if this policy is to sbury-White assured Mr. Morris be extended to the Navy and Royal before the operation that he would f Air Force, give him personal attention and visit him three times a week until he was discharged:

The fee was 55 guineas for Mr. Winsbury-White, with five guineas a week as a private ward fee.

"Mr. Morris was discharged-on February 10, 1934, when he ought nct to have been, and the specialist

The Prime Minister assured his questioner that the First Lord of the Admiralty and Secretary for Air would continue to give full weight to all relevant considera- tions, including age, health and physical fitness of officers' con- cerned,

asked

Lieut-Comdr. Fletcher

was negligent in that respect," whether it was not desirable to said counsel."Els condition has have an approximation to the been appalling since. He has average age between the Army had so much pain that he dared Council, Air Council and Board of not eat. The devoted wife took on Admiralty. He quoted the dia- the treatment of her husband. The parity of age between the First Sea neglect of the defendant, is unfor- Lord and members of the other givable."

two bodies (cries of "No!"),- Beuter.

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QUESTION OF RESPONSIBILITY

When complaint was made about the after-effects, he said, the specialist said that he could not hold himself responsible as it was not his proylace to cleanse the drainage tube. On April 12, 1934, Mr. Winsbury-White stated "in a letter that it had been wrongly reported to him that the tube had been removed whereas it had disappeared into the wound.

"This case, the letter continued "raises in my mind this important point. Is it wise for members of the honorary staff to continue to encourage patients who consult them privately to enter a private ward without some kind of assur-

ance by the hospital against mistakes in supervision by the re- sident medical and nursing staff? In the light of my present exper- lence. my answer is No!"

NO SLUMP IN BRITAIN

London, Dec. 7. Speaking at Birmingham to-day, Chancellor of the Exchequer, sald Mr. Reginald McKenna, former

there was no evidence of a slump in Britain, although there were cent cessation of spending by the certain set-backs due to the re- big Industrial concerns in the material prices.. United States, causing a fall fri

British decline in general, nor was But there was no indication of a

this likely to occur as a result of the completion of expenditure nn

rearmament- Reuter.

Mr. Morris sat in the witness- occasions that he had gone on his box while he gave evidence. He knees and "hoped he would be said the pain was so great- on taken.”

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