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·HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1936,

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How Doctors Closed Safety-Pin In Baby's Lung

ONE of the most skilful opera-

tions known to surgery was' performed at King's CollegeTM Hospital, Denmark Hill, S.E., recently.

It was the removal of an open safety pin from the lung of a 21-month-old baby, Thomas Christy, of Crawley-lane, Old ham, Lanes.

War Aircraft In Museum

'PLANE THAT BROUGHT DOWN ZEPPELIN

RELICS FROM THE RHINE

Four aeroplanes and a sea- plane have been transferred store at the. Cardington from Airship base In Bedfordshire to the Imperial War Museum in London..

Together with bombs, machine- Boroplane engines, and Two attempts to remove the pin guns, had previously been made at the equipment of all kinds, they will Royal Manchester Children's Hos-form- now department at Lam- pital, Pendlebury.

beth where the history of the An instrument called a faryngos-Royal Air Force (then the Royal cope is first inserted through the Flying Corps) in the Great War be represented with EX- mouth and down the windpipe. This will

which have come direct has the effect of straightening the hibits windpipe for the passage of a foot-from the battlefield. "Totig" "Bistrument called the bronchas..

cope.

PINHEAD LIGHT

The laryngoscope is lighted by two tiny electric bults which shine down the inside of the tube and form a centre spotlight.

The bronchoscope is separately lighted by a bulb no larger than pinhead. This is fitted on the end of a wire which passes down a groove of the bronchoscope..

centre of the

All of the seroplanes were flown during the War by pilots who per formed deeds of heroism which will Hive in history: Perhaps the long

the new famous of

Murcum must pieces in the Sopwith Comel. It was this machine, piloted by Lieutenant (now Squadron Lender) S. D. Culley, which brought down the Zeppelin "L 85 in flames over the North Sea in August, 1918.

There were no aircraft carriera fitted with flying decks at that time. The instrument is then pushed Consequently the "Sopwith Camel down through the laryngoscope and into the lung, which is located by the bending of the baby's body to the right or left-whichever Jung is sought.

Once this instrument is in place the laryngoscope can be removed by sliding off the top sertion.

INGENIOUS INSTRUMENT The next operation is to close the safety pin by means of a combined set of forceps and a tube on the end of which is a swivelled ring,

This instruncat passes down the centre of the bronchoscope and the forceps. which are two pieces of spring steel opened and closed by the movement of the tube which encases them, grip the head of the pin while the ring is passed beneath it over the body of the pin and pulled to- wards the head, thus closing it.

had to "take off" from a small barge, which was towed by a destroyer. When semething approaching flying speed was reached the aeroplane was released from the sinali craft and went in search of the enemy airship, After its exploit of destruction the machine fell hilo the sea and was rescued by the destroyer.

JUTLAND SEAPLANE

Another interesting exhibit is the 25 h.p. Sunbeam Short seaplane flown by Lieutenant F. J. Rutland at Jutland,

This machine was engaged on re- connaissance duties, and is the only one in existence to have taken part in a major

engagement. There is, Loo, the experimental machine which was used with marked success in the defence of London against air raids,

Another interesting relle of the War was discovered on the Rhine It is then possible to remove the when British troops were in occupa- closed safety-pin through the tabetion of that zune. It is a wheel made without fear of tearing the wall of entirely of wood, with a diameter of the lung.

Best-Dressed Men Lack "Guts"

8ft, and is understood to be one of the landing-wheels of a giant Ger- man aeroplane, Made in a suburb of Cologne before America came into:

that the the War, the story is machine was intended to cross to Amerien for propaganda purposes.

Three huge bombs were madel during the War. They were known as the 3,300lb, bombs, but the occa sion to use them did not arise. They were the largest bombs made by any nation, and were intended for Essen. The Armistice came just in time to spare that town from their devastat ing effects. One of them, now quite harmless, will be on show when the Museum is opened in July.

-RONALD COLMAN

Hollywood, May 25. The perennial "ten best dressed

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The modish English actor deals his own set of sartorial laurels to the "ten most coura- geously dressed men," and bases his decisions on ability to wear Your alarm raiment with gusto

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