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Wife May Spend Years Only Half Alive

SHE HEARS, DOES A.J. Cronin Tells

NOT TALK

(By Mary Welsh)

Doctors at Middlesex Hospital believe that Mrs. Ivy Braith, twenty-two-year-old mother who

thousands of cells and fibres in her brain might be causing the semi- consciousness.

Nerve specialists who have studied

fell from an Oxford-street store the slim, dark-haired patient have roof to a sun-blind on August 14, voiced the possibility that, although semishe hears consclously, her sub-con- may live for years in

sclouz brain refuses to allow her to conscious coudklon.

respond. A normal person frequent-

It is though that, just as an invalidly does not listen unless he wants to who stays long in bed forgets how reply, they point out.

Mrs. Smith'a food now consists of to walk, Mrs. Smith has forgotten

01 tube how to talk. She has spoken no citrated milk fed through word since her fall.

every two hours.

She makes no response of any kind to noises or to the daily pleas of her should young husband that she speak,

It is believed that her fall thrust out of line the "sound track" or nervous co-ordination of her brain.!

It is also doubtful whether her! hearing faculties are functioning. Lately there have been

Nurses to Strike

New York, Dec. 1. Dr. A J. Cronin, author of The Citadel,

hero arriced to-day in the Queen Mary. He is going to Hollywood, where his best-seller is to be insed,

British nurses, he said, should follow the example of Americans by forming unions and striking for better conditions.

He attacked the "health racket" of unnecessary operations and added:

the

"The rich can get paeumonia serum when it is needed; but can the poor get it? Certainly not!

"Socialised medicine is the only cure for present abuses,”

"Japan is on the Road to Singapore”

other General Sir Ian Hamilton, speaking

evidences that Mrs. Smith's nervous at a dinner of the Royal Scottish CHINESE BULLION

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Her Corporation Bystem is still seriously upset. muscles are in a constant state of declared that Japan was on the road tension, so that if her hands arel

Britain's Far East base. to Singapore,

he said. snap

Nothing less than moved they tremble and then

could hol

hold up

THE EITDerdvance. back to their original position.

"How monstrous it will seem to Only for her first three weeks in hospital was Mrs. Smith totally un- posterity that throughout 1937 the a bone conscious, it was revealed yesterday. European nations should have been During that period she lay, quiet as quarrelling like dogs over death, the pupils of her wide-open about Spain, which has not the brown eyes not focussed, making no smallest intention of allowing herself

to be gnawed by any outsider.

The latest consignment, consisting For response to any sound or touch.

"And this at a moment when we ought to be having military conversa-of several hundred tons, arrived at tlons between the general staffs-not Tilbury on Friday in the P. and O. of France and Britain alone, but of liner Cathay. Other consignments Europe.

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Suddenly one morning it was dis covered that she had regained semi-

"The Emperor is marching from consciousness. One of her attend- ants passed a hand in front of her the island of the Rising Sun. His eyes, and she blinked. That was a road is clearly marked-Hankow, day of reloleing for her husband, flongkong, Singapore, Burma, Assam, who has seen her every day since she was carried into the hospital.

On that night no one in the hosp!- tal thought Mrs. Smith would live. her breathing was so faint. All that could be done was to stitch up the wound in the back of her head-now completely healed-and Inject blood, saline, and glucose into her veins.

CX-

Her condition would be tremely difficult to correct through surgery, I was told. Any of the

Bengal.

can

"Nothing less than Europe definitely held up that army.

"Some may think 1 speak wildly. Inspector- I do not. In 1913, as

put a General of Overseas Forces, brigade on board ship at Singapore,

"I sailed out of sight of land and no one knew where I had gone. Xa

the small hours I came back and captured the island with, I regret to say, the loss by drowning of two Sepoys of the 1st Brahmins.

are on their way.

An official of an Eastern bank said

that the bullion is sent from Shanghai via Hongkong.

"The consignments have been ar- riving almost weekly. The bullion is packed in boxes each contaning 3,500 Chinese dollars."

"My report naturally comes under the Omelal Secrets Act, but the facts were a perfectly open secret,

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