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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 28,

DOCTORS SAVE LIVES

MEDICAL MIRACLES

IN

A

English

First Operation

a Southgate convalescent home a youth whose body was crushed almost to a pulp in a road accident slowly travels the path to complete recovery after eight opera. tions.

At Deal a seven-months-old baby girl chuckles happily again at home after swallowing a brooch and being for hours under constant threat of death.

Here are the stories of the two medical miracles:

Douglas Tucker, a 19-years-1 usual-she hardly ever cries). Can- not find reason until they see Pat's old Post Office employee, of baby brooch has gone, and Pat is Everington-rond, Muswell Hill, rushed to hospital,

was cycling to work in Holloway-

11.30 .. An X-ray photograph road rome months ago when he was] shows the brooch has reached Pat's run over by the heavy trailer of a stomach,

motor lorry, and the lower part of) his body was crushed. At first i was feared that he would not live to reach the operating table. A blood transfusion from his mother was given, and some weeks after he to the hospital had been admitted the operation which saved his life was performed.

The crushed and shattered bones

organs of his! were set and the crushed pelvis were rampletely re- arranged, an intricate task for the eight opera- doctors. Altogether Uons were performed on him.

It was the first time the operation had been performed lu England, and it had only been done twice before in the United States,

"A MIRACLE"

Tucker's father told the Sunday Dispatch: "It was a miracle.

"We feared, the worst when he was taken to the hospital, but he is com- ing on wonderfully, and the doctors tell me that his recovery is likely to be complete. We owe his life to the hospital."

At the Deal Hospital it was long odds against recovering the brocch without operating on baby Patricia.

Because she was so young the doctors decided noi to operate unless I became imperative. They put her on a special diet and then, by X-ray photographs, watched progress the brooch's

through her body.

HOUR-BY-HOUR DRAMA Here is what happened during the four dramatic days that was endangered:

1 p.m. After consullation it is de-) cided to start Pat on a diet.

Tursday, 6 p.m. Another X-ray shown brooch in a horizontal posi- lion.

Wednesday, After 14 hours a nursel triumphantly brandishes the brooch! And here are some of the odds to against which the cloctors had (ght.

IT DID NOT HAPPEN On entering Pal's throat it was 10-1 against it passing safely through! the gullet and not blocking up thei windpipe, causing death from chok- log.

It was also odds against the pla being closed-it had brooch been fastened on to Pat's bib, and; she must have opened it to get it off.

with

It was another 10-1 against the broach, considering its size in com- //

Pat's tiny Internal!

through her parison tubes, pussing safely esophagus Into the stomach.

of the Baby

BY

This is a new camera study of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Mrs. Chamberlain, taken in London. With the possibility of, War In Europe becoming emphasised, Mr. Chamberlain may become the Em- pire's next war leader,.

HE ESCAPED FROM THE

"ISLE OF HELL"

With the French Government's decision not to send And within a few hours

a Parisian's time she was brought home Patricia nearly did it again-this any more convicts to Devil's Island comes

terrible story of 15 years spent in the penal settlement in time with a teaspoon.

Guiana.

Nonchalant Lion Unwanted

After four desperate attempts to escape Rene Belbenoit, convict No. 46,635 on the roll of dishonour, fought his way back at the fifth attempt to civilisation and landed in the United States with an oilcloth-covered of the package containing 301b. of closely-written manuscript. His book "Dry Guillotine" (Jonathan Cape: 12s. 6d. net) des- cribes horrors even worse than those suffered by Dreyfus.

were moking a dash for liberty was He ved with men who were driven crazy by solltary confinement, wrecked on an island and they were The first escape faked because the driven to cannibalism. boat in which he and other prisoners

Pittsburg, Cai. manager Roy Ludington, Crafts Shows, would like to get rid of a nonchalant lion. It is no good Pat's for show purposes because the more he is prodded and the more blank cartridges that are fred, the meeker zoos refused Sunday, 10.30 am.. Mr. and Mrs. he gels, Surrounding Bridle hear Pat sercaming (Most up-to accept the beast.

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THROWN TO THE SHARKS

In their wanderings through the jungle they nearly starved to death and they reached that stage when one of them had to be killed-for food,

One of the fugitives, a maimed ex- soldier, was battered to death and parts of his body were cooked over afre kindled with his own wooden

leg.

The life crushes all human feeling out of the convicts and when they die the bodies "are taken out to sca at sunset where they are thrown to the walling sharks that flash their broad fins around the death boat."

For the first time in any story about Devil's Island a woman ap- pears.

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Romiley (Cheshire). William Cernall, thirty-six-year- old bank manager, found shot with his wife and two children at their home at Romiley recently, had spent thousands of pounds in the last three income of £14 n years, with an week.

Villagers believed he had inherited £40,000. This was not true.

Though his home was only a few hundred yards from the village shopa he always ordered a car to take hitn there.

Once he sent a car seven miles to the local Manchester for sole, as Bshmonger's supply had not arrived. He ordered asparagus out of season at more than 4s. per lb.

Becently the family used a black car, driven by a chauffeur in a blue uniform.

When red car was bought, a new uniform to match the colour of the

car was ordered.

Cornall entertained

friends

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lavish dinners in Manchester's most expensive hotel, where he lived for several weeks recently while home was redecorated.

nis

A £50 gas fire was installed, along with concealed lighting and a blue light in the form of a seagull in the children's bedroom.

STRANGE WAR ADVENTURE Twenty Years In Turkistan

PRISONER'S LONG EXILE

Albert Gere, Hungarian prisoner of war, has returned to his native place at Budapest from Turkistan, where he has been living for 20 years.

In 1910, at the age of 21, Gere was adjutant in the Austro-Hungarian army, reports the Budapest paper Az

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the Brusilov-fensive, and with the other Hungarian prisoners was set the Murman to work at building railways.

Gere managed to escape from his Cossack gaolers by jumping on to a grazing horse, and after wandering for 18 months he arrived in northern Turkistan, and became farm servant to a Tarlar woman called Olecaka Pavliovna, whose husband had been killed in the war,

LOVE WITH A VENGEANCE

Gere had the misfortune to win the love of the Tartar widow, who in- sisted on marrying him. Though he became master of her Innd, his life was in perpetual danger. Olecska wore a revolver as an ornament, and used it at the slightest sign of insub- ordination.

For 20 years Gere ved among the Tartars, Kirghiz, Manchus, Moham- medans who inhabit the plains round the river Syr. These tribes, he states, have isolated themselves from Beibenoit became Luter to the the outside world by murdering the Commandant's young daughter, but Russian officials who were sent from one evening the father discovered time to time for purposes of requisi- they had been out for a stroll_to-tioning and inspection.

gether, and as a punishment Bel- Their chief occupation is the cul- benolt was sent to the "Island of

tivation of fruit, which is carried to Hell"-"the loathsome, the cursed the markets of Taskend and Samar-

detestable" Island of and

Salot Joseph, "unparalleled on earth for inflicting pain and slow death."

THE DRY GUILLOTINE Here he suffered the tortures of solitary confinement. The convicts call it "La guillotine seche"--the dry guillotine.

"For an hour in the morning the prisoner is taken into, this silent court where he can walk around in solitude, then he is taken back to his cell.

kand on camels' backs and the care of their wonderful gardens in which melons and apples are trained along pergolas.

WOUNDED

Two years ago Gere again broach- ed the subject of his return to Hungary, and was severely "punish- ed" with a large kitchen knife by his Tartar wife. Fur months he lay be- tween life and death in the hospital of fuskend, but finally recovered to hear that his wife had died of mataria.

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Last Christmas Gere sold the land that he had inherited from Olecska, and set out on his journey home,; He which lasted several months. brought with him a treasure destined to be presented to the Emperor wooden chest Franels Joseph, which twelve Hungarian prisoners had carved during 20 years with characteristic types of the people of Turkistan and the strange plants and of flowers growing there.

"It is the only time when he can see the sky. The rest of the day he Ilves in dim light from dark to dawn-blackness an dsilence. He is alive in a tomb. He has no work, nothing to read, nothing to write, en -nothing to occupy himselt with.. At night he dreams on his piece of board

Belbenoil's last attempt to escape

22 months succeeded after desperate adventures.

five starved and

fugitivos reached the const in an Indian canoe after being tossed about the ocean for 17 days, and he eventually cross- ed the American frontier in rūgs,' still elinging to his all-cloth covered story.

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It was only when Gere reached his native place that he learned of the Emperor's death, and that he himself hod been declared dead nearly a de cade ago. AN

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