1938-08-23 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

TUESDAY,

DOCTORS SAVE LIVES BY MEDICAL MIRACLES

IN

A First English

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.

Cun-

Here are the stories of the two medical miracles: Douglas Tucker, a 19-years- | usual-she hardly ever cries). old Post Office employee, of not find reason until they see Pat's baby brooch has gone, and Pat is Everington-road, Muswell Hill, rushed to hospital.

was cycling to work in Holloway- road some months ago when he was run over by the heavy trailer of a motor Jurry, and the lower part of hin body was crushed. At "hrst it was feared that he would not Ilve to reach the operating table. A blood transfusion from his mother was given, and some weeks after he admitted to the hospital the operation which saved his te was performed.

had been

The crushed and shattered bones were set and the organs of his crushed pelvis were completely re- arranged, an intricate task for the doctor. Altogether eight opera- tions were performed on him.

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It was the first time the operation had been performed in Englund, and it had only been done twice befurn 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."

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

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

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11.30 a.. An X-ray photograph shows the brooch has reached Pat's stomach.

1 p.m. After consultation it is de- elded to start Pat on a diet.

Tuesday, 6 p.m. Another X-ray shows brooch in a horizontal posi- ton.

Wednesday. After 16 hours a nurse) triumphantly brandishes the brooch! And here are some of the odds bainst which the doctors had tol night.

IT DID NOT HAPPEN

On entering Pat's thront it was 10-1 against it passing safely through the gullet and not blocking up the windpipe, causing death from chok- ing.

It was also odds against the! bronch pin being closed-it and been fastened on to Pat's blb, and she must have opened it to get it OfT.

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

Türs

"ISLE OF HELL"

It was another 10-1 against the

internal brooch, considering its size in com- // parison with Pal's tiny tubes, passing safely through her esophagus into the stomach.

And within a few

hours of the

I

With the French Government's decision not to send time she was brought home Baby

Parisian's me with a teaspoon, Patriein nearly did it again--this any more convicts to Devil's Island comes

terrible story of 15 years spent in the penal settlement in 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 Pittsburg, Cal. Roy Ludington,

of the package containing 30lb. of closely-written manuscript. manager Crafts Shows, would like to get rid

His book "Dry Guillotine" (Jonathan Cape: 12s. 6d. net) des- Here is what happened during the of a nonchalant ilon. It is no good cribes horrors even worse than those suffered by Dreyfus. four dramalic days that Pat's lefor show purposes because the more

He lived with men he is prodded and the more blank

were were making a dash for liberty was was endangered:

cartridges that are fired, the meeker driven crazy by solitary confinement, wrecked on an island and they were Sunday, 10.30 am.. Mr. and Mrs. he gets, Surrounding zoos refused The first escape failed because the driven to cannibalism. Bridle hear Pat screaming (Most un-to accept the beast.

boat in which he and other prisoners

HOUR-BY-HOUR DRAMA

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure"

First patient:

"I was a fool. The sign read DANGER, but I took a chance.“

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"I haven't taken 'ASPIRIN' in time.

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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 a fre kindled with his own wooden leg.

The life crushes all human feeling out of the convicts and when they dle the bodies "are taken out to sen at sunset where they are thrown to the waiting sharks that flash their broad ns around the death boat."

For the first time in any story about Devil's Island a woman op-

pears.

AUGUST

23, 1938.

RECEIVED

£700 A Year

SPENT

Thousands

of Pounds

Romiley (Cheshire).

thirty-six-year-

William Cornull,

old bank manager, found shot with his wife and two children at their home al Romiley recently, had spent thousands of pounds in the last three £14 a years, with an income of week.

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

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

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

Recently the family used a black ear, driven by a chauteur in a blue uniform.

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

car was ordered.

Cornall

lavishy

friends entertained

to

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

nia

blue

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

STRANGE WAR ADVENTURE Twenty Years In Turkistan

PRISONER'S LONG EXILE

Albert Gerc, 1) llungarian prisoner of war, has returned

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boon living for 20 years.

In 1916, at the age of 21, Gere was adjutant in the Austro-Hungarian army, reports the Budapest paper Az

Est. lie was taken prisoner during HAVE YOU SEEN

the Brushlov offensive, and with the other Hungarian prisoners was set to work at bullding the Murman 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 furm servant to a Tartar woman called Oleeska 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 land, 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 lived among the Tartars, Kirghiz, Manchus, Moham- medans who inhabit the plains round the river Syr. These tribes, he atates, have Isolated themselves from the outside world by murdering the Russian officials who were sent from time to time for purposes of requisi- tioning and inspection.

Belbenoit became tutor to the Commandant's young daughter, but one evening the father discovered they had been out for a stroll to- gether, and as a punishment Del-

Their chief occupation is the cul- benoit was sent to the "Island of tivation of fruit, which is carried to Hell"the loathsome, the cursed the markets of Taskend and Samar and detestable" Island of Saint

Joseph, "unparalleled on earth for kund on camels' backs and the care of their wonderful gardens in which inflicting pain and slow death."

melons and apples are trained along pergolas.

THE DRY GUILLOTINE

Here he suffered the toriures of

WOUNDED

Two years ago Gere again broach- solitary confinement. The convicts ed the subject of his return to call it "La guillotine seche" the dry Hungary, and was severely "punish-

guillotine.

ed" with a large kitchen knife by his Tartor wife. For months he lay be

"For an hour in the morning the prisoner is taken into this silent tween life and death in the hospital court where he can walt around Jn solitude, then he is taken back to his celi,

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

of

Belbenoit's last attempt to escape succeeded after 22 months desperate adventures.

of Tuskend, but faully recovered to hear his wife had died of molarta

He

Lact Christmas Gere sold the land that he had inherited frain Olecska, and set out on his journey home, which lasted several months. brought with him a treasure destined to be presented to the Emperor Francis Joseph, 27 wooden chest which twelve Hungarian prisoners had carved during 20 years with characteristic types of the people of Turkiston and the strange plants and flowers growing there.

was only when Gere reached his native place that he learned of the En.peror's death, and that he himself had been declared dead nearly a de

lie and Ave starved fugitives reached the coast in an Indian canoe after being tossed about the ocean for 17 days, and he eventually cross- | endo ago. ed the American frontier in raus, stil! clinging to his oll-clothi covered

story.

Old Age Programmes Grow

:

Hunchbacks Through Loot

Los Gatos, Cal. Richard Leibfritz, local store- keeper, has become a complete seep- Sacramento, Cal. lle when it comes to hiinchbacks. The next legislature will have four It developed that the "hunch" on one old nge annuity bills before I as hunchback who left his

store last amendments to the constitution. year was a stolan shirt from They are

the California Pension counters and this year investigation Plan, California Retirement Annuity of a similar "hunchback" whom he Act, California Co-operative Welfare saw walking out developed that the Act and the Citizens Annuity Act, "hunch" was a pair of stolen trousers,

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