1941-05-23 — Page 20

HEALTH BEGINS AT BREAKFAST!

Dally orange juice

helps all the family

Ammita's diet too Jew in vitamins and minerals, says U. 5. Deparment

of Agriculture

Hardly one family in two gera all the vitamins and minerals needed for the best of health. More of the bright, colorful foods should be eaten, experts say.

An Bounes glass of fresh Sunkist Orange juice has all the vitamin C you normally need each day. It also supplies vitamini 4 Bị and G and the minerals calcium, phosphorus and frem. "Yes, health begins at breakfast!

Sunkite is bringing you the pick of California's best ever crop of summer oranges. Wooderfully juicy! Plentiful in all sizes! Buy lo quiotikica for economy

Copyright, 1940, California Fruit Grewers Kächenge

Sunkist

CALIFORNIA ORANGES

Best for Juice–and Every use !

Sola Agonis: HANG TAI & FUNGS CO., Kayamally Bldg., H.K.

. OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE

· 'UPACO® $

PURE BLOOD PERFECT HEALTH

"The Blood is the Stream of Life.”

IMPURE BLOOD is the root cause of Skin. Diseases, Bolls, Eczema, Rast.es, Ulcers, Sores, Painful Joints, Rheumatic com- plaints. Unless the blood is cleansed of Impurities and polsons, the arteries and internal organs are damaged, causing premature old age. The direct way to health is by purifying the blood with Clarkes Blood Mixture.

In LIQUID of

TABLET

TJO

Chemists and feares.

Ask for ad ko para

you get ** Clerken Blood Mixture"

CLARKES

MŰADOB PURIJVING MEDEŽENA

BLOOD MIXTURE

Friday, HONGKONG TELEGRAPH May 23, 1941

STUDEBAKER

1941 TRUCKS

MATCHLESS FUEL SAVERS

NEW Economy NEW Style

NEW Comfort

NEW Performance

Full Particulars on Application

Inviting Your Enquiries

HONGKONG HOTEL

Stubbs Road

GARAGE

The

Phone 27778-0

In the long, brave story of bombed Britain too little has been heard of our Doctors. They are heroes. But the discipline of their profession imposes silence. Here, for the first time,

A DOCTOR TELLS HIS

STORY

of all that happened in one dreadful night of bombing. His name and the location of his hospital are not published

I

HAD just finished an operation and was on my way down to the surgeons' dining-room for dinner when the warning siren sounded. It was about seven. We get everything in readiness as soon as the Alert goes, but we don't go to our action stations until the sound of gun-fire or bombs dropping tells us that danger is im-.

Hongkong Telegraph. minent.

Friday, May 23, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 28815

I hoped to have enough time to enjoy my meal, but I had just dipped into my soup when I heard the first whishing downward rush of a bomb. We'd had occa- Sional raids before, but somehow I had a. premonition that this was going to be a bad one, and as.I went to the bears the indication Ur is received in Wall to switch on the yellow action-station lights through-

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph"

is used by the llesgitong Telegraph to under the provisions of the Telecommuni-

indicate news which is richly copyright

cations Ordinance, 1930. Such newe KE

Itongkong on the date of publication by

the United Press Associations, who - out the hospital, I remember saying to the other sur-

servo all rights and forbid republications, wither wholly or in part without previous Rrrangement.

JAPAN'S DILEMMA

EVER since it becume obvious that

Japan could never gain a suficiently decisive military victory in Chica to make it possible for her to nubleve the subjugation of that country, economists and politicians have been speculating as

as to what length of

manufactures she runs

supply.

excbe that

imports in

sources

?

geons: "Well, fellows, I feel we're going to get it to- night."

other surgeons to their theatres; to him they found him cringing My own action station is to patrol the wards and cor- I took the main one on the in bed and muttering in English. riders just to see that everything is shipshape. I walked elaborate preparations

second floor. We had made "Too much bomb-too long! through the maternity ward from the dining-room and classifying the patients as they noticed that all the patients had been placed under their came in, but we didn't have time beds, with their mattresses over the top of them.

mas tree.

nurse

The

about Too much bomb!"

recover

plosive crashed into it and ex-

handled

We couldn't work rapidly.

Y this time the win-

Bdows in my operating

We

scene, It looked far worse

very few eases where she would be candiary homes, like lights sooner had the last nurse left The

alternative of twinkling on a mammoth Christ- the building than a heavy ex- about 40.

other theatres tourist traffle nor foreign investments Half a dozen small fires had ploded on the thick concrete top Wounds are very tricky in this toe on every inch of space. The

to no more than 50% already started in the hospital floor. That was our first direct war of bombs. The majority of

The

Results to Japan would be

speint

and

As

in the ride was those on hand in the hospital,

Poor Child

Herod, the king, in his

raging, Charged he hath this day His men of might, in his

own sight,

cases

nurses threw

were

own

or

not EL

its

for detailed examinations. All time Japan can maintain economic

we could do was to divide them stability sumeicnt to pursue her

TURSES were wheeling ining the roof the day before and those requiring immediate a bitter cold wind was blowing roughly into resuscitation cases theatre had been blasted out and announced pulley of expansion in the

other beds down from had put his foot through a surgery. Pacific. It has been dificult to the top floors and lining them rotten section and the hole had

across the room. It was too cold obtain a true picture, but there are certain facts available which assist along the ground-floor corridors, not been repaired. A

resuscitation

to uncover the patients and too patients Japan, by throwing in her lot with we haven't any underground ridor happened to look up and oxygen to help them

reaching a reasonable conclusión, away from flying glass. Since passing along the top-floor cor- given

were whisked into bets and cold to operate, for I was shiver- electric blankets and ing from head to foot. The win- Axis Powers, runs the risk of being rooms, that's the best protce- saw the incendiary perched on from the shock of their wounds. also been blown out, so

dows of the second theatre had deprived of imports which are essen- tial even for her normal peace time tion we can offer.

the edge of the hole, industries such

Iron steel, I went on up three lights of

The immediate surgery cases were forced to move into the salt

She gave the alarm and the were divided among the three round-floor theatre, the win- petroleum, non ferrous mela

stairs and stepped out on the fire was put out before it could theatres. metals, and raw materials for her textile flat roof of the main building, get hold, but we decided to 15 operations throughout the from blast by an outside brick I suppose I did about dows of which were protected (except silk). Also runs on even greater risk of I could hardly believe my eyes, evacuate the building and bring night, some of them more intri- being deprived of market which All around the hospital grounds all the nurses into the main sec- cate than others, but they came than the descriptions I've heard wall. It was an amazing provides foreign exc

hat en- glowed literally hundreds of in- tion. Again we were lucky. No too fast for me to keep count, of the front-line casualty clear ables her to pay for

Japan has cow neither

ing stations of the World War. Patients were lying head to and her gold and foreign exchange reserves amount to

nurses were marvellous. With of value of her-annual imports out-buildings; flames were licking hit. side the ven bloc One

hurricane of through the roof of the laundry About 8.30 another shower of injuries-to-limbs. third of

lacerations

lamps and hand „Japanese exports goes to America

torches they moved about among.. rica-and-another-blaze-was-going-on incendiaries started fires on top and almost another third to the the. roof of the emergency store- of the men's medical ward, the power went off but I continued water. That was about all we About midnight the electric and giving them little sips of the patients, comforting them could not be found it these markets room next door to it. From the women's medical ward and the with the operation I was on by could do for them. British Empire. Alternative markets were closed, especially for textile roof the hospital superintendent eye ward. With the other sur- the light from two small bulbs manufactures which make up more was shouting instructions to the geons, the orderlies and nurses, run by our

half the value of Japan's export hospital's auxiliary fire crew and even some of the able male lighting system. By this time I windows had been blasted out, It was bitterly cold through- emergency but the hospital. Most of the down below and before long patients, I ran across the open was feeling pretty shaky. I walls had been blown down and disastrous.

Raw silk stands in a category by they had their hoses going on space between the main build- admit. tself for one third of Agrarian house- both buildings.

ing and these wards and began holds of Japan depend solely or

door remained in I wasn't exactly frightened, frame, we watched, however, transferring the patients, partially on this one export 95% of

We issued extra but the sound of a bomb whist- blankets to all the patients, but which would be cut off by closure flames. leaped from the roof of of market of British Empire and U.S. the main storeroom. We were

Hing down from 5,000 to 6,000ft they kept coming in so fast that economic effects of

of pretty worried by this time for

above you isn't a comfortable we didn't have time to make the great fall in silk prices in 1931-32 fires in both storerooms might

one. Every few. minutes the them comfortable. wih not haye been forgotten by nny of the Japanese.

At that time the destroy all our supplies except

and the anaesthetist

By 4 a.m. I couldn't keep a' distress

themselves, under the steady hand. I had taken largely the cause of

by the just enough for a normál night's Japanese military party in power in work.

roared down. I didn't like to soup since lunchtime the day operating table as the bombs nothing to eat except a sip of 1031; but now the Japanese people realise that only result has been to and went down to check up on 1. left them fighting the fires

follow them, but every time one before. Then our, emergency whistled uncomfortably close I lighting failed just as I was in the reception building where the

instinctively pulled the knife the middle of an operation. We casualties would arrive.

away and ducked sideways. quickly rigged

Whenever I began to think mobile headlamp to

auto- too much of the bombs, how- set and I finished the job. a battery ever, I thought of the patients Bonibs were still lying all over the hospital, just down, but by a great miracle crashing trusting to luck that they would the only casualty was a 'soldier not be hit. Up on the top floor who was lending us plaints that restrictions imposed on to give each incoming patient a

a hand. of the gynaecological ward we While he was crossing a court- supplies are a a deliberate attempt to preliminary examination before

had 15 women whom beds couldn't move. strangle the economie life of Japan. tagging him for the type of

we yard a bomb fell directly on The only restrictions imposed are treatment required in the wards outside while the rest of us their beds through it-all with

They stayed in him and blew him to bits. those rendered neces

necessary by our own war needs and war economy and by or operating rooms.

our out a complaint, although a the hostlie attitude of Japan who

them bomb that smashed the staff I had just about completed my shoulders and carried attempts to supply our enemies with inspection when the real fun pickaback across to the main quarters next door covered them the most welcome down I have over raw material which we are deter-started. First an incendiary fell hall. There wasn't a murmur with glass' from their windows seen only to be marred when war- mined shall be cut off. Therefore rertain

ore on the roof of the nurses' home. from restrictive

one of them, although and plaster from the ceiling. dens rushed in to report that they necessary, but, ample supplies or Fortunately, a workman exam- some must have been pretty In another wing we had to had found a delayed-action bomb recessary materials are still being rc-

badly hurt with the jogging we leave a dozen fracture cases. buried just outside the ground-door ceived by the Japanese, The Japan-ambitions in the East leaving China'gave them.

operating theatre. All the patients All night long they lay on their in the main building within range ese assertion that these moderate and exclusive legitimate restrictions would justify surdity of both these calculations is

lebensraum. The ab- Providenco must have been backs, unable to move, hung up of the bomb had to be evacuated in- aggressive action against Great self-evident. In fact, Japan would watching over us. As I reached on their frames, and watched mediately. Britain is a characteristically futile share the fate of all other dupes who the door of the main building the Jerry planes cruising about But no sooner was this done than The pain they inflict is insignificant Germany would dominate China and back a bomb screamed down hole that had been blown out of hospitals

at inimidation in advance. and trusted Hitler's word while with the last patient on my the fire-lit sky through a huge we got orders to evacuate the whole but Japon is alarmed because they the Far East.

full of patients to other in neighbouring towns, have demonstrated to the business. These truths have now begun to and plunged into the men's the wall.

The ambulance and stretcher man, and industrial world in Japan the dawn upon business and Industrial Ward. senselessness of the polley which world of the Japanese who realise

The morale was stupefying, who had been on their feet and out the Japanese Government has elected that aggression is leading them not to stratchers and blankets along there was not ono cry of fear, give that afternoon, the last om- We put the patients on Throughout the packed hospital long, worked hour after hour. By in the debris-littered streets all night to pursue.

The economy of Japan is much that Prosperity but to starvation. Bitter the main-floor corridors, which not one sign of panic. We bulance rolled away from the doors,

sacrifices. Involved In a prosperous future can only be nation's

adjusting were already so crowded that didn't have a case of hysteria all and I sat down to any first meal in trado and industry to assured

maintaining triendly botalitarian basis demanded by a wo had to tread carefully to get night long.

28 houra. relations and free intercourse with war economy were accepted so long from one end of the hospital to

We were without the U.S.A.

and British Empire. x. It was possible to hope that some the other. Then the casunities came from a wounded' German worth of supplies when the store

The only word of complaint we had lost hundr started to come in from outside. afrinan, who'd been in the hos- rooms were fired and were certainly upon this

allow her trade relations with market of world;

pital for a few days. He was on didn't feel that our job was finished. not in shape to operate, but we self to be drawn within the orbit of but the end of China Incident recodes

prospect and the Axis Powers. The belief of the even further in the distance and

the top floor of the main build- That night wo had an emergency Japanese Government is that Ger- beyond that now looms spectre of a

From then on every-ing and I noticed that no one casualty station set up in the mur many will defeat the British Empire broach with the democracies and the and America and that a victorious ruinous effect that this would have like the action in a speeded up life, to bring him downstairs, moats boiling in a pan on the fre, Germany will relinquish ker upon Japanese › economy..

film. I remember assigning the When the orderlies finally won't wait

Just in case Jerry paid us another s

DRESSCASESC tead them into long drawn out misery

TEA DANCES

IN THE

HONGKONG HOTEL

EVERY

SATURDAY & SUNDAY

FROM 5 P.M. TILL 7 P.M.

WITH

NICK KORIN & HIS SWING BAND

FEATURING

JANET NODÉ

$1.00 PER PERSON

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

of China Incident and into still greater danger of a breach with Em otre and U.S. In comparison with the rula that would overtake her if she were completely cut off from markets of the British Empire and U.S.A., the distress

ress that Japan suffer. ed ther and suffering now is certainly insignificant,

the

No truth Iles, in the Japanese come

by

measures

are

THE

THE reception oflicer,

surgeon who had wait-

ed night after, night for just such an emergency, was ready

Joder, her present Govern- day China incident would be settled.

.

All young children to

slay. That woe is me, poor child

for thee!

And ever morn the day, For this parting neither say

nor sing.

Ry, by, lully, lullay. -Anonpinotis, 15th Century.

The nurses wheeled the

hoisted patients on

*

up

an

A

THEN daylight Anally brought an end to the rald, it was

and steam. of pounds

Page 20Page 21