1947-02-22 — Page 10

TO

Get Out Of Bed After The Knife

BY HOWARD, W. BLAKESLEE (Associated Press Science

Reporter)

The new near-miracle of sur- gery in getting people out of bed the first or second day after operation and so curing them faster was described to the American College of Sur- Reous recently by four physi- ciano.

The speed-up is partly war bonus. but actually started before the wur. The physicians were Howard Husk, New York; I. S. Havn. Philadelphia; John II. Prawers. Cooperstown, N. and Henry H. Kessler, Newark, N. J.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1947.

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FI LIKE TY

SURPRISE FOR

JUST AS IT IS,

YOU,DARLING!

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MAGIC

THE

HELPED

DESERT

The skill and brains which had diverted and deluded a public of ali 9 were to be employed for the next five years in fooling the Axin.

One day Jusper was still playing in an athustle audience at the Hippodrome; four

by HODGES

TO WIN

WAR

VENERABLE London in- stitution reappeared for

our the Christmas season after an interval of seven years-0 Maskelyne and Devant show. Dr. Powers told of 238 civilian Twice a day, during the whole patients, operated on for appendi- of the school holidays, large weeks later, he was in the Western works which produced the bang and there one of the biggest illusions of citis, hernia and several other ab-

numbers of children and their parents crowded into the neat little Westminster Theatre to be fasehunted by a bewildering two hour display of magic.

and

in-

dominal operations. They got out of bed the first or second day. They were compared with another group of 120, who stayed in bed 12 days. Those who gol up Jeft the hospital five days in a week quick-

It was the mixture as before, as er. They convalescent in half 11

you know it in your childhood, I less than half the time.

They re-

In mine, and my father in quired less morphine, and had less brought up to date with some new gas pains.

They ate

cals lucions ate good meals

ar topical tricka . 643131 132,

They had no reduction in patter.

Once again, shapely wenches op- post-operative pneumonia, but the

disappeared from danger of blood clots after per-peared and ation was much reduced. Strange sumerable boxes, wriggled through a two-inch hole in a steel plate, ly, there was no more weight loss fik, those who stayed in bed than

vanished from a hummock swinging In mid-air or from under a sheet for those who got up and who ate

after rising slowly In the air with more heartily.

visible means of support, and from n cheat merged unscathed pierced with a dozen swords.

Bowls of goldish and parrot cages materialised out of nothing, and classes of water vanished into វា newspaper which, crumpled into a ball, remained perfectly dry. Ropes untied themselves, steel rings flutter up, torn newspapers became whole again, and a wave of a bandierchief

A

Dr. Ravdin told of Chinese soldier, whose heart stopped beat ing durlug an operation.

The sur- geon opened the chest

and mas saged the heart back to life. The operation was flushed unt 18 hours walked inter the Chinese, soldier two milen to bazaar to buy fruit. Dr. Ravdin said that the Chinese have been practising post-operative ambulation-he feclinical name for getting out of bed soon-for a long time-Aswelated Press.

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Transformed sand into steaming cate au lalt.

היער

Presiding, over all these swindles, either as a whimsical Chinese or his

dapper sell,

Jasper Maskelyne, superb showman with a light touch and an immaculate style.

own

Fooling the Axis

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MRS. MARSHALL TRIPPED OVER TRIPLETS

Men. George C. Marshall, wife of the United States' new, Secre tary of State, writing about her life with her milliary husband th an article In Look magazine, tells of an error she made years ago when she was meoling hich army society, for the first time at a formal reception at Fort Bennlog, Georgia.

Marshall, then a colonel, had told her of special friends so whom he wished her to show particular attention when they came down the receiving line.

He knew there were too many of them for her to remember, so he all as they came by he would whisper to her such identifications as "China," "stalt," or "flowers," to identify those with whom he had served in Chins, staff officers and these who had sent flowers to their army post home and should be thanked for their greetings. army wife was the mother of triplets and should be congratulated, One lie suggested,

"I believe F did very well for the first 500 or so," writes Mrs. Marshall. "But after that Marshall's volce seemed to come from far off "China"

"Star" ................ "flowerk.” "Suddenly through the maze Penetrated tho, word "triplets." By that time I did not know triplets from flowers and I said as cracious- ly as possible;

"Ob thank you so much for your lovely triplets.”

Marshall, she admits, “looked astounded."-Associated Press.

Window on the World

The enemy next lind to contend The plece de resistance was re- with 7111 unexpectedly vast In-served for the Battle of Alameln, crease

26-pounders, The which has taken its place with the "Markelyné" guns nut only looked like most famus victories in British his- the real thing, they also "fired" most tory and proved the furning point in realistically.

Jasper says they had our military fortunes in World War the greatest fun preparing the fire: 11. Jasper and his unit produced the Aash. and which were all time. Desert, en officer in the Royal fired elvetrically from a point below A few hours before the battle Engineers in charge of the Deceptive the barret. As a few rend guns were started, enemy, recce aircraft, notert distributed among the enmouflaged that a good deal of the British In the Libyan wilderness, Jasper variety, it is not surprising the enemy

armour was still some 50 miles from had to face the trickest tank a Mus-

the forward area, where it had been kelyne ever had to contend with, fouled.

weren't

always taken in trading for some weeks, and Ger The illusions he was required to When the RAF first asked the unit man Intelligence must have con- perform this time were not on a

to make

cluded that no attack was imminent. dummy landing ground, stage, where mirrors, black velvet, the result was so amateurish that This armour belonged to 19 Carps, trick lighting and subtle apparatus Italina bombers visited it a few hours composed of 1st and 10th Armoured together can work

many seeming after the recte planes had brought Divisions and the New Zealanders. miracles, but in the glare of a mer-back the news--and plastered the aren

As soon as night fell, the whole eller elles sun, humfreds of miles away with bomba! Subsequent experiments of the Corps was transferred to #1 from draperies, and unasaluted by were much more sitccessful. and position near the coast, but when patter part and stage hands.

dawn broke, Stage dummy aircraft also appeared on

enemy airmen the

could magit is usually clearly visible from "runy on which the Germans si record that neither camp nor

"runways", the flies above, but his war wizardry wast

wasted much time and bombs. The armour had budged from their pre-running across the Mediterranean to had above all to be foolproof from unit made sure that the illusion was in

evious

location. They had been taken by the air, where the camera-eye complete, und both

a complete dummy

my camp. "correct" to the last detail, sel up reces aircraft is sharper than the station buildings" best Zeiss binoculars on the ground. burn, most convincingly after a raid.

were made to by the Camouflage Unit during the It is

is now known that the A were deceived

not only about

the time and place, but also the strength of the attack that was unleashed on that memorable night of October 23, 1042.

A

By

PETER

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"aircraft" and

LOVEGROVE

keen.

Keep.

W1

Farouk's Watch

were minar,

New York. William Elle Keyes, than women' is sheer faliney. "Once ship's oiler, was taking n hallday a woman has overcome Initial ner- from Detroit to Florida by pitur. vousness, she is far more confident He checked his safety belt and dozed, and in many enses a better driver," Suddenly he felt something like " he says. thousand bumps." The plane nad

"A BELL FOR BARBANA" crashed through the top of a forest in Virginia. Around him 13 other

Trieste -For more than 100 years and three passengers

of the crew the monks of the 300-year-old church were sitting dead, cremated. He was and monastery

of Barbana

have pulled to safety but he rentembers wanted a bell furge enough to be tute of R. His injuries and burns heard on the rainland-to summon ical Italians to mass. Barbana is an Island off the share from Grado and the monks are the sole Inhabitants. A one-son bell, made of German field process of erection. the monks. for ONE ON THE NOGGI Rome-Andrea Comanducci, 53- year-old Rome restaurant waiter, ro- fused a drink from a whisky bottle offered by CI Frankern Louis, Louls broke the battle over his head and the waiter went to hospital. Louis followed his was beaten up by passers-by and shortly after,

victim to hospital--

arranged

UNARMED COMMANDOS Valetian expectation of the in-guas, is in crease in illegal Jewish immigrant AMGOT Palestine, Royal Marine Commandos are undergoing unarmed combat courses based on experience of the illegals* thetics against boarding parties.

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BIG HEARTED MARIE tour are answered by the statement Paris-Children in a Paris nursery. that many of the modern refinements Saint Quin, have not had their beenk- introduced for the first time in this fast or received ctthes for the last train will subsequently be incor- month. porated into South African State Marie Millot, it Railway coaches for pubile use.

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NO KIDDING

HILE he was practising magic on a scale quite unprecedented in the history of the Magle Circle Jasper Maskelyne did not altogether desert the grease paint and the foot- lights. He

appeared an several Arnold Penn-John Schuffert, aged occasions at Calro's famous Royal 20, wha hired himself out as a baby- Opera House, once at a Command sitter, married the "baby" whom he ap-performance, and he also put on his guarded. She is Dolores Lowman

Chinese show fit Abdin Palace,13 years old.

"BALL AND CHAIN" BETTER delighted that he told him he would Wellington. If you own a car be magician prudently limited himself story. Wellington's chief trafic in- give him anything he asked for. The careful not to let your wife read this to a watch, whereupon the King spector, J. II. R. Seemple, says the

(Continued on Page 12)

thecry that men are better drivers

weeks later, did the Italian, fed the Red Sea caused à considerable where Egypt's King Faronk was no]

In those carly days we were woe-

It was not, incidentally, the only The Navy also asked Jasper to (as of most fully short of tanks

lend a band. For the Senior Service time that the fake camp was used; things) and Field Marsha Wavell the unit built four dummy sub-t made its appearance, in one form wanted to bluff the Italians into be- marines, which appeared in harbour or another, at most of the major lieving we had plenty of armour. every time the genuine subs set of operations fought after Alamein. So the Deceptive Camouflage Unit on a job. They made regular up- got to work in R.E, Workshops at pearances in Beirut, and enemy base. building

noden

"" tanks out agents spying on the port must have of 10-ton

been hard put to it earning their lorries. full-dress rehearsal was held in the Mokattam ills behind Abbossia There was an amusing Incident Barracks outside Cairo, at which the when the first dummy was tried out. C-in-C.

and

General "Dick" It wys decided to hold a trial south Creagh were present

while RAF of Alaga in the Red Sea, and it was atreraft took photographs at varying

a top secret matter that the such heights. The test was completely unit omitted to inform the Brigadier

The successful, even the generals being in charge of the area. unable to pick out the genuine article pearance of an unsuspected sub in included in the parade.

While flap-15 was assumed to be a Jap Patrols and all sorts of measures Staff which had silpped past our

near the Egypt-Libyan frontier tacked Graziani's massed us were hurriedly devised to cope with this new menace. Jasper told me. Bouth

his face still burns when he recalis 4 thin gallant little column advanced along

the rocket he received from the irate the coust senior oficer when the truth from the cast, the bulk of its discovered! mechanised equipment made in Calro," and the Italians withdrew hurriedly back into Libya and away to their doom south of Benghazi.

When proved campaign,

he's ven the making the Churchilis Shermans look like

famous Desert Rats of the Fih at- ou only armoured division, the

the

Trick Lighting

was

our supply position Im-TRICK lighting, one of the methods later in the Middle East

unit

by which many stage Illusions are effected, was next pressed into

service. Twenty-one huge search- al

Hights were installed at various the Lapoints along the Suez Canal-beams 10-tonners.at varying heights and colours noti

was

task

and

the

was а much more fcult proposition because

marka from

the...

only dazzled enemy bombers caught characteristic.

loft in their rays but also provided our night tighters hovering above with Aund

tanks perfect silhouette of the visitors. traffic, and

plainly visible from the air. This was solved fairly lights," first on lorries and then on

This was followed by d

"dozzle satisfactorily by fixing strips of metal tanks. This "artificial moonlight" to the back of the "10-tonners" which obliterated track marks and left a but also enabled infantry to make not only confused enemy gunners, rather wide trail, such na might have ground undetected. Lorries been made by heavy double tyres. these searchlights were spread over

got to know of the duchemy soon

with

As the desert battles awung back-a considerable area, the lights beingt wards and forwards with the arrival electrically controlled from a cen-

Afrika Korps, the

tral switch, 40 that by the tanks, which by then were being mass-

enemy Runners had taken a bead on one light, It would be switched produced, but this knowledge proved of little consolation

off and another would appear. a few as they were quite unable to distinguish between

hundred yards away. This dévice Cairo

wns used extensively in the desert, fake and steel reality, and and by British and U.S. troops in regularly "brought it.".

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