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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16411, 3 January 1919, Page 7

"I have romoved the human lung from tho chest cavity with forceps, tied its bleeding blood vessels, cleansed its outer surface, and. while still holding it in my hands and manipulating i fc 35 you would a handkerchief, I have run thin pieces of gauze up its tracts. Feeling my way carefully along its Avails I have removed a bullet or shell fragment. Then, after suturing the aperture, I have placet! the respiratory organ back into the cavity of the chest. In two-thirds of tho cases upon which. I have- so operated the patient lived." This was one of many amazing statements made to 1200 medical officers of the American Army at Camp Greenleaf by Colonel Pierre Duval, of tho French Reserve Medical Corps early in November. Colono] Duval was on a visit to America with ton of the foremost surgeons of England, France, and Italy; to attend the Inter-Allied "War Conference of Surgeons. There is a party of French manufacturers now in Lancashire placing orders for some millions sterling "worth of looms to ropliice the looms destroyed or stolen by the uermans (says a London paper of October 29tli). UI course, these orders can only be filled with the consrut of the Government, as all loom manufacturers are not# controlled. At any rate, the Frenchmen .intend to -get their orders on thfl books first. The Japanese also have agents travelling through the conntrv buying up looms, no matter how old. at prices three and four tirne< higher than those obtained before th< war. The Jap 6ince the war has already secured a large part of thq market in the Far East in the cbcapej cotton cloths, and he is now no d'jubj making a bid for a still larger shar<| of the cotton trade that was onco till monopoly of Lancashire.