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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 622, 27 September 1909, Page 8

On tho arrival of tho Cunard liner Maurcy tania at New York tho news was made known of. a daring operation . for appondicitis carried put. ou board duriug rough; weather. -A man employed in the- stoko-hold, named -Robert Gibbons, was taken ill' suddenly. Tho ship's surgoon was called .in,' and found tho man suffering from a dangorous attack of'appendicitis. Two eminent Now. York, surgeons chanced to bo aboard,. and they wero called into consultation. They. dotorniincd ; to operate at once, though the .ship was pitching considerably, in spite of hor, size, under- the violence of the sea. It .was, discovered that Gibbons had allowed his ailment to.go too far before treatment, and tho : operation was, therefore, too late. Ho gradually sank and died. .■■,(■ -,;. ■ .--■• ;'■ The Imporial Navy is not:for militant piirposes, but acts as tho .Imperial-police'} and its duty., is-to keep open the roads between En& laud- and her great dependencies- across tho seas.—The'iarl of Onslow.