MID-OCEAN OPERATION
JJY UNTRAINED MEN. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.’ ' (SYDNEY, September 2. A graphic story of an operation performed in mid-ocean by untrained men ) was told by the officers of the Mahia when they reached Sydney from London. . Captain .Andrews and a steward saved the life of the engineer of the Mahia, when bound from New Zealand to London. They were without a doctor and when the engineer had\his leg broken, the flesh being badly torn and he had lost much blood, and his life was in danger, a wireless revealed that no ship carrying a doctor was -nothin call, so the captain and steward gave the man an anaesthetic and after stre'nuohs efforts managed to set the leg. The engineer was soon on the way to recovery and is now convalescing in England. .. a
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1931, Page 6
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140MID-OCEAN OPERATION Hokitika Guardian, 2 September 1931, Page 6
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