WINSTON CHURCHILL

Hokitika Guardian, 16 December 1931, Page 5

WINSTON CHURCHILL

IN NEW YORK HOSPITAL. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) NEW YORK, December 15. A bulletin issued by the physicians at Lenox Hill Hospital, following on an X-ray examination, stated “Mr Winston Churchill is progressing favourably. His temperature is one hundred point six. His pulse and respiration are satisfactory. There is an uncomplicated pleurisy, produced by the blow to the right chest. A good night is expected.”

The doctors stated that there was no danger of pleural haemorrhage, which laid been feared, but they indicate that besides a general shock and a bad shaking up for Churchill when lie was knocked over by a motor vehicle in Fifth Avenue lie suffered a sprained shoulder, and had painfully lacerated his nose and his forehead.

The English statesman ivas in America to give ft series of lectures on “Tim Destiny,of the English Speaking People.’’ He attempted to cross Fifth Avenue after alighting from a taxi cab, when a second taxi struck him knocking him to the pavement. The driver of the second car took him to the hospital immediately. Mr Churchill took pains to effect the driver’s release from any charges, on the ground that the driver would have been unable to avoid hitting him, since he had tried to cross the street against the traffic lights. He also expressed much concern about exaggerated accounts causing undue alarm to his friends in England.