On the last Ip of a race with death, Henry Rushton, senior fifth engineer on the C.P.0.8, Empress Asia, was hurried to hospital in waiting: ambulance on arrival of the vessel here from the Orient on July 81. The race began the night before, when it was discovered that Rushton was suffering fron pendicitis in an advanced Dr, Ivan Mackinnon, the ship's sur-eon, called into consultation two medical men among the passengers, Lieut. J.D. Borhan, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, znd Dr. Martel, a German practitioner from Kobe. That night, the medical men put into use theb experience and Dr, Hartel conducted the operation, A calm sea aided the delicate work, and it is believed the patient will pull through safely.
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