The Archive · 1940

Lord Tweedsmuir In Grave Condition

Slight But Definite Improvement Follows Second Operation

Montreal, Feb. 10.

Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada, who underwent an emergency operation et Ottawa yesterday, which temporarily relieved intro-cranial pressure, entered an operating room for his second operation at about 9 o'clock this morning (Shanghai time).

The operation lasted three hours. Subsequently, a bulletin was issued stating that the patient had "a successive operation, performed by three doctors. There has resulted a slight but definite improvement, but his condition is considered critical."

Lord Tweedsmuir arrived here by special train last evening and was taken in an ambulance to the Neurological Institute. According to his doctors, he stood the journey very well.

The distinguished patient was accompanied in his trip, on which he started out only a few hours after his first operation, by Lady Tweeds-muir, their son, the Hon. Alistair Buchan, five doctors and three nurses, It is learned that both His Majesty the King and the Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, have arranged to be kept in touch with all developments in regard to Lord Tweedsmuir's condition.

Messages of sympathy are arriving from all parts of the Empire.—Reuter.

1.15 believed to have been a Heinkel bomber. The plane just missed fence. telegraph: wires, and then struck a

"Tnroughout the day German planes were: seen off the English and Scottish coast, and invariably they were engaged by British Aghter patrols.

Bombs were aimed at shipping during the raids.

Off Arbroath, British fighters pursued three Heinkels flying low over the water. Fighters also went to the assistance of a tanker which was being bombed off Peterhead—Reuter.

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