MR. CHURCHILL

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1943, Page 3

MR. CHURCHILL

WANTS NEWSPAPERS Temperature' Normal And Progress Satisfactory N.Z.P.A. and British Wireless Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 20. A bulletin issued from Downing Street at 3.20 p.m. to-day on the subject of Mr. Churchill's health states:—"Temperature remains normal and the Prime Minister is making satisfactory progress." Ministers of Cabinet have been told that the. Prime Minister is urgently demanding copies of British newspapers to be sent to his sickroom in the Middle East, says the Daily Express diplomatic correspondent. Papers will be flown out to him daily. A medical authority, commenting on the preceding bulletin, said it was i very satisfactory. Were mere any \ cause for anxiety over the pulse irre-' gularity it would presumably have been mentioned. Pneumonia in a man of Churchill's age was bound to cause considerable anxiety until it was completely cleared" away. There was potential danger all the time. A new name has appeared among the signatories of the latest bulletin, that of Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Scadding, aged 36, one of Britain's foremost authorities on diseases of the chest and lungs. He is attached to the Middle East forces. The Daily Mail, in a leader says: "One touch needed to make the coming holiday the most cheerful of the war was news of Mr. Churchill's improving health. It ■ has come in the latest bulletin. British and Allied peoples are thankful and relieved. Mr. Churchill is not out of the wood yet, but medical opinion regards his progress so far as excellent, promising rapid recovery- We all ask Mr. Churchill now to restrain his appetite for work and not to be too hasty in resuming giant burdens. His hardest tasks may be to come."