INVALID FLIES FROM PARIS

Evening Star, Issue 17792, 14 October 1921, Page 1

INVALID FLIES FROM PARIS

PARK. LANE SURGEON'S AIR JOUR- I NKi r TO AND FRO. Major Oitky, of the Foreign Office. v:ho travelled to Paris in connection with tho last mooting of the Supremo Council. was taken ccrioosly ill there (soya the ‘ Observer’)• An urgent message was rent to Sir Douglas Shields, the Park lauo surgeon, who travelled' to Palis next morning by an acroplaao which left Croydon Aerodrome at 6 o’clock and arrived in Paris about 9.30. On examining his patient Sir Douglas decided that it was tfossibio to take Jiirn to England. Accordingly .Major Ottley and Sir Douglas kit in a powerful Hand-ley-Page i machine at ftlx>ut 4 o’clock in tho after noon. The aeroplane was largo enough to allow a bed being fixed up inside the cabin. T!ie journey was performed in fair weather, and tho 'piano reached Croydon at 7.5 p.rn, A Daimler motor ambulances was waiting there, and Major Ottley, having boon transferred, was at onco driven to Sir Douglas's private hospital in Park lane, W., where tho patient arrived at about 7.40. Arrangements were immediately made for an operation. The following bulletin was issued at 8 o'clock in tho evening .Major Ottloy stood tho journey very well. An operation is,to bo performed. Tho exact nature of the complaint 7s not known at present.” It was added that it was “ unofficially . believed to bo appendicitis. Major Ottley i waa oneratedi-an at £LID -pan, ‘ J