GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 24 August 1946, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

LONDON, August 22. Miss Rosemary Swarbrick, aged 23, Preston, Lancashire, who has been partially blind since she was 14, and totally blind for 10 months, is now able to read the smallest print and thread a needle, as the result of a remarkable operation at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. The cornea was removed from the eye of a wounded soldier and from the eye of a civilian and grafted on to replace Miss Swarbrick’s weak ones. She now works effectively as a waitress. Anthony Frederick Sebastian Steane, aged 52, a film actor, was committed for trial on a charge of joining the German broadcast service with intent to assist the enemy. Steane told a Bow Street magistrate that he faced a Gestapo threat not once but several times, that his British wife and their two sons would be thrown into a concentration prison if he did not do what was asked of him.