LIVE SHELL
IN MAN’S BODY MADRID,. September 16. With the assistance of an aitillery officer, a surgeon in an emergency hospital behind the Madrid lines, has .performed an amazing operation. A Spanish peasant soldier was hit by a 2in Mauser shell, which failed to explode, but remained in his body. The shell lodged just beneath a shoulder blade, After the surgeon had incised the man’s back, the artillery officer stepped w to the operating table. Exercising great care, he removed the detonator can of the shell. The surgeon then removed the remainder.
'Phe operation lasted four hours. The soldier is recovering.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 September 1937, Page 5
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