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Show Skip's Doctor at Sea Aids Injured Priest Ashore Montreal. 'The increasing uses of radio were clearly demonstrated recently, re-cently, when the C. G. M. M. steamer steam-er Canadian Forester, by a constant interchange of messages between the ship's doctor and a shore station. ! was able to render valuable medical assistance to the parish priest of Clarencetowu. Long Island, Bahamas. ; According to the story, as relayed lo the Canadian Marconi station here, the Canadian Forester while at sea received an urgent call from station sta-tion GOM for the service of a doctor. There was no doctor on the island, the : message said, and the parish priest ! had fallen from a horse and injured , his leg. The steamer carried a doctor, but it ; was unable to get to the island, so the j wireless operator was directed to ask j the shore station for further particu-1 particu-1 !ars about the priest's injuries and to stand by for instructions. A message soon came back to the ship that the parishioners were standing by to render ren-der what aid they could. The ship's doctor, standing beside the wireless operator, then gave the shore listeners definite instructions as to how to proceed. pro-ceed. A week later, as the Canadian Forester For-ester was homeward bound, the doctor : received a wireless message from the j Bahamas informing him that the wire- less prescriptions had been followed to the letter and that the patient was making v-itisfactory progress. |