26 MARCH 1954, Page 7

hp A letter to the Transvaler, reprinted in the Johannesburg h o 9r,

gives an eye-witness account of an incident in a Mafeking the spital, in which, after " a sharp verbal exchange," one of hel White nurses refused to go into the operating theatre to wuP a native doctor operate on a native patient. The letter, 4,ch written by another patient in the hospital, ends : hrest eel that you must publish this as a token of appre- 15:"Ori for the sister who had so much backbone. We are Proud of her."