26 JUNE 1947, Page 5

I am glad to be able to give reasonably satisfactory

news about my greatly valued colleague Peter Fleming. When his horse stumbled, fell and rolled on him last week he custained a broken pelvis, with various complications. The bulletins describing hint as " comfortable " must, I am afraid, be a little optimistic, but I understand that after three or four weeks in the nursing home where he at present is he will be able to get back under his own roof. But he will not be very mobile for some time after that.

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