Foreign News: Anti-Semitic

Two physicians, one an ear specialist, labored last week over brawny, strapping Commander Robert Tatton Bower, M. P., Conservative, who was struck on the floor of the House of Commons by small, wiry Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, M. P., Laborite.

The blow made premature world headlines as a "slap in the face," but it was a box on the ear, and internal bleeding began between the layers of the left eardrum. A blood clot formed, which caused the eardrum to burst, and at latest reports Commander Bower was said by the doctors to be in...

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