THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 16, 1939
LETTER DEATH CUT SHORT WILL GO TO SON
An officer in India is to receive the last letter his mother wrote. It is unfinished, for she was doomed as she penned the lines to him but did not know it.
A gas escape killed her. She had lost her sense of smell and wrote on unaware of her peril
Ever since her only son Tom went to India, Mrs. Lilian Beatrice Haynes, Heythorpe-road, Southfields, S. W., made a daily practice of writing a "chapter" of her weekly letter to him.
One afternoon as she was doing this she had occasion to walk across the room. The top of the carpet was dis- arranged, and in passing, it was ex- plained at the inquest she jerked it
KING MAY USE PUBLIC SHELTER
The King and Queen will take cover in public air-raid shelters along with the general public if they . are caught out in a raid and not within easy reach of the Palace.
That is the answer to the question many people have asked when they have noted that the King and Queen are continuing to attend public func- tions.
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with her foot, switching on a portable gas fire.
Mrs. Haynes returned to her desk and continued her letter, unaware of the deadly fumes which were rapidly filling the room, for an acci- dent in the last war cost her the sense of smell.
SLIGHT PRESSURE ENOUGH Then Mrs. Haynes sat down to rest on a sofa, probably feeling the effect of the gas, and it was there that her husband, Mr. Thomas Frederick Haynes, found her dead three hours later.
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Accidental death was the verdict. Mr. Haines told the coroner he found the unfinished letter on the table.
A neighbour, Mrs. E. Mitchell, said that twelve months ago she noticed a smell of gas in Mrs. Haines's house:
The tap of the portable gas fire had been turned on by pressure on the carpet, but Mrs. Haines had not no- ticed the smell.
Sergeant H. Griffiths, who examined the tap, said slight pressure on the carpet twelve inches away from the tap would turn it on.
CHURCH
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Progress in the district's MEETINGS
war-time task-the provision of air- raid shelters--will be reported to Westminster City Council to-morrow.
Shelters so far provided or ar- ranged for by the Council will ac- commodate about 161,000 persons. Accommodation is being provided in vaults under pavements about 60,000 persons
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A cost which is only frac- tion of that incurred in constructing trenches or surface shelters.
In the Victoria Station area there will be air-rald shelters to accommodate nearly 8,000 people. shelters are also to be built in Grosvenor gardens, Trafalgar - square,
Parliament-square and
Hanover-square.
Since the war further trench sche- mes have been started in Soho-square, Leicester-square and Green Park, at Hyde Park Corner, In these 17,000 persons can shelter. are being considered.
Further schemes
Rev. David Mace, minister of Arch- way Central Hall. High-gate, N., where it is proposed to ban all meet- ings of pacifist organisations, is him- self a member of the Peace Pledge Union.
Leaders and officers of the church are submitting a request to a meet- ing of the trustees asking that no further lettings be allowed for paci- fist organisations.
Mr. Mace said: "There la no ill- will between myself and mem- bers of the church. I respect their feelings and I hope they respect mine. I have already cancelled a letting of this nature."
Meetings of the Peace Pledge Union have been held regularly for several years.
A member of the church said that they were anxious that it should not get a reputation as a centre for paci- flst activities.
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