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4.13 5.60 7.23 4.54 0.03 7.35 5,07 6,15 5.7.49 3.11 8,19 7.58 5,216,308.02 5.26 6.388.07
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FOUR PEOPLE BURNED TO DEATH.
DISTINGUISHED OFFICER AND HIS FAMILY THE VICTIMS.
Four persons lost their lives in a disastrous fire which destroyed Wateringbury Hall, near Maid-
stone.
They were Major Richard Booth Leslie Bazley-White, his wife, their four-year-old son, and the child's natec Three other servants, Mrs. Whitbeld, the cook, Marjory Sharp, the parlourmaid, and Olive Selves, escaped.
The hall, a centuries old manor house, half-timbered, standing on the roadside a mile from Watering bury village on the road to West Farley, was completed destroyed. The fire broke out at about 11 p.m. The house is isolated in its own grounds.
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A man who was walking near the house saw the flames, and, running up, he shouted and threw stones at 'some of the windowa, ・
Leap From A Window. The alarm was sent to Maidstone, x miles away. In the meantime the hall was blazing froin
end to
ead.
In the garden were two girls, the chambermaid and the parloummaid. Mrs. Whitfield was lying on the graas with injuries to the legs. She had leaped from an upper window into the garden.
Of Captain Bazley-White and his family there was no sign, "At first it was thought they had left the house, and when the Fire Brigade arrived just before one o'clock there was still some doubt whether any persons were scaide what was by then a dreadful furnace, which set on fire the very trees and lit up miles of the Kentish countryside.
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Bankruptcy Court, 10.35 a.m. Golf Captain's Cup, Fanling. Fanling Hunt: Steeplechase. Mecting, Kwanti.
A remarkable gesture of fail in the future of British. Um-productee for racing yachts. tion has been made by Mr. Charles Fenley, ringer of the Astoria Cinema, which aspires to be the key-theatre of British film-pre sentation, says the Daily Express
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Mr. Pealey has booked four of the great British Sims scheduled for next year, without having seen foot of them, or even the seenarios. Admittedly, he has booked the films which, above all others, are destined to create a furore of public interest.
They are:-
TELL ENGLAND?” in which the War Office and the Admiralty will combine to present an official his tory of the Gallipoli campaign, on the basis of Mr. Ernest Raymond's stirring novel.
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THE MAYFLOWER, history of the Pilgrim Father, produced partly in England and partly in America.
"CONQUEST," an original story from Colonel John Buchan, M.P. concerned with tracing the histori- cal development of the "English
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:"་"་ "KNIGHTS OF THE AIR," "Ian Hay's" story of the Air Force, produced with fall official co operation.
The Ring."another notable British production, was secured by Mr. Pealey some time ago.
Serson Eples.
The first four filma mentioned. are the work of Briti Instrue tional Films, Ltd., who have pro- duced most of the rational screen pics of recent years, and also the beautiful series called
Secrets of Nane" all of which have additionally brew. preured by Mr. Penley, who was eatly com- manded to present the Naval Battles" film at Balmoral.
"We all went to bed fairly early," she said. "I was sleeping in a roma at one end of the first floor.
Major and Mrs. Bazley-White the nurse and the child slept in roems on this same floor.
Motorcycle Football, Mongkok, 3 p.m.
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But hardly had the firemen he gun their hopeless task of attack ing the face when the south western end of the rectangular, house fell in, and with it was scen in the fare the body of a man, For hours eight firemen under Captain Westcott strove to kill the
"A narrow passage ran along flames. It was hopeless. It was the full length of the floor, and all they could do to get near enough was broken by a lew steps. Some to the furnace to ply their hoses. time before midnight
Three o'clock arrived before, an awakened by a scream. It was examination could be made of the Mrs. Bazley-White. She still barning house.
ship. And then, screaming, "Oh, fire, fire! We are partly hidden by charred oak blazing?" I ran to the door of my
Fanling Hunt: Meet at Stables, beams in what had been a pleasant room and opened it.
10 a.. A terrific. drawing-room, were found four sheet of flame sent me staggering.
bodies.
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and before I could shut the door my room was on fire, too.
They were lifted out and laid in the gardener's shed across the
I could bear my mistress rush lawn. The flames gradually burning about her room and screaming, ed themselves out under a steady Then she stopped. There was no bose attack.
When dawa broke all that was left of Wateringbury Hall astell, from which four tall chimneys stood up.
Terrier Dies In Flames.
movement from the nursery 'or from Major Bazley-White's room, phone was in the blazing study. I We could not telephone The tele ran to my window and sat on the sill screaming: *
"No one came. So I shut my eyes and jumped. I hurt my leg. but I got up and ran round the
In the garden were the lowers of autora, some of the trampled by the feet of helpers. Inside the house, was
a ruin of stone and house. I tried every door. They wood. On the charred walls were were locked So I ran down the still-melted pewter and cracked lane and told my brothers, Ben and ornamente. In the room where the Ted. Then while they went for bodies were found hung a few pie help my father and mother looked ture-frames with the pictures gone after me. Everything was hit up My father came The three servant girls who by the glare. escaped were cared for at the back, and said Olive and Margery, the maids, had got out by a side houses in the village..
door.
One of them went to her home, nearly a mile away, in her night
attire.
one in the blazing hall. Only I From start to finish-I saw no heard my mistress screaming and rushing about. I think she could not get out of her room,"
Firemen believe that Major White, his son, and the governess were suffocated by smoke.
Captain Bazley-White.
When the firemen reached the scene they found Major White's big retriever running round the blazing house. Another dog, a ter rier, which had often been seen with his master at Wateringbury, was found dead in the ruins.
The Sre is believed to have start- Major ed in the dining-room, spreading quickly to the upper floor. The house was built upea onk beams, and there was a considerable amount of other woodwork in the building, such as oak panele.
MTB Bazley-White is believed to have been the first person in the house to discover the fire. She rushed out of her bedroom to warn the maids and then went back to fetch the child. It is stated, that when the maids were awakened they made repeated "attempts to reach the telephone on the ground Boo; to summon the fire brigade. Time after time smoke and flames drove them back until they abau doned the attempt and escaped.
Mrs Whitfield, who was in bed suffering from injuries she receivež in jumping from her burning bed room, told a vivid account of the fire to the Evening Standard repre- sentative.
(Continued on next Column:)
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