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TRAIN WRECKED FOR A FILM.
DYNAMITE LORRY CRASH.
CAMERA MEN IN SANDBAG
A GREAT FLIGHT IN
ARCTIC.
FORTS.
SIR H. WILKINS'S NAR- RATIVE.
PROBLEMS OF WARMING ENGINE SOLVED.
-LOYDON.
BASINGSTOKE, August 10th. In a quiet, easy tone, as if he were A train without a driver, travel-speaking of an ordinary journey ling at 13 miles an hour, was Sir Hubert Wilkins told members of the Royal Aeronautical Society wrecked делг Basingstoke this of his arctic flight..
morning.
THE COMING · OF THE MONGOLS.
PANIC IN ' CHALANTUN RESORT,
RAIDS PART OF LARGE, PLAN.
NORTH MANCHURIA,
August 20th.
It was on August 31th that news began to circulate along the West- ern branch of the Chinese Eastern Railway that the Mongols were on the move. It was known that a car belonging to a British firm had been seized near Hailar, and con- Sir Hubert used a different air-ditions in Bargs were reported to plane for each of his attempts. In be serious. Two days later Wan 1928 he used Fakker monoplanes. Fu Lin, Governor-General of Hei- This was a three-engined machine
The third and successful attempt this year, he said, was due to the lessons they had leant in the two previous years.
of
No lives were lost, for the smash was arranged by the Gainsborough Pietures, Ltd., in co-operation with the Southern Railway, for a Alm entitled The Wreckers." For the first time the noise of a train
72-foot span. Trial fights lungkiang Province, proceeded on aninsh was recorded for the films.
taught him and his pilot Eielson,
atroop train to investigate con- The collision took place at a what was necessary in the way of ditions at Hailar. There followed level-erossing at... Lasham Hall Warming their engine when flying
in temperatures like 40, degrees be other troop, trains containing" in. Farm. The train hit a lorry con-low zero. Friends asked him what fantry and cavalry. taining dynamite and five tons of would happen if he had to make
forced landing far from his base, and his reply was that he would have to walk Back. This actually Gasoline gave. cccurred in 1927.
ballast.
Film actors and railwayinen on a hill 200 yards away had a great thrill when the engine, containing dummy figures of the driver and fireman, was seen racing down a incline towards the crossing.
The collision caused a loud ex- plosion, the engine going through the lorry as it blew up with the dynamite. The engine went on about 100 yards and crashed on to its side. All six coaches were de railed.
out when they were 70 miles froin Barrow. They landed late at night safely, thanks to Eielsen's skill, ou
small smooth patch of ice.
Cut Off From Base.
The
On August 10th the Express from Manchouli did not arrive. wildest rumours followed. Large bodies of Mongols were said to have cut the railway line and to have surrounded Wan Fu Ein. It was in Harbin that the most absurd! stories were circulated. The news was even telegraphed to a well- known newspaper abroad, that the Mongols had already passed the great barrier of the Hingan Moun- tains and had occupied Barim. The latter place is a bare two hours beyond the large summer resort of Chalantun, where some hundreds of farligners were located.
Drifting on badly broken pack ice, unable to communicate with their base, Sir Hubert's experience with Stefansson during the Cana dian arctic expedition stood him Humping their in good stead. packs weighing from 80-100 pounds, they walked and crawled back to Barrow. And, said be, when Passenger Rescues.
I say crawl, I mean crawl, for at Cameras a few yards away were least a quarter of the trip was
done on our hands and knees." protected by sandbagged forts. A
In 1997 Stinson biplanes were Wright sound-recording instrument was in used with
Whirlwind Frantic telephone and telegraphic a haystack in a field adjoining the motors and with these they did calls passed between Harbin and line. A picture was taken of some 8,000 miles flying and settled Chalantun, it being creditably re- that there was little chance of find- passengers being got out of the ing land in the area northwest and ported that one husband rated his within 600 miles of Barrow. He wife so high as to order for her wreckage.
then determined to get the fasteat An official of the film company plane capable of carrying the told me that the cost of the wreck necessary sledging gear, sounding apparatus, navigation instruments was from £8,000 to £7,000.
and equipment, two months' food supply, a radio outfit and enough gasoline to cover 27,000 miles.
3fr. James Ball, a Southern Railway driver, who started the train a mile from the scene, said
to me:
"The
engine WAS. under
full head of steam and I jumped off then she was going at about eight miles an hour. It was queer sensation seeing her going away without me, and I felt rather I put my car to the rail and heard the explosion, like the firing of a big gun, and the noise of the wheels grinding through the
Borry.
earth."
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A breakdown gang arrived im- mediately after the crash to clear the line, which runs from Alton to Basingstoke, for the first train morrow morning.
CRANLEIGH PREFECTS
EXPELLED.
SEQUEL TO BATHING IN
FORBIDDEN - POOL.
Narrow Escape In Alaska. All went" well until nearing Spitsbergen, when Sir Hubert saw from the climatic conditions that storray weather ahead might be ex- pected. He wrote a note to Eiel- son telling him what he thought and asking if he was prepared to go on er to land and wait. The reply was that he was prepared to go on if Wilkins was prepared to tell him the way.
Sir Hubert's faith in the future of arctic travel by air remains fixed for, as he showed on a polar map, the shortest way from San Francisco to Moscow is over the pole.
his
2 special car at $700. a Chalantun peoples' energies ware divided be tween 'packing and unpacking, ask ing questions and not waiting for answers, rushing to the railway station to see if the rails were still there, and watching the Chinese soldiery establishing themselves on a white-kiosque-topped hill which commands Chalantun. The methods of the Chinese would certainly have been of interest to a student of military aftairs.
On the very top
Fever Point. --
of the hill they set up a large white tent. This tent was visible from many miles away and would pre- sumably service as a broad-cast notice to the Mongols It's no use coming to Chalantun-we're here." Machine-guns and mortars followed the tent, all blasting was stopped at the local quarry, and the pink- banded sleeves of the soldiery and Sir Hubert told of a remarkable the rifles of the police informed the incident during flight in world that martial law-bad-been- Alaska in 1926. Flying with Eicl-proclaimed, at Chalantun. to-son toward the Endicott Range he
was suddenly aware that, 'Bying to- On Friday excitement reached" ward a cleft in the range, their fever point. "A special train arriv left wing would hardly miss the ed to evacuate all those who were rocks. He shouted to Lielson, who fearful. All night people had been shouted back that the same condi- assuring each other that they would tions obtained on the right. They stay; but behind closed doors there went through the cleft with barely had been the sounds of the rustling ayard or so to spare on each side of paper and the creaking of lea- On looking down when they had ther. And when morning came more passed he saw that the wheels were than three-quarters of Chalantun
He believer revolving.
that, was at the station, packing them- though they felt nothing, they had selves, their luggage, and their touched ground in going through children aboard the special train. the cleft. Christian Science Moni At half-past twelve amidst a flutter- ing of handkerchiefs and a chorus Mind-you-write" and Here's
Cranleigh, the famous public school near Godalming, has provid ed a sensation following the incident at Eton when boys belong- ing to noted families were request. ed to leave following an escapade at a riverside botel at Bray...
Similar disciplinary, action was taken at Cranleigh just before the school broke up for the summer
more holiday's against three senior pre-
fects for a breach of regulations.
The perfects, with nearly a dozen other boys, were brought before the Beerheatinaster, the Rev. M. A Rhodes, for bathing in a forbidden pool, about two miles from the school during the heat wave.
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Two of the prefects left the school at short notice, and the third is no: to return after the holidays. The action taken by the headmaster caused great excitement among the boys..
There is a strict school rule against bathing in the pond, he cause a boy was drowned there some years ago, the "headmaster explained to a Daily Express re- presentative.
"I had to take serious notice of the aetion" of the three prefects in encouraging this grave breach of regulations. There was a certain amount of skylarking going on at the pool, and two boys were thrown into the water.
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DEATH."
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The Truth.
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Amidst so many rumours it is a little difficult to sift out the truth. But the actual events that took On the The inquest was resumed at Ban- place were as follows: don Hill yesterday on P.-C. Ray-night of August 15th-18th a small mond Mitchell, aged 29, of the band of Mongels made a after being knocked down by a ing the railway barracks and cap. Metropolitan Police, who died the 328 Kilometre Past, Flander motor-cycle combination while on turing some work-men. The rail- point duty at Woodcote-Staford way itself was damaged between the cross-roads, Wallington, Surrey, on 338th and 335th Kilometre Points, July 25th. The coroner was Mr. F. rails being dislodged and telegraph J. Nightingale,
poles felled along the line for a Mr. Reginald Corfeld, driver of certain distance. Subsequently an- a car which was nearing the cross- other raid was made between the roads when the accident occurred, 337th and 338th Kilometre Points,, said he did not see the motor-cycle when eight workmen were taken' combination approaching, but he prisoner and two killed. In the re- saw the officer struck and the com- sült telegraphic and telephonic com bination then ran into, his car.munications were cut off with Hailar Mr. Nightingale: What do you and the Trans-Siberian mail train say about the lighting at the cross- was delayed by thirty hours. On ronds Very bad indeed.
Mr. Richard Harry Palmer, of Wallington, a passenger in the sidecar, said he and the driver were returning from Brighton. While they were out each had four glasses of bitter. He first saw the police man about ten yards away. The speed of the combination was about 15 miles an hour.
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The query naturally arises as to the nature of the trouble. It would. be a fruitless task to repeat the many rumours and the accusations of intrigues by foreign Powers. But through all the mist of conflicting stories it does seem to be generally believed by both Chinese and for- eigners that these raids are not the work of mere brigand bands bat are part of a definite strategic plan-guerilla raids to distract and.
the 18th a small explosion occurred under the engine of the. cxpress. train which caused no serious damage but which delayed the Collisions train by three hours. occurred between the Mongols and the Chinese troops which had bena sent from Taitaibar. "The Chinese armoured train took part in this fighting, which resulted in the rail- At this stage Mr. Nightingale way being cleared of Mongols said that as the driver of the com-Wan Fu Lin, the Governor-General, bination. Mr. Percy Henry Woods, returned from his reconnaissance at North Way. Bute-road, Walling Hailar and requested that large re ton, was still in hospital, he would inforcements be sent at once vidissipate the Chinese forces, while adjourn the inquest until Septem-Taanan to Hailar. In the mean a larger body of Mongol troops time the armoured train was patrol waits the chance to strike a de ling the line West of the Hingans cisive blow. It is believed that The behind this, strategy the political ahead of passenger trains. damage, to the line was speedily aim is to detach Barge from Hei- repaired, and by August 19th the lunghiang Province and to make it Da integral part of the autonomous Manchouli Harbin service was nor
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"My decision was that the pre feets could have the choice of being degraded or of leaving the school. While the matter was still under judgment, the conduct of two of the prefects was unsatisfactory in other ways, and so they were asked to go. The other prefect left at the end of the term, and he will not return. ber 3rd.
I think it would have been Mr. 1. R. Hoare, for Mr. Wooda, better for the school if nothing had asked permission to call certain been said about the matter, but witnesses, but Mr. Nightingale de publicity will show, at any rate, clined, and said, "This is a case that we are determined not to which demande investigation, and tolerate serious disobedience of there may be other evidence which school rules.'
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