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MANY DEAD IN GALE'S HAVOC
Scots Villages And Towns Ravaged
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1935.
NEW GLASGOW PROFESSOR
Mr. Peter Alexander's Appointment
Special Air Mail Services
London, Oct 23. The great gale which swept
оп the over the British Isles at
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London, Oct. 22,
We understand that the King
the recommendation of the
ABBEY WEDDING BRIDE YOUNGEST
COMEDY
Page Boy Tickles
Little Bridesmaids
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DUCHESS
Wedding of Royal Godchildren
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London Oct, 25.
London. Oct. 25.
Brillant scenes were witnessed Lord Primrose, the six-year-old Abbey yesterday-of-the-Duke
at the wedding in Westminster
of
week-end left behind it a trait Secretary of State for Scotland: son of the Ear. o: Rosebery, pro-Roxburghe, the premier baronet of
of havoc.
In Scotland trees and hoard- ings were blown down, railway and electricity services dislocat- "ed, houses and streets flooded, shops damaged, and several peo- ple fatally injured.
The gala was still raging yester- day along the East coast of Scot- land, and in the North-West of England, and in Ireland.
At Aberdeen, there were gusts of a velocity of nearly 70 miles an hour, and at Holyhead the wind was nearly as strong. Reports of casualties, damage, and interrupt ed telephone communication came from many parts,
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William Catto, of Loch Street, Aberdeen, a fireman on board the Aberdeen trawler Hood was lost overboard. and a deck hand And- rew Talt of Cairabulg, injured dur- ing the storm.
BUILDINGS DAMAGED After a series of gusts late on Friday night the gale broke over Glasgow at midnight, and, reach
The ing a peak velocity at 2 am, wind uprooted trees, smashed
hoardings,
and dislocated trans- port and telephone services.
At 2 a.m. the wind reached 84 m.p.h, and at 4.30 a gust at 82 m.ph. was recorded. At Abbot- sinch Meterological Station thể highest gust recorded during the night was 92 m.p.b.
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The level of the Clyde rose con- aiderably under the force of the gale and sailings were delayed.
In the morning the city streets
were littered with wreckage, and throughout Saturday the disloca-
tion of the telephone service was a constant reminder of the fury of the storm.
During the week-end mainten- ance squads were repairing dam- aged services, and In the city joiners, plumbers, and road wor- kers were in demand.
·STRUCK BY MASONRY Blinded by the rain Hugh Edgar (59) was knocked down by a mo- lor car and fatally injured at the junction of Hope Street and Argyle Street.
A cyclist, John Allan, 51 Thurs- ton Road, was blown across River- ford Road and crashed into a mo- car. He suffered severe in- tor juries.
Bum- Mra Lillan Ponsford, 33 bank Gardens, was knucked down by a 'bus in Butterbiggins Road and suffered internal injuries. She was detained in Victoria Infirmary,
An elderly man
blown against a stairway and injured, a hoarding fell on another, and a third was struck by falling ma- sonry.
Was
has approved the appointment of
Mr. Peter Alexander. M.A.. to be Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow in succession to Professor W. Macneile Dixan, whose retire- ment was recently announced. Mr. Alexander has been 'for, a number of years a senior Lecturer in the English Department of Glasgow University.--
of the
ded amusement at the wedding Scotland, to Lady Mary Crewe-
Duke of Roxburghe and Milnes Lady Mary Crewe-Mines in West- minister Abbay yesterday!"
He was acting aà page' boy to the bride.
at the
By the marriage Lady Mary be-" come, at the age of 20, the young. est Duchess. The Duke s two years her senfor.
Both bride and bridegroom are Kod-children of the King" and Queen, Lady Mary is the ceremony,
only. daughter of the Marquess and Marchioness of Crewe.
The Duke, who has known Lady Mary from childhood days, is a second lieutenant, in the Roya: Horse Guards, the "Blues." He-1s
During the address by Dr.
who oficiated Temple, the Archbishop of York. Lord Primrose's attention began poticeably to wonder.
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MR. ALEXANDER'S CAREER Standing between the two little Mr. Peter Alexander, who is 41 bridesmaids, Lady Elizabeth Fitz years of age is a distinguished maurice and Ms Morna Buxton son or Glasgow University. Those behind the bride and groom. he who recall the strange and stir-stared all round and roofwards. ring days of 1914 at the UniversityThen he ticked the neck of Lady Elisabeth. She attempted to end will
remember the band. students who, refusing to
Await this diversion, but he repeated it the
with gusto. commissions they could readily have obtained, went forth Lady Elizabeth put out..
a re-
in September, 1914. to Join the straining hand, without effect, 6th Battalion, Cameron High- Mis Morna Buxton, on the other landers. Of this company Mr. side, whispered to hlm. Lord Alexander was one. Later in the Primrose's response: was to tur war he was commissioned to the arid tiek'e her neck, Royal Field Artillery and rose to the rank of captain
After the conclusion of hostill- ties Mr. Alexander returned to the University and took post-graduate honours of the first class in English Language, Literature, and British History. gaining at the same time one of the University awards-the George. A.... Clark Scholarship.
BRIDAL PROCESSION HALTED
Smiles were to be seen among the congregation, which were re- newed when Lord Primrose. in his wide and Daming trousers. did three mighty "high jumps."
While the register was being major signed, Lord Primrose chatted with the grown-up bridesmaids, stand-
one of the wealthiest peers in the country.
Men of the regiment lined both sides of the nave, their blue tunics and gleaming cuirasses making n ne note of colour against the dim Abbey background. An officer pre- sented the bride with her, bouquet, the gift of the regiment on het arrival.
LONG BRIDAL RETINUE The bride, in heavy white crepe, was attended by one of the long- est bridal retinues ever seen in the Abbey. There were 14 brides · maids-two of them. Lady Eliza - beth Fitzmaurice, and Miss Mornid Buxton, little girls-and а tiny the six-year-old Lord pageboy. Primrose.
The bridesmaids - were...in strik - After a short period of studying along the side of the chancel.. long-skirted frocks of Tame-
the red velvet.
Their bouquets and His anal contribution to abroad, he was invited to join the proceedings was to become tang-wreaths were in cellophane "moon. staff of the English department. fed up in the bridal train when light leaves, in which red flowers and, within a few years, made an
were intertwined. outstanding name for himself as lecturer and administrator. In
the
started. Wedding March Coming down the chancel "steps
the burdensome post-war period the bride and gream had to halt. he gave unstinted help to Profes- laughing together, while he was
extricated.
Lord Primrose wore a long-trou-
sered suit of red velvet with aj
urge gold sash.
The Archbishop of York. Dr. Temple, conducted the service. a3- Thereafter he tucked the train
sisted by the Rev: H. Stevens rec firmly under his chin "for safety, tor of St. Mary's. West Horsley. and also vigorously kicked it clear where the bride's parents have a at each step. The expressions of house. Mr. Arthur Collins, a cou little Lady Elizabeth and Missin of the bridegroom was best Buxton were studies in pained re-
sor Dizon, and, in the most un- assuming fashion, took upon his shoulders many important duties connerted with the administration of the large classes, both ordinary and honours, which crowded the benches of the English classrooms. He was promoted first-grade lec-proof. turer, and was given charge of the now obsolete Queen Margaret Col- fege Lectureship on the death of his colleague and friend D. J. S. Smart..
SHAKESPEAREAN STUDIES
Mr. Alexander early showed his capacity as a scholar by bla
notes. masterly handling of the left by Dr. Smart on Shakes- pearean tradition.
LINDBERGH CASE
ECHO
At the time of How Keg Of Nails
Was Traced
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his death Dr. Smart had left pencilled chapters. together with notes written, frequently, on stray sheets which were hard to de- cipher. With admirable judgment
Special Air Mail Service; Mr. Alexander knit the strands together so that it became pos-
London, Oct. 25. sible to issue what is now the well-known book entitled "Shakes- One of the most striking, proofs peare: Truth and Tradition." linking Bruno Hauptmann with Mr. Alexander has continued the Lindbergh kidnapping. for these Shakespearan studies, and which he is under sentence of has
death, occasions coi- on several
appears in the current laborated with the well-known number of an American, trade at the height of the storm. Work-.Shakespearean, scholar Dr. A. W publication, the "Iron Age." men had been engaged in demo- Pollard. In 1929. the Cambridge Hshing the property, but at 3 a.m. University Press issued his study the gable, collapsed and left the families homeless. ...
CHIMNEY POTS CRASH
Twelve familles left a condem- nea tenement in Commercial Road
man
It is an article by Mr. Stanley Keith, the expert who demon-
of the texts of Henry VI. and | strated that the 44 nails in the Richard III, to which Dr. Pollard ladder used to carry the baby contributed an introduction.
from the nursefy were taken from
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Chimney pots crashed through house....rcofs in Pollock Street, Mr. Alexander is examiner for a keg found in. Hauptmann's home Oxford Street, and Thistle the preliminary examinations, the and were in minute detail similar
competitions, and the to 275 nails extracted from Street. In Thistle Street a wo bursary
and her eight-year-old degree examinations. at Glasgow garage which Hauptmarin built University. He is aleo examiner in his garden. This evidence was daughter were injured and re-
for honours degrees in Edinburgh | never used by the prosecution as moved to Victoria Infirmary for
University. He has rendered the. Attorney-General felt that his treatment
conspicuous service in Glasgow case
was against Hauptmann
F
On the river at full tide the water continued to rise under the force of the gate, and in the har- bours it rose to within a few feet of the quayside, It was found impossible to manoevre the Anchor liner Transylvania oùt of Yorkhill
and throughout the West of Bcot-strong enough without It.. land in fostering the claims of
Mr. Keith's story of the quest adult education. He comes to the for the source of the nails in the Chair of English Literature not as ladder reads like a detective novel. a stranger but as one who knows In 1931, the year before the kid. the work thoroughly in
every napping, 2,000,000 kegs of similar aspect. and with a reputation nails were manufactured in Quay. The City of Batavia, bound already well established for sound exited States. for Red Sea ports, was also descholarship and high administra tayed
tive ability.
Suburban gardens were flooded and in Pollokshawe Road tram- cars and buses drove through eight inches of water.
WINDOWS_SHATTERED
At Waverley Station, Edinburgh, on Saturday it was stated that there was some dislocation owing to the blowing down of trees and of telegraph and telephone poles.
About 100 chimney cans were blown down in the city.
The storm of wind and heavy rain caused damage to property, tree, and telephone lines at Pais- ley. The curator of the Coats Ob- servatory (Mr J. Woodrow) report- ed on Saturday that between 1:30 a.m. and 6.30 am, the mean velo- city of the wind was 43. m.p.h.
Eight gusts of over 75 m.p.h. were recorded, the highest being a gust ̄of-84-m.pk at 2 am.
Widespread damage was caus- ed by the storm at Greenock, windows of shops and houser being shattered, chimney heads being blown down, slates strip- red from roofs, hoardings, bar- ricades, and other erections be- ing levelled to the ground, and treets uprooted.
the
MINUTE SIMILARITY
Despite this Mr. Keith narrow- ed down his search to a steel mill in Pennsylvania. This mill had produced 200,000 kegs of the type under “examination---
Further study showed that as a new die is used approximate ly every eight years and other adjustments are made to the machinery every eight minutes, only 18 kegs of 'nable would be almost exactly the same as those used by Hauptmann In his garage.
All telegraphic communication
I Hauptmann did not build the between the island of Lewis, Heb-. ladder, Mr. Keith argues, it was rides, and the mainland has been, a most amazing-coincidence that“ cut off by the gale, and telephonie | the person who did, used nails communication can only be eat- from one of the 15 kegs not pur- ablished as far as Kyle.
chased by Hauptmann
man.
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