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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1929.
ENGLAND TO CHINA
FACTORY PANIC.
WOMAN KILLED AND MANY
INJURED
INAUGURATION OF, AIR SERVICE
Shanghai, Mar. 234-
London, Mar. 30. One woman in dond and between
The longest lafr service in tho. 25 and 00 women and children in world and the biggest step yet, jureil, at least dve seriously, as atakan by British civil Aviation result of a panic following the cry was inaugurated today with the of "Fire" on the top floor of the opening of the Britain to India Soi Lun. Silk Filaturo, 85 Miller weekly mail, and passenger service Road, about 200 yards north of of British Imperial Airways. The Hongkew, Market, at seven minuter journey from Croydon to Karachi to ono o'clock yesterday afternoon, will take soron days, compared The serious injurios were caused with the sixteen days required when the balustrade of the staircase even with the fastest combination at the west end of the bullding, of boat and train on the ordinary forced outwards by the struggling, route. The total length of the air jammed humanity at its baseline is 5,000 mileg, y pivotod across the stairs, hurling some of the crowd of women against the pillar and rails, of the balus trade on. the opposite, side, and Jeaving a yawning gap at the top of the stairs, into which, poured more of the panic-stricken workers, only to be pushed and jostled of the steps on to the cobbled pave ment fifteen feet below.
That there were no more casual tles is partly due to the presence of mind of a ferr Women among the 1,000 working on the Boor. Those aro wives of firemen employ- od at Hongkow station. On the first scream of "Fire," they shout od to those in their immediato neighbourhood, "Stand still." The order acted like magia on those near-by, and only those who had already boen carried away by the infection of fear became involved in the crush and eatastrophe at the westem exit. The hundrede working at the eastern end of the long room stayed where, they were until the rush was over. None of them was injured.
Hampered by Spectators.
From London to Baale in Swit- "zerland mail is a bornetin a big three pagined Armstrong Siddeley
rgosy nie lines From Basle It in carried by night mail tralni to GenoxTM: At Genoa, It goes aboard An all motal Short Calcutta nir- boat, which files with it to, Alex- andria. - Hers transferred to a 1.500 horse power. De Havil- and Hercules Empire typo aero- plane which, in stages, boars, it' by way of Baghdad and Basra down the Persian Gulf to Karachi.
The Fares."
To organise this new airway, special aeroplanes and flying bonts have been designed and built, barbours for marine aircraft and landing, grounds for aéroplanes have been surveyed and establish- ed, and a chain of wireless and stations have mateorological
been installed.Afroraft will be in wireless touch with intercom- atations ground munienting throughout the whole journey by means of the latest Marconi ap- paratus,
The London-Karachi fare will A Chinese policeman on a bicycle be £130 ineluding hotels and brought the call to Hongkew meals; the London-Baghdad fare Station and the machines im- £90 and the London-Egypt fare mediately turned out. Down Hain-258. Surcharge on air mail letters ing Road and at the junction of is only sixpence, British Wireless.
Miller Road,, the firemen found the crowds of Chiness spectatora no think that the machines could only force their way, the hundred yards or so down Miller Road to the filature's main ento at a annil's paca Once at the gate the fire men had to kick and fight their way through the throng to reach the stairs. A court yard stretches from the gate to the building and thin was filled with workers who had swarmed over the boilies of the injured or come down after the smashed balustrado lind partially released the jam, The hullabaloo made all attempts at explanation impossible, and the firemen had to force a passage to the actual scens of the collapse...
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By the time they reached the seoho the jam was still terrific at the top of the stairs. The firemen had to pull woMED and childron out of it. Sub-officer A. I. Morten picked up two quite small children and carried them clear of the struggle: both had their arme broken. Station Officer W. A. G. Price. Anst, Station Offer R. G. Whieldon, and Sub-ofhoer J. C. Bauld also rescued as many as they could, but an grent was the panic, even, then, that some of the women resisted their efforts to help and struggled and fought even with their roscuora
Palice officers arrived on the scene a litle later and assisted. A hugo crowd had by this timo gathered outside the gato in Miller Road and in the court yard, and batons had to be used freely to force the people back and to give the rescuers a chance to do their
Distinguished Passengers.
London, Mar. 30.
The Armstrong Siddeley alr lin- er, inaugurating the Imperial Air- ways Service to India, loft Croy- don nt 10 o'clock en route to Basle on the first stage of her 5,000: miles' flight.
The pilot is Captain A. S. Wil- cockson.
Later.
There was a complete absence of fuss when the air liner departed to the scheduled minute.
The Air Minister, Sir Samuel Honre, his secretary, Major Bul- lock, Air Vice-Marshal Sie Vyeli Vyvyan and one of the Air Minis- try Directors of Imperial Airways were the only passengera: 364 lbs. of mail were aboard-Reuter.
Van
Fire Station and tho. rescue and the Fire Brigado's two Graham trucks arrived with the Brigade Chief, Capt J. Gordon Dyson. When all the stretchors available had been used up, the men tore down doorways and placed the in- jured on these, All who appeared seriously hurt were taken in the resoue van and the trucks to St. Luke's Hospital, where they re- ceived dent aid, before those who had to be detained were distributed among the Lestor Chinese Hospital, Bt. Elizabeth's, and the -Chapel Hospitals. Four were carried to hospital in the manager's Buick Saloon.
Explosion of Box of Matches.' Though the chief energies of the
work. Crowds were pressed backfire brigade were concentrated on
as far as Haining Road and a row. of police prevented their surging in again towards the gates.
Good Work by Hospitals, As the confusion subsided inside the filature grounds, it was possible for the police and Bremen to attend
the immediate necessity for Saving life, the precaution of ascertaining where the blaze which had caused. it was located was not overlonkel, It was found that the whole affair had been caused, by a false alarm From the story pieced together from the accounts of eye-witnesses
to the wounded. The serious when their excitement subsided. casualties were picked up below the sufficiently for them to be coherent, top of the stairs where was
learned that a box of the it was highest drop. A newly placed prop matches had exploded in the pocket at this place was splashed with of one of the overseers. A small blood up to about four feet from the placs it touched the grand. One woman was picked up here who apparently had broken her back.
In the meantime a telephone call had been sent through to Central
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