THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1936.
FUSED WIRE CAUSED PALACE BLAZE
How A Famous Landmark Caught Fire
Site May Become
A
Sports Stadium
FUSED electric wire, it is stated, caused the great blaze that sent the Crystal Palace crashing to its
doom.
"One of my staff firemen spotted the fusing," said Sir Henry Buckland, general "It happened in an officials' rest room behind my offices, in practically the centre of the palace.
manager.
"He saw a streak' of flame run- ning along the top of the room The place was ablazu in ment. The time was 7.25 p.m.
TBD
"I thought at first that gas was the cause. Now we know,"
TOWERS
INTACT
are
The result of that fused wire was the smoking pile of ruin that now spread between the two towers, still intact.
I walked precariously among the wreckage. I picked up the head of a state. With a penny I induced a musical box to play.
For another penny I'obialned a piece of chocolate from a martine
$13 WATO
from the overnight
blaze.
Outside
Gold-fish in the big tank were un- affected.
The Palace, costing £1,350,000 in. £110,000. There is another £00,000 covered, by policies held by companies that traded inside the building.
1854, was insured for
Demolition werk will cost
thou-
sands of pounds. All revenue, cx-
cept for the car track, which opens to-morrow, will cease.
The trustees face a financial crisis, It will be many months before new plans for the 200-acre site can be set When they are, the Palace going. will become
A sports
stadium, or
A pleasure park, or
An exhibition ground, with new
buildings.
Discussing these possibilities Sir Henry
Buckland said the trustees would meet soon at the Guildhall,
"At least two members of the Gov- ernment Lord Hailsham and Lord. Plymouth are among the trustees," he said: "The alle belongs to the
on for nation all time. Houses can
built
on it. never be
The
absolute trustees have authority, under Act of Parliament, to adopt any proper scheme for the it n aporta syndicate were site. formed, for instance, I am sure they would be glad to hear their plans,"
Londoners Old Army Horses:
Humanity Orders
the derellet barricaded oren probably 250,000 stood during the day to see what was left of their "old Palace"-more than ever paid to go in on any day during its life.
So many people went there that the crowds were almost uncontrol- able. Traffic was in chaps, some of train services running in hour late.
Here are some fire "aftermaths": 200 of the workpeople perman- ently employed are to be retained for the present.
Four kittens, ten canatics, two parakeets were burned.
Minnie, resident cat, was saved by a fireman after sho had made three attempts to return for her kittens.
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Photograph shows the enormous traffic which passes over the new San Francisco-Oakland Bridge. The photo was
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French Navy Bans
All Taney' Salutes
Paris, Dec. 20.
the House of Commons that old Army horses serving abroad which were no longer of use would be brought home to Britain for disposal or painlessly destroyed under Army supervision. Communist clenched Asts and Sir Vietor Warrender, Under-Fascist raised arms will no longer be Secretary for War, said that instruc-tolerated in the French Navy under tions to this effect had been issued. an ordor issued to-day banning any No Army horses would be sold to salute or gesture not authorised by
Navy regulations-Reuter. local inhabitants abroad.
token
The Clue In The Pot
Of Ointment
род
LICE SUPERIN- TENDENT LOVELL
BET-DAMAGE $5,000 looked into the pot of
Minden Mines, Dec. 1.
Two school boys disagreed. One said the little stream trickling down the gutter in the middle of town was water. The other thought it was gasoline, They tossed a match into it. It was gasoline Damage to stere fronts totalled approximately $5,000 when a sheet of flame ran up the gutter to a truck where a driver was draining what he thought was water from the truck tank. Anyway, the second boy won his bet.
He Remembered. "Men On The Clock"
£2,125000
GIFT
TWENTY THOUSAND workers who clock in every
morning were made shareholders of their com- pany by Lord Nuffield recently when he gave £2,125,000 to wage-earners in all companies of the Morris group.
These companies Include Morris medical research at Oxford was the Motors, Ltd., Morris Industries Ex-largest ever made to an institution port Company, the M.G. Car Com- by a living man. pany, Morris Radiators, Morris En-
gines, Coventry, Wolseley Motors,
Birmingham, Morris Commercial
Cars, Ltd., Birmingham, S.U. Her Passion
burettors,
Birmingham,
Morris Oxford Press.
Cor- and the
One million Ordinary stock units
of Morris Motors, Ltd., have been presented to create a trust fund for workers' pensions,
Lord Nuleid has raade it plain the that ble test gift was for exclusive benefit of wage-carners, and not of the salaried staff.. Omcials already have their pen- sions fund.
"I have given much thought to the catablishment of a scheme where- by wage-earners might share in the prosperity of the business.
£2,125,000
Ordinary
"The marketing, of the stock units of Morris Motors, Ltd., recently, offered a simple solution to my problem. I propose to convey to the hands of trustees 1,000,000 these units,, representing a present! market value of £2,125,000.
of
"Dividends on these units will be utilised to create a fund which will be distributed among the em- ployees who are 'on the clock.' "Control of the fund will be in the hands, of members of Morris firms, who are in close touch
with
wage-earner-beneficluries."
the
Mr. A. E. Keen will be chairman,
and Mr. D. Soward secretary, of the
Oxford fund.
Lord Numeld's latest gift means
thai in the last ten years he has
given away. £5,885,000.
For Bridge
Cost Her Life
Gycer (Hungary), Dec. 24. MRS. LAZAR HERBI, young wife of a Greer lawyer, became a bridgo flend two years SRO.
She spent all her evenings in bridge clubs, neglected her home and children.
Mr. Herb Bled a suli' for divorce. The court to-day grant» ed him a decree.
Wien Mrs. Herbl heard the verdict she went home and shot herself.
been pressed down on the
BABY LAY
UNDER SEVERAL TRAINS
-----Escaped
Father Jailed
JOHN
WILLIAM
CHARLES
nae
STEPNEY, 24-year-old
arts assistant, of Purcell Cres- cent, North Fulham, SW, who threw his baby over a bridge,, was sentenced to seven years penal servitude at the Old Balley this month for attempted murder. It was stated by Mr. G. B. McClure. prosecuting, that a man crossing the bridge saw an empty pram and, look- ing over the parapet, nolleed a bun dle between the running rail and the Hve rail,
Shock For Rescuer
n
He helped Police Constable Turnell down to the line at a time when train was passing over it. The om- cer recovered the baby and in doing so received a shock.
"You may think It is a miracle that the child is alive," added Mr. McClure. "A number of trains passed over the track on which the child was. She was under the live rall, and sparks were appearing to strike through her." The
The baby bore no signs
of the
effect of the fall from the parapet, which was 21 feet high,
Asked that night if he still had his daughter, Stepney said to the police: "I have killed my baby. I threw It over the bridge at Love Lane, Black- benth. I could not afford to keep
her."
Mr. Mervyn Griffith Jones, who de-. fended, said that financial difficulties had preyed upon Stepney to such an. extent that when he committed the net he had for the moment lost his power of reason.
Mr. Justice Singleton, passing sen- tence, said: "It is a mercy indeed that the child was not killed, No words of mine con describe in suf- clent terms the abominable. act which you committed."
ointment and found it had EX-NAVAL
ATTACHE
top.
He was
of a man suspected of the theft of
examining the bedroom
a diamond and platinum ring and he had found the ointment pet in suitcase.
Superintendent Says-
a
SHOT
"APTAIN GEOFFREY STEWART FLEETWOOD-NASI, retired na-
val officer, former naval attache at. His suspicions aroused, the super- the British Embassy in Berlin, was Intendent put, his hand in the oini-|found shot in his flat at Lexham ment and felt something hard. He Gardens, Kensington, recently. drew the article out and, according to his statement, it was the stolen ring.
Superintendent Lovell demon- strated his search for the ring with a borrowed penknife and an oint- ment pot at Dorchester Police Court when Percival Charles Tamaradge, of Hngdon St, Walworth, SE, was committed for trial at Dorchester Sessions on a charge of stealing the ting from a Dorchester landindy.
MRS. JILL WYNDHAM SUES CO-FLIER
Mrs. Jill Wyndham, young air- who broke a Capetown- London air record last November, bas
woman
He had been cut in his car in the morning, returned at midday, went into the drawing-room, locking the door behind him
His German housekeeper, Fraulein Scher, heard a shot, called the police. Police forced the door, found Captain Fleetwood-Nash lying with
A service rifle between his knees.
Fraulein Scher said that Captain
Fleetwood-Nash lived alone. She added: "He had no love affairs and so far as I know he had no debis," Captain Fleetwood-Nash command- ed the destroyers Llewellyn (Horwich Force) and Radiant during the war,
9 p.m. CURFEW ON A WIFE
Imposed By Husband's Stepfather
started High Court proceedings gainst her companion on the fight, Officer David Llewellyn, son of Sir William Llewellyn, president, of the Royal Academy.
The dispute arises out of arrangements for the fight.
On Armistice Day last year Wyndham and Flying Officer Llewellyn forced their way across Europe through 1,000 miles of fog and clouds to snatch the record on tho last lap of the flight.
The writ for the action has been served on Thompson Holsall, Bed- the wife wanted to lead a gay life behalf of Mrs. Wyndham Mr. H. Curry, for the husband, said by Mr. Xord Row, WCI, Messrs, W. Rand was not prepared to accept Bennett and -Co. have entered anj minor restrictions.
Durham, Dec. 21. Sarah Wilson, aged 31, of Elvet Bridge, Durham, suing to-day for a separation allowance, was stated to have been ordered a 9 p.m. “curfew"" tho by her husband's stepfather with whom they stayed shortly after Mro. marriage.
She found herself back in the Middle Ages said her solicitor.
The stepfather
wanted to "rule the roost" and would not let her slay, out after 9.p.m., even when re- companied by her husband.
on behalf of Flying
The Bench granted a separation allowance of 58. a week.
appearance Oficer Llewellyn.
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