THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1936.
FUSED WIRE CAUSED PALACE BLAZE
How A Famous Landmark Caught Fire
Site May Become
Sports Stadium
A
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 manager. "It happened in an officials' rest room behind my offices, in practically the centre of the palace.
"He saw a streak of flame run- ning along the top of the room. The place was ablaze in a ment. The time was 7.25 p.m.
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"I thought of Arst that gas was the cause. Now we know."
TOWERS INTACT
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The result of that fused wire was the smoking pile of ruins that now spread between the two towers, still intact
I walked precariously among the wreckage, I picked up the bead of a statue. With a penny I Induced a musical box to play.
Gold-Osh In the big tank were un- affected.
The Palace, costing £1,300,000 in ጌዲፗነ insured for £110,000.
1654, There is another £80,000 covered by policies held by companies that traded inside the building.
Demolition work will cost thou-
sands of pounds. All revenue, ex-
cept for the car track, which opens
will cease. to-morrow,
The trustees face a inancial crisis, It will be many months before new plans for the 200-nere site can be set going. When they are, the Palace will becom
A sports stadium, or A pleasure park, or
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An exhibition ground, with new
Bulidings.
Discussing these possibilities Str Henry Buckland said the trustees would meet soon at the Guildhall.
"At least two members of the Gov- ernment-Lard Hallsham and Lord Plymouth--are among the trustees," he said. "The site belongs to the nation for all time. Houses CRN never be Built on it.
The trustees have absolute authority, under Act of Parliament, to adopt any proper scheme for the site. it a sports syndicate were formed, for instance, I am sure they from the overnight would be glad to hear their plans."
For another penny I obtained a plece of chocolate from a machine
blaze.
warm
Outside the derelict barriended
area probably 250,000 Londoners Old Army Horses:
sicod during the day to see what was
left of their "old Palace"--more then over paid to go in on any day during ils. life.
Humanity Orders
IT LINKS TWO GREAT CITIES
Photograph shows the enormous trafe which passes over the new San Francisco-Oakland Bridge. The photo was inken from Yerba Buena Island looking towards San Francisco.
An assurance has been given in French Navy Bans
the House of Commons that old Army horses serving abrond which were no longer of use would be brought home to Britain for disposal or painlessly destroyed under Army supervision.
All Fancy Salutes
So many people went there that the crowds were almost uncontral-
Paris, Dec. 20. able. Traffic was in chupa, some of
Communist clenched fists and train services running an hour late.
Sir Victor Warrender. Under-Faselst raised arms will no longer be Here are some fire "aftermaths": Secretary for War, said that Instruc- tolerated in the French Navy under tions to this effect had been issued. an order issued to-day banuing any 200 of the workpeople perman- No Army horses would be sold to sifute or gesture not nuthorised by ently employed are to be retained | locul Inhabitants abroad.
Navy regulations-Reuler. for the present.
Four kittens, ten ennaries, two
parakeets were burned,
Minnie, resident cat, was saved
by n Areman after che had made three attempts to return for ber kittens.
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The Clue In The Pot Of Ointment
POLICE 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 store 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 hoy 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., Morrla 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 Commerciul
Cars, Ltd., Birmingham, S.U. Car- Her Passion
burettors,
Birmingham, and
Morris Oxford Press,
the
One million Ordinary stock units of Morris Motors, Ltd., have been presented to create a trust fund for workers' pensions.
Lord Nuffield has made it plain that fils latest gift was
the for exclusive benefit of wage-earners. and not of the salaried staff. Officials already have their pen- slons fund.
"I have given much thought to the establishment of a scheme where- by wage-earners might share in the prosperity of the business.
£2,125,000
"The marketing of the Ordinary
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FORESTS (BIRÜLKY,
BRASSIERCO
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,
"Dividends on these units will bo ulised to create a fund wuch will be distributed among the cm- 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 wage-carnor-beneficiaries."
with the
Mr. A. E. Keen will be chairman, and Mr. B. Soward secretary, of the Oxford fund.
Lord Nuffield's latest gift means
in the ten years he has
an
For Bridge
Cost Her Life
Gycer (Hungary), Dec: 24.
MRS. LAZAR HERBI, young
wife of a Gycer lawyer, became a bridge fiend two years 120.
She spent all her evenings in bridge clubs, neglected her home and chlidren.
Mr. Herbl fled a suit for. divorce. The court to-day grani- ed him a decreo,
"When Mrs. Herbt heard the verdict she went home and shot herself.
BABY LAY UNDER SEVERAL TRAINS
-Escaped
Father Jailed
JOHN WILLIAM
CHARLES
STEPNEY, 24-year-old finc aris assistant. of Purcell Cres- cent, North Fulham, BW. who threw his baby over a bridge, was sentenced to seven years venal servitude at lie Old Balley Uls manth 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, notleed a bun- dle between the running rail and the live rail.
Shock For Rescuer
He helped Police Constable Turnell down to the line at a time when, a train was passing over it. The ofl- cer recovered the baby and in doing so received a shock.
"You may think it is a miracle that the child is alive," added Mir. McClure. "A
number of trains
of the
passed over the track, on which the child was. She was under the five rail, and sparks were appearing to strike through
her The baby bore no signs effect of the fall from the parapet, which was 21
feet high.. Asked that night If he still had his daughter, Stepney sold to the police: have killed my baby. I threw it over the bridge at Love Lane, Black- heath. could not afford to keep her”
Mr. Mervyn Grimh Jones, who de- fended, said that financial difcuities had preyed upon Stepney to such an extent that when he committed the net he had for the monent lost its 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 can describe in sum- cient terms the abominable act which you committed."
ointment and found it had EX-NAVAL
ATTACHE
been pressed down on the top.
of a mun suspected of the theft of ile was examining the bedroom a diamond and platinum ring and he had found the ointment pot In B suitcase.
Superintendent Says--
His suspicions groused, the super- |intendent put his hand in the oint- ment and felt something hard. He 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 penknite and an oint- ment pot at Dorchester Police Court when Percival Charles Tamuradge, of Hillingdon St. Walworth, SE, was committed for trial at Dorchester Sessions on a charge of stealing the ring from a Dorchester landlady.
MRS. JILL WYNDHAM SUES CO-FLIER
woman
. The
CA
SHOT
APTAIN GEOFFREY STEWART FLEETWOOD-NASII, retired na val officer, former naval attache at the British Embassy In Berlin, was found shot-in-his-fat-at-Lexham Gardens, Kensington, recently:
He had been out in his car in the morning, return at midday, went nto the drawing-room, locking the door behind him.
His German' housekeeper, Fruulcin Scher, heard a shot, called the police.
Police forced the door, found.
Captain Fleetwood-Nash lying
with a service rifle between lis knees.
Fraulein Seher, said that Captain Fleetwood-Nash lived alone. She added:
"He had no love affairs and so far as I know he had no debts." Captain Fleetwood-Nash command- ed the destroyers Llewellyn (Harwich Force) and Radiant during the war,
9 p.m. CURFEW ON A WIFE
Imposed By Husband's Stepfather
Mrs. Jill Wyndham, young, Dir-j
a who broke Capetown- London air record Just November, has, started High Court proceedings
Durham, Dec. 21. ogainst her companion on the flight, Sarah Wilson, aged 31, of Elvet Flying Officer David Llewellyn, son Bridge, Durham, suing to-day for a of Sir Williura Llewellyn, president, separation allowance, was stated to have been ordered a 9 p.m. "curfew" of the Royal Academy. dispute
arises out of the by her husband's stepfather with arrangements for the flight.
whom they stayed shortly after On Armistice Day last year
Mrs. marriage. Wyndham
and Flying Officer
She found herself back in Llewellyn
their way across Middle Ages said her solicitor. forced Europe through 1,000 miles of log The stepfather wanted to "rule and clouds to snatch the record on the roost" and would not let her the Inp of
Tast
the flight.
slay out after D'p.m., even when ac companied by her husband,
The writ for the a tion has been served on behalf of Mrs. Wyndham
the
Mr. H. Curry, for the husband, sald
by Mr. J. Thompson Halsall, Bed- the wife wanted to lend a gay life ford Row, WCL Messrs. W. R. and was not prepared to accept Bennett and Co. have entered an minor restrictions. appearance on behalf of Flying Ofileer Llewellyn.
WATSON'S
The Bench granted a separation
allowance of Us, a week,
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Crashing through to
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