THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1938.
LEFT-HAND TURNS TRAFFIC DANGER A pound of value.
Cause of
Accidents Must Be
Eliminated
Right-Hand Turns Are Suggested As Solution
Something should be done to eliminate the danger of left-hand turns by motor vehicles at busy city! intersections.
They have been responsible for many traffic accidents,
A system of warning signals should be devised or left-hand turns forbidden altogether and the ban strictly enforced.
A Traffic official told the Telegraph that the left-hand turn was a problem that was causing trouide all over the world.
In some big cities only right-han! turns are permitted, but stich a system has never been tried out here.
Harried By Cars
Motorists have complained that compulsory right-hand turns involve a serious loss of time, but some trafike¦ authorities say that the safety margin for pedestrians is increased.
Commenting on the problem thei official said that pedestrians had their responsibilities as well as motorists.
"The left-hand turn," he copercled, "is a real problem."
Mologists my that a left-hour tim signal is not renesary as a guide to trale coming up behind, witut to the regulation forbidding vehicles i in rear from coming in on tire left to pass.
Pedestrians. In Way
The problem of avokding persamut through Hs of pedestrians one Which is difficult to salver
A car held up by the autumatie signal at the De Voeux Hog- Pedder Street Intersection may have to turn left towards the watsfront when the signal for release in given. The pedestrians also move acres the 19 street, but, it was asked, culti a driver wishing to turn left be ex- pected to stand still? If he plug the will be holding up cars behind him.
This view
confirmed Telegraph, which carried out ear tests at city intersections on Satur- day. At every intersection where at left-hand turn was made pedestrians i were in the way of the advancing car.
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Obviously, the traße vonstable has his work cut out controlling the two- way stream of vehicles, and under existing clitions a constable busy intersections to control pedes- trinns would appear necessary,
2-YEAR EXILE FROM PORTUGAL
ROYALIST LEADER'S SECOND DISGRACE
Lisbon. Col. Paiva Couceiro, the farmer Royalist lender, has been deported. from Portugal for two years. This is the sequel to teller he sent to Dr. Salazar, the Prime Minister. al- leging e grave situation in the Por-
laying tuguese
the colonies and responsibility on the Government.
(2) The usual sign denoting Left to right: (1) The usual trafic sign denoting that the driver is about to make a riall-hand furt that the driver is about, to stop. (3) A suggested sign to indiente a left-hand terii; the finger points to the street. In some quarters, it It is suggested, however, that 'the pass sign should be made is said that this sien would be confusing, as it is the present sign to pass.
by a circular motion of the hand with the arm fully extended downward.
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Pedestrians at "A" are In the left-hand diagram the north and south-bound trake is held up-the east and west line open. waiting to cross Car "I" intends to turn left when tratti Uns elates. Right-hand diagram shows the east-west traffic held up, and
north-south open. Pedestrians "A" off when the trattle went with ahem, but are cut geross by car "1."
Two Germans Arrested
Near The Maginot Line
SECRETS
BUT FORTS CAN MAY BE
BE SEEN IN
THE CINEMAS
Paris.
While the puller and secret service are using every effort to keep the Maginot Lam free of sples. French people are daily seeing a film which faithfully reproduces the interior of one of the forts.
M. Felix Gandera, producer of the film "Double Crime on the
Maginot Line." sald to-day:-
"I spent whole days inside the fortress, with, of course, a !!!!
ary escort. was allowed to take mutes. The lm is a faith- fut reproduction.
"I was not shown
maps plans indicating the mechanical organisation the line.
of shown how mobilisation would work."
"Eire" for "Ireland"
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London, Dec. 2.
It has come at.last.
the
"Ireland" is to be dismissed from the school books of The colone! was asked to state the Irish Free State and she is in sources of his information. An in-future to be known
g "Eire" quiry was held, and it was shown pronounced AIRA, although that the accusation were ground-when the English Enguage is used the word "laveland" will be
jcm.
He refused to admit his mistake, permitted. however, and circulated the original letter to the Government among his friends. As a similar incldent ve- current a few years ago, for which Col. Couceiro was deported for une gear. It was decided that he must again be punished.
la view of his advåneed age-he
IN NAZI HANDS
Parts.
Frasco fears that impart- ant
of Jirt mighty secrets Maginot Line of steel and can- crete fortifications, belog built for 600 miles along the frontier. have fallen into German hands.
Six men arrested at lunniague. near where the Maginot Line is being extended to protret France from in- vasion through Switzerland, are said to have confes ed to handing over in- ! formation to the German secret ser- vice.
SIX IN PRISON
Two of the men, "Supposedly the f | leuders, are Germans. They are in
prison at Strasbourg. Four French-, men are held in the military prison! at Besancon.
One Way To Dic Young-
The future of this gentleman is Warronts (or other arrests have almost as uncertain as that of a been issued.
Christmas turkey. fie is Japanese
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bomb expert; wearing gasmask and ↑ ments. French engineers are now work-rubber gloves he is examining two ing on secret plans to extend the Chinese bombs which did not expinde Maginot Line south along the Swiss when they landed on their targets. frontier and north-west along the Belgion frontier.
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to be spring no effort or money to It is understood that. Count Volpi, lears just what the French engineers Signor Mussolini's chief financial and economie adviser, who spent a good The Irish Free State has informed are doing along the new line."
M. Daladier announced that in deal of time in London recently, lins the Longue of Nations of her decision.
Such a change is completely with-retion with the Belgian frontier given large orders for industrial plant out surprise, since for a long time forts, a system of dykes would be for italien factories and for future now Irish has been compulsory in tabling wide districts to be Italian enterprise in Abyssinia. the schools, and English words have} been frowned on for some time.
Bonded,
Toronto.
More surprising (says a London correspondent) is that at the same time Count Volpi, on his Govern Is over 75-and his former services This attitude towards England and į to the country I was ordered to the English language may give the SUICIDE NOTE BLAMES CAÑADA ment's behalf, has been sounding Delish armament firms na their remain out of Portugal for only two impression that there is great enmity
readiness to Rupply heavy guns and years. The Government announre-between the two countries. This is ment adds that the colonel WOR not so and on going for a holiday In
Life savers vainly dragged the tmplements for fortress cannon and treated with the utmost consideration the Irish Free Stale, every courtesy waters of Toronto harbour when an coast batteries. by the authorities. contrary to his la shown the Englishman, and both unsigned message was found chalked | It appears that orders of thin sialement in a second letter of pro-nationalities certainty Join in and on a plng on the water front which category went to Germany zome time test to Dr. Salazar.
enjoy the same jokes. Politics are sold: "I'm tired of Canadian go, but that the material furnished
the discussed freely and nithough there government. They have glolen my was unsatisfactory, owing to the
It is rumoured that other Royallet And Integralist sympathisers were ...also, arrested.-
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