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BRITAIN'S WORST MacIntyre
M
TRAIN
CRASH
SEE THEM ---- TRY THEM morning, in that corner of cub reporter, still in the stage another victim
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A
most of them had men at the Front to whom death might come in this or worse shape- many, likely, thought "this was Quickly, but carefully, bit by how he looked." They were *AY 22, 1916. · War "shirring" and tape machines
people stricken dumb, unable "elick-clacking" in every news- bit, this twisted rail, that clouds darkened Eu- paper office in the United King- fractured sleeper, without fuss, even to shed tears.
here on that dom. In one of them sat Ia without hysteria, and rope, but
was exposed. of police-court pars. There was Drawn forth, laid on the grass
So the day wore on, its sunshine a mockery, or the flat Border country be- no one else available. It was a to await the stretcher parties. Nothing Cover the mangled, calcined
a blessing as you took it. tween England and Scot- Saturday
over "breaks" on Saturdays. body with his khaki cont; cover More people arriving: break- down gangs, the huge cranes to land, it was peaceful enough. The early messages gave little the tortured face.
"Who is it, Jock? D'ye ken raise
People the wreckage. The sun shone on the "r no hint of the enormity of
the disaster. Besides there was him?”
talked, not too loudly-they wide fields; there were no a war on. A troop train was
"It's Willie Fergie; gic's a even laughed. They ate; there involved. The censorship would
was food and drink for the sounds save the clank of the
see to it that nothing much got lift wi' him."
They lay dotted all over the soldiers. One forgot horror in milk pails in the dairy into the papers. Nothing much
field, the silent men in khaki, face of the irrevocable. People that day. Editors were
awaiting removal to the barn went back to the towns to tell yards; the lone cry of the scary.
Some who had come Stubbs Rd. whaup by the marsh mea-
"Get the full story," said the which was their morgue. From their tale in kitchen and tap-
every town within call
am- room. dows, the far-off shrick of News Editor, "we'll risk the troop train nearing the special Sunday edition, if we bulance uid had come for the from afar decided to go on and injured. The civilian dead had visit the blacksmith's forge be- can get past with it."
been taken away. They were not fore they went home.
The little piles of equipment junction.
We jammed into an Old Bill so numerous. It was the soldiers Early workers in the near-by taxi, myself, a stray photo- who had suffered most, whose were set out neatly on the grass
the wing, prescrice gave the scene heads to grapher caught on
its the rifles, the burnt haversacks. Smell of burning still lingered felds raised their watch it pass, to wave farewell men from other papers, assem- battlefield aspect.
from nowhere. Down to the glengarry-bonneted lads b
For them it was "all in the in the air. The dead were all of accounted for-as many as could Day who would be hanging out of through the long, winding roads, day's work," a recurrence
with their stone dykes, through what they knew, a foretaste of be in the circumstances,
changing to dusk, and the windows, waving to the town and village where only old what might await them "over was
numbed with fatigue losses. Braw, braw lads, a men and wives were to be seen there." They were disciplined, nerves
Now cama battalion of the 7th Royal Scots now, the bonny Border country, controlled. Bonnetless, without were immune to further shock, on their way to the foreign land green fold on fold beneath the equipment, they did their job,
Impossible to think of cigarette in mouth, almost Strangest, most thrilling, heart- where denth awaited them, sun.
death and malignant fate on callously, it seemed. Some had rending scene of all, maybe. It gave ye a catch in such a day.
blood-stained bandages about note, and the quick scurrying of the throat. .
But then the field itself. Ere their heads; some an arm in a the tired khaki men into line- The train rounded the curve, long we were to see--most of sling. Some limped, some had thin khaki line straggling across went us-those other fields where hair and eyebrows scorched by the field, shuffling into place, steel and flame and mounded the flames, some fingers scared eyes right in alignment, number- screaming past to its destiny, ruin made inferno and men in by the hot metal and smoulder- ing"One, two, three, four--," Officer in command calling out head-on collision with the for- khaki moved with quiet purpose ing wood. They were grimed,
exhausted, the names: "Ferguson," "Pre- "McFie," "Present"; gotten local train from Carlisle among the still figures that lay tattered, shocked,
They sent"; which had been switched on to on the earth, supplicating arms but they were soldiers.
(silence) "Ab- the up line to make way for a raised to the heavens.
sprang to attention when the "Macdonald” Strange initiation. It was so harassed officer survivors spoke sent." So on it went, until the than the reality; it blunted the from men, in soiled uniforms, silent. edge of horror. There was no worn with fatigue. Hound now, no weeping or wail-
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Mrs. I. F. Westlake wishes to thank all those who kindly sent messages of condolence in her bereave-
ment; for flowers and attendance at the funeral.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, MAY 23. 1030.
ONLY A SPARK
IS NEEDED
A spark can set all Europe blazing.
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☆ ☆ 않
And then "The Last Post," the dim bugler, scarcely seen, blowing his piercing notes in the still caller air of the Borderland
PEOPLE came from vil night-notes that pierced your
lages far and near to heart.
The help, or merely to look. roads were thick with them, on Men, THE great, writhen mon- bicycles, in cars, afoot.
sters that were trains women (the weird women of
2 43 4
were
Pas-
Crisis has followed crisis in the past few months, but there has not been a single instance it. where the situation was more fraught with menace than that
The whey-faced men in the ing, no cries for help, stiffed as existing at this moment. The danger lies in the pledges given signal box who had forgotten the creeping flames passed on. It had happened; it had ended. the local train saw the express by various Governments.
☆ ☆ ☆ Hitler has sworn to defend any approach. It was too late to do anything to avert the holocaust. persons of German blood against While yet debris from that first
THERE were 500 of them set out on that journey death at the hands of persecu-shell-buret shock was whizzing
Jay spent, smashed, fantastically that period with their floppy from Edinburgh; 187 tors, no matter where they are. shrapnel-like through the air, up-ended across the track. Rail- hats and voluminous skirts) and dead; 191 were injured. If any incident causes a serious and flame was sending greedy wny men, soldiers, farm workers, children. The field was like a sengers on the local train, the clash between the Sudeten Ger-adder tongues towards the im- everybody, anybody, were work show-ground and their curiosity express, and railway servants express ing ant-like, slowly, laboriously, was as untouched with awe as accounted for the other dead mans and the Czecho-Slovakians, prisoned doomed, the
into the wreckage, hopelessly, it seemed, among though the figures beneath the and injured. therefore, Herr Hitler is bound crashed
The cause of the disaster, it If his troops ploughed through it, mounted it the splintered ruin, to reach the sheets and sacks and greatcoats
There were had been waxworks.
War was afterwards revealed, and collapsed a top of it, a writh. dead-the dying.
some still there, it was said, but
They walked among the ranks the error of the signalman at the Czecho-Slovakian the
ing dragon apuming hissing they could not be reached. They of the dead, looked idly upon Quintin's Hill box in leaving the frontier, those powers who have steam and fiery coal in its death had been locked in.
them, noted the tortured local train untended, ac pting signed defensive alliances with throes.
Could nothing be done? No, gestures in which death had the troop train from the next nothing. Was there no power to taken them, and passed on to box. He should have been on the Czech are sure to march.
In that disaster 227 died and tear away that deadweight of the next rank. They filtered duty at 0a.m., he did not relieve Both France and Russia arc
246 were injured.
wood and metal, to let them through the barn-morgue one by his mate until 6.30. The man bound to assist the Czechs.
The reverberations of that breathe the clean air again, see one to gaze upon the contorted he was relieving was reading a when the first newspaper Obviously, a false move at this
triple
telephones a human face, clutch a succour figures there these set
ing hand, before the blackness ones "burned beyond recogni- collision occurred. Juncture may bring about pre-
came upon them? No; nothing tion"-a horror too pitiful to be
Both signalmen were sub- They more could be done than human described.
were cisely the same situation as
not sequently tried at Edinburgh on merely morbid, these people a charge of culpable homicide. occurred in 1914, with Russia issues involved and France tackling Germany sufficient consequence. from the cast and west, und It is a fact, just the same, that Britain hesitant. As for the seemingly trivial things can be GRIN AND BEAR IT British Government, much will magnified into tremendous signi- depend upon developments.ficance. From this far distance Britain is not pledged to defend it does seem incredible that the Czecho-Slovakia. But she is deaths of two German farmers pledged to Belgium and France. should bring all Europe to the It is almost inevitable that she field of battle. But the danger would align herself with France. is there. Just such another |
However, the situation is by spark may spread the fire. For no means hopeless.
such things lead to reprisals, mass killings,
The chief
shock
EURASIA AVIATION CORPORATION solace may be found in the fact and reprisals to
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HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure in 1930 on behalf of sick and destituto children is estimated at $27,000, against which the Income to date in $10,000 only.
In order to continue its work, the Society asks for the balance of
$12,000
before the close of the financial year on
31st October,
Hon. Treasurers:
Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,
c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,
P. & O. Building.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o The Banque de L'Inde Chine,
• Hongkong.
are not
of hands could do.
that all Governments are appar-and any development of that ently striving, with all sincerity, nature will be more than enough to dissolve the crisis whch has to start, the war machines. crystalised since the two Sude-
Once started it is difficult- impossible, perhaps--to control|
ten German farmers were shot on the Czech border. The detalis a marching nation. History
of that unfortunate affair have
WOB
showed that in 1914. Russia not come to light. Unless Czech and Austrin mobilised; and crowds lose their heads or before the pacific-minded powers Sudoton Germans do some mad | had time to intervene, It thing, it is likely that the electoo late. Nations were already" tlor machinery in the Czecho- | nt each other's throats. Slovakian municipalities will run Calm statecraft is required smoothly. The situation is dan-now. If a single leader loses his gerous, admittedly; but there is grip he is apt to precipitate the no real reason for war. The deluge.
SHOWKE EL LE MPC
were the
One was sentenced to three ¡years' penal servitude, the other
By Lichty to 18 months' imprisonment.
"I don't recognize one of these bitiboards--ď told you we should „have' brought a road map!"
BACK in the office What a story.. writing, writing, writing. Cupa of coffee, cigarettes, Sub- Editors, Reporters, Nowa Editors, Night Editors (a whole nulsance of Editors), comps, copyboys, billmen, waiting, snat- ching the copy slip by slip, shouting, falling over cach other, bawling over telephones. Smell Paste, pencils, scissors.
of printers' ink (smell of burning atill in the nostrile); pounding of the machines (pounding of your own heart.)
сору
"Any more copy
topy. "Leave alone, he's doin' fine." All through the night it seemed. They decided to risk it.
We stept in our boots on the subs' tables, and early Sunday morn- Ing brought us n complete Special Edition - a
"War Edition" they called it (it gave a little news of the war), but most of the disaster descrip tions, stories, interviews, late of names, pictures, streamors, screamers-what you will, or as You Re it was all in the [day's work," too.