THE HONGKONG: TELEGRAPH,
TUNNEL ROADS UNDER
THE WEST END
A New London of
Park Lanes
By W. A. McKENZIE,
The 40,000-words report of Sir Charles Bressey on his three-years survey of Greater London's Highway System, begun in December 1934, was published recent. ly.
As a result of his work motor- lats may live to see London with broad traffic arteries radiating from the centre to all the great trunk roads, with new embank- ments, new bridges, lofty over- head roads, tunnels, and green fringed boulevards
the whole city.
encircling
It shall all come within the next 30 years, and the greater part of it in the next 15.
This is the first serious attempt to
"town-plan." London since proposals the for remodelling Landon öfter
Great Fire skelehed by Sir Christos
pher Wren 270 years ago.
(from Tooting Common in the south to | Marylebone in the north, is projected, Incorporating a tunnel road under Kensington Gardens, Kensington- |road, and Bayswater-rond,
This last route would provide unimpeded irunalt under two of the principal cast-west thorough- foren, and relief in afforded to Church-street, Kensington, and to Park-lane, which, nearly two miles apart, are now overloaded with north-south traffic. To increase the utility of the Thames tunnels at Blackwall and Rotherhithe, the duplication of which 'is advised, the report urges that their approaches on both sides of the river should be improved and extended so that trafle may gain uninterrupted access from remoter parts of the Metropolls.
By this means a direct north-south
TUESDAY,
JUNE
28, 1938.
EMPIRE NEWS
CRISIS THREAT IN
BENGAL INXSENDAALIDANTE
Calcutta.
RADIO BROADCAST
Relay from Lord's Of Second Cricket Match ROTARY SPEECH
Radio Programme
Broadcast by
A feeling that the Dehgal Ministry is attempting to "ruh" the Governor, Z.D.W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. Lord Brabourne, is the first reaction and on Short Wave from 1-2.16 p.m. p.m. on 9.52 m.c's per to the threat of the Prime Minister, and 8-11 Mr. Fazlul-Huq, and a majority of second. hla colleagues to resign if assent to the Bengal Tenancy Amendment Bill is withheld any longer,
12.00-12.20 p.m. (KD) Relny af from St. Service of Intercession John's Cathedral.
. 12.30 Derek Oldham (Tenor) and Marek Weber's Orchestra.
.....
.Derek.
The bill is sponsored by the Gov- ernment, and has passed both Cham bern
Czardas From "The Spirit Of The It is clear that there are doubis
Voyovode" (L Grossmann); The whether an expropriatory measure of Czarina
Orchestra; (Ginne)
Dreams (Fram this sort, designed to relleve small Whisper In Your
Heart').e of my cultivators at the expense of land- Melody
does not cut acruss lords,
central Oldham; The Caravan (Characteris
art. Leopold); legislation in
way that was not the Sketch-Bayer, realised
when the bill passed the The Coolies Of Sumatra (Jessel).. local
assemblies.
Orchestra; Always ("Puritan Lulla Arguments on the subject, con- by"-Dyrenforth and Smith); Castles tained in a memorandum by the In The Air (Ross-Lincie)....Darek Street Serenado Chinese Cabinet against representation by | Oldham;
Lantern Dance Inndlords, which is now before the (Slede); Japanese Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow, (Yoshitomo)....Orchestra. be heard by the 1,00 Time and Weather. may ultimately A Nazi
Patricia Rossborough at the Supreme Court.
In the meantime the Prime Minis- Plano.
Intro: ter declares his intention of proceed- ing to London to interview the Seece. "Nonny Nonny No"-"I'm on a see- tary for India, the Marquess of Zet-saw""Dancing with a Ghost"; It I Oakland-J. P. land,
Love Again (Ben Bengal Jute Mills-An attempt by Murray); Piccadilly Playtime (Lench Dainty Debutante (G. the jule mills Industry to reach-Evans); agreement on the restriction of Scott Wood).
1.15 Reuter and Rugby Press, working hours on the looms
hun falled owing to the refural of 3 per Wenther and Announcements. cent, of the manufacturers to agree
TARGET Catholle Bishop Johann Baptist Sproll of Rof- tenburg, Germany, made the target of severe Nazi criticism on a charge that he did not participate in the plebiscito of Austro-Cemman union.
district Jender demands Bishop resigns.
toute is to be opened up from Victoria 3 YEARS FOR Purk, Hackney, by way of the Black-
wall Tunnel, to the South Cireulu INSPECTOR
road, near Elthem, while the Rother- the Tunnel will form part of a route
the
ten miles long from Stamford HiWHO DRUGGED
the South Circular road near
CONSTABLES
03
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Darling-Selection; สม
1.25
Dance Muste,
0/8 One-Step-Have You Anything to co-operative action.
Sir Robert Bell-Sir Robert Beli, On To-night Matilda Darling? Fox- But whereas Wren's scheme cover-
CHARING CROSS VETO
the former Acting Governor of Bom-Tro-With My Little Horse And ed an area of a square mile, the ter-
Westminster and distret will
URY. has been chosen chairman of Wagon...Bram Martin and His Band ritory now in question extends over
the nearly 2,000 squa e miter in the areas fair-Soho route partly tunnelled, the made less congested by n now May-
Dombay Fire Insurance Associa- from the Holdborn Restaurant, Lon- Harold David Webster (34), tion, which embraces 100 companies don with vocal chorus; Quickstep of about 150 loca, authorities and rela
Don't You Care What Anyone Says, global planning committees, and af-provement of commandeations beformerly a sub-inspector in the fects a population of 9,000,000 people, Lambeth Bridge and South City Police, stationed at Snow ber,
Kensington, and the creation of a pa-Hill. was at the Old Bailey re- and 250,000 vehicle owners,
THREE RING ROADS
Foremost among the reemmmendia- | Hons, as The Daily Mail han forecast,!
are:
A series of ring-rouds designed to deflect traffic from the centre of London;
A
טריות
cast-west rond. arteriol type, 12 miles long?
..
A new north-south road, of which considerable length will be overhead:
Underground ronths or tonnels In Kensington and Westminster to give truffle on the new roles
an unimpeded course;
An extension of Victorin Bry- bankment from Blackfriars to the Tower in the east, and to Putney Bridge in the west;
A new fast route
from the centre of London to Croydon
Aerodrome; and
Motorways, or
Parkways, ra diating from London to provin-
cial centres.
The ring-runds, of which there ili
street.
He will arrive in Bombay in Septem- Fox-Trot-When
Slow
Two
Love
Naval Base Report Denied-Re-Each Other Gerry Moore, (Piano Callei route for the reef of Bout-cently sentenced to three years' ports that the Government of India Soln) in strict Dance Tempo und
is contemplating the establishment the supervision of Victor Silvester; of a naval base on the
Fox-Trot-This Year's Kisses (From On the Avenue'). Roy Fox and const are effchily Wented.
His Orchestra vocal refrain by Mary SOUTH AFRICA
With regard to the tunuria. Sir Charles points out that he ham constantly had in mind the possi- bilty of a future national emer- gency. "I think 11 might be said," he writes, "that this possibility has sometimes turned the scale tu favour of a tunnel.”
The propened new rinile to Croydon would, it is stated, cut the time res quired for a journey from the City de the airport from the present drain to
2018.
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penal servitude for administer ing chloroform to three con- stables with intent to commit Assaults on them.
His plea of not guilty to adminis- tering chloroform with intent to on- dunger lie wha accepted,
Chief Inspector Cummings said that Webster had been 14 years in th City Police and was dismissed un dibe
ciplinary charges arising out of the case. As a cblid he was brought up Other minor projects includes be foster parents, and afterwards of western extension lo the Shooter, the Walfs and Strays Society. Hill by-pass to create a new route pa- j
Aa member of the police force he ralleling New Cross-road and 13- was a painstaking and conscientious heath-rond, and, in connectiun with fuffrer. the proposed north-south CrossIDX Mr. St. John Hutchinson, x.c., de- route, the creation, awstly by an over- fending, asked that sentence should head vinduct, of a link between Holbe postponed and Webster allowed loway in the porth and the South ball in order that he could consult Circular-road near Tulse Hilt.
dorlors at the Institute for the Scien- To provide noble boulevards as exits tine Treatment of Delinquents. and entrances for London fit for the greatest elty In the Empire, five great parkways, or muter ways, on the most modern lines, and totalling 317 miles in length, are planned,
IN DAYS TO COME
Kathinwar
Lec.
1.40 Relay of the Rotary Tifin
GEN. SMUTS'S TRIBUTE Speech from The Roof Garden of the
TO BRITAIN
Cape Town, General Smuts, visiting the town of Aller, said that he was last there during the Boer War,
General Smuts said
Hongkong Hotel.
S. Delaney. Speaker: Mr. Phil. Subject: Trans-Ocean Flying Pro- gress and Prospects."
2.15
Close Down.
6.00 Musical Comedy Selections. Words And Musle-Selection; in- Britain's "act of "unparalleled generosity" in restoring self-govern Spring; Children of the Ritz: Younger Something to do with tro:-Maggie: ment to the Transvaal and Orange Generation; Mad about the boy; Free State after the Boer War, he Let's say Goodbye: The Party's over continued, had inade i Britain's now: Let's Liv
Live Dangerously friend "und her friend I shall die."
Vocal Debroy Somers Band with General
Sinuts. speaking at chorus by Dan Donovan: Ind
Indian Love Queenstown, replied to on assertion Call (From "Rose Marie"- -Frimi); ter, was trying to do away with the Song"Romberg)....E that General Hertzog, Prime Minis-The Desert Song (From "The Desert .Edith Day and term British subject inat when it view
Robert Naylor with Orchestra: Re- Of Revies; Intro:-Wedding in hd Impracticable was found
to Glide (Hullo Ragtime); Let
Let the Grent alter the term British subject as des- Big World Keep Turning (The Bing criptive of subjects of the Empire, Girls Are There); Where the Black- was on the motion of General Hert eyed Susana (Cheep); First love, last zog that the matter was dropped by love, the Imperial
ve. Best
love
(The Bing Boys Conference.
Broadway); Gaby Glibe (Hullo Rog "Missing Link."The right upper time); If You were the only Girl in "I daresay that certala section of jew of a primeval man, believed to the World: Another little drink (Tho
ronstitute the adays to come no one will be sent to
"missing link" be- Bing Boys arc prison for any offence, but that we
man, has been do: Miss Ragtime): How do you} (Hullo Raguire), the ape and tween found by Dr. Robert Broom in the When the Angelus is Ringing snult adopt other methods.
Sterkfontein enves near Krugersdorp, Bess as usual): Military Mary Ann Transvaal. Dr. Broom stated that (Hullo Raglime).Debroy Somera "the rather startling fuct was re-
Band with vocal chorus Dnn
by vealed that the canine tooth is en- Donovan; Helen (Act 1: "O goltlich larged, የነ።
(Act 2: in the chimpanzee
Paar-Offenbach); Helen gorilla and typically human." AUSTRALIA
The Recorder, Mr. Gerald Dodson, saing sentence, said: "The gravity of this offence lies in the fact that you
Sir Charles, discessing the often-resorted to administering a dangerous mooted Charing Cross Bridge prob- drug. be three, dominate the seleme, and lem. says thot a new bridge would
are the heart of the project. The merely discharge into the Waterloo the community will may that in the Innermost will be a loopway round | Bridge-rond, leading drivers into the City, relieving the intense pres-centre of congestion, to which all the sure on the Manston House inter- other bridges contribute. section.
NEW TUNNEL
The next, farther out, will be for a ed by the North Circular-road, coupled wih a South Circular-rond, the com- plete circle extending from Flatey In the north to Catford in the south, and from Ealing in the west in hard in the cast,
On the north side of the Thames, it
信 with what might be termed "Independent approaches, Le. up-
pronebes which are not compon 346 ། other bridges.
difficult to provide was equally
Str Churles has been at prins to point out that the ruuter proposed may not necessarily follow exactly the line st the routes
the
official
Part of the scheme for this road in- which are contained in the report cludes
vehicular Dew
He declines to say for al Woolwich to supersede the present which property owners near the routes
Lunnel
reasons
"We have not yet arrived at that stage. My duty is to administer the law as I find it."
MURDERER'S
JUMP TO DEATH may appreciate in what are FROM LINER
ferry.
The outermost ring will consist of commendations would be carried out.
North Orbital and South Orbital roads —a circult of 125 miles--skirting Hat- feld in the north, Purfleet and Dart-
"A CLEAR DUTY"
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with lous Fect'; "Take те
you! Finale: "Chariot's 'Don't you see Masquerado"- Selection;
Intro:
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From 'Kang about
0,000 4th July. 17.000 9th July. 6,000) 16th July.
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Destination
Straits, C'mbo, B'bay & K'chi. B'bay, M'scillen & L'don B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull H'bg, R'dum & Avery. |Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marsellles & London. B'bay.
M'aeilles, Havre, 'don, Hull, H'burg, R'dam & A'werp. les & London Bombay, Marseilles Marseliles & London.
Protests are being made through Skaling Shoes'; 'My sweet tempta- out AustmHa against the action of tion; Japanese Mamma': 'I fell for MURDER in the American ae Australian Broadcasting Com-i
You'; Finale....New Mayfair Or- chestra. liner City of Norfolk, which mission in demanding the deletion of Comments on the report last night cost five lives, was described at
0.38 Albert Sandler (Violin), a portion of an address on the free- ford in the
the cast, Reigate In the south, | Included:
The Child And His Dancing Doll dom of
are subject to change or deviation with or without notice. speech, delivered last night (Jonny Heykens); Spanish Serenade and
Exham In the west.
Automobile Association:
the East Ham inquest recently, by Judge Foster, of Victoria. wel- Tils outer ring will incorporate the come a plan for, "properly inter-
The Jury's verdict was that Ernest Lower Thames Tunnel and a new related system of roads, covering the it. Topp (5), of East Cars, The Labour candidate, and President of (Waldteufel. On. 1701.
Judge Foster was a former Federal (Jenny Heykens); Dolores- Wallz bridge over the Thunes at Stalnes, whole area of Greater London.
0.18 Light Orchestral Music. Jersey, an assistant cook, died from the Australian Rationalist Assocla- The ring will be closely associated The clear and immediate daty
Nalla Waltz (Delibes, orr. Dop- a stab wound in the heart.
tion and the Victorian League of 'with the proposals for London's fu- laid upon the Ministry of Transport
Opera Orchestra, pler).....Royal Nations Union. Four other members of the crew ture Green Belt.
and the highway authorities of Lo
Steps are to be taken in the Senate Covent Garden conducted by Law new 12-miles cast-west arterial road, to set work afoot before the rise of alleged assallant capsized in the Eng
Equally vital is the proposal for a don to take the earliest possible steps were drowned, three of them when a
Jaunchert Lo rescue Tupp's to demand delon by the Federal unce Collingwood; "Mors Et Vita" New Sym-1 Judex (Gounod) Government. 'connecting Western-avenue at Hom-and values creates further obstacles.
phony Orchestra cond. by Lawrance mersmith with Eastern-avenue in British Road Federation;
JAMAICA
Fire Collingwood;
Festival-Polka Donakl Armand, Essex, passing north of the City, and adoption of there proposals must lead
(Josef Strauss Op. 209); The Sin- chief steward, Baltimore, creating a parnílel bui less obstructed to greater street safety. The moment
Joy-Polira Francalse-Johann coute to the present east-west route of publication is particularly apposite assistant steward told him that some- INQUIRY INTO LABOUR
Etrauss, Op. 328) .Johann Strauss | formed by Oxford-street and its con-in view of the enormous sums avail-thing was wrong in the galley and
and Symphony Orchestra; A Vision tinuations.
able from increased motor taxation that the assistant cook had
been
Of Spring: Intro:--Spring Song; o It is to be hoped that the report will stabbed.. A search was made for the
Kingston, Jamalen. that we two were maying; A Spring not be pigeon-holed in the same man-alley utility man, Chris Maguire, A commission ΟΙ three-Sir morning; Come Lossies
und Lads; same purpose of deflecting ner as the five-year plan for road and he heard en oiler call out "Ther" Charles Doorly, Mr. A. C. Barnes, Spring's Awakening: Now the day through trame from the centre of development.
he goes over the side."
Director of Agriculture, and Mr. His over; Venetian Nights; Intro: TILAWA London is served by a proposal that. Mr. Herberi Morrison, former Min- Topp, a German-born naturalised E. Allan, member for Portland-was Barcarolle in G Minor (Mendels Wandsworth Bridge, now under re- ister of Transport and leader of the American, was a good-living man, he appointed to report on recent labour solin); Barcarolle ("Tales of Hoff-
Carnival It was Maguire's first trip on troubles at the Westmoreland sugar mann"-Offenbach); construction, should not only lead L.C.C.: Sir Charles Bressey's report added.
of traffle, to the South Circular-rond, but will be referred to the appropriate the liner, and he was about 10 or 20.
estates.
Venice (Benedict)....New Mayfair should also be provided with nn' im- committees of the Council and will be Charles Alfred Anderson, ship's Sir Charles Doorly was Assistant Orchestra. proved northern approach, curving given the most careful consideration. utility man, said about 12 of the Colonial Secretary of Jamalea in 7.13 Closing Local Stock Quota- round the west of London to Edgware There are bly implications not only on crew were in the lifebout, which 1922, and Administrator of St. Lucin tions. road and the Watford by-pass in the traffe grounds, but by reason of the righted itself after capsizing. It from 1023-35,
7.15 Joseph Hislop (Tenor) and Cricklewood District.
very large financial considerations in-was manned again to pick up the Exchange.
Margaret Stewart (Soprano) In A crew who had been thrown Into the
Scottish Programme. water.
EASING PARK-LANE
The
A similar curved route, extending volved.
NEEDLE'S 40 YEARS' JOURNEY
Hereford. without discomfort.
WHEN she was scrubbing a
Mrz. Izzied is now 80, and Inst floor nearly 40 years ago month she complained of a sovero Mrs. Elizabeth Izzard, of Cre-pain in her leg.
The pain got worse, and recently
DISPUTES
relired.- when he
LIFE
Max Taylor, a ship's ofler, said hoi Was sure Maguire deliberately NURSE'S Jumped overboard. Maguire, he added, was a moody sort of person.
FOR CHILDREN You will probably be sullaßed that death was caused by the man Maguire," said the coroner to the jury.
+
Instrument Locates Radium
LONDON.
ger's
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|17,000| 20th Aug.
14,000 3rd Sept. 0,000) 10th Sept.
17,000 17th Sept.
• Cargo only † Calls Casablanca
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All vessels may call at Malta
BRITISH INDIA, APGAR BAILINGS (BOUTIL.)
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8,000 18th July.
10,000 | 30th July
8,000 18th Aug.
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Regular monthly sailings from
Jessic, The Flower Of Dunblane | NANKIN (Smith)....Joseph Halop: Fantasie NELLORE on Scolilah Aira (Arr. Mulder)... De Groot and His Orchestra;
The Auld Scots Sangs (Besthune and Leeson arr. Moffat); I'm Gled My Hert's My Ain (Arr. Inglis). .Mnr. Because she would not run to "à garet F. Stewart; An Island Shelling telephone and fire alarm when her Song (From "Songs Of The Hebrides" clothing was on Are und rink-Art. Kennery Fraser); The Island donger to 12 children whose beds. Herdmaid (From "Songs Of Tho she would have had to pass, a nurse Hebrides"—Arc. Kennedy. Fraisor} received fatu) burns.
(Continued on Page 5.)
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The nurse, Miss Gwendoline Mary Jones (20), whose home was ai Thn Lon, Ty Cores, Anglesey, recovered den hill, near' Hereford, ran a she sent for Dr. (Mrs.) Malcomson, A special radium-detecting in- consciousness before death and sewing needle so deeply into her who discovered the needle just below strument has located eight mill1- naked: "Aro the children all right?” hand that the doctor, decided 11 the skin in Mrs. Izzard's leg.
grams of radium, valued at £200 This girl gave her life for the She extracted it without an opera- which was necidentally thrown away children," said Dr. Hodgson, medleat would be wise to leave it where
tion, and the nacdie, which is about in the grounds of the Newensile superintendant at the City Hospital, it was.
two inches long and almost as thick Royal Infirmary more than eight Fazakerley, Liverpool, where sho Since then Mrs, Izzard has a darning needle, was perfectly years ago. The instrument emits it was employed, at the Liverpool In-
clean, the point and eye being as clucicing noise when in the presence quest. carried out her household duties good as when in uso.
of radium.
""Accidental death” was the verdict.
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