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FIRE ENGINE, TAXI, CAR IN WEST END CRASH
A fire engine, a private car and a taxi-cab collided, Fecently at night in crowded Shaftesbury Avenue, a few yards from Piccadilly Circus, but the only person injured, the taxi driver, had a slight cut.
The fire engine knocked down an iron post on a re- fuge and after being in collision with the other two vehicles went on the pavement and struck a wall of the. London Pavilion.
Hundreds of people gathered and blocked the street while! polleo reinforcements and ambulances were sent for.
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938.
WATERFALL
ONLY FLYERS HAVE VISITED
Georgetown, British Guiana,
A vivid description of how he discovered the | 3,000ft.-high waterfall in British Guiana that dwarfs Káleteur, hitherto regarded as the most magnificent in the world, was given recently by Dr. P. A. Zalil, Research Associate of Harvard | University and Haskins Laboratory, Schenectady. "I have seen the greatest waterfall in the world" said Dr. Zahl.
"While un an insect-hunting expedition from | Huskins. Laboratory I hopped off from George- Miss Brenda Fallowfield, the well-known town in 'Art' Williams' seaplane for a flight over Firemen, riding on the engine, jumped to safety when they hockey player, who is leaving for England on the Kaieteur Fall, the majestic queen of the w that their vehiclo was about to crash into the wall.
H.M.T. Lancashire to-day--King's Studio,
Guinna jungle. "From boyhood days I had heard of years ago the Indians roamed.
"Here and there I looked down on of the entrancing beauty.of Kalelcur, with its perpendicular drop of 741ft.beautiful waterfalls of all sizes und all descriptions, but they were for the greater part personal fails, produced by swollen rivers during the rainy senson.
There was no passenger in
cilter the ear or taxi-cab.
AUDIENCE ALARMED
The taxicab was most cut in dves, but the driver, Mr. Nicholas Inver. of Peterborough Mews, Parsons Green, Pulliam, was thrown clear with only scratch over one eye.
Another taxi-driven, ald: "The fire engine, which was carrying four men and ari escape, came along Shaftesbury Avenue toward Pit- cdilly Circus with its bell clanging furiously.
"Other motorista pulled in to their near side to allow the engine to pass,
BEARDED MEN NEED SPECIAL GAS MASKS
Can bearded men or women with their hair in the shape of "buns”—wear gasmasks?
The answer is: "No, if they want to be secure against in- haling poisonous gas."
Men and women with big horn-rimmed spectacles Ince a
t Just as the fire cagine was over- afmilar problem. tling a Lus near the Trocadero a
enki
violently
all T byzerve
TEAS, INKEL
the engine to ly the
The snout of the civilian ofalde, respirator la a three-inch deep errying away a are obelisk in its container through which gas is "The driver toob ized at the filtered. After that, only 1% wheed to bring it back: on to the near inches is left between the point sade again, init before the taxi could of the chin and the top of the eif anything the engine crashed into Denver's tax, which was travelling container.
in the opposite direction.
It would be difcult to tuck a six-
"The body of the cab was torn inets beard in those 14 inches. Conn
from the chassis and I
Was tunazed to find the driver alive."
And a flat surface (such us the
CONDUCTOR'S ESCAPE skin) against which the rubber band
"People who have seen it, talk of Kaieteur as being the most magnifi- cent in the world, and I was deter- mined, as the opportunity presented itself, not to leave Gutuna without seeing this beauty of nature.
"We camped on a Sunday night on the banks of the Tumereng river, and next day we pushed on to Kateteur. All along I gazed with wonder on the beauty of the jungle in its naited ness-vest areas where white men have never set foot, where hundreds
First Concentration Camp Set Up
CLOUDS PARTED
"We were about ten miles from the Kaieteur escapement flying some 2,200 feet up. Over the Karanang mountains dense clouds hung down, making it dimeult for us to fly over the tops, but as we got nearer lie clouds parted.
"In the distance we observed t deep cove towards which we headed. Slowly and gracefully our machine moved up to our objective, and as we got nearer our eyes feasted on an indescribable beauty a ribbon-like stream of water dropping as it were from the clouds above 3,500 feet up. "We gazed with awe and admirá- tion and moved on and on towards IL When we were a mile away the grandest picture Nature ever vealed to us stood out before otr eyes.
re-
"It was a wonderful 'sight. This
fugees, many of whoni, left between | hom the night in the station waiting-tary of this mighty river, in the heart
fork-
Prague.
She would not hugging her doll. Harassing reports continue to pour leave it behind. into Prague of the terrible sufferinga! They had little else with them but was the drst time in many hundreds A London Transport bus conductor of the facepiece can lie is essential to
of refugees.
Ales. Iroch's jewellery a brooch of fights that Williams had ever succeeded in getting over the Kara- has narrow
Under threats from Germany, the worth, perhaps, 10s. escape. His driver prevent gases getting through. saw the fire engine bearing down
Czechs are trying not to accept re-; While a rolice car dashed to their nang.
fere before me was a large trihu- from the rear as he looked into his WOMAN'S PROBLEM
to prevent losting, the family driving nirror, and realising that a
the Czech and the German lines, spent The Home Office is considering a
of Gulann's richest diamond district. crash was inminent accelerated.
new type of gas.mask for people with subject to attack front Henleinists, room.
And as it renched n The conductor was about to jump facial disfigurements. I will pre-
natural rock are being murdered.
Later, kind-hearted Czech guards
ledge it tumbled down some 1,400 from his platform as the fire engine vent gases altering through furrows soldiers were forced to shoot three Prague. It was a special favour: the
German allowed them to board the train for feet, where it is broken by another At Tetschin-Budenbuch, grazed the back of a bus. Had he in the skin.
Henleinists (FS, men) for plunder-
rock ledge which divides fallen into the road he would have
Government discourages Czech rc- been right in the path of th engine,
Here
Arsi the The Home Office may consider the ink
like, producing two drops on, on, on concentration fugees leaving their homes. None but freman teaped from the engine, problem of bearded men, as there camp has been set up--in the former may stay in Prague unless they have to the deep valley below. The entire collided with him and pushed hint are certain religious bodies who are
castle of Count Thun.
been too badly injured by the Sude-drop was around 3,000 feet, about lock to safely.
not allowed to shave, They may! It
four times the height of Kaleteur. is reported that firing can be tens to leave hospital.
"Our pilot flew up, then down, now The are engine one of u num- receive a mask with a bag of helmet where, as soon as Czech trumps left that they may provide Hitler with by the west, now by the cast and
As for Germans, there is the fear heard night and day from the castle. lar answering a call which turned device. out to be false. The police are try-
the district, armed F.S. mer provid Civilian Duty masks-a more com-jed with typed lists of all Shefin excuse for fresh encroachments in north, and by the south, round and ing to trace the caller.
The manager of the London Pavi- plicated type with an outlet valve, Democrat members came and collect, lion said that when the crash occur- to be used by those with special ed persons whom the Czechs had red the clanging of a fire bell could duties will hold beards and spec-ordered to stay to vote in case of a be heard inside the theatre.
incles that are steel-rimmed 'and] plebiscite. Onc
two members of the nurrow. audience became alarmed, but he went on the stage and explained whal bud occurred, !! the per- formance continued
Men will any kind of trimmed beards have nothing to fear.
The woman's difcally, however, When the ear he was driving col-She will have to alter her hair
of different kind. Iated with another car at Morecambe
Frederick Howard style If she has a bun, earphones, or Kentch (40), of the Vicarage, Sea- the new Edwardian style, with the forth, near Liverpool, who won the curls piled high on the head.
the
Rev.
C. and the Belgian Croix de The adjustable straps, unless itted Guerre in the Great War, received by an expert, will slide out of place Injuries from which he died when owing to the uneven position of the being carried into Morecambe Hos- hair. putal.
And, women. If you change your Chree passengers in Mr. Kenteb's hair style, you may have to be fitted car were not 'seriously injured. for a new gas-minsk.
Briton's
3,000-Mile 'Danger”
Tour On £2 Bicycle
A white flag and his English accent his only protection from being involved in civil war, Mr. Frederick J. Francis, 60-year-old Bognor Regis hotel keeper, is seeking first hand information by cycling 3,000 miles through the danger zones of Central Europe,
On his return, he will give a talk on his experiences at neoting of the Friends of All Nations League at Croydon November 10,
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the future.
my
camerus
were
about. while Czechs are needed in the plebiscite brought into service. ¡ collected areas to outvote the Henleinists if several views in colour and black and possible. The Hroch family won willd. lucky to get the required permit tu FATHER OF TORRENTS board the train.
Masaryk.
"FL is difcult fully to explain the grandeur and beauty of this new waterfall. It es near to Kaieteur and Princess Marina, about 600 miles northeast of Roraima, father of for- rents and mother of streams-Conan Doyle's 'Lost World."
"One disappointing feature is location. It
practiently in- accessible by tool or river, and very seldom by plane.
"But there it is, 'n allent witness to the ages, for it must have zeen millions and millions of years pass
its
TORN FROM THEIR HOMES
COULD NOT STAY IN PRAGUE Democrats have been dragged from Vieir flats and houses, and even torn At the Masaryk station in Prague from motor-ears on the bridge lead-they were met by a Red Cross organ! fate after that is unknown save for daughter tag to Czecho-Slovakia, and their ration under the leadership of a of the late President the sinister sounds of colntinual fring frun the castle.
They were told by the municipal Czech soldiers on the bridge were authorities (who also take care of unable to move a muscle to save the many injured) that they could their furnier friends-members of the remain in the city but could go Republican Guare-who stood in the to any friends or refuge camps in the forefront of the battle, and were interior of the country, seized by the Germans und dragged. The Hrochs chose the "smallest | by off towards the concentration camp. village" in the plebiscite aren I onw As we few away on to Kaieteur The Henleitists have run amok in them go to their train last night. the clouds closed around her again. the decupled districts, shooting Into
The Czech authorities are reluctant houses through open windows.
to publish detalls about Czech fomi-n a few minutes we were gazing on The majestic beauty of Kaieteur, At Czeski Krumlov the German lies driven from their homes by the and I was able to understand why it troups asked the Czech soldiers to German entrants. They do not want is said that no jungle Indion ever help them to clear up a mass of to upset Nazi gusceptibilities.
With disciplined Henleinists.
Ger- no-one can hide the queues of re-gazes on the 'Old Man Falls' without man consent, the Czechs were forced fugees getting food and sausages from
Dut
making a sacrince.
"The name Kaleteur is
derived
{'Kla Tuk,' meaning 'Old Man Falls." "Its grandeur is awe-inspiring, and
to shell the township to restore order, the averworked Red Cross centres in from the Indian name for the falls
A pour German woman with three Prague. tiny children, who was begging on the her husband (a Sudeten Democrat) streets of Prague, assured me that was dragged off before the eyes of
léinists.
her children and shot by the Hen- 'SONG OF
THE SHIRT'
At Brno. 700 Jews-refugees from Vienna-have been ordered by the on authorities to leave the land before
us the result of German pressure.
It is calculated in Social Democrat VICTIMS quarters that 36,000 German refugees have already been registered with 1
After taking risk after risk in Sudetenland during days of terror, Mr. Francis is now in Poland before returning to the Czech frontiers.
them.
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it remains as primitive'as ever, un- spoiled by the hand of man."
DOCTOR POSED AS DEPUTY,
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He will then visit Soviet Russia and the Baltic States, com-
It is believed that in all at least paring public opinion with opinion in Czechoslovakia and Germany 50,000 Socialist refugees from Ger-girls making shirts at 1s, 3d. before returning to England.
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with Jews and Czechs who were exploited in the home, were WAS SUED FOR A PERFECT
Doctors are warned against
junauthorised examinations in AIRMAIL PAPER
PERILOUS JOURNEY ONLY AT OWN RISK At the outbreak of the international crisis he left Bognor on formerly in Germany and Austria at elted at the National Federation a secondhand bicycle for which he had paid £2, and pushed his already in this country.
least 100,000 foreign refugees are
of Class Teachers conference at way across Belgium and Germany with a light knapsack on his back until he reached Czechoslovakia. Here he found the frontier ing the exnet frontiers of the plebis- exemption of 14-year-old child- the annual report of the Medical
Because of the uncertainty regard-Cardiff as evils arising from the closed, but on oxplaining his mission customs officers allowed him eite areas, many refugees have been dren from the extra year at Defence Union, published in the to pass on the understanding he would not reveal how he crossed these districts.
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British Medical Journal recent- Under the 1930 Act a child may ly. fortunates, including women and chil dren-the wives and children
be permitted in employment after of give Social Democrat Germans many of 14 provided the local authority de- huge whom have already been shot or sent clide the employment is "beneficial."
Singing loudly in English to himself courage and with n white flag Czechoslovakia, where before long was returned to Asch.
the
The conference called upon his bleycle he entered to concentration camps in Germany-Government to delete the exemption was threatened against a doctor who
"LITTLE MOTHERS”
To this a Manchester woman de-
cer
The
Such examinations, except in an emergency, may constitute an as- Bault in law. A caso is reported in which action he realised that he was travelling treatment of one of the more for of his boys who at 14 had entered
examined a man without his sanc- Here is a typical example of the clause.
A Hull delegate declared that two tion. aver fortifications and mines.
The doctor was medical of- tumite families:
to a football CYCLED INTO AMBUSH
teams and was At 1 o'clock in the morning the offices had got on better than those instructed on behalf of the manage On one occasion he cycled right froch family, Czechs living near who had left at a later age.
ment to examine a player whose Into an ainbush. While he was being Aussig, in the Sudeten urea, were
transfer
was under consideration, questioned by an officer a volley of awakened by neighbours · hammerinz
SUFFERING FROM PNEUMONIA shots rang out and Nazis and Czechs on their door.
was suffering from man Henry Langford (73), for more came into conflict near by. For "Come quickly," they shouted, "a legale retorted: "My girls do not co pneumonia, and, at the suggestion theglo dit que a dyn several miles he then pedalled under band of Henleinists is coming. They into offices. They go into factories of his wife, who said that her hus processions, died in King Edward VII cover of an ambulance. Eventually will shoot you because you
are and make shirts al is. 3d, a dozen." band would be distressed about the Hospital, Windsor, recently, after he reached the Polish frontier, where Czechs."
Another woman said: "The most
contemplated transfer, the doctor being knocked down by a car near the customs officers wondered how a Mrs. Hroch roused her three small sinister part of the exemption clause unwisely pretended to be deputy for his home, Grove Road, Windsor. refugee with An
Tat, Langford was an outrider in the managed to get there. He la now on husband had been mobilised
English passport children and her father-in-law: her is that it permits the employment ha ordinary doctor.
of 14-year-old children in the home. The man discovered the deception State processions at the diamond la way back to Czechoslovakia to Carrying two small knapsacks, "Factory and other Acts protect and raised an ingenious claim on the jubited and funeral of Queen Victoria, test public opinion.
hastily Alled and a few blankets, the children in Industry and errand ground that the examination had at the coronation and funeral of He will then compare the Sudeten- family left their little
farm. Edward VII and at the coronation of land he knew before with the country trudged four miles to the railway carry above certain weights, but been harmful to him in that he had
andboys and gris tro not permitted to
no been disturbed and his body un- George V.
As it now is under the Nazi regime." station of Aussig. There I found limit is imposed upon the weights covered, Ho also took part in processions
them three hours later.
children may carry when employed When It was realised that the from Westminster Abbey to Bucking- Princess Royal. He rode in front of The old man was smoking his foot at home or upon the weights of Union was prepared to defend any. ham Palace at the weddings of the the Sovereign's carriage during the long curved pipe; I bought him some babies some of them have to carry form of action, the claim was aban- present King and Queen and of the State drive at Ascot for 30 years. tobacco. One of the children was about all day."
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