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FIRE ENGINE, TAXI, CAR IN WEST END CRASH
A fire engine, a private car and a taxi-cab collided recently at night in crowded Shaftesbury Avenue, a few yards from Piccadilly Circus, but the only person injured, the taxi driver, had a slight cut. qu
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] police reinforcoments and ambulances were sent for.
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, OCTOBER
31, 1938.
Miss Brenda Fallowfield, the well-known
H.M.T. Lancashire to-day--King's Studio.
Firemen, riding on the engine, jumped to safety when they hockey player, who is leaving for England on saw that their vehicle was about to crash into the wall,
There was no passenger in---
either the ear or taxi-cab.
AUDIENCE ALARMED
The taxicab was almost cut in halves, but the driver, Mr. Nicholas
of Danver,
Peterborough Mews, Parsons Green, Fulham, was thrown clear with only scratch over one
cyo.
"The Another taxi-driver said: fire engine, which was carrying four along men and An escape, came Shaftesbury Avenue towards cadilly Circus with its bell clanging
furiously.
Pic-
BEARDED MEN NEED SPECIAL GAS MASKS
Can bearded men or women with their hair in the shape of "buns"-wear gasmasks?
WATERFALL
ONLY FLYERS HAVE VISITED
Georgetown, British Guiana,
A vivid description of how he discovered the 3.000ft.-high waterfall in British Gulana that dwarfs Kaieteur, 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 on an insect-hunting expedition from Harkins Laboratory I hopped off from George- town in 'Art' Williama' scaplane for a flight over the Kaieteur Fall, the majestic queen of the ¡Guiana jungle.
"From boyhood days I had heard of years ago, the Indians roumed.
"Hore and there looked down on of the entrancing beauty of Kaleteur, with its perpendicular drop of 741ft.beautiful waterfalls of all sizes and all descriptions, but they were for the greater part seasonal falis, produced by swollen rivers during the rainy season.
"People who have seen it, talk of Kaieteur na being the most magnif- cent in the world, and I was deter- mined, as the opportunity presented itself, not to leave. Gulana withoul recing this beauty of nature.
"We camped on a Sunday night on the banks of the Tumereng river, and
The answer is: "No, if they want to be secure against in-next day we pushed on to Kaieteur. haling poisonous gas."
"Other motorisis pulled in to thele near side to allow the engine to pass, Men and women with big horn-rimmed spectacles face a but just us the fire engine was over- similar problem, taking a bus near the Trocadero a small swerve
car caused violently
to the engine
The snout of the civilian
to the offside, respirator is a three-inch deep currying away a street obelisk in container through which gas is passage.
The driver tugged hard at the filtered. After that, only 1% wheel to bring it back on to the near inches is left between the point side again, but before the taxi could of the chin and the top of the do anything the engine crashed into Danver's taxi, which was travelling container.
in the opposite direction.
The body
It would be difficult to tuck a six-
the cab was torn inch beard in those 11⁄2 inches. clean away from the chassis and I was amazed to find the driver alive." And a dal surface (such as the CONDUCTOR'S ESCAPE skin) against which the rubber band A London Transport bus conductor of the facepiece can lie is essential to had a narrow escape. His driver prevent gases getting through. saw the fire engine bearing down from the rear as he looked into his WOMAN'S PROBLEM
"All along I gazed with wonder on the beauty of the jungle in its naked- ness-vast areas where white men have never set foot, where hundreds
Concentration
Set Up
First
Camp
Prague.
She would not
CLOUDS PARTED
"We were about ten miles from the Kaleteur escapement flying some 2,200 feet up. Over the Karunong mountains dense clouds hung down, making it difficult for us to fly over the tops, but as we got nearer the clouds parted.
"In the distance we observed a
deep rove towards which we headed. Slowly and gracefully our machine moved up to our objective, and as we got nearer our eyes fausted on an indescribable benuly-a ribbon-like stream of water dropping as it were from the clouds above-3,500 feet up. "We gazed with awe and admira- tion and moved on and on towards 1. When we were a mile away the grandest pleture Nature vealed to us stood out eyes.
over ne- before our
The entire
hugging her doll.
"It was a wonderful sight. This Harassing reports continue to pour leave it behind.
was the first time in many hundreds They had little else with them but
of flights that Williams had ever brooch into Prague of the terrible sufferings |
Mrs. Hroch's jewellery-a
succeeded in getting over the Kora- of refugees.
Under threats from Germany, the worth, perhaps, 10s. Czechs are trying not to accept re- While a police car dushed to their ang
"Here before me was a large tribu- fugees, many of whom, left between home to prevent looting, the family they of this mighty river, in the heart the Czech and the German lines, spent the night in the station walting-
of Culana's richest diamond district. driving mirror, and realising that a The Home Office is considering a
a natural rock subject to attack from Henleinists, room. crash was imminent accelerated. new type of gas-mask for people with are being murdered.
Later, kind-hearted Czech guards And as I reached The conductor was about to jump fucint disfigurements. It will pre- At Telchin-Bodenbach, German allowed them to board the train forge it tumbled down soine 1,400 fork- from his platform as the fire engine vent uses filtering through furrows soldiers were forced to shoot three Prague. It was a special favour: the feet, where it le broken by another
re-rock ledge which divides grazed the back of his bus. Had he in the skin.
Henleinists (FS. men) for plunder Government discourages Czech
None like, producing two drops on, on, on fallen into the road he would have
Arst
concentration fugees leaving their homes. been right in the path of the engine, The Home Office muy consider the ing. Here the but a Breman leaped from the engine, problem of bearded men, as there cump has been set up-in the former may stay in Prague unless they have to the deep valley below.
been tau badly injured by the Sude-drop, was around 3,000 feet, about
four times the height of Kalcteur. collided with him and pushed him are certain religious bodies who are castle of Count Thun.
It is reported that firing can be tens to leave hospital.
"Our pilot flew up, then down, now back to safely.
not allowed to shave. They may
heard
night
und day from the castle' As for Germans, there is the fear ber answering a call which turned device.
The fire engine was one of a num- receive a mask with a bag or helmet) where, as soon as Czech troops left that they may provide Hitler with by the west, now by the cast; by the the district, armed F.S. men provid- an excuse for fresh encroachments in north, and by the south, round and
about. while
my out to be false. The police are try
I collected ing to trace the caller.
Civillan Duty masks-a more com-ed with typed lists of all Social the future.
Czechs are needed in the plebiscite brought into service. The manager of the London Pavi- pliented type with an outlet valve. Democrat members came and collect-
those with special ed persons whom the Czechs had arens to outvote the Henleinists If several views in colour and black and ljon said that when the crash occur to be used by
The Hroch family was white and spec-ordered to stay to vote in case of possible.
FATHER OF TORRENTS red the clanging of a fire bell could dulles-will hold beards be heard inside the theatre.
lucky to get the required permit to steel-rimmed and plebiselte.
board the train. TORN FROM THEIR HOMES Democrats have been dragged from their flats and houses, and even torn
incles that of One or two members
the narrow. nudience became alarmed, but he went on the stage and explained what had occurred, and the per- formance continued.
the
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Frederick Howard
art
Men with any kind of trimmed beards have nothing to fear,
The woman's difficulty, however, is of a different kind. When the car he was driving col-
She will have to alter her hair lided with another car at Morecambe style if she has a bun, earphones, or Keatch (40), of the Vicarage, Sea- the new Edwardian style, with the forth, near Liverpool, who won the curls piled high on the bead. M.C. and the Belgian Croix de The adjustable straps, unless fitted 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 Marecambe Hos- hair. pital.
And, women, if you change your Three passengers in Mr. Keatch's hair style, you may have to be fitted car were not seriously injured. for a new gas-mbak.
Briton's
Tour
3,000-Mile
On
£2
'Danger' Bicycle
late the
cameras
were
"It is difficult fully to explain the of this new grandeur and beauty
Kaletcur waterfall. It lies near to and Princess Marina, about 800 miles
Its
COULD NOT STAY IN PRAGUE
At the Masaryk station in Progue tom motor-cars on the bridge lead-they were met by a Red Cross organi-northeast of Rorama, father of tor- of rents and mother of streams-Conan ing to Czecho-Slovakia, and their cation under the leadership fate atter that is unknown save for daughter of
President Doyle's 'Lost World.' the sinister sounds of continual firing Masaryk.
"One disappointing feature is
practically from the castle.
They were told by the municipal location. It Czech soldiers on the bridge were authorities (who also take care of accessible by foot or river, and very unable to move a muscle to save the many injured) that they could seldom by 'plane. their former friends-members of the rat remain in the city but could go Republican Guard-Who stood in the to any friends or refuge camps in the
imd were interior of the country, tarefront of the battle. seized by the Germans and dragged off towards the concentration camp,
The Henicinists have run amok in the occupied districts, shooting into houses through open windows,
to
"But there it is, a silent witness to the ages, for it must have seen. millions and millions of years pass by
The Hrochs chose the "smallest village in the plebiscite area, I saw
"As we flew away on to Kaieteur their train last night. them go
the clouds closed around her ugoin. The Czech authorities are reluctant in a few minutes we were gazing on
publish
details about Czech fami- 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 Indian ever gazes on the Old Man Falls' without help them to clear up a mass of unto upset Nazi susceptibilities.. Ger- disciplined Henleinists. With man consent, the Czechs were forced/no-one can hide the queues of re-making a sacrifice.
la derived "The name Kaieteur fugees getting food and sausages from
But
'Kin Tuk,' meaning 'Old Man Falls.'
"Its grandeur is awe-inspiring, and
to shell the township to restore order. the overworked Red Cross centres in from the Indian name for the falls
A pour German woman, with three Prague." tiny children, who was begging on thei streets of Prague, assured me that her husband (a Sudeten Democrat) was dragged off before the eyes of her children and shot by the Hen-
Icinists.
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 Europë.
On his return, he will give a talk on his experiences at a viennhave been moeting of the Friends of All Nations League at Croydon on November 10.
After taking risk after risk in Sudetenland during days of terror, Mr. Francis is now in Poland before returning to the Czech frontiera.
He will then visit Soviet Russia and the Baltic States, com- paring public opinion with opinion in Czechoslovakia and Germany before returning to England.
PERILOUS. JÖURNEY ONLY AT OWN RISK
At Brno, 700 Jews or from
by the
authorities to leave the land before as the result of German pressure.
It is calculated in Social Democrat
quarters that 30,000 German refugees ave already been registered with
then.
is believed that in all at least
OF
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DOCTOR POSED AS
Young Lancashire DEPUTY.
It 50,000 Socialist refugees from Ger- girls making shirts at 16. 3d. many are in Czech-Slovakia, and a dozen, and "Little Mothers"
of Class Teachers conference at
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WAS SUED FOR A PERFECT
with Jews and Czechs who were exploited in the home, were: formerly in Germany and Austria at a secondhand bicycle for which he had paid £2, and pushed his already in this country.
At the outbreak of the International crisis he left Bognor onicast 100,000 forelan refugees are cited at the National Federation
Doctors are warned against way across Belgium and Germany with a light knapsack on his Because of the uncertainty regard-Cardiff as evils arising from the back until he reached Czechoslovakia. Here he found the frontier ing the exact frontiers of the plebis-exemption of 14-year-old child-authorised examinations in closed, but on explaining his mission customs officer, allowed him cite areas, many refugees have been
Defence Union, published in the British Medical Journal recent- to pass on the understanding he would not reveal how he crossent back by the Czechs to rate in dren from the extra year at the annual report of the Medical over the frontier. They added that the perilous journey through Recently a trainload of 1,000 un- Under the 1930 Act a child mayly.
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Outrider To Five Sovereigns
these districts.
he realised that he was travelitag Here is a typical example of the
school.
fortunates, including women and chil-
Buch examinations, except in an dren-the wives and children of be permitted in employment after 14 provided the local authority de-
emergency, may constitute an as- Singing loudly in English to give Social Democrat Germans many of
sault in law. himself courage
and with a huge whom have already been shot or sent cide the employment is "beneficial." The conference called upon the
A case is reported in which action white flag on his bicycle he entered to concentration camps in Germany Government to delete the exemption was threatened against a doctor who Czechoslovakia, where before long was returned to Asch.
clause,
of- A Hull delegate declared that two examined a man without his sanc-
The doctor was medical treatment of one of the more for-
of his boys who at 14 had entered ficer
team and was Bunate families:
to a football ces had got on better than those instructed on behalf of the manage- i ment to examine player whose whỏ had left at a later age.
transfer was under consideration. SUFFERING FROM PNEUMONIA The man was suffering from
over fortifications and mines.
CYCLED INTO AMBUSH
At o'clock in the morning the On one occasion he cycled right Hroch family, Czechs living hear into an ambush. While he was being Aussig, in the Sudeten area, were questioned by an officer a volley of awakened by neighbours hammering shots rang out and Nazis and Czechs on their door.
Jacftoms officers wondered how
A
to
"LITTLE MOTHERS"
To this a Manchester woman dies
tion.
doctor
Henry Langford (72), for more come into conflict near by. For "Come quickly," they shouted, "a legate retorted: "My girls do not co pneumonia, and, at the suggestion than 40 years in outrider in royal 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
dozen." processions, died in King Edward VII
are and make shirts at 11.
band would be distressed about the Another woman said: "The most contemplated transfer, the Hospital, Windsor, recently, after over of an ambulance. Eventually will shoot you because you
reached the Polish frontier, where | Czechs.” The being knocked down by a car near the
Mrs. Hroch roused her three small sinister part of the exemption clause unwisely pretended to be deputy for his home, Grove Road, Windsor.
the employment his ordinary doctor. with
an English passport children and her father-in-law: her is that it permits
of 14-year-old children in the home. The man discovered the deception Mr. Langford was an outrider in the managed to get there. He is now on husband had been mohli na
processions at the diamond his way back to Czechoslovakia
and other Acts protect and raised an ingenious claim on the "Factory small knapsacks, Carrying
Industry and In
errand ground that the examination had jubilee and funeral of Queen Victoria, test public opinion.
hastily filled and a few blankets, the children at the coronation and funeral of He will then compare the Sudeten family left their little farm, and boys and girls are not permitted to been harmful to him in that he had and his body un- 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 no been disturbed George V.
as it now is under the Natl regime. station of Aussig. There I found limit is imposed upon the weights covered. When children may carry when employed
It was He also took part in procession
realised that the them three hours later.
or upon the weights of Union was prepared to defend any from Westminster Abbey to Bucking- Princess Royal. He rode in front of
The old man was smoking his foot- at home ham Palace at the weddings of the the Sovereign's carriage during the long curved pipe; I bought him some bables 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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