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Monday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
January
23, 1939.
WOMAN GUEST AT EARL'S PARTY IS VICTIM OF "PERFECT ROBBERY"
Ending traditions of 60 years, New York City clowed the Sixth Avenue Elevated structure and soon will tear it down. A new Revellers thronged the aubway is being built under the avenue fast train to run, shown above, stripping it of movable parts for souvenirs.
LEGLESS DOCTOR'S DIARY OF PAIN
A LONDON surgeon who, after having his legs
amputated wrote, for the benefit of his profession, an analysis of his 15 years of suffering, died at his home recently.
He was 72-year-old Mr. E. B. Waggett, of Cavendish Court, Wigmore Street, W., for many years consulting surgeon to the throat and car department at Charing Cross Hospital.
In his "diary of pain," Mr. Waggett described how he re- gained happiness and efficiency after having bis legs taken off above the knees.
A.R.P.Minister £1,200 Haul
Promises Big Speed-Up
SIR John Anderson, Lord Privy
From Bedroom,
No Clue
Seal and Minister for Civil Defence, returned from holiday recently to defend the civil de fence programme against the
attacks which have been launch-evacuation. ed upon it during his absence' abroad.
"We are," he declared, "working on the assumption that there in risk of war within a comparatively short
volunteem and aanned system of
"Civilian defence has been critics-
ed, I thinkt unfairly, in the Pres. In retard to fire brigade organisation. Į for example, it was not until July. 1938, that the Home Ofice gol admin- istrative control over fire brigade or-
Lane. But that does not mean welganisation plans were put in hand by!
expert war." Deliveries of equip- ment for defence, originally planned the Government and they were to be for 1941, will now be substantially completed by 1941, Those plans in
cluded the provision of equipment to Coincident with his statement the be held in reserve for dealing with Ministry of Health atunounced that fires that night result from aeroplane
erumpleted during 1930.
for the purposes of the A.R.P. evacua-der that scheme 21,000
tion selieme the country is to lud divided into three groups:
POLICE at the Earl
of Iveagh's coun- try mansion at Thet- ford, Suffolk, are in- vestigating a robbery which reads like a problem in a detective novel.
Jewels, furs, and cash
Fire valued at £1,200, the pro- Brigade units were to be supplied.
A limited number of large, crowd- When the emergency occurred last perty of Lady O'Hagan, a ed areas from which evacuation is to year the position was reviewed, and guest, vanished within a take place.
in the light of the crisis orders had period which has been nar-
be
"Neutral" areas, not to be evacuat-to telescoped and everything
be anti-rowed down to two hours-
ed or used for billeting.
Twenty of the biggest cities and towns are scheduled for evacuation and 300 boroughs and urban areas are "neutral" zones, The evacuation scheme, it is understood, extends to women, children, and workers non-essential occupations.
Reception areas for refugees.
Firemen's Lack
Of Equipment
Fra
Sir John Anderson in his statement linclosed details of policy and achievement under the
following
principal heads:
Evacuation. All arrangements for transport, reception, and feeding are already complete. A scheme complete in every detail will soon be in his hands.
He recartled his reactions to the Degree 3-No one could endure. "intolerable pain," which had com- this degree for many minutes und pelled him to take this bold step. remain conscious. The vocal cords He classifed three degrees of pain. do not net at all.
"TORTURE RACK"
I remarked that after having
Degree 1-l'ossible to control all relief for 18 months he found it i voluntary muscles, except those of possible to
the forehead; had to blink to pre-memory. vent the whites of the eyes showing. Temples perspired freely,
voler
Degree 3-Comparable to the tor- ture rack. The
went to a uncontrollable falsetto. Tears Row- ed freely, but there was ther emotional nor muscular ensu 01 weeping.
Asthma Cause Killed in 24 Hours
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re-create
the
ALWAYS GAY
י
pain in
Sir Philip Gibbs, a close friend_of: Mr. Waggett, said: "He
was the most wonderful example of courage I ever met. In spite of all his pain of the most extra- 11s Was
al- ordinary cheerfulness. He was ways gay and light-hearted.
"When he sat at the table of the council of Charing Cross Hospital after his operation it was impossible to believe that anything was wrong) with him. He was a very handsome and fine-Inoking man, 1s courage) and cheerfulness abashed one.”
TOLEDO BUSY OIL PORT
Although 110
all
Toledo, O.
handled was
it is expected that 1938 shipments
Recruiting. The gap to be filled in the first line of civil defence is very small.
on
its
speeded up. It may now be
cipated that all orders for equipment and there is no trace of the will be substantially completed by the end of 1830, though we had en-house having been forcibly visageal 1941 as the date for comple-entered.
be
Lion. By the end of next week the Windows were searched in number of unita whose equipment vain for finger-prints; flower- has been actually ordered wi 17,000, including deliveries already beds yielded no footprints. mniitle,
EVACUATION POSITION
Elveden Hall, the corl's mansion, was the scene of one of his shooting parties during the week-end,
Other guests at the party were and Lady Eltisley, Lord Lord O'Hagan, the Hon. A. E. Guinness (the Earl of Iveagh's son), Sir Dougal Malcolm and Lady Malcolm, und the Countess Hochberg.
There is nothing that could be de serthed as muddled'; there has been steady progress on an organised plan. There is no doubt whatever that the fire brigades will have all their equip. ment needs, that they will get all they require for training recruits.
"In regard to evacuation, our plans JEWEL CASE MISSING at one end are practically complete, i
After dinner Lady O'Hagan, who All arrangements for transport are i complete at any rate in London, lves at Ickworth Lodge, near Bury though there are sull gaps in the Pro-St. Edmunds, went to her bedroom vinces.
T
"During the crisis complete ar- rangements for looking after refugees could not be made in detail, but I shall soon be in possession of a com- plete scheme."
in the west wing of the house to leave her fox furs and noticed that her rough crocodile-skin dressing- case which contained her jewels und money was in place.
Two hours later, she again went
_ac to her bedroom and found furs and dressing-case gone.
The Earl of Ivench telephoned the halict, and
Hammond, of the, Supt. Newmarket division, West Suffolk police, hall in vain for a clue.
and other officers reached the
Air Raid Wardens-Efforts are be-
Turning to recruiting. Sir John ing made to create a "corporate sense" which will keep wardens said: "So far as civil defence is con-, enthusiastic after their training cerned, the gap which has to be filled before we have all the recruits we period. Bomb-Proof Shelters. Any appit require to form our first line of cell
cation for grant by a local autho-defence is very small.
"But I
I do not propose to stop after rity will be considered
Supt. Hammond visited the hail,! I general the completion of the first line. questioned members of the stair, and merits, even though a
propose to carry on until we have rought the help of members of the policy has not been worked out
substantial reserve. We intend to Trenches-Many authorities have continur and speed up the necessary
house party. already made their trenches com- training and have guaranteed that the plete. Others are waiting only local authorities shall be, In a posi- tion to get all fise equipment required. WATERLOGGED TRENCHES "To: suggest that there has been any significant folling off - of.
of recruits would be quite false.
for suitable weather conditions. Fire Brigade Equipment.--All de- ficiencies will shortly be over-
come.
National Register.--A compulsory Register an such would be an absolutely useless instrument. The question of compulsory training, as a separate matter, lias not been discussed.
SPEED-UP DECISION
Gates opened
The watchman heard, nothing un- usual, but another employce at the hall believes he heard a car travel- ng along the drive at about 2.30 am.
He expected it to stop at the main "I have no doubt whatever that entrance gates, which he had closed, our arrangements will be complete but it went on to the main road. On towards the end of this month and investigation the gates were found when we have our handbook avail- to be open. able we shall have all the recruits we At each corner of the hall the Earl require to complete the first line.” of Iveagh has Installed powerful
The "campaign" "There la,” Sir John Anderson inished trenches tard to the floodlights is a precaution against had. he suggest burglary at night. These were "a good deal of fundamental mis-ed, been largely inspired by the dis-switched on as usual. apprehension about civilian defenceal spectacle of waterlogged "refuges
The cart sold: "I have put the Until last September the various parts of the country. generally.
matter into the hands of the police The Home Office had, however, re- and do not want to hamper their Department was working on
plans which contemplated that preparations viewed the matter and drawn up its inquiries."
specifications. The matter was one
Lady O'Hagim is the second wife many cases been subjected to en- was a Lord-in-Waiting to King Ed- forced delays through abnormally bad ward VII. His first wife died in weather.
1931.
night. eat through the port bare 10 years ago, should be complete by a certain date. for the local authorities, who had in of Lord O'Hagan, who for three years
"At the end of that month the Go- may top 1,000,000 tons, Last year, Jernment made treah decisions which more than 900,531 tons of oil pro-involved a fundamentally different duets were handled in and out by view of the problem-a gical speed-
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Escapes, Surrenders To English Police
NAMES of important people in Germany were handed on a slip
of paper to Mr. Dummett, Bow-street magistrate, recently, as those of friends of a German banker, aged thirty-nine, who had given himself up after being smuggled to British,
His name was given as Siegfried |
TORTURED'
"He was put in an oil bath for two or three weeks, so
so terrible were the wounds, Infilcled. "From then untli November kist he was in a camp at 'Dachau, the reputation of which is well known. "After his release in November he moved about Germany, afraid to stay in one place.
Simin Gembleki, According to Me.] "When he was released he wan Maurlee Abrahams. defending him, Immediately seized by the secret he still bears the marks of "terrible; poilce and taken to a very terrible lashings" received during nearly concentration camp, and for the three years in German concentra- first six months he was tortured. I tion camps. He is said to have been am told that he still bears the marks the financial adviser in Germany to of the lashings he received there,
European royal family, "Gembleki has several influential friends in Germany, and they ar ranged for bis
escape" Bald Mr. Abrahams." He was smuggled across the frontier in a car to Holland."
Gembleki Janded at the London docks from an unknown Rotterdam steamer ht Birce a.m. on Tuesday with £50 in English money in his He heard that he was be taken pockets. Accompanied by a lawyer, to a concentration camp for Jews he gave himself up at Bow-street which
had a very bad reputation allens department.
even among such camps. Mr. Abrahamn went on: "Mr. "There no question of Gembicki Gembicki was a banker living in being a public charge on this coun Germany and an ex-serviceman who try. He has banking friends who volunteered although under military are trying to arrange for lc nge to fight for Germany. He was emigration to the United States." first arrested in 1933.
Mr. Dommett listened to the story
"I understand that for six months of Slegfeled Gembicki, Then he he was in prison, although no charge sald:-
.
was actually made against him. At "If his story is accurate, and be the end of that time he was released supported by reliable testimony, It and, I have no doubt as measure will be easier for the court to know. of confiscation, a fine of one 'three-quarter million
(£70,000) 'was imposed.
and how to deal. with him.” Head- schillings Journed the cast for further in-
quiries, and gave Gembicki ball.
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