Wednesday.
HONGKONG TELEGRGAPH
October 18, 1939.
Edinburgh's Defence Against Air Raids
One of the air raid sholtors which were recently installed in Bruntsfield Links as part of Edinburgh Corporation's schome to provide. refuges in the open spaces of the city.
Air-raid tronches in Roseburn Park, Edinburgh, which are lined and roofed with concreto. Sard and soil over the concrete roof give added protection to the tranchas. Similar measures were takon in other parks where tronchos were excavated during the crisis Tast September,
josa viaw of a section of the strong concrato type of shelter
which was installed at Cayfield Square.
Mon at work building a sandbag wall at the entrance to a tone-
ment atsir in Glen Street, Edinburgh.
Afr raid shelters in, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
Old Boots To Chauffeur
PRESTATYN. THING-even old boots- to servants and friends in 3,791 estate of Mr. Edward retired Liverpool builder, rhos, Lindenwalk, Presta-
of his fortune he left to 12 and nieces and various principally connected with Ah Presbyterian Church.
years-old Mr, Glyn Roberts, Elen, Queensway, Prestatyn,
hait is clothing. He
bc-
his bost overcoat to the Jin Liverpool estate, Edward
Edwards, of Milner-rond, i
Liverpool. Sauffeur,
Owen Thomas find served him for 18 years. lim his old boots, a silver
'£5.
fo furniture and small cash
his housekeeper, and mald.
They Don't Fit
autour said; "Mr. Jones I told me he had provided his will, and that I would dort of money when he died. ally, I was Rurprised to re- old boots-which do not t watch and the £5. For 18
and acted as his chauffeur,
is house and even swept his
Another view, of tho excavations in the gardons at Gayfield Square.
The Square bordors Leith
Walk, the main traffic avenue between Edinburgh and Leith.
Raggie, 10, Is Tough
"DON'T worry, Mummy, I'm
have had to borrow money tough. So sald 10-year-old Reagle
ear so that I can start a Sandford when he left his home in
Linden Gardens, Chiswick.
ess." friend of Mr. Jones said:
té mide' is will he had no
His mother did not see him for
being eccentric. The nature five days,
quests seems. rather unfor- Mr. Jones believed that
Police found Reggle at Richmond, ovided for them well dur-He said: "I wanted to camp like the e-time."
Territorials."
A Sidewalks
Link Town
Crown of Thorns' Relic for Sale
A TINY splinter, said to be from the Crown of
Thorns worn by Christ at the Crucifixion, is be». ing offered for sale in London.
Its owner, a titled, grey-haired Italian woman, showed the relic and a document signed by a Cardinal, testifying to its genuinences.
He had a penny when he left aims home.
On his walk to Richmond, ve miles away, he found himsel; In meadow and decided to "camp FIELD, Mo. (UP.)Bothore, for in a corner was a stack:
was no place lett to bulls of deck-chairs.
WPA projects here Hos
1. For three years crews Reggie bullt a rough "teni" with {busy laying cement side some of them and for four nights he the town now is adequates. | slept there. His food was apples: A. Seven miles of walks water front;a; drinking fountain |constricted.As.
quenched his thirst, is
Excavations in St. Patrick Square, Edinburgh, where, in accordance with a general, schome for
the city, air-raid shafters were constructed. The Square is in the heart of a busy shopping contre,
Twin Baby
Electrocuted At Play
EFT to play in a room where
there was an electric radia- tor, twin sisters aged 15 months were so quiet that their father peeped in.
He w one of them apparently sleep but found that she had pulled a radiator lament, and had been electrocuted,
Tlie certificate, ki Latin, bears the, timately associated with the Papal
This story was related at an inquest and signature of Cardinal Court,” said the' Ilalino-woman, held by the West Surrey coroner on Vincentio Mazerolt and the date
SENSE My Pamela Snook, at. Esher recently 1082. alates that the fragment Now I need £100, so I am trying to was returned.
"For years I have kept it in a sale.when a verdict of "Accidental death" was taken from the Crown of Thorns preserved of St. sell it.
relle, the Peter, Rome.
The scrap of thom, one-eighth `of'an inch tong, Hles on a pad of red cloth, in a tarnished while- metal oval cose.".
"I would not sell it to a show- man or lo somebody who would keep it as an ornament on the drawing-room maniéfplece. "The Crown of Thorns
Was
The father, Harold Richard Snork, à Civil Servant, sald he}thought the child when touching the radiator must also have touched, the end of a' disused gas pipe... He had recently repaired the radiator and might have crossed the lendogenous v
"Apparently the splinter was given miraculously discovered PalestineAsked if he blamed anybody, Mr.
to a relative of mine who was in during the early, Middle Ages."
Snook replied. "Only myself.
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