Wednesday, modeJAHONGKONG TELEGRGAPH
October 18, 1939.
Edinburgh's Defence Against Air Raids
F tho air raid shelters which ware recently installed in Bruntsfield Links as part of Edinburgh Corporation's schomo to provido
rafugos in the open spaces of the city.
Air-raid trenches in Roseburn Park, Edinburgh, which are lined and roofed with concrete. Sand and soil over the concrete roof givo added protection to the tranches. Similar measures wore taken in, other parks whoro tronches worg, excavated during the crisis last September.
Air raid shelters in West Prin cos Street Garduns, Edinburgh.
a viow of a saction of the strong concrete type of shelter
Man at work building a sandbag wall at the entrance to a tona-
mant stair in Glen Street, Edinburgh.
which was installed at Cayfield Square.
Old Boots To
Chauffeur
PRESTATYN. HING-even old boots--- servants and friends in 1 estate of Mr. Edward
tired Liverpool builder, os, Lindenwalk. Presta.
his fortune he left to 12 and nieces and various principally connected with Presbyterian Church, eturn-old Mr. Glyn Roberts, * Queensway, - Prestatyn,
his clothing. He be
s best overcoat to the Liverpool estate, Edward Jalwords, bf Milner-road, (Liverpool.
dauffour. Owen Thomas jd served him for 10 years, m his old boots, a sliver
£5,
furniture, and small cash
is housekeeper and mold. They Don't Fit
Affeur antd: "Mr. Jones told me he had provided
nla will, and that I would
t of money when he died.
ly, I was surprised to re-
ki boots-which do not t
btel and the £5, For 10
3 acted as his chauffeur,
house and even swept his
Another view of the excavations in the gardens at Gayfield Squaro.
Walk, the main traffic avonuo between Edinburgh and Laith.
The Square borders Leith
Excavations in St. Patrick Squaro, Edinburgh, where, in accordance with a general scheme for the city, air-raid sholtors woro constructed. The Square is in the heart of a busy shopping centre,
Raggie, 10, Is Tough
"DON'T worry, Mummy, I'm
ave had to borrow money tough." So sald 10-year-old Reggie
ear so that I can start a Sandiford when he left his home in
Linden Gardens, Chiswick.
riend of Mr. Jones said:
His mother did not see him for
made his will he had no
R eccentric. The nature five days,
ests seems rather unfor-
Mr. Jones believed that Police found Reggie at Richmond. vided for them well dure sold: "I wanted to camp like the
Territorials."
-time."
A Sidewalks
ink Town
IELD, MO. (UP)-Be- was no place left to build
i WPA projects here lins
He had a hope.
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.
Twin Baby Electrocuted At Play
LEFT to play in a room where
there was an electric radia for, twin sisters aged 15 months were so quiet that their father. peeped in,
Its owner, a titled, grey-haired Italian woman, showed the relic and a document signed by a Cardinal, testifying to its sleep but found that she had pulled genuineness.
penny when he left arms
On his walk to Richmond, five
meadow
miles away, he found himself in
and decided to "comp" there, for in a corner was a stack of deck-chairs.
For three years crows Reggle built a rough "dent" with busy laying cement side- { some of them and for four nights he the town now is adequate- slept there. His food was apples: ...Seven miles of walks water from a drinking fountain
constructed.
quenched, his thirst.
The certificate, in Latin, beers the, tinutely associated with the Papal and signature of Cardinal] Court," said the italian woman. Vincentio Mazeroti und the date
"For years I have kept it in gante. 1062. If sintes that the fragment Now I need £100, so I nin trying to Crown of Thorns preserved at St. ell was taken from the relle of the Peter's, Rome.
„The seran of thorn, one-eighth of an inch tong, lles on a pad of red cloth in a farnished white- metal oval case.
"I would not sell it to a show- man or to somebody who would krep it as an ornament on the drawing-room mantelpiece.
"The Crown of "Thorns was "Apparently the splinter was given miraculously discovered, in Palestine to a relativo et mína who was in-1 during the early Middle Ages:"
Ho say one of thein apparently
nrndlater filament, and had been electrocuted.
This story was 'related·at an Inquest held by the West Surrey coroner on Pamela Snooit, at Esher recently when a verdict of "Accidental death," was returned.
The father. Harold Richard Snook,
a Civil Servant, suld he thought the child when touching the radiator niusi, also have touched the end of a disused gas pipe. He had recently repaired the radiator and might have crossed, the leads,
Asked if he blamed anybody? Mr. Enodic replied. "Only myself."
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