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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH March 29, 1940,
5,000,000 BEEN
INJURED
PEOPLE
IN
BLACK-OUT
OFFICIAL figures show that during the months of October, November and December 2,133 persons met their deaths on the roads of Britain during the black-out. hours, an average of 23 killed every night..
No statistics have been published concerning those who have been injured, either seriously or slightly, on the roads or elsewhere, during the black-out.
The figures include those injured at home or at work as well on the
Now estimates based on a Gallup survey reveal the astound- ing fact that:
6,000,000 adults in Britain black eyes, injured shins or shakings. had suffered only bumps, bruises, have suffered some sort of): injury in the black-out; an average of 33,000 every night since the black-out curtain descended on the British Isles, On the night of September 1. 1939.
All Injuries Included
viewed had fallen rouds. Many of the people inter- down stairs or tripped over furniture or surdbags and kerbs in the streets. And they do not, of course, Include children.
Black-Out Question Asking a subsidiary question, the Institute found that 71 per cent.
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And the Tammies are reported to be asking for more of them.
They are worn under Army re- gulation socks,
Year-old stockings will be vory welcome. says an appeal address- ed to the women of Norfolk,
Asking a representative sample of thought that the black-out was being Italy To Salvage
the public: "Have you suffered any properly physical injury because of the black-bourhood. out?" the institute found that
observed in their neigh-
U-Boats
POLA (UP).-The Italian govern.
This percentage held fairly good 18 per cent, said "YES." over the whole country, no particular As the sample in based on an adult district being singled out by its in-
habitants for slacknens. voting population of approximately comment from many industrial areas, U-boats from the bed of the Adriatic. A frequentment hus started work on raising 11 20,000,000, a simple calculation gives however, was that while private The subs were scuttled by German the total of injured above.
The question was deliberately houses obeyed the rules works and crews after the armistice. They are framed to Include all injuries, trivial factories were bad offenders. being raised for scrap iron,
as well as severe, and comments made to the interviewers show that most of those who answered "Yes"
REFUGEES IN CAMPS
Slight Increase In Number
A slight increase in the number of refugees and destitutes in the Gov-) ernment camps was recorded during the week ending March 23. A new site at Ngau Tau Kok was established for squatters on March 12 and up to March 23 there were ten inmates in the camp.
were
In the urban areas there 1,296 civilians at King's Park against 1,302 the previous week; 1,043 at Ma Tau Chung against 1,390; 1,330 nt North Point against 1,410 and 472 at
450.
Moon Hill against ·
There were 604 soldiers in the camp at Argyle Street as
against 099 the
previous week Eighteen were In hospital against 14 the week before.
The Tol Hang Squatters camp ac- commotinted 1,277 against 1,245 and at Kam Tin there were 2,164 inmates against 2,007 the previous week.
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