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OH, SLUGGO---I JUST HEARD A SWELL STORY ON THE RADIO
*** 17 WAS ALL ABOUT SIR ISAAC NEWTON!
Wednesday,
WHO OH, HE WAS FAMOUS WAS BECAUSE AN APPLE HE FELL ON HIS HEAD
? AND HE FOUND
OUT A THING
CALLED GRAVITY
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
AND HE GOT TO BE ONE OF 'THE SMARTEST MEN IN THE
WORLD!
October 23, 1940.
By Ernie Bushmiller
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POLICE SEEK BOGUS M.P. WHO GOT£10 FROM INTERNEE'S WIFE
SCOTLAND YARD SPECIAL BRANCH OFFICERS' ARE SEARCHING FOR. A MAN WHO POSED AS A WELL-KNOWN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT TO PLAY A TRICK ON MRS. HANS ALEC ROSENFELDER, WIFE OF A GERMAN REFUGEE INTERNED IN THE ISLE OF MAN, WHOSE CASE HAS BEEN RAISED RECENTLY IN THE HOUSE OF COM- MONS.
This man telephoned a London paper saying he was Mr. S. S. Silverman, M.P. for Nelson and Colne, and that he had been informed by the Home Secretary that. Mr. Rosenfelder would be released from the Isle of Man
shortly.
Air Raid Lessons From Chungking
It was his carnest endeavour, to reach the same state of efficiency In Hongkong as in Chungking, in providing air raid shelters for the population, said Wing-Commander A. H. Steele. Perkins, Director of Air Precautions, in an address on his recent visit to the Chinese capital, which he gavé at the Hongkong Rotary Club timu yesterday.
He sald:
Our main object in visiting Chung- king was to study the very excellent system they have devised for giving protection to the general public. It is protection of a very high order and almost bomb-proof.
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to compare the price per head, and the time of construction of such tunnel, against the price per head of tunnels constructed by more modern methods.
the
By chance the reporter who answered the call was the man who had dealt with the Rosenfelder case.
He asked if Mrs. Rosenfelder had been informel. The "M.P." said he was speaking from her house, that she was out and hd was leaving a message with the maid.
Address
The reporter asked him for his private address and phone number, He gave an Acorn number and an address in Wembley.
Later Mrs. Rosenfelder phoned! the paper to ask if any news had been received from the Home Office.
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She said she was at her home in Hendon and had not been out during the evening. A "Mr. Silverman, 1 ls,
is estimated that two-thirds of MP. had brought her news that!
city is in ruins. The vast her husband was to be released. Altogether there are 120,000 people majority of the houses are poorly
The paper then checked up on the in Chungking. and it is estimated constructed, a large number are built that there is sufficient tunnel accom- of timber; others of brickwork and "M.P." I was discovered that the modation for every soul. In addition hollow
Such phone number he had given was the to this, they are now building tunnels buildings as these collapse like a pack number of Acton Council and that taking a stockbroker's 11-years- into the sides of the hills to house of cards from the effects of the blast the private address was fictitious. their transpart. Chungking is literal- of high explosive bombs, and in most
Across
wall
construction.
A tremendous amount of demage
Offered To Send Money.
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A schoolmaster who made plans to evacuate boys to Canada Was accused at Clerkenwell of
old son away by fraud.
Mr. Coverdale Sharp, prosecuting, said that the master, Montagu Wi- fred Wenver Wicks, nged 28, of
ly riddled with tunnels. In fact, it cases, fires soon break out. resembled a rabbit warren, but with
Mrs. Rosenfelder said: "The man this difference, the burrowing had has been done to the city, not only had phoned me as Mr. Silverman and Florence-road, Sanderstend, Surrey, been organised and well-planned.
by the effects of high explosive Some of the tunnels were construct- bombs, but also by incendiary bombs sald Sir John Anderson would in- coached Mr. George Schwerdt's sons
my during the Eastern holidays. ed to house several thousand people, and other fires caused by the collapse form him this evening and others sufficient to meet the of houses. The ometals, however, hust
husband would be
He released.
Later he sald he needs of the people in the Immediate deal with the fires in drastic manner, came to my home and phoned
was taking a vicinity.
of boys to Canada. Mr. and they have no hesitation in West End club from here. He said party Chungking has many air raid ad- demolishing building after bulding the person at the other end of the Schwerdt decided to let his son vantages over Hongkong. For tn in order to prevent the spread of phone was Sir John Anderson, who George go. stance, the authorities have at least fres. Each owner of a house has to confirmed that my husband would be one hour's warning, and during this keep on the ground floor 40 gallons out shortly..
He paid £620 Into Wicks's bank period, quite a number proceed to of water and several small bamboo
"Quite casually he asked if my account to cover expenses for two he hinterland on foot or in their buckets of sand and this, I think, is husband had money with him. Iyears, including the
pasange both motor cars, but the bulk
of the on excellent scheme, for it enables said no, and he suggested I should ways. population remains "put" until a the Fire Brigade to proceed to any send him about £10 to travel home,
Brought Back second alarma la sounded, and then given place and know that the He offered to send it for me.
towards the material for dealing with the fire in thought an MP. would know they make their way
After the train had left. Eusion funnels, which are generally just
Its incipient slage is on the spot. the road, where they walt
Hghting restructions are com- procedure so I gave him £10 In Mr. Schwerdt got into communica-
tion with Canada House. until a third alarm is sounded, and puratively then they entered the tunnels and electricity is cut off at the source, Sir John Anderson was out of
As a result, Wicks was stopped at remain there until the "All Clear" and a pot shot at any window show. London at the time and could not Crewe and brought back with signal is given. This long warning ing a light does the rest.
have spoken to the "M.P." permits the population to take the It was stated that telephone lines
Inquiries showed he had cancelled A Description precautionary measures in an orderly cannot be relied upon after the first
free-from-panic spirit.
a provisional booking for two to go salvo of bombs, and I can well be- Should you ever pay a visit to Heve this, as some of the conior-
Mrs. Rosenfelder has given detec-to Canada and had no exit permit. of tionist
Mr. Lawrence Vine, defending, Chungking. during the period
telegraph tives the following description of the hostilities, and if you value your life posts werg at, would even have man: About 50 years of age, short,jaald that dimiculites had arisen and do not at night time wear white, gladdened the heart of Heath stout, dark, going bald, wenring Wicks was going to stay at Liverpool or light or smoke a cigarette. If you Robinson.
cleared up. A horn-rimmed głosach with thick until they do, you will hear the crack of a rifle
lenses; brown sult with white stripe,, colleague was going to take the rest and bullet whizzing by. The Lessons For Hongkong › brown trilby hat.
of the party over, following Wicks. Chinese are so well drilled that, I
I suggest that I should be failing
High Praise was informed, many cases of bad man-handling have taken place on those who disobeyed these instruc- lana.
Blake Gardens Experiment ›
easy to enforce us. the
attitunles which
notes."
in my duty, if I did not draw some all; (b) the provision of ready-made conclusions on all that I had seen of huts for those whose
boy,
were
the
houses are Mr. Schwerdt, who lives at Bishop's the Chinese Government's magni- demolished; and (c) the example set Stortford, Herts, agreed he had ex-
high preise "of Acient work in providing shelter for by all and their readiness to help pressed the population, and endeavour to their neighbours,
Wicks's
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apply those lessons to Hongkong, It must, and shall be, my earnest quailties as a teacher.
Ifo aald he did not know that his Perhaps what Impressed me, most endeavour to reach the same state in wife first suggested the visit We spent many hours examining these tunnels, and I for one learnt of all, was the complete absence of Hongkong. The problem la colossal, Canada, or that she had written to many useful hinta and tips, and my fear and the apparent high standard but if it is broken into fragments. I Irlend Mr. Faber has now undertaken of morale amongst the civilians. I am optimistic enough to bellove that Wicks: "Even if you decide at the
Be to supervise the construction of a um quite sure that this state of affairs it is not insoluble, and with your last morgent to stay, I should like In your charge, tunnel at Blake Gardens, using, as is due to the fact that the people active support and help, let us con- George to far as is practicable, Chungking have confidence because: (a), Bomb-fidently march forward and attain wherever that is," methods, and it will be of interest proof shelters has been provided for the highest degree of efficiency.
Wicks was remanded on ball.
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