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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 15, 1941.
SETOSOW
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DEATH
HOTEL GARAGE Stubbs Rd.
BICKERSTAFF.-On May 14, 1941, at his residence No. 182 Prince Edward Road, James
Dowie Blckerstaff, aged 30. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m, to-day.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Thursday, May 15, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" Ised by the ongkong Telegraph' to Indicate news which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommunt- cations Ordinance, 1916. Such news as hear the Indication "Up" in received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associatione, who ri- serve all rights and forbid republications.
BITTER WINTER
Full
story of the
Amazing
February Weather in England
IT
TT is now possible to reveal that the worst snowstorm since 1917 swept the north of England in the middle of February.
went
Many towns and villages in Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumberland, and Yorkshire were isolated for days; råil and bus services were interrupted; supplies ran short; district nurses were isolated with their patients: buses through snow, cuttings in ten- foot drifts with the walls topping their roofs; some vehicles were buried for nearly a week, and at one time a large number of lorries and cars were held up in the north by the blocking of ʼn famous pass. While this was happening in the north, most of the south was having normal weather.
Personal service highlights in this wide- spread, storm were the way district nurses car- ried on in face of great difficulties and girls drove heavy Army lorries over hills, where some of them had to stay stormbound for the night..
I reached the approaches to the pass on the night before the thaw cleared the road sufficient- ly for alternate one-way traffle to be operated. Snow and traffic blocks made it impossible to go further.
ப
Snowstorm the
worst since
1917
Food dropped
by airplane
Women lorry-
drivers marooned
the nurse to get help tramped some- times almost hip-deep in snow to the nearest farmhouse to summon a form cart pa ambulance to take the womun to hospital. She got safely through, but on the return was charged by a small herd of cattle which had not fed for days. She lay snow. The animals sniffed her, then moved away. She scrambled over a fence and buck to her patient. The farm cart got through Inter and the woman was Inken to hospital, where the child was kafely born.
One or two nurses can scarcely
One la in hospital as the result of her ordeals.
walk after mild attacks of frost bite.
Packhorses to
·
the rescue
In some cut-off areas packhorses had to be brought out to get essen- Hal supplies through. Many villages were without letters, newspapers, soul, and fresh food supplies for days. At Hallwhistle, Northumberland, where farmers holding their firat market of
of the year were ablo to bring scarcely anything to sell, there
shortage of beer, and Tomers whe wanted whisky generally cut of miniature bottles, there being no other supplies.
Won
nol
cus-
Here, when I wanted to telephone
tele
At every hillside bay there depots, and their convoys are Radnorshire village of Lloiney, to Alston (1,000-foot high market were jams of trafic. Drivers constantly on the road, no mat- one of the blackest spots in the town) I was told at the post office were crowded in wayside cafes ter what the weather.
country, was covered for forty that if I wrote my message na a or sleeping in outhouses. Police and A.A. stouts in phone touch They are paid three pounds n one consecutive days, Sixteen- gram they would send it by train, Alaton by road" my driver wisely with control points regulated week plus hotel expenses. They foot snowdrifts on the Welsh Allowed to get through to wear no uniforms and drive border made roads impassable turned back at a treacherous stretch mostly in corduroy. trousers, for three weeks. During this of fell ront where icicles hung more
23 yard long and snowdrifts were deeper. They told me that at the overalls, and peaked caps with time isolated hamlets received than worst of the jam a hundred or ear-pieces. At the hotels, food by airplane.
traffic.
frozen
Dirty days for shepherds
ten feet and a few to, fifteen. They have a regimental pride frost-a record not reached be dug out and
so vehicles were held up in one where they spend the night and Temperature fell to below zero town, every cul-de-sac, yard, monopolise the baths for hours, in many districts. Shropshire and some streets being tem- they change into tailored skirts, had twenty-eight degrees of porary car parks. On the silken hose, and reveal polished frost, and south-east London Farmers argued whether the storm other side there were numbers nails and permed hair that be twenty-two degrees. In some was the worst since 1917 or 1898. more, and others were stuck at the blizzard adventures in the of the western counties there and told stories of thousands of hill various points between, where hills.
were 192 hours of continuous sheep buried under snow having to into safer many drifts went to eight or
or hand-fed where they since 1920, when more than 200 round
were. To get turnips to feed them hours was recorded.
farmers had to dig through feet of snow. Other farmers have nearly In the fell countryside between used up their available supplies of Carlisle and Newcastle, where wide strictly rationed feeding stuffs, and
in
getting
A hearse with coffin going to through. Preston for burial was snowed
their
convoys
brought into
That morning of the thuw up for five days; a bus com- pletely buried; a heavy load of was an unforgettable spectacle. areas were completely cut off, wo- ploughing programmes are six weeks biscuits for export lay on its The snow-bound hillside (part men also performed grand work. in arrears. either wholly or in part without previous side in a drift; there were lor- cleared by digging and thaw) The district nurses, I was told at the
ries with fish and meat; heavy came suddenly to life, and a Cumberland County Council offices, been out, sometimes on horseback, wagons, some tarpaulined, some queue of lorries came through get through to evefy case to which searching for sheep, either with long
arrangement.
EXPLOITERS BEATEN THE lesson that determined and sincere effort, backed by honest motives can always, in
the long run, overcomc U131- scrupulous, dealings has again been taught by the immediate results of the establishment in Hongkong of "fair-price" rice
the
north. They took they were called. hours to negotiate the precari- ous track, and until they had passed no traffic was allowed to go through from the south.
exposed to the weather-loads from of granite, concrete blocks, a petrol tank 25ft. long. Woman at the wheel
A convoy of twenty lorries, driven by girls, had just come through. Some of the vehicles were 30cwt., some 5-tonners.
..
How the Nurses got through
Every day hili shepherds have
drifts
poles with which they probe the or with dogs that can scent through several feet of snow.
and were also in use, wulked ncross five-barred gates, high walls and hedges, scarce- ly knowing they were
Many bus services to from
When
roads were cleared by cul-
Car-
Some had to dig their
way to ly patients' homes; one was carried over A
story of
deep drifts by then relatives of a sick
of the woman; some who
had already cold mutton reached their patients' homes were tings through drifts up to ten feet deep the snow walls caved in dur- storm-stayed there for days, and Drivers brought through ad- doctors on horseback had to attend ing a short thaw and closed them
ngain.
ain. Then came another freeze- They came over the pass one ditional stories of the hold-up, to other normally nursing cases. up and many cars were ditched.
For At Hollbankgate, twelve miles
a time train services, too, night when days of digging had The road, it appeared, had been
also Interrupted. The cleared a temporary one-way cleared carlier, but one of the from Carlisle, the only way the nurse were for traffic, but near the summit first vehicles to go ahead was could reach a sick household was by liste-Newcastle service got through when it could. Up there they still another heavy fall of snow came a huge three-decker sheep lorry travelling on a colliery locomotive. chuckle about the train that got down. Eighteen of the twenty with fifty or sixty live sheep. At one maternity case in a fell through to the minute on a Friday. Radio public-minded people brought got through. The driver of the It crashed and overturned on side house, with snow nearly up to But it was. Thursday's train.-H. B.
nineteenth, helping to dig out the treacherous surface. Some-the-roof-complications developed and in the "Sunday Express," the one in front, did not no- sheep were killed, some injured. tice that her own was snowing up, and soon it was hopelessly stuck.
World shops, which, within 48 hours smashed the Colony's rice pro- fiteering market. The foresight and courage of a number of
THE NEW
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CHATER ROAD
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE BELLOWS
The R. A. F. has done its stuff AGAIN
SO BLOW TO IT
April Score 385
profit at the expanse of the pur- chasers, such as watering the rice to make it heavy, or adul- terating it by mixing the grades, then charging Grade A prices.
this about. Before the in auguration of the "fair price"
The live ones had to be selling centres, many of the rice
turned loose in the fells while dealers openly snapped their
the carrier and chassis were The twentieth was in worse worked to the side of the road. fingers at Government legisla- tion which endeavoured to con- plight. Caught in one of the Another carrier following be- worst spots on the fells, it was hind also had an accident, and trol prices; and as if the flaunt-
and mutton were law ing of the
were not snowed up. The girl driver more sheep sufficient, numbers of deaters spent the night in her cab, stuf- spilled over the countryside. resorted to nefarious tricks in fing all, crevices with blouses, Stranded driverless lorries out slashing snow and a gale difficulties of clearing a work- that threatened to overturn the able track. At the height of torry. A woman of sixty had the hold-up days earlier drivers to spend the night with her. were told on a Friday night that The driver had no sleep, for she nothing could get through, so had to get out to start the many of them packed up and This sort of sharp practice engine every hour to prevent trekked to the nearest railway was outright dishonesty and
freezing. It took them twenty stations and went home. Ac- fraud which could only be suc-hours to cover twenty miles, tually a temporary road was cessfully countered. and ren-
and during that time they had cleared, when most of the wait- dered unprofitable by the up-
по ing lorries had drivers. no food. pearance of competitors willing
Later snowfalls increased the to sell pure, fair weight rice at the legal prices. Happily such public spirited and disinterested people were to be found in the Social Work Committee which formed itself for this express tusk. As a result, the situation in the rice market has taken a violent change for the better. Adulteration of rice is still be ing carried out by some tallers, but so impressive was their loss of business for two days that in sheer desperation they brought their prices below. the official rate per picul by one' dollar. This was the principal aim of the "fair price" centres. purpose of competing with the merchants on a profit-making basis, nor of forcing the dealers
enthusiastic out of business unless they re-
response from fused to listen to reason. The those who were entitled to this Social Work Committee were protection. It is to be hoped determined to make the licensed that those licensed rice dealers retailers adhere to the official who fondly imagined they could Ministry of Transport of- prices, and to prevent them continuo their methods of ex- ficials have Investigated the from exploiting any further the ploitation without any fear of hold-up, and it is probable that thousands of poor people who consequences, have learnt more up-to-date snow-clearing rely on rice for their susten-salutary lesson. From now on, apparatus will be brought into they may rest assured that an operation in future on this dif- This was a worthy aim, which organisation exists which will ficult but vital road artery. evoked not only the sympathynot hesitate to light them, and at all fair-minded people, but, successfully so, if there are fur- happily, enjoyed a prompt and ther-signs-of-malpractice
Some of the girl drivers got through the partially cleared snow blocks and the delay.
On the north side of the pass track after men drivers had given up the task and had soldiers were called out to an tramped through the snow to sist workers engaged on clear. the nearest shelter.
ing the road, but there are com-
re-
CLOSING DATE FOR APRIL · Tuesday, May 20 They were not set up for the
Read your Fellowship Booklet carefully for detailed Instructions regarding "blow-ins" and "windfalls", then deposit your April "blow-in" in a closed envelope with your Flowship number). In addition to official collectors for firms there are collection Boxes at:--
II.K. & Shanghai Bank, Kowloon. Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, Far East Oxygen & Acetylene Co.
Lu, Kowloon,
European Y. M. C, A., Kowloon, Caravan, Kowloon,
Helens May. Institute, If.K. II.K. & Shanghai Bank, II.K.
II.K. Jockey Club, II.K. · ́ Lane Crawford Ltd), ILK.
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Star Ferry Wharf, Kowloon.
Chias Light & Power Co., Ltd..
IIung-hom
Chian Light & Power Co., Ltd.
Argylo Street
ILK. Star Ferry Wharf,
ILK. Hotel, XXI.
FLIC. Ctab..
Gloucester Hotel, H.K,
H.R. & Whampoa Dock Recreation
Club,
ance.
One girl driver towed a heavy plaints that too few men were county council clearing the lorry for several miles until she turned out on the work by the reached a stretch of surface outh side. Lorry drivers say where she had to give up. they volunteered to help on a
payment basis, but a week and
expenses
fused.
were re-
Some took part in the work voluntarily, and hundreds of These girl drivers, are civili- them tolerated their troubles ans from comfortable homes and moro easily for the reason that accustomed to driving their own they were getting overtime for cars. They drive lorries from Saturdays and Sundays while the assembly factories to Army their lorries were stuck in the
Bilow.
Better apparatus discussed
Wales had its heaviest snow for saventy-five years. The
CHRISTOPHER
WREN
THE THWARTED ARCHITECT Hiilor. In Jila youth, tried to be an architect, but failed.