Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 15, 1941.
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DEATIIS
BICKERSTAFF.-On May 14, 1941, at his residence No. 132 Prince Edward Road, James Dowie Bickerstoff, aged 30. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m, to-day,
BITTER WINTER
Full story of the Amazing
February Weather in England
I in wow to 17 vene the worst
is now possible to reveal that the worst
England in the middle of February,
Many towns and villages in Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumberland, and Yorkshire were isolated-for days; rail and bus services wore interrupted; supplies ran short; district nurses were isolated with their patients: buses went through snow cuttings in ten foot drifts with the walla 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 a 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 wore 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 traffic to be operated. Snow and traffic blocks made it impossible to go further.
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 neurest farmhouse to summon a farm cart as ambulance to take the women to hospital. She got safely through, but on the retum was charged by a amati bent of cattle which had not fod for days. She lay down in the snow. The animals hor, then moved away. She
•enllcnd over a fence and back to
her
patient. The farm cart got through later and the woman was taken to hospital, where the child was safely born.
One or two nurses can scarcely walk after mild attacks of frost bite. One is in hospital as the result or her ordeals.
Packhorses to
the rescue
In some cut-off areas packhorses had to be brought out to get èssen- tial supplies through. Many villages were without letters, newspapers, coal, and fresh food supplies for days. At
Northumberland, fatm
where
holding their first market of the year were able to bring scarcely anything to sell, there Wog a shortage of beer, and, cus- tomers who wanted whisky generally got it out of miniature bottles, there being no other supplies.
to Alston (1,000-foot high market
frozeń
At every hillside bay there depots, and their convoys are Radnorshire village of Lloiney, Here, when I wanted to telephone were jams of traffic. Drivers constantly on the road, no mat- one of the blackest spots in the town) I was told at the post offico were crowded in wayside cafes ter what the weather.
country, was covered for forty- that if I wrote my message as d telo- or sleeping in outhouses. Police and A.A. scouts in phone touch They are paid three pounds a foot snowdrifts on the Welsh Alston by rond my driver wisely one consecutive days. Sixteen- gram they would send it by train, and when I tried to get through to with control points regulated week plus hotel expenses. They border inde roads impassable turned back at a treacherous stretch traffic.
wear no uniforms and drive for three weeks. During this of fell roal where icicles hung more
£1 yard long They told me
and that at the mostly in corduroy trousers, time Isolated hamlets received than
snowdrifts were deeper. worst of the jam a hundred or overalls, and peaked caps with food by airplane. so vehicles were held up in one ear-pieces. At the hotels, Temperature fell to below zero town, every cul-de-sac, yard, where they spend the night and in many districts. Shropshire and some streets being tem- porary cor
the monopolise the baths for hours, had twenty-eight degrees of parks. On other side there were numbers they change into tailored skirts, frost, and south-east London Farmers argued whether the stor more, and others were stuck at silken hose, and reveal polished of the western counties there and told stories of thousands of hill
twenty-two degrees. Thongkong Telegraph. various points between, where nails and permed hair that be- were 192 hours of continuous sheep, buried under snow having to In some was the worst aince 1917 or 1898,
HYNES: Killed by enemy action in London on May 10, Tom Hynes, 61. (News received by cable).'
+
the
Thursday, May 15, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 20015
many drifts went to cight or lle blizzard adventures in the frost-n record ten feet and a few to fifteen.
hills.
They have a regimental pride in getting their
convoys
Dirty days for shepherds
not reached be dug out and brought into safer
or hand-fed ground
where
they since 1929, when more than 200
were. To
get turnips to feed them A hearse with coffin going to
hours was recorded.
farmers had to dig through feet of Preston for burial was snowed
snow. Other farmers have nearly up for five days; a bus com-
In the fell countryside between used up their avaliable supplies of Carlisle and Newcastle, where wide strictly rationed, feeding stuffs, and pletely buried; a. heavy load of through.
areas were completely cut off, wo- ploughing programmes are six weeks biscuits for export lay on its
men also performed grand work. in arrears. That morning of the thaw The district nurses, I was told at the side in a 'drift; there were lor-
Every day hill shepherds have ries with fish and meat; heavy was an unforgettable spectacle. Cumberland County Council offices, been out, sometimes on horseback, wagons, some tarpaulined, some. The snow-bound hillside (part through to every case to which searching for sheep, either with long either wholly or in part without previous exposed to the weather-loads cleared by digging and thaw) of granite, concrete blocks, a came suddenly to life, and a petrol tank 20ft, long.
queue of lorries came through
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Arrangement.
EXPLOITERS BEATEN
THE lesson that determined and sincere effort, backed by honest motives can always, iu the long run, scrupulous dealings has aguin been taught by the immediate
overcome un-
Woman at the wheel from the north. They took hours to negotiate the precari-
they were called.
How the Nurses
got through
Some had to dig their way
tu
poles with which they probe the drifle or with dogs that can scent through several fect of snow.
Sledges were also
walked across Ave-barred
People
in use, and gates, high wolls and hedges, scarce-
ly knowing they were there..
too,
A convoy of twenty lorries, ous track, and until they had deep drifts by men relatives of a sick Carlisle
patients' homes; one was carried over Many bus services radiating from driven by girls, had just come passed no traffic was allowed to woman; some
were
stopped, When, some through. Some of the vehicles go through from the south,
who had already of the roads were cleared by cut- reached, their patients. hemes were tings through drifts up to ten feet were 30cwt., some b-tonners,
storm-stayed there for days, and deep the snow walls caved in dur- Drivers brought through ad- doctors on horseback had to attend ing a short thaw and closed them They came over the pass one ditional stories of the hold-up, to other normally nursing casou. again. Then came another freeze-
up and many cars were ditched. World results of the establishment in night when days of digging had The road, it appeared, had been
miles At Hallbankgate, twelve
For
services, a Ume train cleared a temporary one-way cleared earlier, but one of the from Carlisle, the only way the nurse were also interrupted. The Car- Hongkong of "fair-price" rice for traffic, but near the summit first vehicles to go ahead was could reach a sick household was by lisle-Newcastle service got through shops, which, within 48 hours another heavy fall of snow came a huge three-decker sheep lorry travelling on a colliery locomotive. when I could. Up there they still chuckle about the train that got smushed the Colony's rice pro- 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 Ateering market. The foresight
crashed and overturned on side house, But it was Thursday's train.-5. 3. and courage of a number of nineteenth, helping-to-dig out the treacherous surface. Some the roof, compileations developed and in the Sunday Express."- public-minded people brought the one in front, did not no sheep were killed, some injured. this about. Before the in-tice that her own was snowing auguration of the "fair price" up, and soon it was hopelessly selling centres, many of the rice stuck. dealers openly snapped their fingers at Government legisla- tion which endeavoured to con- trol prices; and as if the flaunt- ing of the law were
not sufficient, numbers of dealers resorted to nefarious tricks in
THE NEW
MARCONIPHONE
PRICE $345
S. Moutrie
YORK BUILDING
The live ones had to be turned loose in the fells while the carrier and chassis were The twentieth was in worse worked to the side of the road. plight. Caught in one of the Another carrier following be- worst spots on the fells, it was hind also had an accident, and snowed up. The girl driver more sheep and mutton were spent the night in her cab, atuf- spilled over the countryside.
Better apparatus discussed
fing all crevices with blouses,
Co., Ltd. Der to grasp that little extra towels and newspapers to keep
CHATER ROAD
THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE BELLOWS
The R. A. F. has done its stuff
AGAIN
SO BLOW
TO IT
April Score 385
no food.
trekked to the nearest railway
profit at the expense of the pur- out slashing snow and a gale chasers, such as watering the that threatened to overturn the rice to make it heavy, or adul lorry. A woman of sixty hud terating it by mixing the to spend the night with her. along the route added to the Stranded driverless lorries grades, then charging Grade A The driver had no sleep, for she difficulties of clearing a work- prices.
had to get out to start the able track. At the height of This sort of sharp practice engine every hour to prevent the hold-up days earlier drivers was outright dishonesty and freezing. It took them twenty were told on a Friday night that fraud which could only be suc-hours to cover twenty miles, nothing could get through, so cessfully countered and ren- and during that time they had many of them packed up and dered unprofitable by the ap- pearance of competitors willing 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 murket has taken a violent change for the better. Adulteration of rice is still be ing carried out by some
plaints that too few men were tailers, but so impressive was
turned out on the work by the their loss of business for two
council county
clearing the daya that in sheer desperation
south side. Lorry drivers say they brought their prices below
they volunteered to help on a the official rato per picul by one dollar. This was the principal ans from comfortable homes and fused.
These girl drivers are civili- payment basis, but were aim of the "fair price" contres..
accustomed to driving their own Some took part in the work purpose of competing with the the assembly factorics to Army them tolerated their troubles cars. They drive lorries from voluntarily, and hundreds of merchants on a profit-making basis, nor of forcing the dealers
more easily for the reason that
Some of the girl drivers got stations and went home. Ac- through the partially cleared tually a temporary road was track after men drivers had cleared, when most of the wait- drivers. given up the task and had ing lorries had no tramped through the snow to Later snowfalls increased the the nearest shelter.
snow blocks and the delay,
ro-
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 Fellowship number). In addition to official collectors for firms there are collection Boxas at
Y...& & Shanghái Bank. Kowloon. Peniniuta Hotel, Kowloon, NJ Far East Oxygen Acatylene Co.,
Lid, Kowloon. European Y. M. U. A., Kowloon. Caravan, Kowloon,
Helena May Knatijulės
H.K. & Shangbal Bank, H.K!
ILK. Jockey Club, II.K.-. Lane Crawford Ltd), ILK.
Star Ferry Wharf, Kowloon, China Light & Power Co., Ltd.,
Hang-hom,
China Eight' & Power Co., Ltd.
One girl driver towed a heavy On the north side of the pass lorry for several miles until she soldiers were called out to as- reached a stretch of surface slat workers engaged on clear- where 8. had to give up. ing the road, but there are com
£3 a week and
expenses
re-
out of business unless they re-enthusiastic response- from they were getting overtime for. fused to listen to reason. The those who were entitled to this Saturdays and Sundays while Social Work Committee wore protection. It is to be hoped their lorries were stuck in the détermined to make the licensed that those licensed rice dealers snow. retailers adhere to the official who fondly imagined they could
Ministry of Transport of- prices, and to provent them continue 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 a 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 nim, which organisation exists which will cult but vital rond aftery, ILE. * Whampoa - Dock Recreation evoked not only, the sympathy. not hesitate to fight them, and a halakoarvot.
of hil fair-minded people, but, successfully so, if there are fur- Wales had its heaviest snow -happily enjoyed a prompt-and-thur signs of malpractice. for seventy-five years.-The.
· Argyle Street,
H.K. Star Forry, Wharf,
H.K. Hotel, HLR.
II.K., Club.
Gloucester Hotel, ILK,
S. Club.
ance.
CHRISTOPHER
WREN? PAHL
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