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PRIMATE'S FAREWELL ELECTRICITY AT 1/4D THE WORLD'S SPEED

MEETING

PRAYER BOOK FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF THORNY PROBLEM

3 DAYS' DISCUSSION

London, Yesterday.

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FUEL CONFERENCE

RECORD

ON THE SOLENT

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COAL CARBONISATION

VALUABLE BY PRODUCTS

London, Yesterday.

TESTS

WEATHER UNSUITABLE

London, Yesterday. The Archbishop of Canterbury, The World Fuel Conference was Although the weather was still whose resignation will take effect opened in London, 47 countries be- unsuitable to-day for Flight-Lieut- In November, will preside to-mor- ing represented with the Marquesa erant Darcy Greig to make his trial

fight on Supermarine seaplane $5,| row for the last time over a meet- of Reading presiding.. ing of bishops.

167 papers have been prepared, in which he will shortly make an The meeting, at which it is ex- ranging from "drying peat" which attempt on the world speed record, the machine was taken out, and pected all the bishops of the pro- is the most primitive form of vinces of Canterbury and York will fuel to "pulverised fuel flring" the after a long engine test, the pilot

did some fast test runs on attend, will give further considera- latest advance in modern fuelling. Solent. He did not rise into the tion to the problem created by the The biggest feature is likely to air. The machine responded well rejection of the revised Prayer be the low temperature carbonisa- to all the tests. British Wireless Book for the Church of England tion coal and the use of the re- Service. when the Prayer Book measure was sultant solid fuel under boilers in defeated in the House of Commons. electric super-power stations.

It

The discussions will continue is stated that the value of its by THEFT OF PLANTS over three days, and it is anticipat. products is so great that the cost

STOLEN IN KOWLOON

the

ed that some very general line of of the fuel in generating stations CONSIDERABLE NUMBER BEING policy will emerge, probably in the is almost negligible, and is rousing form of provisional resolutione, hopes of electricity at a farthing! which will subsequently be put be-per unit-Reuter. fore the dioceses.-British Wireless) Service.

MADRID FIRE

FURTHER DETAILS OF THE CALAMITY

APPALLING SPECTACLE

Madrid, Yesterday.

Central Board's Work.

There is a considerable number of; valuable plants being stolen from Kowloon and other districts. But! In connection with the electricity this is the first arrest" was a state- scheme for the South East of Eng- ment made at the Kowloon Magis- land, The Central Electricity Board tracy this morning when a Chinese, have placed contracts, amounting in described as an earth coolie, ap- to about £1,000,000 for the con- peared before Mr. W. Schofield, on struction of 132,000 volt transmis à charge of theft and unlawful pos- alon lines in that ares.

session.

On the charge of stealing, de- The Central Electricity Board was' established under last year's Elec- fendant was sentenced to 6 weeks' The Commis- jail while for the possession of a

SINCERE'S ACTION

The fire was got under control tricity Supply Act. at 4 o'clock this morning when the slonera assumed that the output in pair of pliers, an additional sen- theatre was reduced to a heap of Britain will double every eight years tence of 2 months was imposed, the The death roll, and that at the end of 1941 about sentences to run concurrently. As smouldering ashes. is at present unknown, but it is 450 units per head of population nobody had claimed the pliers, Mr. The standard Schofield ordered them to be con- now believed not to be so heavy will be consumed.

The voltage for the grid transmission fiscated. AS was originally feared. number of injured is estimated at network, which it is proposed to between two and three hundred, establish, has been fixed at 182,000 A gruesome heap of twenty-five volts and secondary transmission charred bodies was found piled on lines will operate at 32,000 volts.

The first scheme adopted by the

(Continued from Page 1.).. one of the landings..

Eye-witnesses tell appalling stories board covered an area of 5,000

Yuen Tsai-chung went so far 'as of scenes in the auditorium, which square miles in Scotland and includ- quickly became a blazing furnace, ed Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and

The South East Eng- to say that Mr. Yoshie had a docu- Thirty people with their clothing Dumbarton.

for which contracts ment prepared for the manager to ablaze were seen among the panic land area, stricken audience frantically rush-for the transmission lines have now sign, but was satisfied that the ad- The defendant's syndicate was dis- A man who had been placed, includes London and dition to the receipt was sufficient.

has a total area of 8,828 square Ing to the exits. been, badly trampled on and was frantic with pain ran wildly about miles, with a population of 11% Appointed with the result of their It is proposed to reduce business with the Japanese Ficet and outside the theatre beseeching millions. news of his wife and five children, the number of generating stations had more than half the goods which with whom he was celebrating his from 135 to 18 and by a system of they had purchased left on their overhead lines, to convey current hands. They did not at once pack them up and return them to the birthday. There were many other,

at the pressure stated above. heart-rending scenes at the am-

It is estimated that when the plaintiffs as I should have expected bulance stations where relatives"

them to do if they had made the ar scheme is in full working order the average cost of electricity, which rangement they claim and they have

not yet sent them back.

were searching for their missing

kindred.

Weird Scenes

NOW

varies greatly in different localities, will be reduced to 1.25 five! pence per unit-British Wireless Service.

Oans of Proof -

The plaintiffs' cashler, who visit ed them to obtain payment of the There were weird scenes around

account after the Fleet left, admit- the theatre where the fire had put,

ted that something was said by the out of action the street lights, greatly hampering the work of the

At Southport, Lancashire, flower Japanese gentlemen about returning firemen until a party of army en- gineers arrived with huge flares. show, Messrs. E. W. King and Co., unsold goods, but he had no author- The legal authorities who arrived of Coggeshall, Essex, have taken all ty to do anything about this and to open an enquiry were escorted the firsts for seedling sweet peas, naturally referred them to his by men bearing torches, by the one of which is a new blue called, manager. flickering light of which they com. Tom Webster, after the "Dally

Mail" cartoonist. menced their work.

Eighty-five bodies have now been recovered from the ruins of the' theatre, while over 360 are seriously injured.

Cause of the Disaster

The unsold goods were of little

use to the members of the syndicate who did not usually deal in goods of that kind. They would naturally A second Japanase seaman, desire to dispose of them, but they Zantaro Ohmae, aged 28, died at have not convinced me that the Hull from injuries received when plaintiffs agreed to buy them back. the Japanese steamship "Kitano It was an unusual arrangement and

and the Orient Hiner the onus of proof was on the de

The fusing of an electric wire; Maru" the failure of the safety curtain "Otranto" collided in the North and the fact that the theatre was Sea on August 11. wholly built of wood caused - its destruction. The fire

was first

fendant.

A point has been made of the fact that Yuen Kal-tung, a shop British subjects who desire to assistant in the plaintiffs' firm, was noticed in the pit, when flames submit claims respecting loss from not called to give evidence for the My view is that he shot out from the electric lamps revolutionry actif Mexico between plaintiffs.

and spread with extraordinary November 20, 1910, and May 31, should have been called for, the de rapidity.

1920, should at once communicate fence. The manager referred to

Spectators in the third and with the Under-Secretary, the him as the man who brought somis fourth galleries swarmed down the Foreign Office, London, S.W. 1.

10.30 a.m.

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in on the screaming, struggling,

the pit. The scene as the roof fell

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pillars, while some jumped into

there was no fire

of the members of the syndicate to his office and perhaps told him what they wanted and then left. Raised At any rate the manager did not burning mass of humanity was a time and realistic replica of Dante's Inferno. curtain. It in reliably stated consider that he took any important The actors, orchestra and stage that the theatre was reported part in the proscedings, and, quite hands nearly all escaped at the to the authorities seven times by the naturally, I think he was not called back of the stage, teens Fire Brigade and other authorities to give evidence for the plaintiffs When the Minister of Justice and on account of its instability. Had they known that such a point the President of the Supreme Court The majority of the deaths were was to be made of his presence at arrived at 2 a.m. the spectacle was due to the collapse of one staircase. the interview I feel sure they would appalling, Corpses heaped near Two small children were found in have called him. In fact they the door of the amphitheatre the morning unhurt in a lavatory offered to do so when they did die- barred the way, and it was also in which they had taken refuge and cover what importance, was attach- feared that the roof of the lounge stayed all nighted by the defence to any evidence might collapse at any moment. The fire is not yet extinguished he might be able to give, but ob- One of the first rescued was a two- as the surrounding houses are burn- fection was year-old child, practically unhurt, Ing.

who was wedged into a corner be- The work of cleaning away the hind a broken door. Hundreds of debris is being continued

the panic-striken fugitives muet The exact number of dead have passed over th

Seven polleemen were among these burned to death

made stest Details

atly the fire erti

sed. It was, how-

ever, open to the defence to call him.

It was they who laid so much stress on the importance of his evidence.

will

probably never be known, many cases only portio membered bodies can Hure crowds of mou sightseers are still sur

85 in

ofidis

I give Judgment for the plain- tile for the amount of their claim with costs."

and Co.

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