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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1936

NINE BURNED

TO DEATH

Mother Stays With 8 Children

Nine

FATHER'S FIGHT TO

SAVE THEM

Tyldesley (Lancs).. members of 2 miner's family were burned to death re- cently in a fire which in less than an hour reduced their home, one jof a long row of cottages, to a

smoking shambles.

They were the wife and eight!

children of Mr. Adam young Tyrer, aged 39, a coal-cutter, of Greenbank-street, Tyldesley, who were trapped in their bed-rooms by this sudden and furious blaze.

Mr. Tyrer himself was the only survivor. He jumped 14ft. from a bedroom

window, intending to GENERAL NOTICES catch the children as they were

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lowered to him in the street. Be- fore she could reach the children his wife was overcome and perish-j ed with them in the flames.

Mother's Sacrifice

Mrs. Tyrer could have followed her husband into safety by jump-j ing from the window, but, in the CEALED TENDERS will be re- words of Supt. Boach, head of the ceived at the Royal Naval fire brigade; "She sacrificed. her Hospital until 10 a.m. on the 20th, life in trying to save her children." The authorities agree that ow- March 1986, from persons desir

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The right to reject the lowest

or any tender is reserved.

G. D. G. FERGUSSON,

Surgeon Captain,

"Medical Officer in Charge

Royal Naval Hospital Hong Kong March 11th, 1936.

have

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The late Will Rogers is star red with lovely Active Shielag, the Jovial Irvin Cobb and Steptu Fetchit in "Steamboat Round The Bend,” which will be shown at the King's Theatre mou

SWIMMING TANK

CRASH

Actor's Narrow Escape

BRIDGE NOTES THE “TRAP” PASS

By Ely Culbertson

LORD GREENWOOD A DEFENDANT

Claim By A Former Director

ALLEGED CONTRACT CONSPIRACY

RADIO

TO-DAY'S, PROGRAMME

The following programme will

ibe broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting -Station }ZB÷W. on a wavelength of 365

metres (845 KC/3).

RECITAL BY ANNE WINTER

FROM THE STUDIO

Relay of BBC. Dance Orchestra 12.30-215- pa----European Record- - cd ProgramXING.

1 pm Local Time and Weather Report

1.30 pm-Renter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press News, etc.

215 p.m.-Close Bown.

47 pm-Chinese Programme. 6-6.30 pm-Childrens' Studio Con

cert

7-11 p.m.-European Programme. 7-7:30 p.m-Orchestral Music. Sylvia Ballet (Delibes).

Hungarian Dance No. 6 (Brahms). Beatkrian Dance No.5 (Brahms). Ave Maria (Meditation) (Bach

Gounod)

Ave Maria (Schubert).

7.30-7.50 p.m.-—A Concert. Pianoforte Solo-

Dance of the Gnomes (Liszt).

Sergei Rachmaninoff.

Song-

Gentle Zephyrs (Jensen).

Essie Ackland (Contralto). Violin Solos-

Gypsy Caprice (Kreisler), Shepher's Madrigal (Kreisler).

Fritz Kreisler.

Songs

By the Dark Lagoon (An Island

Serenade).

The World is mine to-night (Pos-

ford).

Charlies Kallman (Tenor). 750-8 p. From the Studio.

"Book Reviews” by A. D.

tions.

L.

of supplying Beef, Mutton, ing to the suddenness and fury ofi no act of heroismi Fowls, Pork Cheese, Pure Cow's the outbreak

saved the ill-fated Milk, Ice, and other provisions, and could necessaries for the year ending family.

At 5 am the "knocker-up" | 31st. March 1937.

Printed Forms of Tender and furpassed along the street rousing

The well-known film-actor and ther particulars can be obtained miners for their work and at the R. N. Hospital.

nothing amiss. Fifteen minutes Olympic swimmer, Buster Crabbe, neighbours were awakened came within an inch of decapitation after

The "trap" pass has fallen in- by screams for help, and found at Hollywood recently owing to the the Tyrers' house

Lord Greenwood, chairman of a blazing in collapse of a huge glass swimming to ill repute lately because it has !ferno.

tank in which he was making an been so much abused. The failure

to make a takeout double or over-several companies, was one of Sam-Local Time and Weather Report: Cloring Local Stock Quota- Mr. Tyrer, with blood running derwater scenes for a fim. from his face from injuries caus-

Under the pressure of 15 tone call with a powerful hand of dis-the defendants in an action be-

805-8.10 pm-"I hear you calling ed in his fall, was scrambling to of water the tank cracked and the tributed strength has its uses, but fore Mr. Justice Porter in the

King's Bench Division last me" (arr. Haydn. Wood). his feet on

810-8.20 p.m.-From the Studio. the pavement, and water rushed out, sucking Crabbe like the psychic bid, it must be jused sparingly. The danger of

To-morrow's Racing" by Valley. from the bedroom window Mrs. through a large jagged hole.

Frederic Rowntree, of) 820-8.30 pm-Song Carnival of Tyrer was frantically waving a He suffered deep cuts and scrat-trap passes on hands which are month. The others were Mr.

generally strong does not, how-Oscar sbeet and screaming for help. Alches on the arms and chest.

hands containing Chester-place, Regent's Park, 1932 Stars."

18.30-9.20 p.m.—A Relay from Da- ever, apply to

Mr: 0. W. Rowntree, and vestry. most immediately she was seen to

Jone long solid suit. the blazing

8.30 sway backwards into

pm-The BBC Dame Or the fire was too much for me.

cases wise to keep quiet with such Mr. Wallace Gordon Manthorpe,

of Chatham House, Britannia-chestra, directed by Henry Hall room and disappear.

"Drop The Kiddies"

277 hands while there is still

9 p.m.-Daventry News Bulletin "I opened the bedroom window chance that the

apponents will road, Ipswich.

(Copyright by Eenter). In spite of the frantic efforts of

-9-20-9.30 and said to my wife. 'Drop the wind up in a notrump game. Even

pan-Balads We Love.” The plaintiff was Mr. John the father to hammer down the kiddies down to me and then jump very good players, if unimpeded Gilbert de Jetley-Marks, of the A Recital by Anne Winter (So-

9.30-9.45 p.m.—From the Studio. door-supplemented by the ef-yourself, I'll catch you.'

lin their notrump bidding,

will Old Down, Basingstoke, Hamp prano) accompanied by Laba Shad "I dropped into the street and make no attempt to reach a game shire, who claimed damages for tsin.

I looked in a minor suit.

945-10 pm-The Ì. E. Squire Ce was hal-dazed. When

an alleged conspiracy to procure

Memories of Tachaikovsky (arr. g of her. I shouted, but there following deal exploited this con- ployment with United Egg and Sear). was no reply. I hammered at the dition of modern bidding.

Poultry Packers Ltd The de- Melody in F (Rabinstein, arr. Sear). fence was a general denial of the Cavatina (Raft, arr, Sear). DAY, the 27th March, 1936, at Wednesday, the 18th March, 1936 ing houses, police and firemen door, but it would not give way. I

allegations.

Company Meetings

THE HONG KONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY

LIMITED.

NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.

TH

THE SIXTY-SEVENTH ORDIN- ARY GENERAL MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the

Offices of the undersigned on FRI-

poon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Man-! agers, together with a statement; of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December 1935.

LAMMERT BROS. ·

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS AND SURVEYORS.

Public Auctions

THE

Frantic Efforts

It is in many

instructions to sell by Public Tyrer or her children. With the up for my wife I could see noth- The successful trap pass in the a breach of his contract of em-leste Octet.

forts of his neighbours no fur- THE Undersigned have received ther sign was seen either of Mrs. fire raging in every part of the Auction

room and spreading to the adjoin-

could do nothing to save the doom- jed family.

On

commencing at 5.15 p.m.

A Valuable Collection of POSTAGE STAMPS

comprising:--

Eritish Colonies. China and Old Hong Kong in blocks, etc., etc.

The SHARE REGISTER and

BOOKS

be will TRANSFER CLOSED from the 13th to the 17th 17th March, 1936. March 1936, both days inclusive.

JARDINE, MATHESON &

.CO. LTD.

General Managers, The Hong Kong Fire Insurance )

Co., Ltd. Hong Kong, 6th March, 1936.

HONG KONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Ordinary Yearly

Nthat the

Meeting of Shareholders will be held in the Office of the Com- pany, 2 Queen's. Building. Hong Kong, on MONDAY, 30th March, 1926, at Noon, for consideration of the Directors' Report and State- ment of Accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1935.

The Share Register and Trans- fer Books will be closed from the 21st to 30th March, 1936, both days inclusive.

By Order of The Board of Directors,

E Cock,

Terms: Cash on Delivery

South, Dealer. Neither side vulnerable.

iran round to the back, but I could

not get in there either." It was more than an hour be fore the first body that of the Mrs. Ellen Smith, of Aldred- street. which almost confronts eldest son could be removed the Tyrers' home, said: from the house, and four hours "When I reached the house thei

ground floor was blazing like as. A K On View from Tuesday the elapsed before the bodies of the

two youngest, burned beyond refurnace and thick smoke

was H. 7 D. 8 cognition, could be reached.

pouring out of the bed room Woman Rescuer With Hammer

window where Mrs. Tyrer was The traditional gallantry funding. miners was never better displayed

I shouted to her Jump quick," than in the rescue attempts Aland at that moment a. neighbour. though each of the four rooms in Mrs. James Mumford, came run- the house were being swept by ning up with a carpet he had South Lorgues of fames, efforts were brought out of his own home in INT made to enter the house both from which to catch her. But Mrs ID front and back.

Tyrer half turned towards

LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers Hong Kong, 12th March, 1936.

PIPPERMINT

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Chief Manager.

Hong Kong, 12th March, 1936.

FOR SALE.

SPECIAL PRINTED ENVELOPE

Commemorating the inauguration

of the Air Mail Service

by Pan American Airways

from Macan to America. at 20 cts. per Envelope

GRACA & CO„

No. 10, Windham St

Hong Kong.

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H. AK 10 4

D. K 9 5

C. K 743

was

Mr. D. N. Pritt, KC., for Mr. Marks, said that his client had. an egg-buying, packing and grading business which turned into a modest-sized WE H. 986 3 2 private company called United

S C. 10

Egg and Poultry Packers Ltd. on June 21, 1933, with a capital of about £10,000.

873 N S. 9

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The bidding:

West

North

Pass

3NT

Pass

the Pass

P235 North and

II

South could

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East Pass Pass

have!

As more money was brought jin, chiefly from the Prudential Assurance Co., it was converted into a public company on May 11, 1934, with a nominal capital (of £100,000.

“Crude And Clumsy”

·

10 pm.--Big Ben:

10-11 pm—A Programme of old Dance Favourites.

11 pm-Close Down.

BOY ROBBED MOTHER

Schoolmaster's Plea For His Son

An appeal by a schoolmaster on behalf of his 15-year-old son against an order by Godstone Juvenile Court committing the boy to an approved school was allowed

of made five diamonds without dif- Mr. Marks was managing by Surrey Quarter Sessions Ap

An elderly miner's wife attempt room as though looking for ber ed to break down the front door children, and then sank oat with 2 hammer before being sight. She must have fainted. forced back by the flames.

Too Late Two men, Mr. Jack Clee andi "I threw pails

of

ficulty, losing

two spade tricks director and all the defendants peals Committee recently. The

by discarding South's losing club were directors- Lord Green-boy was placed on probation for water on the high heart. Yet the series wood was the chairman of the two years. He was accused of Mr. William Corbett, had forced through the kitchen window and of bids by which they reached company, and from July 1 to stealing £5 from his mother. open the back door when the cell-then got a hammer and tried to three notrump cannot be greatly Sept. 30, 1984, Mr. 0. W. Rown- ing collapsed, and the body of the break down the door, but could criticised. South made close to tree acted as egg-buyer. eldest boy, together with the not.

When some men came and minimum opening bid and after wreckage of the bed and blazing broke it down with heavy ham-North's One-over-One response,

The boy who, it was stated, ran

away to Blackpool, denied that he Mr. Marks's case, counsel con-was ruled with a rod of iron, and

His mother denied telling the

floor timbers, fell through to the mers it was too late. The heat decided that a minimum rebid of tinued, was that some of the said he told the probation officer crushed ice and floor. Obtaining a ladder, was awful, and no one could have one notrump would be more like parties did not get on well in a lie when he said he had been

they raised it to the back bedroom lived anywhere near it" ly to keep his side out of trouble various respects, and in Janu-severely punished. window. Almost immediately the By the time the firemen were than a rebid of two diamonds. ary, 1935, when he was absent, ladder caught fire.

jable to enter the house only the with three honour-tricks and a fit the defendants, "by a crude and Corbett bevertheless insisted enjoare brick walls were standing.in diamonds, North felt sure that Clumsy conspiracy," turned him probation officer her husband was climbing it, but he was engulfed and the bodies of the nine occu-game was worth playing for and, out of the company. by a tongue of flame, his hair and pants were buried amid a charred with complete justification, jump- Having control of the eyebrows being badly singed. Ee and smoking mass of debris on the ed to three rotemp.

pany in his absence they used fell from the ladder into the yard, ground level. but shortly afterwards twork as usual

GET FAERES

REVEL (HGaronne) Fucz

went to

Jan atheist. She said all she told him was that the family was un- com-denominational.

All this time West had been their influence to pass a resolu- The cause of the fire is suspect- ed to have been a spark thrown securely silent, nor did he make tion at a board meeting in Jan. out by the living room fire, which the mistake of doubling three zo-30 relieving him of his duties. Mr. Tyrer, in spite of his in-Mr. Tyrer states was "raked out" trump. Overjoyed because South Elis salary was £1,200 a year

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Narrow Escape

C

Organized Laughter

As An Aid To Heath!

Fright

was the declarer and the luck of and commission of 21% per cent

It is reported from Paris that a the opening lead would play no of a sum equivalent to the de-doctor there conducts a meeting once enter the house-Eventually he was taken in a state of collapse to the Eight members of the family of part, West laid down his six topclared dividend on, the com- week where people congregate for

pany's Ordinary-shares.

the purpose of enjoying a hearty Insigh With the aid of a gramophone house of a friend, Mr, T. W. Eo-M... 3. Catterall in an adjoining spades and set the contract two.

West's hand was fully strong Mr. Marks asked, said Mr. and laughing binson, in an adjoining street. Ee house narrowly escaped sharing

an overcall get it Pritt, for an impartial inquiry as the comic side of

Creates the received medical attention,

of the situation and the fate of the Tyrer family enough for later was removed to hospital at They were awakened by shouts would have cost him a game, since into the affairs of the company, strikes those present they begin to South had but Lord Greenwood did not laugh. Laughter begets more langt- Bolton suffering from a suspected and hurriedly escaped in their neither North mor

ter until the whole house is rocking, fracture of the nose caused in his night attire to find that the fire though in spades to risk notrump reply to a report he sent him.

This continues tantil "many cry out fall

was spreading to their house and they would have been driven The hearing was adjourned.

according In his overwrought condition he Ten minutes after they had left, to a final contract of five dia- was ordered not to be disturbed, the roof of this house also col-monds. but he gave a vivid account to Mlapsed, blazing timbers and debris Robinson. He said:"

crashing upon the beds which "My wife woke me and said, they had just vacated

ONE WAY TRAFFIC

--NEW FACTORIES BILL

to the doctor to stop Gradually composure is regained.

and,

report, the people disperse în lighthearted frame of: wind with their aches and pains forgotten

Another way of keeping in good Lorm is by

by taking an

an occasional dosa These

ene tiny laxative

Sir John Simon, the Home Se of Pinkaties.

There is something burning. I A relief fund has been opened The Minister of Transport pro- (got out of bed and opened the bed-by the Chairman of Tyldesley poses to introduce one-way trafic cretary, last month received a de pins gently correct constipation, tone room door. All the staircase and Urban District Council for the at the junction of St. Ann's-road putation from the Trade Union up the vez, aid digestion, prelent landing was on fire. I tried to go burial of the victims and to pro-and Seven Sistersnood, Totten Congress, who arged the need for sties in the food tract, besich bilionsnes, relieve piles. Obtainable

everywhere through into the back room; where vide a home for Mr. Tyrer whejham, where light signals are to be a new Factories Bill to replace at chemists

the Act passed in 1901. three of the boys were asleep, but has lost everything.

are laxative perfaction.

installed.

Pinkettes

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