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GATWICK CRASH

ONE THORY OF THE CAUSE

Pilot Unable To Steer Plane

FOOT JAMMED ON RUDDER. BAR

The theory that the foot of the wireless operator was jamme. against the dual-control rudder bar, which prevented the plan

was advanced at being steered,

the resumed inquest at Horley Jast month on three men killed in the! Gatwick crash on September 15. 1 was stated that a fire extinguisher was so close to the second rudder-) bar that the operater, who sat that sent. could not release his foot. As long as his foot was there the pilot could not operate the bar in his own cockpit.

Tests were inade in a similar machine after the accident by two men, both of whom became trap- ped in the same. way.

were:

Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea are in "These Three." which is now being shown at the King's Theatre.

A HAUNTED PLACE IN AFRICA

(Continued from Page 4)

LOCAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

THREE PERSONS KILLED

TWELVE INJURED

MEN'S FASHIONS FOR 1937

Textile Exhibition Forecasts

SUITINGS MORE VARIED

THAN USUAL

Leading manufacturers and!

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.

merchants, who will be exhibiting The following programme, wak at the British Textiles Exhibition be broadcast to-day from the Hon in the new Earls Court section of Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. the British Industries Fair. a wavelength of 355 London from February 15 to 26,1 (845 kc's). $1.49 metres,

metres,

(9.5

London Commentary on First Cricket Test Match. Dance Mexic

12.30-215 p.m-European

12.30 pm.-De Groot and His Or chestra Prith John McCormack (Tenor).

now express the view that colours, negacycies), for men's suitings will be more! varied than usual, but in darkerf tones, and that strong patterns H.KT. will be absent. Blues and blue) greys will be most prevalent, with gramme. a few dark browns. Dark bottle- green (an unusual men's colour),] will also be seen in sports wear, 1 pre-Local: Time Signal and often with a trace of blue. Some Weather Report.

for

and 1.03 pm-Variety in the demand Increase

cheviots is expected in both York-Music.

1.30 p.m.--Reuter Press, Rugby

Local: Press

Weather Forecast. shire and Scotland. For formal evening wear two important irms me and Announcements.

1.40 pm-Variety and Dance

Dance

215 pm Close Down 3.50-5.15 pm-A running commen- tary on the Football Match, Hong Kong Football Club v. Kowloon Cinh, from the Hong Kong Football Club

5.15-7 -Chinese Programme.

pm-12 midnight-European Pro-

SZALINĖ.

* Creatore's Band. Grand March and Finale, Introduction and Moorish Ballet

(Verdi). .

"Meñstofele-Prologue (Beito). "La Traviata" (Verdi)...

Drinking Song and Gypsy Chorus Prelude to Act U

7.33 Musical

Comedy B-

expect that midnight blue will make considerable headway Music (continued). Special light-weight varieties o. those cloths for summer and tro-| pical west will be shown This The machine involved was ajominous-looking precipice.

Pyjama styles will be restrain night mail plane belonging to Bri pool is now haunted, and the berd

ed but in wide variety. One exhibi-ground. tish Airways, which was setting boys take good care that their

tor, who specialises in them, will cattle do not drink of its tainted off for Hamburg.

In the Colony of Hong Kong, have over 50 different materials, The jury returned a verdict of waters.

and İdeath

misadventure.

For, as the old story-tellers who including the Island, Kowloon each in many colours or patterns. by added a rider that obstruction sit round the kraal fires at night-and the New Territories, during Plain colours, notably blues, will-Aid

at & am last be used with contrasting collar Isuch had been mentioned time are wont to relate. this was the week ended

as should be removed from aero- the pool of execution. This was Saturday, there were altogether and cuffs, but stripes will be the planes, to prevent a repetition of where Naala would come with his 25 traffic accidents, as the result most popular.

Women's Sports Wear such an accident. The dead men retainers, seating himself upon a of which "three persons were kill-

High quality Scotch tweeds in leopard skin spread across a rocked and 12 injured.

amany light weight materials will Of the. persons killed,

at the Exhibition in "Semiramide" (Bussini)-Overtort Capt. Walter Fraser Anderson, high up the precipice.

7.30 pm-Hong Kong Erchange Those of his tribe and those of Chinese male died as the result of be shown aged 46, chief pilot of the line.

his enemies who had inctirred his injuries received, when he was smart tailored suits and ensem of Foxley-lane, Purley:

motor-lorry bles for women. Most of them Market Report Wireless Operator John Jack-wrath would then be led by his knocked down by a son, aged 2, of Stonehurst, Lin-warriors to the edge of the pool. whilst walking across the road. A will have rather long, waisted cerpts ley-road, Horley; and

A victim would be fung into the Chinese male.when running across tunic coats. In view of the Corona-Musical Comedy Marches Flying Engineer David Slack, pool and one of the warriors would the road, was knocked down and tion, a certain gaiety of cut is pro-"Stand an and sing"-Selection

after him. There, in the fatally injured by a motor lerry, mised; colours, however, will be "Bitter Sweet" aged 21. of Holly Lodge, Tins dive

rich ley-lane, Three Bridges, Sussex, water, the two would fight. If the and a Chinese boy; clinging to dignified; greens are expected to

warrior succeeded in drowning the side-board of a motor lorry, be popular, together with native of Stockport.

the prisoner, so much the good was struck off by a bundle of blues and browns. Overchecks will Dr. Eric Gardner, who producer But if the prisoner happened to bamboo baskets which was placed be used. in some cloths.

Linens And Furnishings drawings and a blackboard en drown him, then another warrior on the footpath, fell to the ground

Irish and Scottish linens will be which had been roughly drawn a had to dive in until the prisoner and was

wheel of the vehicle. He received a notable feature. Advance parti- machine's cockpit, the front seat was finally overcome.

High up the krantz, seated on severe head injuries and died in-culars of some of the Scottish provocai

Take my heart ductions are now available. The and two rudder bars, said:

"The machine was fitted with his leopard skin, Nzala would rock stantly.

Hill Billy Medley Of the persons injured, nine largest damask firms in Britain Accordeon Band dual control and our theory is with excitement as the sport went

Primo Scala's Accordeon Band. were pedestrians, who were either will be showing some entirely new new type of that the left foot of Jackson 0.

Songs-- the things, including a walking or running across

Say that you are mine was trapped between the left-

road and were struck by vehicles patterned bedspread in rayon, and hand pilot therefore was unable One day a strong regiment be One bus passenger was

injured linen tablecloths with an elaborate

the Piano Solos- to throw the bar over and turn longing to Shaka's great army, fell whilst alighting from a moving woven

design embodying the machine off its left course. with terrible swiftness проп

will be a This led to the disaster."

"They among the Elephants," and motor bus. A Chinese coolie, was King's head and the Royal crown.

Furnishing fabrics Mrs. E. W. Fleming, who lives in a single day almost the enti injured through falling from

of the crash, de tribe was wiped out. It is said modern injured as the recover the entire range of styles

moving motor lorry, and one rick-brilliant feature and promise to Vocal- near the scene scribing the events, said: "The that Nzala himself succeeded in Isult of a collision between two and materials. A Scottish firm, sine was shrieking and full out, and then I heard a crash follower by another."

Drawings Produced

Tribe Wiped Out

escaping to the white settlement of Durban, that he lived there for

vehicles.

tun over by the

rear

a

Of the 35 accidents, 16 were

Dear Little Cafe

I see you again

Peggy Wood and George Metaxa 8 o-Local: Time Signal, Wes- ther Report and Announcements.

8.03 -- Variety Programme Xylophone Solo.... Joey the Clown

Rudy Starita

Greta Keller.

Webster Booth (Tenor).

“Limelight"--Selection

"I dream too much"--Selection.

Patricia Bossborough.

One of the little orphans of the

Gracie Fields. StoIT well known for its emphasis on Orchestra—

Rosetta, |rough woren effects, is now de-

The Winter Waltz

from almost! finitely departing some time, but one day was caught collisions between vehicles; 10 The machine was in flames, and by a python while wandering | were collisions betweez vehicles/white and nestral shades and in-Hemorons

Mrs. Fleming saw somebody lying through the bush. in the "plane. "He rose to his

As the python wound its coils and pedestrians; and mine acci-

dents were due to other causes. knees,” she said, “and we dragged about his writhing body, all the him away. Then I saw someone spirits of Nzala's victims rose from else Jying about 10 yards from the Manzimnyma (the dark pool) and machine, and I ran over to him.”

danced gleefully before fading

3 PLANES LOST

IN FIRE

Possible Act of Incendiarism

eyes,

"THE ANDRIAN”

Len Fillis and His Orchestra.

What the stars foretell, colour into its troducing more ranges. Its display will include] horizontal and vertical stripes, Vocal checks and some highly eccentric weaves.

Sandy Powell.

N

Turner Layton.

8 Piano Ensemble. Leader:

Philip Finch.

Melody Trumps

No. 2

The Four Acos.

A little rendezvous in Honolul Vocal Glazed and unglazed chintzes Stompin' at the Savoy

Jody Garland (13 years old). The Christmas issue of The and cretonnes will be extensively! Some of the aba-s-ema Ndlovini Andrian, the

Dinah. organ of St. An-shown.. Florals and leaf designs Piano Ensemble- refugees managed to find their way drew's Church, Kowloon, is a are used; two new motifs are al

Lazy Bones up the um Ngeni, into the Valley of bumper number, full of good spot chintz with a wavy perpendi-¦ a Thousand Hills, where they were things. Special reference is made cular line, and a Chinese pattern. befriended by the aba kwa Dlan-in the monthly Notes to the fact Eather richer colours are used for Vocal- yoka, whose chief, Nomganga, was that Mr. H. W. C. Robson is not backgrounds, and rigger brown, a man of considerable importance returning to the Colony, and con-hitherto found on better class But the peace of these Elephant tributions to a fund for a pre-fabrics, is widening its appeal.

invited. are

9.20 praLondon-The First Cric- people and of the aha kwa Dian-sentation to

Several members of the congre- Unusually fine displays of ker Test Match: Australia v. England. yoka was shortlived.

Epic Story

gation are welcomed back from household textiles will be seen at An Account of the second day's play

(Electrical Recording). Three aeroplanes were destroy Two years later another of home leave. The issue has a the Exhibition. These will include by Alan Kimpex, from Brisbane.

varieties of cotton ed and one seriously damaged by Shaka's regiments suddenly. ap- Special cover design, which is very not only new a mysterious fire which broke ou peared in the Valley of a Thou- effective, printed in three colours. blankets, sheets and pillowcases and Mischs Elman (Violin). recently in the hangar in the aero-sand Hills. The story of what drome belonging to Universal Air-followed is told as an epic by craft Services, near Witney, Oxon. those old greybeards to-day, some sela-pi naž

The fire was discovered by an of whose great-grandfathers took employee who saw fames when he part in the incidents of over a cen-

POLICE INVESTIGATIONS

Witney.

opened the hangar door. Villagers tury ago.

Nomgangs, so they say, called

Shaka's

hima

Warriors' Feast

Household Goods

9 pm London-News and As- nouncements.

940 pm-Richard Crooks (Tenor)

made by Lancashire's most famous Violin Solo

Thai-Meditation (Massenet). Waqedaqeda izizwe, nyakuhla- houses, but many lesser novelties;

among thèm table sets, embroider-Tenor Solos

Open your window to the morn, ed and appliqued in original de-

(Royden, arr. Phillips). signs, handkerchief sets in linen If I should send a rose (Shayon, Shaka's men feasted on Nom-and organdie, table linens in

art. Shilkret). sanga's ten and his jwala, and pastel colours, and cushion covers Violin Solos and passing motorists with extin-

carried off his womenfolk, far to in an infinite variety of materials Minset in G, No. 2 (Beethoven).

Serenade in G Major, Op. 30; No. 2. guishers succeeded in beating his indunas together.

the north, across the mightly u Free passport visas, with a vali-

(Arensky, art. Elman). back the flames to enable three of army, he declared, was at hand Tukela, Nomgang's bones were dity of three months from date of Tenor Solo the seven aeroplanes in the har It was his purpose to fight the left to bleach in the Valley of a issue, are available to "overseas

some divine vaders. Those who did not wish valley of a Thousand Hills. gar to be wheeled to safety.

buyers visiting the British Indus- Sometimes now, when the wind tries Faiz./ Petrol storage tanks exploded to fight with him might take their and set fire to the hangar roof and spears and flee southwards across blows from the south and a fash Particulars of this concession can be seen upon the distant and full information with regard firemen had the greatest difficulty the hills to the great valley of the

Mamkulu All the warriors of clouds from the Great White Light to the Fair can be obtained from in erfinguishing the fizines,

Police are investigating the pos. the aba kwa Dianyoka, reinforced which has been placed by the the nearest British Commercial sibility that the fire was the work by

the fugitive aba-s-ema Ndlovini, remained to fight.

white man's canning upon the Diplomatic or Consular Officer, or of an incendiary, for it was only á

Blu, the spirit of Nomganga British Trade Commissioner. He! He! uyakahlasela-pi na? few weeks before that several aeroplanes in the hangar were wil

Shake's crescents circled the staffs abroad. fully damaged by somebody un-warriors of Nomganga, and closed

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It stalks over the hills the

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afternoon the noise of battle side the um Ngeni. That is the echoed from hill to hill and from time to close up the doors of the krantz to kauts of the Valley of huts and pile wood upon the fires. For although Nomganga wES DE- a thousand H

doubtedly a brave man, he was Then when the sun went down, leaving a great smear of blood overcome by the might of Shaka, right across the skies, Nouganga's the terrible "He who strikes but men broke and fed: They broke is never stickea,” whose invin and fled, with Shaba's demons in Warriors were wont to cry as they fall parsit. They fed into the went, into batt

um Ngent, and the blood, whicin Wahlnia smakowi

welled from their wounds stainedi

the waters to mater the ruby aky,l

ANNEXE

To Be Opened Next Monday

10 nm-London-Big Ben A Relay of Dance Moxie from the. Grill-Room of the Hong Kong Hotel

12 midnight-Close down

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It is notified that an annexe to the hours when the main entrance

the Radio Office will be opened on doors are closed."

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