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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 31, 1940.

PENZANCE EXPRESS DISASTER

RAIL CRASH SURVIVORS' STORIES U.S.A.

By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT “MY WEDDING SUIT is ripped to bits. I have lost the cake my girl gave me. What shall I do?” These were the first words of a twenty-year-old able- seaman as he was dragged, half-unconscious, from the wreckage of a London-Penzance express, which was derailed with twenty-seven killed and fifty-nine injured.

A few hours later the seaman's fiancee was leaning over his bed in hospital where he lay with a damage shoulder and whispering, "Darling, I'll and mend your suit and make you a new cake what is more, I am putting the banns up right now. I'm not going to lose you again."

The couple are Reg Ricardo, of Mendip Road, and Miss Peggy Lester, aged seventeen, of Lock- ing Road East, Weston-Super- Mare

As Peggy was seeing Reg off from Weston-Super-Mare station they suddenly decided to get mar- ried

Christmas Day Reg laughingly said he was wearing his wedding suit already as he had on his Sunday clothes.

on

"I was dreaming of Peggy," said Reg. "when suddenly there was a splintering

I crash and went through the floor of the carriage on my heart. They cut me out only about ten minutes later with fractured and my legs my arm hurt.

"It is sheer luck i am alive at all as the carriage on either side of me was eplintered to little pieces and

men werd several killed by my side." A woman was found with two babies clutched to her. All three were dead.

Baby Slept On

Sailors who had been torpedoed and machine-gunned, and sent home on "survivors' leave," were the heroes of the crash.

The train was crowded with members of the Services.

At

of the wreckage and I managed to stand up.

"I had just been home on leave to see my wife and year-old son, and all I am worrying about now is that I hope they will learn soon that I am still alive."

At night three bodies remained in the wreckage. Men were stand- ing on the engine, which had rolled over on its side down the embank- ment, attempting to cut a way through to the body of the fireman, the who was tightly jammed in wreckage of his cabin.

The bodies of two sallors could just be seen beneath the wrack- age of another coach and fur. Sher on it is believed that civilian's body la under another of the overturned coaches.

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The first six coaches of the train were smashed and one wrecked coach was Aung in front of the engine.

The driver, crawled

"HAUGHTY

CHILD"

Strong opposition to any policy of appeasing the United States is voiced by Mr. Soho Tokutomi, Ja- historian and panese veteran journalist, in an article in the "Nichi Nichi."

"The way for our country to be at peace with America," he de. clares, "is by replenishing arma- ments to En extent which will deter it from approaching us. We

nust

do that. Diplomacy and negotiation come next."

Continuing, Mr. Tokutomi says, The United States has provoked Japan a great number of times. It is no exaggeration to say 300 times. Certainly there are limits to Japan's endurance. The last Ave years have witnessed a succession of American acts of provocation against our country.

“High Horse”

"The United States is the world. of the haughtiest child There is a saying to the effect that the prosperity of the haughty is much short-lived. I wonder how longer America will elect to ride the high horse. There is another London man,

his saving to the effect that a man uninjured from

avoids being provoda- wrecked cabin and ran to pu: who

tive can hope to bè in safety. the nearby signals at danger.

"We do not wish to provoke. But it will be too much for us to "It Was Accident”

accept provocative acts. Are the Japanese prepared to meet the "The cause of the derailment is

worst? Whether the Americans the subject of investigation which will be on their guard or off is no cannot be completed until the de-matter of concern to us. The Ja-

Bo long as we are prepared, America will be hesitant about going beyond intimidating us. Should we be off our-guard, be sure that America will descend upon us.

bris has been cleared from the panese must see that they are on least eight sailors were killed line," sald an official of the G.WR. their guard. and many injured.

Three wo "It was an accident and not the men, one with her two chil❘ result of enemy action or sabo- dren, were also among the dead. tage." One woman was helped from the The crash occurred about 4 a.m. wreckage with her baby still near the village of Norton asleep in her arms. "Don't make a Fitzwarren and the villagers help- noise," she said, "baby has slepted the uninjured passengers in the through it all and I want him to work of rescue. The landlord of stay sleeping.”

the local inn tore up all his sheets Another woman was trapped for bandages. beneath the floorboards of A

A naval petty officer was ex- coach, with a second coach Ih'tricated seven hours after the ac- which were five men, two af cident. His leg had been am- whom were dead, piled on top putated while he was under the

of her.

A sailor crawled round the out-

side of the coaches and saw her wrist sticking out of the wreckage. Wriggling between some beams, he

hand gripped her

and she said: | "Thank God I am alive."

wreckage.

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First on the scene were Mr. F. S. Bailey and Mrs. Bailey, host and hostess of the Railway Hotel at Norton Fitzwarren.

"The real heroes were those sailors who, themselves injured, in- "She was the pluckiest woman i worked to help their more

the I have ever mot," the sailor told | jured colleagues

out of

a reporter. "It was impossible wreckage," said Mr. Bailey.

to get her out then, but I told her we would do something for her as soon as we possibly could, She never murmured or cried for help, but just said, "That will be quite all right.' A rescue party got her out later, and don't think she was badly hurt.

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"It was a terrible job before the first-aid parties got to us, as we could not move many of the peo-

ple without ́proper litting ap- paratus,

"All we could do was to crawl through the wreckage and light cigarettes or give them a drink of water. We fetched the water from the river just below the embank ment in a fire, bucket and any- thing else we could find.':

> "At the time of the Shanghai,in- cident War Secretafy Henry,Stim- the United States, then son of Secretary of State, tried to have his country take supreme action against our country. He was pre- vented only by the navy which disapproved of the idea of a clash with Japan. The Japanese must be prepared for a repetition of the episode.

"We are flatly opposed to a policy of currying favour with America, Should we fawn upon America, it will be judged as a sign of weakness."--Reuter,

LEFT BODY FOR ANALYSIS

Mr. Albert John Murphy, who, died last August, directed in his £117.000 will that his executors should give his body to some Lón- don school of operative surgery of Girls sent to a south-west Home otherwise have it cremated and Office training school because of the ashes returned to his Inborn- crime are getting a new slant on tory: "for a spectrum analysis so life-through music.

that it may be known what are the total mineral constituents of the human body."

It is helping them to overcome their deficulties, to look forward to the time when they can go out Mr. Murphy, who live at Wheat- into the world once more to make hampstead House Whenthamp-

stead, Herts, was governing | a fresh start,

· Keith Hargreaves, a young soc 03) tor of Murphy and Son Lit worker and music lover, called to give them a recital of gramophone. records...

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badly you may to-day, there, is

· Don't believe" To-marrow "never.

When we got people out on the river, alde of the ombank

Heethoven ment, we found we could not get them clear of the line. It was He chose his programme care- played. Impossible to wade through the fully, making,ure the music| Harg <rlyde, an. It was too deep, 1 went should not be too heavy. Ifers gramme Clasp to my knees te amo. Even ranged from "Deep Purple to part member,

have thought tuilly, we forced coma dèora of a Brahms symphony.

After the recital came- quer- nlway%: #0-morri hand managed to carry them out.

Able Seaman D. L. Clark, of Uptions. Hargreaves was amazed at the per Bristol Road, Weston-Super | the interest shown by these girls domes."

Music gives you the will to look Mare, who was lying injured in to whom crime orce beckoned. hospital, said: "I was standing in They begged hin. to give Turther forward to something that has yet the corridor when the crash tome and the walls all caved in on top of me. Somebody dragged me out

recitals. He agreed.

get to happen. Let music influence The climax came.. when weeks you in how you act, in what you later, the slow movement of the | do.'