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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 6, 1941.

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(By A Special Correspondent)

A RAILMAN trying to fight his way to work during the great snowstorm which swept the North of England, stumbled by chance upon a thousand "lost" people trapped in a string of six trains buried in drifts only five miles from Newcastle-on- Tyne. Some of the passengers were trapped for thirty-six hours.

Climbing over a drift the railman discovered he had landed on the roofs of some carriages which he presumed were empty. As he started to walk along this high level route through the snow, he was amazed to hear voices.

Then he found the buried carriages were pack- ed with hungry men, women and children who had passed the night sleeping on floors, seats and lug- gage racks. Among them were several mothers with young children.

One after another six 'PLANE

trains had been forced to

stop until there was a

string of about seventy- FIRES ON

five stranded carriages.

36 Hours In Train

CHILDREN

A passenger and the railway- Cruising low over three

East Coast

villages, a

man who had found the trains; sel out to seek help and made their way to the next station, and Dornier "Flying Pencil" hours later managed to send

machine-gunned children, message to Newcastle.

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Railway officials sought the aid of the military and in an hour

and a half, the showfall having

stopped, a cavalcade of railway und

lorries laden with army bread, pies, sausage rolls, cake, tea and a supply of goat's milk, set out to find and feed the lost thousand.

Six men rode with each torry | to clear the snow. Every quar- ter mile they had to stop to dig their way through tremedous drifts. When they got within half a mile of the stranded trains they left the lorries to hew the remainder of the way.

Down this snow-walled road they carried the food to the starv- ing passengers and milk for the children.

Some of the passengers were carried back сп the return journey, but others had to stay on the trains until rescued by other lorries, spending in all thirty-six hours in the carriages.

Birds Hid In Buses

The Flying Scotsman, crack ex- press, was snowbound for thir- teen hours a few miles north of Newcastle, and reached Edinburgh the following afternoon thirty hours late.

Two M.P.s-Mr. David Kirk- wood and Mr. George Mathers-on a rail trip from London to Edin- burgh, had to live on six biscuits each for a day and a half. The journey took fifty-five hours.

In Newcastle buses and trams were stranded in the streets for twenty-four hours as soldiers and roadmen struggled to clear the

snow.

When the time came to move

a district nurse and other women, as well as thatch- ed cottages.

The children, on their way to school threw themselves into a roadside ditch when the raider opened fire.

MY HATE

IT'S MURDER

My hot! said Louis: Blanea a New York · night watchman when a lorry ran over his straw hat.

Louis never forgave the lorry driver, Joseph Libozetta and now, nearly a year after the loss of the hat, he shot him.

So Louis is in gaol awaiting trial for murder.

SALMON, CHAMPAGNE, HAD 1S. 1D.

What is your excuse for or dering salmon and champagne when you had only 13. f'd, in your pocket?

When I looked at the menu I thought I might as well have a spread. I should have looked ridiculous to have walked out after having sat down.

This

little dialogue between magistrate and accused man took place in Westminster Police Court when Frederick Griggs, twenty- nine, unemployed munition worker, of Glenview Road, Abbey Wood London, was remanded in Once it paused to circle and custody on a charge of incurring machine-gun a poultry farm. Then a debt of 18s, 6d. at the Grosvenor it paused at the height of a vill-

Hotel Restaurant. Victoria, by uge church lower to send more | false pretences. Griggs pleaded bursts at a horse and cart on anot guilty. road.

The Dornier skimmed the hedgerows at an inland village and flew towards the coust.

No one was hurt.

London Day Bombs

A few seconds after a London alert in the morning, an enemy plane flew over one district and dropped a stick of bombs which damaged a number of shops and houses.

Police Constable Welhame was killed while on patrol, and several people were injurned by bombs.

An oil bomb and an H.E. bomb. were dropped in a neighbouring area and caused damage to houses.

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A walter at the restaurant said that late at night: Grigga ordered boiled salmon and half-bottle of champagne.. When- handed the bill he asked for a double rum, but it was, then, too late. Eventually he said he, hadi no money, and wished to give hla name and address.

Griggs: I tried three, places be- fore going to the Grosvenor, but they were all shutting up, and I thought the were trying to bar me from coming in. I saw the Gros- venor was open, and went in. I had more than I could pay for.

THE WITCHES ARE

AFTER OLD ADOLF

SOLEMN EFFORTS to destroy Hitler by witch- craft are being made nightly by a group of men and the buses and. trams again the women in Washington, District of Columbia. These transportmen found that birds, ex- hausted by their struggle in the people, all believers in the power of sorcery, sit in a snow, had taken refuge In the ring round a small cushion image of Hitler, sticking

pins, needles and nails into it.

vehicles and turned them into. aviaries.

At the same. time they chant stick things into the doll's vitals;" the following dreadful incanta- he said.

STANDARD ANGLO tion

U.S. 'PLANES

"Istan, coma and help us, we The ritual of the anti-Hitler ara driving, nalls and needles, sessions; was planned on the re- “We are driving pins and commendation of William Sea- needles Into Adolf Hitler's brook, of New York, world.

authority on witchcraft..

worked out details for the stand-los) we a*"*ing nails.and:naadw

United States officials have

ardisation, of aircraft equipment in both countries, Major Gen. Honry H. Arnold, United States Air Chief, said in a press" con- ference.

The standardisation of equip ment was made ea, that when our airplanes come over they will be equally acceptable as the British," he said, "The two coun.. tries are not hiding anything, from each other in the matter of alga craft equipment."

heart:u "We are

Mr. Seabrook says that^!ift: driving, pina and... itler hears, about them he may needles,

worry himself into a bad-apoll, "Cata will claw, his heart in, land perhaps Into the grave. darkness, dogs will bite it in the night." Leader of the group is Mr Richard Tupper, who says that its women members make the best witches.,

Blood-Curdling.

The history of witchcraft, adds: records, many cases of people being ruined by the knowledge of attempts to cast a spell on them.

hopes that "And Mr. Tupper thousands of people all over the world will form similar witchcraft circles with tho great ideal of They rasp. out 2 incantations casting the worst possible, spelli that curdle your blood as they on Adolf.