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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THIS BUS STRUCK A TRAIN.

Two were killed in this bus near Bagdad, Florida, when it rammed into the side of a swiftly moving passenger train. There were four passengers in the bus at the time, and the driver was badly injured..

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DEAD MAN'S CORNER

The Tale of Phantom Car.

(By arrangement with The Morris, Ownar.)

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away was the son, where days of the Indian summer those whe wore, ao disposed.could revel in the sharp joy of a hard swim; there were dinner parties and dancing,

SATURDAY JANUARY

CYCLING TOO DANGEROUS?

Many Smashes Caused By Pedal Machines:

[BY CAPT. E DË NORMANVILLE.)...

While the whole subject of such road accidents is very distressing, there is somo solace in the fact that in 64 per cent. of them the motor. driver was held to have been involved in an "unavoidable sc cident

The smooth wide road colled like Home polished indigo ribbon up the atoep hillside, winding and twisting its cambered length in subtle invita tion to speed.

: "、 To the left of the road a bracken-and the moonlit garden calling, But, however unavoidable such covered slope led up to the rolling Yet through all, the harmonious catastrophes may be, we want - 19 moorland, purple now with its pleasure of Barbara's daya ran, & learn how to minimise them. And autumn-carpet. of heather, and discordant note. John was indeed the only way the driver can help silent wave for the hum of heavy-a good host. He was attentive to to do that is to study the more com- inden bees or the occasional wild call all his guests and did not show pro- mon errors of other people and fac- To the right the ference for any... Barbara's gentle tors so as to be more keenly alive of a curlow. ground slid away into a deep valley, wiles he either did not ace, or was to the dangers,

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over rush-grown marsh, the haunt it that he did not remotely caro?How, then, do the majority of ||

of the vagrant snipe.

The road disappeared round af Sharp hairpin bend to the left, known locally as Dead Man's a

Corner.

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Fugitive Happiness.***

theso 64 per cent. "unavoidable ac- cidents" arise? What steps can the careful driver take in further effort to reduce them?

The two non-motoring factors of outstanding proportion, are pedes trians and pedal cyclists the former constituting 34 per cent and the latter 19 per cent. The pedestrians are sub-divided into (a) adults 20 per cent), (b) childran 14 per cent.

The last night came all too soon, night of full moon and of stara In the silence of her room Barbara faced the future, and found it, bare The Corner. Up this rond one clear avoning and cold. No one else would do purred a high-powered two-seater forcher, she know now, but John whose occupants were deep in con- Dekeyne. Ho made just the differ versation as the car climbed steadily ence between life and more exist at a good pace towards the corner. ence. What, then, could be done The driver, a tall bronzed man of Her beauty, such as it was, had some thirty-two summers, handled failed to move him. What had she Jis car with the ease of custom, clse that ho would prize? Courago despite the fact that his left sleeve He admired this virtue above all the first point I would stress is

Shei gazed out into the beautiful was tenantless.

His companion, a girl with grey night, and from the distant road the improvement in recent years in regard to children. The average eyes and a few strands of copper-came the sound of u Klaxon hora, driver would probably think the coloured hair visible beneath her Her heart beat fast an sudden close-fitting green hat, listened with idea, flashed into her mind. She proportion would be the other way keen interest to John Dekeye's would earn John's...admiration around the greater danger from

last, even at the cost of life itself! the child, as it used to be. story.

She would Surely the current statistics What else mattered? drive up to the moor, and that bo-clearly demonstrate the real utility tween the dreaded hours of mid- of education in the matter? In re- night and one of the clock, and she cent years many schools have in- would hold the high road against cluded teaching on. traffic dangers the white ghost car! She would in their curriculum. Why cannot dare something even this man would the adult public be educated in some way, ap so frequently advocated in not dare.

recent years. In "The Daily Chroni cle"? :

"Just now," he was saying, "we are coming to a famous bend known to the farmers here as Dead Man's Corner. Many cars have been wrecked at this point, and several lives lost, too, and the legend goes that it is not safe to pass this way between the hours of midnight and one o'clock if the moon is. up."

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The Car Appears. Barbara Maughan laughed. And "Why is that?" she asked.

They say a great white car, with headlights ablaze, sweeps round Dead Man's Corner at a great pace

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Swiftly she seized her coat, her little green hat, and, writing a few hasty words of explanation to leave behind, she crept down the broad stairway and let herself out into the still courtyard just as the stable clock struck twelve.

Stealing Away.

Dealing with the adults, the fol lowing is the sub-division of the causes-

Crossing carelessly, 6.7 per cent. Stepping off the footway, 3.8 per

Crossing in front of or behind another vehicle, 4.1 per cent,

Physical infirmity, 1.7 per cent. Other causes, 3.6 per cent, a The "unavoidable" accidents caused by children are mainly due to (a) crossing carelessly, 4.9 per cent.; and (b) running into the road, 4.5 per cent.

The accidents due to pedal cy- clists are classified by the statistics as follows.

Swerving in front of vehicles, 3.1 per cent.

Losing control of machine, 2,2 per cent.

Careless cornering, 1.8 per cent. No rear light, 1.3 per cent. Miscellaneous, 4.5 per cent. These figures are a little surpris-

Fortunately the garage was altu-cent on moonlit nights, and holds theated at some little distance from the crown of the road against all house, up a small incline, and Bar- comers, To swerve seems the only bara trusted to this good chance to course to take, and many a poor start the engine without even tho blighter has gone to his destruction purr of the self-starter. She was to avoid collision with the white quite unaware of Dekeyne's keen limousine, which vanishes as quick car, especially where the sound of ly as it camel":

his own car was concerned! The girl looked uneasy. "Surely Softly she plid back the heavy you don't believe that tale your-garage door, and pushed the gleam- self?" she asked.

Ing two-seater to the edge of the "I've learnt to believe strange incline; then, springing in, she things since my little, dose of war," glided down to the main drive, he said. "And a great friend of starting the engine with scarcely a mine was found early one morning sound, and slipped softly into the lying in the rushes, over that very read. bank, with his car turned over and the headlights still burning. That

Once there, she accelerated and was only a few months. ago."

"Still" she said, as, they turned was soon clear of the little town, the dreaded bend, "that may have and winding up the long road toing to me personally, as, though. I Her heart beat have had many "narrow squeaks": been pure coincidence. Your friend the fatal corner. may have, skidded' or fallen asleep high, but she was unafraid, and due to the cycle with no rear light, alone in a peaceful world, save for I cannot recall ono due to any other "Quite," replied Dekeyne. "Exfrightened rabbits scudding across cause. cept that it was a dry night; and brilliant lights. On, on the sped, her track, half fascinated by her his wheel-marke left a firm straight the car climbing the hills with a line deep into the macadam, show- ing, of course, that his brakes had song, when, just as she was speed- been suddenly applied; and there before the end of her journey, she ing along the last straight-stretch were no marks of tyres coming heard the scream of a horn from Trom the opposite direction. Anythe road behind. She turned her way, I'd rather do anything, ale head, and there, creeping steadily most, than face this corner on a night of moonshine between the nearer, came.a glare of headlightallowing problem was published last Instinct told her, as surely on a fated hours, old singer as I am!"

voice, who sat bahind, those lights, The girl wondered at this, for and her whirring wheels on the she knew of a certain little affair polished road whistled: "Dekeynel In the Great War in which the man Dekcyne! Dekeyne!" as she forced

at the wheel.

TYRE PROBLEM.

Answer to Problem,

Submitted by a reader. the fol-

Saturday:

"A motorist has three new tyres. which he wishes to use alternately so that each will do 6,000 miles on tear wheels.. At what mileages

Here is the solution: Put the apare

at mileage

at her side had won that coveted the little car to her fastest pace. must he change them so that each piece of metal "For Valour." She On she sped, until she came to will never have more than 500 knew, too, that his admiration was the warning triangle, standing up miles of use more than the others, all given to courage, with perhaps clear like a gibbet in the moon- and at a certain mileage each will and even, maybe, copper-coloured light. She slowed down just en-have done exactly 6,000 miles? hair! She was feminine enough nugh to take the corner-Dead At what total milenge will this to know all this, and perhaps to Man's Corner at last-and here was occur?. He is not to change them feel a pang of jealousy against John's great cliance! Closo behind unnecessarily." courage in consequence.

her now, he took life in his strong "Is there no means of laying the right hand, and rushed past the ghost?" she asked. "Surely the girl and on round the bend almost white car's owner has been ap-lon two wheels, using all his know- pensed by now, whoever he may ledge of the road, with his off tyres be?"

almost overhanging the steep bank- John dimmed his head-lights as side. Gradually he steadied, and they approached the little town, and stopped at Inat, the great car he answered her as they swept into drove standing right across the the drive of his mother's old home highway; and he, a white-faced

"The only way to lay the ghost man, springing out in time to see miles. The catch lles in the fact is for some brave soul to drive Barbara, Barbara of the Golden that changes are not made every straight into the great limousine, Glory, coming straight for the 500 miles.

unairaid and determined but so heavy barrier he had made.

far no one has dared. Eyen for

In that moment he knew the

on left on right

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my dead friend's sake: I can't pluck worst agony of his life. She, the terrible words of longing to the up courage enough, although vision of his heart, was coming to slim figure dropping there; he laugh at the whole thing out her death, and all, as he realised at tried to call her back to life; he. wardly."

The car drew up, and Barbara name and held up his one eager vain.

Inat, Tor his sake. He yelled her chafed her cold fingers; but In stepped out to be welcomed by Mra,arm in warning. Dekpyne's kind voice,

A Collision Inevitable.

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Suddenly ho was aware of a Barbara glanced beneath her

glare of light searching the road lushes at her cavaller, who seemed absorbed in some matter of gears blaze, and he seemed to her to late he realised the fate in store for She saw him in her headlights in front of him, and heard the purr of an engine close at hand; Too She was vaguely angry. Somehow stand there, a knight in glowing she was uncomfortably aware that armour. She jammed on her brakes the two luckless cars. Already even her grey eyes and golden hair with the swift knowledge that sho the great white limousine was on affected him less, than was their could not stop in time, and then them, and with a groan he flung wont with other men of her. nc-she closed her eyes,..

himself between and the woman quaintance."

he loved. There was a grating,“ scraping Yet, with the fino sense of hum-sound as the little car shattered our possessed by your modern girl, into the running-board and side of she was inclined to laugh at herself, the big coupea sickening metallic and to compare herself at a dis-fcrack, which made the tall man advantage with the many charm-shudder..........and silence, ing women of Dekeyne's acquain John Dekeyne leapt on to the smaller car and saw the white faca There followed glorious days on of a girl upturned to the starlit the moara with the guns, when the sky so still and white. Bcent of warm heather rose to one's Ic. forgot the world, himself, and senses to wine. Not many miles and all the horror of it. He spoke

Lance.

There was the shrill beat of an engine, a sudden ley draught, and the great white car came on.. Through them, over them, It' pass- ed; but how, John Dekeyne, never knew..

All he knew was that Barbara, the brave-hearted, was still alive.

Dead Man's Corner is still a place for caution, but the great white limousine glides there no longer.

AUSTIN SEVEN”

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