1930-05-17 — Page 9

INTRODUCING

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1930.

TO ENGLISH NEWSPAPER READERS

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FIXING CHARGE (for a limited period) $5 ONLY.

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·HEAVY · COST OF PIPE AND WATERLOGGED FERRY BOATÍ

'CABLE LAYING,

ON THE THAMES.

Constant excavation to reach When packing a luncheon basket water, gas, electricity, and telo for a party who had arranged to phone pipes and cables, in addi-view the Oxford and Cambridge tion to causing notorious disloca race from the river bank, near tion of traffic, nearly doubles the Barnes, a maid spilled some salt. -costa of road unkeep.

"I am sure the ferry-boat will sink with you," she said, laughing- ly.

This is the opinion expressed in the annual report of the Roads Improvement Association.

An hour or so later the ferry bont Though Charing Cross-road is became waterlogged and many only the same width, and carries people, including three children, a heavier load of traffic, it has a had narrow escapes from death. subway for cables, and the cost

This story was told by Mr. Ber- of its maintenance is little more nard Westall, of Woldingham, Sur- than half that of Tottenhamrey, who with his two small chil- Court-road, where, since there is dren were in the best when it sank. no subway, the road has to he dug up to reach them.

"We boarded the boat at Duke's Queen Victoria-street, E.C., is Meadow to cross the river after the instanced as a road of which the race,' said Mr. Westall. "With me tion is due to the use of subways the boatman. I left my wife and good surface and lack of conges-were my two children, their nurse and seven other persons, including for public service pipes.

her maid on the bank.

The public utility companies still resist the subways idea, be- cause of the rent that would have to be paid for tunnels, and the restrictions placed upon them, as compared with their present un- trammelled liberties to excavate roads on the wildest possible scale, A further objection is that all the various pipes would. in a tunnel, have to be placed close. to gether.

As an indirect result of the Hol born explosion, the report adds, it is understood that a Royal Com mission will shortly investigate the whole question in its widest aspects.

"When we were about fifty yards from the Middlesex shore, I noticed water coming into the bottom and shouted to the boatman.

The boat became waterlogged and sank. There was some excite- ment, but on the whole everybody behaved splendidly,

"Some of the people managed to grasp the upturned boat when it came to the surface, and others could swim.

"I got hold of my two children and also succeeded in keeping the nurse up till she was able to catch hold of one of the oars which was floating down the river.

"I was able to tread water. Then I managed to put the boy on one

£7,200 GEMS LEFT IN of the boats which came to our

CAB.

ASTONISHING, ABSENCE OF

MIND.

A Paris jeweller, who is named Ass, has suffered from a moment's absence of mind which may cost him £7,200.

rescue. While that was happening somebody took the little girl from

me,

"I was not aware of this, how- ever, and seeing her mackintosh floating down the river I naturally thought she was still in the water, and pushed off again,

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"I searched around for some time, but it was not until I got on shore and found her in a police M. Leon Ass, who has related his ambulance that I knew she had sad adventure to the police chief,been saved." .* arrived at Marseilles, with £7,200 worth of jewellery, including 60 diamond rings, beside bracelets and watches.

Leaving his luggage at an hotel, he went out, with a amall bag, to show the gems to a jeweller friend. He stopped his taxi-cab at a post office and one shop, and at each he carried his precious bag in his hand...

Detectives' Quest

On reaching his friend's house he paid off the taxi, and only à few minutes later, when talking with the Marseilles jeweller, he realised that he had left his pre- cious bag in the vehicle.

Several detectives were sent off in search of the taxi-cab.

They found it, and M. Ass's bag, was still in it.

But the jewels were missing. The absent-minded jeweller-has promised reward of £350 for the recovery of his jewels..

"If I do not recover my jewels," he says, "I am a totally ruined man, as they represent all my little fortune."

A youth and a girl are said to have hired the taxi after the jewel- ler left it, and before the police found it.

"At least thirty lifebuoys were bobbing up and down around the people in the water in less than two minutes," said an eye-witness.

Eight people were taken to hos- pital for treatment, but only two children, Joan Bowerman, of Lecon- field-avenue, Barnes, and Lorna Westall, were detained.

The accident is said to have been due to the wash from a passing steamer....

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