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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1931.

scene Uway

THE TRAIN DISASTER.

(Continued from Paar 1.) A

jundermined the permanent way and left the rails and sleepera

CORRESPONDENCE.

The Currency Question.

ared that that method was im-take therefore be impossible a year past October.

possible.

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Morton's Cocoa

of

CH PUNK HOLOBLI

NOURISHING

SUSTAINING REFRESHING

MORTONY

(To The Editor of Hongkong men could reach them only with without suppori.

Telegraph.] the greatest dißenlty. Oxy-ncety- The job of repairing this section lene equipment was rushed to the of the track presents many dif-

StrThere have been lots last night in order to cut ficulties, and in the opinion of the metal buffers that Mr. E. W. Carpenter, Assistant comments of fate upon the silence advocating pinioned them, but engineers de- Director of Pubile Works, it will of those who were

stabilisation or the gold standard least a week.

11 has been It will to remove any of the wreckage off suggested that their bluit was call- Fire Peril.

the line, before that time, and aned when the Currency Commission "We would burn them to death. joilleial estimate is that the Canton at, and in a recent leading article to explain If we attempted it, one of them train service is not likely to be re-an attempt was made

sumed for at least a fortnight. away the apparent tack of enthusism Muid. A

The spot where Dr. Farr's motor on the grounds of innate modesty of wreckage and to be MASH cleared away before doctors and car disappeared into a hole in the and fear of redicule.

I can assure you this is all bosh. ambulance men could reach them, Shatin Rond, also presents some and even then helpers had to lay difficulties. A survey of the scene, The stabilisation enthusiasts of that taken practiently on their chests to ad- which is just on the Taipo side of period were men who had

the subject minister to The unfortunates. the Shatin station, indicates that the sufficient interest in the Kowloon swoollen stream that runs beneath to of Dr. Smalley

anticipate where silver was Hospital and Dr.

Uttley made the road into Tols Harbour, had un eventually to drag this Colony and every attempt last night, but had dermined, the canerete embankment the lack of agitation new is the

failure outcome of o leave them at 2 am, this morn of the bridge, which gave way with natural ing. They returned this morning the extra, weight of the motor car. arouse pubile interest before it was the The ear did not evidently plunge too late. It has long shure becomi early however, and viewing

but pro-too late in the opinion of your old position by daylight declared that headlong into the stream.

ns the stabilisation advocates. They have amputation was the only metin of bably subsided gradually

earth gave way, as the Windarrean given up the Colony as a saving them,

is still intact.

round for social climbers talkie The rond at this spot is still eritles, marriage smashers, sport anoboerats and lounge à pitiful sight was the father dangerous, at the hole bas, widens fiends,

Bizards, and have latterly confined who kept hung vi considerably sine last night. of the boy,

their efforts in covering their own fur. raund the carriage, as if demented,

Casualty List.

private interests against any imploring the doctors nut to severe

thether drop in silver, such as would An arrate foot. The imprisoned. his son's

however took their predien-death and injured list is still unreur should China's idens of going ment with berine stoicism and calm. known, and neither tardical, police old materialise,

Helieve me, Mr. Editor, most of Although they were

otherwise nor railway niliciais can give a de

your of supporters are sitting back bully hired, they made no whim- finite number,

your leniter writer's So far however, 11 Iulies have Jadmiring per, and clustted with drawn faces

1 for co to the ambulance men who attended] been taken to the mortuary, told a foptimism and teneity.

Intimber of Chinese have been treatam now fully convinced that you um throughout the night.

ed at various hospitals,

Fare out on a forloru hope--the pen The possibility of there being pls here are entellectually decadent;

Father's Terror.

Operation Difficulties.

a.le,

estimate 1.f

to

ureeding

Dr. Smudley began the amputation more holies in the wrecked interior aut it would require nothing less The ex- the third marriage by not re-than a sieshic upheaval to shake

them out of thefe apathy whore. operation about $1 press engine of the R. C. 12, at-ote,

Railways oficials have met yet anything worth while is consened. tached to the Governor's conch was

KU accitrate Recoint of the Yours, etc. Fortunately on the C'antan side of had

the train the mishap, and was standing by, number of passentes

carried, but an estimate is given? Pull medicul equipment und abandiere of hot and cold water al about 100, was available on that train, an that the surgeon was aided in that res-

EUROPEAN'S ACCOUNT,

Nurrowly Missed Being in Il-Fnted Train.

Anaesthefins were administered, and as soon as the limbs had been severed, the victims were rushed to

Mr. W. C. Simpson, of the Land the Governor's coach where the Bailiff's Office, who is to be mar operation was completed in less ried on Sunday next, probably awkward surroundings. Both the owes his life to a faulty mator, youth and the boy were imprisoned car engine. It certainly surved below the knee, and the amputationskim from being a passenger on the were made practically in the same ill-fated train.

they place, releasing them after

Yesterday he was all preparedi

18 hours.

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DISGUSTED. I. S. Perhaps you remember the attempt made about a year nga to enli a nass meeting

the cur trepry question. Tuly one response was received to the appeal for [eo-operation in organising it and

that was from an American.

MORE WOMEN POLICE.

LONDON FORCE TO· BE· DOUBLED.

tion.

The winning recipe makes a most WONDER-

Mr. Clynes, the Horse Secretary, had been imprisoned for more than to run down to the station in a We have received a copy of TUL COCKTAIL.

friend's car but the engine refused stated in Parliament that it is The patients had not come out to start and delayed their de-ruposed to increase the strength this recipe and the necessary ingredients-only

of the anaestheties when the Telt-parture a few minutes, with the of the women police in London There are about the same graph representative left the scene.result that when they arrived at by 50. four in uumber, and will be pleased to supply

the station it was to watch the number at present serving in Lon- No Werse Position.

[train steaming out. Mr. Simpson don under Miss Peto, the Staff it on request.

There could have been no worse had nothing else to do but to await Officer, who is attached to Scot- position on the train for an opera the arrival of the six o'clock train, and Yard,

It is not expected that recruiting tion to be carried out, for in addi-fand it was only when he discover- tion to the twisted metal andjed a few minutes after six that will start at one, because there splintered wood that hampered this was stationary just outside are difficulties to be overcome In the surgeon, the victims were half the station that he realised one the way of housing accommoda- i in and out of the earringe, above thing was amiss.

In deelding where women are Laddera the waterfall's stream.

He attempted to get into tele-

the welfare of with the to be stationed,

is the first were rigged up outside the each phonie communication and ambulance men supported the Kowloon Railway Station but was women and children victims from beurath. tying them unable to do so, Subsequently he consideration. When the augmen- up with ropes to prevent them learned by telephone of the ditation takes place the recruits will falling 15 feet below to the drsaster and he and his friend pudebe drawn from among widows and single women, and preference will bed of the creek.

their way by road to within

scene.be given to applicants with ex- A decision has not yet been quarter of a mile of the arrived at as to what action will After giving a great deal of perience of social work,

The new recruits wlli, it is be be taken in order to extricate the timely assistance in rescue work, two dend, bodies, which were Mr. Simpson gut a conveyance back lieved, be trained at Peel House, where alt male constables aro wedged close to the unfortunate to Kowloon.

their preliminary instruc- patients of the amputation opera "When I arrived on the sirena" Riven to find the tions, flon and whose presence made the he said, "it was

The en- Recruita must be 5ft. Ain, in task more gruesome. They are as train a complete wreck. Ormly wedged between the buffera, gine iny on its side in the ravine height without bonts, and between as. were the two who did not which Larders the permanent way 22 and 30 years of age.

at this point, some 20 feet from Couches were the carriages,

Jeronima, Mexico, Apr. 20. all telescoped, the first two having

Ten people were killed and 20 The Railway Company could not been burled into the ravine, while have been more handicapped in the third and fourth hung in a wounded in a raid by bandits, who their attempts at relief work. It precarious position over the bank, sacked the township of Juerlian.

Those killed include six bandits seemed that fate worked against and the fifth had just left the rails,

tu the "Piteous cries from the wounded and one woman.-Reuter's Ameri-i them, for every avenne scene was hampered, and the most and imprisoned passengers were can Service.

search revealed serious, the washaway, a little on heard and a quick the Kowloon side of Shatin, was seven the were the only thing that made

state, while a number of the pas-fractured leg, while the Ampulation necessary..

But for this mishap, a relief sengers, who were either slightly had a miraculous escape. It was train and breakdown gang and injured or free from hurt, lay pin-quite impossible to ascertain with equipment could have been sent ned beneath twisted steel girders any accuracy the number of in- So jured or the full number of fatali- fron Kowloon, and even if it were and heavy wooden splinters. not successful, an attempt at any scerely were they wedged and softies as darkness felf quickly."

Ile spoke with great enthusiasm diflicult was it to obtain sufficient 10 rate, could have been made lever up the coaches and take the foothold, that rescue work was of the rescue work which

impeded, and in many in-effected as soon as news of the pressure from the point. where the youth and boy were Imprison-stances rendered for the time quite disaster had been sent through by telephone to Kowloon and the dis impossible. ed.

"A further danger presented tricts, and local Europeans From an engineering point of

between itself in the remarkable position public officers had arrived. Dr. [view.

Kowloon Hospital, the washaway

Smalley, of Shatin and Yaumati is more of the carriages, which was such serious than the actual scene of us to suggest that almost the worked' anceasingly under the the disaster, for just outside the slightest movement would send most appalling conditions to tend tunnel, the embankment can soon them toppling into the raving the victims. At least three other local doctors answered the emer- be built up after the debris has some 30 feet below."

Engine-Driver Found. gency call, whilst buses, private been cleared away.

"We discovered the engine cara, and ambulances were brought driver severely injured with a into immediate use.

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