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Biggest Hold-up

ALL TRAMS STOP:

THOUSANDS STRANDED

London, Junë 19. Thousands of people were held up last night all over London and Greater London by the biggest tram stoppage ever known.

Shortly after 10 o'clock a falluré of the electric current brought the whole of the London County Council tram service to a stand- still.

Trams suddenly stopped and the lights went out.

At Intervals of 100yds, trams were lined up from Wimbledon to Clapham and Tooting to Wandsworth, Brixton, Mitcham and Streatham.

The stoppage was complete over most of South London from 10.10 until 10.35, when the engineers succeeded in getting current through again,

Hundreds Walk

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MONDAY, JULY 10) 1933.

18 POLICEMEN IN A MAZE

"LOST" BURGLAR HUNT

FUGITIVE'S CANAL BATH

The Swan Inn at Ash Vale, known affectionately, to hundredsį of thousands of Army men all over the world as, "Tupper's," was the scene of an unrehearsed comedy when a would-be burglar and his pursuers became involved In an overgrown niaze attached to the Inn.

In the cool bar, which has so often resounded to the trend of military feet, the proprietor related told what happened, while faded brown photographs of "Tup- per," with his, luxuriant fringe of snowy whisker beamed down from the walls.'

About half-past eleven the pro- prietor's wife saw an unknown man hanging around the Inn and called her husband, who shouted and gave chase, while she telo phoned to the police. The bur glar ran violently into a gate--and dived into the dark waters of the Basingstoke canal.

He clambered out as speedily as possible, and ran down an alley behind a hedge, the inn proprietor trying to head him off. The bur

More difficulty was experienced in North London, where the curglar, still dripping, then retreated rent failure was intermittent, and into the maze, with the object of after 11 o'clock many cars hat being his pursuer.. In this he not resumed service.

was entirely successful the only Inquiries were flashed in to the drawback being that he also baff- Council's great power station ated himself, and could not find his Greenwich from all points on the way out. system.

By eleven o'clock most of the trams were running again, but the traffic islocation was very great.

In some outlying districts, how ever, "derellet" trams, empty and in darkness, were standing at intervals along the ronds late last night.

Hundreds of people who had waited for Inte Cars resigned themselves to walking.

ARMED WITH A BOTTLE.

The maze is a natural one form- ed of light hedges, now so over- grown as to form virtual tunnels. To follow the burglar into it alone. was a dangerous course, as he was armed with a pint bottle.

Passing motorists were stopped and illuminated the maze with their headlights. Policemen to the number of eighteen arrived from near-by police stations, and surrounded the maze, in which the burglar could be heard crashing round through the undergrowth. Sprints to Stations

as he explored every avenue,

The police then closed on the Here are some of the exciting scenes during the great hold-up:

centre. Or, at least, that was the Crowds stampeded for buses, idea, Unfortunately, the police- and there was a rush for taxis. men also became lost, and the

Suburban dwellers left trams affair began to look like a and sprinted for railway stations.hearsal for the Aldershot Tattoo. In the Kingsway the suddenly Awe-struck, the non-combatants darkened tramcars in the already dim tunnel heightened the strange

ness.

re-

atood round in the eerie glare of the headlights while wild shouta Arose from the eighteen benighted policemen as they mulled round in the labyrinth. It was some houra before they could be extricated. The Underground traffic multi-by which time it was discovered

Passengers were asked to keep their seats while inquiries were

made..

5. Iced Asparagus & Mayonnaise.plied to many times the normal that the burglar had escaped.

6. Roast Capon & Ham.

7. Mango Ice Cream,

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during the hold-up.

Streets were lined with people

waiting to get home....

Power Station Breakdown?

Inventor

An official of the L.C.C. tram Of

service stated just before 11 p.m.

come through Stiff Collars

"Reports have from districts all over London stating that the current has failed. It is impossible to discover the reason for the failure at present.

"As far as we know no damage

has been done."

The stoppage is believed to have been caused by a breakdown at the Greenwich power station.

Sufferings In The Desert

130 PEOPLE DIE FROM THIRST

Nairobi.

One hundred and thirty men. women and children have died from

A WOMAN!

1. of

When men curae the Inventor of stiff collars, they are cursing woman-though doubtless few them know it.

Sho was an American, Mrs. Han- nah Montague, the wife of a black- smith.

She washed her husband's shirts -and in doing so noticed that the collar was nearly always more dir- ty than the shirt itself.

So, with a sudden inspiration. she cut off the collars and put bands round the necks.

Then she starched the collars. They stayed clean longer.

Mr. Montague was agreably surprised. He told his friends. That was a century ago.

A tablet on a house in Troy, New York, still bears witness to the memory of the inventor of atif collara.-Reuter.

thirst in the desert areas of Italian KEENER STUDENTS Transjuba.

The vic.ims of this terrible tragedy are natives who had decided to leave their homes in.' Italian Somaliland to return to the British Flag under which they had former- ly lived.

ONE EFFECT OF THE

DEPRESSION

Evanston, IMinols." The American college student has It appears that a section of the benefitted by the depression. He is Somalis, living in the Kismayu area studying harder says, the President of Italian Somaliland, who before of Northwestern University. the war word. British subjects,

He believes that student life has

decided to settle in. the northern been bettored to a marked degree frontier district of Kenya.

A large number loft with their

the Inst two years.

Loafers have decreased in num- families and cattle, travelling ber. The University has taken on across the country in the direction a business-like attitude.

of the Tana River,`n

In general students seem to be Some of them reached British less rockless and more considerate. territory, where they reported that, while crossing Italian country, the party had divided.

he says. They are acquiring habits

of Industry and thrift, that will be

of advantage after graduation... A search party for the remain- The quality of incoming freshmen der was immediately organised and fast September was the highest wo eventually some Burvivors were have over had. Indications are found. They were in a state of that the entering class in Septem collapse but were able to relate the bar will be equally high," he added. tragio fate of their companions, The greatest drop in attendance 180 of whom had succumbed after has been in, our courses in com Abapattu, had lost its way in the maroc de Orl-reatest increase has desert and run out of water been a in QUUM Réutor.***

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