1935-12-18 — Page 3

MIRTH

IN PRA MECHANICS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1985.

WHEN DEATH STALKED

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IN QUETTA

MEN AND WOMEN WHO RISKED

LIVES IN EARTHQUAKE M

• Nurse Who

Saved

Children

Official

Oficer Risked

Grave Infeellon

Tributes

Heroism

Native Soldiers

Innored Danger

Of

Deeds Earthquake

To

After

London, Dec. 10. ..

The deeds of heroism in the Quetta earthquake, which won either the Albert Medal or the Medal of the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire were described in the "London Gazette" last night.

The awards and the official statements are given below:

THE ALBERT MEDAL Nurse Florence Alice Allen.

In the early morning of May 31, while employed in rescue work

At the risk of her life, and at the in. the city, Lee-Nalk Ilukam Dad cost of terrible Injuries to her leg, fought his way into, the ruins of a Mins Allen saved the life of the child burning house at considerable risk in her charge by throwing herself to his own life and rescued a woman. icross the cut. She has displayed the who was imprisoned there. Two in- highest courage ever since.

Jured men had already perished in the flames, and it was only through the

anil presence of mind ori bravery Hukam Dad that the woman was Favel

Lt. John Guise Cowley, R.E. 16th Army Troops Co., QV.O. Madras Sappers and Aliners.

Lt. Cowicy and his party were the first to start relief work at the Civil Hospital, where the walls of all the wards had collapsed, bringing down the roofs intact on the inmates, on whom the debris of the walls had

were

Lee-Nalk Kahul Singh, 4th Bn. 19th

Hyderabad Regt.

Lo-Naik Kabut Singh at great risk On the morning of May 31 and personal danger to his life entered tumbled-down burning house in already fallen. Bruce-road and succeeded in rescuing too few in nun COOKE, 80 mbor to tear

raised them up

up for wo women and three children. periods whilst Lt. Cowley Pte. Robert Spoors, 1st Bn. W. Yorks, crawled under them and dragged out

Regt. survivors from their beds. The sur- After the earthquake on the morn- vivors were pre-earthquake hospital ing of May 31 Pte. Spoors, at very patients and mostly quite helpless. considerable risk to himself from

Crowley lifted many men in bis falling debris catered Major O'lian

farms, regardless of the warning

these, which was in a dangerous

they were suffering from all manner

of diseases. Had it not been for the

anved alive.

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portance of the peninsula in South Arabia which in successivo cen- turies has supported the maritime power of Phoenicians, Portugueso, Turks, Arablans, and British.

Italy's bold military plans against Ethiopia were recognized by the British as implying an ultimate challenge to their Imperial power in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean,

He Was successful in ponsible for saying the ilves of several and Aden became a fccussing-point

Second Gibraltar Situated within striking distance

path for Mrs. O'Hanlon Indians buried under the debris in for the attention of naval experts wark of this offleer and the excellent and was mainly responsible for saving Quetta City; and on more than one who consider all the hypothetical. example shown by him to his then, ker life. He then re-entered the very many less men would have been house to save the nurse and baby ocasion, voluntarily endangered his aspects of international rivalry.

life to effect a rescue, but was himself

debris A new sore throat disense is puzzling doctors throughout the Lee, Naik Firoze Khan, 6th Bn. 8th and was later rescued by two less of his own safety, he worked at men On May 31 in Quella City, regard- and brought out in an exhausted con- country.

Punjab (Burma) Regt.

the morning of May 31 dition. He subsequently worked for great personal risk for four hours to of the Straits of Babel-Mandeb, the Its name Is Agranulocytic Lee Naik Free Bhan was in charge long hours at the British Military effect the rescue of an Indian child bottleneck of the Red Sea, Aden Angina, and it strikes down those of a a party engaged in rescue work Hospital. His action was reported by entombed alive under a collapsed occupies a position comparable to apparently in normal health and and fire-fighting in the city. Hear the Colonel Commanding the Hospital double-storey building. In order to that of Gibraltar at the outlet of ofton proves fatal.

ing cries for help from beneath the with a recommendation for special reach the child he had heard crying the Mediterranean. The similarity Women are more subject to it ruins in the close vicinity of a fire: roboratedTM

recognition:

fact being cor-it was necessary to make a tunnel also extends to the geographical Lance-Naik Firoze Khan and his

O'llanion, beneath the wreckage, which was in fact that both Gibraltar and Aden commenced to dig and cut their ILA.M.C. party

gallant be most unsafe condition. The dend nearly two hours work the

than men.

Major

those affected are many doctors, Naik was able to enter the caviour and devotion to duty were bodies of other members of the family are huge rock peninsulars jutting

A clue to its nature has been pro-way down into the building.

vided by the discovery that among

nurses, and medical students,

This fact led to a search for a possible drug or medicine which might be the root of the trouble.

A SEDATIVE

from above and discovered two people pinned down by benma and

The fire had by this time

by Pie. Spoors'

most praiseworthy.

were encountered embedded in the from the mainland, the commercial debrin; it Harildar (A/Mavildar-Major) Ahnind tricate

was impracticable to ex- fact that both are points of call and Yar 24th Mtn. Bde., R.A.

these, but the child was supply for great numbers of mer- On the night of May 31-June 1, in of this building did actually collapse fact that both are indispensable to brought out unscathed. (The remains chant vessels, and the Imperial to Sandeman-rond, Quetta, this Non- in consequence of shocks that took the security of the British line of the building In question, which was commissioned Officer for a period of place during the night of May 31- communications to India and the full of smoke and fumes. In spite five and a half hours worked in a hole June 1.) of this the Lance-Naik with pick and about 15ft below a very unsafe wall, and bravery were most meritorious.

Elston's personal example Far East, saw spent over half an hour beneath extricating a man who was eventually It is now revealed that a the ruins and finally released the in- found to be unharmed. During the Lee Cpl, George Henshaw, 1st Bn. Empire in 1839, the first important Aden was added to the British drug called pyramidon, which jure people. He did this at great period there were several shocks of The Queen's Royal Regt.

additior in the reign is a mild nerve sedative and there was grave danger of the ruins there was the grave

risk to his own life, as throughout great intensity, and in any of the

of Queen risk of

Immediately after the earthquake Victoria. Two

years earlier, being pain reliever, had been employ subsiding from the effect of the fire buried. This Non-commissioned Om P. Henshaw, together with other British ship had been wrecked on ed by the stricken individuals and further earthquake shocks. cer as a favillar-Major was on con-rescue

military policemen, went to carry out the Arabian coast, and some of the over a considerable period. Pte. Harry Fitzsimmons, 1st Bn. W.tinuous

duty from

work int Quetta Grammar crew and passengers had been mis time School. During this Yorks, Regt.

the earthquake until the showed an utter disregard for his own

period he treated. The Bombay government On May

“at and, June 1 and 2 Battery returned to ils lines diagnosis ia by an examination of wiezsimmons was on rescue duty in on the evening of June 3. He never afety and was most prominent in naked explanations, and the local

the area of Quetta City to the east failed to set the highest possible This reveals that nearly all of Sandeman Hall. He worked with standard of leadership, discipline, and the important white cells conspicuous energy and devotion to personal work.

wark,

The only method of accurate

The blood,

the

(known as polymorphs) have and in conjunction with others

Throughout the period of rescue Medal Of Order Of British

the determining cause.

nucleotide.

DOCTORS' PLEA

were hu

was

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Empire

of

extremely dangerous building. rescue operations in what was an'

WILA

of

the

19th

A

the

Sultan in compensation offered to sall-the-harbour-and-town of Aden Arrangements made by the fathor At 0.30 am, he was employed in rescue work in St. John's road. An were rejected after his death by a disappeared.

Indian child WAN located below; son, and the British sent a military was refer saving several

wreckage alve which was a con- and Upon these cells depends health lives. On

naval force from Bombay. 1, in order to

siderable amount of debris liable to Aden was captured and annexed to and vitality, and when reduced the an Indian whom he knew to be purcue Ple Arthur Brooks, 1st lin. The fall at any moment.

Queen's Royal Regt. (West Sur-dug under the wreckage and at the 16, 1839. Since 1932 It has been bodily resistance to bacterial in-alive, Fitzsimmons, at great risk to

Pte. Henshaw the Bombay presidency on January vasion completely vanishes.

bis own. life, made a passage under About 100 cases are known in the debris of a house in which he Brooks at great personal risk rescued courage

risk of his life crawled under and responsible politically to the govern On the afternoon of May 31, Pic drugged the child out alive.

His ment of India, but in military and throughout which pyramidon tablets or medi- was able to crawl.

anian from beneath the debris of highest order.

naval affairs is very close to Lon- cine containing the drug have been On reaching the mun he discovered building in Suraj Ganj Bazaar behind

don. woman lying dead on top of him the City Thana, A party of milliary Bmbdr. (Lec-8gL) Alfred Langley., Britain's Reminder A new promise of cure has beam acros

who was

pinned down by a scout policemen had located a man lying 24th Mntn. Bde. R.A.

her leg. In order to romc 18 been offered by the discovery release the man, whom he eventually close to a wall in a very dangerous at about 12 noon, a survivor

feet, ber

beneath debris and In Bruce-road, Quetta, on June 2, The completion of the Suez Canal of a drug known as pentose saved, he had to saw off the woman's condition. They dug down with picks located in a house on the ecate ing of vessels en route to and from was three decades later made Aden an side extremely valuable port for bunker- leg with a carpenter's saw. The re- and shovels to a point within some of the road. In order to mains of the building, and the passage five feet of the man, when from the the survivor it was necessary to go to the East, Politically, Aden served he made, were in imminent danger imminent danger of the collapse of the bottom of a deep hole surrounded frequently as a counter-balance to of collapse during the whole period the wall and a broken beam that and overhung by tottering masonry. Fronch Two men and a woman

working. Fitzsimmons's would have released further wreckage, This was linble to collapse at any Northeastern Africa, since

or Italian ambitions in trented by this drug in Manchester action was a very gallant one and they were unable to get any further. minor shocks, some of which occurred Royal Infirmary recently. Both worthy of special recognition. men recovered. The woman was

Pte. Brooks then dug through the during the work. Lea-Sgt. Lungley power resident there was an ever- Gurkha's Roscuo Of Children remainder of the wreckage with his showed the greatest zeal and dis-present. reminder of Britain's In- in such a serious condition when Kinma, Harkbir Thapa, 2nd Bn. 8th hands, reached the man and removed regard for his own safety, although tense interest in the Red Sea and she reached hospital that it was

him uninjured. Throughout the latter te Gurkha Rifs.

was already suffering from the Gulf of Aden. impossible to save her life.

On the morning of May 31 Rinmn. portion of the rescue Pte. Brooks was severe injury to his foot The sur-

In the ovent of acute British- Pentose nucleotide stimulates the Thapa was

Itallan bone marrow, which is concerned {rencuo party which was going to digand his action showed ng buried vivor was extricated alive.

detailed as part of an imminent danger

rivalry in the Red Sea- dis-

Indian with the manufacture of the healthy out some living

Ocean area, Aden would for personal regard behind the ing people

and

Dangerous Rescue

have these strategical responsibili- white colla..

in undertaking a task tha Police Lines. On the way to the work courage in

ties: First, base for the naval Doctors are approaching the he heard noises in a building and might have cost him his life. Through Lee-Naik Mista Din, 4th Bn.

obtained premission from the N.C.O Brooks had been prominent In rescue out the morning of May 11, Pte Ministry of Health to urge now!

Hyderabad Regt, I.A.

defence operations if such were legislation to govern the sale of to try to get these, people cut. At work at Quetta Grammar School and officer showed conspicuous devotion to the Arab nations; point of support On May 31 this non-commissioned necessary to maintain amity with about 6.30 am, the Adjutant visted in St. John's read. medicines containing pyramidon, the area to ascertain how work was which at present can be sold un progressing. He found Rifimm. Herk-Lee.-Naik Chitrabahadur Gurong, 1st for whose rescue three parties had Zanzibar; protection of the British

duty by excavating hurled in a

man who was for Arabian shipping and commer very dangerous place (and clal activity between Arabia and restricted.

bir Thapa had worked his way withi Bn. 8th Gurkha Rifles, LA. At an inquest on a St. Pancras his through the debris under This Non-commissioned Ofeer, already made attempts, but had left Mai-line cables to India, Australia man last month it was stated that totoro who were alive but buried. montal in saving the life. of Mrs.minent danger of the working parties sorging cables route down the Afri-

him there. was nearing along with other men, was instru- and bin death followed long use of the two people who, drug in the form of cough tableta, the

As there was clearly every chance of

of the Railway Police). The Naik Nandlal Thapa, 2nd Bn. 8th The coroner said he intended to the roof collapsing on top of the of tonington (wife of Supt. Newingthemselves being buried alive)"

The British Empire possesses bring to the notice of the authorisisted him by propping up the roof were buried in the ruins of their

removed the debris the Adjutant as family of Mr. and Mrs. Newington Gurkha Rifs., L.A.

several other islands of greater or ties the use of the drug in such as far as possible. Rifmn. Hark-bungalow some five or six feet under of the loading detachment of the

Nalk Nandlal Thapa formed part leaser strategical importance in the tableta.

bir Thapa cont

continued his work and the debris. The party started digging battalion which was

lower Red Sea and the Gulf of conveyed by brought out two children alive. He at about 7 am, on May 31. Through mechanical transport from the Lines Aden. Some of these might have undoubtedly saved those two children unceasing work carried out un

under to Quetta City. There was no time been ignored in past decades, but at the risk of his own life.

very dangerous circumstances, as the for the party to collect tools. On ar- the advent of submarines and sea- On June 2 this rifleman's conduct work was carried out under the re- rival in the city the detachment was planes has brought even small and PLANE WITH

WAN again brought to notice. On maining wall of the bungalow, whielt split up into small parties and worked inconsequential islets within the THE CRUMPLED WING detachment working in Hudds Village, had taken place, the vicinity of the prior to the distribution of tools, ex-programmes. United Press.

this occasion he formed, part of a would have fallen if another shock with their hands for three hours, scope of possible military or naval The apper storey of a crumbling! bodies was reached about 9.30, tricating Injured men and women

cleared, part of the

Great care and intelligence were from the debris. roof had fallen

through the floor into required in order to avold wounding

siderable risk. He fully realised tho folding thus rendering the the couple, whilst speed was essential the junction of Brace-road and Colvin enter any building where thore, was The area in which they worked was risks he ran, but was always ready to extremely fortunate not to have floor most dangerous. A living child if there was to be any hope of rescue rond, one of the parts most damaged alle le conduct was a very fine a crumpled horn. A day or two This man and one other volunteered extricated alive, and shortly after period minor shocks frequently oc example of courage and energy at a in the lower storey, Soon after 8.30 Mrs. Newington was by the earthquake. ago, an aeroplane landed on her to dig through a corner of the floor Mr.

During alive. back.

dead. Lee-Naik curred, causing further falls of ma-critical time. opposite to where it had crumbed Chitraliarud Gurung showed initiative, The cow was knocked over, but They did so with khukries and their resource and courage, which were sonry in the houses in which they were Ldg. A.C. Norman George Breadon, scrambled up and ran off bellow hands and get through to the lower doubtedly instrumental in saving life.

diging with their hands. Ing, little the, worse. A wing of storey and rescued the child. They

Werking with the party, thia the machine was crampied instead, did this at considerable risk to their Pie, Ernest Mathew Elston, 1st Bn. the manner in which he entered for- man remained until lato in the day Though himself badly injured with Tunnolled Through Debris N.C.O. showed conspicuous bravery la erneked rib and collarbone, this air- own lives, as the walls were in danger The engine of the 'plane cut out collapsed at any moment

W, York Regt. Pier Elston worked with untiring being bullidinga in search of living attending to injured airmen in the and in the work and initiative dressing station. Ile behaved with Just after the take-off, necessitut-Lec-Nalk Takam Deth Bn. 8thry a rue work and in the be diaplayed in removing them. As a great gallantry. Ing a forced landing.

Punjab (Burma) Regt.

ulrequers enlvage operations, Diay result of his disregard of danger ton 31-June 14. He was personally real people were rescued alivo at con- page 8.)

(Full at of awards published on

THIS WAS THE

A

cow in

says Anatral News.

house was

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of falling and the floor might, have

Newington

as there was very im and the Far East, and the con-

can coast.

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