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SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1935.

The engine that, on the night of Sunday, December 28, 1870, fell through the old Tay Bridge with ile train of siz çarriages, and left no soul to tell the tale.

After its fall to the holtom of Thy it lay submerged far' some three months, but wan eventually recovered.

The Railway Disaster That

OF all the Railway acci-

red

dents.which have occur-

within the United Kingdom, none has sent a more intense thrill through the nation than the Tay Bridge disaster."

The fact that the train and its seventy-five or SO passengers--the real number was never accurately ascertained -went out of sight like a drowned rocket, leaving only mute-and yet how eloquent- and the un- in-wreckage,

of distant certain impressionis casual observers to testify to its fate: the fact that It happened on Sunday-which, be sure, did not escape the attention of the Scottish ministers any more than the Clay- ton Tunnel disaster eighteen years before had cluded the wrath of their southern brethren-all com- bined to invest the with an atmosphere of horror.

·SOCIAL SERVICE The value of social service dissipating ignorance, prejudice and misunderstanding has re- cently been stressed at Home by prominent personages actively associating themselves in work on behalf of those in need. Voluntary service and public service, it has well been pointed out, do not lead in opposite but In in parallel directions. Britain, the growth of social service is generally admitted to be of special importance, because the people believe in democracy and "hale dictatorships, placing free and more value spontaneous growth than on "efficiency" secured by compul- sion.. The National Council of Social Service, through various

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the The lost train

Edinburgh, evening one from Waverley Station, but as these were pre-Forth Bridge days, the pay- sengers travelled by steam ferry from Granton to Burntisland, frum which place, therefore, No. 224 and its train really started.

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Horrified The World

Fifty-six years ago

Homeward bound to join their folk for Now Year's Evo to-day, on a turbulent. Scottish Sunday, the train commenced its last journey. Aboard were seventy-five or so—the real number has never been ascertained-passengers. A plate-layer "a great idly watched its progress as it commenced to cross the Tay Bridge. Then flash of fire sprang up, and the three tail lights disappeared from his view... entire, train and its occupants dropped into the waters below like á drowned rocket and for two days, until divers descended to the bed of the Tay: no one knew exactly what had hap- pened.

** The.

Out of the Tay Disaster, which struck horror into the hearts of all Scotland, grow the colossal Forth Bridge, which owes its extremely massivo design entirely to the catastrophe. Had the train been a few minutes earlier or later, it is quito possible that the old Tay Bridge would be standing to-day, and the Forth bridge may have been of less spectacular design, '.

councils scattered throughout the NOTES OF THE DAY thirteen

WHITHER EUROPE?

amatter

runninse

burst out again In the afternoon,

Tho train stopped at SL Fort, two miles south of the bridge, where tickets were collect ed, and at 7.13 p.m. passed the south signal-box at low speed to enable the signalman to hand the line staff to the fireman, which was done without remarks being ex- changed. At that moment bright moonlight prevailed, but it was oc- casionally obscured by masses of dark clouds blown rapidly along.

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts There was a shortage of mis- tletoe this year, but even so, that good old kissmins feeling seemed

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Wives who gave the proverbial carpet slippers at least made sure of making their presents felt!

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Another man we know was given a telescope. Wonder if he saw

stars?

woman

may

It is curious that nobody Middlesborough, and cost £350,- has recorded

Bort of 900. what

Prior to opening the Board passage the ferry boat

that rough night. of Trade tested it by running to and fro, at the speed of forty made on It can be very boisterous on that

miles an hour, six heavy locomo part of the Forth without the ns- sistance of a phenomenal storm, but tives and tenders, weighing- 438 the gale would be in the steamer's tons, and forming 291 feet long. and under that severe proof the favour on this occasion. Occurrences

spans showed but an insignificant unusual

The Tay Bridge had been deflection, although us

June 1 in the of precaution the llevased speed of

In the south signal cabin with the 011 opened

'gnalman was a platelayer, whe previous year, and had there- trains was limited to twenty-five fore had an existence of only some miles an hour, a regalation which

months. It carried a the Railway Company Ignored. had dropped in for a chat. This nineteen

It is noteworthy that General Hut-man watched the progress of the single track with, check rails

It con- would have liked an opportunity noticed that soon after it had got throughout, and was 3,465 yarda- chinson, the inspector, said that he, train from the cabin window and upon the bridge sparks appeared' sisted of eighty-six spans varying of observing the effects of a high

(Continued on Page 7) nearly two miles-long. from 29 to 240 feet in length. wind when a train was There were eleven of the latter over the bridge. The south-west storm which caused the disaster length and two of 227 feet, these

apans boing the high was the most severe for many years, wrought-iron latilee of girders-27 as was evidenced by the fact that country, serves the purpose of

feet high and 14 feet 10 inches it uprooted, not far from Dundee, bringing into fellowship and

apart which fell. The plers were onks which were known to be three A gale had co-operation all who share its

some of them of brick, but most hundred years old. .It is a self-evident truth, one ideals. In this connection, the Council has always laid stress supposes, that the intense national- consisted of hexagonal briek pede prevailed all day on Saturday, sub- on the Importance of a socialism in Europe to-day is the firestals surmounted by groups of cast- siding on Sunday morning. But it unit and centre of esprit de corps that keeps the pots of hate on the iron pillars bolted and braced to- of the community or neighbour boil. It seems no-leas-true that ether. The bridge was neither and had reached its maximum about

to the characterised by fearful squalls, to-be-abroad. hood served. This is the real thie nationalism is almost in- level or straight, but-from-tho-the time of the accident. It was

variably an attribute of nations Fife side rose gradually school of democracy. It is which have experienced revolution. high girders, and then fell rapidly driving rain before them in bind- 1 74 to the Forfar side which it Ing clouds. No accurate observa- being increasingly realised, more-It seems true that as often as not over, that social remedies have a dictatorship grows out of such approached on a curve of 20 chults tions appear to have been taken at radius. The maximum height of Dundee, but Professor Grant at to be adapted to modern condi-internal upheavals of politics as

the rails above high water was 92 Glasgow Observatory testified that tions and requirements. In can be classed as revolutions; and

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p.m., and again at 8p.m.,

but other times, social service often wo find this strange paradox: that feet, and the maximum depth of the velocity of wind there at 7.10

feet.

seventy-two miles per hour, Amacked of self-conscious bene the reformers who insist upon the

from sudden gusta occurred from time The bridge was built it necessity of internationalism áre volence and patronage:

to time, which momentarily attain- most violent of themselves the

the designs of Mr. T. Bouch, en- stimulated class severance and patriots. Out of revolution came

gineer to the North British Railway ed a velocity of ninety miles per obstructed the enormous hap-Mussolini, and the dictatorship,

(who was knighted on its comple- hour, equal to 40-lb. pressure on the piness which flows from human and that intense "ilalianism" of 10- sympathy. To-day, however, day. And that is only an example. tion), by Hopkins, Gilkes and Co., square foot, social service Involves personal contact and personal action, not We learn from II. A. L. Fisher's merely or even necessarily the "History of Europe," that he puts process of giving. Modern con- the blame for the intense hostile ditions emphasise the need and nutionalism of the past two cen- true economy of prevention of turies upon the growing passion social ills rather than their at- for freedom which has swept the nations or the world, sometimes- tempted cure. In the Ideal with shocking consequences, since State, overlapping and con- the teachings of Mazzini, Cavour, sequent waste of energy and Kossuth, Gambetta, and their like, money are avoided, with reul first reached the people. The co-operation between the State; ideals which inspired these great and the individual, so that they Liberators were undoubtedly splen- may not be separated in water-did, the love of country, the heree pride and the refusal to accept tight compartments to the detri-alien domination. Their achieve ment of both. Here in Hong-ments were tremendous. But they kong, due to a variety of peculiar created that super-sensitivo local conditions, the great bulk ont consciousness; a new sua- of social service in discharged ccptibility, suspicion and fear came by voluntary

The newly- organisations, in natural sequence. which the Government assists freed rattled their swords at the | by grants. However, infrat suspicion of an alleged symp

recent times, the authorities ton of luck of respect. have gradually assumed a larger share of the task, particularly in Anyway, the quest for freedom connection with welfare work continued on the Continent while nation-consciousness grew to night- amongst sick and needy children. mare strength. Hegel and Marx There is, moreover, a growing laid the foundations of Fasciam sense of communal responsi- and Communism, and contronted bility towards the poorer classes, by Locke and Rousseau. Which and it is significant of the en-should it be? A state for the hanced interest in this work benefit of the people; or a people that there is manifest a marked who lived only for the benefit of. desire that the problem, of the state? poverty be faced by some scheme

We commence to wonder how of co-ordinated effort. The problem is admittedly difficult much freedom is to be found in the doctrines of the revolutionary of solution, due, in the main, to leaders when we remember that the economic factors, but the social world's greatest modern dictators, conscience of the Colony is being for the most part, sprang from the awakened, and in course of time Communist fold. The Second

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it should be possible to devise a International-contained the names acheme which will result in some of Lenin (the Russian leader who, of the worst ovils of local con- many. Inslat, was more an autocrat

(Continued on Page 7) ditions being eradicated.

Every Hongkong

know how to "cook, but not judging from the appearance of some of their plates, most of them know how to stuff turkey.

0 " By the same token, some who would never set the

an easy matter

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark light, found it

"Her husband told me not to let her take the car out, but

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with the pudding.

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town

We heard a focal resident de elare that he hus seen an Inebriated turkey. We ourselves tried to carve one that ended up under the table.

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The charge that the Colonial Offico overlooks Hongkong is dented by Sir William Peel. They even tell us how much we shan't spend on the Travel Association.

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We hear of one yachting party which silled round the Island three times during Christmas. They made sure of passing the port

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Two tigera were seen on Boxing Day. We shouldn't have been #whole surprised had it been zoological garden.

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Certain local yachtsmen had a

hen-bon voyage.

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One lady we hear about got

diamond ring out of a cracker. It was, her most important Christmas engagement:"

We hear of one man who has made u New Year resolution to get married. So far we have not heard about his accond "her."

Sir William Peel told the China Association that speeches aro con- spicuous by their absence in the Hongkong Legislativo Council, But this doesn't necessarily mean that our Unolicials are dumb.