1936-05-20 — Page 19

THE --HONGKONG TELEGRAPH..

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1936.

"CALLOUSNESS" AT GRESFORD COLLIERY PIT

Sir Stafford

Cripps'

Grave Charges

"THE management were abso-serious breaches of the regulations lutely callous about breaches were made and the management wero

absolutely callous about It. of the regulations," said Sir Staf- "Perhaps the most aerlous aspect ford Cripps, K.C., M.P., at a roof this present inquiry has been the cent hearing in London of the demonstration of the complete failure of the Inspectorate to carry out their job properly with regard to the Gresford plt during the year,

Gresford Colliery disaster inquiry. Sir Stafford, who represents the North Wales Miners' As sociation, contended that on the management's own case there was sufficient evidence to de- monstrate that the ventilation of the plt was highly un- satisfactory.

I

Regarding shot firing, Sir Stafford said that a "regular barrage" was going on in districts 20 and 14, and It was clear that the firemen could not conceivably have done their safety work properly. There was, he main

the tained, a complete disregard of safety regulations,

EXAMINATIONS FOR CAS Later Sir Stafford remarked: "Mr. Insell (the manager) always wanted I hand the baby on to Romebaily else."

never,

clear

or

Sir Stafford said it was

that examina from the evidence tions for Kak were Acarcely ever, made in any parts of the pits where there was real pressure for production. "I submit," he declared, "that in this pressure fur production

very

Innt two

I was true that during the holling of the office of sub-inspector by Mr. Shaw genuine attempts were made to visit the pit and to get some notion taken.

Mr. Shaw had one of the firemen Rent out of the pit because of the dangerous way he was shot-ring.. That Breman found hin way back almost immediately after Mr. Shaw left North Wales.

"Since Mr. Shaw left, inspection, so far as Greaford was concerned, has been a complete and absolute farec,"

nit Sir Stafford.

"Mr. Dominy, who was supposed to be sub-inspector, has given evidence a complete and 1 submit it showa

myglect of his duties when he was in charge of this district.

Because of rumours that overtime was being worked, the Secretary for Mines had ordered an investigation in the area by a staff of intelligent, im- pantial people who, it was thought, should go down and ferret out the truth.

On the strength of the report made) to him, the Minister for Mines madei a statement in the House of Commons - statement which was relied upon!

"Iby the people of this country.

ADMIRAL SAYS

SHALL BE DEAD IN NINE YEARS"

WHEN Admiral Sir Reginak

Bacon presented nine-years' service medals to special constables at a recent sitting of the Romsey (Hampshire) County Bench, ho said that he hoped they would re- ceive,

another nine years Ente, bara for their medals from saineone clac.

The clerk of the mingistrates, Mr. Montague Chandler, asked why he thought there would be her Chairman of the Bench next time.

"The reason is very simple," re- plled Sir Reginald.. It is because

"As a result of thin explosion it has been found that that statement was

entirely false su far as Greaford was "But what about all the other mines? Is it equally falar 7

concerned," declared Sir Stafford.

"It is a matter of the most grave public concern that confidence in the Ministry of Mines should be nsnlutely shattered, as it must be under circumstances such as these. "It does not seems to me to be a question of lending the blame on the I manageme

on the

alternatively and Sje "It seems to be perfectly clear blame. that both are equally

They both had the responsibility nast both failed to discharge it as regards the safely regulations."

ດ

Wherever the blame rested, it was vital that the discoveries which had been made should result is an inquiry

I shall be dead. If that were putte the whole question of safety regu. AO, should have the greatest plea-ations in mines.

sure in distributing the bars for (The Gresford disaster occurred in the medals to these worthy men." September, 1934, and 285 miners lost

Sir Reginld Bacon is 78.

their lives.]

HOME AFTER WORLD TOUR

Mr. George Bernard Shaw, the famous author, is seen arriving at South- ampton after his world cruise.

A

ELEPHANT'S SUICIDE

SOUGHT DEATH AFTER REVENGE ON MAN?

Licked Arsenic Drums

'Plane

With

ONE WON: OTHER HANCED

ALP

Both Mrs. Dorathen Wadding- ton, Top, mother of four child- ren and Mrs. Ellen Barding, als mather of four children, were sentenced by British judges death for murder. Mrs. Wad- nurse, wns found dington, a guilty of murdering an Inmate of nursing home; Mrs. Harding, of the murder of her six-months- old child. Both appealed, and, for the first time in British jur. isprudence, it is believed, a con- demned woman won an appeal when judges reversed the convie- Lion in Mr. Harding's ease. Mrs. Waddington's appeal failed -even an appeal for elementy to the home secretary, Sir John Simon, and she was hanged,

NEW CAP FASHIONS FOR THE NAVY

But They Will Look Just the Same

THE

HE Admiralty, having sud- denly discovered that the naval officers' caps are quite out of mode, have issued an order to bring them into fashion again. In the uniform regulations just issued with the Fleet Orders altera- tions have been made in the shape and styla of the caps..

Instead of being slightly oval, as. formerly, with the diameter from front to back in. longer than that from side to side, the caps will now be exactly circular. The peaks will no longer be 12in. deep but 2in. deep in the middle. The grommet which stiffens the crown of the caps-used to be made of cane. Now it is to be made of whalebone. CHANGES INVISIBLE

The diameter of the caps

will range, on a proper sliding scale, from 9 18-16in. for size 6%, to

11 5-16 for size 734.

BULL elephant which is presumed to have committed suicide by taking sodium arsenite, after having reness, will be precisely, nothing to venged itself on man for terrible sufferings has been found Lumpur.

The elephant smashed open a small locked store about 200 yards from where it fell dead, and licked the aides and bottom of eight empty drums which had been left in the store made specially for storing this poison. A sample of blood taken from one of the feet was sent, to the Institute for Medical Research and the chemist re- ported that the arsenic found gave a reasonable presump- dead in the Sungei Lallang Forest Reserve, near tion of arsenical poisoning.

WATSON'S

Kuala

The result of the new fastidious- the naked eye. The new caps will look exactly the same as the old.

The fashion in naval caps was set many years ago, and crystal. lised for all time in a sealed pattern", a regulation sample, kept in a room in the Admiralty devoted to that purpose alone. Naval outfitters have long ago abandoned making the exact regula- tions cap, and have been selling caps which are 'the shape at last ratified by the new orders. - -

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PIERCING THE

STRATOSPHERE

BRITAIN will probably attempt this year to be the first

country to send a heavier-than-air craft into the stra- tosphere.

For this purpose a monoplane is now being built for the Air Ministry at Filton Airdrome, Bristol.

Within 100 yards of it 3,000 workmen are building airplane engines at top speed.

Scarcely any of them have even seen the mystery monoplane. The monoplane has an engine of entirely now type, which it is hoped will carry it high er than any airplane has ever flown.

The altitude record it has to beat is 47,386 feet, set up in 1934 by the Itálian fler Donati.

At 50,000 feet the stratosphere itself begins. The Air Ministry hope that the new monoplane will get somewhere near 60,000 feet.

Somewhere above that height are airless regions, where. experta say hermetically seated air liners could do fantastic speeds.

Death of the Diplomat Who "Started" the Great War

Salzburg (Austria), May 8.

BARON VLADIMIR-GIESL, Austro-Hungarian Minister to

Serbia in 1914 has died at Salzburg at the age of 76.

He transmitted the Austrian ultimatum to the Serbian Government in July, 1914, which precipitated the world war.- United Press.

No Copy Of Famous Film In Existence

Masterpieces That Have

Been Destroyed

The new Museum of Film Art in New York is looking for al copy of "The Covered Waggon."

Here is a film that told and, in a film sense made, history. It is to the cinema what "Rob Roy" or "The Three Musketeers" is to fiction.

In his memories published in 1927, Haron Gles told the dramatic story of the days when the issue of peace ar war was in the balance. News of the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo-the Franz political crime that precipitated the crisis-reached the Baron when he was on leave in Paris.

lle hurried back to Belgrade and on July 10 had a "frank and con- | ciliatory" interview with M. Hart-

wig, the Russian Minister to Serbia.

"ONE THING MORE "

They discussed the demands that Austria could legitimately make on Serbia. M, Hartwig seemed satisfied,

Thank you," he said to Boron Geisl "you have relieved my mind of a great anxiety. And now in all confidence, one thing more

That thing was

was never auid. M. Hartwig collapsed on a sofa and died. from heart failure.

WH5

belief

The

Russian Ambassador then regarded as "the real ruler Imagine the surprise of the New of Serbia." The choice of peace or York Museum of Film Art on learn-war was in his hands. He had a Army ing that, so far as is known, not one poor opinion of the Serbian copy of "The Covered Waggon" and did not think Russia was rendy exists.

war. The popular masterpiece that for

Baron Gies declared his caused a sensation, that enthralled millions all over the world, that has that had M. Hartwig lived he would power still to produce a reminiscent have persuaded Serbia to accept the glow in every genuine picture lover's terms of the Austrian ultimatum- breast, has vanished utterly; every and there would have been no war. copy has been burned to avoid copy-

When war broke out the

Baron right infringement after ten years, returned to Austria and the Emperor or for the sake of the chemicals in the Franz Josef said to him: "There was celluloid.

nothing else for you to that responsibility must bear."

The Baron then retired from all ] diplomatte duties, and joined the Austrian general headquarters staff. the Austrian armies. He served throughout the war with

Now I think that is aad, and rather ecandalous (writes the film corres pondent of the Daily Telegraph.) All Bibliophiles have been collecting books over the world libraries and privata and manuscripts for centuries.

The cinema, on the other hand, has just been celebrating is 40th an- niversary, and it has only just been realised that some at least among fts works are worth saving for posterity.

The Life Of A Picture

When the social historian of the year 2,500 wants to know how neo- Georgian man looked and ate, worked and played, his first storehouse will

do. Even

Making Science More Popular

London, May 12.

The preliminary programme of

in

September, shows the discussions will deal mainly with scientific matters as they affect the man in the street. Sir Josiah Stamp will take as In the ordinary way cellulold the subject of his presidential perishes in 15 or 20 years. Captain John G. Bradley, the expert in charge address "The Impact of Science of the film archives at Washington on Society," America was the first country to Almost all the sectional pro- recognise the rise of a new art worth preserving has evolved a process grammes reveal the association's whereby the life of a picture can be desire to satisfy "the public de- lengthened, it is hoped, by 50 or 100 mand for a more systematic years, and finally, by duplication, presentation of selected subjects maintained indefinitely.

Assuming that this can be done, of scientific investigation in how recklessly wasteful, how ap- their bearing on the life of the pallingly unimaginative, it is that we community." The addresses and should be allowing the destruction of papers will include: works that may one day be sought

be the screen. In the work of men the British Association meeting like Lubitsch and Korda, Capra and at Blackpool Clair, he will find suitable companion plecos to the satirical studies of dramatists like Shaw, Maugham, and George S. Kaufmann,

as eagerly as Italian Primitives are

now.

are

·

A start has been made by the Film Institute Library, but the work of noarching out and acquiring old printable.

requires more resources than

Would it not be a graceful gesture if leading film producers, distributors, and exhibitors proved that they took their business seriously by aiding this collection, either by gifta of money prints?

or

Alternatively, it might be mado compulsory to deponit a copy of every new film just as it is now com- pulsory to deposit a copy of a.now book at the British Museum,

Sad, Irreparable damage has al- ready been done. Prompt action le Demential if many of the greatest vanish utterly from the earth.

Abyssinia;

The Training of the Ohemist for the Service of the Community; Mapping of the Colonial Em-

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Localisation of Industry; Tho Engineer and the Nation: Engineering Problems of Mass Amusement;

blems;

Research and Traffic Pro-

The Practical Value of Anthro- pology;

Climate and Health;

The Uses of Fungi; Botany and Gardening: Social and Cultural Values Scienco

of

Soll Selence in the 20th Century; National Nutrition and British Agriculture; and

Scientific Problems of the Poultry Industry.

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