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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1937.

TO RESCUE

STREETS

DURING

80 M. P. H.

GALE

SOVIET

AIRSHIP SETS

HUGE SEAS SWEEP

COAST

Trains

And

"Air

ROADS

Trams Stop:

Raid" Cancelled

London, Oct. 24.

Early to-day an 80 m.p.h. gale was roaring over the South of England. It had raged all yesterday, leaving a trail of flooded homes, broken telephone cables, electricity "black-outs" and wreckage in its wake,

The mimic air raid planned to take place at Brighton last night had to be abandoned because of the gale. Seas were so heavy that the night steamer from Boulogne to Folkestone was diverted to Dover.

It was accompanied by u torren-

tial downpour. Many places hadcl their first rainfall for weeks.

Lower parts of old Portsmouth were flooded,

The fi mwept up road- street and entered some of the houses, which had to be reached by boats. Children were entried across the roadway by nses In waders and householders were forced to bale out water from lower rooms.

At the other end of the city tidni waters from the harbour flooded adjacent land at Hilsen and escaped into a moat below the corpamtion's Lido.

Disturbed rais could

be seen awimming for their lives in dozens Only two inches of banking stood between houses of the Dockyard Colony at Jortsbridge raging waters.

the

There were exceptionally high teas at Spithead, but in the Solent and the steamer service to the Isic of Wight was maintained.

OVER PROMENADE

The sen broke over the promenade on Southsen front and poured into the Canoe Lake Gardens,

Lashed by a strong wind, a high tle at Cowes, Isle of Wight, swept on to the parade, causing serious flooding in some of the low-lying districts of the town.

Taxi Dash To Liner, Then-

THE

E ale niso stopped wo passengers from boarding auer at Dover yesterday,

They are Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Stalh, of Edinburgh, When they missed the Strathmaver

Tilbury they made a cross- country dash by taxi to Dover.

When they arrived It was FO rough that they decided to stop the night at Dover and proceed to Marselles to-day.

tops of houses.

The Romney by-pass in Hampshire was blocked by 75ft, of a huge syça- crashed into the more tree which rond,

I tell on a St. first old station. tendants and a were hurt,

Jolin Ambulance Two ambulance at- four-years-old giri

waves

П

Tremendous

reseblog height of 30ft, have swept the pro- menade from Hythe to Sandgate and

Hundreds allons of Dymchurch. shingle were thrown Ncross the ront, in many places a distance of 50 yards from the sea front.

BARRICADES

At Hythe the corporation called out the unemployed to clear the Many paris of High-street were shingle away to allow traffle to pass.

water was as the

Many people Hving on the sea front Impassable, and ovor a foot deep, business was proc-barricaded their windows and base- tienily at stands for several ments before high tide.

Lido was at its When the hours.

height a bus-load of passengers travelling to Hythe had a narrow escape at Sandgate,

It was impossible to enter some of the hotels facing the sen. At one point the water was deep enough to float-a-rowing-boat.

The sea washed over many of the the quays and wharves in

the newly con- harbour, and structed breakwater was sub- merged.

A big wave carried a barrel which had been floating in the sen, and al- though part of the wave washed over the bus, the barrel missed thic driver's cabin by inches.

For some time trame was at 4 floating bridge stond-still on the front at Dym- Women using the

the force of the between East and West Cowes were church owing to carried cut of the flooded areas in waves which the gule was tweeping vehicles or on the back of volunteers. over the sen wall and across the road. Owing to flerce winds blowing A goods engine left the nails near overhead cables together and put-Bognor Station and delayed traffic. Rain water which flooded a cable ling fures out of action, the electric

current falled for three hours at caused Selsey to be cut off from tele- Freshwater, Totland Bay, und Yar-phone communication all day. mouth, Isle of Wight. Newport was also partly affected.

SLEEPERS ADRIFT Tram services on Ryde pler were suspended as 'huge waves broke up through the permanent way.

Sleepers were washed odrift in

a flooded rallway tunnel under the esplanade.

One hotel erected barricades to

stop water rushing in the front entrance.

UP A WORLD RECORD

The Chinese soldier's courage and fearlessness of death has been widely commented upon in their resistance to the Japanese. Among the Chinese troops soldiers of this type are those who show a contempt for guns and only use hand grenades.

1,000-Mile Regular

Freight Service Starts Next Year

Moscow.

Soviet Russia recently established a new world endur- ance record for dirigibles when the airship U.S.S.R. V 6 landed at Moscow after completing a 130-hour flight with- out refuelling.

This is the culmination of an exceptional year of Soviet aviation achievements, which include the organisa- tion of a North Pole observation station, Transpolar flights, and the setting up of new world long-distance, altitude and speed records.

U.S.S.n. V took off from Moscow on Sept. 20 and surpassed by 11 hours the record established in 1935 by the Graf Zeppelin.

NEW FREIGHT LINE Unfavourable weather, rain and Tog, was encountered during most of the 5-day fight.

́U.S.S.R. VI, with a fleet of sister

Modern Girl ships, is scheduled next year to serve

'Likes To Wed An Oaf'

How the modern girl chooses A husband-by the Right Rev. A. B. L. Karney. Bishop of South- ampton, at Romsey, Hanis, recentlyma

"When the modern young lady counts the cherry stones on her plate to see whom she is going to marry she does not go through the old formula of Tinker tollor, soldier, sailor.'

* Illghbrow, *She says,

low- brow, middlebrow, oaf,' She Ikes the idea of marrying an Daf, because she thinks he can do what the ilkes with him."

The shop, sixiy-two years Box- old, won the name "The ing Padre" when he was chaplain in San Francisco.

Mr. J. H.

Thomas Remembers

Mr. J. H. Thomas told this story

the first Soviet passenger freight dirigible inc, covering a distance of 1,000 miles between Moscow and to 400 people at a hospital bazaar al Sverdlovsk, the former Ekaterinburg. Kenton, Middlesex, in the Urals,

"I was once at a dinner at which This line will have the only woman the present Duke of Windsor was Duke dirigible comander in the world.

proposing my health. The

'Now let's sing "For be's a said, While the Soviet Union is establish folly good fellow" and I left the

ing records and rapidly developing civil aviation, a Government order dinner with the praises of princes

that the ringing in my ears. published to-day indicates nuthorities are now extending the

"I felt very happy as I went along cleaning campaign into this field of to a political mecting and I thought

nctivity.

I was in for a very pleasant night,

The order announces the removal but when I stepped on to the plat-

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of

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It is not stated whether further action will be taken against the men, although it is expected they will be placed on irtal.

JOCKEY FALLS,

BREAKS LEG,

LOSES £5,000

LONDON, OCT. 28.

Hall and sleet fell in London.TIS EXACTLY FOUR MONTHS SINCE THE NAME "J. SIRETT" driving homeward crowds to shelter.

WENT UP ON THE NUMBER BOARD OF A RACECOURSE. Wind tore the slates of the roofs And that four months "hallday" has cost Jack Sirett, the famous jockey, of houses at Beeston, Noltingham, about £5,000. blew down fences, overlurned a

On June 24, Jack Strett was riding Lord Hirst's horse, Diomint, in the greentouse, and blew the glass out Ditchling Selling Plate at Brighton. of au aviary, allowing the birds to escape.

When at its worst it lifted a wooden The cable and telephone service to Guernsey and Jersey broke down. shed containing a lady's bleycle out It was six hours before it was res-fot the garden and dropped it into the

next garden. tored. Glant waves broke over A woman Splosh Point, Worthing. walking along the front was blown over and hurt.

At Shoreham spray flew over the

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MYSTERY DOCUMENTS FOUND ON TRAIN Told Of Italians Fighting In Spain

Two furlongs from the stands, the saddle slipped. Strett went with it, and as he fell the horse's hind hoof struck his left leg and broke it in four places.

Jack Sirett won't be able to ride in a race spain aniil next season. Last season he had 750 mounts. This season 300. The difference, Add retainer caused by the accident, has cost Sirett £2,000 in fees alone. and presents from owners and the jockey's losses come to about £5,000,

to Epsom as my apprentice. "HOLIDAY AT HOME"

"I went. Six months later, when Mr. Morgan gave up training, I went back to the same hotel as a page."

Shortly after, Dan Morgan started training again. Sirelt went back to horses, and stayed.

Jack Sirelt has made the best of

his enforced holiday.

Since he came out of hospital he has had a long spell in the place he likes more than anywhere in the

Jack Sirett's story is one of the strangest in racing.

Mystery documents referring to world..... home. the Italian troops in Spain were dis. covered in a book which was found in a train at a London railway sta- tion recently.

He wns born in Maida Vale, London.

Al teen he was a page in a

The book, which had been left be hind by a passenger, was landed to London hotel, with neither desire

the stationmaster.

hor thought of becoming a jockey.

Yes ho has developed into one of our leading Jockeys, which means more than Just being able to ride

a horse.

Inside were documents which ap- peared

ared to be of a highly confidential nature,

relating to the operations of the Italians fighting on the side of the rebels.

"One day at the hotel," he said. Dan Morgan, the Epsom Reproductions were given of what "Mr. purported to be divisional instruc- trainer, sald to me: 'You're the right build for a jockey. Come down tions issued to them.

The stationmaster called in Metropolitan Police detective.

After examining the documents, rellef of The suggested thai instead of being chafing, bonded over to the railway lost pro- dressing for perty department, the bock should

be sent to the Foreign Offee,"

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Future

ENTER THE BOSS!

Six years ago Jack Sirett married, bull house, and settled down to his one delight-home life.

To-day, four-year-old Jack, bls won and heir, rules the house that) Jack built.

BANKRUPTCIES

IN ENGLAND AND WALES

Lowest Since 1921

The number of bankruptcies in England and Wales last year was the lowest since 1D21-4,847, or fewer than in 1035,

311

Estimated abilities-£7,493,053, » reduction of £8,482,240-wore less than half those recorded in many of the preceding 10 years,

There were 414 failures of women, of whom 88 were milliners and dress-

angers, and 20 drapers and haber-

Among men, most failures--511- were in the building trade.

Silk Topper Pride Of Town

Butte, Mont. A tall silk hat of anclent vintage, priceless in the estimation of many of Butte's carly-day realdents be cause was worn by the Inte "Fat City's Jack" Jones, the Mining nationally fumed hack driver of a generallón ago, has been presented to the Butte Pioneer club for safe- keeping.

Illinois Birth Rate Down

Springfield, 111. The Illinois birth rate fell more "He is the real boss of the house," said his father. And young Jack than 25 per cent, during the 12-year himself answered my question about Perled from 1925 to 1930 while the death rate remained approximately the boy's future.

Zacts arc તાપુ- stationary. These closed in a new bulletin on vital statisucs in Illinois issued by the state health department.

He was having his cont put on. "Why should. I have my picture taken?" he was saying. "I'm not going to be a Jockey!"

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