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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER

BOATS IN STREETS TO. RESCUE

DURING

CHILDREN

HUGE SEAS SWEEP

22,

1937.

80

M. P. H.

GALE

SOVIET

AIRSHIP SETS WORLD RECORD

COAST ROADS UP A

Trains And Trams Stop: "Air 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 a torren

places and

tial downpour. Many

their first rainfall for weeks.

Lower parts of old Portsmouth

were flooded.

up Broad- The do swept street and entered some of the houses, which had to be reached by boats, Children were carried across the roadway by men in waders and householders were forced to balo out water from lower rooms,

At the other end of the city tidal harbour flooded waters from the adjacent land at Hilsea and escaped into a moat below the corporation's Lido.

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Disturbed rnts could be swimming for their lives in dozens. Only two inches of banking stood the Dockyard between houses of

and the Colony at Portsbridge raging waters.

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

OVER PROMENADE The sea broke over the promenade on Southsea front and poured into the Canoe Lake Gardens,

Lashed by a strong wind, a high tide at Cowes, 1ste of Wight, swept on to the parade, causing serious flooding in some of the low-lying districts of the town.

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Taxi Dash. To Liner, Then-

THE gule also stopped two

passengers from boarding aner at Dover yesterday,

They are Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Smith, of Edinburgh, When they missed the Strathnaver at Tilbury they made a cross. country dash by taxi to Dover. When they arrived it was zo rough that they decided to stop the night at Dover and proceed to Marseilles to-day.

tops of houses.

road.

The Romney by-pass in Hampshire was blocked by 75f1, of a huge sye- more tree which crashed into tre It fell on a St. John Ambulance first aid station. Two ambulance at- tendants and a four-years-old girl were hurt.

Tremendous AVAVCs reaching a height of 30ft. have swept the pro- Dyinchurch. Hundreds of tons of menade from Hythe to Sandgate and shingle were thrown across the road, in many places a distance of 50 yards from the sex front.

BARRICADES

At the the corporation chiled out the unemployed to clear the Many parts of High-street were shingle away to allow traffic to paES. Many people living on the sea front Impassable, and as the water was over a foot deep, business was prac-barricaded their windows and base- tically at D standstiil for several ments before high tide. hours.

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

The sea washed over many of the quays and wharves in the harbour, and the newly con- structed breakwater was sub- merged. Women using the floating bridge "between East and West Cowes were carried out of the flooded areas in vehicles or on the back of volunteers, Owing to fierce winds blowing overhead cables together and put- ting fuses out of action, the electric current failed for three hours at Freshwater. Tolland Bay, and Yar- mouth, Isle of Wight. Newport was also partly affected.

SLEEPERS ADRIFT Tram services on Ryde pier were suspended us huge waves broke up through the permanent way.

Sleepers were washed adrift in

a flooded railway tunnel under the esplanade,

Was

When the ildo

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

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

For some time traffic was at

the front at Dyn- stand-stil! on church owing to the force of the waves which the gale was sweeping over the sea wall and across the roud.

A goods engine left the rails near Bognor Station and delayed traffic.

Rain water which flooded a cable caused Selsey to be cut off from tele- phone communication all day.

One kotel created barricades to stop water rushing in the front entrance.

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 fights, and the setting up of new world long-distance, altitude and speed records.

U.S.S.R. VO took off from Moscow 11 on Sept. 29 and surpassed by hours the record established in 1935 by the Graf Zeppelin.

NEW FREIGHT LINE Unfavourable weather, rain and fog, was encountered during most of the 514-day flight.

U.S.S.R. VO, 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 Souls- ampton, at Romsey, Hants, recently:-

"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 tailor, soldier, sailor."

"She says, Ilghbrow. low- brów, middlebrow, oat.' She

an

likes the idea of marrying oaf, because she thinks he can do what the likes with him."

The bishop, sixty-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 line, covering a distance of 1,000 miles between Moscow and to 400 people at a hospital bazaar at Sverdlovsk, the former Ekaterinburg, Kenton, Middlesex. in the Urals,

This line will have the only woman dirigible commander in the world.

While the Soviet Union is establish ing records and rapidly developing elvil aviation, a Government order published to-day indicates that the authorities are now extending the cleaning campaign into this field of activity.

"I was once at a dinner at which the present Duke of Windsor was proposing my health. The Duke saldi, 'Now let's sing "For he's D folly good fellow" and, I left the dinner with the praises of princes ringing in my ears.

"I felt very happy as I went along to a political meeting and I thought I was in for a very pleasant night,

The order announces the removal but when I stepped on to the plat- from their posts in Central Asia and form I was greeted by n voice shout- Siberia of 10 pilots and 12 aviation Ing, "The dirty dog has arrived" engineers and technicians on churges of attempting to disorganise discipline

und aviation workers among maliciously planning plane crashes.

of

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

JOCKEY FALLS.

BREAKS LEG,

LOSES £5,000

LONDON, OCT. 28.

BANKRUPTCIES

IN ENGLAND AND WALES

Lowest Since 1921

The number of bankruptcies in England and Wales last year was the lowest since 1921—4.847, or 311 fewer than in 1935.

Estimated liabilities-£7,493,853, a reduction of £3,482,249-were less

than halt those recorded in many

of the preceding 18 years.

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

IT IS EXACTLY FOUR MONTHS SINCE THE NAME "1. SIRETT"makers, and 20 drapers and haber-

Hall and sicet tell in London, driving.homeward crowds to shelter. Wind tore the slates off the roofs of houses at Beeston, Nottingham. blow. down fences, overturned

On June 24, Jack Streit was riding Lord Hirst's horse, Diumint, in the greenhouse, and blew the glass out Ditchling Selling Plate at Brighton. af an aviary, allowing the birds 10 escape.

WENT UP ON THE NUMBER BOARD OF A RACECOURSE..

And that four months "holiday" has cost Jack Sirett, the famous jockey, about £5,000.

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When at its worst it lifted a wooden The cable and telephone service to

down.shed containing a lady's bleycle out Guernsey and Jersey broke It was six hours before it was res-bt the garden and dropped it into the

broke Giant waves

over next garden. tored.

A woman Splash Point, Worthing. walking along the front was blown over and hurt.

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MYSTERY DOCUMENTS FOUND ON TRAIN Told Of Italians Fighting In Spain

Two furlongs from the stands, the saddic 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 Sireti won't be able to ride in a race agale until next season. Last season he had 730 mounts. This season 300. The difference, caused by the accident, has cast Sirett £2,000 in fees alone. Add retainer and presents from owners and the jockey's losses come to about £5,000.

"HOLIDAY AT HOME"

to Epsom as my apprentice.'.

Jack Strelt 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

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

iton recently.

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

The book, which had been left be- hind by a passenger, was landed to

the stationmaster.

Inside were documents which ap- peared to be of a highly confidential nature, relating to the operations of the Italians fighting on the side of the Brebels.

He was born in Malda Vale, London.

At fifteen he was a page in a

London hotel, with neither desire nor thought of becoming a jockey.

Yet he has developed into one of or leading jockeys, which means more than just being able to ride

horse. a

"One day at the hotel," he said, "Mr.

Dan Morgan, the Epsom Reproductions were given of what 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.

B

After examining the documents, relief of ho suggested that instead of being chafing, handed over to the railway lost pro dressing forperty department, the book should

Akim be sent to the Foreign Ofice. Irritations.

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Missouri Cotton Good

Columbia, Mo.

Masouri ranks above all cotton producing states of the South in the Average yield per acre of this crop, Obtainable at all dispensaries according to a joint survey made by

Sole Agents:

the University of Missouri and the Shewan Tomos & Co.ited States Department of Agri-

culture.

dashers.

Among men, most fallures-511- were in the building trade,

Silk Topper Pride Of Town

Butte, Mont.

A tall silk hat of ancient vintage, priceless in the estimation of many of Butte's carly-day residents ue- cause it was worn by the late "Fat Jones, the Mining City'B Jack" nationally famed hack driver of a generation aga, has been presented back to the same hotel as a page."

Shortly after, Dan Morgon started to the Butte Pioneer club for safe- training again. Strelt went back to keeping. horses, and stayed.

"I went. Six months later, when Mr. Morgan gave up training, I went

ENTER THE BOSS!,

Six years ago Jack Sirett married, bullt n house, and sellled down to his one delight-home life.

To-day. four-year-old Jack, his son and heir, rules the house that Jack balli.

Illinois Birth Rate Down

Springfield, 11 The Illinois birth rate fell more He is the real boss of the house, than 25 per cent, during the 12-year Gald his father. And young Jack himself answered my question about period from 1925 to 1936 while the death rate remained approximately the boy's future.

dis- Bre stationary. These facts He was having his cont put on. "Why should I have my picture closed in a new bulletin taken?" he was saying "I'm not statistics in Illinois issued by the

state health department. going to be a jockey!"

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