1938-06-10 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1938.

“FIRE CALL TOO LATE TO SAVE

CHILD'S LIFE"

Dramatic Statement At Inquest

Fire Brigade Says It Was Harpered By Crowd

--Hendon Witness

"No call was received before 10.30-too late to enable the brigade to save the life of the child whose body was afterwards recovered."

This emphatic statement was made recently by bri- gade witnesses at the resumed Hendon fire inquiry.

Residents had alleged that calls were made at 10.15 or 10.20. A charge that the brigade were hampered by the crowd was warmly resented by the public present.

Mr. C. M, Knowles, barrister in holding the Inquiry on behalf of the Home Office, following a petition by resklents.

A child's life was lost at a fire in Temple Gardens, Hendon and the petitioner, charge Hendon fire brigade with-

Delug

fadequate leadership and equip-

ment:

Padure to maintain water pressure.

"NO AVOIDABLE DELAY" The Town Clerk of Bendon, Mr. L. Worden, submitted that everything possible was done in very difeult circumstances.

* suggest," he said, "that in the excitement tilvial an idents have been

wed.

There may be matters of internal discipline to be dealt with but they

cffleseney did not affect the

with which the fire was fought.”

Oller points made by the Town! Clerk were.

No one had any knowledge of the fire until between 10 20 and 10.25

People who sold they made calls of 10,10 d 10.15 m frd the time wrongly.

The brigade

had a call before

10.30.

Apart from the austake in going to the wrong dress there whx to un- avoidable delay.

Even if the first engine had not Rone to the wrong address the Are had innde such headway that it would been impossible to save the

HRVE

IMPEDED BY CROWD

As to the allegation that there was no one to direct operations properly until later, the first duty was to save the child.

That, the Town Clerk stated, was direction by the impeded by mass

crowd.

Gardens, the witness replied: "We call it verifying the call."

Fireman Austm admitted that the brigade were at Arst so short-handed had to rely on civilian that they assistance.

He supposed somebody was in con- trol, but he could not be everywhere, | and each member of the brigade acted for himself,

HOSE NOT LEAKING

The Commisioner stated that the brigade had elven a demonstration | with the hose. He found that what Mrs. Wise thought to be "leaks" was merely the "weepina" usuni in a new

se

Firencin Allen stated that, by in- structions of the Chief Officer. Station Office Strapson's verifying call from Temple Grove was not entered in the occurrence book,

"I am not shielding any sy," he answered Mr. Seuffert, representing the petitioners

The inquiry was adjourned

CAR OVER BANK AT

100 M.P.H.

Fifty thousand people watching the laternationa: Night car race at Cork # ricin recently saw

car skid al over 100 m.ph, hurtle into the air, and crash through piled sandbags down a 30ft. embankment,

The driver, G. B. Wakefield, was approaching Hell Hole Corner ut more than 100 over take another, in an effort to car when lats ene skidded on an oni patch.

It crashed broglide irito piled sandbags at the side of the Lack of Water-Pressure of watert hurtled down a

a 30ft, skpv. fell, but not before the child had been

Wakefield

rld was thrown clear as the removed.

| car, but the sandbags,

suffered and The material of "Leaking Hose."

brukses, worse an uncle which the hose was

always allowed rays of water to escape until it becting saturated.

"Delay in Fixing; Nozzle" That! was beenture the water was turned on loo soon.

Superintendent's C'ar

Nat "

Zokirse!

3.

a Ponce Benbonge of Siant

at

won the mer in a British ERA 912 mph, a preard for the coolat

At times he was travelling at nearly 140 mph. Another R.A., driven by A C

Italian!

saloon" and not left in the middleton, was send, only un-firth of

of the road as suggested

The Town Clerk also stated that the bride epipment. www ample and efficient.

CALL TOO LATE

a second in from! Villem in a Maserati

THE DOUBLE-NEARLY Alter the tight rat race came the Grand Prix,

brought over

Bir nearly

Station Meer Stimpson in evi- dence, took responsibility for sending idea Maserati against it. Drey-

the engine to Temple Grove inside of Temple Gardens--Ins dat mistake in 23 years.

The electrical tening slip allowed that the roll received at 10.30

engine left at 10.31

The

fus, the French nee, in u Belahaye.

Although the Delahaye was by far the faster ear. B. Bira's cor- nering was so perfect that he hung 1972 10 Dreyfus's Gall throughout. At the end of the race he had aver-

The engine arrived at the 3re at aged 9:.00 m.p.h. against the winner's

10.30.

He agreed that the thre called for bigger team than four mm, which

arrived on the first engine.

JA CERRO Of 12.95 m.p.h.

was enormous and Harvard

The

crowd hampered operations."

This

remark

of disapproval.

was greeted with crien

"I had the worst 20 minutes of my career," the witness added, explain- ing that that was because he had not enough men at first.

Given

Museum 2,000 Sea

Life Specimens

Cambridge, Mass.

"If we had had our call at the More than 2,000 speciments of sea carlier time suggested Instead of suchte, representing about 150 separate a late call, the child would have been species, of which 30 were believed to rescued."

be Bitherto unknown to science, have Asked why when he got to Temple been added to the Harvard Muscun Grove he spent time telephoning to of Comparative Zoology, know where the fire was, athough on setting out he had been told Temple

The specimens were collected by

[UFS

Steve Dudas, New Jersey heavy weight boxer, down on his knees. In the Afth round of his bout with Max Schmeling, German fighter, in. Hansa Holl, Hamburg, Germany

Steve was floored seven times by the doughty Max, and his manager, Bill McCarney, threw the towel into the ring, stopping the Bght.

SOUTHERNERS WANT SUNDAY CINEMAS:

EMPIRE NEWS

SPECIAL EMPIRE

CABLES

Cape Town, April 21.

Many financial interests are already trying to buy portions of Table Bay, of which about 360 acres will be reclaimed under the foreshore improvement scheme announced in August last year.

The cost of the scheme, which is estimated at many millions of pounds, will in the main be borne by South African Hallways and Harbours. It is with this body, slates Mr. Adams, a Cape Town city councilior, that the financial interests are trying to do business.

The scheme provides for a now City Hall, a big modern railway station, and elaborate town planning. A part of the cost of these develop- ments will be met by sale of re- claimed landı.

C.T.C.

Bazaar-C.T.C.

Bazaars,

Ltd., with two sub-

South Africa,

companies, which have

sidiary companies, were placed under Judicial management to-day.

been

The

pro-

visionally under judicial management since March

4, had started a big building programme which they

found difcult finance.

The creditors, in applying for principal judicial management, said that they were convinced that with careful management the ompanies

would surmount their difficulties.

Railway Washaways. The rallway system of the Cape Province has been disorganised by washaways following heavy

rains. At Laingsburg

And

other places in the Karroo gangs of workmen have been busy for 38 hours restoring the line. Passenger tralus have been delayed for as much as I hours.

Australia

NORTHERNERS DON'T ENGLISHMAN

Sunday cinemas are wanted by people in South-East England, and unwanted in the Midlands and the North.

KILLED

IN CAR CRASH

Sydney.

Mr.

Martin. G. C.

If Market Drayton, Shropshire, was killed to-day

This is revealed by the latest figures on polling for and when his racing car, in which he was against Sunday cinemas.

Polling during the last five years has produced these

į aggregates:

For, 378,100; against, 278,764.

Explanations given for the cleavage; of opinion in the country are that.

Private einerna owners La then North, as nppusest to myndicates do! not as a body want Sunday upening, || and do not encourage patrons to de-j mand it.

th-t People in the South-Bost are Bluenced by London, where tinemus] have been open 134) Sundays for many years,

CONFLICTS

People in the South-East may be¦ influenced by eloseness to the Conti~| ment, and the Continental Sunday,

During the ve years' battle local authorities. cinemat in- terests, and opposing organisa. tions Interested in the preserva- tion of the Sabbath have spent teus of thousands of pounds deciding the question.

in

مم

HUMAN

MISSING

LINK

Johannesburg.

an

The right upper jaws of early man, belleved to constitute the "missing lnk" between the ape and mat, has been found by Dr. Robert Broom. F.R.S.. In the Sterkfontein Caves near Krugersdorp. Transvaal.

"We have the rather starting fact

going to Melbourne, overturned after hiting a post at Kyamba, near

South Wales.

VM, New

i

who was following in another found her husband read at the wheel half an hour later.

car,

Mr. Martin, who was 37, was the English representative of the Cunard White Star line at Melbourne. He raruc to Australia in 1927, and was well known as a racing motorlat in Australia.

Drath In Blizzard. Mr. 1. Galbraith, Lecturer in Civil Engineer- ng to the University of Melbourne, lost his fe to-day when walking in the Victorian Alps. He and a friend named Shaw. of Sheffield, England, were overtaken by 3 blizzard. Galbraith collapsed, and Shaw went for help. When he returned with a rescue party his companion was dead. New Zealand

BUDGET SURPLUS OF £800,000

Wellington.

An Indication that the surplus in

revealed," Dr. Broom said in an the national accounts of New Zealand Interview.

"that the canine is enlarged us in the chimpanze Usually the rival interests have a! Korilla, and is typically huminn. series at confiets in view

Yet less than one quarter of The country has so far decided the issue. Applications for Sunday opening under the Sunday Entertainments. Act (1032) were possible in 750 areas. They were made in only 161.

In 66 areas.

the local 2321- thorities refused the applications. and granted them In eleven

LSCR

Where the matter west to the poll, 65 areas voted in favour, and 19 against.

It is estimated that the percentage of Sunday cinema takings devoted to

about £250,000 charity is now year,

2

Of this, the London County Council area provides £100,000,

The money goes to charities, chiefly hospitals, on lists approved by the |local authorities,

The chief complaint of the cinema industry on the allocation of money is that some authorities will not in clude the Cinematographs Trade Benevolent Fund in the list of up- proved charities.

The Imperial Alliance for the Defence of Sunday will continue to resist every application that arises, either by organising op- position of supporting such op position.

Mr. Reginald T. Codd, the general

Dr. Hubert L. Clark, Associate Pro-secretary, said: "Technically people fessor of Zoology, emeritus. and are not asked at the poll to decide in Curator of Marine Invertebrates dur- favour of Sunday cinemas. They are ing ten-week scientiße cruise asked if they are lin favour of the

the tooth for

March 31 year ended

was £800,000 or amounted to about

Minister, Mr. given by the Prime Savage, addressing a meeting here. "Further, there is no gap between There had also been a reduction in the Incisor and the canine, so that

us in man."

03

suld that surpluses

but not

half 50 and health

social

the teeth form a continuous serles the public debt,

Mr. Savage were important, This diamvery follows his curler important diotenes of part of an adult skull security. The Government will and other piecės of jaw.

organise the finances and economy "We can without hesitation say that so that the people may be secure.in anthropoid ape the benefits which should be theirs," with the brain capacity of between Reuter.

here we have an

150 and 650ces. And thus definitely an ape," he said.

Ceplon

"On the other hand, Its teeth are almost typically human. The incisor, ISSUE OF REPORT ON canine, pre-molars, and first molar are hardly to be distinguished from human teeth."

FIGURE READS BOTH WAYS

IMMIGRATION

Colombo,

The

report on immigration Ceylon compiled by Sir Edward Jackson was issued here to-day.

into

He

cm-

THE DALLES, Ore-City Re-s opposed to the idea of restricting corder J. H. Steers was omazedjimmigration or of compulsary when he looked over his trial bul-ployment of more Sinhalese in certain ance for January. The result: occupations. $377,337.73. The figure of and 3's" reads the same either end.

DOCTOR TELLS J.P.s

***"

Sir Edward Jackson was Attorney- from General in Ceylon from 1020 to 1930.

--Reuter.

killing kindness'

'Mother is child by

Calstor (Lines),

Mrs. Rebecca Burman, mother of an eleven-year-old boy, was

28 YEAR-OLD through 2,000 miles of tropical sena local authority having power to per- said at Caitor recently to be "killing her child by kindness."

BODY STILL UNCLAIMED

Marianna, Arkansas

Thomas

Twenty-eight years ngo

Moon, a young man working with a raliroad crow, died here of mal- arial fever. His body sill remains unburied and unclaimed at a funeral

on the west coasts of Mexico Central mit them.

America, and South Amerlen.

gh.

." LIMIT EXPENSES"

eaten by

two to one.

"TOOTHPICK URCHIN'

at

•

Professor Clark dredged primarily

Local magistrates committed her] Inspector A. T. Parsons, of the for echinoderms, a prickly-skinned

for trial accused of neglecting her N.S.P.C.C., said: "One morning when group comprising one of the lesser to organise before the poll. The to be taken from her.

"In Whitley Bay we had len days son, but declined to allow the boy I tried to persuade the boy to get up,

he would not do so. He could count, branches of the animal kingdon cinema trade spent £2,000 on

the They help keep the ocean clean, form campaign, we spent £70, and won by the child almost permanently in bed not get pust the letter C."

It was alleged that she had kept up to len, but in the alphabet he could limestone rocks, and are

for foar munths.

When Mrs. Burman was bound over Mr. H. A. Howden, prosecuting for the N.S.P.C.C., said there was no to come up for trial at the Quarter suggestion of criminal neglect, but Sessions on July 1 Mr. Howden the fact that the boy had been kept applied to have the boy removed. almost permanently, without ventila-nothing is done," he said, "the child llon had had results of the most plti- may die. ablo kind. Hond not attended Asked by a member of the Bench: school for five years.

"Do you believe that this lady is kill

Dr. Dr. G. W. H. Townsend, deputy Ing her child by indness?" county medical officer, said the child Townsend replied; "I do, I think had no organic disease. The mother she has mistaken Idons." told him she did, not encourage him

"Expenses should be limited by law as in Parlamentary elections." One of the oddest of the small creatures collected by Professor Clark the poll at the following places: Sanday opening was defeated was a "toothpick urchin". It has a small, hemisphereal, reddish body landford which is studded with slender spines Bournemouth one to two

Braintree two inches long, The body is in a pine box and is

A large

collection of hellasters, or Chipping Norton embalmed, Thousands of persons "un stars" with thirty to forly ams, Chislehurst have viewed it during the interven- resembling ancient drawings of the East Barnet

Eoning sun, are also on exhibition, "They are black with numerous yellow or red Little Thurrock

home.

ing years since he died..

Mansfeld

Oldham

Rochdale

Ross-on-Wyo Rugby

Surbiton Tunbridge Wells

Wallasey

Wanstead

Whitley Bay One of the queer finda is a small, Wimbledon first rejected the pro- reddish-purple four-armed stor, of posol at the poll, but later reversed which four examples were found. the verdict,

"No one knew where he lived and dish, low, blunt tubercles. We still hope some day a relative will Identify him," and Undertaker Blily Willmmmz.-United Preas..

**If

"The Bench decided to refuse the to play because he got too tired. application, but they obtained an Dr. Townsend added that the boy's assurance from the mother that if two condition in his opinion was due to doctors said it was necessary bad feeding and lack of sunshine and

fresh air.

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