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TUESDAY, JULY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

Police Lose Hope

For Missing Girl

FAULTY

BEFORE CRASH

SIGNALS

Coroner On Questions of Negligence"

-Underground Driver's Evidence

"There do arise questions of negligence which may be very serious," Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the Westminster coroner, told the jury recently at the inquest on the six victims of the Underground smash at Charing Cross on May 17.

An Inner Circle train ran into the back of a Barking- bound train, and Mr. Oddie told the jury that the accident was due in the first place to a wrong connection in wiring a signal circuit. The man who did the work should have known it was wrong, he said.

EMPIRE NEWS

BOMBAY PRISONS

OVERFLOWING

Bombay.

Bombay's prisons are overflowing following the recrudescence of com- munal unrest. The city had begun to belleve that the trouble between Moslems and Hindus was subsiding, but stabbings, which have been feature of the disorders, are now on

the Increase.

Two thousand persons have been the huge tenement arrested, and

buildings in the Worli district, which

are unoccupied because the mill- workers say they are too far from the factorles, are being used as over- night poltee patrols was introduced to-day.

The supervisor should have tested the work; he did low prisons. A special system of not, said Mr. Oddie.

On the driver of an earlier train noticing something wrong with the signals, a message was sent back from Temple Station "by a rather inexperienced porter who was told to do it by the station foreman--a man whom the jury might feel ought to have telephoned himself.”

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porter

That?

I suppose you forgot?---No, I did not think of 11.

The message

You might to have was so transmitted that at first Charing Crons would not realize that now. understand what the young Incant, declared Mr. Öddin enused delay.

Eventually,

Air Mali Complaints-Business men here are complaining of the Hombay. There is one on Saturday spacing of the air mail deliveries in afternoons, one on Monday morning,

and one in the afternoon, and one on Wednesdays. In practice this means three deliveries on Mondays aurt our on Wednesdays.

Bow

Orissa Governorship.—It is believed that nu serious trouble will Mr. Humphreys (who represented follow the appointment of Mr. J. R.

Commissioner What would you Dan, Eels and Beer):

Revenac

of

Mr. Oddie. "OfBetals rushed to stop the trains and inform the controller at Eart'sy of Fels?-He was certainty one Delasa, to act as Governor of Orissa Court just too late- minute or two of the most reliable workmen there, during the absence on leave of Str In reply to the Coroner he said that Ju Hubbuck The appointment, tou Inte."

he realised now that the work Feta over the heads of Ministers to whom subordinate, led to a was doing involved the safety of the Mr. Dain is

Thr notter Frans traits.

storm of bech discu between the Viceroy, "Had I realised it then," he said, the Marquess of Linlithgow, und Mr. "It would have

Gandhi, and it is believed that the minutes to fest.

principle has been established that sight."

in future acting governorships shall be given to offelots outside the pro- The appointment vine concerned. of Mr. Dain will be accepted as an "exception to prove the rule."

DRIVER "DID HIS BEST" Mr. Oddie explained to the jury

could that a tenin

leave Charing Cross only when there was a greeu

It was train slop arin signal, because would rise from the track and stop

a

the train if the signal were at danger.

"Once train has

entered a section

taken only #3

over-

in

five

The coroner, adjournag the

it ought to be absolutely safe," said quest. stated there were four or

"It was not safe and you more wileges to call.

Mr.

Oddle.

have to find out why.

"In this case the driver of the In-

ne: Circle train did not run rough

a danger signal.

He entered the

green.

section when the light was

The light ought to have been red for

as long as the preceding train was

in that section, but in this case it did;

not remain red."

TWICE STOPPED BEFORE Cecil Holbourn, of North Drive, Hounslow, driver of the Barking train, described how in the tunnel he saw the tail end of a train,

Soviet Talk

Of Imminent

New War

As hope waned for safety of 4-year-old Betty Jane Hobbs, top photo, police at North Tonn- wanda, N. Y., announced bellet that the child had been slain, after they found her white shoes and brown jacket, shown in lower photo, in n weed eld. The girl's mother said the child could not have removed the show herself, as they were tied with double knots.

Hunt For The

Perfect Clock

EARTH'S SUDDEN

JERKS

The world's speed, moving in jerks, is gradually slowing down and, as a result, our daya are now approximate- ly half a minute longer than they were 2,000 years ago.

Calcutta Trade Improvement.

Scientists are now trying to make perfect clock out of quartz crystals Figures for Calculta's overseas trade show a marked improvement. Im-so that Greenwich will not only have ports for the past month increased by perfect time, but will be able to keep

the compared with £750,000, S

a check on the speed at which the month before. Exports also showed world keeps turning.

substantial increase,

Stavery in Assam-Sleady pro- gress is reported from Assam in the stamping out of slavery among the Military vigilance of the Soviet tribes of the unadministered territory A British Unton has been intensified in view the "backward truels." of the growing menace of war, de- political officer has been successful "I stopped as fast as possible and clared M. Zdanoff, leading member in effecting by negotiation the release of slaves, and he is the train moved off ahead of me," of the Central Executive Committee of a number

at the satisfed that slave rakding is de- he said.

"I stopped again and could of the Communist Party,

con-creasing. not thinks what had happened; I opening session of the party

off, but was stopped by the ference for the Leningrad region. moved red signal.

He concluded: Communists of the Leningrad region, which had been chosen by the Imperialists as their rat object of altnek, must show themselves as hard as steel in com- bating the enemy."

Events in China and Spain, M. ||- Thirty seconds after I found my Zdanoff sald, has made it the most self on the floor. My lamp was sacred duty of the Soviet Govern- knocked over. I struck a match and ment and Party keep the Soviet rellt my lamp.

I got on to the track Union in "permanent state of pre- and ran along eastwards to stop any paredness." west-bound train, and succeeded in my red stopping one by showing light."

The Coroner: That was very plucky of you.

Holbourn said he broke the window the off cut of one carriage current by pinching two wires to- gether.

Alfred George McLeon, of Acton Lane,

Harlesden, driver of the Circle train, said he was travelling about 25 m.p

m.p.h. when he saw "a bazy red colour" ahead (the light of the He immediately Barking train). applied the emergency brakes and switched off the power, but could not

and

Meanwhile a new Stakhanol drive has been launched in the industrial districts of the Soviet Union.

New Zealand

TASMAN SEA AIR SERVICE

Auckland.. Mr. M. J. Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand, stated to-day that the proposed air service across the Tasman Sea would be running before

the end of this year.

be

It would

necessary

for the

companies concerned to report pro- gress to the British. New Zealand und Australian Governments, but within taking practical shape.

These facts were given to the New3 Chronicle by Dr. H. Spencer Jones the Astronomer Royal, who has start- led laymen by a statement in his an- mual report that the moon is deviat Ing from its course.

Dr. Spencer Jones explained that this deviation-greater now than ever before since the keeping of records

due to the fact that the rotation of the earth is not constant, throwing our time factor out and making the moon fall to appear where we expect

it.

"SUDDEN JERKS"

"As a result of the variation in rotation," he said, "the day is some times longer than at other times. In 1887, for instance, it was one three- hundredth of a second longer than in

1010.

"One reason for this is believed to be that the radius of the earth varies by a matter of a few inches as the

that our days over

1938.

RADIO BROADCAST

Ettore Pellegatti (Cello) From the Studio

A WELSH PROGRAMME

Radio Programme

Broadcast by

Z.B.W. on o Frequency of 845 k.c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's, per and 0-11 p.m. second.

12.00-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service from St. John's of Intercession Cathedral.

12.30 Leila Megane (Contralto) in a Welsh Programme.

The March Of The Men Of Harlech (Old Welsh Air); Hen Wind Fy Nhadau (Land Of My Fathers).... Cymru Rhondda Welsh Gica Singers, Pietyll Annwyl (T.C Osborne Roberts);

Y Lian (arr. Osborne

Leila Megane (plane ont

by T. Osborne Robert; The Leck- Selection;

Intro: Cambrian

T.

War Song. All through the night; Jenny Jones;

The Rising of the Sun; Watch- ing the Wheat; The Ash Grove.... Orchestra Palladium The London

Richard conducted by

Crean; Bwthyn Bach To Gwellt (Arr. Osborne Roberts); Dafydd Y Garreg Wen (Arr. T. Osborne Roberts).... Leila Megane; Fy Olwen I (Crwys); Cywydd Y Dily (Gwilym Hiralihog and Ap Fychan)...William Edwards (Tenor with Harp Accomp. by Tely- nores Gwyngyll

1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.

L03 Dawallan Music.

Samoan Love Song (From 'Taboo'); Nohea I Muolau Lun! (Liliuokalani- Mekla Keala Kui),... Andy Iona and with vocal refrain: His Islanders

or Tabit--Kowallan Song Love

the 'Mutiny On and Iona

refrain; My March....Hilo

Novelty

(From

Bounty'...Andy

Islanders

with vocal

Hula Love-Medley

Hawuhr Orchestra.

1.15 Router and Rugby

Weather Forecast

ments.

His

Fress,

und Announce-

1.25 Dance Records. Fox-Trot-Vieni..Vical.. (Scotto); Tango Take Your Chance (Meiss- and HIS ner)....Heinz Huppertz

Quick-Steps- Novelty Orchestra; Three Brass Bells (Hodgkiss) Eccen- tele (Robinson) Fox-Trot-It's The Henry Hall and His Orchestra:

and His Roy ..Harry Natural Thing To Do (From Double or Nothing'), Orchestra with vocal retrain.

1.40 Relay of the Rotary Timin Speech from the Roof Garden of the Hongkong Hotel, Speaker: Mr. H. Chang Tion--Subiect: "Tho Chinese Youth Service Movement."

2.15 Close

6.00 Bach-Sonata No. 3 In E. Played by Isolde Menges (Violin) and Harold Samuel (Plano).

6.18 Bach-Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 In F Major, and Chorale.

Played by the Philadelphia Sym- phony Orchestra conducted by Leo- pold Stokowski,

6.43 Songs by Richard Tauber (Tenor).

Ueber Nacht (Hugo Wolf Julius Sturm): I Love The Moon (Paul A. Rubens); A Brown Bird Singing (Royden Barrie Haydn Wood).

6.52 Closing Local Stock Quoto- tions.

6.54 A Grand Varloty Programme Gracie with Clapham and Dwyer, Fields, Patricia Rossborough, The

Billes, ele.

Melodies.

ith No-

Organ Solo-Popular No. 3; Intro:-Pennies from Heaven; in the Chapel in the Moonlight; An- oth other perfect night is ending; I'll sing your you a thousand love songs: Did earth expands and contracts.

Mother come from Ireland: There's a Harold Ramsay at "These sudden jerks in the speed small Hotel

Organ of the Regal of the world's rotation do not alter the Wurlitzer the fact that the drag of the tides on Cinema, Kingston: Vocal-I'm Play

With Fire (Berlin); The Photo- the sea bed is acting as a brake which ph Of Mother's Wedding Group

progressively slowing the earth.

graphi (Hargreaves and Damerell)...Gracie long period are Vocal-Take Me Boots Off When Ah Dies (M. Carr); Ole Faithful (M. The Hill Billies with Now Carr).. velty Accomp.: Plano Sol

Solo--Popular Hits-No. 2: Intro: No Regrets; Rom- A Fine Laughing Irish Eyes,

ut. Take ance; Serenade in the Night; my Heart.... Patricia Rossborough The Bis Do (Long); I Think of What You London, May 28.

Hanley Used To Think Of Me (Turk, When the Church Assembly meets and Lyman)....Gracle Felds (Come- for its summer session on Monday, dienne) with Orchestra; Descriptive June 20, it will be asked to consider Sketch-Clapham And

and whether two measures, already ap- Hobbies....Clapham proved, for the discipline of the clergy Accordion Band-Six Popular Hits shall go forward in Parliament.

Intro: Lovely

Blues to a Wild Incumbents (Misbehaviour and Mustang; I'm Putting All My Eggs Negligence) measure caused much In One Basket; Picaso Belleve Mo; Smallcs....Primo divialon of opinion before they went Don't Save Your

Stakhanoff workers have pledged a few months the scheme should be down by 1-70 of a second a year, soFields (Comedienne) with Orchestra; themselves to enlighten the entire rural population "on the perils of World Jamboree-A world jam-getting gradually longer" the impending autbreak of a new

borce of Boy Scouts is to be held in war and to consolidate the deter-Wellington in 1940.

The City Coun- £250 towards thic ination of the Ukrainian people to ell has voted delend themselves against aggress-

preliminary expenses. In the distance. stAlexander

Territorials in Blue The New Webb, John

Special detachments of Stakhnroff Zealand Government is issuing blue intendent (outdoor) of the L.FT.D.

to Territorials for cere- railways, who said

almust workers have been formed to safe- uniforms Was impossible to understand how the guard railway tennsport of grain and monial occasions and walking out. signal wiring error came to be made, other agricultural products-Aneta- The object is to foster recruiting.-

Trans-Ocean. added:

it

super-

The Board is taking steps to up the procedure, so as to

tightens far as is humanly poss-

ible, a repetition of such faults."

Mr. Oddle: Will that mean by

insisting on tests? That will be one

the measures. of

others as well.

There will be

Mr. Thomas Fald that in this particular case the check test which should have been made applied.

Was not

On receiving the message that the Charing Cross starter was showing! green when it should have shown red, the foreman at Temple Station should have taken the mutter in hand personally. At that time Temple Station was very busy,

"REALISE NOW" Charles William Eels, of Marnell Way, Hounslow, the man who did the wiring in the signal cabin, was cautioned by the coroner before giv-

ing his evidence.

lon."

I

Reuter.

Blind Man Fell In

Love With Voice

For months Frank Tucker, 31-year-old blind salesman, listened to a beautiful voice in the recreation room of the Grove-lane Camberwell, blind hostel.

One day he plucked up courage and asked to be in- He found that troduced to the "girl with the lovely voice.

she was Alice Jonkins, who lost her sight 12 years ago after an attack of 'flu. It was a case of love at first hearing.

ried at St. Chrysostom's

Now they have been mar

Church, Peckham, S. E.

Alice, with her friend, Ruth THE

Eels said that he went to see the Biggs, once lived at the hostel, L

DISCIPLINE OF THE CLERGY Two Measures To Be Reconsidered

pano solo); Vocal-Like

Dwyer

fer On

Dwyer

The Cure of Souls measure and the Love: Saddle The Glory of

Pretty

to the Ecclesiastical Committee of Scala's Accordeon Band with vocal Parliament, and that committee in- refrain; Vocal-Leave The vited the Legislative Committee of the Girls Alone (Carson Robison) Med- Intro:The Girl in the little Assembly to a conference, at which ley: I

This

is Romance; My some points of objection' were put Green Hat; forward.

Heart Jumped Over the Moon...Len In particular, objection was raised Bermon with Orchestra (Step-Danc- to the proposed disciplinary action ing by Len, Bermon); Plano Solo- against an incumbent who had been Swing High--Swing Low-Selections; divorced and married again or mar-Intro--Swing High-Swing Low; i ried the divorced wife of a husband hear a call to arms; Panamania; Col- sill living. The committee also ob-lege Holiday-Selection; Intro:~I Jected to the provision of a tribunal adore you; The Sweetheart Waltz: So Rossborough What? exclusively of clergymen, with no ENGLAND'S TALLEST

Vocal-When That (Piano Soiatricia Idy representation. MAYPOLE

NARROW MAJORITY

Harvest Moon Is Shining (G. A. In spite of these objections, the Stevens): Good-Night (Wood, Bibo Warwickshire village of Ecclesiastical Committee decided that and Conrad)....The Hill Billies with Welford-on-Avon has had Π It was expedient that the measures Novelty Accompaniment,

should become law, but added to its 6.00 Local Tone Signal, Weather frat train coming through to see if but a few years ago they decided maypole since Elizabethon times, but

ago lightning struck report a direction that its proceed Report and Announcements. the signal was working and he was to move out and live their own a few years

down the pole and its weather cockings should be published.

8.03 Studio Reoltal by Ellore sure it was all right.

was found in a tree some distance This will have the effect of showing Fellegatif (Cello) and Lindsay A. Ho could not see how he could lives.

that the

measures were opposed by Lafford (Piano). away.

Last week a new 70ft. maypole, members of both Houses of Parlin- Sonata for Plano and Violoncello, claimed to be the highest in England, ment on the Ecclesiastical Commit-Op. 40 (L. Boellmann); Movements: was unveiled and dedicated to the tee, and that the conclusions were Macstoso; Aandonte; Allegro molto,

8.80 London Relay The Artist happiness of the young life of the only approved by a narrow majority.

The matter is therefore

to be To-Day1. village.

A talk by Erle Newton. brought back into the Assembly to ascertain its opinion, seeing that there

London 8.45

Relay 'Empire is a possibility of oppoaltion and de Variety Theatre

Including Mabel Constanduros feat in Parliament.

Lord Hugh Ceell will move that the and John Rorke: Walas and Barker; be presented to Horace Kenny: Joseph Meous" and measures should Parliament, but there is likely to be His Band; Production by F. H. C. an amendment that they be with?' Piffard. drawn.

was only one screw out of a terminal at one time.

have replaced a wire incorrectly an After the wedding Mr. and Mrs. therd

Tucker made their home in a Hill; of Street, Peckham, boarding house, When Arthur George Beer, Quarrenden Street, Fulham, the chief where they had been staying. linesman, was called, he also was

"I think I'm as luppy as they are warned by the coroner int he need not give evidence but said he wished themselves," Mra. Carter, who runs

to do so.

finished, why didn't you

if he had done hir

the house, snid. "It's amazing, how

For the first time a fox is on the weathervane.

Among the helpers at a ton for chlidren was a descendant of drannie -Gould, who was hostess.io. Joseph. Arch, champion of the agricultural workers, when he visited the vilings to organise farm labourers Into a

Mr. Chidle: When he had deft Miss Joniting is. She does most

? it to see of her own cooking."

"Frank works in a kloak at Vic things to do. did not test It?toria. Every day he finds his own

way to work and back."

had a lot of

First of all educatork emelently?

No.

union.

"(Continued on Paga 6.).

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