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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1938.

1,400 Passengers Sleep Through Sea Collision

CAPTAIN SAVES GOES DOWN

Seven Drown In Fog

While 1,400 passengers bound for Kingstown, Eire, were asleep in the L.M.S. mailboat Cambria recently, the *3,462-ton steamer, making her way through dense fog in the Irish Sca, came in collision with the trawler Alcazar (169 tons). The trawler sank; seven of her ten men were lost,

Most of the Cambria's passengers felt no bump, heard no sound, and slept on. Those who were on deck saw nothing in the fog except the lowering of boats from the steamer.

BO'SUN LOST

The Dead "I saw the lights of the Cambria

Robert James Daines,

road, Oniton Broad,

disappear. Then Frank Barber, the!

Bridge-bo'sin, enme alongside, and also got

hold of the plank.

Charles Walter Barker, Blun- deston, near Lowestoft.

Frederick Finch (second engineer), boots. After we had been together Cambridge-road, Lowestoft

E.

C. Dawson (male), Fakefield,

Lowestoft,

Edward J. Harvey, Clarence-road, Lowestoft

Frank Barber (bo'sun), The Hemplands, Lowestoft,

Leonard H. Peck (cook), St. Peter's-street, Lowestoft,

For nearly an hour the boats searched. They returned with three

survivors Skipper Ernest Swan, of Len Villa, Egerton-road, Loweslots; his fourteen-year-old nephew, Gordon Aldred, of the same address, and George Haylock, cool, of St. George's-rond, Lowestoft.

Gordon Aldred told how he was saved by his uncle, who pulled him) from his bunk by his braces when the collision took place at 5.20 a.m.

SAVED BY OAR

He said: "I was sound asleep, and at Arst I thought it was a dream. "My uncle pulled me through the water that was coming into the cabin. and when we got on deck I saw it was nearly level with the sea.

"I got into our small boat and we tried to lower it, but the trawler sank, and we were all thrown under the water.

"I started swimming, and found un car. I held on to it.

"After I had been swinuming for about half an hour a boat picked me up.

"It was God's will I should not drown, but I'm not going back to the zen."

Haylock, who is fifty-seven, said: "As the trawler went down clutched a plank.

"I think he was wearing heavy

for about twenty minutes he just slipped away.

"Neither of us spoke to the other as we held the plank."

Skipper Swan, who is forty-three, was the last to be rescued. He said: "I went to bed about 4 a.m., and left the mate in charge. About five a'clock the whistle woke me, and I knew we were running in fog.

"A few minutes later I heard the

crasti.”

of

Broke Neck

-Laughs

FTER breaking his neck in n car crash. Mr. D. R. Jones, Cambridge-road, Worthing, went back and drove a car with- out feeling in the least nervous.

In fact, he laughed,

Four months ago he was operated on for a double fracture of the neck.

He received the injuries after his! ear had turned a double somersault! and thrown him out,

SO PAINFULI

"Nobody can have any Idea how painful R was," he said.

BOY AS SHIP

on

King George went ashore in a rowboat, from the ship which he returned from his visit in France, to spend a day at the Duke of York's fresh-air camp for boyu, at Southwold, Eng- land. He got into shorts and seemed to have us much fun as the boys. He wan o patron of the camp before his reecssion to the throne.

MRS. DOLLY HUDSON

Treasure - Keeper,

Loses Her Charges

TN a room of a Georgian house under the shadow of Bucking- ham Palace at Lower Grosvenor-place, S.W., Mrs. Dolly Hud- son showed me the art treasures of the "Grande Dame" of Man-

I determined to help the doctors chukuo-Miss Kathleen Emily Alexandra french, writes a Cor-

respondent.

in their flight for mỹ life.

"It was a miracle of modern sur- İ gery, and it's fine to be back at work again.

haven't lost my argve. Look.” And he drove off in his car, quite happy.

Miss french died in Harbin in the cost of repairing her. Lon- Jammry, aged 79, and the Dublin don home. High Court has ordered the

Mrs. Hudson is housekeeper of sale of her treasures to meet this London home.

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure"

First patient:

"I was a fool. The sign read DANGER, but I took a chance.“

Second patient:

"I haven't taken 'ASPIRIN' in time...

Filly Years

1872 (ukum 1038

REMEDIES

Don't take chances with your health. It is not wise, or fair to yourself. Many a serious illness is the result of a neglected cold or sore throat. 'ASPIRIN will guide you safely along the highroad of health.

‘ASPIRIN

Bayer

means. Best

Although she has lived. at the house ever since she was born, 45 years ago, she has seen Miss french only a few times at long intervals.

"Goodness knows what It's all worth," said Mrs. Hudson, as she showed me round. "There it is just as it was 45 year ago.

"Year in and year out I looked after the six rooms of the 'house. Always I kept the place spotlessly elean for the day she would come home. My mother was housekeeper before me."

All manner of Continental fumi- ture graces the two main rooms of the house, and in a prominent posi- tion is a three-quarter-length port- rait by H. J Thaddeus of Miss french's father, ́ bearded "Robert Percy french of Monives."

"Somehow I feel now I shall be glad to get away for a change," sald Mrs. Hudson, as she dusted, a faded artificial aspidistra-perhups for the last time.

Field Marshal Vasily Galents- Bluecher, commander in chief of the Russian Far Eastern army. Marshal Bluecher has spent many years of his life building up Russia's Far Eastern terri- tory in preparallon for the time, he asserted, thai Russla must fight Japan About 500,000 troops are reported there.

TIBER EPIDEMIC

EMPIRE NEWS

SOUTH AFRICA'S EXPENDITURE

Capetown. Despite the recent warning by Mr. Havenga, Minister of Finance, that Everybody would in future have to be very careful with publle expendi- ture, Government estimates of penditure for the year ending March 31, 1030, show a general increase of

£2,000,000 on those of last year,

ex-

The main increases fall under the votes for Police, Post, Telegraphs and Telephones, Defence and Native Affairs.

A sum of

£20,000 has been earmarked for a national scheme of physical education.

National Publicity-An expendi- ture of at least £440,000 by South Africa on tourist publicity overseas during the next five years will be guaranteed by the nrovisions of the Publicity Corporation Bill, which has been introduced in the House of Assembly by the Minister of Roll- ways, Mr. Flrow, INDIA

SERGEANT-MAJOR STABBED

Calcutta.

Reg. Sgt.-Major W. J. Kerregan, 2nd Bn. Ühe Border Regiment, hes been stabbed, while travelling by train from Calcutta to Darjeeling. He is stationed at Ferozepur and was on leave here,

It is alleged that an altercation with a Bengali student occurred in the train, and the sergeant-major was stabbed 'five times. He Wos taken to the British mliliary hospital unconscious. The student has been arrested,

the ending an investigation

Bengal Debate, The Legislative Assembly debate on the Semaining nine motions of no confidence in the Bengal Ministry of Mr. Fazl ul Huq is delayed Into

that 2250 was offered in the House to two Govern- ment supporters as a bribe.

Industrial Arbitration. The Indus- trial, provinces of Indin are keenly Interested in the fate of a bill to be introduced introdu In the Bombay Legislative Assembly for the settlement of in- dustrial disputes by conciliation and arbitration. This is the first serious effort to produce major legislation in India along the lines recommended by the Whitley Commission.

Hindu Shools Moslems-One Mos- lem was killed and three injured this morning at Baghalpur, Bihar, by fired four revolver a Hindu who shots, A man has been arrested.---- Reuter. NEW ZEALAND

·BROADCAST CRISIS

DEVELOPMENT

Auckland.

The Director of Commercial Broadcasting has resigned his post. The reasons for thin step have not been made known.

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The Parliamentary opposition has alleged that the commercial rervice has been misused. Recently Sunday there was considerable criti cism of a commercial broadcasting talk, alleged to contain criticism of the national broadcasting service.

Social Security BillThe Labour party caucus has approved the terms of the Social Security Bill, which was introduced in Parliament recently. The bill provides for pensions at 60 and national health Insurance. AUSTRALIA

AIRCRAFT STRIKE

Melbourne.

A strike of 300 engineers at the tion's works at Fishermen's Bend Aircraft Corpora- Commonwealth threatens to hold up Australia's “Air defence programme. It la kely that munition workers will become involved.

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The trade unions have asked the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, mediate in the dispute, which has arisen owing to dissatisfaction with arbitration court awards.

Mr. Hughes's Warning. Mr. W. M. Hughes, Commonwealth Minister for External Affairs, stated in an address to the Legacy Club here that the number of persons between 15 and 45 years of age was declining. Unless 110 said, the birth rate increased, Australia would be doomed as nation.

£15,000 Party

For Heiress

a

New York,

heiress A Buxom "soda-pop" Jumped with a £15,000 splash into the ultra-fashionable social swim of Newport, Rhode Island. Then Lesley Hyde Ripley. heiress to a mali-million-dollar sxrispa- rill fortune, made her debut al a the enper-dance that lived up to pre-decoesalon traditions of Ameri- ca's gülteëged smart sels,

It was the most lavish social intro- duction for ten years, and more than B00 of the elect gathered at mid-night in an elaborate Italian loggia, special- ly erected at a cost of £9,000 for the occasion on Mr. Henry B. H. Ripley's estate.

They danced, amid £500 worth of dowers, by "artificial moonlight," Romans sweltering in the heat diffused by 10,000 pale blue electrie may no longer cool themselves in bulbs. the historie River Tiber.

Swinging tunes were played by a The authorities have prohibited £000 orchestra, the practice. They say that the Guests nibbled snacks costing 21- water is gorm-laden owing to sewage 500 and drank 1,000 battles of chams which has poured in and has induced |pagne,

what they describe, as - "A minar "backdrop" was provided by the epidemic, causing number of turreted Ripley cartão: bathed in dentis.

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