1938-10-12 — Page 7

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER

12,

1998.

Bandaged survivors of Edmonton air crash attend inquest on eleven victims

Coroner says machine was in perfect condition

20-YEAR-OLD

Told To

PILOT

Pilot defied instructions while flying another machine

Jury agree no evidence of culpable negligence

DISOBEYED ORDERS

Fly Only Three Miles, Says Instructor

Protest was made over the absence of a statement from the Air Ministry at the inquest on the eleven victims of the recent Edmonton disaster, when an airplane set fire to two houses. The verdict was "Accidental death."

It had been revealed that Pilot-Sorgeant Stanley Robert Morris, twenty-year-old Air Ministry clerk in civil life, who was killed, was disobeying his senior officer's instructions, and breaking Air Ministry regula- tions when he flew over Edmonton.

One morning, he had been seen in another machine over Highgate again in defiance of orders.

Dr. G. Cohen, the North Middlesex corner, was addressing the jury when Mr. Neil Lawson, counsel instructed for relatives of five of the victims, Interposed to say: "There. has been inspection carried out by the Air Ministry and the position

Dr. Cohen: No, no, no! 1 cannot

you to make a statement. allow

Mr. Lawson naked that the Air Ministry inspector should be called aan witness.

Seated next to the coroner was Captain F. S.Wilkinson (Air Ministry inspector of accidents) who said their Investigation was still being carried out and no conclusions had yet been reached.

Mr. Lawson: May I suggest the inquest should be adjourned so that wo could have the result, of that Inquiry?

was

Dr. Cohen: No.

Captain Wilkinson said it not the custom to make public the results of their investigations into accidents, and the coroner agreed it was against the interests of the Slate to give information on tech-l nical points.

Dr. Cohen said that the evidence before them showed that the air- plane

was in perfect working con-

dition.

He added: "We have to consider whether the accident was not due in Rome way to the occupant of the machine.

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If a pilot disobeys the order what do you do?-We report it to the int specting offfeer at Hendon and he deals with it.

he had

Captain Weighill said learned since that Morris had down over Highgate on that morning.

"I HAD CONFIDENCE IN HIM

The coroner: When an experienced pupil is told to do certain things, dora anybody watch to see if he does them?-Oh, yes, but when there are forty planes on the airßeld it is very difficult.

You rely on a man's obedience?-- Yes, it he is experienced,

Did Mr. Lawson:

you watch Morris on either of the two occasions he flew on that morning?--No, sic.

Was that beenuse you And too much else to do?—No, I had con- fidence in him. Lawson:

Is it a frequent occurrence for pupils of the lying fly at low school at Hated to

aljoining populous altitudes over areas?-No, it is not.

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Have you had to report pupils for disobedience in this respect?-1 be- lleve there have been cases but personally have never had one. have never reprimanded Morris.

Captain Weldhill said Morris's plane was not fitted with radio and could not therefore be called

down.

Timothy Greenslade, ground en- gineer at Hatfeld, said Morris's plate, a Hawker Audex with a Rolls- toyce Kestrel engine, was in perfect condition.

He examined the machine the previous evening and gave it a further test on that morning.

Mr. Lawson: Had you done any- thing in

in relation to this imachine between the time it came down un that morning and when it look off in the afternoon? Did you hear the pilot's report? No, but he would have come to me if anything had

This pilot was dying that very morning and was seen in another district of London a good many miles. from the airfield, although he had had instructions to carry out certain exercises over the airfield" NURSES ACT AS DOORKEEPERS The jury agreed that there was no evidence of culpable negligence by Morris amounting to manslaughter.

With nurses as doorkeepers, Hatßekl, also said he examined the bandaged survivors of the disaster,machine the previous evening, and sad-eyed relatives of the dead,

The coroner: I don't say they the inquest was held at Northought to have been, but why were Middlesex Hospital, where several not the controls examined on that of the injured people are being morning? - They

roughly were enred for.

examined. There was nothing at all wrong with the machine.

A model of an airplane similar to the one Morris erashed was before the coroner, Near him sot Squa- dron Leader G. L. Carter from the RAF.. Hendon, und other officers.

Captain R. G. Weighill, flying in- structor of No. 1 Elementary and Reserve Training School, Hatfield (at which Morris served) spid a pupil was not allowed to fly solo till tested by the chief Instructor,

Morris had his first fight on May He had flown 101 hours 7, 1937, forty

minutes

utes solo, and forty-three hours ten minutes under dual In- struction. He was fully qualified as fegards the nir.

Captain Weighill said he Morris instructions to do circuits. landing and climbing turns that afternoon.

been wrong.

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The first propeller of the Queen Elizabeth, sister ship of the Queen Mary, is fitted to the ship's hull after the rudder had been The size put in place in the shipyard at Clydebank, Scotland. uf the blades, is shown by comparison with the workmen.

Man

Who Is Making

A Map Of The Moon

Barnehurst (Kent).

For the past four years Mr. J. Ferey Wilkins, a Welsh engineer, living at Barnehurst, Kent, has been working on one of the mest comprehensive maps in exis- lence. It is a man of the moon. It is half finished. It should be compicted in 1942.

Mr. Wilkins is doing this laborious piece of map-making just for the fun of it, and with no hopes of remunera. tion other than the pleasure of know-

of water. They are merely great flats.

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Weather

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"Some of the peaks on the moon are even superior in elevation to the

8.03 Chopin-Concerto No. 2 In F greatest on earth. Many far higher than even Mount Everest," Mr. Wil- | Minor, Op. 21. kina said.

TWO KHANS,

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Arthur Rubinstein The London Symphony conducted by John Barbirolli.

Ernest Stancombe. rigger at big that he will have contributed ONE CANNON Walter: "Madam Butterfly" (Pue-

Shirts for Statues

The authorities of Ostend have just

made a decree

That all statues of the sort one used

to sec

In shops near the beach, Price en francs cach. Must no longer be shown in their

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Kave

But

on

So

They should have been carried out within a three-inile

radius of the airfield, according to standing orders. Edmonton was twelve miles away.

The coroner:

He was acting against Instructions to be out of the circumscribed area?-Yes.

must be shown (if at all) from sald date.

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something of tremendous value science and astronomy.

to

"Life on the moon?" he said. "17 am not satisfied that there isn't."

"There are several dark coloured spots, and they are in striking cou- trast to other shadows, because they move a considerable degree in between 24 and 48 hours.

"The late Professor Pickering be- lieved that they were due to large swarms of some low form of insect Ule

"Personally, I think they are some low form of fungus in the damp spots. There are other things that lead me

traces to believe that there are

of moisture and some slight atmosphere on the surface of the moon. Life, maybe, but human life, definitely no! Absolutely Impossible!

"DAY LASTS A MONTH"

"The day lasts a menth on the moon. A fortnight of day and a fort- night of night. If there were any human life, it would be pretty un- pleasant to be baking for one fort- night and freezing for the next."

The craters and valleys of the moon on Mr. Wilkins' map are all named after philosophers and great men of the past, such as Aristotle and Plato.

The plains are named in Lutin after seas. They are not really seas because they do not contain e drop

the

The "one-cannon wor" on North-West Frontier of India is about to start again after a year's truce.

The war is a long-standing affair between the Khan of Khar and the than of Nawa- KAI.

GN

Boll parties 'always agree tho time and place for resumption of hostilities, and they "adjourn" the war when they have more serious bank- Dess to attend to, such as the harvest.

There is only one саппод in the region. It belongs to the Halimat malika. There is always keen competition be- tween the two khans for the hire of ls cannon.

This year is the Khan of Nawagal who is the lucky pos- scasor, and although the war has not actually begun yet, he has let off 4 few practice

Of twelve shots fred, only one hit the mark-the tower built by the Khan of Khar, which is one of the causes of the feud.

'SWEETHEART I MEAN TO KILL

Husband's -alleged note

YOU, THEN MYSELF”-

Wife Says Moon Gave

Him Brainstorms

and

As Mrs. James stepped into the witness-box James broke down sobbed, "Don't put me away, Win.",

'HE'S BEEN BRUTAL'

he

She said, "I really belleve Intends to kill me. He has been a brutal man all the time I have lived with him."

Mr. Pugh said it might be to the

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Or- chestra cond. by Eugene Goossens;

The

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Points of view by travellers from the Dominions and Colonics.

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nade to the stars, So long sweet- heart. .Reginald Foort at the B. B. C. Theatre Organ; Give Me Your Hand-Waltz; Marilou-Tango The B. B. C. Dance Orchestra direct- ed by Henry Hall with vocal chorus; Curtain Up (Ballerina Sulto-A. Wood); Manhattan Moonlight (Alter) ..The B. B. C. Variety Orchestra cond, by Charles Shadwell with Re- ginald Foort at the S. B. C. Thentre Orgun

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· 10.00 London Relay-"In Town To-night."

Introducing unusual stories from every walk of life and flashes from the news of the week. . Produced by C. F. Mechan.

A husband who was said to have a brain storm every time the moon changed, and to have written to his wife, "Sweetheart,.much as I love you I intend to kill you and examined. "His wife asserts that attor the burial of a captain's stoward, Gladys Winmill; Doris Owena; Brad-

then myself," was accused at Birmingham recently of sending threats.

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The husband, John Henry James, of Caerleon-road, Newport, had an Air Ministry pass and said he was working on a secret job for the RA.F.

man's advantage to be medicallyton U.S. liner Manhattan was stopped

every change of the moon this

mon

becomes queer. I have read about

it in real life.".

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Margaret Godley; Margaret Rees; bridge White; Martin Doddey; Stan- The first sea burial was that of ley Illey; Samuel Dyson; Conducted this in books, but i do not know about Herman Vos, who had been transfer by Trevor Harvey: With Ernest Luth When he was ordered to be re-red from the British steamer Jersey at the Plano; Songs: To Lovely Groves Thy Laps like for eight days City of which ho was captain's ste-

Charles Tessier); manded la custody

(Chude Lejrune); Love me word, James shouted from the dock, "It is

Truly (Jacques Lefevre); When not playing the game. It is taking While this was taking place, Char-Behold (C. Goudimai); Fa, Lo, La I the bread out of my mouth."

les Camelleri (44) dropped dead. He Cannot Conceal It (Pierre Certon); had been steward to Caplain A. B. Soul in Torment (Jean Randall, commander of the Man Grigal (Gabriel Faure): Quartets with Deer Hunters Shamedhattan, for 12 years.

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11.49 London Relay France at to Newport feet arst. I mean to when a buck has become so old or to the hunters. They insist that

In the liner's hospital two doctoral Fly". shoot her and then myself and any to lose all of its teeth, almost any remained at his bedalde for 24 hours: A talk by 2. M. Stephan,'

11.10. Close Down one else who interferes."

one could knock it over with a club. | In an attempt to save Vot.

Mr. M. P. Pugh (prosecuting) said James was married at Cardiff in 1922. His wife had obtained three separation orders against him--but returned twice.

Since the third order was made last year she had received threaten- ing letters, telegrams and telephone calls from her husband.

One day he telephoned her and duld, "I'll put a bullet through

he

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