THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 15,
1988.
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WAITING-ROOMS AND THE BOOKING OFFICE OF ELDERSLIE STATION, NEAR PAISLEY, WERE USED AS DRESSING STATIONS RECENTLY TO TREAT 70 PEOPLE INJURED WHEN AN EXPRESS TRAIN FROM GLASGOW TO LARGS LIGHT ENGINE STANDING OUTSIDE THE STATION.
The engines were locked together after the impact, the light engine was pushed 50 yards before the express could pull up.
Passengers were thrown off their seats on to the floor. Others, standing in preparation to leave, were knocked off their feet into heaps.
Large lamps of coal from the tender, thrown into the air, crashed through the windows and knocked out some of the people who had escaped serious injury. Amazing scenes took place in the station. The hiss of escaping steam, screams from women and shouts
added to the confusion.
car-
The injured werd Hfted and helped from the train: Some were rled into the booking office; others into the waiting rooms.
For A time several injured women who had fainted lay on the platform in the sunshine. Policemen commandeered passing cars and the injured were rushed in these to Paisley Hospital and John- atone Cottage. Hospital.
TWELVE DETAINED
Many were able to go home after treatment, but 12 men and women were detained at Paisley.
With the exception of a man from Salford, all the injured came from Glasgow.
Mr. McDonald, of Airdrie, one of the passengers, told the Sunday Dis- patch:
a news-
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CRASHED INTO A
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In 5 Days
Eighteen-year-old Civil Alr Guardeman Douglas Cunning- ham, of Brook Green, Hammer- smith, W., made a solo flight after ten hours' instruction.
The training was spread over
days five
at Southend. Can- ningham, who is an architect's pupil, in the Brst of Soulkend's "Civil Air Guard to mako a solo.
fight.
Sultan's Brother Still Determined To Marry
R
London.
Tangka Mahmud, 20-year-old brother of the Sultan of Trengganu, feels sure that the problem which has arisen through the Sultan's opposition to his marriage to Miss Joyce Blencowe, chiropodist daughter of an Oxford tailor,· will soon be amicably solved.
He has refused an offer to act as chauffeur to a City magnate at a salary of £20-a-week on a Dlx months' contract but, he told Straits Times representative, "If the Sultan remains adamant i shall have to find work in Eng- land. My allowance has been stopped and I cannot continue to live on my friends' hospitality Indefinitely."
Tungku Mahmud is as determined
turn to Malaya to completo his studies at an agricultural college on a reduced allowance--if he can first marry Miss Blencowe.
"Al I ask," he added, "Is that my wife be accepted by my people and that we be given a fair chance of happiness fogether." CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT HER
Confident that their feelings for coch other are sincere und true, and will last all their lives, Tungku
as ever to marry the girl he loves Mahmud believes that when they and feels that if only he could have marry they will have a basis of heart-to-heart talk with the Sultan mutual understanding greater than
straighten he could
out any mis- would expect between an English understandings
ings that now exist. He girl and a Malay, because they think will not, however, return to Treng-
alike. ganu without Miss Blencowe as he
was sitting reading paper in a carrlage when there come a tremendous crash. We had warning and were thrown from aur Leals on to the floor. For a few seconds the train rushed on before Jolting to a stop.
"Women from bungalows nearby made ica and cocoa for the injured and carried it on trays to the sta-fears that insurmountable difficulties would be placed in the way of his tion."
returning for her, or sending for her to come out to him.
Huge Sunflower
Shadyside, O. This is a tail story. C. S. Pifer grew Д sunflower measuring 40 Inches in circumference on a stalk 10 feet, 8 inches tall.
GORED TO DEATH
One of the keepers of the Ver- sailles zoo has been gored to death by a buffalo.
WIFE AND ROYAL DIGNITY "I realise," he said, "that my brother expects me to maintain the dignity of the royal family.
"But I am sure Joyce will ade- quately maintain the standards ex- pected of the wife of a prince. My brother is married and should be able to realise the wonderful value of a loyal wife."
Tungku Mahmud does not worry about money. He is willing to re-
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reasons "But whatever give," he continued, "the only one that counts is that I cannot live without her.
"Joyce would not need to feel any overpowering longing for her home- land,
because in Trengganu there is English colony avail- quite a able on
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mud's determina-
Tungku
tion to marry Miss Blencowe. "I attain my majority next May, and then I can please myself, Joyon will be 21 in ten dayr lime and will be free to marry me any time after that," he said,
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