1939-01-23 — Page 26

Monday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 23, 1939.

WOMAN GUEST AT EARL'S PARTY IS VICTIM OF "PERFECT ROBBERY"

Ending traditions of 60 years, New York City closed the sixin Avenue Elevated structure and soon will tear it down. A new Revellers thronged the subway is being built under the avenue last train to run, shown above, stripping it of movable parts for souvenirs.

LEGLESS DOCTOR'S DIARY OF PAIN

A LONDON surgeon who, after having his legs amputated wrote, for the benefit of his profession, an analysis of his 15 years of suffering, died at his home recently,

He was 72-year-old Mr. E. B. Waggett, of Cavendish Court, Wigmore Street, W., for many years consulting surgeon to the throat and ear department at Charing Cross Hospital.

In his "diary of pain," Mr. Waggett described how he re- gained happiness and efficiency after having his legs taken off above the knees.

Degree 3-No one could endure He recorded his renctions to the "Intolerable pain," which had com- this degree for many minutes and pelled him to take this bold step. remain conselous, The vocal cords He classifed three degrees of pain. do not act at all.

"TORTURE RACK"

re-create

Ile remarked that after having Degree 1-Possible to control all relief for 18 months he found it im- the pain In voluntary muscles, except those of possible to the forehead; had to blink to pre-memory.

ALWAYS GAY vent the whites of the eyes showing. Temples perspired freely.

Degree 2-Comparable to the tor ture rack. The volce went to a

Tears flow- uncontrollable falsetto. ed freely, but there was neither

Bense muscular emotional nor weeping.

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SIR John Anderson, Lord Frivy

Sir Philip Gibbs, a close friend of was the "Lic Mr. Wangelt, said: most wonderful example of courage I ever met. In spite of all his pain he was a man of the most extra- ordinary cheerfulness. He was al

and light-hearted. Hay ways

"When he sat at the table of thef council of Charing Cross Hospital after his operation it was impossible) to believe that anything was wrong with him: 1e was a very handsome and fine-looking mon. His courage) and cheerfulness abashed one."

TOLEDO BUSY OIL ·

PORT

Seal and Minister for Civil Defence, returned from holiday recently to defend the civil de fence programme against the

From Bedroom,

No Clue

attacks which have been launch-volunteers and a plained system of POLICE at the Earl

cd upon it during his absence abroad.

“We are," he declared, "working on the assumption that there is risk of war within a comparatively short

tline. But that does not mean we

Deliveries of equip expect war." ment for defence, originally planned for 1941, will now be substantially completed during 1939.

evacuation.

"Civilian defence has been criticls- ed, 1 think unfairly, in the Press, In regard to fire brigade organisation. for example, it was not until July, 1938, that the Home Office got admin- istrative control over fire brigade or

plans were put in hand by the Government and they were to be completed by 1941. Those plans in cluded the provision of equipment to be held in reserve for dealing with fires that might result from neroplane

Coincident with his statement the Ministry of Health announced that for the purposes of the ARP. evacua- attacks. tion scheme the country is lvided into three groups:

of Iveagh's coun- try mansion at Thet- ford, Suffolk, are in- vestigating a robbery which reads like a problem in a detective novel.

Jewels, furs, and cash Fire valued at £1,200, the pro-

to be "Under that scheme 21,000

Brigade units were to be supplied,

A limited number of inrge, erowd-When the emergency occurred last perty of Lady O'Hagan, a ed areas from which evacuation is to year the position was reviewed, and guest, vanished within a in the light of the crisis orders had period which has been nar- take place.

be telescoped and everything

"Neutral" areas, net to be evacuat- ed or used for billeting.

towns are scheduled for evacuation

speeded up. It may now be anti-rowed down to two hours- Twenty of the biggest cities and cipated that all orders for equipment and there is no trace of the

win be substantially completed and 300 boroughs and urban areas are the end of 1939, though we had en-house having been forcibly

1941 as the date for comple-entered. visaged evacuation S

Windows were searched in "neutral" zones. scheme, it is understood, extends in on. By the end of next week, the In number of units whose equipment women. children, and workers

has been actually ordered will be vain for finger-prints; flower- non-essential occupations.

17,000, including deliveries already beds yielded no footprints. Reception areas for retugees.

The

Firemen's Lack Of Equipment

Sir Julin Anderson in his statement of pulley and disclosed details

under the following achievement

principal beads:

mude.

EVACUATION POSITION "There is nothing that could be de- scribed as 'muddied'; there has been. steady progress on an organised plan. There is no doubt whatever that the fire brigades will have all their equip ment needs, that they will get all they require for training recruits.

"In regard to evacuation, our plans at one end are practically complete. AIL arrangements for transport are complete any rate in London, though there are still gaps in the Pro vinces.

Elveden Hall, the carl's monsien, was the scene of one of tus shooting tho party were Other guests at parties during the week-end.

Eitisicy, Lord Lady and Lord O'Hagan, the Hon. A. E. Guinness (the Earl of Iveagh's son). Sir and the Countess Hochberg, Dougal Malcolm and Lady Malcolm, JEWEL CASE MISSING

money was in place.

Two hours later, the again went to her bedroom and found furs and dressing-case gone."

After dinner Lady O'Hagan, who Evacuation-All arrangements for transport, reception, and feeding

lives at Ickworth Lodge, near Bury in the west wing of the house to are already complete. A scheme

St. Edmunds, went to her bedroom complete in every detail will soon be in his hands.

"During the crisis complete ar-leave her fox furs and nolleed that Recruiting.The gap to be filled in rangements for looking after refugees her rough crocodile-skin dressing- the first line of civil defence is could not be made in detail, but I case which contained her jewels and

shall soon be in possession of a com- very small.

scheme." Air Raid Wardens.-Efforts are be-plete

Turning to recruiting, Sir John ing made to create a "corporate

"So far ns clvil defence Is con-

The Earl of Ivearth telephoned thr sense" which will keep wardens said: enthusiastic alter their training earned, the gap which has to be filled

before we have all the recruits we police, and Supt. Hammond, of the period.

police, and other officers reached the Bomb-Proof Shelters-Any appli- require to form our first line of civil Newmarket division, West Suffolk

not propose to stop after hall in vain for n clue. "But i cation for grant by a local autho-defence is very small.

do on its rity will be considered

a general the completion of the first line. 1 merits, even though policy has not been worked out. progist Carry on ne vemur to

substantial reserve. We intend Trenclics-Many authorities have

already made their trenches com-continue and speed up the necessary

The watchman heard, nothing un-i plete. Others are walling only training and have guaranteed that the

ocal authorities shall be in a posi-] for suitable weather conditions.

WATERLOGGED TRENCHES hall believes he heard a car travel- Fire Brigado Equipment--All de- tion to get all the equipment required. usunt, but another employce at the

ficiencies will shortly be over-

"To suggest that there has been any ing along the drive at about 2.30

recruits significant falling off of come,

would be quite false.

National Register-A compulsory Register as such would be an useless absolutely

instrument. question of

compulsory training, as a separate mutter, has not been discussed.

The

Supt. Hammond visited the hall, questioned members of the staff, and fought the help of members of the house party. GATES OPENED

He expected it to stop at the main

were

I have no doubt whatever that entrance gates, which he had closed, our arrangements will be complete but I went on to the main road. On towards the end of this month and investigation the gates were found! when we have our handbook avail- to be open. able we shall have all the recruits we At each corner of the hall the Earl require to complete the first line." of Ivengh has installed powerful SPEED-UP DECISION

The "eampalin" in regard to the floodlights as a precaution against

These at night. "There is," Sir John Anderson said, unfinished trenches had, he suggest burglary "a good deal of fundamental mis-, been largely inspired by the dis- switched on as usual.

The cari sald: "I have put the waterlonged refuges mul

spectacle

matter into the hands of the police apprehension about civilian defence generally. Until last September the various parts of the country.

The Home Offee hud, however, re- and do not want to hamper their Department was working on plans Toledo. O which contemplated that preparatlar viewed the matter and drawn up its inquiries,"

Lady O'Hagan is the second wife specifications. The matter was one through the port bere 10 years ago, should be complete by a certain date for the local authorities, wito hnd in of Lord O'llagan, who for three years "At the end of that month the Gov-many cases been subjected to en- was a Lord-In-Waiting to King Ed- first wife died in may to 1,000,000 tons. Last year, ernment made fresh decisions which forced delays through abnormally bad ward VII. His more than 900,531 tons of oil pro-involved a fundamentally different weather. ducts were handled in and out by view of the problem- great speed- ing up in enrolling and training lake freightera,

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Banker Victim Of Nazis Escapes, Surrenders To English Police

NAMES of important people in Germany were handed on a slip of paper to Mr. Dummett, Bow-street magistrate, recently, as those of friends of a German banker, aged thirty-nine, who had given himself up after being smuggled to British.

"TORTURED'

His name was given na Siegfried, Simin Gembleki. According to Mr. "When he was released he was Maurice Abrahams, defending him, Immediately seized by the secret he still bears the marks of "terrible police and taken to a very terrible lashings" received during nearly concentration camp, and for the three years in German concentra- first six months he was tortured. I lion camps. He is said to have been am told that he still bears the marks the financial adviser in Germany to of the Inchings he received there.

family.

"He was put in an oil bath for A European royal

terrible two or three weeks, so "Gembicki has several influential friends In Germany, and they ar-

were the wounds Infleted, me" said

Mr. "From then until November kist ranged for his escape," Abrahams," He was

was smuggled across he was in a camp at Dachau, the the frontler in a car to Holland."

reputation of which is well known. his release in November he Gerableit landed at the London docks from an unknown Rotterdam moved about Germany, afraid to steamer at three am. on Tuesday clay in one place.

with £60 in English money in his He heard that he was to be taken pockeels. Accompanied by a lawyer, to a concentration camp for Jews very bad reputation he gave himself up at Bow-street which bad a aliens department.

even among such camps. Abrahams went on: "Mr. "There is no question of Gembick! Gembicki was

a banker Hving in being a pubile charge on this coun- Germany and on ex-serviceman who try. He has banking friends

for his arrange trying to volunteered although under military are ago to aght for Germany. He was emigration to the United States."

Mr. Dummett listened to the story Arat arrested in 1035.

Siegfried Gembicki, Then he

"I understand that for six months of

he was in prison, although no charge sald:-

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who

"If his story is accurate, and be

the end of that time he was released supported by reliable testimony, it and, I have no doubt as measure will be easier for the court to know

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