1939-03-07 — Page 3

Tuesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 7 1939.

He Saved A Girl & Walked Away

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ellen Hough, of

Grenfield-street.

Battersea, S.W-niece of Frank Hough, the boxer-does not know the man who saved her life recently.

She was on her way to work and slipped as she tried to board a Water-

loo train, at Cinpham Junction. Stage

was

The train started, and she drugged along between running-board and platform.

A mun in the carriage pulled the communication cord and went to help

her.

Smiles

To Hide Grief

Because of his quickness sha BRAVE smiles kept back the

escaped with bruises and shock.

The rescuer went away without giving his ange

Child Dies In A.R.P. Trench

EDINBURGH,

A five-year-old girl was killed and a boy of the same age seriously in- jured in tho collapse of an ARP. french in Roseburn Park, Edinburgh,

recently.

The children, Clare Jamieson and Allan Tratter, who lived next door, were buried under piles of earth and sheets of corrugated fron

tears of 11 small girls a they danced through a recent performance of "Cinderella" at the. Empire Theatre, Liverpool.

They had come to idolise 12-year- old Joyce Murris. She was so Jolly, so sweet-tempered. so helpful to them.

And now she was dend.

The curtala was about to rise when the news reached them.

Tears fell. The 11 children were their Inat ulone in

grief. Senior members of the company, tos, had, Hoved Joyce.

The tears were dried and teeth met on lips to stem their return as the call to the stage came. For, as it is written in "Pagliavet":

་་

"The people pay thee, and want their laugh you know. On with the show.

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Mr. G. Stirling said that he saw the children playing near the trench and shouted to them to keep away. "When I looked again," he said, "they had disappeared. Soon after- wards I heard screams, ran to the trench

and saw they had been buried,dlesex), was appearing in her first "I tried frantically to dig but the pantomime... Hittle giri but the weight of the earth Imprisoned her,"

Another girl, Marjory Mitcham, fell into the trench, but she managed to seramble clear.

One of the rescuers said that a large number of children were in the park at the time.

"They were laughing and shouting they played on their way home," he said.

Then, suddenly,

changed to screams,

the Jaughter

"Ambulance men gave oxygen to the little girl but they could not re- vive her."

"Divorce Mill”

3

Reno, Nev.

Joyce, who lived at Kenton (Mid-

Such was the promise she chowed that she had been given a small speaking part.

Then Nhe W45 taken ill. She foiled to appear at the theatre the next day, and later was rushed to hospital

BRIDE HAD 6

WEDDING RINGS

Magdalena Naudzius, 86-years- old member, of the Lithuanian colony in Ayrshire, was married at Annbank recently to Jonas Krusin- Kis. 65-years-old Lithuanian min- er, of Mossblown, Ayrshire.

The bride has been married twice before, now.wears six wed- ding rings, as it is the custom of Lithuanians to give two wedding rings at the ceremony,

The ceremony was conducted by Father Juesas Gutauskas, Lithuanian priest for Scotland.

A throat #feellon was diagnosed. Doctors used, oxygen in a day and 660 night fight to save her.

They falled.

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"Smith" Was

His Password

The alive photograph was taken at a recent Hongkong Rifle Asocin- tion Shoot.-King's Studio.

Mothers Protest To Director Of Education

ANGRY mothers of 120 children, protesting recently against an order to transfer their children from one school to another, mobbed and surrounded an Education Direc- tor in a school, and he was obliged to make his exit by way of a back door.

The mothers, and the children, went to the William Crane Schools, Apsley Estate, Nottingham, and told Miss Christopher, the headmistress, that they would not allow the children to be transferred to new schools at Bilborough because this meant a 25-minute walk.

Miss Christopher invited the Ham And-Downfall by mens of trick. Michael Mc-mothers into the school hadi, said

The stage has probably lost a ne artist," a theatre official said.

When he was fined £5 for stealing ju watch and a pale of women's shoes

recently:

Nance (24), labourer, of Godstone the change was inevitable, and Road, Purley, told the Croydon Bench added: "The only thing to do is MODESTO, Cal.

to give way." Rober! Funk, who was so fond of

"I went into shops and asked for The Nevada Commission for the hum und eggs that, with two com-

"No!" People did not case of eggs and parcels for 'Smith. 1939 Golden Gate International Ex-panions, he stole position at San Francisco has reject was trying to catch a pig to supply ask me whether 1 was 'Smith, but "never!"" ed the suggestion that as part of the ham, when arrested, will have just handeri me purcels. I did not

only

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when they know what Reno

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the mothers, shouted

NOISY SCENES Then the Director of Education, Mr. F. Stephenson, tried to address the women, but, as stated, he had to enve-not by the front door..

Though there were noisy scenes, there was no disturbance,

Royal Cars Set Road Problem

If a Royal car is approaching in one direction and a fire engine from another at a speed at which it ap pears likely that they will collide. which driver should the constable on point duty signal to stop?

This question arises from a revent Incident in London, when the Duke of Kent's cor and fire-engine narrowly missed colliding at a cross-

near Euston Station, At another indignation meeting of roads

The

drivers of Royal cars are so parents outside, the school gates spokesman was loudly cheered when acetistomed to having a clear rond on he said: "We are going to stand firmwhat is known as the "Royal route" and on no account will we allow our that they do not anticipate anything children

be

to but all-clear signals from police on

point duty {Bilborough."

Fire-engine drivers similarly ex- The women have decided to make pect to be given a clear road. subscriptions to engage a soliciter to Steps ute now being taken to warn challenge the decision of the Educa-jull fire-engine drivers of the likeli- tion Committee, and a further meet-hood of Royal cars being on various ing-of-mothers-lins_been called for.. routes.at.certoin_times

to

transferred

Detectives Search McMahon's Home

FOUR detectives, led by Inspector Hatton, of the Special Branch at Scotland-yard, visited the Paddington home of George Andrew McMahon, who figured in the revolver incident on Constitution Hill two years ago when King Edward the Eighth was riding past.

Blood "Bank" Plan and told him:

For London

a centrul

The organisation of "blood bank" at which a group of hospitals could deposit for storage "bottled" blood given by donors for emergency

They stopped McMahon on the pavement in Gloucester-terrace, W., "We have a warrant to search your house."

He went back there with them. Mrs. McMahon was peeting potatoes in the kitchen. The gas oven and

oven the refuse bin were searched, but nothing was found.

Mr. McMahon said: "I am telling transfusions is recom-my M.P. about this. I suppose that doctors because I am Irish they think I have mended by three London

something to do with the bomb oul- crisis, who, during the September

rages. I certainly have not." made preparations to conserve sup- plies of blood.

Boland, Film Man's Quest

The doctors-Dr. C. R. senior assistant medical officer at Mile End Hospital. Dr. N. S. Craig, medical sperintendent of the hospital, and Dr. A. L. Jacobs, senior assistant medical officer at the hospital-out line their suggestion in the current issue of the "Lancet."

For Pigmies

the

Mr. A. L.. Fisher, the photographer of Mount Everest, has begun a three- months Journey along the 3,000-mile Belgian Congo River to dim Pointing out that reports from the country for the Liege Exhibition in Moscow Institute of Haematology, May. from transfusion services in the He few direct to Stanleyville, Spanish Civil War, and from Contand with M. Andre Cauvin, a Belgian nental and American clinics "leave Government representative, he will little doubt that preserved blood 1 set out on a lonely trek through highly satisfactory therapeutically,"

the doctors describe a method of col- Jungle and pigmy territory,

Mrs. Fisher said: "My husband Jecting and storing blood that reduces will take 3,000ft. of Alm, showing the risk of contamination to

wild life and the development of in-

minimum.

of

Or 38 transfusions of adult and dustry. He hopes to get shots

pigmies and big game. placental blood which had been pre-The film, part of it in colour, will served by this method for periods up

to six weeks the doctors record that be shown in England Inter in the

in only four cares did the patients year," .......

renet adversely to the treatment.

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