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Thursday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 15, 1941.

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HYNES: Killed by enemy action in

G1. (News recolved by enble),

BITTER WINTER

Full story

of the Amazing

February Weather in England had and he had a l

IT is now possible to reveal that the worst snowstorm shico 1917. swopt the north of England in the middle of February..

Many towns and villages in Cumberland, Westmorland, Northumberland, and Yorkshire were isolated for days; rail and bus services were interrupted; supplies ran short; district nurses were isolated with their patients: buses went through snow cuttings in ten foot drifts with the walls topping their roofs; some vehicles were buried for nearly a week, and at one time a large number of lorries and cars were hold up' in the north by the blocking of a famous pass. While this was happening in the north, most of the south was having normal weather.

Personal service highlights in this wide- spread storm were the way district nurses car- ried on in face of great difficulties and girls drove heavy Army lorries over hills, where some of them had to stay stormbound for the night.

I reached the approaches to the pass on the night before the thaw cleared the road sufficient- ly for alternate one-way traffic to be operated. Snow and traffic blocks made it impossible to go further.

wear

Snowstorm the

worst since 1917

Food dropped

by airplane

Women lorry-

drivers marooned

the nurse to get help iraniped 'some- times almost hip-deep in snow to the nearest farmhouse to summon a farm cart as ambulance to take the woman to hospital. She got safely through, but

on the return was charged by small herd of cattle which not fed for days. She lay down in the snow. The animals snifted her, then moved away. She scrambled over a fence and back to her patient. The farm cart got through later, and the woman was taken to hospital, where the child was safely born.

One or two nurses can scarcely walk after mild attacks of frost bite. One la in hospital as the result of her ordeals.

Packhorses to

the rescue

In some cut-off areas packhorses had to be brought out to get essen- tial supplies through. Many villages were without letters, newspapers, coal, and fresh food supplies for days. At Haltwhistle, Northumberland, where farmers holding their frat market

of

the year were able to bring scarcely anything to sell, there Was a shortage of beer, and, cus- tomers who wanted whisky generally got it out of miniature bottles, there being no other suppiles.

улта long and

frozen

Dirty days for shepherds

At every hillside bay there depots, and their convoys are Radnorshire village of Lloiney, to Alston. (1,000-foot high market Here, when I wanted to telephone were jams of traffic. Drivers constantly on the road, no mat- one of the blackest spots in the town) I was told at the post office were crowded in wayside cafes ter what the weather. or sleeping in outhouses, Police

country, was covered for forty- that if I wrote my message 'ns n' tele- and A.A. scouts in phone touch They are paid three pounds a foot snowdrifts on the Welsh Alston by road my driver wisely one consecutive days. Sixteen- and when I tried to get through to

gram they would with control points regulated week plus hotel expenses. They border made roads impassable turned back at a treacherous stretch send it by train,

traffic.

no uniforms and drive for three weeks. During this of fell roal where icléles hung more They told me that at the mostly in corduroy trousers, time isolated hamlets received snowdrifts were deeper."

than worst of the jam a hundred or overalls, and peaked caps with food by airplane. London on May 10, Tom Hynes, town, every cul-de-sac, yard, where they spend the night and in many districts. Shropshire

so vehicles were held up in one ear-pieces. At the hotels,

Temperature fell to below zoro and some streets being tem porary car parks. On the monopolise the baths for hours, had twenty-eight degrees of other side there were numbers they change into tailored skirts, frost, and south-east London more, and others were stuck at silken hose, and reveal polished twenty-two degrees. In some was the worst since 1917 or 1909, Farmers argued whether the storm various points between, where nails and permed hair that be- were 192 hours of continuous sheep buried under snow having to of the western counties there and told stories of thousands of hill many drifts went to eight, or lie blizzard adventures in the frost-a record ten feet and a few to fifteen.

not renched be dug out and brought into snfer since 1929, when more than 200 were. To get turnips to feed them

ground or hand-fed where hours was recorded.

farmers had to dig through feet of snow. Other farmers have nearly In the feil ecuntryside between used up their available supplies of Carlisle and Newenstle, where, wide strictly rationed feeding stuffs, and areas were completely cut off, wo- ploughing programmes are six weeks

Every day hill shepherds have

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

Thursday, May 15, 1941. Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 26815

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph Is used by the longkong Telegraph" to Indicate news which is steletly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni calians Ordinance. 1018, Buch news a bears the indication "U" received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications.

arrangement.

hills.

A hearse with coffin going to Preston for burial was

They have a regimental pride snowed up for five days; a bus com- in getting their

convoys pletely buried; a heavy load of through. biscuits for export lay on its side in a drift; there were lor-

That morning of the thaw The district nurses, I was told nt the

men also performed grand work. in arrears.

they

ries with fish and meat; heavy was an unforgettable spectacle. Cumberland County Council offices, been out, sometimes on horseback. wagons, some tarpaulined, some The snow-bound hillside (part rough to every case to which searching for sheep, either with long either wholly or in part without previous exposed to the weather-loads cleared by digging and thaw)

they were enlled. of granite, concrete blocks, a came suddenly to life, and a petrol tank 25ft. long.

queue of lorries came through from the north. They took

EXPLOITERS BEATEN

THE lesson, that determined Woman at the wheel hours to negotiate the precari-

How the Nurses got through

poles with which, they probe the drifts or with dogs that can scent through several feet of snow.

Sledges were also in use, and people walked #cross five-barred gates, high walls and hedges, scarce- and sincere effort, backed by, A convoy of twenty lorries, ous track, and until they had deep drifts by men relatives of a sick Carlisle were stopped. When some

Some had to dig their way to ly knowing they were there. patients' homes; one was carried over honest motives can always, in driven by girls, had just come passed no traffic was allowed to woman; some

Many bus services radiating from the long run,

through. Some of the vehicles go through from the south.

who had

of the ronds were cleared by cut- already scrupulous dealings has again

were 30cwt., some 5-tonners,

reached their patients' hemes were lings through drifts up to ten feet storm-stayed there for days, and deep the mow walls caved in dur Drivers brought through ad- doctors on horseback had to attending a short thaw and closed them been taught by the immediate night when days of digging had The road, it appeared, had been

They came over the pass one ditional stories of the hold-up, to other normally nursing cases. again. Then came another freeze World results of the establishment in cleared a temporary one-way cleared earlier, but one of the from Carlisle, the only way the nurse were also interrupted. The

up and

many cars were ditched. twelve miles For a time train services, Hongkong of "fair-price" rice for traffic, but near the summit first vehicles to go ahead was could reach a sick household was by when it could. Up there they will shops, which, within 48 hours another heavy fall of snow came a huge three-decker sheep lorry travelling on a colliery locomotive.

service smashed the Colony's rice pro- down. Eighteen of the twenty with fifty or sixty live sheep.

when it chuckle about the train that got At one maternity case in a fell through to the minute on a Friday.

overcome

U}}+

Ai Hallbankgate,

100,

Car-

through

Radio iteering market. The foresight train.-B. B.

MARCONIPHONE

THE NEW

PRICE $345

and courage of a number of nineteenth, helping to dig out the treacherous surface. Some the root, complications developed and in the "Sunday Express." public-minded people brought the one in front, did not no sheep-were-killed, some-injured- this about. Before the in-lice that her own was snowing

auguration of the "fair price" | up, and soon it was hopelessly The live ones had to be selling centres, many of the rice stuck. dealers openly snapped their fingers at Government legisla

tion which endeavoured to con- trol prices; and as if the flaunt- ing of the law were not sufficient, numbers of dealers

turned loose' in the fells' while the carrier and chassis were plight. Caught in one of the Another carrier following be The twentieth was in worse worked to the side of the road. worst spots on the fells, it was hind also had an accident, and snowed up. The girl driver spilled over the countryside.

more sheep and mutton were spent the night in her cab, stuf-

S. Moutrie & Co., Ltd. order to grasp that little extru tine all crevices with blouses, Better apparatus

YORK BUILDING

CHATER ROAD

THE FELLOWSHIP OF

THE BELLOWS

The R. A. F.

has done its stuff AGAIN

SO BLOW TO IT

April Score 385

profit at the expense of the pur- chasers, such as watering the rice to make it heavy, or adul terating it by mixing the grades, then charging Grade A prices.

re-

discussed

towels and newspapers to out slashing snow and a gale that threatened to overturn the lorry. A woman of sixty had to spend the night with her along the route added to the Stranded driverless lorries The driver had no sleep, for she dimculties of clearing a work- had to get out to start the able track. At the height of engine every hour to prevent the hold-up days earlier drivers freezing. It took them twenty were told on a Friday night that hours to cover twenty miles, nothing could get through, so and during that time they had many of them packed up and no food,

trekked to the nearest railway

Some of the girl drivers got stations and went home. Ac- through the partially cleared tually a temporary road was track after men drivers had cleared, when most of the wait- given up the task and had ing lorries had No drivers. tramped through the snow to Later snowfalls increased the the nearest shelter.

snow blocks and the delay.

One girl driver towed a heavy

On the north side of the pass lorry for several miles until she soldiers were called out to a where she had to give up. reached a stretch of surface sist workers engaged on clear-

£3 a week and

expenses

+

This sort of sharp practice was outright dishonesty and frnud which could only be suc- cessfully countered and ren- dered unprofitable by the op- pearance of competitors willing to sell pure, fair weight rice at the legal prices. Happily such public spirited and disinterested people were to be found in the Social Work Committee which formed itself for this express Lusk, As a result, the situation in the rice market has taken a violent change-for the better. Adulteration of rice is still be-

ing the road, but there are com- ing carried out by some

plaints that too few men were tailers, but so impressive was their loss of business for two

turned out on the work by the days that in sheer desperation

county council clearing the south side. Lorry drivers say they brought their prices below the official rate per picul by one

they volunteered to help on a dollar. This was the principal ans from comfortable homes and fused.

These girl drivers are civili- payment basis, but were re- aim of the "fair price" centres. accustomed to driving their own

cars. They drive lorries from voluntarily, and hundreds of Some took part in the work purpose of competing with the merchants on a profit-making

the assembly factories to Army them tolerated their troubles basis, nor of forcing the dealers

more easily for the reason that out of business unless they re- enthusiastic response

from they were getting overtime for fused to listen to reason. The those who were entitled to this Saturdays and Sundays while Social Work Committee were protection. It is to be hoped their lorries were stuck in the determined to make the licensed that those licensed rice dealers now. retailers adhere to the official who fondly imagined they could Ministry of Transport of- prices, and to prevent them continue their methods of ex- ficials have investigated the from exploiting any further the ploitation without any fear of hold-up, and it is probable that thousands of poor people who consequences, have learnt a more up-to-date snow-clearing rely on rice for their suston-salutary lesson. From now on, apparatus will be brought into they may rest assured that an operation in future on this dif- organisation exists which will ficult but vital road artery. not hesitate to fight them, and successfully so, if there are fur- Wales had its heaviest snow ther signs of malpractice. for seventy-five years. The

CLOSING DATE FOR APRIL Tuesday, May 20 They were not set up for the

Read your Fellowship. Booklet carefully for detailed instructions regarding "blow-ins" and "windfalls" then deposit your April "blow-in" (in a closed envelope with your Edilowship number). In addition to official collectors for firms there are collection Boxes atm

H.K. & Bhanghai, Bank, Kowloon, ' Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, Far East Oxygen & Acelyions Co.,

Ltd., Kowloon:

European Y. M. 0, A., Kowloon.

Caravan, Kowloon,

Helena May, Institutó, ILK.

II.K. & Shanghai Bank, 1LK!!

11.M. Jockey Club; I.K. Lane Crawford-Eid], H.K.

Star Ferry Wharf, Kowloom. China Light & Power Co., Ltd.,

Hung-hom.

China Light & Power Co., Ltd.

Argyle Street,

H.K. Star Ferry Wharf.

II.K. Itotel, ILK,

II.K. Clab.

Gloucester Hotel, 1LK,

ance.

This, was a worthy aim, which II.K. & Whampoa Dock Recreation ovoked not only the sympathy

Club.

of all fair-minded people, but happily, enjoyed a prompt and

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CHRISTOPHER

PAH!

WREN?

THE THWARTED ARCHITECT Hitler, in his youth, tried to be an architect,”