TWO BRITONS’ PRIDE

Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 January 1931, Page 7

TWO BRITONS’ PRIDE

RAZORS BEFORE A DINNER. INCIDENTS OF A SHIPWRECK. Lisbon shopkeepers profited from the wreck of the motor liner Highland Hope. When the rescued passengers arrived there by night train from Poniche there was is well a rush that the police extended the closing hour from 7 till 10 p.m. A director of a. women’s store stated that the chief demands were for stockings, garters and berets. _ He had to keep girls working all night. Two of the Englishmen refused to I dine- until they had shaved. They scoured Lisbon for razors, but the extension hour did not apply to cutlers’ sliops. In the end they dined, unshaven, in a hotel bedroom. Toothbrushes. combs. ' powder 'and face cream were bought in great quanti-' ties. Two of the rescued French girls were walking about a. large store in pyjamas and bathing towels. They were unable to save even tlmir liandII lags. “We are returning to Montevideo.” they said, “and if the steami ship agency here does not supply us with outfits, we shall go back like this.” One of the young English passengers, Air Eric H. Quick, said: “I was on my way to Rio de Janeiro to get married. All my belongings, including wedding presents, are now probably at the bottom of the sea. T tried to get back to my cabin, but the violent rocking of the ship humped me against the walls, and T was forced to return to the deck.”