STRANGE SCENES IN LONDON

Taranaki Daily News, 28 April 1931, Page 6

STRANGE SCENES IN LONDON

COMPLETION OF CENSUS RETURN. ONE BABY GETS IN BY 15 SECONDS By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright. Roe 7.15 p.rn. London, April 27. Strange scenes were witnessed in Loudon at midnight and in the early morning, when the census forms were completed for hospitals, police stations and the Victoria Embankment. “Census babies” born before midnight included Clara May, who got in by 15 seconds, with six other babies born between 11 o’clock and midnight. The police responsible for entering particulars of vagrants made an intensive hunt of the streets and the Embankment in driving rain. . More than a hundred wefh questioned in the crypt of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields church, where a red lamp burns throughout the night to welcome the homeless. Four persons rescued from a blazing house at Brighton owe their lives to their neighbours’ staying up till midnight to complete census papers. The Prince of Wales and Prince George, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Beaverbrook were among the celebrities who were not included. ExKing Alfonso, Prince Axel of Denmark, Douglas Fairbanks and Zara Agha, the world’s oldest man, were given forms.