The Archive · 1935

Wrecking of Th Ie Three Graces

One of Few Instances of Damage: Illuminations Repeated: Reception on H.M.S. Kent Despite the gathering of such enormous crowds, as were seen me. streeta on 'Monday night, Bay' "6, "especially in Nanking Road trid "Bubbling Well" Road, Temarkably ile rouble. was ex: Tr'the practically hopeless attempt arleneed by. the police other. than

to dive tame's normal chance, and then damage, too, was surprisingly mall. At' one spot, however, ihe Itsletence. of Chinese) in. clambering tov vintage points from which 4 View as much as they could of the Proceedings. Inside the Race. Coarse fed tea certain amount of damage, this "involving the. three silvered Tadies Who, whether or not they have served an' advertising purpose, certainly. have provoked a deal of Badinage, On Tuesday, all three hung Iimpiy. from heir pedestals, tele Shapely limbs sadly" mangled, and {thelr Heads missing, whilst trusses of common straw protruding' from taping wounds lof the man tothe Stet into at least one secret of the modellers art The extensive hoarding which had stood behind the young ladies, bearing mostly Chinese advertisements ago had Been wrecked, every. meta sheet having been sipped avayy THe Moment some explorer conceived th {den of converting the bourding ints a granicatand, "scores rushed froma neighbouring alleyway, sealed the wooden framework from behind, Mrs. E. F. Hardman, Mr. H. G. W. Woodhead' and Mise' Eileen' Woodhead, Mr. P. Proby, Mr. H. Martin Little and Miss Merren Martin Little, Mr. J.-R. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. A. Henchman, "Mr. and Mrs." Paul Barentzen, Miss Wendy Ramsay, Miss 'Lorna Lucas, Miss Katherine Lucas, Mr. 7. Haggard, Mr. H. Braham, Commander and' Mrs. H. L. Shaw, Lieut-Cdr. and Mrs. John Woolley. Mr. R. Price, Mr. Hugh Barton, and many others.

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