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RAPID GERMAN PROGRESS
LAST YEAR
tona.
Archibald Hurd writes in the Daily and 11 of them are of 8,000 tone sud upwards, the largest being of 9,500 Telgropǎ
Excluding vessels of less than 1,000 tons, 35 chips, of about 250,500 tons, for the carriage of oil in balk were launched.
After an interval of over sever years, the veil is lifted to-day, and we have statistical information to support the statements which have recently been current as to the energy with which Germany is working to re stablish her mercantile marine. Under the Peace Treaty she surendered all her seagoing vessels, as well as her larger coastal ships, but she retained her resources for abip
construction and equipment; her
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THE CHINA MAIL
DEATH-ADDER ISLANDSTM
BABY BEAL SAVED BY HOTHER. LOVE.
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY BCHSSORS BOOT,
Wanders of Radium.
A PUZZLED JUDGE.
At the end of the evidence in a complicated: commerical action – bes fore: Mr. Justios, Ballhache in the Demonstrating the phosphorescence King's Bench Division one of the A magnificent haul of rare specs of radio-active, anbstances in the counsel, Mr Jawitt, KC, observed mens has been safely handed over to course of a lecture on radio-activity, that his opponent, Mr. R. A. Wright, the Sydney Museum by three the Royal Institution. Sir Boost he had made merry at the com adventurous saientists who, thanks to Rutherford had all the Fights in the plexity of his Mr. Jowitt's) case and the generosity of a riak Australian, lecture mom extinguished and then had said he failed to understand it, Mr. Henry C. White, explored in beld up a small tabe of radium. All be (Mr. Jowitt) could my in reply 24. bost the archipelago of islands Only a faint glow of greenish light was that he was unable to understand on the desolate southern coast of was visible, and Sir Emest explained Kr. Waght's case (Laughter.)
Mr. Fastice Baillacha: How ob ↑ Australia "known as the Recherche that the presence of sa uzajam
group
sulphate merren was necessary to make Garth am I going to give a judgment if neither of you understand the case { ¦ - The plans of the expedition, which fully phosphorescent... the› Indium
Me. Jowith: Ws both hävs learned consisted of Mr. A. F. Basset-Hull, emanations. He then placed such a arnithologist of the museum, screen in close proximity to the tube juniors who will be able to unravel leader Mr. H. & Grant the of radium and the whole hall was - your lordship's judgment, and that taxidermiet; and Mr. J. H Wright, luminated by the glow which resulted. the best we can hope for. (Langh his assistant, wern announced in The Proceeding, Sir Brnest stated that tex.) Daily Mast of December 28 last. The many minerals, samples of some of islands be on the western edge of the which were present on the table, Great Australian Bight, and over their contained minnts quantities. granite chith the huge rollers of the radium, and he would endeavour -to find them by moving the siresin about. hight smash in spray 100ft high.
The axpedition proceeded in the As he proceeded to pass his band little Government steamer "Eucla" to containing the screen over the table,
which during the phosphorescent light, varying in it- | Mas Amphlett Experance,
Mr G.M. Hemsworth Kalgoorlie gold raah; was a bustling tensity with the amount of radio Mr G. W. Anderan Hir W. fegan
Mr E. Andrews Me and Mrs 8.0. port. Now it boasts but 300 motive substances in the mineral sp - bias. Eumphrey and
CJ. H. Backbous children inhabitants, and the 24ft sailing-boat prosched, became visible, and Sir
B. Baker means of communication with the stance from the intensity of ita borrowed by the expedition is its only Ernest was able to name the sub
phosphorescence. different lands.
The new ships include 70, with
During the three weeks they spent total tonnage of 624,487 tour, which will be fitted with steam turbines, in the archipelago the scientists land and practically all of them will haveed on or closely observed every one geand turbines.
In the order of their output, the
Glasgow district occupies first places
of the 50 islanda,
They found islands of death-adders and islands of rate. In what they
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In all, added the lecturer Europe had produced about forty grammes of radium, and America 120 to 130 gramines, so that the total amount in existence at the present day was about 160 grammes. He invited his tra & Brewise
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organisations for ship management with 358,347 tons, followed by New called "Death Adder Inland” these sudience to work out its valde, the CA. Calking..
which
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Me F. Carman
MD. R.Davies
Mr B. G. Harris
Mr Bekkers
& Mo Birall de Dreward Mr. and Mrs
Mr C. Noppe- Mr4. H. Nyland Me & Uno R Er A. Roberts Mr P. Bohling Kr & H. Rowd Mr A. Basan
Mr Kasdoll Serd Capt. W. &. Sparks Mr A Steeler Medel Hr Ter A.De and
Mr & Mrs Handford
Mr Alex Thalar, Mr J. B. Thoman
Mis W.
Wagner
Mr. Yoc'ay
Mine MsClay
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reptiles were everywhere, and the
Other islands were known St. Paul's.
Miss Clutterbuck pedition was at a loss to know how
Me C. G. Colgrove literally alive with rata, their runs they got there.
Interesting facts in connection with Mr C. M. Coctell and channels visible everywhere in be grass. On one island the expedition St. Paul's Cathedral are recalled in A. Do secured state specimen of 1st, but The Cathedrals of England and Mrs W. Dorval
Mr F. C-Elvins, was unable to find a particular speci Wales," by T. Francis Bumpus (T. MEH. Efferece
Werner Lantic, 66. net) just publish- R. van Becker men of wallaby said to exist on Moned. Sir Christopher Wren's salary Mr D. Farmer drain Island.
One of the party's most interesting was only £200 a year. "It was sup- Mr W. E. Facber
Iz Esinn experiences was at Lion or Gibraltar Posed that in order to continue in the ad of Gosford
enjoyment of this munificent sum be hot. T. F. La Island, where they came upón a nour ber of tavaymaned cow seals, one of delayed the works, and in an Act Mr and Ms W.
Hannibal which, a magnificent specimen, 9ft. passed in 1695 there was a clause 7in. in length, was abot. It will be authorising the suspension of the first specimen to be seen in Bydney moiety of the surveyor's salary until The landing to secure the Bain was a the church should be finished, thereby particularly parilous proceeding amid the better to encourage him to finish mountainous seas in bitter cold the same with the utmost diligence There was a chance to get a baby and expedition, and it was not until seal, but the deration with which the aid him." He was dismissed after parents protected it melted Mr. Grant's heart and the baby seal was 9 year service, when he was. 85. St. Paul's was begun and finished spared.
within 40 years, under one master man. The manor of Tilingham, Mrs Liddell Essex with which the cathedral was Mr Lynott endowed about 579 A.D. continues to Mr RF. Hatting's Bits Trevelyan form part for the fund for the sustentation of its fabric. The great peculiarity of the come of St. Paul's is the invisible conical structure of brick interposed between the inner Capt. J. H. Anderson Mr J. Jouris
Me and Mrs McCar Mrand MK G.Mr BJ de E. fora circumference of the former, and Bhir
Mr A. E. Horton serving to sapport the stone lantem. ME Bo'e Mr.F. A. Murphy The supporting cone in mort Mr. G. Bridden Me and Mrs. H.
Osterry Capt. Browa ingeniously modified at its upper Mr J. C. Chas part to leve eight windows and supir & Y. Dan
Christmas 1717 that the moiety wad
C.Miss Packer Foes
Edgcumbe and Mrs Netwist Mr G. Fritz
child.
Mr & Mrs Mickelson
Kr Barter Er and Mr GearsMr and Mrs Powra Mr & Mrs. O, W.Mr Echryver
Gravely rechner
and her trained officers and men. She posscased in defeat everything except: ships, and that she is losing no time in providing these is revealed in the Annual Summary of the Not a single sailing ship was launch Mercantile Shipbuilding of the World ed daring the year. In comparison by with the tonnage of 1,558,062 launch published is Lloyd's Register, During the pasted in the United Kingdom last year, year she put into the water a larger other countries were responsible for volume of tonnage than at any 2,803,627 tone, and it is interesting to previous period of her history; her note that a total of 4,341,679. tons outpat consisted of 242 vessels of upwards of 1,000,000 tons to be 509,065 tons, being more than twice exact, 1,050,356 tons--were represent- as large BX that of Japan, ed 151 steam or motor, tankers, fure-
and or France,
three
times e ishing proof of the importance which that of Italy. great
It the oil-carrying trade has now assum must be a matter of some years, of ed. Apart from the spurt in Ger course, before the Germans possess many, France, Italy, and Holland put anything like as much tonnage as into the water more new vases in of 1921 than ever before, and although they owned an the tre the war-upwards of 5000,000 tons the shipbuilding industry in the Unit -but it is apparent that they ed States is now suffering from serious intend to go on steady building depression, that country was respon and in the meantime their shipping rible last year for nearly 35 per cent. companies, with the assistance of of the total output abroad Japan groups of American firms, are main has also suffered & serious set-back taining the efficiency of their organisa- representing a reduction of over 50 tions in various arts of the world. per cent as compared with the pre Owing to the low standard of wages ceding year. Denmark, Norway, and which exists throughout Germany and Sweden continued busy in ship con- the long hours which are being work struction; Denmark and Sweden, ed, the shipping companies are so indeed, have never before laun quiring new vessels of the most eff- ched so many ships, and Den-OPERA STAR IN A NIGHT. and outer domes, resting on the lower Mr Carl Perg cient types st s very cheap rate, and they will be able to operate them most economically, owing to the modest rates of pay of their officers and men. propulsive agent being the largest of It will be interesting, on the other any country outside the United King hand, to watch the influence which dom. the derangement of the exchanges and other economic disturbances may have on the ambitious plans which are now entertained for re establishing Ger many's position on the sess.
THE BRITISH OUTFUT.
mark is devoting attention in- creasingly to the internal combustion engine, her output of ships with this į
In presenting these shipbuild ing returns, Lloyd's Register appends the following notes:
Dealing with the combined totals
Bare makes, frogs and lizards marine sheile, including three which are entirely new, and a wonderful collection of, sh are included in the bag which the expedition brought home with it to Sydney.
YOUNG AUSTRALIAN'S LEAP
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port the concentrated weight of the Mr A. RP Davis Er and Mrs W. F.
Mr W. F, Gillespie Pr Ar and Mrs. A.Mis-Fossel
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Mr T. T. Sinclair
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In London musical circles in mail | eight masses of the lantern.” week the one topic of conversation Mr. G. B. Shaw and Jord Grey, WAL the plack of Miss Florence
Speaking-in connection with a Austral in making her first appear lecture by Mr. G. F.Gooch, before the
81 ..Brannhilde in The for the work in hand in countries
members of the Fabian Society Valkyrie" at Covent Garden abroad, a steady decrease has taken and the complete success
on the European situation. Mr. which
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But these latest returns are full of place during the whole of 1921. At rewarded it. Brunnhilde is one of eorge Bernard Shaw said that in the Mr and Mrs P. R. J. Madame Lottie Ger
the beginning of the year the tourage the most exacting, parts in all opera Test 1913 he made a desperate efort Mr and Mrs J.. L. Viss M. B. Fall
Capt. and Mrs E under construction amounted to and most singers have reserved it France and Germany by a guarantert Mr and Ms H. W. Elanneris
to avoid the possibility of war between Adams 3470.862 tons and at the end of for the aorting triumph of their relative to t e frontiers. He took the Mr G. F. Anderson 1-Gel und Me
-Allen-
Major D. Harding December the total was 1,816,774
view that civilisation had reached a Mr and Ms . E.-S F. Feud tons, a decrease of 1,654,038 tons.
"I was born at Melbourne just on point at which war would be intoleran
FATESTS.
:
Baxter
Mr AS Hemes
Mr A. E. Holiage.
Rev. J. Holman
Mr J. F. Joseph
Mr C. W. E. Fishop #. E. Liwaza
Braden
Le M. J. Breen.-
My L. Kibebell:
Mr J. W. Moran
interest & part from the evidence which they supply of German activity. They fully confirm the statements which have already been made in The Daily Telegraph as to the crisis which now controats the shipbuilders
Most of this reduction is dus to the 28 years ago," she told a Daily Mou) ble, and that - it - Germany attacked Dr and Mrs H. der H. D. Hilliard and marine engineers of the United decrease in the shipbuilding industry reporter "My name is Wilson, but I France, we should d-fend her, and on ir and Mrs H. Gworth
Avelse Kingdom owing to the high charges in the following countries: The took that of Austral for reasons which the other hand it Erance attacker Virian Benisriniz and Mr A. L which they are bound to make for new United States (where at the end of are obvious. Until I was 17 I knew Germany, this country would defend bir and Ms E-G, Jacobe tonnage in consequence of the ex- December, 1920, there were 1,310,312 practically nothing about music, and Germany. No one, however, took Birch aggerated wages direct and in-fans building, whereas the Egures for certainly had no idea of singing as the slightest notice of what, in his C. Rind Tape E. EL Lake alect, which must be paid. Whereas December, 1921, are 216 423 tons) profession. But some school friends innocence, he had put forward Miss L. A. Flair Mr. McGregor in the closing years of last century with a reduction of 1,093 884 tons of mine pushed me into charity What Sir Edward Grey (now Vacountr E. 8. Booth
Holland with a decrease of 137,085 cantats, and there you are. I went we were responsible for DYLI 80 per cent of the world's output of tons, the British Dominions 120,186 to the Melbourne Conservatoire Grey) said was that if he (Mr. Shaw) Mr and My G. M.Mr G. Miskin
was allowed to have his way there where I remained a yrat, and after would be a Eropean war within air. P. Beläger Sorg-Lt. M new ships, last year, the percentage tous, and Capan 103,601 tons. fall to 35.5, and it is rapidly drelin. The only shipbuilding country wards to the University Conservataite, fortnight. (Laughter) When dining Eng Capt. and Mrs Webilt ing. No less then 39.5 per cent of where the tonnage under construction where I studied five years.
with the German Ambassador at that Bonwick When I was 26 I thought it was time he made the suggestion to bit, Mr W. Batter Capt. and Mr C 0. this British tonnage will pass aucer at the end of 1921 appears from the fareiga flags or the flags of the figures to be considerably larger that about time I did something with my and Prince Lichnowsky absolutely field Dir Ólliver (M Dominione, thus ilustrating the ex- for December, 1920, is Italy, with an voice, but there was nobody to help Boored him by saying he took no in Le Tol B. J. H.Me 4. H. Per tent to which we are dependent upon increase of about 30,000 tons.
Butterwort Hon. Mr said Mrs.T and my only connection cutside of overses orders in these twin The countries abroad having the Australia was the daughter of one of treat in the proposal, for he was con- air and Mia G. A.: La Fertine
vinced Sir Edward Grey was the Chadwick MLH W. Patley industries. Particolaz are now largest amount of tonzage under con- my friends, who was to the Unitedtemet trend Germany had in their and Mrs T. W.Major & Ma Y, stable which show withstruction at the end of 1921 are: Braten. I went there and eventually world. He (Mr. Shaw) simply rejoinranq Ks P. H. Lritchie
Church, Palilipe erage, in view of the present pro Italy, $79.000 tons; UnitedStates of obtained an audition with the Chicago the important vees, passenger America, 216,428 tome, and Japan Opera. I was offered a contract, but ed, God help you for he knew Christensen Mr. WE. Roberts
that Edward Grey's inclinations lay Lt. ad Has H H.Mian J. L. Roberson cargo, which were lost during the 144 912 ton
I fait Lously and homesick and WẠI in the direction of war of some kind war are being replaced The Ishonid, however, be stated that afraid to take it year's figures include no less than 103 the above figures referring to work in I was on my way home to Vessels of between 8,0.0 and 10,000 laud at the end of December, 1921, Australia, and broke my joumey at tons esch, and, 24" versale,rargins(Lacin'e "a" considerable proportion London to have a look round. This from 10,000 tone upwards. The ten (over 22 per cent of the total) of in the result. largest abips include:
Toscanis
tonnage on which all work is DOW.
su pended, notably in Italy and the United States The present condition, and the immediate furture, of the haz shipbuilding industry cannot there, fore, be correctly, gauged from the toteli of work in hand unless this factor, and ofhers fesady mentioned. when dealing with the Unitar
Laconis
Tons. 219,730 -1
Windsor Castle
.19.000
Conte Rosso
„18,500,
17 250
Moldavia
16,510
Montclare
16,400
Antoris
13,920
Esperance Bay
13,850
don output, ats taken into
Hobson Bay
Moreton Bay
.13,850 13.850
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