TUESDAY" JUNE 24 1924.
HONGKONG'S LIFEBLOOD.
COMMENT ON OUR HARBOUR PROJECT.
GOVERNMENT AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
BY AIR TO INDIA.... GOVERNMENT PLANNING
SERVICE.
CONTRACT FOR ONE AIRSHIP ONLY.
CONRAD'S SKIPPER.
THE CHINA MAIL.
ROBOT
BISHOPS.
FAMOUS SHIPS RECALLED. WHAT THE FUTURE HAS IN
STORE,
CAPTAIN OSBORNE'S
RETIREMENT.
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One often reads in the lives of saintly men that when they were'
If, like their martial brethren, offered bishoprics they always old sailors never die, they do wanted to refuse; hut then they occasionally retire. Then memories of gallant days are recalled; old consulted their friends, and their records are hunted up and argu-friends nearly always said: "You
writes must accept.,
"Parson dozen of battles fought long ago be so good for the Church," ments are settled, '
Good stories follow by the Adams" in the Outlook. It will with the winds and seas in all meaying, of course, their.
quarters of the globe.
party in the After 46 years' service Captain own
Church. Marcus M. Osborne, one of the So they
accepted: ayd best known men in Australian ceased to be of very much import shipping circles, is about to say ance. For this is the paradox. As good-bye to a command.
a man buttons on his gaiters he His memory can carry him back does cease to be of much import.
of the vulgar. What bishop is there the present day who is influencing the thought will not say of England no one imagines that-but even the thought of the Church?
The Macdonald Government has rejected the airship scheme out- It is now about one year since lined by Lieutenant-Commander the report of Sir Maurice Fitz- Burney, to provide aerial com maurice, on the suggested deve-[munication for the Empire. How ever, a contract will be made with lopment of Hongkong as a port on Mines sufficiently comprehensive to build a single airship for the Commander, Burney's company to
meet every probable demand of the Indian service. next few decades was made public. The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay: but so far there has been no Macdonald, announced in the official announcement as to whether House of Commons that after care the Government has decided ful examination the Government either to adont or to shelve the had rejected the Burney scheine. Hunghom Вру (Flizmaurice) but instead it would organise a scheme, or to take ortion as regards comprehensive programme of an excellent alternative scheme airship research. proposed by Captain Davison. It would make a series of experi- to those days when he served inance, except, of course, in the eyes Governments thrive on jirocras-ments, including full scale experi- the clipper ship' Tweed," one of the tination, and the one at Hongkongments, with an existing airship,glorious ships that made history in appears to be no exception to the which would be reconditioned for the seventies and 'eighties of the
last century, general rule. That, however. is the purpose. It would construct more or less by the way.
also a new airship, with a capacity. The "Tweed" paid her first visit to
Melbourne in 1873, A contract has been signed with of 5,000,000 cubic feet.
This magnifi
Therefore no man, when he is a Dutch company-the Netherlands The Air Ministry would under-cent clipper," writes Mr. Basi! Harbour Works Co-for the con- take the construction of terminal, est ship ever seen in Hobson's of life, should listen to his friends. Lubbock, was probably the tall offered any of the gaitered walks struction of a quay at North Point and intermediate bases overseas,
Bay. on behalf of a group of Chinese and would provide facilities to
And wherever Captain for they are biased and misguid. A canonry is different: it Stuart took her she compelled ed. who are interested in the Java enable 'two'airships to travel with sugar, trade, and this fact is of safety between Britain and India. admiration both for her majestic means a house, an income and no extreme interest as showing that Mr. MacDonald added that the Appearance and wonderful sailing work, and is only dangerous he
cause of its comfort: yet how whatever njay he the intentions of Air Ministry would simultaneous Performances." the Hongkong Government as ly give Lieutenant-Commander
many canons are there to whom regards port development, private Burney's company the first offer
we turn for spiritual guidance er expert advice? One or two, but enterprise is not going to stand of a contract to construct the absolutely still awaiting events, second airship for
very few. And the unhappy observes Shipping and Engineering purposes. The company would
he has to give up reading, he has bishop is in a far worse light: have the right to re purchase the
not time for thought; no one treats airship from the Air Ministry.
The Government would thus
bim as a human being, and he has avoid the expenditure of £4.800,000
involved in
(Shanghai)
Mr. Fletcher's Remarks. "It is signifient that Mr. Fletcher, addressing the Committee of the Hodgkong Chamber of Commerce some months ago, remarked that there was every opportunity of
opening up the undeveloped land at North Point for wharf and godown purnoses. He further stated the Government proposed to reserve the North Point area absolutely fitport use, and quoted 2 minute from. Mr. Perkins, the late D.P.W. of Hongkong, who wrote:-~
future
"Paramount Importance.". It is refreshing to know that although the new scheme is entire ly a private enterprise, the work will be carried out under the direct control of the Hongkong Govern-
in 15 years, original scheme.
commercial
the
The amended proposals would probably cost at most £1,200,000 within the next three years.
The Burney scheme, said the Prime Minister, would have created a virtual monopoly in crial transportation, and its other financial and technical features were also open to objection..
The modifications of it that the Government had agreed to meant the linking of private enterprise with airship development from the start, and in the event of success this would facilitate the early
The "Tweed" has been lovingly described in Joseph Conrad's hook, The Mirror of the Sea," and had some notable passages recorded in with eight fise stallions on board, her log at different times. In 1876, she ran from the Start to King's Island in 77 days on her way to Sydney, but was then held up
three
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THE OUTSTANDING MYSTERY
THRILLER OF MANY SEASONS !
TWO LOVERS, one a princess of royal blood and the other a peasant, brought together by the democracy" of love, fight together for life, Honour and happiness through one of the most tumultuous nights in the world's history. Against Bavu against a trimson torrent of crazed men and women-against- overwhelming-odds- you will follow their herole flights, and you will marvel that such gripplag excitement could have been transferred to the silver-sheet.."
"BAVU"
COMING TO THE WORLD TO-MORROW.
EMPOLI MASSACRE.
TIONS.
Tue 13T
In the Church House you see more days by calm." Captain Stuart, Peterhead, was their photographs on every side. for long the skipper of the "Tweed," No one else counts in the Church and in the following year he com- House. Their chins are general- manded the "Loch Etive," in which y propped on their fingers, Joseph Conrad served as an officer but all you notice are the hideous to pass a canon affirming that the The "Loch Etive" was a fuller ship inflated sleeves, which seem to apostolic succession can percolate than the "Tweed," and, says Mr. suggest emptiness and pretension, through robots as well as humans. Lubbock again, for some years They all have obituary notices in This would have to be carefully. some people Captain Stuart failed to get any the Times: their cathedrals are drafted, because thing remarkable out of her choked up with monuments to seem to regard the apostolic though he drove her unmercifully," them in had Gathic: they were all succession as a kind of electric never quite expensive. But they did fluid, conveyed by contact. Mean- "The Government is practical
But his new commund ly committed to develop the
had anything like the speed of his not make the Church of England while the new robots would be put
of to-day. The nanies that have through a year's training. North Point Foreshore, and fill
old ship, the Tweed,"
"TRANSFERRED TO STEAM.” survived from the Nineteenth They would be taught the forms ing from the new 100 foot road
Captain Osborne, who recalls Century, the men whose thought of the pontifical by heart, so that confirmations, is already being deposited on
Conrad's association with Ausis still alive and whose books are they could take the western end thereof for thatnagaration of commercial air-tralia, served as apprentice and as not yet pulped, belong not to the ordinations, and minor benedic- If they purpose: and I venture to assert shin services open to all firms.
The new scheme would enable officer on the "Tweed" for the five bishops, hut to the doctors of the tions without a hitch. that in the future possession of such a magnificent, stretch of two airships to be placed in com-years following 1872, and then Kalendar and to the plain parish were also taught the rest of the He came priests: Maurice, Kingsley, services (unrevised) it would be deep water frontage with wharf-inission earlier than the original transferred to steam. age alongside and stacking area scheme, hecause they would be out to Australia in the A.S.N. Com- Robertson of Brighton, Keble, great gain, as they would then not constructed simultaneously. It pany's new steamer "Katoomba," Newman, Pusey, Neale have to he taught to read: they extending back to the main road-and for a great portion of would also result in the main sailing from Port Glasgow in There were two or three great would thus waste no time its length-800-feet-in-depth the tenance of two separate airship April, 1878. He continued in the English bishops in the seventeenth books, and besides would be quite service of the company after his century, such as Andrews, Jeremy unmoved by letters from their Government holds a field for manufacturing plants,
first two victims fell. "One wa "Harbour development. The Government would retain arrival in Australia, winning his Taylor and Ken (and Bishop clergy, and ladies, and from
Butler in the eighteenth); but it is mendicants.
Of course, if it was found inevit
Gunner Carlo Turli, who, shot. second" only in value to that the existing airship stations and command in 1885.
Upon the A.U.S.N. Company a notable fact that no bishops were would own the oversea bases: proposed to be created at
Also, it retainer the freedom to taking over in 1887 he joined up, selected to translate our English able that they should be taught to Hunghom, and one which on no
dragged about, trampled upon, and account should be alienated for deal, in the future, with any com- and for 20 years commanded Bible in 1604, although six of the read, then they would have to be SOME SHOCKING REVELA-dead, fell from the lorry and was vessels in the Sydney-West! translators became bishops during taught typewriting as well, in
horribly mangled by the infuriated any purpose unconnected with pany or group.
Lord Thomson, the AirMinister, Pilbarra, the Paroo, the Marritta, spent on the work.
Australian trade, including the or shortly after the seven years order to fill up their spare hours. They would also have to be care-
The lorry succeeded in shipning."
Horrible details of the Empoli mob. made known the Cabinet's decision
fully inhibited from writing letters massacre in February, 1921, were starting again, but before getting The Remedy. in the House of Lords.. His state-the Kyarra, and the Indarra," of
to The Times,
brought to light at the trial of the outside the town boundaries two ment confirmed the forecast of the which vessel he superintended the fitting out in Glasgow in 1912,
What is the remedy? We must
Sit Easily.
IEN Communist which is famore of its occupants were killed. special representative of The
Meanwhile barricades were erected Sun, måde at the beginning of subsequently bringing her out to not try to persuade really first-
They would be modelled so progress, at Florene to bury their heads the month
could sit easily siding judge, summing the furie second torry, which stopped The "Indarra" commenced ran-under wings of lawn. Or, if they that they
a com-story of the massacre, dodreditediately inside the town, and was fired upon and attacked by There is now the prospect of aning in the West Australian trade have fallen, we must get them to and impressively in ment's Port Engineer, so that we keen race between the Burney in February, 1913. In 1917 she was come back and start thinkingfortable chair, and would be that it was "one of the most br
The rible episodes of human ferocity." howling mob, led by a certain Giuseppe Rossi. This Giuseppe can expect that whatever will be company and the Air Ministry to aken over for carrying troops to again, as Bishop Gorė has dona.trained to say from to time,
who had assumed the the ultimate main scheme for the complete their respective airships. the war. Captain Osborne return. Yet we must have bishops. There speaker is wandering from his When in February, 1921, one! bour decided on by the Govern- a service between development of Hongkong har- Both airships will be used fored from war service to Australia are so inany people still who think point"; and (when the left toes are of those innumerable" general Rossi,
Britain and in 1918, and was given command of
we shouldn't belong to the Catholic gently squeezed) "The question strikes was declared without rhyme pompous title "People's Comis- ment, the present private scheme India. will be enibodied in the general "I cannot say how soon the first the "Wyandra" in the Melbourne Church at all if we had no bishops. will now be put," and also (when or reason, as happened throughout Sary," no longer recognised the
Queensland service.
Besides, there are Confirmations the right toes are pressed) to ring the Socialist agitation of 1920, 1921. authority of the Italian Govem- one. This private scheme is of airship will arrive in Australia or
Now at the age of 65 he retires to be taken, and rich people to be a bell. Three sermons and twelve and 1922, a small Socialist con-ment, and only obeyed instruc- was held tons from Moscow. One of the. paramount importance in that it New Zealand," said Lieutenant-
married. The only remedy is to old stories will also be imparted ingress, of which one is the precursor of that wider Commander Burney, in an in- to enjoy a well-earned pension.
apply to the RUR. Co. and the factory, and one speech to the every month in some region or Carabiniert was shot dead as he development of the port's facilities terview with the special repre-
Morelli next induce them to manufacture Robot effect that the speaker loves the other of Italy at the instigation of was escaping by the Communist
Bolsheviks,
Giovanni Morelli. was which, sooner or later but inevit-sentative of The Swi.
The Council of the Society of Bishops.
parish where he is speaking almost the Russian ably, is bound to take place. Everything depends on the Motor Manufacturers and Traders These should be made five feet better than any other parish in his sitting at Leghorn. It was thera-aimed his pistol at the Carabiniere fore known immediately to this Muso. The latter, who was with- Governmental delays and official Air Ministry's energies in over has decided that the question of eleven high and should be diocese. procrastinations notwithstanding. coming the initial difficulties in admitting Germah and Austrian (standardised in part, so that the Thus, well modelled and congress that the Government had out arms, implored him not
him. Another soldier took refuge Shanghai's Wait and See. designing and testing the ships, motor cars to the annual Motor present waste of money in silk efficiently trained, the robo: bishop ordered companies of soldiers shoot; but Morelli fired and killed
and sailors from Leghorn
in the. Communist headquarters; A consideration of Hongkong's If my scheme had been accepted Show at Olympia shall be deferred chimeres, copes, mitres, and rings will be ready for his work. His
act as engine development gives one to wonder we would have made the first until the reparations question has could be avoided. They should diocese will be in raptures, and to Florence to when the much-vaunted scheme for voyage to Australasia within two heen settled,
be of moderate girth, and thi there will be no complaining in drivers and prevent a complete where he was hunted down and The shot. Others were chased along the development of Shanghai as a years, using the war-time monitors
about the jaws; for it is better for the streets of his cathedral city. stoppage of railway traffic. port is going to be retrieved from
the credit of the Church that they There will be no favouritism and Communist Maltagliati on a motor the streets, wounded repeatedly, the musty pigeon-holes at Peking.
should not incline to partliness. no timidity: and blindness to the cycle avertook the convoy of sailors and driven into the river, where "My airship guarantee company.
The reading of the details of the It soon will be three years since
The nose should be prominent but signs of the times will be expected and carabinieri, and preceded it they were drowned. varying in pattern, and the make of him. All patronage will, of to Empoli, where he gave the the committee of the world's which is backed by Vickers, owns
massacre caused a sensation in Nearly every town in up in the matter of hair should also course," he transferred to the alarm.
court. The prisoners, among whom greatest experts in port engineer- the Howden airship station.
all Tuscany at that time was more or be carefully varied, so as to pre- | patronage committee and ing gathered here and submitted could undertake any developments on behalf of Australia, New
veat them interfering in one matters of organisation to the less under a Communist reign of were Rossi and Morelli, listened another's dioceses without the synod. Our clever friends will terror, with red flags over the town impassively. The judge began knowledge of the faithful. no longer be taken from us and halls. The Communists of Empoli,ramediately with the hearing of witnesses, who repeated their "We should need for Australia
They should be simple in struc iminolated on the altar of prelacy. who were well supplied with arms previous depositions. Among Worms rob children of nourishmuat. £300,000 a year until the Anglo- Australian service became com-
give them pains in the stomach and ture without complexity in the They will be formed into a new and all the requisites for civil war,
that, they order, an order not hitherto immediately armed themselves prisoners is one bowels, apoil thoir sleep sad steal their alimentary canal, so inercially successful. Dominions decide to inaugurate Baby's Own Tablets drive cut worms, equally noctible nutritious food. They will be the Thinkers.
the strongth. Administered for a few days, can be fed on molasses, or sorac formally provided in the Church, and waylaid the military escort accused of having bitten off the and the motor lorries. Maltagliati, car of one of the victims after he airship services to Britain there is and then the little sufferer rapidly They must be fatigue-proof, and
And the Thinkers will lead, seeing one of these stopped owing had been shot. His appetite increases, hg.
to trouble with the motor, question-. no reason why they should not improves. start negotiations now and begin sleeps wall, becomes pink, plamp and capable of visiting all the parishes while the robot bishops are cond the chauffeur as to the object of
in their dioceses on foot. The sidered to rule. happy.
Impeccably, the journey, and gave himself out building when the Air Ministry Baby's Own Tablota, the Canadian muscular action also should be inertantly, our robots will perform a Fascist. He thus learned the and ourselves complete trial tests ebiidron's remedy, are an absolutely very simple: a good stride, all these episcopal functions which
puro and nafe specific for infantile head permanently set a little for are so necessary to the Church.xact route the trucks were follow- indigestion, constipation, colle, diarchoos ward, and a few simple arm And when they wear out they will the armed Communists of Empoli Romedy possesses one unique character-
ing, and gavo full information to colds. paine, oraup and
gestures, didactic, benedictory, be quietly pat on to a goods-train; This is rhonntism of the muscles of They induce calm, restful sleep in a
and minatory would be all that There will be no antiquated robots: When the Erst lorry reachedistic among medicina. It is made solely part lecture or theatre, blot out the the back. It comes on suddenly and in natural way and assist development.
iately rolioving savere pain fo tho ward we most want to har 1', Oham- very painful. Every movement ag- If you cazant obtain Baby's Own would be needed. But the set lips and no pensioned rabots; nor will Empoli at five p.m..it is received and only for the one purpose of immed. berlain's Cough Remedy helps these em-gravates the disanee, Go to bed, koop Tablets, where you liyo, send so cent of the other R.U.R. models must our cathedrals he defaced by their with numerous shots from men in stomach and
The robot bishop monuments. They will just be hiding, and compelled to halt in cramps (whatever the cause) colic and barrassol ones, quickly puts so end to gnist and apply Chamberlain's Pain for a vial (83-ior, six) to the Dr. be overcome. coughing and tickling throat. For sale Balm and a quick recovery may be ox- Williams Medicinu Co., 00 Kisages must smile, or he will be at once sent to the stamping mills, and front of the Socialist headquarters, hiarrhoes. Every family should koop it
where a bomb was thrown and the i dandy. For sale everywhere. everywhere.
pratol. Sold everywhom.
Road, Shanghai.
returned to the stamping mills. worked up again.
as mobile bases at Singapore and
on the Australian coast.
SOMETHING EVERY MOTHER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
It
their scheme for the betterment of Zealand, or other Dominions, if Shanghai's port and the Whang-
granted a subsidy. poo's approaches.. The scheme was submitted to Peking without delay -and that appears to be the end of the matter. In this, as in many other matters connected with the advancement of China's commerce in which Peking is playing its famous role of wait and see, we can only hope.
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