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SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929.
REPLY TO CHINA THE RHINELAND
U.S.A. VIEW ON ABOLITION
OF EXTRALIFY ·
"LITTLE HOPE HELD OUT""
Washington, Yesterday.
Mr. Cotton, the acting Secretary of State, announces that a reply has been sent by the Government of the U.S.A. to the recent Chinese Note re- questing the abolition of extraterritor-
rights.
On a promontory at the extremeel south-west corner of Lantao Island are the ruins of an old Dutch fort, standing now on British soil.
This fort is at an elevation of about 200 feet above sea level. It was built by the uld Dutch traders out in the Far East in about the
17th or 18th century. It is now much overgrown with sword grass and other vegetation which makes it very difficult to examine the ruins bat, as far as can be seen, it is a rectangular structure, about 120 feet long, by about 65 feet wide, and is divided into two un- equal parts by an internal dividing wall.
The walls to a height of about ten feet are built
of dry stone, rubble. This is capped by a fur ther height of four feet of blue brick, making a total height of about 14 feet.
Position Not Strategic?
one
The walls are from six to seven feet thick and show no loop holes for crenelations, from which
would conclude that they were at one time somewhat higher and that, the ruin, as is the case with all such neglected buildings, has been used by the local inhabitants as a brick field.
The entrance to the fort seems to have been on the western side.
It is difficult to understand the choice of site because the cannon of those days had not a sufficiently long range to have commanded the channel. Nor is there any town, large village, or other trading centre within many miles..
Tradition says that the Dutch careened their ships upon the some what exposed beaches immediately below the fort. In this case the fort would be for the protection of the ships whilst careened.
What Careening Is
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NEW IDEAS
COMMITTEE OF JURISTS TO DECIDE
THE BRITISH ATTITUDE
The Hague, Yesterday. - The Political Commission has de- This reply has been delivered to the National Government of China, atcided to submit to a Committee of Nanking, and will not be published in Jurists the question of establishing Washington until it is given cut in a Commission for Verification and
Conciliation, Nanking.
which France and Bolgium wish to install in the Rhineland.
It is believed that the reply offers little hope to the Chinese for any im mediate abolition of extraterritorial pri- vileges. It
also understood that Notes from other Powers have simi- larly rejected the Chinese overtures. Reuter's American Service,
Replies Not Identical
London, Yesterday. It is learned that Britain and other interested Powers are about to dispatch a reply to China's Note regarding extraterritoriality.
Mr. A. Henderson (the Chairman) explained that Great Britain disliked the idea but if the Commit- tee was necessary it should come from the League of Nations and be strictly conciliatory.
Dr. Stresemann pointed out that diplomatic channels and the Locar- no Treaty sufficed to settle any disputes that might arise. It is understood that the Noves, M. Briand disclaimed any inten- which have been very carefully drafted, are not identical, though tion of creating a military body of in similar terms; and that they con-would help and not hamper Franco- His proposed Committee tain a reasoned statement of the
German relations. position.
They are not being published until they have been delivered to China-Reuter.
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GRAF ZEPPELIN "
REPORTS FLYING OVER SCILLY. ISLES
THE WORLD TOUR
Washington, Yesterday.
control.
Herr Wiart, (German Minister for the Occupied Territories) said that any German Government that went beyond the Locarno Treaty and the Council of the League would be thrown out of uffice.
"LOK SUN "
FURTHER EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY
MASTER RECALLED The "Graf Zeppelin" has wire- lessed to the Navy Department that Investigations into the circum- she is over the Scilly Isles-Reu-stances attending the stranding, of ter.
the s.s. "Lok Sun" on July 14 off; Samun Island were resumed this morning by the Marine Court of Enquiry assembled at the Har- bour Office.
beach, and the fort wrapped in smoke; and thunder as the gallant
The Court, it will be remember- Dutchmen beat the plucderers off.
Again-A typhoon, blinding rained, adjourned so that the uncer tificated Chinese who acted as squalls: A shrieking wind and ròir- ing seas; And, in the morning, far up the beach, high and dry, the ship, a shattered hulk.
Or again, a pleasanter picture— A glorious sunny November day;|
second officer during the eventful voyage and the Chinese quarter- master might be called to give evi- dence.
As careening is seldom now used, it may be explained that in the not distant past careening was com
When the Court resumed its sit- monly resorted to clean and repair the underwater parts of ships. To A fresh N.E. monsoon breese; The ting this morning it was announc- do this, the ship was unloaded, flag upon the fort bravely fluttered that the second officer had been partly unrigged and stripped of ing; The air filled with the located but not the quartermaster. every movable article including her pleasant smell of boiling tar; the Capt. Edmondson was recalled armament, ammunition,
reply to ballast, noise of caulking mallets; All busy by the Court, and in etc. She was then pulled over onto preparation; And presently the questions, said he had been to her beam ends by means of power- ship, deeply laden with the fabled Singapore five times as master of ful tackles fastened to the tops of treasures of the East, will push her the "Lok Sun," each time by the her lower masts.
blunt nose away, slowly rolling, her same route-via South Channels By pulling the ship over, first on bellying sails filled with that same and by the same course (8. 12 W one side and then on the other, the N.E. wind, down through the by compass). sides and bottom of the ship were Straits of Sunda, around the Cape, successively exposed for the pur- and so on, to home, safety, friends pose of cleaning or repair. It can and fortune.
be easily imagined that a ship!
whilst undergoing this operation
C. J. Cooke.
Witness was then asked to ex. plain an entry in his log in re ference to a previous voyage. Il showed the course taken was
S. 20 W. by compass and not· S.
was uninhabitable and quite de- [Photos on page 7 of "China Mail" 12 W. as stated in evidence. He fenceless. It was the custom of art supplement,
Baid that entry was made by mis.
choose as Bequestered a haven as of Hong Kong. The place describe mistakes like that in your logs." |
The
Before he struck the monsoon
those who had to careen their Lantro Island is bigger than Hong take whereupon the President of vessels in unfriendly waters to Kong Island. It is part of the Colony the Court said "You can't make
is south of Tai O police station. Ladrones (meaning thieves") WAS bestowed by the Fortuguese on the weather, it was very hazy caused group of islands lying between Hong by the heavy rain. He admitted Kong and Macao and, at one time, Hong Kong and the smaller islands south of he must have been on the West it, all the way out to Gap Rock, were, of Gorse Island when he struck
possible and to mount the ship's guns as a battery, on the shore for protection.
Pictures of the Past
As one stood on the old walls and looked to seaward, across the near-it is believed, known as the Greater the monsoon. On that course
$.5. "Nieuw Holland" at by Ladrones (of pirate fame in Ladrones. Singapore
days gone by), many pictures of the past rose before the mind's
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The west of Lantao is washed by the S. 5. W.-he must have passed E. waters flowing up towards the estuary of Lin Tin,
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of the West and Canton. Rivers and it He could not hear any break- would be on the logical course of ships ers that night, and if he had he coming up from the South, bound for Canton or any other port in the delta] would have looked out for them. Witness added that with 750 pas- sengers talking at one time inces- santly he could not hear much,
Re-examined by Mr. Bruttón, witneße said that with reference to the entry in the log of a pre- vious trip, he saw the course was S. 20 W. whilst proceeding slow, He at once altered the course back S. 12- W. ⠀⠀ Immediately he lost sight of Green Island Light, his course was S. 12 W.
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Wong King-ming, who was a substitute for the second officer, said he was not on the articles. | At: 10:47. that night he stood by on the bridge with the master. The anchor was heaved, and a slow speed ahead was put on. They proceeded first to Green Island by South Channel passing it at 11.13
Witness said at 1115, the mas er ordered him to put half speed ahead, the course being then S. $12 W.
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