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LAST
THE CHINA
MOMENTS IN H.M.S. HAMPSHIRE.
A SURVIVOR'S VIVID STORY.
KITCHENER TRAGEDY.
A vivid description of the last moments of HM.S. Hampshire the cruiser that had Lord Kitchener on board when it struck a mine and sank off the Orkneys on June 5, 1916, has just been published by one of the twelve surveyors, Chief Ship- wright William Charles Phillips, Jin his book, "The Loss of H.M.S.
Hampshire," with a foreword by Sir George Arthur, Bart., M.V.O. |
"The sea was wicked," he writes. "The two destroyers as they steamed along parallel with us suffered terribly; at times the mountainous waves washed com- pletely over them... they were ordered back to their base, much to the relief of their crews. should think this was about one hour before the explosion occur- red."
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STUDENT UNION WANTS TO KNOW.
ENQUIRY AFTER WELFARE OF ARRESTED STUDENTS.
Peking, April 26: Four members of the student New York, April 7. union of the Peking National Uni- The story, underlying the arrest versity called at the Headquarters of Simon Rosenberg, now held in of the Cofffmandant of Emergency At about 7.30 p.m. the mine Cleveland, Ohio, on a charge of affairs on Friday afternoon and in- was strack. All lights were ex-robbery, is like a page from quired after the condition of the tinguished by the explosion.
Dumas,
54 Poita atudents arrested by the "As I was mounting the hatch-
The hero in the grim tale is Mr. police and military last Sunday way ladder," the narrative con- Arthur Cutten, the Chicago mil-raorning and Monday evening. The tinues, "I heard our Gunnery Off-llonatre Wheat King, famed for his student delegates were received by cer, Lieutenant Matthews, whom daring grain-pit operations, the Mr. Chon, and after a brief rast, I recognised by his voice, shout in victims are himself and his family, they were led to the courtyard of clear tones, Make way for Lord and the villains nine gunmon. the detention house. The prison- Kitchener.'
ers were then paraded out of their foom in two rows to the court- yard. According to the rules of the Headquarters, they were not allowed to speak to okch other, but they acknowledged the visit of
Miao Pai-chi, leader of the visitors, their friends by a nod or two. Mr.
said that they had been delegated by the University Student Union to inquire after their, condition.
For eight years Mr. Cutten has "When I reached the upper deck relentlessly pursued nize men who, it was quite plain to see that our one day in March 1922, robbed his good ship was doomed.... There Chicago home and left him in was no panic whatever. Auto locked basement to die. Simon matically, all took up their 'Aban-Rosenberg, the reputed leader of don ship' stations. Without any
5,283 17th May Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg. loss of time the boats were turned
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marsellies & London. Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseilles, London, Hall, Rotterdam
& Antwerp. 6,973 18th June Straits, Colombo & Bombay.
*KIDDERPORE
MANTUA
KHYBER
5,334 21at May 10,014 24th May
0,314
31st May
KHIVA
9.135
7th Junc
*ALIPORE
• Cargo only.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Ehedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TILAWA TALAMBA TAKADA TALMA
1930 10,008 24th May 8,018 6th June 6,949 17th June 10,000 22nd June
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta..
BL. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and tarry a qualified surgeon.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).
TANDA ST. ALBANS NELLORE
1930 6,956 7th June 4,500 4th July 16,953 ard Aug.
....
out and lowered, but during the lowering operations they were smashed by the heavy seas."
When some men threw a car. penter's bench over the side, hop- ing to be able to keep afloat on it, it was flung back into the ship, smashed..
arrested. There remains only his the band, is the eighth one to be
brother Kasher, of whom Mr. Cut ten has remarked, "When I get Number 9 I will be through with the job."
Ca
When the gunmen invaded his house, fully armed, they took £100 in cash, and 25 cases of Jewellery valued at £4,000,
whisky. "That," said Mr. Cutton, snapping his lips tightly, "was nothing. But when they tied up my wife, my brother, and my ser vants, and then locked me in a vault to be smothered to death, I determined to get them if it took a lifetime.
Mr. Phillips jumped overboard just before the first boiler ex- ploded: He was submerged, but his head hit the bottom of a Carley float, and he was hauled in A terrible ordeal followed...
"We had drifted some distance away when I saw the Hampshire take her final plunge and leave That was a fiendish plece "of
"Fiendish Cruelty." only a black mass on the waters which became hidden from view cruelty that Billed me with rage, by the gigantic waves that were and I vowed to spend every dollar bearing us away. I should say I had to put them behind the that the Hampshire went down in Bara" about fifteen minutes.
"The float was by this time submerged, owing to excess in complement (which was. 45), and still we were picking men up
a
"It was decided to lighten the raft, and volunteers from among those wearing lifebelts were ask Manila, Bandakan, Thursday Island,ed to leave, and so bring it up to
Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney & proper floating capacity: There upon, with a few smiling remarks such as We shall be there first some eighteen answered the call and plunged into the billows,
Melbourne.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong
to Australis,
-The E& A. 5.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Halis. Cabu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timer, Darwin, or other ports en route as in
facement offers.
The State Attorney, Mr Chauncey, Reed, has compared Mtr Cutten's pitiless pursuit to the Count of Monte Cristo's hunting down of his enemies
1,
The prisoners are doing well treated, and according to the as- aurances made by: Mayor Chang and fair trial. The university was Yin-wa, they will be given an open
ifornied late Friday evening that dight of the students held in the Headquarters would be released on bail-Kup Won.
Whether a second "pocket battle- ship" shall be bullt In Germany is a question which was contested in the Relchatng.EUM MA
HONG KONG TIDE
"tida-table, given below: has; been obtained by aid of the Tide-pre- dicting Machine, which, includes: 40, components for the better
Prediction of fides, from the result of the analysis of the tidal observations, taken at the Kowloon tidal observa.
tory under
Doberek during the years 1887, 1888. and 1889.
The times and heights are
are sirin for Kowloon; but they may be used Aberdeen, the differences being very the Victoria Naval, Yard and amal
the direction of Dr.
The times high and low-water, must not be considered to colacide with the times of slack-water and change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct.
Private detectives employed by Mr. Catten have followed Rosen berg from the Pacific to the At lantic and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada. Rosenborg has moved from city to city, working as an insurance broker. He knew that he was hunted and fled when danger threatened. He has used a "We stood now in some four hundred different names, each of feet of icy cold water, with waves which has been discovered and engulfing us every instant given to the police.
May 10 to 16,. 1930. the exposure was beginning to
Mr. Cutten has gone to Cleveland Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--
have its effect; standing next to today, having heard that Rose DATHION WATEn Lower Water. The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New me on the raft was a soldier he berg has applied for a writ of Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
was a servant to one of the off- Habeas Corpus In an effort to get The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to Londua via Suez Canal
niny. "I will be there,” saidTMME}}}, cers on Lord Kitchener's staff. The R&O. Branch Service of steamers to Londen vis the Cape.
"He asked me in a very pitiful Cutten, when told of the writ. 541: 10 m. 7 6 6 68 m. 48 |15 The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamera for Southampton and way if I thought we should ever "Now we have him, he is going to
4.5.7 $18 a 0, the penitentiary."
Sun. m. 2463 m2 13 | 1.8
Mon, 12 m 8.00-18.7m 2.... 42, 95, -10 21 & 5,0,. & 4. B 130 Tass 9 1770 18 28
If 1 a
14.0 16 22 14 08. Wod Mm-9 43-7.2 m 3:54 30-
Thum 10 m 09
18 3.8
London via Panama Canal,
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
1030
7 am
13th May Shanghai, Maji & Kobe.
reach the cliffs. I told him that
I really thought we should do so, and he replied, 'I don't think 80, mate, and in his case he proved to be right, for almost inimédiate- lythe died, staring straight at me, and eventually slipped to the
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8,018 13th May Amoy, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka. bottom of the raft.
Per P. & 0.8.a, Kashgar to "A lad about 17 years of age, London on May 20 Mart, 4 p.m.
and the smallest in the ship, 6,956 17th May, Mofi. Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama.braved through for quite a long F. Goldsmith, Y. Skvirskis, J
Mr. and Mrs. Rogalsky, Capt. 10-34 +7.2!~6 317 18,691
23rd May Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 3,049 24th May Amoy, S'hal, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka.
time. He was afloat the whole Diniz, Mrs. 8. C. Smith. time, resting his head on and also
TALANEA
*ALIPORE TANDA RANPURA TAKADA TALMA
5,273
*JEYPORE
KARMALA +MOREA KALYAN RAJPUTANA KASHMIR MANTUA KASHGAR...
10,000 1st June Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Danka.
GRIB 3rd June Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama gripping one of the elder chap's
9,128
6th June Shanghai, Moj, Kobo & Yokohama, arms. This plucky little lad sang when the narrator Was numbed 10,054, 20th June Shanghai, Moj Kobe & Yokohama, between the spells of terrific and could feel the grip of death 0,144 4th July Shhughal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama buffeting from the waves, and upon him, the float was flung, onto 1.16,568 18th July Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
8,985 1st Aug. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. helped many of us to brighten up; the rocks and a rescue party 10,940 15th Aug. Shanghal, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama but death claimed hit and he hauled the six survivors, to safety." 9,005 20th Aug. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama sank to the bottom of the raft. The alarm had been given on shore Cargo only. † Galla at Tsingtau & Wel-hai-wel
The night was drawing on, and by the little son of a farmer men were dying very swiftly now' named Brass.****** some simply gave in exhaustedThe author wishes to make and dropped off as if going to clear the impossibility of various sleep; others fought very hard to myths which have arisen about live, but eventually succumbed to the disaster. Lord Kitchener, he the cold and exposure, and lastly anys, must have realised the in some poor fellows lost their rea- evitable as soon as he reached the sonest and deck, and he must-have resigned
After about two hours of this, himself to his fate,
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