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tinued Admiral Carpenter, "was to find what past experience we had to help us. history we found that every pre- vious attempt to block an enemy harbour had failed." A fog drift- ing from sea to fund was the only! means of securing a surprise. The whole success of the attack,' there- fore, resolved itself on the produc- tion of an enormous artificial fog. The spreading of this fog was pro- corded by Q bombardment by monitors on the night of April 22, 1918, which was intended to sug- gest that nothing WHA going to happen.
When we examined naval PLAN GOES WRONG.
"The object of the enterprise was to do something impossible, declar, ed Rear-Admiral A. F. B. Carpen ter, V.C., at the outset of a lecture
The Attack. on "The Blocking of Zeebrugge," ¦
Some minutes after midnight given a year ago.
H.M.S. Vindictive, comanded by the "Unless you have some idea of lecturer, attacked the Mole, accom- the events which made the enter panied by two Liverpool ferry prise necessary," Admiral Carpen- boats, the Iris and the
Daffodil, ter said, "the obstacles confronting. The Vindictive came under the fire its execution and its ultimate object, of the six gun battery almost im- you cannot conceive the enterprise mediately, and practically all her In its true perspective." Following senior officers were killed. Upon the Imprisonment of their fleet In getting alongside the Mole, storm-
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his office, and also engaged clerks, Carmen Sylva (Ivanovici), whose salaries were to be paid as Eva Walizes (Lehar-Schott),
International Novelty Orch. soon as the business was actually running. He showed various people Valse De Concert (Guzounow), the counterfoils of cheque book at the National City Bank of New York, from which he had apparent- ly drawn large sums of money.
The swindler made all his ar- rangemente carefully and slowly arranged for the parchuse of a large quantity of jute baga, which would be sent to the Chinese dealers on the which they railway line, and in would load the beans for Dairen. should hand him over the railway He proposed that these dealers receipts for the cars of beans and to Dairen the money would be re- As soon as the goods were delivered
ceived from the British Consulate.
To carry this out he required a guarantee of Yen 200,000 and found
another Russian who said he would
arrange this, but this Russian in- ! vited the assistance of a well-known Harbin merchant, who was not so ensily gulled.
and found that the Da Fu De Com-
He made inquiries at the bank
great profits.
The matter was reported to the police, who promptly arrested the would-be swindler.
He declares that if his partners had not doubted he would have got away with a large sum of money, and they would have had their share. All the papers in the town subject of talk everywhere. are full of the story and it is the
the Heligoland Bight, the German ing parties were landed, and the ed that the British Government re- Nava! Command resolved on the, action 1728 fought at eight one destruction of the British mercan- yards range. Under the circum-quired to purchase 140,000 tons of pany had not even 100 dollars at tile fleet. The only possible method stances, the storming party auffer- beans, stating that an "attache" of their credit, and he also discovered the British military authorities had that the so-called "attache" was was to institute submarine warfare, ed heavy casualties and it was a and the adoption of that policy re- high testimony to the Marines that been sent to Harbin for the purpese simply a young teacher of English quired a buse on the Belgian sea only a dozen wounded were left in of making the purchase, but that who had been gulled by promises of coast. Bruges was chosen for the the hands of the enemy. "Every-the whole matter be kept one on the bridge was killed, with secret. He said that the British "When the submarine campaign one exception," Admiral Carpenter Government required the beans for
the process being got going," observed the lecturer, remarked. "If he had been killed making gaa,
our losses in merchant ships was someone else would be required to
secret one, and there were people who were entirely deceived by his perfectly terrific. We lost fifty-lecture here this afternoon." seven ships in the first week" It
Meanwhile a submarine was run
suave manner and clever talk. was only a matter of arithmetic to under the railway viaduct and blown determine how long Britain could, up, the crew of alx being rescued in hold out against starvation and de a miraculous fashion. Of the three feat. Three-quarters of the losses blockships, the "Thatis" was severe and this the swindler succeeded in necessary to get a British "attacho" thus Bustained originated In ly on fire that she sunk herself Bruges. It was, therefore, impera- voluntarily before reaching the doing by signing a contract with tive to block Ostend and Bruges on canal, The other two cruisers, young Briton, staying in one of the the same night.
guided by coloured lights fired by Harbin hotels, but this contract was the half-sunken Thetis, sunk them-simply to carry out the sale of beans Admiral Carpenter next dealt selves almost to the hour appointed abroad, the Briton to register him- with the obstacles to this project in the exact places marked on the self as a firm called "China Trans- Along the Belgian coast line; from plan, thus completely blocking the port" while the Russian was to open Middelburg to Knocke, the Germans channel. High credit was reflected offices in Foochiation in the name The following programme will had construct a remarkable sys on the work of the motor launches of Da Fu De Shan Han. tem of coastal defence. It consist in the fact that not a single officer The Briton's signature having Hong Kong Broadcasting Station ed of heavy naval guns, some of or man, dead or alive, from the been certified the Russian had a ZB.W. on a wavelength of 355 which had an effective range of over crews of the three cruisers, was left document prepared with
official metres, thirty miles. The entrance to the in the hands of the energy.
seals and stamps with which tơ” in- Bruges Canal was flanked by the
Proof of Success.
vefgle other persons into the net.. Zeebrugge Mole, the sea side of That attack was not done solely He took care not to Introduce the which offered no opportunity for by, the Royal Navy, but largely by Briton to any of his friends, stating landing. At the end of the Mole the Naval Reserve and the Volun- that the "attache" wished to be there was a six-gun battery and teer Reserve. "Great credit: was unknown in the whole of the trans another which consisted of, three therefore, due to those chaps who actions. heavy" naval guns. The obsolete had not had the long training we He found a Russian with a small cruisers intended to be employed as bad had."
capital who willingly gave him
The Obstacles.
block ships would have to passWe were afforded proof of the money on the suppcellion that he under the mouths of these latter to success of our enterprise within an would make enormous profits, and reach the canal. Those gum had to hour," declared Admiral Carpenter, thus the Foochintien office was be destroyed, and for that reason in conclusion, when the German opened and operations begun, an attack was staged om Zeebrugge Naval Command made a theral Moja in connection with the block signal to all submarines-at sea. It Ing of the Bruges Canal..
["rangus" follows!" "Dö "nót “return "to" ́ ́ ̈ ̈The 'Russlan’"borrowed"money to "Our first consideration." con base. Zeebrugga blocked.”,
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Caprice Espagnole (Mosokowski), Bohemian Dance (Smetana),
Wilhelm Bachaus (7121). Song-
Love Tide of Spring
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Lucrezia Bori, Soprano (6699).
Shepherd's Madrigal (Kreisler}, Gypsy Caprice (Kreisler),
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A. Moment Musicale in F Minor
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Song of the Volga Boatman (Chaliapin & Kocnemann),
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FATAL GLIDING ACCIDENT.
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crease in power, lighter weight, and decrease in wind resistance owing to the smaller machine.
A juror. Was there any extra danger in this experiment? No, my only doubt was whether it would work. I quite expected that the glider would fail to leave ground.
the
Dr. Berle said that death was duo to a fractured skull,
Owner's Evidence.
Mr. Hamish Allan, of Cambridge of the An inquest was held at Harpen Street, London, the owner den on the body of Thomas Eaton glider, said that the machine had Lander, 36, of The Old Rectory, been-used for half a dozen flights,
Harpenden, who was
out the killed when Lander and he worked his glider crashed during
glider an ex- velocity of launching the periment with a new launching ap-
from the car. They had previous- paratus driven by
a motor car. ly found that the calculated figures This is the first fatal gliding ac-
were not approached in practice and cident in Britain.
It was thought that with the engine Members of the British Gliding under load the actual velocity at- Association present were Mr. E. C. tained would be under the calculat
Presumably Gordon England (chairman), Cap-ed 30 miles an hour. tain Latimer Needham, chairman the figures on which they had been of the technical committee, and Mr. going with regard to the maximum L. Wingfield, a member of the revolutions of the car had been council.
faulty, and the load in this instance
Lander was a
Mr. Wingfield Baid that Mr. proved too small to slow up the en-
founder member of gine revolutions. the Association and one of the first
Flying Officer Mole, of the R.A.F.,
pilot's certificate. in the country to obtain a glider said that he considered Lander
Mr. Charles Elliott, of
should have attempted two or three Holly launchings by hand before trying Park, Finchley, who was with Mr. out his apparatus on a strange ma- Lander at the time of the accident, chine. sald that they were using an expert- Captain Needham said that he
mental launching
thought the accident was due to the Et apparatus the King's Faulkner's End Farm. It conform-fact that the question of velocity deeply enough ed to general principles of design was not gone into p.m.-Musical Comedy of other gliders but was much, in conjunction with
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smaller. The launching .was power transmitted from a
motor car. The wind was blowing at about 25 miles an hour, and the glider was placed to fly directly Into it.
A
The Coroner,-Are you satisfied that all the launching apparatus was in order?—In perfect order.
Unexpected Result.
the light ma-
a verdict of
The jury returned "Death by misadventure."
STANDARD TIMES.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN COLONY,
Mr. Elliott stated that he was Suprise and Sunset in Hong operating the motor car and Mr. Kong for May, 1981, Stan- Lander was strapped in the glider.dard time of the 129th Meridian:
be broadcast to-day from the Mall has been received at the As soon as he received the signal. East of 'Greenwich)
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American Consulate General for he "revved up the engine to about lows: the following persons:-
three-quarters of the maximum
W. O. Arnold, L. Bruce, P. Dry, revolutions and let the clutch gently H. Eddo, Mrs. L. H. Garlington, { engage. "The result was very un- Mrs. G. K. Hack, T. F. Haskell, expected. The glider left tho D. G. Hospital, Mrs. H. R. Hynd- ground, climbed rapidly, and when man, Mrs. S. E. Johnson, D. It had attained a height of about Kanley, S. L. Kelly, G. H. Koster, 40ft. in probably less than one C. B. Olivarius, O. Sika, Mrs. H. second I realised that tho speed: Stark, L. C. Tuckerman, Miss J. must be much too fast and Im Williams, H. H. Winburg.
mediately depressed the clutch.”;;: 14 The glider pitched forward slightly
15
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In a report to the British twice and then dived almost Columbia Legislature, Hon. W. A. vertically into the ground. It had Atkinson, Minister of Agriculture, obtained a speed of about 50 to 60 mentioned that over 2,000 wild miles an hour in little less than horses, owned mostly by Indiana, second, and its nose was embedded had been sold to horsement plants in about 12in in the ground. In his +21 1930.
ppinion the accident was due to in 22