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During the past two years nearly 600 persons have been arrested, as [apies in European countries alone. [They are part of the army of 30,000 trained secret agents who are now carrying on an intensive pre-war warfare between the mutually Aus-
SAFETY FROM FIRE AT SEA
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STRINGENT RULES AND
PRECAUTIONS
BRITAIN'S HIGH STANDARD
By Capt. J. G. Bisset, R.N.R.
(Commander of the Cunard White Star Liner Ascania) HE disastrous fires that have In about fifty isolated positions
picious nations of the Continent. occurred on large passenger in all parts of the ship, smull
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HARD-BOILED EGGS
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As
men
This information is taken from Richard Rowan's "Spies In The vessels at sea, involving loss of metal boxes are secured, each one Next War," a book which has re-life, must give rise to inquiry con-containing a. special key. The cently appeared in the United cerning the measures taken to patrol man going round carries a States, where it is taken seriously. prevent and, if necessary, cope heavy circular chick în à leather The six hundred cases of arrest with such dreadful contingencies case. At each ws he takes out ed spies are authentic. The num-on British ships.
the key and inserts it in the clock. ber is far higher than any known In the first place, it will be well This action alamus the time of in pre-war days. The estimate of to remind readers that a fire at each insertion on a paper disc in- $10,000 trained agents is a guess, sea is in no way comparable with side the clock.
but not very wide of the mark. a fire in a large structtire On This system ensures that all
shore.
parts of the ship are visited at Let us imagine for a moment a least once every hour, and any, fire breaking out in a large de- smell of fire would be quickly de The book contains a long list of partmental store, in which there tected.
In addition to the patrol men, the dodges and disguses adopted is a staff of 500 trained man and by modern spies. Science has, of women assistants and, say, 2,000 numerous watchmen are stationed on all decks. Isolated parts of course, improved the technique of shoppers. apying, but
most of the tricks As the alarm sounds the shep-the ship, such store-rooma, enumerated were known during the pers file rapidly into the street holds and bunkers, where
out of harm's way. The staff at-jare not continuously on duty, are But it is news to many that an tack the fire with the apparatus connected to the bridge by a series ordinary aspirin tablet dissolved in at hand, and within a few minutes of 2 in. metal pipes. Theec pipes water provides an excellent invisible fire-engines arrive on the scene end in a glass box, on top of which writing fluid. When used it leaves and their crews bring into play is a suction fan. Every ten min- no perceptible trace. As soon as it fire-fighting appliances of the utes the fan revolves for two min- is exposed to the rays of an ultra-most modern type. Corduna of utes, and any smoke in the com- sucked into violet. lamp the writing begins to police keep back the crowds and partments would be
the box. glow.
lend every assistance to the men
in case of fire. steam hoses can Now too. is the hard-boiled egg engaged.
Moscow. The shell is Even with all this organisation be connected to the pipes and live tion by her Austrian Governor, used in
forced into the affected but a proclamation of annexation normal, but, when broken, reveals and apparatus, there is every pro- steam tuned the Bosnians into rebels.the writing on the white. A solu-hability of the store being burnt compartment. New education had revival oldtion of sugar and alum makes ajout. traditions of lost empires, and fluid which does not show on the the Serbs began to claim that shell but leaves a legible impression The Marseilles Tragedy be reunited
large districts of Austria should on the albumen inside.
to them on the a Serbian Kingdomi
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From Everywhere
Fire In A Gale
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Now take the case of the ill- fated Morro Castle. She was
hip as large as many u depart- mentul store, and filled with simi- lar inflammable material. With
Cargo holds are also fitted with an apparatus for foreing cacbonie acid gas into hem in case of fire. When all ventilation is shut down this has a tremendous damping ef- fect. Strict precautions are ob served as to what cargo may be stowed in holds, and inflammable oils or acids, or materials such as dren, most of whom are asteen celluloid, are altogeher barred.
Engine and boiler-rooms-are fit she takes fire during an Atlantic ted with foam-making apparatus gale accompanied by torrential
and chil-
possible of fires.
The whole crew are exercised
The assassination of King with wide boundaries that had Alexander of Yugo-Slavia, and of almost been forgotten. That If men were paid to play golf, they'd her crew of 240 men and 360 pa the French Foreign Minister at branch of history had long been so he striking for 15 holes or some-sengers men, women Marseilles is only the latest re-neglected in the school curricu- minder that the Balkan problem.lums of Western Europe. Vic- like the poor. is always with ustories and defeats of past ages The whole of that part of
"Have you brought many people to rain, a heavy sea and an awe-in. On a large scale for dealing with fresh remembrance: your way of thinking?" sprang to Europe is to the casual eye more the long suppression of freedom "No," answered the statesman spiring electric storm. or less alike in appearance and created a neurotic passion for!"Public opinion is something like a With her engines stopped, either. at fite drill once a week, duriss in interests. Great ranges of self-assertion against the next-male I owned when I was a boy. In by necessity or by design, in or which all appliances are thorough- mountains encroach upon the door neighbour which put into being driver 1 had to watch the way she lies in the trough of the sea, cases Thermostat fire alarms are order to keep up the appearence of der to reduce fire-fanning draughty inspected and tested. In many arable and confine tillage to the the power of any agitator the he was going and fellow on behind." valleys and the scattered bays of dangerous gift of making his
rolling at her worst. The strong fitted. These cause the alarm bell level land. The climate is much hearers see red and crave re-
wind on the beam blows ire and on the bridge to ring when the the same as that of Italy. The venge in scorn of consequences. "Yes," said the commercial traveller, smoke over the boats on the lee temperature of the compartment whole population is agricultural Then came the Great War, we have had letters of appreciation side, making it almost impossible gets over a certain point. in the lowlands and pastoral in with the downfall of the military from America, France, Ireland and to launch them. Waves beating the mountains, running cattle, Empires that had secured at and
England—and a postcard from Scot- sheep and pigs. Even within the least a formal kind of peace by lifetime of a middle aged man the respect that is always paid Ithe people have had the oppor-to the big battalions; and the Little Dorothy had a canary at home, would be reduced to matchwood in ways on all decks, and these can
tunity of trying many different fate of the Principalities that and one day she went out to tea with the twinkling of an eye. kinds of governments; and the were connected only by inter-her mother. In the room was a cage
Can a more appalling set of ad- low standard of living would twined animosities and rivalries containing a pair of bright green little seem to confine everybody to the was practically placed in the birds. Dorothy kept looking at them, verse circumstances be imagined? Fortunately, such experiences are most realist policy of making the hands of an idealist President of "Mummie, what's the matter with extremely rare. All honour to the best of what resources are avail-the United States whose slogan those canaries? Aren't they ripe?" able. Yet none of the Balkan was "self-determination." The peoples seem to be able to settle separate sections seemed to down.
too small to be treated as nation- It is possible to explain this al units; so Serbs, Slovenes, and apparent perversity? Certainly Croats were tied up into one unit
be
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Backward Birds
and presently asked:
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
furiously on the weather sidu make the launching of boats. there :
Buicidal proceeding, as they
The s.s. Bengloe left Singapore it could not be done with any with the title of "Southern completeness in less than a good Slavs." A complete outfit of for this port on Wednesday and in sized volume; but as this source constitution. with a Parliament due here on Tuesday. of unrest has affected the rest of and a constitutional monarch
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men-and women-who stuck to their posts in such a direful | emergency.
Hose And Pumps
Instant Warning
from fire-proof doors are fitted at short intervals in
the alley.
The fire appliances required by efforts. Board of Trade regulations for British
are
be instantly closed in order to localise the fire.
All members of the crew constantly reminded by the officers rounda that they must raise the alarm at once on the slightest smell of burning, and if fire is discovered they must attack it vigorously, regardless of what damage may be caused by their
Fire-fighting equipment should passenger vessels are on no account be hidden from plentiful and eficient, and, the view. The presence of hydrants, precautions to be taken against hoses, extinguishers, fire buckets, Sentence of 12 months hard fire are exceedingly stringent. Oil alarms, fire-proof doors, axes, Europe for centuries, and will ap-was provided; they were launch- parently continue to do so, one ed on the voyage of national ad- labour was imposed on Shek Yai, a fuel used for propulsion is stored warning notices, &c., serve to re- needs must seek for the under- venture with all the means of banishee, by Mr. W. M. Thomson in tanks in the bottoms of the mind passengers of the ever-pre- lying causes, first of all in his-settling their differences by ami- at the Central Magistracy this ship, and is of such a low flash-sent danger of fire and should
morning, for returning to the point. that it must be heated to a cause them to exercise caution. tory. Some of the most thrilling cable discussion. chapters of Gibbon are devoted
Government Colony from banishment.
temperature of 120 deg and con- Let all voyagers remember that verted into a form of gaseous delay of a few seconds in report Pray before it ignites beneath ing even the suspicion of a fire, or significant blaze, may result in. As the ship herself forms au in a attacking a seemingly in- almost perfect electrical "earth," panic and disaster. it is difficult to imagine that a
Unfortunately
the boilers.
to the tale of how the ancestors means the ascendancy of some- of the present inhibitants forced body whose orders are obeyed, Mak Sing-kai, a nine-year-old boy their way past the traditional bar You cannot argue a man out of living at No. 147 Thompson Road, rier of the Danube and threaten-his personality. Croats had re- was taken to the Government Civil ed the lingering ghost of the fused to become either Romans Hospital yesterday, suffering from Roman Empire at its base in or Greeks or Turks or Austrians; body injuries sustained when he Constantinople, which by a mira-they were even less inclined to was knocked down by motor car No.
flash of lightning could affect the Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the Chinese cle of combined heroism. diplo-become Serbs. A demand in Par-1977 in Hennessy Road.
oil supply.
Judge at the International Court of macy, and treachery, often sup-liamentary debate for a Federal plemented by massacre, till the system ended in the Croat lead-
Fire hydrants, painted a vivid Justice, The Hague, arrived in the "We were going to fight," admit- red, and with hoses and nozzles Colony from Shanghai yesterday, middle of the fifteenth century. ers being shot down in their ted Lau. Chun and Lo Fui, two coupled up, are placed within 50 by the s.s. Conte Verde, The Turks in the end extinguish-seats in Parliament. There was unemployed, when charged before
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Alongside each hydrant is placed
all members of the crew are
ed the last flicker of Western no longer a Government but only Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at the Kow-t of one another throughout the civilisation and for some hun-ja chaos. King Alexander took leon Magistracy this morning with ship, and the water supply is dreds of years held the tribes the powers of a Dictator and at- having in their possession Instru-ever turned off under any cir that had established themselves tempted to carry on the Governments fit for unlawful purposes, in cumstances. Powerful pumps sup- as farmers and herds in thrall ment alone; but the way of Dic-Mong Kok Road. Sentence of three ply these hydrants with thousands of gallons of sea water per min- The nineteenth century saw the tators leads straight to violence months hard labour, each, WAA ute, gradual recession of the Turkish and suppression of all criticism. passed. power and the emancipation of Keleman, the assassin, was a po the serfs whose legends and re-litician who had been exiled for A farewell tea-party to the Hon. a chemical fire extinguisher, and ligion had kept alive a national advocating the self-determination Mr. 2. D. C. Wolfe, C.M.G., Insp trained in its use. Many fire consciousness through all the of Croatia. He saw in the al- tor-General of Police, will be given
alarms, of the "break the glass period of political-subordination:liance of his King and the French by the Hon. Dr. S. W. Ta'c, O.B.E., For a time it looked as though Republic a new dificulty, arising LL.D. at the Hong Kong Police and push the button type," are dotted all over the ship, connect- they were willing if not eager to from greater stability of the ab- Reserve (Chinese Coy.) Club, No. accept the guidance of the great-solute Kingship which he adhor-17, Queen's Road Central on Moning up with indicator boarda on the bridge and in the engine-room. er powers that had done their red; and if men ponder long en-day, October 15, at 5.15 p.m....
On the principle that prevention share in the work of liberation,ough on national grievances they Russia, Austria, and Italy go mad. Freedom and the lapse A Cabaret Dance in aid of Earl is better than cure, British ships, But the liberators went too far of years may obliterate the com- Hair's Fund will be held at the place great faith in an efficient In expecting that they would plexes left by centuries of serf-Kowloon Cricket Club on Monday, fire patrol by day and night
The Patrol's Round settle down under their political dom. It is not within the power November 12 at 9.15 p.m. Tickets control. Bosnia, for example, of statesmen to provide a cure are (Ladies) - $2.00 (Gentlemen) This patrol is carried out by a bands do to help them?" had been brought back to civilisa-by a stroke of the pen.
1$3.00, including light refreshments. "clock system,” as follows:
have been in countries where women do all the work!”
"Indeed! And what do their hus-
"Draw their pay for them?