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ROMANCE AND REALITY
The National Liberal Federation's decision to fight at the next General Election along the widest possible front" is a pious aspiration with no political significance.
It certainly does not mean that the Samuelite Liberals will run 400 candidates or anything approaching that number.
It was
BATTLE FOR THE BLUE RIBAND
THE
BRITAIN'S BID FOR ATLANTIC HONOURS
RIVALRY SINCE 1830
By Sir Arthur H. Röstron, K.B‚E., (Commodore of the Cunard Fleet 1928-31)....
¡HE` · Cunard-White Star liner the limit, nor was 12,000 or 13,000 known in 1929 that No. 534, which was launchtons to be the ultimate in size. Liberal Headquarters had spent ed on September 28, represents the The First Monsters Ship approximately £300,000 in fighting British move in the never-ending with the birth of the real monster The twentieth century opened
1500 seats. It is doubtful whether
the war chest at Abingdon-street at and costly fight for the blue ship. The Germans were laun- riband of the North Atlantic pas-ching vessels of the then enormous present contains $8000.
alte of well over 20,000 tons, in- cluding the Kaiserin -Auguste As a seaman 1 many be forgiven Victoria, of over 24,000 tons, and Samuelite candidate is actively if I regard the War of the Liners the America, of similar tonnage,
There are probably not more than senger trade, 120 constituencies in which a
working. It is not even certain)
as the most thrilling feature of that all these will go to nomination. the Industrial Age. It has lasted competing with the Cedric, the Bal- tie, and the Adriatic of the White There are perhaps 80 constitu- nearly a hundred years, with vary Star Line. encies with Samuelite members oring fortunes; the great prize 80All these ships were large but candidates, who would be able to ing now to one nation and now to of moderate speed-under 20 knots. find the money for an immediate
another, and on the credit side election without a contribution from Great Britain. has had no cause to bringing out the St. Louis and St. The Americans spent their shot in headquarters.
complain. We do not hold the Paul as a challenge to the Cam These are chiefly in Cornwall, blue ribaud at the moment, hut we
pania, these Bhipa being very Devon, Wales and the Highlands.
look to No. 634 to regain it for us similar in size and speed to the After taking all considerations with an average speed, hitherto, into account it is estimated that the unattained by a passenger ship, of
Cunarders. probable number of Liberal wins at 30 knots or more. the next election will be 15.
HAPPY HAMMERSMITH
Then, in 1907, the Lusitania" and Mauretania entered the lista,
Speed, tonnage, comfort, and, both over 80,000 tona and preminently safety- these are the making over 24 knots. The factors that give prestige to the Mauretanix 800 not futo her Hammersmith, with a marriage great liners. The travellers of stride by breaking all previous rate of 18.5 per thousand, is the Europe, as well as of America, speed records, and once again the most romantic of the London naturally want to travel in the Cunard Line brought back the blue boroughs, according to the new test and best of the leviathans, riband to Great Britain by crossing volume of LCC. "London Statis- So much we know. What re-
and thase are the ships that in the Atlantie at the 'unprecedented normal times take the cream of speed of 26 knots. This speed showed medy has Mr. Lasker to propose? tice," recently published,
North Atlantic passenger the turbine to be superior" "to the Quite rightly he spurns Volapuk It is, however, only fair to say the
old reciprocating engines, and it Hong Kong, Friday, Oct. 26, 1931 or Esperanto, and, with more that Hammersmith gains its pre-trade.
hesitation Basic English. He is eminence by ruling out placer like
At the moment, the most-talked-is the turbine (a British develop right in emphasising the "over-Westminster, which has a distinc-
New York are the German liner still greater speed of the Bremen The Curse Of Babel tones" which put as it were an tion of its own as regards register of vessels linking Europe with ment) which has made possible the
intellectual and moral accent on office ceremonies,
Hampstead, with 18.4 per thou-Bremen and the Italian laer Rex. and Europe, the Ile de France and The interesting lecture given the syllables of the words of any
Mauretania's Record on Tuesday afternoon for the developed language. What really sand, is a close second to Hammer Record runs are claimed by both. Hex. local branch of the League of Na-happens is that when one has smith. Bethnal Green, with 14,8, The Bremen has crossed from New
4 days 17 hrs. 48 mins., at an her speed increased. In 1929, tions Society cannot be said to grasped the meaning of a sen-le at the other end of the romantle York to Cherbourg,. 3.199 miles, in As the Mauretania mollowed, so
tence in Esperanto, one translates scale. have taken us very far forward. |
All sorts of odd occupations are average speed of 28.16 knots. For when twenty-two years old, she the run from Gibraltar to New beat all her previous records by Of the two great curses said by it into one's mother tongue, using
York the Rex has returned crogding the Atlantic in 4 days 17 Holy Writ to have been placed perforce the most general and followed in London, but it is strange upon the heads of mankind the colourless words. Those are to read that 70 people earn their
of hrs. 49 mins, at an average aneed first, "in the sweat of thy brownot the words of passion, or in-living in the Metropolis as figher record for 3,188 miles shalt thou eat bread," is sub dignation, or of a crusade for men. ject, to so many deductions that an ideal, and what mankind needs
Your Daily Smile!"
Blinks: "Yes, I find the same objee. tions to the new 1985 models that I did to last year's' cark"-
Jinks: "What is that?”
can't afford any of them."
Progress
Dora: "So he's teaching
so far?"
4 daya 18 hrs. 58 mins, or 28.12 of 27.22 knots. knots.
This great final short was made Reply To Challenges sq. in competition against the Bremen, which had wrested the blue riband These challenges from Germany of the Atlantic by crossing at 28 and Italy have to be met. We are knots. Yet this great speed was [rpplying with No: 584, France with not long undisputed, the latest the Normandie.
Italian steamer Rex increasing it
Rivalry in this sphere opened by 's quarter of a knot. Where and Euch during 1880, when several steamers when will it all end? yon to of under 1,000 tons crossed the At achievement seemed to make an
it cannot be felt as an out and for an impulse towards better relations is a crusade for an out punishment at all. As com-
ideal pared with leisure, we usually
Take the colour and warmth grow tired even of the most de lightful holiday if it is prolong-out of speech and all you have ed. There is a great deal of pre- left is a medium for bargaining tence about our reluctance to get of that we have too much als "hack to the grindstone." The ready. The principle of "do ut too familiar office or workshop des" turned Europe into an arm- has far more variety than the ed camp, its logical completion swim? How much have you learned lantic, among them, the Royal epoch. But the frenzy of competi dalliance with a book of verses was "quod non das, capio" The
Cora: "That under neath the bow. As com- procedure of the League: how single, and has a good job.. pared with the ingenious recrea lever necessary, has done - more tions that have been invented to than anything else to crush mor make an artificial variety, one al indignation against modern can only say that in so far as war under deadweight of bore they do recreate it is because an dom. First the orator has to Jelement of work has been intro write his speech in the silence of duced into them and if we had his study; which is enough alone to specialise in them we should to kill any chance of the electric find them far more monotonous thrill of the genuine orator. Then, It was Billle's first trip to the coun-British North American Steam-
try, Outside the farmhouse he saw, the packet Co.), crossed in ttle In this century-old struggle com....
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he's
twenty-one,
Walking Hundreds each morning I behold,
Along the highiqay stalking; Some are walking to reduce,
Some are reduired to walking.
At Night
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Willam, the Great Western; and tion for supremacy-in-size-and the Sirius The Sirius, of under speed still goes on, until now we 800 tons, startled the world by have the French Normandie, of making the crossing in just under 72,000 tons, nearing completion, fifteen days, at an average speed and the Canard-White Star "634," of a little over 8 knots.
of 79,000 tons, being launched to-
In 1840 the Britannis, of 1,150 day. The speed of the Normandie is expected to approximate 30 tons and the first Cunarder (the)
knots, while that of #534" will ex- company was then known as the
ceed 80 knots.
than the daily task of earning-a the speech is handed to a typish farmer's wife plucking a fowl for next over fourteen days. Competition/etition has brought disaster to living. The retired and the pen- and manifolded Then it goes day's dinner. sioned show by their eagerness to twenty seven interpreters" say, ma'am," he said, "do you then became fast and furious several of the shipping companies.--
and it has continued right down Many make a bold bid for supre for even rather futile hobbies whose versions are also typed undress them every night?
the years to the present Larter With the berger of the Cunard
macy; few surviva that "absence of occupation is a manifolded, and handed lo
faster, and more commodious not rest."
COLONY
vessel entered the list practical and White Star companies, Britons ly every year, Britain, America can confidently feel that the com- France, Germany, and later, Italy bination will strengthen the com- foreign merger and further rivalry, volume of North Atlantic pus-
FILM STAR'S FAREWELLS
PERFORMANCE
the delegations. Eventually it GUN TRADING IN But that business of earning alis read by the speaker to a list living! In that we should like to lesa audience which has either be able to go ahead without un-neglected to read it as being of necessary hurdles to jump, and no interest or already read it and Two Chinese Sentenced competing for the ever growing panies fortumes against any with some assurance that we consequently inclined to yawn should get the benefit of our while it is repeated. In the ses "Ling Pat gave the gun to me senger traffic.. efforts and self-denials. And sions of the League it is said by and asked me to sell it for him," By 1850 vessels of over 2,000 the second great curse is one of those who have been drawn by pleaded Mak Ying, a 65-year-old tons and doing 12 knots were en the biggest and stiffest of the duty to attend them regularly street coolie, who was charged be the Atlantic. At this time, fron Jobstacles. The enterprise of that only on two occasions have fore Mr. E. 1. Wynne Jones at the superseded wood in construction, Miss Betty Compion, the famous building a great tower which speeches been given that roused Kowloon Magistracy this morning and in the sixties the paddle wheel in star, assisted by Lynn Cowan,- should reach up to the Heavens enthusiasm and changed opin with having one automatic pistol gave place to the was the first great International ions. On both occasions the in his possession in Jordon Road pound engine superseded tha: Plan. The ideal was inspiring, speaker, broke away from his near Temple Street at 2.80 p.m. on lover engine. and with the old conception of manuscript and let himself go in October 24 the sky as a crystal globe, the his own language. The first Ling Pat, a 28-year-old add job century the Great Eastern left nearest of seven great apheres, speech was delivered five coolle employed at the Kowloon London as the then wonder of the it appealed to the imagination; years ago by M Briand Docks, was also charged with have:
In the middle of the ninetenth
ties and
knots
creased to over 8,000 tons an speeds developed?
shipping world. If men would only beyond the (whose Breton, temperament ing the gun under his control, and seventies saw veséeld of 000 toner combined energies of the whole gave fire to his idiomatic stated that he had given the gunwith speeds of the human race! Professor French; he carried his point to Mak Ying, but had been a dis- put bigger strides Piccard has been higher than the that the Germans should be adtance away from him when the during the eighties, when size architect's front elevation of the mitted to membership. The se arrest was made, t Tower of Babel, with its seven cond was delivered by Viscount fine of $50, in default two great Hers one on top of the Cecil, when he had to review the months' imprisonment, was im other, but his observations of abortive campaigns for Disarma-posed on Msk. While Ling Pat re- The Cunard-built the Etruria the cosmic rays would hardly ment to which he had devoted
ceived the maximum sentence of and Umbria, of 18 knots. These have satisfied the Babel builders seven years of strenuous work 12 months imprisonment,
were to compete against the White even if they could have under- and sacrificed a career. In neither we must certam, do our best
Star
Britannic were running the Cola stood what they were case can it be said that there
Nonetheless the same ideal was much of a golden harvest toto stop this gun trading going on'
[qaid Mr. Wynne Jones. still captures the Imagination, show for so eager a sowing. The and is still defeated by the same fact is that permanent and signi curse; that when men of all the ficant improvement the rels-lous nations are brought together tions of millions of men cannot by
(and dis (Riy they cannot understand each be won by con
ey meet with good cussions, however eloquent and bel
ace: taking conclusive They will; they take
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