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Defence, Peace And Progress
*Attractions
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GREAT SHIPS ACROSS ATLANTIC
FIFTY YEARS BUILDING FOR SPEED
COMFORT STANDARDS EVOLVED THE SUPER-LINER
(By T. Walter Williams)
TH
NHS is an era of great ships. țin 1907 and broke the records
Surely there is in all the east and west with a speed of
foot While For the first time Shakespeare's human beings can easily become plays will be performed for 26 accustomed to such altitudes, do consecutive weeks in the town of mestic animals cannot. This horse his birth. The first performance died soon after returning to the will be on Easter Monday, March
29, and the last on September 25. world no marvel so intriguing 26% knots, there were 75 en- foot of the mountain.
as a modern steamship, crystal-gineers and 425 firemen and Shakespeare "Birthday" Johnson
as does the new Queen Mary,1,100 tons of coal every 24 TR A. A. “BIRTHDAY John-lovers will include a conference on lising in one great achievement, coal passers, who had to shovel M son, who conducts an in-the study of Shakespeare plays the widest knowledge and the hours, and rake the ashes out Between stokings the surance business in Los Angeles, arranged by London University deepest wisdom of a nation's again.
Next year's run of Shakespeare marine experts and engineers. grimy, perspiring firemen sat never plays will not, however, break the
Such a ship, as a matter of down for a few whiffs from In the Stratford record by s big margin. course, offers all the comforts their clay pipes until the auto- This year's Festival season came and luxuries demanded by thematic signal, which rang every
crowd.
ac-
In-
out merian,
and
of
days.
never attempts to remember quaintances by name, but The engagement is announced forgets their birthdays. between Peter Cyril, son of Mrs. 11 years since 1925, "Birthday" M. Jackson and the late Mr. J. had catalogued in his mind a total to an end on September 26.
It had a 24-week run-aly two travelling public; and it com- 20 minutes, summoned them to again. In her latter bines the elements of safety, to fire
*T1 oil burner the W. Jackson, of Alwoodly, near of over 20,000 birth dates.
strength of hull, "fine" lines, days as Leeds, England, and Violet May,stead of calling a person by his weeks shorter than the projected
the Coronation Festival.
economical operation and the Mauretania's engine room force daughter of Mrs. Mitchell and the name when meeting him
ability to ride the oceans of the was reduced to less than 200 ali late Mr. R C. Mitchell of Hong street or when calling him by tele-
world, with ease.
told, including the engineers. phone, Mr. Johnson greets him by SUING THE RAS
Given all these qualities, one Kong
The Age Of Speed giving his birth date. It is not
Italian judges and lawyers in thing more is needed - speed.
The speed era on the Atian- Hour Long, Saturday, Oct. 21, 1936 unusual to hear him greet a group
of men: "Hello February 17th, Addis Ababa, are, it is understood. To compete successfully to-day
early May 21st, January 28th Novem having a busy time hunting for in the North Atlantic passenger tic commenced in the ber 11th," and so on through the the defendants who have been cited trade, a ship must have a speed eighties with the advent of the in the cases now occupying the that will enable it to make the two Guion liners Arizona and either way between Alaska, which were dubbed Value Of Carnations civil courts. These have just be passage
LLWOOD Brothers, carnation- gun to function for the first time Cherbourg and New York with-the "greyhounds and made the al specialists of Hayward's since the Italians occupied the in a five-day maximum. Size voyage from Queenstown to does not make so much differ-New York in less than seven All the resource and all the energy of the Government, said Heath, Sussex, England, write me:
will ence above 30,000 tons gross. Most of the cases which Mr. Chamberlain, its spokeswe often wonder whether the
These marvels were followed A Great Engine Room man, at the mass meeting of great public realize what a tremen- come up for bearing consist
The real feature of the new by the Cunarders Etruria and the Conservative Conference dous amount of more-valuable-jsummonses brought by Greek, Ar
Russian dealers Cunard White Star super-liner Umbria, which could be counted last month, are demanded by than-gold material is wrung the circumstances of the time of the soil in a simple Sussex vil-against Abyssinian chieftains for is the great engine room in the upon to dock Saturday morning depths of her hold, beneath all at the pier below Christopher He was not upon the defensive are each year. The price of gold non-payment of accounts.
A German doctor has summoned the luxurious salons and suites. Street, doing the passage in Confidence well justified re- is about $35.00 an ounce, but, the sounded through his speech.
The first twin-screw liners as sent out by us in quantities all Imperial Government who is now drive her 77,500 tons of steel all single-screw steamships.
through the water. They de- an in exile. pations that the confirmation aver the world is worth $700
dealer velop 165,000 horsepower with were the City of New York and in office of the National Gov-loance, or $11,200 per pound."
of lease, with another 25,000 horse-the City of Paris of the Inman Line, later sold to the American ernment last year would be fol
cur-power in reserve.
The engine room lowed by a continuance of the
the Line. They were picturesque industrial recovery was trium
Queen Mary is spick and span ships, built. like great yachts, phantly demonstrated. but only
to the eye and it is quitercool,with three funnels and three as the basis of more strenuous
jcompared even with those in masts. They were barque rig- most other modern ships. The ged and had clipper bows. They and comprehensive effort.
Music Lover
out of their made the run from Queenstowin was frankly emphasised that "the largest programme of ex-
Young Lady (at piano): "You are engineers step very food of music, aren't you, Mr. Cabins on the sun deck and go to Sandy Hook in 5 days 15 down in elevators to the vari-hours and were the first vessels penditure on defence which this
Johnson?" country has ever undertaken in
Sentence
Mr. Johnson: Yes; but go onous platforms and the boiler to steam over 20 knots, 00 Fusilier William
rooms, where the men who at-Few of the vessels in the At- time of peace" will be a heavy
tend to the oil furnaces wear lantic trade until then were burden. Mr. Chamberlain is Gronert, of the Boyak Welch never mind me."
white duck overalls and keep over 8,000 tons gross. They convinced of the adequacy of Fusiliers, who pleaded guilty at the rearmament which it will the Criminal Sessions last Mon-
Dealer: "That statue' is really their hands clean with white carried yards on every mast, give Britain. The possibility day to charges of malicious razor of retaliation by the "terrific attaks on three Chinese women in worth £20, but there being little cotton waste. There are 80 en-with sails which were set when- and also forestaysail and jibs striking power of the new Air Wanchai on September 13, will chip off here, I will sell it to you for gineers and electricians and 125 ever the wind was favourable,
Customers "Can't you break of men, including oilers.
In the much smaller Maure-forward. Force, he predicted, will sober be passed at 10 am on Monday £16.
tania, when she came out new (Continued on Page 71 thoughts of aggression and be next and not at the: November another little chip and let me have a most formidable deterrent to Sessions, as originally-intended, it for £121"
This intimation was conveyed war. But he made it plain that
The ample fulfilment of antici/ery best fertilized carnation seed one of the former members of the where lie the turbines that just over six days. These were
It
SENTENCE ON FUS.
GRONERT
Unnecessary To Wait Till Next Sessions
lon armaments alone for the MacGregor, to Mr. Leo D'Almada, the of [preservation
peace. In jnr, counsel for Gronert, at vigorous language he declared Sessions yesterday" afternoon.
His Lordship said: Since the once again the intention of the obtain highly-paid appointments in
Government to work for the day Gronért pleaded guilty I have! A MEITIOUS men
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engage
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pacts, and in particular the pro- PILOT'S HAT IN PROPELLER posed Western Fact, a way to the appeasement of alarms will be opened
.
A pilot named Dimmock was de monstrating an aeroplane 'at Car- International unrest is in-diff Airport recently when his hat famed by economic difficulties. flew off and caught in the pro- Mr. Chamberlain was content peller, which snapped. The ma to glance at British co-opera-chine crashed, but the pilot escap
the fed with slight injuries. tion with France and United States in minimising the
disturbance from the devalua the figures, for whatever other tion of the franc, with the hope forces have bem at work there that it would prove a step is no doubt that, in his own was the towards stability in the work phrase, confidence monetary system. But he de-mainspring, and to the creation clared that difficulties of finance of confidence the administra- and -currencies anst be dealt tion of the national finances on with before the world can be aound principles. was indispen tranquil, and promised that the sable. From this progress Mr. British Government would be Chamberlain would not have us ready to do its part in reducing draw the inference that the the restrictions which Impede Government are satisfied with the flow of international- trade. the condition of the people. That undertaking does not in the return of prosperity he imply what Free Trade fana-found the authority and the tics, Liberal and Socialist, have means for large schemes to been demanding, a change of raise the general standard of policy on Imperial Preference, welfare and physical develop- Mr. Chamberlain, with all the ment. A comparison not flat- vigour which might be expected tering to British pride with the from his father's son, insisted physique of German youth was upon the supreme value of that made to illustrate the need for principle to the material cohe-measures to give England a sion and the unity of thought population of greater and action of the nations of the These, Mr. Chamberlain avow Empires
ed, must be manifold.
In the disturbed conditions cerned with many.
of the world the steady pro-rational life to be gress of British industrial ro- Hew foreshadowed wed
me policyəniz»scope- covery is amazing. |berlain-may well be proud of have never
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