ROAMING ABOUT HAND- CUFFED.
PINEWOOD THIEF ESCAPED FROM FOREST GUARDS,
A HEAVY FINE IMPOSED,
When an Indian Constable, who was on patrol duty on Cheung Sha Wan Road, saw Chinese roaning
about with a pair of handcuffs on his wrists he promptly took his charge, and the story of how the
Мад got manacled was told in Court yesterday morning when he appeared before Mr. W. Schofield, at the Central Magistracy.
The defendant was caught by some forest guards just before mid-night on Tuesday when he had in his possession 50 catties of pins wood. Mr. Twemlow, who prosecuted, said that the damage done to the trees amounted to $30.
Defendant, immediately after his arrest, was handcuffed, but he managed to escape from the forest guards and was on his way to find a blacksmith to take the handcuffs off when the Indian constable saw him and took him into custody.
His Worship imposed a fine of $75 or. six weeks' hard labour.
A RUNAWAY MOTOR WHEEL
BRITISH BLUEJACKET'S COLLAR "BONE
FRACTURED.
As a result of a curious accident, & British bluejacket was admitted into hospital with a fractured collar bone, and the sequel was heard at the Central Magistracy yesterday before Mayor C. Willson, when Inspector Alexander of the Trafic Department charged a Chinese motor driver with failing to report an accident.
TWO KWONG BOATS
AGROUND.
A PIRACY FALSE ALARM.
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A more detailed report was re- ceived yesterday with regard to the mishap which occurred to the L wong Foon, as reported in the Daily Press previously.. ́
BRITISH NAVAL GUNS.
THE NEW 16-INCH WEAPON.
SHELL OF 2,24018.
[BY ARCHIBALD HURD
Two new types of guns are about to be introduced into the British According to the story related by Fleet, and both as a result of the
the crew it appeared that when the vessel left Wuchow on Friday night on her return journey to Hong Kong, she ran into a dense fog early the next morning. When the fog lifted, the s. wong Fook Cheong, another weat-xiver coaster, was seen to have grounded on a feld-bauk.
An attempt to take the Kwong Foot Cheong in tow having falled, both vessels fired guns de signals of distress. The Chung On another of the vessels owned by the same Hong Kong Company, on observing the two boats as she passed down- stream on her way to Hong Kong, assumed that the steamers had been pirated and reported the incident as such to a British gunboat, which she passed
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a 18in weapon which is being mounted in the battleships Nelson
and Rodney, and the other is the sin. guns to be carried by the new
County" cruisers. Though it is a long time since the Conference broke up, the full significance of the work which the delegates carried out has not yet been fully appreciat ed. If it had not been for that Conference, we should have had in commission by this time four" capital ships larger, mors powerful, and swifter than any vessels in the American or any other feet. That is a consideration which there is a tendency to ignore. Contracts had already been placed for their con- struction at Govan, Clydebank, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Dalmuir. The Kwoon Faon then resumed It was reported that they would her trip to Hong Kong, but before be of 48,000 tons displacement. long met with a similar mishap to Those ships were sacrificed under the Naval Treaty, and in place di the ship she had just left grounding them the Nelson and Rodney, of nogt Lan Sha. On Sunday morning 38,000 tons, bave been built. As has she was still on the mud when already been stated, each of these new vessels will be armed with nine ou: but fortunately, 18in. guns, carried in three armour- provisions ras that night, the Kwong Hong, aned turrets, as well as twelve sin. other of the Sai Hing Company's guns steamers, arrived and assisted, the If it had not been for the lead by Krong Poon of her dangerous the United States, it is doubtful if position. She reached Hong Kong, at five o'clock on Monday after noon. No damage resulted from the accident, and the Krong Foom again left on another up-river trip on Tuesday afternoon.
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the British Fleet. Buited States example set in the United States and Japan, the British authorities would probably have been content, for the time least, with the 15in gun, which had given ruch excellent results in the battleships of the Royal Sovereign and Queen Eliza beth classes, as well as in the battle cruiser Hood. As fashions rule in naval matters and have a pay; chological influence on officers and men, as well as upon critical tax- payers, the Admiralty determined on introducting the lia. gun be fore the Conference. It would have been a psychological error to con- tinue to mount the 15in gun when other Powers had advanced to the
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that but for, the Conference we in. weapon. It is not improbable should eventually have gone aš ona stride from the 15in, to the 18in. gun, of which two were made for ing the Great War, but were subse installation in a battle cruiser dur- quently used in a monitor. Lord" Fisher, indeed, stated that he in-
Outlining the case, Inspector. Alexander said that one of the
News from Manila in papers wheels of the car came off while it dated February 19th stated that was proceeding along Queen's Road, near the Naval Yard. The wheel little hope is held in local shipping insurance ciroles that the American rolled Against the edge of the kerb Pioneer Line freighter. Elkton, and bounced up hitting a naval which sent out distress signals late -man who was walking along theon Thursday night, is still adoat. pavement. The sailor's collar-bone The as. Liberator, which received was fractured, and he had to be the distress call, made a search overhed admitted to hospital. •
a radius of 200 miles but was unable to find any trace of the ship, other than oil floating on the rough seas, There was a crew of 38 aboard, the master being Capt. E. C. Schnellhardt.
The accident was not reported to the Police and the precise details were not disclosed until the arrest of the defendpat who was driving
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Making a tour of the world on a luxuriously fitted yacht, Mr. Harri of the ship of his dreams, A.M.S.son Williams, the American million- Incomparable.
aire, who is at present in Rangoon, will soon pay a visit to Hong Kong. It was agreed at Washington that we and other naval Powers should
Mr. Harrison Williams yacht, go no further than the United the Warrior, is 250 feet in length, The defendant pleaded that no
States and Japan had already gone with a beam of 35 feet and smediately after landing. complaint from the victim had been Manila and Guam, and in its dis-i in this respect, so the Nelson and draught of 16 feet. She is -1,451
Rodney have 10in. guns For the
the car.
made, nor was compensation asked
for.
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Inspector Alexander aaid the police were charging defendant oply with failing to report the accident. Major C. Willson fined defendant
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The missing ship was between
tress signal, gave its position as 136.36 degrees east longitude and 14.16 north latitude, or about 1,000 miles from Manila. The message was abruptly broken off.
Four United States navy des- troyers were sent from Manila at 3 p.m. on Friday to search for the missing ships and crew.
Admiral line officials, agents for the steamer, have a faint hope that the freighter may have been able "to reach the island of Guam.
The Elkton had a valuable cargo of sugar and cocoanut oil. It left Pulupandan, Negros, at 8 am, on bruary 9th, destined for Atlantic ports by way of the Panamın canal It was to have stopped at Honolulu for fuel.
excellence of its gun design and tons gross and 18 tons net and manufacture this country has beer is fitted with Krupp Diesel Motor distinguished since the days of the engines developing 1,800 horse late Lord Armstrong, The Navy had previously been satished with a power for a speed of 14 knots and io. wrought-iron gun," with a pro has twin screws. The Warrior also jectile weighing 115.b., in contrast carries a powerful wireless set. with the 32-pounders of the Traial-
The crew comprises Capt. Severin gar period. But in the seventies a system of building-up guns was in Augustinsen and 43 others, with a troduced, sad the projectile ad-
full complement of officers and vanced from 115 to 810 lb., and thence in 1880 to the 1,700lb. of engineers and there is a first class the 16in.gua. These were, of chef on board. The crew represents course, muzzle-loaders. Then, in
several nationalities.
Mr. Harrison Williams left New 1887, came the 18.95 breech-loading THE PRICE OF FAME..
weapona. The size of these weapons, which were over 43 feet long and York travelling Eastwards through weighed over 110 tons, filled the the Suez Canal on a pleasure trip Harold Lloyd who is considered
world with amazement. They con- The sugar amounted to 7,500 tone stituted an admirable advertise round the world and is calling at by many people to be an even and was valued at 8738,500. The
than greater comedian Charlie coconut oil cargo was 850 ton and ment of the ingenuity and skill of all important ports en route.
and brought
From Rangoon he will proceed. in a number of profitable orders Chaplin is showing in one of his was valued at about 8130,000. The our armament makers,
entire cargo was insured. It is un- best pictures "The Freshman" at derstood that the gross of the in- for warships from abroad. Japan back to New York aid the Panama the Star Theatre to-day till Satur-surance was handled through E. E. proved a particularly good cus Canal, calling en route, at Penang, Elser, Ed. A. Keller Company, and tomer, for all the early vessels of Singapore, Java, Bangkok, Hong her navy were built in this country. the Union Insurance Bociety of Canton. A large per cent of this But a new method of construction, Bong, Japan and other places. The
was adopted in 1885, and the Ad Second Officer, Mr. Johnson. insurance was sub-insured through won as the wirewound process, Chief Officer is Mr. Hiorth and the
of only The value of the Elkton could not miralty decided on a gun of be ascertained. It is a United 12 inches, with a weight of 46 tons, States shipping board vessel and since it could propel its 850lb. pro- therefore is not insured by a com Elkton's tonnage was 9,600 dead was built by Skinner and Eddy in known to every picture goer
1019 at Seattle. It was a steel screw There is a lot to be said for his ship and burned oil.
The nature of the ship's trouble attitude and he is lucky in the fact was not learned, further than it was that in real life his dppearance is in a full gale. The fact that oil was found on the water does not so different to his stage make up
necessarily mean that the boat sub that even in Hollywood he can merged. It is customary in rough move unrecognized, and has time seas,, such as the Elkton, was mailing and again attended previews of is, to spray oil over the surface of the water to quiet the sens. The
day.
Unlike most well-known men Harold Lloyd does not seek pub licity and autograph hunters and movie fans have no chance with him. He has steadfastly refused
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power in any future vessels other person, though his wide smile and
1,000 yards range, as compared with Treaty as the weapon of maximum absurd goggles" make him well. tons, 6,318 gross and 4,674 net. It the 32in. of the 16.25 built-up than capital ships, the Admiralty
breech-loader. This gun marked the
Whereas the 7.5-inch gun fires a beginning of a revelation in naval could do no other than adopt it. gunnery, which was world-wide in
shell of 200lb. with a muzzle energy Progress of the of 11,250 foot-tons, the 8-inch gun its influence. movement in subsequent. years is will probably have a projectile of with a velocity slightly revealed in the following statement: about 250lb,
Projec
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12.
850
9.2-inch, gun, which used to be ctr- 1905...... 58
12
850;
ried by our larger pre-war cruisers, 1912.... 70
13.5 1,400 would have been installed in the 1914.
new "County" cruisers, but that is a matter of speculation. If we razy judge by the particulars issued by the great gunmakers of this country these gans will be able to penetrate nearly forty inches of
his pictures without being spotted. Liberator did not find wreckage or For other well-known stare travel; other evidence that the boat had ling is made aren more trying than
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