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Mr. Macwhite, the new Irish Freo: State Minister, chiaved the die tinction of being the first diplomat to present his credentials to Presi- dent. Hoover.
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The Royal Society of Arts is offer ing two prixes under the Thomas Gray Memorial Trust for the im provement and encouragement of navigation; ane, of £150, is for an invention in the years 1998 and 1929 Mr. E. Ralphs, of the Education of an improvement in the science Department, has reported to the or practice of navigation; and the police that his office on the third other, 150, is for an essay on the floor of the Fire Brigade building navigation of a low-powered was entered during the week-end steamer in a revolving storm, Falk by means of a duplicate key. The particulars can be obtained from place was ransacked but there were the secretary of the Royal Society ne valuables of the kind that ap- of Arts, John Street, Adelphi, Lon- peals thieves
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The 1914 Convention has long been recognised as impracticable from the point of view of passengers desiring cheap and efficient travel, of shippers desiring cheap earriage of goods, and of shipowners con- The anticyclone is central over N.
fronted with the necessity of making Japan. An area of relatively low
their accounts balance. It is believed pressure extends from the Annam that the atmosphere of panic pre 1st across the Philippine to thevailing after the loss of the Titanic Pacific. Indications remain of a was responsible for the framing of depression to the east of Luzon. regulations which many of the Local Forecast: E. winds, moder. signatories did not feel themselves ate, fair.
able to ratify. It is hoped, there fore, that the present nasembly will aucceed in devising regulations which will be universally accepted both by Governments and by ship-4. Miad Bing Woo, 27, a Chiness, At East Ham, London, on March ping men. The central problem which faces the delegates is how to charged with illegally importing ensure the greatest possible measure of raw opium, was sent to prison for six months. It was sea travel se costly that few can of safety at ses without readering stated that prisoner was a mess afford it Shipowners accept the
room boy on the Blue Funnel Line thesis generally that it is possible steamer Aeneas Admitting the to produm a completely unsinkable ownership of tba opium, he said ship, but they point out that such he had bought it in the river at a vessel could never bo operated Woochang for £0. profitably. It would be cambrous. slow, and have comparatively little space left for the carriage of goods and the accommodation of passen- gera.
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there are only two copies in the world, this one and another in "Imprisonment for debt is really Switzerland." Thereupon Miklas a relic of slavery," said Sir Ed scoured Switzerland, communicat ing with every likely dealer and ward Parry, formerly county court judge, at a Penal Reform collector. At last he found his League luncheon in London. The treasure at a reasonable price and number of people in prison for showed it with glee to the exor- debt these days is not very high, bitant dealer. he added. "The reason is not hard to see. It is immoral, wicked, and scandalous. Whether you steal ed. or £2,000 the shame is the same.”,
The extent of the risk is indicat ed in the record of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association, a recognized authority on the subject. In the eight years ending December,"
The Navy is so very well, fed - 1927, over 4,000,000 passengers were
nowadays that it is doubtful whe ther the discovery that 60 per cent. carried across the Atlantio by mem- bers' ships with no lives of passin-
of the preserved meat it asta is of gers lost. From 1994 to 1997 only Six homeless Chinese workmen foreign origin will be thought lives were lost were found by gendarmes in the worth a growl in any lower-deck through wrecks and casualties to yard of a factory at Cormeilles-en-mess Major S. E. Harvey, M.P. which has been written relating to vessels in the whole British Mer- Parisis, near Paris They were for Totnes, has been exposing this the merchant navy, the Prince re- chant Marine. One of the chief taken to prison at Versailles as unpatriotic action on the part of points which will come up for dis- vagrants. Warders who searched the Admiralty, but as a matter of calla the splendid work done during cussion is the change of lifeboat them, however, found in the boots fact he did not make a very palp- the war. A few months ago
agequirements which has resulted of one £78 in Bank of England able bit. The Parliamentary Secre- memorial was unveiled on Tower from the great development of wire. notes and 5,000 francs in French less telegraphy. It is believed by money. The other Chinese had Hill, London, to the 12,000 masters,
many that it is no longer necessary sums varying from £10 to £40
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to require boats equipped
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a maximum number of people for a brother officers as "Bubbles," Cap- us who are land dwellers" that relatively short period. In this tain James is the original curly- had it not been for the cool courage connection it is considered that beaded boy in the picture so and undaunted spirit of the British rafts, sometimes much more easily familiar to every child. He marri- ed a daughter of Admiral Sir A. Dut, whose flag captain and chief staff officer he was when that officer commanded the China Station.
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Merchant service during the war, "this country of ours must have perished." It is a curious fact that the general public is profoundly ignorant of the most elementary Navy as it is now called. Once in a while, usually in connection with semo incident at sea which a sailor would regard, is a trifling, every day occurrence, public interest is aroused for a day or two in the Merchant Service, but quickly lapses. when the next sensational event is chronicled..
facts about the British Merchant
CHRONICLE and the establishment of such or
The 67th Annual Issue
OF THE
launched than lifeboats, would serve just as well for a large percentage of passengers.
Shipowners have frequently ex- pressed the view that they should be
News and Views:
Five cases of small-pox were re- ported over the week-end and two' on Friday. Inst. Another British
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The changes in the flag list fore shadow the early promotion of Captain William Melbourne James. Familiarly know!
his arnong
tar cheerfully admitted the fact, and said that the firms tendering could not supply sufficient quan- tities of meat of Empire origin of A quality suitable for naval require." ments. Thinking Imperially gains nothing from laborious mastication.
The Poor Married Mas
Bachelors are notoriously sym→
pathetic towards all married men, and this, perhaps, partly accounts for Mr. Justice McCardie's severe
strictures last month on the absur- dity of a husband being legally responsible for his wife's actions. The case was one in which the hus- band was sued by two married, people for a libel uttered by his The recent movement in the flag wife, with whom he had not lived list, resulting from the voluntary for fifteen years, and, therefore, retirement of Admiral Sir Richard she could not by any stretch of Webb, has given full admiral's imagination be regarded as acting rank to Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt under his influence. As the Judge This advancement, of course, will said, The law adjusted for not affect his position as C.-in-C women in 1850 may not be so sp China Station, a post he has held
The whole since November, 1026.
propriate in 1999." It would position of women is changed, and not be wholly surprising if he was Field in command of the Mediter considered, little more than chat- selected to follow Sir Frederick law which were designed to pro- tect them when they were, legally ranean Fleet, in which event we
tels are anachronisms now. might see the China Command law, from being unfair to women, offered to Vice Admiral Sir Herbert has swung to the other extreme, Richmond.
and the lady with the bandage round her eyes raises it when one The price of liquer in New York of her own. sex appeals to her. has soared to such a height in con- sequence of the passing of the
The
Jones Act, which increases the The Expensiveness of “Bilka." penalties for violations of the pro- Although the legal profession in hibition law, that many of the England is commonly regarded as smaller "speak-easys?" (licit the closest trade-union in the world, drinking establishments) have been that does not deter eminent mem put out of business. According to bers of it from expressing their the New York Herald Tribune, the views on the expensiveness of going wholesale price of whisky has "ad- to law. In the Court of Appeal vanced from £18 to £25 a case, and last month Lord Justice Scrutton grain alcohol has doubled in price described & EC. as a super-luxury, and now costs approximately 3 and went on to say that a poor man per gallon. Deliveries to "speak was unfairly handicapped by his easys" have been curtailed to such richer opponent who briefed an An accident occurred yesterday an extent, according to the local eminent courset. The Law Journal, on the Pokfulum Road near the prohibition administrator, that commenting on these observations.. Chinese cemetery when a motor car only about one-half of the liquor says that litigation is being killed owned by Mr. Leung Tak Kwong ordered is being delivered. Boot by the large fees paid to counsel, knocked down two children who leggers apparently do not relish the but for this state of things it blames suddenly ran across the road from idea of going to sadl for five years not the Bar or the solicitors, but the behind an Aberdeen 'bus.
The and paying a ten-thousand dollar litigants. This is perfectly true.
unse of enteric, and a Chinese, ense of meningitis were also notified.
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deen Police Station where it was found that the injuries were not serious. They were given first aid and taken home.
liable under the Jones Act, and they are also finding it difficult to find men who will take the blame for them.
left free to provide better lifeboats as they are invented without being tied down by over-stringent and exact rules. They also consider it unfortunate that the regulations. no hitherto insisted on boats being carried in such numbers, and so placed that they cannot be easily launched. Some think it casier to get a large number of passengere large boats rather than with a large safely away from a ship, with a few number of small ones The meetings of the Conference are expected to be protracted, for it is believed that the various national experta who have been working on the problem for several years will require ample The officer in the British Mer-time in which to reconcile their res chant Navy does not hold, and hae pective views on technical matters. never held, the place he should have held in public life nor in the social scale. There are various reasons for this-chief among them, perhaps, being the sailor's characteristic dis like for publicity. During the last year or two, however, there has been a change in the old order of things,
ganisations as the Honourable Com- pany of Master Mariners has drawn public attention to the existence of that service without which, as the PRINCE OF WALES says, Britain would have perished. The mariner's
the building of the British Empire than any other, and officers who are masters and also those who hope to be have a strong claim upon public sympathy and support in obtaining redress for their grievances. Their To-morrow morning at 10.30 p.m., social position is now more saaured a formal presentation of a cheque, than it used to be, but their subscribed by the present and past SETTLEMENTS, MALAY material position is still a long Directors of the Tung Wah Hos- STATES, NETHERLANDS way short of what it should be.pital, the Directors of the Po INDIA, BORNEO, THE There are exceptions, of course, but Leung Kuk, and some personál the average Merchant Service Officer friends, will be made at the Tung is not well paid, considering the Wah Hospital to Dr. G. M. This Large Volume of approximate great responsibilities he has to Harston, as a token of apprecia- iy 1,000 Pages gives, in addition bear, and the work he has to do tion of the valuable services render to the Usual Lists of Firms, an under very unfavourable conditions. ed by him as Eye Specialist Con- 1. Already pressure has been re estates in England we are growing Alphabetical List of Easidents Progress has been made during the sultant to the Hospital from 1905duced during the night, but this accustomed to entire villages com in the Far East containing the last twenty years in regard to im
measure does not appear to have ing into the market and often being Names of Hearly..
proved working conditions, but
resulted in any appreciable saving sold in detail. West Wycombe, in much yet remains to be done by the
Among the passengers who dis-of water. Pending official action Buckinghamshire, which may rough- various organisations representing embarked here from the s.s. Prex.which we all hope will not be ly be described as the far end of the interests of the service.
Lincoln which arrived yesterday necessary residents can do much High Wycombe, has been more for from Manila were Mr. B. M. to relieve the situation by seeing tunate. It was to have been sold maritime Powers are meeting in Meanwhile, delegates from many
Armstrong a prominent engineer, that water is not wasted in their in lots by auction last month, but London at the invitation of the
formerly of Manila,, who intends homes. Faultystaps should be seen the Society of Arts bas stepped in British Government to, discuss the to reside and work in Hong Kong; to, servants warned not to leave and bought it in a block. It was problem of safety of life at sea. The Richardo Portillo, a hat manu- water running to waste, and the moved to do so by the picturesque work of the conference will be facturer of Manila, who is making morning tub can be easily reduced character of the cottages and inne largely devoted to an attempted
a business. visit of approximately by few gallons without any in-of which there are three, and by revision of the 1914 Convention with six months and Mr. Ferman Del convenience. These little things, anxiety, to save them from vul regard to changes in sea-going con- Rosario," an embalmer of Manila,multiplied by thousands, would garisation. The Society has bech. ditions since that time, and with a
P.I., who is on a tour, accompanied make a very appreciable difference foremost in the movement for the view to incorporating the war-time by his wife.
in the total daily consumption of preservation of old cottages, but thin experiences of the different Powers
water. Operations at the Kowloon is the biggest thing it has yet done. into the international code. The wireless message from the bye-wash are being expedited, and The old inns have big stable yards, subject will follow the lines of the Governor of Macao, addressed to it is hoped will be finished when "which," according to the adver- former Convention, and will be H.E. the Governor of Hong Kong, the pipe-line to Hong Kong is com- tisement of the arrested sale, could divided into six divisions as was received from the President plcted by the end of December. readily be converted into garages." follows:--Bub-division of ships into Monroe on Sunday. On behalf of There is a shortage of some two One of them, the Black Boy, dates watertight compartmente life-sav himself, wife, and daughter, the million gallons daily at Shing from the seventeenth century. The ing appliances including life-boats; Governor
expressed Mun, owing to villagers diverting village street is remarkably pic- wireless telegraphy; fire-extinguish thanks for the "extremely kind water into their rice-fields. Ar turesque and varied, and to have ing apparatus: ice patrol; and hospitality extended to us before rangements were completed long preserved it as it stands is a good 38 collision regulations. The first our departure from Hong Kong. We go for these people to leave the deed. The West Wycombe estate,
three topics are expected to receive take with us the happiest recollec- farina, but they have postponed which includes the village, has des the bulle of the Conference's attention of our visits to your colony, their departure, and steps are tended to Sir John Dashwood from tion, since the remaining items need and wish it all prosperity and your being taken to remind them very the half-brother of that notorious little if any revision. Much of the administration continued success. emphatically that they are not ob- Sir Francis Dashwood, Lord Le work will be of a highly technical We wish you and your family serving the terme of the agreement Despencer, the founder of the "He character.
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