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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1930.
WIRELESS MYSTERY.
THE OPERATOR EXPLAINS.
HIS ILLNESSES ON VOYAGE.
Mr. John M. Molley, the wireless operator of the steamer Baron Elche, arrived at Tilbury in the P. & O, sicumer Barrabool last month. He was met by the reliev
CHINA OF THE" FUTURE.
CLYDE LAUNCH ·
IN FOG.
AGRICULTURAL OR INDUS-NEW EMPRESS OF JAPAN.
TRIAL COUNTRY?
VIEWS OF A CHINESE ECONOMIST.
Dissension of opinion has arisen among the people as to whether China should be an agricultural, or industrial country, says the
INCREASING THE SPEED OF VESSELS.
A heavy fog on the Clyde some- what obscured the launch of the new
ing officer of the district and was Sinanpan. Some observers onine Buccessfully originated by Mrs. E.]
taken to the Orsett Institution.
When the Baron Elcho was in the Mediterranean on
November 21 wireless messages were kont out alleging that there had been an Attempt to drug or murder her wire- less operator. Destroyers were dis
find the patched from Malta to vessel in case help was needed, but when they arrived the captain de clared he had no knowledge of the messages sent out, and that every thing was normai on boards"
A remarkable story was related to Press Association reporter by Mr. Mulley. He contracted slight malaria in Calcutta, he said, but carried on and told no
one.
that, since China has been an agricultural country for the past four thousand years or more, and ns the majority of her population belong to the rural class, China is destined to depend upon agriculture for her existence. However, others hold
the view that, since, the western sciences were introduced into China about fifty years ago, the Chinese have become familiar with the fact that nearly all the world's Powers have become rich
Canadian Pacific liner, the Empress of Japan. The launch, however, was
R. Peacock, wife of one of the directors of the company, and the ship was brought round to the cast dock at the Fairhold yard, where it will lie until it is completed in
June.
In the fog the ship looked per haps even more impressive than ove had expected. It is painted white, with a blue line, and its great height towering over the crowd an the road was paler than the sky. The foot of the ship rose steeply into the launching platform upon which the guests had gathered, "and about it the heads of the latticed and strong through industrial pro
crapes and the poles of neighbour- gris. This being the case, they On one of them, close by the ship. ing slipways rose through the fog. Bay. China should follow the ex- n party was helping in the direct- ample set by the Powers by devuling of operations, but the fog was so thick they could not are the two He ing her efforts to the development hundred yards to the river.
of her industries if she wishes to hear a noise en the river, but what make herself na rich and strong as it is I don't know," one shouted. "the western nations.
bought some.quinine thinking that he could cure himself, and dosed himself with that until arrival at
Java.
Too Many Mangoes.
Here I was on watch tallying the cargo," he said, "and during that time I ate a lot of food and mangoes, and then got dysentery The two complaints together made me very ill, but I carried on with my work, not wanting to make A fusa. I kept my watch until just before reaching Port Suez. I felt to ill, especially after meals, and began to feel very dizzy ns well. I could not think that there was any- thing else but that someone was doping my food.
"I then sent a message to the Chief Commissioner of Police at Port Said informing him of hy suspicion regarding the food. There was
boarding party in Port Said, but they were unable to find signs of contraband. After leaving Port
Said my physical condition became gradually worse, and after two-days could eat no food whatever. I was so ill after the second night that after supper I decided to take a stroll on the poop to revive my spirits, but I collapsed,
The ship was rolling heavily, and I just happened to cling hold of a faulight to prevent myself falling Overboard.. This having happened just after a light supper, I came to the conclusion that it had been drugged. I told the captain about the suspected dragging of my food, but he laughed the matter off.
Radio to Malta.
"I then decided, as a result of I very serious illness and in a desperate endeavour to attract at tention in order to get hospital treatment to dispatch a senantional telegram to the senior naval officer at Malta for immediate assistance. I was feeling so ill that I thought I should be dead before arriving at Marseilles. Later I sent out a message to the effect that I was being drugged and murdered for After some mysterious reason. sending this message I kept watch, and heard the destroyers asking for our position.
"I gave the position the third day out to the ship British Commerce, which in turn repeated the message to the destroyer Witch. I had then come to the Conclusion that the destroyer was searching for the Baron Elcho, but I did not com- municate with her direct, although I could hear the loud signals. I heard our position and course being given to the destroyer Witch by another ship, which had passed us some time before. About seven o'clock the same evening destroyers were sighted.
In an article under the title of Is China to be an Agricultural or an Industrial Country, Mr. Shih Yung, the well-known Chinese economist, give us some interesting statements in this respect and holds that agriculture and industrial are interdependent. China, he says, should, however, spate no effort to develop her industries, but, at the ne me, she must not overlook her agricultural interests.
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Imports and Exports, The article says, inter alia "The total value of China's in- ports and exports for 1929
Ik. Tis. 1,195,009,271 and Hk. Tis.
respectively, imports $91,354,988 being Hk. Tls, 94011283 in excess of exports. Almost all of China's exports are agricultural products (or raw materials), but, under the head ing of her imports, appear the fol- lowing agricultural" products:-
Value (lk..Tis.)" *08,607,023 07,991,417 65,439,212
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Sugar Cotton Rice
Flour
Grain
$2,801,1936 29,830,464
Fish and other Bea
products
10,125.813 18,017,008 Timber ... Other foodstuffs....... 17,313,111
The total amount of China's in ported agricultural products for 1920 was, therefore, Hk. Tls. 355,37,000, or about one-third of China's total imports, for the past year, This huge sum is an indication of the depression in China's agriculture and is also the principal cause of her industrial failure.
Agricultural Products. "Agricultural products are the raw materials of the industries and, if there is, an insufficient supply of raw materials, it is hopeless to at- tempt to develop manufacturing industries. It is, therefore, evident that China must have a sufficient supply of raw materials if she in- tends to promote her industries. In comparison with her agricultural depression, however, China has "I was on watch at that time, made great strides in her industries, and immediately they were nighted As is indicated in the following list the captain interrogated me as to of industrial products imports in the reason for the destroyers being | 1027 and 1929-**
Destroyers Alongside.
in the vicinity. I told him the whale position, advising him that I did not think him competent to handle my case from a medical aspect. He then placed mo under detention pending the arrival of the
destroyers..
"At half-past eight next morning I was transferred to the destroyer Witch. I was kept in the coxs- wain's cabin of the Witch until we reached Malta, where I was trans ferred to the Maltese police. Two dectors gave me an examination at the station, and I was then sent to hospital. After 10 days I was put an board the P, & O. liner Barra bool and brought to England,
The doctors certified me as per- Mactly Et in eNCENSORES. After reaching Tilbury this afternoon 1 went to see a cup-tie match.'
Chemical
Hk. Tis. 1027
Hk. Ta...
1928
products 28,483,236 32,008,304 Fuel (coal).... 22,803,655 22,939,000 Machinery.... 18,302,532 10,913,416
Agricultural machinery Power plant machinery Printing machinery, etc., Bailers, etc., Pumps, etc.
The General Committee of the A.A.A. has agreed to send a re presentative team to the Empire Games (Canada) to be held at Hamilton, Ontario,from August 10 in 23. They also agreed to subscribe £500 towards the expenses of the trin which are eligented at $3,000, An appeal is to be launched paking the public to subscribe to the funds.
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A Good Launch,
"I can
At length the "all clear" was given. Mrs. Pencock released the cradle holding a bottle of cham pagae, and after a moment's delay the great structure began to' move, at first silently, then with a noise like the cracking of ice as she gain- ed way. The crowd cheered" and the ship moved on, taking up with aron the cables that held her to land. Her white stern vanished
into a fog which was so thick that only the watebers on the far end of the quay could see whether she Eaived three times to her Indy spon- нечи as a well-behaved ship should do:
The name of the Empresa of Japan is already familiar in the Pacific Ocean. An earlier ship of that name, nrred as an auxiliary cruiser, helped the Himalnya and two other Empresses to blockade German supply ships in Manila, and later took a hand in the recapture of the Exford, which the famous Emden had seized. The new Em- press of Japan is to be the largest. fastest, and most luxurious ship engaged on the Pacific route fron Vancouver to Yokohama. Kobe, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Manila. Her older sister, the Empress of Canada, has made the journey in eight days, ten hours, fifty-three minutes; the Empress of Japan, engined to travel 21 knots on ser- vier, should make the journey in eight days, saving one day on the usual, crossing. She is designed to enrry 400 first-class passengers, 164, second-class, 100 third-class, and 315 Asiatic steerage passengers.
The first-class passengers, who' will pay £60 or 470 for the journey across the Pacific, will have all the luxuries which the furnishers can devise, and their children will play in a room whose exterior will look like a red tiled cottage standing in a flower garden.
Although the ship is to be thus luxuriously equipped with the in- cidentals of the expensive life there is also much room left for cargo, nini 60,000 cubic fert of it will he
The required for the silk-room. length of the ship of epcft., its height 107ft. its gross tonnage 20,000 tons. One can imagine that completed, with her three funnels above and her opulence below. she will be an attractive "vessel.
Higher-Speed Ships.
Upon this eastern trip the need for speed is not measurable in terms of the Atlantie journey. Neverthe less, Captain Gillies, the general manager of the company's steam- ships, predicted a general increase in the speed of both passenger and cargo vessels, and pointed out that the Empress of Japan, though not unconventional in design, would give a higher speed on service than her predecessor with the same weight of machinery and size of oil-fur! papkers. She is to be driven by Parsons type turbines and, Yarrow He predicted also type boilers. ilst the new Empress of Britain, to' be commissioned in 1931, would make the run from Southampton to Quebec in five days. He was inclined to think that a four-day crossing of the Atlantic would ap proach the limit of the powers of avrince ships. In conclusion the paid warm compliments to the Fair- field Yard for rapidity of construc- tion and quality of their work.
Sir Alex M. Kennedy, the chair- inan of the Fairfield Company, ex- pressed some pride in the associz- tion of the two concerns, and re- called that, this was the twelfth ship the yard had constructed for the, Canadian Pacific Railway. Sir Alex deplored the mistakes of poli ticians and their effect upon in- dustry, but admitted that during the last twelve months shipbuilding had been in a rather better state than for many years. Though the immediate outlook wens not so law ourable, they must not be discour- aged
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