MARINERS WARNED.
YANGTBZE RIVER-SOUTH. CHANNEL ENTRANCE.
18
WEST RIVER AGAIN. OVERFLOWS.
20 FT ABOVE NORMAL LEVEL-24 DISTRICTS:
FLOODED.
According to The Canton Gazelle
The inspector General of Cus. 1 soms gives notice that or or about October 6, 1031, and without fur-! ther notice. tho Tungahn Light vessel, scored in the South Chan Serious flood conditions proval in the south-western part of nol Entrance to the Yangtare River will be temporarily with wangi along the Right River, drawn from her station and rowhich is the uppermost part of placed by a relief light-vessel. the West River The river has The relief light-vessel is painted on more than 20 feet above Trei "and has go namo upon ita: sida
The light, which is dioptric, of the fourth order, shows a fixed white light, varied by an colipse overy 10 seconds, thus
Light
* Eclipsa
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1931.
VISIT FROM TRADE GUNBOATS OF THE
SHIP
YANGTSZE.
BRITISH FLOATING EXHIBIOUR LILLIPUTIAN FLEET ON
TION AT SHANGHAI
THE CHINESE FLOODS.
The terrible floods, now devastati
CLOUD LOAFING
(Continued from Page 1)
They do not unequivocally state;" they suggest. And so they nourish the nascent image and the ent idea. Or, to put it in the ver nacular, they help artists in their selected task of "seeing things.
As one may deem to distinguish faces and scones in the glowing em
ay discern people and
Shanghai will have an opportu THE EXPLOITS OF THE TEAL nity to inapet the trade abir
"AND WIDGEON, British Exhibitor, which will soon start a world tour as a floating ex hibition of British manufactured products, if a more, recently starting China, and the sale of the two ed in England, is successful in get veteran gunboats, E.M. Ships Teal, so one may ting Chinn included in the vessel's and Widgeon, have recently attract cities in the sky. To some extent ed attention to the mighty Chinese what you look for you will find, futuro itinerary
for the clouds are keys to the un- This information has been dis-waterway and the British fect of!
conscious; thoy open the door of the closed in Shanghai by Captain J. Lilliputian men of war which, for
storehouse of mental pictures RNVR re-
more than two ganorations, Housas and cattle have been washed away, thousands of people. Carter Former N
sailed and guarded the rendered homeless, and the autumn a shipping man of Sydney, Australia, who is spending a few crop of rice completely destroyed days in Shanghai en route to
normal level, and a. viet extent of land, covering nently ?
124 din tricts on either side, in under water:
Kinng Biver, writes Officer in & London
In was in 1860 that Admiral,
and is visible in clear weather for Torrential rains have been almost Liverpool whore he will co-operato Kappel first ontardd and chartedi
every 15 seconds.
in to visit.
rar
An oveting in the air in at onco aslimulant, and a sedative. And unlike the other pleasure grounds, to attain which it is often neces- sary to face the dangers of a train
continuous for ho last month or in the endeavour to get important in EM. Shipa Salamis and Opose, or of a taki-cab driven by a distance of 11 miles.
During foggy or thick weather amore, thus causing the present in-
British overseas dominions placed fog bell will be struck one blow undation. The extent of the disn the list of countries the rate sum, the great fehches shove Han-the devil himself, cloud-land may
aster surpasses that of 1911. Hu-
kow, the city with a population of be reached without risk and with man" bodica as well as those of
millions, and above which large out fatigue. No privations are domestic animals, house furniture
This move, Capt. Carter-Ferrarships are unable to navigate, not demanded, only a little patience!
in learning to fly and building material are con
for any lack of water but on ac-||| stantly floating down the river
count of the beads. In 1904 Ad-|| miral Sir Gerard Nool, Commander in-Chief in China, performed the |
In order to show the direction in which the light-vessel is riding, a white light will bo exhi bited from sunset to suprise at the bow, at a height of 12 feet above the deck.
On the completion of the repairs
to the Tungann Light-vonnel his will be replaced out her station and the relief light-vessel with- drawn, without further notier.
|ALWAYS COMFORTABLYCOUL
Coming
AND
CHARLES FARRELL ELISSA LANDI
'BODY 45 SOFL".
KING'S
A rescue party from Nanning,|
stated, is part of a''compsigu in- augurated by British importers and manufacturers agents in various pårts of the world to get the scope.
could be influenced by
Then a quick car from the office aj to the nearest aerodrome, a whool;
ing out of the machine, a swinging.
the capital of the Province,ne of the floating exhibition plan remarkable fere of taking the of the propeller, and the grass is boen at werk for some days try widsted so as eventually to include British Fleet of six battleships of like a green river, the trees at the flowing beneath the landing wheels ing to render aid to the flood every port overseas where trade the Glory class to Bankow, in far side of the aerodrome uro victims, but the rushing water has
a visit Divisions line ahead, disposed dropping away beneath the engine made the work of the rescuera dif- from the ship. A comprehensive abeam/ ficult. The Red Cross Society of list of such cities and countries: Istin
cowling, and the air is at the pilot's Nanning and other benevolent
disposal. publia organisations are busy at been prepared already with Bhang- work, trying to bring, relief to hai, Canton and Tientsin mention- the flood sufferers. At present ited as important points in the is impossible to give any accurato Orient for possible visits, ho report of the extent of the dam stated. nge done and the number of peo-
Buccess Predicted, ple drowned or rendered homo Теня.
The National Council here has appropriated 820.000 for the raliet of the hood victims in Kwangs
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The river is classified for naviga- In the sky trespassers will not be THE PERFECT tional purposes into three sections prosecuted. It is the greatest open the lower, middle, and upper space, the largest and yet the most rivers the cities of Hankow, uncommon dimen. You may lon Ychang and Chungkiang being the among the clouds for minutes or island limits of each reach, said miles; it is an unlimited recreation That the campaign will be success
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Far East on its first few toura decks of the ships, look down. that the King in Council has ap be visited during a subsoquent can be appreciated from the follow as the nose goea down. The aeroj!
The consequences of a Burst bank
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age or by one of the othering incident. Recently a steamer vesaals to be placed in service, was sucked through a broak in the course, it will take sometime for Capt. Carter Farrar said." Of
important centres, but in Australia the trade ships to cover the more 50 Leal confident that both the Antipodean and Far Eastern trade is too important to be altogether overlooked." N
British, industry on a whole is confident that the exhibition ship plan will prove an important factor in bringing about a revival of trade in Great Britain, the Cap- tain explained, and Lord Auck land, the managing director of the enterprise, has been successful in obtaining complete government support for the oruises.
1
To Visit Many Ports The first voyago is to the West Indies and South and Central America, markets known to be far- ourably disposed towards British goods. By visiting the Americas in
wheels touch and run. It swings round, bumping over the ground, and taxies to the abeds. Its oceu pants get out, refreshed by their evening's rest among the clouds.
Now the throttle is closed und the hum of the engine dies away plane glides, swinging gently to Fright and left, to the leeward of
the flood without grounding or any turn, a gentle sido-alipto 130 bank and was carried inland on the nerodrome. A last left-hand
and the ship returned to the river and spins over the grass, its tail mishap. The anchors were dropped height, and the neroplane levels at when the water had levelled off, falling lower and lower until the The anchors however, were re covered in the winter when they were found embedded in a dry rice field, far from the river bank.
Above Ychang, 900 miles from the sca, the first gorge rises steeply from the plain, a gorge 20 miles long and two hundred yards wide, the hills surmounting it being 2,000 feet high and sloping steeply to the river. The famous Windbox Gorge is flanked by cliffs rising a sheer 000 feet, through which roars the river, falling 9 feet in 150 feet Up this gorgo the British gunboats and Chinoso junks are steaned, towed and warped,
whether as bachelors or married men, certain it is that early days on the upper reaches of the Yang teze were golden days indeed.
Here was a sportsman's paradise pheasants, ducks and anipe being bagged in thousands. Many solema least was held with courtly Chinese Mandarine, whose boards. ware as generous na they were, and The water in the gorges rises 18 remain unsavoury to the averagé much as 140 feet above the water English taste. Eating with chop level and the little Widgeon, now sticks is an acquired art which, for
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a chopstick used on the bayonet British Empire Exhibition in Buenos Ayres.
It is upon this 1,000 miles of principle. British seamen have established an strangely contrasted waterway that ] - enviable and world-wide reputation side of gunboat life is sharply cur- To-day the lighter and happier for skilful seamanship and a simple, tailed. The sportsman, instead of oud-humoured, fearless and manly shooting pheasants, is likely to be diplomacy.
shot himsell, even could he find the birds which are now largely gather groaning tables of gangsters in ed inte coal-storage to cheer the Chicago. The friendly report of the shotgun is supplanted by the
Inasmuch as the exhibition will include representative specimens of all the chief manufactured products exported from Great Britain, all the available space on the ship for the first cruis has been engaged while a large number of exporters
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or their representatives will take Tangtaze gunboats Chinese and To the officers and men of the passage on the vessel. Aboard the Europeans, English as well as for craft will be an expers salea staff, sign, owe a debt that it is impos consisting of men. with the necessary technical qualifications, who not
to exaggerate. Trade is sinister crack of the rife from the only know the languages of the secured in these disturbed-times by ziver bank: Not long since a form countries to be visited, but have had. convey, or by famed guards pro of Q bost warfare was practised by extensive commercial experience vided from the gunboats Poten H.M.S. Cricket against a gang of with the people and markets,tial disturbances subside, on the progressive Chineas bandits which In order that each salesman may appearance of these quaint, but was holding up shipping and fring represent the exhibitor effectively, ubiquitous, little battleships, some from the bank en merchant junki he will be sent, when considered of them carrying two six-inch guns and steamers AVDAN
Lashed on the off-side of a junk: necessary, to the manufacturer which now on occasion, are need plant and instructed in the tech ed, is marked contrast to those this gallant little craft proceeded nical and selling points of the earlier days when the two six-up-river to the scene of attack product. A thoroughly equipped pounders of he. Teal and Widgeon where the Progressives of the saloon for the showing of trade were only required for sahuting; Left attacked what they conceiv films is included on the ship and between Englishmen and the Chi- alarm was only exceeded by the and for an exchange of complimenta ed to be a helpless junic. :” Their even firms not exhibiting a secure
apeod of their scuttle, when the. the privilege of having motion pio noso aristocracy. ture displayed.
Orickes slipped and fired her 6-inch guns, with moral rather than phy- sical effect, upon the gallant foe.
Marked, indeed, are the changes | of the past twenty years in gun baat life on the Yangisze, once is
Powertal Support. The Av
average size exhibition space | paradise for the adventurous sea- The Concessions on the banks of is 50 feet square with an, avail, man and the keen sportsman, but the Yangtare have gone but the ablo" height of 18 feet, the cost now, stripped largely of its sport | gunboats, fortunately for Chink of which is approximately 2300; and friendly intercourse with cour, and Europeana, remain. England's Passage on the British Exhibitor | teous, Chinsas, a scene of anxious prestige on the mighty waters of for the first voyage to 30 different diplomacy, and continual hazard of the Yangtato is whill precariously ports in 15 countries, and return attack, or of lost reputation for maintained by British, seamen in is £750. In addition to Lord Auck some alleged error of judgment in Lilliputian hips. The bulwark of land, Sir Max Muspratt, Viscount dealing with a crisis in which life what prestige remians in the just, Chaplin. Bir Ernest Thompson, Mr. is he stako,
A firm and good-humoured character Heary P. Surtoes and fr. John Still there hangs round the of the officers and men of the gun B. Percival are members of the earlier days of the gunboats the boats, supported hardly at all by visory council of the project, the romantic legend of, fsir Indies, the little armament carried in these last two named being trustees. All wives of commanding officers, towed baby ships preliminary expenses were financed by private subscription afg a trust fund has "bera created to aid the equipment of the four, additional ships to be put into service.
into the heart of Chins in zampaus With the sale and replacement behind the puling ičal nod ayda the smallest, H.M. Ships Tex gean: Whither the story la trus: 1. Widzçon, the proud have boon unsble to determine, but Yangtare, history doses, dec
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