COL DI LANA IN | TRAVEL ASSN.'S
NO DANGER
Full Details Of Pratas Stranding
The Col di Lana, the Italian cargo stec mer of 6,000 tons which fell foul of Pratas Shoal late on Wednesday night and whose 9.0.S. signal was answered by the N.Y.K. steamer." a.s. Kamo Maru. Is reported to be in a precarious position but is in no danger so Cong as the calm weather which prevalling at Pratas Shoal.con- tinues.
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The Kamo Maru arrived yester- day morning about à day late on her Captain, ner schedule. and Commander T. Takeda, gave a re- presentative of the Daily Press an account of the attempted rescue up to the time of the Kamo Maru's departure for Hong Kong.
He said: "Late on Wednesday night at about 11.30 p.m., while we were on our way to Hong Kong and about 100 miles between Pra- tas Shoals and the Colony, we re- ceived an 8.0.S. signal from Cape D'Augilar Lighthouse, so we turn- ed.the ship around and arrived at the scene of the
grounding at. about 9.15 am. on Thursday mor ning."
"The Col di Lana was lying on the rock about 6 miles north-west of the Lighthouse."
I saw the Col di Lana trying to get off the reef on her own power but she was unable to do SO/ The weather was very calm but with long swells.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1934.
PAPAL DAY
Local Catholics To Celebrate
27. Prince of Wales at Kent The Catholics of Hong Kong County Fair. Maidstone. will celebrate" Papal Day to-mor- Prince George at Garden row. The Programme of the cele... · Party to commemorate Cen-brations is announced in our ad- tenary of University College vertisement columns. Hospital. St. James's Pa-. This Feast is celebrated each year all over the Catholic world: it is a day which is set aside as a. mark of respect and reverence for the Holy Father the Holy Fa- ther the Pope, Plus XI, who now fills the Chair of Peter, and Is the successor to him to whom the
given-Feed
28. King and Queen to open Chartered Insurance Instit- ute. Aldermanbury, E. C.
July,
3. Duchess of York at Garden Party for Children's Welfare Day. St. James's Palace, 4. Prince of Wales at Royal Agricultural Show. Ipswich. 5. Duke and Duchess of York
at Shemeld.
6. Prince of Wales at Adverts- Ing Association's Dinner. Grosvenor House,
charge was sheep."
My
POSITION OF GERMANY
Dr. Schacht's Address
(Special to the "Hong Kong Dally Press" (Copyright,)}
Addressing
i
the
Berlin, June, 21.
of representatives the foreign Press in Berlin on
Thursday night, Schacht, President of the Relchsbank. dealt at great length,, with all as pects unsolved in the transfer pro- blem reviewing exhaustively all fucts, occurrences and develop- ments accounting for and just- tying the attitude taken by the German Government.
"7. Duke and Duchess of York rests becomes the Vice-gerent of and other official statements. On
9-16. King and Queen at the Palace of Holyrood. Edin- burgh.
King end
17. King opens New Library
Manchester... Queen open Mersey Tunnel. Liverpool.
For Catholics, the sucred office' of sovereign Ponti is the most exalt- ed in dignity, the widest and weigh.
A great majority of these ar- tlest in responsibility that God can guments have already been report- confer upon any men От thised by Transocean in connection earth. He upon whom this office with previous Schucht's speeches
at Boy Scouts' Rally. Edin-God. the Visible Head and Mouth- this occasion, Schacht used as the burgh.
plece of His Church, the Vleur of basis of his discourse the text of Jesus Christ, the infallible teacher the German Government's trans- of divinely revealed truth, the
ler note handed over on June 14 centre and source of spiritual to the Governments of Belgium, jurisdiction. the bearer on earth France, Great Britain Italy, Hol- of the keys of the Kingdom of and, Sweden. Switzerland and the Heaven. the successor of Blessed United States. Schacht isid great Peter. the Father of the Faithful emphasis upon the primal
fact To these sublime prerogatives that Germany is eager to meet all must be added another more pre- foreign obligations in full and ad- clous, perhaps, to the
holder;vanced as a proof of the act that dearer, certainly. than all the Germany has gone on paying un- rest to his spiritual subjects. He til her entire reserves of gold and is the "Pastor animarum."" the foreign currencies have gone. At Shepherd of the Flock of Christ. least half of Germany's present arisen I am the Good Shepherd." said toreign indebtedness had the Son of the Living God. and through the attempt to pay re- what He was. He willed His Vicar parations after all means of ac- also to" be.
quiring the wherewithal had been taken
24. Duchess of York opens Hos-
pital at Welwyn.
June.
SOCIAL
28. Jubilee Ball for Children's Country Holiday Fund. The Dorchester.
"We stood by for an hour dur-July. ing which period I continually sent messages to the Captain of the Col di Lana asking for in- structions. The latter was com- municating with the Captain of another Italian vessel, the Helda, in Italian, so we were unable to interpret her messages. After a while I pressed the Captain, of the Col di Lana for
answer but he asked us to walt, so we drifted in the near Vicinity of the vessel."
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"We saw a Japanese fishing ves- sel, the Gensel Maru come to the help of the Col di Lana, and wit- nessed the landing of several fishermen on" the grounded ves- sel. At about 10.30 a.m, on Thurs- day morning the Chle: Officer of the Col di Lana came aboard my vessel by boat, and gave me an explanation as to the grounding of his vessel."
2.
China Association Recep- ton Grosvenor House.
The Puff Ball Ritz Hotel. Indian Empire Garden Par- ty. Hurlingham.
4. "British Empire Garden Party. Roehampton Club. 7. Opening of Leicester Muni- cipal Aerodrome. Leicester. 12. Anglo-Egyptian Association At Home. Grosvenor House.
OLD CUSTOMS
July.
5. Ancient Tynwald Ceremony. Purchaser and Prince
The Sovereign Isle of Man,·
12. The Worshipful Company of Vintners' Procession. Upper Thames Street.
of
of
away-colonies, Invest- ments, banks, businesses and so
FOREIGN LOANS
their
Schacht said that all confer- ences with foreign creditors. that had examined the situation in Ber- lin ended by admitting that the course taken by Germany was the soundest possible in the interests of the creditors themselves...
Sending Catholic priests to all the nations of the world through Bishops with certainty of Orders forth. and participation Apostolic jurisdiction: God's chief Minister multiplies the Bread of Heaven so
The Foreign Governments had then allowed
nationals to that all may eat of the one Bread and become permeated through lend Germany money to replace this confiscated foreign trade and through with the leaven of the Peace of Christ. the Divine machinery but had seized more of Peace. than half of the proceeds on ac- Pontiff becomes count of reparations before it another Elías causing the mira- ever came to Germany as the Lay- anoirited priest-ton Report of 1931 had recorded culous all, the hood, to fill the vessela the distinctly and equivocally orice and 13. Charter Day Perambulation world's need and not fail, Through for all..
of Borough Boundaries. him peoples and nations may have peace, not the peace of sloth, the Tewkesbury. 16. "Swan Upping." The Wor-peace of compromise. but the shipful Company of Vint-peace of justice, the peace of true ners. Upper Thames Street. charity, the peace which surpasseth 23. "Rushbearing to the all understanding, the peace of Church." Ambleside, Lake heaven of which Our Lord spoke when He said, "My Peace I give District. Waterman's Race for Dog-you. My Peace I leave you, Not as gett's Coat and Badge. Lon- the world giveth rive I unto you." don Bridge LO Chelsea It is a pious Catholic practice Bridge.
te pray often "for the Pope's in tentions." The Holy Father him- self gave to the world hisnten- tion" two years ago when he wrote: "Men who in every nation pray to the, same God for. peace on earth cannot be at the same time bearers" of discord among 7. Fair. Wakefield."
peoples; men who turn in prayer 10-12, St. Peter's Fair. Holsworthy. to the Divine Majesty cannot fo- County ment that nationalistic imperial- 11-12. Cahirmee Fair.
Ism of which each people makes its own gods; men who look to
of the God of Peace and (to
Love rest until finally will know no that peace which the world .can- not give comes down from the Giver of every good gift on men of good will."
"The officer told me that he had made depth soundings and had found that his ship Was balancing on a rock in about 12 feet of water amidships, with about 14 feet at the bow and 23 feet of water at the stern. As we were drawing 25 feet I was unable to approach to any very near pro- ximity to the Col di Lana for fear of grounding myself, and their suggestion that we should tug them off the rock was therefore July. impossible.
"The Chief Officer told me that early on Thursday morning there were fears that the Col di Lana, might break her back. heavy swell prevailing time was rocking the ship in a "see-saw" fashion.
"I asked them if they
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the the
wanted to come aboard my ship. but the
Captain and crew preferred to re- main and try and get her off the reef.
"I was told that there was more, the than one Ashing boat in vicinity, and as they all have, re- they would celving wireless gets probably have received the mes- sages despatched to them and ar- rived at the scene by now.
"When the Kamo Maru left the scene, continuing her voyage to Hong Kong. the Col di Lana was in no danger." concluded Com- mander Takeda.
Inquiries at the Royal Observa- elicited tory yesterday morning the information that the weather at Praias was fair with a South wind of 11 miles an hour.
Under Time Charter According to Lloyd Triestino. the Col di Lana loaded a cargo of beans and groundnuts from North China ports bound from Tsingtao for Europe with Singapore the next port of call. At 10.00 p.m. on 20th she grounded north-west of the Pratas Reef. In answer to a call for assistance the "Kamo Maru" proceeded to the seene and stood by: The "Hilda" another vessel
July.
ANNIVERSARIES
1. Dominion Day (Canada). 4. Independence Day.
Cork.
FAIRS
15. Seamer Fair, Scarborough.
Fair 31. St. Margaret
August 21. Tenby. S. Wales. FESTIVALS AND PAGEANTS
June.
28-29. Gaelic Festival (Feis Tir- connall). Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.
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29. Pageant of Parliament (to July 21). Royal Albert Hall 30. Mediaeval Tournament (to
17). Morecambe July Heysham.
and
LOCAL GOLF
Royal Air Force Pageant Starting Times For
Hendon, near London.
Folk Dance Festival, New- ton Park, Bath.
Sunday
the
same
con-
The last short term creditor congress blamed Germany for buy- ing bonds abroad but finally ad- mitted this was in the interests of the creditors: The last conference of the long-term creditors made
complaint and cluded by making the same admis- son. Schacht said that Germany had already tried the process known as deflation and found that this plunged the nation into un- precedented unemployment so that it could not be repeated.
SHELL
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BIG SUCCESSES
GRAND PRIX
PRIX DE BORDINO
22nd April, 1934
1st 2
GRAND
2nd 3rd 4th
AND
PRIX DE TRIPOLI 6th May, 1934
1st
2nd
2nd 3rd
gained by Alfa Romeo Cars
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GERMAN CLUBS CLOSED IN AUSTRIA
[Special to the *Hong Kong Dalb "Fress?" (Copyright),3
The creditors asked why Ger- many did not devaluate the mark. Schacht showed that such a step only brings apparent advantages In case groups of countries like the British Empire and the Unit- ed States where the same degree of devaluation takes place every where. simultaneously but not work in Germany which ex- Dorted food and raw materials. Schacht declared with marked and the provinces. The Vienna security comunisṣloner has ordered emphasis that under no cireum- the immediate disbandment of the stances would the German mark social club, Prater-Teutonen made be allowed to depreciate, whatever happened.
Vienna, June 21. The last remaining" German": clubs and societies in Austria were dissolved on Thursday by special police action both fri the capital
could
up of German students in Vienna 23 well as German secondary school teachers.
The
MORATORIUM EXEMPTIONS
According to Voldblatt in Linz. Dealing with the complaint made by foreign countries that Ger- Tyrol, German athletic clubs are systematically. closed many should have exempted the being Dakes and Young Loans from the throughout Upper Austria. The starting times for Bunday,moratorium, Schacht said that the official reason given tor this ac- honourable duty of every debtortion is that the organisations "no Church of England Pilgrim at the Old Course, Fanling, are:-is-to treat all creditors alike. It longer adhere to the conditions 9.28 a.m. A. E. Lissaman and His for the creditors, not "debtors. prescribed by their constitutions."!
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Water Pageant (to July 7). King's Lynn. During the Month.
age. Glastonbury Abbey.
1-8. Welsh Week of Entertain-
ment. Colwyn Bay,
Catholic Pilgrimage. Glas- tonbury Abbey.
H. Pethick.
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July,"
L. R. Billingburst and T. Addis Martin.
Lo say whether any group is entit led to privileged treatment. Hit herto all conferences with the
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2-7. Tercentenary
Pageant
of
T. Lay.
Milton's
"Comus." Ludlow
9.40
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Castle; Ludiow.
5. Siddons' Festival Brecon.
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7. 10-14. Northern Command Searchlight Tattoo. Ravens- worth Castle, near New-
- 'castle.
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8. Gaelic Festival (Cavan Fels).
Cavan.
0-14. Carnival Week. Bath
chartered by the Lloyd Triestino 14-21. Scottish Week. Morecambe
was due at Hongkong from the South on Thursday morning and was diverted to assist the Col di Lana,
-Transoceani Kuo Min,
herto followed towards interna- tional debts.
THREE POSSIBILITIES
A. D. Humphreys and A. creditors except the last had vot
ed that the Dawes and Young loans be exempted from the re I H. Geare and W. M. strictions but the last creditors Thomson.
Conference in Berlin had not ask The solution of the whole pro- J. Stenerson and R. Aed for the continuation of the blem could not be brought nearer Rodgers.
perferential treatment for these. by threats of violence and penalt
Referring to the proposed clear-les but only by the revival of world ing house system, Schacht said that trade. Speaking practically, Sch- this would not bring the problem acht concluded, three possibilities one step nearer the solution but were conceivable:
Dance and Song Society. Cheltenham. Musical Competitions Festi- val (to July 1). mouth.
Bourne-
exactly the contrary and Germany 1. The return to Germany of its herself would certainly take reconfiscated colonies from which prisal for uny such treatment she could buy raw materials in wherever it might come from. In German marks. fact a clearing institution would 2. Taking the necessary stépa postpone the settlement indefin let Germany export on the neces- 4-7. Festival of Music and Drama.tely and speaking quite impartial cury scale, for instance, abpilsh Winchester Cathedral. ly, said Schacht, it was very much "the system of Import prohibi-
a question whether the establish- tions."
and Heyshami,
16. Highland Gathering
and
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Pageant. Isle of Man,
July,
+
29. Annual Pilgrimage Croagh Patrick. Mayo.
to
The tug "Henry Keswick" left
at 6.45 pm. and should have ar-
re-
rived at the scene at noon yester- day to render assistance in floating the vessel.
30. Civic Week (to August 0). 18.30. Dolmetsch Festival (Cham-
Erith, Kent.
The vessel is under time charter June. to Lloyd Triestino.
DRAMA AND MUSIC
30. Display
English by,
Folk
ber Music of 16th-18th Cen- ment of a clearing house was not 3. Reduce the capital value of turies). Haslemere, Surrey. the best thing for the world be-debts or at least fix a far lower 31. Malvern Dramatic Festival cause the result would show the rate of interest. -(to Arrust 31. Malvern. absurdity of the whole policy hit Transocean Kuo Min.
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