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GERMANY & THE COMDR. WILLAN DIARY OF LOCAL
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No Mammoth Liners
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It is denied in German shipping circles that murine engineers are designing a ship to be bigger and switter than the Queen Mary...
Should the Breman be called upon to defend her title as holder or the Blue Riband of the North Atlantic it is likely that experi- ments will be made with new pro pellers. It this device fails the Bremen and her sister ship, the Europa, may be fitted with new engines.
Ambitious as they are, the, or- ganizers of German shipping are not entirely convinced of the com- mercial practicability or ships on the scale of the Queen Mary, especially when so much interest is being taken in Germany to-day în the development of an airship service between Frankfurt and New York,
Herr Essherger, officially known
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He declared that Germany's feet f_tramp steamers was too small in relation to her fleet of liners Germany came sixth on the list oi countries participating in tramp traffic.
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(Speciät Air Mail Service).
London, Feb. 12. Commander Lawrence Peel, Wi- lan. R.N., retired, who died at Alverstoke in his ninety-third year, had been since the death of Commander F. W. Bayly Jones in 1931 the senior surviving officer of his rank, and was, we believe, the" "Father of the Navy, at all events among executive officers.
Born on October 13, 1842, he entered the Navy as a cadet on December 11, 1856. This was £ year before the coming into force of the Admiralty order whereby all cadets were required to join a training ship, the Ellustrious, which ship was succeeded by the Britannia in 1859. Willan's first seagoing ship was the Shannon, a
EVENTS
TO-DAY
Wednesday, March 6 Anniversaries and Holidays, Ash Wednesday. Excited Insects. (Chingche.)
Cinemas.
King's The Life Of Vergle
Winters."
Queen's Evelyn Prentice." Central Chinese Picture." Oriental:-Treasure Island." World: 'Chinese Picture Alhambra "The Last Round-
Up."
Majestic: "The Vanishing
Shadow."....
Star: The Miracle Woman."
Dances. Sailors' and Soldiers' Home 8.30 p.m.; Balinese Dancers, Queen's Theatre 9.30 p.m.
Entertainments--Afternoon Mu- sicale in aid of H‚K. Benevolent
Society. 18 Peak Road, 5.20 p.m.
Lectures.Affliated Units, Nur- sing Detachment, Volunteer Head- quarters, 5.30 p.m.
Meetings. Extraordinary, China Light and Poer (1918) "Ltd., St. George's Building, 3 p.m.; Kowloon Union Church Women's: Gulid, 10 a m. Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, Monthly Committee Meeting, Chamber's Headquarters, 3 p.m.
Miscellaneous Whist Drives, Seamen's Institute, 9 p.m. L.C.A Society, Assembly Hall, S. and S. Home, 3.30 pm.
as the "Leader of German ship-screw frigate of 51 guns, com- ping, has thrown further light ön manded by his cousin, Captain Sir William Peel, V.C. (a son af the Right Hor. Sir Robert Peel). which he joined at Portsmouth on commissioning in December, 1856, for service on the China Station. After a passage of 80 days under sail and steam via the Cape the Shannon on arrival at Singapore Herr Easberger "also drew atten- sion to the fact that Germany embarked Lord Elgin, High Com Lossessed one of the smallest fleets missioner and Plenipotentiary, on of tankers in the world, coming, a special mission to the Emperor with 133,600 tons, nineth on the of China. At Hong Kong news of
Moon-II Moon, 2nd. Day. list of countries with tanker fleets. the outbreak of the Indian
Rehearsals Tinal, "Hiawatha,” During the next few years he Mutiny was received, and the China Fleet Club, 8.30 p.m. predicted that German shipyards Shannon, with the Peart in com
Religious-Lenten Address, St. would concentrate upon the build-pany, was ordered to Calcutta John's Cathedral, 5.15 p.m.; DIS- ing of tramp ships and tankers. with marines and troops. Од
Her Essberger said that, as the arrival at Calcutta, Captain Peel fore and after every Mass at Catho- tribution of the Blessed Ashes be- resalt of the shipbuilding
organized "The Shannon Navale Churches, and the Way of the necessitated after the war, Ger
any could boast the most incdern Brigade" from the ships"
Cross, Catholic Cathedral, 5.30 p.m. mercantile fleet in the world.
panies of the Shannon and the
Social Functions.-Y. M. C. A. Germany also came second on, the Pearl, himself going in command. list of launchings in 1934, follow. He refused. bis young cousin's ing England's 251 ships, of 654,898 plea to be taken on the grounds tons, with 74 ships, of 122,783 tons. of his extreme youth, leaving orders, however, that he was to be included in any reinforcements that might be sent, and later went up comitry
COST OF GIANTS Cadet Willan
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Paris.
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Women's Section "At Home," West
Lounge, 3.30 p.m.
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Sports Hockey Triangular Tournament, Hong Kong Hockey Club v. Army (King's Park), 5 pm,
Lawn Tennis. Open Doubles, H. with a detachment, but saw, no D. and S. A. Rumjahn v. H. D. fighting, the Mutiny by that time | Tollington and C. Ravenhill; F. K. having been suppressed.
Liang and H N. Lee y A. V. Gosano Willan afterwards served in the and A. V. Remedios; J. G. Haigh St. Jeanne d'Arc (101 guns), the and G. Gamble v. M. W. and M. K. Donegal (101), the Liffey (39), the Lo; Wong Fuk-nam and Eo Flin- Dorls (24), the Royal Adelaide | han, v. A. E. Collins and L. E. Kirby: (104), and the Research, screw T. Kwok and Luk Ding-cheung v sloop, chiefly on the Mediter-M. Beach Thomas and W. N. Petch. ranean and West Indies Stations, Rugby Seven-a-side Tourna- He retired in October, 1873, with ment, (Club Ground), 4.30 p.m. the rank of Commander in order Sunrise.-6.41 a.m. Sunset, -5,28 to take up the appointment of p.m...
There was considerable disous- sion in shipping circles in Eng land before the decision was made to build the Queen Mary to whether it might not be wiser to istructor in Naval Subjects in Tides. High at 10.23 and 22,37 build. several smaller but faster the Imperial Japanese Navy. ships which would be more likely
the course of these duties he to prove profitable.
two long Instructional
A similar controversy occurred made
In Low
in France and during the discus-cruises in the corvettes Tsukuba
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Thursday, March * Anniversaries and Holidays. --
Cinemas, Bar
sion of the Mercantile Marine Kan' and Riujo Kan from Japan First Day of Zulhijjah. St. Thomas. Budget in the Senate a serious af to Sydney and other Australian Aquinas, Doctor of the Church. tack on the policy of building such ports and back. On these cruises huge Atlantic liners was made by both Japanese officers and men Senator James Hennessy who
were under instruction; many of condemned the building of the the former had never been to sea Normandie, a liner which will be before, and the seamen, though slightly larger than the Queen
drawn from the fishing popula.. Mary.
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tion, had no knowledge of work- Only Cooking Counts! "It is an error to think that the ing a square-rigged ship Willan's Normandie will ever pay her only assistants were one navigat way," he exclaimed, "there aming lieutenant, one gunner, and hardly any nouveaux-riches left, two petty officers from the Royal and even Hollywood stars take Navy as instructors and to assist more modest suites. There's only of the Japanese admirals whose china Fleet Club Theatre, 9.15 in the working of the ship. Most une kind of competition that can
names became famillar at the
King's The Life Of Vergle
Winters." • Queen's;—“The Line-Up." Central:"Chinese Picture" Oriental:-"Son Of A Sailor." World: Am A Fugitive From
A Chain Gang." De Alhambra: "The Key.** Majestic-The Vanishing
Shadow" Star:The Miracle Woman.” Entertainments. -- "Hiawatha,
forte Recital, Helena May, 5.30 Dm
Lectures.Theosophical Society, HK Club Armex, 6 pm.
fill liner that is the cooking, time of the Russo-Japanese War Bm; Mrs. Luba Shaftain's Piano-
Here an enthusiastic Senator interrupted French cooking it received instruction from Com- mander Willah in their young the best in world."
days. "Who wants to sleep in a Louise XV bed going across the Atla After returning to England In 1tic!" continued Senator Hennessy. 1882 he was for seven years "Even if you can fill this liner, Captain Superintendent of the it will only mean that all the training ships Arethusa and others will be emptied.
He added, that in deploring the millions spent on the Normandie, he foresaw that in seven year- before the vessel had paid for itself there would be an air ser vice across the Atlantic..
During the debate, M. William Bertrand, Minister of the Mer cantile Marine, announced that
Meetings, Annual HE and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co.
id. Mesers Jardine Matheson's Board Room, noon; YMCA. An- Chichester in the Thames at nual Meeting and presentation of Greenhithe He married in 1878 Report, West Lounge, 6 p.m., Wo- Frances Cecilia Austen, a great- niece of Jane Austen, and leaves two sons one of whom is Rear Admiral LLP. Willan, retired, and four daughters.
not only were French companies Open Doubles, WC Hung and Ho
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