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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1935.
Future of Hebbyrn
Shipyard
SHIP REPAIRING
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Association
THURSDAY,
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Nomina
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$1,310)
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Du.
£13
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Bank of East Asia
231f £131 $80
N, U. & S. Harts
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Pref.
75 cts.
$82 ABT
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Insuransen
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3203
70 str.
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1382 $185
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$38 xd
Steamboa
530
ludos (pret********
₤33
Do. (d) ian
72 6
Shella
Warbon
Joots
$34
Mining
Amtamoks
Balaicos
91 cta. Buguio Gold
$1
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Bangst Consolidated
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The mystery regarding Messrs Vickers Armstrongs' purchase of the Hebburn Shipyard of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Ltd., and their reported intention of applying to National Ship- bullders' Security, Ltd. for sane- tion to build there hus not been cleared up.
Despite official silence, however, there are good grounds for stat- ing that Vickers Armstrongs, Ltd., have appiled to the NSS, for per- | mission to take over two building "berths at Hebburn and in return are willing to surrender two berths at their Naval Yard at Walker. which at present 15 engaged in building two cruisers and two des- troyers.
Negotiations are stilt proceeding. and until these reach finally no- thing official can be given.
CLYDE SHIPREPAIRING Messrs Barclay Curle and Co. and Messrs D. and W. Henderson 111 ott and Co. were the only firms that were moderately busy last week. Barclay Curie and Co. had five 5 ets. vessels in drydock for repairing and overhauling, and repairs were executed on seven vessels afloat Work continues on the Shoreham, which is undergoing machinery overhaul
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EARLY CABLE
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The World's New
Wonder
There have Just cume into my hands (writes a correspondent) four lasues of what is probably one of the rarest newspapers. news. sheets. news-bulletins, call them what you will, in existence. They are, indeed, so rare that coples of them are not to be found in the British Museum, or, as far as la known, in any public library in Britain. It is quite likely that, since the actual "circulation" can hardly have been more than half- a-dozen coptes at most these which I have been handling are the sole survivors.
These four faded news-sheets of foolscap, each consisting of four closely, written pages of news-items in yellowing ink, and entitled, sun-
Great .ply, "The
Eastern Tele- graph," have, however, consider- able interest beyond that of mere
They are
the actual rarity. manuscripts ( was entirely a hand-written production) com- posing the weekly news bulletins issued on the Great Eastern while she was laying the Atlantic cable of 1866. and contain-it has just been disclosed-the first news re- ceived by a ship whilst on the high
seas
THE POLITICAL SITUATION
China And Japan
(From Our Specisa Correspondents)
Canton, June 6, Strong action against Chipa is mili- envisaged by the "younger tary party" in Japan, which is re- ported to be anxious to extend its North grip from Manchuria to Ching However, the merchant class in Japan is against further venture in China' and has tempor- the arily curbed the designs of military hotheads.
Another story is prevalent in Chinese circles that the Japanese Government has no restraint aver the Ministry of War which in turn has no control over the Japanese "Kwantung Command in Mukden The Nanking Government 19 aware of this danger and adopts towards a conciliatory attitude Japan to ward off further aggres- slen...
The liberal Japanese viewpoint is represented by Mr. Akira Ariyo- shi, Japanese Minister to China, who is at present in Tokyo. He has achieved much in lessering North anti-Japanese feeling in and "Central China by advocating Suo-Japanese co-operation the Pan-Asiatic movement. sing Levertheless the possibility of Japanese occupation of Chinese maritime provinces, the Nanking authorities.
developing the North-western provinces as a plate of retreat.
are
and Sen-
The North-west consists of rich and resourceful provinces such as Honan, Shanal, Katsu and, Shenst They are far inland and are there- fore invulnerable to Japanese naval and aerial bombardments. Because of its strategic position and self-sufficiency, the Northwest can hold out indefinitely though the maritime area occupied by the emeny.
even
were
D. and W. Henderson and Co. QUEEN AND PRESIDENT had the California for damage re-
The third issue, dated July 27, pairs and the Titan for machinery 1866, is the only one to boast a repairs, while voyage repairs were title-page, and this presumably made on the Fintra, the Transyl-only because it contains a con- vario, the Esneh, the Lairdsourngratulatory message from Queen the Menestheus, and the Lairds- Victoria to the United States Pre- glen..
sident, Andrew Johnson, on the Alexander Stephen and Sons completion of the cable, and his 20 carried out buli and machinery re- reply. Beneath a light-hearted pairs on the Brora, which was dry-device-drawn in pen-and-ink and docked... Work on the Mandasor depicting two heavily whiskered was completed, and one or two ves- victorian gentlemen of some con- Rearmament of European coun- sels were in hand for minor re-
siderable severity and dignity of tries and the trend of events there pairs. The Blythswood" Shipbuild- aspect, despite the fact that they are likely, in the opinior of Chin- ing Company had the Pacific Ran-
are both dressed as acrobats and
to ese leaders to lead another ger for damage repairs.
dancing merrily on the two hemi-
Great War in which China will be spheres and holding a cable be-eventually involved, should eny tween them on which a third whis-danger threaten the Chinese Gov- kered Victorian, this time in "tights," is balancing his way from East to West-is the modest in- scription "The Great Eastern. Tele-
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$1.15
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$10
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$10
Metropolitan musk
$3.80
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Do
3123
Do. DebenturesS.
Humphreys .... 38
New Asia Hotel
21
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$90
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$8.30
$70
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$55
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17.80 31 142 89.40 135
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113 40
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$8
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(now)...
$4
$77
Star Ferries
$74
$20
Yaumati Ferries
$17
19.34 158
Chias Lights.............
$8.25
68,00
HK Electrics
$68
$23
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$19.30
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Miscellaneous
$13
$1,80
$186
Dairy Farman
Amusements
$6.40 Ch. Etainments..... $1.40
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$0
$2.65
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Watsons.
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Harland and Wolff, Covan, car- ried out general repairs and survey on the King Malcolm, which is cwned by Dodd, Thomson and Co. (1934), 'Ltd.
erment its seat would be moved far inland similar to the transfer of the French Government from Paris to Bordeaux in the early days of the Great War.
Meanwhile the Nanking military authorities want to clear up the Reds in Szechuan, Hunan and effect solidarity Govern❤
DUNDEE REPAIR WORK The Caledon Shipbuilding and graph, 1866. and. Test-Room Engineering Company, Ltd., Dun- Chronicle, containing all the lat- dee, have docked the Dundee for est Home, Colonial.. and Contin- bottom, survey and temporary re-
ental news and being ari Epitome pairs and, the "Glen Tanar for a of Political, Social, Ecclesiastica: Shers! and to general overhaul. They have also Military. Naval, Legal Medical, Art-within so as to give the docked the Ben Loyal for generalistic Literary, Dramatic, Commer-ment a free hand in dealing with
external problems. repairs and are attending to the B. Taylor in dry dock for renew- al of several shell plates,
DAMAGE REPAIR CONTRACT -
cial,
Geo- Electrical, Sporting. graphical, Zoological, Mythologi- cal, and General Intelligence."
The voyage during which these alarming contributions to Journ-
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ROYAL SALUTE
To The Merchant Navy
(Special Air "Mail Service)
London. May '18.
ឌូគីតទី ១ | អ៊ គី
401
ថ្មីគឺមនិ } ឌូ
MIGHTY ATOMS
Our Modern Planes
A
aero-
London, May 18. Larger aeroplanes. faster aero- planes, more economical By the King's order, the Mer-planes al these are probable chant Navy and the finishg fleets after the air designer's latest will be represented at the 8plt-
achievement: the news that a head Review. The order, with its
commercial aero engine has been acknowledgment of the close - as-
built which gives practically one sociation of these services with
horse-power for each pound of its the Royal Navy in Imperial de-own weight should interest other fence, is a very happy thought. people besides technicians. A few The part played by the mercantile comparisons may show what this marine in the war has not been
success means.
present-day forgotten or overlooked. Through railway locomotive is doing extre- four years they shared every peril mely well if it extracts one horse- of the seas, and the loss of lite
power for each hundred weight of among merchant seamen was
Its weight. The light internal greater than in the Navy itself. combustion engine, of course," has
craft was done in secret but with this respect, and, indeed, it cut their aid the Navy could nots arrival which made the aero-
so em- plane possible. have performed its task ciently. The spectacular feat was the manner in which millions of troops were carried in safety to and tro across the waters; yet not less vital to the life of the nation was the bringing of food and sup- plies through seas infested by
Was
The most important repair con- tract secured on the North-East all were published was that on Obash during the past few weeks which the Great Eastern perform- has gone to Messrs Milam Grayed the double feat of laying a cable and Co. West Hartlepool. The across the Atlantic in the remark-
Ichang, May - 227′′ cost, it is understood, will be about ably short space of fourteen days,
Mr. Kurematsu has retired from £5000: The vessel concerned and then in scarcely more than
another fortnight achieving the the Chinese Customs service after the Suzon, which recently ran
He had never served aground in the Bristol Channel much more difficult task of pick- 30 years. and suffered extensive hull dam- lng up the lost cable which had anywhere on the Yangtze until he Much of the work of the smaller always been superior to steam in
Ichang just four years snapped "the previous year and was lying at the bottom of the 180. He came with the reputation ocean. As "The Times" pointed of being a jolly man and out in anticipation. "If everything who, have been associated with goes well, the Great Eastern wul him during his time in Tchang can land, the shore end of the cable now say that he, has lived up to
reputation. Chinese with authentic intelligence frora that England and the Continent not foreigners alike are soory to see more than twelve days old," "The him go, and he has not been Times," which in that same issue allowed to leave without many was publishing dispatches from the tangible tokens of their goodwill In all his relations with others in seat of war in Vienna under a
business or out of it he was always "merry and bright” and ever ready to do what he could to help those who sought his aid.
age, The repair work includes re- newing about 130 plates. The con- tract went to Grays in face of keen competition from Cardiff re- pairers. Messrs Gray are also re- pairing the City of Auckland in dock.
LEITH REPAIR WORK Messrs Henry Robb docked four vessels during the week. The Cour- land and the Playfair were in for overhaul and the Nordfarer and the Fanad Head for general re-date-line eight or nine days old. pairs. Bundry repairs were made on the Calmarèss.
7
RELIGION AS CLOAK [Special to the "Bong Kong Dally Press (Copyright).]
Hamburg. Jure 5.
A local sect called "free chris- tian congregation". which under the cloak of religious activities had practised faith healing and car- ried on subversive propaganda has been dissolved and prohibited ac cording to a semi official announ-
Those whiskered Victorian en- gineers and ship's officers on board' the Great Eastern would not have been so very much amazed had they been projected some seventy years ahead in time and been con-
and
His time as Commissioner of Customs in Ichang covered a very dificult period but he was able to
mines and submarines.
HEROISM REMEMBERED No terror that could be devised deterred the men of the mercan- tile-marine from their duty. Since the wär the service to which they belong has fallen on hard times. and thousands of the officers and
nient. They might feel that their
Wright's Contraption
fronted with a ship's wireless bul, maintain the high standard of the sailors have been out of employ-horse-power for about four pounds letin of to-day. They would, it is in his home, he loved to entertain true, be surprised at the absence
service from which he now retires.
Immense Speed
When Wright's contrapilon. of wood and wires staggered. Into the air in 1903 it was driven by ac engine which gave one horse-pow- er to almost thirteen pounds of weight. Since Wright's day.. "pro- gress in aviation as a whole has Targely neel the work of the en gine designer. the work of fining away unnecessary loads of metal. of extracting ever greater power from ever smaller bulks In the first year of the, war the average engine gave an output of one
af its weight. To-day the averag day-to-day heroism in the war power-weight ratio is somewhere had passed from memory.. They
between one and a half and two, will be gratified at the recogni- pounds per horse-power. of cholera outbreaks in London and his efforts to entertain the
tion now given to the fact that and liverpool, so heavily under-community and show hospitality to passing guests of all nationall- lined in their own news sheets, or
without them the nation could rot ties were ever crowned with success, have survived, and the public will the fact that the Bank rate no
for into them all he contrived to
feel that the presence of merchant longer stood at 10.
infuse much of his own personal
craft'and 'öf representatives of the geniality and charm of manner. nishing fleet gives the touch of At heart he was a true Christian completeness to a wonderful dis gentleman and delighted to go up play of the forces upon which the to the House of God from week to Empire depends for defence and week. At the close of the evening security at sea. The King's order service on May 19, the Rev. Dr is the characteristic salute to the Tocher mentioned how much his sister services of a Monarch who presence had meant to all. Elánas himself served in the Navy. – attendance at worship had always been a source of inspiration and while sorry that the time had Milan, June 6. come to take farewell of a fear Violent earthquakes of fifty sec-friend yet for the members of the onds duration occurred in Faenza Church and or himself he express- on Wednesday causing a momented the wish that he would have
On the Spot Four death sentences were pro-ary panic among the population, much joy in his well earned retire-
The constable called at a villa and damaging a number of build-ment and and some congenial nounced on Wednesday by the court at Samarkand, agairist' four. ings. The shocks were felt over sphere of work to occupy his leisure and rang the bell. Inside the house the piano playing ceased and a members of the counter revolu- a wide, area of Romagna and moments
even in Florence, Beismologista Mr. Kurematau has been succeed-rather scared-looking young woman Warren-Did you sew a button on i tionéry group who were found to attack the Communists in the my coat, Jennie May?
guilty of having murdered two declare that the quake is a con- ed in the Commissionership by a appeared at the door and naked:
tinuation of the seismic period of fellow-countryman, Mr. Tsuda to "Yes? What do you want? Jennie May-Ho, honey bunch, I communists and one state official
"Well, misa" said the constable, Last April
whom a hearty welcome is extend- It is reported that the plan of couldn't find the button and so I on last March “21-
we've just 'ad a telephons tell to the Red forces is to go north in sewed up the bottonhols.
Transocean Kuo Min
REDS IN SEZCHUEN
cement here on Wednesday... Tha
order to join their colleagues un der Forward Hsu, who claims to have sixty or seventy thousand men. Their base is in Mou Yuen leader and In Northern Szechuen, Nanking bombers make daily raids over the from Germany
a foreigner was expelled Communist camps, and hundreds Fransocean Euo Min" of them were killed.
General Chiang Kai Shek, Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission, is directing operations at Chengtu. Large Nanking forces
who is
preacher of the sect
DEATH SENTENCES
(From Our Special Correspondent)
Canton, June 5, Big concentrations of govern- ment troops are located at Ngar On and Hon Yuen in Western 8ze- chuen to defend them against the Communists who are marching up from the Kum Sha River. These two towns are well defended and are taking positions there to pro»] [Specia] to the "Hong Kong Daily can hold out indefinitely against tect the city, while a big, air force the Reds. Four brigades are at Chengtu take off every morning marching to Hon. Yuen and Ngar for reconnoitering and bombing On to strengthen the defence | expeditions. there, and Nanking troops under
Generals Sit Ngok and Chow Wun
Yuen are coming from the South
rear.
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The Dear Thing
1.
Preas (Copyright):]
Moscow, June 5.
Transarean Kuo Ilin.
&
EARTHQUAKE PANIC IN ITALY
(Special to the "Hons Kong
Dally Press"); (By Telegraph, Copyright, Tele uphic Massages Ordinance, 1894 Received, June 0.4-30p.m.)
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS APPEAR ON PAGE 4
Many people have felt that it was inconceivable that it could ever go much lower. The engines of some of the Schneider 'planes weighted less than one pound per horse-power, but they were speci- ally daigned for short spells of immense speed and would have been useless, commercially. Yet the goal of "one horse-power: one pound" has always been kept In sight, and now a Bristol Pegasus engine has officially recorded the astonishing output of one horse power for 1.08 pounds of its own weight. This engine will be in- stalled in "proto-types of a new class of aeroplane in the autumn. If is a "pointer to" some remark- able flying advances in the next five years
say that there's a fellow called Chopin' being murdered in this, 'ere'