THE TRAGEDY OF THE
PLIMSOLL LINE.
Who was Samuel Plimsoll, and what exactly was it that his fam-
"mark
famous
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
(Next Article to-morrow).
"KING OF THE CUE"
John Roberts Retires.
1913.
hydropathie for a rest. The only MERBAU (SELANGOR) moking room was also the billiard room. In it was a Glas. gow bailie, eager for a game. He opened conversation with Roberta,
sidered satisfactory. It made it
and well carried out. The direo-
An East Indian Irrigation
Enterprise,
greatest. enterprise ever
inquiries, commissions, his own consider and report. The Com
RUBBER. unnecessary for him (the chair- Bill, which was defeated by three mittee sat for two years loosely
man) to make further comment on votes, and finally a Government investigationg..the subject, and
the progress of the work. The measure that was on July 25, their report is remarkable for the
Mr Archibald Grey, presiding visiting agent, Mr King-Harman, 1875, ordered to be withdrawn. declaration that the "Load Line” Then it was that the nation and should not be fixed by any bat a
By the announcement that Jehn whom he did not recognise, and it the meeting of the Merbau reported that everything was accomplished? Commons fire t realised what map-representaive body, to include, Roberts," the King of the Cue," invited him to play. Roberts (Selangor) Rubber Company, progressing quite satisfactorily, Baka a writer in Everymanner of man Samuel Plimsoll was, atgong others, seamen and ship who was sixty-six last month, has refused, pleading that he was Limited, on August 17, said the and he considered their mana
for no sooner had the fateful. owners, both of which classes definitely decided to retire from there for a rest. The bailie was accounts covered a period of 18 ger's work had been very arduous. Twenty years ago the question
announcement come from the they had consulted. Still nothing active participation in the game, pressing, and sa an inducement would have sounded strange in Treasury Bench than he was was done. Other questions had billiarde loses not only a great offered him, 25 points in 100 ap months, as operations were com tore also considered that the our ears. We all knew the story standing at the table. In a voice arisen: the country's attention player but also a great showman, and an open braak. So it was menced in July, 1911. At the thanks of the shareholders were of how this one obscure, quiet, that could be beard in the lobbies was distracted But Plimsoll and The how to his audience of the fixed. The bailie gave his open statutory meeting they stated due to Mr Wton: for the very efficient management of the estate. simple, Quaker-like man had outside he denounced the with his friends persisted, and at last, tall, imposing, perfectly turned break. Roberts started and ran that it was expected to have 200 practically coerced the whole drawal of the Bill. "Were the in 1890, they got passed their out man with the miraculously up the 100 wtihout a pause. Then acres planted by the end of the House of Commons; of how he sailors to go down in coffia ships Compulsory Load Line Bill, shiny patent leather shoes was like he handed the bailie Lis card fear, while the actual area plant. had pleaded, passionately and for during another winter's storms adopting the scale of freeboard that of an ambassador or a Ouida with one of his inimitable bows. od was 269 acres, and a further 40 acres was planted in January years, on behalf of men too broken when the Bill could be passed recommended by the Chamber-hero. He was unapproachable Times.
and February of this year, making to back their delivrer, till at last there and then?" he asked. "If lain Committee,
as an exhibition player. He
300 nares in all. The serenge he had roused the nation. We every coffin ship owner were
HOSPITAL AIRSHIPS. Thus, after nearly twenty made the spot-barred game so
was planted 20 by 20, giving 108 were all proud to tell our children in the House, the Government's years work Plimsoll saw his life's popular, that the spot stroke
trees to the sore. It was estimated really dead before it
This the story of bis neroic struggle. duty was still clear." He rated; task accomplished. The loss of WBB
A new use for airships is sugt plant out 700 Bores during, the We were all certain that his he stormed; he pretested. The life at sea fell from 3.500 in 1885 was finally abolished. He in gested by Lieutenant-Colonel J. current year, making 1,000 acres undertaken by British irrigation triumpb would endure for ever. House was aghat his words to less than 1,800 per annum vented the top-of-the-table game. Donegan, R.A.M.O., in an in all. This had allan felled, engineers his just reached its
To-day Flimsoll is a fading rang through Eglodd the although, of course, the number To please spectators tiring of any article in the Hapital.
but the manager reported that, so completion. The Lower Bari Hia life-work, the Bill was saved!
A form of wire, mooring, he far, he had been unable to bura Doab canal in the Punjab, the memy Lond Line" that has
of Renmen had largely increased, particular style, he would deli It is that Bill, subsequently The cofin ships were scuttled and berately abandon a more lucrative states, has been inventented more than ons half of this acre. third and lust section of the saved the lives of tens of thou improved and strengthened till the Plimsoll line scored.
"Triple Canal project," has been shot for some wonderful"gallery" which in a way enables a flying ago, an 1 this was not very success- sands of sailors has been quietly, the "Lord Line" in an effective
stroke-a camon cff three or four machine to be independent of the ful, on aesant of the very wet finished, and vast areas in the decorously, and painlessly abol form was made compulsory all
oushions, or an apparently im- ground, and it not outside the weather and the secondary growth. Punjab are receiving irrigation. "ished. Worse than all, it seems round-it is that Aot, rather,
possible screw. And the confidence almost as if his spirit, tireless, which in our own time line been Secret History of Anglo-Japan with which he would walk round range of possibility to imagine the Very heavy expenditure would The Lower Bari Deab canal is un- to his next position before the roofs of our hospitals fitted with again be incurred this year by usual in its constuction, for it resolute, indomitable, had passed virtually destroyed!
such contrivances and to picture draining and permanent build, actually oros:98 upon a level the away with him. ›
The story of its dissolution. Despite the endeavours of the balls had stopped rolling from the sick and wounded being con- inga. Experiments were being important river Ravi. The canal It was in a very different Par- affords excellent material for & Japanese Guvernment to suppress the last stroke was more than
voyed by air and put into their made by boring to provide a has cost about $7,500,000 and it liament from our own that study in parliamentary anothe the reminiscences of Count Haya- mere bravado."
Roberts toured the world to errespective warde even through suitable water supply for the is expected that it will irrigate Plimsoll won his victory. The tice, Plimsoll scored by being shi, who concluded the Anglo-
the window. Already with the estate. The directors had decided over 871,000 acres of crops. The Lords were still paramount, open, direct. and emphatic Japanese Alliance, full details of bibit his skill. He won enormous revolving cone system of anchor to plant cut 1,000 sores of rubber, Chenab canal, which is another
are given appreciation in India. In 1878 negotiations There was no Labour party. The opponents of the
Load Line" have achieved through the instrumentality of he was appointed Court Billiard age na airship can remain in the and then all further extensionsation of the Triple Project, alone air like a ship at anchor. Why would bestopped for the present. To irrigates an area equivalent to But Plimsoll etande out as success by secret lobbying, by Reuters agenos. The reminis Player to the Maharajah of Jey should not this meine of obtain date 11s. per share had beou cill- two-fifths of the whole cultivable great example of what one man, wirepulling, and by intrigue, with cences deal fully with the over- pore, with a salary of £500 a year, ing fresh air for incipient tuber-ed up, and another call of 33: por area of Egypt. The great Panjab share would shortly be inde, canals have done more, for they acting independently of clique or the result that the large m jarity tures, conversations with Lord a Binecure which lasted till the culous cases be tried? caucus, can achieve and he won of Englishmen; proud of their Lansdowne and others leading death of the Maharajah. King
payable on "December I. The have literally peopled the desert agreement; and Edward VII was interested in the his point! There was then sailors, ready to protect them if up to the
expenditure for the current year wastes. The onltivators have been while champion. Onça Robarts was type of vessel known as colli need br, u not know that the also point out what
would be very beary if the pro- established in districts which were Their such negotiations were Load Line" is absolutely a
in playing at the house of Sir Reuben
IN MID-OCEAN. abipa" They were heavily load
gramme was to be carried out, formerly quite usatoan. ed and heavily insured! Thou- thing of the past.
progress, the Japanese Govern- Sassoon, who was entertaining the
but it was expected that, with the villages are thriving, their land asade of them never returned. The shipowners have always ment eent Count Its to conclude King. Instead of the more usual
Mr. Will Crooks, Mr. A. W. completion of the planting of is growing in value, and for them The deaths of sailors at ses ambeen opposed to the line. Beaten a Russo-Japanese convention, exhibition of fancy strokes, H. oualed to more than I in 80, as in the Commrms, they went to This met with a protest from Majesty suggested that Robarts Black, and Mr. Edgar Jones, 1,000 sores of rubber and the the desert sands have inteed
three of the delegates from the bulk of the expenditure under the proved golden.
The Triple Project cost $35,- against 1 in 315 minere killed the Lords, who inserted a clause Lord Lansdowne and a warning and Lady Sassoon should play United Kingdom branch of the heading of drainage and buildings underground. It was this evil in the Act leaving it to the die from the British Government, 100 up level, with this proviso: that Plimsoli strove might and certion of the owner where the which would have led to repudia Lady Bassoon should score in the Empire Parliamentary Associa- being finished at the end of this 000,000, but it yielde to the gov on their way to your, they might look forward to ernment a return upon capital tion of Russian terms, if offered, usual fashion, but Roberts was to tion, now main to end. He asked that every line should be placed. At once a owner should be compelled to sportive captain placed his in the by Great Britain, and might have be limited to a single shot each Australia, have decided to submit u,considerable redaction in estate outlay of 7 per cent. Yet it mark on his ship a disc, with a middle of his funnel. The Act lod to open rupture with Japan. time he went to the table. If he to vaccination. It was at first expenditure. Mr George Rams means affluence to the peasantry horizontal line through its centie, became, of course, a laughing-
estate in Count Hayashi said such lack made a cannon it was to count thought that they would be den, one of the directors, visited also, and life in the canal zone is April last, so popular among the stalwert down to which, and only dow" to stook. Still Plimsoll kept on. He of faith on part of Japan had two, if he made a ten stroke it was unable to land in Australia owing the which, it could be loaded, so that moved Mr. Chamberlain, when placed her in a bad predicament. to conat ten, but he was not to to the regulations enforced in and in his report, which men of Northern India that the it had a sufficient space of free at the Board of Trade, to action. The country bad won England's continue his break. In the end Australia since the outbreak of was circulated among the share development of irrigation is seri- amallpox at Sydney. The visitors holders, gave a detailed statement ously affecting the recruiting for board to ensure safety. To thisJoe" denounced the whole support but lost the respect of Lady Sassoon won by three,
other European Once Roberts, forswearing will now all land at Sydney, as of the condition of the property, the Indian army.-Philadelphia end he worked incessantly in the system in a memorable circular flussia and
billiarde, went to a Festtiah was originally intended.—Times. which the board trusted, was con- Telegram," Buse. There were questions, ad appointed a Committes to Countries."
The Tories were in office.
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