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under a clood of ignominy, and anything, the whole of the lodged historian of the great manship in taking the Invercargill diya military disaster, and it was ex-Habsburg tärrilèries, and once ships that are now no more.. He Into Wellington. A fine souther= | only as a result of the horrors of Austria hat füllen an essy does a further gracious service to | ly brease was blowing. Vary the short-lived Bolshevist regims prey, we should be panaced by the lore of the sea by gathering impatient to get anobared, Bowl- NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES, that the fortunes of the Habsburg persistent attempts to restore the togather old lors and passage | ing decided to sail right in with- dynasty began to revive. Then Dual Monarchy in its prewar records and publishing in the out the assistance of a tug. But it was that Karl declared that his integrity. Though the danger "Colonial Clippers * (James just as he got well up the OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD. renunciation of the throne was closely affects Central Europe, Brown & Sox ¡Glasgow), a valu- entrance the wind suddenly invalid, and announced that he the immediate threat would be able collection of interesting facts reared right round to the north CHINA MUTUAL STEAM still regarded himself as the against the paighbouring newly-and figures which might other and blew hard, and as his ship NAVIGATION CO., LTD. annointed rolar, not merely al liberated and aggrandised Slates, wins have gone the way of the|wan woll up insida Barroit's Hungary as reduced by the Tris- and it is impossible for any one ships they concern.
Reef by this time things began Consignees par Co's Steamer non Treaty, but of the kingdom of them to tolerate such a develop
to look rather serious, AMERICAN FLYERS. as it existed in 1914. This proved mant. Additionally, if Karl sne-
YANOTSZE “ Notwithstanding It was the discovery of gold ja
his many to be the signal for a vigurous proceeds, the movement will spread, Australia, and the consequent difficulties--for the slightest error are hereby notified that the Habeborg campaign within and and even Wilhelm's many ad emigration that gave the greatest of the station in timing the order Cargo will be discharged into without Hungary, and it also led herents may take a band in the fillip to the building of the fine of the differenz manoeuvres Holi's Wharf, Kowloon, where it Czecho-Slovakia, Yugo-Slaris, new game of gatting the king on clippers of Clyde. Aberdean, meant disaster--old Bowling will lie at Consignee's risk. The and Romania to hand themselves the throne.
Liverpool, and London, and their managed everything like clock- Cargo will be ready for delivery together in the Little Entente-a But there are so many ob-speed and performances at once work, and the ship dropped her from Godown on and after 10th pact subequently fortified by the stacles to a successful issue of challenged the supremacy of the anchor off Kalwarra just as June. Italo-Yugoslav understanding. Karl's ecapade that one is justi- famed American Bosion-built darkness leti. This group made it clear that the fied in regarding it as a last wild ships, such as the Sovereign of the
A THRILLING LAST VOYAGE" raturo of a Habsburg to the gamble on the part of the Monar-Sass, Lightning, James Baines, The same ship's last passage throne would be chist faction. It is by no means and Donald Mackay. To com under the British Bag in 1904 Hungarian regarded as a "casus belli." certain that even a majority of pote with such vessels as these was her worst. Init she weathered The pro-Habsburg campaign the. Magyars Want bint for was a daring problem when it is out the biggest gate of Captain outside Hungary directed its the Autonomists, who, control remembered that the James Bowling's experience. She was efforts principally upon Paris Parliament, are opposed to his Baines was quoted in her log on caught in a Cape Hord snorter, whera much symapthy was erok-return, the Social Democrats ons occasion as "going 31 koots her cargo shifted to port, bulwarks a desire a more democratio regime.with main skysail sot," and were carried away, and for some Danubian Confederation under and Count Telekiofficially assured the well-named Lightning, time she lay on her bear ends.
No claims will be admitted after tbo Habsburg dynasty, which Dr. Benes that there was no under Captain Anthony Enright She righted, would look to France instead of question
however, and the Goods have left the steamer's of & Habsburg re- |(who believed in cracking continued her passage only to Godown, and all Goods remaining to Germany for its inspira-storation. Moreover, Karl is not on with every sail set that his meet heavy weather in the North undelivered after the 16th June, tion. Certain sections of endowed with the necessary attri-vessel could carry) put up the Atlantic. The cabin skylight was will be subject to rent the Qual d'Orsay openty es-butes of a "romantic adventurer:" greatest 24-hour run aver made burst in and water poured below, All Claims against the Steamer poused the movement, arrange he possesses only the glamour of by a sailing ship-456 nautical the companion batch on the poop must be presented to the under ments ware discussed under which his dynasty, youth, ambition, and miles.
This extraordinary per-was carried away and along with signed on or before the 30th Hungary would have become the support ot A
limited formance was made when cross-it went both compasses, stands Jane, or they will not be "pocket borough" of France, aristocracy.
internaling the Atlantic on her maiden and binnacles, side lights, and recognised. plans for a revision of the Trianon opposition could, however, be vayage and was nearly equalled screens, the patent log from the
No Fire Insurance will be Treaty were at least discussed, overcome by the army, and the with 430 miles when running her taffrail, pretty nearly everything effectert. and the Little Entente became fuit accompli would, doubtless, be easting down bound out to Aus- on the decks except the wheel. the object of considerable suspi- readily recognised in the country.tralia in 1857. Red Jacket, too, By midnight the clon.
so that the last word remains with could show her heels to all our mountainous, and the squalls Inside Bungary the agitators the Supreme Council and the modern tramps with an average of became fiercer and more frequent. 800n succeeded in forming a Little Entente.
326 miles in six consecutive days" About & a.m. a big sea washed Hongkong, 10th June, 1921. · Legitimist group among the
sailing, a performance beaten out the carpenter's quarters, and military classes, the landed pro- These two combinations will, of only by the renowned Cutty Sark "Chips" under the impression prietors. the large industialists, course, have none of it. The oft-with 2133 miles in six days in the that the ship was sinking by the and, naturally enough, the Catho-reiterated decision of the Allies Roaring Forties, outward bound bead, made the beat of his way Ite Clergy but this in its tuce, cannot be changed save by force to Sydney. Aberdeen and the aft But Cap'ain Bowling and provoked a reaction among the majeure, and in this instance. Clyde played a strong hand on his officers were all below clear- small farmers, who styling them-since the military resources of the challange.
ing up the wrecked cabin. The selves "Agrarian Automists," the Little Entente are at their
Walter Hood designed and built carpenter thereupon informed the put forward a policy which disposal, they are in a position to the
greed clippers" of man at the wheel of his fears, called fo: the free elec- translate words into actions. The Thompson's White Star fleet with the result that the tion of a king as distinct from armies of Czecho-Slovakia. Yugo (with the exception of never-to-latter had an attack of nerves, the adoption of a Habsburg by Slavia, and Rumania are suf-be-forgotten Thermopylae.) No though: be was running ship right of succession. It is theficient to swamp all King Karl's ships, it is said, ever resented under, and allowed her to come struggle between these two and all King Karl's men: Czecho-finer appearance than these little to. As the ship broached to the groups which has been the cause Slovakia is nearer to Budapest Byers-Phoenician, John Bunyan, cargo shifted for the second time, of the chronic series of govern than Steinamanger, and before Walter Hood, Ethiopian (63 days and the Invercargill again weat meatal crisis at Budapest. the usurper could reach bisto Melbourne). and Jerusalem. over on her beam ands. The Hungary's chances were regarded capital by land the Yago-Slav The last named was generally foresait, fore most hopeful while Paris monitors fex-Austro-Hungarian considered the fastest of the fleet, jib fore
upper topsali, topmast staysail. Favoured the prospect; but when warships) could enter it by river. next, of course, to Thermopylae. and, masin royal all blew adrift those tendencies gave place to a Karl appears, therefore to be up Dathie's was another well-known out of the gaskets and were soon broader political outlook on the against a somewhat hopeless pro-Aberdeen yard, and a miched in tatters. The lifeboat to Seipe, the prospects of the position, and the probabilities are some excellent vessels: Windsor leeward, was lifted out of ber Autonomists improved, and the that his fleeting re-appearance Castle was probably the best of davits and swept away. Then THE HABSBURG ADVEN-regard of death, and a hundred Monarchists were hard put to it upon the stage will speed a hap them, and under Captain Fernie while the ship lay down with her lee fo:eyard arm dipped in thousand pounds or so, to build to stave off the election of a king pier ending to the drama of did many excellent passages.
more Central Europe.
The ultimate end of all these the broken water to leeward the up modern principality of conditions became
favourable for the Habsburg
craft makes sad reading" total seas worked havoc on the flooded Ruritanis in Central Europe.
loss," "wrecked in 1870," "burned main deck. In spite of all Last summer, for example, I cause. found Austria literally pining for
at sea." and "foundered in the Invercargill WEB saved and Atlantic" are cheerless epitaphs. Captain Bowling, working by aid him, and it would have been odds on any suitable Rupest who
IROS CLIPPERS OF THE CLYDE. of an old and defective compass. crosses the Swiss frontier into the
The Clyde's contribution to the ultimately brought her safely into Tyrol and had personality and
international contest for supre-Queen-stown. brains enough to rally around
Doughty Deeds by Ships That macy at sea came chiefly in the him the armed peasantry of the
Have Passed. countryside and match on defen- celess Vienna, stated a writer in the Sunday Times.
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History of Karl's Attempted Coup.
Ever since the disruption of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy there has been a sporting chance for a romantic adventurer with the physique of an ox, a know- fedge of soldiery, an utter dis
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SHADOW OF COMING EVENTS.
Early his year the Monarchist intriguers began to quicken the pace. Count Andrassy formed a new (Habsburg) party with the advertised intention of consolidat ing the coutry in the spirit of Christianity, whatever that may meanin Hungary: Count Apponyi visited Prangins "to pay Hungary, too, was, and still is, homage to his crowned monarch: looking for a leader. The Magyars Karl himself announced to the are out-and-out Monarchists at Magyar Archbishop Czernoch his heart; they have never accepted intention to visit Hungary in defeal in the spirit in which it was March; Regent Horthy declared adininistered. They do not relish the Karl had not ceased to be the the idea of living on themselves legitimate King of Hungary. It instead of on subject peoples, and | must also be noted that the they have been so reared in an Monarchists succeeded in establi atmosphere of conquest tharahing as District Commander of many among them frankly Budapest General Nagy, who is a decline to recognise the frontiers leading figure in that very military drawn by the Trianon Treats, and party of which Colonel Lohar, the liberation of Slovaks, Croats, Karl's new Commander-in-Chief, and Rumanians from their thrall. is one of the shining lights. It Republics and republicanism would seem. therefore, that the make little appeal to them. In stage had been carefully set for August, 1919. they wanted the the ex-King eatry, Archduke Joseph for their king. DANGERS OF HABSBURG and when the Supreme Council ruled out his candidature they
called a National Assembly and failing a monarch, nominated a regent as the next best thing.
THE PRO-HABSBURG PLOT.
la November, 1918, King Karl had skedaduled to Switzerland
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A peculiar romance bangs round the doings of the sailing ships of other days which does not pertain to the modern steamer The size and speed of a crack ocean liner evoke but a modified well-known firm of Carmichael. It was in such weather that interest compared with the love She was designed by Matthew the big runs were compiled and and admiration which seafaring Orr and John Ferguson, the lat-aspeed of sixteen knots maintain folk and many landsiden enter.ter of whom afterwards became a ed. A run of luck in this way tained towards the great clipper member of Barclay, Corte. & Co., easbled many a skipper to vessels which stalked the waters which firm later produced what announce his arrival as “35 days in the Victorian era.
are considered to have been the out, London to Melbourne," or These ships are now no more, most perfect, iroa ships that even lese.. but the memory of their goings ever sailed the seas, Loch Maree A ship's log is a very huruan Clarke's Blood Mixture and comings is well preserved in and the Lochs Torridon, Car-document, and makes good read- many places, notably in the Clyde ron, and Broom, and the two ing; the logs of the vanished and Aberdeen districts whence Bens, Voirlich and Cruachan. clippers particularly so. many of them originally came and Thomson, of Glasgow, built in places which gave birth to several other ships for the Loch their no less famous skippers-Line his beat being possibly Loch fine men all. Any echo of the Garry. RESTORATION.
good old days at sea is to these Liverpool and London too ad- Though, little objection can be folk always welcome.
ded their own competitors, and A resident of Heckington, taken to Karl's person, the re- Mr. Basil Lubbock, by virtue great was the ocean racing of Lincolnshire, sold a house, but,
could appearance of a Habsburg on the of hard practical experience of these days. Fast passages meant Ending be
not give throne of Hungary would con- deep-water saing, and his story high freights. Only the best of the
possession stitute an additional and serious of the life, adventures, and picked mariners were chosen to at Lady Day, built him a four- mense to the peace of Central ultimate fate of the China Clip bandle the clippers. Take, for roomed bungalow with out-offices Europe. Karl claims, if he claimspers, has become the acknow-instance, Captain Bowling's sea-complete in six weeks!
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