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CHINESE JUNK ON CALIFORNIA COAST.
Adventurous History of a Pirate Ship.
SATURDAY: NOVEMBER 5, 1921,
the rebels against the Gavern- iment, and were so impressed by her romantic history that they returned to the United States and raised $50,000 to purchase her.
On June sixth of the same year she sailed from Shanghai for this Pirates seem a long time res moved from present-day adven-country but was caught in a ty- phoon when she was six days out, ture. Jolly Rogers buckets of and wrecked. After being repair- blood and walking the planked she again set sail and was make thrilling reading, but we caught in another typhoon off can sea cely hope to see them Kyushi. During this second outside the covers of some bookstorm the crew mutinied, and Nevertheless, one relic of their tried to make of with her a day still survives, and can be pirate life again the goal seen. To-day. in Catalina Harate had destined har for reform hour, where there rests the and she was rescued by the mate "Ningpo" one of the most des- and three loyal Chinese sailors, perate and notorious old pirate After & return to China, where a ships that ever sailed the Yellow white crew was signed on, she Seas She made much history in commenced the journey airesh, the old day, and her record and at last reached San Pedro would serve well for many romance.
Harbour, making the trip of 7,000 miles in 58 days.
*
This old ship. probably the old. est in the world, was built in Fu Chow, China, in 1733. She was built mainly of camphor-wood and iron-wood, of a-grade better than can be procured in these days of second-growth timber. Her main mast is a perfect piece of iron wood 90 feet long and nine feet in circumference. And bas 2n estimated waight of 20 tons. Her main beam is made of one solid, huge tree, squared off, and is four feet in diameter.
But
During the first year of the Panama-Californis Exposition. the Ningoo was on display in San Diego Bay and after being exhibited in various places sho was finally deposited in Catalina Harbour, where she has since remained, having passed into the hands of the old Banning Com-: pany, which at one time owned Catalina Island.
On her deck still lies a coil of bamboo rope-stronger than 2 steel cable of the The superstitions Chinese form-
ssme Size: also да ancient ed her to represent a sea monster.
Candon four hundr d years The open bow was the mouth; the portholes were the eyes; and old, of the style the Chinese were the masts and sails were the fins three feet long and looks like a (making 3,600 years ago. It is The high stern was the tail antichild's top. Near the opening was from this high tail that the boxt was steered. The rudder, which weighed two tons, was st the stern, and was attached to the bow of the ship by rables which passed beneath the vessel.
A GOOD SHIP GONE WRONG. The Ningpo was originally named Kin Tai Foone, and was designed and intended for a life of commerce. She was the fast- e and his equiped boat at that time in Chinese waters, and these very virtues contribute to her downfall, for she was seized
into the hold of the ship stands a known as Kee Lung. Chinese instrument of orture, It is a bamboo cage with sliding boards in the top, to enclose the neck, în which prisoners were suspended without food or water till death came. The only floor consists of bamboo pole, upon which the victim stood. When he was unable to keep his footing any longer on this round pole he slipped and hanged by his neck.
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THE THEORY OF RELATIVITY.
Credit due to British Scientists.
In directing the attention of the public to the claims of Dr. A.A. Robb, of Cambridge, as the uriginator of a new theory of time and space, that anticipates in part Einstein's theory of rela- tivity, the Daily Chronicle has rendered a valuable service
to
British science, writes a scientific correspondent.
But pirates and prisoners are
The indebtedness which Dr. by smugglers and slavers as the old ship will never said again. Larmor will be fully appreciated gone forever from her decks, and
Robb himself admits to Sir Josept ideat craft for their purpose, on She is grounded in a shallow account of her capacity for spe d. place near the shore and a little those who have had the pri From smuggling to piracy was but
vilege of the acquaintance step. She became a terror to Per connects her with the land. and the benefit of the advice of the Lucasian Professor of Mathe- Chinese shipping and even at
matics the present occupant of tacked small, defenceless villages along the coast. In 1796 the
the chair of Newton at Cambridge.
beror
on
where a sign wares the stream of sight-seers that they visit her at their own risk. Water can be seen through cracks in her decks, and certain portions of the boat ass placarded as uprafe.
was engaged in £ rebellion
THE REAL ORIGIN. against the Chinese Em-
and from then
Sir Joseph Larmor holds the her deeds became darker, and
It seems a fitting place for the same nigh position in British yer records more crimson, In old ship to end her days, for there science 10-day that the Profis-or BIGGEST CITY IN THE 1909 she was seized by the are many indications on the island G. F. Fitz Gerald, of Trinny
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Government for smuggling and of early visitations by Mongolian College, Dublin, dvi a generation seamen; and perhaps the Singpofago, and may well be described Whether New York or London Piracy: and in 1814 was captured
int set
fire
is the Fuzgerald of Cambridge. at Sanking. has been here before on soin Tea is the world in the number of
Rescue urbes have arrived quick-secret pirate venture. Perhaps in fact. to be precise. the population is a question which is agitating Americans as a result, however, for in 1823 she was she has been in this very harbour theory of relativity owed its of the publication of the British again, seized for snugglice silk which is on the seaward side of go to Pitz Gerald's explana- and opiunt. In 1734 she was the island, and, until a few yetion, as far back as 1833, of Teensus returns, giving London a
British for 30, seldom frequented by visitors. Misuelson and Marley's failure New Confiscated by the !population et 7,478.168.
to defect any relative morjob from the mainland. Perhaps, if
between the earth and the other.
He showed that if all bodies
anton.
York's inhabitants total, accordmaling and carrying slave
to the latest census, 5,620,048. girls to The U.S. National Geographic In 1841 the Chinese Govern Society questions the right of the ment sain secured possession British metropolis to claim such of her and converted her into a
the old sea monster could talk, could tell us of treasure buried
either side of the harbour- treasure buried there on som
the verg hills that rise fron contracted in the same proportion
Kowloon Whark and Godown Goa large population. It points out prison strip for the very earlier trip of the Ningpo to these Lid.. whence and/or from that legally, as a municipal unit,ters and pirats wharves delivers mby obtained.
All claims against the steamet must be presented to the Gader- signed on or before the 17th inst,
expenses
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in the direction of their motion we should have no fixed standard
who bad
of length, as measuring rules and For seven
l scientific instraments would London refers only to the area been raling ber. within the County of London. years she was an agent of the law
ixewise change their dimensions. "Greater London," which the she had defied, and it was during
Hence we could not ascertain the No isims will be wimitted
cover, extensose seven years tbst the
xact size of things, nor detect after the Goods nave left the tie irensys Equres
bloodiest chapter of her history
their notion relatively to fixed downs, and all Goods remisining over 633 square miles, an area
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This was known as the Fitz and tims, in a before and after.
[absoluta relation batv een space of these "theories, through the don and more than twice that of inconvenience of feeding so many will be subject to rent.
on the list for the sack"? Gerald
jisitiative of three Irishmen Fitz- prisoners was great, and one day Slackers, and men who habitus which in the hands of Larmor, Theory," municipal New York.
It would be idle to endeavour Gerald. Sir Joseph Larmor and It is pointed out that a greater
the Chinese captain determined arrive late for work in the moaud Lorenz of Leyden has led up to explain in popu ar tern:s what Dr. Alfred Robb. Sew York, modelted on Grester to cut Government London lines, taking in all suburb and ordered 158 pirates beheaded constipation or liver, for which space and tine since developed one so far has succeeded in doing ings are usually offerers from the reina kable the ries of these theories actually mean. So All broken, chafed, and damn-jan cities within a 15-mile radius on ber decks.
ailments Pinkettes ате In 1861 she was again taken by remedy.
RUSSIA FLIRTS WITH CHINA. the by Robb and Einstein with such so with sufficient clearness to agod Goods are to be left in the from the city centre, as the Eng-
masterly skill sad ability. satisfy the general reader. would psas rebels, and then
The official Sovie: Rosts news Godowns, where they will be fish capital does.
retaken by Pinkettes geatly stimulate the
But the widespread interes: agency says Bolshevik Russië baz examined on the 40th fast., 13 10 London's population well within "Chinese Gordon," who changed liver, aid digestion, ensure daily DR. ROBB'S DISCOVERIES.
A like area.
her name to "Ningpo aker regularity,
that they have aroused owing to offered to medist: with Chios Used when needed While London has no State the
Robo's theory, however, does the paradoxical conclusion ar- under the name of the Mongolian No Fire Insurance has been
city of that name. they keep you in the pink. lines to prevent its expansion for In 1861 she was wrecked in Try a dose to-night; and see how objections, from
not appear to be open to the same rived at by the mathematicians Republic. The agency made eJected.
philosopb. themselves, and the confirmation public s note from Moscow to the Bill of Lading will be counter-administrative purposes.
Nowa typhoon and in 1911 captured much brighter and atter you feel icat standpoint, as Einstein's, afforded by the observations of Mongolian revolutionary govern- York halts at the Hudson River, again by rebels in the battle of in the morning. signed by
Of chemists which Lord Haldane, Prof ssor the Cambridge astronomers at a ment, controlling Outer Mongolia that separates it from the State Hankow.
overy where or post free. 50 cents Weldon Carr and other phlios recent total eclipse of the sun, under the military suspico dr (of New Jersey, and must continue
the vial, from Dr. Williams' ophers have so verely criticised in itself a sufficient excuss for Moscow, saying it is believed the self-contained and increase ouly
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