THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1925.
REIGN OF THE PIRATES,
Bad, Bold Men Recalled, What was the pirate who flourished in the late soventeenth and early eighteenth century really like Roaders of such authors as Marryat, Stevenson and Barrio, would no doubt an- swor up quite promptly that they were such mon as those eminent authors have so graphically do- plotod, but what will do for Botion will not necessarily suffice for other purposes-it would not, for instance, be proper in a court of law to confuse flotion with fact.
Up to the present there has boon little or no dependable Account "relative to the exact appearance of the outlaws of the sea, who, as depicted by the story writers, are beloved of overy healthy English boy; and it ro- mained for Mr. Hurd, the well-known author of such tales of the sea as "The Sea Traders,"
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DEATH DIVE TO ORDER.
Most Thrilling of All Feats in Air.
deliberate, pall-mell dive to destruction was made by an American air-pilot, in a crash arranged to order," described as the most thrilling of all air foats,
This dramatic dive was made, recently in order to answer a problem, that had previously appeared insoluble,
The question set the United States Air Service-which led to this amazing exploit--was as fol- lowe
An aeroplane wing of a partic ular type had boon found, at cortain oritical spoods, whon div-, ing, to develop a mystérious weakness which was the imme- diate forerunner of collapse. Why did it do so?
No amount of research or calculation could supply an ex- planation.
It was to solve this problem that a test-pilot-reputed to have a nerve of steel,took up to a great, altituds above a desolate, unpop- ulated stretch of country machine fitted with there par- ticular wings.
When he had gained the height" and position he desired, ho doli- barately put the machine into a sheer dive--a dive to almost
The Triumph of the Tramp Ship," and others to tell us the truth about men who were a class; apart. Though not always 50 romantic a figure as we have hitherto visualised, the pirate, of as Bold and Skilful Mariners by his very calling, "differed from and Seaman as they are in the the ordinary human boing and World," while a scandal would it is quito interesting to read of bo removed that could not fail to him as he was. The author of roduound to the Eternal Recortain death. this valuable book has already prouch of the English Nation and won for himself a unique position Christian Religion." as a writer on everything to do Although "The Roign of the with the sea, and this just Pirates", Mr. Hurd's latest work, published volume cannot dodoale with man without any otherwise than enhance his desire to make them romantic, already high reputation.
TERRIFIC SPEED, Steeper and steeper he made the angle, regardless of the terrific speed at which he was plunging earthward.
What be detected in those few seconds before the collapse came supplied the answer scientists had been looking for.
All the time, calm and collected the book itself is indeed a rom-in his cockpit, he was eyeing his He has applied his ripo ex-ahco of the sos. It treats of men wings to see just what happened perience and knowledge to setting who sprang from English, Wolah before, unable any longer to bear forth the story of the peculiar and Scottish homes, and the the abnormal strain, they broke phase of anarchy at sea-in the author has not forgotten, in his up in mid-air.. watere of the West Indies, along survey, the fascinating stories of the shores of the Atlantic of Mary Read and Anne Bonney, North America, off Madagascar whom, by the way, the writers of elsewhere-which comparatively fiction, appear to have ignored small groups of pirates maintain entirely. Of pirates per so the ed for a period of about fifty author remarks: "No two were years. It may truly be remarked alike in their early circumstances, of this volume that it brings to-their motives or their methods,' gether a larger body of historical They are revealed in these evidence as to the
actual pagos as being very much like lives of the outstanding pirates other buman beings of their day of this time than has and generation, but they were ever been published before. No consumed with a lawloss courage trouble has been spared by the which often ignorad the law of author to sift fact from Sation, God and man, prompted them to and the reqult is a book which deeds of daring and guile, and will fascinate readers of alisometimes of brutality, which, ages. Dealing with that enigma, were proof not available, might Captain Kidd, who drifted from well be sat down as figments of
the novelist's imagination,
The balancing planes at the oxtremities of the planes began to tremble or 'flutter." This tremor communicated itself to the wings themselves, and caused movements which were the direct cause of their collapse.
Even as he watched, in fact, this trombling action set up strains which made the main- planes buckle and brosk in the air.
Then at the critical moment be leapt clear of the falling machine, and, supported by a perfected form of parachute, floated safely to earth, while the acroplane struck the ground and was reduc- ed to fragments.
a pirate hunter into a pirate, Mr. Hurd faithfully describes how The peculiar virtue of the ho WAS tried" and
found author's record lies in the manner guilty of piracy and $ few in which he has told these stories." days lator was banged, to be: The roader is taken back over This "crash to order," carried come the subject of more broad-the yours and enabled to study out deliberately in mid-air, pro- sheets, tracts and ballads than these men and women as they vidod data, unobtainable in any any pirate before or since, while consumed their stormy days as other way, which will lead to the legend grew that he had outlaws of the sea, sometimes technical strengthenings and im- buried more treasure than all the with the connivance of their còn-provements, preventing in future others put together. So died temporaries, including governors the boginnings of any such “flut- Kidd, an epigusa still, but so did and others, and sometimes in face tors," when diving, as may lead not die as yet, as we shall sea, of determined attempts to sup-to structural collapse. the pirates of Madagascar: and it is interesting to recall a petition submitted to the House of Com mona three or four years later, of which a copy is still in existence. This somewhat ingenuous do- cument, having bagun by point
preas every piracy.
manifestation
of
Among the men dealt with are Barbados, the two women pirates, such names as Henry Morgan of Tain of Madagascar, and Captain Jamaica, John Avery, Captain Gow of the Orkneys, all char- Kidd, Captain Tench, of Black-acters who have made our blood board, the gentlemen pirate of tingle, when, as youths who had! ing out that certain pirates had Barbados, the two women pirates, to go to bed early, we lay awako for some yeare bean Gnding the Captain Charles Vane, Captain while the imagination held full the Island of Madagascar to be England, Captain Howel Davis, sway:
"the most Proper if not the only Place in the World for their abode," four-fifths of these piratas being English, suggested that there wore only two means of abolishing them, namely, either by force or by perssuasion. With regard to force, the petition wont, on to point out that there were many practical object- ióna to this course. One of these was that the piratos had "by their long Abode there and their Liber- ! ality in bestowing part of their Booties on the Inhabitants, so gained their Love and Estoom, that they may remove from Place
ae "they see Occasion, with` as great Security as if they were Natives there,"
USE OF PERSUASION. It was also pointed out that the pirates were frequently at sea, and that oven " the nests were destroyed, the birde would still be at large." Persuasion, thore- fore, as the petition pointed out,] would seem to be the right mo- thod to employ, and since the treasure which the pirates bad accumulated could not be restor- ed to its various owners, it was suggested that the pirates should bo allowed to bring it back with them to England rather than leave it in Madagascar, where it would be "as Useless and Unpro- fitable as the Earth that covers it."
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It was also ingenuously plained that this course would be a very considerable advantage to the nation since so "considerable} an Addition to the Capital Stocki of the Kingdom must case tho rest of Her Majesty's Subjects."
The returned pirates, thus re olaimed Add in good financial ordor, would also provide, as it was polu od out, "many Hundreds
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THE DAMASCUS RIOTS.
Beirut, April 10
Two police cars accompanied Earl Balfour as far as Ainsofar, where he was met by the French Director General of Public Security, who escorted him, with a police guard, by a circuitious route round the coast to the military quay, where the British Consul Gonsra} awaited him and accompanied him abroad the Sphinx, whore
he remains guarded by police. The Sphinx departs on Sunday to Alexandria. All is quiet at Beirut, Reuter.
FATAL LANDSLIDE.
Moscow, April 11. - Six were killed and three seriously injured in a landslide at the hydro-electric Station at Tashkent, in which the pins workmen were buried. Reuter.,·
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