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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1930.
ENGLAND'S WAY WITH DRINK.
A
BRITISH SOBRIETY PRAISED IN U.S.
EPIC TRIP OF A SMALL BOAT.
DEATHS FOLLOW
CLOUDBURST.
ROBOT VOICE ON LOSS OF STEAMER
'PHONE.
MOLESEY.
PUBLICAN DROWNED IN VIEW NEW TELEPHONE TERROR
OF WIFE.
HAVOC OF FLOODS.
Death and ruin to many homes. came in the wake of a cloudburst on New Mills, Derbyshire, standing on the sides of a ravine through which the River Sett runs.
FOUND LARGEST ICEBERG EVER KNOWN.
EXCITING VOYAGE. EDUCATION INSTEAD.
While in the past ten years Hard by London Bridge and with. the United States has been at-in a stone's throw of the junk stores tempting to enfore Prohibition and the coffee shops, there has just by steadily increasing penalties been berthed a ship of secrets writes and making virtually every Pro- a News Chronicle representative. hibition violation a. potential Could those secrets be revealed
The deluge caused the river to felony, England has been moving they would tell the story of two rise 20 to 30 feet in the centre of towards real, temperance through and a half years packed with excite the village, scattering destruction the education of its public and ment and adventure.
right and left and driving the One of them I am able to disclose.terror-stricken dwellers од the the limitation of hours of sale.
This, according to Mr. George It is this. The William Scoresby lower banks to their top rooms. W. Wickersham, chairman of Pre- that is her name-found and dodged sident Hoover's Commission to in dramatic fashion the largest ice- Investigate Law Enforcement, berg that has ever been known. "furnishes a very cogent sugIts dimensions' were:
charged
150 miles long. gestion to those enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment as to better methods of attaining the object of that amendment than those which in the last decade have been pur sued."
with
Mr. Wickersham departed from his prepared speech before the National Conference on Social Work in Boston, in which he had not mentioned Prohibition, to in- dicate his lack of sympathy with the Prohibition policy adopted here. He cited England's fine showing as indicated in the testi- mony before the Royal Commis- sion on Licensing, and attributed it mainly to the general process of education of the public into excessive drinking the evils of and the advantages of other forms of innocent amusement."
Reliance on Police.
}: 11 miles wide,.
The waters engulfed the kitchen of Windsor Castle, a lodging house for working men 100 yards from the High-street bridge and swept Thomas Gannon (62), a one-armed
Commissioned for Government pedlar, out of the grasp of a fellow research work in the frozen wastes lodger, who was valiantly trying to of the Antarctic, the William rescue him while the flood was ris Scoresby is so small that, she-ising towards the ceiling. dwarfted by the cargo boat that lies astern of her. But she is 'Cock o' the South" as witness the cockerel lashed high up on her mast.
She lies in St. Katharine'a Dock, unnoticed by the mundane people who cross the bridge in buses on the way to their City offices. She has faced disaster a hundred times. "out there"" in the ice.
A Pioneer.
But you would never think, to look at her, that she was one of that line of ships which, down the long centuries, have sailed cut to win for Britain the laurels of pioneering and discovery at the ends of the earth.
Only 700 tons, 125 feet long and
Three miles away on the door
step of the Little Mill Inn, Raworth, John Oilorenshaw, the landlord, was trapped and disappeared in the flood before the eyes of his distracted wife, who had sought refuge in a bedroom.
IN PARIS.
PARROT SLOGANS.
COURT CRITICISES ACTION OF THE CAPTAIN.
JUDGMENT GIVEN. A new terror has been added to Judgment was given at the Law telephoning in Paris. It is a voice Courts by the Board of Trade Court with which you cannot argue or of Inquiry which investigated the plead; it is a "master's voice." in loss of the 5.8. Molesey, which place of the gentle accents of the telephone girl. It might be liken-foundered off the coast of Pem- ed to the Day of Judgment-it is brokeshire, last November with the of no use answering back.
loss of eight lives..
The voice will go like this: "The line is occupied; call again
later.
on.
The Molesey, on her way. trom Liverpool to Cardiff, became - un- manageable during a gale and ran And so on, and on and on and on to the rocks. Seven of the crew
The line is,..
Or you may hear this:
The number is changed; sult a new directory.
1
and Mrs. Stocks, the wife of the chief officer, lost their lives. The con-remainder were saved by the Angle
feboat from Pembroke.
"The number is changed; con-
suit a new directory.
Mr. Griffith Jones, the Greenwich Magistrate, who presided, stated, in delivering the Court's judgment, It is of no use arguing; no use that the cause of the stranding and
"The number is...."
suggesting that another number loss of the Molesey was (1), the be tried.
To Save Argument.
sary.
unexpected bad weather, which blew the vessel off her course and made her unmanageable on a leo shore; It is a phonegraph that is to (2) the unhandiness of the vessel speaking to you, and phonographs in ballast trim; and (3) Insufficient Building Collapses. • simply won't listen. It will go on allowance of sea-room to enable the repeating the phrases as long as vessel to be turned round if neces- In New Mills itself the river pour you like. ed over the stone walls of Brook-
All you can do is to put up the The loss of the vessel was partly side and Hyde Bank, carrying away receiver and hope for better luck due to the action of Captain G. E. tables, couches and other furniture next time.
Huntley, the master, in attempting in the ground floor rooms before. This new device is intended to to pass between the Smalls and the it reached the bedroom casements. save labour and needless discus-mainland through a channel where It tore a huge gap in the front sion. If a line is engaged and the the tide ran with great strength, in entrance. of Messrs. Arnfield's number has been changed, the a vessel of low speed and light foundary, bringing down a gateway caller's Instrument is simply draught, with doubtful weather con- weighing-machine and a stretch of hitched on to a phonograph with ditions prevailing. the river wall two feet thick. A the appropriate disc and the
"This action," Mr. Griffiths Jones
clear that from the enactment nothing to speak of in the beam, little further on a corrugated iron operator can then attend to other added.. "may have been due to ex-
to get aboard you have to jump down several feet from the quay to her main deck. I can imagine how she flung herself about in the long rollers and deep valleys off the Horn.
building used as a fitting shop and spanning the river on iron girders and concrete foudations, collapsed under the impact of the water.
subscribers.
Why Not A Little Music.
He said that it was perfectly
cess of zeal and a desire to make of the Volstead Law down to the
Cardiff on the following morning's present the Government had re-
tide. The Court considers that ho lied entirely on police powers to
Newspapers suggest that an in-was not, in the circumstances, justi- try and enforce observance, reach
Within two hours the waters had vention might be brought out to fied in taking this risk. ing its climax in the enactment
receded almost as rapidly as they make things brighter for telephone! "The Court, however, highly of the Jones Law last year.
But her skipper, Commander came. The sole topic of the in- subscribers. Why should there commends the conduct of the master He said: "No process of educa- tion or attempted education of Irving, in emulation of Admiral habitants who thronged the strecta not be a little song after the sub- and officers after the ship struck the public into the value of Pro-Blake, who hoisted a whip to the and bridges watching the volunteers scriber has been told a couple of and while waiting rescue by the
the mast has lashed that cockerel to salving the waterlogged houses was times that his number was still lifeboat.” hibition to accomplish
"The difficulty of handling vessela maximum of temperance in the the mast of the William Scoresby. the heroism of a policeman and four engaged? That would relieve the! She came gliding into dock with civilians who swam through the the cockerel aloft, and as she en- flood to an isolated house in Salem tedium of waiting. A humorous of this type in light from in heavy "is well known to all experienced tered her siren gave a loud: 'Cack- Cottages, where Mrs. Berry, and writer, suggests a pleasant chat weather, the judgment continued,
her three children were crying for a-doodle-do."
"The line is occupied. The lie seamen, and the Court, therefore, help at an upper window.
is occupied. Well, it is a lovely considera it proper to make a recom day. Why not take a short walk mendation that vessels of similar type now. under construction or about to be constructed should, be. in the Bois?"
"Enjoy your lunch? What did fitted with a deep-water ballast you have? Duck and green peas? tank of suitable capacity consistent Oh, lucky man!”
with the tonnage, in addition to the "But look here. Do call
up usual double-bottom tanks, thereby again; you never know what will making it possible to keep such ves- happen.".
sels under proper control if heavy "Anything to oblige. We have weather be encountered when in light trim. The Court also recom. got some lovely discs here."
Telephoning might even become mends that a light lond-line be in-
troduced."
community was attempted during this period. The long course of demonstration of the evils of the use of intoxicating liquor which led to the adoption of the Yes, the tiny William Scoresby Eighteenth Amendment was abar-la definitely Cock of the South-
Cock of doned.
the frozen Antarctic
Swimming With One Hand. The story is best told from the lips of one of the rescuers, James.
"Lat, 70-32. Long, 81-42% W. Jennings, a labourer, of High-street,
HER RECORD.
He told the Conference that a wastes. On the cockerel you may systematic educational campaign read: such as is now working so well for the public health authorities would greatly aid in ending dis- respect for the law, concluding, "such a campaign would amply repay the cost of conducting it."
PEWS AS ROADSIDE SEATS.
LATE DISTRICT PROPOSAL NOT WELCOMED.
That is the position up in the ice that the ship reached and
It is the furthest South to which any ship has ever penetrated in that region.
like this:
"We saw the family," he said, "when the water had risen 12 feet. Some pals and myself went into the water down the slope from High-street. Albert Edwards, of Dye-house-lane, awam with a ladder and placed it against the window, On the charts you may read that Sidney Dawson, a labourer, of High-a pleasure. ships have forced their way Lee, went up the ladder and smash- through the ice to a certain posi-ed the windows and handed the tion. The "William Scoresby three children to Johnny Burgess, pushed that reading further into of Hyde Bank, and myself. We the ice, and that is why she hoisted handed the youngsters over with the cockerel to the mast for all
one hand while we clung to the London Town to ace.
ladder with the other.
"Edwards brought firet Thos. Berry (aged 9) and then Irene Berry (6) to safety by tucking them under one arm with their heads above water and swimming with
A sailor with ruddy cheeks cast The Archbishop of York, Dr. his blue eyes aloft and said Temple, has written to the Rev. laconically: "If anyone wants to Aidan Hervey, Vicar of Butter-pull that cockerel down let 'em go mere, in the Lake District, about out there and do it" the suggestion to place the seats, Saying which he hoisted his the other arm. P.C. Milward took recently taken out of Buttermere ditty-box up to an admiring Cock-off his helmet and tunic and swam Church when it was reseated, forney cabman and started off on a to the ladder, carrying Clara Berry visitors along the roadside and month's leave, paid-up and happy. (3) away, using the back stroke. lake-side. He says: "I have no-
It is useless trying to pry Into
ON
but he recovered and swam strongly.
"Later Mrs. Berry was brought out of the house."
ticed the suggestion for the use the secrets of which the William Once the current took him under, of the old seats from the church.
Scoresby is so full. Her com- As I am one of the regular visi-mander and her crew are pledged tors to the valley to whom the to silence. The story of the ice- allusion ta made, may I say that berg just leaked my way, nothing would distresa me more than to have scats placed about it my convenience. If there. were any kind of 'development' of this sort, many of those who are now the
for
A Mountain of Ice.
This great mountain of ice was at night between encountered
Like A Weir.
A grim narrative of a fight to save the one-armed hawker, Tho- mas Gannon, was told by Frank
most regular visitors | South Georgia and Rio de Janeiro: Devlin, an inmate of the Windsor
By the swift order "Full speed astern," the vessel was saved from disaster.
Castle.
non round the waist, and waded with her with the water up to our necks, and set her on the stairs, up which the scrambled.
would probably cease to come. One of the great charms of that
"I was in the kitchen with Mr. supremely beautiful valley is the almost entire absence, of contri- As a westerly gale was brewing, and Mrs. Gannon," he declared. vances offered by human design the William Scoresby turned, hop "watching the storm when I saw a to interfere with what nature has ing that she had come upon the wall of water at least 14 feet high provided."
berg's comparatively short breadth sweeping towards the window. It Dr. Douglas Firth, of King's and not upon its length. But there poured through the window as if it College Hospital, London, has was apparently no end to the island were a weir. I grabbed Mrs. Gan- written to the Vicar: "As one of of ice, and the ship turned again. those responsible for some of the As I knew of the berg, Comman- new seating in Buttermere der Irving talked about it to me; Church, I wish to protest strongly but not a word would he say of the against the proposal. A few scientific aide of the trip.
"It was the most terrible gale I seats on the fells will not prove a
The Bremen, assisted by mem- further attraction to visitors, for have ever known in my life." he those who visit Buttermere re-said, "and we were on the weather bers of the household, managed to turn with their friends to revel inside of this enormous berg. I was save most of the silver plate and unspoilt beauty--not to sit on dis hoping to get on the lee side for antique furniture before the roof carded pewa. Each man has his shelter. There was thick log and fell, but. many valuable pictures own taste and each spot a particu- snow. At last we turned a corner. which hung in the dining-room lar attraction, but the popularity and I thought that we were round, were damaged. The estate is own- by an attempt to ape, even at a but we were only in a bay of the ed by Major Mann Thomson. distance, the promenades of Black-berg, pool."
"In it we found five other small bergs, but they were only about as big as St. Paul's Cathedral.
"We were five days before we got clear."
FANLING GOLF.
STARTING TIMES FOR
SUNDAY.
Imagine.
bergs a day, each one of them hun dreds of times her own size.
In the Antarctle she was base ship for. Sir Hubert Wilkins when he flew over the South Pole. Sir Hubert took a baby car with him, Can you imagine a vessel aand the little vehicle throbbed up. third the size of a cross-Channel and down on the great ice pack in 9:20 am.-W. C. Shields and A. E. boat, driving towards a country of the Antarcitic wastes carrying sur-
Lissaman.
ice stretching eross the seas for theplies. That was another secret. distance that lies between Sheffield And so the lion-hearted little and London?
ship William Scoresby, English-built": It was a hairbreadth escape. at Beverley, Hull, has won back to After five days the tiny ship crept London Town. round the end of the barrier, but
9.24 a.m.-E..D. Lawrence and C. C.
Stark.
9.28 a.m.-O.Enger and A. D.
Hamphreys,
9.32 am D. J. Keogh and M. N.
Cochrane.
9.30 mA. Ritchie and W.
Clerk.
A refit and in a few weeks she is
J.she carried on with a watchful eye,off again to the Antarctic.
for she was sighting as many as 17
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