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the privileges and the powers the Pross. Despite the fact that Mr. Baldwin has made concession after concession to the Press Barons, they continue the WA against him. obviousis unimated by the sole desire of ousting him from the lendership of his Party It all boils down to a question of The extent to personal enmity. which Mr. Baldwin's enemies are prepared to go was strikingly illus trated the other day when one of
win.
IF ONE ITALF OF THE WORLD DOES LIVES, IT IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE NEXT DOOR-George B. WOMAN
Deacon.
While carrying a load of building) materials along the top of a wall at 100, Robinson Road,
yostorday, a
THE COUNTRY OF THE
Why the Romance of Sail
has Passed to Finland.
CLIPPERS.
By SIR HERBERT RUSSELL.
17HEN the four-maated barque lumpy sen the big ship should have
coolie made a fulie step and fell to! W Garthpoul Foundered some the advantage; should
He was killed on the spot. the ground, from a height of 14 feet.
these
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two years ago the Red En-would carry her through waves with Twelve montha' hard labour was sign went down upon the era of less of that staggering halt which imposed on Leung Tal-shing, for hav-taeks and sheets in the Mercantile light ship makes. ing returned from banishment before Marine. Now that there are no
But, taking the record of the the expiry of his term of ten years longer hallarda nor handspikes to dating from 1930, by Mr. Hamilton, ntchanty over, we listen to wireless Erikson fleet, none of the vessels the Kowloon Magistracy this morning baritones in much too-refined ver- can approach the old clippers. The "We did not know it was Crown alons of the songe the old shellbacks"champion" is the Herzogin Cecilie from the Benverbrook organs demand-Innd" piended five villagers, a man croaked and falsettond, and deplore In 1027 she beat by three weeks the and four women, who were charges, the vanishing of the romance of next best of sixteen other square- Australia with wheat. She made. ed that the ex-Promler disclose the before Mr. Hamilton, at Kowloon this Ball. But it has only vanished so riggers which camo homo
weeks the passage from Port Lincoln to numes of those on whom he would morning, with having trespassed inffar as this country is concerned.
During the past three Kowloon. They were each fined $5, or rely for the formation of his next ten daya.
eight great sailing ships have set Queenstown in eighty-eight days. Cabinet Naturally, the insolence'
A peculiar nccident was reported to out from Australian ports upon nnThis is good but far from remark- of this step was met with a promot the police yesterday, The mother of venan regatta reminiscent of the able. During a voyage from Mc- racing homeed of 2.150 knots in a week, cop. Civil refusal on the part of Mr. Balla three-year-old girl, taking her child spacious days of the China teabourne to Taltal, in Chill, she reel-
Huspita clippers. They are to the Government
mouth, with wheat, and victory will go to pistently averaging fourteen 'knote before the fleree Westerlies. Also Doubtless the idea was yesterday, with lacerated' THE HONGKONG HOTELntertained that if the list of stated that the injuries were caused the vessel which makes the voyage good, but not reinurkable.
when the child fell from a bed within the shortest time. All
The maiden feat of the Aberdeen white flag Vessels are flying the a chopstick in her mouth. "probables" contained names un-
with a bold pale cross of the Fin-clipper Thermopyle. built in the
Service. Merchant
The Sixties for the tea trade, has never palatable tu the Beaverbronk
Tsol Cheuk, a Police armourer, died nish organ, a fresh campaign would be suddenly at his home early this morromance of sall has now passed to been beaten by sail between this
baldining, after a short spell of Finland. She owns twenty-six of country and Australia. She started Lo untagonise
He was 60 years of age, and bare the world's ocdan-going square-rived at Melbourne sixty-nine days minion
men. an excellent record of service, first
in 1852 the Sovereign of the Seas Methods such as these cannot be with the Army Ordnance Corps anders-more than all the other after clearing from the Thames.
sires 4, with the Hongkong Poilee nations put together. tolerated. They are
Her genius is Captain Gustaf averaged 300 knots a day for eleven мо utterly Force, in n elvilian capacity.
Erikson of Marichumn. For years days. For four days in succession contrary to British idens.
Mrs. J. H. Hunt. of No, a King's past he has travelled countries in her leg showed 333 knota precisely, We are afraid that personal Park Drive, was sent to hospital yes which shipowners could no longer probably the most extraordinary vanity is behind much of the mave-terday to receive treatment in conse:make sail pay, buying their vessels, display of uniform speed for over queer of being bitten above the left There are no Board of Trade res-ainety hours on end ever given by The ankle by a pet dog, which appears, to trictions nor Trade Union prohibla sailing ship.
Her greatest performance have altacked her without warning. ment against Mr Baldwin. other my We encountered
The animal has been taken to the tions in Finland and so individual
enterprise is still permitted to have on the 18th of March of the follow- of the Mataukok depot for observation. 04191 lengthy article in
"ideas." Captain Erikson believes ng year, when she ran 411 miles. that the sailing ship is able to pay On arriving home and claiming this OTKANA suggesting Rotherinere
Dropping to the ground when a Lord Beaverbrook
next plank between the bamboo staging as a freight carrier. But she must us a record, the Sovereign of the
ол run of the first floor
economic principles Seus learnt that, in the previous and the veranda woman coite, war which, apparently, the other mari. January, the Red Jacket ran 417
The Dongkong & Shanghel Nately. Ad Eurocrated Hongkong. 25. Queen's Bord C. and Stubha Road,
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT.
Mr. and Mrs. Ho Kwong have pleasure in announcing that the marriage of their eldest
daughter Mary to Mr. Sai-Wa Lang, B. A. Oxon., will take pince on Moulay, 30th March, when a Reception will be held at the Roof Garden of the
Hotel Hongkong
at four afternoon. o'clock The same
against these
the
All friends are cordially Conservative Premier, and setting
vited to the Revention. perds will be Eastrod.
The
No
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1931.
to
MR. BALDWIN AND THEome from that which they profesa
have in view.
By running PRESS BARONS.
candidates against the official Conservative nominees, and there by merely splitting the vote; they are causing dissension in the Party
The war between Mr. Baldwin and the Press Barons is evidently to be one to the knife. The ex-
hand
алк
negotiations,
дг-
Was
miles in a day. In July, 1863, this wonderful clipper. #wept across 3,186 miles of the Southern Ocean much in ten days. The Erikson ships are
were The Fifties
fruitful of under-manned, by our standard.
by square-riggera. The "flagship" Herzogin Cecille, a speed records
Lightning established the four-masted barque of over 3,000 The
run
forth in glowing terms all that he taken yesterday to the Government time countries will not allow.
Civil Hospital from a building under la supposed to have done to merit constraction at Fleming Road. She
The received injuries to her appointment to this post.
shoulders, and her condition clumsiness of these tactics are apported to be serious.
What the Press Barons parent.
On a charge of assaulting Sergeant tons, only musters niue hands to greatest twenty-four hours appear to overlook, or refuse to
M. Flaherty in the execution of his watch and half of these are ap-over made by a sailing ship, logging sce, is that their methods are likely duty nt Wanchni yesterday, an Indian prentices and boys. When the Ger. 432 nautical miles. The fastest re- to resalt in the very opposite oat-guard employed by the Asiatic Petra-
leum Company at North Point, apmais owned her she mustered abou, ecorded speed through the water for Yet these a sailing ship was made by the pearl before Mr. Schofiek! at the forty hands to n watch. Central Police Court this morning. Erikson vessels have a world repute James Baines on June 18, 1856. In all star- Mr. M. A. da Silva represented the amongst seamen as "happy ships," The entry in her log-book is as defendant and applied for a remand, and it is quite safe to predict very follows: "8.30 p.m. the hearing being Axed for Monday keen senmanship in the annual re-board stud-sails. Ship going 21
You knots with main-skysall set." next.
gatta which has just started.
-keen
The China tes clippers were de do not get
seamanship amangat disgruntled seaman. signed and built to win races quite branch service to Hongkong has Four of the vessels which are as much as are yachts. They wooed whose interests they profess to not yet come into the realm of racing home with grain are ex-the wind by a prodigality of canvas Premier again showed himself in serve. In other words, they re Governmental
al-British. These are the Archibald often silk-which would soon thoroughly fighting mood at the making the way of the Serialists though the British Government's Russell, Lawnbill and Melbourne,tunkrupt the Erikson vessels not Queen's Hall, when he scathingly easy. apparently nothing Anancial contribution to the Kai all four-masted barques, and the only in the cost of providing but in Favell, a three-masted barque. Of the crews to work. Such vessels attacked the methods of the Press matters so long as they keep up Tack air base development scheme the others the Herzogin Cecilie and as the Taiping, Undine, Sir Lan- magnates. We Imagine that the their obsession of "Baldwin Muat tells us all we want to know in Penang are ex-German, the Viking celot, Fiery Cross, and Aerial, all
this connexion. We may,
how-ex-Danish, and the Ponape e less than one-third the tonnage of them these the Herzogin Cecille, carried crews bulk of oober opinion will be with Go." In the long run. however, over, express the hope that the Italian. Amongst Mr. Baldwin, who has a long and we fear that their tactics will Colony will not
be kept waiting clippers are carrying 30,000 tons of of about forty hunds. Many of wheat, and, on the average, each them posscased silk "balloon" sails honoured association with British sicken the public, which is always too long. We read of a German is about three times the burden made for them at Tientsin or Foo- They set such catapaw politics, whose record has been prepared to heed reasoned argu-nathority forecasting the time of the old China tea clippers. But Chow. marked by great sincerity and meat, but which immensely dis when mails will be sent by rocket, will they equal the performances of cloths as angel's footstools, water the speed potentialities of which those famous vessels? If they nils, and ringtails. They had the whose services to the nation have likes being dietated to and, above will be approximately 200 miles a could get and maintain their own hoist where the modern ship has I been of immense value. There alt, demands fair play in politics.minute!. We are
prepared to weather throughout the voyage the the spread. may be differences of opinion in
agree that this sounds very much answer would be rather doubtful.
their performances. A vessel. might of the regard to his leadership
like the American iden of "Ser-As this is impossible it is not at all driven hard is quiciently shown by
doubtful. Hongkong Speeding Up.
Įmake a record voyage by being able Conservative Party, but so long as
The great modern clipper of to keep going across the doldrums The curtallment of what may bevice" but on the whole we think the majority of the Party is con- called time-distances has proceed. perhaps it would be better to push round about 3,000 tons is a very and without any remarkable twenty- on with pinus for employing the long, narrow-gutted vessel. Her four hours' run. But the twenty- tent that he shall be its head, Ited with such rapidity in all parts more leisurely aeroplano pending all aren is relatively very much four hours' record means gale sali- ill-becomea professedly Conserva-of the world that Hongkong a solution of the rocket's accurate smaller than that of the Chinning, and this belongs to the old tive journals to maintain a bitter not likely to display excitement atnim problem.
hard wind and clippers just as do the voyage re- attuck against him and to do all the prospect of an air mail ser
Rut
in their power to make his path vice to Croydon. The attitude difficult.
No objection can be taken to criticism of Party leaders,
mun
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generally is more likely to be that such a development is bound to come sooner or later, and that its nearness, by reason of the exten-
long
an it is confined. within sion of the India service to reasonable Imits. Indeed, all Australia, passing through Singa- nublic
must expect such pore, is therefore of no more than In view of the eriticism. The Press inevitably passing interest. plays an important. part in this speed attainments of the past decade, Rome excuse for this blase connexion. But fair criticism is
acceptance of the speeding up of one thing: bitter, personal abuse communications between England quite another. The Beaverbrook and this Colony may be found. and Rothermere organs, by their The whole world outlook on speed ruthless campaign against Mr. and transportatjón has undergone a remarkable change. It is not a Baldwin, in which they stoop to
cantury since promises of a speed personalities of the worst type of 26 miles an hour from steam are certainly doing no service engines provoked an outery of
either to the Canaárvativo Party ridicule from learned scientists, or to British politics as a whole, | who suggested that such a pro
natural Happily, they are not represents-position was against all tive of the British Pross, which, Jawa! To-day, the public is in- as. Mr. Baldwin says, fo the ad-clined to accept almost any state- miration of the world for fair-ment as the transport possibilities of the future. A week ngo Wo neas, ability and high principles.were promised the provision with- The "Stunt Press" could be in two years of facilities for tolerated if It displayed Its speaking to raintives at Home on whims and fancies on harmless the telephone. After that, it is subjects, but when it endeavours not unnatural that the prospect of to dictata to the Conservative or bringing London within ten days any other Party what it shall and of Hongkong by mail falls to provide a thrill. If the plans now what it shall not do, it becomes prepared are carried out, a fifteen- a harmful slement in the national to seventeen day service, should life. There are recognised limits be available to Hongkong within within which newspapers should the year. The Inauguration of si
3 clippers. In
·Ó 1001 MY NER GERVICE, INC.HÉR.
And we'll never, never have even one teeny weeny
Vittis quarre
That those famous old ships wors
cords.
.
Lovers of the sea owe a debt to the Finps-and, in much less de- gree, to the Germans and the Fronch-for keeping sail alive. Captain Erikson in demonstrating to the shipowning world that trading by wind-power cants still be made
if it to pay employment
not render- ed prohibitory by legislation and trade unionism. Mr. A. J. Villlors, who made a voyage in the Hercogin Cecilie for very much the same reason that R. H. Dana, eighty years before him, sailed in the brig Pilgrim, has written: "She is well-found and well-kept; but it is doubtful if her entire wage bill ex- ceeds £150 a month. If she were a British ship even with the same erow as she now carries-and she would probably have more—it would be nearor £400. That may not seem so vital a factor in theory, but it is a very big one in actuni practice, since the sailer must. work upon such a narrow margin to gat a profitable freight at all.":
That is why the last clipper bas' passed from under the Union Jack.
Miss Violet. Capell announces that the gross takings from the two enter. tainments given at the Theatre. Royal un the 4th and 6th instant amounted to $1,591. In the meantime sheria forwarding a draft to the London. Hospital for £10, and is also making. some donations, tay deserving") ločal charities., diim. Capell towe think: Call - her pupils te What genarodely, contributed towards E gift which has been presinta
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