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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931,
THE "HYDRANGEA" INCIDENT.
DAY BY DAY
AGRICULTURE 18 THE BASIS OF ALL SOUND SOCIAL HAPPINESS,—Disraeli. The P. and O. 8.8. Samall, from Shanghai, in due to arrive here at 6 n.m. on Friday,
Mock Warfare Under
Water.
By JOHN GILLAM.
so that in times of emergency there would be no question of such risks as the Hydrangea experienced on Saturday. This might be done
The Espress of Canada Jeft either by amendment of the re-
Shanghai at noon to-day and be due TT is an Invigorating morning. "Lights on" "Shut main venta.** galations or, in such instances as here it 8 a.m. on Friday...
We manoeuvre slowly around the "Surface" and wo rise as comprex- that under notice, by signaling to
bend of the creek from our base, sud air blows out the water from The Intent information is that Judge four submarines and 1,500-tons the ballast tanks, Hydroplanes the vessel permission to proceed Sir Peter Grain will be leaving sloop. We are to carry out diving fold inwards, water from the speak
by to her wharf, where inspection could Shanghal for Hongkong the exercises, dummy and torpedo ating tube is emptied, the hatches are C.P.O. 6.6. Empress of Canada on taeks, our orders being given by opened, and as the captain ascends August to it as a member of the the sloop, that being our target. the tower and the Diesels take over, Full Court,
As we proceed well out to sea to the wash of the waves is heard A street thief snatched a coat from our respective stations, I wish I had again. We have been submerged the arm of Takaji, a Japanese steward come suitably dressed, as are the half an hour. on the Terukuni Maru, as he wasferew in Warm,
woollen white walking along Peking Road at 12.45 sweaters.
be carried out. Whatever the method to be adopteri, no master should be placed in the predicameni in which Captain Grierson found himself on Saturday. The respon sibility of safeguarding the lives of five hundred people in such circum. stances is one which he should never have been called upon to shoulder. We realise, of course, the de- sirability of quarantine restric-in Fe Yuen Street, consisting of about
tious, in order to protect the public
Trom
are
The captain's compliments, and
*
•
am. this morning, and stole a wrist I am warned to keep away from would 1 like a glass of beer on the
and money to the value of the wireless aerial when messages bridge? watch
are being sent, as it becomes a live wire capable of giving a very un- At 3.30 p.m. we make a ernah dive pleasant shock.
for torpedo attack, with Diesels ruming, motors taking over Im-
$52.
Two Kowloon Inland Lots were disposed of yesterday, at the P.W.D. when Kowloon Inland Lot No. 2554,
*
At 10.30 am, we are ordered to mediately we submerge. A difficult 10,640 square feet, with an upset dive, and as this is my first subdive, but down in 90 seconds. The price of $26,450, was knocked down to marine voyage, I am intensely in-sloop is five miles away, now four. now three. She la zigzagging, and Mr. Wong Tung for $28,000. Kow. terested.
manoeuvre likewise: 2,000 yarda, 1,700,
"Fire Nn. V torpedo.
lean Inland Lot No. 2555, also in Fa I descend the perpendicular lad-We Yuen Street, consisting of about|ders of the conning tower, and envy 10,610 square feet, with an upset price the agility of the others. Here i of $26,450, was sold to Mr. Lai Yuk-and myself in the control room-- | sung for $28,500,
inferiton from outside hear but it all We | sources.
true, there restriction 14
A loud report for'ard like a great and form t always applied of
the brains of the ship. The upper airgun. The aim is deadly.
We rise By
near our victim. The possibly jaa respect
batch and lower hatch doors are In the case of sources of danger.
the Norwegian steamer Kronviken,excellently kept engine-room
Capt. 1. Kvamme, the master of closed, the Diesel engines in the torpedo as, na nimed, passed close aft to the stern. They recover it, 20 Swatow, our correspondent, who is appeared before the linn, Comdr.
dummy head.
pro
moment of life.
a ship was responsible for to Our four hydroplanes, or *.
clearance, Comdr. Hole fine The defendant $10,
fore and horizontal rudders, two two aft, are run out, and we have PHIPPS looks at bcome a huge fish with fins.
A DAYLIGHT TATTOO.
the actualle, nt the Marine Court this are shut off and two motors, run-sinister feet of steel with its red in a position to know facts, recently asserted that there ring, to answer a summons or ning electrcial from batteries pre- having left part without having vinusly charged on shore, take over;
A gentle hour's sull for home. was nothing that condd he called a obtained a clearance. He produced the job of turning our two
It has been an inspiration to be receipt for Bght dues, and mid that it pelters, iscovered arrival as well as departure.
My great anxiety is that I am in the company of such admirable cheiern epidemic there. It true that every year cholera breaks Comdr. Hole, however, said it was not not embarrass my perfect host, the men, who are unconscious of danger out in prenter or lesser degree, and replied that his agent was responsible in fresh wlt we rolling slight-splendidly fit, and loving every aseance, to which the defendant captain, by being scusiek, as the senin the confidence of their efficiency, it reaches serious for that. Remarking that the masterly, in some years
this year, there proportions, but happens to be very little, only r matter of one or two ensea at a given time. That being the case, it dues strike us as a little unreason- able that a vessel like the Hydran- gea should have been exposed to such dangers for the sake of a tech- nicality. Happily, no untoward event occurred, but that was merely good fortune. The whole question of enof forcement of the quarantine regula. tions when the Colony is threatened by a typhoon calls for through con- sideration.
is a
"Open up for diving.". Diving SMUGGLED WINE AND tevers are pulled over and the valves
TOBACCO.
BOAT AND ITS CONTENTS CONFISCATED,
fokin of the third.
at the bottom of our ballast tanka) open.
"Open muin venta"-and they fill with sen-water. The electrically controlled hydroplanes are depres.
We've missed them dreadfully,
In Piccadilly, where men keep
Three oatmen appeared before sed, and we submerge in perfect but now they're back again. Mr. Fraser at the Kowloon Magia trim, the weight of water in our tracy this morning on two charges trimming tanks counterpolaing the dates and girls keep them waiting, unlawful pussession of three balance of the ship. The first offi- there is once more the brave gleam large jars of Chinese wine and cer attended to this before we left, of corduroy trousers and the spirit- packets of Chinese tobacco. working the balance mathematical-ed baying of foremen. The Road- All pleaded guilty, two of them ly.
menders are holding their summer saving that they were only the We are at 20ft, depth, and it has dri, and Piccadilly is a real circus
become uncannily quiet. I am at again. Det. Sgt: Humphreys, who pro-one periscope, through which I have Nobody can accuse the Guardians · secuted, said he caught the three a five-miles radius of clear vision of the Tarmac of not holding auc- men at Capsulmana yesterday in a The captain is at the other. Each vessful entertainments. Londoners New Phase in Flying. Jarge pasenger sampan. He call-order is immediately repeated by have been suffering from acute
exit alongside his launch, and the helmsman.
nostalgia for their daylight tattoo, The plight of the s.s. Hydrangea
Elsewhere in this issе
discovered three jars of wine and The two coxswains control the which they have come to regurd as during Saturday's typhoon blow
Ile also hydroplanes from the reading of annual fixture in Piccadilly. raises the question whether the photograph marking the success-25 packets of tobacco,
of wine being the depth indicators and spirit Well, here it is, with all the old but he was levels, under the command of the favourites and one or two absolute- Lime has not come for a revision of termination of a gying trial saw three
importance and interest dumped overboard,
unable to recover thein.
first officer. At times the tele-ly orginal new turns. the quarantine rules so as to make u
When arrested, the defendante graphist locates our position by To begin with, a hitherto unpre- provision for emergencies which much greater than is apparent on
is some-sented act, which has been care-. When Messrs, Walter stated that they bought the wine sound telegraphy, which the surface. This little Less and F. Brossz remained in and tobacco from Shumchun and thing like repealed notes from ajfully rehearsed for weeks, will be cannot be forescen.
were conveying it to Linting, loud saxophone.
incorporated in this year's pro- craft entered harbour in the early the air In a Diesel-engined ma-
The periscope constantly hides gramme. hours of the morning, after achine for a period of 84 hours, 33 St. Humphreys said their alors
was very improbable.
itself by being lowered automatical This is known as "Swinging the His Worship imposed a fine of ly by pumps worked by the staker. Lead," featured by the entire com- voyage from Swatow,minutes, they were, unknowingly
the certain $200 or one month on one charge. with some five hundred deck pas-perhaps, heralding
office manager, sita fra cupboard, The Act-has-n-history- Some sengers aboard, and, because it was approach of a new phase in avit- and 5000 or one month on the The signalman, looking like a box-pany,
And it was not a selitary other on the master of the boat, with the top half of the door open, time ago, it will be remembered, not possible to send the
performance. The same machine while the two fokis were fined $50|recording every detall in the log the Underground troupe were play- Medical Officer out, she was com pelled to ride out a severe storm at but a few days earlier had muide *; or, in default. two weeks' book. In a corner of the torpedo-ling to crowded houses in the famous
boisterous
tion.
Fort
imprisonment,
fect harmony as a orchestra.
His Worship also made an order room for ard, our cook is intent on arena.
appetising the preparation of
They made a very deep Impres for the confiscation of the AR-steak and kidney pie. This mansion at the time, but unfortunately is one of a team working in per-1 te has proved that the impression senger boat, wine and tobacco.
well-conducted was not watertight.
And since the subterranean shop- keepers objected to stalactites We descend to 40ft. Power is dripping all over their keenest light we manoeuvre by hand control a cordon of polleemen armed with only.
basins would be inadequate as all- weather equipment.
that which was wrecked in 1929. To nehlave success, the craft will have to give its best performance.
the present certain, could beat cent and have plenty to spare. record of 4,900 miles by 25 per
ROOMS
"Lights out!"
A Lead Lining.
The Underground station needed a new lining,
If the troglodytes were looking for a sliver lining they were disap painted. But the Guardians of the |Tarmoc, sitting in soleman conclave voted them a lend lining, which is manifestly botter than no undles at all.
1
So now the all-star cast in Pic-. cadilly will go on eating cheese out of hiking handkerchiefe for many moons to come, ever and anon paus. ing to pop In a little lead. The Picks used in Act 1, are by Crack- worthy and Cleft, Ltd., and Mr. Bloggins' drill-unform in Act II. was designed by Mrs. Bloggins.
No smoking in the auditorium.
a flight of 73 hours, 48 minutes. " the quarantine anchorage. She It had also flown from Detroit to might easily have broken drift Virginia. The engine which was from her moorings, with con being tested was, the Packard
its success means sequences too disastrous to contem- Diesel, and plate. As it was, the Chinese pas- nothing less than the rounding of sengers, naturally anxious to get a corner for aviation, with a rich A Diesel-engined craft, it is fairly switched off and in dim emergency bargains, it was realised that even · whore, looked like creating serious prospect in view. It means that trouble, so much so that the vessel the near future all duration and distance records are to be broken. was eventually taken to her wharf. The longest range of the existing after the holsting of the police flag.acroplane is increased by nearly and the passengers allowed to dis 30 per cent. and that ls asaurning
that the Diesel engine weigha 3 embark.
The position in which the master pounds per horse-power, a figure and officers were placed was car which does an injustice to the tainly an unenviable one, and we Packard, which is only 21⁄2 lbs. horse-power as against the aver cannot see that any option was left age petrol engine's 2 pounds per them but to put the passengers horse-power. It is, therefore, not ashore, in spite of the fact that the unduly optimistic to expect the ship had not passed the quarantine introduction of the Diesel-ongine examination. The matter is im- in all. long-range machines within portant, because in similar circum- the next few years, and by then, stances
the same situation may it is possible that the weight per easily arise again. In the case of horac-power will have been
much reduced that the Hydrangea, however, we cannot classes of aeroplanes except the help thinking that some effort might high-speed craft will be affected. have been made to have passed the The most powerful argument in ship and allowed her to go to her favour of the new engine is Jm- wharf before the full force of the munity from fire risks, meaning chargos, while. lower insurance storm was felt, seeing that she is the absence of a magneto (often reported to have passed through the cause of forced landings) is Lygemun at six o'clock in the more-another advantage. Add to this ing, some five hours before the the fact that the fuel consumption blow reached its height. Even the is only 0.04 lbs. per horse-power Kausing might have been utilised per hour, as against the petrol engine's 0.55 lbs. and the con- for the purpose of taking the
siderations in favour of the change Medical Officer aboard, if no other become weightler. In Britain, the craft were available. At any rate, development of such engines has having come into port so early, the been slow, but one which it in vessel ought not to have been ex- believed will give Britain an en pected to lie at the quarantino an-gine superior to all others is now chorage and risk the lives of those being tested. The RAM are ab on board. As we see it, there was tempting in the autumn to beat the world distanco, record inva ample time for the vessel to have Fairey monoplane very similar to
50 all other
"Gosh, "wouldn't I like to get away from these tourista for
couple of weeks,
WATER LEVELS.
DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.
The following table, insued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com minion, shows in English fout the wafer levels on the West River, North River and East. River on the dates namedr
·Aug. Aug.
West River at Shlubing 86.7 85.G North River at Samshul 889.0 North River at Taingyben 816 220. East River at Sheklung 350/54 The highest levels recorded are: Shinking 41 feet; Tsingyum, No 29,3 fouts Banshul,- 27.3 festiv;
The lowest levels, zninus. 5. Lead at Samshaf 127, fost at Sheklung