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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THESDAY, APGtsr 25, 1981.
COUNTRY
BEFORE
PARTY.
of
up
WHAT WE GAIN IN A FREE WAY IS BETTER THAN TWICE AS MUCH AS WITH A FORGED, AND WILL BE MORE TRULY OURS AND OUR 109- TERITY'S--Cromwell,
THE WEEK of
WHITE WINGS:
of the other and each lent upon purely party triumphs. The Esbrewdness of Mr. Garvin [political commentator is well at- tested by his remark samme five or six mouths n that "the rival
The B. I. n. Takada, from Singa parties and their statesmen will | pure. Is due here at 8 p.in. to-day, THE biggest fleet of pleasure to be found keenly eyeing the [probably egme to a National Gov-
vessels in the world is a weather leech of a metre-boat's The Royal Observatory recorded athered in Cowes Roads writes Sir mainaati, and always murmuring ernment when they are compelled temperature of 94 at 2 p.m. yesterday. Herbert Russell, in Cowes Week for more wind, even although he by misfortunes and dangers which
From Egypt Point to abreast of is already wet to the skin despite they might have prevented."
Norris Castle the babbling tide. hir ollakin.
From the yachtsman's point of onay--and how it babbles in the
Solent these spring tides!~fs view the Solent is probably about cluttered with shining shapes and the worst reing.course In the Bringing the English mails, the forested with tapering masts, the Kingdom. It 19 tract of swish- P. and D. s.s. Kalyan is due here from felinge of which is delicate trace- ing tides, broken ground. tricky Singapore at noon on Thursday.
Amongst all level-hendeil people, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald will he praised for his determination not to be dictated to by organised labour as represented by the T.U.C., He would have Inst much jof his prestige, not only in Britain but throughout the world, had he
The Hon Line .. Bermor, from Banc vin Straits, is due, hore Thursday.
The Bishop of Victorin and Mrs. appuy returned to the Colony on Saturday after having spent a short
mention in Japan.
· Pallowing a fall in the hold on board, the the Ring On, a coolie, aged 46 the years, was removed to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital suffering from the concussion.
Pun Kin, a merchant of 203, Queen'a
Road West, kas reported to the police that his registered mi-trai Pan Chin, aged 15, tole a sum of $116 and has absconded.
.
yielded to the threats of the Trade
Unionists. He has chosen better way by adjusting economy proposala tu meet viewpoints of the other parties, even though in the process he will have to sever his association with some of his former colleagues. We must all be happy to feel that; the prospect is now opened up of
Consequent on a letter of complaint written by Mr. Haslam, of the dealing with th. immediate crisis Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., And with such big problems as the tale officials Cook action during the future of India, nol on party lines, private car No. 1319, for causing an! and summoned the driver of Week. but by a union of the best that obstruction by parking his car on the| Labour, Conservatives and Liber number of bungalows at Repulse Bay.
narrow private road leading to
als can provide. Thas dawns a It was stated that only one ear could;
proceed along this private rond at any new era in British politics. May time, and the effect of leaving the car
it ecinduce to the prosperity and concerned in the present case was to completely block up the rond. Dofen- happiness of our people at Home dant was fined $5. and throughout the Empire, Jay- the foundations of a better order,
and in its reactions have a grent- Dy beneficial effect on the whole
world.
propr. to
ABSENT WITHOUT
PERMISSION.
SHIP'S WIRELESS OPERATOR FINED.
teave ittle
of silvery wire
let
golden shouls, and. luky winds. Hence Manila. Thin very peaceful Grand its popularity! Open ocean and Fleet, guarded by one grey loom- true
survivor of the real
scope for Grand the
cunning; the Solent Fleet, the Malays, is composed of course taxes it to the full. And racers and the watchera of racon, this is why Cowed Wook not only For the moment it in the watchors draws the aristocracy of the
um more Interested than the yachting world but ne many n ncera.
can possibly manage to be there Cowes Week draws those who of the race to whom a soul-wester follow fashion with forvent devo-la an much more worthy
The King's Yacht, Britannia.
wear
Labour The resignation of the
Naval "Mishaps." Government in order to make room for a National Administration re-
Modern warships are delicate |
The wireless operator of the prosentative of the best elements mechanisms,
developss, Kuelchow, Lo Ting-son, was of all the political parties is one of he foreseen in advance and ex-Hole, at the Marine Court this peculiarities that cannot always charged before the Hon. Comdr. tase most hopeful developments ever pensive to remedy once they absented himself without suflicient morning, with having unlawfully to be recorded in British history,pear. Naval authorities have dis This is sot the moment in which to covered that eight of the new 10-The case was instituted by the reason from the ship on August 1. estimate. The work of Mr. Ramsay 100-Lon cruisers which #re the master of the vessel. Capt. D. MacDonald and his colleagues dur-pride of the US. Navy Bave 4
Williams.
Thu accused admitted the ing the two years they have beentetency to roll in a heavy sea to
such an extent that their gun was in port it was not necessary
offence, saying that when the ship | in office. Nor is it the expension on ervas cannot perform properly for him to stay on troard. He which to apportfon blou for the Two cruisers--the Pensacola and could stay ashore, but had to make | crisis which met
all Northampton-- have already gone a report to the offler every marn- political ereeds will unite to dry-lock for alterations which ing
solte. We' sur
Comdr. Hofe arked him whether: weil
stabilise them he knew that he had to return totion to the rites of the allow are expreted to there paints to stand over in grati-
The other six will follow if the the ship when the typhoon signalThey may really love the sea or who think that brass buttons are Season. than a white-topped peaked cap. alterations prove effective. Mean- ifications at the prospect of the while, the Navy Department at
hoisted. Was
they may shudder at the mere only tolerable when they are turn- xisting nudle being cleared up. Washington is making enquiries knew he had to do so, but on that ly in big craft which will not stir been convinced that the only use The accused replied that he thought of it; since they are main- ing green, and who always have As we have had occasion to remark into the reason for the series of day he did not know the signal from their moorings all the while for flannel trousers lies in
the in the past. Coalition Governments || accidents which
have occurred had been hoisted.
the Victoria and Albert remains comparative case with which The Captain said the accused at hers, their real sentiments to may be tucked into gum-boots. are not greatly to the liking of the Japart from the rolling. Five of
was absent for three days, from warda the Great Green Mother the w cruisers have already August i to August 3. British poopla, who
convention and like their
ile re-matter little. teracked their
convention has *tern posts, the tive a salary of $100 a month politics clear-cnt and well-defined. others are expected to suffer simi- besides $2 per day for fund.
been born of the sport. Despite But emergencies cult for unusualarly if pushed all out. All eight
Comdr. Hole imposed a fine of a curiously unrevealing
The fact in that the Cowes Fleet its navigational disabilities, what
in this mor
more perfect environment for the measures, the more so when, as `at of these warships show excessive $20.
respect. I have in mind one res-superb flesting pictures which it present, all three political factions vibration at high rates of speed operator of the x. Kwangehow. about as remote from all sugges from the Nab to Hurst Castle?
Leung Shu-yun, the wireless plendent steam yacht which is frames than this little Inland sen Cat be described as
minority There is
complicated was similarly charged.
tion of sea sport as anything afloat
famous Parties. An appeal to the elector mechanism afloat than a modern The accused, in answer to the
One might but once seeing three
nu clipper ships pass the South Sand ate would probably result in a fur-cruiser and when one develop charge, said he was sick, and could possibly be,
of Head within an hour, a panorama turally infer that the owner "bugs"
motor-car manufacthough he had no doctor's certifi- auch a vessel has little
in com- to linger in memory through life. Vær stalemate. Therefore the only turers pui it, the departmental cute he could produce evidence, anon with the Hea sport,
The case was adjourned until truth is. he spends
The Yet I protest that I have never sensible procedure ім the chiefs are in for a good deal of Thursday, in order that medical time during The Week" on boarding in the same thrilling measure very little been conscious of the joy of salt- British designers evidence might be called.
that palatial ship, but is mainly as when watching a great race in have met with much greater suc cess them the American in 'cal. [culating all possible factors be-
formation of
14
111) more
The representative worry. National Government, a pooling of the best resources of Ahe nation.
It may now be appropriately forehand, and up to the present, Called that amidst the poiftical none of the famous County elnex tumults after King Edward's death.cruisers have failed to perform
the project of a National Govern- |up to expectations. It is, how- ment was earnestly discussed be. ever, doubted in certaín Raval hind the scenes. Mr. Lloyd George,circles whether in war 'conditions Mr. Church and Lord Birkenhead the same could be said. One ex- were all in favour of it, so was a engined sardine-tins, the con- pert describes them as powerfully-
very considerable section of the
plaint. being that all-round cfli- Press, which saw the steady ap elency has been sacrificed proach of eatastrophe in speed. It is the craze for speed Europe.
Mr. J. J AN
Gar. Which has led to loss of stability
to
via recently remarked, could in the American ships of the same
the idea have been renfisëd; "the" Great War itself might have been prevented, as well as all the dis- asters for which we are paying to
type....
WATER LEVELS.
`AND EAST RIVERS.
bay. But most of our statesten | DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH were too incredulous and blind; they went on with the common erles and scuttles. For the nation, the Empire and the world they would not join together-until the war came on them like a thunderbolt and forced them to a National Government, too late for its best North River at Samabul 10.2 128
purposes. The position to-day is in same senses comparable to that immediately before the Great War, save that it has been rendered worso by reason of the effects of that great upheaval and also by the fact
The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- mission, shows in English feet the water levels on the West River, North River and East River on the dates named:
Aug. Aug. 29 24 West River at Shishing 26.8 24.1
North River at Teingyuon 17.7 16.4 East River at Sheklang 1.7 10.0
The highest levels recorded. are: Shlubing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, 29.2 feet; Samahul, 27.8 feet; Sheklung, 11.8 Lents
The lowest levels on record ers minus fest at Samshul and minus 2,7 feet at Sheklung,
#
"We must be brave, dear. They're going to operate.
hich they
Cowes is both 44
and a sport,
the Solent,
the
The delight at seeing that one wily skipper is doing exactly what you had hoped ho would do, or that another is doing something
leverer than anything you
had thought of!
#olsca to the
cyc
of the symmetry of those alantwise curves, sweeping over the spitting ridges and trailing their knots behind them in broad aluicings of snow; the tingling of the pulse to the sudden gulch which smites the whole banch and looks like flattening them upon the olive pother ere the tremor of weather teaches tells of the know- ing grip upon the helm which even then may not avert the
fash- Ing away of a splintered 'topmast. with its "wildly "thrashing sail; or the vanishing of a bowsprit as it is torn from its gammon and trails, towing three fost above the buried lee-rall
*
*
These are the things,men exul- tantly face, if they do not really welcome thom, in crossing the line when the sulky bang of the start- ing-gun is clipped by the wind.
face
you get a sense
round the const. but with their spirit In the Solent
them nek
of closer intimacy
than
anywhere
else I can call to mind. And to the old hand of long
memories, when the' surging clus- tor has flad past and the water tumbles bare, what a grand pro cession
does
reminiscenca conjure
in spectral array, disobeys
I can re-create in vision the great yachts of the spacious Nine: ties, beginning with superb (Continued on Page 7.)