HOW BRITAIN GETS A BREAKFAST HERRING
By COMMANDER H. M. DANIEL, R.N.
TN the bleak island of Shetland, its proportionate contribution to In the ballon of
forest of masts and funnels lien by the water front waving and
its
The little band of adventurera Jostling in the harbour awell. It looks to the voyage to supply most and is the herring fçet assembled in necessities for themselves
winter, the sheltered port of Lerwick from famltics for the ensuing all parts of the British coast, but when boats must be laid up and mainly Scottish, for the summer work on the land resumed. For, although herrings are plentiful In Ashing.
these waters in the winter months, But surely these boats number markets are poor and in such less than in former years? This stormy regions there is extra heavy vory question is proving an urgent risk of losing costly gear. problem for the British Govern.
ment. How can the legislators:
help to restore lost foreign markets
THE HUNT ・・
Stand on the ha behind the
of the herring Industry Already clustered chimney tops of Lerwick, the House of Commons has agreed
of how
Beyand its narrow streets and to aid the fishermen with grant slated roofs see the fleet dancing and loans, but the major problem out to sea in the afternoon sun-
to find, new markets or
Each skipper boasts of shine. regain old ones remains. Among having his own iden about the best suggestions put forward is a nation-wide "Ent mere herrings" fishing grounds, but on comparison is strange how little they differ. campaign. In other quarters it in Some will seek the bigger herrings felt that only a radical reconstruc-alf the west coast, but the majority tlon of the whole Industry can ap-will steam enatward in search off preciably improve the situation,
In the meantime among the numbers, shooting their nets in! company with hundreds of other fishermen fresh hope finds expresents on the banks whore herrings ston in fresh paint at the beginning
are thought to of the voyage in pursuit of possibly in their millions
collected from the have the most mysterious and balling depths at spawning time, of all fish-the herring.
ocenu
Behind you the women pause if Shetlanders have been born to the men, with their crafts shore their task of rooing the sheep to as a second string to their bow, Apot their man's boat by the colour Few other seaman have contrived of her funnel, and wish her a good with such success to marry their eatch to reward the night's Buhing. 1 the gray cotinges, dotted over calling with any other pursuit. the bleak hills, older women, When cach herring scason sting of sons and grandsons in begins, the croft is abandoned to the fleet, work at the wool their the women and the men take to daughters have brought in--teas the boats without thought of re- turning until Christmas or later, ing, cleaning, spinning, knitting after the east coast fishing on the and twining into the lace which for banks off, Lowestoft and Great softness and fineness admits
rival. Indeed some of the threads Yarmouth.
the that these old women twist and The Scottish fleet, unlike
weave without the aid of spectacles English, which is only half its age,
than spider's has for the most part clung tenas em ne coarser
web and the pattern of their cinusly to the old traditions private ownership, and few batal Kommer just na falrylike. belong to big trusts or limited lability companks. Each Scoliish crew is a band of adventurers, Reneration mostly scorns such deli- every man with a personal stake te
alc
no
True, even here, the machine and the rising has intervened;
embroidery demanding * much time and patlence merely for
In the expenses and a proportion-the sake of craftmanship, and
share in the, and profits.j Nels and boats are mostly owned favours something purporting to an guod turned out by by the fabermen and commercially be just each boat is a separate unit stand machinery in a hundredth of tho ing her own losses and enjoying time. But the older folk still gat her gains without any paoling their gait, sending their wares toj: system to reduce profits or mitigate London and the other capitals of to the effects of misfortune.
BROTHERHOOD
own sake.
THEB HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1934.
NEA
This pictura gives a moist idus of the show put on by the weather man in Southern California the other day. Rainfall, in some places totalling more than four inches, inundated homes and automobiles and left hundreds temporarily homeless. "Near, Long Beach kids paddled through once-teeming
thoroughfares là homemade boats.
NEA
Echoes of the fatal fuallads that killed King Alexander of Yugo-Sikvin had hardly died away bo- fore an honour guard was posted beside his body. This radio picture, flown by plane to London and transmitted to New York, shows the dead king lying in state at the prefecture of polles in Marseilles,
dressed in the uniform in which he was slain.
start the rice for port, where' the world for sale to those who the market will decide the com- love beautiful handicraft for its mercial value of the night's labour. Things are not always what they A hold full of good fresh fish does not always mean gomd Through the gray twilit night earnings, or indeed a prien at all. by the closest bonds of brotherhood
and scarcity have con- which knows no stint in the face the drifter fleet bois and tosses Gluts
com-
Notwithstanding keenest marcial rivalry, the feat is united
THE NET
scent.
fleet works in its way southward.)
FRANCO- TURKISH ACCORD?
FRIENDLY VISITS SIGNIFICANT
HAS GERMANY LOST A FRIEND?
Istanbul. Nov. 12.
at the recent Conference of the Interparliamentary Union, when the French delegates were objects of particular attention, and when the Turkish delegates invariably yoled for all proposals emanating from their French colleagues.
As for many reasons and, in particular, owing to her goographic situation the maintaining of most close co-operation with the Soviets forms the pivot of Turkey's foreign policy, the new Franco-Russian "niente Cordiale" is a powerful factor tending in the same direc Lian
Turkey is expected to form an Important link in the re-alignment
of danger or necesalty. Labour with twinkling lights, dancing to sequences here in these unsophis- and capital in the herring fleet the rhythm of the swell. Ahead of ticated islands no less crazy than And one indispensable to the other each bout a long line of floats, elsewhere; and from time to time ploughing and long tradition has accorded resembling coloured footballs, such drifters may be seen each its rightful place which none as children love to play with on their way seaward-net to fish- the sands. rise and fall to the roll- but to dump overboard the alch disputes.
Mangus Anderson, for instance,ing waves: beneath them hangs a they cannot sell, while only a few giant "Lennis" net, 30 feet in depth miles away in England thousanda" bas a one-eighth share in the boat and two miles long, waiting for a of unemployed are short of food, and owns one-quarter of the nets, shoud of herring which may well As the summer months go by the which entails the obligation to
The visit of the two French of European forces which is now in keep them in repair. When the comprise of 10,000,000 fish.
With early dawn comes the still in pursuit of the herring. On super-destroyers "Guepard" and Process although, so far, she con- "share-out" takes place, one-third
of the grunting grumble
steam shore fallows the army of 2,000 or "Cassard to Istanbul, while a tinues to defend largely on her of the proceeds goes to the boat winches heaving in, and oil-3,000 herring girls from the French air squadron of six military Trade with Germany, this country owners, one-third to the owner of skinned backs are to be seen in Hebrides and Scottish Highlands. planes. is expected to pay a visit, being her best customer in Europe. the nets as the reward to capital, each bost, bending over the nets These also are hardy adventurers in a near future, is being consider-1, By means of a liberal credit while the other third is assigned which deft and hardy fingers pull not knowing when it begins what ed as a further demonstration of trying to invnds Germany's domain policy the French are, however, to Inbour and divided among the inboard, shaking
flicking the season will bring forth from the Franco-Turkish rapprochement of economic preponderance as wages. Mangus, there-
es, there scores of silvery fish into the holdbare sufficiency to plenty white which begau in the earlier part of 'Turkey: vs. capital, but looks to each ford with the fast, the skipperjever the earnings they are surely this year.
The competition of the two coun- Simultaneously Turkey's attitude tries in the Turkish market is toward Germany, as reflected by naturally welcomed by the Turks the press. is visibly becoming cooler as it bound to secure to them, at and more critical.
least for a certain period. quite Frane's recovery of her former substantial material advantages- mestige in Turkey was also evident United Press.
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