THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936.
FAMOUS BLUE RIBAND CAPTAIN IN
HONGKONG
Bremen Commander Who Inspected The Queen Mary
"SURE TO BEAT FRANCE'S
NORMANDIE”
1,000,000 DEAD IN
CHINA FAMINE
DYING AT THE RATE
A
OF 1,000 A DAY
Shanghai, May 4.
Nofficial report from Lanchow, capital of the province,
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of Kansu, states that nearly 1,000,000 people have already perished from famine and plague which broke out McEachern (Bass). in the western districts of the region.
CAPT. Willem Dachne, one of the world's foremost aen captains who, as commander of the Bremen, won the Blue Riband of the Atlantic for Germany, told the Telegraph this week that he was sure Britain's new super-liner, the Queen Mary, would take the among the affected areas, and according to medical
The district of Kanliong, Yumen, Ansi and Minlu are Blue Riband from the French Normandie.
the people in these districts are dying at the rate of 1,000
reports
Capt. Drehne is in command of the Norddeutscher Lloyd daily. express liner Potsdam, which arrived at Hongkong on Sunday, for one "recreation voyage" to and from the Far East. He is
The medical afficers of Szechuan and Shensi are taking ur- resuming command of the ship that is the pride of Germany's gent measures to prevent the plague spreading to other provinces. merchant fleet on the return of the Potsdam to Europe,
The Poisdant la already broken' the Europe-Singapore- Hongkong-Japan and Japan-Hongkong records this trip and Capt. | Dachne now hopes to obtain the Hongkong-Singapore-Europe: ribands.
"The Queen Mary is a wonderful ship," he said, "and I can say that with first-hand knowledge. The Bremen was at Southampton when the Queen Mary arrived from the Clyde.
"I had a good lok at this great
ship, and Capt. Sir Edgar
Britten and myself exchange
compliments-the captain of a former Blue Ribander called on the captain of a future Blue Ribander.
"All German and British merean- tile marine officers are on extremely good forms, you know,”
Capt. Dache said that he did not kayow whether the Queen Mary would be a business succeña, He did not think that proit-making was upper-most in the minds of the British when they built her,
"The building of the Queen Mary : was a question of prestige." he said. "Britain, with the reputation of be- ing the Waddingt senfaring nation and of having the greatest merchant marine in the world, was running old ships on the Atlantic. The Handpie, Mauretania, Majestic, : Aquitania. Roronyark-alt いざい past their prinet and Deitain had to have a new super-ship.
"The Queen Mary should keep for Britain her prend place on the
Capt. Duehne went to sen at the age of H-which he says was 401 yeara nga.
His career in the German navy during the war was distinguishuil. and after the war ha went back to! "the" mercatid"marine“The "com"] mand of the Bremen was the great-) est honour that Germany could con- i fer on a merchant captain.
Capt. Duehne said that he had made this trip in the Patsulam be cause he had been very anxious to pay another visit to the Far East. He had spent some time in the Far East as a young
ofBeer in the steamer Goeben, which in pre-war days traded between Germany, Hongkong, Ching and Japan.
Compared with the North Atlan the, where the winters were long and rigorous, it was like a holiday tour to come on the ran to the Far Enst
Queen Mary And: Blue Riband
Loudon, May 6. On May 22 the liner Queen Mary will leave Southampton her first voyage, to New Tork.
It is believed in Southamp ton. that the Queen Mary will have a difficulty in gaining the Blue Riband up her first crossing of the Atlantic.
25 YEARS AGO-AND TO-DAY
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. de Souza as they are to-day. Ming Yurn, photo,
HONGKONG “DESERTER'S". 16 YEARS OF HARDSHIP
A MAN nearly 6ft in height, with a military bearing, walked into the charge office at Reading Borough. Police Station one night in April, and with a slight American accent, said to the sergeant in charge: "I Private John Baker Clees, and I deserted from the 2nd Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment at Hongkong in 1920. I now wish to give myself up."
ain
Crees was worn out. He had reached Southampton two days
Capt. Arndt, who previously com- manded the Potsetan, has retired. The aimer photograph was taken 25 years ago on the occasion of the wet. previously, and had tramped all
He will come to the Far East again
in the Potsdam during the next few) months but he will conie as a pas-
senger.
ding of Mr. and Mrs. A. M. de Souza.
I NEVER
HAW TRE MAN THAT COULDN'T TEACHI
ME
SOMETHING 0. W. Holmes.
for Curry, Peninsular. from Christ-1 church, New Zealand.
the way to Reading. ·
The Commanding Officer decided For stealing a brass name plate be|
not to claim Crees as a deserter. longing to Messrs. Butler Bros. of Summoned before Mr. E. Hims. He Issuci a protection certificate Fedder Building Wong Wa-foon, 20, worth at the Kowloon Magistracy this and ise man was freed. was sentenced to three months by Me morning, K. C. Yes, 217 Princo Ed
LIVED AS A "HOBO"
Capt. Dachne said that the big Magistracy, this
S. P. Balfour at the Central ward Road, was fined $17 for allowing The police paid 'Crees's fare to
7 p.m. Four Songs by Malcolm
In Praise of Ale (Sharpe); Gentlemen, Good-Night (Long- stoffe); 31 T's a Roamer (Mendels
Chu Chin Chow ("The Cobbler's Sout") (Norton).
sold
7.13 p.m. "Concerto No.1 in E Flat Major (Liszt) played by Mischin Levitzki (Piano) and the London Symphony Orchestra,
7.30 p.m.
The New Mayfair Orchestru.
Hieland Baddie (Carruther); Vene- tian Nights: Milestones of Melody,
7.47 p.m. Harry Torrani
(Yodler).
1. Dan, Ban the Yodelling Man
Sitting in a Jail House; d. „Yodel Day: 4. Yodeller's Dream Girl.. Time Signal, Wenther Re- port, Stock Quotations and Announce- ments.
8.05 p.m. Chinese Studia Concert. 11 p.m. Close Down. 6.05-10
p.nt. European Pro- gramme from ZEK. on a fre- quency of 640 kilocycles.
8.0 p.ns. Excerpts from Musical Comedy
Selection-Seeing Stars: Vocul vet-Scene from "To-night at Ba
Gertrude Lawrence and Norl Coward: Song--The Shepherd's Sour ("Helen") (Offenbach)....Heddle Nush
Selection--Please Tencher.
(Tenor):
8.30 Pam Four Songs by Richard Tucher (Tenor).
1. Loveliest of Women (Lebar); 2. My every thought, my one desire (Lebar); 3. Indiny Love Call--"Rose Murio
O Rose Marie ose Marie" (Friml).
S. p.m. Concert Waltzes, Rosenkavalier Waltzes (R. Strma); The Druid's Prayer flavsna); Dream. ing (uger).
p.at. A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin and Announcements
Copyright by Reuter).
9.20 p.m.
Music.
Variety and Dance
Fox-Trot-M the Codfish Ball ("Captain January"). Early Bird ("Captain Jumary"); Vocal--Hendin Tone....The Jill Bilies; Fax-Trot- Swing; Song-A Little Daha Tablin Anna Fes-Trus-Errearle When the Guardsman started eroan-
Stop:
for
of
Ten.
ing on Parade; Sung--I'm sittin' high rats-What Harlent is to me, Lovely on Hilltop.
Radio-Three: Fox Trat Say the Liza Lee: Vecal--Stardust... Thi: the Leaves bid the trees goodbye. Word and it's yours; Waltz-When
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4,50 p.m. Call DOB, DIN, DJQ (Germany English). German Folk Song. 4.73 pm. Greetings to our lateners.
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A.M. Newn, and Review in Germant
Contert of Light Music,
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EAST ASIA ZONE
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10.16 p.m. Today in Germany. 19.30 .. Rendezvous North, Hauth. Eani,
Werl
11.45 p.m. Susiral Tribes.
12 a.m. Hign of DJA, DIE, DIN, BJB
(Germ. Engl.)
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He was detained at the station DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF The two outstanding events in
while the police communicated with Capt. Daehne's career as comman
the Commanding Officer of his regi-1561 metre (15,294 kc.) 1.80-3 p.m. Convert, Two cases of Diphtheria were rement at Talavera Barracks, Alder-news at 22.11. der of the Bremen have been the
ported to the local Health Authorities shot. The officer sent from Alder- 9.05 p.m. eapture of the Blue Riband from
on Tuesday. the Mauretania and the incident at
shot to identify him, recognised New York last year, when the No. 2 at Shing Mun, an apprentice the
While working on a steam engine *Unclaimed telegrams are lying at.
Crees as having been with the Bremen's Bag was hauled down by stoker, Ne Chat, injured himself and Company's office for Don Spagnoli before. He identified him by tattoo
Eastern Extension Telegraph battalion at Hongkong 16 years) Communist mob.
was removed to hospital for treat-American Express, from Manila; and marks and bayonet scars, He said that the New York in- mest. eident had been forgotten. "It was just a New York incident, and nothing more," the Captain added. "It happened at a time when ten sion was high.” ships on the North Atlantic run horsey, this morning. Defendant a blue and white terrier bitch out Landen, where he is hoping to get were just about paying their way.
conviction for larceny, un Printer Edward Road without a Devaluation of other currencies
muzzle at 5.45 nm. on April 20. De in touch with his brother. His Pun Crung, 39, unemployed, was
Tendant said he had only recently re home is at Paternoster Farm. made it more difficult for German charged before Bir. W. Schofield atceived the dog from the Dogs Home. Danbury, near Chelmsford, Essex. ships to run at a profit, because the Central Magistracy this morning
Crees served with the Cameron Germany was still on the gold with possession of 619 counterfeit A very successful whist, drive was Highlanders, during the war and
Hongkong five-cent pieces at standard. -
the held at the Kowloon Cricket Club Inst) was discharged as a colour-sergeant Ping On wharf. On the application night when a very large gathering with a disïblement pensium, 1 The popularity of German lines of Detective Sergeant J. Riddell, the assembled under the direction of had increased by 27 per cent. re-defendant was remanded for 48 hours Messrs. C. J. Tucehl, T. Care and J. cently. The Olympic Games in for further enquiries.
In 1919 he joined the 2nd 34©! Berlin had a lot to do with that, be-
S. Smith, The evening was voted one Battalion of the Wilshire Begi of the most enjoyable this season and ment, and went with them to cause Americans Ilked to travel to Arrested by an Indian constable it is hoped to make this form of enter Germany aboard a German ship. for impersonating a Police Officer in tainment a regular fenture of
Hongkong in October. On`at- Capt. Dachne would express no Queen's Road Central yesterday, Yau Club's social progranime.
rival he was found to be medical. opinion of the vibration trouble in Ching-po, 3, was sentenced to pne
ly unfit, and while waiting " to the Normandle.
months imprisonment
Li Cheuk-king, aged 18, unemploy
return home he joined an Discussing the possibility
Magistracyed, and Yip Sau-kum, aged 50, widow, Balfour at the Center, S. F.
American ship, working his pas- vibration in the Queen Mary, he GI said complainant was
of this morning. Detective Sergeant appeared before Mr. Macfadyen n
sage to America us à Breman. walk the Kowloon Magistracy this morning i said that it was difficult to hide such ing along the road when she was on charges of (n) possession of a slill
There he led the life of a “habe,”. mighty horse-power
doing snow shovelling and any 200,000, accosted by defendant who told her and other utensils suitable for ilis. which he believed wna what the that he auspected her to be a carrierling spirits at No. 10 Fuk Wing
ensil work he could get, engines of the Queen Mary would
heroln pille. An
Street, third floor, on May 6, (b) While in Amerien, he applied for argumentsion of fermenting materials, his prasion and was told that he give.
ensued, it being alleged that come) making spirits without a licence would have to return to England to Qw However, precautions had been police officer. The attention of an of wine on which duty had not been answer the charge of desertion.
plainant represented himself to be a
and (d) possession of several gallons bulldors, and he did not think there and bath parties were taken to the asked for a remand of 24 hours, faldered. He was sent home in the would be any trouble.
pension could be con- Police Station.
which was granted,
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