THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, JULY 27, 1936.
FULL STORY
OF THE GIRL
PAT
Voyage Across Atlantic and Dramatic Capture off Georgetown
CAPT. ORSBORNE
MAY BE TAKEN
TO ENGLAND
(By A Special Correspondent)
OR the second week in succession the rimaway Grimsby. fishing-bont. Girl Pat, provided the sensational news of the day for London newspapers,
Firstly, the story of her dramatic capture off Georgetown,. "British Guiana, monopolised the headlines. This was followed with
the announcement that:
Captain George Black Orsborne and Jim Orsborne, his brother, had been arrestert on a provisional warrant under the Pugitive Offenders' Act, charging them with the alleged larceny of the Girl Pat.
Formally remailed by the resident nugistrate, they are held in custody pending further instructions from London, and in all probability will be brought back to England,
Only a few hours before this spectácular development, a special correspondent in Georgetown serured a tiramatle and exclusive inters view with Georgie Orsborne, who, with the remainder of the crew, contemplated leaving Georgetown for New York by aeroplane to- day, and then going on in Hollywood to make a film of the Girl Pat's adventures.
ATLAS FOR CHART AND MATCH-
STICK FOR SEXTANT
Georgetown, July 15.
By a stroke of great good for
tune, and after nine days of CREW OF THE GIRL:
Ristent importuning, enjolery,
and argument, } was lucky
enough to get a full-length inter- view with Capt. George Binck Desborne only a few hours læs fore he and his brother Jim
were marched off to the polire- station, and, under a section of the Fugitive Offenders Act. charged with the alleged larceny of the Girl Pat.
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Although bail refused them. Aral 4-night both men are tody pending cabled orders from Londen, It is open to the Guvernur: of British Guiana to infereed with The resident magistrate.
f happen to know, however, that the authorities and definite infor- i mation that the four members of ! the crew intended to leave Briti Gulana to-morrow,
As a matter of fact, they had made settled arrangements la travel by an American air mail machine to New
PAT
Thaina mlasted the Gel Pat selona afer meined at fiempes
Zen see,
George Black Orslurne, 3!!,, vaptain;
Orsbarne, #1, his brother, seamA;
John Hector Harris, 31, seman; aml
Howard
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Stephen, book, all of Grimsby.
"Half ncross the work in a 19. ton beat, with a 6d. atlan as my only chart and a match-stick for any sexlant .. visiting strange Inads uninhabited islands
prrilous reefs
... mysterious
And then he went on, not bousting. Ty, but with unexpected simplicity:
"Life is adventure, nul mine is not yet nished. There are glari ets thrills ahend in five contin Pulk."
BACK FROM HONGKONG
As In his motion pictaire rules. It is still a "no-talkie" polley for Charlie Chaplin when it comes to a question of whether or not hy and Pretty teddard are married. Chaplin and Miss Goddard returned to San Francisen aboard the President Coolidge following a vacation Jmunt to tre Orient. They were accompunted by the
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Skipper Orshorne contrived the mechanical adjustments he wanted, got a complete store of provisions Commentaries by Captain 11. B. T. credit, and ran out to sea again Wakelum and Colonel R. 11. Brand just as the mystery of the dirt tat-the-Davis-Cap-Challenge-Round was becoming the outstanding news of the day.
York, and thence to Los Angeles Thiety-two years old, with muscles gargantuan meal of five eggs each, All the world knows how where one of the powerful Bollywood of steel, and piercing eyes shining with piles of bread and butter, fol- studios contemplated a spectacular out of a keen, weather-besten free, lowo up with fish, meat, and stacks film of the Girl Pat's voyage, with George Orshorne belongs her crew for the rentral Phurmeters,traditional sea-dog type--the type
the of vegetables.
Always the homorist, Hector Har
called rix
"Now, let's ont, George Orsborne himself told me that proveed Bligh of the Bounty.
He feurs neither man nor nature, these!"-holding up three bundles of that he preferred Hollywood to Entree, becauer Hollwood has and his courage and self-confidened touthpicks.
Then, with a smile that had a touch mark him out na a pateral_leader. more topival enfour and atmes- phere."
His crew, devotedly loyal, walked of tenderness, the sea captain started up busside him as he spoke-first, his to talk about his home. Before coming to the interview | own brother, good-looking Jim "My wife and children come first with the Girl Pat's skipper let me Orstorm, Hector Harris, a dour with me." he said. tell for the first time at episode that North-countrymun with a sense of
"I've four boys and four girls-the happened exactly a week before the humour, and 17-year-old "Ginger" nicest on the face of the earth,” capture of the litle fishing boat, || Stephen, who saités all the time, but
On June 18 the Girl Pat found hers
says nothing. walf off the Corentyne enust, about 185 miles from the capital city of dieorge
town.
HEAVEN-SENT GROCER'S SHOP
With the unerring skill of a antive, navigator Orsborne took her through the shonls and sandbanks close in- shore,
There her small boat was lowered; aver the side, and rowed through a notorious shark-infested NTR to Fandi,
i
The boat was beached and cunning-
TRICKED BY Autograph
George Orsborne proudly held up the matchstick which had been his sextant on the epie voyage across the Allantle, and showed how was used for mautical areasuremente,
He would not part with it now for a kingilon's gold.
He recited their names-Durothy, Jimmy, Florence, Marguerite, George, į Alec. Bessy, and little Bobby,
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South, and still further south, they sailed.
Then came the first serious misfor tune. Harry Stone, the mate, fell grievously ill.
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ZEESEN PROGRAMMES Special Programinen FILT For Eastern "My wife." he continued, "is the George Orsborne did some hard¦ Heteners will be broadenit Trumi Zveseli da
Son: grandest family woman-a stay-al; | thinking again. He assembled TIM home who never grumbles. She
men and tall, them a plan. trusts me, and she's the only perean
in the world who rently understands i
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They were to go quietly into Dakar, the French port on the West Coast of
"I is an outrageous le to say that Africa, profess that the sick mate was she is on the dole. The master of a | their first concern, and while arrange vessel cannot he insured against un-ments for his admission to hospital "I gave British Guiana polter employment, for one thing.
were bebtg emmpleted, persunde loeul officer an autographed page of my "And my dencest ambition," he firms to let them havé more stores -Expenny atlas as a souvenir," he concluded, is to give my children a and tune up the Diesel engine. said bitterly. " I understand break. That it's now filed with the police
"I won't allow them to stay in rreards, so I've stopped all auto-Grimsby for their education. There graphs.
better chances to get on vise-
4 course!
are
Although Dakar, in common with! olher ports, was now ringing with the Girl Pat's escapade, the luck held for George Orsborne. Every- thing passed at according
schedule. ON THE UNEXPECTED COURSE
Here it may be appropriate to tell
for the hulinballen the escapade of George Orsborne hud not bargained
the Girl Pat had raised in England, or realised how badly the ship and her crew were wanted here.
ly hidden in the dense undergrowth I've done just one, though, for #where."
long the banks.
little girl in a British Guiana con- Her crew, who, hnd stripped them- vent. selves for the ticklish job, hurriedly "Without charts or instruments," deed, reconnoitred, ani Then he continued, "I've wat
Stone went quietly to hospita, walked boldly down a rough wagon through uncharted seas and arrived the foll, unvarnished story of the provisions were put on board the Girl read to a village.
within 20 miles of my objective after pcean adventures of the Gift Pat as 1 Pat, her engine was adjusted, and In this village they discovered, toj a thousand-mile run in a 19-ton motor have been able to assemble it from a once more she put to sen their joy, a West Indian grocer's trawler,
variety of reliable sources. shop, and persuaded the grocer fol "! Get the Queen Mury couldn't Not a little gathered in those NO TURNING BACK accommodate them with sufficient do better.
cabaret resoria and dayce hulla f supplies to replenish the exhausted | Ave suvigated unsailed channels | favoured by seamen sailing in and out larder of the Girl Pat.
through reefs of uninhabited islands of Georgetown. Within a few minutes they were in the tropics; we've collected un The crew, I have ny doubt, back in the bush, and the village negotiable currency in, cains, notes, home-tly believed when they left remained ignorant of the fact that and token money in strange countries Grimsby that they were bound for the four most discussed men in the among mysterious seets; and we're a fishing trip Scottish waters. world at that mipment had been going back to tell the worki.
They, at any rate, knew nothing Among them.
"Buck long? We don't care if then of the plans secretly made by The rowing boat was hauled out of we don't see England for years. George Black Orsbarne, and perhaps its hiding-place, and back went the "Somebody, has already sneaked | shared with brother Jim. qunrtette to the Girl Pat with suflnd told you that we hope to leave Instead of a northerly course they cient food to keep them going on an- British Guiann any hour now for New | found the Girl Pat's bows shaping other long stretch of ocean.
York to fuif! film contrets, and wei south, and next day unexpectedly put may return Inter and sail away in into Dover, the, Girl Pat. Our plans are quite unsellied.
A course was set northward, and finally the Girl Pat gate to George- Lown and the end of her yoyage.
Capt. Orsborne, in support of the truth of this story, assured me that if I cared to go down to the quay andį look for myself, I should ind
011
"Whatever, bappens will be ex- eiling I've and adventures all my life, and I mean to have more."
board the Girl Pat some of the stores: "CISSIES" OF THE FILMS
they purchased in the bush village.
This probably is correct, because
Oraborne,
In the circumstances there could be no turning back, Secretly every man was glad, and more than glad."
They were thrilled at the pros pect of a dush across the South;
Derin American
Skipper! Orsborne mughly sketched it for them.
"Two thousand miles, boys," he said, "and the America for us."
He kept his word to the lester, but it was touch and go with all of them until they marle the village in the bush and found the old indian and his grocer's shop.
The motive was not apparent at the time, but became transparent when they sailed away next morning./
The engineer had been left high and dry nshore. He did not belong to Grimsby, and was the only muñ not personally engaged by George un longer. She was re-christened the The Girl Pat then was the Girl Pat While he was speaking the crew Not that the engineer's absence Kin Ora immediately they cleared the police informed me some days were fixing up a cinema party.
reduced their numerical strength, Dakar to disarm the suspicions of ngo that when they were chasing "All right, lads," called the skipper. the fugitive to final capture, they and they tumed to me, and spat out: because,, had not Jim Orsborne been other ships as the South Atlantic
smuggled aboard and hidden before crossing was made, "Talkies bore me. They're all-they left the Grinsby berth? fakery. I size up the mock lights of The days passed, and still George
half-stripped heroes, and I see Osborne kept his plans to himself. that they can't do what they're Right down to Spain went the Girl shown.
Pat, and then her engine temporarily "They're Just elsales-always with
gave up the ghost, B square meal in
their Alomach,
don't believe in pictures of herors dying in waterless deserts, because I've been without food and water on land and sea. “
distinctly saw, every member of the crew heaving big packages aver board intu deep water.
THE SKIPPER SPEAKS
Now for the interview with the|· "Silent Skipper” himself."
It is strangely loquacious for a man who, the world had been informed time and again, "simply would not talk."
With shining eyes and literally' exuding excitement, he told of the perils that are the breath of life to him. This is how he begant--
the
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RE.STOCKING THE LARDEK
Orshorne welcomed the drenk. He stood badly in need of provisions, and saw an opportunity to re-stock the sture-room if he sailed into port for
"I know life in the raw," Capt. Orsbome is certainly not engine repairs, foodies now..
That is how the Girl Pat came to
"He and his crew were clearing off a make Corcubion.
Halfway over, with stores' running short, an attempt was made to get emergency supplies from !! big American ship, but the capinin asked.
Kin Ora" sheered off. too many intimate questions, and thei
No further attempt was made to get supplies at sea. Captain and crew deemed it prudent to subsist on. short rutions until they made the South American const rather than lay themselves open to possible arrest in
mid-ocean,
The pursuit and eventual capture of the Girl Pat outside Georgetown "Harbour, are now naritime ̈ hintory."--
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