THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. · SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1936.
NEW WATERFRONT WAR BREWING IN COLONY
China Coast Officers' 1920 AWARD IN MELTING POT
SHIPOWNERS GO BACK ON AGREEMENT
"Telegraph" Special Representative
NEW war is brewing on the Hongkong water- front.
May Appeal To Government
Guild
WON RADIO CONTEST
Let's Settle
The movement by the China Coast Officers' Guild and the Marine Engineers Guild to improve the conditions of officers and engineers in Hongkong vessels has, it is stated, received a setback through the activity of the owners of five vessels in repudiating agreements to pay arbitration wages,
It will be recalled that du ring Christmas and New Year 1934-35, river shipping in Hongkong
Those Bets
About
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The Taipan Of All The Typhoons
..
" thought the world was coming
RADIO BROADCAST
Selections by The Waikiki Trio
DANCE MUSIC
From Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (045 kilocycles):
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. A Light Concert. Pinnoforte Solos--Waltz in A fint Major (Brahms); Danza Espanola (de Falla)....Isolde Menges; Songs- Think on me (arr. Moffat); When Song in Sweet (Sans-Souc!)....Nor- mun Allin (Bass); Instrumental- "I was never so disappointed in Phantom Minuet (Hope); Souvenir all my fe. Why, I've been in forr. Willoughby)
The 1, II. worse blows than that in England.“ | Squire
Celeste
Oclet; Songs Granada (Albeniz): Cadiz (Albeniz) ...Conchita Velozquez (Mezzo- Soprano).
to an end,
YOU'VE heard them, on
the ferries, the Peak 7.30 p.m. Webster Booth and the buses. (Tenor). Jessie Matthews (So-
prano).
Mr. Charles Sylva, whose entry in trams the "Telegraple" Radlo Vote succeed-Typhoon" has been the one was almost completely ed in winning the Phileo receiver, tied-up as the result of a dispute between the Guilds and ship. donated by Messrs. Philco Radio topic of discussion through-rive us this night").... Webster
out the week.
owners.
Majority of the ship-owners finally agreed to sign agree ments observing the terms of the 1920 Arbitration Award.
The two arbitrators in the dispute between the Guilds and
Distributors.
"Sob Sister"
local ship-owners, Messra. J. Owen Hughes and N. L. Watson, Who Covered
awarded the following scale of wages:
חאי
Ch. Ofer
Tonnage
Mast
Ch Engr. 2nd Engr.
Up to 250
$305
300
251-500
330
310
501-750
365
330
290
405
355
300
455
305
310
505
110
320
570
500
330
751-1.000
1,001-1,500
1,501-2,000
Over 2,000
Majority of ship-owners agreed to-pay this scale of wages following last year's dispute, and for some time relations on the
waterfront were normal.
Ethiopian War
1. My Love and I ("Give us this Sweet Melody of Night Little Silltworm
Booth: 2. The
"I can't believe the wind 3.
("First a Girl")...Jessie Matthews; Pale Moon (Logan); The World reached 131 miles
Is minė to-night (Postord)...Webster per Looth: 4. I can wiggle my care hour," says one. "It's an (First a Girl'). Jessie Matthews.
7.50 p.m. "What's Next?"-Pot- pourri.
impossibility." other
"Nothing to it," rejoins the "The wind in the 1908 and 1923 typhoons was much
What are the facts? Let's list them, and settle once and
PASSES THROUGH H.K.higher." AS S you've probably observed
pictures of "sob sisters", news- hawks in the United States have got to hustle some to look after
8 p.m. Time, Weather ond 1107- nouncements.
8.03 p.m. A Variety Programme. Piano Solos-Charlie Kunz Medley No. 8; Vacal-The Trail of the Lone- some Pine The H Balles: Organ Solo-Parade of Parades....Quen- in M. MacLean: Humorous Sandy's own Broadcasting
Browne; Instru- Sky: Last. mental-Samoan Love Song....Andy Ion and his Islanders; Songs-It's thrill all over again; I found a bit of Parls in the
in the heart of old New
from innumerable motion for all the arguments that have Powell: Songs on....
their laurels.
Which, in the parlance of a British contemporary, incans that journalists
of the sterner sex don't have it all their own
"Feminine wites will often get the
gone on and the bes that have been made, since Sunday.
It wasn't the greatest wind velocity recorded in Hongkong. But it was only five miles per
And, believe it or not, the re- cord of 136 m.p.h. wasn't nt.
"sam
frond
the
Lucienne Boyer; Orches eve
got Rhythm...
Mario "Ilary" Lorcizzi
die lebe der Matrosen.....The Melody Gents: Band-On with the Show Selection ....Primo Scaln'e
Lately, however, same shipowners are said to have jettisoned "scoops when it comes to scoring hour below the Colony's record. and his Rhythmics; Vocal-Das ist Engineers on river boals are receiving salaries' ranging down to story that has remained hidden bestained in the 1906 or 1923 Accordeon Band.
the award. It is stated that, in some instance, Masters and Chief
$150 per month!
Last week the China Coast
Officers and Marine Engineers"
fore the blandishments of mere males,
All of which leads up to Miss Paula Le Cler, an Amerlean "sob sister" who has just returned from
que despatched communica- GENERAL COHEN Unings done in Abyasnja.
the
tions to five' local ship-owners, drawing their attention to fact that the sealo of wages airl down by the 1920 Arbitrators were not being paid on
steamers,
their
The ship-owners, it is. stated, have been warned that drastic ne- tion will be taken by the Guild if the Arbitration rates are not observed.
RETURNS
TO HONGKONG
She arrived in Hongkong on Thursday night and, with customary American hustle, departed yesterday morning to catch the Canton 'plane to Shanghai.
typhoons.
130
Hongkong's wind attained its record of 136 m.p.h, on August 1, 1931, during a typhoon about which little is heard because of the slight damage caused. The previous record was Miss Le Cler was Special Corres-m.p.h., attained during the more pondent for the New York Times disastrous typhoon on August 18, After an absence from the Colony
1923. Although the full force of extending over many months, Gen-in Abyssin during the war.
Not the least of her "scoops" was this typhoon lusted only an hour eral Maurice Cohen, Military Coun sellor to the Canton Government, an exclusive interview with Em-it did far more damage than our arrived in Hongkong yesterday from peror Haile Selassie just before his friend of last Sunday. It was the
fight to Palestine.
biggest the Colony had ex- Perienced since September, 1906, whon-ten thousand lives were lost. 4.
Canton.
General Cohen, it will be recalled, {"inade"s trip to Europe twelve mantlia, "ago, returning in March.
It is understood that, failing satisfactory solution of the whole question of conditions on the Hong- kong waterfront, the Guilds may approach the longkong Govern ment with a request to appoint a Commission to go into the whale question.
Government, it is stated, will be asked to pass n Inw making it compulsory for the wages laid down in the 1920 Arbitration to be inserted in ships' Articles,
Eminent Carvers Of Eton
RECORD FROM SHELLEY TO ANTHONY EDEN
'Registrar' Of Birching Block Retiring
Windsor, Aug. 10. Mr. A. C. Baker, School Clerk at Eton College for 27 years, retires on pension next week.
He has sent men whose names are now household words to the famous Eton birching block, for it is pari that all boys of his duties to sce "blied" to be flogged report to the Headmaster at the block at the appointed time.
i
Since then he has spent most of his time between Canton and the North, and visits to flongtong have been in frequent.
General Cohen refused to comment on the political situation in Canton.
P48, which is a normal year for boys born this year to come here be explained.
One of Mr. Baker's greatest tasks was to compile a complete record of all names carved on the walls
the
When the Emperor fled, and rioting broke out in Addis Ababu, Miss Le Cler-used the Embassy radio station to flash her messages to New York, The Government station was wrecked by the rioters.
ONLY 78 M.P.H.-
The highest wind force recorded | front page features of the New York in 1906 was much less than 130
Her stories' from the war zone were
Times for some months.
m.p.h.. (the average hourly velocity was only 78 m.p.h.) which just shows you that it's not the gusts ) that count, but the steady wind of
"War May Be fairly heavy velocity, which wears Just And Right" Says Minister
9 p.m. News and announcements from London.
9.20 p.m. From the Studio, Selections by "The Waikiki Trio."
Programme.
1. Pul O Hulu; 2. Kuhlo Bay; 3. Hol Mal E. Pill: 4 The Kipalulu Zephyr 5. Leis for Sule.
9.40 p.m. Dance Orchestru fram the Hongkong Hotel Grill Room.
10 p.m. Big Ben from London,
11.45 p.m. A Relay from Da.
ventry.
A commentary on the fifteenth In-
ternational Ulster Grand Prix Motor Cycle Race. Run over the Clady Circuit, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
12.15 am. News and announce- ments.
12.35 a.m. Close Down.
TO-MORROW'S BROADCAST
Band of the 1st Batin, Royal Ulster Rifies
RECORDED PROGRAMME
10-11 a.m. Morning Service from St. Joseph's Church.
down resistance from, buildings, ships' anchors and humans.
Our 131 m.p.h. attained on Mon- 11 am-12.15 p.m. Morning Ser- day morning wasn't a steady blow. vice from St. Paul's Church (Chi-
nere). It lasted only a few seconds on
12.15 p.m. "1st and 2nd Move- two occasions. Otherwise, during ments of Symphony No. 7 in C of the Upper School. For years he
the eight hours the typhoon raged, | Mujor" (Schubert) played by the devoted his spare time to chronicling
the wind Buctuated between 70 London Symphony Orchestra. im.ph, and the maximum.
12.45 p.m. Fritz Kreisler (Vio- hames, und now the work is finished, and he has had bound THE Rev. T. W. Bevan, of How docs 131 m.ph. compare
lin). Grace Moore (Soprano).
1. Violin Solo-Serenade Espagnol containing over 18,000
Bradford, moved the follow-with wind forces attained in other
(Glezouny, humes sent to the Headmaster anding resolution at the Methodist parts of the world?
Songs Kreisler); Vice-Provost, while another volume Conference at Newcastle recent-
They Call me Mimi-"La Behemo" Anemometers, or wind-measur- (Puccini); Farewell-Act III-"La he presented to the School Library. The custom of cutting names on the ly
ing instruments, are said not to Boheme" (Puccini); 3. Violin Solo panels of the Upper School is one of This conference, believing that all record wind velocities exceeding Dance of the Marionette (Win- the most ancient at Eton, and goes tenching of Christ, and being per-
ternitz). war is contrary to the minu and 150 m.pih. back to the earliest days.
Runded that Arm reliance on the.
volumes
He found that the Smiths topped the list with 145. The Campbells come second with 01, and the Scotts have 82, the Wilsons 54. and the
Hamiltons 53.
DUKE OF GLOUCESTER'S
"NAME"
The Rev. J. Davison Brown (Not- tingham) said that they were all in favour of peace, but he did not think ) that resolutions such as that were thej best way to promote it.
"If this resolution is passed it will be very hurtful to a great number of our people," he said.
Monday.
arr.
I p.m. Time and Weather. 1.031 p.m. Excerpts from Grand Opern
Music.
Street
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme,
The highest velocity ever re- "It is extraordinary how different way of Christ is the one hope of corded by an anemometer was 140 families have grouped their names gaining world peace, calls upon them.p.h. in Louisiana at the mouth Vocal Gems-Il Trovatore (Verdi): togellier in one particular part of Churchies to declare that they will of the Mississippi on September Vocal Duct-Miserere "Il Trova- the Upper School, while others have take no part in war or in preparation 20, 1915. This incidentally, is tore" (Verdi)....Mavis Bennett and taken positions on the stairs," he for war.
Turner; Selection-Martha only five m.p.h. above Hongkong's John said.
Further, the conference expresnes record, only 9 m.p.h. above the (Foto) Vocal Gems-Faust strong opposition to the rear-
lust (Gounod). mament programme of the Govern- wind force recorded hore
1.30 p.m. Router Press, Weather, ment.
time and announcements.
1.40 BRITAIN Well behinD
p.m. Light Orchestral
Britain can bosst nothing like, Puszta (Mihaly); Forget it, and the wind force registered during smile (Bohmelt); William Tell-An- typhoons In Hongkong. Wind dante (Rossint); Traumerel (Schu- Every letter in the alphabet is re-
velocitica exceeding 100 m.p.h. mann); Japanese Lantern Dance
(Yoshitome); Chinesa. presented, although Z only has one
have rarely been recorded in Serenade (Siode): Master Melodies; "I very much object to the sugges- entry. Among the names he found tion that we have to choose between Britain, where the record is My Lips are made for kissing were those of the Duke of Glouces- faith in God and faith in war.
111 m.ph. This velocity was (Lebar). ter, King Leopold of Belgium. the "However bad war may be, it may|
2.20 p.m.
"Sousa Medley". of Siam, Gladstone, Shal- have to be the cholee between two
recorded at Scilly In 1929.
2.30 pm, Close Down In an interview. Mr. Baker agreedley, Robert Peel, Anthony Eden, and evils, and while I feel with everyone
Although Instruments that war is utterly bad, I feel also that it was quite true that he had G. O. Allen.
A Programme of Works over 150
m.p.hby probably sent more boys to the block The custom of name carving grow that the destroying of civilisation is record
Sebastian Bach. than any other man. "But none of to such dimensions that a few years utterly worse.
meteorologists have other ways of Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G theth bear me any ill-will," he said. ago the college autfiorities officially "MY GALLANT KINSMEN" computing velocity. Ordinary Major......The Busch Chamber
"I am not prepared to believe that anomomoters become wrecked if Players. "In fact, almost daily. I got old recognised it, and now names are Etonians visiting my office, and they cut by an expert on the payment of my gallant kinsman who died in the the velocity is too high. (Hong- 1st Movement-Allegro: 2nd Move- often recall when I sent them to be 10s. by each boy.
Great War died engaged in an un- kong's was wrecked in 1908). ment-Allegro. swished for breaking bounds or some As space in the upper School has Christian action. I can visualise a
From the St. Matthew Passion. other school offence."
become very limited, only boys who situation in which war is not only They are worked on the principle
Behold how throbs; I would beside can trace their ancestors' names on inevitable, but just and right". that the pressure exerted by a the wall are allowed to have their to the Inst clause in the resolution of its speed.
Mr. Brown added that he objected wind is proportional to the square my Lord. Philharmonic Choir with
(Continued on Page 4.) One method of own cut. The
Prayer Room, Government was toward the security calculating the force of impact of When the Headmaster, Mr. Claude of its people. Elliott, made the presentation of a The Rev. Henry, Carter supported soft objects struck by harder ob- cheque to Mr. Baker on behalf of the reaolution, but said for the pre-jects. the_staff, he said that Eton would servation of unity he would prefer hardly be the name without him in that the matter should be considered the school office. He had, in compiling | during the coming year and an Using this method, observera at He also compiles the register of the list of all names cut on the walls, "authentie Judgment" given. entries for Elon. "Many boys are done the school a service which
"The previous question was moved the ton of Mount Washington, in entered-for Elon at birth, and at the [ would for all-time stand to his and carried, and no vole was taken New Hampshire, computed that a wind velocity of 281 m.p.l, was present time there is a long list for credit.
on the resolution.
BOYS ENTERED FOR 1948
Mr. Baker has compiled a book
cannot
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containing detalla of every boy who panels in the mainder are cut on and said that the obligation of the measuring high speeds Is by attained during a cyclone on April
has been to Eton since its foundation
by Henry VI., and he has introduced
a new system by which he can place his finger on the record of any boy in a few moments. 4
College
400 M.P.H.
12. 1933.
· During a tornado in Iowa and Nebraska In 1913.soft.'objects struck harder objects with such forco as to penetrato them. Engineera, enleulated that, the speed of impact must have been
élase to 400 m.p.l.-N."§."
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