THE HỌNGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1936.
The Girl Pat Reaches Devil's Isle And Goes On To Georgetown SKIPPER AT GOVERNOR'S RECEPTION
Orsborne Says He
Fled Africa After
Fight With Blacks
AFTER the Girl Pat left Corcubion, Spain, on her runaway voyage from Grimsby, Captain Orsborne and his crew sailed straight into new adventures.
Orsborne, telling the story at the Old Bailey last month, when he resumed his evidence, recalled how they put in at Dakar, on the West Coast of Africa, had a fight with natives, left in a hurry and made the voyage across the Atlantic, reaching Devil's Island in 16 days.
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Lord Nuffield Telle Why £1,350,000 Gift
YOUNG 'BILL' MORRIS
WAS TOO POOR TO
RADIO BROADCAST
Dance Music from The
BECOME A SURGEON TORD NUFFIELD, £24,000,000 motor magnate, spread out long, thin fingers in front of him and coughed apologetically.
"You see, I had to do something with my hands," he said, "z.n.w. on a wavelength of 355 I became a mechanic. But when I was a boy i dearly wanted to No money in the family- I couldn't get the
become a surgeon. training.
"Mechanics were the next best years. I want to help other people thing."
And in this shy, almost wistful way. Lord Nullield told why he has Kiven £1,350,000 to Oxford University for medical training and research.
to be as it as i am.”
He became "Ditl" Morris again.
Hongkong Hotel ZEK. PROGRAMME *
Radio Programme Broadenst by
(0750 k.e's), 31.49 metres, metres, (845 k.e's), 34.29 metres, (0.32 megacycles).
12.30 p.m. Excerpts frein Light Opera and Musical Comedy.
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1 p.m. Time and Weather. "Do you know the secret?" he
1.03 p.m. Military Band Muale asked. "Plenty of rest. Ko tale
1.30 D.ML. Reuter Press, Rugby nighta. When I'm keplate, 1 go Presa, Weather, Time and Announce- to bed next night at fix or sevenments. to make up for "
1.40 p.m. Dance Music.
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2.15 p.m. Close Down,
5-6 p.m. A Relay of the Hongkong
He chucked; then returned Bravity
explain his "medical selenien How brilliant geons--the
G pam. Froin the Studio.
All this they did on one day's ; rights?—The second day after
| arrived, June 20. stores and eight days' water.
Dil you sign a contract?—I did
He revented the rent man--"B" ! Devil's Island they
Was there anything paid on
Morris, who, by rourage and hard Georgetown, British count?--Yes, 200 dollars.
work, stolt, out of a "te" shop, a rencking there 0/11
Is that all you have had so far?...at ear Industry,
"I was tired of worjong for myself, lest in the country- would be taken Hotel Dance Orchestra,
front private proctice to brcome ¦ 1 epas petting bored,
en through well,
teachers at Oxford, reljevid of the arned the money,
Now team fery of having to earn their own How they would train bril» some good. The slleviation of suflant young students for the research fering 1 Bought it would be a grand institute and for surgery in thing to do something for that,
a great cumulative effort of healing. "England must lead the world in meitene and research.
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Gulana, June 19, They were arrested, | Yes. but released, and Orsborne at- tended the Governor's recep- tion on the King's birthday. Later, said Orsborne, he sold his story for £5,000, He and the man who wrote part of it--in the form of a statement-had seven or eight battles of beer and some rum together, so he Orsborne, was not to clear about it.
It was Orsborne'a secol day in the box.
after
FEARED BOARDING He began by telling how. leaving Tenerifte, try passed some ships Bying the tallan tag. Italian Trusers were boarding all ships on the Morocent roast, and he Wis afraid they would board the Gla fat,
The Italians dat not, and the boat called at Port Etienne, where It ran; on to some sand banks. They were there three or four days before they could get it off.
Did Mr. Helliwell, representing home?--No, he met them to get their the People, bring Harris and Stephens He represents Cellarn's Press, story.
NEVER READ IT Mr. Justice Singleton: When did you sell it to them?-I sold it to the Angio-Continental, who resold it to the People.
Mr. Scott: May we take it that the story in the People is the story that | got had sold? -- I could not say it was
my story.
Did you tell the writer the story of your voyage in your own way, and answer questions to somebody repre- entity the Anglo-Continental Press
Yes.
Have you seen the result as pub thed is the People?--I never bothered to read it.
Do you say that seriously?—Yes, I ever read it.
Since the People took it over, have you still received no more than 200 ffultars! No, sir."
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Working For Others : "How am starting again, in a
way.
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FURNISHINGS
I'm working for other peOF THE
Thể chareholders" who bought my shares-and the Oxford research centre.
||MAURETANIA
"Now these are great new bater- ests. It gives me new zest thinking; of them--a new incentive.
"I'm litter than I've been for 20
Captain Orsborne said: "The of eat wrote that in his own words.
Mr. Justice Singleton: Did he write down what you told him? →→No.
Did you sign the statement con- taming that passage?-Yes, but sever inentioned man at all.
"muttle" to
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SOLD AGAIN FOR LESS THEN £1,000
A Children's Concert.
6.30 p.m. A Variety Programme. Vacal Duet Voulez-vous de la Canne u Sucre?....Josephine Baker and Adrien Lamy: Costinels Solo- La Corrida..."La Argentim"; Vocki Blazin' the trail....The Dlies; Orchestra-Za Zoo Za, Sunday an the Swance....Herbie Kay and ris Orchestra;
Song--1
g- nearly let love go slipping through my Bngers. Sam Browne (Daritane): Piano Solo Hot Do....Patrícia Hossborough: Song Where Yorkshire and Lanco- shire meet.... Kilty Masters; Song It ain't nobody's bizness what
do....Len Bermon..
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7 p.m. The Band of HM, Cald- Southampton, Nov. 1.
kirçam Guards and Richard All that is left of the Mauretanin Tauber, (Tenor), has been sold for the last time,
Bond-War March of the Priests Eighteen months ago, at the muc-(Mendelssohn); "Samson and Dell- tion on board the great vessel. Mr. lah" -Softly Awaken my Heart. Walter Martin, of Guernsey, bought | (Safat-Sens): Sony-Dein ist mein a large part of the passeniter quar- ganzes Herz (Herzer, Lohner and ters of the słaby for some £14,000 char); Band-The Bells of St. Malo (immer); Semper Fidelis March
Mr. Justice Singleton: Has any one They then made for Dakar, where on your behalf to your knowledge?--- They were for about three days, and Yer, the men have been gusting 25; don't mind my saying so, 1 luid and, at an additional cost of £8,000,Sousa); Entry of the Gladiator:- the stores had then #nished. They ja werk. asked for Lloyd's agent, but did not see Mr. McLean until an hour and a half, before any sailed.
Stone, the mate, was left at Dakar. From Dakur y crossed the Atlantic, Arst sighting land Devil's Island.
Their bout had then no food her, and they got mupplies Devil's Eland for a month.
. Mr. Scott: What share re that
the men to have in this £5,000
are the other four £1,000 each. Have you not been making regular, rentances to Harris and Stephens ever since they got home?-No. The rolicitors have. Constant and Con- ontant.
at
from
They were only 400 miles from Georgetown, and it took them a few days to reach there,
When they got to Georgetown he thought they had arrived at Dutch Guinna,
BECAME KIA ORA "We painted a numne on the bridge
-Kia Ora-so that vessels should see it from a distance. We did not want
£5 A WEEK
Mr. Justice Singleton: The solici tors in this case?--Yes,
Mr. Scott: And how much have |they been paying to you every week?
--Five pounds.
You don't suggest they are paying that out of their own pocket?-No. They are paying it out of the £5,000, Mr. Scott: This ship made rather an extended voyage for a ship of 1ht size and type? Yes.
thousand miles did you
to be stopped by foreign Mips again.roximately, with the tack- There was already a French cruiser circling after us," said Orsborne. just on 8,000 miles.
When they were satisfied it was British territory they scraped the tang Kia Ora off.
As they approached Georgetown an airplane flew over and dropped `'a message asking if they were the Girl Pat. Ile signalled back that they
were. were.
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Next morning the Pomeroon river passenger boat), with 30 or 40 armed black policummen or soldiers on board her, tried to no alongside.
"She mashed the ship's side In they tried to board," said Orsborne. "As we got close to harbour, our cil ran out and we asked for a tow and
they towed us in. went ashore and later that day made a statement to the police. We were arrested on landing and releases the next day
at one o'clock.
Mr. Christmas Humplireys (one of counsel for defence): For what were you arrested?—I don't know.
At whost
Instipation?—I know,
RECEIVED BY GOVERNOR
don't
that
Captain Oesborne atkled: If you
įreven or eight hotties of beer and veral drops of ruin, and so had the nilleial who wrote down the state- this way I don't know. iment, and hear it has turned out in
Mr. Scott: Did you ever intend to utile this hip?-No, I never did. Captain Orsborne, further cross- examined, salt that he had to leave Dakar bewuse of the niggers.
NO ROCKETS
Mr. Senit: You left in terror; what were they going to do with you? The same as they did with the white magistrate a week before.
James Orsborne' then gåve evid-]
ence.
In answer to Mr. John Flowera, K.C., one of counsel for the defence, he said the thought of stealing the Girs Pat never entered his bead ing to get on nurses, I should say not successful as the winch "Twice an attempt was mude to do fishing," said James Orsborne, "but She appears, at any rate, to have would not
we pull the gear back, bern senworthy when the left got the anchor down and could not #tel it up because the winch would not pull it that kept her afloat-your
skill?- They discovered that there were Whether a ship is seaworthy ог no rockets in the ship when a storm whether she will stand the punish-blew up before they went into Dover. ment of the rea are two different "Dod said, 'It looks a good, but the mess the ship was in things. The build of the ship was Moore intends to get rid of the ship was bad.
Grimsby-No, nat seaworthy.
What Was
it then
faith
and
Tell ine, why did you leave Dukar? We had to leave Dakar.
'DARE DEVIL DOD'- You were ordered to remain, were you not?--I got no orders.
you is that
What I am putting you had to leave because you dare not stay, that they reengnised you as the Girl Pat and you had to go away? We had to leave owing to some trouble with the niggers.
Did you tell the gentleman from the newspaper that you went behind an land which hid you from the shore and altered the shape of the hipYou cannot
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On June 23, which was the Kit'sistant. birthday, did you attend a reception
reme
out without being behind
of
Did you tell him you were known
Dare Devil Dud-No.
and the crew too."
though
Mr. Paley Scott asked Jarues | Orsborne: “Look at your brother. Have you ever stopped him from do- inx anything he wanted to, or are) you ever likely to?"
HIT A 'NIGGER' James Orsborne, We get on very well together,
Mr. Scott: But you have to go his way, not he yours?--I would not say
that.
Orsborne said they had to get out of Dakar because the niggers were after them.
They had a bit of a row in a barber's shop. One of the niggers talked about
"white
His pigs." brother resented it and hit the man under the chin. The barber had to tňeuk them out the back way, and next day the niggers came round the Mr. Justice Singleton: Are known as that?--I don't know.
ship wanting their revenge. They were armed with clubs. just known as Dud, that's all.
Mr. Svott: Isn't it a fact that one Are you saying definitely that Mr.of the things your brother had in his Morre (Mr. Tom
was fishing for pearls?-No, Moure, mannging director of the Marstrand Fishing that's silly. re-Company, owning the Girl Tat) told Hunting for treasure on #coral
You Tam
you to throw that ship away? Well, island-was that in his mind?-It is}
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innde yes.
at the invitation of the Governor, and thereafter are you told something about your offer in connection with the Girl Pa!?--Yes.
What had your affer been?-1 offered to carry on
and take her back England.
Was that offer accepted or fused? I got no answer,
Orsborne said that hc arrangements to ity to America and catch the Berengaria to England from New York. Ginger Stephens and Harris (two of the crew) came .back,
The charge against you of steal Ing the Girl Pot. At any time bad you any intention of depriving the owners permanently of that vessel?
None at all.
Mr. Paley Scott (prosecuting) began his cross-examination by ask- Ing Orsborne if he had proposed to fly to America and come home by
liner.
Orsborne: Yes. The passage was already booked.
funtastic imagination.
Is
recreated the Interior of the ship in
Shed No. 16 at Southampton Docks March (Fucik); Song Somewhere #voice is calling, Elleen Newlon- I planned the building of A Tate); I know of two bright eyes Maatretinin Hotel in New York or (Clutsan); Band-Wee MacGregor elsewhere, and the construction of a Patrol, block of fats in Guernsey equipped with the ship's furniture,
i But the plan fell through and the lease of the shed expires at the end of the month,
Yesterday and to-day, by order of the Receiver and Manager of the Mauretania Syndicate, Ltd., who now own the property, the panellings and furnishings were sold once again! —for less than £1,000.-
BIC BRASS LETTERS Cabin B 95, for which 200 guineas was offered and refused last year, was disposed of for under 14 The
from the port bow and the stern of big bruss letters spelling. "Maure- tania" and "Mauretania, Liverpool." the vessel, realised £11 for the sett at the original auction they bought for over £210,
were
7.30 p.m. Closing toral Stock Quo- talions and Hongkong Exchange Market Report.
7.35 p.m. A Pianoforte Recital by Benno Moisevitch.
Pastorale e Capriccioso (Scarlatti): Grillen (Schumann); Polonaise in
dat major (Chopin).
7.50 p.m. Three Songs by Eva Tarner (Soprano).
1. "Il Trovatore"--D'Amor, sull' all rosee, (Verdi); 2, I love thee (Music: Grieg; Words: Laubach); 3. Homing (Salmon and Del Riego).
8 p. Time, Weather and An- nouncements.
4,05 pm. Frem-the-Studio---
A Chinese Concert. 11 pan.
Close Down.
p.m.
.
8.05-11
European Pro- gramme from Z.E.K. on a fre quency of 610 kilocycles,
8.05 p.m.
Glo Bordin and His The complete drawing-room and Hawaiians. smoke-room on 13 Deck and the first- clasa lounge were sold together for Bleue (Margis); Ciribiribin (Pesta- Delilah-Waltz (Nicholls); Valse
about £160; at the auction on board tozzi): Neopolitan Nights (Zameenik}; the vessel the mabogoy panels in Midnight Waltz (Amodio). the lounge alone realised 250 guineas,
p.m. Variety while the dome of that same lounge, Vocal-High Hat, Trumpet when the Mauretanin was first built, Rhythm....Vainida; Plano Solo-Jan cost £7,000,
and
Klepura Film Melodies....Fred Connolly (Tenor);
Stein; Songs-When April
cornes
Many mahogany pflags and much again.... of the panelling have been sold for Twn heurls against the moon. cuft arewood, while three great com- Connolly (Tenor); Ilamorous-Dig- passes, on which time and on the ging Holics....Flanagan and Allen; liner must have depended for her SongA pretty girl is like a melody, safety, realised 329. G. the three. I don't want to make history.
Francis Day (Soprano); Piano Solo- Love's Romance....Fred Stein; Or-
The King Steps Out." chestra and Chorus-Vocal Gems
be
With the breaking up of the Mauretania, sentiment appears have faded. All that is left the greit dim shed, so soun to scattered and for the
most part destroyed, is merely recond-hand and rather dated furniture.
Nazis Draw
Teeth From
'Iron Maiden”.
as a man.
9 p.nt. London-News and An- nouncements. 9,20 p.m.
London-Boxing: Ben Foord (South Africa) V Walter Neusel (Germany), A Cominentary from the ringside by Lionel Seccombe. from Harringay Stadium.
9.40 p.m.
m. "Aurora's Wedding"-- Ballet Music, (Tchaikovsky), (From the Repertoire of Colonel W. de Basil's Ballets. Russes). Played by the London Philhar- monte Orchestra, Conducted by Efrem Kurtz.
10 p.m. London-Big Ern. 10.05 p.m. A Recital Beniamino Gigl! (Tenor).
by
the
Mla;
Nuremberg, Nov, 10. He suid so in his own words. What are the clearest words in
Nuremberg's "Iron Maiden"—one |
1. "La Bolicme"-Your Cny hand which you say he ever sald that to a plan of a treasure island? Yes, we medieval torture in the world, visit Music (Gastaldon); 3. From
true that some one gave you of the most famous instruments of a frozen (Puccini); 2. Forbidden you?-He wanted us to make the still have it, a rough plan in penel!ed by hundreds of thousands of Film biggest trip the possibly could make. piece of paper.
"Ave Morin-Anima tourists every year-is to have her Soltanto tu. Maria (Furno, arr. de Don't all fishing ship owners want Do you believe it to be genuine?- "tecth" extracted by order of the Curtis). that? You only make one trip Hke No, none of those things ever ore` that.
|Nazi Kultur leaders.
.10.20 p.m. Three Light Snxo. Mr. Justice Singleton: Which ship are you talking about?-I am talking
800 PURSUERS
The Malden consists of a bell phone Solos by Howard Jacobs. shaped iron sheil, tall
Down in the Forest (Sir Landon John Hector McDonald Harri, of Outside I is fashioned like a smiling Ronald); From the Land of the Sky- about the Gipsy Love (also owned by the Marstrand
Highfield Avenue, Grimsby, u Company).
32- girl.
Blue Water (Cadman); I love the Did you tell the man from People that when you left Grimsby ness
Inside long spikes jut Inward; one moon (Rubens). Acaman, was the next wit- the year-old
ench eye-ball, some at the heart,
10.30 p.m. you had decided "on the adventure ford of an hotel at Grimsby, "One death by torture were clapped Inside
Dance Music by Harry Roy and His Orchestra, He denied that he said to the land-some at the ldneys. which has puzzled and fascinated the
Once, prisoners sentenced to world"-No.
11 p.m. Close Down. word
(Continued on Page 5.) ' the hinged Captain Orsborne agreed that he of them """ he and down goes both the Iron Maiden, and
Mr. Scult asked Harris how many iron shell was slowly screwed shut.
Now Nazi orders decree that the spikes to be removed at once from) Iron Maiden,
Who was paying for the airplane? had made a statement to an official niggers were after them at Dakar. -I had sold the story of the Girl Patin Georgetown. He
£5,000,
signed it, ul- though it was not read over to him. whom? To the Anglo-Con-
timental.
Is that a company publishing the People newspaper?--No. They have. newspapers all over the world as far as I know.
On what day did you sell these
BEER AND RUM Mr. Scolt rend a passage from the statement: "We pulled out of Dover with storm signals against us with the intention of scuttling the ship.",
The City Council of Nuremberg announce? "Scientific research has
Harris replied: "Soven hundred or cight hundred armed with sticks and all sorts of things." (Laughter.)
He said that the crew were very at fast discovered that the Iron hungry when they got to Devil's Maiden actually never was used; for Islands. They caught some flying such methods Ash on the way.
are not, and never were, in accordance with the German instinct for justice"
The trial was adjourned.
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