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THE HONGKONG
NEW TAIKOO TUG
DIESEL ENGINED VESSEL PUT IN.COMMISSION
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
COMPANY MEETING H.K. AND YAUMÄTI FERRIES SUCCESSFUL
·APRIL
1937.
CRUISE LINER ARRIVES
FRANCONIA HERE WITH TOURISTS
LEPER MASSACRE
AMAZING STORY FROM YEUNGKONG.
WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE- WITHOUT CALOMEL
And You'll Jump Out of Bed Fool- ing You Could Pach a Bus Over The liver should pour qut two pints of Tahid bile into your bowels daily. If this būn
freely rour food
An amazing story of the' massacre of nearly Atty lopers in a bamlet out- side Yeungkong, in bouth-west Kwangtung, on Easter Sunday, has | been revealed in private letter re- ceived in Hongkong. It relates what appears to have been a planned kill it just decays in the bowels- Un bloat ap ing-off of the entire leper settlement by band of soldiers, but there is no evidence that they were noting
Low
under any special authority
Inches forward and 7 inches aft./dart, Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau. Mr. E. H. by cruise directors. All the details/days before the massacre told the
feel
The Chairman said:
are
TC-
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and stores. The crew space is in the sion of a successful working year, 1G. R. Dolphin, who bas Intely. been removed. ve dawn on Easter Day
promoted from
com
Further improvements to vessela An interesting new vessel, which has gone into commission in Hong-end more overhead shelter at the kong harbour, is the Talkoo Cheong. built by the Talkoo Dockyard & Hongkong pler, were forecast by Mn
Another Invasion of wealthy world Engineering Co. of Hongkong. Ltd, Lou Tak-po, Chairman, at the 18th. for their own service as a tug and ordinary annual meeting of the Hong- tourists took place yesterday with also na a ferry for the speedy trans- kong and Yaumati Ferry Co., Ltd., the arrival of the 20,000-ton Cunard
workmen and materials from held at the Board Room, Jordan Road White Star Kiner Franconia, with her port
400 passengers from all walks of life the Dockyard to ship undergoing Pier, on Saturday.
The following, Directors were also of the most attractive cruise ships who are encircling the globe on one repairs in Hongkong harbour.
of present: Mr. Kwok Chuen, Dr. Boat, following the most interesting The Talkoo Cheong has a length
It is related that 80 feet and beam
of 18 feet 6 inches, Kwan, Sum-yin, Mr. Young Tsun-
and Inclusive Itinerary yet arranged- while her load draft is a 4 feet 11
lepera that they would be paid ten Kew and Mr. Wong Chol-hoo, and of shore arrangements here and at cents oach- dally if they remained in A raised forecastle. gives the craft a there was a forge attendance of share other ports are in the hands of Thes. their villago instead of going out sturdy and workmanlike
Cook and Son.. situated
begging, this apparently being a ruse amid- The machinery space is stance holders.
Aboard the In proposing
liner
concentrated in to keep the lepers ships, and forward of this is a roomy compartment for accommodation of the adoption of the report and the presentatives of many nationalities one point. Payments were made for workmen, while at the after end is a passing of the accounts I have much and many walks of life, while over three days, and the wretched people's hold for carriage of materials pleasure in announcing the conclu- all presides the Commander, Captain suspicions, if any there were, thus carga
his previous
Just before forecastle, with an entrance compan-which was due to the judicious con-
Captain G. soldiers surrounded the village, and lonway on deck. Staff cabin, galley, elusion of important contracts for coal mand-the
Stoff
Captain aboard the one of them went in and asked the and luvatories ure provided in a large and supplies ut very favourable ratca Popo
vessel. These people will visit 33 head of the settlement to assemble all deck house on the forward deck, for the years under review. The navigating bridge is built over
in receipts of the ports during the 144 days of the the lepere for their next payment. The increase
including the unusual ports of They diereupon collected to get their the forward deckhouse.
Company have been maintained, and
feel that with a general improve Nagasaki in Japan.
pittance, and immediately the con- mbonnga, Chemulpo in Korea, and
cealed soldiers rushed in and seized ment in the local trade conditions,
The highlights of the ship's life the whole community, numbering the receipts will show a further in
wedding and a nearly fifty, who were marched out crease for 1937. Your Directors have have included a therefore recommended a slightly funeral-but both of the mock to the foot of a hill nearby and thero higher dividend of $1.60 on ordinary variety. Shortly after leaving Bom- shot dead. snares and $2.10 on the preferential bay the crew arranged for Mr. Percy Hill, a steward, and a stewardess, shures. The ferry vessel Man Cok Miss Wyn Owen, to stage a wedding. was completed and put into operation during the year. The vessel has But sad news came shortly after and proved to be very successful both on following the news of the F. A. Cup Everton had the vehicular service and on the competition in which
the Tottenham service. This been defeated by Mongkok passenger
the crew prepared A Kort Nozzle has been fitted round vessel was ordered when the Hong-Hotspurs
mourn. They conducted a burial at the propeller to give increased low-kong dollar was at 2s. 5d. This vessel rope pull. This nozzle is the patent has enabled us, to extend the vehtele sea with full honoure-their favourite
team being consigned to the Deep. of Mr. Ludwig Kort of Innover, and service on to 2 am, every Saturday
night. is designed to give improved per- formance
when
towing. Towing and trials were carried out before after fitting this Kort Nozzle, and was found that an increase in tow- rope pull was obtained after the Kort Nozzle was fitted."
This vessels embodies many of the most recent developments in scientific design and methods of con- struction.
The steel hull is entirely electric welded and the structure has been specially designed to give the most efficient and economical arrangement of welded connections. The vessel is a splendid example of recent pro- gress in welded ship construction.
Increased rull
The lowing hook is of special de-
and
Towards the end of the year, we reconstructed the Man Chung, one of our older double-ended ferry vessels, and improved her stability accommodation by widening the vessel by two feet. This improve ment was carried out by the Hong- & Whampoa Docks and effected suit of this, we have contracted for the reconstruction and alteration of the remaining three vessels of this class, to be carried out during the current year.
sign, and the usual buffer spring is thout any loss of speed. As a re-
replaced by a hydraulle ram which registers this low-rope pull in tons on on indicator on the navigaling bridge, The main propelling machinery is Sulzer Diesel Engine built by the Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co. Ltd, under special llcence from Sulzer Bros., Winterthur.
Pier Shelter
to
Among The Passengers Among the passengers aboard is Medelein Park, who in private life is Mrs. H. H. Park but is better known as the sculpturess of animals, She is travelling with her husband and daughter. Mrs. Park studies movements and expressions for long time before starting on the difficult task of sculpturing an animal, but her pains have been rewarded and many of her life size models have been reproduced in miniatures. One of them stands of the desic of Pre- aldent F. Roosevelt.
Another noted passenger is Mra MacMahon, mother of the
famous
The bodies were then burled in two big pits, and the soldiers, after taking anything of value, burned the lepers huts to the ground.
it
Hnand-up in Canton Meanwhile it in reported from other sources that the Canton Police have been making a number of ar- resis of lepers of both sexes in Can- Lon City during the past few days. is stated that so far twenty-three lepers have been detained by the Police, and will be sent to the
they Leper Settlement either in Sheklung or elsewhere for treatment.
Most of these arrested were women
an old man and and Included woman each over sevenly.
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Four stomach. You get constipated. Your whole autem la polsoned and you feel nour, rank and the world luka punk,
Balta, člaxy drinks, palatalie laxatives and- harsh purgatives aro makanhitta. A zbere kowal movement, doenri't get at the cause. It Takes the famous, aure seting Carter'a LAULJ Livar, Pilla tổ get those two pinis of bile. Blowing freely and make you feel "up and. po". Narmless, menijo, yot amazing in mak. fag ble now freely. Ask for Carter's LIZIM
var Pills. Look for the name Carter's o9. tred jackerR
OFFICIAL SOUVENIR PROGRAMME
of the
CORONATION-
OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING GEORGE VI
and
QUEEN ELIZABETH ON SALE
FRIDAY, APRIL 23rd
Price $2
By Graciosa Permission of His Majesty this
STANLEY BARRACKS Programme is haued by King Cirorga's Jubiles
Post.
the barracks in question are those
tadtral to train engine, ns-also-the | info, Muered way 20-feet born on a' small hunting expedition. I planned for Stanley Feninsula, The
circulating
and
lubricating oil pump
pressors.
service are at-shelter
arid alr com- wide,
I wish to take this opportunity to thank the members of the staff both ashore and afloat for their co-opera- los and Caithful service during the year.
to
INCREASED STEEL COSTS CHANGE ESTIMATES
"Owing to the recent rise in the price of steel, it has been necessary to re-sue tenders for the construction The engine is of five-cylinder, During the year the bus terminus
from General Head- was stated single-acting, two-stroke, crosshead at Blake Pier was moved to the alm actress who visited Hongkong of certain barracks on the. Island," it type, fitted with auxillary scavenge Vehicular Pier with beneficial results incognito last year from Hollywood. quarters on Saturday, in confirmation
Among the younger couples pumps to give a degree of super-both to the Bus Company and our- charge,
The cylinders and heads selves. We have just concluded an board are Mr. and Mrs. McTaggart of an unofficial report previously re-
with
the Government who are on their second world cruise celved by the South China Morning are fresh water cooled, and all pumps } arrangstruction of more overhead in three years. They joined the It is permissible to mention that
the Pier, and for a re-
Franconia in India, where they had -97 Cristobal, Paco, Manila, P.I. P. O. Box 717. for fresh water circulating, salt water for the
the pler und Connaught Road. This will enable A strange contrant aboard the liner original tanders were issued before On trial the engine developed 250 passengers to reach the pier under is that between Mr. J. Burke of Newthe price of constructional steel rose their estimates. The official BHP. st 320 R.P.M. The speed on shelter, and also provides a covered York who is on his ninth round-the-sensationally, this causing contractors
world cruise and prefers stay to revise
tenderers trial was 19% knots.
bus platform directly outside the pier.aboard than go with his fellow explanation is that "the
M withdrew their offers." It is of special interest that this is
passengers sight-seeing, and 15-year-
Although in the beginning it is in- the first marine Diesel engine to be
old Ronald Pulford of Birkenhead, ended to accommodate only a half- built in Hongkong, and as a result of
a bell boy who is seeing for the first battalion, the plans call for barracks the successful performance of this
time strange places he has previously on a large scale eventually to provide engine on order has been placed with
only read of in books.
for two full battalions, including the the Dockyard Company for a coastut vessel
with Twin-Suzer
personnel for fortifications to be built Rubber Magnato
at Stanley. Self-contained in almost Engines.
One of the passengers who has every respect, the barracks are to Installed in the engine room is a The Chairman then announced that found Singapore the most interesting include
church,
canteens, general service auxillary unit, con- the dividend warrants would be port to date is Mr. John G. Gates gymnasium and a hospital, as well as sisting of high and low pressure air available on Monday morning, when of Denver, Colorado, president of the other outbuildings usually included compressors, the former for charging they would be issued from the Hong-Gates Rubber Company. The Com-in a large military establishment, air reservoirs of Diesel engined isong once during business hours, pany uses 5,000 tons of rubber a year, Unofficially, the cost is put at nearly vessels and the latter for supplying Mr. Li Tung was re-elected Auditor and it all comes from Singapore to be two millions. This sum is exclusive air to pneumatic tools: a centrifugal pump for fire and general service; and for 1837 on the proposal of Mr. Young turned, ultimately, into 100,000 feet of the fortifications, which
belt-driven centrifugal pump for Tsun-dort which was seconded by Mr. of hose, 3,000 tyres and 40,000 belts follow. It is
is understood that the tendors bilge and general service; all driven Soo Hoo-yue.
as now being re-issued stipulate use of among his friends 18 B.H.P. Lister Marino Auxili- an
The following Directors were "Lucky" Smith is Mr. Hugh Smith British steel for the work, and al- ary Engine.
ekeled by ballot: Hon. Mr. T. N. who is on his honeymoon. He had though this is assured to contractora The vessel has been built under Chau. Dr. F. H. Kew, Dr. Kwan Sua- been
married by the vital nature of the undertak- getting survey of the Hongkong Government yim, Messrs. Kwok Chuen, Wong when he won a literary competioning, the continued rise in costs is a
een considering Marine Surveyors Department, and in Ping-sden, Chan Kam-yung. Young which entitled him to £1,000, a trip business factor that is creating con- licensed to carry 160 passengers in Tsun-dart; Wong Kwok-shuen and round
the world on the Franconia, siderable nervousness among contrac harbour and 87 outside local waters. Choy Wai-hung.
and 20 a week for life!
Sull another interesting passenger aboard the Franconia is Dr. H. T. McMahon, a dentist who is taking the opportunity of studying the effect of different foods on the teeth of the people In various countries the ship io.visiting.
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A New Find Ari Among the passengers aboard the ship is one who has spent much of her life attempting to improve the artistry with which light in used to enhance the value and
effect of muste. She is Mrs. Mary Hallock Greenewalt, an American woman who has patented device which can be played upon just as an organ kut gives in return not musical notes in orderly sequence but colour tones when the instrument played properly, supplements the muste to which it is an accompaniment.
Such Ught devices are used in practically every large theatre in the world to-day, says Mrs. Greenowalt, the suffusion of different coloured lights is crude and usually has little
to the music being played. Mrs. Greenewalt has called the instrument which she has perfected
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praise in America and his poems the recommendation of John Masefield a kindred spirit, no doubt, for Cow- per sailed round the Horn in Д windjammer .35 years ago. His locker is full of canvasses depicting life at sea and the experiences of sailor.
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This will probably be seaman Cowper's lost voyage for he plans to settle in England and get down to. serious painting and find a ready market for hila productions In America, where marine pictures, in his opinion, are more appreciated.
Other interesting passengers in- clude:
"Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gourlay Mr. Gourlay was formerly head of the American Express Company In Lon- dion and retired only recently.
Mr. Z. W. Ranck, President of the Crystal Tissue Company, paper mills of Middletown, Ohio, accompanied by Airs. and Miss Ruth E. Ranck.
A. Hopper, Mrs. Charlotte
third consecutive
Washington, on her than conis.
cruise on world
of
Sir Lewellyn Andersson, one of the six remaining survivors of the
Krause, Presiding
Orange
the #arbet" and the art of playing famous Jamieson Raid, accompanied
Instrument and the method by Lady Andersson..
values Light employing
Justice Mr. "nourethar." Tho- Instrument Judgo of the Courts of the patented is now perfect, and only Free State
Mr. an extenstion of the light control it
and Mrs. Edward Roscoe provides is needed for Atting it for Mathews of New York, Mrs. use in the largest auditoriums.
Mathews is Chairwoman of the Inter- American Committee which works for. The initial "scale from absolute unity between the countries and
of the two Americas. Mr.
E la the donor of the Good-
daricness has been computed and patented for a 1,500 watt lamp which can give forth ns. many
267 graduations of light--an inflite num- will Cup to the Fubile Schools of ber
to the school when applied to the six primary England, a cup awarded to the colours, and these colours combined: winning the largest number of
year. Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Greacon of Although light colour can be played mural events ench for its own sake alone and without Now York, Mr. Greacon Is Fresident
other rhythmic pf the Garden Club and combination with any other
visiting the round art, "nourathar" is likely, says Mrs. gardens during his voyage Greenewalt, for some time to come world. He is also a keen engineer, technical adviser In the to be used with music. Light colour and, was causes the atmosphere to lives as Panama Canal Zone during music lives, concluded the laventor. " operations. EXETER BR paper at Mr. and Mrs. Ernst R. Be Särskilt Artist Baitor Eric, Pa. Mr. Behrend the head of
Once a rum-runner, with hobbies
of painting and poetry is Mr. Harry Cowper, carian of the Franco 1080. Canvasses have gained
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