10
THE
HONGKONG
FRIDAY, TELEGRAPH.
FEBRUARY 11,
1988.
PAGE
YOU
SPARE
MOMENT
See yourself
yourself Just think
as others
}
see you says
YOU probably have quite a about of illusions yourself. They have been subtly fostered ever since you were a child in arms by your doling parents. They have never been dis- pelled, for even your best friends 4 won't tell you the truth about your- self.
Ilut you might be a much nicer person if you let the sensible side of your mind probe for a while your sentimental attitude to yourself.
Are You Mean?
IT'S
T'S a dificult thing to undertake in cold blood,
of course. Usually this sort of soul-searching is started after overhearing such a remark ast
"My dear, she's the mukmest thing at home. Why, the baler told minow, miaow..." and so
#C..
on about your most Intimate secrets.
Fury follows, hate, sorrow, and a feeling of frustration. Then, it you're a logical person, comes the "Now, I wonder if I really question: um like that
Perhaps it is mean of me to give George streaky bacon
breakfast because it's. for cheaper, when he likes short back
7
Grace Herbert
fa my husband right when he anys I start all the rows?
Am I continually losing my tem- per and excusing myself by say- Ang I'm tired and corried?
Is my husband right when he says I take all the enjoyment out of things by grumbling all the time when we are out about the work "ee pot to do the next day?
Fof a letter
EORGE was reading some verse aloud to his long- suffering family-
"Let the rich, great, and noble banquet in the festal balls,
And pass the hours away, as the most thoughtless revel; Then seek the poor man's dreary Jiome, whose very dingy walls
to all Troclaim full well how low his rank and level. sold "Now then, my boy," George, coming down to earth. "Alter one letter of one word in that sentence so that you change the sense, the moods and tenses of verbs, turn verbs into nouns, nouns into odjectives, and so on. Quick now, I'll give you two minutes."
Can you do it in two minutes? If not, the answer la ni the foot of Column Three,
it true what my husband says you're obviously not being honest or
in anger, that I flirt with every you're too good to last. second inau I meet?
Are my husband's relations right
when they sup I'm not as devot ed to my children as I try le make out?
If You're Not Married
I CAN hear a protest from those of you who are can I answer Do I dismiss my chlidren's little single: "How traibles summarily snim- questions 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 when portant?
I haven't got a husband?"
KIN
Too Good Right. Substitute "my friends nnd relatives" for "the household!" THERE are probably quite in question 2: "boy friend, fiance, brother, mother, sister," or whom you a lot more that you can will, for "husband" in question 3: best.
to this list. But ask your "Bance" for "husband" in
question A minor fault this, but a foir in- self these questions honestly, and if you don't do any work try dex to character.
to think of some of the things you Now sit yourself down, and write and quite privately.
like to grumble about-there's bound
out conscientiously a questionnaire
to yourself, tabulating it thus:
1
add
If you can quite honestly say to be something. You'll have to sub- Yes to ave or more of the questions strike home fat questions 7 and 8, stitute good searching questions that and what they are will glye a falr indication of your honesty,
. Do I gossip as Mrs. B. saus, and on your examination paper, you may in my gossip slightly malicious? be an attractive kind of person. At When I say that I'm saving arty rate, you're good enough to go molles um 1 simply being mean on and question yourself a little fur only people who ever accuse you of with the household and spending ther If you give yourself full. Brting are 1, your husband, 2, your
more on clothes?
marks there's no hope for you,
Question number 6 Is ensy.
for flunce, and 3, your neighbour,
The
SUBMARINE HUNTING
UNDER-WATER piracy in the
Mediterranean has started again, and Britain.is taking stern action to end this pest..
It is on the destroyer that the bulk of anti-submarine work must fall.
The present day
oll
By Licut.-Comdr. H. De L, STANDLEY, R.N. (Ret.)
observer, and even the nature of the bottom of the sea all play their .part. Under good conditions a sub- marine may be visible at depths of as much as 150 feet,
During an otherwise unsuspected altack the presence of a submarine may be given away by the "feather"
destroyer to explosive. By means of a hydrosta- of the periscope moving through the give her her full tile, torpedo boat the valve control it can be set to ex- water, or the tell-tale track of bub- destroyer has evolved from the now plode at any depth required.
bles of a torpedo.. Even if the at- almost pre-historie little torpedo These charges are dropped over tacle is successful and the torpedo boat, whose length was less than a the stern of the destroyer, which is strikes home, wireless signals from hundred feet, and whose crew nun- kept muving at high speed so that the doomed ship asking for assis- bured between twenty-live and she herself will be well clear of the tonee should quickly bring a hornet's thirty all told.
explosion, the force of which is ter- nest about the ears of the -under- little
pre-war torpedo boats rific. Charges can also be fired to water raider. These
distance by
Once alrcraft and destroyers with charge depth were known in the Navy as "Olly some Wads" as they were the first of His "throwerscontraptions which look detecting gear and depth charges Majesty's ships to burn fuel. like trench mortare placed along arrive on the scene, the submarine Is in for a very uncomfortable time, Their armament was practically the ship's side. nil; one small gun and a couple of As the depth of the submarine is and, in alt probability, an untimely torpedo tubes.
not known--she may be anything end. Destroyers to-day are ships over from 30 to 300 feet below the sur- three hundred feet in length, with face-a "pattern" of charges is drop- a tonnage of about 1,400 tons. They ped, sel to explode at various depths. are fast craft carrying a main urma To ensure "kill," a charge must distance of ment of inch or 4.7 inch guns, and be exploded within a six or wigght torpede tubes, and from 80 to 100 feet from the sub- what the submarine dislikes intense marine, so that it is possible to drop lya reasonable number of depth charges.
A Tiny Target
a charge, exactly over a submarine and yet not be certain of having des- truyed her.
If the charge were set for 30 feet and the submarine were diving at
----·|-|-|-·|-·|-|-·|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-·|-|-|-|-|-| Puzzle Solution
The answer 10 George's problem in Column Four ist Take away "L" In "Let" and substitute "5," moking "Sel."
Until the late war there were no 300 feet, it is possible that she might ----|-|-|-| submarine detecting devices, and survive the attack. But up to very anti-submarine tactles were elemen- much greater ranges the heavy ex-
+1+1
il
tary in the extreme. In fact they plosions may cause such damage as CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. might be said to have been non- to force her to come to the surface, existent. It was piously hoped that where she may be sunk by ramming on escort of destroyers and
small craft zig-zagging at high speed round or destroyed by gun-fire. The moral a fleet or convoy of merchant vessels effect of being depth charged is
frightful. would cause an attacking submarine
to dive so deep as not to be able to Attack from the Air
use her periscope. Should she have
the temerity to show her periscope A word about the original delec- "It was to be rammed or shot at. tion of a submarine which eventually
The chances of hitting so small a leads to her being hunted. target are practically negligible, but
Unless engaged on a diving patrol
purpose
of
HOLLAND-OOST AZIE LIJN. N.V.
(HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE)
From: ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, GENOA, and other PONTS.
"SEROOSKERK"
The Steamship
ed.
ject to rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged
having arrived from the above ports, It was hoped that, apart from the close inshore for the moral effect of being fired at, the watching an enemy harbour, or pale consignees of cargo by her ore noti
fed that all goods are being landed spinshes of shells falling near the rolling a small area through which at their risk into the hazardous and/
enemy shipping 13 periscope might interfere with the it is known that
or extra-hazurdous godowns of the captain's view and so render the at- going to piss, a submarine operates Holt's Wharf whence and/or from taeft, abortive, Ramming was
the
mostly on the surface. The speed the wharves delivery may be obtain- only way of "killing" the submarine. submerged submarine is low,
To-day all that is changed, It is only by good luck that a. com- Goods not cleared by the 17th Since these days, submarine de- merce raider will find herself in a February, 1938, 4 p.m. will be sub- tecting devices have been introduced, suitable attacking position when the and in later years have made great quarry is first sighted. In the vast advances. In the early stages a sub- majority of cases, a ship having been packages are to be left in the go- marine could be detected by hydro- sighted, the submarine will have to downs, where they will be examined phone only when she was moving proceed at her relatively high sure at Holt's Whart. through
water.
She could face speed to a position from which Consignees are requested to apply escape a hunting destroyer by stop- it is possible to carry out a sub for a Revenue Ofleer in attendance ping her motors and sitting on the merged attack. During this period when damaged dullable carga is being son bottom if the water were not too she can be seen, ke any surface
examined.
Claims against the steamer must deep. Or the captain might try to craft, from the air, the attacked ship; keep the submarine submerged with herself, or any other surface vessels be presented in writing within ten her main motors stopped-a very in the vicinity.
day after arrival of steamer, other- difficult evolution even with a highly Even when submerged, a submar- wise they will not be recognized, trained specialist crew,
ine can be seen from the nit, either| No Fire Insurance will be effected from kite balloons towed by surfacej by the undersigned in any case-what- craft, or from patrolling alreraft.ever.
the
Hunting the Unscen
of
In the cloalnit stages of the Inst_war, Bills of Lading will be counter- With the introduction of apparatus kite balloons and air patrols played signed by which works on the lines
the then most useful and important part in JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LUN N.V. "Echo" sounding machine, the state
1410 thwarting the German submarine)
Agents.
of affairs is very different. To-day. menace,
a submarine, once detected, can be
tracked, Joented, and attacked by A Hot Time ..
depth charge without onco being
seen by the hunting destroyer.
The depth at which a submarine
A depth charge is merely a metal can be seen, depends on various con-. cylinder containing some 300 th or ditions. The state of the sea and more of the most powerful--high light, as well as the height of the
Hongkong, 9th February, 1930,
COUNT ›THE
TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
I
COME AND GET IT!
The Samuel Goldwyn Film EDWARD ARNOLD JOEL MCCREA - FRANCES FARMER COMING SHORTLY TO HONGKONG
Chaptor. Ono
"Come and get it! Come and get-
Bet up or we'll throw it out!" cailed the chore boy of Camp Bix in a high squeeky voleo as he ham mered the Iron triangle, summoning the lumberjacks to breakfast.
fatherly pride in his atoady pro- STGES.
"You old polacat?" exclaimed Barney,
"Barney, you big dudo!” cried war, thumping him on the back affectionately,
The now of Harney's promotion was rocelved with a yelp of delight. By Jimminy, oried won, they'd colobrate, paint the town red, black and blue. Barney agreed heartily, but first the timber must be ment down to the mills. A hundred mill- lion feat of straight grain pine in that tract had to bo cut down. Next
"Here, son," said Barney Glasgow, an ho airclled up to the cookhouse. "Let me show you how to do that. Put some zing into your mlit!" And he struck the triangle a resound- ing blow with the rod. At the top of his lungs be bellowed. "Come ... And get
"Gee, mlalari” The boy looked up your the whole outfit was moving at Harney with roundsyed némira- tion. "You never was a chora boy, WRA YOUT"
Barney Glasgow throw back his handsome head and laughed. His eyon, clear and blue as the Wiscon- in aky overhead, swept the lumber camp and the giant pines which nited the landscapo as far as his gaze could reach. Majestio in their mantle of white, they gilatened in the morning sun. Within six weeks, two months at the most, the spring thaw would malt the snow and ico, would waken the frozen river Into Avelling, torrential life.
up north, where old man Hewitt had enough timber to triple the cut. There were going to be thirty camps Instead of ten, Barney told the beaming Swan.
Two months later, with Barney and Swan driving the mon nt top speed, the air of Camp Hix vibrated with activity. The glant pines fell groaning to the ground and were carried by horse feam down to the river. The thermometer was going up; Bomey could feet the Bouth The spring wind on bla check. breakup would come soon now. They had mado a record cut. Howitt would be pleased.
Yes, Barney recalled with a
Bhyly Bwan broached a subject nostalgie pain comewhere in the region of his heart, he'd been a which had been bothoring him chore boy, all right. How long ago lately. He had heard the mon talk won it? Fifteen years? Twenty? Ing. hinting about Barncy and llo was a scrawny Ultio dovil then, Hewitt's daughter, Emmy Louise. and why not? Up at dawn, run-Ho decided to riak it. ning bls legs off from the cool- "Barney," he began., and healte- house into the big room at the ted. "You-you going to marry the back where the kimberjacks sat at Old Man's daughter-maybe?"
"No maybe about it," Barney re- the long tables, his arms loaded with steaming platters of atonkeplied with a broad grin. and fried potatoes, atncks of flap-
With a whoop and a yelt of de- jacks, bowls of savory baked beans, light Swan made a dive at Barney, gallons of coffee.
grabbing him around the middle Breakfast was followed by mid-and bowling him over on his back. day dinner, dinner by supper. At "Barney! On the 'square? Why midnight, after the last dieh had don't you tell me? Why do I have been dried and put away, ho fall to squeeze it out of you like you into the cat la a mother's room, was a clam 7′′*
more denú than alive. His mother Still grinning, and saying noth- "That queer pain tugged at hining, Barney picked himself up. heart again. Standing over the blaz "By Jimminy," chortled Swan, ing stove, cooking meal after ends she pretty, Barney? Sbo never
woods.
come to the camps."
lesa moot for the ravenous men, her face fovorishiy flushed, hor
Barney evaded his friend's pena- eyes faded and tired, she was the
Pretty T husk of a woman, Kiling hor rating and kindly gaze. malf by inches so that he could go No, he couldn't exactly describe to school in the summer, skimping omy Louise na protty. She was his and saving to get him out of the plain as a fonce. But..
brain awam with the realization of cookbouzout of tho Barney, hár little Barney, must what the marriago would menn. When Hewitt dled, the have a chanco-a chance for an Poweri education, chanca to become lumber camps, the hundreds of something better than just another miles of timbor land and the pros- lumberjack like his father before perous paper mill at Butte dor Morts would all be his. Hi! That's him.
would havo Ah, he thought, if she could have what his mother ved to noe him now! Bless ber wanted. And that was what ho heart, she wanted him to amount to wanted. something. Woll, after twenty years "She's got a good head on her," Ja the office of Bilan Howitt's he told Swan simply. paper mill at Butte des Mortes, A month after the spring thaw ho had learned everything there jest in Barney and Bwan stood in was to itnow about the businenaiHowitt's office at the mill at Tron Getting to bo indispensable to do. The lumber was piled high Every decent stick Ifowilt, too. Hadn't Howitt just in the yard, promoted him to Big Boas of the of it, and eleven days ahead of time.
Howilt Lino?
krudgingly pleased. Ann wavo of satisfaction passed He'd got the thousand dollar bonus over him, he quickly brushed aside he'd promised him, Hewitt ansured the painful memory of his mother, Barney, and added that he was go- her years of patient sacrifice. Thereing down to Butte-des-Morts for a few days. Would Barnoy like to go www work to be done,
whe
He atrodo into the cookhouse, along? Emmy Louise was expect- But Barney had other The lumberjacks greeted him noting him, ily, and he returned their familiar plate; he had promised the boys a |filtla jambores at Iron Ridge and Bafutation.
they were going to got it. Emmy Louise could wait,
"Where's Swan?" he naked.
The greating of Barney and Swan Bostrom was a more personal one. Swan was his friend. The big Swede loved Barney and took an almost
(To be continued)
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Achoss
4 To come to, it sounds like u
Welsh fish (8).
8 A soldier recline in mixed furs
(8).
9 Killing representation of ser-
vloe area (8).
10 Ruined by the greasy stuff in
it? (6).
11 Inferior to part of Wales (10).
could produce 10 It
broken (4).
anger it
18 This sometimes made our on-
cestors blue (3),
10 Vessel useful at the bar, or in
the kitchen (7).
21 Pole of Scottish origin (5).
22 Light hearted Scottish town
(5).
23 To address a lady thus might
prove most expensive! (7). 20 A prefix (3)...
28 To reverse an African village
gives one quite a jar (4). 29 "Lass can que" (anag) (10). 33 Merely a particle, but half
bird (0),
35 What is left is malign (0), 30 Facts that may carry convic-
tion (0).
37 Put 11 across the soil (8).
DOWN
1 An elevating motion (4), 2 Would there be a dimculty in expanding this sort of com- pany? (7),
a Not
(7)
a movable engagement
4 Europe's dream come to quite
the wrong shapel (8).
0 Tart outside with the beginning
gone (0):)
Oval with vessel in (5).
A single article in a vehicle is
of little weight (6),
10 "Scorn ald" (anng.) (8),
12 Sharp, possibly (8).
125
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13 Would the drinker of it fall-
into one of Its anagrams of de- light? (0),
14 A doctor was in front, but went
at no speed (0),
18 The lady's secret about it would
seem to be inherited (8). 16 Tutelary spirit (6).
17 Often started by minutes, but might take hours to get through (6).
20 English town that a headstone
may have (5).
figurés manipulation of certainly produces divisioni (7).
24 His
20 He discovered X Rays (7). 27 This bit of Ireland is more than a cope; of course (0),
30 If you want a row just do this
(5).
31 Strengthening advice (5). 32 The end of 37 across (5). 34 One may visit this now in
India (4).
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