GAVE ELECTRIC LIGHT
TO
ENGLAND
TO-DAY Britain would be lost without clectric
light; yet the man who introduced it was re-
garded as a crank-and Queen Victoria slapped
his face!
He is Colonel R. E. Crompton, known as "Britain's Edison." Chinese 5% iteors. Loan, and founder of the well-known electrical engineering company, who has just celebrated his ninety-third birthday.
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1938.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, - JULY 28,
Man Who Had Face Smacked
By
Queen Victoria
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SAYS BOMBED CAPTAIN "NEXT TIME I'LL SHOOT”.
Spain Attack: Protest To The Foreign Office
"NOT again without an aircraft gun. If I run a blockade again without the, support of the British Government I'm carry- ing guns and I'm going to shoot." Thus remarked Captain W. Kermode, 87-year-old master of the Thorpeness, when he arrived in London to protest to the Foreign Office, through the Officers* Federation, against the bombing and sinking of his ship outside Valencia Harbour on June 21.
"I took a ship full of grain into a starving country under the British flag. I flew British ensigns all over The place," he said.
"My ship was bombed by a rebel down the plane, and as she went plane returned and machine-gunned us as we struggled for our lives.
"I had no warning. She glided down with her engine shut off, and only the crack of the anti-aircraft guns from Valencia fort told me that anything was wrong.
"It was all over in five minutes, A bomb filt us amidships, and it was every man for himself,
"WHEN I GET A SHIP"
"I am going to do again' when- ever I get a ship, but I am not go- ing to run another blockade unnemed.
settles things in Spain, the better if will be for the peace of the world.
"British prestige has fallen to noth- ing in Spain. We have been slapped in the face and made no reply.
"IT WASN'T BRAVE"
"I don't think it was a very brave thing to do. If you saw those starv- ing people in Spain, you too would
do anything you could to help them.
"Spaniards have very few of the necessities of life left them, I could not get a square meal for my officers anywhere in Valencia.
"I gave a cigarcite to a soldier in the street. He immediately called two of his friends, broke it into three pieces and gave them one each.
"That
STRUCK GOLD AT PICNICH
Adelaide.
JOHN STANLEY PASS, who cabled his parents in Rugby (England) that ho had "struck gold rich," owes his good for tune to a "compulsory” funch,
Ho and another prospector, John Walls, left Kalgoorlie in an old £15 lorry and headed for Muigabble.
The engine stalled at the foot of a two decided to how things are in Spain. steep hili. The And 7,600 tons of grain went to the plenie. Pasa said: "This looks like- bottom of Valenel harbour whenly gold country. Let try it."
After lunch. Pass strolled uphill the Thorpeness went down."
THE OLD BREED Captain Kermode, a little Manx- man with an astonishingly hard grip,
dogs.
"I don't believe Franco is respon-la of the old breed of English sea
sible for the loss of the Thorpeness. I don't believe Franco is responsible for any of the atrocities in Spain.
with
a sampling pick and found gold worth £100,
Gold Fields Australia Development Company, Ltd., of London, have taken a £15,000 option on the area.
Vital Senses Named
of
Cleveland. appreciation,
He has always led on adventurous life, but he has parked enough thrills Into the last year to inst the ordinary "The Spaniards are 11 friendly mon a Ilfetime. People. There is civil war, but when Spaniards fight they git folr. He ran the blockade of the Spanish humour, inquiry and awe are essen somebody outside Spain is responsi-ports last year. He ran the blockadetin to proper preparation for life, ble for the atrocities,
of Canton, and he was at the evacua~
British
"My opinion is that the sooner the Government steps in and
tion of Tongkoo and Shanghai.
And he's going back for more.
Four
senses
Itev. Philip Smend Bird, pastor et the Church of the Covenant, told graduating seniors of Case School of Applied Science here.
Last month, u, his home in Kensing- ton, the "Electric Lighl King" turned
the spotlight on his own career.
He told how can War
went to the Crim-
at eleven
"My father
swore that I was twelve, and I joined up at Gibraltar s a naval endet," he said.
"I got leave from the ship and Joined my brother, who was fighting with the 42nd Highlanders."
Before Sebastopol the little boy used to climb Into no-man's land and collect spent bullets.
Backe
After serving in the war he came
England
and went to larrow. When he left school, young Cromp- ton visited India, where he carried out the Arat road transport expen. ments.
"I thought of becoming a read transport expert," he said, "but back In England found people laughed at the iden of sending; goods by rend. "So I took up a new-fangled carcer called electrical engineering.”
SMALL BEGINNING
sturled 113 busines
Crompton
with three employees. He designed and constructed his own machines and left to his employees the joli uf packing and dispatching.
"When my frm started making electrical equipment in 1877, we he gan the electric light ein," he told
me.
We installed electric light in the houses of four people, one of whom was W. S CHilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan.
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Englishmen Falter In
Test Match
(Continued from Page 14.)
to first slip where McCabe hold the catch.
Corp (en) Heft) ... took 10 Chiare Engineering B
Mining (beater) Cluren Corporation Pekin Syndicate
On-
Wright's Placky Hlting Wright, who followed, played very plucky Innings. Hie from one over from O'Reilly and
the Fleetwood-Smith to sent boundary to bring up the 200 in 280
minutes. After 25 minutes.
how-S'bal Co. La ever, he skied Fleetwood-Smith Fingleton at mid-off and was out for shi 22, his wicket falling at 213.
Parnes fultowed 212145 base! annetes: only two when he made the same struke and went the same way al catch by Fingleton at mid-off from Fleetwood-Smith.
Howes did not last long, being Jowled
by teilly for three, raving Verity not it with 20 and the in- England batted songs totalling 223 for five hous,
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of Canton
Albert Istfounders Sula Kalumpang Rubber Anne & Eler, industries Austin Motors, ord Cable & Wireless, Brishti-American Tobacco
Fons, ord
theory
Carmel Latrıl, ord. Mexican Eagle
17
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'tellly Anished W112 excellent Figures. in 34 overs, of which were makiens, he took five for 60.
Furnes opened the English attack
Fugleton und Brown.
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Later Colonel Crompton discovered He laki a subway under 40 houses. cables, wired the houses and put a small electric plant in a hut.
ing balls were very little This was the forerunner huge betwork of rables that to-day almost bowled Fingleton, and Brown
was never comfarinble facing him. lights the
the country,
A1 28 Wright relieved Bowes But in those days people used to
with his first ball, a long hop, the road when they NOW
who mlatimed Crampton coming. They thought barwied Brown
Brown had contributed 22 of badly. was a crank.
In 1800 he visited Windsor Castle the 28. and demonstrated the new means of lighting to Queen Victoria,
cross
Because of the bad light, Brodman, who usually goes in first wicket, did not follow but sent In Barnett, who played out time.
At chuse of play
"She didn't like it at first," he said, "and told me to take it away
"But I suggested she should wait and see, and she słupped my face bead lost a wicket for 32. cause I
was bold enough to have my || own way.
"1 ani sure I am the only man
has been slapped by
Queen Victoria.
whose face
"I'm very proud of it.
It was only
o gentle, playful stop."
FOILED BY LAW
After Installing 2,000 lumps in th";
}
Law Courts, the young engineer! applied for a Bill to break up the streets to lay mains
Australians
THE SCORES
ENGLAND
First Innings
C. J. Barnett. e Barnell, b Mc-
Cormick
W. J. Edrich, b O'Reilly
J. Hardstaff, ron out
W. R. Hammond, b O'Reilly
F. Paynter, st Barnett, b Fleet-
wood-Smith
D. Compion, b O'Reilly
But Joseph Chamberlain, believing; W. F. Priec, e McCabe, b O'Kelly that everything should be done by H. Verily, not out municipal enterprise, got through à D. V. P. Weight, e Fingleton, b Bill that prevented private companies from having more than 21 years
tenure.
Then one of the royal theatres in Vienna was burnt down and,] when it was rebuilt, Crompton was given the job of installing electric light.
The power station he bullt in Vienna was the first in the world, und the first London power stations were copies of it.
Fleetwood-Smith
K. Farnes, e Fingleton, b Fleet-
wood-Smith
w. E. Bowes, b O'Reilly
Extras
Total
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Woolworth Anglo-Dutch
Rubber Plantation Invest.
Trust
Burma Corporation Commonwealth Mining
Marsman Investiment Randfontein, Estales
Western Holdings
Sub-Nige!
Tanami Gold Mining
Anglo-Iranian
Burnin
(bearer)
Shell Trans. & Trod.
29/71 79/4
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A Criminal
Reforms
3 FORMERLY regarded by Scot-
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Bowling Analysis
0. MI. R. W.
McCormick
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34.1 17 60
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Some time ago Colonel Crompton | Walle advocated better wages for women
research workers at the National O'Reilly Physical Laboratory at Teddington. Fleetwood-Smith
"A terrible thing happened to McCabe
me the next time I went there,"
he sald. "About 200 women came up and kissed me"
Oldest Railway
Puzzle
ជន១. ខឹងក
HO KNO
7 land Yard as one of the worst criminals, a man who has 'spent more than 17 years in penal servitude is making good in a £3-4- week Job.
His foreman saya he has never known a happier or better natured man.
A month ago the ex-criminal was found work by the chairman of the Weymouth Bench, Mr. Harold A. G. Stevens. In his tiny ofce overlook-
Fall of wickets-1 (Edrich) for 20, Ing the main street of the town, Mr.
Stevens had a heart-to-heart
2 (Iardstaff) for 34, 3 (Barnett) for 88, 4 (Hammond) for 142, t (Payn-With the man. ter) for 171, G (Compton) for 171, 7 (Price) for 172, 8 (Wright) for 213, 9 (Farnes) for 215, 10 (Bowes) for 223.
AUSTRALIA
First Inalngя
J. II. Fingleton, not out W. A. Brown, b Wright
WHO owns Britain's oldest railway, B. A. Barnett, not out
the Stockton-Dartington linc.
muscum
which was opened. In 18257
The line is almost 13 piece," Sir William Jowitt, K.C., told select committee of the Commons. "The switch boxes still have painted on them the letters 5, and D
Whom the line belongs to good- ntas knows-whether
ellier the L.N.E.R. or Stockton-on-Tees Corperation
One wicket for
22
1
32
Fall of wickels.-1 (Brown) for 28.
DUKE, DUCHESS LEAVE FOR ROYAL FUNERAL
London, July 22,
"It is a topic which must be fought out in the courts-if anyone is rash enough to do it—and one can imagine the oldest Inlutbitant coming along and telling, the Court to the best of The Duke and Duchess of Kent his bellef what he knows about it." departed to-day for Bucharest, where Sir William was arguing in support they will represent the King and of the Stockton-on-Tees Corporation Queen at the funeral of Queen Maria BU which would give the Corpora- for Rumania. tion extended quay and railway Before returning to London, the rights.
Duke and Duchess will visit Princess He announced later, that the par-Paul of Yugo-Slavin, the Duchess' des had agreed to a settlement con- slater. The Royal couple will then cerning the railway.
embark in their yacht for a cruise in the Adriatic Trans-Ocean.
English Students Most Winter Romance Ended
Tidy
talk
Within 24 hours he had secured the man a post, and recently the convict called to tell him he had never been so happy in his life before.
HIS PAST IS DEAD
"I've got a good job, and I know now what it means to be on the right side of the Law," he told Mr. Stevens. "I knew he was a man worth help- ng." Mr. Stevens said:
"I am told that he has proved an extremely able workman and is giv- ing every satisfaction.
"He does not discuss the past with his workmates. Ite is living for the future. For that reason his name is being kept secret. "During the past few years I have found work for 50 convicts, and I have not yet had a single failure to the best of my knowledge."
Horses Vanishing In England
London.
There will be no more horses in England in 20 years if they continue disappearing at the present rate. The latest offelal statistics show that they are vanishing at the rate of between 50,000 and 00,000 a year.
Rattlesnakes Disrupt Art
Oroville. Cal. Brype Philips. who with his wite
Long Beach, Cal. Only a little more than a month San Jose, Col. after their marriage, death ended the Arthur Saxon, Janitor-custodian at romance of the oldest couple, that ever San Jose State College, would like to obtained a marriage licence in the and fan is on a 8,000-nille trip in the have all students major in English, state. The bride, Mrs. Spencer II, St. Mojave desert to do landscape paint- English students, he insists, are tidier John, who died was 85, while the suring, reports that the greatest obstacle than any other group and leave less Viving room is a 60-year-old to concentrated work in the necessity. for him to clean up after.
of chasing away rattlesnakes.)
machinist,
Today
is the JUBILEE day of
DUNLOP
XACTLY 50 years ago to-day, John Boyd Dunlop was
EXA
tyre
granted a patent for his invention
of the pneumatie
which in half-a-century has revolutionized transport throughout the world.
J. B. Dirulop
*
•
ON that historic 23rd of July in 1888, JOHN BOYD
DUNLOP little dreamed that his invention was in half-a-century to revolutionize industrial and
passenger transport throughout the world. Nor could he have conceived the enormous part his discovery` was to play in the development of motoring, cycling.
and motor-cycling towards their present incalculable
proportions. Yet from his first crudely-constructed
pneumatic tyre has grown the vast Dunlop industry
we know to-day. Its history has been studded with
achievement after achievement in the enhancement.
of tyre safety and efficiency, culminating in the present-day DUNLOP FORT tyre with its 2,000
TEETH OF SOLID RUBBER to bite the road and defy
skids on any surface. It is the supreme climax of 50: years of unique accomplishment-the greatest and safest tyre in the world.
1958
DUN
LOP
50 YEARS OF GROWIN
"