THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1938.
I EXPLORE THE QUEEN Machine All
ELIZABETH
Greatest Ship is in Her Cradle
(By A Special Correspondent)
Clydebank.
Secrets of the greatest shipbuilding enterprise of all time-of the giant new Cunard-White Star liner Queen Elizabeth, which is to be named and launched by the Queen this month-were revealed to me to-day when I toured the vast hull now nearing completion.
I saw the Queen Mary four years ago when she was at about the same stage of hor construction at Messrs. John Brown's yard, and the first impression was the same as with the "Queen Elizabeth-to-be-of vastness im- possible to visualise afloat...
The fact that the Queen Elizabeth will be nearly 4,000 tons in excess of the Queen Mary and 12ft, longer merely heightens this impression, but striking differences in design and layout of the two liners became apparent on closer inspection.
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In the years which have elapsed | the Queen will operate by pression since the Queen Mary was design-m electric button 091 ed, nuval architecture and marine 1,000ft. away, engineering have matie: rapid pro- : Aress.
TWO FUNNELS
As an example of the colossal size of the liner, it took me 45 seconds by electric ift to get from ground |
vel to the promenade deck-and
In the old days the motive power there are all three decks to be of the Transatlantir giants nece- installed.
sitated four funnels AS has thei veteran Aquitania. In the Queen Mary the number wan reduced to. three. The new liner will have 'only two-allowing increased space for passenger games, promenade, and accommodation.
The new ship will have a "hash"
maindeck-doing away with The usual break in the hull forward from i the traditional well-deck-white i another improvement in "line" is the greater rake of the bow introduced to permit of an additional anchor installed for docking to fall clear,
Visualise her
Gross tonbage. 85.000;
Length, 1,030ft. (promenade deck 724ft-twice the height of| the Monument);
Number of decks 14 (compared with the Queen Mary's 12);
Breadth 11871.;
Four propellers: weighing 32 tony each:
A power stallon Which could "feed" a rity of 200,000 people. To-day you can wander for hours
Half Lion, Half Tiger
JUFS
This strange hybrid animal wis recently presented to the Cen- The rare tral Park Zoo, New York City, by an anonymous donor. beast was born four years ago to an African lioness that had mated with a Siberlan tiger. The tiglon, as it is called, has the body of a tom, but the head resembles that of a tiger. In winter, when the pell is thick, tiger stripes may be seen,
NAZI ACTIVITY
IN U.S.: AVOIDING
1914 "MISTAKES"
Washington.
Giving evidence before the Congressional Commit- without retracing your steps, lost in tee investigating “un-American activities” a witness said a stvelbound world, dwarfed likel The Queen Elizabeth will carry Gulliver in Brobligan by huge bare the principal objects of the German-American Bund over 2400 passengers-300 more than the Queen Mary-in condi-halls whose crude signs identify them). tlons of luxury and comfort un bathing pool, as lounge, ball-
1190an, vegetable-preparing room.
To-day the Queen Elizabeth is
known in ocean travel recently. Striking features of the cabin hell of noise, nerominentiun trelude verandah grill on the sun-deck and theatre and| gardens on the promenade deck. But it is in the greatly improved fact- lities for tourists and third-class passengers that she will refly estab fish a new era.
Those travelling tourist will have! a gymnasium and swimming pool,
25ft. WHALE KILLED IN
and those third-class a gymnastunk ] TRENT
in urddition to the sports deck for all classes, and hot and cold running
waler in every room.
cinema,
I
way
lounge.
amid
were:
The establishment of a vast spy network in the United States; and
The development of an efficient sabotage organisation for use in war time..
The Bund, or "German-American Settlement League," is a Nazi organisation maintaining a camp on Long Island.
The witness WXS ·John; Metcalfe, a newspaper reporter |
who joined the Bund under nn "Drunk With A
jassumed name as an investigator
A 25ft. long bottle-nosed whole for the committee.
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The publle rooms will cover, four weighing over three tons, which be
BEFORE 1916 in the intic 11: decks and include sun lounge, winter came stranded
at Kendhy, near
** Mr. Metcalfe said: and the River Trent
Mitt-1 Scunthorpe, recently, was shot and borne in mind that in 1916, prior to the entry of the United States into 5,000 brought ashore.
the Great War, Germany bad prac fully no espionage organisation or antofage machine in this country. is to avoid duplication of Uits the Bund brenne
garden, smoking-room.
Picking 1113 workers still engaged amid the faby- The whale was obviously Jost and rinth of passages and the vast bure was trying to find its way out to 50 miles away, walls, it seemed impossible that these again, nearly hull would
for when it was trapped by the receding i ready launching
September-lettide. alone that the Hner would be equip-
It was seen splashing in the mud ped, furnished, and decorated with all her promised luxury to time for her malden voyage in 1940.
ever
be
on
AHEAD OF SCHEDULE
Yet I was told, that the work is alend of schedule. Stands are already being constructed beside the towering hull in readiness for the launching. The forest of uprights!
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that
and shallow water by men working Mr. Metcalfe, who estimated the on a wharf. A party rowed loa Bund's membership at 15,000, şaki boat towards it and one man fred. 10 that while a member of the Bund he shots from n 12-bore gun before he had found many members who com suerceded in killing it.
!plained of the lack of co-operation by The whale was then towed over to German Consulates, particularly in the wharf by a dredger and Hited, the
matter of obtaining Storm from the river by crane.
Troopers uniforms.
FIRST IN 35 YEARS
It is the first whale to be seen in i
"CONSULS WILL GO"
supporting the liner on her cradle is the River Trent for over 35 years. He reported this to Mr. Fritz Kuhn, The place where it was caught is the leader, who replied: "What's the
being dismantled.
Hans Luther. These Consuls will be
removed und We will get the Consuls we want."
Baby" Charge.
Rocked in the arms of a policewoman, IL 12-months-old baby slept peacefully in tendon court recently while Joseph Brogan, aged 36, to permanent home, was accused of being in charge. of it while drunk,
A constable said he had lo eject Brogan from a bus when he was carrying the baby.
Brogan said. In answer to the charge, "I was not drunk exact- ly. The child was given to ma three weeks ago."
He was remanded until the next day. Feller said they did not know whose child it was,
Constable Victim Of
Thief
In the murky catacombs beneath, about six miles from the junction of matter with them? I have removed the great hull 1 saw the triggers the Rivers Trent and Ouse, holding back the sliding ways which Mr. Thomas Hepworth, of Keadby,
Brantford, Ont. said: "I have lived here mare Quirt
There Is a bicycle thief here who 60 years mnd only known a whale
Herr Hans Luther was for a long plays no favourites. Constable Fred come up the Trent once before, tine German Ambassado, to Wash- W. Cooper porked his wheel belind That was more than 30 years ago,
ington. He was replaced last year by ja tree in a park here, and the thief when one was beached near here terr Hans Dieckhoff-Reuter.
took it.
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It is the invention of Mr. R. J. Lyttle, of Sydney, whose former coln-testing machines have been used by the bank for seven years.
The new machine, which is elec- irically driven, automintleatly sorts. ents, tests, and bugs the coins of the rate of £1,000 worth an hour.
From heaped-up tray, the cons ure brushed into a hopper. With amazing rapidity they pass through the sorting mechanism, each deno- mination being tested in transit to the bags.
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WORK OF FIVE MEN
Another machine, also invented by Mr. Lyttle, counts and wraps £500 in pennies a day.
This represents that work of five bank officers under the old system of hand counting and wrapping.
The machine "crimps" ench park- age in such a way thuit It is imposal- ble to extract a coin without break. ing the container.
The silver rolna tested by the Bank of New South Wales each your totals £7,000,000,
The total of rejected spurious coins average £400 a year.
Spurious coins are retumed to the depositors,
JEWISH REFUGEES
U.S. May Allow 27,000
To Enter
Delegates of 30 Governments, now meeting in London, are making pro- greas with plans to find homes for thousands of Jewish would-be refu- rees from Germany and Austria,
This is largely due to the initia- tive of President Roosevelt.
the
and
It is belleved that as a result of
pressure
of the British French Governments. Germany will eventually allow "involuntary immi- grants" to leave the country with a portion of their capital.
allow
The United States may about 27,000 refugees to enter the country yearly for about five years.
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