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The Story Of The Brave
MEN OF
Yesterday a brief "Router" cable told of the death of six lifeboatmen. But for every lifeboatman drowned 160 ather
men aro saved by Britain's lifeboat service. This articlo tells the story of that service.
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The Original was used
THE SEA
They reached the wreck; they 7 hours she was in Whitby; she at took off the crew. As they went out at once and saved the Bamburgh, on the sailed back he and three of his 50 who had survived the 48- the cruel Northum- fellows were swept overboard, hour ordeal. brían coast, until, in They, in turn, were rescued, and 1830, she broke in two. when Hillary came to land he out and stayed out for 17 hours; The Lowestoft boat once went That was the beginning had six ribs broken and his the average age of the crew was of a service which to-day chest "stove in." controls 140 motor lifeboats; 24
63; two of the men were 72.
cost of the boats rung from
The institution he had found-
☆
Boulmer (Northumberland) In 1925 men and women of
towed the lifeboat nine miles overland. They covered it in nevén hours and got the boat afloat.
HE merchants of pulling and sailing lifeboats; a ed awarded him its gold medal, South Shields
were fleet of 164 craft that cover key the V.C. of the Peaceful Sens. talking in their com- points of the entire coast of mon-room; discussing two Great Britain and Ireland. The topics, the chances of an £5000 to $10,000 per craft; THE institution was founded, upheaval in France in that upkeep varies from £100 to £600
but it made little headway. Sailors who volunteer for
The men that do this work? year of grace 1789, and the a year. p.m.
In 1838 Grace Darling's superb few shillings of pay paid by morrow, Wednesday, 26th April, devastating weather that
The modern type of boat is exploit from the lighthouse on piece work. Only the cox gets. kept them huddling round 51ft. long, has a range of 120 Farno Island awakened a mo- the fire, when a rending miles without refuelling, has a mentary interest, but it was not a retainer: £12 a year. The crash drew them to the speed of 9 knots, carries a crow sized in the mouth of the Tyne, ficial. The men have a sliding
until 1849, when a lifeboat cap engineer is Thongkong Telegraph. window, even into the gale of 8, and has capacity to carry that the public really awoke to scale (in which the cox shares
that raged outside.
A ship was aground in Tyne- mouth. They saw her sink
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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 April 25, 1939
City Chaos
IT HAS not needed investigations
which have been carried out by the Telegraph" over a period of
several days to disclose that the. irafe problem in Hongkong has became completely chaotle.
During observations sinco last Thursday, it has been found that on
until only her masts were above
them.
100 passengers.
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a permanent of-
the crying need for an efficient in addition to his retainer), service. At that time the ranging from 12s. 6d, for a day launch in summer to 66s. 6d. R.N.L.I.'s funds were £354 p.a.
Then the fourth Duke of for a day and night session in water. They watched, helpless, THE service which to-day re- Northumberland offered a hun- winter. If a man loses his life as the frail spars bent with the quires a quarter of a million dred guineas for the design of on lifeboat work, his depen- weight of the crew clinging to pounds annually (recruited from a ship. The winner Incorpor- dants receive the equivalent of voluntary subscription) was ated Wouldhave's plans and the Service pension. The RN.L.I. It was death to any boat to tral control in 1824.
officially incorporated with cen- first self-righting lifeboat was told me that extra grants are
Then bought by Ramsgate.
mado in cases of appalling dan- put out, and the merchants, im- Colonel Sir William Hillary, potent and horror-stricken, saw Bart., who had seen wreck after would be to fill with anonymous
To tell the epics of the service ger. The bill for personnel
amounts to £50,000 a year. the crew drop, one by one, to wreck, flogged by the breakers heroism every page of every drown in the swirling waters, of the Irish Sea, crash on the issue for a month and still leave
rocks of his native Isle of Man, half untold. wrote a pamphlet calling for the
MORE than 60,000 men, wo- In 1861 the Whitby lifeboat men and children have been organisation of such a service. went out six times in one day, saved by the lifeboats of Britain WITHIN a few days the mer- chants offered the sum of
On the committee formed as and capsized with the loss of all since they were organised. Last Two Guineas for the design of a reply sat Wilberforce, the hands on the last journey. year, there were 483 launches, some type of craft which could man who freed the slaves; the In 1914, when all lights were saving 88 vessels, helping 250 be used to save the lives of ship- then Archbishop of Canterbury; extinguished on account of the ships, saving 687 men. wrecked sailors.
Canning, formulator of the war, a hospital ship was wreck- The R.NL.I have distributed Plan after plan poured in: Monroe Doctrine; Peel, origina- ed near the same port. One 118 gold, 1,000 silver, 200 bronze none of which was considered tor of the police force; Premier local pulling and sailingboat medals and they do not award practicable, although one Wil- Lord Liverpool; Lord John Rus went out twice in a raging gale; lightly.
Sometimes, as yesterday, as liam Wouldhave, a house-painter sell. It received support one two nearby lifeboats were towed Unless urgent measures are taken and singing-teacher, submitted of his proudest achievements out by trawlers, but could not at St. Ives last year, and as in a modelin tin-of what he from George IV. The Royal live in the sea. A third craft 1928 at Rye, a lifeboat and the called a "self-righting" ship. National Lifeboat Institution was lowered bodily down sheer bulk or all of its hands are lost; cliffs, by rope, by hand-but but the proudest of all the This was adjudged worth half was a fact.
could not make headway against proud boasts of the R.NLİ is the prize--which Wouldhave Six years later Hillary him- the raging October gale. An- contained in the cold mathema- refused. Sixty-two years later self went to sea. He headed a other boat was forced back. tical equation:
in 1851-ita principles were crew of 14 and took out the Only a motor-boat could save recognised and incorporated in lifeboat that was not yet ready 200 who still remained aboard. all lifeboats!
to gall. But a ship had crashed The Tynemouth boat was 44 tive but to infringe the regulations.ted, one lifeboat was evolved, could not, refuse the challenge. of the call she was out; within 'Out of all the plans submit on the rocks, and he would not, miles away. Within 15 minutes
average of between 86 and 100 private vehicles illegally park in the streets of the city between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Existing car parks are so filled to overflowing that a mad scramble ensues for emply spaces long before the average motorist is due at his office.
by Government, the only possible
outcome of the present situation is complete traffle chaos.
It is quite evident that the problem of illegal parking is already beyond remedy by the trame authorities,
since it is manifestly unfair to prose- cute motorists who have no alterna-
The number of private vehicles seeking parking accommodation in the city streels is far in excess of the space avallable.
Twelve months hence, the problem, unless immediately faced, will lead to a complete dislocation of existing methods.
The occupation of the centre of the city's thoroughfares has necessitated, In the case of one roadway, the ban- ning of two-way vehicular trafic. In Pedder Street it leads to a disloco- tion of traffle that is already a serious problem on its own.
For the present situation, Govern- ment has Itself to blame.
The policy of utilising the city's streets as car parks has led to the chaotic conditions now ruling.
Д fact; Now, with saturation Government must either allocate other streels and thus add to the existing confusion, or radically alter the entire system.
Motorists themselves must admit that Honkong ist one of the very few cities in the world where free car parking is permitted in streets.
The obvious method is to abolish this system.
The alternatives, are to construct enclosed "akyscraper" car parks on allotments of the alreets, utilising the modern method of clevators for transportation from floor to floor, or
underground to construct
parks which will not interfere with mobility on the streets.
In this connection, the old City Hall site or Beaconsfield Arcade suggest themselves as Ideal positions for the former plan,
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called the Original. It em- bodied some of the ideas con- ceived in 1784 by one Lionel Lukin, a London coachbuilder, who had designed what he termed an "unimmergible" bost: 1.e., unsinkable. He had trans- formed a Norwegian yawl into a craft of his design. Lukin it was who, in 1807, designed the type of sailing lifeboat still in use on the East coast.
that motorlata have no more right to stricted and free parking in the centre of the cầy s mi sirgets than would have shop-keepers to set up their businesses there.
Transportation Breakdown По SOME extent the present park- T fog chaos is also due to the breakdown in the system of public transportation between the elty and suburbs.
One lifeboatman fost-100 men of other ships saved.
Gerald Haylett
Great Spirits in Poor Bodies
TT is a curious thing that, although|
we call ourselves civilised, wo should attribute such an exaggerated importance to our bodies.
By a Wimpole Street Doctor
His career was finished, and fow would have blamed him if he had blown out his brains, or drifted into the gutter.
Instead of doing anything so weakly foolish, this man took up the study of skin diseases, and is now one of the world's leading dermatologists,
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after
Naturally we should endeavour to keep them healthy, clean, and suit- ably covered, but apart from that surely the only thing that really matters is the essential cgo which been handicapped by half-withered perhaps the only branch of healing in inhabits the body.
Jeg He must originally have which the loss of an arm is not an It is that which whether we are
determines possessed Immense will-power, but it insuperable handloop, That is Pre- clever or stupid; was the terrille determination neces-fessor F. J. Burgess, of M'Gill Uni- good companions, or crashing bores; cary drst of all to conquer the in-versity, Montreal. kindly or selfish; and it is these fantile paralysis that strucks him Tho late. Sir Arthur Pearson qualities that decide whether our down and secondly to remain abtriumphantly demonstrated the tellows will like or dislike us. solutely normal in every spiritual world that even the affiction of Although we all know this in our respect in spite of his infirmity, that blindness need be no bar to success. hearts, such is the inuenes of pure converted him from a great man into He is, in fact, remembered to-day for ly physical appearance that some a colossus,
the work he did for the blind trifling infirmity or deformity can
If Philip Snowden had not, as a losing his sight. change a man's life or decide his
With Inspiring examples like these The parking problem is undoubted-destiny. The extraordinary thing is young man, been the victim of a
cycle accident that crippled him for before us, why should come of us be ly bound up with the fact that many that this tremendous psychological life. people have become motorists be-force is created entirely by the fa-fe, would he have developed into so absurdly sensitive about physical cause the passenger ratio to available dividual. He is not moulded by one of the leading statesmen of faults? Why should we allow them modern times? The pain from to transform us into cringing, shy, accommodation in trams and buses public opinion, but by himself, especially in the latter has passed Up till quite recent times those which he was never free made him as apologetic creatures, or else make us
who were physically afflicted were inflexible as steel in public life. Yet tiresomely aggressive?
ho did not allow it to mar his not the sightest The A measure of relief would be objects of scorn and derision. obtained for both materials and those hunchback, the cripple, the blind, character, because his friends knew essential spirit forced to use existing public and the insane were all regardedim ay one of the kindest men who transportation systems if the latter as Nature's jokes provided specially ever breathed. could be speeded up and exfer.ded. to entertain the rest of humanity. Handicaps Overcome
zaturation point.
For some time past we have heard
of proposals for double-decker buses
Triumphs Of Will.
They
hove effect on the that dwells within us. There are a number of reasons. Perhaps the most
is selfish.. Important is ress. We have been made to suffer and we are going to take
Jolly
good care that everyone else suffers as No matter how cruel a physical well. Or we may find that
make
wo dia-
The alternative plan of digging or tunnelling would probably be more deceptable to its Colony, in view of the fact that much unges could rapidly be converted into air raid
helters in times of emergency.
Private enterprise would quickly I workers to reach their offices or solve the Colony's, traffe, problem it homes at reasonable hours.. Government would end the competi- Government would do well to correct mental outlook, a physical surgery, but Live systçın y permitting free, park-», institute in ‘Inquiry into the entire infirmity can be an immense, force operate with one hand.
tratile problem in Hongkong, with for good. It is no mero coincidence Even medicine was barred as a paychological lepers who deserve special reference to the two points thi the mon who has become it great physician constantly néoda two hands segregaling from the raised by the "Telegraph."
President of America should have for examination and manipulation. Thumanity,
in Kowloon. We submit that these
our in- are for more urgently required on
the
It is the racial memory of the cruel handicap may be, it can be overcome firmity attracts attention, so to keep island routes, where congestion has indignities heaped upon those un-so long as lur possessor does not allow in the limelight we continually reached a point where It is becoming fortwistes that makes us so acutely it to become a psychological blight. a parade of It Or per increasingly Impossible for
of city self-conscious
ver. it any personai, There was a brillant young surgeon cover. arouses sympathy,
to 90 un- Idiosyncrasy,
who lost an armh in the Great War. blushingly exploit that sympathy in
and soul was in order to benefit personally.
genius cannot Thin Splints altitude defents facit speedily: before very long we become
ing In the areata. At the risk of Incurring the wrath of the Automobile Association, we contend
There is no doubt that, with the whole heart ja