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Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 April 25, 1939
City Chaos
HAS not needed Investigations
which have been carried out by the Telegraph" over a period of several days to disclose that the traffle problem in Hongkong has become completely chaolle.
During observationa since last Thursday, it has been found that an average of between 80 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 n mad scramble ensues for empty spaces long before the average motorist is due of his offee,
Unless urgent
It is quite evident that the problem of illegal parking is already beyond remedy by the traffle authorities,
The Story Of The Brave MEN OF THE SEA
Yesterday a brief "Routor" cablo told of the death of alx Ifoboatmon. But for overy lifeboatman drowned 160
othor mon oro saved by Britain's lifeboat servico. This article tells the story of that. servico.
T
A ship was aground in Tyne. mouth. They saw her sink until only her masts were above
The Original They reached the wreck; they 7 hours she was in Whitby; she wng used 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 awept overboard. hour ordeal. brian 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
53; two of the men were 72.
100 passengers.
ed awarded him its gold medal, The Institution he had found- the V.C. of the Fenceful Sens.
Boulmer (Northumberland) In 1925 men and women of towed the lifeboat nine miles overland. They covered it in seven hours and got the boat afloat.
of a service which to-day chest "stove in." controls 140 motor lifeboats; 24 HE merchants of pulling and sailing lifeboats; a South Shields were fleet of 164 craft that cover key talking in their com- points of the entire coast of mon-room; discussing two Great Britain and Ireland. The cost of the boats runs from topics, the chances of an o to £10,000 per craft; upheaval in France in that upkeep varies from £400 to £600 THE institution was founded,
The men that do this work? but it made little headway. Sailors who volunteer for a year of grace 1789, and the a year.
In 1838 Grace Darling's superb few shillings of pay paid by 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 Farne Island awakened a ma- the fire, when a rending miles without refuelling, has 2 until 1849, when a lifeboat cap ficial. The men have a sliding nientary interest, but it was not a retainer: £12, a year. The crash drew them to the speed of 9 knots, carries & crew sized in the mouth of the Tyne,
engineer is a permanent of- 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.
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 50s. 6d. R.N.L.I.'s funds wero £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 gulness for the design of on lifeboat work, his depen- weight of the crow 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 put out, and the merchants, im- Colonel
made in cases of appalling dani- Then bought by Ramsgate. potent and horror-stricken, saw Bart., who had seen wreck after would be to fill with anonymous
Sir William Hillary, To tell the epics of the service amounts to £50,000 a year.
ger. The bill for personnel 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
men and children have been organisation of such a service.
went out six times in one day, saved by the lifeboats of Britain 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 637 men. wrecked sailors.
Canning, formulator of the war, a hospital ship was wreck- The R.N.L.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 lccal 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 wore towed
them.
WITHIN a few days the mer- chants offered the sum of
In 1861 the Whitby lifebont
MORE than 60,000 men, wo-
rent 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 by Government, the only possible 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 outcome of the present situation is called a "self-righting" ship. National Lifeboat Institution was lowered bodily down sheer bulk or all of its bands are lost; complete traffic chaos.
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.NL.L is the prize-which Wouldhave
Six years later Hillary him- the raging October gale. An- contained in the cold mathema- refused. Sixty-two years Inter self went to sea. He headed a other boat was forced back. tlcal equation:
in 1851-Its principles were crew of 14 and took out the Only a motor-boat could save since it is manifestly unfair to proseTM
recognised and incorporated in lifeboat that was not yet ready 200 who still remained aboard. all lifeboats! cute motorists who have no alterna-
to sail. But a ship had crashed The Tynemouth boat was 44 tive but to infringe the regulations.
Out of all the plans submit on the rocks, and he would not, miles away. Within 15 minutes The number of private vehiclested, one lifeboat was evolved, could not, refuse the challenge. of the call she was out; within seeking parking accommodation in called the Original, It em-
the clly streets is far in excess of the space available.
Twelve months hence, the problem, unless immediately faced, will lead to a completo 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 traffic. In
The
Pedder Street it leads to a disloca- tion of trame that is already a serious problem on its own.
For
altuation, Govern- present ment has itself to blame,
The policy of utilising the city's streets as cur parks has led to the chaotic conditions now ruling.
Now, with saturation д fact, Government must either allocate other streets and thus add to the
bodied some of the ideas con- ceived in 1784 by one Lionel Lukin, a London coachbuilder, who had designed what he termed an "unimmergible" boat: i.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 motorists have no more right to stricted and free parking in the centre of the euy's main streets than would have shop-keepers to set up
their businesses there.
existing confusion, or radically atter Transportation Breakdown
the entire system.
Motorists themselves must admit that Hongkong is one of the very few eitles in the world where free car parking is permitted in streets,
thi
The obvious method is to abolish
system
The alternatives are to construct enclosed "skyscruper car parks on allotments of the streets, utilising the modern method of elevators for transportation from floor to floor, or to construct underground parks which will not interfere willi mobility on the streets.
In this connection, the old City Hall site or. Beaconsfield · Arcado
suggest themselves as ideal positions for the former plan.
The alternative pian of digging or tunnelling would probably be more acceptable to this Colony, in view of the fuet that such garages could rapidly be converted into al rald shelters in times of emergency.
Private enterprise · would, qu}^klæ solve the Colony's traffic problem it Government would end the competi tive system of perniitling free park- ing in the streets. At the risk of incurring the Dewrath of Automobile Associatión, we contend
Uie
suburbs.
One lifeboatman lost-160 men of other ships saved.
Gerald Haylett
Great Spirits in Poor Bodies
is a curious thing that, although I is a curious thing that sed, e should attribute auch an exaggerated importance to our bodies.
By a Wimpole Street Doctor
His career
was finished, and few would have blamed him if he had blown out his brains, or drifted into the gutter.
Instead of doing anything po weakly foolish, this man took up the study
of skin diseases, and is now one of the world's leading dermatologisin
Naturally we should endeavour to keep them healthy, clean, and sult- ably covered, but oport from that surely the only thing that really matters is the essential ego which been handicapped by half-withered perhaps the only branch of healing in inhabits the body.
legs. He must originally have which the loss of an arm is not an It Is that which determines possessed immense will power, but it insuperable handicap. That Is Pro whether we are. clever or stupid; was the terrifle determination neces-fedor F. J.
good companions, or crashing bores; sary first of all to conquer the in-versity, Burgess, of M'G Un
.
The
kindly or selfish; and it is these fantile paralysis that struck him
lato Sir Arthur qualities that decide whether our down and
ab- triumphantly demonstrated to fellows will like or dislike vs.
the every
work that even the affiction of spiritual O SOME extent the present park-
solutely no to remain Although we all know this in our respect in spite of his infirmity, that blindness need be no bar to success. T
ing chinos is also due to the hearts, such is the Influence of pure converted him from a great man into He is, in fact, remembered to-day for breakdown in the system of public ly physlen! appearance that come a colossus. transportation between the city and trifling Infirmity, or deformity can
the work he did for the blind after If Philip, Snowden had not, pa a losing his sight. change a man's life or decide his young man, been the victim of a
With inspiring examples like these The parking problem undoubted destiny. The
extraordinary thing is cycle neddent that crippled him for before us, why should some of us bo ly bound up with the fact that many that this tremendous psychological fire, would he have developed into so absurdly sensitive about physical people have become motorists be- force is created entirely by the in one of the leading statesmen of
faults? Why
should we allow them cause the passenger ratio to available dividuel. He is not moulded by
pairi tlines? The
from to transform accommodation in trams and buses public opinion, but by himself.
or else especially in the latter-bus passed,
make us Up till quite recent times those which he was never free made him as apologetic, creatures ging, shy. suturation point.
who were physically amleted were he did not allow it to mar his not
inflexible as steel in publie life. Yet tiresomely aggressive? They have
slightest
effect on the hc A measure of relief would be objects of scorn and derision. obtained for both motorists and those hunchback, the cripple, the bind, charecter, because his friends knew essential spirit that dwells within us.
There are a number of to use existing public and the insane were all regarded him as one of the kindilest men who
Perhaps the most important. in acidah- could be speeded up and extended. transportation systems if the Interns Nature's jokes provided specially ever breathed.
to entertain the rest of humanity.
ness. We have been made to suffer and we are going to fake jolly good care that
everyone also suffers as No matter how cruel physical well. Or we may find that our in- no to keep
forced to
For some timo past we have heard
of proposals for double-decker buses Triumphs Of Will
in Kowloon. We submit that these
are far more urgently required on the
modern
Handicaps Overcome
the
, reasons.
It in the racial memory of the cruel } handicap may be, it can be overcome | firmity attracts,lly make
island routes, where congestion has indignities heaped upon those unso long as in possessor does not allow in the limelight wo reached a point where it is becoming fortunates that makes us so scutely it to become a psychological blight. In parade of it. Or perhaps wo dia- increasingly Impossible for elty self-conscious of any. personal There was a brillant young surgeon cover it nreuses sympathy, so we un- homes at reasonable hours. workers to reach their offices or idiosyncrasy.
who lost an arm in the Great War. blushingly exploit that sympathy in There is no doubt that with the Ita whole heart and soul was This celash attitude, defeats itsel
în order lo benefit, personally, Government would do well to correct mental outlook, physical surgery, but even a conlus cannot Institute an inquiry. Into the entire infirmity can be an immense force operate with one band.............
speedily; before very long we become: trame protea in Hongkoni,
with for good, It is no mero' coincidence Even medicine was basted, as a paychological lepers who deserve special reference to the two points that the man who has become a great physician constantly needs two hands segregating.»
the ralced by the Telegraph.
President of America should have tor examination and manipulation, Ihuman
rest
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