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GONE
ARE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE
And Gone with them are the old- fashioned methods of waxing the carriage.
Have you been using the same auto wax for years force of habit?
simply through Don't use a
horse and carriage auto wax.
It is no longer necessary to work all
RUB and RUB. in order to attain
finish for your ear.
Trapped
on
of
the
bed
the
the
sea
KIMMING along the sur- Ish boat with her White Ensign. By
day, to wear yourself out to face of the China Seas, waterproof, weather resisting wax 21 miles north of Wei-hai- Try WHIZ LONDON COACH WAX Wei, the British submarine for longer lasting beauty for your Poseidon prepared to fire a automobile and less work for you. torpedo. She was carrying Your waxing troubles, like the horse
out exercises. It was June and buggy, will be
Gono 9, 1931.
The
Sold Here HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Stubba Rd.
all the souls of his ancestors, he was
going to hit her. He flung his hand on the telegraph. Instead of order- Ing "Hard aport," he ordered "Hard
starboard."
Again his hand sought the tele- to ring down "Reverse en- ines. Hard astern."
graph,
THE engines stopped, then began to revolve in re- verse, striving to stem the momen- lum, to check the way under which she was still travelling relentlessly towards the veering submarine,
She was a superb craft. The trained skill of shipwrights in Barrow had ' fashioned her gleaming sides, her blunt nose,
But the rudder drove her at right. her conning tower that cut through the waters. Her 260 angles towards, instead of away from feet of length carried eight 21- the Poseidon, Bow met bow: heavy merchantman against slender sub- inch torpedo tubes: six for'ard marine. The plates of the Poseidon and two aft. A single 4-inch ripped asunder. The great tank of gun dominated her deck when it was pierced. The oil gushed out. she was afloat and was lowered canted, shifted her perfect balance, gushed in. The boat tilted, The scu below when she sank. She and began to
sinic. could make 174 knots on the Tedashi Iyeishi, the Japanese cap- surface, 10% submerged. She tain, ran to the bridge. The engines stopped. Boats were ordered
were
Hongkong Telegraph. displaced 1,670 tons on the sur- away: bonts filled with lifebelts for
Wyndham St., Hongkong 'Phone 26615 June 3, 1939
face, 2,040 submerged,
The further
adventures of
Mr. Pepys
in H. K.
SUBMARINE
TRAGEDIES
to
Disasiers
submarines of the Royal Navy since the Great War have taken a toll of 218 lives. The full list is as follows: Submarino L-24 sunk off Pori- land on January 10, 1924, in colli. slon with the battleship Resolute, with a loss of 48 lives.
with
Submarine M-1 sunk in coll sion in the English Channel on November 11, 1925. Dead totalled G9,
Submarine H-47 In collision sister submarine L-12 on July 9, 1020, when 21 were lost.
Submarine Poseidon sunk in collision with Chinese steamer
off Wethalwei Yula
on June 9, 1031, with lass of 20 Ilves. This was the first occasion when the Davis escape apparatus was due- cessfully used.
Submarine M-2 sunk off Pori- land on January 20, 1932. with a loss of 60 of her crew,
20th-Last night it did rain all. night and I am glad to find my-houso lenks but a little. I slept mighty sound, partly I doubt not after the unwonted labour of war child beint up the household books, my she-c
nway. And this I have not done 1. Nevertheless I these several years. doe come to my office pretty betimes and then in the newes-sheet, where after ordering my papers,
doe
1 see that Admiral Sir F. Dreyer bee retired. And I doubt not the sub- service will be sorry for it. To dine with Mr. C. Grain and his lady the woe Nebow-shot below Mr. Partridge's house at High West: and cards, where my for- nt pretty late
tune
is good. But Lord when I did get up upon the road where walls my rickshaw to carry me home I doc find be- all the street links out and so tween darkness, forge and raine wee cant but crecy
I did much feare creep and 1 to fall
the precipice well know- ing how the Chief of the Office of Works
"
would grieve did I come by end in such a a fashion. In the end I was come home safe, and
my
I did much wonder if they did minish the rates upon the High West houses ac- cording to the non-provision of links. Home very late and so to bed.
the submarine's stricken crow. The She was a fine ship. She was boats were lowered-and the Chia- happy ship. One of her seinen had ese sailors clapped the lifebelts
27th-This morning I once more dit written to his mother, unhappy round their own bodies, clattering
wake to fogge and raine and could about her boy who defied the na- in their light, shrill dialect that has of eye, steady of hand, sure of him
come by nothing before the eight- tural boundaries set to man by tra- given Its name to the Chinese game self. The familar words of the fourty framme which being a busy velling in the depths: "These boats Mah Jongg-the Twittering of Spar- Lord's Prayer, numbled a thousand time I doe and half full of the train- are wonderful and much better at rows.
Parade, steadied bands. Then when I am fain to enter sen than most big slips."
Galpin; Ave of his officers, 26 of
racing pulses and jangling, the front seat where sits but one But these boats-there were four his crew, performing miracles of cracking nerves of the men.
gentleman bealde the entrance hee of them in the "p" class: Perseus, speed and address, got through the
hatch even Proteus. Pandorn and Poseidon conning-tower Pree still in Hongkong) authorised ship was sinking. Between the or-
as the that might have fallen like the knell night before the bottom station. The phrase "Thy will be done," did make me clamber across him, which I did supposing hee was to of doom, rose like a challenge, in 1927, laid down in 1928, launched der "Engines astern" and the crash
.
umes the
at Church
"Suffer Little Children--" AN eighteen-months-old baby -she was fair-haired and blue-eyed, and could just toddle
Bc- As the "Amen" was spoken, Willis Which had I known it were not so, I had trodden heartily upon his toes to was brought into the "Hong- in 1929, commissioned in 1030 were there clapsed just 15 seconds.
not lucky. Proteus and Pandora, tween the crash and the vanishing go to his feet. He rigged a steel kong Telegraph" office yesterday bound for the China Station, had of the Poseidon there passed just hawser for the men to stand on le recompense him for his churlishness. struggled to a cupboard and lugged office and Lord! how they do alter ell Very busy ordering my papers in my by her trembling and distressed come in collision and had to walt in two minutes.
out the "Third Lungs-the new Gibraltar for repairs, Poseidon
Two minutes and 31
men got Davis father.
herself was to be named Python- through the narrow hatch.
They
escapo apparatus issued to the old ways, and yet none the more convenient that I can see. Later to It is not often that you sec men but snake names are traditionally kicked their way to the surface and every man aboard a submarine.
A square rubber "tank" oxygen the Clubbe Box at the Races, where tremble with the ague of fear. Unlucky for the Navy: 50 she was arrived like negroes. They had to lies on the chest. A great goggling I am about to eat my
named for the Greek of the sea; not of the when Mr. But is man shook, and the tears and articl, bearded brother of Zeun water, but to set through a solid foot headpiece goes over the face. Clips tasy pretty lady and a hearty gentle-
who was jealous for his dominion of of oil that loy, solid,
glutinous, like an elephant's trunk snakes from man who, I find, is the purser the deep.
slimy layer on the brine; oil lighter nose to chest. The device, purifies of the King's great shippes. And for than water, constricting to the limbs, the breath and allows it to be all that the day was a most toule one impossible to swim in.
breathed ngain, the nitrogen-soda with driving rain, wee doo make a to the whisky of oxygen-preventing merry party. Later, wagering not the neat gas from producing intoxi-sweepstakes, I doe come to Mr. Cold- doc buy a few billets in the
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story. Well he might tremble! Well he might weep!
He is a Jewish, refugee--a vlclim of the most terrible crime modern civilisation has known.
You probably saw
his name--
Rudolph Kuttner-in the papers early
this week.
pos
OSEIDON
the
THE
THE boats
Their
catlon.
He has another daughter, uttle mark to u
A submarine inevitably offers the Yuta's deck 24 names were call- Lung."
years old, And a wife, who is in
ing.
In Court, a sergeant said that the police had reason to believe that the wife had been admitted to hospital
on (1 pretext ot having taken
verona).
nunchcon
soli-
Stephen
in one
doc
the
ran along choppy sea, taking little stock in wind and weather. Normal-
came alongside, Iy, exercises were held ten miles.
Patiently he explained to the crew beck's box and there drink a glasse crews hauled further off, out of the main shipping men aboard. Then cruised about, well-known orders.
the how to put them on, rehearsing the of strong waters as a specific.against ways, but this time the locality was picking up a man here, a man there, began instructing the little Chinese conch to my house and so very early One seaman the damp. Afterwards by hackney- changed.
But when the roll was called on mess boy what to do with the Third to bed. look-out. Also, ed in vain.
28th (Lord's day).-Though I lay Someone cracked a joke that ranglate it was still raining when I get up equally inevitably, a look-out on a Iyelshi and Galpin went Queen Mary hospital, suffering from submarine, set low in the water con- Bagship of the Commander-in-Chief
to the true, not false. Someone started the and though I have slept many hours the after-effects of veronat poison-not see for ahead, especially in a of the China Station to make their of the day. "I want to be I feel not rested at all, and
choppy sea whose waves rise higher reports and to take all steps possi-ppy, but I can't be happy, till I wonder if
if I am suffering from night you happy too." The chorus starvation, and I must speak of than himself.
ble for the saving of ship and crew. echoed as if the men were in a dance my chyrurgeon. Whyle doe bothe The 1,733-ton steamer Yuta, own- The Berwick, the Cumberland, the hall or the canicen.
"I want to be and trim myselfe I learn that ed by Chinese company, com- aircrafi carrler, Hermes-another happy" gave way to another song first signal manded by a Japanese master, came Greek god-the sloop Marazion, the fraught with memories that hallow Mr. Stephen and his Lady and I doe hoisted. Later come lumbering down the sea-lane, Only destroyer Stormcloud, the submarine it: Tipperary.”
revive them somewhat with a glasse when separated by yards did the parent ship Medway a floating
or two of Hollands waters. After two ships see cach other. There
ere workshop where any repair could be
nuncheon is taken, to sleep
until a sudden shrill chatter of carried out, heavy tackle was stored, was
THE sea came crawling and at five of the clock Mr. Stephen. Chinese the staccato bark of orders
hoarse pressed air machinery was in in English Siren howled,
creeping in. It was, at wakes me to say number seven_signal stalled divers were maintained-
their numbed feet. It was round is hosted and I doe trust I may and mournful. A whistle screamed, raced for the position.
B. Lieutenant-Commander
W.
It was icy at obtain forgiveness for what I did say Admiral McVay, commanding the their freezing ankles.
their calves.
in my haste. Gave them a dish of Galpin, in the Poseidon, gave the United States Asiatic Ficet, put at
Clearly Willis explained that the ten and so they home and I fall to Jewish refugees are already desti. I command "Helim hard aport"--the the disposal of the British authori hatch could be opened only when recognised "rule of the sea.' The lies any of his command. He des the pressure inside the submarine
moving pols and bricks upon my roof offeer in the Chinese ship got flus patched the submarine salvage It has doomed the two children, fered; he was going to hit this Eng- vessel Pigeon to the rescue.
PLEASE Turn To Page 15. was equal to the pressure outside. of otherwise the sea would rush in. possibly, to the fale that overcame
water 21 miles North of Wei-bai- linging back into the hull any man either. But there's plenty left in it thousands of Russian bables who
wel: 120 feet. It was little for who stood on the "frontier" drown yet," said Wills. Splendide mendar
ing him and all others aboard. One in very truth. grow up great exodus across Siberia, in a
The water crept up to the chin. flood the vessel. efty where the only way in which
The men stood on their toes. Now, The six men stood by the hatch now A
or never wes their chance. a young woman could live was to
to force away the cover. It jam- Hands reached for the hatch-cover.. sell herself.
It lay stubborn in its place, Straining, tugging, pushing, pulling,
So the Court made oat an expul- sion order against this man, his wife and his two babies.
That order doomed the young cou- ple to starvation and destitution in
city where sixteen
tule and starving.
thousand
to adulthood, after the gineer for ten years until the po-
the "Telegraph", office with his baby managed to temporarily avert that fate for himself and his family by- heaven knows how! escaping to Hongkong.
of this awful misery by having thesa destitute people in our midst. We
to a coolle from will give shelter
white man persecuted unto death by his own people.
"Out of sight-out of mind", is the policy Hongkong has adopted. And
case.
to
He is a German,' forsaken and hounded by his own people.
the
There
bows.
was only 20 fathom
mcd.
wrought.
grom commenced. He is no criminal, divers. There was a hole in the no subversive agent and no sufferer submarine, Surely, surely the men man went to the valve and began to from malignaut or infectious dis- could get out.
But 120 feet of water exert
The risk WIS He has not forsaken his wife and gigantic pressure.
that the sea would rush in and This German-Jew who come into those two defenceless babies in order drown the men in the hull before held there by the dead weight, the sliding, sweating, bending their
fight his own way to survival.
sea. Again shoulders to it, teaming at it with He does not know the jungle law they could fight their way to the killing weight of the of the survival of the fittest. Even hatches or the gaping rent in the wey bent their shoulders. The air broken nails, thrusting with burst-
was growing rank and foul. Their though it means starvation und possible death, he clings desperately close water-tight doors." Ten men too early yet to fix the "Third Lung" It lifted an inch, a foot. It was To check it, the order was given: strength, for lack of fresh oxygen-ing hearts and gasping lungs, they lo those three mill-stones around bla
Into position was ebbing. The cold astern, eight men amidships SIX
men-Willis. the last of them-shot But we don't want to be reminded neck, determined to sink or swim men forfard strove to carry out the sweat of terror mingled with the hot open. One after another, the four
with
order. The
men astern succeeded. sweat of effort,
Suddenly the hatchway yielded upwards through the sea that still But the men in the bows were faced
strove to claim them; moving at Two men made ready. "On life eighteen inches a second, taking a The most inhuman despot
twisted by the collision. They pult- saving apparatus to the surface. face. with a crippled bulkhead, bent and
called Willis. minute and a half to break the sur twentieth century has known.has China but we will not give it to signed the death warrant of thoufed and pushed, sweated and strained Two bodies
the rest could move the
Three hours and a half since the sands like him, has forced countless The ship, their own lives, depended Before
crash.. Two men rocketed to the surface, young glel-children in Shanghai into on, that stubborn door. They tug- hatch cover jammed down again.
Searchlightswore lowered prostitution as the only means of Sed and fore at it with frantic fin- survival, har, persecuted his country: Hers. At last it. closed-all but a Holt and Lovock. They shot through gleam opaquely through the depths of the sea. Divers in goggling hel- men because their only crime is that crinkle that could not be corrected, the fathoms of sea, the inches of ell
weighted boots clumped through which the sea came crawl that still lingered in swirling traces, mets and Ing and creeping.
greasing the waves. Boats put out Must Hongkong counter-sign
and picked them up: Holt suppori- along the ocean floor weaving haw- ing the blue-faced Levock. Only revolved to pump air to themy and sers with clumsy hands. Machinery that warrant in this man's case by sending him and his family back to
Inter did he learn he had been sup- Shanghait of
As the
S the ship sank, the elec porting a corpse.. It was just two force air into the drowned submar- We plead for this family, Not
light plant failed, hours and a quarter after the crash. in -There was hope. Hope for the 18 for the father, But for Pitch darkness, darkness dank and so much
Below in the submarine another
passed: another hour, 60 men still aboard. Hope even for the those two children-for the eigh dump with the condensing breath of hour teen-month-old baby who, yester- the crew, wet with the infiltration of minutes, 3,000 seconds. The water sunken, half-million-pound ship.
Oxy-acetylene fames cut through day, prattled happily in our office e sea, nerid with the scent of rose to knee, to thigh, lo groin, to
the weather the shell-but
grew soon to fm brine. Darkness
grow navel, to chest, to armpit, to should-
The divers could stay down as her father pleaded to
brackish with breathed, rebreathed er, to throat. The lungs with which stormy. broken English.
no longer. It was certain death to be con-air and the sweat of human bodies, they breathed were now only the
continue. demned to the fate that awaits her
That baby should not
• Thero were rumours of tapping, Stumbing in the darkness, drench artificial lungs of the Davis appara- if she returns to Shanghat. She de- ed in perspiration of fear, the men tus,
They were waiting, waiting in the Morse signals banged on the metal serves from life at the very least resigned themselves to the inevita- what we in Hongkong offer our ble. No hope or only that which hope that as the submarine filled the hull with a spanner. When K 13 be equalised and sank off the Clyde in 1917 men had Iasts with the basic fact of life. No pressure would dogy.
hope His Excellency the reasoned hope. No chance even to, they would yet get the hatch cover been rescued after 24 hours.
Back went the ships, braving the Governor will personally intercedo get to a gun, and put a swift end off again,
storm. Back to the sea-floor, brav- in this case and countermand, or to the inevitable slow death.
ing death, went the divers. They even delay, that expulsion order that A torch gleamed In the darkneKS,
listened, banging on the sunken ver sel. But no answer came. to driving this unfortunate family a hand torch like that a schoolboy ireasures on his birthday. Petty
Within three days' the ship was back to its doom.
we expel these unwanted men, wo- men and children.
That policy, unfortunately, is necessary to some extent. It is un-
standard Imaginable that the European living in Hongkong should be reduced to the standard that now obtains in Shanghai as a result of the Influx of refugees.
In the northern elty, white men are between the shafts of the 'rick- shas, and are competing with coolie Inbour in the streets and on the docks, in an effort to keep life and soul to- gether.
It is a terrible catastrophe, ren- dered more so by the utter im potence of authority to do anything for these people.
they are Jews.
We
tts
CUDDENLY the, nerves of ene man cracked. Ho
But surely humanity demands that in the more pitiful of these
We believe the general public. In Officer Willis, torpedo runner's. listened to the oxygen bag about his buried in 12 feet of mud and sal- casca Hongkong sometimes sees, Hongkong should pay attention to mato, senior rating among the six chest. It did not bubble. It was vage operations and the eighteen
croaked. "Tank men-loth
amidshipe officialdom can ent through red the terrible misery and privation at men for ard, took comunitnd of his empty. "Oy" he Tel. 58425,
astern, eight tape or turn' ■ blind eye to Infra
our very doors and endeavour to little group.
empty." Wills listened to his own whose opic la written only in the help, even in a small way,' to, alle- He fell on his knees and prayed. tank. It too was silent, silent be- Book. ot. Hons of our passport lawENT
the All-Knowing were. Here is a man with with and two-vlate-the suffering of these unfor Not a religious man by the normal cause it was empty. "Listen to abandoned with their half-million- bables who worked as a Diesel: en-
tunate people.
standard. An ordinary sailor, grey mine, you fool. Mine isn't bubbling pound death trap of steel forever.