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EDITORIAL
ON the 20th of September, 1850, I left Southampton in the P G.O steamer Indus for China,
The day was dark and gloomy, and appar- ently in harmony with the spirits of most of the
passengers, who were more or les8 overcome with the grief of part- ing from re latives.
On the first day out, one could do no more than
eral iden of one's fellow travellers,
who were largely com- posed of young men
ABOARD
THE CAMEL SPECIAL
connected with the East Indian civil and military services, of ladies going to join their husbands, and of military officers.
In those days, or at least on that steamer, meals were not announced by the commonplace bell or gong but three musical Rewards summoned the passengers by trumpet calls, and on the second morning out the well known strains of the "Bay of Bigeny O" informed us not only that breakfast was ready, but that we were entering the stormiest and most dreaded waters of the Atlantic; and the gathering clouds and increasing gale
RUMANIAN
BOTH Germany and Rumania have been quick to deny the story that Germany had presented an "ultimatum" in the last few days.
Germany's pressure is bound to be strong, Her aim is to be the hard core of an area includ- ing the Balkans, the Baltic States, and Russia, all of them making a soft, protecilve covering on which she can live and behind whose neutrality she can shelter until she feels strong enough to came out to attack.
This aim she will pursue with persistence and cunning, but hardly yet, one thinks, with the brutality which even the most mouselike of new- trals would resent to the point of war.
There seems little reason for Germany herself to ravage the industry and agriculture of Rumania which she is so busily fostering to her own ad- vantage.
Only if their fruits began to fall into other hands would Germany think it worth her while to
WEALTH
seize what little war might leave for herself.
The purpose of the Clodius visit this week-the second such visit since March-ly probably merely to get more from Rumanin. Germany has gained control over oil companies, set up steel factories, and encouraged the peasants, to co-operate to in crense agricultural production.
For this activity she wishes to have an ever- But the reappearance of growing annual return. the Iron Guard is a sign that political pressure goes with economic demands, and the Allies do well to be on their guard.
They cannot afford to be driven out of South- eastern Europe by any grouping of interested Powers. Denmark and Norway have taught them the price of delay and indecision. There is no need at all for them to have an ignominious set- back in the Balkans.
"
King Carol of Rumania has no taste for de- pendence, as his last speech showed, and he de- serves all the support Britain can give him.
"Erbet "iggs likes our Gompetitions, so he's written-
a speshul competishun speshul to the "telegraf”
UNDERNEAF you will find sum words which i bet nobody knows the proper
meanin of
you will find the meanins somewhere else on this page an if enybody guesses the same meanins as me i will give im or er a prise of a nice nourishin bottle of UB beer an a plate of chili con carne down ole dutch's place
walk up lidles an gents an try yer luck:
1.-wot is acrimony 2.--wot la a adult
3.-wot is anatomy 4wot is a celibate 5-wot is a cortege G-wot is eugenics 7.-ot is facetious
wot is a incinerator 8-wot 9-wot is intoxication 10.-wot is lartly
11-toot in syntax
12 wot is a manoeuvre
13.-wol is a myth
if you guesses all the correck ansers an no checlin please send a postcard wiv two bucks In it to 'erbert iggs, hesquire
c/o honkong telegraf.
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ansers to 'erbert 'iggs pussel competishun:
1.-acrimony is wot a man given is divorced wile
2.—a adult is a man wot as slop- ped growin at both ends
3.-anatomy 14 the study cavenly bodies
of
4. celibate is a, bloke wot cleans out cellars
6-a cortege is wol you buya yote gal when you goes to the cheero club dances
Beugenics is wen you belleves bloke is born orlright
-facetious is wet they calls the blokes woi likes Hitle old mus- solini
8.—a Incinerator la a bloke wol ints bad fings insted of comin right out an tellin you
D-Intoxicailen Is
wol. cures
dipferia
10-laxity is wot cures conslipa- shun
11-syntax is wot the honkong- goyment is goin⋅to ave soon
12, manoeuvre is wot the farmer puts on the ground ter make the spuds grow
13--a myth is a feemale moth.
FLAGS TALK AGAIN
NAVAL men have remarked
how quickly officers of the Mercantile Marine have fallen in with the new way at sen necessitated by sailing in convoy.
One of the most important things in convey is reading and acting on signala "immediately not sooner," as they say in, the Navy. Upon a string of Dogs may depend the lives of men and the existence of ships: and flags are now being used more since wireless messages may give away a convoy's position.
The first Commercial Code of Flag Signals, introduced. 1. 1857, had but eighteen flogs, represent- ing the first eighteen consonants; there were no voweld.
Thoy Vary In Shape After thirty years it was decided to Improve it: but a special com- mittee of the Board of Trade strug- gled with the task for
thirteen years before they succeeded. In 1027 further changes were decided on, and in 1934 the present code was established. The ten numer als, 0 to 9, were added; also three "aubstitute", flags, which made it possible to use the same Jelier or. Agure more than once in the same hoist of fings.
The flags vary in shape. A and Bare burgees, with divided enda; the numerals are pennants, tri- angular-shaped. The twenty- seventh flag, the "answering pen- nant," is hoisted to denote that a message has been received and understood.
The flags are Kolated never more than four at a time. The twenty- six flags con 'bo · arranged'. În 370,070 ways, the most usual being
two
combinations of letters that repre- sent whole messages.
Urgent messages can be sent with flags only; thus the letters A C mean "Do not abandon ship,”
The letter P-known even Lo most landsmen as Blue Peter- a square blue flag with a white
Is hoisted whenever centre. vessel is about to sail. The letter A is blue and white, vertically divided, and when flown alone by a warship indientes that she is on her speed irials and desires as much room as possible.
Q-a plain yellow flag, indicates that
a ship is liable to
to quarantine;
and the dreaded "Yellow Jack" (the letter L; a square flag divided Into yellow and black quarters), means that the ship actually has cholera or some contagious disease on board.,
An urgent distress signal can be made by flying the ensign upside down or with a knot in it; but the ofcint signal of distress is the two letters N G.
And
A warship surrenders by lower- ing her ensign. When the Ger man High Sea Ficet was interned at Scapa Flow, Lord Beatty order- ed that the German ensign was to be lowered and "not holsted again without permission," In years gone by it was the custom to trail- the ensign of a captured ship in the water,
a mark of respect to the 13 It fing, which even private persons" should observe, to lower it at sun- down. The Union Jack (which, Incidentally, may not be flown by a merchant ship) is kept flying at night from only two places in the Empleo-be Admiralty in White- hall and the Residency ́at Luck now, i
An old-time view of Hongkong.
indicated too plainly that our experience was to be no excop- tion to the general rule.
For the next two days nearly all were immured "down below" under clrcumstances which made life hardly worth lying, and nothing was heard but the straining of the steamer; the tremendous shocks of the waves as they struck her, and then the rushing of the waters as they come pouring in upon the decks.
All through the Mediterranean one's experiences then were very much
The driver seemed at length to .comprehend that something had gone wrong, and back we drove to the hotel as fast as the horses could go. We found that the omnibuses had left some time before and that there was barely a chance for us to catch the boat, but a dragoman mounted the box to ensure our be- ing taken rapidly to the right
place. and again we started at the utmost speed our horses could be urged to, and in an agony of suspense were driven to the boat, which we renched just as she was on the point of starting and we were only
too thank- to
the
saine
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An Article, taken from thei
they
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are
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at the
sitting place
for
present
day by
that route; but
the
passage of
"Telegraph” files of 1890,
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describing the voyage out in the night.
1850.
the Isthmus of Suez was very different from what it is now.
At Alexandria we had to disan- bark, and the luggage was conveyed to Suez by caravans of camola; passengers not being allowed to take with them for three or four days' use while en route to the same destination, anything more than could be carried 10 the smallest of hand bags.
All were left to find their way as best they could to the hotel, and, no sooner had we landed than we were surrounded by crowds of don- kev boys, who beset us with shouts, and many were forced "willy nilly" to mount their enimals at once,
I STRUGGLED as long as I could against it, preferring to walk.
The distance was not great, and took refuge first in one shop and then in another, much to the as- tonishment of the stoical looking Moslems who were sitting cross legged at the entrance; but all in vain, as cach time I made a fresh attempt at independence I found an increased crowd ов tormentors
waiting for me.
A day was spent very pleasantly -at-Alexandria, and the next after- noon we had to leave by the Mah- moudich Conal for the Nile, and Cairo, Passengers were usually conveyed from the hotel to the conal boat in omnibuses, but I had fallen in with two or three old China
people who had travelled by the
same route several times be- fore and were experienced in all the best methods for securing the greatest amount of comfort on the Journey.
BO
They proposed that, instead of going by the omnibus, we should a carriage for ourselves and steal a march on the others, by reaching the
boat, which was o small one with very limited ac- commodation, before they could do
otherwise, said they
"we
may have to sleep on the table, or per- hops, get no sleeping place at all." So, we look a private con- veyance, and giving the necessary instructions to the dragoman, started off by ourselves. None of us knew where the boat was to say nothing of the canal, and we drove on supposing we were going In the right direction, until we reached the outskirts of the city, and then farther on until we found Durselves surrounded by wastes of sand where there were no signs of canal, or boots, or anything else contrived by human hands.
WE called out "Bont i bont," but found he understood not a word of English, then we tried it in all languages we could muster, including the most approved pidgin English, but with the same result.
We were now in despair, We knew that the boat would start punctually, that it was nearly the hour for her departure, and unless we reached her by the hour ap- pointed we should be left behind, and condemned to pass a month in Alexandria, our luggage, with money and everything else, except what we stood in, having already
gone on to Suez.
At last we got out of the car- riage, and turning the horses round, pointed in the direction whence we had come. intimating by frantic gestures that we wished to go there, and as rapidly as possible.
Wo called out "Boa!” and then "Hotel" without eliciting more than an utterly blank and stupid stare
from our ebony-hued Jehu,
the lees experi- enced travellers having occupied all the available sleeping accommodation.
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SOON after we had to pre- pare for the crossing of "the desert, which was accomplish- ed in small omnibuses on two wheels, called "vans" which went in three divisions termed "'batches".
to
Lots were drawn on board the steamer before reaching Alexandria determine in which "batch" cach passenger should go. It was considered very desirable to secure a seat in the first division, as this gave one a choice of rooms at the Sucz hotel. I was fortunate enough to draw one of the Arst places.
restricted
We were packed as tightly as sardines in a tin, the knees of op- posite
ite passengers being interlocked, and I now understood why we were to so little luggage which at first
thought was an unneces- sary hardship; those were happlest who had the least, for, whatever one did have had to be carried in
lap during the entire transit. On at last we went, cach van dragged by four horses (or mules, I forget which) of the wildest des- cription, which went dying along -at-a-break-neck-speed, that was not so bad for the Brst mile or two, which was over good rond, but very shortly the confines of the de- sert were troubles commenced. There it re- ired a practised eye to distinguish any road at all; in fact, so for as I could see there was none, unless a track that was marked by the blanched skeletons of camels that
quired
reached, and
and then our
had perished by the way.
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AT regular intervals there were small white washed stone structures called "ota- tions''.
The horses were changed, and the passengers given a few moments for such refreshment as could be divided from antiquated bread and cheese or perhaps eggs not of the freshest, and beer and soda water of unknown brands.
So we went on from station to station of which I believe there were eighteen until late in the night, when we reached Suez all thoroughly "dono
up."
The next day, after a brief ex- ploration of the filthy streets and bazaars of Suez, where flies and sore eyes were the predominating characteristics we embarked in large open beats for the steamer
· Oriental, lying at anchor in the ofing, and then settled down for 'the 'second
ney.
econd stage of the long jour- were all delighted to and ourselves once more af furnished table, but our enthusiasm was somewhat dashed when
well-
we
learned that the lee had given out, and that there was only enough left for the first dinner, after which our beverages would be of the the atmosphere, temperature of in the nineties.
The Oriental was a large steamer with two berth decks, the upper for ladies and families, the lower for the single men, and I was therefore relegated to the latter with threo others in the same room. The ports were not large enough to ed- mit sufficient light or air, and a hotter or more gloomy hole it would be impossible to imagine, and as I look back upon this ex- perience secustomed as we now aro to the luxuries of modern travel, it seems wonderful that people were willing to put up with such discom- forts, particularly, in view of the high charge for passage, which was £160 from Southampton to Hong-
kong.