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OUR SUMMER
THE CHINA MAIL.
NEW STEAMER,
THE LA “YUET WAR"
SUCCESSFUL TRIAL TRIP.
SATURDAY JULY 31, 1920,
CHILDREN'S CORNER.
ICONDUCTED BY "PETER PAN."]
Dear Children,
Now when my amah comes and sky "It's time to get up"John,"
I rush straight to the window Before my clothes are on.
And if the rain comes tumbling da Look out for next week's corner. 1 gry "Hooray! Hooray 1" The trial trip of the Hung Shuny have something very interesting I know that I am going to have
I spread out on the floor For after breakfast all my toys
Than I've ever built before And build much nicer houses
Shipping Co.'s new twin screw it will be the week after.
to announce then. I hope so. Il not, The very nicest day.
The editor suggests as a subject for
Clever Sayings of Par
"The notice here per-port or leeward, aide corrects that WINDY. bape says that there by slewing the stem back. Having WATER is only the one force started to move, your boat keeps boston, along the line of least resist- attacking the that is the wind: He has forgotten ance. The tendency to luff (of the the water. Directly his boat begins stern to sew towards I, and the to move, yielding to wind pressure, prow to face I) is because the it meets resistance from the water, mainsail is fastened, and the bull as a man pushing his way through must more with it. Loosen your a crowd. Some water has to move mainsheet, and the, sail will be a aside to make way for it, and the mere weathercock, and your boat steamer, the "Yeet-Wah," of a com water objects, and pushes at the nearly strest This seems to be plete cruise round the island on Tues
day, was not only successful in itself, competition boat. The boat, as it desirous only ascomplete and as clear an explana- but also very enjoyable to the some ents: Some humour is too grow of escape from all or any pressure, tion as te can manage without 700 visitors on board, all of whom up. He has been sold to mind his for its desire is to be at rest, diagrams. If anybody will oblige were Chinese, except Mr. W. Lam own business. follows the line of least resistance.us with more helpful one, webert and Mr. Russell, surveyors. As
Here is this week's story for you : Man, the cunning animal who will gladly publish it, because the evolved the soiling best, decided young ma are now asking these that line by sharpening one end of very questions that we have tried This boat, making what we call the to answer
stem, the prow. As a man uses his elbows in a crowd, the boat uses its prow, when pressed. This is where we need the clock face. Imagine the boat in the middle where the pointers start from, with its prow pointing to X11. its main-
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
average speed of 9.3 knots an hour was maintained. Captain T. Brown was at the wheel.
The event ·was' commemorated that evening by a dinner given by the company in a Yaumati restaurant at which about 400 persons were pect
THE OLD WOMAN IN THE
BASKET:
And then I make a boat with cha And lift my Teddy, in
And when we're tired of rowing| Jumpout and have a swim.
I've got a theisand schemes and ges
Janet was lying down in the after-Inside my early head, noon having a rest and thinking about just as busy as a bes all sorts of things.“
Until it's time for bed.
"I wonder." she said to herself. where the old woman went to who
But and engined by the Kwong Sang Loong Engineering Company, the was tossed up in a basket?“ „ ዩኒ "Yoet Wab," is said to be the largest "Don't you know my dear,
PETER
Here is the riddle: Why do this giss go to bed/
sail pointing to VI, and the wind i appointedchief engineer of the China ship ever constructed by a Chinese ( croaky voice said in her ear, and there Because the bed down to s
It must move.
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company in Hongkong, steel being was the old woman herself, with her used throughout. She is two masted, red cloak and tell har standing by the has two decks with three balkheads, bed with a large dasker beside her on and is capable of carrying 600 steerage, wie Noor
-2114 UAUWN COLONIES.
OPPORTUNITIES IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.
Mr. Symington has been
3.9. "Cheran.” coming from III. TE something Navigation Co's, eise does not give way, the boat will The acting chief engineer of the same
vessel hasgone second engineer. probably capsize in this position, because the resistance of the water
Witha view to protecting pas- and 64 first class passengers. She is "No, I can't remember, Janer along the whole of its port side (IX) is too great to let it yield fast sengers from thieves and pickpockets fitted with two sets of compound answered and, strangely enough, she Her was not at all surprised at seeing the enough to the pressure from III. at the bodring office of the Shanghai surface condensing engines.
so, owing to its Nanking failway, the Stationmaster, length between perpendiculars is old woman there. sharpened stem. it moves toward has added to his staff four highly-239 feet and main breadth 33 feet "Well, I will show you, if you get and one 5 inches. She is 1,500 tons (gross) up." the old woman went on, throw-
Viscount Milzer (Secretary for the XII. If the mainsail he so kept qualified station-police
Inspector.
and 865 tons (net). Mr. C. Macarthy and the fih loosened, the stern will]
is the chief officer and Mr. F. F.g the basket out of the window, and Colonies), who presided on June 22 41 Janet jumped up and together they the annual dinner of the Corons Club, swing and towards IN, and the
Accerling to the Japanese Engelbrecht the chief engineer. The scrambled out and got into the basket referred to the progress and develop prow point towards 111. This papers, the departure of Sir Beilby Yuet Wah" will be put on the which was just big enough to hold ment of the Crown Colonies during the Ltd. Parely weathercock behaviour A'ston for England, was not, as given Swatow, Amoy and Foochow run
last few years. The Prince of Wales's« Left alune, in that position, your out, merely on furlough, but was and is expected to make her maiden
And in a minute they were tossed tour was, he remarked, “a wonderful boot would drift stern first towards connected with China's protest trip at the beginning of next week.
up by invisible hands so high that odyssey, and Lord Milner added that IX.
against the renewal of the Anglo-
Janet could hardly breathe and then the former German possessions in East But we have forgotten; Japanese Alliance.
bump-they fell out on to some hard Africa will exceforth be known as the the rudder.
Kenia Colony, This is
ground. According to the latest cens not what the rudder
Oh dear." gasped Janet as she sat was made for, but it the population of Peking numbers
up. I didn't think we should go up is is the present case a prow, and 921,500 souls made up as follows:-
so high or so quickly. Whoever 1065- you push the tiller over so that 515,800 men and 3$5,500 wonien.. Of
ed us up like that?" the men 13,792, are officials, 3,914 it points to H. your rudder will be officials clerks and over 1,000 are pointing to VIII, and offering an waiting in the various hotels for joblique surface to the resistance of
appointments. the water. That will swing your
CASH SALE
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TUESDAY, August 3rd.
AND CONTINUE FOR
3 DAYS" IN THE
LADIES' DEPARTMENTS
BIRTH.
ONLY.
KARLBECK. Os July 20, 1920, at
Karlbeck, a daughter is. O
The China Mail.
THE
RIDDER.
•
The
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
THE GIST OF IT.
£
them both.
Why the Lcoby-Loos," answered the old woman in a surprised more of voice.
Janet.
Among company were Viscount. Sardon, Lied Ampthill, Lord Mork Bretton, and many other distinguish.
ed mer.
No wild birds or game may be
COLONIES AND CIVIL SERVICE. Lord Milner said that the Crown shot near Fanling, in the area thus defined: "a line drawn from the
Colonies and Protectorates of the Em cross roads near Tai Tau Leng Vill
replied "Looby.Loos."
pire had during the last twelve months enjoyed a season of tranquillity and age to the Chinese Ura Cemetery and Who are ther continued op the hills to the seven "You don't mean to say that you gradual recovery from the storm which hundred foot level thence following have never heard of the Looby Loos, they had experienced during the past down to the Village of Lin Tong Micried the old woman sharply. "Well, six years. Generally speaking, there all I can say is that you are a very had been an increase of prosperity in thence to Tong Kung Ling and thence, to Kam Tsin Village and ignorant little girl!"*
And as she did not team inclined i Referring to the prospects for young
this level to the end of the ridge, and
storn round towards VH, which The keel laying ceremony of the incanas a responding swing of the battleship "Kaga" will take place to [bow towards 1, thus bringing salwards the end of this month at the
suriace in trunt of the wind again. Kawasaki Dockyard. Kobe, obligne as regards the mainsail "Kega" is to be of 33,800 tons and tending to weathercock" her with her sistership, the "Muten," will Istern back to IN, but if you now constitute the central strength of the thence along the motor road to the to say any more Janet thought it as well men in the Civil Service, Lord Milner
Japazere Defence Force.
baul in your jib sheet) catching wind forrard so that this is counter- acted and the bow swings back to- Dr. Schurman, ex-President "of wards XII. So now the two forces Cornell University, is reported to have have fought, and your boat has declared that Japan is destined to be begun to move forward-in this one of the great nations of the world
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case roughly in the direction of Iwith a Government probably like or 11. Now is the time to see Great Britain, "She what the rudder was really made ambitions in Asia, and does not need Without a rudder, or with to alienate our friendship, for any
favourably upon Jasan”
for.
said cross roads."
'all, the Colonies.
best standard, but he felt that the
sible to send our to their overseas ap- Mr. Skinner Torner is appointed a not to ask any further questions just said they had striven as far as pos member of the Full Court, for the then..
So she got up and had a look round pointments zone but men of the very session beginning on Augst 3.
Mr. S. Berg is to act as Consul for and found that she was in a very country should do more to attract men Norway during Mr. Sorensen's desolate country with no rees of the right stamp to the Service, and houses anywhere, only miles and miles of fist chalky land.
absence on leave.
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for that purpose they should get the hearty support of the Public Schools and Universities. These should be
subject often ignore the things rudder swinging free, your beat help we may give China will react Marine War Medal will be received that the ground was beginning to grow asked to do all in their power to make
It is notified that applications for the British War Medal and Mercantile at the Mercantile Marine Office from all members of the British Mercantile Marine, whether British subjects or not, who are new resident in the Colony.
And as she stood there she noticed
colder and colder until at last it was
known' the many opportunities which so icy cold that she called out.
What's the matter?" muttered the lay in the Service. But it they were the side of the basket, nodding Hear, hear.) They must remember remuneration and more advantages- old woman, who was still siring by to be successful they must offer good
any here."
tive masks, and bere be mentioned that
which puzzle the beginner. How will of self turn toward III, for dues a boat go against the wind? the same reason that the weather. How often that query has been put, cock swings. While strug
Japanese papers report that the and how often evaded, by men who gliny a turn to the list Department of Finance is busily preparing for the mintage of new 5 know. but "do not feel "capable of has got way on, gathered in- and 10 sen nickel coins, the former
The British War Medal will be sleepily. explaining. Let us attempt to ex-petus. By starboarding your helm to the amount of Y.2,000,000 and the granted to applicants who have served I don't like this queer place," that much hard work had been done at My feet the Colonial Office, especially rebeni- pound in the simplest possible way. a little, so that the rudder offers latter Y.10,000,000. The work will at sea on Board of Trade articles for said Janet, nearly crying. An hour or two in one of these some resistance to the water rush be undertaken as soon as it is sanc. six months between the 4th August, are so cold that I can hardly feet them ly, and in connection with adminiers- Midgets will, of course, teach an ing along your left hand side, you tioned by the Imperial Diet now in 1914, and the 11th November, 1918. and I want to go home.
The Mercantile Marine War Medal "RUTE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE observant youth far more than will keep her headed for I or II session. The new coin will appear
"Ok very well," replied the old what was formerly German East Africa
süll ask Why? and none vill tell course is clear fand the wind holds at the latest, and the present 10 and during the six months referred to the basket, "but I thought all young Indies were establishing an Agricul thousands of words can: but he will rather than III and so long as the about November, if approval is given, will be granted to applicants who woman, getting up and climbing into will be called Kenia Colony.
He was glad to know that the West BESGROEG, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1920. i. Let us use two common she will carry on. The wind will 20 sen paper notes will be withdrawn. above have served at sea on a voyage things liked ices."
through the danger zone, ie, ona Ices!" cried Janer, "I don't see might well be followed in other parts tural College-an "example which things, a clock face, and a wind be hitting the saila obliquely and vane or weathercock. The wind-glancing off. You will be "beas- Notice has been given by the ship which has entered or cleared ADVERSARIA.
vaar, swinging on a fixed upright. ing or "* reaching" to windward away from the wind. represents the
We have not yet which were cut adrift from the
"Shanghai" and the steam-tug "Jan"terranean port.
Applications should be sent to the the old woman (who was certainly the Governor of the Gold Coast on Hearty interest mainsail and mast of your boat.
If you had a windyane with ass
decided where you "Friesland" during the recent typ Mercantile Marine Office whether rather a crusty person). The whole the project to establish a first-class ADGET shown in our announce tuch surface projecting from the
DIRECTION. wanted to go. If boon in Tabchan Bay constitute a the ship on which the applicant place is turning into ice. Don't you
you are willing to go possible danger to navigators and served is registered in the United know where you are now?" ment yesterday of the windward side of the upright as you anywhere that the wind will push masters of craft should be on the Kingdom or elsewhere and whether neg yacht club just have sticking to leeward, or downvon, noviously your easiest and fast-alert when in the vicinity of the the service for which the application sorry, I don't know," organized as an auxiliary of the wind, it would not work. It would est way is to turn and fun for IX. Taochau Islands. It is also requested V.R.C., and we have been asked wobble about. but it would not But that is na mystery to the that any information regarding these for Further,, information. The always in the airt. As it is. novice, and we have not set oas to wrecks be reported to the Coast
it sticks out like a flag in a steady teach the whole art of sailing in Inspector. Midgets are twelve feet long, wind. When it is shaped like one lesson. Our object was to ex- about seven or eight feet shorter cock weathercock you will plain low wind driven ships pro- Amongst the results of Chang than the old one design class at notice that the head and neck point ceed against the wind that drives Chin-y20's avarice is one which is the C.Y.C. They have a four foot up wind, because the larger sur-them. "If you choose to go to I1F, worth recording, says a Changsha face of the buds and tail tries to where the wind is coming from, correspondent. The Electric Light hear and a depth of two and a half get out of the wind's way. Your you set off in the manner already Company has sent round to its There is a six foot cockpit with a boat's jib therefore may be thought explained towards II
Having customers an apology for raising the Six inch coating. The main boom of as the head and neck of the gone so far a long or chortler price of electricity by some 40 per
Coast Inspector that the dredger a United Kingdom, French or Medi- "Why you silly little thing," said of the Empire, and he congranditted
13CHI2.
was
CHOICE OF
harbour on that coast.
THE PRINCE'S TOUR. "No," Janet replied meekly, "I'ms a matter of extreme satisfaction In conclusion, his Lordship said it
"You don't seem to know much," Colonies that the Prince of Wales with to every member of the Crowni is made was performed in the waters around the United Kingdom or else said the old woman.
*So you had
a
that wonderful odyssey of his, which had provoked such extraordinary mani- of the Empire, had not left the Crown festations of enthusiasm in every part
Colories out of his programme. fact, though he could not possibly visit them all, he had promised to pay s If they had a tinge of anxiety on his Royal Highness's
in
where. Similarly, applications in re better learn. This is the moon and gard to service in the waters of this in the day-time it is as cool as Colony or elsewhere, if the applicant cucumber but every night is freezes is now resident in the United King- until it is as cold as ice-cream:
"But whatever does it do that a should be made to the nearest Mercantile Marine Office in the for?" Janet cried in surprise. United Kingdom. purely coastal trade does not qualify Service on vessels engaged in for the award of these medals."
A further notice has been issued sun on to the earth and sometimes it worn out by the exuberant loyalty of
It's on account of the sunbeam All day they are as busy as they fairies," answered the old woman.
can be pulling down the rays of the
call at several.
behalf, it was only that he might be
his future subjects. There was do
is 11 feet 6 inches long, and the / Weathercock, and yiur mainsail as as decided by the width of your cent. The reason is given in a' most by the Board of Trade which included is very hot work. So when they have doubt that wherever the Prince went
the body and tail. We will ask the course, by intervening obstacles, naive way: Governor Chang Chin- gal about rine inches longer, the novice to renember that when he etc.) you turn and with the wind Y20 lelt without paying his bill for in danger zope voyages any voyage finished at night they fly along to the he would leave behind him a deep and latter setting almost upright against asks why we loosen the jb on the opposite side of your sail electricity which had accumulated made in Japan Sea or Yellow Seamoon and bring their silver spoons with uneffaceable impression. (Cheers.)
run towards IV. The turn is a throughout his stay and amountcober, 1914, and any voyage made new babies, I daresay you have heard!
is,
There is this differ-complished by the use of the rud- OSE ence between the der diverting impetus) and eased DIFFERENCE.
THE
to $31,000 odd."
looks about half its size and when
WON *£35,000.
AREROITH MAN'S LUCE IN
from the 4th August to 7th Novem-them. (Sometimes they lend these tat The mast, so as to give a topsail" going about "when" tacking" effect. The bean and the iron
between Singapore and Hongkong centreboard should Pasure good
Those living in the East. who from the 18th January, 1917, to the People talk about babies born with silver spoons in their mouths). Then ast and the stan-by loosening the jib so that the have watched the progress of sport 11th November, 1918, Further par they eat great pieces out of the moon. stability, and it is difficult to im- agine a design better for the pur-
dard to which the mainsail plays weathercock. At amongst the Japanese have been ticulars will be issued later.. Jose of enabling a novice to learn weathercock is fixed. The mast is the end of that leg, you tack again, greatly surprised of late at the re
Application forms may be obtained That is why the moon sometimes only the rudiments of sailing. They standing in a moveable mass rest-pointing to II, and so on-Thus markable strides made in all branches at the Mercantile Marine Office,
CALCUTTA SWEEP. should be, as the American phrase ing in water: the weathercock's on arrive eventually at 1II, having of athletics, says the Japan Chronicle.and Fox Wing-kau, are added to the the snow fairies come along and bulld Drs. J. G. L. Brown, R. J. Wong, there is only a little piece of it left fool proof."
mast is fixed to a church or zigzagged right up the path of the Foremost of all is the great advance
it up again with great banks of snow
Mr. Norman W. Chisholm, of the ***In addition to his other building that cannot more.wind.
made in baseball, now their national medical register.
The Tang Hing Navigation Co. and then people say," Why it's full Calcutta branch of the National Back MISPRINT, other duties," as they The wind pushes at both in the
The force of the game. Being a nation of a small
moon again." same way. Whereas the weather-
of ladis, who belongs to. Arbroath say in government
wind is opposed stature and physically weaker, than is under notice for dissolution.
By this time it was getting so cold (where his parents still reside), has -suckles, the adversarian reads the cock swinge, showing which way the wind blows, but always stays
CONTENDING first, and directly the average European, they have
that while the old woman was talking won £35,000 in the Calcutta Sweep- prools of his own tushery.
FORCES: opposite, by the necessarily had to contend with great
TYPHOON WARNING. -- Janer had clambered into the basket Stake. Mr. Chisholm is 33 years of difficulties, but they have been able sequently he cannot blame the over the same spot; the boot moves
resistance of the
by her side and, without any warn age, and has been resident in India" ing, off the basket went again, tearing for eight years. He is a keen cric- The telegram quoted below was through the air faster than the fastest kerer and footballer. When with the General from the Manila Observa landed crash on the ground again played for Woolwich Arsenal and When Janet looked round she found when home last summer he assisted Cyclone br typhoon over N. China herself outside her bedroom window Arbroath United at cricket. His and the old woman and her basket Arbroath friends are delighted aver 9 am. July 31, 1920.
had vanished.
his luck, Mr. Chisholm would have Typhoon over N. China Sea inclin
PETER PAN received £70,000, but he sold half ing Northward.
the ticket before the rice to a hdy friend living in London.
Con-
printer or anyone else for the mis. from point to point upon the surwater against the body moving in to hold, their own in branches of
face of the water. Theoretically,
print that disfigured the note yes your cutter rigged boat should first il.. That you grasp easily.
terday about the meeting starting
sport where the need of exceptional
The
resistance. The surface of your
factor.
pens sometimes. As you don't
Sea moving W.
.
the V.R.C. Midget Yacht Club Point up wind, and then drift back-sharpered prow offers a line of least/Strength has rot been a fundamental received by the American Consulate trein has ever gone until at last it National Bank of India in London he A line was missed out. The Secre-wards before it. This actually hap" {rudder offers a controllable and A remarkable incident, which lory at 7:30 p.m. July 30, 1920. tary chosen was Mr. R. Witchell, want it to happen, you make use guidable resistance, which you can marked the arrival of the Prince of the originator of the idea; and the of other factors, now to be explain increase and diminish, and which Weles in Melbourne, is noted by the position of Messrs. Agassiz. Alves, ed. Here it is necessary to grasp sail towards the wind also deter-who says Mr. Hughes the Prime you can direct. The set of your serial correspondent of The Times and Soares is that of Commitee. the fact that a moveable body. If it were not for such misprinte pushed by different forces, will mines or varies to some extent the Minister, following in a carriage
and similar accidents, of course,
move along the line of least resist with the wind coming from III and received with unmistakable expres CAN YOU AFFORD THE RISK? direction of the wind posh. Thus, close behind that of the Frince, was producing a newspaper would be a
ance. It will go the way that is pleasurable pastime, and that would most easy. That explains why the you sailing toward II. the push on sions of public disapproval, due pos -never do,
weathercock always faces up wing to slew your stern toward IX. On increase in the salaries of members without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic the sail (windvane fashion) tends sibly to his recent advocacy of an WERE you ever seizel, with ers attack of cramp colic or diarrhes Everybody has to It cannot get out of the wind; it this course you are close-hauled," of the Federal Parliament. Thus and Diarrhoea Remedy in the ete RUDIMENTS. learn, and the im- cannot run before the wind; so 1.e. sails lying nearly fore and aft, the roll of cheem as the Prince passed Don't take such risks. A dose or tereft do think rainy days are nice, patience of some turns until it offers the least re-But your tiller is so held that the changed so rapidly."into boos forth will sure you before a doctor could They make me jump for joy: · adepte at the simple questions put sistance, the least possible surface, blade of your rudder faces XI Prime Minister that the effect, was even in the moet severe and dangerous They seem to make the grown-ups no time to send for the aft by novices is quite unwarranted. like a soldier lving flat before a (approx Land the resistance of the peculiar, but too much should not be For sale by all Chemists and
elementary booke on the storm of bullets
Storekeepers Istream of water flowing along your nude of this incident.
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possibly be called, and it never fails
And here is this week's poem, very appropriate, don't you think?
A NICE RAINY DAY,
But I'm a little-boy.
GRAMP COLIC. ATO Leed of suffering fr the stomach or inter Chamberlain's Collo and medy never fails to rel Fevere case. Get it to-d's-
comes on. For uile by all i Storekeepers.
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