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HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1925,

'WINDMILL' SHIPS.

REPORTED FAR EAST ORDERS.

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HONGKONG INTERESTED.

Views On The New

Invention.

The successful experiments which have been carried out in regard to the rotor" system of wind-power driva for sea-going vessels are of particular interest to Hongkong, in view of reports as. to orders having been placed for boats fitted with the equipment to be placed on the Far Eastern trade runi ¦

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There would appear to be good, "Experts confessed to me this ground for believing that the new morning that they lacked in invention will give an impetus to formation and opportunity of sailing vessel trading with the Fur drawing a comparison between East, which appeared to die athe Buckau' and a sailing vessel natural death with the War and of similar tonnage. Even accord- the increase in cost of freightage ing to the published estimates that which succeeded it, but the rotor towers extract 15 times as "China Mail" gathers from en-į much energy from the wind as quiries made locally that there is the same area of canvas, it is un- little prospect of seeing "rotor" certain whether ships of the ships in Hongkong for at least Buckau' type are suited for prac- some considerable time.

tical employment in ocean traffic. In the Mediterranean and the

Nothing definite is to be gleaned from the local office of the Hamburg-American line as to actual orders having been placed by the head office in Shanghui for、 the Installation of the rutor on ten new freighters for its Far Eastern trade. Reports to this effect, which have been given a measure of publicity, would ap- pear to be a little premature in view of the present state of knowledge about the properties of "rotors."

It is the opinion of some ship- ping firm oflleials who have gone into the question in detail, how- ever, that there are just grounds! for the claim that has been put forward on behalf of the "rator" that it is a considerably more economical means of transport than the sailing ship and that freightage will be corresponding- ily cheaper. The advantages of economy are made possible by a reduction of man power com- pared with that required for the manipulation of sailing boats and à reduction also in working cost (the renewal of sails in the sail- ing boat was always a consider- able item).

"Ever, if the most extravagant claims put forward on behalf of the 'rotor are realised," said an official of a shipping firm to a "China Mail" representative yesterday afternoon, "the result will not be a revolutionary change in sea transport, It may mean that a certain amount of sea trade will be done which, by reason of

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CHINESE FIGHT.

POSITION IN THE FRENCH COYCESSION.

INFLUX OF REFUGEES.

SUN'S TROOPS CONTROL

NATIVE. CITY, &

(Reuter's Service.

SHANGHAI, January 12. The native city, the Klangnan arsenal, and the Lunghramen are now firmly in the dual control of Sun Chuan-fang and Chiba Seih-yuan.

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CRIME WAVE

SPECIAL POLICE PRECAUTIONS.

SEARCH SYSTEMS,

Anticipating China New Year.

No pains have been spared by the Police in their effort both to prevent crime and to round up criminals in these trying times just before Chinese New Year.

To some it may seem futile to vicinity, on the qui vivè for sus lock the stable door after thepicious craft, till the next morn horse has flown, but the steps ing

Yesterday and last night, police Between Sunday qight and this taken' after sin armed robbery, morning the bulk of Chang Yuen-which really amount to spreading were particularly busy searching ming's forces, about six tipusand, a cordon round the scene of the one and all in every district. entered the French Concession crime, have proved successful on Here a detachment of Chinese de. and surrendered their Tem more than one occasion.

tectives would hold up pedestrians porary camps have been establish-

and subject them to a most care- ed for them.

Take, for instance, the raid at ful search, with a European the Telegraph Bay village on officer standing, a little distance Sunday night. As soon as the back. Police were informed, patrols Elsewhere a sergeant would be were sent out to all the main high-concealed on the pavement to ways to search passers-by and a carry out the same precautions. Police launch, stayed out in the Even an Indian constable

Looting occurred in native city, where Sun's troops are in con, trol, and the refugee influx inte the Settlement and French conces sion is increasing owing to the ear of further excesses f

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SHALL WE SEE THIS SAILING INTO OUR HARBOUR?

Here is shown the sailless sailing ship built by the German engineer. Anton Flettner, which has proved the marine sensation of the year. It is shown in Kiel harbour. Instead of saila, Flettner uses two revolving towers, smooth and capped at each end to assure the formation of a perfect vacuum. There is no propeller whatever, but the towers are revolved by a small Diesel engine. Only the position of the towers on the ship and the rudder control its direction of travel. Momentum is given by the pressure of wind from an angle on the revolving towers, whose effective speed is regulated to correspond to the velocity of the wind.

the high cost of freightage, had Baltic types of rotor shins ir STOP PRESS.

been out of the question before, prove a paying proposition, it a

but

will take away trade from sufficient increase over the speed nothing but the small coastal of existing sailing vessels could tramps. It should be a good be guaranteed. That is not, how- thing too, to fit on to large pri- ever, to predict any necessary change in the proportion between vate yachts.".

sail and steam tonnage.

According to a contemporary, however, a much more optimistic view of the immediate future of the "rotor ship is

held in Shanghai.

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"In regard to the application of rotors, as an auxiliary to the engines or motors of big ships, I was told by representatives of In an interview with officials British shipping companies that of the steamship lines in Shang-in the present state of knowledge hai, a "Shanghai Times" reporter about the properties of 'rotors' no learned that plans on a large projects of this kind can have Land Investment and Agency scale were being made in the immediate practical importance. engineering department of the The experimenta conducted with Co., Ltd, will pay a final dividend steamship line Hamburg model vessels in the tanks of al of $2 and a bonus of $2.50, mak- whereby a fleet of these vessels Göttingen laboratory have led to ing $4.50 in all. will be placed on the China run the successful conversion of the But As soon as the new invention is Buckan' for 'rator' motion. declared perfected.

in

the mathematical principles and "A Shanghai harbour with the formule which should determine enormous drums of the newly rotor construction have hardly, invested Rotor ships revolving in as I understand, yet been dis the wind, replacing the funnels of covered. In these circumstances the modern steamship or the fiy-it was not surprising that prae- ing sheets of white canvas of the tical shipping men, recalling that old-time sailing vessels, is to be every inch of deck space in a expected in a comparatively short modern 10,000-ton freight carrier, time if predictions of officials of the type of ship to which owners the Hugo Stinnes China Company attach primary, importance, is of are correct."

value, should have wondered how Against this rather sweeping to accommodate additional ‘rotor' statement there is that of the towers of the necessary size and "Times" special correspondent at number on a vessel, when they Kiel who was

on board the saw the two 40-ft. towers whose "Buckau" when it underwent its bases extended from bear to first public trial in Kiel Brightt. beam on the 680-ton Buckau.'" This is the vessel with which the

Rotor

Inventor ( (Herr Flettner) has been experimenting. ships," he states, "are purely sail- ing vessels, and must be con- structed as such, with fine lines in order to obtain greatest speed on the wind... The 'Buckau' still lacks experience of stormy wea- ther. Theoretically the force of

a gale, when-imposed on the re-

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On the water-front and at the wharves, vigilance has been in- creased. Even in the small hours of the night, detectives were prowling around, both in the main streets and the darker lanes. Evidently, the Police believe in attack being the best defence, From what was seen by a "China Mail" reporter at various inter- vals and in different parts of the town yesterday and last night, it seems that evil characters will be hard pressed should they set out on any nefarious enterprise.

From the European point of view, the most pleasing feature of this campaign to eradicate, or at least to cope with, China New Year crime, is that the Chinese are putting up with the slight in- convenience of being held up now and again, in the interests of pub- lic peace.

That these searches are useful 18 evident from the shooting down). and the capture by a Chinese officer of a man who was alleged to have been in possession of a dagger.

Nevertheless, it has been im-. possible to preserve a clean sheet. Unsettled conditions in the neigh- bouring provinces have driven a much larger number of bad char- acters into the Colony and yester- day, the Criminal Intelligence Department had two occurrences to deal with.

An attempted armed robbery by eight or ten men at Wyndham Street yesterday did not meet with success as the gang_dis- persed on scenting danger. They had just gagged and bound a woman and her husband at the basement of No. 39 before pro- ceeding to ransack the place, when shouting close by scared the robbers away. The people who were bound were later re- leased by an Indian.

Melbourne, January-12. Mr. Justice Powers has made the order indicated on January 10 with a proviso that if suf- ficient men attend the mercantile

At the apartment of a Chinese marine offices, dockyards will be

Street, Shamsuipo, a gang of-five places. temporarily made picking up accountant at No. 100, Aplui The Federal Attorney-General men managed to get away yester- has applied to the Court for day with money and clothing de-registration of the Seamen's amounting to $651. Three of the 'robbers held up the inmates, with Union.

the help of a revolver and two daggers, whilst their confederates collected, the booty.

Mr. Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister, in a speech supporting the application, said that the paralysis of the shipping trade necessitated definite action. The seamen's action was fantamount to war on the whole, community; they had thereby outlawed them- selves from trade unionism. He felt confident that the community and an overwhelming majority of trades unions would uphold the Government's action.

Meanwhile, the Sydney Water- side Workers' Federation has called off members working four steamers because returned sol- diers were engaged to handle the

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· FALL TO DEATH.

WELL-TO-DO CHINESE

KILLED.

CHINA BUILDING TRAGEDY...

Falling a distance of over a London, January 12.

hundred It is officially announced that

dressed Chinese met his death last feet, a respectably Viscount Cecil replaces the

cargoes.

night by either jumping or falling Marquess of Salisbury on the

message of from the top floor of China Build- Opium Conference. The latter is A Melbourne satisfactorily progressing, but is January 10 stated-The Arbitra ing into Queen's Road Central.

About three o'clock this morn- unable to attend the opening on tion Court, convened by the

Officers of Justice with a view to ing, a European sergeant. was January 19.

settling the shipping dispute, has going his rounds when he came adjourned until Januery 12. The upon the body. H

Judge indicated he would make

owners' suggestion that mercan-

The identity of the deceased

NO SECRET SOCIETIES.

INFORMAL MEETING.

(Reuter's "Servicę.)

Geneva, January 12 An informal meeting of the an order on the lines of the ship has not been established, Rome, January 12. Becond Opium Conference, unant¬

tile marine offices at all ports was dressed in a Chinese long silk gown and white silk trousers

He

volving towers, should encounter A further step in the campaign mously approved, of an adjourn should be used as "picking up and appeared to be about thirty- far less resistance than on a for the consolidation of Fasciam ment until January 19 in conplaces."1 spread of canvas, thereby causing was taken to day, Signor formity with Great Britain's a minimum loss of stability. But Mussolini, introducing in the request.

five-years-of-age-

It is thought that the man com- mitted suicide.

the action and effect of a con- Chamber a Bill directed against A motion propound by the

Paris, January 11.-"Le Matin" fused sea, hurricane, or typhoon secret societies, including Free Japanese delegate, authorising on the efficiency of the rotors' | masons; forbidding public the President to despatch a announces that a young French The top floor of China Build- and the stability of the whole officials to belong to secret socle message to the Marquess of Salis engineer has invented an apparatus ing is used by the South China structure the thickness of the ties, and compelling them to bury expressing hopes for his by means of which radio telegrams Restaurant Co. whose premises

three in the morning. towers is only two millimetres divulge the constitution, rules, speedy recovery, was received can be printed instead of road at are closed long before the hour of

sound. Havas remain entirely problematical. etc., of such organisations.

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