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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1926.
BOILER CLEANING.
OLD METHODS REVOĽU- TIONISED.
LOCAL TESTS' SUCCESS.
"BOB" DALTON,
HIS LIFE TO SAVE HIS' SHIP.
H.29 DISASTER ECHO,
The China Medical Association, A successful demonstration of Devonport, August 10.-Thirty which met in Hong Kong last year the "Branda" boller scouring ap feet below the muddy water of when the series of lectures and paratus was given at the Kowloor: Devonport Dockyard, with only demonstrations at the University Dock yesterday afternoon by the aroused considerable interest, has Europe Asia Trading Company who the periscope to mark where she' concluded its eighteenth biennial have taken up the patent rights for Hes, reats the hero of H. 29, whose conference at Peking where Profes-Hong Kong and South China, a death keeps fresh the best tradi sor Anderson of Hong Kong, repre-cluding Macao. Among those pre- tions of the British Navy, sented the B.M.A. and Dr. Arthur sent were Mr. R. M. Dyer, Chier Chief Engine-room Artificer Woo the Chinese doctors of Hong Manager of the Hong Kong and Robert Dalton, "Bob" Dalton to all: Kong. These two Hong Kong de Whampoa Dock Company. Mr. Lwho speak to-day of his fine legates wore later joined by Pro Durand," Manager of the Europo courage, is the only member of fessor H. G. Earle, of the Hong Asia Company, Mr K, E Greig, the crew who lost his life. Kong University, who arrived on Manager of the Taikoo Dockyard
To the list of the five missing his way back to Hong Kong via and Engineering Company, Mr. J. L. announced yesterday must now be Strellet, Mr. Guerineur, the Presi added the name of Fittor Henry The meetings of the Association dent of the Engingers' Guild, the Hill, of Pasley Street, Stoke, were most successful and the ideal manager of the Kwong Hip Loong Devonport. He should have gone climate and many objects of his Engineers' firm. Mr. Guerineau and on laaye on Saturday, but he do- torical interest in Peking made the several others. stay of the 'delegates a very plea
cided to go on with his work untit The demonstration which was the trials were completed. held in the boiler-makers' shop, sub- Powers. On the contrary, con- Owing to sudden illness, tha stantiated the claims that have! "Bob" Dalton sacrificed his life The China Mailtinued Mr. Strawn, the evidence President and Vice-president. Dr. been made as to the capacity of the in an effort to save his ship, and seems to be overwhelming that The President's address, which was compressed air. in removing tartar better than those of his own col John Kirk, was chosen as Chairman.apparatus. through the agency of no words can describe his act the troubles of China to-day are read by the Chairman, fald from the most remote parts of leagues who were rescued from internal rather than external, and emphasis on the changed type of marine boilers. The scouring of the water.. that unequal Treaties, extra-development of the science of tional circumstances where, through the number of the submarine ön physician produced by the rapid the tubes is perfect even in excep One, a fresh-faced boy bearing territoriality, tariff autonomy, medicine and reminded the modern bailers Being fed with salt water. his hat, said and imperialism are political doctor that kindly advice and sym-the tartar has become of consider- slogans which are availed of by pathy were often of as much value able thickness and hardness.
to the patient as highly technical The process is infinitely superior the agitators to excite the people attention.
to the old hand process in efficacy of China into a frenzy of criti- Following the address, greetings and in the resultant Improvement cism and unrest.”
were presented by the delegates to each boiler cleaned, the tubes from other medical and selontife being perfectly new That is an utterance more in bodies.
after each. Frazier cleaning by the "Branda" appara- Dr. Chas. H. accord with the truth than any of brought good wishes from the tus. Under the old methods, "per- the babblings of the students and American Medical Association and fect chipping and removing of tar their Moscow" counsellors. the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. car was practically an impossi
If
Georgina" Sweet brought greetingsbility and a certain amount of foal- Treaties are found after the lapse from the medical profession in Ausing of the tubes resulted. Con of a certain period to be “unequal?"trulla. Surgeon General S. H. Chuansiderable economy is thus affected to either contracting party, no expressed the good wishes of the by the new process which obviates.
National Medical Association of the necessity for renewing steel! foreign, Power will reject a ration-China, Dr. Y.,S. Howe spoke on be- tubes until their working life is at al opportunity of revising them. half of the National Association, an end.
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Moreover, China in these matters Dr. Arthur Woo for the Chinese' Considerable economies are! Practitioners Association of Hong effected in other directiona.. notably | always conveniently forgets the Kong. Dr. J. H. Gray for the in regard to fuel consumption. the existence of the League of Na-Y.M.C.A. of China, and Miss Hope suppression of abnormal expansion | tions, which has been expressly Bell for the Nurses' Association of of boilers, the obviating of many created for the common protec
LUSHINGTON.-ØY August 23tion of all its members.. Let China
1926, at "Tighfabrṇalch House, Argyllshire, to the wife of first'set her own house in order- H. E. C. Lashington. Ceylon a phrase that is becoming weari- Forest. Department, a daughter. some although it is still absolute- ly essential-and then go to the Hongkong. Thursday, Sept. 16, 1928. League of Nations, if she cannot
UNEQUAL TREATIES,"
China,
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TENNIS FEET.
THE FEET MUST BE BROKEN IN.
(By A Surgeon.)
|repairs rendered periodically neces- gary under the old systems and of excessive consumption of freak- water due to leaks caused By in- sufcient scaling.
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We had just returned from certain tests and were carrying out others for which the ship was being slightly submerged when we were almost, tilted off our feet by a great rush of "water. I struggled upright with the water up to my chest and saw Dalton standing coolly... by, pressing one of the handles of the tanks.
,
"Not Hig' Job."
It was not his job, but he was. there trying to blow up the tanks that lift the ship when he might have walked quietly into, safety.
Lieut. Nevell was standing near him and looked, although I could not hear him above the roar of water, as if he was giv- ing him his help and advice.
The tanks are down below in the danger region, and I believe both rushed to them from their safe positions above when they knew something was wrong. The progress of the work is par- Another member of the crew ticularly efficient with the appara said: "I saw Dalten trying to tus with multiple chipping hämmers blow out the tanka..
I just which is furnished with two pistons managed to clamber out and get obtain redress from the Powers
with variable strokes. Progress is clear, but he reftised to follow us." very rapid, about five times more affected by the no-called "un-
A dockyard worker who was than that done by hand and for standing close to the ship when equal Trenties." There is a right recognised, if rather uncommon, the apparatus has a device which Dalton was on deck when the ad- Tennis elbow has long been a big surfaces, bottoms, careens, etc., the mishap occurred declared that way and a wrong way in these occupational disease. "Tennia registers the shocks, thus minimis-vice was passed round to leave In our last issue considerable matters, but China will persist in feet" is to-day, in the ever-growing considerably the efforts of the calmly as something was wrong" space was devoted to the review pursuing the wrong way and ing popularity of the game, filling workmen and rendering the work A second later he was missing. of events in China as published alienating much foreign syn-surgeons with devotees whose
the waiting rooms of orthopedic considerably easier. in the new issue of the "Chinapathy that would accrue to her foot and leg muscles have failed to Year Book. The student of from a judicious and well-reason, keep pace with their enthusiasm. things Chinese must undoubtedly ed case.
It would be outside the scope of As a party to those be grateful for such a publication Treaties let her respect them and tative advantages of the naked this article to touch upon the re- which is an excellent form of pro- carry out her natural obligations foot, to which the flexible, soft- paganda of the British case in the thereunder before clamouring for soled tennis shoe is the nearest M'CORMICK LINE ENTERPRISE. various disputes with the Chin-their abolition.
approach in use to-day, and the
Workmen who rushed to the stiff-soled and ese, particularly since the Shang-
comparatively Mr. Chas. L. Wheeler, vice-pre-rescue describe the escape of high-heeled shoe of everyday sident and general manager of the Lieutenant Wevell as miraculous. wear. What is indubitable is the McCormick Steamship Co., of San He is now in the Royal Naval difference between the two. Francisco, announces the establish- Hospital, and can remember no-
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NEW LINE.
PACIFIC-ATLANTIC
SERVICE..
Dalton is described as one of the most stalwart-looking men in the submarine service.
Forty years of age, he had been in the Navy 20 years and lived with his widowed mother at Southsea, His colleagues say that he did what they would have expected him to do.
hai incident of May 30 last year. There is no need here to go over Chang Kai-shek's Prestige. the whole ground. But reference
General Chang Kai-shek is now The human foot has been com-ment of a new passenger service thing of what happened. A big compared with Mussolini and even pared often to an arch. A better direct from the United States bruise on his cheek marks where may perhaps usefully be made to with Napoleon. The majority of comparison would be a bow, held Pacific Coast by way of the Straits his head struck the hatch as he the chapter dealing with the foreigners of all nations have no bent and taut by the muscles and of Magellan to Buenos Ayres, Monte was thrown out of the vessel after agitation against the so-called interest in the present struggle in ligaments that run from heel to Video and Rio de Janeiro, and con- it had gone under the, water. [“unequal Treaties”—a phrase be- China beyond a hope that order ball. The bony structure of the tinuing through the Panama Canal He appeared in a great circle of will be evolved out of chaos, that arch would not pass the scrutiny to the West Coast. The line will loved of the misguided student a unified China will result, and of any architect, Deprived of its start with the sailing of the steam-bubbles, and it is surmised that as the water poured into the boat class and carefully kept to the that one government will exist in muscular support it will sag, and ship West Nilus" from San Fran
a big air cavity was suddenly re- front by Moscow's emissaries in fact as well as in name. On the the result will be the splayed-out, cisco on August 10. This vessel, leased and that this forced him China - those stormy petrels to look on Canton's dictator as the beginning to be known as "tennis Brazil Line, is now being overhaul- Leading Stoker. Walter Kemp, as
wave of success it is fairly easy aching, incipient flat-foot that is 112,000 deadweight, tons, one of through the hatch.
the fleet of the Pacific-Argentina- whose sole mission is to set China potential saviour of the country.feet." against the Powers and to dis- He has introduced new methods.
ed at the plant of the Moors Dry the vessel was going down, was To handle a large body of troops
Dock Company, of Oakland. Each thrown through the hatch with rupt and dismember China itself. he has exercised discipline and Muscles and ligaments are liv of the ships will be refitted with such force that his ribs on one
The China Year Book in a pre- training to an extent hitherto un- tired. They will tire less quickly This is believed to be the first
ing things, and living things grow accommodation for 15 passengers side were badly hurt. face knocks the bottom, so to heard of among the Chinese.)
It was soon found after the Over the six or seven original if they are given a little assist-regular passenger service around mishap that five men were miss- speak, out of the specious arg armies of the Nationalist Party ance, a little respite from the un- South America since the days of ing, but so many men were en ments used in furtherance of the he has more than nominal con- relaxed strain of holding together the gold rush to California, which gaged on the vessel, some in the movement for the abolition of the trol. But he gives the impression that is the arch of the foot. The scross the Isthmus of Panama, and was thought possible that others the twin ends of the bow-stave was followed by transhipment ship and others on shore, that it "unequal Treaties." Take the that he is following old methods stiff sole of everyday wear gives later by regular passenger services might also have lost their lives. question of extraterritoriality, for readily. There are now about gives, for the muscles, which are menting on the new line, Mr. Hill was also missing, but the by incorporating outsiders" too that, but takes away while it through the Panama Canal. Com Inquiries established that Fitter instance. That busybody of fifteen armies in the Cantonese (as is the nature of all living Wheeler said: American politics, Senator fold, some of which Chang Kal- things) a lazy folk, forget that The demand for direct passenger are no other victims,
authorities are satisfied that there
Borah, could not resist the oppor- she is in command of only to the there may come a time when service between the Pacific Coast On the ahore as on board the extent that they acknowledge their strength will be needed, and the Argentine. Uruguay and tunity to air his own pet theories him as chieftain. The new gen- The bowstring relaxes and the Brazil, has made it necessary for vessel there was a commendable on this thorny problem, but he erals spheres are so far away foot flattens into an unshapely us to provide first-class passenger lack of panic. When the ship met more than his match in the that the direct, personal touch of and mechanically unsound adsem sccommodation on our vessels. For rst tilted, Lieut. Wevell rushed.
before that rule of the iron hand biy of bones and muscles, American Chamber of Commerce if it may be called is lacking.
a person on the Pacific Coast desir- below to try to close the water- in Hankow which protested that The readiness with which Liu T80- The remedysis, as usual, to re- necessary to take a long trip across Lieut. Skyrme, was trying to pass
ing to go to Buenos Ayres it is now tight doors. The commander such an attitude as that of the in-lung (who surrendered Hanyang) adapt itself almost always to new york for the date of sailing, and tilt threw all on board into the member that the human body can the country, perhaps wait in New into the vessel, when the sudden terfering Senator was "distinctly the caution with which General be given reasonable time in which America With the Pacific-Argen
was accepted does not savour of conditions, provided only that it then, take steamer for South water untimely and calculated to em- Chang began fifteen months ago to do. It. Any athletic trainer tine-Brazil Line, sailings will be bolden, certain disruptive ele. We are tempted to ask if matters knows as well as a doctor the made from San Francisco directly. ments in China." Later Senator cannot get out of his hands over folly of the sudden transition The time in transit will be much Paking, September 8-Or Buch large territory. And he has from a sedentary life to hard less than by way of New York, and Saturday last forty gendarmes, Borah received another well not appointed anybody as assist merited rebuke from Mr. Silas H ant administrator in other parts, And what is true of the body as Fred W. Brose, general passenger again visited the premises of the
exercise,
will also be more economical accompanied by several policemen, Strawn, America's representative giving the impression that he is on the Tariff Conference and the unwilling to share the responsibi- a whole is true of a part of it. agent for the McCormick Steamship "Chang Mel Wan Pao" which was
lity and the power.
The feet must be broken fn" Company, said that the establish suppressed by the military about Extraterritoriality Commission,
gradually to their new conditions, ment of a direct passenger service two weeks ago, and removed the who stated that he had so far.
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