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THE SUN WAI ON"

It is reported that the s.s. "Sun Wai On" has sunk in the West River near Tai Sze Lac, 16 miles from Wangmoon.

No loss of life is reported, but the wreck as it lies is a danger to navigation, and master mariners are warned accordingly by the Harbour Master, Hong Kong.

The

A FALSE ALARM

Survivors and a Piracy Scare

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MORE PIRACY

A

NORWAY'S APPEAL TO CHINA GOVERNMENT

$500,000 RANSOM

It is a considerable time since a piracy on a gigantic scale was com- mitted either in South China waters or up north, but news is to hand of a dastardly outrage on a helpless ahip, grounded on the Halchow bar. The captain and chief officer have been seized and held to ransom for half a million dollars, the the money is not forthcoming in pirates threatening to kill them if

ten days' time.

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along the road of wireless telephony: Another infiestone has been passed for efforts spread over a period of eight years by the most eminent radio

The cable, which was sent by exports in the world have at last been piece of mechanism introduced to make on Saturday states: crowned with success, and ar ingenious Renter's correspondent in Peking. oral communication from ship-to-shore complete,

The Norwegian Legation has

Hitherto the difficulty has been to received news of the pirating of make the process of transmission and the steamer "Botnia" at Haichow reception keep to their own respective on Thursday. spheres, and so bring about continuous

The "Botnia" grounded on the audibility. The obstacle was that the

junction of the circuite of transmission bar and the pirates attacked the and reception were so limited in eon-helpless ship. nection with ocean-going vessels that the currents jostled each other so

They seized Captain Haaland

violently that what is known as "howland Chief Officer Westerheim, and this was that each speaker's utterance lars ransom. They threaten that ing" was set up. The consequence of are demanding half a million dol cancelled itself out.

if the money How to overcome this radio dimenity within ten days. the prisoners will is not forthcoming and so ensure a continuity of speech be killed. She

R.S. "Amherst," a small river

runs between Hong Kong and Wuchow, returned to port on Saturday without completing her apriver voyage. flew the Police flag as she entered har bcur, and speculation was bigh as lu

what had occurred.

A party from the Criminal Investi- gation Department, under Mr. T. Murphy, Assistant Director of Criminal Intelligence, went on board the vessel, which anchored off Stonecutters Island. ters Island Then it was gathered "Amherst" had on board 17 survivors

from a launch which had sunk in the West River as the result of colliding with the "Amhorst," at 1,45 am, or. Saturday at a point between. Wang- kong and Sun-huž

No Light

The Captain of the "Amherst" re-

without lights on the river at that hour of the night was suspicious, especially as after the rescue of the 17 men, it was found that one of them had a revolver and another a belt of rifle am- munition.

less telephony has been the ticklish between two people engaged in wire- problem confronting the radio gineers.

en-

Appeal to Nanking

The Norwegian Charge d'Affaires The solution has been brought about

has telegraphed to the Foreign in a somewhat fascinating manner. Minister stating that in view of the An extremely delicate piece of frequent recent assurances that the mechanism is being introduced for the Chinese authorities are able to pro- purpose of what, in reality, means the tect foreign life and property, he is breaking up of the sender's sentence confident that the National Govern- in order to ensure the receiver's answer becoming intelligible.

ment will take measures for the other

word, the collision be-prisoners to be immediately freed.! tween the two circuits has been-Reuber. definitely destroyed by 1 pro- [Haichow is situated not far from cess of side-tracking either

at the old mouth of the Yellow River, end of the telephone operation or south of Shantung Province.] at the other. For instance,

spaken senience, say, in Liverpool, to a ship

one

in

In

ROUND THE WORLD IN A CUTTER

ports that the presence of the launch in mid-Atlantic, can be received with FRENCH SEA POWER perfect audibility, but before response is made the replying sentence is despatched or a roundabout journey and automatically itself under-

makes slood when the proper time arrives for it to be sent back from ship to shore. The gap is almost af infinite- simal duration, and so the respective speakers are unaware that there has been anything in the nature of an electrical interruption in

With the assistance of three officers from the Chinese gunboat "Ping Nam," which is in harbour, the Police inter- rogated the rescued men, and it was then discovered that the sunken launch was the "Sun Wai On." None of the three Chinese officers knew the launch bat declared that she might belong to the authorities of the Heungshan dis-

trict.

Revenue Protection Further investigations carried out by the Police since, have satisfied them that the sunken launch was not pirate craft as at first suspected. She is now believert to have been chartered

a

by the Bureau of Finance at Canton for service as a cruising launch for "revenue protection purpose." The survivors have consequently been re- leased.

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lady, who threw her arms around him included the usual impetuous young reached Le and ilased him to his. obvious discomfort-and the usual child Although he duly acknowledged the presenting a bouquet, which he salute which was officially given to subsequently held him on entering the port by dipping in

in. way that little deck to hear the officia! his flag, and though he stood upon his

indicated that certainly considered it to be nouncement from the

an-superfluous. He was asked all sorts quay that the Arst Minister of Marine had made him an

of questions. "Will you be starting Officer of the Legion of Honour, and

again soon?" said someone. "Oh, yes; very soon," he answered quickly, of answered it by a shy and laconic "I and he meant it.

thank you, men Commandant." be afterwards retired to his cabin and could with difficulty be persuaded to land and listen to speeches and drink champagne.

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In

There are many who go to sea who

The Fersonal Element fail to realise the amount of work This conversation between the two covered by the YMCA, in the differ friends exchanged through a mega- ent ports. That institution has port phone was in other ways typical of "Storm-Southampton, and

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