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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1929.

Government happens to be in A MYSTERY OF THE

power in Downing Street. Take away the Singapore Naval Base and at once our protective insur- ance policy falls to the ground like a pack of cards in a typhoon. If there is any public opinion at all in the Colony, let it be expressed speedily and forcibly so that the Home Government may know Home Ghought here of the hideousness of its Base decision!

NEWS IN BRIEF

A quarryman was killed through a stone dropping on him while at work on the hillside at Kowloon Tong.

Mr. T. 8. Whyte-Smith acted as Magistrate at the Kowloon Magis. tracy to-day, in the place of Mr. W. Schofield, who paid an official visit Talpo.

SOUTH SEAS

THE END OF A TRAGIC CRUISE

HE story of how two white men

never landed on any island in that

Tried to cruise the waters of group." the South Seas in a crudely built native catamaran and probably went to their death in the attempt was related upon his return to New York, by Gustav Davidson, the author, who lived for nearly a year among the natives of the Austral Archipelago in the South Saas. Davidson's two expedition partners, who disappeared, wore William R. Hargrave of Colfax, Washington, and Phineas E. Haskevitch of Paris.

The author met his two associ- ates in Tahiti when he was plan- An elderly Chinese woman livingning to leave there for the Austral at No. 8, Centre Street was fatally group of islands. Hargrave, a re- Injured through being knocked down tired prospector who had been a by a tram car. She died shortly trail mate of Jack London in the after admission into hospital.

Klondike, and Haskevitch, mineralogist, also expressed the de- Mr. B. A. Proulx, of the Passen-eire to inspect this section of South ger Department, Admiral Oriental Seas Islands, so the trio decided to Line, left to-day for America Join forces, by the 8.a. "President McKinley," accompanied by Mrs. Proulx and their son.

A Chinese residing at No. 282, Queen's Road, Central, was removed to the Government Civil Hospital yesterday suffering from burns to his face caused while lighting a spirit lamp which blazed up.

It is reported that a number of tickets for the Hong Kong Derby, sent to Manila by the South China Athletic Association to Chinese re Naval Base it legitimately and aldents, were seized, by post office reasonably expected that that inspectors and confiscated recently. work would be carried to comple- tion without any risk of suspen-Petroleum Company, reported to Mr. B. L. Stock, of the Asiatic Bion or cessation at the behest of the Police yesterday that someone successive Impérial Governmenta stole from his office, some time of varying political hues. It between 1 p.m. on Saturday and 2.30 p.m. yesterday, two articles would have been better far, could of clothing and three pieces of

"Man from the Sea" Davidson said there was a remote chance that the pair might have been carried, by adverse winds to some island of the Tuamoto group, some 700 or 800 miles away, but since they started the perilous voyage in April and have never been heard from since, he believes said they carried only food and that slender hope is fading. He

water to last them two months.

Davidson then told how he had arrived in Tahiti just in time to prevent his friend, James Norman Hall, another author, from sending a note to his father, Max Davidson, of New York, to the effect that. Davidson himself had gone to his death in the Paclic. B

Hall had heard reports from natives that two or three men had started the dan- gerous trip in a catamaran and be- lieved Davidson to be one of them. "We lived among the natives for He had planned to send the mes four months, garbed like them in sage the day after Davidson arriv loin cloths and learning their ed.. language, songs and traditions," i "When I came into Tahiti tho Davidson related. "Our phono-, natives were so astounded that they graph was the only modern note. gave me the name which, translat The natives would crowd around ed, means "Man from the Bottom and beg us to play it and thought of the Sea," he said. grin broadly and dance with as manuscripts he jazz music the best. They would Davidson had entrusted the had completed good sense of rhythm as any while on various islands of the 'tango palace' habitue."

South Seas to his two companions, believing they would reach Tahiti before he did. although he had duplicates of some These were lost, and notes on others which he will use as a basis for articles and short stories.

Yielded to Impatience It was only when his white com- paniona yielded to the Western trait of impatience that they ven- tured on that voyage from which they never returned, Davidson said.

return to Tahit! by way of Tabuai," "They began to get bored with the native existence and wanted to the author recounted.

"They had the natives begin the construction of a 24-foot

catamaran, which is a crude affair of two hollowed out logs and cover

it have anticipated such a step, jewellery, to the total value ofed with plank. The natives and I never to have sent any contribu-$68.

tion at all. But the contribution For disobeyling his banishment having been sent and presumably term, a Chinese was at the Kowloon all expended by this time, it is Magistracy to-day sentenced to tan due something better than silent months hard labour with 20 strokes contempt on the part of the Im-110 years in 1925, but returned in of the birch. He was banished for perial Government, The con- March this year, when he was tribution was made in the best sentenced to six months hard possible spirit-entirely unsolicit-labour and 16 strokes of the birch

Davidson has written several

Wanderer." He is an alumnus of books, Including "Thirst of the Antelope" and "Melmouth the

Columbia University.

TEN YEARS AGO

[From the "China Mall," November 26, 1010.]

To-day's dollar is worth 5/-%d.

tried to dissuade them, believing for such a long trip. I was un- that the craft would be too unsafe willing to trust my life in it, especially since neither was a skill- ed navigator and they had only a

Local Motor Bandits:-This after- compass to guide them.

noon five Chinese armed robbers went to the Star Garage, No. 46, Des Vænx "Before their catamaran, was, Road Central, and hired a large cat. ready a tramp. ship touched our They drove to a money changor's shop Island, bound for a trading tripheld up the place. They held revolvers at No. 40, Dos Voeux Road West, and about the other islands and I tried to the faces of the staff and took all to get Hargrave and Haskevitch to the money-about $1,000. go with me on it. But they were. obdurate and insisted on starting out in the "Austral" as they had named their craft.

ed-and the least that the Im- A fatal train accident occurred at perial Government could do was 9.20 a.m. on Sunday, the victim be- to communicate with the Honging an unknown Chinese, aged about Kong Government before and 35 years, who had the appearance of not after the decision to suspend the track near the 20% milestone reached Tabual months later but

a beggar. He was walking along I expected to see them when I work on the Naval Base.

when he was knocked down and kill-learned with dismay that they had ed by the 8.80 motor coach bound, bever arrived. Then I hoped they from Kowloon to Low!,

might have landed on some other island but my search of all the others convinced me that they had

Apart altogether from any financial interest in the Base by reason of a. contribution, this

Notice of the following forth Crown Colony is still entitled to coming marriage has been given to November 28, be consulted in any decision of the Registrar of Marriages at the 1929, following an operation, the Imperial Government affect-shang, teacher of Sun Yat-sen Ng jewellery shop, in Queen's Road Supreme Court:-Mr. Wai Chaak- Alan Mak, manager of the Wing Charles Peake Anderson ing the future of the Base. The University, Canton, at present Central, reported to the Police at (By Cable.)

principle of consulting the living at No. 1, Sharp Street, East, 11 p.m. yesterday that at about Dominiona does not concern. us, first floor, to Miss Lau Mo-ching. 8.45 p.m.. some person stole from Hong Kong, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1929. The Dominions are strong second floor.

of. No. 9, Causeway Bay Road, the shop 13 pieces of jewellery enough to fight for their, own,

worth $500. HONG KONG AND THE Naval Base in the Far East is rights. The construction of a

BASE

There does not appear, so far,

essential for the Colony of Hong) Kong. Work having commenced

ing that two Chinese detectives were Ro-entering the car hastily, on learn- approaching, they held a revolver to the chauffeur's head and forced him to drive, as fast as he could to the Searchlight. There they got out and scattered. Meanwhile shots had been exchanged with the detectives. lieved his condition is serious. The was shot in the stomach. It is bow other detective was wounded in the arm. Other police officers joined, in the chase, and Det.-Inspector Clark was also slightly wounded."

aito

have been arrested and are at the The bandits did not go free. Three West Point Folice Station.

One of them is shot in the hand. The other has a bullet in his leg. The first man was winged by Police Sergeant Field. Only $2,000 of the money stolen haf been recovered.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

in Singapore that work must be A Flying Commissioner: Snail-Lovers: The Austrian Monarchy: The Chief Scout: Sailed For India:

to be any pronounced local carried to completion. The future opinion in regard to the decision interests of Hong Kong demand

Governor of Malta

the door of the room in which the

only two the Monico and a tiny ca

party was assembled opened for him Snails are extremely nourishing, through it with a joyous cry of for years been a speciality,

than he turned "cart-what" and served very hot, with parsley, "Here we are again!" butter, and garlic, are sald, by those There was a deep and shocked who like them, to be delicious. But, allenco. He had come to the wrong for the majority, the resemblance to house,

plece of fried mackintosh is rather too strong.

A Term Out East

of the Imperial Government to that. The Base cannot now bel suspend work on the Singapore sacrificed on the altar of cheap A Convert to Air Travel Naval Base. Should such opinion sentimentality at

the mere be- TONDON'S latest convert to air-tablishment in Soho, where it has exist, it has not been expressed heat of any individual Govern

travel is the High Commis in public print.

ment in power, at Home.

e. Even aloner for New Zealand, Sir James It may be submitted that, bewere, a disarmament agreement Parr. cause this Colony gave a large to be concluded between five or Summoned hastily from the freewill offering toward the con- six Powers to-morrow, that in League session to attend the fare- struction of the Base, this Colony itself would not by one single Sir James came over by air and well luncheon to the M.C.C. team, is entitled to have some say, how. inch deprive the Singapore expressed himself in glowing Efforts to Save the Habsburgs SIR George Stanley, the Earl of ever little, in the future of the Naval Base of its prime import terms to the guests on the ad- SINCE Dr. Redlich holds at present Mr. and Minister, left England, in Derby's brother, once a popular. Base. In one sense that view ance to the Empire as a whole Tantages of that means of trans- lectureship in history at Har mall week for India, to begin his would be quite tenable. If the It would be futile to imagine that

port.

vard University his connection with local Government sends a draft for war, clouds in the Pacific can Sir Charles Holdsworth, the ship speaking world is probably unique in

With a deprecatory sulla to his acquaintanes with the English sion to Lord Goschen, whose appoint- which is now presumably brokens Governor of Madras. He

appointed last spring, In BUCCB $200,000 towarda famine reller evaporate merely through five or ping magnate, he averred that the Continental, polítics,

ment came to an end in April

Bir George was accompanied by work in China it would naturally six signatories to an agreement aeroplane, provided that the

His is more than an academic re Lady Beatrix Stanley, a sister of the putation," expect the donation to be used for Waving a fairy wand and exclaim- by land and sex "quite "out of last phase of the war, sought rain-

weather was kind, left travelling member of the Cabust when Marquis of Headfort, and their only

Cabinet which, in the daughter. the precise purpose for which it ing that universal peace pre-aight"

Alexander Cobbe and Lady ly to save the Habsburg Monarchy Cobbe have also called for India, valla and, therefore, complete Mr. A. H. H. Gilligan, the cap-means of a separate peace of the Northern District at Bawel and the integrity of the Empire by where the General resumes command would disarmament must automatically tain of the tourists, in reply,

was sent or retur

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complimented Sir James on his courage, and recalled earlier days ition places of flying when he himself at

tempted to cross the Channel; Tell-In he said simply

The Edbl

Mirilater of Finance he will indi here to grapple with pablle questions med factions for control of the which go deeper than the strife of and impoverished Espublic which In: Austria to-day.

Lord Baden-Powell

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Governor of Malta

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