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NYILINE

THE CHINA MAIL,

THE LIFE OF A SHIP'S DOCTOR

Drama Of Midnight Call From Dying Man

"A MALE SYRIAN"

Saving Life In The Middle Of An Ocean

It is quite a mistake to suppose that a ship's doctor has nothing to do but wear an attractive uniform. Why, ours might just as well have been a general practitioner the night we crossed the equator.

It started with a wireless call from a tramp steamer, just before dinner. They had a very ill man on board and wanted us to fly to the rescue.

If only all the people who make noises in Parliament about class distinctions could go to sea for a change! They wouldn't have à leg left to stand on.

ONLY A GREASER

This man was only a grease which means some one who does messy jobs to an engine but the big mail steamer turned right off its course without a murmur, he had been an admiral.

It wasn't easy getting the boat up again, for the waves seemed deter mined to crash it against the aide of the ship.

RUSSIA REQUIRES NEW SHIPS

A £20,000,000 SCHEME FOR GREAT BRITAIN

SIR JOSEPH ISHERWOOD

London That the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which owns all the shipping in Rusala, is anxious to in- crease its float of merchant vessels at Sir Joseph W. Isharwad, Bart, whe the earliest moment was revealed by

as recently returned from Russia, and who is chairman of the Anglo-Russian Committes which sent a British trade delegation to Russia some months ago.

The Russian Government wants to spend about £20,000,000 on now ships, and it appears that it would rather than elsewhere. place these orders in British yards

The situation can only be satisfac torily developed if the necessary securities for the payment of £20,000,- 000 sterling for now tonnage in the next are years are forthcoming.

It will recalled that the report of the Anglo-Russian Committes ou the British trade delegation to Russia committe is, therefore, of the epialon concluded with ration

these wordsThe that the and should, obtain assurances and/or could, guarantees from the U.S.S.R.. both in to the liquidation of the claims British nationals prior

to 1917 and

the British Government

-But it was done at last, soul

hist as though And the stretcher was carefully lift- The chief ed out and carried off to the ship's officer, after a lot of adding and sub-hospital, followed by the doctor. of tracting, Bald that the two ships. would meet at midnight.

HOW SHIPS MEET Now, if somebody tells упи meot. them on dry land at a certain time at a certain place, you can general- ly get there, even if you do arrive half an hour late. But how do ships meet each other in the middle of a plain expanse of ocean, without the restige of a rock or anything to steer by 7

Our piece of sea that night was ex- actly alike all over; and as the equa- tor really is only on Imaginary line, even that wasn't any help. However, the chief officer seemed quite con- fident, and in the meantime the doc- tor wireleased to the tramp pooplo, and told them all the things they must not on any account do to the man unless they wanted to kill him before we arrived.

The next event was that a poor iittle Mother Carey's chicken dropped exhausted on the deck

at the doc-

tor's feet. He picked it up and nourished it with salad oil and put It to bed in the fourth officer's suit-

саве.

HAPPY EVENT

Then, some time after dinner, a steward came and whispered in his ear and he got up and walked off to the steerage. We had known since the start of the voyage that a happy event was expected there some time

or other.

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tramp steamer? And, if so, which would take precedence? Ten o'clock came-eleven o'clock, and still no dector reappeared.

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Yet

The telephone bell rang. The en-to cessation of hostile propagands, such gines started. Our course was set for as would justify it in resuming diplo Rio again, and we all went to bed would be prepared to discuss in detall matic relations, when the U.S.S.R. But the doctor's troubles were not over, The greaser and the male all questions of an economic character, Syrian baby were not the only now as well as other questions outstanding arrivals on board that night. When between the two countries. he went to bed dead-tired at 2.30 It is only the falfilment of these as- a.m. he found that the ship's cat, aurances that will make the not to be outdone, had added even £20 000,000 scheme a reality. kittons to the population, and had At present the Sovie Union them in his bunk!

a flect

(steamers, motor- The upshot of the whole night's ships and sailing vessels) of work was that the man's life was 379 ships, with

total KTOKE saved. The Mother Carey's chicken tonnage of 440,506. It wishes died of surfeit of salad oll. A be to increase this to at least pre-war lated birth control was exercised in Agores, and even more. The orders to the cat's family circle. And the male be placed include the following types Syrian baby was registered as a of shipa:- British-born subject.

-J. S.

TURNING SIGNAL

When Is A Ship "Anchored"?

B.B

A large fleet of timber and grain) carriers of from 5,000 to 8,000 tons dendweight each;

A substantial number of smaller timber vessels for coastal work;

A number of oil tankers of various aizes;

number of motor vessels for the Far Eastern trade;

A

big

fleet of vessels for inland water transport; and

number of icebreakers and float- jing cranes.

Ships are now being built in Russian Yards, and, to complete these, orders will be placed for large quantities of machinery, auxiliaries, &c.

Mr.

In May, Jast

year, the "Pakeha," Inward bound, came to anchor in the sea reach, River Thames, because of dense fog, veered to 30 cables of chain and proceeded to swing, The lights of the Dutch steamer

Anglo-Russian Interests "Palembang," also inward bound, ware It is hoped to form an Anglo-Russian seen shortly afterwards, and this ship. Trade Association to deal with trading coming on, collided with "Pakeha." developments between the two coun Her speed was seld to be excessive tries. In the meantime it is inter- and she was blamed for trying to cross testing to mention some of the ship ahead. The "Palembang a" case was building and engineering members of that so many vessels bad come to an- the Anglo-Russian Committee They chor that she could not do so and pro- include:-Mr. J. T. Batey (R. and W. ceeded to drift up with only sufficient Hauwthorn, Leslie and

Co

Ltd.), movement to maintain steerage way. Georg

George Clark (Richardson, Westgarth The trouble, she said, came about and Co.,

Ltd.). through the "Pakeha" proceeding to (Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron swing without giving an adequate Ltd), Sir Robert A. Hadfield, Bart, Con regulations. The case came before the Eastern Marine Engineering Co., Ltd.). turning signal as provided by the sir. Summers Hunter, jun.

(North- Admiralty Court recently, and the Elder Brethren stated in the course

Kincaid the hearing that it had not been the and Co.), Colonel Sir James practice in recent years in the Thames Lithgow, Bart (Lithgow, Ltd.), Mr. ship which is held by her anchor is Ltd.), and Mr. W. A. Woodeson to sound the turning signal while a Metiovern (Farness Shipbuilding using her, angines to get the heading (Clarke, Chapman and Co.).

Co. Lid.), Sir Ernest Patter (Petters,

that her anchor holda and that at which she is to lie, and providing

her Sir Joseph Isherwood has a firm ba-

Then

at eleven-thirty we sighted the lights of the tramp steamer, stiilse a long way off, rising and falling over the heavy rollers that our ship never even noticed.

Immediately everybody The captain shouted orders from the got busy, bridge to the chief officer on the boat deck, and the chief officer shout- ed back "Aye, aye, siri" just like sailors do in books, and blow a whistle. Then

the bos'n cried "Aye, ayo siri" to the chief officer, and callod out something to the sailors, they climbed into ono of the boats. They were all dressed alike in blue jerseys with lifebelts all round them, and looked so attractive and reliable. "A MALE SYRIAN" But still there was no doctor. Then just sa the tramp steamer drew collected in his white uniform.

"A male Syrian' be announced gloomily, and stepped into the boat A telephone bell rang sharply. The engines stopped. There was an Instant's dramatic silence. Then the captain shouted an order, the chief officer blew

his whistle, the bos'n eriod "Aye, aye, sir!" and the boat began to drop slowly and steadily downwards until the rollere came up to meet it with a loud smacking noise.

of

James g.

(John G. Kin-

cable is taut. The case has an import lef in the return of Russia to the ant bearing on the decision of a series civilised centres of modern trade, and of legal conundrums, says "The he thinks that shipbuilding and marine Journal of Commerce," including when engineering will play a very import- is a vessel at anchor, at what point ant Sunday,

this rehabilitation part in should the turning signal cease to be Russia. Russia is a very rich coun- SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) vin Singapore, Cape Town & Ports love with us, he appeared cool and blown, and what movements, with the try in natural wealth. If profudices anchor down, continue to make a can be overcome and the right "The Journal of Commerce" Vessel under way"? The report in securities for payments by Russia pro- ceeds:

provided, the future of Anglo-Russian

tnrade is very promising, he says.

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A minute later it was off, and soon we could only see the doctor's white uniform and the flash of the oars in the darkness. It was a warm, star- lit night The-ses looked black and except for a thin line of foam along the tops of the rollers, and the ship lights sent long golden. Angers over the dark water.

1

Deemed it Right

At the material time, his Lordship

#nd

found, the "Pakeha". showed two an The death has occurred while on cher lights, and she sounded a turning passage from the River Plate to St signal of four and two when she turn- Vincent, of Captain James Granger, ed. For the defendants it was argued master of the steamer "Stakesby," that she had no warning of the state belonging to Messrs. Rowland of things into which she was going, Marwood, Ltd., of Whitby. but evidenes had been given that 85 ships had deemed right to come to anchor in the aca reach, and were sounding all over the place. Down river was clearer weather, and the for was apparently intermittent, but the statement that a fog fell suddenly on the "Palembang" was incorrect. Ships' balls were sounding below tha place of colllalon, but those in chargn of the "Palembang" did not bring her to anchor, but kept her under way at substantial speed. She covared a mile and two cables in the ten minutes be- fore the collision, so that her speed was over 5 miles through the water on

A LIFE SAYED Half an hour went by before we saw the boat come back again. Aad now a man with very white face and closed eyes lay on a stretcher in the centre, his head a little turned to one side. They had dressed him in his shirt and trousers and pulled hla boots on over his bare feet. Tha: boots, unlaced and gaping open, garo | distance at which she could see them.

him an oddly pathetic look. “

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