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League Of Nations.

OBSERVANCES ON NELSON DAY.

Simple Ceremony. At Cenotaph.

TUESDAY,

OCTOBER 18, 1982,

A Day On The Dirtiest Craft Afloat

of Nelson The Ugly, Noisy Indispensable

Dredger

The only observince of Nelson Day Friday, 21st. instant, in Hong Kong this year will be the laying of wreaths on the Cenotaph at 11.30 a.m. and later at the Wanchai Monument, by officers of the local branch of the Navy League. All interested are asked to “be present. The local branch of the League has received several copies of the At the foot of a little jetty at has 54 miles of river to keep clear scheme of disbursement of the Gravesend I stepped aboard a for the world's traffic. The middle H.M.S. Poseidon Disaster Fund, motor launch that was coughing areaches-from Erith Issued by the Royal Naval Bene-blue fume over the green sunny George V. Dock are the most to King volent Trust, to which Hong Kong water, writes Howard Spring in troublesome. Every year 1,250,000 Jcontributed a sum of £2,654 38. 3d. the Evening Standard,

cubic yards of mud are cleared out

MOST NECESSARY SERVICE

News In Brief."

Copies may be obtained from Mr. It was a lovely day and the of those reaches. "It is dumped by W. A. Dowlay, the Hon. Treasurer, roadstead was full of ships. Four the dredgers into the hoppers of a fourth floor. Alexandra Building, tall masts of a Norwegian wind firm of contractors, who take it out to whom membership subscriptions jammer raked up against the blue to the Black Deeps, 72 miles from of the League should also be sent. and her bowsprit inclined at a London Bridge, and drop it into

sharp angle, above the figurehead the sen." of a woman, gazing upstream. Her vivid rust contrasted with the found a band of brothers. They On all the dredgers I boarded I sober grey of an American train have a lonely life, and they hang ing ship that lay at anchor; and together. They are recruited from there were green wreek marking the merchant service, and every- The wedding will shortly take vessels, grimy colliers from New- thing aboard is conducted with place between Mr. Heinrick Werner castle, barges under sail of ruddy strict seamanship. You must not Henke, engineer, of 4, Lock Road, brown,

a timber ship from the conceive a dredger as a mud Bat and Miss Erika Wildung, 26, Han-Baltic, her waist piled high with It is a ship. It is registered at kow Road, Kowloon.

wood that was the colour of honey Lloyd's. It has its bunks and in the sunlight.

"There they go." said my com- rooms, its log and

messrooms, its cabins and chart- even ita panion, "and where would they be telescopes. without us?"

A big dredger has a crew of A rope was cast off, the launch twenty-five; the master, two matea, chugged out and pointed her nose first and second engineers, watch down the river. My companion

For possession of 47 taels of raw opium, Tsang Ping. 29, was fined $1,000 or four months' imprison ment by Mr. W. Schofield at the Central Court this morning.

comes

work

Immense Work. Leaning over the table in chart-room. I realised the immen- alty of the work. There on tho

Chan Wing, unemployed, lifted up was of the dredger service, and the man, deck hands and steward. The dredger works a week of 144 hours, the front seat of the car, and stole launch flew the lion and the trident the men remaining on board all a hammer, a wrench, a screw-driver, of the Port of London Authority the time and keeping the immense value, albeit it wins two spanners and a ruler. At We were going to inspect the scanty acclaim. beyond a limited Central Magistracy he was sentene- dredgers: and a few hours later, going in shifts day and night. circle. The obstacle to the ap-ed to one month's imprisonment looking at all those ships, I could

echo preciation of these is that most to-day.

with understanding his Hong Kong Tuesday, Oct. 18, 1932. of us are incapable of thinking

question: "Where would they be in cosmopolitan terms. When a Friends of Mr. J. L. Tetley of the without the dredging service?" hygienic campaign, planned and Government Analyst's Department,

I had learned by then to respect charts the channel was indicated, supervised by the League, stamps will learn with regret of the death the dredger: the ugliest,, dirtiest, with the depth of the water mark- out a typhus epidemic in Poland, of his baby daughter at Kowloon neisiest, most uncomfortable and ed every 50 feet across it and along It. Millions of soundings have distant countries are but mildly! Hospital, The infant was buried most necessary craft afloat in

London River...

been necessary to make those The approaching session of the interested, although many of at the Protestant Cemetery yester

Compare the dredger with any charts, but there they are. There League is expected to be the most them have benefited by medical day afternoon.

thing else that floats,

is not a foot of the navigable with the controversial and dramatic in the ministrations supplied by the

League. When the League After he had been bitten by a dog oldest, ruatiest tub that ever drop Thames hed whose tilt is not history of that body and to pro- planted" a host of refugees from owned by Mr. F. Schuster,

ped down

known; and wherever it is seen" a tide, and it of, 58 duce some plain speaking, Among Asia Minor in Greece, thus mak-Canton Road, a Chinese boy, was

shoal is forming the second in a beauty contest." It is that a the major questions which will ing extensive areas of waste land sent to the Kowloon Hospital for

a fantastic thing. It is like two dredgers get to work. «

They are. tools as well as re- occupy delegates are Germany's productive, the world as a whole treatment. The dog was sent. tolong narrow ships, fastened to-

gether sometimes forward and ceptacles, these buckets. They are claim to re-arm, Manchuria, and was not moved to a display, of Ma Tau Kok for observation.

sometimes aft, and with a lane of fitted with hard manganese lips emotion, When the League! the future of the Danubian States rescued Austria from insolvency, Ap employee of the Tung Nam Ho water for "the passage of the that drop down to the river bottom with terrific force. One bucket of several of which are on the verge thus checking an outbreak of Brick Factory; Pitt' Street sustained buckets washing between,

Dredger A Navvy. -

a large dredger weigh's, with the of financial and economic col- Bolshevism, born of utter hope injuries to his hand yesterday. As for the dirt, do you need to links that connect. it to the next,'

do-lessness, there were few rever-when he fell against an electric lapse. Apart from these

The lips, with that give it a moment's thought? The 4 tons. berations of congratulation. The motor. He was sent to the Kwong first thing that happened to me weight behind them, cut into and minating issues, there will be truth is that mankind, whether Wah Hospital.

when I stepped aboard a dredger under whatever they encounter. general survey of the achieve-grouped in national units or in-

The concert in aid of the funds handed me a wad of cotton, waste.

was of dividually, is by instinct egocen ments of instrumentalities

that someone instinctively Even rock cannot resist them.

After a time it becomes mono- of the Ministering Children's the League during the past year tric: One of the tasks upen

Noise? Well, when the buckets tonous to watch those buckets for commission of the League is to be held at Government Observers have remarked that League is engaged is to secure a House on Monday next. October 24 80 clanking up that moving stair-ever climbing up and tumbling the machinery constituting the uniform law of copyright. This at 4 p.m., and not on November 24 case, deposit their slimy load in down, but at first it is fascinating. the chute that heaves it into You cannot get over the feeling League is effective, but that the would be a boon to authors and as previously, announced.

hopper, and turn their ugly boring that this endless scooping into the impediment to progress is the re- artists. But how many of those who are likely directly to gain by

Charged with an armed robbery snouts down again towards the channel where all the world's ships luctance of members to utilise it the fruition of this enterprise at Wanchai on August 13, Sin Kau- shrieking and groaning as would generation will inevitably bring to primeval ooze, there arises such a have sailed from generation to This is, perhaps, a half-truth. have any inkling that it is on cheuk was yesterday committed for result from combining the bellow-light strange and moving things. For example, the League has foot? The year has been on the trial at the next Criminal Sessious,ing of a thousands bulls of Bashan Once the buckets brought up the been blamed for its slowness in less advertised plane an eventful Jewellery and money worth over with those ear-piercing and heart-bones of a vast prehistoric monster one for the League. Britain, 800 was stolen, and the occupants rending, screams that pigs give and teeth six feet long, but such arriving at a conclusion about

and! giving the lie to the oft-repeated of the house were gagged

when they are stuck in a slaughter finds are rare. the Sino-Japanese dispute. To but grossly false accusations of bound.

yard.

All the odds and ends that care- this criticism Lord Grey has made grasping imperialism, has re-

As to their discomfort, that is less sailor men drop overboard in the nature of the case. They come once more to light before.

which a

Mr. Lau

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a reply. The endeavours of the commended that she be allowed Department, P.W.D., Hong Kong, are not made for sunshine cruises, they are consigned for ever to the League, whatever their final out to relinquish her mandate over has completed his course in practical The liner is a lady, saya Mr. oblivion of the Black Deeps. come may be, have not been ate- and Iraq enters the fellowship, awarded his diploma by the National dredger is a navvy. I have never will move no more, bottles which Iraq. The League has agreed, and theoretical radio and has been. Kipling, and by the same token the sodden accordion to which feet rile. They have, at least, localis the first mandated territory to Radio Institute of Washington, DC. been in hotter engine rooms ed the quarrel. They have pre-graduate out of the pupillary He finished the prescribed course of stokeholds than I found on some of never be investigated now, odds or may be full of the best but will vented other Powers from play- status. Another new adherent is technical studies

Turkey, and her accession elicited

with creditable the Thames dredgers. With the and ends of rope and other junk

ing each for its own hand, and a chivalrous greeting from Sir grades and is to be congratulated temperature outside touching that is all it comes to. have confirmed the acceptance of Granville Ryrie, who said that upon his achievement. the principle that differences of those who fought on Gallipoli policy likely to lead to strife are had nothing but respect for the no longer the exclusive affair of prowess of their one-time foes. The contribution of the new

Personal Pars.

the parties thereto and their back-members, small though it be, to ers, but are of international con- the joint cheat will be welcome. Among the passengers disembark cern. They have elicited proof The League has not escaped the ing in Hong Kong from the s.a.

common embarrassment atten- President Hoover yesterday, that, although American is not a

Was

tropic figure, I watched a stoker Many of the dredger men have,.. before a dredger's fires shovelling splendid records of war service coal with cool accuracy that found rendered on dangerous occasions the precise. inch through the afloat; but they are quite content furnace-mouth.

now to stay in London River, help Necessary? Call off your dredger ing with the job of scooping up service for a few years and you with buckets 2,000,000 cuble yards will see. It was all very well for of river rubbish every year. Roman, galleys and Vikings' high- Eliza- beaked ships and stately

signatory of the Covenant/dant on depression. A few years Mr. D. C. Dunham, who is attachen bethan barges to take the river as DR. SZE'S MISSION IN

America identifies

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UNITED STATES.

Said To Connected With Sino-Jap. Dispute.

ago Sir Herbert Ames, Financial to the American Consulate.. herself Director of the League, said that

they found it. But that won't de with the efforts of other only about 70 per cent. of the Mrs. M. Q. Clark and her two stream must be helped day and to-day. The natural, scour of the Powers to promote peace. The amount due can be expected to daughters arrived here on the a.s. greatest lesson of all, according within any given period. Lat her husband who is District Mau- reach the League's Treasury President Hoover. She is joining|

night.

„Crew's Job, to Lord Grey, is that while form-terly that estimate has erred on ager of the Standard Oil Company Briefly, the dredgerman's, Job erly the uninvited intrusion by the side of optimism. According of New York.

comes to this. A channel must be outsiders into the arena of nego-to the latest budget available, 14

maintained 1,000 feet wide and 30 tiation would have been consider non-European States are collec

Nanking, Oct. 7. ed gratuitous impertinence and tively nearly 14,000,000 gold

Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Gee arrived feet deep from the sea to Grave-

send. From Gravesend to Cold- It is understood that Dr. Alfred an affront to national honour, it francs in arrears in their pay here yesterday on the s.8. President harbour it is maintained at 30 feet Sze, former Chinese Minister, to. is now regarded as the natural ments. The stringency has les over from the United States. Mr. deep in a narrower channel, London, who is now in America, thing. Of course, the League has to a curtailment of certain of the Gee, who is here on business, is the Thence to King George V Dock it has been entrusted with an import still to survive the supreme test. League's operations, which may

Divisional Manager of the National must be 27 feet deep from the ant diplomatic mission by the

Dock to the Pool 20 fest, and from National Government, Whille the Fool to London Brid feet exact nature of the mi kept a close secret, it. however that, t

It has still to demonstrate its not be entirely a misfortune. It Chemical Company. ability to avert war between has been suggested that in the States strong, or desperate, en-days of prospority: League] The ough not to be dissuaded by ex- was rather prone to

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