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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1933.

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THE CHINA, MAIL.

30 Hours On Burning Ship

and O. Commodore's

Reminisences

'HONG KONG CHANGES

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Rt. Rev. the Bishop of Victoria, Forty-three years ago, when ships ing like a snake towards the bow. who will be offelally welcomed" as were sailing ships, young Coell By cutting our way in front of the chairman of the School Committee. Brooks, fresh from school boarded fire as it progressed we gfadually and the Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall the good barque "Alexander checked it, but it was thirty hours have also promised to speak. Lawrence" and sailed away from before we got it out.

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Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the New Queen's Ball Orch.

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Banjo Solo

St. Louis Blues Some of these Days

Eddie Peabody DB713. Piano Solo-

Haye You Forgotten? Helen-Selection

Billy Mayerl DE777.

I Lost my Heart in Heidelborg We've got to Put That Sun Back in

the Sky Organ Solo

Layton & Johnstone DB820.

A Faded Summer Love Save the Last Dance for Me

Quentin M. Maclean DB759, Vocal Dust

Live, Laugh and Love Just Once for All Time

All those interested in the Penarth to Rio. Adventure was in "I shall never forget the spell of School, especially Old Boys and bis blood and the salt tang of the four hours I had at the wheel. I parents, are cordially invited to be sea in his nostrils. All the same, had to strain my eyes through present, as the Headmaster is very the adventures and the hardships blinding smoke, which kept blowing| anxious to meet as many as pos-that came his way were enough to in my face, and the flames at times Vocal Duet→→→ sible.

test the stoutest heart in the almost enveloped me. The speeches will be followed toughest youngster.

"It was, well, alarming and not al by tea and refreshments.

They did not break the heart of little tiring, but we were pretty tough then in spite of the diet. It young Brooks.

To-day he is Commander Cecil took three months at Mauritius to Brooks, R.N.R., D.S.O., Commodore get the good old "Alexander of the great P. and O. steamship Lawrence" in commission again. fleet. He has circled the world tirne Hurricane Experience. jand again, faced all the perils and "In the same barque I had my known all the best moments and the first taste of a hurricane. We were worst moments of a sailorman's life. making from Rio to New York This morning he brought his when, off Bermuda, it began to flagship, the ss. Ranchi, into Hong blow. It was late summer, the sca- Kong for the last time, and inson for hurricanes, and we soon February he will say farewell to the had every stitch of cauvas down. sea-tie capricious, angry, smiling, "For three days we scudded be- terribleg lovable sea which has given him sutton treasure-troye of mem- tortes.

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Continander Brooks stood with me on his bridge and gazed out over the sunlit waters of the Harbour, somewhat wistfully, I thought.

Many Changes.

fore the gale with our poles bare. That was the only thing to do in those days. When it started blow- ing really hard, you had to let her have it, whatever your course, or, if the aea was too rough, you had to heave-to and bob over the waves.

"When it blew itself out we set about getting on our course again. It was nothing to lose a few days here and there.

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Major (Bach) Prelude No. 4 in C Sharp Minor

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"There are many changes since first looked across your beautiful harbour," he said, as his keen blue

"I remember how proud we were] eyes wandered to where the proud tower of Gloucester Building stood of making a voyage to Australia in white against the dark background 75 days. That was good going of the Island.. "Only the sen and then.

"The longest I ever was at sen the samjans stay the same.”

."But then, everything must

without seeing another human soul on my last change." he continued. "The old outside the ship was

Quartet I my voyage in the Alexander. We took must give place to the new. self, have seen many great changes, 145 days to sail from North Amer- icz round the Horn to Queenstown, particularly in shipping."

"I was one of six apprentices who with a cargo of wheat. At times! joined the "Alexander Lawrence" it was blowing a gale, and at other? at Penarth," he said, "and you may there wasn't a capful. We anon got be sure it was quite an adventure rid of practically everything but the GENERAL NOTICES. for a lad of not quite sixteen, salt pork and beet and the biscuits.

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сал remember every detail. WeWe were allowed broad once a week were all 'quartered in a steel house and flour on Sundays. The biscuits THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB for'ard. Our beds were planku, and got to the weevil stage, and were as

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"Often I spent most of a dirty lying actually against the cold steel. The floor was cement, and our only night up in the rigging and there. |furniture-il served as dining table was not much about a sailing ship I did not know by the end of that and, everything else—a sea chest.

It was a pretty hard fight from Voyage the start, but, as I have since dia- "Stealing for the stomach was OWNERS are reminded that en-covered, it was the finest training wegarded as honourable amongst us. for the Annual. Race any youth could have. Our prin- We used to put on our sea boots rewind burnt-out transformers, install Meeting, 1933, must be in the cipal food was salt beef and pork, and, when the cook was not looking, and lifelike model of the "En- aerial, in fact anything radio, Awo hands of the Secretary on or be-These were placed by the cock in alip tins of something into them. deavour in the world. It has al-

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Bought by several on the deck-one each side. From one of them brought something museums, and it has been valued at the harness casks hunks of salt fresh to us boys."

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After three

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be-work," Commander Brooks told me. came third officer on "Bread was rare, and vegetables

the "The only model ship I made before except for preserved potatoes, clipper barque "Colin Grove." A was when I was a boy. It sank s I launched it. In my which were foul-went in the first year later he left sail for steam, soon

and since then has done millions of young days I used to cut rough day or two.

"Hard biscuits were the staple miles in all the seas as a ship's models of ships out of pieces of HAVE This Day opened my diet. We got a knack of breaking officer:

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He was given a command in the

"This model, I hope, will be of with a really smart smack Public, Proctor, Conveyancer, across the knee. This also served Royal Navy in 1914 and served some historical value. It will pro Patent & Trade Mark Agent under to dislodge the weevils, though we through the war with distinction bably be exhibited in South Ken-| FOR SALE At very cheap prices the style of DENNYS & COM-came to regard them as quite tasty before returning to the P. and O.sington for some time after I return two portable Gramophones, two Loud-|PANY. My temporary office will after. sailing a month or two with- Two experiences - which he had Home, but its eventual fate I have speakers, one Binocular 6x30; one be Chung Tin Building, Des Voeux out a change of diet! Camera 6 x 9; one Gramophone Re-

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Dated the 3rd day of January, 1933.

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never equalled before, happened on not decided."

First Adventure.

the "Ranchi," of which he has been As we looked at the beautiful "My first big adventure was when 1925. One was a spell of 27 hours from the heart:

skipper since she was launched in model, Commander Brooks spoke I had been sailing ofghteen months on the bridge in a dense fog with

"We were homeward bound in the the sirens shrieking all the time as they are, need a sailing ship ""The young fellows to-day, good Southern Indian Ocean with a cargo That was on a pleasure cruise two training.

too Everything is of jute when one morning the

The other was when the mechanical to-day. Why, you' even senior apprentice came running ship was struck by lightening..

years ago.

get weather reports every five min- along the deck shouting Fire!

On the "Ranchi" he has often en-utes! In the old days you knew for Fire! I was having a nap after tertained royalty, and to the long certain what the weather was going watch bat I soon turned out and list of his friends, has added to be when it came. And then, you found that fire ad broken out in notabilities all over the world. jumped to it-all of you. That was the hold. We were days from land, and we had to set about fire fighting the sailing ships of the old days.

But his heart has always been fnja fine thing for youngsters," with a primitive pump and buckets. Two years ago, when he had to give ------ We cut the deck aft. and

up, atrenuous games, he started pumped water down on to

making a model of Captain Cook's the flames. Then we backed famous, ship "Endeavour." Jopen the deck a little further

Commander Brooks told me that

forward and saw the flames creep he had seen and copied plans of the "Endeavour" discovered in an old chest in Australia. He had delved into the archives of the Admiralty and the British Museum,

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For the last two years he has de voted many hours of his spare time to his model, the scale of which is one-fifth of an inch to a foot. Down to the pla-head sized pulley blocks and "dead-eyes the tiny hexagon lamp and the almost in- visible rowlocks on the ship's boats, he harmado it all with his own hands, checking ✨ up the minutest details with the existing record. '(Continued in, next-Column.)

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