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SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1933.

Mystery Of Tristan da Cunha

No News Received For

18 Months

EMPIRE'S LONELIEST COMMUNITY

of

THE CHINA MAIL.

"SEADROMES" FOR

ATLANTIC

30-Hour Crossings May Operate Shortly.

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SERVICE NEXT YEAR?

Norfolk, Virginia.

HONG KONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS

ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.

-- Orders issued by Colonel L.. G. Bird, D.S.O., 0.8.E., Com-

mandant, H.H.V.D.C.:-

Hong Kong, Friday, July 21.

PARADE

Corps Band. Band Practices will take place on the following dates at Haad- quarters at 6 p.m. sharp:---- Tuesday-July 25, 1933. Friday July 28, 1933.

Plans for the first "seadrome" In the Atlantic Ocean, 470 miles northeast of Cape Henry, as thej initial step in a trans-ocean aero- plune service from Norfolk and) New York to Europe, have been There has been no news for 18 Their traditions and ways months of the 168 islanders of living are those of the Napoleonic made public here by Captain Hugh Tristan do Cunha the loneliest era. They have the simple, unques Duncan Grant, a British meterolo community in the British Empire.tioning piety and belief in God and

gist and consultant of the Arm Their astonishing story is told here the King of the decent-minded. law-

Seadrome. Development by

jabiding British sokler who founded strong

their colony in 1817. Time has Corporation, which is backing the

project gently passed them by.

Captain Grant predicted that a Their clothes and footwear are made from the dressed skins and service for passengers, mail and of attending. A ship, the first for 18 months, hides of cattle, sheep and pigs, treight would be opened in the was to have visited them at the end penguin

Miriam S. Walsh.

Fate has played another cruel trick on the islanders of Tristan da Cunha,

The and seal.

women

of April. It was taking boxes of wash, card and spin their wool from stores, food and clothing to the the sheeps' backs.

tion.

sea routes.

No 1877 Pte. L N. Watkins, No. 14 Platoon, as from-81.5.91. Permitted to Resign --

No, 1823 Pte. H. A Waller, No. 14 Platoon, as from 19.633. --

Strength.

No. 2072 Tpr. L. de C. Blechyn- ¡den, A.P.C. Co. Tel. 28041, M. G.

Troop, 14.7.33.

The Battery. There will be a Lecture at 5.30. p.m. on Thursday, July 27 at Head-4, quarters.

that Autumn of 1934. He said

regular 30-hour air journeys from on

Norfolk (Virginia) to European points would be attempted.

Every one should make a point

Engineer Company. Practice at the Miniatore Range

Monday, July-24 at 5.30 p.m.

Corps Signals. Parade at. Corps. Headquarters The first "scadrome" has been at 15.80 p.m. - on. Tuesday, July 25, constructed and anchored near 1933.

Machine Gua Troop.

Parades.

No. 2073 Pte. F. W. Winyard, Tung Cheung Buildings, No. 3 Platoon, 14.7.93.

No. 2074 Pte. E. C. H. Tribbeck, Wesley, 15, Ventris Road. Tel. 20370, No. 3 Platoon, 14.7.33.

T. H. S. GALLETLY. Lieutenant, Adjutant,

HEV.D. Corps.

NOTICES.

Annual Aquatic Sports, The Annual Aquatic Sports will,

South island. Fierce

Atlantic Their greatest treasures and such clothes storms compelled the vessel to pass family heirlooms are by after waiting sixteen hours in as come to them from time to time here for experimental purposes | the hope of establishing communica from kindly but unseen friends in and has been pronounced satisfac- Parade at Causeway Bay Stable be held at the Victoria Recreation

England and South Africa.

tory in initial tests. Captain at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 25, Club on Saturday, August 12, 1933 The ship, a luxury liner, had gone' The very timbers in their houses,

at 9 pan. 500 miles out of its way to call at and all the furniture, have been Grant said that five of these "sea-1933.

Armoured Car Section.

Admission tickets will be ob Tristan, for the tiny colony, a Bri-salvaged from vessels wrecked-17dromes" are to be constructed and

There will be no parade on Mon-tainable at Volunteer Headquar. tish possession, is far off the usual of them on their shores, for there anchored approximately 500 miles

ters (Officers' Mess, Sergeants is no timber on the island. It is part between the American coast day, July 24, 1933.

Motor Machine Gun Section. Mess and Canteen) and the Vic- Admission It is one of three bleak, rock over thirty years since the last and Spain or Portugal. They will

serve as landing flelds for the All Ranks parade at Headquar-toria Recreation Club. Islands 1320 miles below St. Helena wreck, and chairs and beds are be-trans-Atlantic planes. Each "seaters on Monday, July 24, at 6.30 $1 including Tax. 1500 miles west of Capetown, 2500 coming scarce.

drome" will be equipped with ac-p.m. for Machine Gun Instruction. Entrance Fee 50 cents per man from Buenos Aires. Southward lie

Majestic Grandeur.

'comodations for 300 persons, with

Scoltish Company.

per event, whether Teain or Indivi- Travellers have told me of the $200 miles of unknown seas between.

aeroplane shops, hotel, miniature

N.C.O.S Instructional dual Events. Entries are to be majestic grandeur of Tristan da golf courses and other facilities Class at Headquarters on July 27, made in writing accompanied by Tristan and the Pole.

Cunha, seen from the sea. It rises And so the much-needed pro-

for trans-Atlantic passengers 1933, at 5.30 p.m. under C.S.M. the necessary Fees to C.S.M. Pad- visions were taken on to Monte a stark black mass of volcanic rock, while each "island" will have a Parkinson.

gett at Volunteer Headquarters not Video, where now they await the at-sheer out of the ocean to a height resident personnel of from 100 to

Musketry. Peak Range has been later than 5 p.m. on Monday, tableland tention of some other kindly dis-[of 8000ft.. and on the

125 persons.

allotted to the Company on Sun- August 7, 1933. stands the gigantic peak of the ex-; posed ship's captain.

Number one sendrome will be day, July 30, 1933. Members are Tristan is utterly devoid of any tinct volcano, nearly always covered located in longitude 38 north, lat- requested to keep this date free,

The beaches are of lava titude 66 west (approximately), or means of contact with the outside with snow.

Portuguese Company. world. Anything may have happen-black lava-over which the white from 450 to 500 miles by air from

N.C.O.8 Clans, July 265 will be ed there since II.M.S. Carlisle called foam races.

Life on the island is as difficult Norfolk and about the same dis- reserved for the answering and in early 1932. We cannot tell,

It seems

incredible that there as its forbidding aspect from the tance southeast of New York. discussion of questions sent in to Three other acadromes are to be 0.C. Company. Any men of the should be people voluntarily and sea suggests. Only a small part is

placed west of the Azores and a Company are invited to send in happily living in such a place; yet habitable, a narrow plateau of 92 fifth between the Azores and Vigo, questions if they wish there are 163 of them, and more miles by 1%. 100ft. above sea-level, Spain, or Lisbon, Portugal. There will be Bo Lecture than half of them are children. The soil is so poor that the utmost

August 1. For a hundred years these island-diligence is needed to grow enough

The next Lecture will be held on ers and their forbears have lived a potatoes for the people and enough

August & life remote

for the cattle, sheep and from all "progress." grass

Subject to be notified later. Shops,

moncy, taxes, newspapers, donkeys. Tristan da Cunha's neigh- telephones, motorcars-none of these bours, Nightingale and Inaccessible, thinga exist for them. Their only 20 and 25 miles distant, are too de- Nearly Trebled In Seven Years.

conveyances are wheel-barrows.

UX-Wagons

CHURCHES

A CHAROM OF ONE DOLLAR IE MADE FOR ALL NOTICES UNDKE THIS HRADING

WESLEYAN METHODIST

CHURCH,

and solate for habitation.

Reuter.

AUSTRALIAN BUTTER EXPORTS

Sydney, N.S.W.

An

Anzac Company” ̈* Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Monday, July 24, 1933, for Machine Gun Instruction.

Full particulars will be issued to all Ranks of the Corps by Circular letter.

Permission has been obtained from the Committee of the Victoria Recreation Club for entrants in the above events to practise in the V.R.C. Swimming Bath during the Tiffin hours (12 noon to 2 p.m.)

There will be Dancing for two hours after the conclusion of the Sports.

Lecture At Garrison Hall, Wellington Barracks.

A Lecture on "Situation in India. and on the Frontier" will be given by Captain W. A. Trott, M.C., 3rd Bn., The 9th Jat Regiment,'at the Garrison Lecture Hall, Wellington Issue Barracks, at 11 am. on the 24th

instant.

The Officers Commanding the

The history of Tristan da Cunba

A new record in butter exports is one of the romances of our Em-from the Commonwealth was creat-undermentioned Units will pire. Britain took possession in ed for the period July 1, 1932 to their Orders to their Commands 1815 for strategical reasons, and in June 8, 1933, when 3,950,139 boxex separately- 1816 a detachment of artillery was (211.207,780lbs.) were shipped, ex- Machine Gun Company. placed there as a safeguard against ports having almost trebled In

any attempt to rescue Napoleon from St. Helena. When the garri-

seven years.

The previous record was created

son was withdrawn the next year, in 1931-32, when 3,451,140 boxes

A.A.L.A. Company.

Leave.

No. 1990 Ptc. D. Orr. Anzac Company, granted six weeks leave

a non-commissioned officer, a Scots-193,263,840lbs.) were shipped from 25.7.83 to 4.9.83, man from Kelso, in Roxburghshire, Reuter. named William Glass, begged to bej left behind with his wife and children and the livestock that the troops had brought.

So began the Colony of Tristan

The following are the forthcom- ing services, etc., at the English Methodist Church, Wanchal (Op-¡da Cunha. posite Royal Naval Hospital Queen's Rd., E).

July 23, (Sixth Sunday After Trinity).

the

Cotton

ANNOYING THE WIFE.

Chicago.

No. 1906 Pte. W. Sprague, Motor Machine Gun Section, granted one month leave from 1.7.33 to $1.7.33. No. 1548 Acting L/Sergt. B. Holmes, No. 4 Platoon, granted two months leave from 21.7.39

Among the alleged acts of 20.9.33.

to

Struck off Strength.

Fined & Dismissed by the Eff-

Five years afterwards two others cruelty Mrs. Laura Gerke charg of the soldiers returned from Eng-ed against her husband in a land into voluntary exile, Alexander divorce complaint was that he

and John Mooney. Later, Rev. some shipwrecked sailors and balf-' put the lighted ends of cigar-iciency Board:-

caste wives, fetched from St. Helena ettes in his mouth and swallowed No. 1801 Pte. E. H. Watts, Rev. by a passing sailing vessel, brought

them just to watch her dismayed M.M.G. Section, as from 21.7.33.

Having left the Colony:-- the population up to 25 in 1827.

No. 2058 Tpr. G. O. W. Stewart, from Machine Gun Troop, as

Moruing Order by the John Foster, B.A. 10.15 a.m,

Evening Order by John Foster, B.A. 8.15 p.m.

SAILORS & SOLDIERS”- HOME.

Evedy Sunday evening at 7 p.m. Christian Social Hour.

Every Monday and Thursday

7 p.m. Badminton Club.

UNION CHURCH.

at

KENNEDY ROAD, HONG KONG.

Sunday, July 23,

Sunday School 9.30a.m.

Morning Service, 10.30 a.m. Evening Service, 6 pm, Preacher at both services: Rev. E. G. Powell

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,

SCIENTIST..

[Branch of The Mother Church,

The First Church of Christ, Scien tist, in Boston, Mass., U.S.A.). Macdonnell Road, Below Bawen Road Tram Station,

Social Problem.

looks.

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Reuter.

In 1857, 50 of their descendants fine physique of the men-tall and 14.7.38. migrated to the Cape; in 1885 all wiry, but with small heads and the men on the island except three curiously high-pitched. voices.

No. 1862 Pte. J. C. Lyal,, K.C.C. Section, A.ALA Company, as

were drowned fishing. But the Each vessel that calls at long in- from 21.7.33, .*: numbers are steadily increasing now tervale takes out such "luxuries" as

No. 1869 Pte. P. Mader, KC.C.:| year by year, and in 1982 there were tea, coffee, sugar, beans, jam, rice, Section, A.A.LA Company, 25 163 inhabitants. The social problem flour and tinned fruits, tobacco, cat-from 217.38. perplexing the island when H.M.S- ton goods, and-sewing materials. No. 1642 Pte. I. S. Lee, No. 4 Carlisle called last year was that All these are carefully hoarded and Platoon, as from 217.88. there were 19 eligible bachelors in rationed.

No. 1643 Pte. E. A. Walter. No. one 7 Platoon, as from 21.7.33.

NEW ARTERIAL ROAD FOR RUSSIA.

Unbroken Stretch Of 268 Miles.

Moscow.

the community and only nine A letter I received from spinsters.

alander by H.M.S. Carlisle in 1932 The 163 lelanders have but Sve begged me to see that no more surnames amongst them, yet there Bibles were sent, as the islanders The are so far no tangible adverse re-now had five each!

sults of inter-marriage.

Partles for birthdays, weddings, Their food consists chiefly of the Christmas, and anniversaries are potatoes they grow, eaten with milk, the gay inter!ades in life on Tristan. sea-birds eggs, fish, and occasion- Then the islanders dance century- ally meat.

old schottisches and "handkerchief Yet, despite this limited and dances.” ordinarily healthy, have remarkably were made to remove the people of A new arterial road, divided in- monotonous diet, they are extra- Twice-In 1904 and 1907-offers good teeth, are very long-lived, and Tristan wholesale to the Cape. They to three sections for teams, trucks. entirely free from epidemics. There refused. They love their Isolation, and private cars respectively, is to has been only one case of cancer on the bracing and pungent smell of Be constructed between Moscow the island, and the sufferer was the dense seaweed, the "ple, and Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod), Sunday Morning at 10 o'clock, Attractive People,

tounder.

and that strange silence which Wednesday Evening Meeting at: 6

reigns within the booming of the road will have no crossings. pm. Reading Room at above ad- visited Tristan during the famous Tet the population is growing, point of intersection so ibat cars

I was told by Scout Marr, who Atlantic rollers.

Viaducts are to be built at every dress open Tuesday and Friday, 10 Quest expedition, that the islanders and the natural resources of Tristan may drive the whole length of it a.m. to 12 noon, Monday and Thursday, 5.30 to 7 pm The and dignified, ahy, but hospitable, though it is not desirable to remove

are most attractive people, courteous do not increase in proportion., Al at an average, unbroken, speed of

76 miles per hour. Public is cordially invited to at He profoundly admired their sea the older people against their will, The total width of the road will tend the service and visit the manship in handling their frail something must be done for the 88 be about 40 feet, Reading Room. Branch of The canvas hosts in mountainous seas, children before disaster overtakes Plans have been prepared by i Mother Church, The First Church A friend of mine, too, was on the them of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Duchess of Atholl which visited For all the world knows, some, and work is

Automobile And Road Mastituts Mass., U.S.A.

gin sop Tristan in 1929. He spoke of the disaster may have come

Reuter

Sunday Service' 11.15 am. Subject:-Truth...

The Sunday School: is held on? William Glass himself, the original which is always in the island Throughout its 268 miles, the

:

Any Officers of the Corps whe are willing to attend this Lecture are requested to forward their names to me not later than 10 a.m. on Saturday the 22nd instant.

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AFTER ORDERS. Machine Gun Company. Parades. All N.C.O.s will parade at Queen's Pier at 5.30 pm.

July 27, 1933––Fize Thursday, Orders etc.

Friday, July 23, 1983--Nos. 1 Parade at Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. for 1A and Stoppages.

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