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Problems Of World
HERE, THERE
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The Tsar's Diaries
Many are sceptical about the genuineness of the Tsarist diary
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1933.
ROMANCE OF CRACK CLIPPER RECALLED
FAMOUS WINDJAMMER SKIPPER RETIRES
which, it is reported, has been found THE PARMA – AND RUBEN DE CLOUX
at Sverdlovsky, where the Imperial
family was shot in July 1918,
(By A. J. Villiers.)
Winter
True, the Tsar kept a diary all This life. It was a habit which he maintained to the end, and which
London. he enforced on all the members of
,tishers, sailing there for the ex- The four-masted barque Parma, perience and adventure no longer his family.
British-built winner of the Grain available under any ag of their But his prison diaries from the Race for windjammers two years in own. The Passat day of his abdication were in the encccession,
has two New is in the West India Zealand apprentices; the hands off the Bolshevists, who in discharging the largest cargo of hude has Austrahans. the summer of 1918 began to publish timber ever brought to a British them in the Moscow Press thinking port in sali,
These boys frequently make long journeys merely to get the chance that they would influence public Built 31 years ago on the Clyde, to ship in suil, and there never is feeling against tho Romanoffs.
the stout Parma has since flown the any difficulty Publication of the diaries
in obtaining crew. pro German and Finnish flags, and for, There are far more applications for duced exactly the opposite effect many years was one of the "eracks": apprenticeships in the Parma than The extracts were very human little of the famous German Lacisz hae can be dealt with, not a few from notes showing the Taur's profound of nitrate clippers, sailing twice a girls. To be a sailing-ship appren- love for his family, his thoughtful-year from Europe out to Chile by tree is a hard life; the parents pay nesa for others, his interest in his way of Cape Horn, and back to a premium, and the boys work. The garden. There was no mention of Europe again the same way with work is hard, the life hard, the politics, no word of resentment sitrates.
hours long, the food rough. against his fate. After three in- Her story may be simply told. A good apprentice becomes stalments publication was stopped. Built an almost the last effort of ordinary seaman after one Austra- It is, of course, just possible that an engine-less ship lo stand up, han round voyage (usually about one diary escaped the vigilance of against powered competition. she nine months), when he is paid about the Bolshevist guards. Unless they first sailed down the Clyde upon a 35 monthly. As an apprentice he have been destroyed, however, it is summer's day in 1902. Her name may receive 10s
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a safe nasumption that the Imperial was Arrow then; her trade the car Able seamen receive about £3; a diarica are now in the State Archive riage of oil in tins from New York good junior officer may be had for Department in Moscow.
and Philadelphia to the Far East. 25. and captains count Incidentally, Sverdlovak,
themselves where The steam and motor-tankers drove well paid if they receive £20. But the diary is reported to have been her from that, and she passed to the the life has compensations not found found, is the new Soviet name for Germans for their nitrate trade be- in funds Ekaterinburg, the town in which the 'fore the war. Taar was murdered. The name was
One Trip Yearly Loaded in Iquique Bay ready io changed is honour of Sverdloff, the sail on the outbreak of war.
The saing-ship, old and hard but she to find employment, works and reckless intimations first President of Soviet Russia. It stayed there at anchor from 1914 narrow margin, and a few blown- upon a that, if this or that objective is was Sverdloff who, by telephone, until 1920 --- waiting first for aut sails may make the difference not immediately realized, "we gave the order to the Ekaterinburg the war to end and afterwards, between profit and loss upon a year's must inflate the currency." How Soviet authorising the murder of when that was over, waiting for voyage. The ships are paid about far repetition of this threat is the Imperial Family.
the division of spoils which handed 25s. to 28s. a ton to carry home the bound to exert deterrent in-
her over to the British flag again.
rain, and for this they must sail fluence on the recovery plan it- Mr. Maisky As Author Broke Grain Race Record ut in ballast. load the grain, auil self-fulfillment of the threat would certainly make havoc with dor in London, has revised
M. Maisky, the Soviet Ambassa- But she never went to sea tinder home around the Horn, discharge
and the Red Duster then; her German
the grain again, and then go to The London Economist, recog-drive" would
the "codes" and whether the largely re-written his classic work owes bought her back, with the Mariehamn to lay up until it se time nising the failure of the London vastly greater
had on Mongolia. conference to grapple with dead-cess had it been undertaken by a history, politics and economics
promise of suc- The book, which deals with the again the big Parma was carrying but the hardy Finns would
help of their Government, and one to go out for the next harvest.
There is little enough margin; locked international trade, con-government plainly and cour-Mongolia, first appeared in
of nitrates. In that trade she reman siders dispassionately such efforts ageously committed
1921.ed until the great alump of 1930,
continue a business so beset with las are being made for purely money, are questions which may covers the latest developments
Bound It has been brought up to date, and when she was laid up in Hamburg
ditheulty. But the great majority nationalist recuperation. Its dis-be left to individual business the Far Eastern situation.
indocks; and there she stayed unt of the ships belong to a little Finn cussion of the "industrial re-men.
she went to the Finns and the gras master in all himself and now is
named Erikson, who once was The fluctuating currencies: covery campaign" in the United are obstructing recovery in an- the recognised Bolshevist authority
M. Maisky, who is a Siberian. in trade with Australia. States is sympathetic, but in the other way. When even the dol-on Mongola.
That was at the end of 1931. She steadily buying up all the aurviving matter of prediction
He is a non-lar, for whose departure from merit, and once edited a highbrow Hamburg to Port Lincoln, and back year's race 15 of the 20 competing writer of sailed out to Australia in 83 days, aling-ships in the world. In this commital. It cites, as among the gold parity maintained for review in Russia. the questions presently to be half a century there was never answered: "Will the psychologi-any sound reason, falls 10 per
Recovery.
more
not have
Lo
reversed
its
Your Daily Smile.
IN A HURRY
on
again from Port Broughton to Fai- ships were ins. mouth in 103, beating nineteen other sailing-ships by from four hours to 44 days.
B
But the Parma is not his, and the Parma wun.
It was a sad blow. Veteran Skipper
do
cal excitement created by Gen- cent, on the international mar- eral Johnson's "drive," together het in a fortnight, advances 10 with credit expansion facilities, per cent. In the next four weeks,
"This year, with 6200 tons of grain! The Parma is commanded by his tide the industrialist over the then once
NERVOUS MAN: May I hold beneath her hatches, she broke all old commodore, Captain Ruben critical period while slow-moving course, what kind of prospect is your hand, Miss Phyllia?
records with a passage of 83 days Cloux. At the age of 48, he had economic forces adjust them-thereby presented for removal of
SOPHISTICATED DAMSEL:
from Port Victoria, Spencer Gulf, been in sailing-ships almost all his selves to and establish a balanced foreign barriers against Amer-By, can't we skip that and get
to Falmouth Bay.
life-the past 20 years in command. economy at a new level of prices 7ica's international trade? These to what comes next?
The whole of this 16,000 mile dis-He has never been in command of a Will employers take future pro-lobstructions result in great de-
tance was done under sail. from an- steamer except once, in an American fits an trust, or will the increase'gree from the potential menace
THE GOOD OLD KIND
chorage to anchorage. No towboat salvage tug in the Bay of Biscay of costs be such as to give a of "dumping" by countries with
"Su you
helped the big ship to put to
throughout the war. are married, eh? Got from the Gulf nor to come toher an-, fatal jerk to the economic progressively depreciating cura girl like your mother, I sup-chorage in Falmouth Bay. Engine-famous Herzogin Cecilie, and before For nine years be commanded the machine? In short, can central rencies. It is impossible to rely pose?" dictatorship for a short period on the course of trade and pro-
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"No, my wife is of the old-fash- ter scorns the assistance of power. He was won the Grain Race more
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HAM REMOVER CLIENT: What effect will you'
override, or perhaps we should a gamble on the probable action say necelerate, economic laws? of wildly Auctuating exchanges. And finally, if the present plan The American Government's re- faila to produce the goods, will jection of any effort by the new scalp treatment have on my don River with her timber the other Amerca resort to more overt London conference to avert as hair!
com-
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less herself, the 3000-ton four-maa-that he was master of the Lawhill.
jed vessels except for docking, when times than any other captain, And
they must be used.
more than half of the masters of the (Continued on Page 11). Crew Of Thirty As the Parma came up the Lon-HOLLAND PROTECTS
FRUIT GROWERS. into a nearby berth with her grain Import Monopoly And
Higher Duties.
day, her former consort from the was warping
The Hague.
and direct inflation?" The far as practicable this blight on HAIRDRESSER: Oh, I think it Laeisz Line, Passat, Economist merely puts these commerce, was all but the coup will come out all right. questions; its sole conclusion on de grace to an already its own behalf is that "the speed iplicated situation. of events is so great that before clearest-headed writers on the
One of the DIFFICULT FIGURES
from Australia, and the Bitle bar- FIRST TRAMP: MY wealth was racers to arrive, was anchoring in que Winterhude, last of the grain. long we are bound to know the existing economic situation, Pro- once countless. answers." But it emphasises the fessor T. E. Gregory of the SECOND: 1
the Cove of Cork, 144 days out from fact that even success of the University of London, has dle thing, either.
never had any Australia.
To protect the Dutch fruit grow- American experiment will leave cussed dispassionately the gold
While the Winterhude, beaten by ers from dumping of fruit from unsolved the problem of inter-standard, the defects in ite
63 days, had been coming with her Canada, California and Italy, the national commerce. In that operation since the war, and its
grain, the Parma had discharged Dutch Government has decided to direction, the present situation is continued maintenance. On the
her cargo in Hull, sailed across the set up shortly a monopoly which deplorable. If the failure of the question of its importance in the
North Sea in two-and-a-half days will control all fruit imports into conference means in the world great expansion of international boy every night."
to Copenhagen to drydock, been sur-Holland, High import duties are at large "another swing toward trade since the middle of the
veyed there, gone to Mariehamn to also to be imposed to protect the extreme nationalist courses, it Nineteenth century, he has but
ship new crew and send some of the home growers. would spell disaster." Countries one opinion: "Since the new
fold crew to hospital (for the wind- dependent on international ex-countries then being opened up fy
A similar policy of an import satia-jammer life in hard), loaded timber monopoly and high import duties change of goods would be hard-required enormous masses
in three poris in Northern Scandi-was recently adopted as regards est hit, "but no country in the capital for development purposes,
navfa · (shifting from each to the grain imports to assist the Dutch next under her own sail), and grain producer-Reuter,
sources."
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Facts You Did Not Know.
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sailed from the north of the Gulf
of Bothnia to London,
TWICE BURIED BUT
STILL ALIVE.
Strange Experience Of Quarry Worker.
Berlin.
world could escape the im-land because such capital could poverishing effect of trying to only be obtained if the lenders live entirely on its OWN re were reasonably certain of the Perhaps because of value of principal and interest,
She came dowà in 10 days, two of the peculiar position of Great the debtor nations were obliged
which she spent at anchor waiting Britain's own currency The to go onto the gold standard, troductag the metric systems in Sound...
A law enacted ten years ago in-for a fair wind to come through the Economist fails to stress the ex-The gold standard in its turn Bankok and the central region of] tent to which these various un-facilitated further loans and in- Blam was placed in effect recently, days carried a crew of 40, new car- The Parma, which in her British certainties have been created vestments, and at the same time primarily by departure of so made international trade a very
vies 30 and finds them enough. They many nations from the gold much simpler operation. The rock drills are act, into the nozzle and Finns whose Governments still Diamonds of the kind used in are mostly boys--Germans, Sweden standard. In the light of past international gold standard was of a new oil burner to give it longer compel them to serve in sail if they (Hanover) was completely burled A quarry-worker at Ruedigsdorf history the emphatic revival in thus, historically, one of the and more efficient service. home and foreign trade, which most Important adjuncts to the
wish to become sca-going officers, When part of the wail of the gravel- came with the upturn after opening up of the world to set-
(believing that a sailor can be made it fell fn. other great depressions, obtain-tlement and exploitation. What- tablished an experimental station in is about 18.
The Soviet government has es- no other way. They average age and revived by artificial respira Tie was dug out after two, hours, edits strongest impetus from ever may be said by those who Russia to breed various kinds of renewed assertion of adherence never look at the wood because hybrid animals for use on farms,
Adventurers Amony Craw |1Jon." [" to the International gold, stan- of the trees, this creation of B
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vestorers, a Britisher or two and wall of the pit again collapsed, and DAVIE, BOAG & Co.Ltd not to revive their appmest anche story of the atmosphere of a room at an the mast; through the Grain Fleet half cuffocated; but still alive
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