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The Shipping Subsidy.

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HERE, THERE

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EVERYWHERE

WHERE THE DOLLAR CAME FROM) It was from the pitch-blende of St. Joachimsthal that Mme. Curie and her husband made their famous discovery of radium in 1898.

St. Joachimsthal a little moun tain township near to Karlsbad, inj Czechoslovakia, is still the largest radium mine in Europe.

GREATEST FLIGHT IN HISTORY

EPIC RESCUE FROM

FLOATING ICE

MOLOKOO TELLS HIS

STORY

(By Patrick Murphy.).

London, and passed his strong, tanned VASSILI" Sergevitch Molokova hand over his firm chin-"but it in London. Most people in was one of those cases when you London are unaware of it. Yet the have just got to make the littl story of Molokov is one that our machino do what it is told.

"It was a bit of a trial, that first

The place has a cúrious history. In the sixteenth century It was the scene of a mining rush comparable with the Klondyke Trail of '98.

Miners flocked from all parts of grandchildren will remember when Europe to exploit the discovery of the flight of Lindbergh is almost take-off. the largest silver mine the world' forgotten. +

"I boiled, the water twice before had ever known.

Early in March of this year there putting it into the radiator, first In time the mine petered out, and stranded on an ice-floe to the north warm the engine. I boiled the oll were ninety-four Russian people to warm the radiator and then to the big town which had sprung up of the Behring Strait, in the Arctic twice, too, to get the engine as declined,

Ocean. They were survivors of the warm as possible. The colna struck from the silver Soviet ship Chelyushin, which had were called thalers. In the course been smashed by the Ice.

of etymological evolution. the word Ithaler became the modern dollar.

•

PROFESSOR, GENERAL, SPY.

"Then I told the "passengers* not to be worried, and I started off. Their leader, Professor Schmidt, We skidded all over the little aero- was able to communicate by wire-drome, using every inch of dis- less with Russia. In classic mes-tance possible, and finally was jangca he asked for help.

came 'unatuck." After that it was just a matter of flying straight.

Hopeless Fog

Rescue Plans

Then one day the despairing eyes ·

With the discovery of radium the fame, if not the fortune, of St. Joachimsthal revived. It became a of the ninety-four chanced to look "The weather made it a bit hard well-known spa for gouty and rheu-up into the grey, cold sky. and navigation was difficult. But matic patients..

Over the ice there echoed the we got to Vankarem. An English company built a huge roar of an airplane. Molokov had

"The next day was March 8. I hotel with radium baths on its pine-come.

think. I set out again from Van- covered slopes,

He had flown through blizzards karem. For fifty kilometres it was Just after the war another Eng-and fogs from Vankarem, a base on cold and clear. Then I ran into lish company acquired the sole con- the Siberian coast over 100 miles a hopeless bank of fog. I could cession from the Czechoslovak away. have armed itself with a bar-Government for the sale of the He clreled round over the great again. gaining weapon in showing that radium.

pronge of ice which thrust their "A bit further on the fog, or sea spear-points up above the ice-floe,mist I suppose you would call it, trying to and a place to land. In rolled over me again. I looked at the biggest area he could find free my compasя, It was quite un- from obstruction he landed.

decided where the north might be. He stepped out of his machine It was jazzing about. We were so

Was promo- Louis Reilly secret agent

see nothing. Then it became clear

it is resolved to meet subsidy by The technical adviser Hong Kong, Friday, August 19, 1934. subsidy and has no intention of Professor Soddy.

The seeing British ships and British ters were General sailors reduced to idleness. Spears, M.P., and Sidney That policy cannot have full ef- the famous fect in twelve months, and the whose Russian adventures form a and walked over to the little group near the magnetic Pole. The Government plan for aid-Government will enormously branch of political folk-lore in Then he told them he was going to I ran into a good patch of weather of men. He brought them food: "There was no horizon. When ing British shipping is in sub-strengthen its hands in negotia themselves. stance simple enough. The pro-

tion if it announces, at the be- The venture never prospered.six by six to the mainland.

try to rescue them by flying them again the snow and posal is that a sum not exceeding ginning, that help will be given The radium was too expensive. £2,000,000, and limited to so long as it is necessary to coun

the clouds geemed all one. It was year, should be used to enable ter unfair conditions. Shipping cheaply produced radium in the what they should do to help them...

For forty minutes he told them impossible to tell the clouds from more just what he proposed to do and the snow below." the British tramp steamers to must have breathing time in Congo the concession was given meet the unfair competition that which to reorganise itself and back to the Czechoslovak Govern Marine air force, working bun- trousers, which were just begin-

Molokov was a pilot in the Soviet

His Lucky Day threatens their early extinction consider its future problems ment.

He looked down at the flawless dreds of miles away from this. Arc-ning to crease behind the knees a

one

With the discovery of a

the ice and

All other suggested remedies without the fear that its plana The hotel is now in Czech hands. tic spot. He had heard on the little. Then his clear eyes looked

1

Your Daily Smile!

on

wireless of their plight and he had up at me again and his mouth was volunteered to bring his machine hard.

and try to rescue the marooned men.]

Epic Story

His little machine had been dis-

1

"I had to go back."·

He was allent for a moment. "There are some things you can. That weather was in-

"But those people had to be res

have, for the time being, been may be upset by a sudden with put aside. They are not aban drawal of help. At the same! doned. · Although the ship time the shipping interests are owners have manifested no love doing all that is posible to lift for the "scrap and rebuild" plan, themselves out of their difficul- evening in the canteen, and on the Private Mcgee had spent a merry the Government remains of ties. There is not the smallest following morning he appeared opinion that it would be useful.

fear that any help given will deparade wearing a very dirty and dismantled and brought 2,000 bilo- not fight. and is still prepared to co-oper greater efforts" in other direc

ter the Industry from those reputable uniform. ate with owners in replacing the

The colonel eyed him sternly, and metres to Vankarem. This older vessels. The Government, tions for which the Government after giving an order which formed his first rescue flight. in addition, pledges itself to com asks.

the battalion into two lines facing each Tremendously conscious of the cued. The next day I set out municate further with other

other, he called upon two N.C.O.'s to razorlike creases in the new grey early. We had been careful in lead McGee slowly between the ranks sult he had brought in London, filling the petrol tanks. The water maritime countries regarding

so that all might see him in his de-Molokov told me his epic story with in the patrol froze easily, so it

measures to reduce or abolish HE DIDN'T BAG

A BROKER

Naval Officer Unable To Face Charge.

TRAFFIC CASES

vincible. was

"March 9 was my lucky day. "I flew those 200 miles there and

After being led to the end of the the simplicity of a boy describing was not hard to separate it from Unes and back, he was asked by the the curriculum at his school. colonel: "Well, my 'man, what have "There were lots of little difficul

the spirit when pouring it i.. you toray1

Private McGee drew himself op

ties," he said, uncrossing his long stiffly and saluted as he replied. "The legs so that the creases should not back to the Ice-fice four times in dirthiest regiment I've Ever inspected, suffer. His pale blue eyes, at that day, and I brought six passen-

clear as crystal, smiled at me. gera each time, · ·

There was a sudden strike of Walters In a Belgian restaurant recently. As

Wore bu

"My machine, you see, was only

a

"The marooned men lay down little one. It had really only on the fee in the shape of a T. so room for my mechanic and myself, that I would sight them better fellows on the Ice, the condition

"But after I had seen those from the air. they were In, the danger of their lee-floe breaking up, I knew we had to hurry.~.

(Continued on Page 3)

Personal Pars

subsidies and scrap superfluous tonnage. In view of the break down of the negotiations in the League of Nations Committee on subsidies no Ministry can ven- ture on that species of Investiga tion with hope. Past experience bas convinced us that if British shipping is not to be destroyed subsidies must be fought by sub- "Didn't he even bag a' broker." sidies.

Such a solution is not ideal the Central

remarked Mr. E. W. Hamilton at diners began to realize that some but no plan could be ideal hav-morning, when Lieutenant R. R. Curred.

Magistracy this thing out of the ordinary had oc ing regard to the circumstances Wood, of H.M.S. Veteran, was in which shipping has been summoned for driving his car. placed by the world increase in No: 2013, in a closer road, and for

"So we made the cockpit which tonnage, the decline in cargoes,

Mr. Yang Teh-chow, represents- and the determination of other Inspector Nicol said that defen-

dangerous driving on July 26.

normally held the mechanic as big tive of the First Group Army in Countries to keep ships at sea dant is now on duty in Foochow and

ds we could. Then there are two Nanking, arrived in the Colony whatever the cost. The burden asked for an adjournment sine die,

alats In the underpart of the wings laet, evening from Canton. Mr. of discovering how best the Bri-

in which two parachutes are kept: Yang will leave for Kuling to-day tish subsidy can be utilised is

These we were determined to use by the R. M. S. Empress of Asia, which was granted. thrown on the shipping industry Wood was driving at a speed of 25 koen in one ear and out, the other.

It was alleged that Lieutenant Father: "Everything I say to you "I had. only one engine, and It men that he knew nothing of the

as cabins!" He smiled

although he told Chinese press. |itself. The preparation of an agreed arrangement can be no miles per hour in Ice House Street. what we have two cars for, fathergir grettable. There was plenty of Conference.

Toungefer (thoughtfully), that was water-cooled. That was re existence of the coming Kuling easy matter, having regard to FIRE BRIGADE HELD UP.

Wong Wah; a lorry driver, was

water about us, put the tempera- - ture was mostly 85 below zero.

Try It

This is a fact,

All men like lots of praise

And not a foolish witticism:

But not a word of,6

Two Bars

the diverse interests represented and 325 for falling to give way to Facts You Did Not Know

In ship-owning. Two principles

are laid down as a guide for the the Fire Brigade on July 20.

The weather was... well, just Hong Kong arrived to-day on the s.s.

awful

The following passengers for

Changte from Australia via portai

application of the subsidy. The

Mr. R. H. Brook, officer in charge The Spanish Inventor of the auto- drst is that it should not encour of the Fire Brigude stated that as rife type 'aff plane has developed and squeezed four of the smaller Mr. 3. S. Bridges, Miss G. Crome, are competition among British they were proceeding towards the sucessfully flown one small enough to men into the cockpit. Then I got Lieut. Col. G. Cruickshank, and ldre, shipowners, and the second that scene of a Wanchal dire along: Des

be kept in an ordinary garage.

two of them to, crawl into these G. Cruickshank, Mrs. E. J. Dickey, sort of cigar-shaped slots in the Mr. and Mrs, F. Heydon and Mag

It shall secure greater employed Road Central, the Brigade

ment of British shipping at the was blocked up by accused' lorry. A Frenchman has invented an at-wings. When they had got in aster K. Heydon, Mr. J. T. Hall, Mrs. tachment for ordinary telephones far as they could we pushed them. B. MacDonald, Mr. P. V. Muraour, sidised. BUS MANAGER FINED with which a person can call any of

expense of foreign khippin

Both past Bound, but it is left owners themselves the means by whi can be secured. time they are forward negotia eign interes agreement for the subsidies.

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LOGAL NEWS BREVITIES

ger buses to be driven with-Ineffically. elent brakes" said Mr. Lee when dning Mr. 8. T. Longy, manager of He Kowloon Bus Company, $25 for allowing bus No. 688 to be driven Boad on July 21 with brakes, falung to obey a trafic signal July 25, Mr. Hot No. Torres

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