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THE MEDITERRANEAN

(By B. S. Townroe)

Orion, which sailed on her maiden voyage recently, with only funnel was a bold experiment. The old-and mysterious-prefer- ence for a ship with three or even four funnels still lingers in the minds of many travellers.

Probably dates from the time

extensive when a ship big enough to have soilles by daylight will see the ships the more

immense new harbour works in the protection necessary. The

more than one smokestack was a.

HE traveller who to-darfshore, and the comparative Tenters the harbour of Mar absence of tides, but the busser

novelty, and each additional fun-Progress. These stretch as far new breakwater, for example, nel was held to indicate increased as the Rove Tunnel which is guarding the, "Bassin Mira

beau" is built of blocks of con- size. speed and safety."

Steel Moulds

With this in mind, perhaps, de- signers have frequently sive

liners dummy fanmek,

-AS SMOKING-ROOMS

her three funnels is, as

kennels.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Germany.

The China Mail

Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 3, 1935

The Gravest Menace To Trade Unionism

far as

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the widest in the world.

Out of sight beyond the tun-crete- cel and behind the hills to the north-west is being construct- I watched these being cast in ed a huge inland harbour. The steel moulds and saw one, the tunnel is a link between the size of a small bungalow, being ancient port, the new port, and cautiously lowered by a giant The most recent example is the the Rhone Canal and so to crane into the water, where it Switzerland was guided into its final position Normandie. The farthest aft of Central France.

Germany Holland, and on to by divers. Similar gigantic blocks are now being used to propulsion is concerned. super the North Sea.

The French engineers have build the Pharo Basin, just out- fivous Instead, it contains the already erected breakwaters side the old port, where in time. ventilating machinery and dex composed of reinforced con- there will be a new deep-water crete blocks, each weighing 450 harbour large enough for ships The Majestic has three fammelstons so as to protect shipping with a maximum draught of of which only two serve their ap against the storms of the Medi-over 40 feet parent purpose, while the Homeric terranean. They have driven a The beginnings of a new has one dummy and one real fun-tunnel through four miles of breakwater a mile and a half nel Both these liners were built rock, and they are transforming long can now be seen. These marshland into sites suitable two harbour extensions will The only two British-built for factories over an area equal cost. according to estimates, liners of the Card-White Star to that of Marseilles itself over £12,000,000. feet with dummy funnels are the All these works are proof of the Not satisfied, however, with motor ships Georgic and Britannic energy and enterprise

of these additions along the shore, accretion of experience with Both have two short funnels; in modern France.

even more ambitious plans are advancing years, but deliberate the Britannic one contains the en-

being carried out behind the World's Traffic intent to add to existing stores gineers' smoking-room, and in the

hills bot far from the main line of knowledge. Fortunately the Georgie the dummy funnel is

The leaders in this vast engi-to Paris on an inland lake, the chill wind of this dictum is shared between a smoking-room neering project, which

the Etang de Berre. Napoleon was tempered for human sheep well and wireless equipment.

Chamber of Commerce at Mar-one of the fast who had the on in years by its limitation to

seilles initiated in the blackest vision to see that this might the age of 45 After that, a Your Daily Smile! year of the war, see a vision of become one of the finest inland man may begin to say to him-1 By resolutions carried by self that he is too old to set him

Marseilles becoming a river port harbours in the world, but it large majorities the Trades self to learn anything more declares a novelist. Lots of other chief seaport of France.

*I do not write for personal pro-and increasing its traffic as the has taken over 100 years to Its bring his conception within the Union Congress decided at Before, his failure to add to his novelists have complained of much present position on the belt of realms of practical politics. their congress at Margaté to brain-store will be remorseless- the same thing.

the world which links up the

Good "Anchorage have no dealings with Com-ly set down" by the scientist to munism

canals of Suez and Panama, at That is precisely one or other of a number of An archway of picks and shovels the head of direct water com miles, or about the same size as what would have been expected rather out-at-elbows reasons. was formed at á recent wedding in by those who know anything of

the North of England. Some heartmunication. is a natural asset, the City of Leeds. Most of the the foundations of trade union-canses of adult failure to em- but fortunately the happy couple loped

Among them, the commonest less practical joker biew a whistle, which has been steadily deve lake has a natural depth of be tween 26 and 30 feet, thus pro- ism in England. The vote was bark on any protracted pro- reached the waiting car before too's forced in an effort to compel the cess of self-education hardly

As this summer. I-steamed viding good anchorage for sea- were downed General Council to withdraw figure, curiously enough.

round the harbour, leaving be-going ships up to 12,000 tons, circulars issued with the par-vigorous

hind the old port. M. Brenier while there is unlimited space reported that a Glasgow man the Hon. Director-General of for docks and warehouses.

Chamber of holding official positions in the common; and the frequent instrument on three days free trial.

It is now linked to the Medi- Commerce, told me anions.

of the terranean by the Rove Tunnel. ba this attempted dictment. against current edu-

rivalry between Marseilles and an engineering achievement of censure upon the executive cational methods that they miners and railwaymen were leave the young adult compla

Genoa, and how the French port which little has been heard in Five-year-old Henry and his increasing its traffic- Both Britain This is a tunnel allied, and probably for the first cently unconscious of anything mother were going to drive to the are in the Mediterranean, close over four miles long, 49 feet time in the history of, the Con-more to be learnt-cannot be ime they were ready to start, two to the route from the East to high and 72 feet wide. It took country to see an aunt About the gress that combination was de-ignored. feated. The fact that the op-and less reprehensible reasons. Henry sat patiently waiting for

But there are other ladies came to call ponents of the circular describ-Pressure of other interests (in them to go, bat as they made no ed the attempt to shut the doors themselves not necessarily less move toward going, he finally said upon the Communists as admirable than a determination When you go home, Mother and [“undemocratic” and an in-towards mental self-improve-

are going out to see Auntie Flo." fringement of the autonomy of ment) is one.

The guests, laughingly departed. But the most the unions did not prevent the powerful, probably, is mere

Exceptions majority from seeing that what fatigue. Nothing but the "Are you and Lois the oldest" of}. is at stake is the existence of strongest character and the your family?" asked the teacher of becoming the middleman for Commerce and its President, M British trade unionism itself.

The day was carried against serious study steadily possible)

most enduring brain can make one of the twins. the extremists by the speech of after a hard day's work. Still, Mr. Bevin, who controls ait is fatally easy, between 25 union having bitter experience and 45, to condone flagging in- of the activities of Commun- tellectual alertness and curiosi ists.

reaction

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pose of preventing Communists compulsory study is certainly hours. Apparently he had the in the Marseilles

against played the piano continuously for 22

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Gentle Hint

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No, mother and daddy are quite lation. a bit older," answered the child.

The area is nearly 60 square

South America.

15 years to build. Last year there were 644,300 It was started in 1911. and passengers passing in and out work continued in 1914, war or of Marseilles, as compared with no war. At the very moment 1143,570 in Genoa and nearly when the Germans were-fight- twice as many ships, and 1,000,-ling at Verdun the two ends of 000 more tons in goods (em-the tunnel met barked and disembarked).. Resolutely the leaders of the Marseilles aims, however, at enterprise, the Chamber of

one-tenth of the world's popu-Artaud, and the official engi- neers of the Ponts et Chaussees Expanding Figures

(Public Works), pressed on, until the work was completed in The latest figures show that 1926.

Barges to-day of 600 tons rear the traffic, of the harbour carry cargoes from the Medi is steadily expanding. The net terranean through the tunnel to ship tomage has increased the inland sea, and up canals from 22,000,000 tons in 1913 to into the interior of France and over 33,000,000 tons at present thence to central and northern

British shipping still occupies Europe. first place and the tonnage entering and leaving the port under British flags last year The flood relief fund of $66,000 amounted to nearly 7,000,000 was remitted by the National tons.

in spite of the crisis of last His revelation that most ty on the plea of

of the unauthorised strikes years; and a sharp reminder among the transport workers that the, excuse is mostly self- are due to Communist agents deception will do no harm. convinced the delegates, who

know how serious a danger to

trade unionism is the breaking ANTI-RED FORCES of agreements.

The way of

the Communist is made harder for the future by the vote of the Congress, but he will not be

AT SIAN

deterred from his propagandist Unified Campaign To

Be Launched

FLOOD RELIEF

FUNDS

Remitted To The Provinces

Nanking, To-day

Famine Relief Commission to the

The figures, however, show a following afflicted provinces to decrease in the goods traffic (in day:

Hupeh

Kiangsu

Kiangsi-

Fukien

Hopei Shantung Honan Kwangtung Homan Anhwei

and out) of about 1000,000

$15,000

10,000

4,000

4,000

tons compared with the pre-war figures, owing to the world crisis The decrease applies

2,000 15,000

5,000

4.000

4,000 2,000

(Continued on Page 12)

ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH

Concert By Madame Lottie Gordon

Madame

Eottie" Gordon

will

specially to British coal, which give a concert under the auspices explains why our coal mines Music Links (Hong Kong branch) of the Empire, and Australian have been so hard hit. In 1913

the import of British coal to on Tuesday next at St. Andrew's Marseilles was 1,797,800

Church Hall at 9 pm. She will

tons.

artists.

including the Misses

efforts The British Labour movement can be captured for Moscow only by obtaining con- trol of the machinery of the

Peiping, To-day. unions, which it would prompt stand that there has been no The military authorities under- ly destroy. Trade unionists! have shown themselves to be on nifying military command of the guard. The size of the minor-troops in the North-west during ity at the congress would the present campaign against the cause misgiving were it not communists in that region, and a that a good many votes were new military post will soon be cast, not out of sympathy with created for the North-west, with The Commission also decided to reduced in 1933 to 968,400 tons be assisted by several young the Communist, but in defence its headquarters at Sian, accord-ship 7,000 used uniforms, donat and in 1934 to 866,400. The of the sturdy faith that the ing to information from a military ed by the Ministry of the Navy, to reduction is said to be due Dorothy Paven, Clotilde Andrade, the inundated districts in Shan-almost exclusively to the sub-Winifred Raven, Kathleen Watson

stitution of fuel oil for coal- land Lai Woo, in addition to Col It is leamed that Marshals tung, one of the provinces worst Chiang Kai-shek and

affected by the floods-Central Chang Haueh-liang have beer formally News Agency. The Age Of Learning appointed by the National Govern

ment as Commander-in-Chief and FORTHCOMING WEDDING Few elderly withers would Deputy Commander of the bandit remain unwrung if what Dr. suppression forces of the North- The forthcoming marriage is large ship coming in from the her Hong Kong Boat Song, and Wynn Jones told the Psycho-west respectively. As the Gen-announced of Mr. Fred Edmond open sea to thread its way to other new compositions of Aus logy section of the British As-eralissimo is too busy to handle Tomkins, clerk, of Palm Court, te berth, and yet breakwaters tralian and local origin. sociation recently were taken the military affairs in the North-and-Miss Mary Ann Kirkwood, were essential in order to pro A collection will be taken at the gravely to heart. It is never, west campaign, the Young Mar- telephone operator of No. 24vide a safe anchorage in this door after the concert, in aid of according to him, too late to shal will stay at Sian to direct the Mindoro Street, Manila, who is exposed position. The original the Hong Kong Links Music Chib learn; and by learning he evid-anti-Red-operations there fen route to the Colony by the assets of the harbour were the and the Girls Blind Home ently means not the automatic Central News Agency.

President Coolidge.

'deep water, 105 feet close to the The public is cordially invited.

unions do not want instruction source. from headquarters how affairs should be managed.

their

As our tender picked its leen Ng and a junior chorus, who course from one basin to an- Bush be heard in an Australian other the difficulties which the Song. French have had to overcome Other items will include two became apparent. It must be a songs for the world's peace com- ticklish and slow business for a posed by Madame Gordon herself.