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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 20, -1050.

HONG KONG WATERFRONT

In my log

Wot, no mora blockade.running

news?

Let's Ars! tell this simple little story

It's about a novice hunter on his maidon Africar, [sutori.

"Look at that stump ahead. What's that?" he asked his Masal

Ostrich, bwann, He's hiding himself from 45."

But what has this got to do with our waterfront business, some one is sure to chip in...and that's just what we're coming to.

Because only recently tome- thing has developed on our Beat which savours of such self-delu- slon

Authority has clamped down on news regarding the running of the Nationalist blockade, denerat Information about the movement of blockade runners is being withheld from the pubile.

It means the Inyman will have to contend with scraps of inter- mation, which experience has shown

are generally obtainable

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Iteuson for this unprecedented action in that publication of news about this modern China Sea saga is detrimental to the block- ade-runners in that it helps be Bligerent war craft enforcing the blockade,

Can you identify them?.

To begin with, it is no secret

BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER

When the new look-out poet of the Marine Ofoe comes into operation naxt month, ship movements in Victoria Harbour. will come under direct "three-point" control by all the three look-out porta in port. The Signal Tower (below) will serva, an.sha_office_white_telegraphiste- and watchmen keep vigliance in the post above.--("China Mal" Photo).

New look-out for Victoria harbour

that a great number of Hung Beginning next month, ship movements in Victoria

Kong-based coasters have already Inbelled

themselves permament

blockade runners running 011 regular schedules to Communist ports.

Several more candid however,

have openly notified their respective destinations. luts off to them! Nothing is more admirable than a show of guts)

Harbour will be undor direct "three-point“ control by the look-out posts of the Marina Department.

onca, The Signal Tower, Blackhead Station and the Green Island Station will be linked by direct "blink system" communication when the new look-out post above the Marine Office comes into operation' early in April.

and

Japanese ship with rader

The first Japanese merchant ship to be fitted with radar has been launched in Tokyo Bay. She is the 14,500-ton tanker Tankakuni Maru queen of Japan's post-war tanker fleet.

This followed the recent of the bar Imposed by lifting the U.8. authorities on the commercial ure of radar by Japanese organizations,

The Tenkakusi Maru, the largert vessel to be construct- od by the Japanese since tha wor, will ply on the Persian Gulf oil run.

She was this month.

launched early

Now and then, of course, it la no surprise to hear of-even to sce--one or two of the unfor-i

Now nearing completion, the heralds the approach of any tunates limping into port with Marine Omice look-out posi ocean-going vessel calling here. grim evidence of the Inevitable | erected above the present The information is thep relayed consequences strafing, bombing Signal Tower will be able to to the authorities concerned, in- or shelling by Nationalist war cover completely the

cluding the agent, stavedores, and arcas craft

Police. But then, there have been lane to the Western Channel stretching from the Star Ferry

The now look-out post wil! | ******* numerous successful trips with-

have two telegraphists out incident in spite of the din area bounded by Green Island watchmen on daylight duty. The mediately "blinked" or telephoned heralding their missions by the and Stonecutters Island.

present Signal Tower will serve Tocui scribesment

and

Communication between these ás cífico. no KD- toward development as a result of Victoria Harbour is by ordinary was recently

three look-out posts covering The station on Green Island rinuilar "exposes".

manned. It keeps One naturally asks Then why link lamps and land telephone. vigilance on vessels coming this sudden black-out of block-The. Signal Tower, acting as the from the river ports. ade-rurning news? Volumes have main unit, maintains contnet on already been written.

a 24-hour schedule by radio tele- (Our guess? Perhaps, it's just phony with Waglan Island-the some ullergy!)

"eye" of the port of Hong Kong.

Wagian Island, some 12 miles East of the barbour

proper,

•

Who's who at the helm...

Since it is deemed "necessary" (we quote because the issue is rather debatable) that the veil of officialdom should cover this 20th century "argosy let's

acquaint ourselves 1

little

with some of the men

who have been and sul are engaged this bigh seas grme of "hide-and-seck.

A popular figure is 63-year-old James Leitch, master of the s Sing Hing, who is believed to be the oldest skipper-at-tho-helm-of a blockade runner.

And Skipper McCabe is no "Captain Bligh" on board. His men respect their master who is more often than not very gene- rous with his ready, warm. Irish smile.

Others Include:

*

Stocky, swashbuckling Ameri- ean skipper_of_the_ss. Flying Ar¬

Blackhead

•

in

to the Signal Tower, which does the necessary routine relay.

A change of mooring or berth while the ship is still in port is ulso recorded. The Signal Tower operates as the receiving centre as well as a look-out

General informat

pertaining Blackhead Station, located on to ship or crew movements is Blackhead Point, has a panoramic exchanged in code through the view of Kowloon and Hunghom Signal Tower's "blink system." A| Bays. When a ship passes through small fee is charged for this ser- Lyemun Pass entranco to Vic-vice, open to the publie at any torio Harbour this is Im-hour of the day.

Former Sai On crew

in labour dispute

row, who was frustrated in ht: Some 50 of the former crow of the fire-gutted rivar

steamer Sai On-naw undergoing reconver- sion at Ngau Chi Wan and due to resume her Hong Kong-Macao service in April-are claiming their former posts.

of the latest

Hailing from the Island of

Shanghai-attempt and whose ship the stocky, be spectacled David Jones Arran,

was riddled by shells. Skipper Scotsman Is far from being attempt in defiance of the State,

made the abortive what one would generally ex- Department's warning that he pect him to be the typical

plea was llable to lose his ticket... swashbuckling scadog who

'Hetty

broad-shouldered Audaciously braves bombs and tish master of the ss. Tsinan, J. Company, it was reported, have, British flag when she resumes

Bri-

-The new owners, Tai Yipt The Tak Shing will fly the bullets in running the blockade. Mr. Leitch is a quiet,

G. Amart, who played a success gental and loveable skipper, whose sense destroyers and returned to Hong employment on the

ful game of bluff with Nationalist refused the application for re-service. She will be berthed steamer, alongside the Hai On Wharf, the of humour has gained him wide- Kong with passengers and cargo which will be re-named lease of which the Tal Yip Com spread popularity with his crew. from Shanghai. "Go in it you Shing when she begins opera-crament.

Tak pany recently obtained from Gov- He drinks beer and rolls his have plenty of food and water," tion. own cigarettes. Skipper Leitch the Briton told four other ships. Meanwhile, the Chinese Sea- overhauled at the Choy Lee Ship- The hulk of the Sul On wad spends most of his time in port awalling outside to sneak into the men's Union is arbitrating aboard his gallant craft-target Yangtse, as he pulled out from behelf of the dissident scamen. a luxurious river steamer, equip- on yard and is now reconverted into: of belligerent gunfire on severul Chinese waters... occasions.

An Exneutive Committee member pud with some Soft-spoken, retund and scho-of the CSU's Macao Office arrived amenities, including a dance floor, larly-looking Thomas McCabe (ss. Leong Bea) Lupton of Rayners Lane, Middlo- to help smooth the issue.

Skipper T. A. in Hong Kong over the week-end cocktail bar, honeymoon suites Outwardly, 40-year-old sex, of the tanker Louise Moller,

and an intra-ship communication Thomas McCabe of Campbel- who came into

system. town, Scotland, Irish master of during the lattial stages of the bring favourable results, a senior Company were not avaliable for

the limelight Hong, negotiations by the

Kohg CSU have failed to The principals of the Tai Yip the ss. Leong Bee, is a schoolboy's blockade running when he dash omelual of the labour organisation comment on the issue over the vision of a typical tough buced past a hostile destroyer ignor-declared. 23rd Apr. 1y bearded with bushy moustache (stream Into Shanghal. To quote further this week, he asserted,

cancer of the Seven Seas-heavi-ing warnings to stop going up-

week-end. The matter will be pursued and martinet-looking.

an eye-witness, "It was a most But Skipper McCabe, is just an thrilling

The seamen, belonging to the of shear guts." ordinary family man who spends

firemen and bosun most of his time in port with his per D. Patriarhorotos of the sa. of their personal belongings when And 54-year-old Greek skip-claimed that they had lost most sections wife and daughter at home.

Armathin

whe

far Running the Nationalist bloc-more than three wees for at the Sit On caught fire at her veteran of the China Coast His six-foot. kade is child's play to the robust tempting to call

berth in mid-1947 when more at Shanghal. The

The than 160 lives were lost. They grey-haired Athens already renowned maxim "It's born mariner

cabling bis

their former posts on board werd upon his return after heavy stra-circumstances before they seized whom they believed to be the bis ignored by the new owners, ing by P-151's on the high seas-his wireless equipment. Skipper came principals who owned the provides an insight into the inner Patriarhorolos like many of his Sal On, the CSU official disclosed. sanctum of those sllent but deter- collongues was determined to try. mined minds at the helm of the again on his return if ordered to

The original owners,

Tung blockade-running feet.

On Company, ware liquidated by his principals.

after the accident.

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