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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1950,
HONG KONG WATERFRONT
“Quads” who's who
More often than not cele- britles come and go and are) just a passing scene. But there is one group of visitors who have left a memory behind them.
Celebrities in their own right, they are to the unacquainted just a dog, a leopard, a cat, a lizard and an elephant-each has goin- ed publle attention in this column
Meeting these "mute" visitors was a refreshing and entertaining diversion. They have together become a special chapter in ou
"VIPS," parade of
5t vivid in the mind is E canine who is the admiration of
alone all His
spells Crest Baror aristocracy-Danc
name
Von Ritza, boasting of five royal including two most blood lines, famous in the canine worid (Drea Tarn and Hexengold).
The
Baron has been in the Colony for 20 months since his arrival by the ss. Marine Snap- per when he made his debut at
SMALLEST ELEPHANT "embarking" at Kowloon Wharf
MASS
BY CUR HARBOUR REPORTER
This le the 12,000-ton tanker Aurie, the subject or an important experiment which may revolutionise the era of mechanical power in the merchant marine.
Jet-propelled vessel: experiment under way
When the "APC” tanker Auris enters Victoria Har- bour local shipping circles will soo the proto- type of the jet-propelled stoomer. §
The subject of an important experiment-the re- sults of which will revolutionise the merchant marine fleet-the 12,000-ton tanker is being equipped with turbo-jet or gas turbine en- gines, the first installation of its kind in the world.
the
Announcing the "world's frst installation of a gas tur- bine in a merchant ship," Mr. John Lamb, OBE, Head of the Marine Rescarch and Development Department of Petroleum Anglo-Saxon Company, described a gas tur- Wharf-3 Kowloon
restless, bine as "a marriage between growling
pitch-black of
a jet engine and an ordinary fury,
inches Standing 38
his steam turbine."
"Shell will be the first company sinewy shoulders and more than six feet tall on his hind legs, the to power a merchant vessel with Great Dane is now lending egas turbino," Mr. Lamb predicted. Insufficient progress of work placid life at Granville Road- the "bane" of undesirable ele-on the now engine has delayed In building the the experiment. ments in that
(Cat bur Auris allowances were made for glars have on several occasions run foul of him).
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And the Baron is still awaiting
who gained her mistress' favour matc. The three-year-old
good
her service-ridding by conine, by the way, desires one home of the pests.
of equal pedigree standing-one
Dunks made her debut -in
the day when it would be possible
to do so.
Explaining how this was done, Mr. Lamb pointed out that u 12,000-ton tanker like the Auris cost something like half a million pounds to build. It was far too Fisky to send her out to sea fully munned with a valuable cargo and perhaps passengers when she was fitted only with an experi- mental engine. So it was decided that the vessel should have two. different sets of engines.
The advantages
now
When the gas turbine under construction was complet- cd, part of the tanker's existing engine could be taken out and the
iri. put new one urbo-jet or gas turbina has a number of advantages over other kinds of marine, en gines, Mr. Lamb asserted.
The
It is not to build but it has
easy to
of the "Blue," "Black" or "Har-Kowloon Bay aboard the salvage only one moving part, compared Icquin" Great Dane families.
tug Caroline Moller. She
wns
How's your harbour I.Q.?
with scores in other kinds of His dict has not changed very one of a rare species by virtue / marine engines and there is con-
wear loss
and much in choice but in quantity of her colour and breed.
sequently
tear. results in running costs, though not necessarily in faster speeds, part- | -
Con-
Its
It includes fresh milk, regularatively, she could have fetch-low, moreover, canine foodstuffs, Ice-cream, ed as high a price as HK$5,009
then (mid-1949),
fresh meat and cakes, terested, here are some details: about his antecedents: grandsire is Champion Rungmook
more
In case the eligibles are in- Like Spotty, the eat was put His off colour during the trip down
Seas. the China
She did "meowing" than coting. Rupahra ("Blue" Great Dane of Her dict
consisted of milk the Rungmook Kennels in Cana- cakes and certain delicacies only da).Champion-Dusky's Black-favoured pets are abis-to-procure cut, only "Black" Great Dane
Again at Kowloon Wharf, champ today in the United States, denizen of the East Indies. Inunat is his great grandsire.
The Baron's great-great-grand-made her world debut in Hong parents are International Cham- pions-Champion August of Dres Tarn, Champion Zelia Van Lohe- land and Champion Riese Von
Lohcland.
Siamese loopard
An aristocrat of the Siamese wilderness Is Spotly who was first introduced to the water- front community in the Kowloon Wharf area as a young, snarling and "dangerous" quadruped.
Spotty, the Slumesc leopard, My he was popularly known, came to Hong Kong because hunger had the better of his dis- crétion." (It seemed that he fell victim to tamb-balt trap.)
From information reaching the Colony not long ago, Spotty hos gained "recognition" in a Alm studio-perhaps, Hong Kong may
Spotty, the Siamese leopard.
would be en-
Do you know where, this picture WRO taken 7 It la rarely
seen (as in above) from the harbour because of the frequency of ships borth- ing in front. Turn the page
and around
*CC whother you're right.
(SN MOGOD 20
NOOTMOM ADIJO NIVW)
Primate
may be released
Belgrade, October 14,
! because the gas turbine is a
The Yugoslav Government simple engine and partly because
occupies less space and is, of said today there had been no official denial of a statement elatively small weight.
Mr. Lamb expressed confidence that it was ready to release that the experiment tirely successful. "A considerable Josef Stepinac, Catholic Prl- sum of money is involved and the mate of Yugoslavia, on con- engine will not be installed until dition that he left the coun-
is, absolutely certain that it will try. work satisfactorily." he However, to guard against unex- pected. dificulties the engines al- ready in the ship would serve as an alternative means of propul- sion.
wor
said.
Briton's escape in Vietnam
A British liaison officer and the French Army Air Force Commander for North Vietnam narrowly escaped death early this month when rebel gun fire forced them into a crashi landing behind Vietminh lines In North Indo-China.
The statement was said to have been made by Konn! Zilliacus, a fermer British Member of Par- lament.
The Yugoslav Directorate of Information stated today: "It has becn understood from Tanjug (official Yugoslav news agency) that there has been no official denial of Mr. Zuliacus' state- tenis ment ment."
dalega- recently visited Archbishop
American Quaker
Their spokes Stepinac in gaol. man said that in the circums- tences his lodgings in prison were reasonable. One his two rooms had been turned into a chapel.
The Primate was convicted four years ago of trenson and col- laboration with the Nazis during
According to delayed reports the war. reaching the Associated Press Soon after the trial, the Pope from: Hanol: Brilish Squadron issued a blanket excommunica- Leader M. Wilton and Frenchton covering all those, respon- Air Force Commander Colonel cible for bringing him to frial—- Alain de Maricourt both slipped Reuter. back safely tn French linen.
ste him again on the silver screens, Kong. Remember the Komodo Something about the feline; dragon-the pre-historic car Spotty, requires some 10 pounds nivare coveted by American zoos? of. fresh meat a day. (in his na- In remembrance, this epitaph Squadron Loader Willon is Air tive land, he can do easily with will always remain long in the anison Officer attached to the double that amount.); like mos mind of the admirers.
young and desert was
said Colonel
piloting a observation French attack
DRIVE TO BREAK HEROIN RING
British Consulate-Gozeral, Sat of his kind, he does not make a "He was the prehistoric gon
route Hood sailor...en
from komodo dragon.
report Bangkok
'aboard ship, he was one
To Brill both the terrifying, snarling mass of spota, old; -
two-seator amall
Trieste, October 14. Even
But
Scotland Yard detectives are Spatty looked
Civilisation In captivity,
they forgot to plane during a PE resplendent wi
with his black doti
reckon,
So against the. Vielminh stronghold working with American "G" spread in a beautiful pattern over his goal."
He succumbed ere he reached of Thainguyen, North Hanol, on men (Federal Bureau of In- his tawny body.
gunfire
* ,***
October 2 when rebel
Less ferocious by nature and a The priceless visitor died short-punctured the petrol lank and vestigation agents) here today house pot was a cat from Shang 21. Padro, California in guerilla: territory Associated heroin smuggling ring.
ly after arriving at his desting the plane plowed into a rice field to break an international hal-the first known feline to reach the Colony from the Com after the prolonged sea voyage Fress. munistelty, -Dunka » (Mimi toneross the
Colony.
Paclite from
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her mistress) was a rat-hunter mal lovers will recall how NEW CABINET. IN
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fsgisments when the lucky ones were.
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Briefly, the "komodo
JORDAN
Amman: October 14.
They have been mingling with scanner of many railoutalities, working of trans-Atlantic "ship- plng lines. who were believed to
be
bultos, Ping the drug to the United
clue to the ring.com
came two. Now Yaris hospital In years ago NC when detectives questioned on
drug addict Min-1. During tho week, the first
past arrests were made when three wire caught
A new Cabinet for Jordan was
Prime exists Sald Pagha Mufti
It is known worldwagon. an officially announced today with Amerleon' scaman
only on the island from which istor. To
ho derives his name. An awe-The official announcement said merchant sunn inspring sight, hails the terror of the now Cabinet consisted of trying to sell heroin to detectives
disguised or sailors. the; land killer of nodige Forolan Affairs: Ruh! Pasha Ab-
They found five kilogens of crimination. His murderous-dul Hadi. Interior: Abdel-Hohman Fasha Khalifa, Justicoro Moramed
med the drug on this seamen-cutar." looking talons and whippine Pasha Shoreiki: Education: Ahmed forked tangu have be
been know ex
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reported. newspaper;"Rovnút
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