1918-12-11 — Page 7

WHY WORRY?

17HY worry? The War's over!" So it is. We have all heard that remark more than once, but there is much to "vorry" about yet. We're not out of the game simply because the Huns have laid down their guns. What you gave on Heather Day and at the Fair is surely not the limit of your sacrifice! There are thousands and thousands. of brave men condemned to pass the rest of their lives in misery unless we rally to the aid of the great work of healing. Thanks to the Army and Navy, we have had, and will continue to have, a very corafortable time in Hongkong. It is our duty then to "worry," in order that the maimed and sick, the human wreckage of the great war of Liberty, may be restored. Every' one of us here owes a great debt to the men who fought and bled in the war-a debt which we can never repay. But we can show our appreciation by giving our last cent to the great work of mercy in which so many noble men and women are engaged at home. Money is urgently needed.

Shall we grudge it now that the war is won? Never let it be said that our patriotism and honour petered out with the echo of the last shot. Don't say that you put every cent you had into Heather Day and St. Andrew's Fair. The War Bond Drawing is for the same cause, and its success must be written down in the annals of the Colony's giving as another endeavour to show tangible appreciation of the brilliant achieve- ments, on the battlefield and on the North Sea, of the bravest boys on earth. Make the result a Victory. Offering worthy of the Colony.

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THREE. STRENUOUS WEEKS.

THE "CARDIUM" IN THE RED SEA. Among the many stories of energy, and

The coal and iron El Dorado.of the determination that have marked theretic, Spitzbergan, is no longer a No heroic efforts of the British Merchant denly become paramount there, and the Man's Land British interests have sud- Navy to carry on the essential business of Union Jack is floating guily over our the Empire during the war, none is more A venture of vast economic importance

coal-winning pioneers, worthy of record than the story of the to these islands has been brought to a Adventures of the Asiatic Petroleum Co.'s head by the return to London recently of KIAS | steamer Cardvum.

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The Cardium left Suez at daylight on

We have had three months of concen- August 1st having been delayed for the trated excitement," said Mr. Salisbury TJILIWONG main feed pump ram to be “skimmed '*

Our vessel was three times on TIKINI up. The engineers had been working submarines, and we learned what it was the rocks: we encountered eight enemy night and day to get it into place. Next like to be shivered and shaken by depth-

charges. morning, twenty-four hours out of Suez, "Our Foreign Office, however, gave us the vessel was only making" eight knots, the protection of the British tag What the Chief Engineer reporting that he that means the country will shortly learn,

and the knowledge will be surprising. could not keep water in the boilers and There was in likelihood until recently bad`to, use salt feed."

that the Foreign Office would fail to re- August 3rd, the Chief Engineer 'repart-Spitzbergen, got only as a coal and iron

the extraordinary cognise

value ed that they could not stenta on the liquid El Dorado of well-nigh illimitable pas- fuel received at Suez, not being able ra

sibilities, but also as a position of im- heat it to the required temperature for

mense tactical advantage in war. burning. This fuel was found to car bonise thickly and settled in such a solid mass. like black conerate, on the bottom of the furnaces, that it resisted all attempts to remove it and led to no end in my world travels of broken "slices and tools. and also to the other and more larming danger

of Ere.

THE FIRST PIRES,

Now, Lappily, Spitzbergen will never be another Heligoland to this country. Aretie Gibraltar, the northern, entrance On the contrary,

it will be Britain's to our islands, for it, possesses the most magnificent deep-water harbours I have

The Germans have been thoroughly lite to these advantages. They nearls stole a march on us there. Price Henry of Prussia and Count Zeppelin were in

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had got his foot down in the island. is in our hands, including a big wireless Now all the German pioneer apparatus installation.

miners, enormous quantities of mining Our vessel carried large numbers of material. and three and a half years' food supply. The hats of these hardy Britons: are dotato-day all over Spitzbergen- land

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The Steamers are all fitted throughout with electric liglit and have, accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers.

All-Steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon.

On this very day there was a fire in the stakehold. which was put out with aand. At noon next day the engines had to be stopped to overbaal feed pumps, as they were putting no water into the boilers. Ship stopped for 11 hours. A second are in the stokehald put cut with sana country, roughly, about the size of Eng-states of America and Canada. Lumps of solid carbon from the furnaces produced and the Chief Engineer recon- mended making for the nearest port, as it was impossible to get steam on the boilers. the fuel would not burn in the furnaces, though it was unreasonable enough to barn elsewhere. Steaming with two boilers at four knots only.

THE SECOND FIRE.

On August 5th trouble with fuel con- tinued. On 8th at 10.30 p.m. a serious fre was reported from the stakehold. All hands ordered to fire stations, all fuel supply to furnaces and stokehold to be cut off by the master valve on the Fiddley top. When it was proved that the fire could not be got under with sand and chemical extinguishers, all openings to stokehold were closed, steam emergency valve opened, engines and auxiliaries stopped, except engine supplying water Dense clouds of smoke issued from all apertures. Water tight bulkhead between engine room and stokehold praved.

to deck.

Was

The pioneers are working under the direction of Captain Wild, who second in command of the Shackleton ex- pedition. He has been relensed by the Admiralty for this all-important work.

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When I tell you that Swedish experts estimate that there are twenty-two

mil- liards of tons of iron in Spitzbergea, you may realise how all-important it is..

There are from thirty to fifty miles of mountains containing the richest iron in the world. As for spal, vast seams of it are visible on the hillsides. the coal and the iron are easily and cheaply mined by quarrying and tunnel- ling, not by costly pits, as in England.

Both

When we have clinched our hold on Spitzbergen we shall be able to meet not only Britain's coal and iron requirements, but also those of the great. Scandinavian and North-West Russia markets.

Coal is now E16 ICs. a ton in Nor way! Can you wander. therefore, that the and Swedes have been not to be water tight. Engine room tem- despereret anxious to exploit Spitz-| porarily abandoned at 0.15 a. on bergen We found some 800 Norwegians August 7th.

and Swedes there, and last year they had Thea

120,000 tons of shipping at work on Spitz-

all the saine, those neutrals are now coal and iron for Scandinavia confining their activities to a compara tively little space in the island. British interests, thanks to our Navy, have gained the upper hand. Germany's are non- existent.

commenced a heroic struggle to the engines back at work. There was only 10 rescat boilere covered when the smoke had been cleared Away sufficient to get in. All attempts to raise steam. proved futile. They tried heating the oil and getting the fire to burn by hand gear, but it was useless. By this time the water was ankle deep in the Do not imagine that Spitzbergen is stokehold and engine room. Sea cocks merely one great iron and coal field. It and connections were shut off, except the has a delightful climate, with conditions sca cock on the ship's side for the ash approximating to those of the Alpine cooling cock, on. which a coal furnace bealth resorts, and I should not be sur- front had fallen and jammed the spindle.prised if it became some day a first-class

sanatorium for consumptives."

THE CARDIUM" DRIFTS.

The steamer was now drifting towards Zabayir Island and the situation was becoming serious. The tank steamer the furnaces being half full of deposit as Lueigen, coming south, was spoken to and hard as concrete and very difficult to get. entrusted with a letter to Ferim, which out, this also explaining the cause of the called upon all Anglo-Saxon steps are, the burning oil running back under within wireless call and passing through had several holca in it; it was buckled by the boilers. The water tight balkhead the Red Sea that the Cardium was dilt the recent fire, and the bearer bars were ing about and in need of assistance.

On the evening of August 7th the vessel buckled. was drifting towards Quoin Island. The Cleaning up went on til August 15th,

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ing, being by now nine feet above plates. . this terrible heat (95 deg. Fah) cam- The steamer setting by the stern, No. 3bined with the covering from head to foot tank was run into No. 8 tank.

in oil fuel night and day in telling on them."

At half past six a steamer was sighted and signals hoisted and calls made on the emergency wireless, meeting with no res ponse and "the-ship passed by. Captain by careful observations noted that But the the drift was altering and the steamer was edging past the danger. It bad been decided to convert the donkey boiler to coal, having twelve tons of galley coal on board. All night long the engineers were at werk on this, all deck hands, assisting when possible."

GETTING THE PUMPS TO WORK.

FURTHER DANGERS...

So the struggle went on. Repairs were freshened, with a choppy sen. Four hours tried on the starboard boiler and the wind after the starboard boiler was got to work, another fire broke out, more serious than ever, raging severely all night, and the situation was becoming critical.

THE LAST FIRE.

On August 17th the 8.0.6, was again sent out on the emergency wireless. The The next four days were most strenucus, board hull plating becoming red hot, and fire continued to burn fiercely,, the star. for the engineers especially. possible device had to be resorted to to get that there was but four days' water sup- Every to, the consternation of all it was found the pumps to work, for the engine room ply on short rations. The life-boat was was twenty-five feet deep in water and manned by volunteers, including, the 2nd oil. The chief engineer endeavoured to and 3rd officers, 3rd engineer and junior break the cover of the ballast donkey and Marconi man. The boat was to make for

intervals.

in order to do this he had to dive down the track of shipping east of Hanish aix feet under water and oil, remain as Island long under water na possible and try to work back the bolts holding the cover. everything was unbearably hot in ita The fire burned fercely all night and The log laconically remarks it was "very vicinity, Sent up distress signals at dangerous and plucky thing to do."

The steamer was now drifting towards Ота another island, and was in 34 fathoms of the Africe of Bombay, came up close to August 18th a three masted steamer, water, with good soft bottom, drifting the Cardium, and bumped into her. The towards Jebel Abayll, nine miles distance. Africa struggled all day to tow the So starboard anchor was let go. trouble was that the ship was 45 miles out The of the track of shipping,

inch hawser and at nightfall a strong Cardiam, breaking an eight and a seven On the evening of the 10th, the Chief was totally unable to handle the Cardium,. northerly breeze sprang up. The Africa was successful in his attempt with the towed her only twelve miles, and then ballast pumpe and set the same going in went to Aden with a letter for assistance. good style. All the coal was exhausted

In the meantime the fire had burnt

and the flooring of cross bunkers, sprink- itself out and help was at hand. The life led with oil, was used as fuel.”

CLEANING OF.

boat made Abu All lighthouse and signal- led to one of HM.8, ships. She brought By next morning the engine room was 24th the tow into Perim began. It was up with her a colleague and on August clear of water, the missing leak discover difficult enough as the vessel would not ed, and all hands at work in engine-room steer, but anyhow the Cardium was riding up to 10 p.m. And all next day, for to her own anchor at even of August 1st. everything had a thick black coating of The subsequent long tow of the Cardium oil fuel to twenty feet above the plates to Bingapore was also a good piece of The Captain judged for himself of the work long and difficult task, but quantity and nature of the fuel trouble, nothing compared with those three weeks

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