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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24TH, 1925

THE WORLD RENOWNED COCKTAIL

BACARDI

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A small wine glass of BACARDI

The juice of half » Lima

One or two teaspoonfuls of sugar

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One Jigger BACARDI

O is tablespo infa) of Granalios Symp

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BACARDI DUBONNET COCKTAIL Ons half jigger RACARDI One half jigger DUBOSNET Juice of hall's Lime

One teaspoonful of Grenadine Syrup In a glass filled with ice Shake woll and serve.

FRENCH RAILWAY CRASHES

"MILLIONS OF FOOLS.""

AN EXPLANATION OF THE MAIN ¦ POET'S REBUKE TO, AUSTRALIAN

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The seamen's strike in Australis has gives rise to an incident on which a member of the staff of the Sydney Sun has been moved to make a poetic com- inent Former soldiers expressed resent- ment at the statement by the president of the Seanien's Union (3r. T. Walsh) that the soldiers who fought in the late war were millions of foolx" The State president of the Victorian branch of the Returned Soldiers Lengua (Mr. E. W. Myirea) said that Mr. Walsh's statement was outrageous. The poem published by cur Australian contemporary is (1.3 under:--

The terrible series of accidents on the French railways which have recurred lately have profoundly shocked not only the people themselves, but all who have to travel in the country. Within this period thirty-four persons have beet, kill- ed and 264 injured in the course of thir- tova different accidents, so that already the casualty list for 1995 is higher than for the whole of either the two preceding years, The public would pass over one. or two accidents with a shrug of the sboulders and an appreciative smile at such sarcastic headlines as "Event of BACARDI VERMOUTH COCKTAIL (DRY) the day! No accident on such and a such a line1" But thirteen, one after Half wine-glass BACARDI

another, has made them seriously angry, Half wino-glads Franch Vermouth Cracked ico, stir and serve.

and their anger is reflected in categorical Ministerial promises of better things. The companies themselves "appear to take matters much more calmly and have pro-Er mised nothing.

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Analysis shows that no fewer than eleven of these, accidents have been dus to derailments and only two to collisions. But it is not safe to assume therefoco that the main cause is faulty material equipment. On the whole, the damage caused during 1914-18 to, the permanent way has been completely made good, and upon the lines chiefly affected renewals were complete over a year ago.

The accident statistics faithfully reflect this

improvement in the condition of the lines, The death-roll reached its highest point (343) in 1919, fell to 86 in 1920, rose to 131 in 1091, chiefly owing to the Batig nolles accident, and fell again to 27 in 1923. Since that time a very large pro- gramme of renewals and improvements has been carried out. It is fair to say, therefore, that the bad condition of the permanent way as a cause of accidents has been aliäost entirely eradicateti

ROLLING STOCK.

"Wot makes a soldier's 'cart to penk,

Wot miakes 'im to perspirul" Arked Kipling's Mr. Atkins

'Tween a battle and a drink;. found it wasn't soldiers' pay,- Or charging under fire- Twas just a camel-nothing more;

A brate that couldn't think. Twas the Gonts, meaning camels-a very

silly, lot,

With nasty anaky tempers and a

minimum of prida

For they'd balk and grunt while living

till they got a soldier abot And poison all the atmosphere and

water when they died.

As

Digger Smith, of Anywhere,

Stands basy at his bench,

He ponders now the same old theme

He says, 'Tis queer I don't regret

Is philosophic mood:

The leg I lost was worth the pals The vigils of the trench-

I made in Depil's Wood.

And the Oonts, out in Egypt--they

were all the post said

But it makes me feel as foolish as a

camel just to knew

That so many of my cobbers on the fields

of war lie dead

For, the wise, courageous gentleman,

who felt he couldn't go!"

PORPOISE'S. DIET...

HALF A STONE OF HERRINGS DAILY.

The position is different in regard to rolling stuck. The French themselves attribute the greater number of recent accidents to the making up of trains with heterogeneous carriages of varying weight and construction, On a train so composed, directly any considerable speed is attained the lighter carriages begin to jump on the rails. If one of them actually leaves the rails it is enough to img the heavier carriages after it, and in the resulting smash the lighter car- riages are, of course, reduced to match- Polly, a full-grown porpoise, the chief: wood. The effect, for example, of a 40-sttraction" at Brighton Aquarium, has ton goods wagon telescoping a light old been trained in three days to take her typo passenger coach must be the certain food from the. hands of the chief attend: death of everybody in the latter. Andant, Mr. E. Brown, who, after 45 years it must be remembered that not only is among the fish and marine animals ex- French rolling stock-especially goods hibited as the Aquarium," has a mys- wagons-Very much heavis on the aver.rious control over his charges. age than British, but also the French lines have to carry a far greater proper tion of special stock, such as sleeping and restaurant care, of enormous weight. The companies frankly admit that the normal practice of running only the heavier mudera carriages on last trains is aban doned in times of abnormal traffic, not ably during the public holidays of Easter, Whitsuntido, July 14th, and "When caught porpoises usually go on, August 15th. At such periods old stock, bunger strike, J. Brown stated ro normally confined

Andrently," but Polly is already tame and secondary lines, is brought out of dis | feeding well." Soon I shall teach her to grace and "promoted to service on the dive through a hoop held in the water grandes lignes. There is, the companies and to perform other tricks, -- contend, no alternative. Tlic replace. ment of obsolete.carriages is a gradual process, whose speed is limited by a possible total output and expense in any one year. But they maintain that the older stock does hot cause accidents.. although admittedly it makes accidents, wlinn they occur, more serious

to

branch

Assuming this to be true, and there

Polly now devours half a stone of ber rings each day, and within a week her ratious will be doubled,

At feeding time fascinated visitors! watch Mr. Brown as, with a weird call, which the porpoise apparently under- stands, he holds a herring above the water for Polly's acceptanec.

One interesting feature of the French system is that bachelors are paid less than married men-in other words, there is a marriage allowance, plus an annual bonus for each child,

effort is made to put on to tasks only men qualified to do them, by, a system of medical and technical examination. One suspects that both are in some cases only formal, at least two of the recent accidents having been due, the ous to ill- health and the other to inexperience. This gives rise to the belief that the companies have not sufficient trained men to replace their skilled personnel at times when the greatest number are simultaneously on holiday. The fault, if fault there be, is entirely that of the companies. For the latter admit that, although the railwaymen are highly "syndicalised "e., organized, there is never any attempt at interference in technical matters on the part on the railway trade uniona

Other conditions of work on the rail- is sume truth in it, the main cause of way seem fairly satisfactory. The eight- accidents must be looked for in the char-hour day is strictly observed, and somé acter of the railway staff and the cou- ditions under which they work. Three of the most serious of recent accidents have been due to excessive speed of the trains. Now, undoubtedly the French driver is prone at times to adventurous frenzy, a psychological state, which he himself calls s'ennerter. But he is ac- tively encouraged to do so. Each jour ney is taken as a unit, and if the train tloes not "arrive on time the driver is fined so much for every minute he is late Further, supposing the journey is from Paris to Marseilles, and the train, which elianges drivers at Lyons, is thirty minutes late there, the second driver receives a bonus for every minute he makes up before Marseilles. This system, however admirable in keeping trains to time, puta a premium on recklessness, for although there are maximum permitted speeds at "slated points, it is to the in terest of the driver to disregard them, The simple remedy would be to abandon quite peculiar and, to us, the policy of working up the scheduled time there is an accident there follows a extraordinary mental outlook. Every speed of expresses and slow down every furore of complaint and demands for train in France. M. Claveille. when reform. Little or nothing is done, and. Minister of Public Works after the war, in a few days all is forgotten. The com adopted this plan, with miraculous reales gu placidly on with their by no

anile.

PAY AND CONDITIONS.

parsimony or technical backwardness It is really, however, not so much that is the watter with the French rail-

macar negligible programics, the public continus le travel, the Binistries crass to make statements to the Press It is a It is natural that French railwaymen product of the same mentality that, 'junt should take every oportunity of increas as the Remand invariably built a new ing their pay, the basis rates of which, house on top of an old without destroy- even allowing for the internal value of fag it, so the French dovetail modern the franc, are incomparably lower than into ancient in their programme of rail- in Great Britain. A French expressway development. Thun it is that a tre driver on first promotion receives in all mcudous scheme of electrification to cover about 9,000 (£00) a year, or just over one-third of the French railway system 348. & week. After 20 years' service he exists side by side with some of the may be earning na much as, 15,000f. oldest rolling stock in the world. Bo (2150) a year, or £3 a week. A porter long as this mentality exists there will Etarts with £49, rising to £70 a year, he accidents in France over and above (Continued on next Uolumn). those inevitable upon any railway system.

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