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In view of the fact that on most days we see the big aircraft carrier Hermes lying quietly at her buor off Kowloon, and on most mornings we hear her notoplanes soar over our heads the fallowing necount "al the vessel in a recent number of the Daily Mail by a Naval Correspon dent may be of interest:
Should any military action be necessary to protect British subjects at Hankow, one vessel which should be particularly useful is hornets' nest the Hermes.
that
The launch of the Navigazine Generalo Italiana's liner "Augustus (31,000 tons), and which will be the largest motor ship in the world, and the completion of 'the Romaiu, the biggest oil-engined craft yet turned out from an Italian yard, draws attention to the progress being made in Italy in connection with Diesel propulsion, for in point of
The Hermes is the only vessel in tonange under construction that
our Fleet built specially as an air- country is second only to the United craft carrier. A quaint, ungainly. looking craft, she is the most Kingdom. The Ramolo, the biggest mysterious of the Navy's mystery motor vessel sailing under the ships. Nobody serving in her is Italian flag, has a length of 45 ft., allowed to have a camera in his kit, and no unauthorised person is with a depth of 33 ft. The engines allowed aboard her. The secrets of are two units of the standard four the vessel
most carefully cycle singleacting type, each with guarded.
in bore
The Hermes may be generally de six eylinders, 740 mm.
scribed as a sea-going aerodrome. with a piston stroke of 1,200 man.
All that the war taught us abous. They Are designed
develop the most efficient way of construct- normally about 2,500 i.h.p. each of ing this type of ship has been in- from 113 to 120 p.m., but, as incorporated in her design. She car ries twenty machines, which go up several recently-built Italian vessels, and down from hangars to the superchargers are installed with the dying deck by electric lifts, and she object of increasing the power when is equipped with all workshops. demand arises for a higher speed. carriers exist. What comparative Everybody knows that aircraft
There are two electripally-driven ly few understand is the revolution the coming of these strange ships supercharging blowers located on a
has wrought in the conduct of war
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The best capital ship afloat has limited by the her effectiveness range of her guns The aircraft carrier is free of such restrictions. All she need do is to appear off. Hankow or any other port, send up her 'planes, and the whole place lies at her mercy. Nor need the Barometer. carrier run much risk herself, for Temperature she is able to lie so far away from Humidity. her target that the best of shore Wind- defences cannot touch her.
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£70 FOR AN OPERATION.
Interesting light on life in the famous Broadmore Criminal Lunatic About a month ago there was Asylum is furnished by the recent launched at Naples, for the Naviga- announcement in a London contem- rinne Generale Italiana, e note porary that Ronald True, an ex- officer Air Force, who is detain- worthy passenger and cargo vesseled in the Criminal Lunatic Asylum 8an. still larger than the Romolo. The for the murder of an actress" engine power of the Orazio, as the named Gertrude Yates in a London Mon. vessel is named, is equal to the flat in 1992, has undergone a serious
operation. True's case excited a lot Tass. highest that has yet been installed deal of interest at the time and the in any four-cycle single-acting en prisoner's reprieve on the ground Wed
of insanity (a plea rejected by gined ship, being approximately the jury at the trial) was very Thur 6 similar to that in the Holt cargo sharply criticised. liuera Orestes and
A leading London specialist was There are two eight-cylinder motors, the surgeon at this operation, which with a diameter of 740 min. and, a was performed in the asylum in- piston stroke of 1,500 mm. Each is firmary. True is now making fuv. capable of developing 4.000 i.h.pourable progress. or about 3,000 sh.p., but, as in the. vessels previously mentioned, super- chargers are fitted, enabling the cut- put to be raised to 4,400 ih.p. per engine. For the supply of electric power to all the auxiliaries, three *Diesel-driven
generating plants are to be installed, each com- prising a 260 b. hp. Diesel engine coupled to a 170-kw, dynamo
Idomeneus.
A sister ship, the Fergilio, is due to be launched in December, and both vessels will be placed in com- mission during the course of 1997, As it is also anticipated that the Cosulich Company's 25,000-ton liner Saturnia and the N.G.I. passenger ship Augustus, referred to above, will both be completed next year, the coming twelve months will be a period of considerable interest in Italian shipbuilding.-Eastern En gineering.
THE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE,
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There is passing through the Colony on the B. Hakone Maru
True had complained of severé pain in one of his legs, resulting from an injury received in an air crash during the war....
"An X-ray examination was made, and it was decided that an opera- tion was necessary.
True has been the life and soul of the famous criminal asylum for more than four years, says
He is known as cantemporary.
our
Ronnie" both among the criminals and the warders, and plays a lead. ing part in the Broadmoor amateur theatricals, of which he is stage manager
Once a month he organises a.con- cert party and entertains the men. He is allowed to take his troupe to the men who are confined in what are known as "back blocks" of the asylum. These men are the violent or unruly prisoners.
True is said to have ample funds. Cigarettes are sent to him every week, and he is reported to pay an other inmate to look after the patch of garden, of which he is the nominal'gardener.
Hope of Release.
It is understood that True has never lost hope of being released en route for India, Europe, and from Broadmoor. The recent official England, in the course of a world report that the visiting Board', of tour, Dr. B. R. Moton, who has Control commissioners found four succeeded the late, Booker T. Wash-sane men in the asylum was hailed ington, founder of the Tuskegee by True as justification for his as
PILLS and Industrial Institute, ne sertion that he is, sane. He at once
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Principal of that great negro ip- assumed himself to be one of the stitution.
four,
Dr. Moton is accompanied by His fellow-icmates, however, have. Mrs. R. R. Moton, Director of the noticed occasional eccentricities in Girls Department of this Institute his behaviour. at Alabama; Mies Catharine Moton, his daughter and also of the In- stitute staff: Dr. Eugene H. Dibble, jr., Medical Director of the Me- morial Hospital of the Institute, and Mrs. Dibble, also of the stall.
allowed to men in Broadmoor of True makes use of the privilege being photographed once a year. The operation "which he has undergone is said to have cost him more than 270.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD, BREMEN,
HE Motor Ship THE
"FULDA" saving arrived from BREMEN, HAM- BUBU and Ports, Consignees of Cargo | are hereby notified that their Cargo 18 being landed at their risk into the Go- downs of the Hongkeng and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, where Delivery can be obtained.
All Goods remaining undelivered after the 8th of January 1927, will be subject
to Bent
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STEAMER Fox STRAITS, COLOMBO, AUSTRALIA, BOMBAT, EGYPT, MEDITER- HANEAN PORTS & LONDON.
THROUGH BILLS OF LADING ISSUED FOX BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL, AMERICAN & SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS,"
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Captain L. M. GOLDOF, R.S.2, carrying His Majesty's Malls, will be despatched from this Fort on or about WEDNES DAY, 5TH JANUARY, 1927, at Noor, inking Passengers and Cargo for the
us in any case whatever.
Damaged Packages must be left in the Godown for examination by the Con- gees and the Company's Surveyors, Mesare Anderson & Ashe, at 10 am atore Perta on the 5th of January, 1927.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods bave left, the Godown and all Claims must be presented within Two Wecke of the Ship' arrival here, after which date they will not be recognised.
Consignees are requested to surrender their Bill of Lading to the Undersigned for countersignature,
MELOHERS & 00..
Agents: FORDDEUTSCHER LOID, BEN. Hong Kong, 1st January, 1927.
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Silk, Valuables and Tea for Italy, France
and London (under arrange ment) will do brasshipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer proceeding direct. to Marseilles and London.
Parcels will be received at this Office until 6 r., the Day before Sailing. The contents and value of all packages must
be declared
For further Particulam, Apply to MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
Agents. Hong Kong, 31st December, 1926,
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