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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929.

ACTION FOUGHT BY BLIND MEN.

(Continued from Page 1).

I have a vision of a midshipmen.

BRITAIN'S MER- CHANT NAVY.

AN EPIC OF THE WAR,

The achievements of the British ïa merciful darknes, flying down to the nethermost depths of humilia-merchant service during the last is tion. Then suddenly the whole ses months of the War is a subject goes mad, and just at the moment worthy of the eloquent foreword when it goes mad there is a cry that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales

There they are!" and I have no

impression of all our vast guns sud-has written to Sir Archibald Hurd's denly moving over to the madness third and last volume. The book is and fixing themselves in rigid re concerned with that period of the cognition: . . .

Star shells fired at us from the War at sea which is commonly call horizon parachute into the sea and ed she period of unrestricted sub die Eissing in green flame, They marine warfare. The term, though! are pitched short, and I can hear their metal bases screaming past technically correct, is a little mis us in the dark.

All who have heard leading. In February, 1917, the this sound before take cover! One German Government announced that comes whining over us like a great

Battes itselt on the their submarine commanders would mosquito to fotele,

attack. commercial traffic without The Crystal Palace on "fréwork restraint. The announcement affect. night." says some one on the bridge ed neutral seamen more. than as the shells increase. But pitched.

closing

short star shells are no good. They British for during the must be fired to burn behind the months of the year 1916 German target. We are safe. The enemy submarine commanders had virtual- does not see us. He is firing at

behind us!

tion to others.

and that

CHILDREN WORKING ON BARGES.

SELLING LITTLE ONES

IN ENGLAND!

BABIES BORN ON REFUSE BOATS,

[British United Press.

THE KING'S NEW TREATMENT.

WHAT DIATHERMY DOES

FOR RHEUMATISM.

سمیت

What exactly, is the diathermy treatment which is being adminis- tered to the King for his rheumatic shoulder?

Mr. A. F. Moir, A.M.I.E.E., re- cently demonstrated the entire ap paratus to a Press representative at his London clinic, and gave him-a dose of the actual treatment.

Children born on barges loaded with the filth and refuse of Lon- don; children bought and sold for cash and forced to do a mature man's work at the tender age of

"The only new thing about dia- eight, tea and twelve! These are thermy," said Mr. Moir, "is the spectres arresting attention follow-discovery of the various uses 'to ing the publication of the report which it can be put. of the National Society for the

The treatment, which literally Prevention of Cruelty to Children. means through heat, was first in- In a talk with a Upited Press retroduced into England by Lewis presentative,

Jones, late medical officer of the N.S.P.C.C. decribed some of the electrical department of St. Bartolo conditions prevailing on the barges mew's Hospital, and the great thing and canal boats plying the miles of about it in recent times is that it waterways in England and in

can be used in surgery-that is, in Wales.

place of the knife.

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official of the

special patrol officer has discovered some appalling cases in our efforts to ameliorate a situation which is unregulated by present legislation.

Treatment of Cancer. "Tonsils and the prostate gland

par destroyers And in the glarely been conducting an unrestricted of the shells I see these grey ships campaign against British shipping.

teaming in lines of white feam,

·Sir Archibald Hurd has made the

Doing Arduous Work. sending out (in theory) torpedoes as they play their part in the game, energy and endurance of the British

"For nine years the N.S.P.C.0. "By Jove. they've found as merchant seaman bis principal sub has been conducting an investiga- A shell whines over us and blazes iect; and has left strategical question of the 3,000 children making can be removed by diathermy, and

"There was, he their homes and working on Engin the case of tonsils it is particular Instantly the batteries of the fag-writes, "only one way in which to lith barges and canal boats. Our

Ly beneficial, The treatment is ship fire; we fire next, and so on

treat this subject down the ine; and against the

applied, and in a short time the brilliant blaze of our stars we see

was to select episodes descriptive

patient simply spits out the tonsils, the enemy, far away where the sea of the main theme. to set

and there is no bleeding at all.. meets the sky, lying-one, two. out those incidents in their order of

my works," continued Mr. Moir,

I can best explain how diather- three, four battleships-like slim white lizards.

occurrence, to quote textually from We have found children of the by taking the analogy of the cook. the statement of masters and men age of ten and twelve doing such ing of a piece of meat. There you wherever possible." By following dangerous and arduous work that heat the meat through from the out- this method of treatment the author many of them have been killed."

side to the inside. In diathermy you heat from the inside to the out has given a very detailed picture

To comply with legislation "It therefore gives heat and relief| of how merchant captains and their against overcrowding in hoat, to muscles which are in the or crews lived during this period of cabins, children of bargemen have dinary way inaccessible.

Diathermy is used extensively tinent, and in Germany a number of surgeons are specialising in its. use for the treatment of cancer with marked success.

#Cease Fire

This is the time when in war our gun turrets would fing their tons of death. This is the moment when the vast ship would seem to pause in her course and rock to the side as the guns recoil. This is the time that we might put up our hands to extraordinary danger. Their lives been," given away, lessed out to for surgical purposes on the Con-

were often enough "an alternation our ears to find them bleeding..

Instead, our searchlights fall of escape and disaster," and the great moment into the sea and campaign might appear, to many to illuminate great circles of boiling waves, and then, straightening out, consist in the daily sinking of shoot over to the horizon and pin merchantmen, who had little means the enemy against the sky. He re of resisting, and in the hairbreadth talianes. Thin swords of light fash from the remote white lizards escapes of others who had a chance and, broadening, dazzle us. The of escape, though never a very good whole sea is crazy with veering one." shafts of light. They cross and re- cross. They blunder over the night, discovering submarines alipping up

Tho- Arming of Merchant Ships.

work to other bargemen, or sold. the official said. Often times the children never again see their father or mother and work as vir tual slaves under the bargeman who bought them.

Their parents;" continued the official," have no other home but their boat and when their family gets too large they deplete it by reating, selling or giving away their surplus. off-spring.

"These children are often born

in the dark, and unexpected des- A good many matters which affect-| troyers. The whole sea is alive.ed the life of the merchant seaman And every searchlight represents have, however, been described, in on these boats, many of which carry gunfire! We are all theoretically addition to these successions of away London's refuse. They even on the brink of death! For minutes calamities. When unrestricted sub-help in the handling of this filth. that seem like hours we steam marine warfare began, the Admiral. They are forced to do work which is far beyond their age and dazzled and blinded in the enemy ty's general policy was to provide light. Our own shafts ray out merchantmen on the high seas with strength. Our inspector has seen from us with sea fog in them, and means for defending themselves; girls of eight and ten steering & it seems to us that the enemy tries and to supplement this defensive canal boat, and sometimes one of to shake them. off but one little turn power of each individual merchant them is swept of the craft into the and we hold him! He cannot man by atationing & large number water and drowned. escape! We have him! We had of patrol craft along the inshore bim first! He is a mass of blood routes and in the approaches to the and shattered sted!! We have great commercial harbours. It was hoped that the merchantmen on the outer routes would be so scattered that operating submarines would not find them; that, if the U-boats did discover them, they would beat off attack with their guns; and that zones in which traffic is dense would be so well protected that sub- marines would be unable to operate inside them,

wem.

A messenger comes:

Cease fire"!

The searchlights die one by one. The night is black na pitch. Ahead of us the flagship breaks into light.

Undarken ship." We break likewise into light,

The battle is over:

In

What a lovely war! Who says a cup of ship's cocoal"

Sir Archibald Hurd has describ There is just a faint promise of ed, at some length, how each part dawn in the cast. The light grows of this policy was carried out. stronger minute by minute, and order to make each, merchantman against a flush of pink the destroy- afloat capable of resistang tub crs on our starboard bow ride the marines the Admiralty endeavoured to fit them with defensive arma ment. The bare statement does not even suggest the immense administra- tive labour involved. First, the guns PARTY SPLIT AT PECKHAM: had to be collected, and this, as it

sca in silhouette.

RIVAL CONSERVATIVE

CANDIDATES.

:

Archibald Hurd shows, was ex tremely difficult; secondly, the guns and their mountings had to be dis- tributed to the shipyards to which

merchantmen returned for their rest.

An unusual political situation This, however, was only part of the has arisen in Peckham, where there had to be shown how to use their business. The merchant seamen is every likelihood of two Cone guns, and the merchant captains servative candidates

diathermy on the blood pressure, "It is due to the action of

which it reduces to a marked degree, that the treatment is of auch value in giving relief from pain in a great number of painful diseases, suca as most of the rheumatic group. rheumatoid arthritis, lumbago, and

No Pricking"

It is also of great use in various chest ailments, the warmth has an extremely soothing effect on the patient.

The King is, of course, being treated with a portable set.

Mr. Moir explained the technical working of the apparatus, for which alternating. current has to be used.

The Fress representative was then' Never Been to School." given a specimen treatment, from Often the children work from which he received no pricking early morning until late night or electric shocks, but merely a leading the barge horses, opening soothing feel ng of warmth: he was the heavy lock gates, and even anminiscent of American executions, shawn the electric. chair," re- loading the vessels.

but far less drastic, and some mar- The number of children working vellous experiments with various on barges in England and Wales minerals placed in vacuum tubes. is estimated at 3,000 of which at When the tubes were connected with least 1,500 have never been to the apparatus, the disintegrating school and of the remainder only force of half a million or so alter about 800 could gain admission in nations caused lime, pectolite, and to the third grade of an ordinary granite to phosphoresce in the most school,

beautiful colours.

The Society points out that a population of uneducated people is growing up, and that each year it a becoming larger and larger. The Parents say they are unable to send their children to school because their barges are constantly on the

more

been deposited with the House of To wipe out this evil, a bill has

Commona asking that all children be excluded from canal boat work. The measure is being sponsored by the Transport Workers Union in addition to the N.S.P.C.C.

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