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HOW H.M.S. PETEREL WAS STRANDED.

DRAMATIC STORY OF ACCIDENT ON UPPER

YANGTSZE.

ENDEAVOUR TO AVOID UNCON-

TROLLED JUNK.

T'Ghang further news was received of the stranding of "II. M. S. Feterel on Sunday, April 20, in the upper reaches of the Yangtse.

fore with Admiral T. T. Craven,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930.

NEW YORK STOCK

EXCHANGE.

HEAVY DECLIÑE IN RATES.

BRITISH CAPITALISTS

UNLOADING,

[UNITED PRESS.]

ELECTION COSTS OF WOMAN, SENATOR.

HUGE SIM TO WIN SEAT,

BOVRIL, LIMITED.

RECORD EXPANSION IN SALES.

Presiding at the Thirty-third Annual General Meeting of Bovril, Limited, at River Plate House, London, the Chairman, Lord Luke, said that it was with pleasure that

and the

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Washington, May 1-ra. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican nominee for a Senate sent for Illinois, told the Senate Primary Committee to-day that she did not know how much she had spent upon her election campaign.

She submitted books. however, showing a total expenditure of ably all this amount was not justly to be charged to campaign expense.

opportunity to pre- The committee, declined to com ment on this showing, although it scnt to them such a very satisfac- was recalled that Mr.. T. H. New berry, former Senator from Michi.tory Report and set of Accounts.

Not only did the sales of Bovril ture of only G.$195,000,

in 1929 surpass all previous recorda, Among the details of expehace listed upon Mrs. McCormick's exbut the increase was at an accelerat for printing and G.$107,000 for ex- pensa sheet was more than G. 826,000ed pace. The year showed a larger penses in counties outside Chicago.

increase over its predecessor than her official return she hail listed a

Mrs. McCormick denied that in had been achieved in any previous total of G. $4,495.

year with the one exception of 1910, when conditions wore abnormaal.

New York, May 1-Bears ham- With the arrival in Shanghai of The American Navy kindly offer- mered market leaders on the Now the Yangtze Rapid S S, Coedaid in supplying pumps and ork Stock Exchange.. to-day with G. $230,372.50, but argued that prob they met the shareholders again the result that they suffered a several came from the US. 5.heavy decline, says the daily review Guam, Capt. Moore, and the U.S.S. of the Dow Jones Financial News

Agency. Tutuile, Capt, S: D. Truesdell, which had arrived the day be losing at 17 as compared with .S. Steel dropped below 180, The 'Chang, Capt. W. Tornroth, H. J. S. Gannett was at Chunkyesterday's close of 184. Bethlehem was the first vessel to reach the gun-king and started the following Steel also went off, closing down 18an, was censured for an expendi best cooting up some three hours morning for the scene, which was only some 30 miles below with these after the accident and Capt. pups. Törnroth in hdition to standing by ad rendering what aid he could, kindly took off Mr. "Stark Tel H. M. Consul-General at Chungking, and Mrs. Stark Toller

Meanwhite the Yangtze Rapid str. I'Ling, Capt. J. Anderson, go- ing down river, passed the Peterel and offered to stand by until the arrival of the Gannet, which offer the WILS gratefully refused as

to 971.

Balls Demoralized. Other issues were also under heavy pressure and the rails were demoralized, being off 8.04 on the Dow Jones average for 20 issues at the conclusion of the day's trading

During liquidation the trading volume inereased, which was con- sidered a discouraging factor. Sales

shares.

In commenting upon her expendi tures, Mrs. McCormick said that

ly. It was difficult to estimate her

and brought them to the western officers of the Peterel said they for the day came to total of 4,840,350 she had used her own money entire. They had been restricted with re-

city, where Mr. Stark-Toller has nssumed his duties.

Were

I were in no danger. The ship was

and though all her pumps resting well up on a pebbly beach running, she seemed to have no cause for immediate worry,

ginning of her campaigu. the matter at the time of the be

NO MARRIAGE FOR WOMEN

DOCTORS.

The Peterel had successfully pass

J. P. Morgan & Co. stocks, such ed the worst of the Rapids with

as S. Steel and United Corpora-penaca accurately, she continued, out any untoward event and was

tion, and also the Van Sweringen

because there was no law governing starting over what is called the up- Later in the afternoon H. M. S.ral issues, were subjected to heavy per al Rapid at Mirage 320 Gannett drrived and ran in and influence temporarily. At one time pressure which created a depressing wh the necident took place.

The cause of it was not an un then placed in a position where she tied up to the Peterel which was

it was believed that the selling of anal ene in the upper Yangtze-was lifted some few inches out of

U.S. Steel came from sources near Jeavily-loaded, and poorly-handled

the management, but later it was jrut suddenly appearing from be the water and was definitely out-

reported that the unloading was for Find a projecting piece of land of danger. without

warning

That afternoon the river happily the accent of British, capitalists. whatever dietly in the path of the onoom- ing at which was naturally king at full speed in order safely to clear the swirl of water and gain the safer reaches beyond.

HOV

The Smile of Those Who Know. Beveral other gunboats have been in the sung situation, at uperpected moments in the upper river and to tall a captain, conversant with the sition there as regards foreig ms, of the situation, only brings a wry smile of understanding.

Peterel was not the first chip of a foreign government which has been plavu situilar dilemma.

At the same time the rules of the river are to the effect that the dowa- coming bost, with sufficien! wann- ag, has the right of way, but the junk in question gave no warning Whatever and she appeared too late to give the Peterel an opportunity to save herself.

went down more than a full inch and the Peterel was safe. Plans on the next trip up of the 'Ling, were made for sealing her up and Capt. Anderson brought barrels of cement for the Petetel which was immediately used on her bot-

There was a flood of rumours, ausing many bulls to turn bearish,

fought stoel in support of the mar particularly one unconfirmed report that the banking group which. ket Inst-autumn was still liquidat- ing

MUST BE "BACHELORS” OF MEDICINE.

authorities think not. They fear Should women doctors marry?

that married women doctors will Birmingham General Hospital

waste the hospital's time by hav-

Call money stood at 4 per cent.,ing babies.

Industrials and Utilities.

was

per-

gard to overseas sales in 1914-1918, and went forward with a bound when the restriction was removed. "The Goodwill figure, which now

was, of course, a very large one. stood out by itself in the Accounts,

Twenty years ago it might haps have been considered too large, but, as he had said before, the Com- pany's stand against profiteering

goodwill as to transform the whole: during the War gained for Bovril

position. He to-day regarded the such an appreciation in public

Goodwill figure as fully justified. No Sinking Feeling About Uveideas Mães,

At the recent annual meeting they decided, by 28 votes to 18, that,

He had told them at the Just micet- apart from exceptional cases, mar- ried women should not be eligibleng that each year since the Wat staff, and that women members of for appointments on the medical had shown an increase in the ex

port of Bovril, and again, he could the staff who got married shouldy that in oversea sales had exceeded 1928 and its predecessors.

tom and was given an opportunity as yesterday. Time money to set in the low water.

Needless to say, after the accidentated at 31 per cent. for 60 days the junk continued downstream and 4 per cent. for 90 days. though she saw the plight of the without any offer of help whatever (" Peterel and could not have been industrials and for 20 utilities also The Dow Jones averages for 30 Blind to the part she played in it.showed large recessions, the former

| being off 4.84 to 274.59 and the lat-be required to resign.

ter off 2.29 to 102.66.

OLIVER CROMWELL'S

HEAD.

IS IT BURIED, AT HACKNEY;

General Motors held, dropping

Among the utilities, Electric Bond & Share dropped four points to 1101 at the close. American Tel. & Tel." was off 3 to 248) and International | Tel. & Tel, was o♬ 31 to 718. Radio Corp. was off 21 to 89). Consolidat- Is the head of Oliver Cromwelted Gas dropped 5 to 128 but buried in Abney Park Cemetery in Columbia Gas rose 2 to 85. AT: 1 Upper Lochi there are | North London Mrs. Margaret two channels, the summer and the wint, with the former on the left Boing Between the two chan- nels is a black piece of wuter some 20 feet in width, which in high water is safe to cross. With the water the height it was on the day of the accident it is customary ́ lor both up and down Lound ships to use de summer channel and this the level was doing.

The time was about 9.15 ära. The Peterel had come up safely from the anchorage of the previous Right and was approaching the huge piece of jutting, rock around which the water swirls, making the Upper Lochi an "I turn with the page part completely hidden from the lower.

No warning whistle was heard from above and the Petere put on full speed, on advice of the Chin ese pilet, and started around. When halfway up the junk suddenly ap- peared coming down.

her attitude.

Baillie-Saunders, the novelist and only an eighth to 468, whi'e Hudson wife of the Rev. Frederick Baillie declined to 45; Chrysler was off Saunders, aos publicly endorsed the to 33 and Packard was off a local belief that this is so, and in quarter to 184. Westinghouse de an interview with a Press repre-lined 2 to 1831. Eastman Kodak rose to 2153 General Electric sentative she gave some reasons for was .cl 2 to 8. Pennsylvania

"Nothing," said Mrs. Baillie. Saunders, could be more feasible, since at that time part of the pre- sent cemetery at Abney Park was the garden of Fleetwood House, where lived General Fleetwood, the husband of Cromwell's daughter Bridget.

Railway dropped 2 to 731 and New York Central skidded to 109, off

QUOTATIONS.

New York, May 2, Market weak Business done 4,640,530 shares.

Crowwell had been dead twelve months when the Restoration occur. red. and his body, together with Adams Express... those of Ireton and Bradshaw, was Allied Chemical & Dya... disinterred from Westminster Ab-American Can.....

American Bolling Mill.... bey and the heads exhibited on

American Smelting poles af Tvbarn, near where the

American Tel & Tel ... Marble Arch now stands.

American Tobacco "B" Taken to Yorkshire.

American Waterworks... Anaconda Copper Two Paritan gentlemen went Atlantic Babning"

2me there secretly the

night, Baltimore & Ohio She was caught in the swirl and sized the head of Cromwell, and Bethlehem Steel was out of control, bring almost buried it in Yorkshire-most prob- Borg Warner broadside an and heading straight ably at Naseby. But after some

Calumet & Hecla Those on the bridge of the Pe-years, when things had. quietened Canadian Pacile Railway

Chesapeake Corporation teret could do nothing other than down, they are supposed to have

Bock Tiland Chicago ridden back to London with the Chrysler hend, taking it to Bridget Fleet-Cities Service, Common wood at Haenes, where they rever- ently buried it in the garden.

for the Petorel's bow.

they did. They were too far in 154 rapid to stop and let the junk e down past them, and to have cub down their spoed would bare brought them down on the mad Tush of waters on to the rocks below with the possibility of complete <destruction,

They spun the wheel for a course over into the winter channel with the ship going at 15 knots.

Struck, a Rock,

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Columbia Gas & Electric Columbia Graphaphone Commercial Bolvents... Commonwealth & Southern Commonwealth #. 8. WAIT.

Oil...

Consolidated Gus of N. Y. Continental Corn Products Curtiss Wright, Common Davision Chemical

Du Pont de Nemours.... Eastman Kodak

This garden joined Sir Thomas Abney's garden, and it was Ms. Abney, a descendant and a strong Puritan, who left the land to ne made into a cemetery. It is likely that the presence of the head of their leader was responsible for the decision of the Puritans to make a cemetery at this point. When half way over the accident heneath a mound in what is called "This head is supposed to "he occurred. They struck a rock in Dr. Watts' Wak. The mound 18 mid-channel which was a bare six surrounded by a rough railing, and or nine inches above the limit of the ground has never been resold, the ship's drought and the result as every other grave in the ceme- was that the ship was ripped along tery has been sold from timeLo Gold Dust her entire bottom. Luckily at the time. This would seem to be a Goodrich Rubber same time she was going at auch further justification for the local Goodyear Tire & Rubber n speed that the momentum carried i belief.

her over the rock and it was little Historical Hackney... trouble to beach her on the “ad-"

As a matter of fact," ronimued jacent sloping bank. There she Mrs. Baillie-Saunders, Hackney is rested and a survey was immediate-full of historical interest. I was ly made of her injuries.

talking the other day to an old man At about noon the 'Chang - whose great-grandfather knew Dick peared coming up river and seeing Turpin. Turpio, apparently, when The Petarel on the beach, Capt not in business was in the habit Tornroth drew in beside her and of lounging about Hackney in shah- dropped his hook. There was little by clothes, with a dirty old pipe in he could do and on the advice of his mouth and a dog at his heels the captain of the Petere he left not at all the romantic figure we soon after to carry word to Chung usually picture." king and give advice on salvage equipment.

Four brothers who had not met for 60 years were Southampton Docks when the Rangitane arrived from New Zen land. The reunion was made pos sible because Mr. Harry Smith, who

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The disorganisation of the work They had every reason to be plens- of the hospital caused by the deed with their world-wide sales pro mand of the domestic duties of gress.. married doctors, was given as the reason "for this decision.

Bishops Oppose.

Barces, who strongly opposed the The Bishop of Birmingham, Dr.

Slogans That Attract,

They continued to challenge, pub lic attention with their ever chang- fresh one they Rut out in fact, it ing slogans, and public appetite for them seemed to grow with every would seem to require a new tit- week. Amongst their most recent efforts he might per- hap's quote:

resolution, said it meant that mar: nos a bar to the most imbit every Portant positions in the medical profession in Brimingham.

Bishop Hamilton Baynes said the resolution right deprive the hospital of the services of women doctors who would be available.

It was a serious discouragement to women entering the medical profession. On the other hand, it, might discourage them. "from "en- tering the state of matrimony, and lead to undesirable relations be- tween them and men.

Councillor Miss Bartley, chair- man of the board of governors, said the question had arisen following the application by a married wo- man doctor for four months' leave of absence because she was going to have a baby.

The governors were intent upon keeping the hospital efficient, and preventing dislocation due to pro longed absence of members of the

staff...

CITY PARADISE FOR

WOMEN,"

MARRIAGE PROSPECTS

BRIGHT.

"Bovril is warmest when it's coldest."

"Seven days make one week. Borril makes one strong."

Don't only hope for the best. Take Bovril."

"Boyril may save you weeks

of weakness.

"Take Bovril or take the con- sequences." To..

get better, better get

Bovril." On the railways, they might have noticed:-

Travel free-from colda on- Bovril."

The fastest train-on Bovril.". Borr A Public Institution."

M.D., F.R.S., said he had been Sir James Crichton-Browne, recalling that an Irish gentleman, who, like their Chairman, Lord Take, was interested in Hospitals and Charities, upon one occasion, when appealing for funds for a special Hospital, said: "Ladies aad gentlemen, most public in- stitutions have their ups and downs, but unfortunately, in the case of this hospital, the downs have been in the ascendant,"

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Nutrition the Best Protection. No doubt a micro-organism was fects of inheritance or environ. at work, taking advantage of de- ment, but the point to note was that the healthy and well-nourish cd child did not become rheumatic, May 8 to San Francisco viâ Well, it must, he thought, bo but was able to resist the infection, ports:-Mr. H. Catlin, Mrs. J. S. satisfactory to them that day to while always during these rheuma Graff, Mr. F. A. Hollabaugh, Mr. realise that in the case of the tic invasions there was logs of "H. W. Greenberg, Mr. Max. public institution with which they weight. The best protection against Nathan, Mr. and Mrs. D. Rolf, were concerned, (that is, to say, .... 30 351 part in the war, but among the men Bovril) the ups had been in the theamatic invasion was good nutri- Miss Smilia Velasco, Mr. B. J. nacendant, for the consumption of and the best treatment when in Master M. A. Abe, Miss H. Abe, tion that maintained resistance, Lender, Mz. A. Abe, Mrs. M. Abe, Bovril last year was higher than vasion had occurred it had ever been before. Its praises nutrition and rest, and so he be Sumie Niimoto, Mr. Q. A. Abadi!- good Miss H. Abe, Master M. Abe, Mis were in all men's mouths and in lieved that in the ight with rhella, Mr. H. Aronson, Lt. G. P. all women's also. It grew steadily matism Bovril combined with fatty Biggs, Miss Alita Davis, Lt. G. F. in public favour.

food (for one food helped another) Davis, Mr. and Mrs. E. Feltman,

might prove very efficacious. "..

The Lost Australian Airmen... They would recollect that the fliers by the Southern Cross came down in the wilds of Australia laat April, and were given up as lost

Wal

Belgrade is women's' Eldorado, for there are approximately 130,000 $37 a

men to the 98,000 women living in 82 312 18 181 Belgrade,. Prospective husbands

51 si are aumerous. 182.1201

The large majority of male ponu 2294 lation is not, however, in the

26 105 103 pounger generation, who played no

127 101301 between, thirty and sixty who went **240 2513 to war but came back.

It is not only the marriage pros- 1141 110

61148 pects that make Belgrade 65 624 woman's paradise, but the fact that 86844 the women in Belgrade live much 00 80"

longer than the men

Rheumatisen Children. 401463

Jugo-Slavia is healthy country, 901 90 457 461 and there are 102 centenarians liv Tho body-building power of 40ing in Belgrade, two-thirds of whom Borvil generally was well establish- 81 784 are women. After the forty-fifthed, and of that he need say nothing, year the death-rate for men is but he would like to point out a 86 85 double the rate for women.

special service Bovril could reader 451-434-Therefore it is no wonder that the in connection with the nutrition Well, when they were ultimately Najar, Mr. J. E. Searles, Lt.Cdr. 631 071 11 10 number of widows, compared with of children. They would probably discovered by the relief aeroplane, E. Walter Mrs. E. Walter, Master widowers is high 14,203 to 2,529, have noticed that the prevalence of in the parcel of food dropped to Eugene Walter, Mrs. M. Zarou, 344 344 The widows belong generally to the diseases of the heart in connection the starving men was Bovril, which Miss Eline Zarou, Mra. Bernard Unq? Ung. Ung. older generation, while divorced with rheumatism had been engag proved immediately restorative, E. Alexander, Mr. II. Hale, Mr. Brown, Dr. A. J. Alexander, Miss women (3,000 of them) are mostly ing the special attention of the Major Court Treatt, in his ex- 78 71 of the dangerous age.

There are Minister of Health. Diseases of pedition to the Soudan last. Au-J. T. Waterhouse, Mr. D. L. God- 1103 1061 Lwenty-eight widows under twenty the heart and circulatory system tumn, took with him a supyly of dard, Rev. J. Gately Rev. F. held the first place in the causes Bovril, and he wrote to say that he Flaherty, Capt. R. T. Nevill, Mr. 39 23 years old. 33

of mortality in this country. They found it excellent, unaffected by J. T. Scarlett, Mr. E. J. V. Fernie, were nearly twice as fatal as can-climatic conditions, and invaluable Mrs. Mary Ladow, Miss E. Eskin, cer. Welf, as regards heart in cases of sickness or debility after Mr. Daniel T. Smith, Mr. F. L. discases, a large proportion of them fovera

Livinga, Mr. H. E. Rouss, Mr.. originated in rheumatic infection

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The pumps on the Petore! were. all going but she was reported to e in immediate danger. Capt. Tornroth took off Mr. and Mrs. Stark-Toller and started immediate ly for. Chungking which he reach ed a few hours later in the after-,

Ta Word of the Peterel's plight had strike of 1877 had come home from already been radioed ahead but New Zealand for the first time, at Capt. Tornroth was able to give the age of 75. He was greeted with H. M. Naval authorities more a "Hullo, Harry, how are you?" complete information about what by three brothers, aged 74, 87 and had happened..

respectively.

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1204 Unq.

in early life between the ages of Potassium Bays Essential to Heart! Geo. W. Simmie, Miss E. Morrison, Major S. W Addison, Mr. and Functioning. 831 8015, and 15, the true nature of which

Mrs. Harahbabger, Mr. and Mrs. Recent scientific research had H. Iverson, Master J. and Miss K. and 88 was often overlooked. The child 581 58

was pale and seedy, complained of B07 801 831901 growing pains as they are called, or aching in the joints, twitchings, 451 441

suffered from loss of appetite, but BOI BK

861 83. what seemed a trifling aliment for Ung which even interruption of school 2012 attendance. seemed unnecessary, 194 176 while all the time the seeds were 1331,1261 1830 1831eing sown of crippling and per-

54 54 hapa deadly disease.

shown that other metals besides Icerson, Miss L. Iverson, Mr. M. radium were radio-active, and that O. Clark, Mrs. M. O. Clark and Potassium was one of these, giving Miss M. Clark, Mr. J. W. Berry, off Brays which were essential to Mr. and Mrs. H. 1. Thornburg Potassium could, of course, be de- Courtney, Mrs. E. B. Montage, rived from various dietetic sources, Prof. A. Ricci, Miss L. P. Loclerts, but Bovril, it appeared, contained Dr. J. P. Celis, Mrs. Laudes, just the right proportion of it. Arconas Celis, MA, Todd, Mr. The report and accounts were un-8. T. Butlin, Mr. and Mrs, do animously adopted.

Broissia.