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DIARY OF LOCAL. DOWN TO THE SEA

EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(March 17.)

86. Patrick's Day,

St. Patrick's Society Annual Balk, Poninsula Hotel, 6.30 p.m.

Logislative Council Mosting, 2.30

p.m.

Speech Day at Ying Way Girls' School,

Concert at Helena May Institute,

5.30 p.m.

Lawn Tennis.-Open Doubles: Les Wai Tong and Luk Ding

Cheung . A. Y. Remedios and C.

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SMALL SHIP SAILORS NEED BIG HEARTS...

ROMANCE OF THE FAST-DISAPPEARING

SAILING BARGE.

BY COMDR. H. M. DANIEL, D.S.O., R.N.,

Small ships demand big hearts of

A: Ribeiro ar Sdi Wa Liang and those who man them. Their crows,

F. H. Kwok, B. B. Hambly and A.

E. Colling ». L. and F. R. Zimmera | often defying the worst geles, must or Chiu 'Chun Chiu and W. o.

As a custer's crew aro lowered down the side of a rolling ship they

need all their strength to prevent

Hung: B. C. Fincher and L. Gold- rely solely on the art of senmanship their bont being crashed against the man. Y. Bachiuma and M. Kino unaided by the strengba and comforuiser's eide., One moment, the are shita; Open Singles: A. L. Sulli

van or D B. Evins . Hò Ka Laufort to be derived from 'size.' (stand court).

Rooing.Entries close for Second Extra Race Meeting, noon..

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British small-ship sailors Bro second to none'; you the foreigner

Queen's Theatre The Sleeping is now trading, on our conste more

Cardinal."

King's Theatre: The Chond." Central Theatre: "All Quiet On The Western Front."

Star Theatre: "A Warm Corner."

World Theatre Thunder.**

Tos Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel Dinner Bancos at Hong Kong Hotal, Penin- sula Hotel and King's Restaurant.

FRIDAY.

(March 18.)

Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd., 1a.m.

Extraordinary Meeting of Share holders, Hong Kong, & Shanghai | Hotols, Ltd., "11:30 am.

arduously than ever, while our own ships are laid up for want of

-cango.

Heaven knows what we should have done, without our smallship men in 1014. At the outbreak of

wa: I commissioned a cruiser on the Atlantic patrol. Only a few of our ship's company were active service, ratings: all the rost, were naval and floss ieserve. Our chief

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task was to board tramps and liners, approaching the Channel and osca- sionally to take possession of one of them with a prize crew.

more than 20 feet above the water; the next, only a few inches from the waves. As a big roller sweeps by the fateful order "Slip," is given for the boat to drop gently on its surging erest. The command must be given in advance, allowing precisely for the lag, of human hands and mechanical gear. Error and delay amounting ito one second might easily spell death to sixteen men, falling in the trough of the ses instead of lighting on the crest, Small hope than in life-bells or cork jackets for most of them.

A RISKY TASK..

And on return, hooking on the "falls" which hoist the boat to the

davits

thera is

grave danger of We soon learned, the value of capsizing the boat and spilling all smallship men, and by the autumn the crew in the angry sea,

Practical Psychology Club Mest ing, Lane, Crawford's. RoutAUTANÍ,, 8 p.m. Spentor: Rev. Tribbeck on

Psychology and Religion." Hong Kong Cricket Club. Tennis Tournament: Open Singles (Stand Court): E. C. Fincher . Tsui Wai Pui; Open Doubles; Honda and Akiyama, v. Leo and Lee or Ho and Yow, Sewell and Wright or S. A and H. D. Numjaan ». Leonard and Casambhoy; Club Championship: Sullivan or Valentine Harkias possible a few months before. We or Hill, Humphreys or Evans had narrow chaves bus not one sin Redmond or Forster: Handicap

The men who did this time and were lowering sea-boats in weather which would have been deemed im-gime again, never flinching when "called away," were mostly fisher- ignorant swashbucklers, but men men and sailing hargemen; no

silent in emergency taught by ex-

Singles "A": Monoghan or Waite glo necident, thanks largely to the

Henderson or Bowker,, T. J.

to humour it.

Price ". Railton or Robertson seamanship of the small-ship perience to respect the sea and how Handicap Singles "B" J. C. sailors. Evans J. M. Wilson; Handicap Mixed Doubles; · Col and Mrs. Rocky Palmer and Miss Steven-

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King's Theatre "The Cheat." Queen's Theatre: "The Sleeping Cardinal."

Central Theatre: Around The World in 20 Minutes."

Star Theatre: "A. Warm Corner,"

Ton Dances at King's Restaurant

A TEST OF SEAMEN.

Road and rail transport have been an increasing menace to the

I regard this matter of safely coasting trade. The brigs which getting a boat away from a ship carried the Portland stone to build heavily rolling in a sea-way na St. Paul's Cathedral have been supreme zest, equalied possibly by supplanted by lorries and locomo

tives rather than steamOT),

the problem of hoisting her again

to the davit heads without damage. In the face of increasing compe World Theatre: Thunder.” In such weather explanatory in- tition from land transport the And Hong Kong Hotal Dinner structions are impossible. Orders small shipowner naturally looked Dances at Peninsula Hotel, Hong must, be given by signs or a sharp to the Continental trade, but in Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant. word of command. All else is that he finds himself composing on

European Mail-Outward: Europe via Siberia (Pres. Jefferson) drowned in the roar of wind and, unequal terms with the, foreigner.

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