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TO-DAY.
(May 7).
NAVY REVIVES THE QUESTION OF TRAINING IN SAIL.
IS THIS SPARTAN BUSINESS REALLY WORTH WHILE?
DY SIR HERBERT RUSSELL,
ל י.י.
1st Day of Moharam, Mohammeda New Year..
Anno Hijra: 1351. Commences”.... Cricket Interport. XI.
• Mr. Alan Reid's XI., R.K.C.C. ground, "Lawn Bawin::--Division E. Kow-
As might have been anticipated, extending over four decades. I loon Docks Craigongower, Kow, the proposal by the First Lord of agree that the lower dhok type, if lom CC. Kowloon Bowling the Admiralty to revert to training I may use the word generically, in mail for naval cadate and lower, was quite different forty years ago Green, Polics R.Ç. v. Recreio, Civil
deck boya has revived discussion of from what it is to-day. But was Service Taikoo; Division IL the subject, which always les prot- this difference really due to the Taitoo, v. Yacht Club, Craigengowty near to the surface and is there effects of training in sail Let me er. Kowloon C.C, Recreio v. Civil fore easily stimulated into active put the question in another way. Service, Kowloon Bowling Green, controversy. There is an old and If we were to revert to training in virtually unanswerable tag which sail, would the result bo to repro- Hong Kong, Electric,
runs to the effact that has ex-duce the lower-deek type of forty perty differ who shall decide yours ago which the older genera- Upon this question, po certainly tion recalls in support of
its ad- have exports differing. Admiral yocacy of such a reversion Was it not the general milieu of the age which produced, the race 1
Hockey Radio Sports Club The Rest, Y. M. C.A ground, King Park, 4.30 p.m.
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King's Theatre: Delicious" Queen's Theatre: Kept Bus.
bands."
Star Theatre City Lights World Theatre:
Shows."
"Show
Tides:-High 29.5 and 23.00 EXPERTS AT CROSS Low at 3:12 and 18.50;
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PURPOSES.
Now, on the face""of it "there would appear to be diametrical opposition in these two views. But
IS IT WORTH WHILE?
Central Theatre: "Their Mad Sir Lewis Clinton Baker, represent
ing one school, takes the view that Moment,"
since sail power is as dead as the dodo training, in it is, but a wasto of time. Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly In what form is the revival of takes the view that the results training in asil contemplated yielded by training in ssj power Admiral Sir Clinton Baker re- would still render it worth, while:minds us that it took five years. of Both of these distinguished naval to make a sailor" in the days of officers began their naval carcerstacks and sheets, Now, five years Ten Dances at King's Restaurant
whom sail drill was still carried out is altogather too large a slice, out und Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner the Navy, and therefore they of the career of either a naval off- Dances as Hong Kong Hotel, Re-speak with a practical knowledge eer or rating to dedicate to the pulse Bay Hotel, Peninsula Hotel which necessarily adds weight to attainment of a competence which and King's Restaurant.
their opinions
will be so
so largely wasted when either joiam & mechi nized ship. We, may reasonably assume; therefore, that the idea is not to make a snilor" in the old understanding of the term and that full competence in squaro-rigged seamanship, is not. is not this opposition, to some ex-thon, is to be the compromise; what the aim of the troining. What, tont at any rate, one of cross-pur specific purpose in it designed to poses? That a complete technical knowledge of "square-rigged sail Achieve? I am afraid I am not so much impressed as I suppose I power cannot be applied in any.
ought to be by the insistence, upon practical way in the mechanizedi Navy of to-day is so far self-evi- the "brooding of a sea sense? and the development of muscle and dent that I do not imagine it can: form a point of conflict between the
resource which comes from trying to outflank the wind; from inces two schools. The anti-school takes the ground of wasted knowledge-swarming up shrouds, jockeying sant pulling and hauling, from.
org to put it more correctly, of time. wasted in the attainment of know-with reef-points, and finally flop. precarious footropes, wrestling
ledge which can have no valuo. of practical application. The pro-
ping back upon the sobbing dock' sodden, breathless, and cursing the school contends that this time will not have been wasted, since it son-boils. Of course, it is splendid. breeds the "a serie" and pro. It is the only way to make sailors. ly Spartan, a thorough man's job..
duces brawny and
But the sailor was the bun who
SUNDAY.
(May 9.) Sunday of the Ascension. Macao Race Meeting.
2
lean's Theatre:
"Danger
Lights,
Central Theasro: "Yesterday at Peking (Chinese film).
King's Theatre: Angel"
1:
"The Night
World Theatre: "A Wild Rose " (Chinese film),
Fi
Star Theatre""City Lights." Concert at Repulse Bay Hotel, 11 am. till 2 pm.
Miss Mildred Dawn and Marty Sands at the King's Theatre."
resourceful me. Here, then, it seems to me,
a know.
Ton Dance at King's Restaurant we get the cross-purposes. No def-crossed the seas in sail, and now and Repulse Bay Hotel; Dinner nite value is 'ansersed to
that sail is as extinot as the dodo Dances at King's Restaurant, Hong, ledge of sail power in a purely worth while in order to master. s is this Spartan business really Hong Hotal and Peninsula Hotel:
MONDAY.
(May 9.)
Boxing: Finals of the South Wales Borderere "Competitions at Marray Barracks.
Fencing: Hong Kong Fencing. Club Meet, 5.15 p.m
nechanical Navy, only moral and physical value alleged to be developed in the course of acquir ing that knowledgo,
GLAMOUR OF REMINI
SCENCE.
why stop vanished art? If so, here? The old stoker was a splen- did fellow in the muscular line. He ahovelled his biceps into great gnarled bunches. His quick ra sourcefulness was often taxed" in a -heavy-son-either-to-avoid pitching- Reminiscono does not usually into a furnace or 'to dodge the pit- tend to clear thinking. A hvouching out by the furnace of a volloy P.W.D. Auction Sale of Crown rite argument with the advocates of incandescent coal. Why not. Land, 3. p.m..
of a return to training in sai return to training in coal so as to King's Theatre; "The Night power for the Royal Navy is to restore the stokehold sense and the „Angel."
recall tho fine, tough set of men it development of brawn, which we Queen's Theatre "Danger produced. The older generation,
cannot possibly expect the TOKTO Lights,"
amongst whom those advocates are tending of oil-fuel burners to do? Central Theatre: "Yesterday at nearly exclusively found, hark back
Sail produced its own great race, Peking (Chinese film).
in memory, a protoss which is and an incomparable race it was seldom free from a rather mislead But, I have seen some pretty sturdy ing sort of glamour. They speak apecimens turned out by Wenern of things in my young days." Orcan ditchern. And as for re-
World Theatro: "A Wild Rose" (Chinese flim).
Star Theatre: "City Lights."
May there not be some little confu-source, it surely does not requiro
Ten Dances at King's Restaurant sion of thought, in this retrospect? muat imagination in watching
a nasty popple at 25. kosts in order
and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Do wo, in our advancing years, destroyer flotilla bucketing through Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Penin. sufficiently realize general changes aula Hotel and King's Restaurant. in deploring specifio changes
Tides:High at 00.24 and 10:40; have had ne pretty intimate as Low at 3:45 and 18.25.
quaintance with the naval service
to realize that quick-mindednew is even more vital hers than over it (Continued' an page 13.)
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