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THE NANCHANG CAPTIVES

163 DAYS IN PIRATE HAUNTS Diaries Written On Odd Scraps Of Paper

BY special arrangement with the 2, in a desperate bld for freedom. three young officers or the they slipped over the side, but

Butterneld

Bwire steamer, Nanchang, who were welcomed back, 10 shangnai on Wednesday alter the nerve-wrecking ordeal of 163 days' captivity in the hands of ruthless Manchoukuo ders, the North-Chiria Daily News" is publishing their story of one of the mast daring piracies

perpetrated

Chinese

ever waters.

marau-

The first thrilling instalment of "the actual diary. 13 laboriously pencilled on empty cigarette pac kets and odd scraps of paper: snatched from the decks of filthy pirate junks. In which the pri- soners set down a vivid story of their crushing hardships and

after wandering for hours through thigh-deep freezing mud they had reluctantly to retrace their steps to the prison, jung, luckily eluding the guards.

In cramped, leaky quarters, fed hot only on flour pattles and water, the three were kept under close surveillance until April 11, when bursts of Aring overhead signalised their capture by a rival gang of pirates, who ordered them to write for $2,000,000, and 80 gold rings as ransom. Welcome par¬ cels brought much-needed food, but there was still no reply to the captors demands.

MENACED WITH FISTULS.. Pirates constantly plagued - and dashed hopes pfter being carried mauled the helpless men, fre- off from the Nanchang while shequently menacing them with pls- lay at Newchwang Bar on March

tols. On May 12 they were told 28.

by the pirate chief that an offer "We just feel like schoolboys of $200,000 had been made, A ready to break up for the holi- Japanese aeroplane was greeted days. We

are very thankful we with heavy fire, while a Chinese, were British subjects, because we alleged to be a spy in Japanese know we would never have got out

pay, who arrived by another junk if we had not been, and we feel on May 21 was mercilessly flog- most grateful to the authorities.ged, the captives being informed especially the British Consul," was

afterwards that he had been shot. how the escaped officers summed

On July 5 came the greatest up their reaction in an interview. thrill. After hiding in the reeds They are Mr: Cufford Johnson from A fiight of Manchoukuo (30) Chief Officer. "of Berlancliff, bombers, the captives were com- Lanark Robid, Colwyn Bay, who manded to le flat on deck while has been with Butterfield & Swire bullets whizzed overhead. Order- four years and eight months: Mr.ed to swim for safety to the bank, A. D. Blue (29), Second Engineer, Hargrave and Blue, though bare from Port Glasgow, with the com→ footed, made a plucky dash from pany four years and ten months: their guards, but were soon seized and Mr. W. E. Hargrave (25). again. Second Officer, a native of Ripon,

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With the pirates still harried

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1933,

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME

(Continued from Page 8.):

Hymn to the Sun ("Ee Coq D'Or" Rimsky-Korsakov).... Reginald King & His Orchestra. WA B9414.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

(Mendelssohn) ... Berlin State" Opera Orchestra. C1883/4. Czardas (Grossman, arr. Kötelly) Voices of Spring (Strauss)...

Ferdy Kaufman & His Orches tra. C1826.

Chopinata-Potpourri (arr. Sil

bermann)...Marek Weber & His Orchestra. 02319.

9-0.20 p.m.-

From The Studio. The Kreutier Sonata (Beethoven)

...played by Mr.

Sitson Ma (Violin) and Mr. Harry Ore (Pianoforte), 9.20-0.45 p.m.-

Operatie Sélections.

FRENCH AIR MERGER

THE STATE ASSUMES FULL CONTROL

Sweeping Reforms And Big Subsidies

LESSON SERMON

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST-HONG KONG

"Matter" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon which was read in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, September 17.

me"

The Golden Text was: "In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can .do unto (Psalms 56:4).

Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson-Bermon was the following from the Bible: "Stand * (Special All-Mail Service)

fast therefore in the liberty where- with Christ hath made us free, and L'indon, Augus. 30. was among the most obvious of be not entangled again with the The sale of the Aéropostale Com these vices Every airline. was yoke of bondage....The Lord is pany (reported in" "The Times" of more or less under the control of not slack concerning his promise, July 2) marked the completion of an aircraft or aero-engine construe- as some men count slackness: but the first stage in the sweeping retor, who regarded it as an outlet

is long-suffering to us-ward, not? form of French commercial aviation for his products. Most of the willing that any should perish, but which M. Pierre Cot, the young French air lines, in consequence, that all should come to repent- Daladier's had machines of secondary quality ance.... But the day of the Lord Air Minister in M. Government, has instituted. The five and too many of them, and there will come as a thief in the night; formerly independent air lines have was little attemp to secure economy in the which the heavens shall now been brought together in a in operation. The Stae had no real pass away with a great noise, and single company provisionally call control over the companies, who the elements shall melt with fer- The Barber of Séville-(Overture) | pd "Air-France." which should be had all the initiative in their vent beat, the earth also and the (Rossini). State Orchestra. Ber" in full working order by the early hands Its business was simply to works that are therein shall be fin conducted by Dr. Len days of September.

meet expenses incurred without its nurned up. Seeing then that all Blocl. 1991.

The reorganization is intended to knowledge or approval.

these things shall be dissolved, Carmen - Potpourri (Bizet)...... put an end to various abuses, to This state of affairs had been ea what manner of persons ought ye Marek Weber & His Orchestra. effect large economies, to bring couraged by the lavish policy of the to be in all holy conversation and C1419. about a great increase of efficiency, Air Ministry in the spacious days godliness. Looking for and hasting Flying Dutchman Overture and, above all, to put the State in of 1929, when the economic crisis unto the coming of the day of Wagner)...Symphony Orchestra retive control of commercial avia was not yet felt in France. When God" (Gal. 5:1.11 Pet. 3:9,10,11,12). conducted by Clemens Schmunksion. This step has been taken in M. Laurent-Eyane became the first The Lesson-Sermon also includ stich. C1870

the face of strong opposition from Freach Air Minister he inaugurated the following passages from the All records in the shove Euro vested interests, not merely in obe ed what came to be known as the Christian Science textbook "Science

are kindly dience to a doctrinaire passion for policy of prototypes." pean

In an and Health with Key to the Sapplied by Messrs. S. Moutrie nationalization" but for solid feon.ffort to bring French aviation up Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: & Co.

mie and practical reasons,

to date as quickly as possible con "Mortals must gravitaté Godward. 15-10.30 p.m.-A relay from De:

structors were practically given entry of Ernest Parsons and

carte blanche to turn out any de His Orchesim, relayed from the

sign they fancied, as long as it was Byturist Theatre, Birmingham,

novel. This no doubt provided a followed by a Light Orchestral

healthy stimulus to the industry at Concert (Gramophone recapls),

first, but it was not long before "Shurid reception prove satis

freak machines · ni mil

and factory, this relay will he com-

shapes and whole classes of ma- tinued to 1 p.m.

chines of doubtful utility sprang up 10.1/11 p.m.--To-day's Opening 10

like mushrooms without proper re- search or serious development,

Fower and faster machines, giv

Programmes

-

sizes

over

When the French State originally undertook to subsidize commercial air lines it did so on the under standing that subsidies were to be regarded as a negessary but tempor- ary evil. The development of com mercint air lines oversen was also

in of interest to the State. some cases for strategic reasons; but if the State undertook to bear the JL. I. Stock and Commodity, greater purt of the cost it was on Quotations a received from the understanding that civil avia New York by Mears. Swan,tion must, as Mr. Winston Churchilling more frequent services Culbertson and Fritz.

oner remarked, "learn to fly by longer, routes, are the ideal. It 10.35/11:05 p.m.-Close Dowa, itself." There was to be a progres has already been arounced that sive diminution of State"aid in its French passenger aeroplanes, a proportion to traffic receipts until year hence, will fly from Paris to the air lines had achieved financial | India in 21 days, to Saigon in nine autonomy and were no longer de days, and on from Saigon to Hong pendent on public hesistance. In Kong. If the performance proves Great Britain this principle was equal to the promise the rival of strictly followed and is now in a France on the airways of the East- fair way to practical fulfilment, ern Hemisphere will have to look In France it was soon disregarded, to their laurels. afid in recent years seemed to have]

WOMAN PAYS ALIMONY

Reciprocal Law For Husbands

CHICAGO, Sept. 8.

nauseating vermir. added to the within twenty-four hours of its go miseries of these dreary circuitousing into effect

蟲 one wife, A judge ordered

been wholly forgotten. "

The French air lines were until

Yorkshire, who has had three by troops, there began for the years in the Talkoo service. Mr. despairing Britons 嫣 nightmare F. L. Pears. (31), Third Engineer. series of forced marches some- who was born in Inverness but, times as long as 25 miles a night. Two husbands took advantage of spent most of his life in Newcas- Scanty" food, althy water, and Lllinois' new reciprocal alimony law tle. was also captured, but was released five days, later" senger with the bandits' demands.

FORCED MARCHES.. Surprised while chatting in the ship's saloon towards noon on March 29, the officers rushed out to And the decks overrun by! pirates from two junks alongside. Swarming up the ladder and fir- ing as they came, the boarding party surrounded, the officers be- fore they could get their weapona

action, leaving them option but to surrender, not be fore one shot had passed through

tramps. Roped neck and arms stenographer, to pay her unem-big companies the Air Union,

into

the Second Officer's clothing.

no

Four days later found the com- rades in misfortune still cooped under hatches in one of a raase of creeks. Before dawn on Apri

the prisoners were kept in theployed husband £200 in £2 weekly midst of a pirate party over 100 instalments. The husband had filed strong. Soon they were too weak a hill of divorce alleging desertion. even to attempt escape when the In the second case, the judge or

dered the wife to pay her husband chance offered.

178. weekly temporary alimony and to furnish him with free milk and eggs from their farm.

.

were

HIDDEN IN FARMHOUSES. On July 22 Hargrave collapsed and had to be carried into a vil- lage. Six days later they Instructed to write to Panshan demanding $600,000 and the re- lease of the bandits relatives held prisoners by the authorities. In Radio Industry Now Employs

termediaries arrived on August 2, but the bandits mood remained surely, expressing contempt for the paltry sum offered.

(Continued on next column).

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Inquiries From The United States

The following requests for con nections, distributors, etc., in Hong Kong have been received from American Arms by the American Consulate General of Hong Kong. Further information concerning them may be obtained at that above office.

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LONDON, Aug. 30. The value of orders for receiving About acta, batteries and accessories plac

ed at the National Radio Exhibi-in. In 1929 the total State subsidy to the air lines amounted to 51,300, tion, which has just concluded at ooof, while the total trafic receipti Olympia, exceeds £20,000,000, and it is believed that the execution of were 10.000.000f. In 1939 the figures were over 220,000,000f. for subsidies these and other orders expected to

and about 50,000,000f. for traffic be received at the forthcoming ex- hibitions at Glasgow and Manches. receipts. In eight years, therefore, ter will enable the industry to ab French commercial aviation showed orh a further 150,000 work-people.o signs whatever of learning to fly by itself. The distance cover. Nt already employs about a million

men and women, and its gross turned by the air routee was quadru over last year as placed at pled, but this expansion was £36,020,000, of which sum only 1 companied by a more than corres

represented imported Bonding increase in subsidies, both chasers).

proportionately and in their total A very few years ago there was amount, while the services rendered existence, were in some cases ridiculously 15 radio industry in What better text could be found for small. Ta'take an extreme instance the doctrine that new industries still on the line from Marseilles to Al undreamt of may, within the life- giers traffic receipts in the last of the present generation, financial year amounted to 906,000£, make unemployment and trade de-against a baidy of 16,000,0001. As pression merely dead memories I

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the useful average load per journey of the large twin-engined flying:

Į boats used on this line was only about 100lb., each ton of freight car- ried by them from Marseilles to, Algiers cost the French taxpayer 506,000f, - (£4,544 gold),

this time a Manchoukuo soldier, pinioned" and blindfolded, appear. ed among the band.

In the same period the traffic re- "L'owkrudte midue of ́ ́ August

caints of Imperial: Airways. Limit the captives pirates stated that

ed, had overtaken and passed the would soon be free, as they could total of their State subsidy, which not carry on after the ten-foot in 1932 was only £548,000, or 67,932, high kaoliang bad been cut. A0001. at par 88 compared with broadside of shots was aimed at total of 228,000,000£ spont in the pirates from houses hidden France. The long-distance oversea among the trees, Long, almost routes of Imperial Airways showed a traffic of 630.000 ton-kilometres unendurable days of disappoint last year compared with only ment followed while the captives 240.000 tan-kilometres on the lay in farmhouses waiting for the French long-distance routes. The long delayed negotiators.

comparison auggesta emphatically A reassuring letter trom the that the French taxpayer was not British Consul arrived on Septem-Such was the opinion of the new getting full-vahie for his money. ber 2, however, and on Septemd French Air Minister. ber 7 the captives were visited by two Manchoukuo representatives

When M. Pierre Cot arrived at who came to make sure they were the Ministry in March he found the right men before any money public attention unfavourably changed hands. Tense moments focused on the doings of the air were still to come, but on Sep-lines by the collause of the Com tember 7 the three officers were pagnie Générale Aéropostale. He at last led to a house occupied by also found vices in the general or Japanese and Manchoukus offi.ganization of the services which ac cials, and after a rough journey wastefulness, The duplication of counted very largely for their reached Panshan by night. Next directorships in

bsregard of morning an armoured train took administrative them to Yinkow, where they were ties, which officially handed over.

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