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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1934.

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE PIRACY ON THE CHINA

THROUGH BRUTER'S

AMERICAN ORIENTAL FINANCE CORPORATION

AND S. E. LEVY, & CO.

Now York: December 18.

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Improved System To Control Anti-Piracy Doors:

(From Our Special Correspondent)

doors entirely in the hands of any one or mare individuals is placing the pirates in an extremely strong position at the beginning.

on

by

London, Nov. 27," In view of the frequent attacks by pirates on vessels trading in Chinese waters, the time is not

In "analysing the above, it is very far distant when some other

to one's method of protection than that brought very forcibly

wir mind that if the grille" doors at which is at present in use Dec. 14 Dec. 15 have to be adopted for the safety present in use were controlled by power and operated from the of passengers and the crew,

the officer ship's bridge by The present method of equipp-duty and so arranged that an in- ing vessels against attack by dicator would show any one door pirates is by means of fitting

remaining open for a longer grilles and grille doors at the fore period than a pre-determined and aft companion alley ways on time, the aficer on duty could the upper and lower decks of the immediately close that door ship and thereby endeavouring to actuating a master control valve. Isolate the bridge, the passenger and a far greater degree of safety accommodation and the engine would be obtained." "Also it is very room of the vessel. At present reasonable to presume that the these doors are; as a rule, indivi-

moral effect on pirates of a ship dually manned by an armed

being fitted with such 1 system guard, and the guards carried for

would be very considerable, and this purpose are an addition to also the fact must not be lost the actual necessary crew. The

sight of that this moral effect, at opening and closing of any door any rate as far as safety is con- is, therefore,. entirely under the cerned, would also be felt, by pas- control of the armed guard ad- sengers. jacent and the safety of the ship's

It is with this in mind that: complement depends solely on the Messrs. J. Stone and Co. have de- alertness and the strictest em-veloped and patented two 578- elency of any one or all guards tems, both of which are an adap- on duty, and it is not beyond the tion of other well-known system of realms of possibility to suppose hydraulically controlling waterlight that any one or more of these doors, but whereas one is prac- guards might be in league with tically identical except for one or the pirates before а vessel left two additional features, the other port.

has been designed as an alter- native to meet particular and in- dividual requirements. Elther of these two systems could be fitted" for a nominal figuje to a vessel being bullt or to an existing ship with very little trouble.

ཝཱ བྷིཙྪཱཐཱཝ ཏྠོ ཀྐཝོཙྩ ཏྠཙཱིཉྙནཔྤཡྻུཨྰཿ ཚོཊྛོ ཙོཊཧྲྰིཏྲྰཾབྷབྷཱཝཏྟཏྟཱ ཿཀྰཙཧྲྰི ཿཐནཱཔྤཡྻུནཱཙ, བྷཨྰཿཀྐཛཱ །ཏཱཾ བྷནྡྷཏྟཾཨཱམྦ

There, is, however, a very great disadvantage in this method of controlling the doors, as in addi- tion to the extra expense Involved in carrying the guards there is the gravest possibility of a guard being overpowered whilst in the act of opening or shutting a door, In the event of this occurring the guard stands a very slight chance

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Low: - Dec. 14... Dec. 15.

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MILLIONTH MILE OF

FLYING

اله

London, Dec. 14 Captain Youell, the well-known Imperial Airways pilot, to-day com- pleted his millionth mile of flying.

Boc-Vac, (80)

Southern Pacific...

Woolworths (240)

# possible mutilation

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MONTSERRAT ROCKED. BY “EARTHQUAKE

Antigua, W. L, Dec. 14. The British Island of Montser rat was rocked by sharp earth- quakes to-day.

Captan Youell is one of the A number of buildings entered youngest airliner commanders, slight damage, whilst the Royal having learnt to dy at the age of Bank of Canada's building was 17 on a pre-war contraption of severely damaged. wires and struts. He has complet- The Government has proclaimed el 10,000 hours in the air, which is a three-day Bank holiday in order equal to nearly if pars continuous day and night Aring

to facilitate the fransference of the Bank to other" premises.

Both system can be so govern- ed, as to permit of the closing of any or all doors. In fivè, to ten seconds. It is believed that there

of closing the door in time to pre-systems of anti-pirateproof con- vent the pirates gaining access" to | trol would, if atted to a ship, help the vital section of a vessel Fur- in preventing any possible piracy,

tor

on

ther, unless there was an indica- whilst moral effect of a safe

the navigating bridge guard of this nature on the off- showing that a door had remain- | cers and crew would be very con-

ed open for longer than a pre- determined time, the officers OF duty would have no knowledge of anything being amiss below and it will be appreciated therefore that to leave the operation of the

siderable also."

The manufacturers of these systems, Messra, J. Stone and Co. Ltd., Deptford. England would be very pleased to submit proposals to any shipping lines interested.

LESSON SERMON THE NORMANDIE”.

mon

First Church Of

Christ, Scientist Hong Kong.

"God The Preserver of Man" Was the subject of the Lesson Ber- in all churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, December 16. The Golden Text was "The Lord preserveth all them that loye Him." (Psalms 145: 20).

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Among the citations which com-- prised the Lesson Sermon was the following from the Bible: "I will ift up mine eyes unto the hills, trom whence cometh my help: My help cometh from the Lord, which minde heaven and earth. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve thy soul The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for ever more." (Psalms 121; 1, 2, 7, 8).".

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(Continued from. Page 2). three boats, would be possible with two ships of the Normandle type.

To get this result, it has been necessary on the one hand to de- sign engines of the greatest possi- ble power and reliability, and on the other, to design a ship, the Hines of which will permit it to ob- tain the maximum speed with the minimum of power, and conse- jquently, having relatively low fuel These factors en- consumption. sure perfect sea-going qualities and the possibility of keeping to sche- dule, despite heavy weather."

In studying the lines of the hull, more than sixty models were used in the experimental tank and these models were of many different lines and drafts. In the search for the Ideal streamlined shape for the funnels alone, dozens of models in cardboard were made and tested in experiments at the shipyards.

The shape of the hall finally adopted has a bulbous stem, ra- ther less pronounced than those of the German and Italian boste, but

The Lesson Sermon also includ- Particularly adapted to the size of ed the following passages. from the Normandie. The great height the Christian, Betence textbook, of the ship's bows and forecastle "Science and health with Key to deck and the pronounced flare of ship's - sides will ensure that the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy: "In divine Sclence, man is only very exceptional waves can sustained by God, the divine Prin possibly reach the upper decks." ciple of being. Father-Mother is In addition, what is usually the the name for Deity, which indi- forecastle deck, is, in this case, of cates his tender relationship to whaleback" design, somewhat re- His spiritual creation,

As the miniscent of the covered in apostle expressed it in words bows of a submarine, for it is which he quoted with approba- completely closed in by rounded tion from a classic poet: "For we sheathing and perfectly clear of are also His Offspring.” (D. 330 such obstacles as ventilators and "things likely to be smashed by the 3321

seas. Waves, falling on the bows are defected back to the sex again and so damage to the ship is avoid- ed and there is no loss of speed weeks. The weekly service, which formerly required the running of

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