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EPIC OF SEA.

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officers and men concerned in the redete. Sympathy in the loss of two of the crew of the President Roofevelt during this hazardous undertaking was also officially ex- pressed.

In one of many newspaper tri- butes, the Observer says:-"In the worst storm known in the Atlantic for a generation, two British ves- sols in extreme distress found gal- lant and inhesitating helpers-- one' a German and the other an American lines. Six members of

one crew owe their resque, to the fine work of the Bremen. "Th erw of the Antinge were suved. thanks" in the brilliand ilisphy of courage and seamanship of the ciptain and crew' of the President Rosevelt. The indomitable spirit of Captain Pried and his men, who stood for three and half exhaust- ing days and left nothing unven»

« tured until every soul had been taken off the Antinne, is something Ex he recorded among the mest famous, eple of the year and to b held, as it will de inmost glatéfui remembrance by the country men of the rescued crew.

British Wireless.

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THRILLING NARRATIVE.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1926.

PRINCE AT GYMKHANA.

His Royal Highness Prince George snapped at the Polo

Club Gymkhana on Saturday. (Photo: Mee Chaung

ADRIFT FOR THREE

DAYS,

WORK FOR · M.B.K.

JUDGMENT FOR

SUB-CONTRACTORS.

London, Jan. 31. narrative rarely equalled] outside the pages of Joseph Con- rud's novels is told by Mr. Tose, I the captain of the Ha. Antinoe, whose account of the long series of almost superhuman efforts to koup his disabled, engineless and rudderless ship afloat during an apparently unending hurricane of unprecedented violence con- Six mon of the crew of the Bri-Supreme Court this morning, the Lain many poignant passages ish fishing steater Cormorani. Wing Yick Company, sub-con- Hucir as his signal to the which was wreeked off the rocky tractors, claimed $41247, being Roosevelt Wish to abandon coast of the island of Islay on the

CREW'S BITTER

EXPERIENCE.

· Before "Mr. Justice Wood, at the

but have not the meats.” west coast of Scotland last week balance due for work done and The Antinoe's cargo of wheat have had a terrible expérience materials supplied, and $69 for in bulk, had virtually liquefied on

When the Cormorant went the morning of Jummary 23rd. ashore five of the crow reached money advanced, from Karim. Din, causing a heavy list. The crew the land, but these six men left trading as C. K. Lam and Company, attempted the impossible task the ship in a lifeboat. The boat contractors. Mr. 1. McCallum of standing on a stoping deck to was discovered to be without appeared for the plaintife, and Mr. replace The Itch Tarpaulins rowieks, and a bung was also A. D. Hall defended. which had been washed away. missing, Rowlocks were contrived

the

Mr. McCallum explaincil the de- The crew were cheered on the with a string and the men's sen- tendants were contractors for the night of January 24th, by the boots were used for baling the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, shipping and arrival of the Pres. Roosevelt, boat Uimalely by means of an con merchants,

and sub-let which pumped out oil and thus par and the evening of the bat work to the plaintiffs, who were lessened the pounding seas, but they rigged a sail, but they were claiming damages, despondency set in when succes- unable to reach land owing to sive efforts by the Pres. Roose-contrary winds and strong tides, velt to establish contact failed, bout after bout being launched and upset and their crew being marvellously rescueds

The manager of the plaintiff firm entered into a verbal contract with; It was only after they had been the defendants, to carry out work drift for three days and two in the servants quarters at the nights in bitterly cold and stormy yard of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha. weather that a favouring wind Altogether the work and materials| blew them ashore on an islami. had cost $662.47, and $250.00 had The men, who werd in een paid on acenant, leaving a distressed condition, were fed balance of $412.42. is firm had and plothed at a farmhouse and also advanced $69 to the defendant were then taken on board the firm. steamer Cygnet to Ohan, where they had to be sent a hospital. not. in Court, and he had to sub- Mr. Hall said The defendant was

mit to judgment on the claim,

Judyment was accordingly enter- H. M.S. Marazion left for Anoyed for plaintiff, for the claim and to-day.

tasts.

A heavy snowstorm obscured the view of the President Roosevelt, which disappeared for twenty hours and was again sighted on the 26th. The gale was still ton feree to operate the ship, the whole interior being fnoded. The crew, without food or water, clung to the inclined decky and the. President Roosevelt blinked:" Doing everything we Can. but impresible to send hoat in this

Captain Tose: sea," replied: Yes, we know. We falty Buoy was, absent to-day. are most grateful to you."She left at eight o'clock this Later, Captain Tose morsed that morning. bound for the Mediter- his ship was listing more heavily raheal.

The familiar sight of H. M.S. Hermes lying at the No. 1. Adnai.

and shipping more water, where- H.M.S. Yarmouth arrived from

President Roosevelt upon the mianocuvred unsuccessfully.

Home this morning with details trailing boat line was occasional for M.S. Hawkins.

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She is ly fired over the stern but broke Commanded by Capi. Isaacson finally on the 27th The Antinoe and is taking the old crew of the yas in imunincat danger of sink- Hawkins back with her.

ing when the boul was secured

with difficulty and took off a dozen married men. Theraufter the weather moderated and the remainder left a few hours luler.

Reuter,

WOULD-BE CONSTABLE.

JAILED FOR THEFT,

A young Chlause charged with entering a floor and stealing cloth- ing belonging to the inmates, was sentenced to four months' hard labour by Major C. Willson to-day. An interesting fet revented in a statement by the prosecuting. police officer was that the defen- dant was on the list of prospective recruits recommended for the Police Force, but, of course! as-Sergeant Dorling want to say, this affair had finished him as far as his chances of en- tering a police career were con cerned.

Collectors

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TO-DAY.

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ANTI-GERMAN DEMONSTRATIONS.

OFFICIAL ITALIAN

DISAPPROVAL.

Rome, Ja, 31.

Oficial disapproval of the anti-

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HONGKONG HOTEL

CHINESE NEW YEAR'S EVE

FANCY DRESS BALL

will be held in the

ROOF GARDEN

on

FRIDAY, 12th February 1926.

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Dancing 8 p.m. tỷ 12 Midnight

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DEVON'S DILEMMA.

WEIRD BEAST ON

COAT-OF-ARMS.

Devon and Cornwall ure laugh-

German demonstrations by students ing at a comic situation which Is contained in an order issued by has arisen in regard to Devon's the Fascist Directory, forbidding

Fascist students to participate on attempt to find a cont-of-arms.

the ground that the Government The approved design has on it does not need such manifestations)

to enable it, to defend Italy's case: with dignity and firmness-Reuter, said to be a lion rampant.

an oldtime ship, and what was

TRANS-ATLANTIC

FLIGHT.

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FRANCO ARRIVES AT PERNAMBUCO.

Pernambuco, Jan. 31. After the heavy sens lnd Trus- trated the first attempt, the aviator Francs left Fernande Noronha at three in the afternoon and arrived at. Pernambuco at 4.45. Reuter's American Service.

COBHAM'S PROGRESS.

Bulawayo, Jan. 31. The Aviator Alan Cobham Brrived hore-Reuter,

But the ancient Cornish borough of Saltash claimed that Devon was stealing its armorial bearing and the old port of Bide- ford suggested that its ship was being adopted by Devon,

Devon critics describe the alleged lion ng a mongrel, with the head of a wolfhound, the body of a tiger, the claws of an eagle, and only the tail of a lion, and it was further complained that the queer beast was not keeping its tail up.

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A big new, restaurant-capablo of soating over 1,500 people-is Whether it is really a dancing to be meoted by the Aerated bear or an excited unicorn is still in dispute, and when the county Bread Company in Wilton-street, council considered the matter one opposite Victoria Station. The momber said poople thought it sits was acquired by the company was really a poodle.

The county council, told that some years ago. The demolition. the beaut in worse than an Epstein of the oxisting restaurant, which animal, has therefore deferred the caters for large numbers of rail- adoption of the coat-of-arms pro-way travellers, will bo begun has posed ponding further investiga-

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