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LATEST WEST RIVER PIRACY.
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FULL STORY OF SHING ON AFFAIR
60 PASSENGERS KIDNAPPED.
Full toll was taken by the West River pleate gang which seized control of the s.s. Shing On on Tuesday evening. Little of value to the pirates was being carried by the vessel, which is a small Chinese steamer on the Hongkong Wüchow run, but in lleu, nearly every passenger not actively co- operating with the gang was kid- napped for purposes of ransom,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13,
1927.
THINGS WE CANNOT KNOW..
SIR OLIVER LODGE ON LIFE
AND ENERGY.
"WINDING UP" UNIVERSE.
TRAFALGAR DAY.
HOW IT WILL BE
CELEBRATED.
Local observance of Trafalgar Day will again take the form of a Grand Gala Concert to be hold at the Queen's Theatre on Friday, October 21st, under the patronage I do not think that life is one of of His Excelloney the fleer Ad- the forms of energy, in the sense the General Oncer Conmunding, ministering the Government, H.E. that it can be transmitted into Major General C. C. Luard, C.B. other forma, declared Sir Oliver C.M.G., Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Lodge, at crowded citizens. Tyrwhitt, Bt. K.C.R., D.S.O meeting at Leeds in connexion with the British Association.
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Posterity, he said, has to solve the problem of the connexion be- tween etheric, energy on the one hand, and life and mind on the other.
D.L.C., and Rear Admiral W. H. D. Boyle, C.B.
An excellent programme hos been arranged, including the screening of the famous film "The Battle of Jutland" contributions by Naval and Military Bands, and Energy was a popular term items by the cream of locul enter which had only been properly de-taining talent. prearranged spot between fined and adopted in the last half Sam Shiu and Wuchow. Sixty
The vessel was ransacked after the ship's officers had been sub- jugated, and the passengers who fell into pirate hands were landed
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persons were taken ashore before century or so by physical science. the Navy League, which is a volun-
the Shing On was released, and allowed to proceed to her original destination, Wuchow.
First news of the latest net vity of the West River freebooters iras brought by the s.3. Kochow, herself a victini recently, and later the Shing yesterday afternoon,
Yuen Un's agents; Messrs. Yuen 8.s. Company received a telegram from the master, setting out briefly the circumstanecs.
con-
Most Britons are acquainted with
patriotic Association of Work, again, is à popular term tury: of vague but intelligible signi- British coples, entirely outsid
It exists for the flcance, which has been defined party politics. and adopted by physics. It means purpose of rendering the greatest the exertion of a force through service of which it is capable to a distance; not a force "at" a dis- the Empire, particularly in all
matters concerning the sea. tance, but a pushing force
short, it upholds all that the British tinued over a certain space.
Navy stands for as a means pi The idea of energy is nut so protecting Britian subjects and simple. The work done is equiva-British commerce the world over. lent to and is a measure of the Throughout the British Empire, energy transferred, but inasmuch the Navy League has branches to as the energy has not diminished further its aim, and Hongkong, in quantity, it is somewhat Fifty-nine of the persons kid-puzzling to see what has happen napped were passengers, the sixed to it. tieth being a member of the ship's guard.
Compradore Alert.
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Energy has so many forms that The compradore was quick-witted it is sometimes unrecognisable. and escaped by jumping overboard and swimming ashore when the alarm was raised. It is stated that he is on his way to Hongkong by railway from Canton.
The pirates boarded the vessel at Hoihow, a small town. the first place of call from Hongkong, and took possession of the bridge at Tung Chow Shan, afterwards or dering that the vessel should be taken to Foo On about four miles further up the river, before she was systematically ransacked.
cargo It is learned that the carried by the Shing On consist- ed of rice, sugar and betelnuta. These are of comparatively little value, the pirates relying more on The kidnapping side of their en terprise.
The Shing On sailed on Monday from Hongkong bound for Wuchow via Holhow and Sam Shii. She ar- rived safely at Sam Shiu and was pirated between that port and
Wuchow.
The local agents state that at the time of the piracy the boat carried a crew of 70 and had on board 80 passengers all of whom embarked at Hoihow.
Energy is like capital, he said, it only become active when libera. and ted, then it exercises force does work the energy being not lost or destroyed, but merely transferred to something else.
It may be transferred without producing any useful effect as in gambling transactions.
Energy is indestructible, not only indestructible by men, but indestructible by any of the operations of nature,
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It is perfectly constant in amount. We call this the "con- servation of energy,”
Dealing with the deceptive ap- pearance of energy Sir Oliver cited an atom of radium.
It is usually quiet enough; but onec a century of so it fires off a projectile. It may take a thou
and years before it fires off one but once begun it fires four more at intervals until it has become dead, when it is quiet again.
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But who knows whether it has exhausted all its energy even The ship lies the Chinese flag, then? We are now pretty certain the master being Captain" Lau that it has not, and that any ordin Hun-sang and the Compradoreary inert piece of matter, like a Wong Hung-chuen..
lump of lead or of clay or stone The Shing On is expected in or even a glass of water, still con- pert this afternoon.
tains a vast store of energy in its interior.
HOOT GIBSON.
Life and Energy, That matter was only one of the innumerable form of energy that “THE PRAIBE KING" AT THE had been emphasised by Einstein. and the theory of relativity would clinch it.
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It is also announced that a "re-42 gatta will take place under the aus pices of the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club and the Navy League, on Ce- tober 23, and wil he open iơ mem- bers of the club, avy League, British Navy and Officers of the British Murenntile Marine.
I apprehend that the universe must contain many things beyond the scope of those that we study in physical science, and that we only get a dim and clouded ap préhension of such things when they interact with those other as- pects which either directly or in- directly appeal to, our senses cr our reason. :
These higher entities appear to me undeniably realities, but we are not provided with the clues which may some day perhaps enable us to treat them scienti feally, and incorporate them into the region of organised know- ledge.
Meanwhile, though we may be respectfully silent about them, we need not make the absurd blunder of denying their existence.
There are indications that the universe has always existed, and it is still a going concern, declared Sir Oliver. It has not run down yet, and perhaps never will.
The answer, de-
WORLD.
Can it be true that the universe The intuitions of poets, pro-is like a running down clock? Is Beginning, with the colourful scenes of a typical Spanish fiesta phets, and saints are to be respect there anything that could wind in a border town; "The Prairie ed, even by the devotees of phy-it ap. again? King which is the feature at gical science, whose field is sclared Sir Oliver, is "Yes. In-
already that They are telligence." traction at all performances in the large World Theatre from to-day to tempted to treat it as comprehen-
In our physical scheme we have Saturday, moves along in strong, sive of gil reality, which, I assert
left intelligence out, but in so far plausibie sequences to the happy dogmatically, it is not. ending.
Now let us tell you, privately as physics ignores life and mind, The story takes its first drama-and unofficially what I think it cannot be complete as a philo tic turn with the reading of a will myself about the structure and sophy. A true philosophy
unibe comprehensive and ignore no- made by an eccentric old miner properties of the materia! naming three persons, each not verse, leaving its mental and thing. Such a philosophy does not yet exist. Our imagination vital as- known to each other, as the heirs spiritual and even its
intuition, and every other faculty to a rich gold mine. Woven into pects unmentioned.
must be strained to the utter-
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the exciting events that follow is Undogmatically and tentatively, most before we get a momentary a charming love romance.
I do not think that life is one of glimpse of the vast possibilities The hero of "The Prairie King" the forms of energy, in the sense latent in reality as a whole. is Hoot Gibson, and it need hardly
that it can be transmuted into We could already realise that be said, with such a star, that other forms. It seems to me a most of the action takes place out guiding and directing principle the universe was infinite beyond of doors, with plenty of hard rid-dextra, which interacts with the comprehension, that its complete understanding was beyond our ing and brisk scrapping, and a material or physical universe, but
comprehension, laugh for every thrill.
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