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A la Carte Grill
"(6th floor)
DINNER DANSANT DAILY
From 8.30 p.m.
(Sundays excepted)
ROOF GARDEN
TEA DANCE DAILY
From 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
(Sundays excepted)
ADMISSION FIFTY CENTS
including Tea.
Dancing nightly
Admission $I per head.
THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1929.
EAST GOODWIN
LIGHTSHIP.
THREAT TO RUSH THE DIAMOND AREAS.
BREAKS ADRIFT IN A HEAVY S. AFRICAN POLICE MOVE IN
GALE.
NAMAQUALAND.
Deal, Dec.. 271
Johannesburg, Dec, 29. The East Goodwin lightship Serious troublo Is feared in the broke adrift from her moorings Namaqualand diamond areas, where during, a south-westerly Channol local residents resent the Govern- gale early, this morning, and nar- mont ban on prospecting. rawly escaped: coming to disaster At present there is considerable on the very sandbank which it is distress in Namaqualand, owing to). her duty to assist in guarding. the drought, and many are on the She drifted halplessly to a point verge of starvation. They are pro- four miles, north-east of her testing that this is unfair when station, where she was brought to vast wealth is lying everywhere, | *. stop, by the dropping of the re- which the State is reserving for it. tserve anchor.
self, while it offers only four shill- Signals of distress were sont ings and sixpence daily to local out. The lifeboat men at ileal, workmen.
who were spending their Christ- The situation has developed to mas night at home with their such, an extent that last night the families, were summoned by the chief of the South African Criminal ringing of the lifeboat boll. They investigation Department and a quickly, launched the lifebout. mobile squadron of police hurriedly Thero were heavy seas and driv entrained at Portnolloth. ing min aqualls, but little did the Apparently the attitude of the Deal lifeboatmen think that the Namaqualanders has become aud- vessel, which they could sea bucne denly more menacing. It is known ing red distress flares at the back that at a recent mass meeting hun- of the Goodwine, was one of the dreds unanimously decided to rush familiar lightships.
the State digginga if the situation were not alleviated quickly.
The lifeboat reached the light ship, and stood by her during the night. At daybreak, the Trinity Houac ateamship Satellità arrived in answer to the lightship's wire Ices.
Parted Cable.
Menacing Crowds.
ded to the unrest by the arrest of Last week, moreover, fuel was ad-|
fourteen
local men for stealing ground containing diamonds. As a rosuit large crowds surrounded According to the statement of Portnolloth gaol, demanding their the master of the East Goodwin release and threatening to smash Lightship, Captain George Hop- the gates.
kins, the vessel at twenty minutes All Johannesburg diamond cut) past one o'clock this morning, ters struck work yesterday owing) was swept from her station as the to the question of training local up- result of one of the iron rings prentices, the cutters declaring that in the cable breaking. As soon as it was necessary to control the num- the ship parted from her anchor- bers of apprentices and the condi-| age, Captain Hopkins and his tions under which they are taught. crew sent out wireless messages
and burnt red flares, but they
drifted four miles from their posi- would have been even more seri- tion before they were able to get ous,
out their emergency anchor and One of the bring the vessel up,
Trinity House steamers from Harwich has been Captain Hopkins further stated] despatched with a fresh supply of that he burned his entire stock off anchors and cables and red lights flares and that the vessel narrow for the East Goodwin Bghtship. ly missed striking the sandbank of the Goodwins. Had the win been from the south-east, instead of the south-west, the position
The lightship has now been towed into Margate Roads, where she will be re-equipped for taking up her station sgain.
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