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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1931.

-AMERICAN SAILING ROUND WORLD.

INTREPID YACHTSMAN IN

HONGKONG. "..

for Japan, Honolulu, several ports in Central America, the Panama Canal, Cuba, New Orleans, Missis sippi River, Memphie, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Albany and New York City,

WITNESSES RETURN TO COUNTRY.

CORONER'S INQUIRY HAM- "My object is to go east around

PERED BY ABSENCE. the world, single-handed. It has For aheur persistency Mr, Ed- been done three times going west The abrence of eye-witnesses ward Miles, of Memphis, Tennes-by the sasiest way. I also intend of a fatal motor accident, which sec, U.S.A., would be a dificult in my simple way to study the occurred in Nathan Road, outside man to beat. He arrived in Hong- different peoples, for if we all got the Mongkok Police Station, on kong last Wednesday from Manila to know one another better, there Apr 14, hampered n Coronor's in a gno-man boat. which he has would be less misunderstanding, Inquiry held by Mr. Hamilton and sailed for 14,600 miles since he for find that there is more good

a jury at the Kowloon Magistracy left New York in August, 1928, on than bad in peoples in every innd. yesterday afternoon. a lone voyage round the worki

Unfortunately, the good keep quiet

The Coroner explained to the iis bont. which he names Sturdy while the little bad is magnided.

jury that he had only heard, after the Royal Hona-1 This is also true of reilgion. Il, is now lying kong Yacht Club at North Paint.

"I am financing the present he had reached his office, that and can hardly be distinguished venture myself, without any out- certain Chinese witnesses had re- If he had from the other yachts among which sido aid whatsoever, and cat de turned to the country

heard earlier he would have can- she has been chored, except for so to the ond of this trip." her two mast. and the flag of the

Mr. Miles reckons that the whole celled the inquiry but the jury

have the evisionce stars and stripes which she flies. trip will be completed before the would

Henderson who

had A Press representative was end of 1932, when, he calculates. Private

between knocked the deceased down whilst fortunate in finding Mr. Miles he will have covered

board his

yester 81,000 and 83.000 miles altogether. riding a motor cycle. Yacht day afternoon, and while the press-

A Quick Telp. Commenting was looking around on the

on his trip from with deck, wundering where the cabin Manila, he said he met was, a genial voice shouted a wel favourable conditions during the come, and guided by the soutal the voyage and took only six days Interviewer stepped into a small and five hours. He left Manila on but extremely neat cabin.

May 1, and arrived here about 1 p.m. on May 6.

an

77114 1

Judging from outside, one would not have thought that the yacht and so much space. The design la such that the engine sleeping room and kitchen are all in one, and a fenture is the amount of space thus saved.

"Well, young feller, what ean

31.

Dr. K. H. Utiley stated that the enuse of death was haemorrhage do- following a fracture of the ceased's akull. The injury could! have been caused by the deceased falling on the back of his head on

do for yer." boned Mr. Miles, and with the result that he had to gea trierele in the opposite direc-

then

to something hard.

Private 1.

the Henderson, of Mr. Miles humorously described |

and Sutherland High- the difficulties he encountered on Argyll arrival. here in finding a medical landers, sold that he was driving harbour motor cycle towards the direc- officer. He entered the flying the quarantine laz, but, he tion of the Star Ferry when, on the Mongkok Police said, probably because his boat nearing was so small, this was not noticed. Station, a Chinese, who was riding the harbour for ation, turned into Fife Street in our representative, after having searching in

business on medical offeer of the port. Even-front of witness, who was duly explained his b0arti.

told a tale on of tually, he had to ask some sampanahout eight feet away from the

No signal medical other machine. 11 which people and located pinck and determination

launch alongside A been given nor did the Chinese can only be rivalled from the officer's ponges af Getion. All the time he steamer. He went alongside and ring his hell. Witness was travel.

found it very mach was telling his story. Mr. Miles'

larger than ing between 15 to 20 miles

hour and on seeing the Chinese geaiality was apparent, and he his.

The Sturdy 11, which

witness appeared to treat his already two-

is of 12rrying on even after

he im- your-old adventure almost is the tons, has a length of 37 feet, had sounded his horn,

the left, matar of sky-lark

beam of 11 feel and a draft of four mediately swerved to feet nine inches. She has been leclutching at the same time. fitted with oil engines, of 20 H.P.

WILM

Persistent Courage, Yet underneath bis smiling ex- terier, une could een an into mitable spirit, not to be shaken. Looking at Mr. Miles as he hamar Dusty related his ideas on things in general, one could hardly credit him with possessing the persistence that made him return to his own country after a year of travel, to build another boat to complete the journey on which he had set out: after his Brat boat had been burned.

hal

Witness successfully passed in Mr. Miles expects to leave Hong front of the tricyclist and WAS kong on Thursday morning for about to preceed on his way when Yokohama if the weather condi; he put in his clutch and stalled tions are favourable. Ife added his engine. He was thrown uff that in his present tour he had and lost consciousness. Witness been able to get away every time did not come to until he had been he intended to, except once when taken to Hospital where he was he found it really impossible.

informed by the Police that by "Once I nearly had to build a had struck a AR. third boat." went on Mr. Mies.

hear.

"When I was at Goa, I got en a The Coroner then read to the reef and could not get my boat off. jury the statements made to the 1 eventually had to take out my Poller by the absent witnesses. "I am only is small tastess man engines, bit by bit, all my provide pointed out that a remark made Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.asions, and after two weeks I got by the deceased to his daughter, city of 260.000 inhabitants, in the her off. She was overhauled, whilst being conveyed to hospital centre of America, and one of the fitted, and allogether I was delayed in the ambulance, was worthy of largest of the inland colton mar for two months. This mishap note although it was only kets," anid air. Miles, built occurred on 20th December, 1930.say evidence. The deceased had Sturdy I all by myself, in two I thought I would spend Christmas told his daughter that the motor years and four months, al Savana, and the New Year at sea, but Iyele had caught his jacket and Georgia, the nearest sea port to eventually spent

them repairing threw him down. Memphis.

After completing the

my boat."

Sergeant Clark gave bont, I took a test trip of 720 miles:

Asked about his provisions, Mr. of having found the left hand side to New York City.

Miles said he only took plain food, of the deceased'a jacket torn while He had a large quantity of rice there was a bruise on his left hip. on board, with vegetables, but he where the bandle bar of the cycle took very little meat. He carried had apparently caught him.

quantity of tinned food in ense of emergency, and had provisions for himself for eight months if anything went wrong.

evidence

The jury returned a verdict of accidental death."

KING'S RECOVERY.

ATTENDING A COMMAND PERFORMANCE,

"I left New York on the 29th. August, 1928, on my present tour and did a non-stop run to Gibraltar in 45 days, my poorest day-run being 25 miles, and when cond! tions were favourable I did 125 milos a day. From Gibraltar, wont to the following places.-- Mr. Edward Miles was born ini Tangier, Algiers and Tanis in Newark, NJ, U.S.A. He la 51 years North Africa; Malta; Catania in of age, a member of the Pilgrim Italy; Patras, Kornithos, Athens. Yacht Club. Brooklyn, NY, and Mild and Candin; the Italian air-Yachtsmen's Association of Ame- The to Constantinople; then Alex rica, Detroit. andria. Port Said and Port Towfik. Egypt; followed by 150 miles down the Red Sea, where I met with serious disaster. On October 12, 1929, through carelessness, my boat caught fire with gasolone, and I was just abin to row to the light-house on Rat Rifa Reer when the bont was burned out.

"Returning to America, I built. with help. Sturdy 11. in five night paid a surprise visit to Variety Artists Benevolent Institu-

noticeable Wolverhampton.-British Wireless.

months. There is no

difference outside between Sturdy Hand Sturdy II. I took the bont 1.400 miles by train to New York and thence 5.000 miles by ship. The rigging was fixed on at Port Said where the Sturdy I was put into the water for the first time.

Voyage Resumed,

"I left Egypt on September 28, 1930, and tiched at Port Tewlik, Port Sudan, · Maggowa, Eritrea, Perim and Aden; and then Colombo. From Ceylon, I pro- ceeded to Singapore, Borneo, Fava, French Indo-China, Stam, and the Philippines; and will leave, here

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