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The R.M.S. Empress of Canada is due at Hongkong on Friday at seven

It is no exaggeration to assert ATTRIBUTE OF THE DIVINE NATURE, that Sino-British co-operation TO BE BO TO THE UTMOST OF OUR along these lines must ultimately ABILITIES 19 THE GLORY OF MAN.

Addison. result in the elimination of piracy from this part of the China coast. Grilles, armed guarda Un songer ships, naval patrols, British and Chinese, are in themselves an effective preventive force. were it again to became possible

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Men Who Fight the Sea.

By Commander DANIEL, D.S.O., R.N.

Some cursed; others suckodį joined and to end. Always an odd their teeth in allence: Joo Carr, number-just as no gun'salute at the skipper, alone laughed with nen la ever an oven one. Miles of a deep, powerful voice as a moun-hawser (the same distance) to hang. tain of green sea struck the boat by "seizings" from the foot of the on and flying spray awept over all.

net, in turn suspended from hun- Ha, ha! my duelding!" he al-dreds of coloured "buffs," like float- most snarled with

footballs an affectionate

of gaudy hue. The grin for the now--and, of course, whole will resemble in the water most wonderful-love of his life. giant tennis not. 24 mlles long This was the now fishing-boat and 45 feet deep, floating with the J.A.P. starting her maiden herring top 10 feet below the waves. There voyage a few days ago, determined lies the mate's judgment in deciding A Yaurnal coolio was taken to to make history as the first beat Kowloon Hospital yesterday suffering in the world of a now type: from scalds in the chest. Someone collided with him whilat carrying a pot of boiling water.

The B.I. s.o. Takada will leave Amby for Hongkong on the 27th instant and is duo here on Saturday afternoon.

Economy in Working.

the depth of the not. Short or long "strops" he will order, accord. ing to the blackness of the night and whether he thinks the herring are swimming deep or shallow.

On the "Grounds." Hundreds of boats are on the

Great claims are made for The RMS. Empress of Russia left economy in working her. She is Vancouver on the 21st November, said to be the first Diesel-driven and is due at Hongkong on the 10th drifter-trawler in the world deal banks south of Smith's Knoll light- December. She will sali for Manlined to catch herring with drift nets

regular bases on the coast or upon an island such as Namos Island, the danger of attack would remain a constant source of worry those in charge of merchant ves- sels, Their comparative im- munity of recent times has been dure, not so much to the guards or to naval patrols, as to the ac tion of the Chinese authorities in

on the day of arrival, (evening). near the surface in the brief hership when we reach the "grounds." thoroughly cleaning up the Blas

ring season, and for the rest of the The skipper's task is now to find Bay region, dislodging the gangs In reporting to the police the dis-year to trawl on the sea-bottom for fair berth, where he can run his

as cod, haddock, appearance of a maid servant, Wong such fah

miles of net without fouling other and when they moved to other die- Sze-fni, a merchant of 070, Nathan

craft, all snaring herring in the plaice.

It seems an im- tricta farther up the coast, in fact, Road, stated that she took with ber

She is 74ft. long, with a beam samo watera, jewellery and money to the value of of 18ft. Gin. She has a carrying possible task, when all at once a making the mainland too, het for $1,380.

capacity of 200 crans, Le, about lane of open water opens up and thern. The Hanyang piracy be-

A victim of beart trouble, Chan a quarter of a million herrings, over goes the helm.

The mate dashes breathless into possible because the Yang, an unemployed Chinean, of 531, Her speed is approximately a knots the wheelhouse. "Not that way.

thought themselves Canton Read, auddenly colispeed in Her trawling crow la only 6 men organisers

Jordan Road yesterday morning and instead of 9; but as a drifter she skipper! Never against the sun!"

"Garn! with onsconced upon Namou safely

your superstition," was removed to the Kwong Wah carries the same number of hands

Answers Joe. Nevertheless ho re- (10) as steam drifter. Island well out of reach of any Hospital.

The skipper's last voyage in a verses the helm.

and the Khaki, smartly shaped.

threat by the Chinese authorities.

Screws are stopped, During a fight between two Chinese steam trawler left him, after 16

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PLEASED WILL BE

They may perhaps be excused for in Reclamation Street, Mengkok, weeks, £19 in debt. The mate was mizzen sall is squared away so as £17. On the same to drive the boat, as fast as a crab WITH THIS CAR AND IT IS their failure to foresee the part yesterday, both men received injuries also in debt

to their heads and were subsequently VERY EASY TO BUY..

likely to be played by n British romoved to the Kowloon Hospital for voyage, catching the same amount can crawl, in the direction of the PRICE

"buff" are THE DELIVERED

kets, this new boat would have put warship, namely, that of a troop treatment. The disputo was over a of fish and selling in the same mar-wind. Net after net, "buff" after are paid out over the boat's gambling debt. COMPLETE WITH BUMPERS,

the skipper £75 in pocket and the side, hitched at regular intervals transport ship.

to the "warp" or long rope hanging SPARE TIRE AND TUBE IS

It is, of course, too soon to as

result of the recent Bridge male £59.

Figures of an expense sheet are from the foot. HK$4,512.

sume as a fact that a permanent and Mahleng ten party, given at the

Wenry back-aching work thie- Helenn May Institute by the drab, melancholy items. Suffice THE HONGKONG HOTELeucc for piratical enterprises Military Branch of the Ministering it to say, 2400 would have been one-two-three, and heave another Children's League, the sum of $759 saved in fuel alone, £50 in stores, jarmful of net clear-one-two-three emanating from South China has was collected. The President and and only six hungry mouths to feed... until two miles are over. GARAGE.

always committee of the M.C.L, wish to in the trawled been found, but it

crew, instead of

More Preparation. express their thanks to Mrs. Marsden nine. shipmasters, for her work in connexion with the been contended by

The last is gone, and now per- shorti

Ready for Sea.

haps an hour or two of rest, while naval experts, and suchlike that Military Branch during her

But now we are ready for sea, la ahoal of unsuspecting herring (let immediately the Chinese authoritay in the Colony.

with four extra hands signed on to us hope) will charge into the net The estimated trafic receipts of ge drifting for the ties revealed a readiness to take

elusive and poke their myriads of shining Imperial and International Com- "herren." "Rendy, aye ready." heads into the meshes from which action for themselves or in

munications. Limited In October 1931 Crew have donned their tan they cannot possibly withdraw. sociation with the Navy, pirates are £464,278, un compared with re jumpers, long rubber thigh boots, But no rest yet. The mate urges ofceipts of 2446,007 in October 1930 and oilskin smocks: sou-westere the crow to further preparations. would soon be

Tho Aggregato Receipts

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Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1931.

NAMOA ANTI-PIRATE

COUP.

has

driven out

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business. The Hanyang attack and ite auquel provide a clear in- stance that the "co-operation es sential is no longer lacking. We can at least say in perfect safety that the outlook is anything but gloomy.

Women Smokers.

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As

from

January to October have been, in cover their heads, and flannel is There are the lamps to trim

the 1031-13,960,544; in 1930-£4,320,208 Inced round their wrists as an anti-smelly process this, to turn £24,000 must be deducted from the dote against the dreaded sea-bolls strongest stomach; the hydraulic

The engineer puta in the cylinder capstan to test, with message receipts for October 1931 in)

its

Patent making a comparizon with October} n smouldering wick, then he turnagadgets; planks to place on dock, 1930 owing to changed conditions of a tap, and the self-starter works to hold the fish when shaken out of sharing tramc.

with compressed air until both en-the net until cooped by wooden gines fre

revolving with a gentle shovels silthering down the chute; shudder.

fish-hold to be hosed down, and In the wheelhouse the skipper re- many other details to be attended ceives the mate's report, "All to while daylight lasts.

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clear,"

No whistle here to toot. Then peace at length for an He blares two blasts of compressed hour or two; off oilskins and creep air into his horn to indicate the swiftly into bunks in the cabin. direction of his turn to port. No One hand on watch to see we do

which way to move the engines and are as numerous as London's motor- how fast. The skippor controls omnibuses: We are all having, his engines directly like a chauf- pitching, rolling on the same sea, feur driving a car. Clutch. gear drifting at the same speed on the box, accelerator, each hus Its same tide, until one or counter-part on

on the bridge-only boat begins to haul. in duplicate.

another

Our turn now. Acetylene Dames First port, then starboard, until lumine the hold and capetan. we have threaded our way through Inch by inch and foot by foot the throng of impatient drifters hydraulic power heaves in the coming and going in. Lowestoft warp; but there is no labour-say- Harbour, jostling each other for a

Of all the lessons it ja possible to impose upon pirate organisat-

Of all the male habits adopted by ions in this part of the world,

women since pre-war daya, that of rounding up the lenders and their smoking, peculiarly enough, is pro- The following cable at the close telegraphs to tell a grimy engineer not foul one of the lights, which satellites and depriving them of bably the one that is frowned on of the sugar market yesterday their loot just at the moment when more than any other. The affect has been received by Mesars. Pen- they are congratulating themselves ing of masculine attire, the adoptreath and Co.

tion of masculine sports, and to a upon a successsful cup. is perhaps great extent, the use of masculine the most effective. There can be figures of speech, have been sc- nothing mare discouraging to the copted by the world more as evi- professional sea robber. If it so dence of evolution than of happens that his plans for taking volution. These the critics regard have to possession of a ship from within as inevitable, Women

dress, they say, so there is no ren- are frustrated, as they apparently on why they should not copy styles were some weeks ago when IIM.S. of the opposite sex: they have to Stormcloud brought back a threa- take part in recreation, and why tened ship to Hongkong, and as not the more vigorous type na en- they have been on the one or two joyed by the men? But when it occasions when officers have re comes to smoking, the critic, hope- Ruined control by meeting force lessly illogical, for the argument should be pursued on the same with force, the lesson

lines, thrown up his hands in not но salutory. The pirate horror, and contemplates a "do- Attributes his failure to ill praved" womanhood, forsaking her luck and thinks of his next effort. better Instincts and her upbringing follow 11 popular craze The eminently satisfactory sequel to

to the piracy of the 8.3. Hanyang which is regarded as unladylike and unhealthy. The saner view. must, on the other hand, have pro-

point, of course, denies auch al vided a rude shock and must give legations, even if it is inclined to those behind auch outragen нег- regard with favour the young wo- iously to think. The happiest fen-man of to-day who is not an addict ture of the whole affair, of course, to My Lady Nicotine. But what is the evidence that the willing is a common error among those ness of Chinese officials to cooper-who vigorously uphold the woman ate with the British naval author-smoker, is the attempt to convincu themselves that the girl who likes ities, willingness which has

a cigarette is more advanced in- shown itself in a dozen different tellectually or

more sophisticated ways in the past two or three than her sister who has not fol years, is sincere and whole-heart-Jowed the "fashion." It is still ed., II.M.S. Sterling appears to medically arguable whether ciga have kept a watch on the coast of rettes taken in reasonable quanti. Namoa laland, ready to intercept tlen, are Injurious to the health. The fact that the majority any attempt at a "get-away" while

of sports women aro #mokers keaping in wireless communica-

tenda to cast serious doubt tion with Swatow regarding the on the suggestion. Opinions also peasibility of employing Chinese differ as to whether the girl sho forces as a landing party. The smokea, looks "unladylike." The offieor commanding the Swatow majority of people at the presnt garrison readily fell in with the day would probably indignantly

deny the suggestion, but it in 'con--

| proposal. . H.M.S. Sterling madeceivable that even strong partisans a quick dash to Swatow and was of women smokers (not excluding back again with the punitive ex- the ladles themselves), occasionally pedition, prepared to root out experience a sneaking regard for the pirate stronghold, just at the the girl who does not smoke,

New York Terminala..

berth at the market. Then at last ng device for the two milea of net except a long wooden roller to take March 1982 1.18 down 1 pt. round the plerhead.

the chafe against the ship's side. May 1982 1.23 down 1'pt.

Here we meet the sea, baptising with frozen fingers clawing the July 1932 1.28 no change. all of us, while the crew prepares the twine meshes, it must all be September 1932 1.33 down 1 pt. the fishing gear. This is the mate's į hauled in by human backs and December 1931 1.14 down 2 pts.speciality. Miles of nets-87 arms. With every other heave, a

©1937 BY MEA RERVICE, INZ

30, LA, D. PAT. OFF.

"Look at that shine. I remember when old Pote was the best man in the park, but I'm afraid ho's slipping."

deft toss of the net to shake out the herring on to the deck, where they Лір and slither in the moon- Halit until, with the roll of the ship, they disappear down the chute into the hold.

A fisherman's "round thousand" -having, like a baker'a dozen, an extra quantity for some obscure reason is about 1,200, the num- ber of fish which go make a cran. A haul may be 200 cran or none at all.

The Catch.

The floh, which filcked and flip- pered out of the nets, shimmered In the moonbeams by the thousand. To a landaman they seemed generous catch.

"Not as much as tan cran there," growled Joe as he headed for Lowestoft market. Here they were awung sahore from the hold in Baskat "wills" to be sold by auc- tion.

The catch on that cold and boisterous night measured 8 cran and under the hammer fetched, 8 guineas About 4 guiness must b ba deducted for expenses, which would leave about the same sum to be divided among, 10 hands for un- work of 24 hours. flagging

A few hours later they are off again to sea to

to try their luck once more. The strange thing in during id, that if verrons In Great Britain

everyone

the autumn ate as many herringe in

s week as I did that morning for breakfast, the herring Industry. Would

the flourish. Moreover nation would be eating the most nutritious food cheaper than any- thing any foreigner can sell. Fride. for price, it is reported to have nearly twice the nutriment of Bri tish coef