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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

ROCKNE SIX

28, 1933.

MY FRIENDS AT SEA

By JOAN GRIGSBY

[The writer, a young Englishwoman, is strikingly at home among ships and sailor men. She has already published a book on the subject under the title "Longshore and Down Channel"]

The Very Idea!

A TAME AFFAIR

By Edward Sandow. Kally,

As an authority on Ame- rican wrestling; we're here'

tragedy of the whole situation is that whilst Japan continues to argue the merits of the case, in face of world opinion, Chinese territory is being seized and cities laid waste. No-one denies that Japan has not had some measure of grievance the Lytton Report conceded so much

It was down on the little Camber leg was properly mended, and —but the right method of ad- Quay in old Portsmouth that I went down to her, and waited on to-day to give you the low- the quay beside her till morning. down on Sunday's stoush. justment is not to make war on met my first love.

She was only a small coasting In the morning I got a job on her China in breach of pledged un- vessel, a tramp old and rust coat as 'stand by, but they couldn't We refer to the tete-a-tete dertakings to the contrary. Ited, but her skipper, was an under- take me when she sailed, 81 between Mr. Tiger Bring Em

no came on to this ship; but I shan't WIRED FOR RADIO is this for which the world constanding man and he made

demns Japan. And nothing that fuss about taking a small reefer- rest until I get back into sail. I'm Back Alive Daula and Mr.

coated girl from Portsmouth to going to try all the grain fleet Joseph Alouysis Cross.

It happened at the Kowloon.. "All closed models of the new she has yet said, or can say, dis- Southampton over the gallant in, turn, and I guess I'll get one of

sparkle of a wintry Solent.

Football Ground. They picked Rockne Six line are wired for poses of this dominant fact

that site as the most appropriate for rough tactics.

radio.

Double-Drop "X" F" rame..

"

See and drive the New Rockna Six, to-day!'

THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

Stubbe ad

Layer Fall

De Valera Cautious

them to take me before I've finish- He told her of his first ship, a ed."

The sequel to this story I found tail white winged lady of "BOMA yet older day," and initiated her only a month or two ago when into the mysteries of the connex-visiting Grace Harwar as she lay

Personally, although the law of Jon between wheel and compass; in Millwall Dock discharging a Mr. de Valera has been cur- and when in the glow of late after-cargo ot grain from Australia; for gravity got a serious knockout at |iously inactive outwardly since noon the little ship drew into the the first person I met as I went on Sunday's seance, we think it was his dramatic triumph at the wooded mouth of Southampton board was Bob, just descending too tame. They didn't have to call

Water, and finally berthed along from doing a job of work aloft,

"Well, you've managed it," I the doctor until the end of the January elections, leading one to side of a lordly Cunarder, she

And no one assaulted the re- the hope that increased strength would not have exchanged the lit-laaid. "Aye, I heard she was in, match.

ferec of the ting.to her." in the Dail has brought with ittle 1,000 ton tramp for all the so I didn't waste much time xel-

luxurious 32,000 tons

"Where were you when you It was a Duala to the death. out Mauretania. eircumspection. To carry

heard?" I asked, quite by chance. Tiger made Joe Cross by taking

"Manchester," was the reply. the policy to which he has pled.

"Then however did you get down his subject's head in a powerful ged himself, Mr. de Valera has, HARRIS. To the dear and precious if Labour fails him, a majority

Some months ago when I re-state of the boy's finances. "Oh, that, stopping just short of screw Sidney, who passed on 28th of ene--counting the vote of the men to my list of friends afloat. here?" I queried; suspecting the grip and twisting it this way and a playful February 1920. Never forgotten. Speaker. He is faced with the turned South from the Shetland just wallked, and lorry-stepped, ing it right off. Then, just to

certainty of considerable dis-Isles, I made the passage in all the way. It took four days, show that he was

small collier; I was the only pas- and I'd worn my shoes right out mood, he transferred to the Joseph warded off the vicious location of economic life in the senger, and the skipper gave up by the time I got here. But it was country while he is trying to his cabin to me, sleeping himself worth it," he chuckled. "Guess patient's torso.

cords. It appears that Jon wore were twelve in the crew, and with lives when they see me at home, attacks by jumping on his friend's the exception of the fireman and a I've not written since I came hobnails and Tiger was barefoot-

away."

"Then How on earth do you knowed. couple of deck hands they had all been shipmates for the last six they'll still be there ?" "Oh, they

IN MEMORIAM,

memory of my beloved husband

The

My Happiest Ship Since then I have added many odd craft and many seafaring

Hongkong Telegraph cei a settes in the saloos. There they'll have the shock of their

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1933,

con-

years.

on the British market into what he describes as a "reasonable"

Then Tiger got peeved and ap- degree of self-sufficiency. He is confronted with the mounting This collier was indeed the'll be there right enough," said plied the leg theory. Muscles hostility of farmers, who must happiest ship in which I have ever Bot, with all the trust of a barn strolled up and down his spine- pelted him for a sixer outside the at home.

in change their entire methods if sailed. The crew were all Scots, vagabond in the folk that are left as he lifted Joe off the mat and

crowd, hooted STILL ARGUING

ring. The Simple Faith and might almost have been called reformers." the country is to grow its own

a crew of "food

Superstition, they say dies bard characteristic style. Joe landed Confronted with the moral

wheat instead of buying it with Their chief diet was brown bread,

at sch, but in the case of fishermen with the debonair indifference of condemnation of practically, the

the proceeds from stock and vegetables and fruit.

The chief, owing to the fact that the beliefs that I have often ex-a cat. He re-entered the ring and whole world, Japan still tinues to argue in defence of her dairy products. Furthermore, he had "something odd about his countered might more truthfully picking up his pal, swung him in he is obliged to affront Britain insides," had to eat everything be described as "religious" rather the air and swatted him so hard actions in Manchuria, even to

while cutting-or lengthening-cold, and would sit down with than merely superstitious. Among and often on the mat that the whole Tiger objected to being swatted the length of suggesting that

and vegetables and gravy, affirm- at least there is a very firm belief the League of Nations should, the painter, and at the same time enjoyment to cold soup, cold meat the older generation of fishermen playing field rocked. at this late stage, change its obtain, her good offices towarding stoutly that they were just as in some Higher Power which con- and bringing his 1,247 muscles

them the fortunes of the Gabing. tactics. bringing about reconciliation good and nourishing whether they trols the elements, and through into action, resorted to body-line

were hot or cold.”

of the Lord!" He cleaned bowled Cross for 16' with Ulster, which is the one

None of the crew of that collier" "In the name

Scores at the end of the first point that all political parties in and ever been "in sail" and the shouted a Lowestoft skipper from aut

memories of sailing ship days are had gone to the herring fishing, the Free State have in common. number of seamen to-day who have the bridge of a drifter in which I For there is not the slightest rapidly becoming fewer; thus it and it was another East Coast day's play were: Duals, three chance of Ulster's joining volun-ems extraordinary that the most fisherman, the owner of a small broken ribs, a bung nose, 23,000 eyes, a thick ear and loss of enthusiastic sailing shipman Ishrimp boat, that offered up the strands of hair and swollen corns:

appetite. man delights to call "an ald shell-heard.

As you can see, it was a tame have ever met la not what the lands-strangest prayer that I have ever Cross, six front teeth, two black back," or an salt," but a boy of I was sitting at his side one nineteen, with whom I was once morning learning to mend neto change in order to get out of the seemed little shipmates in a small tramp steam while we waited for the wind to affair.

Six years ago "Bob" had run harbour. There

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mind. The submissions made are mere reiterations of argu- ments put forward long before the League reached its decision. As they cover no new ground, they cannot possibly induce the League members to revise their tarily with the Free State. This judgment. One of the points again raises not only the treaty issue but the whole question of advanced, however, calls for com- ment. This is the contention the Free State's position in the

THAT ELUSIVE STUDXX that, in view of the disorganised Commonwealth. Then there is the matter of the £5,000,000 the

Apropos of the new collar state of China, the Nine-Power Treaty and the other pacts do Free State used to pay Britain away from his home in Port Lin-chance of its doing so when sud-

in respect to land annuities, pen- coin, Australia, to join the Grace denly the old man turned to me which is said to need no back atud,

"Do you mind if I pray, Miss?" Karwar, a steel full rigged ship in not apply, and therefore, Japan

sions and so forth, and the agree-the Finnish fleet of Capt. Gustav he inquired, in much the same we are hoping that some day when for tone of a man inquiring if he our scientist's get tired of lavent- ing aeroplanes and wireless has not been guilty of any

three voyages and then ran away might be allowed to smoke. breach. The point to be kept in ment with the Cosgrave Govern-Erikson. He stayed in her

"Not a bit," I replied trying not gadgets, they will evolre a collar -"just for fun." mind is that the Nine-Powerment, which de Valera has re-

"Are you glad you did?" I to appear surprised at the some atud that either cannot be loat, or,

The present collar stud suffers Treaty took full cognisance of fused to recognize. Such a list.

would be formidable enough, asked, and there was no hesitation what unusual nature of the re-else will not stay lost. China's unsettled state; indeed,

Then, looking out to sea, the old from wanderlust. For months, get back into sail ever since; oneu

but even years, it may lie quiescent; it was purposely designed to apart from internal troubles, for in his reply: "I've been trying to quest

a politician with a solid majority you've been in big sailing ships fellow said very solemnly, permit China the opportunity of which Mr. de Valera has not. this steara business is a poor game, without the slightest trace of em- and, lulled into security, you bringing order out of chaos by There are signs, however, that Life in sail is three parts bell, but barassment, "Oh Lord, I'm not a fancy you have tamed it, until one specifically guaranteeing her Mr. de Valera--though perhaps the other part makes it all worth whining sort of a chap, always day when you wake up late your asking for favours, but if you fingers will fumble, and you drop immunity from outside inter- not a majority of his followers it."

When he left Grace Harwar, could see fit to arrange for this it. ference. Japan was a signatory already are finding that the re-

capacities from A.B. to freman. hour or so I should be very much treacherous thing has been wait- ing for. It is expressly designed to that Treaty, which contained sponsibilities of office are not get jobs in steam in various wind to change within the next This is the opportunity the

with compatible

extremism.

"I broke my leg in the last of obliged. John Pounde."

In less than an hour old John so that when it hits the foor it a solemn undertaking not to in-Thus Mr. de Valera is no longer that bunch, and had to go into a

told mc. and I were off to the fishing with flies off into one direction, then, as fringe China's territorial, ad- an uncompromising Republican. London hospital." he ministrative or political integri-"I would sacrifice much for the "Then one day, I heard that the a fine following wind. We return soon as your eyes turn that way, ty. By no stretching of the unity of Ireland," he is reported Archibald Russell (a four-masted ed some hours later with a good it doubles back and disappears. provisions of that instrument to have said. He has gone on barque) was in, so I sneaked out of five and twenty gallons to show

record, too, as anxious to esta- the hospital one night before my for our day's work. can any of the signatories claim blish friendly relations with the right to interfere in the in-Britain. Probably the next few ternal affairs of the country, for months will determine what that the simple reason that respect means.

for China's integrity was not

made in any way conditional. An Abbey and a Garder. The pledge was unencumbered by "ifs" or "buts." The fear conjur-

Let those whose equanimity ed up by Japan that China.may

remained unruffled by Britain's become a Communistic State, and departure from the gold stand- thus threaten the peace of the ard or by the havoc wrought East, is not warranted by the to English wickets by the Aus- facts. This much, at least, can tralian cricket team prepare be said that no other country now to lose their stoicism. Lon- don Bridge may not be falling considers the danger to be such down, but the monuments in 23 to justify interference. Westminster Abbey may be Japan wants the world to believe evicted and the Royal Opera that it will only be by Japanese House, Covent Garden, is about control of Manchuria that a buff- to sing its swan song. The Lon- er against the spread of Com- don County Council, laudably in- tent on "improvements," is re- munism can be created and the ported as designing a broad peace of the Far East guaran-highway in the path of which teed. But what has Russia to the famous opera house stands, say of Japan's 'encroachments?while eight centuries of states. Already she has made her dis-men, peers and princes have so pleasure known, and it is obvious filled the Abbey with their monu- ments and memorials that the that Japanese expansion in Man-removal of some of them is churia is likely to lead to war deemed imperative. So much rather than to peace. Incidental-sudden change in conservative ly, the Russian allegations of the old London is a bit too much to state of unrest and insecurity of ask the world to accept. The life on the Russo-Manchurian next thing it will hear is that the plumed-helmeted mounted border conflict sharply with sentinels at Whitehall Palace Japan's claim that an era of are to disappear and that cock- peace and good order has been neys are picking up their "ait. established in Manchukuo. The ches."

"When business is slow, young feller, that's the very time

you ought to be up and lookin' busy."

It might appear that it couldn't. hide itself for long in an ordinary bedroom, but short of pulling the house, down, which is expensive, you will never and it again. You can ace one in the British Museum which belonged to an ANCIENT Roman, found twenty feet below the surface of the earth.

We were talking about this to a man at the club the other day and he said that he had solved the problem. He had produced a stud with a clip which fastened on to the shirt, so that it was per- manently a prisoner, and the next day he sent us one to try.

In the morning, cold and grey,.. we arose full of ideas for good deeds we were going to perform, but all our good resolutions went wrong when we could not find our collar stud... It was not on the dressing-table, nor under it. It was not under the bed. We took the carpet up. We removed the gas stove.

We searched so thoroughly that the next-door neighbour said that he nearly telephoned the police.

He told us this when we had given up all hope, and called on him to see if he could lend us a spare one. He could, and did

And when we went to put it in the neck of our shirt we discovered. why we had not been able to find our own. It was because it was still fastened in the hole, as good as gold, where we had naturally never thought of looking, for it. At all events, we felt that a stud like that was, too good to be true. We didn't trust it. We got a spade, dug a deep hole "In the garden and burled it,