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THE "AKRON” DISASTER

ONLY FOUR BELIEVED SAVED

Four

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New York, April 4. Coastguard ships cruiser, a destroyer and all other craft in the neighbourhood, are ruching to the assistance of the Akron, which, though still afloat, is characterised as a wreck...

The Phoebus is searching for

Nurvivors.

The last wireless communica- tion from the Akron was at 10 p.m. yesterday, since when thunder- storms have interfered with radio

communication.

Admiral W. A. Moffett, also Commanders Berry and Cecil, the commanding officers at the Naval Afr Station, are among the com- plement of 19 officers and 57 men on the airship.-Router.

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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1933.

ADVENTURES IN

BOOKLAND

MR. KOTEWALL »GIVES

ADDRESS

"Adventures Among English Books" was the subject of a most interesting lecture delivered by the Hon. Mr. R. H. Kotewall at the concluding meeting of the 1932-33 session of the English Association, held in the Helena May Institute yesterday after noon. There was a large and dis- tinguished gathering present.

His Excellency the Governor. Sir William Peel, President of the Association, presided, and among Hon. Mr. W. T. Southorn and Mrs. others present were Lady Peel, the

Southorn, the Hon. Sir Henry and Lady Pollock, the Hon. Mr. T. N. Chau, Sir William Hornell, Mr. Justice Wood. Mrs. Kotewall, Hon. Mr. A. E. Wood. Professors R. K. M. Simpson (Hon. Secre- Middleton-Smith. tary), F. A. Redmond, and C. A.

Hon. Mr. Kotewall was thanked by At the conclusion of the lecture, His Excellency, who said it was a brilliant

REDS IN KLANGSI

CHIANG KAI-SHEK LEAVES FOR PROVINCE

Nanking, Apr. 4. Owing to the seriousness of the red menace in Klangal, where, the Communists are reported to be making a determined drive against Government troops, Chiang Kai- shek hurriedly left for Nanchang at 12.30 pm on the gunboat Chu Yu for Kiukiang. He will com- plete his journey by train.

The situation is considered critical

The fact that the Government itself admits reverses in Kiangsi lustrates the gravity of the half of which is under the domina- situation in that Province, over

tion of communists. The depar ture of Chiang Kai-shek to Nan chang at a time when" everyone was expecting him la ratu»n in Paotingfu, is further evidence of the difficulty of the task ahead of him.

So far everything has been done tion from the press, but local Chi- to keep out news of the true situa nese papers this evening are departure. blazoned with Chiang Kai-shek's

Admiral William Adger Moffett was born at Charleston, S.C., in 1869. He served under Admiral Dewey on board the Charleston, at Manila in 1898. He commanded the U. S. S. Chester at Vera Cruz course. His Excellency expressed

and interesting dis and at Tampico, Mexico, in the the wish that the membership saluting incident of 1914 and in would increase in the future.

There are more than 30 ml-1 the taking of Vera Cruz in

sionaries at Nanchang, two thirds] The first of the speakers to join of whom are women. Some are same year. Afterwards he was in the discussion

Mrs. was commandant of the naval training Scuthorn, who said that from her British while the majority of the station on the Great Lakes up to own viewpoint she had enjoyed

remainder are American.-Reuter's .1918. He was adviser to the the discourac immensely. It Special. American delegation at the seemed to her that Mr. Kotewall Washington Conference and again had fulfilled just what. the Asso- at the London Conference. Heciation wanted, as his talk struck the Police Library to the Public became Chief of the Bureau of a personal note.

He had brought Library. He was also glad to Aeronautics in 1921 and has held to them most vividly how he learn that as Edgar Wallace spent that position since.

acquired his love for a library, money from books on horses, 80 But she disagreed with the speaker Mr. Kotewall had spent money on on one point, and that was the re-books from horses! arranging of books in library

Mr. Kotewall's Library.

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Small Chance of Rescue.

Washington, April 4. The Lakehurst naval station shelves. She liked books kept in telephones that the chances of their places for years. In thank- The Hon. Mr. Southorn express- saving the remainder of the crewing Mr. Kotewall once again, Mrs.ed personal appreciation and re- of the Akron are slight

authorn said it had been one of marked that all who had had the

library, would at once appreciate his love for literature.

It is impossible to send an in- the best afternoons they had had privilege of seeing Mr. Kotewall's vestigating aeroplane owing to the at the English Association. low clouds (three hundred foot celling) and bad visibility.—. | Reuter.

Rescuer's Story.

New York, April 4. · A vivid description of the disaster by the first ship to reach the scene is sent by the master of the Phoebus.

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Help To Education.

In thanking Mr. Kotewall, Sir.. Mr. W. L. Handyside also ex-William Peel also dwelt on

the pressed appreciation, and said brilliance of the library collec that the speaker had shown tion, but remarked there had been wonderful insight into choosing a curious mixture in the first layer the books of his own choice. He of the foundation. Hie Excel- had also chosen 'books' to Buit lency thanked him for his Interest- other people.

ing, brilliant and amusing lecture which was more appreciated when one knew how busy Mr. Kotewall is. Alluding to Mr. Kotewall's about being revived on the water and heard the half would like to ask Mr, Kotewall if remarks.

Sir William ing of men. He turned on all his he would mention what particular through reading,

mentioned that books helped in the formation of humourously. ship's lights and put out the life-is character when young, as it December, some years ago, was boats towards the floating mat would be most helpful to both his blackest month, when he had tresses and pieces of wreckage.

He rescued three of the crew English and Chinese students. charge of the Straits Settlements

He says that during the thunderstorm he suddenly glimps- ed the lights of aircraft flashing

but he saw others sinking before! he was enabled to reach them.

The master indicated that most of the crew had been drowned. Reuter.

Report to President,

Mr. G. W. Reeve, of the Educa- tion Department, said that from an educational point of view, he

and when things were coming down on the kunettles. He waded through the situation by reading old "favourite Pickwick

Replying Mr. Kotowall said that when he was a youngster it was not the book that interested him, but a weekly paper, called the "Great Thoughts." He rend it Papers"! when he was about 18 years of In conclusion, His Excellency: age. From the prose and poetry paid a warm tribute to the work Washington, Apr. 4..

he must have derived a great deal. done by the former Secretary, Mr. The Navy Department made a formed his character but by Simpson. He felt that he (Sir It was not through. books that he C. B. R. Clarabutt and Professor report to President Roosevelt to following the character of "that William) had not done his duty! the effect, that the Akron was formidable Sir Henry May." as he had not attended any of the caught in a storm and was probably Professor Simpson, said that as meetings, but it was struck by lightning, caught fire and a

fit things in. His lecturer in English, he had difficult to crashed..

fistened with great interest to the Excellency understood that the The Phoebus and the cutters discourse. Under the direction of Association had had a very enjoy- Mojava and McDougal are cona Police Sergeant une could go able season, and he hoped the tinuing their search of the floating far, and he was glad to learn that membership would steadily in- wreckage for possible survivors. Mr. Kotowall had graduated from crease. Reuter,

World's Largest.

The Akron is the biggest air- ship in the world, capable of carrying sixty people, and freight. "She is 785 feet long and has a cubic capacity of 6,500,000 cubic feet. She was built by the Goodyear Zeppelin Company at Akron, as the Z-R54, and was launched in June 1931. She was christened by Mrs. Hoover, in the presence of 100,000 people, on August 8, at the Akron municipal airport.

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The frame of the Akron is atticed web of duralumin, the principal ingredient of which is aluminum, alloyed with copper. There are in her 10,000,000 in-

·dívidual numbered parts, -64.000 iny flat braces and 6,500,000 rivets. Her dead weight empty is about 221,000 lbs. She was in- flated with helium at a cost of G8574,550.

The airship's eight engines are curried four on each side, within the frame, only the propellers pro- trading. Well forward on the underside is the control carriage

Five fast little singie sent biplanes, with wing spans of 25 ft, 6 in., can be carried in a sort of marsupial pouch.

The Goodyear Zeppelin concern employs some of the German ex- perts who built the original Zeppelins. The Directors include Dr. Hugo Eckener, who commands the German Graf Zeppelin (and acts for Goodyear concern in an advisory capacity), Dr. Karl Arnstein and Mr. E. A. Lehmann, from Friederichshaven, Germany. The following shows the com- parative sizes, of well known air- ships:

Ca. 12 L. Tóns Eng. 1.1!!

AKTON

R101

100

Gret Zep.

$,500,000 185 ft. 180 84,480

6,200,000. god 2,000.000 169 1,708,000 TIA

112 5 2,025

142 6 4.200

24 125 6 2,660

Of these, the R101 crashed in France on October 5, 1930, with loss of 40 lives. The R100 was sold after the R101 disaster,

Other wall remembered dis- asters are those of R38 (at. Huli in 1921) and the French airship "Dixmude.

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JAPAN'S ATTACK:

`LONG-AWAITED DRIVE EXPECTED SOON

Nanking, Apr. 4." Japan's long expected drive. along the Lan River is now anticipated at any moment, following what the Chinese regard as a virtual citimatum. According to a Chinese de spatch from Tientsin, a Japanese aeroplane dropped a document at the Chinese military headquarters at Shihmenchal yesterday after- noon, demanding the withdrawal of the Chinese forces from the area to the east of the Lan River. Drastie" measures were threaten- ed in the event of hou-compliance. The message added that the Chinese considered the document. as an ultimatum, and expect the Japanese offensive at any moment.

Reuter.

Flaniding Movement.

Nanking, Apr. 3...

A telegram from General Shang Cheng, Commander of Chinese forces at Lengkow, reports that Japanese forces, after several un-j successful frontal attacks, appear to be preparing for a Banking movement.

The telegram goes on to dé. scribe the Japanese aerial and artillery bombardment which took. place on April 1, but adds that since that date, there has been only sporadic firing from Japanese. Hines,-Reuter.

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As a result of the bombing of Dolonor, an exodus of the civilian population from the City began, with more than 6 Ou persons leaving the City within 24 hours of the bombing.Rcuter. ____

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