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· FRIDAY, JANUARY 18,

NOTES OF THE DAY

STILL THUNDERING

SKIPPER'S STORY OF ATLANTIC GALE

By CAPTAIN J. G. BISSET ·

R.N.R., (RTD.) the Commander of the Cunard-White Star liner Ascania, which has just arrived in New York after rescuing in mid-Atlantic, with mountainous scas running, nine survivors from the sinking British steamer Usworth.

The Very Idea!

What a Wreck a Wreck ́

Made of Us

"Kelly! To-day's Thuraday," said the Editor.

"So are wol" (Un). "Very Idea?" (Him). "Awi Hock!" (UA).

6XXZE MANAGED to es- cape this. job for the past two Fridays, but he fair cornered us yesterday.

The Daily Mail, which has-been a tireless waging, almost alone, campaign for British ro-armament in the air, or at least a building programme which will keep the country somewhore within reach of equality with her immediate neigh- bours, was given ammunition for | 0 renewed offensive when the French Government recently an- nounced plans for the modernien tion and development of the French Air Force. "Will nothing rouse this country to the realisation that she is being loft in a position HE great linor is outward By now the wind has risen to Said we had to do it or take

Tbound from England to the gala force and the waves are runn- the swelt which would be irremediable in time of war? Cannot British United States. She has just passing to a height of twenty foot. leaders see that this country alone ed Bishop Rock Lighthouse (Scilly Every now and again the liner puts is unprepared to defend italf of Islandsher Inst link with home her bows under and ships the top Eve we've felt a wreck. all the states of Europe? Cannoland its friendly beams are rapid-of a sea which sweeps along the the people realise that we are the ly sinking below the horizon on her deck in a foaming cascade. sheep in the wilderness which may, at any moment, encounter the wolves? Why, we have not even get a shephard." The Daily Mall

starboard quarter.

Before her lies three thousand miles of trackless ocean, the most

Ever since New Year's

(Have you ever been wreck- The officers serk what sheltered; Uncle Eddie?). Yes, my A time. We they can behind the dodgers, for love, many the law of the sea says, "No keep were a boatswain Ing the heavy plate-glass windows

from

did not say this. What the Daily tempestuous stretch of water on ing a look-out behind glass," means "boat." meaning a boat, and

Mail had to any fetched.

WAS

SUICIDAL STRATEGY

far

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or

of the warm, dry wheel-house. "swain," which is Oxford They must be out in the open. Peak accent for "pig". Pro- where they can see everything nounced "boozin'"--on the a.. hhead and astern, alow and aloft. Pinky-Poo, when we were board-

known Hotel in Shanghai once. and, anyway, the food was rotten. and they kept our baggage. (Get on with the wreck, Uncle.)

the face of the globe. Icsa

High up on the bridge, seventy feet above the water, the chief and third officers, who are keeping the four to eight watch, stand peering

The captain joins them. "Scased by pirates. It was not the into the darkness ahead. Occasion- As a great strategical authority ally they focus their binoculars on rising," he remarks. "We'll have first time we had been boarded has said: "If dwarfs, lambs, puge the lights of near-by vessels, and at to reduce soon. Don't want to do by pirates. We stayed in a well- or goldfish were to hurt themselves times the course is altered slightly, any damage.”

passing ship a wider

The wind and son continue to upon giants, wolves, mastiffs or 'to give

Increase rapidly, and heavy squalls, pike, we might admire their auda herth.

blinding rain, vity, but we should certainly have

Brat So for

the weather has been accompanied by fate." to lament their and

Well, the red blood of the skip- this is the suicidni strategy which normal and the ship has been cream over the ship. At 10 am. along at twenty-three ho takes a purler. "Half speed," the British Air Force will have to alipping

Now i smart south- barks the captain, shaking the salt Per was running down the scup- pers. And the fight was going She drops very hot and strong, so we threw pursue if our Minister's have their knots.

down to fifteen knots and riden way. It would be defensible if westerly breeze has sprung up and water out of his eyes. Ministers had made any serious at- raised a choppy and, which starts easier, but at intervals plunges away our sword, and, diving over- tempt to full their repeated pro- her pitching easily. Every low mises to give us the Air Force that minutes a wave slops against the sickeningly, and, as the propellers board, we swam through starving

need. They began making how and sends a cloud of spray break, surface, she shudders in sharks fifteen feet long.

Across the forecastle very rivet. those promises in November last whipping

head.. year, but they have allowed thir

The caplain, who bos teen months to pass and have done precious little. On July 19 Manatching a series of cat-naps dur- Baldwin stated that the Governing the night in the chart-room, ment could not "delay any longer rouses himself wearily and takes a measures which will in the course | long look at the barometer. of the next few years bring our "Falling rapidly" he mutters to There is something intriguing Air Force to a level more closely himself, and struggling into his in the prospect of two suchApproaching that of our nearest greatcoat he steps out on to the

That inoked like heldgo. neighbours.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JAN. 18, 1935.

"NEW DEAL" FOR

BRITAIN ?

we

SOOTHING SYRUP

dynamic personalities as Lord action. Snowden and Mr. Lloyd George. both past the allotted span of three score years.and ten, join-. ing hands in a great crusade for reconstruction. Both national have receded somewhat from political prominence in latter times, the one largely from reasons of health and advancing age, and the other because of

went on to

"You there, Mr. Rankin ** calls into the darkness.

been

he

By noon the glass has fallen to 28 Inches, and the log-book entry reads. Whole gale with hurricane aqualls. Mountainous aca, Ship on the strand, pitching, lurching, and labouring heavily, and shipping large volumes

of water fore and aft.”

The engines are now running at slow speed, which is just sufficient to give the ship steerage way. The seas have risen to forty feet from creat to trough and seem to

be rushing at her like mighty foam

"Aye, aye, sir." answers the chief officer, and the captain gropes his crested mountains, way towards the voice. "Black as heavy gales, there are Isolated the inside of a cow." he grunts as groups of three or four abnormal- he ranges alongside and plants his fy high waves at frequent intersale, feet widely apart.

probably piled up by the squalis.

there was not #

And if that's not poetry as good as that stuff Bogg had' in this column yesterday, we won't write another thing. When we landed helping hand, to grab us from the ocean's hungry maw. But with feeling strictly moral, we grabbed a piece of Coral (you can't keep this poetry up); she was the love- Honour liest girl we ever saw. being satisfied we will now get on with the tale.

18.

We awoke next day on the beach with the hot sun burning down on We immediately started to As in all mentch the beach for Flotsam and Jetsam, two of the crew who might organisation occasioned by pirates. have escaped the general die. They were not to be found. There "Yes," replies the chief. "It's)

These reach a height of over was a piano, an axe, and a pair of very black, but perfectly clear."

sixty feet, and advance with furl-asparagus tonge, but not a drop At that moment a heavy spray black fronts Inced with a myriad

ously curling creats, their steep, of toothpaste was washed up.

By the way, if any of our girl

Hut four months later. on No vember 28, he administered a dose of soothing syrup. While confes sing that "there is ground for very grave anxiety," he assert that "there is no immediata menace confronting us or anyone in Europe at this moment--nn the marked differences which this was to suggest that the effort crashes over the bridge and they streaks of foam. One of these readers want to find an easy way

netual emergency." The effect of absolutely necessary for this coun- duck for shelter below the wooden breaks on board, on the fore part try's security could safely be post

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Interval of about eight months.

have sprung up within the

of the bridge, and, crashing on the of getting washing-up done when Liberal Party. Despite his age, poncd. And it is being postponed.

"Heavy swell getting up since we boat deck, reduces three massive it's the amaha day off, get wreck- The Government's plan, which is

passed the Bishops," says the chief. lifeboats fragments in the ed. however:-the-Welsh Wizard. stili |

twinkling of an ere. being-executed with indefensible

About this time we discovered a "Aye," rejoins the retains unbounded, energy, and dilatoriness, will only at the best

captain. too. It The ship la slowly brought round footprint on the beach. This con- fit-is-apparent that he is pre-give Great Britain 800 additional "Gloss falling rapidly

else on the island with-n-foot- everything is well log-book entry reads, "Hove to."

Carefully folding up the footprint, secured round the decks," and with and soul into the plans which he quite inadequate. It musters no

Towards evening the glass wo wrapped it up in the piano and is known to have been prepar- more than 492 first-class machines, that he seeks the warmth and shel- steadies at 27.00 and the sea be-staggered into the jungle.

comea confused. The captain pre- ing for many months past. The the majority of which are of typeater of the chart-room again.

more antiquated, slower, and lesa efficient than those in foreign air At 8 a.m. the sun appears above diets an imminent change. Sure fleets. We are being not only out-a low bank to the eastward-a enough at sunset, after a terrific arily, then suddenly Bles round to numbered but also outclassed in the brassy orh, presaging wind, and rain squall, the wind lulls moment- air while Ministers are talking of plenty of it.

the north-west, and begins to blow By now we have a beard which what they will do in the future.

The two officers for the eight to with renewed violence. But the makes the jungle look like a tennis twelve watch arrive on the bridge centre of the storm has been pass-court. In the centre of the faland clad in oilskins and sea-boots,ed, and it is only a question of was a spring. We were winding having been warned of the weather. hours till it blows itself out. The retiring officers hand over various details such as the course,

Throughout the night the glass speed, heway, revolutions of the engines, compass error, barometer rises steadily and the hurricane on, and dive squalle lose their Intensity. As the movements, and so

[Continued on Page 7.) down to their quarters for a well-aca gradually subsides, the engine earned bath and breakfast.

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WOMEN WARRIORS

most that can be expected of Lord Snowden is that he will occasionally lend his support on the platform to Mr. Lloyd George; for him the hurley- burley of political warfare must remain largely a thing of the past. The point which now

Some may have wondered why arises is whether the Liberal the Italian dictator, in militarising ex-Premier can stage a political the country's boyhood and man- come-back. Without question, hood, has not laid down the law for his personality could still be the country's woman-power. The Duce has not overlooked so obvious made to count in the political a development of his plans for put life of the nation, provided the ting Italy on a war footing. In right note were struck.. It re any case, he has been reminded by a Parliamentary Commission that mains, therefore, to be seen has been looking Into the whole

"New whether hie

Deal" question of the country's defensive possesses the essential ingre-resources that there are millions of dients. In spite of all the good women ready to obey the call. The things which the National Gov-Commission proclaims that the war of to-morrow must and all citizens, ernment has done, the fact re-without distinction of age of sex, mains that it has left the un-ready for its "hard and complex employment problem largely un-necessities." Decrees, bringing the solved, and, what is more, that feminine section of the Italian some aspects of its tariff and populace within Signor Mussolini's marketing board policies have great scheme may therefore be ex-. unquestionably caused a rise in pected to make their appearance BOOK. First of all, however, the living costs amongst those least Duce will have to calculate their

able to bear any additional bur- effect on that other important phase den. The purely domestic policy of Fascist policy-the increase of of the Government has been the number and the size of families largely a failure. It is this in the land. The militarisation of circumstance which has caused Italian women must not be effected a revival of hopes amongst the at the expense of their domestica- leaders of the Labour Party, and suggested the possibility of a

tion,

return of that party to power at inspired by a determination to the next election. There can be make a courageous attack on the no disputing the point that there nation's internal problems. If is a big bulk of political opinion Mr. Lloyd George's "New Deal" amongst the electorate which fills the bill adequately, it might favoura a happy mean between easily attract a big following.: Conservatism, even with its inasmuch as it is based on a modern drift towards progres-non-party approach to the big sive ideas, end the extreme of issues of the times, it might Socialism. In other days, the take the wind out of the So- Liberal Party bridged the gaps cialists' sails and, by reason of but the fact has to be faced that its vigorous character, also spell official Liberalism is for all in- the doom of the present National tents and purposes a spent Government. Once the scheme force. There is this a big is made known In great detail, chance for a new movement. con- it will be possible to assess its delved on progressive lines and real worth.

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"Now, remember what happened to your stomach the last time we were on the company's expense account."

it up when a herd of hotsytle natives rowed up in their cataracts or sampane or saucepana or what- ever the hell you call the things, and landed on the beach.

Hastly pulling our beard around us, we curled up and looked like a cocoanut.

We were discovered by one of the cannibals who turned out to be friendly. However, we escaped.

It was then that we discovered the owner of the footprint. She was a small girl, so we called her Saturday, Saturday being only a half day.

were

It was strange how wo rescued. Yoars and years went by, and no sign of a sail. Wo

on one day

the were standing beach with our thirty-five children, when we sighted a ship on the horizon.

wore rescued. Hurray!

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But the worst was to come. Our rescue ship, we discovered, was coming to Hongkong. We. tried to jump overboard again and return to our Saturday, but the Editor insisted that it was Thure day, and, besides Chinese New Year is only a week or so off, and what we're going to do about next month's pay has got us puzzled— bonides, it's six o'clock, so we reckon we've done a fair day's work, which reminds us that—

Snore!

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ANNOYING

There was once a young lady of

Norway Who would kiss in the dark, in

the doorway.

All her boy friends would say," "Yes she might de O.X. But she simply won't let you have

·yorway!!!