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CAPT. JOH. JACOBSEN

RETIRING

WEDNESDAY, "APRIL 10, 1935.

schooners on the Pacific Coast, main- ly in the lumber trade from Portland

to Mexico,

In 1902 he went home during the: winter to study and got his master's certificate.

From 1903 to 1985 ho sailed or An interesting personality, with. 43 mate on fruit steamers In the Medi- years of active service at sec; much terraneon, and he says that in com- of it on the China Coast, has decld-parison to former years hail a most ed to retire and will be sailing short-peaceful life.

ly for a native land.

He in Captain Jok. Jacobsen, who was up to recently in command of

Comes to Far East

SUIT FILED

DISMISSAL OF MEDICAL PROFESSOR

Peiping. Apr. 0. Dr. John Sples, of the Pelping Union Medical College, and Miss Alice Moore, a Peiping resident filed suit, in the United States

the Gustav Diederichsen, pirated two In 1905 he came out to the Far Court secking to enjoin Dr.

the

steamers of Dicaars.

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It is contended that if Mr. Greene's threst is carried, out it In 1919, after the war, he went will prevent Dr. Splen from hav home to Aabenraa, Schleswig, was ing access to the P. U. M. C. facili- married there, and now has his home tley. in the place. When the northern

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years ago, and has had a most in-East on teresting career. A modest man, his Jobsen und Co., firstly as a mate on Roger S. Greene, Director of the life story, as told hero in brief, had the old Clara Jebsen. In 1909 he be P.U.M.C. from diamfasing Dr. to be obtained from a close friend!. enme Captain of the Triumph, and Spies before the expiration of his In 1011 Captain of the old Michael Captain Jacobsen was born in Jebsen-until 1914, when the Great contract on July 1. Flensburg, Schleswig, on May 13 War broke out, Thereafter he was 1877. In this town họ spent. his childhood and had his education. In manter on the Triumph, which was the spring of 1892, when fifteen years lald up in Swatow. old, he started his career at sen on a tonmer of which his father was cap tain, where he remained for seven months only.

part of Schleswig was taken over by "This would interrupt the treat-Gay Parde! From 1893 to 1890 he sailed with Denmark. Aabenraa was included Inments which Dr. Sples is giving the fast-going German salling this territory, and Capt. Jacobsen (and which no other airgeon at in the saltpetre trade from Hamburg adopted Danish nationality, which present employed in the P.U.M.C. to South Amerlen and up the Pacific was the nationality of his ancestors is competent to continue. Const, and in 1896 was shipwrecked During his stay at home Captain with one of these ships, a bark named Jacobsen took up activities in a ship

ed troops and war materials at

the Portrimpos, twenty miles north wharf which he owned in Gransien by of many patients would be endan- "Therefore the life and health of the Columbia river, and barely Aabenraa. Of this ho was the ekenped from death.

gered." manager until 1925. From 1890 to 1898, during the Then again came the call of the Forl American-Spanish

Miss Moore's participation is War at Cuba, East, which he could not resist, and due to the fact that she consented young Jacobsen sailed as mate an he came out again as Captain of the transport, the Cumberland, and land-Dorry, a new ship which he brought to course of treatment of her Katherine Moore, out, and on this he remained until mother, Mrs. place called Dai-lare, about twenty 1930, when he went home again to provided the treatment was ad- miles from Santiago, Cuba. During bring out a new steamer, the present ministered by Dr. Spies who is k this period he observed the bombard Gustav Diederichsen, on which he cancer specialist. She contenda ment of the forts of Santiago, and was the Captain until his retirement that in the advent of his dismis- later when this place had been taken at the beginning of this month, sal sho will suffor went into the harbour and took part In the celebration of the victory.

Wrecked in Hurricane

irreparable Experience With Pirates

Injury for which she will demand During his second period in the money daniages in compensa- Fur East he experienced being |tion."--United Press. On September 8, 1899, in Galveston, pirated on the Gustav Diederichsen, Texas, he was shipwrecked with the in February 1033. transport in the harbour by a hurri- | Ho has alko wenthered many cane and spring-tido which lasted for six hours and destroyed the whole enced was in 1028 on the Dorry, in still alive and living in Flensburg

typhoons, and the worst he expert Flensburg, where he is buried.

Captain Joh. Jacobsen's mother in town, over 10,000 people being killed the Gulf of Tonking. At that time where she has attained the age of and drowned.

hie compass on the top bridge, was

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Capt. Jacobsen himself had a lucky escape by Jumping from the ship an it was dashed against the pier and broken up in pieces. Ho took refuge on the roof of a nearby godown, ship was half flooded with water, or Capatin Jacobson will leave long- strong structure, where he remained in other words partly shipwrecked, kong on April 18 by the ma. Cor- during the night until the water but like the abló seaman ho is, ho dillera, for the last safe harbour, which flooded the town had subalded.

will forever managed, as on other occasions, to his home. Ho

bear The next day ho experienced one of bring his ship ante into harbour. Hongkong In his heart, or in a way the most horrible sights, thousands of Captain Jacobsen's father (Capt. tako part of it along with him, as in corpses of men, women and children E, A. Jacobsen) was a native of Aabenran his villa is named "You- floating about.

Flensburg, and for many years a mati." Thereafter he took part in the master of sailing ships on the China rescue work, a most strenuous task Coast. He first came out here to During his stay here in tho Far owing to lack of food, water and the Far East with a sailing ship in East, he has through his kind hearted medical supplies, After the place 1860, and many years later with the acts and genial ways, made many had been cleared. and put in order, Flensburg steamer Thyro, in which friends who are entertaining him be Capt. Jacobnen worked on a big he was, in 1889, shipwrecked in the foro his departure. He has also been dredger digging canals in order to English Channel. Later he became the recipient of cholce presents from refloat and bring out three Iargo Captain of now Flensburg steamer friends and associates, and many are steamera which had been washed on of the same name, on which he sailed the good wishes that will go with shore during the hurricane.

until 1896, when he died on board of him for a happy future on his retire- From 1900 to 1901, Capt. Jacobsen a heart selzura in the harbour of ment, and in the days of his life's sailed with American and English Riga. His body was taken home to Indian Summer.

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ROTARY CLUB

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foster a forward movement. The future was bound up' with the Pacific, and would only be hinder- ed by those looking back to Eng- land all the time and living in, the triumphs of the past.

Mr. M. K. Lo presided at the luncheon, and the following guests ú The development of the city were welcomed: D. N. Wadis, paychology as an aid to progress Calcutta; E. C. Murray, Bathurst, was the main theme In Bishop R. New South Wales;. Rotarians D. 0. Hall's address to the Rotary Cook and H. Ham, Manila; W. S Club yesterday, under the title of Gomersal, Shanghai; D. Smith, "From a Study Window."

New York; Rotarian M. Plerco 'Business people especially, hs Los Angeles; J. L. O'Rourke, said, should remember that Hong- California; Taong Chao-hus, Che GEORGE ARLISS Kong was becoming more of a city foo; T. P. K. Kemble, B. Dano. and less of a Colony every day, J. L. Litton and M., T. Kohri, and recognition of that fact would Hongkong.

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