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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1936.

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celebrates its hundredth. birthday this year it will look back proudly on the heroic deeds of its early ex-. plorers.

—and a Sorvico worthy of it

【VERY month big shipments of

Bedford trucks leave Eng- For they faced starvation land for every part of the world and death, fierce heat in arid And the rising export figures and many hundreds of enthusiastic deserts, the spears and wad- letters from Bedford owners all dies of hostile, blacks, and over the world have shown that

the Bedford is popular wherever the perils of trackless bush it goes. Why this success ?

For, in designing the Bedford in order to blaze the trail for rangos Vauxhall experts studied the later pioneers who har-

overseas conditions at first hand.

MEN WHO MADE

South Australia

By Clifford Twelftree.

realising the untold wealth of. silver that lay there, and came soon to a fine water supply at Rocky Glen.

THREE of the greatest and Next morning the two of them

most daring of them were buried Baxter in a shallow grave, Here they were marooned; for Edward John Eyre, Captain and struggled forward. They the country was in the grip of a Charles Sturt, and John had practically no water and not terrible drought, and they dared.

an ounce of flour. And they not leave their water haven until were 600 miles from civilisation, rain fell." After six weary Eyre was one of the hardy

months at Rocky Glen, the "overlanders" who drove great For seven days they went on drought broke and Sturt pushed mobs of cattle from New South through arid waste, almost on towards the heart of the con- Wales to South Australia less maddened by thirst. Then they tinent. He was attacked by a than two years after the latter found water, enabling them to scurvy, but gallantly rode on had beca proclaimed a State un- go on refreshed.

and discovered many creeks and der the Old Gum Tree hear Adelaide in December, 1836.

They were still without food, rivers. Then summer drove him proved sound and reliable on the showed courage, bravery, and in crossing the continent from have been up if Eyre had not tion reached him he was ill and But it is for his amazing exploit however, and the game would back. When the rollef expedi- Bedford is a first-class invest-resource equal to any in the east to west that his name will come upon a French barque in a depressed, but he had opened the ment whatever the nature of world. Yet hitherto the world live for always in Australian cove beyond the head of the way to immense areas of pastoral

Bight. With his clothes in rags, country.

They learnt what was wanted in hessed nature and brought McDouall Stuart. trucks from the very men who the State into flourishing. were going to use them, And there is a world-wide prosperity. organisation to make · Bedford service and genuine spares avail-

Many of the hardships they ablo averywhere.

endured were peculiar to the Tested at every stage in the vast new land they were opening famous Luton works in England, up, and in overcoming them they roughest work in the world, the

work!

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has heard little of South Aus- tralia's explorers,

history...

he and Wylie were taken on Eyre left the settlement of board and cared for until they Adelaide on his overland journey felt fit to go on. Eventually, THE name of Sturt's com- of 2,000 miles to Western Aus- with fresh provisions, they will always be remembered in panion, John McDouall Stuart, tralia in June, 1840. He intend- reached Albany, Western Aus- Australia, for he was the first man to cross the continent from south to north.

HONGKONG HOTEL NOTES OF THE DAY ed to strike north from the head tralla, in July, 1841.

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Later on this weekly service will tolled on. Eyre realised what boats had sunk, and nothing but the leaders felt that their

Was

that would provide a safe route CAPT. STURT'S great voyage Twico ho Bet out from to the west.

down the River Murray, and Adelaide, and twico he was Yesterday morning a big Chinese

back in 1829-30 makes another forced back-by sickness, lack But there was no aeroplane carried the first Paris country to be found-nothing tralla's history.

fertile thrilling chapter in South Aus- of food, desert country, and

hostile natives, bound mails out of Shanghal. It but stony desert, and sand, and

headed for Hanol, there to eat tracts. So Eyre with his Sturt and his men came down Stuart began his third attempt five other white men and two the mighty river from New in 1861. Ho was so confident meet an Air France machine and blacks returned to the safety of South Wales to see whether it that he told the Governor of transfer its precious cargo. The Port Lincoln. There he decided had a navigable mouth. Then, South Australia that he would Air France plane will not waste to go to the west along the disappointed with the miserable.bathe in the Indian Ocean before ...

mouth they found, they faced he returned. time on its lang voyage to Europe, forbidding coastline..

en upstream pull of 2,000 miles.. but will deliver Shanghai's mail in In the scorching heat of an un- The men were on half rationa The party encountered scores Paria eleven days after posting, usually hot summer, the party because one of the provision of obstacles, but in July, 1862, It has long since been clear

a desperate task lay ahead of flour was left. Moreover menac- journey was ending. On July that, having failed in her carry passengers. One will be able him, and he decided to send his ing natives on the banks of the 25 they burst through the man- efforts to induce other nations to step aboard a plane in Canton, party buck and reach Western river had to be pacified.

groves and shouted "The sen! The scal" And Stuart bathed to follow her example in dis-go in fast hops to Hanoi, transfer Australia alone or perish.

On they rowed, Sturt taking in it. The journey was over. to a French inachine, and ten days! His overseer, Baxter, implored his share of the pulling. At last armament, Britain will bc

after leaving have dinner in Paris. Eyre to let him come, too. they reached their base depot on Stuart's boundless determina- forced to spend huge sums on Such a service will mean much to Byre agreed, and so the two the River Murrumbidgee and tien and grit had been well re- Home and Imperial defence. business, will facilitate trade and gines, set out on one of the most other 17 days they had to toll up captured the imagination of the white men, with three abori- found it deserted. So for an- warded. His great expedition One report puts the figure asluit more closely the sympathetic hazardous enterprises in history. the difficult Murrumbidgee. Commonwealth, and he high as £300,000,000. Whether relations between Ocellent and, They pushed on with that

given an enthusiastic reception Then, with Sturt partially when he returned to Adelaide. anything like that sum is con- Orient. We fully appreciate the endurance which comes only to blinded as a result of his suffer- He, too, paved the way for large- templated will be revealed when stride the French and Chinese those who know the odds are ings, two of the party were sent scale pastoral settlement in the the Prime Minister makes his authorities have taken, and we overwhelmingly against them.

overland for help. When help north. promised statement on the sub-only regret that it was not a One waterless stretch of sandy came, the last ounce of flour had

been distributed. ject. A factor which weighs British company, with Hongkong waste they crossed was 165 miles

long, and for five days their One of the party went mad as

THESE men-Eyre, Sturt, and with the Government is obvious- as its castern base of operations, horses had nothing to drink. a result of the hardship he had the scores of explorers who help- Stuart-were leaders among ly a desire to be able to speak which fetched this joint contract The men were crazed by the undergone.

for mail to Europe. It would be thirst during the long hot days,

ed to bring South Australia into more effectively in the councils

Sturt learned later that if he being of the Power's when crises arine, in such a service. As it is, wo

aboca" to "this" "port" to participate and were racked by cold at night.

Still they pushed on.

had reached the Murray mouth Those who have come after ten days later he would have met them have shown the same and to be in a position to act

Then came tragedy, swift and a ship which had been sent to energy, pluck, and enterprise in can make a fairly quick connection swiftly in co-operation with

terrible. Eyre was away from search for him. by arranging for posting in Canton the camp.

building up their State. The Two of the blacks nations pledged to the collective mail which is to be carried by this turned traitor. They murdered

In 1844, Sturt went exploring population of only 600,000, nre

achievements of these men, for a · security system. These

But it gives Baxter, plundered the camp, and again. With 16 men, including remarkable and are probably are International service.

John McDouall Stuart, he left amongst the major objectives on a feeling of inferiority in made off into the night,

Adelaide for the centre of the unsurpassed. They will be re- of the Government, coupled foresight and business neumen that

The other black boy, Wylie, continent. The party passed celebrations this year.

membered during the centenary Here with a determination to defend with the world around us develop remained faithful to his master. close to Broken Hill, without are some of them; all parts of the Empire from ing these modern avenues of com- aggression should the necessity merce, wo still remain satisfied arise. Issues having a relation with the old, slow-but-sure systems, to these points are being disor scramble to take advantage of

someone else's enterprise.

cussed at the London Naval Conference. Differences of view have been apparent re-gress has been made in aerial garding the size of battleships, power of attack during the past and it is not too much to any decade or two; warship desig that some of the most anxiousners also have not been stand- problems of defence with which ing still. Many British war- Britain is faced would appear ships have been modernised, to have been solved by the in-and anti-aircraft gunfire has be vestigations into the question of come much more effective: the vulnerability of large war- According to Viscount Monsell. ships against aerial attack. experiments have enabled ade There was recently a fear that quate protection to be made for no answer to the question was battleships against the air men- likely to be forthcoming at pre-jace both as rogard anti-aircraft sent, for the various categories guns and hull construction. In- of experts in national defence formation is thereby available. were at sixes and sevens, some for the construction of the contending that the modern modern battleship. Admittedly, battleship with adequate deck sometimes blown sky-high inn the theories of experts are protection has nothing to fear fow moments of practical exper- from enemy bombs, and others lenco. But this much is clear: that aeroplanes can attack war-that despite the rapidly increas- ships with such accuracy and ing air strength of many Euro- deadliness that the latter would pean and other nations, the day bo little better than floating has not yet come when Great Coffins. In such a controversy powerful naval feet. That re- Britain can dispense with a the lessons of the Great War mains one of the essential, pre- are not of auch use towards dominating conditions of Im- solving the problem. Vast pro porial security,

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SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

"He's my daughter's youngest. We used to be great pale, but I've sort of stopped going around till things break a

little botter." ottor,"

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South Australia was the first country in the world to introduce the system of voting by ballot, which has supplanted the prae- tices typified in Dickens' Eatons- will poll.

South Australia was the first State in Australia to give votes to women. The Act was passed in 1894, and women voted for the first time on April 25, 1806. South Australia had the first State-owned railway in the British Empire. It began run- ning between Adelaide and Port Adelaide in 1856.

Adelaide is the oldest munici- pality in Australasia. The city was incorporated in 1840, four years after the foundations of the State..

The Torrens system of land transfer, which has been taken as the pattern of similar legisla tion in most other parts of the world, originated in South Aus- tralia in 1858...

By the completion in 1872 of a telegraph line across the con. tinent from Adelaide to Darwin, Adelaide was the frst city in Australia to be connected with, London

The University of Adelaide was the first in Australia to in- stituto a commercial course.

Adelaide was the first city in Australia' to run a complete system of tramcars.

The Federal Convention, which ied to the federation of the six States into the Commonwealth— the most important; event in Australian history-was held in. “Adelaide