1936-07-27 — Page 19

HONGKONG THE

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TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 27, 1936.

FULL STORY OF THE

GIRL PAT

Voyage Across Atlantic and Dramatic Capture off Georgetown

CAPT. ORSBORNE

MAY BE

BE TAKEN

TO ENGLAND..

(By A Special Correspondent)

"OR the strand wrek in succession the runaway Grimshy fishing-boat, Girl Pat, provided the sensation, news of the day for London newspapers. Firstly, the story of her dramatic capture off Georgetown, This was followed with British Guiana, monopolised the headlines. the announcement that;

Captain Geor→ Black Orsborne and Jim Orsborne, his brother, had been arrested on a provisional warrant under the Fugitive Offenders' Act, charging them with the alleged larceny of the Girl Pal.

Formally remanded by the rident magistrate, they are held in eustody pending further instructions from London, and in all probability will be brought back to England.

Only a few hours before His spetacular development, a special correspondent in Victorgetown geeurer a dramatic and exclusive inter- view with Tirorge Orsburne, whm, with the remainder of the crew, contemplated beaving Georgetown for New York by aeroplane to- day, and then going on to Hollywood to make a Sim of the Girl Pat's adventures,

ATLAS FOR CHART AND MATCH-

STICK FOR SEXTANT

Grorgetown, July 15,

By a stroke of great good for- tune, and after nine days of per- sistent importuning, rajolery, and argument, I was lucky enough to get a full-length inter- view with Capt. George Black Osborne only a few hours be

Tim brother fore he and his

were marched off to the palier- station, and, under a section of the

Fugitive Offenders Act, charged with the alleged larceny of the Girl Pat.

Although bail was refused them. and tonight both en are in ens. orders frodes tody pending cabled

London, It is open to the Governor of British Gulain to interced with the resident ongistrate,

I happen to know, however, that the nuthorities had definite infor- mation that the four members of the crew intended to leave British Gulana to-morrow.

As a matter of fact, they had made settle arrangements to travel by an American air mail machine to New York, and thence to Los Angeles,

CREW OF THE GIRL PAT

Those whored the tort Put when she anised at den ges

George Hinck Orsbarne, 34, captain;

JimB Orsborne, 34, his brother, enman;

John Hector Bineris, 31. seaman; and

Howard Stephen, 17 cok, all of Grimsby.

"Half Across the world in'a 19. ton boat, with a 6d. atas as my only chart and a match stick for

sextant

visiting strange my

uninhabited islands perilous reefa

mysterious

Indo

secis

Arul then he went on, not boasting. fy, but with unexpected simplicity:

“Life is adventure, and mine is not yet Anished. There are glori- ous thrills ahead in Sve contin. ents."

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As In his motion picture roles, it is stil a "no-talkie" policy for Charlie Chaplin when it comes to a question of whether or not he nud Paulette Gellard are married, Chapin and Misc Godard returned to San Francisco aboard the President Colidge following vation jaunt to ti: Orient. They were accompanied by the

actress' mother

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Then, with a smile that had a touch of tenderness, the sen captain started to talk about his home.

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All the world knows

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how were bluffed well and

Skipper Orsborne contrived the nechanical adjustments he wanted, got a complete store of provisions on credit, and ran out to sea again just as the mystery, of the Girl Pat was breunting the outstanding news of the day.

Thirty-two years old, with muscles gargantuan meal of five eggs ench, where one of the powerful Hollywood of strel, and piercing eyes shining with piles of bread and butter, fol-Spaniards studios contemplated a spretucular out of a kren, weather-benten face, lowed up with fish, meat, and stacks film of the Girl Pat's voyage, with George Orsborne belongs the of vegetables. her crew for the central characters; Į traditional senslog type the type Always the humorist, Hector Har-

"Now, enlled out,

Jet's eat that produced Bligh of the Bounty, ris George Orsborne himself told me

Bo fours neither man nor nature, these-holding up three hundles of that be preferred Hollywood to and his courage and self-confidence toothpicks. Elstree, because Hollywand has

mark him out as a natural leader. more tropient rolour and atmos

His crew, devotedly loyal, walked phere."

up beside him as he spoke-first, his brother. good-looking Jim with the Giri Pat's skipper let earth country with a

Osborne, Hector Harris, 1 dour sense of tell for the first time an episode that happened exactly a week before the humour, and 17-year-old "Ginger"

Stephen, who'smiles all the time," "butį capture of the little fishing boat,

On June 13 the Girt Pat found her says nothing. self off the Carentyne coast, about 20 miles from the capital city of tierge.

Before coming to the interviewn

town,

HEAVEN SENT GROCER'S SHOP

With the unerring skill of a native navigator Oraburne took her through the shoals and sandbanks close in- shore.

There her small boat was lowered over the side, and rowed through'a, notorious shark-infested, sen land.

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The bont was benched and cunning- hidden in the dense undergrowth along the banks.

TRICKED BY AUTOGRAPH

icorge Orsborne proudly held up the munich-stick which had been his sextant on the epic voyage across the Atlantic, and showed how it was used

for nautical measuremente,

He would not part with it now for w kingdom's gold.

"My wife and children come first with me," he said.

"I've four boys and four girls--the nicest on the face of the earth."

South, and still further south, they] 'sailed.

Then came the first serious misfor-" He recited their names--Dorothy, tune. Harry Stone, the mate, fell | Jimny, Florence, Marguerite, George, į grievously ill, Alec, Bessy, and little Bobby.

*"aly wire,” he continued, "Is the

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"It is an outrageous lie to say that she is on the dole. The master of a vessel cannot be insured against un employment, for one thing.

he

"I gave a British Quinna, police officer an autographed page of my sixpenny atlas as a souvenir," he aid bitterly, "and I understand that it's now filed with the police break.

"I won't allow them to stay in records, so I've stopped all auto-Grimsby for their education. There Kraphs.

are better chapees to get on elec where."

"And my dearest ambition," concluded, "is to give my children a

"I've done just one, though, for a little girl in a British Guiana con

course

The

I have

Her crew, who had stripped them- vent.

ON THE UNEXPECTED COURSE selves for the ticklish job, hurriedly i Without charts or instruments," dressed,

and reconnaitred,

then he continued, "I've not a

Here it may be appropriate to tell

the walked boldly down a rough wagon through uncharted stas, and arrived the full, unvarnished story of road to a village.

within 20 miles of my objective after Locens adventures of the Girl Pat as 1 In the village they discovered, to a thousand-mile run in a 19-ton motor; have been able to assemble it from a

variety of reliable sources. their joy, a West Indian grocer's trawler, shop, and persuaded the grocer to I bet the Queen Mary couldn't

Not n

little I gathered in those enbaret resorts and dance Jills accommodate them with sufficient do better.

"We've navigated unanilexi channels favoured by seamen sailing in and out supplies to replenish the exhausted larder of the Girl Pat

through reefs of uninhabited islande of Georgetown. crow,

no doubt, Within a few minutes they were in the propies; we've collected un- back in the bush, and the village negotiable currency in coins, notes,

homestly believed when they left remained ignorant of the fact that and token money in strange countries Grimsby that they were bound for the four most discussed men in the among mysterious sects; and we're n fishing trip in Scottish waters. world at that moment had been going back to tell the world.

They at any rate, know nothing "Back home? We don't care it then of the plans secretly made by among them.

George Black Orshorne, and perhaps The rowing boat was hauled out of we don't see England for years. its hiding-place, and back went the "Somebody has already sneaked shared with brother Jim.

Instead of a northerly course they quartettu to the Girl Pat with suffl-and told you that we hope to leave cient food to keep them going on an- British Guiana any hour now for New found the Girl Pat's bows shaping York to full fim contracts, and we south, and next day unexpectedly put may return later and sail away in into Dover, the Gir! Pat. Our plans are quite unsettled.

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other long stretch of ocean.

A course was ect northward, and finally the Girl Pat came to George town and the end of her voyage.

Capt. Orsborne, in support of the truth of this story, assured me that if I cared to go down to the quay an look for myself, I should and board the Girl Pat some of the stores they purchased in the bush village.

This probably la correct, because the pollee informed me some days ago that when they were chasing the fugitive to Bnal capture, they distinctly saw every member of the crew heaving big packages over boord into deep water.

THE SKIPPER SPEAKS

Now for the interview with the "Silent. Skipper" himself..

It is strangely loquacious for a man who, the world had been informed time and again, "simply would not talk."

With shining eyes and literally. exuding excitement, he told of the perils that are the breath of life to

im. This is how he began

"Whatever happens will be ex- citing. I've and adventures all my life, and I mean to have more," "CISSIES" OF THE FILMS

shown.

The motive was not apparent at the timic, but became transparent when they sailed away next morning.

The engineer had been left light and dry ashore. He did not belong to Grimsby, and was the only man not personally engaged by George Desborne.

South Avin Zoon broadcast from

"ard

They were to go quietly into Dakar, the French port on the West Coast of Africa, profess that the sick mate was their first concern, and while arrange-1.74 metres) and DIN (31 45 metres). ments for his admission to hospital were being completed, persunde loen!; firms to let them have more stores and tune up the Diesel engine.

Although Bakar. In common with! other ports, was now ringing with the Girl Pat's escapade, the luck held for George Orsborne. Every- off thing passed

necarding to schedule,

Stone went, quietly to hospital, provisions were put on board the Girl Pat, her engine was adjusted, and once more she put to sea. NO TURNING BACK

George Orsborne had not bargained for the buffballoo the escapade of the Girl Pat had raised in England. nor realised how badly the ship and her crew were wanted here.

In the circumstances there could be Secretly every man no turning back. was glad, and more than glad.

They were thrilled at the pros- pect of a dagis across the South American Оселе -AR Skipper Orshorne roughly sketched it for them.

Two thousand miles, boys," he said, "and then America for us."

He kept his. word to the letter, but i it was touch and go with all of thom bush and found the old Indian and his until they made the village in the

grocer's shop.

front A

Halfway ever, with stores running short, an attempt was made to get big. emergency supplies American ship, but the captain asked too many intimate questions, and the "Kin Orn" sherres off.

The Girl Pat then was the 'Girl Pat no longer. She was re-christened the While he was speaking the crew Not that the engineer's absence Kia Ora Immediately they cleared were fixing up a cinema party.

reduced their numerical strength, Dakar to disarm the suspicions of "All right, lada," called the skipper, because, hnd not Jim Orsborne been other ships as the Soulli Atlantic. and then turned to me, and spat out: smuggled aboard and hidden before crassing was made.

"Talkies bore me. They're all they left the Grimsby berth? fakery. I size up the mock tights of The days passed, and still George the half-stripped heroes, and 1 sec Osborne kept his plans to himself. that they can't do what they're Right down to Spain went the Girl Pat, and then her engine temporarly Kave up the ghost. RE-STOCKING THE LARDER.

Oraborne welcomed the break. He stond badly in need of provisions, and saw an opportunity to re-stock the "I know life in the raw,"

store-room if he sailed into port for

The pursuit and eventual eapture of Capt. Orsborne is certainly not engine repairs.

That is how the Girl Pat came to the Girl Pat outside Georgetown foodiesa now.

Harbour-are now maritime history, make-Corcubion.

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meal. Its

their

"They're just with

1 square stomachs.

"I don't helleve in pletures of hernes dying in waterless deserts, because I've been without food and water on-land and sea,

He and his crew were clearing "off"a"!

No further attempt was made to get supplies at sea. Captain and crew deemed it prudent to subsist on short rations until they made the South American coast rather than lay themselves open to possible arrest in mid-ocean.

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baskets by false pretences from No. 1 Wing Hing Street, ground floor, on July 19, Fu Mun. 31, unimployed, and Teang Chi, 32, unemployed, nd- mitted the offence.

First defendant was nned $75, in default, six werks' hard labour, and second defendant, who admitted a previous conviction, was sentenced to two months' hard labour.

Acting Sub-Inspector Madgwick said that on July 18 the complainant, Choi Ming-yeung, went to the Yu Hop firm in Des Voeux Road Central and hought 68 baskets of laichees. The two defendants apparently saw him make. the purchase, and the following day they wont to his abop, and told him they had come on behalf of Hop firm to collect the baskets.

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