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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Current Affairs Test

How To Do It

"NIVE possible answers

are

given for each question. Prime Minister of Great Britain t (1) MacDonald, (2) Chamberlain, (3) Ballaham, (4) Baldwin, (5) Lloyd George,

The

4 wber (meaning Baldwin) has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet.

Answers given on Pape 10.

Home Affairs

1-Sir Christopher Bullock, whos

carcer terminated 50 abruptly recently has been succeeded by

Str Donald Banks. The past which Sir Donald takes over, is that of (1) Permanent Secretary to the Air Ministry, (2)Controller of the Post Omee. (3) Chairman of the Board of Excise, (4) Permanent Secretary to the Dominions Chee, (5) Government Astuary. 2-Queen Mary will shortly take

residence in her up

new har This will be at (1) Marlborough House; (2) Carnarvon Castle: (3) Buckinghom Pulnce; (4) Holyrood Palace; (5) Harewood House. 3.- plen on behalf of "or" employees in the elvi) service was made in the "Telegrapli" this werk the by an Unofficial atember of Legislative Council. This was (1) the Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo; (2) the Hon. Mr. S. W. Tso; (3) the Bon. Mr. F. Davidson; (4) the Hon. Mr. T. N. Chat; (3) the Hon. Mr. J. P. Bri

4.-A new Grand Master Mason for

Scotland has been in: lalled. This

1 (1) the Duke of Atholl, (2) Lord Elgin, (3) Se Tuin Colquhouna, (4) the Duke of York, (5) the Duke of Buccleuch.

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3-Sir Percy Vinrent have left for

Conads on a ceremonial visit. Percy is (1) Principal of Landon University, (2) Permanent Under- Secretary for the Dominions, (3) Chief of the Imperial General Staff. (4) Poet Laureate, (5) Loril Mayor of London,

World Affairs

6-Of Germany's three "pocket. buttships." we are now in the Mediterranean. Germany built these little battleships (1) gesture of friendship towards Runsin, (2) becutie she was short of money, (3) in pursuance of a naval agreement with Britain, (4) because of the Imitations of the Kiel Canal, (5) because of restric- tions on tonnage imposed in the Treaty of Versailles, 7-The Spanish rebellion has prue voked numerous incirlents nt Ceuta. This town is situated (1) In the Balearly Ishinds. (2) on the Bay of Biseny, (3) in Moruren (4) between Barcelona and. Valencia,

(5) North of Madrid, 8-The betrothal is announced at Princess Julian to Prince Bernard Zur Lippe Biesterteld. Princess Julined is the doughter of (17 the ex-Kaiser of Germany: (2) the late King Albert of the Belgians; (3) King Gustav of Sweden; (4) King Victor Emanuel of Italy (5) Queen Wilhelmina of Holland.

The world's visible supply of whent is, comparatively speak- Ing, low. The greatest importer of wheat is (1) Germuny (2) Great Britain. (3) China, France, (5) Russia, 10-Rabies was prevalent in Hong- kong lost year. The treatment for rables was invented by (1) Lister; (2) Hertz; (3) Crookes: (4) Curle{ (3) Pasteur,

General

11. The Duchess of York and her daughters are at Glamis on hol- day. Glamis la of particular inte- rest for its connection with (1) "The Antiquary,

"Mae-

beth,"

(2)

lothian" "The Heart of Mid-

(4) "Marmion," (5) "The Wreckers."

12. Hongkong imports to the Philip

pines slumped in July, as a result of disclosures regarding "

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which sought to defeat the "Gentle-

man's Agreement between the

United States and Japan. This agrement, (1) made Hongkong ji clearing house for certain Japanese goods; (2) mude consular returns for all Imports into Manila a com- pulsory feature; (3) gave preter- ence to American goods in Japan; (4) limited the quantity of textiles Imported

from

to Japan

the Philippines; (5) Imposed a 25 per cent" duty on all colton goods” in- excess of 50,000,000 yards imported into the Philippines.

13.-An Esperanto Congress took place Inst month at Manchester. Esperanto is (1) a universal inn- gunge, (2) a new form of short- hand, (3) system of rhythmic dancing. (4) an offshoot of Bud- dhism, (6) healing by faith, 14. The collon market (we tend)

has been affected by "forecasts of clear weather in Oklahomu." Oklahoma is (1) in Mexico, (3) part of Texas, (3) one of the United States, (4) State in Brazil,

"I THINK Hongkong is

trying to get a call through to us," the tele graphist told me, sticking his head out of the receiving cabinet. "I can't be certain, though, for the atmospherics are horrible to-night, and this Jap station alongside us is blowing my head off every few seconds."

It was about nine o'clock on the night of March.4, 1921; and the light cruiser Carlisle was lying in the Japanese harbour of Bako in the Pescadores.

We had come in from Hongkong that afternoon on a "courtesy visit" to the Japanese nival, baše--and a pretty dirty trip we had had of it.

It was monsoon weather in the Formosa Channel, and we had bucketed about as

light only a cruiser can. Even here In har- bour, the ship was rolling and pitching to her anchor for half a

(5) one of the West Indies.gale was blowing in over the low

breakwater.

**Or. AURUSE 12 Mayer has pro-

new book on Velasquez. Velasquez was famous as ) polster, (2) astronomer, (3) blo light and physician, (4) diplo- mut, (5) explorer,

36. The Olymple Games included indem races for eyelisis, "Tan- In Latin word meaning dem f) wn by two, (2) faster, (3) on wheels, (4) at length, (5) married, 17. Listeners urge that the Hong-

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purchase a Blattnerphone, e is an instrument Blattnerphone is an which (1) plays grainophone re cords without scratch: (2) would

༄།།T1 increas the power of 28W; (2) electrically murds programines on steel tape (4) allows a station te brondetus television; (5) proves this microphone plek-up in SUKTION 18. - -Mr. W. J.

who 1። Edventris, braving Hongkong shortly on relire- ment, was i parsenter in the first from ever to travel in China. This wn, between Shanghai Hansow: (2) Womung; (3) Cheng- fu: (h Peming (5) Kerlang. 19. Anopheles Ive been

mentioned

senses; (5) the gallya of a rabid

1 stepped into the cabinet and took over the head phones, My colleague had not exaggerated the atmospheric conditions. A series of crackling explosions rendered the rreption of signals practically Im-

ir possible, and as this

not enough, the

wireless Japanese tution half

# mile away was crash- ing out a serles of calls on full power every few minutes, completely

ntmds denwning even the insistent pherie Breworks.

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SATURDAY,

SEPTEMBER 12, 1936

A JOB FOR THE NAVY

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ochlove their rescue in his manner.

Stripping off his clothes, he wälted Ull the motor-boat had been brought as near as possible, and then plunged over the side and swam strongly in with a light line secured round, his body.

The space where the well-deck had been เฟรไร่ littered with floating corpses through which he had to thrust his way, but he gained the rigging, and, making the line fast round two of the shivering coolles, he forced them into the water and. they were swiftly drawn to the safety

Admiral Evans's of the bont

Heroism at the Wreck of the Hong-Moe

The fore-part had already broken

A picture of the Hong-Moc, draum from a sketch made by the author.

awan, but both it and the after-part were crowded with some 350 súrvinora.

atulion, with the distinguishing let- ter " indication that the mes- sage was an urgent one.

Switching on our own transmitting apparatus, I gave It was the beginnlog of

the "Go ahead" long struggle to read a message Intended signal, and a tow seconds later, I for ourselves for within ten minutes Beard Hongkong start on the mes- 1 had heard our call-sign

trans-sage itself. mitted from the Hongkong noval

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Arts and

Books

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at the Fishgunrti Eisteddfod. The composer is (1) Vaughan Williams, (2) Elgar, (3).

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Ravel, (4) Lambert, (5) Coleridge.

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Taylor. 21.The Iron Duke." featuring Gootge Arliss, is at the King's Theatre. The Iran Duke was (1) Napoleon; (2) the Duke of West- minster (3) the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russin: (1) the Black Prince; (5) Wellington,

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As You Like It is being play- ed at the Open-Air Theatre. character in this play Is Falstaff, (2) Horatio, (3) Ariel, (4) Touchstone, (5) Shylock. 23-A new book reviewed this week a novel thriller which has the clues pasted in. This is (1). "Landau Pride"; (2) "The Outest. of Bohemla" (3) "Red Heap"; "Murder Of Miami": (3) Mystery of Doctor Forbes". 34-There is published this week another study of Peter the Great. Peter was ruler of (1) Sweden, (2) Russin, (3) Prussia, (4) Portugal, (5) Austria.

25.

The

The Alm "Under Two „Flags" is showing in London. This is based on the famous novel by (1) Oulda, (2) Mrs. Humphry Word, (3) Moris Corelli, (1) Anita Loos, (5) Pierre Loti

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26.-L. Constantine, the famous pro- fessional cricketer, took his béne- At recently at Nelson, He is (1) Greek, (2) # West Indinn, (3) a Maltese, (4) an Irishman, (a) Cypriot.

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sured in metres. A metre is sup- posed to be (1) the length of Lavolsker's arm, (2) the length of a certain sound-wave, (3) one ten- millionth part of the distance from the pole to the equator, (4) the length of Na oleon's stride. (5) the height of a coluton of mercury at The temperature of the nir. 28-A popular choice for Australia is that of (1) Hendren, (2) Woolley, (3) Vncy, (4) Larwood, (5) Sui- cliffe. 29-Negotiations are proceeding for the world's heavyweight champion- ship to be held in London during Coronation week. The present heavy-weight champion is (1) Max Schmeling; (2) James Braddock; (3) Joe Louis: (4) Jack Petersen; (5) Max Baer..

30-J. E. Lovelock, in the Olympic Games, broke all records for the 1,500 metres. This brilliant run- ner balls from (1) New Zealand, (2) South Africa, (3) Kenya, (4) British Columbin, (5) New South Wales.

It was to the effect that the steam- er Hong-Moh was ashore on White. Rock, of the Lammocks, and were to proceed to her assistance immediately.

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I had sent word to our captain-- he was E. R. G. R. Evans of Broke and Aniarre fame-as soon as I realised the urgency of the case, and he lund been sitting in the enbinet with me for the past hour.

Before coming down to the wire- less offler he had given orders for steam to be raised for full speed, and within five minutes of the com- plete message being received the anchor was home and the Carlisle was slipping through fbe kom- paratively sheltered waters of the harbour towards the bellowing dark- ness outside.

We arrived at our objective just as a grey dawn 'was breaking, and the sight that met our eye was not a reassuring one.

Directly ahead of us, a string of binck islets stretched across our path in the uncertain light, and on one of them lay all that remained of the steamer Hong-Moh, bound from Singapore to Amoy with twelve hundred enolles aboard-returning home from their lung exile on the plantations of Malaya.

We found out later that she had been there for two days, and had stready been visited by the steamer Shansi, whose captain hnd contrived

Great Sen. Dramas-

By SYDNEY PARKMAN

With twelve onrs pulling strongly and Carley floats in tow, they made for the Hong-Moh, and we watched them with our hearts in our mouths as they swooped high over the crests of the seas at one moment and dis- uppeared entirely in the troughs at the next.

Stendily they bore down upon the wreck and then, within a dozen yards of its steel side, they were held stationary by superb seamanship. while the coxswains bellowed In pidgin-English to the coolles to jump overboard one at a time.

The elinnces were that not one in twenty of the poor wretches kriew what they were saying, but about a dozen of them saw their chance of salvation and took it-together!

It was a disastrous impulse, for of these only two succeeded in gain- Ing the safety of the boats. Few. could swim at all, and what with the difficulty of handling the boats In the heavy seas and the Impossi- bility of approaching near the wreck, the result might have been fore- seen; but to the wretched coolies, hausted and terrified by their long ordeal, cal reasoning was an impossibility. Of the dozen or so who first jumped, nearly all werd drowned, or battered against the steel sides of the wreck, under the horrified eyes of the seamen.

But this grim object-icason had lis effect, for there was no further

to pick up some thirty Chinese, to-group-jumping, and in the course gether with the survivors among her white ofleers.

It had been found impossible to do inore, for the coolles had run amok. from sheer panic, and with the sen then running. the steamer's bouts had been useless.

Unfortunately, the Shansi was not equipped with wireless, su that it was not til she made port that the news reached the Naval nuthorities,

The Carlisle was -not the first upon the scene, for we found the sloop. H.M.S. Foxglove, already standing by, She had been there for some few hours, steaming slow- ly ahead to keep in position, but unable to do more than maintain an anxious watch upon the wreck from a distance.

As we appeared, she signalled to us by searchlight that she had been unable to detect any sign of life on the wreck, out Captain Evans was not the man to give up hope, and In the gradually strengthening light he began to edge the Carlisle tip to- wards the line of thundering recís, in order to take a survey of thic position from as near as he dared.

Handling his ship like a picket- boat, he worked in within a few hundred yards of the breakers, and from there we received n clear in- timation of the condition of affairs. The Hong-Mol had broken in two. The forward well-deck had given way beneath the merciless pounding of the seas and the fo'c's'le head was virtually an island, held to the after part only by a Jagged muss of ripped steel, through which the sens spouted and foamed In welter of torn, angry water. This fore-part, in- deed, was heeled over at a grotesque angle and nupeared koly at any moment to slip off the ledge of rock into deep water.

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. The tide was now falling, but every few minutes à comber, larger than its fellows, would burst over the entire wreck aweeping it from end to end and dinging up clouds of spray that momentarily blotted the entire ship from our sight.

But appalling as conditions were, there were elements in the scene of destruction which gave us heart of grace, for at this range we could are clusters of fures on both parts of the ship, and it was inconceivable that they could be allowed to perish before our eyes now, after having zurvived the blind fury of the night. Two whole hours passed, while we lay off the wreck, heartening the survivors by our nearness, and then Captain Evnna resolved to risk lower- ing the cutters.

Volunteer crews under experienced coxswains manned the boats, ench they got away from the ship with out mixing the Carlisle baving been manoeuvred up to windyjard it the wreck.

of the next half-hour; "while the" boats alternately drifted in towards the Hong-Moh and clawed clear again, a number of the survivors were hinuled out of the water-about half the number who actually Jumped. The others were drowned alongside.

At the end of that time, the cul- ters made their way back to the ship which had now been worked down to leeward, In order to render their passage, more casy.

The sea was slightly less henvy by now, and when their exhausted passengers had been transhipped, the boats were lowed back to wind- ward of the wreck again. Here they were slipped, and headed back onyh more on their errand of mercy.

All through the morning the work went on, and by early afternoon the .sen had moderated sufficiently for the Whalers to be lowered and join the work of rescue, The Foxglove's whalers also took a hund in the game and succeeded in pleking up seventeen poor, wretches, but the sloop's Captain then reported was running short of coal, and Caplain Evans ordered him to re- turn to Hongkong.

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Every trip of cach of the boats was a hazardous adventure, for though by now the wind had dropped to nothing more than a stiff breeze, u yery ugly sea was still running, and the approach to the wreck call- ed for all the skill and cunning that the seamen were capable of."

One error of judgment on the part, of a coxswain, or the slightest hesita- tion in obeying orders by the men at the oarn, und 'their frail craft would have been swept in against the steel sides of the wreck and an- uther dozen or more lives those of British seamen this time-would have been added to the already hideous death-roll.

As it was, the percentage of mortality among Ute evolles

.who ventured to jump was appallingly high. Many Bank and never reach- ed the surface again except drowned bodies,

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One old fellow hud, lashed hands to wooden chest, which probably contained the accumulated savings of years, and jumped with it. He may have thought that t would help to keep him afloat, but actually it drowned him, for broke both wrists from the innuef with the water and was teat beľove the Beamen were able to get a hushi on his clothes with a bout-invoke

There were still many shunisi Hu, wreek wh would not venue to Jump and munch Unjo Wan host val The boula, kept, in deligersilia B ximity to digter, while in swater pleaded, killed gui enfilet them, indo, muling the shirt.

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chip being anchored, and once this was accomplished, we holsted out the motor-boat.

The other bonts were recalled, and with the Captain and First Lleuten ant on board, and culter in tow, the motor-boat made her way over to the long-Mol.

The fore part of the wreck was now almost completely submerged, and only three survivors remained clinging to the rigging.

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that no amount of persuasion could induce them to leave their refuge and Captain Evans resolved

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The third man had gone mad and had climbed Into an Inaccessible position on the rigging, and finding Impossible to dislodgo him, Captain Evans leapt back into the sea and swam to the baut ngnin,

It was a terrifle feat considering the sea that was still running, ang he arrived back in a semi-exhausted condition; but it had an encourag ing effect upon the remainder of the survivors on the midship portion, and when the motor-bout was work ed in close beside the wreck, they lost no time in making a bid for safety,

In two trips, all but a dozen had been taken off; but then, with dark- ness already descending the boats propeller was fouled by a rope from the wreck and she was rendered helpless.

It was a horribly dangerous altim- tlon, but once more Captain Evans plunged over the side-this time to clear the propelier, Working under

water, he half achieved his object; but sheer ex- hnustion Intervened, and his place was taken by Abie Seaman White- head, who finished the work,

It was no more than in time, for the motor-boat was drifting help lessly down upon the wreck; and in view of the risks involved in work- ing in the darkness, it was resolved to return to the ship for the night. Throughout the night we lay with our searchlights, trained upon the wreck to assure the few remaining coolies that they had not been de- serted; and nt daybreak next morn- ing, under greatly improved weather conditions, their rescue was effected, and we weighed anchor and headed south for Hongkong.

Altogether we had saved two hundred and twenty-one souls from the Hong-Moh, which was not bad work under the conditions. At least, that's what we thought.

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