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EMPRESS OF CANADA

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Information from

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EMPRESS OF JAPAN

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 29th

TRAVEL "EMPRESS”

SIZE SPEED SERVICE

-

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S.S. "HAITAN"

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Leaving MANILA 3 p.m. TUESDAY, 19th Jan.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JANUARY 16,

+

This Week In The Past

The Greatest Storm That

Britain

Ever Knew

1937.

ON the night of January basal team singing, where she were to so on to the Poio, 200 miles

17, 1881, snow began to fall in Britain. It fell as it had never before, has never since.

London caught the full force of that terrible storm.

All through the 18th it fell like a solid curtain, making one side of the road invisible from the other.

Only one omnibus ran on the 18th, the bus of the Indomitable Mr. Tom Tolling, who was determined that nothing should interrupt his Peek- ham to Oxford-circus service. The Journey took five hours.

Many of the Paluce sentries were frost-bitten, though that did not lend to the withdrawal of the sentries,

Two mailcoaches arrived safely at their destination, but with the drivers frozen dead in their sents.

Trains were buried for three days, the London awoke to chaoя on 19th. The snow lay a uniform solid three feet thick and fifteen feet in tirifla

In some streets, notably Coleman- sircet. City, vesicles were buried and abandoned for over a week,

Transport was paralysed for days. There was no coal, and klichen tables were nown up to make firewood,

You might walk half a mile to get all of water.

The butchers and the batters falled

to arrive.

The hospitals could not get milk, was Im- and used condensed. I

to bury the dead for practieuble days, the hearses could not be driven and the graves could not be dug.

Snow Ramparts

What was to be done? There was nowhere to take the so it was banked into great ramparts between the road and the pavements

snow,

"would learn

distant. She went to Naples and mar-

Thirteen days ried Sir William.

Jater the five reached the Pole, read the message Naples was dazzled uid omazed Amundsen had left, turned away by her shocking language and by again. her beauty ner than anything to be found in antique art." So this daughter of the forge became the darling of society and the friend of the Queen of Naples.

He Walked Out · Then the tragedy began. Detent

In the race took away their heart arduota sledge-dragging.

Come Nelson. He arrived at for the Naples with his naval laurels about The temperature was Gudegs. betow his brow, and she bestan her enchant-freezing, and their resistance ebbet ment of him by publicly fainting in away. his arms, saying cryptiently. "Oli. God, Is it possible?"

$11.

After a month Petty Officer Evans died under the strain, and still 420

Then began one of the strangest more miles to go. stories of history. She made the In another fortnight Oates was so hero her lap-dog. He disobeyed the badly. frostbitten that he delayed orders of its superiors to stay with them for hours each day, threaten- her in Naples. He pretended to being all their lives.

There was a dreadful colloquy in She gambled his money away which Oates asked to be left behind while Europe Inughed.

die that the others might live. Poor, foolish old Sir William had a This request was refused. He strug- touching belief that the friendship of gled on one day more. his wife with Nelson was platonic. March 17 was his thirty-second

And when Sir William at length birthday. died in 1803 his wife was holding He awoke to a blizzard morning. up the pillow and her lover holding We may imagine his feelings as he

said. his right hand.

am just going outside and A year Inter Nelson died at Tra- may be some time." falgar.

He then walked out of the tent, walked into the blinding now, and lay down and died.

Londoners were ever after treated to the spectacle of Lady Hamilton repeatedly fainting public when

that doleful ballad "The Death of

Nelson" was sung-she apparently going to the theatre for the purpose.

Went To Prison

It was in vain.

Three days inter, on March 20, the three remaining men had to stop. They

huddled in a blizzard-buried lent. There was bare food for two days and fuel for two cups of tea. each.

At the end of her life her extra-

They had debated the awful, ques- yagance dragged her lower and tion, "Should they kill themselves?" lower until she was consigned

They had opium for that purpose, King's Dench debtors' prison, and after being released on ball she es- the end."

but they decided to "stick it out to caped and died a fugitive in Calais.

still Nine days later Scott was As fate would have it. Horatio, miraculously living--and writing in daughter of this remarkable Emmo his diary. and Nelson, married a clergyman and presided over

after they found ກ respectable bodies: Kent vicarage and a lorge family streiched over Wilson, his life-long Scolt with his hand

friend.

until 1881.

N

بالا

*

Months

Last Letter

the

tvcak, writing is dif-

Casual labourers charged pre- posterous prices for clearing the snow--55. for a small house-front. If you refused they brought a police-

They found many papers, though man to remind you of your statutory January 18, 1912, Scott, and of any description of their sufferings & Co. obligations,

ions; it was suspected the his four companions, Dr. Wilson, just nothing. And they found this police were standing in with them. Captain Ontes, Lieutenant Bowers, letter to his wife:-

For alx weeks the ramparts of and Petty Officer Evans, stood at the snow stood in every London street, South Pole. and there were snow heaps left in They had been beaten in the race shrubberies even in May, by which by Amundsen: They

dis- time London had counted up the cost heartened. In a few weeks they

would be dead."

And, by their dying, they would write an imperishable pare in British history.

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**

the soap boller's

son,

He discovered that the comet

named

were

Begged For Money

The antecedents of his Antarctic after him is seen on earth expedition are astonishing. Before every seventy-ve EN seventy-six dying for his country's honour he years, lay on his death-bed in 1742. had to beg the money with which

The last time the comet appeared to do it. was in May 1910, though clogs dis- appointed. British_watchers.

Mass-terror

In Britain the papers were full

"We

ficuit, regret shown

the

jor my sake I do not Journey, which has that Englishmen can en- dure hardships, help one another, and meet death, with as great fortitude as ever in the past.

"You know I cherish no senti- mental rubbish about re-marriage, when the right man comes to help you..

*

*

RACK to 1736, and you are at the

birth of James Watt.

After he had begged his Way He made 'steam power practicable, round-the-Government came to his although he did not originate, it, aid, and the expedition, with blue-since the ancient Egyptian priests Jackets and scientists, left England had used it to move divine images

in the Terra Nova in June 1910. for the deception of believers. of it for weeks, astronomers explain-edge of the Antarctic ice-cap, and fringements of his patents that he is The expedition unshipped nt the Watt was so persecuted with in- ing at great length that it could not they set out for the 800-mile sledge said to have spent one-sixth of his possibly hit the earth.

As the comet swept across

tie 1911.

journey to the Pole on November 1, time in Iltigation. sky it brought the most astonishing;

He called one patent, which wn, On January 5 the last supporting the subject of specially tedious suits. spectacle of mass-terror in living parties left the five companions who "my well-tried friend,"

memory.

In India Prant Nath Sadhu. young Bengalee, sought leave in the magistrate's court of Calcutta' to be killed on behalf of his coun- trymen to propitiate the comet,

In Teheran the end of the world was understood to be at hand. Days were passed in making shrouds, in farewella, in drinking holy thin soup. The schools were empty so that the whole family could die together, and no debts wer

were paid. of 0.000 per- At Nikolsk, a town

the

sons in the Alexandriesky district of Russia, the inhabitants expected end of the world on May 15, and bathed, dressed in clean linen, Itt holy candles, and crouched before their Ikons In readiness to meet their Delly,

NDL

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A Great Light Shortly after midnight

From Hong Kong to ¤ great flight was seen to be appearing on the

high uilis a little way off.

As the light became brighter they shricked and wrapped themselves in white cloth. The light, however, turned out to be the primitive acety lene lamps of an early motor-car.

In China the terror was so great that the Christian Literature Society Issued posters depleting the comet as it appeared in the Bayeux tapes- try of eight centuries before.

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BRITISH CROSSWORDS

ACROSS 1 A little dog tool a cushion be- longing to us, and was much favoured by fashionable Eigh- teenth Century women.

5 Handles.

As might be the daffodil, the pigeon or the examinee.

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dairy

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22 More like a capital.

18

23 Private account book.

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firms throughout the Chinese Empire put the posters up,

Halley's comet will next appear about 1980.

CITILL

We

in the same week in 1815

18 This urn, unlike the Grecian

one, indulges in no tancy lights of language.

20 Old logs become accustomed to

exaggerate in this fashion.

24. Slice of mass labour.

2B Earliest.

20 Famous Ypres feature. 30 Noise (anag.).

have the death of Emma NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN 31 A quite polite "act down."

Lady Hamilton, Nelson's enchan-

trusy.

AGENTS

Telephone 37712. CANTON AGENTS: JEBSEN & CO., SHAMEEN, B.C.

Queen's Bunang.

a

She was only a blacksmith's daughter. Before she was twenty- one she had been a nursemaid, street walker, and the favourite of an Army captain and a knight, and had exhibited in a beauty-making mud bath, together with the health- quack who sold the mud.

That was her background.

Her career took an upward, turn when she came under the protection of the Hon. Charles Greville Ho more or less sold her to his uncle,

Telephone 28021. Ste Willam Hamilton, Brun

COUNT THE

TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

DOWN

1 The centre of all eyes, the young

dog finishes it as in France.

2 Weapons for which the god of

war has a use.

3 Archale vessels.

4 Doubtless a schoolboy would describe it as a cram-one cram, any ono, may. detected.

be

5 Itemark frequently made by the

plutocrat to his chauffeur. Description of tobacco obtain- able af the barber's (hyphen, 4.

220

7 Gives the exact time not to

interfere with the old police. 9 Gambled with a heart of Ice. 14 It isn't really, swindling to win

by one.

15 This Irish county is sometimen mentioned in the same breath

with another.

10 Declde to hinder what's my own. 18 Tiimice.

19 Sang joyously.

20 Don't be out of these varieties,

If possible.

21 The highest in England.

25 Does this describe the breath with which the Asherman takes his hook?

28 Drier.

27 The opening part of a lesson:

not dry.

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