1938-05-28 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,

MAY 28, 1938.

HERO OF OCEAN EPIC WORKS IN OFFICE

Trevessa Chief Officer Tells

Of

2,400-Mile Nightmare Voyage In Open

ONE BISCUIT A DAY FOR

THREE WEEKS

By Frank E. Croft

In a shipping office at Leith sits a taciturn man who is just "Smith" to his acquaintances.

hero.

They do not know that 15 years ago he was a national

He was Chief Officer J. C. S. Smith, of the TroveSSA. When his ship foundered he steered the No. 3 lifeboat of the Treversa 2,400 miles in 25 days-sterred by sun and stars and brought his open bout to land at Mauritius after one of the most araazing voyages in the history of the sea.

Here is the full story of Chief Officer Smith's terrific venture.

Forty-four bewildered sailors, crowded into two lifeboats of the British

Trevessa, to- tramp bogganed down the long black hack of waves in a maid-Indian Ocean storm.

There was silence.

It is impossible to say just what will happen in the next twenty-four hours, he began. "Laumont got an: SOS off before we abandoned ship, ; but I de mot know [ response

COULD NOT SLEEP

+

Boat

Hongkong's Trevessa

Trophy Contest

Hougkeng has an interesting association with the Trevesma tragedy. Every six months a race la rowed in the harbour by erewn manning life boats, the winner receiving the Trevessa Trophy.

The contest 1 open to any ship of any nationality in barbour on the day of the race, and the event is staged twice a year by the Royal Hongkong Yacht Club.

Wedding Will Part Famous Air Girls

frael Partners For Eight

Years

- You see how little Food we have.

be 10 15NUC

A few cries, "She's gone!To-day there will had been exchanged between rettoni. the boats when the Trevessa. had been swallowed by waves 15 minutes before.

For

nine days.

the

since kraving Western Australl, the Trevessa hud fought her way towards Durban and home

strong westerly

Way/ writt blowiak. And increasedá quddenly ten days later the ship was kicked long by seas running 30 feet high.

PUMPS USELESS

water

Al midnight there w No. I hold and the ship was setting;

were the head The pumpa by useless. At 1-30 azn. the following day orders

given to abandon ship.

werD

the

Most of

men had been They called from their bunka.

the came running

slanting decks,

up on to The ship's fore- was buried In the sea: scrow and rudder were clear of the water.

pcal

"When rallons are issued.

will be done without favouritism.

ut

it

I will stand for no grumbling with conditions

gorrelling among yourselves."

IL

The

utterunez

longest Salih or anyone else made duri the time they were in the boat.

Nigh

like

blanket, mothering the cheerfulness of e

afterhook

not

ונותי!

The nitti Luled to sleep, but could;

At low next morning the men sawi What the dully meal would be as long they were in the boat.

A lid of one of the cigarette tins about two tablespoonfuls-full of condensed milk, half that quantity of water, and une blacul for each

ik wedding at Huly

London, Trinity, Brompton, remarkable eight years' pariner- ship between two frillani air- wähnen will come to a close, Twenty-nine-year-oki Miss Dorothy Spicer will mairy Plaget-Leutenmal Richard Pearse.

One of her bridesmaids will be 22- year-old Miss Pattiine Gower, het jir-tax business partnes and fellow-

adventurer.

Fussessing between them every heronautical certifenic and it- cence, these two intreph women have carried more than 25,000 Joy-rides, passengers on aerial loured the country with aireir cuses, established an aerodrome on Hayling Island Now

the

of Aur-Trip business -

Limited, which they efficiently deve loped, will be wound up.

"Dorothy, after her marriage, will be busy at

the Alr at her job with

MAD. It took more than an hour to Registration Board of the Air Minis-

serve every one in the boat,

| gone sheet-white

try: i will be busy helping my father (Sir Robert Gower, M.P) with his political work," Miss Gower told the Sunday Chronicle.

Han Unity Fredman-Mitford, Lord Redesdale, doughter severely handled by a crowd in when she Hyde Park, London, wore

The swastik badge pre- sented L her by Chancellor She is fitter

Germany. London as "Hitler's known 131

and young English friend," shown wearing the Hitler Undge. from angry Polter rescued her demonstrators

DEATH FOR SPIES

IN FRANCE

RIGOROUS DECREE IN PREPARATION

GREAT INCREASE IN OFFENCES

RADIO BROADCAST

Relay of Mei Lan Fang In "Lady Precious Stream"

HOTEL ORCHESTRA

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a Frequency of 845 k.c's.; and on Short Wave from 1--2.15 p.m. and 811 pm. on 9.52 m.c's per second...

H.K.T. (L)

12-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe- dral.

12.30 Herbert E. Groh And The Orchestra Blascoíte,

(Tenor)

Evening On The Rhine-Waltz (Willy Richartz); In Dreamy Night-- Waltz (From "Der Landstreicher") sira; Du-Du Gehst An Mir (Hess Misraki-Bennefeld) Herbert E. Groh; Donauwellen- Waltz (Ivanovici-Arr: Gotz Hohne); Waltz (L Greetings Το Vienna

Siede).. Orchestra; Moonilgh, I Venico-Venetian

Gondola Song:

Lovellest Woman Of Vienna--Waitz Song....Herbert E. Grah; Children Of Spring-Waltz (Waldtenfel); Ever Or Never-Walz (Waldteufel).... Orchestra; Exultation Waltz Lautenschlager). „Orchestra,

10 Time and Weather.

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1.03 Albert Sandfer & Hix Or- chestra and Lucienne Boyer (80- prano).

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La Tosca-Fantasie (Puccini--Arr. Yvonne Tavan)....Orchestru

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1.30 Reuter & Rugby Press, Wen- ther and Announcements.

1.40 Strauss-Le Bourgeois Gentil- homme, Op. 00.

Straram Or-

Played by Walther chestra of Paris.

2.15

Close Down.

Orchestra

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6.0 London Palladium And Sam Browne (Baritone).

"The Rese"-Selection of English Melodies (Arr. Myddleton)....Or chestra: Gypsy Violin (O'Flynn & Betzner); A Little Bit Independent

.Sam (Leslie & Burke) The Sacred Hour (Ketelbey); Sanc- Paris, Apr. 18.

tuary Of The Heart (Ketelboy) Espionage has increased to such an

Orchestra; I'm Sittin' High On A extent in France that chpital punish-Hill Top (From "Thanks a million'); ment may shortly be reintroduced. My Shadow's Where My Sweetheart The Daladier Government has Used To Be (Ilda & Carr).. .Sam been studying the question closely. Browne; Everybody's Songs (Arr. and it is understood that a decree is Geehl). Orchestra; A Star Feli

course of preparation which

Out Of Heaven (Gordon & Revel); would increase substantially the sen- The One Rose (Lyon & Melntyre)... tences for varlous forms of espion- age. Some would entoll the death

6.45 London Choloo'. penalty.

The next night much the same as the previous one. The crew sat in silent misery between the еде пара

though which trouble- some dreams now stalked,

"But on holidays we hope to Apprentice Seaborn refused his lying together again." In less than 20 minutes they had

His face had The story of the partnership is told provisioned the two starboard life-ration the next day.

"Women his legs by Miss Gower in

with Wings." just published by John Longin (10s. d.).

Miss Spicer became the only woman hold the Air Ministry's "A," "B," licences for aircraft engineering, Miss Gawer gained many qualifications, Including "H" licence.

and

trembira violently.

boats with biscuits, water and con- densed milk, and

elgurettes some and tobacco. Then the boals were lowered.

was

It was a recurrence of mžarlu. To make matters

Sam Browne. Cook worse. Allchin surreptitiously took a drink to Chief of salt water and became painfully

in

Foster Captain Chell command of une bon, and Officer James C. Stewart Smith of the other.

When clear of the ship sea muschiora

These huge end-i were thrown out. vas bags, fastened to the bow of the, bout by two fathoms of rope, acted as drags, keeping the head of the boat on to the sen.

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The little bonts rode jauntily the waves which had pounded the 3,000 tons Trevessa to the bottom.

Everyone was cold and wet from dying spray, but they were uncan- scious of disconfort.

hs

Dawn found the storm playing it- self out. As soon

it was light enough to see etcurly. Smith toak stock of bls boat and its contents.

It was No. 3 bout of the Trevesso.

it was twenty-six feet long; eight feet three inches wide.

MILK AND BISCUITS

For each boal

eight were

wars Jong steering oar, a spirit and compass, a rudder and tilier, a boat hook, a sea anchor, dozch self- (gaiting red flares, ropes necessary for sol rigging, a box of matches

2

in watertight in and a batchet.

The total food supply, includ- ing the lifeboat's regular stores, was nine gallons of water, six tinn of biscuits and 130 tlas of condensed milk.

Each boat had 2,000 cigarettes, and about ten pounds of tobacco. The

total of safety matches was about

ilozen boxes for each boat.

In the chief offteer's boat were 24

men.

In the morning Smith ordered the biscuits and half the condensed milk stored in the bow. The water and the rest of the milk were placed under his eye in the stern.

HUNGER, THIRST

The next move was to haul in the

sea anchor, step the mast and holat sall. As the soll Alled, the boat settled down to a siendy five knots,

Twenty-four men in a twenty-six-

bont,

they

jammed

were

foot together like mardlines in a tn. To take a match box or pipe from a

pocket required a contortion.

minor act of

Bucks and hips seemed pierced

JAPANESE

and

WEARY

HIT WITH SPANNER

("WAR

Cost Of Living Rises 30 Per Cent.

War weariness, therrasingly mani- fest among the Juganese publie. Is causing the nation's leaders anxiety and is responsible for constant re- porta of Government changes and sensational developments in the war

situation.

The ever-rising cost of itving- it is now 30 per vent, higher than last July--and increased taxation are provoking considerable unrest. This is noticeable even here, but la į much more apparent in the industrial region of Osaka, which 1 have just visited, writes & Dally Mall correspondent.

Tokyo

leave are sent directly to camp or

pilot's

It is recognised that in Germany, where both men and women sples are beheudod, espionage has beca practically stamped out. It is felt They started their toy-ride busi-that, in the interests of national de- ness with a hired machine and a lot fence, more rigorous methods should be adopted to protect France from the agents of foreign Powers,

of confidence.

Passengers were not always on their best behaviour, and there was one occasion when a man tried to climb out of the cockpit on to the wing while they were in mid-air.

Since 1935 all spy cases have been Judged by military tribunals, where the maximum penalty is 20 years' imprisonment.

"Fortunately," writes Miss Gower, In 1012 Reven cases of espionage "I had a large spanner beside me.

were judged in France, involving the and with this I reached out and conviction of 13 individuals.

Τινο rapped my recalcitrant passenger years later the number had risen to smartly on the bead."

70. Of the 85 people convicted 70 were foreigners.

MEDICAL SCIENCE

DISCOVERY

Baltimore, Md.

Figures are not available for more recent years, but there is no doubt that the total is very much larger. One estimate gives a tenfold increase. The military court at Besançon, in

15

Two Johns Hopkins Univer-East France, to-day condemned three Soldiers returning from the front on sity scientists have reported to men to prison for espionage.

time to visit their families.

Georges Knochel was sentenced to barracks and afforded only limited the medical world surprisingly

years Imprisonment for trying to Cabinel successful results of experi-obtain information from an Alsation Ministers are planning EL

mallon-ments with a new sex hormone about French troops stationed in the wide tour to whip up the wor spirit in treating certain types of male region and

categorically that a rapid push on aterility.

Army commanders have stated

flankow is impossible owing to Drs. Samul A. Vest (correct) and danger from the Bovie! If a large John Eager Howard, members of the hody of Japanese trecps is concen-university faculty, told a group of trated for up the Yeugis".

Balilmore scientists at the Medical

In some quarter urged and Chinucnical Faculty Auditorium that Japan should adtrek the Soviet that they new druz-testos-

white it is still suffering hom internal terone-in 17 cases of men "whose disorganisation and Japan is fully gonads have either been removed or

were obviously not functioning.”

mobilised.

In several of the cases nurmal male Caracteristics were noted in the

about the secret staff code. Walter Кларр received 12 allur sentence and Pierre Auer 10 years.

'Marry Me Or I Fire'

Paris.

"If you don't marry me I shall

shoot you and shool myself. I mean this

Kolay Take Your

Weekly Entertainment Feature MacLurg; In- Presented by Willian

troduction--The Singers with the Or. chestra: Inspector Sharp takes up the Melluish Brothers the Case by Problem No. 2: The Museum My-

'School stery'; for Song-Some musi- cal nonsense-An Item devised by Adrian Thomas and Jack Clarke; Front Page Story'-A series of radio thrillers by Aubrey Danvers-Walker: Episode 8: Wife of the Accused': The programme will also Include variety acts and popular melodies of the day.

7.30 London Relay-'London Log”. 7.40 Band of HIM. Grenadier Guards,

Coronation Processional Music (Selected from the Muste in the Royal Procession, Coronationi Day, May 12th. 1937); Sousa Marches On. j 8.0 Time, Weather and Announce-

ments.

8,0-12.0 Relay on 640 kllocycles from Lee Theatro-Mei Lan Fang in "Lady Precious Stream."

8.03 London Relay Cricket'———— Middlesex v. The Australians.

A commentary by Howard Mar- shall from Lord's Cricket Ground, London.

8.15 Brahms-Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108.

Played by Joseph Szigeti (Violin) and Egon Peiri (Piano).

8.40 Vienna

chestra.

Philharmonic Or.

Serenade "Eine Kleine Nachtmu- sik," K. 525 (Mozat); Gorman Dances Nos. 1 and 2 K. 005 (Mozart).

Lawn Bowls" by Claud Hosking.

9.0 Studio-A Talk

on Local

9.10 Beniamino Gigli (Tenor) And Fritz Kreisler (Violin).

Londonderry Air (Arr. Kreisler); without worda"-Mendelssolin, ( arr. Krels-

Moderate elements In political circles doubt these possiblitice, but admit that the present ndance antients after hypodermic injection you are not going to do anything of A May Breeze ("Songs

"SH down, darling. Take it easy. test in China cannot anfely courtinue. if the drug. they said. They said. Prince Konoye, the Premier, they sny. however, that the hormone quickly the kind.. will either have to make way for a 3 consumed by bodies of the men A minute after hearing this con- ler)....Fritz Kreisler; Musica Prol- definite Pence Ministry under General:eceiving it. To have lasting effects, versation between Captain Finiot, of bita (Castaldon); Mamma Mia, Che Ugall, or strengthen his own Ministry hey said, it must be administered blonde-haired Mmo. Durif, wife of a Gigli; Dance Of The Marionette

the French

Sope Army, and beautiful Vo

(Nutile)....Beniamino to pursue a more positive policy. regularly-United Press,

French Air Force officer, who had (Winternitz)....Fritz Kreisler.

9.30 London Relay Tho News. mot frequently in the captain's villa

0.50 Relay of the Dance Orches near Blida, Algeria, a batman heard

tra from the Grill Room of the five revolver shota

Hongkong Hotel,

(a)-(d) Tangos and Rumbas 10.05 Interval of recorded dance music from ZBW.

10.15

CLARK GABLE'S ACCUSER

with needles., Legs and arms were MRS.

stiff and sore,

GOING TO BRITAIN

Vancouver.

[RS. VIOLET WELLS NORTON, deported from Hollywood after being sentenced for attempted extortion from Clark

They were hungry, with a hunger Gable, whom she claimed to have married in Essex, intends. to which stabbed at their bellies in Ita first flush of anger. Above all, they visil England. were thirsty,

and

They tried to ignore hunger thirst by smoking, and partially succeeded. Smoking. wirangely, did not Inercase thirst, but allayed it.

Smith felt he had better make the situation us clear as seemed safe..

On her arrival hero she told Bilericay, Essex, to obtain fresh wit- mo: "I shall carry the Case

through to a finish," says a Correspondent.

TICKSCS.

Mrs. Norton said she knew Clark Gable as a man named Frank Bil1-

Sho is now staying at her sister's lng at Billerleny. She claimed he home, and refuses to say anything) who the father of her child. Evidence about her fature plans except that was given at the trial

sho eventually hopes to

to had never been in England.

Usat

Gable

He found Captain Finlot lying dend with three bullets through the head and Mme. Durif badly wounded. "I said I would do it and I did."

Loretta Young Collapses

Loretta Young, the fim star, collapsed while shooting Reenc for Three Blind Mice" with Joel McCrea and David Niven, anys a cable from New York.

Dr. C. A. Seyfarth, sludio physicion, diagnosed Influenza.

Loretta, with a temperature of 103, was ordered home to bed.

(a)

In the Still of the Night; (b)

to sing about. 10.30 Interval of recorded dance music from ZBW.

10.35

Something (C) Loving You; (d)

(a) Silhouetted in The Moonlight; (b) I'm Ikke a Fish out of Water; (e) I've hitched my wngon to a Star; (d) Let that be a lesson to you.

10.50 Interval of recorded dance music from ZBW.

11.0

(n)-(a) Waltzon. 11.15 Interval of recorded dance music from ZBW.

(Continued on Page 15.)

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STOCK MARKET REPORT

The Hongkong Stock Exchange weekly report issued at 9.15 p.m.Į yesterday says:

That's

Asked

for

Again

Sole Agents:

THE CENTRAL

TRADING CO.

Bank of Canton

Building.

3.15 p.m. Changes (Closlag Quotations), Buyers Hotels $0.03,

Docks Rte. 30

Balen

Providents (ON) $3.70 Providente (New) $3.60/57 Trama $10.85/00

During the week under review the Crocheting Helps Farm

market was gulet but steady. In some cases prices receded slightly, but found ready buyers.

The Manila market was on the ensy side.

Business Done During the Work Hongkong Dank $1,810, 1,520, $1,500 Uron insurance #320 Wharves 1375 $7

Docks Ex Rights (19

Docks Rights D

Providents (014): $9.00, $5.50. $3.00, $3.65 $3,70. 3% $3.70

$3.65.

Provkients (Now) $5.00, $3.65 $3.00, $3.572

Hotels 30 $0.00 $0.00 $0.70, $0.77% $6.00, 0.03, $8.90"

Realties 85,05, 89.00

Tramways 17, $109, #16.00, $10.05, 619.00.. $37, $18.00, $1000.

China Lights (018) $11.70, $11.80, $11.55, $11,50

.

Electrice 100, 300.10 $00.00

Comente 1176, #1975, #17.40, $17.10

Meremans 2X, 5/10, 4/14

Pocasset, Okla. Mrs. E. F. Aker hus learned that a crochet needle is an excellent instru- ment to wield in obtaining farm im- provements, She has made approx- Imately $50 from collars which she has crocheted. Out of this sum ahe has put aside enough to pay for baby, chickens and brooder repairs.

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