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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPII, MONDAY, FEBRUARY

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which would receive them in who knows what memories of eighteen months; that he had have travelled 2nd or 3rd class. and permit the earning of the past or fears of the future? been a Hamburg merchant in a and have a few dollars for em-

modest way; had, of course, barcation! Verboten!! daily bread.

WITH THE POLITE been ojected, with only the

So the arrival in Shanghai will NESS of their race clothes they wore. (outside Germany, at least) or Even the little lady's wrist- be virtually penniless. When will they next get "chicken all possibly born of recollected watch had been confiscated.

day?" en- Ten marks of their own money tyranny, they commenced quiries of the Chinese police- were they graciously permitted

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NAMING the KING'S SHIPS

can be named

even laugh amidst their troubles.ALTA: 1.M.S. Queen Elizabeth in Whitehall, and, funnily enough, only has the power of making re Two oldish women, possibly arrived." The statement is Whitehall is reluctant to reveal the commendations as regards the names But processes whereby a ship's mame is of now ships. The next step within sisters, of the small shopkeeper often seen in the daily Press.

the Admiralty is for these recom- mendations to be forwarded by the type, garbed in cotton gown and why should the ship be H.M.S. Queen decided.

Elizabeth? So the question arisest shabby cardigan munched gives the King's ships the names But, shorn of official mystery, the Third Sen Lord and Controller to the certain names bananas, carefully depositing by which they shall be known process is as follows. There is in the Board of Admiralty. The Board of

throughout their careers?.

Admiralty a "Naming Committee Admiralty can velo the debris into the sea.

When Sir Samuel Hoare, the First which, although it does not remain in and substitute others if it so desires, Binally the natnes of all One little family of cloth Lord of the Admirally, announced being. is available whenever the but

a rail that the two Brat battleships to be question of naming new ships is to lighting ships have to be sub- capped father, thin በ8 (his Grecian nose should have built under the naval rearmament the fore. The Committee has at its mitted to the King. No ghung ship

programme were to be named H.M.S. disposal all manner of historical and of the Royal Navy saved him), tired-eyed, worried-"King George V. and 11.M.S. "Prince traditional data. The influence of without the permission and approval looking mother with handker-nt Wales," he spoke of those names this is easy to see in the names given of the King. •

la new ships. More often than not; Some which were found in a chiefed head, and a pale and having been chosen by the King. For

such important units of the future the nomes allotted are those which All manner of things have to be sandstone formation in a south-tiny boy, warmly clad; he, it is dect one can imagine that the King have figured in the Navy List off and taken into account when selecting a

choose the namer. But on for centurica. hoped, childishly ignorant of the would

naturally in the case of small craft. Among the names just announced name for a new warship. Tradition real calamities of life.

such as river gunboats, submarines or for ships to be built, three are notable must always be consulted, and

their historical ascoelations. must the well-known superstitions of tugs, the names, having been chosen, for

the British sailor. The latter is. Father and Mother... gaze would be submitted to his Majesty H.M.S. Edinburgh is to be one of the particularly important in two ways. steadily before them, wrapped for final approval.

new large cruisers. The first Edin- No sailor likes to serve in a ship burgh was ship belonging to the

and bearing the name of a vessel which. If one looks through the Nuvy List Scuts Navy, launched in 1707,

has recently come to grief, particular- one finds that certain classes of ships entering service on the very day ofly if the cause of the disaster has bear names which are in some way the Union between Scotland and never been fully established, and no similar to one another. For instance, England.

ern state in America recently led to the hypothesis that they had been made by some large prehistoric creatures of the am- phibian family-in other words, in toad that walked like a man. The Smithsonian Institute scouts this theory, however, and as- serts the apparent footprints are not impressions of any foot but rather are skillful Indian car- vings. They accur in rocks from the James River of Virginia to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and have been a subject of controversy for a hundred years.

Even the fact they are nearly always found close to water does not persuade the ethnologists that the imprints were made by human feet in the pleistocene slime or that they were pre- cursors of the urge which impels a modern parent to press the baby's foot into the soft concrete of a new sidewalk. Not having the advantages of working with artificial stone or plastica, the aborigine was obliged pains- takingly to wield a mallet and perhaps a flint chisel until he had laboriously sculptured out a sufciently accurate likeness of the human foot to fool amateur explorers of centuries afterward.

A Look Through the names of the two aircraft carrier's

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The name Jupiter is to be borne by sailor will willingly serve in a ship which are to be bullt have the one of the new destroyers. The first bearing the name of a reptile,

In the piping times of peace, when. termination "ous," which has become Jupiter was captured from the Dutch associated with aircraft carriers at the battle of Schooneveld in May, comparatively few ships have to be through the Glorious, Furious, and 1673. The career of this ship in the named, the task of the "Naming Com- Courageous. In the same way the English Navy was shortlived, for she mittee" is comparatively simple, for destroyers of the ordinary type are to was recaptured by the Dutch the same tradition will provide names many have names beginning with "J"; the day. The second Jupiter was also tines over. But when there is great French privateer | war-time_expansion it is another minclaying submarine is to be named prize, being

matter. During the Great Wor the captured by the British in 1762.

There is a hint of poetic justice not British Navy acquired a large num- usually associated with Whitehall in ber of anti-submarine sloops. The the naming of a new submarine after Admiralty were at a loss to decide the old cruiser Thelis, used as one of upon a classified series of names for Even if one concedes a tradition the blockships which denied the use these ships, until a bright idea came. whereby ships of a certain class are of Zeebrugge to the German subma- to a keen gardener. In Whitehall. He to hear names of a certain type-rines after the rple raid of St had on his desk a seedsman's catalo be it alphabetical or racial there George's Day, 1918.

gue, The Index provided a large The "Naming Committee," which number of names which had never been used before for warships. Thus there came into being what was known for years as the "Flower class” · aloons,

50 YEARS AGO Last night the Artillery had gun after a denizen of the deep; and the practice of a novel character on Stone-larger destroyers of the "Tribal" cultura Lainnd. The electric light was class nre, obviously, to be named thrown quickly on the water at various after tribes to be found in the British dialances, and blank charges were fired Empire. at supponitious boats within the field of the light.

25 YEARS AGO

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

Sir Edward Gray, Secretary of State remains the question of how these: for Foreign Affairs, speaking at Man- things are decided. It is all done is by way of being entirely unoffelal. chotter, neld that the Naval estimates would adequately safeguard the in- terents of the country without support-1 ing an aggressive policy. Ha declared that any slackening in expenditure on armenients by one country would not necessarily produce a diminution in expenditure by another. It might, in- deed, have a stimulating effect.

10 YEARS AGO

The Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Co., Ltd., la`shortly to atort work on laying the foundations of a now seven-storied building which is to bo erected on the burnt-out portion of the longkong Hotel. (The building is now the Gloucester Hotel-Ed.)

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II Excellency the Governor, Bir Ceell Clementi; opened the now Allee Memorial Hospital in Honbam Read, yerterday afternoon. large gathering of prominent membera of the community at the function, Jus cluding the Hon. Sir Henry Pollock, the Hon. Dr. B. W. Tao, the Hon. Sie Shous non Chow, the Hon Mr. W. F. L. Shan- ton, the ion, Dr. R. H. Kotowall, Rov. C. bixon Cousins, Rev. II. R. Wells, Mr. T. N. Chau, and Mr. Kwok Blu-lau.

5 YEARS AGO

The smallest apark may cause devastating explosion in Parla, ao in- The impulse was more like tense is publlo arcitement following the Stavisky scandals and the dismissal of

Chief, H. Chiappo that which is responsible for the Police

The populace is quite clearly ina the carving of initiala on só | YEY dangerous mood. Rumours of revolutionary plote ar openly 'upremd many of our friendly trees But and the pregnant situation is given

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why should the primitive man put so much energy into leaving: his footprints on the sandstone of time? Well, most of us will go to grant lengths to leave our mark.on the world.

„ndded asilousnean by signa of an under- current of unrest. In the polles fares, as the reunit of the `diemilssal of M.' Chiappe, "He was conatugly chaprad xo- Jarid he left the Prefecture of Pollse in disarg The treatment of Paris's idol is the principal bone of contention. Price Locking their question; vers pointedly!SHIE Mat Chiappe 1k Involvadi. iniis fuvuky náig,why grumpie, afra R#kidant, Onferal of Mordoso. Take in

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And even Whitehall is not infallible.. More than one ship of the Royal Navy has gone through life with rame which was bestowed upon it in errur.

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The destroyer Whitley, for Iniitance, was never intended to bear that. nime. The name allocated to the ship was Whitby, but a typist in the Admiralty, thinking obviously, of the Whitley Counell, which was to ameliorate conditions

Civil Servants, lly typed Whit

All manner popers were made out before the mistake was discovered, and then it was decided to let the name Whitley atand, in honour of the Chairman' of the Whitley Council, who afterwards. become Speaker of the · House ot Commons.

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Another famous arror was the cape- of the destroyer Sterling. The ship had been named after Uie. Scottish town Stirling, but a.... typlets" (error, which was not discovered until took late, substituted an "e" for the first “1," The name stood, and instead of bearing the arms of the town of Surling os badge, the ship's badge became a replien of a sovereign,

In several respects one must com- pliment Whitehall upon its choice of names for classes of ships. For instance, what could be more appro- priate than to call the may, submarine) minelayers after monsters of the deep? And again, what could havo been more annropriate for the names of the river minbasim emiployed on the Yatra Kling than the names of insana fand when them had lo be replaced, the use of the naños Derwild Towl most of which are to be founda upon the beats of theva ↑

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