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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939.

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L'ATLANTIQUE

Arrow shows what happened to one of the lifeboats owing to list of burning ship

"IRE is man's greatest enemy:

At Kos. For the French mercantilo, marino it hat "bean, an added terzdr.

On May 16, 1932 the Georges. Philippar on route from. Hong- kong to Europe, was burnt and 32 lives were lost. The L'Atlan- tique was burnt on January 4, -1933-with-the loss of 17 livos. Yesterday, the Paris was gutted.

But slowly man is learning how to fight the soa. This article tails of the advances that have been made and those that gro still to be achieved

seems insuperable-there is no need to despair.

Discipline and practice at musters and drills ensure that passengers know where to go for lifebelts and boat-stations. Ingenious methods of protecting the boats have been devised to give the fragile craft the best chance of getting away safely instead of being foredoomed to sink.

A sinking ship lists, say, to starboard. The starboard boats can possibly be launched. But half the boats will not suffice to take off all the passengers and all the crew.

MAN AGAINST

THE SEA

of

was short

boat had got

THE difficulty of launch- ing the boats on the port or high side lies in the fact that as they are lowered they beat against the hull and keel of the ship. As the derelict. rolls the wooden lifeboats goes crashing against the metal

wall.

developments, the strictest of From the slapping paddle- discipline and, in the ultimate, boats. If every

The Titanic wheels that eked out sail to the with the naked spirit of man away and every boat had been plates to get stove in and sink Queen Mary breasting all waves confronting the blind and naked filled, there would still have been with ease and cutting the time force of nature. for the London-New York run

loss of life. That cannot hap- the angle at which the ship lies as she touches water. Or else by hours there has waged an

pen to-day. Adequate boats tilts the lifeboat until it spills It may be taken for granted that inexorable and unremitting war

must be available to save every its crew into the sea. the Government's air raid shelter with the sea.

THERE are casualties one aboard. plans for the civilian population of

in that remorseless the Colony are fundamentally an issue

That war between merciful war.

The Board of Trade has taken signed to overcome

Various devices have been de- Every year thousand of Time versus Security, with the man and merciless

note of the bitter irony of the culty: permanent fenders that this dim- ocean goes ships go to their death. dismal fore-knowledge that whatever on to-day: fought as equally individuals who perish turn

The Californian, plans are ultimately put into effect, heroic, less worthy

which lay but a protect the boat from gunwale financial considerations must play a

are four figures to five, sometimes to Titanic, but made no effort to correcting and overcoming a list few miles from the sinking to bilge; davits that swing out, prominent part.

fought-with the weapons of six, The short-term policy which Gov-science. ernment a likely to adopt-if, indeed,

save her personnel because she of 7 degrees; "skates" Men pore over plans; officials double column in Haydn's Dic- less operator had gone to bed. launched though the ship lie on Eleven pages of close print in did not hear the SOS: her wire enable a boat to be safely which it has not already been adopied sit in offices drafting regula- tionary of Dates are devoted to admittedly provides only part-pro-tions tection against blast and splinter of bombs, less protection against fire, greed

To-day the wireless cabin of a her beam-ends. of capitalists and the tragedy: limited to British ves- ship fitted with radio is never and no protection at all against direct carelessness of sailors, inventors sels only; running from 1545 to left unattended. hits. It is not

good policy but, as experiment with models; crafts- 1895.

Regulations Its description of "short-term" implies, it can be executed by our

men scratch white lines on blue A thousand ships surfeit of cheap labour almost as soon paper; patents are taken out three ships every day; one ship ship's company.

a year; "Sparks" shall form part of a THE peril of fire has not as an energency arises and at com- with hope, to moulder in pigeon- every eight hours. But, though paratively little cost.

Tunnels, which we have persis-the lines.

holes. That is the War behind the lanes grow more crowded all passenger vessels and in all lessons of the Atlantique and the Radio itself is compulsory in cfliciently as the peril of faulty tently advocated, would give 100 per

launching of lifeboats. But the with shipping every year, the cargo-boats above the 1,600-ton Georges Philippar have been laid cent. protection against all aspects of And on the blue bosom of the loss of life at sea grows steadily mark. the air menace. But it is a solution sca-changing to angry green, less. involving a long period of work, to furious white, to deadly black certain technical dificulties, and a

to counter at once the wrecks outstanding in their

considerable outlay of money, much -the battles are fought: with the newest appliances, the latest

more,

regards the financial aspect, than this Colony is apparently will- ing to expend,

One thing, we believe, is certain. The absolute confidence of a civilian population of the type predominant

China, the Colony would to-day have

WHEN I crossed the Atlantic in 1914, and been well on the way to as complete again when I crossed it in 1920 protection as could be obtained.

We have taken some pains to make and Stripes,

the first time under the Stars

the

the second time

lay it down that at least two

yet been

quelled so

to heart. Floating palaces"... "Radio” warnings are broadcast with highly inflammable super- of any impending danger. structures,

garnished with Modern instruments enable a highly inflammable paints and. skipper to ascertain his position varnishes,

ornamented with precision. To-day one could sail again giving place to real ships and his course with absolute highly inflammable hangings are blind" as one can fly "blind" with decorations suited to the with impunity.

must

sea.

in Hongkong is vital to the success enquiries in local mining circles ful outcome of any resistance to regarding the practicability of tun-under the Red Ensign there

gression such as this Colony one nelling the Penk and have been was no boat-drill at all, day may face. At present,

No But there is still the ultimate Fire-drill, improved fire-fight- it-is-assured-that-the-construction-c perfectly clear that the "short-term" ], tunnel right through

one worried; nothing happened, enemy to reckon with: the cle- ing apparatus, stricter regula- policy which Government is appar-Island from the city of Victoria to But had there been an accident mental sca.

tion and regimentation are fast ently adopting we do not know yet Aberdeen would not be impracticable the passengers would inevitably whether it is to be a temporary or or exorbitantly costly. It has been have run

If a ship to-day does get into robbing even the unnatural alli- permanent policy is such that con- computed that such a tunnel, properly stood like stones.

about like rats or difficulties and recourse

ance of fire and water, formed fidence will, in an emergency, be ventilated, would Jacking.

They did be had to the lifeboats; if the by a ship aflame,, of its danger. for over 75,000 people in times not know how to put on a life- ship lists heavily and the diffi- do not fit self-lowering tackle to But there are still owners who Part of the Government's plans of emergency. In times of peace, belt, nor what boat to seek. has been announced at Infrequent t

culty of launching the boats their lifeboats because it is more would intervals and from these announce-

permit accommodation for two streams of vebleular ments we can form some idea of traffic, thus relieving considerably the polley that is contemplated. the congestion on the arterial roads two leading out of the west and east ends vital subjects - mass evacuation of the cities.

It covers, apparently, only

a

provide safety

of

certain section of

the

So far as we are aware, Govern ment has not even considered the

civilian population to unpopulated

and less dangerous parts of the question of tunnels. Yet, Ignoring

Colony (ie., the New Territories),

the factors of me, finance, labour and the provision of trenches, and materials, we believe that they Activities in the direction of enrolling remain the only sound and reasonable

of an

solution of this Colony's problem. The

Air Raid Wardens, Volunteer Fire Fighters, etc., whilst

irr inbour problem is easily surmount- important themselves.

do not come under the able, especially in view of the fact category of air raid shelter provision that we have (a) two thousand No nitempt is being made to compel fugees in concentration camps-the prisoners in gaol or (b) 11,000 re- architects to make provision for former available at no cost whatever, A.R.P. in plans for the many new the latter at no more than we are buildings in course of erection, this at present paying to keep them. The being left to the discretion of the owner of the property. Nothing is question of time does not really being done to compel owners of fac- that is better late than never. enter into the question, as the thesis tories to make provision for their we staffs although, to the credit of many Nor does the question of materials Hongkong firms, the work is being There remains finance. We would provide an unsurmountable obstacle. voluntarily undertaken. The plans for mass evacuation appear to be in suggest in this conriection that the a somewhat nebulous state, while

question of humun lives is par precautions against gas are

amount to that of dollars. Only elementary nature.

yesterday we drew attention to the There, briefly, you have the ease Colony for Imperial Defence contri

exorbitant amounts mulet from this of the critic. For Immediate pose it is entirely destructive, and it our problem of self-protection from purbutions. We have, in the urgency of would be unreasonable not to admit air raids, an unanswerable case for that Government is doing everything the remission of a considerable part possible at a cost commensurate with of these military contributions for at the Colony's financial position, and feast one year, in order that the capable of being executed within a money can be diverted to a channel reasonable period.

On the other hand, it is an undis-time of war.

that will ensure us real protection in puted fact that the Colony was first faced with the realisation that pro in paying military contributions to We have often questioned whether, vision for the protection of its citizens the Imperial Government, we are against air raida was necessary; at pbying for our own protection. We least five years ago, and that three have no doubts whatever but that the of those five years were Had a long-term polley of tunneling is entitled will be forthcombing if a wasted. real protection to which the public admittedly the only efficient safe- pariion of the military contribution is guard available--been started even diverted to the cause which we have with the outbreak of hostilitics in repeatedly espoused.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

~Cope, 1134 by Enfled Trafers Busi

exponsive; owners who do not fit skates or permanent fenders to

By Lichty their lifeboats because it costs

"Lem's feudin" coin' every family in the valley since bein' made district census taker-flogers every one he knocke

of now will make it easier in 1940|"

too much.

Even new ships are being built for tens and hundreds of thou- sands of pounds, and the owners refuse to spend an extra hundred or five hundred or n' thousand pounds on the devices that may save their sallors' lives.

The regulation controlling the fitting of permanent fenders or other devices of approved pat- tern, such as skates, lays it down that lifeboate must be so equip ped providing they are scheduled to carry 85 or more persons.

There are liners sailing the high seas to-day whose lifeboats are capable of holding exactly 84 persons.

The regulation enforcing the equipment of radio legislates only for all passenger ships. Certain exceptions may be made by the Board of Trade: as in the case of small excursion atcumers that ply round the consts. In the case of cargo-boats, only ships above 1,600 tons must carry wireless. And a vessel still ranks as a cargo-bont if she has aboard fewer than 12 pas- Bengers.

There are "cargo-boats" run- ning to-day which, in the sum- mer season when danger is at a

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