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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY APRIL 26, 1930.

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City Chaos

HAS not needed investigations which have been carried out by the "Telegraph" over a period of several days to disclose that the traffe problem in Hongkong has become completely chaotic.

The Story Of The Brave MEN OF THE SEA

Yesterday a brief "Router"

cable told of the 'death of six lifeboatmen, But for every lifeboatman

other

drowned 160

men are

savod by Britain's lifeboat service. This article tells the story of that acrvico.

T

A ship was aground in Tyne- mouth. They saw her sink until only her musts were above

them.

The Original They reached the wreck; they 7 hours she was in Whitby; she was used at took off the crew. As they went out at once and saved the Bamburgh, on the sailed back he and three of his 50 who had survived the 48- the cruel Northum- fellows were swept overboard. hour ordeal. brian coast, until, in They, in turn, were rescued, and 1880, she broke in two. when Hillary came to land he out and stayed out for 17 hours; The Lowestoft boat once went That was the beginning had six ribs broken and his the average age of the crew was of a service which to-day chest "stove in." controls 110 motor lifeboats; 21

53; two of the men were 72.

cost of the boats runs

100 passengers.

*

from

HE merchants

of pulling and sailing lifeboats; a ed awarded him its gold medal, Boulmer (Northumberland)

The institution he had found- South Shields were fleel of 164 craft that cover hey the V.C. of the Peaceful Seas.

In 1925 men and women of talking in their com- points of the entire coast of LING. At the Queen Mary Hospital,

lowed the lifebout nine miles Hongkon on Tuesday, Aprií topics, the chances of an £5000 to £10,000 per craft; mon-room; discussing two Great Britain and Ireland. The

overland. They covered it in. 25, 1839, Beatrice Augusta,

seven hours and got the boat beloved wife of Dr. Lig Ke-upheaval in France in that upkeep varies from £400 to £600 THE institution was founded,

afloat. year of grace 1789, and the a year.

but it made little headway Sailors who volunteer for a The men that do this work? devastating weather that

In 1838 Grace Darling's superb few shillings of pay paid by The modern type of hout is exploit from the lighthouse on kept them huddling round 61ft. long, has a range of 120 Farne Island awakened a mo- the fire, when a rending miles without refuelling, has a until 1849, when a lifeboat cap- engineeri

piece work. Only the cox gets mentary interest, but it was not A retainer: £12 a year. The crash drew them to the speed of 9 knots, carries a crew sized in the mouth of the Tyne, ficial. The men have a sliding a permanent of- window, even into the gale of 8, and has capacity to carry that the public really awoke to scale (in which the cox shares that raged outside.

the crying need for an efficient in addition to his retainer), servict. At that time the ranging from 12s. 6d. for a day R.N.L.I's funds were 354 p.a.

launch in summer to 568. 6d. Then the fourth Duke of for a day and night session in water. They watched, helpless, THE service which to-day re- Northumberland offered a hun- winter. If a man loses his life as the frall spars bent with the

quires a quarter of a million dred guineas for the design of on lifeboat work, his depen weight of the crew clinging to Pounds annually (recruited from a ship. The winner incorpor- dants receive the equivalent of voluntary subscription) was ated Wouldhave's plans and the Service pension. The R.N.L.I. It was death to any boat to tral control in 1824.

officially incorporated with cen- firat self-righting lifeboat was told me that extra grants are put out, and the merchants, im- Colonel Sir William Hillary,

Then bought by Ramsgate.

made in cases of appalling dan- potent and horror-stricken, saw Bart., who had seen wreek after would be to fill with anonymous

To tell the epics of the service ger. The bill for personnel the crew drop, one by one, to wreck, flogged by the breakers heroism every page of every

amounts to £50,000 a year. drown in the swirling waters.

of the Irish Sea, crash on the issue for a month and still leave rocks of his native Isle of Man, half untold, wrote a pamphlet calling for the organisation of such a service.

men and children have been went out six times in one day, saved by the lifeboats of Britain. chants offered the sum of

On the committee formed as and capsized with the loss of all since they were organised. Last Two Guineas for the design of a reply sat Wilberforce, the hands on the last journey. some type of craft which could man who freed the slaves; the

year, there were 483 launches, In 1914, when all lights were saving 88 vessels, helping 250 be used to save the lives of ship- then Archbishop of Canterbury; extinguished on account of the ships, saving 637 men. wrecked sailors.

Canning, formulator of the war, a hospital ship was wreck- The R.N.L.I have distributed Plan after plan poured in: Monroe Doctrine; Peel, origina ed near the same port. One 118 gold, 1,000 silver, 200 bronze none of which was considered tor of the police force; Premier lccal pulling and sailingboat medals and they do not award practicable, although one Wil- Lord Liverpool; Lord John Rus- went out twice in a raging gale: lightly. and singing-teacher, submitted of his proudest achievements out by trawlers, but could not at St. Ives last year, and as in liam Wouldhave, a house-painter sell. It received support-one two nearby lifeboats were towed Sometimes, as yesterday, as... a modelin tin-of what he from George IV. The Royal live in the sea. A third craft 1928 at Rye, a lifeboat and the called a "self-righting" ship. National Lifeboat Institution was lowered bodily down sheer bulk or all of its hands are lost; This was adjudged worth half was a fact.

cliffs, by rope, by hand-but but the proudest of all the It is quite evident that the problem the prize-which Wouldhave

could not make headway against proud boasts of the R.N.L.L is of illegal parking is already beyond refused. Sixty-two years later self went to sea. He headed a other boat was forced back. tical equation:

Six years later Hillary him- the raging October gale. An- contained in the cold mathema- remedy by the traffic authorities, in 1861-its principles were crew of 14 and took out the Only since it is manifestly unfair to prose-recognised and incorporated in lifeboat that was not yet ready 200 who still remained aboard.

a motor-boat could save Ono lifeboatman lost-160 all lifeboats!

to sail. But a ship had crashed

men of other ships saved. tive but to infringe the regulations.ted, one lifeboat was evolved, could not, refuse the challenge. of the call she was out; within

Out of all the plans submit on the rocks, and he would not, miles away.

The Tynemouth boat was 44

During ubservations since last Thursday, it has been found that an

average of between 80 and 100 private

vehicles illegally park in the streets

of the city between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Existing car parks are so filled to overflowing that a mad scramble ensues for empty spaces long before the average motorist is due at his office,

Unless urgent measures are taken by Government, the only possible

outcome of the present situation is complete traffle chaos.

eute motorists who have no alterna-

The number of private vehicles seeking parking accommodation in the city streets is far in excess of the space available,

Twelve months hence, the problem, unless immediately faced, will lead to a complete dislocation of existing methods,

The occupation of the centre of the city's thoroughfares has necessitated, in the case of one roadway, the ban- ning of two-way vehicular traffic. In Pedder Street it leads to a disloca- tion of traffle that is already a serious problem on its

For the

present situation, Govern- ment hus itself to blame.

own.

chaotic conditions

The policy of utilising the city's streets as car parks has led to the

now ruling. with Now,

saturation fact, Government must either allocate other streets and thus add to the

A

existing confusion, or radically alter

entire system.

the

Motorists themselves. must admit that Hongkong is one of the very few cilles in the world where free car parking is permitted in streets.

The obvious method is to abolish this

system.

The alternatives are to construct enclosed "skyscraper" car parks on allotments off the streets, utilising the modern method of elevatorn for transportation from door to door, or construct underground parks which will not interfere with mobility on the streets.

to

In this connection, the old City Hall site or Beaconsfield Arcade suggest themselves as ideal positions for the former plan.

The alternative pinn of digging or tunnelling would probably be more acceptable to this Colony, in view of the fact that such garages could rapidly be converted into air shelters in times of emergency,

Private enterprise would quickly solve the Colony's trafe problem if Government would end the competi tive system of permitting free park- ing in the streets. At the risk of incurring the wrath Automobile Association, we contend

WITHIN a few days the mer-

called the Original. It em- bodied some of the ideas con- ceived in 1784 by one Lionel Lukin, a London coachbuilder, who had designed what he termed an "unimmergible" boat: formed a Norwegian yaw] into i.e., unsinkable. He had trans-

In 1861 the Whitby lifeboat MORE than 60,000 men, wo-

Within 15 minutes

Gerald Haylett

Great Spirits in Poor Bodies

a craft of his design. Lukin it IT is a curious thing that, although!

we call ourselves civilised, we was, who, in 1807, designed the should attribute such an exaggerated type of sailing lifeboat still in importance to our bedles, use on the East coast.

that motorists have no more right to stricted and free parking in the centre of the city's main streets than would have shop-keepers to set up their businesses there.

By a Wimpole Street Doctor

His career

50

was Anished, and few would have blamed him if he had blown out his brains, or drifted into the gutter Naturally we should endeavour to keep them healthy, clean, and sult-

Instead of doing anything ably covered, but apart from that

weakly foolish, this man took up the study of skin diseases, and is now one surely the only thing that really

of the world's leading dermatologiais, mers la the essential ego which been handicapped by half-withered perhaps the only branch of healing in inhabits the body.

legs. Ho must

have which the loss of an arm is not an It is

originally whether we are clever or stupid; was the terriße determination neces-fessor F. J.

which determines possessed immense will-power, but it insuperable handicap. That is Pro- good companions, or crashing bores; sary first of all to conquer the qualiiles that decide whether kindly or selfish; and it is these fantile paralysis that struck him

in-Verily, Burgess, of M'Gill Uni

The our down and secondly to remain ab- triumphantly demonstrated to

Jate

Arthur Pearson fellows will like or dislike us. TO SOME extent the present park-

solutely normal in every spiritual world that even the affliction of Although we all know this in our respect in spite of his infirmity, that blindness need be no bar to success. Ing chaos is also due to the hearts, such to the influence of pure-converted him from a great man into He is, in fact, remembered to-day for breakdown in the system of public ly physical appearance that some a colossus. transportation between the city and trifling infirmity or deformity

the work he did for the blind after suburbs.

It Philip Snowden had not, as losing his sight. man's life or decide his

Transportation Breakdown

change a

that

can

of faults? པར

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the

the

The parking problem is undoubted destiny. The extraordifory: thing is young man, been the victim of a With Inspiring examples like these ly bound up with the fact that many that this tremendous psychologien Sycle accident that crippled him for before us, why should some of us be people have become motorists be- force is created entirely by the life, would he have developed into se absurdly sensitive about physical cause the passenger ratio to available dividual. He is not moulded one of the leading statesmen

by modem

Why should we allow them accommodation in trams and buses public opinion, but by himself.

times? The pain from to transform us into cringing, shy. especially In the intter-has passed Up till quite recent Unies those which he was never free made him an apologetic creatures, or else make us Faturation point.

who were physically afflicted were he did not allow it to mar his not

inflexible as steel in public life. Yet tresomely aggressive? A measure

They have rellef would be objects of scorn and derision, of obtained for both motorists and those hunchback, the cripple, the blind, character, because his friends knew casential spirit that dwells within us

slightest effect forced to Uso existing public and the insane were all regarded him as one of the kindliest men who There are number of reasons. could be speeded up and extended. transportation systems if the latters Nature's jokes provided specially ever breathed.

Perhaps the most important is selfish- ness. We have been made to suffer and we are going to take jolly good everyone else suflets Da a physical well. Or we may and that our in-

For some time past we have heard |

The

to entertain the rest of humanity.

of proposals for double-decker buses Triumphs Of Will

in Kowloon. We submit that these are far more urgently required on the Island roulea, where congestion has

any

Handicaps Overcome

core that

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No matter how cruel It is the racial memory of the cruel handicap may be, it can be overcome firmity attracts attention, so to keep indignities heaped upon those rald

renclied a point where it is becoming fortunates that makes us so acutelyt to become a psychological blight. ja parade or we continually make

unso long as its possessor does not allow in the limelight self-conscious of

Or perhaps, we dis- personal, There was a brilliant young surgeon cover li arouses sympathy, so we un- idiosyncrasy..

who lost an arm in the Great War. blushingly exploit that There is no doubt that, with the His whole heart and soul was in order to beneût personally.

sympathy in. Institute an inquiry into the entire infirmity can be an immense force operate with one hand.

to correct mental outlook, a physical surgery, but even à traffic problem In Hongkong,

genlus cannot This

selfish atitude defects itself speedily; before very long wa bocome with for good. It la no mere coincidence special reference to the two points that the man who has become a great physician constantly needs two hands negregating

Even medicine was barred, as a paychological lepers who destrya ralsed by the "Telegraph."

President of Asnerica should have for examination and manipulation. (humanity.

from the ront

of the

increasingly impossible for elty workers to reach their offices or homes at reasonable hours.

Government would do well

of