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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1929-12-26, Page 3litisb Dirigible 400 Completed `Pitess inspection Takes Place in Hangar at Howden, England HAS THREE DECKS Differences in Construction i{ rom R-101 Told by Sir ' 'C. D. Burney Howden, Eng.—Great Britain's pri- vately built dirigible, the R-100, has beep completed and underwent; press inspection in her hangar here recently, ' The dirigible cost about $2,250,000 while the estimates on bee Govern - moot MOH sister, the , R.101, were about $2,870,000 with an additional $265,000 dor engines. One of the chief differences betiveen the two ships is that the R-101 is petioli -driven and the R100 oil -driven. Commander sir Charles Dennistottn Burney,who supervised the beetling of the R-100, explained :there was lit- tle difference between the two ships outwardly, There were, bowever, ' many novel features about the R-100. It has three decks compared to two 10 the 11.101. The two upper decks are reserved for passengers and the lowerone is allocated to the crew. On the lower passenger deck is the dining saloon, which bas seating ac- commodation for 56 persons, Then there is the lounge -deck : with an area - of 540 square feet in the form' of a gallery around the dining room. For the ftrsb time a method has been int}odueed by which the engines may be, changed while the ship is at the mooring -tower. Tbere are no fewer than 15 gasbags, the largest .of which has a capacity oft550,000 cubic feet. The ship will be brought out of its ehed as soon as the weather is favor- able, but as there is only one mooring ttiower in the country, the R-101 will have to be tucked in bedbefore the R-100, under the command of Major Scott, can make the trip to Carding- ton. The new ship is expected to be faster than her sister ship. Her cruis- ing speed is put at alma : 80 miles per hour. The crew have a black cat as a mascot, - ATLANTIC FLIGHT PLANNED The 11-100 will attempt a Trans- atlantic flight next spring, and it will carry' no passengers:' Simultaneously it w ds learned here that the British .Air Ministry proposes. to build two new airships fifty per. cent. larger than any existing and • capable of carrying 200 passengers at a speed of 90 miles eh hour. 'The proposed dirigibles would be 1;000 feet long and carry- 7,500,000 cubic feet of lifting gas. The Air lliinistry's: plans caused little surprise, in view of oharges that the R-100 and its recently"completed sister ship, the R-101, would not fel- expectations. Canada Shows Big Gain In Auto Construction Montreal. — Canada is exporting twice as many motor cars as she is importing. Further, the production of automobiles in the Dominion: is year on a larger scale than In any previous year. It is true that both exports and production were lower in Qotober than in some et the previous months while production itself was lower than in Ootober of last year. This phase of the situation, however, is temporary and the cumulative re- sults for the ten months are well ahead of last year. In the ten months of, the present year Canadian automobile manufac- turers exported 91,419 cars, as com- pared with 64,317 in the 'same period of 1928. Moreover, the number of ears imported in the ten months this year was only 42,618, as against 45,- 005 in the same period last year. The total production of motor cars in Canada for the first ten months of the present year was 248,376, while for the corresponding partof last year it: was 221,188. The production of ears in October et the present year was a Iittle more than 20 . per .cent. ' lower than inthe same month of 1928. On the other hand, the Output in the . early part of the year was very much higher than it was in the corresponding part of last year. Extension of the "Dole's' e London Daily News (Lib.) : TheUn- employment Insurance Bill is a de- pressing commentary on the failure of Mr, Thomas to grapple with unem- ployment. It is a stere continuation of the fruitless policy ofttackling the problem at the wrong end. The tinein- ployment insurance fund is already nearly 236,000,000•in debt. Hundreds of :Melees of pounds have'geen spent in lceepie g the unemployed idle. The latest development • is to mark' a boy down for the ".dole" the moment he leaves wheel. :• What a prospect for the coming generation! How long is this policyof despair to be perpetu- ated? A LONG LIFE A tong lie 3s omethin to be thank- f s g n and t m fu T for, b re oso to those who I Sind Iittle to reti'et along the path .of UM oat Chief Meets Captail . j le Captured War Incident on Beautiful Spring Morning off `Coast of Great Britain SUB AND Q. 51-hIP 3 Itondon,-.-Captain Bashagezt, a Gel, mean II -boat conunander, has arrived in London to meet a British ofileer Wilton he captured et sea in 1917 and' has not met sense, Hie victim, now his friend, Is Com- mander Norman Lewis, commander of a "mystery ship" which ,Was sunk by Oaptain Reshape. He cadre to Veg.- land to speak on the some platform as Conunendsr Lewis at a League of. Nations Union meeting at Reading. Captain Iclasb'agen is every inch a sailor, even to his lusty, hearty voice, and it would .bedifficult not to mis- take him for a British naval officer. "Good morning, my friend," he saluted the "Standard" correspondent m jolly fashion at an hotel.: It is an unusual incident that brings me tin England, I must adrnit. Q BOAT INCIDENT. "I can imagete that not so very long 'ago we sailors who to}mxianded German submarines were not the most'I popular people in this country. "But tines, thank Heaven, have changed, In 1917 I sank one of your Q boats (mysteryships) and captured Norman Lewis, and now •twelve years later I have come to London at his invitation ,to speak with him at a meeting in support of the League of Nations at Reading," He laughed and nodded his head re- flectively. ' "At our first sleeting 200 miles off the Irish coaet neither of us could have prediotd where our second meet- ing would have been. We certainly never would have guessed that it was to speak in support for b world move- ment for peace! THE WOLF "I: vttli tell you how we met. �I had just been• round the Orkneys and I was coming into the English :Chan- nel when, on a beautiful spring,.n:orn- ing, I taw a ship in the distance. She was flying`the merchant Slag of Eng- land. The Red Ensign; I think; Well, from the first 1 thought she was a wolf in sheep's clothing. "First of all, ships at that tints were not flying Merchant flags, So I fol- lowed this suspicious-lookingmerch- antnman. •But the -day was eo bright that 2 could only bob my periscope above the waterat intervals. +" I crept nearer to her very care- fully, and then saw that my suspi- cions were justified. She was a Q ship with those dreaded depth charges aboard. So I decided to sink her. Just as I was releasing my tor- pedo, Captain Lewis saw the bubble of air which always arises when a torpedo is beingtreleased. "He quickly put his helm to star- board and so, instead of hitting bis ship amidships, I only struck astern. I then cruised around the ship and let. my periscope came :up for a second to see what I had done, "As I did so, the ship opened fire on my periscope, but, fortunately, did not hit it. Then, through my porthole, I' could see the men being. ordered their lifeboats as the ship was slide ing, "As soon as they were out, up I cane at once, fired on his ship, sank it, approached' the boats and ealied for the captain. "Immediately Captain Lewis stood up and Balled to me 'I am the cap- tain.' "So I asked hint to be, good enough to come aboard. He cane and we look- ed into each other's eyes for a second, You know, at sea, men can tell at a glance if another man is -a real man or not. I saw that .Captain Lewis was a real man and a gentleman. "I invited him to have a drink! "He laughed and accepted. We gave his crew the course they would have to sail to get back to land, which was about two days away.- His 'crew were actually picked up: halfway to land., "Por three weeks I had Captain Lewis on board, and during that time we had a number of encounters with other ships." Captain Hashagen smiled at ;he memory. "One day, a 'British submarine -de- etroyer nearly got us. She spotted us jus£as we came to the surface to tackle another ship and fired on u5, Down we went under the water but she same to the spot where we had submerged and dropped a few depth charges, Our ship shook like •. a leaf although it was not actually hit. THE FAREWELL. "Captain Lewis turned to me and. said: "Do you know that nry,wife js in a munition; factory making depth. charges? It would be funny if I were blown into eternity by one of the depth charges made by her hands!' And we laughed. "Well, three weeks later we, landed. at Hamburg and 1_ said ,goodbye to Captain Lewis. Since then 2 have not seen him. Wok as "Bab a time a s a oo w of arab- marines o atout the commandere written marines during . the war, and Ileso :o Said ]Faationed': "rain •Wrecking 'PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RUSSIAN -CHINESE STRIFE Photogra h hese shows. derailed train ot the Chinese Eastern a p , soar elanchouli, Manchuria. aleway, Germans to respect each other as we, Captain Lewis and 1, respect each other, "I have some and I shall see my old prisons again." He:irughed. "You know it was just a matter of: split ,seconds who was the prisoner. If Captain Lewis had fired first I should have been. the prisoner." To Unemploymentin Britain Spectator (Londoii) : • It is easier for a camel to pass' through the ewe' of a needle than for a Government with a great majority to get away from the Party spirit. But now there is room for accommodation and adap- tation in natters which ought either to: be removed from the :Party arena or to be protected 'from the full bleat- ing of the Party ,storms of passion. One of these matters is unemployment. The extent of unemployment since the war has been an entirely new pl.enomenon. It ,foes not yield in any appreciable degree to the fa- milies, fluctuations or cycles of trade. There is only : one permanent remedy, and that is Rationalization. . If there is any common politi- cal oliti cal ground in .Great Britain today here it assuredly is. All parties could co-operate on this ground. Why should not the Government frankly ask for mebody may say, would uurt to eat their i knowled that Mr. g'e Thomas has'Wteed, If there is no more valid ebjeetion than that every man, in mar j idgtnente, .should be ashamed to uo rtian it. We are in the presence of a continuing national tra- gfly help? Th be for the e own words Moneybags: "Daughter, has the duke told` you the old, old story, as yet?" Daughter: "Yes. He owes about 200,000 bucks." LOVE CONQUERS ALL Surely love conquers all; is im- measurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than names He knows not life who knows not that he bath not felt the highest faculty of the soul, who bath not en- joyed it. Ea)� thq sake in Ne Se '• nought Queer Upheaval Century -old Road Moves Out of Place, and Stream Plunges Underground"' Halifax, N, S. — The very old road torn Ross Ferry to Kemp has moved out 'of place; part of it is a field and the rest of its journeyed and plunged into the placid waters of Bras D'or Lake. Part of the old road with the mark of the last automobile which passed over it Is still intact but the greater portion of the highway shifted its position In the earthquake which shook Cape Breton Island the other day. . Traffic Is almost impossible al- though a way had to be made for the mails but the entire surface of the district for a short distance has been changed.. A ravine has appeared where flat land lay before and it may be a mat, ter for :, e :aa• .'nnrts to decide wheier the government highway has swot trespassed on private ;and for a goodly portion of it has gone over into cultivated farms and fields and all fences and marks have disappear- ed. Near Batilardarie a stream plunged suddenly underground and did not re- appear. The following day the ground began to bump up with a low growling noise until it rose to some five fel-t. Watchers saw the ground -stove with a slow wave-like upheaval which lasted for several hours and the movement continued until the road surface .had entirely disappeared. The Middle West and Great Britain Prof, W. T. Morgan in the Con- temporary Review (London: Amer- icans forget that, having taught a perfervid patriotism at the expense of "perfidious Albion," theyemust expect to reap where they have sown. As a result of constant association, the At- lantic seaboard has become convinced that the British are not plotting nes- chief against America, but a distrust amounting at times to hatred of all aliens, even of those speaking English, still lingers in the illimitable stretches of the hinterland. In estimating the great influence of the Eastern States, British statesmen tend to forget that even in 1812 America event to war against England, although the sea- board was friendly. In these later days, the trans 4,llegheny'region is of vastly greater weight in formulating public policy than it was a century ago. Confucius' Heir Protests Move To Seize Lands Duke Kung "Felt, -Cheng, 77th Descendant, Says Nan. king. Plans. Unlawful Action Estate Intact 2,000 Years, Shanghal,—Duke ifung. Telecbeng, seventy-seventh lineal descendant ot Confucius, Ices issued a telegra ut ad- dressed to the world at large protest• ing against. the proposed confiscation by the Nanking government of lands and property,' which have been passed on from one Confucian generation to another for the last 2,000 years. Certain members of the Ktuomin- Dead Sea Yielding Garvinp Valuable Minerals! Ia,Irio Call i .-wt q Concessionaires to Produce To th'Empkk „` Salt by 1930; Petroleum and Potash Deposits 'R. AQ , found Jerusalem—The Dead Sea is nevi ing a tretigure trove /of valuable min- eral deposits for tire. Angio -Palestine :syndicate that obtained the eances- sion for the Gait deposits, Premninanl, experiments have ale most 'been completed and an expan- sion now is being planned: Produce tion for the Eastern, market is to be- gin in 1930. The experiments now being made in tiro laboratories at the Dead Sea aim at accelerating the pro- cess of evaporation, • The boat of the sun alone is• responsible for 75 per cent, of the actual produetion at pies' ent. tang bave proposed taking over the Teo :,Palestine mining syndicate, the land and properties and converting research department of the emcee,• the one-time feudal holding into pale siouaries, also has extended its opera - lie lands administered by the govern- tions to the minerals that lie ;in the ment, The proposal is based on the land about, the sea. - Petroleum der theory that the land wee originally posits have been discbvered,'but their grhitted by the throne to Coufuclus as value and extent have not been 'de - a feudal estate and since the day of termiued. It is not known whether i;euddaalisnl and monareluy' in China etas passed, the property should revert to the present government. Protest Addressed to World The telegram of protest was.sent to Chen Huan-chang, president of the Confucian Association in Peiping, but its text is addressed to the world. In part 41 follows: "Although the title of duke, sacred heir of Confucius, has long been can- celled of my own accord, the forest • mer might be met by transferring the land attached to the sacred temple living quarters of tlie workers (Luring n a cooler lace o esls months •- the tt m s to e� h the land provided for theP and e A penses of worship of Confucius, the and driving. the men in cars to the Iibrary and other properties have. site of work. been hereditary property of the des-' ceudants of ConEuciue . through ,suc• forthe last 2000 Winter Preece Stops Work cessive ,generations o ' Newest Port years, On Canada's i`�evles "It is therefore astonisbing that Winnipeg, Man. Where hundreds Tsai Yuan -pet, delegate of the Nation••toE men crave toiled during the sum- al government, contemplates confis• 1 mer mmrth:, plan iirtg cud building eating my properties. and illegally dis- i Canada's u„west part. Churchill, 1,000 the petroleum is deposited In permear� ble layers or in basins, Boring opersr pursued, We owed everything es the tions are very costly, each trial bore war to the degree of our 'Union, Since costing 820,000 to £25,000, • then we have been more split and The potash deposits along the shore cross split than in any pre-war per€ocl also are being investigated to deter- by :party compileatiens and class toe. mine their value, It Is the intention tentions, of the mining syndicate to set tip sep- The Surrender to 011 crate companies for' the exploitation Whatever else we fought about, a 01 each of the various minerals. National Program for neconsiruetion The climatic difficulties that may and development, for employment and interfere with the work in the sums Empire,' ought to 'have been framed long ago, and carried forward by suc- cessive Governments irrespective at party. Here is where. we agree whole- heartedly with the spirit and admire the vision of; Mr. Lloyd ,George. To his everlasting credit, his thought has been faithful to the duty of construc- tive patriotism bequeathed to us be the war. One thing he sees—that the greatest • economic mistake we ever, made as a nation, except mu' decline in agriculture, was our tame surreu- miles not,h to Winnipeg, all is now der to oil, instead of invoking anti en posing of them. The right of heritage: c The "King of Churchill," Georre tans to the utmost, no matter what Kydd, :es€dezu enginteer of tete de - utilization cost, to conquer oil by the higher pariment of railways, his retinue and utilization of coal whether in. Elie pub builders have departed anti .only aver€zed form or otherwise. The Vast Problem of Empire Britain to Stand or Fall ok, How She is Able to Con. front Present Economic Situation Pleasure Craze Must Ga 1•,, London.—J. I,, Carvin, famous edife or of The London Observer,, pidll£she; the following important article, in films piro reconstruction and developnrentii, 'S a have to couteucl,with an nuex: aligned number and variety of cons fusions without and within. Tho disc tt'aeticus el' Empire and the lone de. lay in. settlingAnglo-American 'rela- tions have relonatedly and eerie:n-1e diverted ow attention from 'home tasks. Worse,just when we required the: strongest reelprncating action of Government in the old way, our his- toric two-party system broke up. A:' three -party sytem is the most weak- ening of all. 'Where there are :mora groups, combinations are compelled and, as.in France and Germany, a more oontinuons national policy is has been right enjoyed natnrallyanct' silent ouraging our scientists and toohnic- is recognized by law. All people un- der the Repubiic of China enjoy this right and I cannot itnd any reason why the family of the sage should not enjoy the same right cE inheritance few pioneers remain to face what is of property, hoped will be the last winter of "isola- tion" for the Port of Churchill. Asks Cancellation of Order 1 Last week the "Muskeg Special," "Therefore, I, Teh•cheng, lodge rets, the famous north country passenger train of the Hudson Bay Railway, which iras Churchill for its terminus, left the port for The Pas, its last journey of the season. From now on, except for the arrival of an occasional mall by dog team from Mile 325, Churchill is shut off from civilization until the builders re- turn in the spring. Wind-blown snows surround Churchill torday, while October 29, 1929." the bay is frozen over and an ice coat- The oat The Confucian estate is estimated at more than 16,000 acres. complaint with the government and earnestly request the government to cancel the order refeer'iug to the Illeg- al disposal of my proprtiss, with a view of preserving human rights and safeguarding justice. Your favorable reply is respectfully awaited. "Signed by Kung Teh-cheng, sev- enty-seventh descendant of Confucius, and others of that sacred family, The Social Services New Statesman (London) : The pro- omess of democratic sentiment and the advance of education have inevitably strengthened the belief in, and the de- mand for, a greater measure of econ- omic and social equality, a higher standard of life for the poor. The difficulties in the way of getting this may be great, but it is vain to pretend that they are insurmountable. Nor is the British worker likely to he kept content with poverty and all its con- sequences by being reminded how much superior his lot is to that of a Chinese coolie or an Esthonian laborer. Equally unconvincing is the hallowed truism that you cannot get a quart out of a pint pot, e'er though the pint pot will only.hold a pint, it need not be emptied on the basis of one man tatting three gills from it and the other one. Britain Builds Great Plane as Well as Huge Dirigibles . w. l .f: tkf9a�Ni.. � � . a � �,� , •�cfrr ^ ,�7q.. � � i a'�'� <+ � "'�� a`''i3'i«;r�` 5 ,ns� i 1. 1 tt sem b n: y ,uu •f O 0 3 4. ' a' R Y3'n d s. MI dire It t ur •i 3 w (• .9 $d �. i Ar d c , cr. iand Youth, iiddo it I rim e'cb phi ,z. e on 1 r w.m ° "tlArain Lewis s? g' . g agy , Ca gA' P p with all its life tSefore it, while think- he wrote x10 nix last June artd melted c' - ._- -- -- - --- - ---- -"R_.... .- , ---• --a�; fug little of tm0 futures has yet one me 1f 1( would speak at dues mee6ing6- • ambition that 'savors all the rest -the "My 11'nglish waebad, bwt sehe bsto 1AND '�t141 EF1 extension of its possibilities to the invited me, and I felt tbieib fit :srt6l AIR COLOSSUS ALREADY, TO TAKE 14 Ma ,Br ITS QUAL ELEMENTS A clot S ' 1 a !night,.frac and: perfect do in Ile'.oldru t'ha vconnds.od' ya`'a$' - . °%:d 111, rant all -meta] Royal Air Iros'e' Seapitne, just before it wee lapelled and ,piit through test at ouge, lay p and bringing a19, IOn�glishn50s1 kind tet., recently. 7t Nen Carry 28 pereone. a Jag has spread across the Churchill River. "If a dentist were about to be swal- lowed by a whale what do you think he'd say?" "He'd say, 'Open your mouth a tle wider, please." Nursery Schools Saturday Review (London) : (Nurs- ery schools for working-class children are seriously needed.) The working- man's home may be the working -man's castle. But the street, a few bedrooms and a living room provide poor school- ing for working -men's children. In- deed, unless unusual care is taken, small homes, ignorant parents, and unhealthy streets provide just the kind of schooling to teach unintelli- gent and intelligent children to mud- dle along with habits whieh recognize no delight in order or £n discipline, in clarity or expression or in knowledge, The money spent upon providing for extra education at adolescence when these children arrived at school with the characters permanently deformed by home surroundings is almost cer- tain to be chiefly wasted. British Industrial Progress Wickham Steed in the Review of Reviews (London) : re are convinced that, given a spirit of co-operation be - tweets wage-earners and industrialists,. there are no limits to the improvement that can be made in our national posi- tion within a few years; and that the force of the example thus set will be felt throughout the world. Partly beeause of the unquestionable diffi- euiitios with which this cotltttry has nee the wee, and partly frees laced si a n y of nationel habit of tits - because our a eussine these difficulties downhearted- jy, the impression has come to prevail that England is but the shadow of her former self: and is doomed to steady decline. This innprescioit we believe to be wholly misleading. England isnot on the "down grade." Tho worst 10 Inver, but the best is still to come As for the vast problem of the Env- piro, there are two aspects to be con- stantly remembered if we are to re- adjust ourslves thoroughly to, new needs and bring the whole force of our statesmanship to bear on them. Purely political ideas of closer union are out of date. Thera is the more need to organize and encourage in every way closer economic intercourse and mutual ser- vice, both scientific and commercial. The wide tropical dependencies of the Crown offer an invaluable field for systematic enterprise. The other question, and it Is of pro- found importance, concerns the .Bri- tish birth rale and the future of -emi- gration. Already the birthrate in Great Britain has fallen below the French—a thing that before the war no one conceived, But in France there Is a strong and useful fight against the falling tendency, Some greater movement of that kind will have to arise here;, and the Dominions responding will have to relax their tariffs to ensure their growth fu the decades coming. Large Scale Organization Behind it all there are the letei:ee- tual and spiritual questions. It is by the answers to them that Britain will stand or fall. The intellectual i,M:z is whether the English people who ex• celled in the age of individualism can rise generally and speedily to that modern necessity for large-scale or- ganization and consolidation filly grasped and applied by both America and Germany; and whether thewhole of our future education is to be more largely of a scientific character. Craze for Pleasure Above all, there is the spiritual question. Throughout society from top to bottom we mast restore a bet- ter balance between the craze for, pleasure, including all kinds of sport, and devotion to work. The Iesson n8 that balance is the best lesson which the Germans can teach -us to -day, for with all their instructed diligence and striving zeal for thoroughness, they, are not a less happy people, Ey dee votion to work they have •retrieved all. In another way the famous French energy is as keen as it ever was, perhaps keener. This is deeply a spiritual question, though not usual•. 11 tailed by that name. Finally, wri must learn again to love our land ask our forebears dill—to 'think of it al" ways—to serve it always with our, whole hearts and with our whole • minds, 0 Hindering Britain's Export 11 Trade ;!) London Daily Mail (Ind. Conte a, I Our .manufacturers have dobe won. dere, but we are bound to say that ail' no point have they been helped by otre i, pelitieians. At the present moment 1 i*resideet Hewer in the United States ov is convening aconferenNe of busin 11101210 dal wltli the eltnation erewbe ' by the Wall Street Collapse, Though that collapse mush O,f ect tbd0 country we hear of no similes, mosseres hareZ. On the contrary, both owe parties ate busy bidding` against caw another bribe the Britishi voter with xeektds social service expehttki(urt,'5,