New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1923, Page 11

STORMS TAKE HEAVY TOLLON ATLANTIC| Many Ships Have Been Stranded and Runs Have Been Delayed New York, Jan, 24 (By Associated Press) ~The hurricanes, whole gales, half gales and storms which have been sweeping the Atlantie for nearly two menths, have spent their foree, the weather bureau reports, but in their wake they have left stranded and sunken ships, unsolved and mys- terious tragedies of the sea, and @ series of “delayed runs” for trans- atlantic liners which has not been equalled sinee war days, Worst Month of Year, Now comes the worst month of the year, January brings more vicious pounding gales to Atlantio ships than any other, Dut the Weather bureau joins with maritime experts, this year, in the belief that it cannot possibly equal the late November to January 1 record, That seven week period which came 1o its end January 7 left a rec. ) ord hard for any like period to ap- proach, The Atlantic claimed 12 ships: it took 28 men to their deaths; it made 23 giant liners more than 12 hours late-=most of them were from 2 to 3 days behind schedule—and it left the unsolvable mystery of what happened to eight other ships. In addition there were accidents or near accidents on the Sea of Mar- mora, the Pacific, the Great Lakes, the Baltic sea—but the hurricanes which crossed the Atlantic were the worst, Schoopers Fail to Report, Seeretary Hughes brought the first great hurricane with him when he returned from South America in No- vember, It swept out from behind Bermuda with a force of more than 100 miles an hour, It tore across the Atlantie, hit the French coast and tore right back again, And on No- vember 28 there began to be reports of trouble at sea. I'ive Canadian fishing schooners failed to report that day. “Anxiety is felt for them,” said the despatches. Latér four got in; the fifth is in the list of missing ships. On the same day a bootlegger went to pieces on Long Island, and resi- dents of the vicinity got most of the cargo, according to the prohibition agents. Towards night a bottle was washed up on Long Island with the story of six men wfio had ilought death two weeks in an open boat. Two days later the Italian liner Presidente Wilson crept into quaran- tine here, and with her came the first reports of what actually was hap- pening out on the Atlantic. “Storms?” sald her officers, “storms? We have never experienced anything like it. The gale at times was 120 miles an hour.” For seven weeks since then incom- ing liners have told the same story. So often has it been retold that it had to he a-particularly desperate fight to get jnto, the news, . .o : + Bears of Fight. But from then until January 7 hardly a ship entered New York har. bor that did not show the scars of its fight. - And dally there were re- portsiof 8 O B received of founder- ing ships, of boats driven on unpro- tected ehores, of liners with passen- gers battened in to keep them safe from waves which'crashed over smoke stacks—in short, of everythigg terri- ble the sea can do. On December 24 the liner Presi- dent Garfield brought in a three-mas- ter she had towed from off Nantucket. The Rose Ierlita, the schooner, was in a bad way #hd her crew was starv- ing. Two days later the Menominee, another liner, came in three days late with a fishing crew of four. Those men had fired their schooner, which was leaking and crumbling under them. Many Are Late. Such great ocean travelers as the Caronia, the Berengaria, the Olympie, the Majestic, the Zeeland, Samland and many others, came in, all days late. They told of terrific battles with the waves. La Savoie of the French line reported 100 mile gales and 90 foot waves. Ships put into Halifax to get out of trouble. On December 28 small boats crashed to the beaches near New York harbor. They were all {ll- fated bootleggers. The Heinrich Kayser, a freighter, joined the mystery ships on Decem- ber 6. 4?1 wireless from her said her rudder chains were broken. She was drifting. There was a full gale. With a crew of 42 aboard she is still miss- ing. Her owners at last are ready to admit her a probable loks. The Valencia, a freighter came in January 8 with a story of two dead and 19 hurt because a cable drum was torn loose by a huge wave and #cnt crashing among the crew. The weather bureau says it cannot estimate the average force of the gales for those seven terrific weeks. “Well, 75 miles is not too low,” says the bureau.” It is probably nearer 85. But be conservative, for 76 mile gales blowing almost con- stantly for seven weeks is pretty close to a record for the Atlantic.” Jungle-fowl in Australla buil? nests about 15 feet high and 150 feet in circumference. WANTS ENGLISH COMMON ' LANGUAGE OF PHILIPPINES Governor General Leonard Wood Looks Forward to One Tongue for Natives. Manila, Jan. 24.—The establish- ment of English as the common lan- guage of the Phiilippine Islands and | a,system of universal military train- ing in Philippine universities, eol- leges and higher schools aré subjects !nl great importance to the people of | “The people speak the islands in the opinien of Govern- different dialects and these fram one | “ranish or the diaieots or General Thankskiving disadvantages. One is due to their residence on many different islands, are overs preventing a quiek assembly for pur- poses of defense, and the other, he even in as highly developed a coun- | declared, is due to the faet that there try as Fngland Spanish will ens i3 no great common language, dure, We can develop English with- ] A B A K AR JT TR T PR U I I T Teonard Woed. In a portien of the islands often cannol strivieg for is Day statement, §ov: understand the pe from ijother,” possible language condition o Oeneral Wood saild the people declared Governor General Wood, | people of the iglands so there may be of the Philippines labor under two “This s & great source of weakness, |a free transmission of ideas and a but hap one which we can and medium through which all the ng. The dialects wiil live | ple ean be reached. As it is new, in' hitterly resented by foreign business- just as the local dialeots have lived | order to have a message reach the men here have at last been attagked people of the islands it is necessary by the Japanese themselves. to publish it in many different dia The Japanese Exporters’ assoclation NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1023, e leets. & number of out lacking in appreciation of either PONTAL RATES What we are to eslablish the Lest Japanese Merchants Voice Protest for the Against High Rates in Poree, Yokehama, Japan. Jan, 24.—High postal rates charged by the Japaness o+ | government whieh have for lopg been has made representations to the gov- n |-.umen| pointing out that while the! Niagara Palls, in wearing away, has United States and Brilain some time | reeeded ahout seven miles AP0 raised foreign postage rates T | shightly in accordance with the reso lution passed by the Internationa mLE§ woubles; use nightly— C Postal convention held at Madrid in November, 1920, the Japanese gov : | ernment in January this year doubled the foreign postage. With the ex ception of France and Germany, ne country has raised the foreign post. [ 1-]) "7 Jon JAge to 80 great an extent as Japan SUBURBAN DAY Is Steiger's—and the Suburban p: p'e are coming here more and more each day. 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