NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1918, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL

jj SHIP IN 648 HOURS. i X'.S.A. CHALLENGES BRITAIN. : ' NEW YORK, May l3f The newspapers accord groat prornin «ence in their news and editorial column; do the feat of Robert Farrant, the rivet ■or, in Fraser and Fraser’s yard ai Bromley-by-Bow, London. J The score achieved by Farrant of -1,261 5 rivets in 0 hours was cabled just as tiu • shipping authorities were making public “now world’s records” established !jn American yards. All these “ world’s ' records ” have been placed in the shade by Farrant’s performance. Since Chan. Shock drove 2,720 rivets in 9 hours at Baltimore, Edward Gibson and his gang at the Federal Shipbuilding Company’s yard at. Kearney, New Jersey, have driven 2,919 Jin. button-head rivets in

:a ship’s floor in 8 hours while John ■Corrigan, at Detroit, has rolled up a score of 3,415 and William Hartz, at Chicago, a score of 3,055 rivets in 9 hours. To-day the “New York World ” pays an editorial tribute to Farrant, and after predicting that American riveters will strain their utmost energies to beat his record, flings a challenge to the British yards in tho following words:—“A : ship is the sum of many rivets and : much other work, the goal of effort, the I first object in all Entente eyes. There- ! fore let the crack workmen of the British yards mediate upon the feat of tlvo Now York yard in Camden, New Jersey, in launching a 5,548-ton steel ship in 27 days. Here is a sporting proposition —and all for the war. Let our British brother match our 648-hour ship while we seo about his 4,267 rivets in » j 9-hour day.” j i EX-SOLDIER RIVETER, j CLYDE BEATS LONDON. j LONDON, May 16. j

The Clyde has beaten London’s riveting record, an ox-soldier named Thoma s Devine at Beafdmore’s Dalmuir Yard driving in 4,422 rivets in the side of a ship in nine hours. Robert Farrant's record at Bromley-by-Bow was 4,276 rivets in a tank in the same time.

Col. Faber., M.P., offered £25 to tho first riveter in tho United Kingdom to beat Farrant’s figures.

CLYDE. RIVETER’S RECORD,

LONDON, May 16

Daniel Dovinoy, the ex-soldier riveter on the Clyde who Seat Robert Farrent’s 'London riveting record, is a fine upstanding workman of 38. From the start to tho finish Deviney’s labours were officially supervised, and the figures are officially returned after checking as 4,422, which is 146 better than the London performance. Ho put every rivet in himself with tongs. No person touched a single rivet until he “ staved ” it with the machine. Laughingly he said he would not care to do so much for six days of the week.

Joining the Army in 1915, he has been released from service to work on munitions.

A SECRET TREATY

GERMAN CONTROL OF POLAND.

YE VET, Alay 16.

The “ Lausanne Gazette” publishes the following information which it states has been received at Lausanne from Petrograd, through a source guaranteed to- be reliable :

A secret treaty concerning Poland has been signed between Germany and Russia at Brest-Litovsk. The following are its principal points: Germany obtains absolute political control over all Poland.

Russia agrees to raise no objection in case Germany desires to annexe mining districts in the Governments of Petrokov, Kiolcc, and Suvaliki. Russia undertakes not to oppose special dispositions concerning the possession of the petroleum fields of Galicia.

Germany undertakes not. to oppose Russian Socialist propaganda in Poland. •Russia promises at tho general conference to support Germany s view that the Polish question is entirely ft German one and not an international one.

GERMAN DENATURALISED. U.S.A. WAY AYITII PRO-HUNS. HEW YORK Alav 15. The district court at Newark, New Jersey, yesterday revoked the naturalisation papers of'FreiWick W. Wursterbartli, formerly postmaster of Passaic C’ountv, Now Jersey. Wursterbart was naturalised 35 years ago. Witnesses testified that he had frequently expressed the hope that Germany would win the war. The verdict of the court, which reconverts him to German citizenship, was based on the established fact thnt he obtained American citizenship under false pretences by swearing that he would be loyal to the United States. Using this ease as a precedent, tho Government proposes to revoke tho citizenship of all persons born in Germany and other enemy countries who do not respect their oath of allegiance.

FRENCH AIR ALAN’S FEAT

0 HUN PLANES IN A DAY PARIS, May 18 When Lieut. Frank Fonck, now the foremost of French military airmen, entered his machine yesterday mornins he said, rcferrins to a comrade who had been shot down by the C<eimans. “To-dav l hope Chaput is going to be richly revenged.” I* onclc kept his word. As to-day s communique announces, he brought down no fewer than six enemy machines in two ascents—the first 2 within 10 seconds, the third 5 minutes later, and 3 others during his second ascent. Fonck, who is only 24, had already avenged the death of Guynenier, the “star” of the French Flying Corps. He has never been wounded or had his machine damaged by his opponent’s fire. Still more remarkable, he holds what is perhaps the world’s record of having forced a German airman to land in the French lines simply by manoeuvring and without firiug a shot. He has 19 bars on his War Cross. Fonck has now brought down 42 Hun machines. The British Captains H. W. Woollett and Trollope have also shot down G machines in a day.