Evening star., 1924-06-22

The American world flyers were
able to proceed to- Saigon, Cochin
China, June 16. Lieut.. Lowell H.
Smith. commander of the expedition,
who had been forced to land in n
lagoon near Hue, the capital bf the
French protectorate of Anam, was
enabled to make the necessary re-
pairs and rejoin the flight at Tourane
through the excellent cooperation of
the United States Navy.
The route which was followed from
Tourane to Saigon was along the
coast of Anam and Cochin China.
provinces of Indo-China. The dis
tance, $50 miles, was flown in six
hours tnirty-fve minutes, and the
flight landed safely at Saigon, the
most important commercial city of
French Indo-China. though not the
capital. Hanoi, in the province of
Tonkin, is the seat of government Of
French Indo-China. Enroute the
flight passed over picturesque and
historic coast
Trnyersed Famed HnrbOr.
Kamranh Bay, 325 miles south OF
Tourane is the wonderful harbor
which became famous during the
Russo Japanese war. 1t was at this
rendezvous that the Russian admiral,
RoZhestvenSkf, with the great fleet
which had sailed from the Baltic
around the Horn. was reinforced by
Admira Nebogatov with his fleet.
from Libau and which had come
through the Suez Canal to join him
in Asiatic waters. The combined
Russian fleets left Kamranh Bay May
IA. 1905. for Vladivostok. Port
Arthur had fallen and the Japanese
were waiting for the Russian fleet.
On the 27th of May the Russian fleet
under Rozhestvenski met the Japa-
nese fleet under Admiral Togo in
Tsush9na Straits, between Japan and
Korea Cchosen) and after naval
battle which lasted about twenty hours
the entire Russian fleet, with few
exceptions, had either been captured
or sunk.
Haven for Pirates.
The shores Of French Indo-China
from Tourane, south, were for a time
the temporary rooSt of Malay pirates,
after the Dutch had succeeded IN
discoura ging their activities in the
extreme southeastern portion OF the
China Sea and the Gulf of Siam. The
coast MalayS enjoyed long ana
fruitful piratical career. They would
Swoop down upon unsuSpecting trad
shore. from the mouths of rivers and
hidden lagoons, and sometimes, when
they had reason to expect rich
prize, would lay boldly in wait with
great fleets of well manned prOas.
They were the terror of the coast
wise traders throughout the entire
China Sea, until American and Eu-
ropean war vessels forced them to
abandon their practices. Forced to
abandon their rowing and lawlesS
habiS, the Malays settled to the less
exciting occupation of agriculture
and trade, and along the coasts many
of the tribes have reached a rather
high state of civilization.
Once Active in Country.
The Malay race. or the Orang
Malayu, inhabit the Malay Peninsula,
the Malay Archipelago, Borneo,
Sumatra, Celebes, the Philippine Is
lands. and numerous small islands in
the China Sea, and only a few scat
tered families are now found along
the eastern shore of the Gulf of Siam
and the coast of Indo- China. At one
time the Malay race played a splen-
did part in the history of Asia, and
carried out a great trade with the
other peoples of the orient. but they
ara now divided into distinct tribes,
recognizing no central head.
The intellect of the present-day
Malay varies from the savagery of