G. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER, APPRAISER.
AND SURVEYOR,
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INTIMATIONS
THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND OF ONE
ADOLLAR par Spare for the six months ending June 30, 1919, will be PAYABLE on TUESDAY August 5, on which date Dividend Warracti may be obtained on application at the Com- pany's Office.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from WED: NESDAY July 30 to TUESDAY, August. 3, both days inclusive, during which period no Transfer of Shares can be registered.
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By Order of the Board of Directors,
JOHN ARNOLD,
Acting Secretary, Hongkong, July 2, 1919.
SHELL TRANSPORT & TRADING CO., LTD.
WE
WE have heen request.by the
above Company to announ that New Shares will be issued at par to ebareholders on the 16th June, 1819, ia the proportion of ONE new share for every TWO old shures, fractions being disregarded.
Holders of BEARER Warrante should deposit their holdinga not later than the 9th August 1919, ccompanied by payment of the equivalent of £1 Sterling for each new ab are claimed, with their Bankers who will stamp the warrants on the face thereof with the words.BIGHTS CLAIMED 1919."
Registered shareholders. should pay to their Backera the equivalent of 21 Sterling for each new share claimed, not later them the 9th August, 1019.
FOR THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION.
N. J. STABB,
Chief Manageri
Hongkong July 25, 1919
HONGKONG TRAMWAY CO.,
LIMITED (Incorporated in the United Kingdom.)
NOTICE 13 HEREBY GIVEN that
aa INTERIM DIVIDEND of NINE PENCE per Share on account of the year 1919 has been declared.
Tas DIVIDEND will be payable on and after MONDAY, the 25th day of August, 1919, to Shareholdere on the Register on MONDAY, the 11th day of August, 1919, and will be paid to Shareholders on the Colonial (Hong- kong) Register at the exchange rate of 36 par Dolar.
By Order of the Board,
W. E. ROBERTS,
Secretary
Hoogkong, July 29, 1919
A. S. WATSON & CO, LIMITED,
NOTICE.
WING to the greatly increased price of Sugar, the price of all our SWEET waters will be advanced ûve cents per dosen, at from this daze, until further notice.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
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EPISODE AT SEA AFTER VISIT-
ING COLOMBO,
A JOB ON THE ADEN PATROL.
'Turritella, London. Runs fol British Admiralty, Port Said, for -orders."
What manner of ship was this, who speit her name at one time with an O and one R, and at another time with a U and two R's? And that expression, Rans for British Ad- miralty.". Would an English mer
Chant skipper talk about the British Admiralty? Would he not 'say, "Under Admiralty charter," or some such phrase?
The signal lamp of the unknown vessel began to scintillate again.
"Who are you?" ran the simple message.
There was certainly a directness about the question suggesting a bluff old English skipper:
At the beginning of March, 1917, writes a Naval correspondent of the The Times, I was in H.M.S.-01 the Aden Patrol-a dull job, as all patrolling jobs are. But we did not pretend to be pining for the more thrilling occupation of searching for the German raider Wolf. Her guns! could outrange the guns of our little ship so effectually that, had we met her, we should probably have been A British man-of-war," was our blown out of the sea before we could answer. A little later we followed it put a shot anywhere near her, and, up by a peremptory order to the frankly, we had no great desire to stranger to stop. When the signal meet her. About 10 one evening a lamp began to flicker again, it seem signalman appeared at the wardroom ed to show just a triffe of hesitation. door with a message from the bridge "Why did you not stop me when.
"From the officer of the watch, I was passing Aden?
Meadows, sir. Ship on the starboard bow show-Master." ing no lights."
His meaning was plain enough. "Probably, an old tramp scared We could have ordered him to stop cut of his wits, by these yarns about when we first sighted him, when we the Wolf," suggested someone. were within range of the shore bat "All these merchantmen are going teries, and when there were British about without lights nowadays." men-of-war lying just round the The Captain and the Navigator corner inside the harbour. He evid went up to the bridge, where they ently suspected us of being the Ger were presently joined by the first man raider. All these merchantinen Lieutenant. The moon was nearly were in a state of high nervous ten fall, casting a white track across the sion. The mere fact of being ordered daric blue carpet of the sea. It was to stop was enough to make him run the kind of night, that brings back as hard as he could. It was clear ORDER ies of a Thames regatta, of that we could not overhaul him. The lounging in a well cushioned punt only question was, had we sufficient and listening to a good band. To grounds of suspicion to justify us in connect such a night with German taking steps to compel him to stop? raiders, guns, mines, and torpedoes No one cares to go to the length of was quite impossible; the whole set-firing on a strange merchantman in ting was entirely wrong.
the middle of the night unless there The mysterious ship was now two are grave reasons for doing so. And points on our port bow, and about if this fellow was,upt British mer three miles ahead. A thick volume chantman, as he professel, what else of smoke pouring from her funnel could he be? suggested that she was in a hurry, or at all events was not disposed to He might be the Wolf. It was at be sociable with us We had been least a possibility. In that casa the ambling along comfortably at eight prospect of an engagement opened knots; the order was given to inup visions of a glorious death, but
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STRANGE, MESSAGE.
Wireless messages were sent to the other ships of the patrol, stating the circumstances and the position, course and speed. The first watch was over The officer, who had been relieved,
T
The officer just relieved from the bridge became meditative.
"There was something funny," he said, even about that fast signal ashing us why we did not stop him at Aden. The signalman tells me that he first spelt Aden with a "t' and then corrected it."
Even the technicalities of a flag wagger may be fraught with im portance. When a messenger came down from the bridge to say that the ship on the port bow seemed to be drawing away from us, the Captain sent back a message to the oficer of the watch to put on the best speed he could. The little ship began to throb with her exertions, while her funnel grew red hot.
Just before the morning watch the moun. went down, and darkness fell upon the face of the waters. It was evident that we had gained very little, if at all, on the stranger. The Captain, leaning over the bridge rail, sang out for the signalman
Make, 'It you do not stop I shall fire."
Ay, ay, Sir."
"If you-do-ngt-stop I shall fire." The signalman shutter on the final word. with Closed his
a snap. There followed a few minutes of suspense. Then came the answer,
"I-am stopping now.
"Number One, tell them to stand by the searchlight," said the Captain to the first Lieutenant. "Signalman, tell him to place bis navigation lights."
Very promptly in response to the signal the lights appeared upon the strange ship.
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are, I will board you at daylight."
"Now make, Remain where you When the distance between the ships had been reduced about a mile, the order was giver. to switch on the searchlight. The great white strea shot across the sea until it settled on the mysterious craft. In large letters across her stern ran the legend, "Turritella, London."
"I believe I have been fooled after all said the Captain to himself. The searchlight also revealed a party shoving off inboat, presumably containing an irate skipper, wanting to know what the blank blank all this business meant, for in Eastern waters they were not accustomed to it. Presently there came a strange yoice through a incgaphone from the Switch off that danced search-
́ ́. SIGNAL LAMP, SCINTILLATES, The shutter of our signal lamp began to rattle. What ship is that? or
The signalman had to repeat the question twice before he evoked and dropped into the wardroom for a stranger's bridge......
answer. A Maan yg pa
Toritella was the belated reply.
What nationality?" we asked promptly. ":"Eritish," was the answer,
**What are your signal letters?" - was our next questioned to be |«ZJEKLAcame the answer, N
List, but without success.
We hunted up the name in Lloyd's
te before turning in. As he lighted up he remarked, "I shouldlight like to get hold of that old merchant
"He seems to be getting a bit skipper and give him a piece of my ratty. Shall I switch off?" mind."
The question is," observed one of
UEFRISE FOR THE Patrol,
the pensive members of the mess, The order was given, and darkness " whether he would understand your prevailed once more. Some minutes language. They are not all good later the Eastern sky began to glow. linguists."
feebly at first, casting 'a 'kind of half- It was an observation which 'clear light over the face of the sea-a me ly needed amplifying
glimmer in which objects appeared "If you were an English skipper without shape. Out of this gloom under the impression that you were there arose sucu a бabel of sound as the patient signalman. This time being chased by a German raider, brought us all to the ship's side.
Are you sure you have got bis same right, signalman? Ask him again. (now
What is your name asked
the mysterious stranger expanded would you expect himvio go on chas volubly,
wing you for two hours without firing?"!
"Continued on page 9.)
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1919.
NOTICES.
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