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SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1919
TO-DAY'S CABLES.
Henter's Service to the China Mait
(Continued from Page 10
A FRAGMENT
AMERICAN POSITION.
masketsu
THE WAVE OF CRIME
[BY FRANCIS GMBBLE]
FAST PASSAGES OF SAILING SHIPS.
!
THE CHINA MAIL.
"BOLSHEVISM" AT SEA. · ordered to proceed to Aden to take
►
STRANGE STORY OF THE
"GABEONZE-
in fresh supplies. She went there, but lound that neither ice nor water were procurable, and with still fur- ther curtailed supplies she had to make her way to Colombo. At this The "Gablon:" carried over 160 stage, and under such conditions, it demobilized officers, among whom might have been expected that the was Lieur. V. J. Holland, M.C.ew would get to work seriously, RFA., who prior to the war was in but it made not the slightest differ the Statistical Department of the ence. The speed of six knots con- Customs. Interviewed on his arrival cinued, and in order to leave ample at Shangbai, Mr. Holland stated that water for the children of whom the members of the crew, Italians, there was a considerable number apparently, and Chinese, had been aboard, the male passengers ceased six years in the service of the Aus-bathing and washing.
All the time meetings were taking trian Lloyd. At Tibury there was
During the last few weeks there For whatever dolos puemployment have been some remarkably fust may be ride, the people who earn passage of sailing vessels from or the'r lining a the criminal courte
seus to New Zealand poets, in some Commous complain that they arse cou- cases the distance between the two led to eat the brenhof idleness: ports having been accomplished in They, at all events, are busive than the that would put anary steamers they have been for a king time-to shatte (rays the Auckland Star) busy, led thuit the st of the The records that have been establish LONDON, Aug 26. Here is another fragment of immung is gesting anxious and a many, each captain striving A. Geddes speech at Basingstoke. He asking questions: What, it would ke or superiority. In the majority of refuted the idea that American & know, is the meaning of siris sud uses the fast passages have been goods would food our
den wave of ertar which is sweep-accomplished with the lenents in an armed guard on board to prevent place in the well deck, and speeches pointing per that America is in the over the tamat be it merely of the web's aveur, with the wind them going ashore. It was the in- were delivered. Unfortunately the unhappy (i) position of possessing is it a sign of moral and the tiles in just the required tention to take a considerable quan- passengers were unable to get the limeeto As one old captain state,tity of ammunition on board for the gist of these, being in a strange ton- so much that there was little she degeneration and a petent of in-
there is nothing going to sow in British forces at Vladivostock, but the Sue. The result of such meetings wanted. Consequently the money pending in daster?
a stea vessel, there is poetically whole corsignment was not shipped, was a series of deputations to the **Wait amd -ers, appily, exchange between New York and!
no seamanship required, one cils and the "Gablon" sailed with only a captain who had already explained London had moved in her favour. I the only answer wda'el wins be give
to the passengers, how powerless he "Every such movement was himper lo questions at this kind. Optimisses to s of the rope, give the proportion on board on June 25,
This ammunition was an early was to attempt to discipline such ing her power of export We wanted andi pinast kepe in the dark red sig, and the steamer
cause of trouble among the crew. armob. It has been mentioned that America's raw material, hence it in she attempt chipple with them; hins her my to her destination,
At Hongkong was difficult for America to export me of us know how voy the beng practically ungoverned by wind On arrival at Naples the sailors re-at Naples a man came aboard and manufactures.
While with the saing refused to work the boats, and so far addressed the crew. She was selling a metik irans vakioda huve caused the re- great quantities of goods in all the rules of rane will continge there are all the sail to ok to as could be made out their reason the same performance was repeated and the slightest variation in the was that the ammunition was geing and again in Shanghai Mr. Hol European countries which must be paid for in money, with the result
wind requires some siteration in the to Siberia to be used against the land was unable to say who these Bolsheviks. An attempt was made people were: for all the passengers that exchange must move more and
to get over the difficulty, discussions: knew they might have also been more in her favour. This meant that
"The reward of the ship. Dunyre,.** food manufactures from America
Italian Governments, and to make Just before the Gablonz" took 140 tons of pussige of 39 days taking place between the British and emissaries of the Seamen's. League. would be so, dear as almost to be
Sun Francisco to Welling matters worse during nine days in aboard the pilot to come into Shang unbuyable in Europe. Therefore
at any giver mcmbly, which, while a remarkable which the Gablonz remained at hai there were threatenings of The sailors were evidently Europe must work out her own salva tion through hard work and increased fat, are just salely the refection page, nos the fastest, though Naples the food riots were an and trouble.
of a meal stamfaris. They and to each is made in the south shooting was taking place in the production.
No agreement could be diped up the number of criminals port. It probably is the fastest
tably in a position to pursue Pussage to that particular part. In arrived at with the crew on the sub: 1970, the barque Alice Cameron, ject of ammunition, and finally to their sig.
of the Chromlar Faw Line, under the allow the boat to proceed on her During the war, à le proportion command of the late Curtain John journey the ammunition was sent of caur praevitands, both notrell nad Yearing, made the passage from the ashore, only Red Cross material potentiel. were absorbed into other thiklen Gate to Ackland in 31 days being allowed to remain. The pantla za tale ca Some of them were The round voyage to San Francisco"Gablonz, a steamer of 9.000 tons, electing their meter in the and back coupled only 105 days.. therefore proceeded on her voyage trenches; others were concealing it While engaged in the duckhand-yery nearly empty.
MEXICO AND U.S.A.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 26.
The American troops have re- crossed the frontier fram Mexico.
BARLIER TELEGRAMS
THE SHAH.
FANSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 24).
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sowlik," however, we may, at least, avoid exaggeration and try to
the phezurreron in its true per epoeticu mai proportion.
Dhe sheer fiet wird with
to keep in view is this: Our window stationtion.
GC Sent.
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The pre-
streets..
cut for a row with the captain, and knives could be seen flourishing. Fortunately the threat came to nothing, and the passengers were able to land in Shanghai without addition to their already highly exciting experiences.
Regarding the composition of the crew, whom Mr. Holland understood to be Italians, it is stated in another quarter that they are Jugo-Slavs. A The passengers learnt that this Hongkong passenger told us they refusal on the part of the crew had were Czecho-Slovaks A sailor to teen brought about by a body with whom we submitted this story says a name like the International Sea-"Bolsheviks be blowed. They were men's League. Upon the arrival of dagoes, and dagoes is always like the steamer at Naples a man had that come aboard, apparently an emissary of this body, and had delivered an address to the crew, apparently on this subject. This started trouble, which was to continue during the
in maritimo Leteries; and a criminal! ddress not. The a doctor, make urunge-
Syduey trade. the sme vesad mude tuents with a cum tenens when he passage from Syley in five days be billed.
four hours, and the round voyage Grimme mosequeratly krutrex Nerana be the China Mail)' A minsted and sul for under twenty he days from Sydry
pititull themselves on the back, and Axen, and back to Sydney.
The firs Burgun Foter "! Anished that the world was getting | better as the result of the hot. Iften companhaled by Captain W. For the bishops and the ditcday of Suth, once siled from Fremantle string why. But then canal to Newcastle in the record time of denoblesation, reviving the crime days, which is stated to have Inalsa remptations and restoring his ever yet been better. oppertunities. As might have been vous record put up by a sailing ves-remainder of the voyage. Passengers
spected, he joked to the former sel over thui course was made by a and test advantage of the letto, and 600-ton barque, which did the trip the west of us, waking from or in theteen days. On the top of the
"Notero," the Texel averiged 1 de, are now prone to jump to the
ordination that things are worse than notes. A stil more remarkable per hey rdly are, simply because werformance by that vessel was when id so long fondly imagined than she sailed from Lyttelton to Auck- to be better than they really were. hund, wharf whart, in three days five hours. On another voyage the Noterowled from Auckland to Tandag Island, in the fast time of sixteen days, the vessel avenging
pote
The Brew devoting antides to the Aigle-Persion Agreement, deel un alle impuge ad Anglo-Indian aid the work of Persen regeneration, codaning another week at Pink po, where he vistes his, pares daily. A wil the proceed to Haly, Switzerlars, and Prance, whence he wield and for America.
The Ami
He will make a fairly long stay in Bones om ruaning fran America. Bis treur wet as trontis.
SILVER.
Boxman, Aug. 227. sille to paned go that, spot weak 3. fonsand. The market steady,
CHINESE TELEGRAMS.
[Translated for the China Mail from the Wah Faz Yat Pel.
A SK NTC G
DEMNSTRATION,
PERING, August 29.
About 3,000 Shantung students
present
We rhvious consideratius pcb- tably mover a grand charl of the ground. al, thes the net over the whole of
understood from statements made by thecaptain of the "Gablonz"-a native of Trieste that the League rook it upon itself to dictate to shipmasters. who were in such a position that they could not discharge any of the crew during the continuance of a voyage.
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with the artists. advertised to appear Under such auspices the "Gabion" at the Victoria Theatre last evening. left Naples, and very soon cases He also wishes to announce that the accurred of the stokers refusing Globe-Trotters who are in Hong- duty. The climax was reached in hong--will positively appear adver A certain proportion of the
the Red Sea, when on two or three tised, i.e. this evening Peak Club, and crimes which now all so much space
occasions the night watch ceased commencing Monday for a few on one work. The padengers came to the nights at the Victoria Theatre. in the papers are cormatted by then ind w) who would be extreme- occasion sailed from Cupetown to rescue and took a shift in the stake.. lygnant at the suggestion that Calotto in 36 days, and biter on hold, and so the steamer was able they were members of the criminal sued from Calcutta to Lyttelton into continue her course. Worse than rhoses. They are crimes which may 35 days. The full-rigged whip West-his, however, was to befall. Dur of the Patrick Henderson ing the passage of the Red "Sea justly be called the buckwash of war: land,
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TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
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and any sel stedent might, at the Line, sailed from London to Welling sand storms were experienced, and | beginning of tite war, if he had for tor in 72 days, and from Wellington apparently as a result of one of en how long the war would to Astoria in 14 days. In continua-these a light-house could not be Cand o wiata sale it would be tice of her voyage the vessel went righted, and early one morning the Gablonz" ran ashore on the Zebel wugel, have prefaced their occur. La Astoria to London in 70 days, veneer at the end of it. Such
which are stated to be three of the Zukur Island, about 180 miles from dent, might, in shoes, have taken fastest passages ever hade from Ader. It is understood that the and merchants assembled at the very lend at crime separately, and rose porte The Golden Gate captain came on the bridge just be- Sun Wa Gate recently. Their inter-indiertel same specific cause, sursis credited with the remarkable per- fore the accident happened, and see- tion was to ask the President tato be sperating, which would account founce of making two trips foming breakers ahead at once stopped
Public Auction Sale, to San Franciscy to Auckland in 48 the engines. He was not soon enough,PTICULARS and Conditions of the cancel the martial law at
Grimes vignet property, or Voyages of from fifty to sixty however, and the steamer ram ber he held en MONDAY, the 1st day of in force in Shantung
September, 1919, at 3p.m., at the Offices of In this emergency the crew again the Public Works Department, by Order of and to remove General Ma Leung, proplet wud have said, are sure days are common, but in these cases nose 52 ft. on a coral reef. the pro Japanese military comman- to be frequent, because large was not case of merdy walling der from the Shantung Province.bers of people of both sexes and vary from hard to land, but for who
His Excellency the Officer Administering LAND at Findlay Road the Colony of Over 1,000 of them were arrested, ing degrees of honesty will suddenly to wharf, which in the case of a sail
the Government, of One Lot of CROWN The
Hongkong, for a term of 31 years. find themselves inconvenienced by ing ship, is no small task. the nck of money. Crimes again Shaw, Say and Albion siling ves- the person will be frequently taking sch Crusader, is believedt to in place, because war inures men to the record from New Zend to violence and cheapers their estimate ender. The vessel accomplished of the value of heman fife. At the this voyage in 64 days. This record me time, the paolonged separations stated to have never been beaten. Crusader" was a 1,000-tom of husbands from the wives w, in The 4 propation of uses, set up condi- raft and surred about 28 lands tions promative of crimes of victold.
but were soon discharged.
PEKING UNDER MARTIAL LAW. It is reported that martial law was proclaimed in Peking last night.
ANOTHER SECRET AGREEMENT,
A telegram from America states on their return.
that Great Britain and Japan have
already made a 'secret agreement
Brezulły speaking, wo indy say, nol
showed the Soviet spirit, and refused to take part in the work of getting her adrift again.
Fortunately, at Naples, sailors of as auxiliaries, and there with the the "Regina Marina" had been secured
lightening the fore end. They passengers took in hand the work of worked hard shifting aft whatever cargo there was, and the lifeboats
assist. the lightening process. The were anchored out in the surf to "Gablonz" had in the meantime wirelessed for assistance, and in response to the call the str. Ben Lomond" put in an appearance. Pre- sumably the two boats could not
among themselves with regard to feedy that that has happened, but abe China. Kwong Tung and Scechuen flat that is nk that has happened. Erovinces are to come within Great Whatever one may read in the recristomed luxury. Some were agree upon the terms for such assis Pigons, the average man plusein ving' on the Government; others tance, and the "Gablonz" remained, in were living on their admirers. Then no danger, but aground, while the
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no way through life, does not the conditions changed, and the "Ben Lomond" went to the assistance feel that he is living a world of steum of Pactos dried up. The of a Japanese who was also ashore degenerates, given over to masculit majority probably accepted the situa- about two miles away on the same or suffer from any ularning rese oftion, and made the best of it; but island. She towed the Japanese off insetura. He inertly notes that there renamed a ninority who could and then proceeded on her course. There are some Italian merchants the law of causation is operating not bring themselves to poun their The British sloop" Clico had also undertaking to sell arms and pretty much as usual,, with realis ammutitions to China at half the picturesquely reflected in the reports Jewels and fur couts, frequented the arrived from Aden, but she was shops us before-and yielded to unable to bring the "Gablonz" off. On Japanese price. The contracts signed Pike-court proceedings. And
texaptation.
the third day however, an especially by Cheong Chok Eam. the three that first impression is confirmal
Finally, of course, there has been high tide seems to have occured, for Eastern Province; Cheung King Yiuthe which one looks into the matter more sensatioul increase in the number the Gablonz" Ufted herself and Tuchun of Honan and Chiu Chow the detrúf.
of crines öf passion." A propor- floated off, undamaged. the Tuchun of Honam amount to nine
Bigung is, perhaps, the offence tion of the the double suiride
SUPREME INDIFFERENCE.” million dollars. Chu Shu Tsang also most in evidence; und biguany is ease, for instance-seer fairly at While prepared to proceed on the wishes to make a contract but has hardly a emne in the criminologist's tributable to the sort of persis foyage, the crew saw no necessity not come into agreement.
sense of the word. It is really httle brought on by the excitements and for any work in the direction of sav. GAMBATTI Antique Minuet. more than a bit of hypocrisy mexries of use; and the number, of ing the lifeboats which had been BEETHOVER...Rubinstein-Turkish
March. particular expression of the cannge theen case may be expected to anchored in the surf. Once more BoneDITE....In the Convent which sice pays to virtue-common diminish proportionately with the the passengers came to the ship's Chorr Folonize A Flat Major. in England because it is custer to reduction of the strain. Far more assistance. The new Italian sailors getnamied and harder to get painful and for rare distressing to rowed them ashore, and then swim- discred in England that in any de moralet are the care in which ming out, the passengers secured elves a d' guests from No. 1 Bay or the other cried country. Given these husband returns even the dangers the boats and were able to bring
and hardships of war, and finds that them alongside. disqus, a boken in bigariny w curtain when the movements of diers and the megation of minition mblers causa yo miny husbonds
A SUSPECTED BOLSHEVIK
A Russian Suspected Boi- shevik, is being detained by the Police at the central station, probably for having no passport The man will probably be deported,
his wife has been unfaithful during Water had meanwhile been run his absence: These are this cases in ning short, and the “Gablenz”, was which the mentality due to war co ditions comes into ubriously into
play. The sense of wrong is by
SUPPLIED BY ALL CHEMISTS, and wifes to lose sight of each other and the man who feels it has long DHESTEIANS prešetilz()om'erlain's - Shay lifting is another maidemean been dying in onookambunces in which PESCA prominer which would seems to be on tehonan mis is hold of stall account. Catian it relieves cramps in the amach creed, and her again, one bis to he is quick to avenge limself, and and intestinal painis quicker nyttle joolty in my one
prerraltārim kitüy dán compound. It can
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ber of women to liy, for a sus
of use of crime because the exceptional conditions have perused: tleno predictable consequences, are uwag the hangungo of enggeration..
thuede in done, but those who talk
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