SHIPS DUE TO ARRIVE.
TRẦN EUROPE
The 1.1. TSUCER, due bere Apr. 28 from Europe, and sail for Yokobanis vis Tringtao, Nagasaki, Meji and Robe, Apr.
The 3.1. LAERTES, dus here Apr. 29 from Earope and sails for Shanghai Apt.
The .. BURTADES, due borc Hay 1st from Europe and sails for Japan via Taingtou May 2
The 4. TYDEUS, das bere May ish frore Europe and sails for Japan
vis Shanghai May 2
WEATHER REPORT.
April 14d. 113. 100%--No returns. from Japan and Wladivostook..
Pressure has increased moderately in the vicinity of Bhanghai; other charges are slight. The anticyclone has streng thened fresh monsoon will prevail along the China coast, and overs the N. China 806-
Hongkong Eainfall-for-the-24-homes" eading, st 10 am. to-day, 0.03 inch. fotal sloon January Tab, 8.54 kohes, agatost an average of 8.39 Inches.
Forecast for the 14 hours ending at
The 8.8. IDOMENUS, dve here Mayson on the 15th. 1th, and tails for Shangbai May 13.
1.Hongkong to Gap. Book. N.E
The 5.5. TETRABIA, due here May winds, fresh; fair. 16th, and sails for Shanghai Way 17.
The as. TALTHYBIUS, due bore May
3th, and sails for Japan, May 15.
1---Form10SS fresh to strong.
Channel. 5. winds,
The 5.8. HELENUS, due hero biaya-Bouth cost of Obins between, to, and sails for Japan via Shangbai Hongkong and Lamocks. The same as Hay Đi
The 3. AGAPENOR due bere May | No. 1.
Sist, and sails for Japan, Jane 1.
4-South coast of Chins between
The 1.8. PAK LING due here Juas Hongkong and Hainan. The same as th, and soils for Japan, June 10,
The 88. DEUCALION, due beré Jone 12th, and salls for Shanghai, June 13,
FROM AMERICA..
The s.s. COLOMBIA, left San Fran cisco Mar, 5, and is due bere via Heno- lula, Japan, Shanghai and Manila Ape 14.
The sa IXION, left Seattle Mar. 11 and is due bere via Tsingtao, Japan and Manila, April 30,
The s... PROTESILAUS, left Seattle April 3d, andis du hero via. Yokohama, and Kobe May 2.
The 5.8.
VENEZUELA, left San Francisco Apr. 3, and is dee here vis Bouclu, Japan, Shanghai and Manila, May 12.
The ss ECUADOR, leaves San Fran- cisco May 1st, and is dog bere, via Honolulu, Japan, Shanghai and Masila, Jane 9."
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APRIL 14, 1920; —..
Hour.
Barometer
at Sea Level,
'divostock, Ba
Nemuro
todate.. The 5. TYNDAREUS, leaves Seattle Kay 12th, due hers, via Tokohama. Foreckio were n and Manila, June 13.
FROM MANILL
The 8.a. IXION, leaves Manila Apr. 18
and is cue bets Apr. 20.
TES S.B. PROTESILAUS, leaves Manila
May 7 and is due here May 2.
Kochi
Nagasaki.
Kagoshima.
Dorima co Naha...... Ishffima! Bonin Island Welbsiwel. 60. Hankow
(chang .....
71
The s.8. TYNDAREUS, leaves Manila Changala Jane 11th dae here June 13th and leaves for Seattle, via Kobe and Yokchama, June 21.
FROM JAPAN.
The 5.8. TITAN left Yokohama Apr. 4 and is due bere April 13, sailing for Liverpool via Singapore Apr. 15.
The . GREGORY AFOAR left Kobe. Apr. 10 and is due bera v'a Moji
Apr. 18
The *. LYCAON, kit Tokekams Mar. 27 and a due here via. Kobe and Shanghai Apr. 12 sailing for London via Sing pore April 13.
700 5.1. ST. ALBANS, leaves Kobe Apr. 20 and is due here vis Moji Apr. 25. The 2.8. NORE, Jeaves Yokohama Apr, 14 and is dus hore via Kche, Moji and Shanghai Apr. 18.
Temperature.
Humidity,
30.23, 68: 100 Sutra..... 30.24 48 Sharp F.7 20.15 091. Amoy
8.30.08 88 73 Swałow
Talboku.
30.05 61 80 Taichn
29.83 64 Talpan
99.95 64 Koshun...!
19.95 71 Fescadores. 29.97 68 Canton Hongkong. Gap Rock...
H
LACKO Wachows. Pakbol Beihow.. Phalien „ Tourane...
Wind.
30.01 6782) zz 29.97 69 25
29.98
29.95 68.88
99.86
C. St. James Aparri ... 6 a 19.99 Dagupan... Mania...... Legaspi ..... Tacloban... The s.5. MENTOR, left Yokohama follo Apr. 10th and is dos here via Kobe and Surigao Shangbai Apr. 26th, sails for Londoo, Guam Amsterdam and Antwerg, 'vin. Singaporo, Labusi April 27.
The PE, FELEUS, leaves Yokobere Apr. 16 and is dua bere via Shanghai Apr.. , sailing for Liverpool via Singapore Apr. 28.
The A.F.AJAX, leaves Yokohama Apri 12th, due bere via Kobe and Shanghai, April 28th, and sails for Liverpool vis Hanila, Singapore, Cena and Marseilles April 19.
The . NELEUS, leaves Yokohama May 22nd, and is due here, via Kobe and Bhanghai, June 7th, and sils for Londor, Amsterdam and Bamburg, vin Singapore, May 8.
ARRIVALS.
April 14.
The as, DRUFER, Norv., 1,102 tons, from Waha, Capt. 0. Olsen, Thoresen
Co., C13.
The A. ELDRIDGE, Amen, 5,482 tops, from Manila, Capt. C. Borg Admiral Line, A3.-
The 5.3. LUCHOW, Brit. 1,221 tons, from Bangkok and Swatow, Capt. Morse, B. & S.. €39.
The 6.4. CHIPSHING, Brit.1.109 sens, from Tientsin, Capt. G. F. Matthews, J. M. & Co.. C37.
The 8.8 AEONG, Brit, 1,210 tons, from Bwalow, Capt. Pasmore, D., L. & Co., Wharf.)
The ss. NINGPO, Brit, 1,228 one, from Wubu, Capt. Freer, B. & &, C20,
The WEST KIKA. Amer., 8,729 tons, from Shangbai, Capt. Graham, O. E. Richardson Dangerous Goods Anchor
CLEARANCES,
April 14.
The ... HANGSANG, (Brit) cleared to-day and will sail for Shanghai vis Bwatow at 7 am. to-morrow,
The 8. HORKSHELL, (Brit, cleared to-day and will sail for Tarakan at
6 a.m. to morow.
The s.. SINKJANG, (Brit.), cleared today and will mail for Shanghai at Zhoon-to-morrow.
DEPARTURES.
April -14.
The G., WEST BUKA, (Amer.), Capt. Graham, Agents 0. E. Richardson left for Manila to-dRY
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AERIAL RAILWAY MARVEL.
SPANS OF 800 YARDS,
No better example of engineering ingenuity could be furnished than in the clever contrivance by which the rich metal ores of the Andes brought down from their lofty moun-
are
Yet no such defence had ever been raised in the court before in any case where a King's officer had been sued and the claim had been brought after the expiration of six months.tain bed. But there were two reported decisions In the mines of Famatina in La of Mr. Justice Darling in 1918, and an- Rioja province, the deposits are over other of Mr. Justice Lawrence in 1917,
15,000 feet above sea level, and are wherein the Public Authorities. Pro- tection Act, 1893, was held to apply but also in silver, copper, and iron.
exceptionally rich, not only in gold, to somebody in the Army, the action 6" having been brought in respect of
negligence in driving a motor vehicle. These cases were indistinguishable from the present one, and Mr. Justice Hill felt he ought to follow these directions, and hold that the present action in the circumstances was not maintainable. He regretted the re- sult, because he thought that in respect of ships and persons in charge
Hongkong Observatory, April 14, 1990.
1. BAROMETER, reduced to 33 degrees Fahrenheit, on the level of theses in rches, tenths and hundredths.
1. TEMPERATUzz, in the shade in de wees Fahrenheit,
1. HUMIDITY, in percentage of saturs Hon, the humidity of air satursted with moliture being 100.
4. Diazozion of Winn, to two points 6. FORCE OF WI, according to
Bendford Beals!
STATE OF WRATHER, b blue sky, c istached clond d drizzling rain, flog, gloomy, b hal, 1 lightning, o overcast passing showers, q equal, z rain, 1 Kow thander y visibility" w dow, wei
fredth.
7. Rato luches tenth and hun
They are. of course, within the region of prepetual snow, and to work them by any of the ordinary means would be atmost impossible. No road could be made to the spot, and any kind of animal transport,.otherwise than in the most sporadic tashico, is out of the question. It appeared as though the problem could be solved only by a kind of flying machine ser-
of ships, when negligence might be vice, and something of the kind was, on the ocean, and it would take some some, ten years ago, actually con time to reach "port, this decisionstructed.
might work out in effect as imposing. It consists of a wire-rope railway, a very short limitation of time in or gigantic endless rope, over 20 miles which to enter an action. He must in length, the longest in the world, enter judgment for the defendant which stretches away from the Goy with costs, other than the costs of ernment railway at Chilecito, swings the issue of negligence, which the over some of the wildest country on plaintiffs were to have.
earth, and climbs two miles almost perpendicularly up the Andes to the frigid height where the mineral is
mined.
FOST OFFICE.
Registered and Parcel Mails are alosed I minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where (mails are advertised to close before
registered and pares! malls are sloood at Bp on the previous days
·INWARD MITS.
WEDNESDAY, April 14. Shanghai-Per CHENAN.
THURSDAY, April 15. Australia and Madila-Per AKI MARU. Europe (via Negapatam-Fer SADO
MARU.
V.2.A. and Sands-Fer COLOMRÍA.
FRIDAY, April 16, Saigen-Per SIERRA VENTANA,
SATURDAY, April 17.
Japan-Per MADRAS.
BUNDAY, April 13.
"Japan-Per RANGOON MARU.
OUTHARD MULA.
WEDNESDAY, April 14. • Amoy-Per HONGHWA, £ p.m. Tourane and Quinbon-Fer PO LEE,
5. p:m.
Balgon-Per DEVAWONGSE, 5. p.
THURSDAY. April 16 Shanghai and North Chins-Per SIN-
KIANG. 11. D.
RaiphongF.. HANOI IP Saigon-Fer TELEMACHUS, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY, April 16
Shanghai North China. Japan via Kobe Per SADO MARU,
10
Japan via Nagasaki-Per AKI MARU,
10.m.
Jars and Port Moresby via Batavia-
Per TJIBODAS, 11 am. Biraits, Bangkok, Burmah, Calcutta Aden-Par DOYLESTOWN, 11 am.
Philippine Islada-Per LOONGSANG,
2 p.m.
Shanghai, and North China-Per YUN-
NAN. 5p.m.
SATURDAY, April 17, Etialis, Bangkok, Ceylon, Mauritius,
L. Marquis South Africa, Indis via Dhanushkodi, Egypt and EUROPE A MARSEILLES- EHIVA, Registration 9.45 a.m.
40.30'
Parcel Mail will be closed on Friday, chow-Far HAI 16th, April at 5p..
Swatow, Amoy and
ĐỘNG IPE
Shanghai, and North China - Per
CHENAN, 3 p.m.
SUNDAY, April 18.
Swstow, Amey and
Pruosa
vis
Keelung-Fer FALJO MARU, 13.10.
MONDAY, April 19
Japan vis. Nagasaki, Honolulu, Canada, United States, Central and South America and *EUROPE via SAN FRANCISCO-Per PERSIA MARU, Registration 8.30 am. Letters 9 D. DI.. Japan via Kobe and *Seattle-Fer WEST
IVAN, 10 am,
Amoy,
China--Per
TUESDAY, April 20. Haiphong For AIFONG, 9 a.m. *Swato and Bangbok—Per LUCHOW,
9 an IL Swatow, Amor and Foochow-Fer HAI-
CHING, Noon. Shanghai and North China Per SUIYANG, 3 pm. Shangbai and
THURSDAY, April 25.
North BONNING, 11 a.m. Tientsin-Fer EUICHOW, 11 am.
FRIDAY, April 23, - Bwstow, Amoy and Foocbow-Per
MORIALTA, Noon.
SUNDAY, April 26. Bangkok; Ceylon, Maaritius, L. Marquis, South Africa, India vis Dhanushkodi, Egypt and EUROPE ris MARSEILLES Per YOKOHAMA MARU. R gistration 9 a.m. Letters 9 a.m.
TUESDAY, April 27.
•
Straits
Shanghai. North China and Japan vis
Kobe-Per KITANO MARU, 10 a.m.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1520.
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MESSAGE.
TO RECREATE RUSSIA FROM WRECK OF FIVE YEARS ·
OF WAR.
for every man to the front. Now the call is for everybody to come and labour-all to the bloodles front.
Food, clothes, everything depended on work. Without food men could not work, but even food cannot be obtained without transport, and this can only be supplied by labour. So "a great industrial army, including This, however, was a passing phase, all the able-bodied, was belog formed,
leading on to the day when men and women, learning from the mistakes and sacrifices of the past, will freely
Mr. George Lansbury, Labour Leader and Editor of the London Daily Herald, despatched the follow FRIDAY, April 30,
ing telegram from Moscow. on Philippine Islands, Australia and New February 9
Zealand via THURSDAY" IS:
Arrived here today. The churches give the best service to the common LANU-Per NIKKO MARU, Registration 8.45 8.m. Letters are all open and people going in and 9.30 L..
out. The magnificent shrine in the Bangkok, Ceylor, Mauritius,
...
Straits,
*
•
L. Marquis, Forth Africa, India Kremlin was being visited as of old. via Dhanushkodi, Egypt and All classes are in the streets. All EUROPE vis MARSEILLES—–—
weal.
As to peace, with our neighbours, there is no obstacle on this side.
All Russia demands from her neigh fans-in fact all peoples can have bours is friendship. Poles, Ukrain
11
For TAMBA MARU. Registre suffer hunger, cold and sickness, duc, peace if they will treat Russia as a tion 9.45 am. Letters 10.30 am. entirely to civil war, aided by foreign free nation.
SUNDAY, May
I am struck with the calm" con- Shanghai, and North China, Japan gold and.arms.
fidence with which all officials face via Nagasaki, Canada, United The whole nation needs peace the future. It is their faith which State His Lordship added that he was
Central and South unable to hold, as Mr. Stephens
America, and EUROPE is Organized labour in Britain and keep the masses with them. There invited him to, that if the Act of
VICTORIA B.C Per SUWA America must secure for the workers is suffering, plenty of it, but the MARU Registration 9 a.m.
scenes outside the station, where I 1893 applied to servants of the Crown
Lettern 9 a..
here a chance to reorganize their arrived were similar to those seen at This wonderful aerial railway (says it had been repeated in the case of
society. There is great hope. great any terminus. in London and the action 8 of the Maritime Conventions Mr. A. R. Groves, in Chambers
faith and idealiam, but all here want provinces before the war. Lots of Act, 1911. Mr. Stephens had argued Journal), is hiterally suspended from
to know if the Allies will now leave people, boys and men, were waiting that the Crown was not a public mountain-top to mountain-top, some
Russia free to work out her own to transport luggage on sledges' and salvation. authority requiring protection, be- of the unsupported spans being from
I Everybody have droshkys, and to carry you home. cass. His Lordship confessed that if 600 to 800 yards wide across the most The OPOS. Co's RMS, Empress of Ao spoken to would welcome our honest People are badig dressed, but are he had had to decide the matter tremendous gullis-the greatest, in-
April, left there on the 13th April co-operation. The feeling is that looking remarkably well considering without the assistance of any auth deed, is more than half a mile across. and is due at Kobe on the 14th April. We all need each other. I never their privations; but the outstanding ority he should have had great-hesita
determined By this weird arrangement men and The C.N.C, as. Chenan left Shanghai met people so
to fact is that the blockade and civil ion in thinking that an Act which material are borne upward to the work-
10th inst. (vis Bwatow) and is win their fight for economic war have let loose disease and want dealt with public authorities and ings, and the ore is sent down. The The N.T.E. s.s. Sado Maru (European who said the Russian co-operative millions of human beings desire only due at Hongkong on the 14th inst. freedom. I interviewed Tchicherin, of Fevery description. Yet these The tide-table given below has been their servants applied to servants working of this-acria! line is automa compiled at the National Almanac Office of the Crowd, but the unreported tic
Line) left Bingapors for this port on
HONGKONG TIDES.
of observations taken by means of an
1
in London from the result of the analysis judgment, of Mr. Justice Darling The cars leave the mine full, rush Automatic tide-recording machine in the in Benney V. Fitzgerald In down at the rate of caela minute, or Water Police Baalo at Tsim Sha Tand June. 1918, and the unreported less, stop near the terminus to be faring the years 1905-9.
4
The zero of the table corresponds with the zero of the sounding in the Admiralty Chart, which has been found to be teet
inches below mean sen-isval
judgment of Mr. Justice Lawrence In Sexby v Wells in Jane, 1917, were obviously guides which he must follow, and in principle those cases were indistinguishable from the present case.
following cases were cited in addition In the course of the discussion the to those already mentioned: Wilson
dde gange at the Victoria Naval Yar
To obtain the depths of water on the add 3 feet 4 inches, and on the gauge at Lamont Dock, Aberdeen; add 10 foct
inches to the height given in the table. - Mackay, 1905 (7, Frazer p. 168), Salisbury v. Gould 1904, 68 J.P., p. 158, the Caliph, 1912. F213, Parker v. L.CC., 1904, 2 KE. p. 501, and Greenwell and Howell, 1900, 12 B, p. 535.
April 15 to 21, 1830.
Hoend
HIGH-WATER
LOW WATE
Hongkong
Msan |Height Time
Thar, 15
15 -
Bat. 17 m
*The as GOLDSHELL (Amer.), Capt; Caroy. Agents A. P. Co., left for Singa. Fi pero to-day
The TOTOOEA MARU, (Jap) Capf. Shiratori Ageots K.V.K. left for su 28 Yokohama vis Shanghai to-day
on 19
The 64 BÒNGHWA; (Brit.) Capt. Balsbridge Agents Beng Boon. Hong left Tuto for Bingsporo. Vis. Anny and Sentow - wán
1-1
m. 1-87
His Lordship observed that it seemed to follow from Mr. Dunlop's
weighed by mechanism, and empty. themselves before starting to climb upwards again for another load.
that it should be used for the first Crown, it was a little unfortunate
time in the Admiralty Court against a neutral whose ships was being em ployed in the service of the Allies, '
Mr. Justice Hill pointed out that the Crown had offered to pay com pensation, based on the tourage of the tug.
Mr. Stephens found cold comfort in that. It was all very well, he said,
to propose to limit liability to the tonnage of a small tug, but the
much larger object.” -
MOYEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
arrived at Tagssaki
12th
the 10th April and is expected hers societies were willing and anxious to be allowed to live.
for trade, and had appointed Litvinoff APPEAL TO PREMISE.
on the 18th April.
The N... sa. Aki Mar (Australian their agent, They would send dele
Line) left Manila for this port on gatea from Russia to act with him. I earnestly beseech the Govern the 13th spell and is expected bars Russia, he said, must be allowed to ment, especialy Mr. Lloyd George, on the 15 April. The P. M... Co's. Colombia left determine what she will buy and sell to go forward in the big English
Manils on the 13th inst, and is due The co-operative societies are part of here on Thursday April 15. the Constitution; in fact, are dis The P. & Q.-B.I. & Al. sa Madras tributive agencies for the Soviet
BLOODLESS FRONT.
* left Moji for this Port on the 13th Government. That means that every The NY.K. a. Rangoos Maru (Calcutta of the Co-operative Society.
instant at p.m. and is due bere on Russian citizen is de facts a member the 17th instant at about evening. Line) left Moji for this port on the 11th April and is exported here be the 18th April. A The RM8. ... Monteagle arrived at Yokohama on April 9th left there April 9th and is due at Vancouver on April 23. The NY... Suwa Maru (Australian Line) left Kobe for this port is - Manila -on the 11th April and expected here on the 24th April. -
manner and give the hand of com radeship to this great people, strug gling to its feet after years of pain and loss. Also I urge Henderson, Smillie, Thomas, Williams, Mac donald, and Snowden all to mite and, with the authorities, bring about the reconciliation of both; nations.
Asked what was the task for the immediate future, he said the people Atrocity-mongering is played here of Russia under: Trotzky cheerfully and la Fetrograd. I am as free and allowed themselves to be organised, safe alone in the streets as in Lon rained and disciplined to repel for don; indeed, more so. True religion eign and internal enemies. Now is untouched, true marriage is as they will all be crganized, trained sacred as lever. The churches are The N.Y.. 8.8. Kitano Maru (Huropean production. The most serious work There is nothing here worse than
and disciplined for the purpose of being restored at the public expense. Line) left London for this port vis of to-day was to recreate Russla other capitals; there. much, Bees on the 20th March and fa
Couris by a telegraph boy riding a steamer was struck and gook by a expected here on the 26th April from the wreck caused by the cease much, that is better
The NY. K. a. Tensho Maru (Calcutta less war of five years. This means not g
Line) left Calcutts for this port viv | great exertion, great sacrifice, much
contention that if he himself were run over in the Strand outside the
bicycle, or a Post Office van, the boy or the driver of the van, assuming His Lordship, agreed that Mr. him to be performing his ordinary Dunlop being right, it was difficult to dutics, was entitled to protection. - see why they had had any collision Mr. Stephena complained that since actions at all during the war, because not a single case had been reported realy all the vessels were then under the
-in which this point had been raisedzoquisition and were performing for the protection of a servant of the public duties—Journal of Commerce.
Bangoon and Singaporn on the 8th central organization and much die/ Take a "WALLA-WALLA" BOAT. April and is expected bere on the cipline. The other day the call was
April..
BPL a Fruba
m) falt, Loudon for this port vin Bucz on the 9th April sad is expected hers on the 19th Maj
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