FRIDAY, AUGUET 11. 122.
LATEST SHIPPING NEWS.
ARRIVALS.
Amakusa Maru, (0.8.K.) from Keo- Tung, Swatow-Co's Wharf.
Wing Bang, (J.M. & Co.) from Shanghai, Swatow.-C33,
ENGLISH IN POLITICS.
FRENCH LANGUAGE DEPOSED FROM DIPLOMAOY,
A PHANTOM FLEET.
AMUNDSEN TO WATCH FOR
MYTHICAL SHIPS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
It may be recalled, says the Japan Chronicle, that before M. Viviani loft
As Captain. Roald Amundsen drift Paris to attend the Washington Con- slowly across the cheerless expanse of ference, a memorial was presented to bim asking that he should aso his on-the Polar basin, from which no white deavours to have the French language man has ever emerged alive, he will made, if not the modium of negotia- search the white waste about kim for tion at least the language in which aigas of the Phantom Float"the the agreements were drawn up. 31. frozen company of lost ships that the Briand was so far successful that the Eskimos claim awings around the Four-Power Past was drawn up in North Polo year in and year out, English and Frouch, the two languages gripped in the inexorabls clutch of the
ab equal footing great ice floes.
Lok Sang, (J.M. & Co.) from Shanghai, Swatow-Co's Wharf.
Toyo Maru, (M.B.K.) fram Hangay. -Quarry Bay.
Hsin Wah, (C.M.S.N.) from Canton. -Co's. Wharl.
Helios, (Kung Chung) from Saigon. -0.39.
Sun On, (Lee Fat) from Swatow.etsuding ou
0.38.
Camillo, (A.P.C.) from Kobe, as originals. This question of language side of the auxiliary powered schooner Yokohama.-Kowloon Bay.
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DEPARTURES,
Haveland, (Arnhold Bros. for Yokohama, Shanghai.-August 10.
Huk Canton, (Wo Hing) for Kwong Chow Wan.--August 11.
Sinkiang. (B. & S.) for Shanghai, Amoy-August 11.
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in the matter of interpretation į again came up for discussion at the opening in Romo of the sixth Assomb. ly of the International Institute of Agriculture. After the slection of Signor Raineri, the former Minister of the Liberated Provinces, as President of the Institute for the current years
question namely, the adoption of the report to decide a most important the English language as the second official language to be used in the proceedings.
Scouting over a wide area on each Moud," the famous explorer will have an extraordinary opportunity to in vestigate the reports of the carie brought out from the farthest reaches of the North by the natives.
Whether the float is legendary or really exists is one of the problems
PJESCRIPTION BY
WIRELESS.
AN ATLANTIC INCIDENT.
Upon the arrival at New York re- cantly of the steamship Prosilant Adams," of the United States Lines, the officials of the company were furnished. by Dr. W. 8. Irwin, the ship's surgeon, with copies of wireless succinctly tell of the treatment by massagen sont and merived which radio of a sailor in the throes of pneumonia. The "President Adam" operator aroused Dr. Irwin with s was near midosenn when the wireles
message from the captain of the freight had a saitor apparently close to death steamer "Hickman," stating that he from pneumonia, and asking for aid, Dr. Irwin wirelessed a prescription and instructions for treatment. The commander of the "Hickman" radioed to Dr. Irwin that he did not possess certain drugs called for in the pro- scription. Small freight vessels only
that Assembly was called upon, cays that has haunted the minde of Arctic carry a small amount of druge. This Amundsen's expedition is first of all by radio for a complete list of all explorets for many years. While necessitated a roquest from Dr. Irwin scientific in its scope and purpose, any clue as to the existence of the phantom the party declared.. fleet will be investigated, members of
drugs on board the "Hickman." He Sai Chen, (Yun Won) ier Quinhou,
found that the supply was rather re- Tourue.--August 11.
Buelo Mara; (0. 8. K.) for Canton. The proposal was nude by the Am
stricted, but was forced to prescribe -August 11.
Yuen Sang, J. M. & Co.) for Hai-pointed out the practicability of the
aesonling to the drugs on hand. erican delegata Mr. Stevenson. who
Vossole hava strangely disappeared Ducing the next three days Dr. Irwin hong, Kwong Chow Won.--August 12.
suggestion, which would save time in the unexplored Arctic basin since received and sent meninges almost Yoshido Maru, (Y.K.K.j. for, Hai-and render och easier the important the boginning of Arctic navigation. hourly, and finally came the chearing phong –Augaet 12.
[discussions upon which they would In one fell swoop the hungry ice pack, massage that the patient was respond Van Cloon, (JC.J.L.) for Swatow soon enter. The American proposal, in 1876 carried off thirty whaling ing to the treatment and was gradual- Amoy-August 12.
Jade, Kai Yu) for Iniphung Canadian, and Australian and New American continent. Most of the
which was supported by the British, ships from the water north of they regaining his strength.
Dr. Irwia is the first ship surgeon Pakhoi.-August 12.
Zealand delegates, was strongly op men fled to the ice and escaped on racord who "performed an posed by the French delegate, M. to Point Barrow and other points amputation by wireless," This occur- Masse, the ex-Minister, who was on the Arctic coast, batred about ten years ago when he was NOTICE TO SHIPPERS AND supported by the Belgian, Spanish, seventy refused Lo desert the aboard a va acl in the Caribbean, and
PASSENGERS.
and South American delegated. The ships. The slow but easeless move-ou the recent arrival of his vessel in French motion for the maintenance ment of the ice carried them into the New York he was mot at the pier by of French as the only official Iannysterious uncharted region that a one-legged man who greeted him guage was defeated by sir votes, comprises 1,000,000 square miles. with "You don't know me, doctor, 65 voting for and 61 against it. The Eskimos who hava escaped from but I am the man whose leg you cut American proposal secured 66 favour. the ice pack from being carried far off by wireless.” able votes, the Italian delegation North into the unknown westes have supporting it. Fifty years ago it would retarsed with stories of ghostly ships, have been regarded as most impro- frozen in the ico, white with frost, bable that French would be displaced and manned by frozen crew. from its position of supremaey as the Old-time Aretio navigators always diplomatic language, for which, have placed a certain amount of ere- by reason of its lucidity audience in the raports. They hold that definiteness, it is well fitted, but its once within the maw of the ice pack position in this respect has been the ships would rost sccure in their gradually waning because the diffusion foundation, and that from then on the of the English language throughout chief destruction would be wrought by the work has made the employment the great blizzards that sweep the of the latter Isnguage more convenient. Arctic seas. Viscount Grey is said to know but So that along with discoveries of ait Limbat Dook, Aberdeen, add to fos little if any French, though for so long soientific nature the Amundsen ex-tones to the height given in the table. British Secretary for Foreign Affaira, pedision may make others that will
(Continued from page 7.)
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Frenol the heroic mariners of northern waters
language would have been regarded have embarked upon their last great as an effectual bar in England to ap-cruise. pointment to such a position.
MOVEMENTS OF STAIMERS.
HONGKONG TIDES.
Tas de table elvan balom has bosa in Laden from the roupit of the envysla compiled at the National Aimsus: Olien
observations taken by means of an atomstic tide-recording michlos in the Water Police Baila at Teim Sha Teal forlog the years 1939-9, 10-
Tho LOPO of the table corresponds with hero of the sounding In the Admiralty hats, which has bean found to be focu
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WEATHER REPORT.”
August 101 145, 50m. --Warning to Hongkong, Coast Ports &.-A ty- phoon of unknown intensity within 60- milos of Lat. 25 N. Long. 227 E moving N.N.E.
August 10d 18h, 50m.--Warning to Hongkong, Coast Ports, &
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phoon of unknown intensity within 70 miles of Lat. 25 N. Long. 137 E. moy. ing North.
August 11d. 10h. 47a-Pressure hay decreased oantičarably over NE Japan and slightly from S.W. Japan to Shanghai. It is nearly stationary in southern districts,
Depressions are shown to the north ! Hongkong and over SW. China.
The typhoon continues to mov northward. At6 a.m. this morning it was in about Lat. 27 B. and Long, 127 E.
Hongkong rainfall - 24 hours anding at 10 am to-day, 9 inch. Total since January at 4128 inches against an average of 57.13 inches.
Forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon on August 17, 1922
+--- Formon Chaut WF, windy modérate
South coast of Chins between Ogone and humorles S. or vari able winds, moderate; fair to showery.
3 ----Hmgkong
Bock, M. or variable winds, moderate; fair to thowery.
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4-buath cost of Chins between tangkade und Halman S.... oz. vari. able wets, moderate; fair to showery.
ROYAL OBSERVATORY......
HONGKONG,
DAILY WEATHER REPORT.
AUGUST 11, 1929 -.
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1. BAROMETEs, reduced to 88 degrees Fahrenheit, on the level of the ses in inches, tenths and hundredths.
2 TEXTXEATURE, in the shade in do- grees Fahrenheit..
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DIRECTION OF Wish, in two points FORCE OF WID, according to Beadford Route.
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HONGKONG TIME, SIONALS.
The Time Bail on Kowloon Signal Hill is dropped dully at 10 am, and 4 p.m. except on Baturdays when it is dropped at 10 am and 1 p.th., and on Sundays and Holidays whats in is dropped at 10
The Ball is hoisted half mast at the Ath minute and all must at the 67th loute. Should the ball fall to drop at the correct tie it will be lowers at iy minutes past the hour-nd the ordinary routing repested at the following boot, If wsible t
Should the Time Ball be as of order the above routine will, bo rried; aut with 250 fag ** 24 on the "ber nikna
Time Vignals are also elven at might by means of three white lam AT BER vertically on the Obervatory wireleas
Fr 858 to 9.00 pm. them are: xtinguished theantarily at the ever seconds, opt at the band, suh..Sita“. And, and sick of such minute.
The hours refuse to Hongkong & solár