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EASTER HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS!
AMAZING PIRACY.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SEEKING SIBERIAN GOLD,
TROUBLED CONSCIENCES.
SUEZ CANAL,
LAST YEAR'S RECORD TRAFFIC.
CUNARU LINERS THE LARGEST
VESHELS,
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1984.
CANADIAN.19 PACIFIC
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GUNBOATS FOR
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HOME VIA CANADA
Hongkong 10. England.
WASHINGTON, April 15. A gang of 37 pirates headed by Riklicht Ezure, 85 years old, has
The House of Representatives been indicted on the charge of Official returns of the traffic pass-Naval Committee, has approved a robbery and murder by the Toklo are through the Suez Crmal during Bill, authorising the construction District Court at the end of a long 1973 day that this was higher than of eight fast 10,000 ton cruisers, 9 HVIDE OF THE SONGKONG, CANTON & MADAO STEAMBOAT 00., LTD. preliminary hearing, according to doing any previous year. To the
HONGKONG-MACAO LINE
latest copies of the "Japan Adver- Cimand Company belongs tik hon-costing $11,000,000 each, exclusive tiser to hand. Itaro Noda, cap-our of its steamers the Lace of armament; also six gunboats, tain of the "Taiki Maru" which ni and the "Samaria" being costing $700,000 each, for use in was chartered for their purpose the broadest and heaviest to Chinese waters. It also approved indicted on a charge of having vessel, was also English. Similar battleships to oil-burner, and to erker Vindictive," the longest the proposal to convert four by the pirates, has also been pass through the canal. The concealed the crimes committed predominance of ships flying the provide them
with additional by the others.
British flag is recorded in the utter protection against submarines and The specific charge against the of tonnage. British tonnage. roach-
aircraft. The committee reported mien was that they killed 21ed its light in 1923, and still ex- Russians on the Amur river in ceels that of all the other nations another bill. providing for the 1922 and robbed their victims of together. Dutch traffic bl the establishment of a naval aviation goods valued at approximately next greatest tonnage, followed by base at Sand Point, California.-- Y100,000.
those of France, Germany, Italy Reuter's American Service. Japan, and U.S.A. respectively. Noteworthy fentimes in this respect
EASTER SUNDAY:-10th April)801 AN "Ives Hongkong at EASTER MONDAY:-91st April) returns at 3 r.x. from Macao.
4.x. and
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EMPIRE WIRELESS.
The crimes were brought to the attention of the Metropolitan Palice Board by Kanza Tanaka besides the preponderance of the and Tanematsu Kikuchi, members British the rise in the toffic
LONDON, April 15. of the crew, more than a year ago, under the German fing and the de- but their story seemed to the in thrt of U.S.A., which was
The Daily Telegraph learns that nirendy very small. The chief police to be so-fantastical that the spheres traded with by ships flying the Cabinet Committee on Wire- then were not at first believed. the flags of these countries ware less are presenting a report to the Subsequent investigation proved Hastern Asia, India, and the Per-Cabinet to-day. The Committee the veracity of the two sailors and sinn Gulf. Tide with Bombay, Cal, yesterday heard the Marconi brought about the arrest of the cutte, and Burnehi particularly was representatives, and there is every other members of the crew. fully as vigorous as it was before the reason to believe that satisfactory
At the preliminary hearing, war.
arrangements will be made re- With regard to the various ship-garding the exchange of messages which was delayed for a long time by a change in procurators, the owning companies which trade by with the Company's stations in the following story was told. Ezure way of the canal, the highest fonn Dominious. The paper says that had heard of quantities of golds is to the credit of the well-no doubt need be entertained but dust to be acquired in Okhotsk, on the Amur river in Siberia. He interested Tokyo capitalists in his venture and raised Y50,000 with which to fit out an expedition to seek the gold.
He chartered the "Taiki Maru," a 2,000 ton vessel belonging to the Aisawa Steamship Company of Osaka, and came to Shibaura to take on supplies. He and his
own lines, the P. and O. and the British India. The most remark able increase, however, was that of the British Tanker Co. transporters of the Persian mineral oils.
The recent curthquake, in Japan and the conservant urgent necessity for her abilitation resulted dur ing the inst few months of the year
that the Cabinet will adopt the main recommendations of the Donald Committee, perhaps with minor modifications. Reuter,
BOXING.
in a great incase in her impots vin P. O Callaghan of H. M. S. the cera), chiefly iron and steel."Titania" and Bombardier Barton, machinery, cement, &e. Austraita,RG. A. are to meet in the top- lieutenants hired about 60 cooliest, scrensed her imports line event of the next Boxing and secretly took aboard the ship though the canal. 32 cavalry rifles, 67 Nippon swords, 18 bayonets, 2,000 rounds of ammunition, 128 old army uniforms, and provisions for the
trip. 1.
Association tournament on April 26 at the City Hall, when they will box 15 rounds for the Colony's heavyweight championship and the Stock Exchange Brokers' Belt. Callaghan has appeared before the Hongkong public and done well and Barton was the winner of the Open Heavyweights of the Army,
19 July 2
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Scotland Jone Minnedosa Juno Molita July 2 July 21 Escotland July Other Atlantic Sailinge every few days to Liverpool, Bosthampton Glasgow, Antwerp, Cherbourg and Hamburg.
Allotment of Cabina on Atlantis steamen hebt here and through tickets insoed.
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Return cargoes, as a whole, also show an advance. Omitting details. two of the most remarkable facts in this connection are a great rise in what shipment and a diminution in wool. Suges from the Dutch On September 17. 1922. the Indies, rice from the East in gen steamer left Shibaura and went torsk, atu) mineral oils—petrol, Len- Saghalien, via Otaru, Hokkaido.sine, &e.from Persin, all show a
L. EVERETT, at Fermoy, Ireland, and also the There he was advised by the army gmtifying advance on, the figures for winner of an Open Middleweight Authorities not to go farther | 1922. The increasing transport of Competition at Plymouth. Here because the river Amur would oil, moreover, is necessitating more he has had three knock-outs" to
more the construction of soon freeze over, but proceeded to and
his credit. "fankers-a, fabt which, as before the mouth of the river.
Over half a dozen six-round
Groats! Agent for JAPAN-CHINA-PHILIPPINES INDO-CHINA-STRAIT, AND JAVA
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The ship steamed up the river served, renunts for the progres bouts have been arranged, these DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD
to Nikolaievsk, where 700 Japan-of the British Tenker Company.
KONGKONG & MOUTH OMINA ODAST PORT SERVIOR.
SERVICE of Fast High Class Conti Bosses kaving good
The wee an alarming decline in including ese had been massacred in March, coal, this being no less than 30 per
A six-round bantamweight con- 1920. Here, according to Ezure's
cent, compared with 1929. Fort-test hetween L/Corbl Major, of story, he found that the cold wea-ately, this is partly recompensed the Surreys, and Bugler Town-mmodation for First Class Pomongsta. Klomie zighi and Faze in limbersome ther would make it impossible for by the noticeable increase in most send, of H.M.S. "Titania the ship to reach Okhotsk, and he of the other commodities which A six-round welterweight cop- was seized by a desire to be make un the European. trade with avenged upon the Russians for the the East. death of his countrymen.
A Russian launch was sighted
oming down the river on its way the money was used to pay the
test between Pte. Pooley, of the Surreys, and Pte. Fordham, of H.M.S. "Carlisle." (At the V. R. C. Tournament, Pooley won`the Middleweights and Fordham won contest between A six-round
of Wareham,
the Bindsman Surreys, and Leading Telegraphist Emerson, of H.M.S." Marazion." - A six round featherweight con- test between Corporal, Eades, of the Surreys, and Able Seaman Theodore, of. H.M.S. "Dispatch,"
to Vladivostock and she was stop-charterage on the ship and the the Welterweights.)
Ezure rest was distributed among the ped by the "Taiki Maru. and his men boarded the launch crew, which then separated. and threatened the crew with Ta naka and Kikuchi came back rifles. The little boat was strip to Tokio, where their consciences ped of her valuables and the crew were tormented by the thoughts of four were taken as captives of the murders in which they had aboard the "Taiki Maru."
taken part, and they decided to
test between L/Corp. Barber, of the Surreys, and Able Seaman Turner, of H.M.S. “Carlisle."
น
.and
They were made to point out tell the authorities. They consult- A six-round welterweight con- other Russian boats to Ezure and ed Mr. Tatsuji Fuse, a Tokio the next prize captured by the lawyer, who advised them to tell pirates was a 100 ton sail boat, the whole story to the police and
A six-round Welterweight com loaded with fish oils. On October pray for clemency on the ground 10 the sail boat was boarded and that they had been forced into the test between Able Seaman Bland,
"Dispatch, of, H.M.S. three members of her crew who crimes against their wills, remonstrated were put to the The police did not at first believe L'Corpi. Williamson, of the Sur- sword by Ezure and his lieuten the story, but they called in reys. (Williamson as the winner ants. The rest of the crew; 14 several procurators of the Tokio of the Lightweight Championship Russiane and 3 Chinese were made District Court and started an of Egypt and Palestine) captives and the cargo was trans-investigation which resulted in ferred to the "Taiki Maru."
After a week Ezure is reported to have become afraid of his cap- tives and brought all the Russians on deck, where they were lined up and shot. The "Taiki Maru" then Ezure was found and arrested sailed for Otaru, Hokkaido, where in Hokkaido in December, 1922, to the effect that he is not coming the cargo was disposed of on and the arrests of the other mem- just yet but would like to meet
Cartlidge at a later date. November 6 for Y70,000. Part of bers followed at close intervals.
SHIPBUILDERS.
the acceptance of the story as the truth, Immediately telegrams were dispatched to all parts of the Empire and the other members of the party were arrested.
SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS. FORGE MASTERS. OXY-ACETYLENE, AND ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
A six-round middleweight con- test between Leading Seaman Penford, of HM.S. "Titania," and
Coral. Hills, of the Surreys. "Mitty" Smith, to whose ap~.) pearance here baxing enthusiasts have been eagerly looking forward to, has written to the Association
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