THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1926.
P. & 0.-British India Apcar and Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO" FOR
STORM'S FURY.
THE CHINA MAIL.
DUTIES IN PORT.
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"MASTER SWEPT OVER- BOARD,
WIRELESS OPERATORS'
POSITION. A
17 HOURS IN A LIFEBOAT.
V
OFFICER ARRESTED.
PROMPT ACTION SAVES THE
SITUATION. N
INDUSTRIAL COURT RULING SHIP AND FOREIGN LAWS,
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA. CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF,wards. When the ship went down sists of salary and allowances, them which would not apply to
"WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA. INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND. AND QUEENSLAND PORTS. AND RED SEA: EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE.
} PORTS, EUROPE; &
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
From Hongkong About
S. S.
Tona
MIRZAPORE
4,735
NYANZA
7,023
MALWA
10,941
10 Jen. d.n.m. 5th 8th
Jan. Jen.
KALYAN.
9,344 122nd Jan
DEVANHA
MOREA
8.356 | 28th
108 th
Fab.
DELTA
2,007
18th
Feb.
KASHMIR
0,095, 15th Feb.
NELLORE
MANTUA
10:904
KASHCAR
91008
NYANZA MONGOLIA
MACEDONIA DEVANHA KARMALA DELTA
MALWA
KIHVA
MOREA
5th
...
NYKLI
JALLINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION W
SAN FRANCISCO vin Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolata.
TAIYO MARU
TENYO MARUSS
*KOREA MARU
+
"Call Los Angelco
Tuesday, 11th Jan, at Noon "Monday, 24th January Sunday, 6th Fubruary..
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SOUTH AMERICA vio Jupun.' Honolulu, San Francisco,"
Angeles, Mexico & Panama. · RAKUYO MARUNA. GINYO MARU
Saturday, 16th Jan, at Noom 'Middle of February, -MÄRSEILLES, LONDON, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via Portay
Saturday,
1st Jan, at 11 mama Saturday, -15th Jan.,, at: 13 sat Saturday, 29th January,'
Wednesday, 19th Jan, at il ́am. Wednesday, 23rd February.
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HAKONE MARU SUWA MARU PUSHIMI MARU
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports
AKL MARU
MISHIMA MARU
10th February.
NEW YORK and/or BOSTON viä PANAMA.
TATSUNO MARU
Thursday, BUENOS AIRES via Singapore, Durban & Cape Town,
Friday, 81st December
CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON.
CEYLON MARU
PENANG MARU.
KAWACHI MARU
BOMBAY via SINGAPORE & COLOMBO,
BIYO MARU
Saturday, 1st January,
TAMBA MARU
Tuesday, 11th January.
Sunday, January. Wednesday,
10th January,
Saturday,
21st January.
Tuesday,
4th January,
Monday,
10th January, -
Tuesday,
11th January,
Tuesday, 28th January..
NAGASAKI KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
MISHIMA MARU
Twelve survivors of the crew. Certain points in the memoran. It sometimes unfortunately oc- of the Cardiff-owned steamer dum between shipowners and sea curs that-principally, of course, Eastway," which foundered in going wireless operators having through Ignorance of the laws of a hurricane off the Bermudas on been submitted to the Industrial these. countries officers get in- the night of October 22, when Court by the Association of Wire- volved in trouble in foreign H.M.S. "Valerian" was also lost, less and Cable Telegraphiats, the ports.
Such cases in the experience of were landed at Southampton Court issued their interpretation recently, from the Cunard liner of the matters raised with regard the Imperial Merchant Service "Berengaria."
to employment in port. The Guild are very rare, but they un- The "Eastway" encountered a Court state that an operator is doubtedly give rise to a consider- terrific gale while bound from only to be employed or cargo able amount of trouble when they Norfolk (Virginia) for Petnam-Jand/or clerical duties in regular do occur. Britishers are perhaps buco, Heavy seas broke over rotation with and relief of the too much inclined to judge the her, and one of these swept over-navigating officers. As to pay-laws of foreign countries by those board Captain J. Vanstone, of ment, it is pointed out that the re of their own and become annoyed Penarth, who was not seen after-muneration of an operator con- when restrictions are placed upon the 12 men who were saved man-His contract of service is con-places under the British flag. aged to get into the only lifeboat tinuous, and it makes no differ- There are "cases on record where which remained intact. The re- ence whether he is on the ship's condign punishment has been im- mainder of the crew, 28 in num-articles or not, he is still in the posed in foreign ports upon service of his employers, and his officers for what has amounted to ber, perished.
The 12 survivors who reached salary accrues from day to day little more than a trivial offence
Regarding the Southampton included William
subsistence or at least the punishment has in Norris Couzens, the chief stew-allowance, It is stated that if food severity far outweighed the alleg ard, of 8, Howard Terrace, is not supplied by the shipowner, ed crime. The Guild has been Cardif: Edward Davie, atting and arrangements are made by dealing with a case recently of a third mate of Union-grove, the officers of the ship with, the member who was placed under Aberdeen; A. Johnson, Hull, and steward for the supply of food, arrest in a foreign port on a D. Fetfield, Aberdeen, who are such an arrangement would not in charge of assault. When the Apprentices. The remainder the view of the Court,. constitute matter was Arst reported instruc- were coloured sailors and firemen the provision of food by the ship-tions were at once cabled to the Mr. Couzens, in the course of owner, and in such circumstanees honorary agent at the port to the Marseil:ds, London, Hamburg. & R'damn interview, said: "We ran into the operator would be entitled to effect that everything possible a terrific gale about 115 miles be paid the sum of 38. per day. was to be done for the officer, the the Bermudas Further, if an operator while in owners also being communicated It south-east of Tremendous seas raged, The port in Great Britain and Ireland with and the foreign Office. vessel rode out the gale for about is instructed to perform or stand would seem that prompt steps eight hours, and then one parti- by for duty, or to travel on his were also taken by the owners' eularly heavy sen stove in the employer's business, he is to be agents at the port, with the result Tel. bunker hatch. The water poured regarded as being on active ser-that, owing to the action of his Into the bunkers and flooded the vice and entitled to the payment Majesty's Consul, the judge con- the subsistence allowance sented to allow bail for the officer interior of the ship, which com-of
In and for a shipmate who was also menced to settle in the water.where food is not provided: Captain Vanstone was washed the absence of such an instruction involved. The necessary Toverboard when endeavouring to he would not be entitled to sub- being forthcoming, they were re- leased and left the port. The cover up the smashed hatch with sistence allowance, "
With respect to the union's society hopes that everything will planks and canvas. We never saw Singapore. Penang, Colcinbo & 'bay him again. No one could possibly claim that the 14 days annual end satisfactorily and that the live in that sea. We turned the leave with full pay should be con-officer's career will not be affected ship round and threw lifebelts secutive days, the Court state in any way. Extremely rare as that the claim is not warranted, they may be, it is felt that such overboard, but it was hopeless..
"We were
able to steer the but they add that nothing pre-escapades are most unfortunate. ship to a certain extent. but it cludes the granting of 14 days' As they might have very serious was obvious that we could not consecutive leave, and they rule consequences so far as a certi save her, and she fourdered at that the true meaning and intent ficated man is concerned, officers seven o'clock in the evening. All of their provision as to leave re- would be well advised to exercise the lifeboats, with one exception, quires that so far as may be an the utmost care in avoiding any ¡were so damaged as to be useless. endeavour should be made by the possibility of circumstances of The last one went cut adrift employer to grant leave for 14 the kind arising. shortly before the vessel went consecutive days, or for such!
Destination
Singapore, Penang, Colombo & B'bay Min sodies and handen Marseilles, Londoa, Antwerp & Hull Sing Pers Colombo & B'bay
and-london S'pore, Penang. Colombo & Bombay Marse Hes. London, Antwerp & Hull Spone, Perang. Colombo Marseilles & London
2nd March
ambay. March 1th March Marseilles, Loudun Antwerp & Adam 18th March S'pore! 7.023
Marseille, Colombo & Bombay
Marseilles
& Londen
London
Marelles, London & Antwerp...
Londen & Antwerp
i
10,504 19th
March
11,20
2nd
8,166
រ
18th Apri
10,941 30th April
Marseilles and Landon
03514th
| 10,918 -280
May May
Marseilles, London & Antwerp Marseilles & London.
9.128 8,307 27th April
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passongers and Cargo to Esantantinople, Pireus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamere of the
Khedival Mail Steamship: Co..
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TAKLIWA
TAKADA THEA WA TALMA
2nd Jan.
17.936
0.919 21st., Jan. 10.000 1st Foo 10.000 12th Feb:
Singapore,, Fenang & Calcutta
Bingapore, Penang & Calcutta
"
S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Calcutta; Singapore, Penang & Calcutta
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) down. Twelve of us got into her, lesser periods as may be arranged,
• ST. ALBANS 4.500 1st
ARAFURA
TANDA
ST. ALBANS
ARA FURA
TANDA 1
6.000; 28th
Lee,
Manila,
4. p.m.
Jan. 6:958 4th March 4800 1st April
9.000. 29th April 6.9503rd June
Kolambugun,
Island Townsville, Sydney & Melbourn
· Omits Sandakan but calis Kolambugan.
:
and she worked herself free of the subject always to the exigencies ship. The other members of the of the services. crew must have gone down with
sum
Thursday the ship. The gale abated after RAISING "GOEBEN "tion of two new steamship servicek.
Brisbane, we got away, and we made some
Regular monthly sailings from Hegkong to Japan and Hongkong to' Australia.
offers
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The E. &. A. S.5: Co htd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawno, Timer. Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement
Frequent connections from Australia with the following: The Union SS. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New
progress towards the Bermudas. After we had been afloat about 17 hours we were picked up by the "Luciline," an oil tahker, bound;
for New Orleans."
The "Eastway" was
FAMOUS WARTIME CHASE RECALLED.
NEW STEAMSHIP SERVICES
Negotiations are under way in London and Paris for the organian-
from France to Quebec province. Dr. L. P. Lemieux, Agent-General for the Province in Londen, haa been in Paris, where he met a group of French-Swiss capitalists who are forming the new shipping Dr. Lemieux stated that
Insurances have recently been
concern. a steel placed in London against the risk screw steamer of 5,832. tons grose of damage incurred during the the company would begin operat- end 3,655 tons net register, built operation of lifting, for repair the ing a line of steamers in the very in 1915 by the Northumberland Turkish cruiser "Yavouz" (former- Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., and was ly the German "Goeben") in a dry owned by the St. Mary Steamship dock which has recently been erect The P. & O. Royal" Mal steamers to London via Suez Canal.
Co., Ltd., Messrs. Williams Bros.ed at Goldjuk, near Constantinople The P. & O. Branch Service of stormers, to London via the Capa The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and (Cardiff), Pacific House, Mount German engineers are superintend-
Stuart Square, Cardiff.
ing the repairs. London via Panama Canal."
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
་
TAKADA
6,949 31st
$,000 4th Jan. 10,918 7th Jan.
9:155
Jan. .76h 10.000 12th Jan.
3,005 21st
Dec. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Onaka 6 B.m
Moli, Kobe, Osaka and Yokohama Shanghai, Moji & Koba
Jan.
ARAFURA MOREA DEVANHA
TILAWA
KASHGAR DELTA
is TALMA VADMA MANTUA NELLORE
NAGPORE
TANDA
MONGOLIA
NYANZA
MACEDONIA
ALAC
12
Shanghai & Kobe
Kobe.
Shanghal & Kol
Shanghal, Moji and Kabe.
Moji and Koba
3.00% 21st Jan, Shanghai,
21at 10,000. 10.802 4th
Kabe
and Robe
Jangha. Moji and Kobe
Feb.
1 8,853 5th Feb
5,283. 6th Feb. 8,969 16.504 17%
Feb. 8th 18th,
7.028 18th Feb. 11.129 4th March
ST. ALBANS. 4,500 8th March
DEVANHA
KARMALA
MALWA
DELTA ARAFURA
8.155 13th March
8,128 18th March
10,080
1st April
8,007 1st April
Shanghai, Moji and Koba, Shanghai, Moji. Koba & Yokohama Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai & Kobe
Shanghai, Moji and Koba
Shanghai Moji and Kobe Moji, Kobe, Dsaka & Yokohama
Shanghai, Moji & Kobe
Shanghai, Moji & Kobe
Shanghai. Moh & Kobe
Shanghai. Moji & Koba
*6,000 5th April Maji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama,
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
Passengers for Rapzoom must defray their own Hotel expenses "Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Linea are Atted with Laundrica.
at
Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft, x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to Ncon on the day previous to sailing.
For further Information, Passage. Freights, Handbooks, etc., apply to:- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd.. C., HONGKONG. Agents.
PRIZE MONEY.
TIME CUT DOWN TO TEN YEARS.
The "Yavouz" is insured on
value of £1,100,000 and the dock, on
near future. Ports of call will include, Montreal and Quebec, and points in the Gaspe region and on the Saguenay River,
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
SEIYO MARU (Meji direct).
HAKUSAN MARU
AKITA MARU
KITANO MARU .........
For further information apply -NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA- Central Noa. 292 (Private exchanges to all deparır"
CHINA BORNEO SHIPPING CO.
BONG KONG-BORNEO ROYAL MAIL SERVICE To Sandakan, Tawau,. Semporna and Lahad Datu
1
Returning via Sandakan, Jambongan and Jenselton, Regulur Three-weekly Freight and Passenger Service..
H.8. LOK SUN,
Next Balling from Hong Kong Friday, January 7th, 1927. For Freight, Passage and other Information, please apply to- CARMICHAEL & CLARKE, Agents, Queen's Building, Phone C.232.
or W. WATT & CO., Agants; 27, Connaught Road West..
This line will carry to France THE AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD.
fish, timber, prepared pulpwood, furs and other products from these districts.
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a value of £360,000.. With the ex- It is also stated that this firm ception of $100,000 placed in Gerwill, through another company, many the whole of the insurance
operate a considerable fleet of ves- has been effected with Lloyd's unsels which will carry freight and derwriters and British insurance
A
passengers from Montreal, Quebec It remains to be seen whether companies.
and other porta in lower Quebec some grumblers will take excep The "Goeben," with the "Bres and in New Brunswick. : tion to the Admiralty's action in lau," eluded the British Fleet in cutting down the period for which the early days of the Great War Sir William Raeburn has been re- they keep open the books of the and passed through the Dardanelles slected chairman of the Clyde Navi- prize money fund from 40 years to Constantinople. The escape of
gation Trustees. to 10 after the date of award, the "Goeben" was the deciding There seems to be little ground factor of Turkey's entry into the for complaint at this, for one
war on the side of Germany. would think that every man by
After one or two raids from the this time had taken very good Dardanelles Straits during the war care to get all that was owing to the "Goeben" was damaged by: him, says the "Journal of Com-striking a mine; and for a number merce." But it is an unfortunate of years lay as a hulk in Stenia fact that there are any number Bay, on the Bosphorus, near Con- of settlements. still unclaimed stantinople.
in spite of the efforts that the
Admiralty has made to publish
the fact that they are lying in
London. If a man has gone out
to the Colonies and got right out!
HELPING THE DIVER.
Hellum, the rare,
of touch with things one can gas so essential in the safe opera- understand it, but constantly tion of dirigible airships, has also cases are cropping up where the found important uses in undersea claimants have never left London, exploration.
and many of them have been in. As the result of experimental the poorest circumstances. Ad-work by the Navy Department, the vertisements have been inserted United States Public Health Ser- in the Press and post offices, but vice, and the Bureau of Mines of still there are many who are un- the Commerce Department, the use aware that there is good money of the gas in synthetlo hellum-oxy
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORF waiting for them at the Ad-gen atmospheres for decompression
JOINT SERVICE OF THE
"BLUE FUNNEL LINE.
COCEAN 3.8. CO, LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL 8.N. CO., LTD.
VAND...
AMERICAN & MANCHUKIAN LINE
(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 8.1. CO., LTD.)"
·BAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.
Via Suez Canal -
8.9. "OANFA"
8.8. "CYCLOPS">
8.S. "CITY OF JOHANNESBURG" do.
8.8. "PELEUS”.
9.8. "CITY OF BRISTOL":
9.8. “ATREUS” AN
do. doy
14th January,
28th January. 11th February."' 25th February, 11th March. ⠀ 25th March.
Steamers proceed vis Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Ownere Option
“Bubject to change without notice, unh
For Freight and particulars apply to
can.
miralty, and that the officials of of divers or other performing that Department are regarding labour under increased atmospheric claims with every sympathy and pressure, by preventing calsson affording all the ship that they disease, promises to extend greatly the time and depth of underwater operation by divers and thus to e A rebuke was
was administered by the large the whole range of aubmarine Hull Stipendiary Magistrate to a engineering Board of Trade surveyor when giv. The employment of such artif ing evidence. You are a public cial, atmospheresis given much servant," he said, "and should not credit for the salvaging of the hull show a partisan spirit." The in- of the United States submarine |cident arose out of a case $.51, accidentally aunk near New- in which Hans Sverre Han- port, B. L. by the coastwise steamer
en master of the Nor
of Rome, wegian staamar "Agord” was fined ja seg
4100 and costs for overloading his The average earnings, of the ship with timber. The defence was London, districts pilots amount to that a miscalculation had been nearly $1,000 a year, according to
a return ligged recentl
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE LTD, Hong Kong Hong Kong & Canton JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD., Cantonmade.
For SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE.
via Manila, Ilello, Sandakan, Balikpapan & Rabaul S.S. "CALULU".
For F
Freight & Particulars Apply to-
DODWELL & CO.,
Agen
Telephone No.. Central 1080
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC_ADDRESS: “MANIFESTO HONGKONG.
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