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SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta.
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Wednesday,
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Saturday,
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Bist December.
Saturday,
14th January.
21st December. Wednesday, 18th January, 1928.'
Monday,
12th December. Tuesday, 27th December.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colonibo.
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TAKAOKA MARU
LIVERPOOL vía Singapore, Colombo, Port Said & Porte.
CALCUTTA vin SINGAPORE, PENANG & HANGOON.
Tuesday, 27th December.
DURBAN MARU
Tuesday, 10th January,
PAKITA MARU
+TOKUSHIMA MARU
Moulay, Monday,
NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
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Friday,
19th December. 12th December,
16th December.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
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THE CHINA MAIL,
SHIPPING
A FORCED SWIM.
BLUEJACKETS NARROW
ESCAPE.
BOAT CAPSIZES.
A party of Bluejackets from H.M.S. "Herald" had
"Herald" by samunn.
narrow
SECTION.
SMALLER NAVIES.
OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROBLEM.
GENEVA MEETING,
Rugby, Saturday.
Divers have been sent down to timate knowlidge... locate the sunkon boat and retrieve
MILES OF SWAMPS.
SINGAPORE BASE: WORK TO BE DONE.
}
LABOUR MARKET SPOILED?
London, Saturday. Miles of mangrove swamps and poisonous black mud must be cleared and dredged, says the second article in the London "Daily Telegraph" on the Singa- pora Naval Base, before its four mile frontage on deep water and a sen wall after it can be erected. Sir Ronald Graham, British Am- Inside the present ill-defined escape on Saturday afternoon when bassador at Rome is visiting Sir shore, & dock of a thousand feet one of the ship's boats capsized and Austen Chamberlain at Geneva to- long will be constructed to accom threw them into the water as they day. Sir Ronald has not seen the modate the largest battleship were pulling, for shore off Wanchai.
afloat and four cruisers simul- The boat was fortunately not far British Foreign Secretary for over from land at the time and the occu-a year and the latter's presence in taneously. Probably a decade will pants were able to swim ashore and Geneva offers a favourable oppor- have passed before the whole con- Istruction is finished. Local rub- return for dry clothes to H.M.S.tunity for discussion of questions ber planters complain that the on which the Ambassador has in- Government is spoiling the labour
Mr. Bridgeman First Lord of Chinese workers.-Reuter.
market by overpaying Tamil and Admiralty, referring to the United} States navy proposal in a speech last night, said "I do not blame the Americans in the least. They are a great and rich country and are] perfectly entitled to build whatever battleships they care for their own iTo the Editor of the "China Mail"]
defence. We, in order to show our the 8th Sir, I received on inst. the following notice which sincerity in what we proposed at
London, Yesterday. refers to martial law regulation's Geneva, have knocked off two
The Eastern Telegraph cableship promulgated by the Canton author cruisers. The Americans so far as "Colonia" left the Thames to lay ities as long ago as November 17 we can make out are going in for two new cables between Alexandría This notice was not-issued by the their full programme. I do not die-and Port Said, which will connect Commissioner of Foreign Affairs pute that they are building for the new underground loss that are till December 3, and circulate their own defence. Therefore we being laid between Port Said and amongst those concerned on De-
have no reason to complain. We Suez. The completed scheme will cember 15.
have no reason to alter our
enable the regenerator to be worked
intend to enter into building com- plans because of that. We do not between London, India and further
East.-Reuter.. petition with any other country if we can possibly help it. Do not let us, watch with jealous eyes every battleship which is planned but
it.
CORRESPONDENCE.
A BELATED NOTICE.
Urgent. From Commissioner for For eign Affairs (No. 89), Canton
December 3, 1927.
own
NEW OCEAN CABLES.
TO IMPROVE FAR EASTERN SERVICE.
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA."
Sir, I have the Honour to in- form, you that I am in receipt of a letter from the Temporary Mili- tary Affairs Committee stating: let us maintain our desire for peace liners are docked for general over- Once a year all the "Empress” This Commitee has passed the and our firm determination not to haul. The "Empress of Russia" to following three Martial
Law build anything more than is re- Hong Kong from Manila to-day, and regulations:-
quired for our own defence, We after discharging passengers, she have now reduced our navy to ns will berth at a buoy of "Kowloon low strength as is compatible with Dock, which she will later enter. our safety.
The "Empress of Russia" will be the first of the three linera to go
nto dock here this year, and shel
1) Martial Law is proclaimed from the 17th November. (2) Every day from 6 p.m. to 6 Chinese and Foreign ships are prohibited from entering and going out.
1.m.
Elevation Question. When the question of increasing (3) Foreign ships will tempor elevation of turret guns in the
arity not be searched. The Commanders of the Bocca United States battleships "Okla-res of Canada." Tigris & Chang Chow homa" and "Nevada" was consider
will be followed in due course by he "Empress of Asia" and "Em-
The "Empress of Russia" - sails! gain for Vancouver on January 4.
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Friday
...............Friday, 231d December. ton to notify their naval and terms of the Washington Treaty.which arrived in port on
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(Sd.) Chu Chao-hsin, Commissioner of Foreign
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to
From the British Consulate-! General dated December 5, 1927. The notice is not conspicuous for
in armament which are deemed to clearness. Does the regulation re- d.fer to the stretch between Bocca result from execution of the pro- CONSIGNEES' NOTICES.
Tigris from Canton or Whampoa posal to elevate turret guns on or the run between Canton and retained capital ships of the United Consignees of Cargo ex M.V. Whampoa, or the whole run from States, it being considered that even "Remo" are reminded to take de- Canton ?:
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Consignees of Cargo ex BE of the Treaty having the effect of
'Andre Lebon," are advised carrying out such proposals would send in all claims to the Agent be be incompatible with its intentions.fore December 16.
Acting 01 instructions from Geneva, the British, French and Italian military attaches or their deputies in Warsaw and Riga have proceeded to the Polish Lithuanian The arrival report of the "Weat Capt. C. J. Thomson, Chief Board- frontier to acquaint themselves Conob" (American) from Manila ing Officer, has returned from with military dispositions in that states that the Captain, whose name Home leave, accompanied by Mrs. area, and to assure themselves that is not given, died in hospital at Thomson, Capt. Thomson has re- there is no danger of incidents Menado on November 26.
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