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THE GROWTH OF NEW INDUSTRIES
A GREAT FUTURE
LAST MAN TO LEAVE “The trade of the Port of London
SINKING SHIP
CAPTAIN'S GALLANT ACT
FURNESS LINER
COLLISION IN FOG
is greater to-day than it has ever been in its 2,000 years' history, and the zenith has not yet been reached,' said Mr. J. H. Estill, lecturing to the ON Incorporated Secretaries' Azsociation. Mr. Estill is the commercial mana- ger of the part, and he drew a very attractive picture, with lantern slides, of the future of this great trading and financial centre. Mr. Patrick Howling, was in the chair.
New York, Yesterday. The Furness liner "Fort Victoria," 7,784 tons, with 280 passengera sank after a collision outside New York harbour with the Clyde liner "Algon- quin," which was carrying 180 passen Kors.
Mr. Estill, in the enurse of a copl ous history of the Port of London, sald:--
CANADIAN
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A DELIGHTFUL CRUISE DE LUXE
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21,850 Tons Gross, Length 615 feet.
LEAVING HONG KONG 17th FEBRUARY, 1930.
Arriving NEW YORK,
APRIL 17th, 1930
Two days available for sight-seeing in NEW YORK.
Leave NEW YORK
APRIL 19th,
1930
THRILLS OF "STRANGE TALES OF THE SEVEN SEAS"
"LITTLE JIMMY'S" DEATH
How pale and feeblo are the efforts of the most imaginative romancers beside the grim, stark records of the Court! Especially is this so in tales
The physical advantage of the port of the sex. The British race has pro duced a school of sea-novelists which
is its broad and deep river, enabling in paralleled in no other country, but
vessels of the largest class to enter Its docks with facility. Over 33 mil- not one of them can give us tales of terror comparable with actual hap
The collision happened in a fog. All lion tons of goods pass through an-
via Keelung. Shanghai, Chinwangino (for Peking), Beppa, Kobe, ly transferred to a pilot boat after the which the port occupies penings on the high seas. Anybody aboard the "Fort Victoria" wore safe-ually, 20 million tans being oversea
produce. The important position | Yokohama, Honolulu, Hifo, San Francisco, Balboa, Panama, through "Strange Tales of the Seven Seas," accident,
in relation the Panama Canal to Cristobal, Colon, Havana and be to oversen trade may will get
a feast of thrills such as ho
New York, Yesterday.
gauged from the fact that in 1028 the im- bus bus seldomn partaken of.
"Women and childrons first" was ports and exports, excluding coast- A few of these stories are fairly the order given quietly and implicitly wise, amounted to nearly £700,000,000, familiar. There is the account of the obeyed aboard the "Fort Victoria," exceeding those of Liverpool, the "Flowery Land" mutiny, for instance
after the sharp baws of the "Algon-next most important port, by over Our grandfathers remember the sensa tion caused by the trial of the quin" deeply gashed her part side, twice the combined oversen trade of £200,000,000, and being more than and it became evident that all aboard Hull, Manchester and Southampton. mutineers at the Old Balloy in Febru
London talked of nothing must leave as quickly as possible, if a ary, 1801.
Nearly one-third of the total oversea else, and to aurt was crowded with great loss of life was to be prevented. trade of the United Kingdom in dealt society people anxious to feast
their
The papers here pay tribute to the with in London. eyes
on the bloodthirsty wretches re- coolness of Captain Francis for his
New Interesta for sponsible
atrocities. discipline with the crew of the ship, in Within the last few years there There was no Englishmen among the an accident which might casily have has been a decided tendency for ad- "Flowery Land" pirates. The crew
had consequences comparable with ditional industries, such were a mixed lot of Chinese, half-
those following the sinking of the Bel-£97
manufacturing, engineering, breeds from Manila, a Turk, a Greek
tish steamer "Vestris" a year ago. paper-making and cement manufac- and others of various nations. It is
The collision occurred when
turing, to be established in or near. said that John Smith, the captain, one
the "Fort Victoria" slowed up to drop hernesses to be
London, and for important busi- of the first victims, was a brute and a
cantralised there, due bully, and that the food was bad; but harbour pilot. The "Algonquia," largely to the development of plec- of the chief causes of the mutiny which was following behind, had not to tricity and to the shipping, trading was the idea among the crew (totally do is, as she is a coastal stip. and other facilities in which London unfounded) that there was 2 vaat When the "Algonquin" loomed out of is pre-eminent. treasure hidden in the captain's
The shipuing entering the port has cabin. Doomed Smith had his mis a dense for it was too late to avoid
mis. a crash. The "Fort Victoria's" 5.0.5.Increased 1 om 050,000 tona in 1700 givings before the voyage bogan. #1
to the hugo figure of
nearly 60% can trust the ship," he told his brother signals brought many rescue craft, to
million not which Her passengers were transferred.
register tons in 1928. who WHS salling as a passenger,
This figure la over 17 million not "but such a crew as they have given | Captain Franels and a dozen men re-register tons more than in the Arat ma will wan: watching night and day."
mained aboard vainly hoping to have year the authority took office, and The mutineers, eight of them, stabbed the crippled ship towed to the pier, constitutes a record in the history and 'beat to death the captain, his until the water was knee-deep on the brothor
the port. A comparison with the and the first mato, one deck. They they jumped overboard shipping figures for
the outports Karswell. The attack was made at and swam to the nearby tog. Capt.shows that London exceeded Liver- three o'clock one fine night, when there Franels was the last man to leave the pool, the next tending port, by
breeze, quiet men and a fair
0,000,000 net register tona in 1918, and
over 29,740,000 nat register tons In 1928. Those shipping and trade figures prove that the port author- ity's bold pelley of extensions and improvements has been amply justi- fied,
one
was a
BO many
(Calls at Bolawan Deli.) VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER-Vix Japan Porte from of the captain and the first mate. For
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Hong Kong 5.20 p.m. Wuchow 1.30 p,m S.S. "TAI RING"
[1,003 tone-Capt. Trott.] DECEMBER.
The Sal Kong (or the West River)
SUN.
22nd
is the third largest river in the Chin-
For various reasons the murderership.-Reuter's American Service. spared the loyal minority, including Taffir, the second mate, whose expert knowledge they needed in order that the ship might be navigated. They also
British warships in port this morn. ZANZI.refrained from killing "Little Jimmy"
Early the ship's boy, whose evidence ing were:-
Over 60 per cent, of the shipping at the Old-Bailey subsequently made
In basin of B.N.
entering the port discharges in the him the hero of the day. The others
Dockyard: docks, the remainder being dealt with never knew from one moment to an
etersfield," "Magnolia." at wharves, at manufacturers pro- other when they might share the fata
"Marazion," "Cornflower."
mises or at moorings in the river. West wall: "Ken!" (flagship). A large tonnage of goods not in-ese Republic and second only to the In ghastly voyage con. weeks the
Dock: "Sepoy,"
tended for immediate consumption Yangtze in importance. This magni. tinued--three weeks
goes into the authority's warehouse of perpetual "Thracian." terror for the honest men-till the
ficent trade route was opened to for- on the dock quays. No. 4 Buoy: "Herald."
This warehous. coast of Brazil was sighted. It would No. 6 Buoy: "Hermes."
ing business is of
algn traffic in 1897, but how many great importance comprising, as it does, every class of foreigners travel on this important take too long to tell how the mutineers No. 6 Busy: "Cofnwall," then planned to scuttle the ship and
merchandise entering the port. The No. 7 Buoy: "Iroquois."
-waterway? The scenery along the principal commodities leave the honest men to drown, and
No. 12 Buoy: "Sirdar."
grain, the latter cocaped, and sub-
timber,
and The only foreign man-of-War in har-frozen meat, sugar, tea and tobacco.
route is beautiful. We recommend it spirits, wool, sequently laid Information with the
bour was:-
to any person who wishes to spend a Brazilico authorities, whereby the
Over two million tons of Imported short and economical holiday. Chinese murderers were arrested and extra-
goods yearly are passed over the au dited to England.
thority's quays while the present "On the scaffold | Ching."
stock of they showed themselves cowards
goods stured is about well as murder
680,000 tons, a striking figure when derers," says the author. "Those were the days when the public
It fa remembered that the modern were permitted to view a hanging.
into consumption. and when the first of the prisoners
The P. & O. 5.5. “Mirzapore" left Durano-stopped on the platform be
greeted with such a howl of Singapore for this port on December execration from the mob that he fell 19 at 7 a.m., and is due here on De- back half-fainting.
Saturday, 4th January.
Thursday, 26th Dec, 10 am.
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newspaper of | cember 27 at about 6 a.m. the day assures us, however, that the hangman-one Calcraft-carried out the execution through without A hitch.
to
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nre
tendency is for goods to go directly EMPRESS OF CANADA
The stocks held
| have been as much as 1,000,000 tons. The authority also carry on a large
business in the conveyance and ship. Some Particulars of the
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The C.P.O.S. "Empress of Canada" which has been re-engined and re- conditioned by the Fairfield Shipbuild ing and Engineering Company, Ltd, of Govan, Glasgow, recently under-
FBI. 27th
9.5. “TAI MING"
( tuns--Capt. G. J. Spink.]
'. DECEMBER.
TUES. 24th SUN. 29th For information apply to
KWUNG WING G
87, Connaught Road West, Phone: Central 893,
CPR liner "Empress of Japan"
which is now
under construction at
Field, it was decided last year to
install new Parsons single-reduction geared turbines, along with Weir re generative condensers, and to suppla ment the existing turbine-driven gou- The story of the man who actually it came to Mr. S's turn. Instead,
erating sets with oil engine driven survived walking the plank is full of however, of falling at once into the
generators, which work was recently Korrors, Ho (called throughout the sea, he, with great muscular efforts,
At the same time the completed. boilers were fitted with smoke tube narrative "Mr. 8) was aboard a ship clung to the plank and refused his
fate... In which also carried a large number of tried
vain the murderors
superheaters and stage feed heating Chinese convicta going to fulfil their
prod
with pikes. He де
Per . "Aki Maru" from Austra- went successful trials on the Clyde, was added. The designed output of several sentences at different depots.
dodged
points
auc-lla on December 19:
She was built at the Fairfield yards
the new machinery until
longth
in about 28,000 You will expect to hear that con- cessfully,
G. N. Brown, Mrs. H. G. Brown, in 1922, and was originally equipped vice, with a maximum overload rat 9.E.P. at 120 r.p.m. in continuous Ber victs
dear war the Cole Chinese, creeping forward, almod a Prof. H. Lark, Mrs. p. 310E, TOSO
at him with a sabre, In guards which they did
Clark, Miss E. Clark. A. Williams, with 21,000 S.H.P. double-reductioning of 29,000. S.H.P-If required. Now rative goes on: Mr. S. quickly return.
tering the stroke Mr. S. lost his hold and Mrs. L. Wliams, Master A. Williams, general turbines, giving her a spead propellers have also been fitted, and
fall into the Bes.
The intended Sister F. Guay, Sister van Oost, G. victim floated until he managed to
the reconditional liner will now, as of over 20 knots. To give her a before, be the fastest scramble into the ship's bast, which Murchie, M. Kishimoto, J. Matsudaira, spoed similar to that of the now
in the Ccm- ch. Suzuki, Bishop J. Reas
pany's North Pacific service. derers were was towing astern, and the mur- so taken aback by his m comingly miraculots escape that they allowed him to go
masters of
At
avoid-
B
ed to his cabin and was groping for his arms when the captain rushed in, fired his pistol through the skylight, and crying out that the Chinese were of the ship, darted up the stops, threw himself overboard, and
his cabin and did was drowned. A few moments of
not molest him for the remainder suspense followed, when a party of
*Party his time aboard. In fact, one of the convicts come
and, without molesting me below,
ordered her has bloodstained wretches came every day Compelled to oboy, he to the cabin to ask him what he would found the deck deluged with blood than the unfortunate mate, who was ilke for dinner! He was better off and the victorious convicts compelling dragged from the rigging, hamstrung, the survivors of the British crow and and left to bleed to desti.. Sepoys to walk the plank." Present the most extraordinary and gruesome
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One of
stories in this collection is that telling how a couple of Indian coellos made themselves masters of the "Frank N. Thayer," an American vessel of 1,400 tons burden, sailing from Manila to New York The great advantage they had lay in the fact that the whole of the ship's company were taken com- pletely by surprise. Everything was peaceful, the night calm and starlit, and tire ship bowing along before breeze when the two Indians suddenly and fall on their
unarmed
out
officers the first and second Having killed them and at- mates, tacked and severely wounded the cap tain, they slew the man at the wheel, the carpenter, and a white scaman. Twelve men were sleep in the fo'c'ale, and though they sallied forth to In vestigate when they "ware aroused by the struggle on deck, the mutineers drove them En panic hack to the fo'cale, where they barricaded, thems in Eventually the p
after mutineers, the loyal crew had smashed their w out with an axe, which had been smuggled in to thems by the Chiness cook, jumped overboard. Firat, how ever, they had set fire to the ship, and the captain and the rémülader of, tạo ship's company
were compelled to take to the box. The amazing fact re- males comments Mr. Lockhart, "that a pair of determined cooles, without Krearmagnstered !! Company twenty, killed five: wounded, four, and overnwed, the remainder for a period of forty-eight hours; and the cler ketive men were quite counteng, during that period to remata Hory deck while
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