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Shipping
Intelligence
1.
The buzz of bees and the hum MEN OF APPLEDORE. it had known. Many queer craft
must have harboured here of insecta greeted me as I came strange sail indeed to modern out of the church, and all around eyes:-
me' was the scent of roses. "There'd be biremes and bri-Through the troes bordering gantines, cutters and sloops. God's Acre appeared the bright Cogs, carracks, and galleons blue patches of the Torridge, with gay gilded poops.
which I must cross to reach the Hoys, caravels, ketches, cor- golden sand beyond. vettes and the rest."
"If the ship that were sunk could be floated once more.
Those wild Cimbri, tough and
They'd stretch like a raft from tow-headed, the earliest settlers in
the shore to the shore.
the West Country, with their And we'd ace, as we crossed, I quaint coracles and canoes; the swarthy Phoenician traders whose every pattern and plan.
ships were the East Indiamen of Of ships that were built since
an ancient world, and who dis- sea-fighting began."
covered Duumonia, this land of hills and mines, making Hartland their headquarters for close upon three centuries.
Fourpence is the ferry fare Geross that half-mile of water which at high tide separates the fishing village of Appledore from its opposite neighbour, the little town of Instow,
and seldom has
any groat given me greater en joyment than the one I expended of the trip this morning (writas Lieut.-Colonel Hugh Channer in The Navy).
"North Sen
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Last night the N.Y.K. enter- tained a party of prominent resi- dents and members of the Press on board their new motor vessel, the Hikawa Maru..
Her
Next the galleys of Imperial Rome; then the craft of the Anglo-Saxons, followed by the war-boats, painted
This vessel is the first of thei and gay"-those "dragons" and company's three 12,000-ton motor serpents of Danė and Viking, ships for the Seattle run. whose raids spread such terror sister ships, the Hiye Maru and along the coast and inspired the the Heian Maru, are expected to Just below the ferry the Pool prayer, "From the fury of the be ready this year, when a re- forms the junction of those two Norsemen, deliver us good Lord;"gular fortnightly service will be lovely rivers, the Taw and Torand, finally, the Normans and maintained between Seattle and ridge, which here meet to flow on their vessels. Early in the Middle the Orient. as one broad silver stream for yet Ages those two, good pilgrim another three miles before reach-ships, the Saint Nicholas and the ing the Bar and Bideford Bay. Fitzwarren, single-masted and Both rivers are tidal. and al-half-decks, would pass within hail though hereabouts the acere is of Appledore on their voyages be
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always beautiful, it is never glorious as at high water on bright summer's morning.
And such it was to-day when I Look boat across from Instow Quay, that short, stubby, but ser- viceable pier, or pile of flat grey stones, with its broad flight of stops leading down to the water which laps its base.
sengers-has been very well ar- The accommodation for all pas-
and cabins promise every comfort ranged, and the spacious suites, for the traveller. Even the tour- tween Barnstaple and the northist class has not been neglected, west of Spain, where the shrine and the ample cabin space pro- of St. James, at Compostella, was vided is a step forward for the then sp, popular. Many a God betterment of those who cannot speed must have been called over afford to travel cabin class. the water as those two gallant little ships beat out towards the reading and writing rooms, smak- The dining saloons, lounges, Bar, and many a welcome hailing rooms and nursery are the last too, would greet their return. word in decorations and furnish-
The "marchaunt adventurers,”
ings, luxury being the keynote and those sea-dogs of good Queen throughout. Bess. Raleigh, Grenville, and Drake, navigated these waters. and those stout ships, the Tyger, John of Barnstaple, The Virgin. God Save Her with the Prudence Sam, the ferry-man, squarely and the galleon Dudley, all ́sall- DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZI- | built and sunburned, was a pied hence to meet the Spaniard
& Colombo, ednesday, 6th August. Friday, 26th September.
Monday, 11th August.
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Colombo, Durban & Cape Town,
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Friday, 18th July,
Friday, 29th August.
Saturday, 19th July.
Sunday, 3rd August.
CALCUTTA—Via Singapure, Penang & Rangoon, "
Friday, 18th July, Friday, 1st Auguit.
My objective was the church of St. Mary's lying half way up the filside between East and West Appledore; on a Sunday its hells rall with singular sweetness across the water.
turesque figure in his added blue jorsey, patched trousers, ani, ser viceable sea-boots. We were both disinclined for conversation, he gravely intent upon his private affairs, and I-drinking in the
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER-Via Japan Porta from beauty of the morning freshness.
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HAIPHONG-Yla Roibow a Tukhoi
MENADO MARU
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Thursday, 26th July.
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Silently he pulled me, his only passenger, past a dozen or more of small craft dancing trim and meat upon the sun-lit water, and then out into the fairway, with Bideford lying upstream, and be low us. Baunton lighthouse stand- ing up bone-white among the yellow sand-hills; behind these latter lay that wonderful pane- 'rama between Baggy Point and Braunton, and beyond again. to Barnstaple.
with lusty Devon cheera ringing across the water from shore to ship, and re-echoed by their crews.
And so the pageant passes through years of splendid history. For generations the aen has call ed these "fisherfolks, as I realis- ed, after reading the inseriptions on some of the headstones in the cemetery to which my steps had led me later. On thèse, and upon the tablets within the church, the words "drowned" or "lost at aẹn" recur with tragic frequency. But
has the sea Insistently,
never
more
called them nor claimed
them more completely, than in the last Great War, when men of Appledore, with very few excep- tiona, went "down to the ships" and "occupied their busi-
sea in
men from for
Halfway across the broad ex- panao of water. I turned to look at Instow, a line of little whiteness in great waters." houses, green shuttered, stretch- Seventy-six brave ing out along a belt of golden Appledore gave their lives sand. Its background. Is English-King and Country. enough, trees, helds, and low Besides the pathway leading to green hills rolling away to pleas the porch stands the Cross of Re- sant uplands until lost in. a haze of misty blue, but it was those white houses built close beside the water's edge
which
first caught my eye and called to mind some foreign town.
Instow le residential and quiet. Appledore Is Industrial and busy. dependent partly upon its small shipbuilding trade, but mainly upon its fishing fleet.
As the boat came alongside the jetty I stepped ashore and stop pad to look back once again across
membrance, record of the fallen. Within the church, upon a triptych, Is the Roll of Honour, and, on the op-
and about its base a
posite well, n memorial window upon which, are depicted a Rad Cross nurse with figures in the blue and khaki of the fighting forces. At the base of this, too, la inscribed a list of the gallant dead,
Among these names thus thrice recorded, one in particular caught my eye-"Cicciarelli Marino, of
the river, trying to pletura some- the Italian Army," and once, pre- thing of the scenes it had wit-sumably, of this parish.
nessed, and the various peoples
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Who was he. I wondered, and what had brought him. here' from Italy?
This morning, I reflected, the
The Hikawa Maru sailed for Seattle this morning, this being her second trip eastward.
WATER LEVELS.
ON WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS,
The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English feet! the water levels on the West River, North River and East River,
on the dates named:
Shiuhing Tsingyuen Samshut
Sheklung
July 13 July 14
5.5
5,2
2.6
2.2
1.2
1.2
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1930.
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Empress of Russia' July 23 July 26 July 29, July 31 Aug. 9. Empress of Japan Aug. 7 Aur. 10 Aug. 12′′ Aug. 14 Aug. 22. Empress of Asia Aug, 20 Aug. 23 Aug. 26 Aug. 28 Sept, 6 Empress of Canada Sept. 4 Sept. 7 Sept. 9 Sept. 11 Sept. 19 Empress of Russia' Sept. 17 Sept. 20 Sept. 23 Sept. 25 Oct. 4 Empress of Japan Oct. 2 Oct 5 Oct. 7 Oct. 9 Oct. 17 Empress of Asia" Oct. 15 Oct. 18 Oct. 21 Oct. 23 Nov. 1 Nov, 14 Empress of Canada Oct. 30 Nor. 2 Nor., 4 Nov. 6
Russl Nov. 17 Nov. 15 Nov. 18 Nov. 20 Nov. 23 Empress of Empresa of Japan Nor. 27 Nov, 30 Dec.
Dec 12 Empress of Asia Dec. 10 Dec. 13 Dec. 16. Dec. 18 Des. 27 Empress of Canada Dec. 25 Dec. 28 Dec. 30 Jan.
1 Jan. 9 Jan. 15 Jan. 24 Empress of Kusala" Jan. 7 Jan. 10 Jan. 13
Feb. 5 Feb. 13 Empress of Japan Jan. 29 Feb. 1 Feb. 3 Empress of Asia Feb. 25 Feb, 28 Mar. 3 Mar. 5 Mar. 14
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S.S. “TAI HING" [1,068 tons Capt. Trott.]
JULY.
SUN. 20th WED. 30th FRI 25th
S.S. TAI MING" [649 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink.] JULY.
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The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of The highest levels on record are: Russia (from Manila) is due here Shiuhing, 41 feet; Tsingyuer, at 9 a.m. on July 20 (Sunday),
29.2 feat; Samehul, 27.8 feet; and will berth at Pler No. 5, How- Sheklung 15.5 feet.
loon Wharf.
The lowest level on record at Samshul is minus 6 feet, and at Sheklung minus 2.7 feet.
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The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of Canada arrived at Kobe on July Hong Kong arrived" London 15 (Tues.) at 7.30 am, left Kobe July 13 at 11 p.m. on July 15 (Tues.) at 4 p.m., and le due at Yokohama
The P. & Q. 9.8. Morea left on July 16 (Wed.) at 5 p.m.
She leaves Shanghai for this port on July 15 Yokohama on July 17 (Thurs.) at at 5 p.m., and is due here on July
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bright blue of the Pool that wide ELLERMAN
stretch just below, Appledore- must rival even that of the Medi- terranean. He, too, must often have seen it so, and with thoughts turned to his own sunny land have watched the sun set glori ously in that bay Baggy Point, and Hartland,so well named "The Golden."
Was he a sailor, as his name suggests? The Rolls of Honour, however, records him as “of the Italian Army” But what matter his trade? He died as a soldier, The bugle call hurried him from Appledore to his homeland in
to take his place with others
the common
In the ranks of the Alpini, Bersaglieri, or, perhaps as one of the Carabinieri, he faced the Aus trian, and with Ayaniflz Viva Italial" ringing In his ears, fell to a bullet upon dome snow-clad slope.M
:,Of an alien race; and of an- other creed, the inclusion of his; name upon the Roll of Honour cor St. Mary's was, but a right and proper tribute to a gallant ally. magraceful, act also typical of dore and that brotherhood
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JAPANESE BOAT SINKS.
It is reported by the Naval au- thorities that the Japanese steamer Kohatsu Maru is lying sunk at Lat, 37° 18' N. and Long, 121° 50′ E. There are no details as to lives lost or damage.
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The steamer, which is fairly well known in Hong Kong, is registered in Kobe, and owned by Matsuura Shizuo. Built in 1902, she is a steel Bcrew vessel of 1,774 tons
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