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SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports,
HIYE MARU (Leave from Koba).. Wednesday, HIKAWA MARU
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
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SHINYO MARU
ASAMA MARU
Thursday,
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
Sunday, Tuesday,
20th January.
4th February.
21st January.
12th February.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
CINYO MARU
Sunday,
SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
KAWACHI MARU
HARUNA MARU
Saturday,
10th January.
KATORI MARU
Saturday,
24th January.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
KAMO MARU
Thursday,
22nd January,
KITANO, MARU
Thursday,
19th February.
TANGO MARU
11th January,
+ TOTTORI MARU
27th January,
Mexico & Panama.
1st February.
Saturday,
21st February.
Wednesday,
4th February.
Monday,
19th January.
Wednesday, 7th January. Thursday,
15th January.
Wednesday.
7th January.
Thursday, Wednesday, Friday,
8th January.
14th January. 23rd January.
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.
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PROMINENT PASSENGERS ON BOARD.
Mr. and Mrs. H. A Pearson, travelling on a business trip to Manija. Mr. Pearson is the Manager of the Swedish-Chinese Export Co.
Dr. R. G. Cochrane, connected with the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association and is proceed- ing to Manila to attend the Lepra Congress there.
Mr. A. C. le Roy des Barres, In-
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spector General of Medical Es- tablishments of Indo-China, who will represent the French Govern- ment at the Lepra Congress.
Quran, ManaMERIA 1
BRANDT. & co.
THE CHINA MAIL.
El Gowan's Building. Chaise Hood.
Balding mad Hepator of SusanoAS Land. Motorships of weary types
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CREW DESERT SHIP. SINKING OF THE SS. BANDITS ON CATHAY
CAPTAIN BRINGS HER BACK SINGLE-HANDED.
WOUNDED BY-KNIFE.
Constantinople, Yesterday. The United States Shipping Board's 6,000-ton vessel. Hopat
from cong has arrived
Odessa manned only by the captain and a single lower-deck officers, not rating being aboard,
TRICOLOR.
|_ Carrying Arms-and-
Ammunition to China,
HEAVY INSURANCE.
PURSER ATTACKED AND £370 STOLEN FROM SAFE.
Sydney, Nov. 23.
The appearance of two bandits on the P. and O., liner Cathay at Pyrmont early, this morning has provided another serious problem London, Yesterday,
for the police. Surprised at work: According to the Daily Tele- in the darkened office of the purser, graph, the Norwegian steamer, they throttled him and beat him Tricolor, which was yesterday re-into insensibility. They then atole! The crew mutinied at Odessa ported in a message from Colombo £370 in Australian notes, but dis- then deserted following a to have sunk as the result of an carded £600 in English money. melee in which the captain was | explosion, was carrying arms and
Mr. John Outram, 26 years the wounded by a knife thrust.
Ha ammunition to China.
purser, She was a 6,000-ton vessel re-night with relatives, and returned was ashore on Saturday navigated the vessel with the aid of the officers to Constantinople,gistered at Tonsberg.
to the Cathay shortly after mid- frea! where he is recruiting a
entrance leading to his office on B night. He walked Into the main crow.-Reuter."
duck, opened the door, turned on the light from a switch, took off
and
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS..
Monday, Jan. 5. Altai Maru, Japanese str., 4,846 tons, Capt. K. Ishibashl, from Dairen, buoy No. 49.-0.S.K. Kanchow, British str., 1,222 tons, Capt. R. H. Fairley, from Swatow, buoy No. 02.- B. & S. Klungchow, British str., 1,545
It is understood that the Lon- don marine insurance market will lose at least £300,000 including $110,000 on the hull as a result of the sinking of the ship.
Details of the sinking are that the origin of the explosion, scanty. Colombo reports state which occurred a few hours after the ship left Colombo, is unknown, but it is believed that the vessel sank a few minutes after the ex- plosion.
Of the twelve people on board, one is missing, the survivors be- tons, Capt. W. J. Larter, from ing taken off by the Messageries Hoihow, buoy No. B14-
Maritimes 6.8. Porthos.
B. & S. Rynsei Maru, Japanese str., 1,509
tons, Capt. T. Tanaka, from Moj and Ainoura, buoy No. B23.-Y.K.K.
again to go to his sleeping quarters. his hat and coat, and walked out
dance, which was held on the deck The ship was fully lighted for a twenty yards through an alleyway from the office, and there were 250 many men and women, with whom gilesta. Among them too, were the crew were unacquainted.
Outram was away no longer than a minute, and when he returned he
noticed that the lights were out and
the door was ajar. As soon as his right foot crossed the threshold gripped him by neck, pulled balance, and - dragged him into the cabin which was
the his
Forty-two Survivors.
Shanghai, Later. The Shanghai agents of the twe hands Tricolor have received a telegram from Colombo stating that the Tuesday, Jan. 6.
5.5. Porthos picked up 42 survivors Andre Lebon, French str. 7,975 from the doomed ship.
tons, Capt. G. Sabiani, from
The missing are Captain Wold, Marseilles, Kowloon Wharf-the third officer, Mr. Holst, one motorman, one sailor and a pas- senger named Doxrud.
M. M.
Canton, French str., 976 tons, Capt. F. L. Morvan, from Hai- phong, buoy No. C1.-M. M. Chak Sang, British atr., 1,470 toņs,
Dramatic Spectacle,
pitch dark.
him off
Outram started to
wrestle with the man, and succeed- ed in tripping his attacker, who dragged him down to the floor with|
him. Then another man took a hand, and grabbing Outram by the reck with both hands, banged his head several times bard on to the floor.
The
Colombo, Yesterday. Crowds of people ashore saw the dramatic spectacle of the Tricolor, when four miles out,
With desperate efforts. Outram suddenly emit a sheet of flame, released himself from the grips after which the vessel was en which he was clutched. veloped in dense smoke, finally disfight progressed for ten minutes, sipated by a terrific explosion, the when the purser, still handicapped suddenness of which did not give by the darkness and the uneven en- the crew time to take to the boats. counter, managed to struggle to his The Porthos was nearby, and feet. He was promptly felled by picked up the survivors from the blow on the left temple, and water.
knocked out. His head crashed against the edge of an organ, which, with every other plece of furniture in the room, was knocked over during the struggle."
Capt. J. McAnish, from Swa- tow, West Point Wharf. J. M. & Co. Chung Kong. Chinese str., 447 tons, Capt. Kwok Shau, from Canton, buoy No. B16.-Yau Lee. Delke Rickmers. German str., 3,803 tons, Capt. H. Ahlers, from Maalla, Stonecutters Anchorage. Siemssen & Co. Menelaus, British atr., 6,324 tons, The. P. and O. s.s. Naldera, ar- Capt. W. H. Propert, from riving later, unsuccessfully Singapore, Holt's Wharf searched for more survivors. B. & S.
Reuter. Saloko Maru, Japanese str., 1,964
COURT OF ENQUIRY TO RESUME.
tons. Capt. Misitani, from H.M S. LUCIA MUTINY Karatsu, buoy No. B63.- Wada Jimusho. Sphinx, French str., 6,724 tcns, Capt. Angelsen, from Shang- hal, Kowloon Wharf.-M. M. Tean. British str. 1:351 tona,
Rugby, Yesterday. The Admiralty announces that the Court of Inquiry Into the
Dr. B. Joyeux, prominent French vel Maru, Japanese str.. 1,849 occurrences on the Submarine notes of all denominations, and left|
No one knew that anything wate wards was happening in the office although members of the crew and officers, occasionally passed the .Coor. Having rendered Outram helpless, the two men groped through his pockets for the key of the safe, which they opened, and, presumably using torch or matches, extracted the 4370 in Australian Depot Ship Lucla sat to-day and unnoticed by way of the staircase will resume to-morrow.
and busy gangway. It was not Until all evidence has been heard until nearly 8 am, that Outram re- and the report of the Court has gained consciousness. He tele- been forwarded by the Commander phoned Chief Officer Smith, who in-Chief, Plymouth, no further rushed to
the cabin.. treated statement can be issued-British Outram's wounds, and sent for de Wireless Service.
tectives.
Indo-China Government Physician, accompanying, Mr. Le Roy des Bar ree to the Lepra Congress.
Dr. and Mrs. P. H. J. Lerrigo, touring the Far East. Dr. Lerrigo la connected with the Association Missions.
Mrs. M. E. Davenport Browne, wife of Mr. Davenport Browne of the Asiatic Petroleum Co., Manila, returning from. a pleasure trip to Hong Kong.
SHIPBUILDERS,
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The opening of the whaling season in the southern seas has resulted in the triumph of the electrical harpoon, according to reports reaching the London head- quarters of the whaling companies. If the whale was not seriously, paid according to the value of the
During the first week of the wounded, however, there was often. oil produced. Most of the whole season, the fleet, of the Anglo-considerable trouble in klling it hunters are Norwegians, Norwegian Holding company alone Sometimes It took more than
The whaling season lusta from October to April..
The Mayor of Blackpool, Alder: made a catch which produced hour's struggle before It was final |
G. W. Gath,-- has bought a 11,000 barrels of whale oil, valued ly despatched. Then it had to be lifeboat and has not yet made up at $225,000,
towed to the "mother-ship" of the his mind what to do with it. The The electrical harpoon is not yet whaling fleet because whales do lifeboat is the Samuel Fletcher, in general use, but its effective, not float after being killed veteran of ten gallant rescues, nesa in despatching the monarch. When the new electrical harpoon which has been displaced by an of the deep is rapidly being is used, the monster is killed other vessel. The Samuel Fletcher established. With its introduction, almost without fail the moment he originilly cost about a thousand much of the romance is going out is hit. The harpoon is attached pounds. The Mayor bought it for of whaling for men no longer risk to a cable and its current s £70 at a sale by auction at Black- life and limb in a small boat towed switched--on-by-the recoil of the
by a harpooned whale.
The old method of killing whales Another advantage
"I do not know what was will
of the be put to said Alderman Gath was by a whaling gun operated electrical method is that the whale afterwards.I have bought it, from the bow of a vessel. The gun can be made to float. A valve is and that is all that matters at the was sighted on the whale, and inserted in the incision made by: moment. I did not want it to leave when it was fired a harpoon was the harpoon and the stomach of Blackpool
shot Into the back of the victim the whale is Olled with air. The On the impact the point of the catcher ta then free to hunt other harpoon opened up, umbrella whaios and collect the carcase fashion, so that the while could later PARAAN not shake of the weapon A fer the men who call on whalers are secondi later (a grenade exploded, still advanturerm to some extent. They dru for tripa, on the understanding that they will be
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The following British warahiipa were in harbour to-day
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