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Black Sea and Danube Porta
Passengers to LONDON (Overland),
NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG
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*S.S. "GANGE"
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+S.STEVERE"
**S.S. "PILSNA"
*†Datward voyage to Shanghai only.
For Singapore
For Bhanghal & Japan
& Italy
June 1
June 29
June 30
June 4 June 17 July 5 Aug. 2 July 12
July 28
Aug. 9
* Passenger vessela with First, Second and Second Econo- anic Classes.
Alleation is called to the s.. Gange which will make the journey Hong Kong/Italy in 2 days thus affording London passengers to arrive at destination in 20 days.
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YKLIN
FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE
E
CAN FRANCISCO vià Shanghat, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
Tuesday, Wednesday,
Dth June. 24th June.
2nd Juno,
30th Junu.
SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
TAIYO MARU- CHCHBU MARU
HIYE MARU
HEJAN MARU
Tuesday,
Tuesday,
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
Saturday,
Saturday,
WHITE STAR SCHEME.
Air Bookings by Wireless.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
Shipping
Intelligence.
U-BOAT STORIES.
NOTABLE ADDITION TO WAR LITERATURE.
SPRING CLEANING THE FLEET.
Dockyard Hives of Activity.
Fleet are back in the home ports The ships of the Atlantic after their spring cruise. many things must be done during Now the month before the fleet is once again on the move,
A number of the ships must be
These
Life on a German' submarine during the war could scarcely be described In order that Atlantic passen- Stories," edited by Karl Neurou
dull. "U-Boat gers approaching Europe from ther and Claus Bergen, members the United States should be able of the U-Boat Fellowship, do to book seats in air expresses scribe actual experiences, paint outward bound from London, or an unforgettable picture. Some charter special aeroplanes for ur times the narrator is the com gent journeys, arrangements have manding officer, sometimes it is docked for periodical examina just been completed between an ordinary seaman. One and all, tions or repairs. Three months Imperial Airways and the White with the sailor's characteristic at sea leave their scars. Star Line whereby the pursers matter of factness, describe must all be removed and the on the ocean liners of this Com-existence on an unenviable plane ships cleaned and painted for pany will be authorised to act as The crews had ever to be on the the Summer months. They must regular booking agents for Im-alert. There was the peril from also be re-stored. perial Airways.
mines. There were those "pests" This will mean that, at the re- the British destroyers,
Imagine the work of storing a quest of any
There battleship with a complement of passenger on * were liner bound for Europe, the pur- were "decoy" boats. Even when period of three months.
armed trawlers. There 1,200 officers and men for ser will send a wireless message submerged the vessels were not to the London Office of Imperial entirely safe,
The victualling stores alone Airways, reserving accommoda-picked out by aeroplanes and the forty tons, and there are hun- They could be weigh considerably more than dreaded depth charges might dreds of other things to be follow.
from small split pins and balls of thought of besides. twine to great, baulks of timber, Nothing
wire and hemp, mast be forgot- tons of paint, and howsers' of
tion for the passenger in an air express leaving on any specified date for some Continental City
For long periods the raiders along the airway to India; would appear to have the sea to while the same facilities will ap- themselves. There would be oc. ply to the airway between Engcasional German fishing boats. land and South Africa, the first "What do they care for the
or
Year.
нег
ten.
a
to be catered for, besides the or
Every possible emergency has dinary routine life of the ship.
marily for fighting efficiency, and It is less easy than it sounds. A man-of-war is designed pri- a great many of the store rooms slowing of the stores consequent ly entails an enormous amount of are not easy of access.
The
REDÚCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING stages of which open in the New enemy or his mines?" A British destroyer might be alghted and A wireless reply confirming a the submarine would submerge reservation will be sent at once at once. There would be an oc by Imperial Airways to the pur-casional encounter with another concerned, whereupon the U-Boat, far from the German latter will hand the passenger a shores. voucher enabling him to obtain marine would be seen. "Strange At times a British sub his air ticket when he arrives that the enemy should sail the Ray at the London air station sea in U-Boats that he so detests ready to embark for his aerial when they are German." Upon journey.
This new sysem will also apply steamed up; but, alas, it is com
one occasion a majestic Cunarder work.
It requires much thought and in such cases as often happens panioned by two destroyers and organisation as well; for in- now, when a passenger due to ar regretfully" its escape is watch-sands of electric light bulbs do
stance, rive at Cherbourg or Southamped. The artist, Claus Bergen,
cases containing thou-| ton wishes to be met by a special who is responsible for the spirit not mix well with heavy engine aeroplane at one or other of ed illustrations, eight of them in spare parts when the ship is in these ports.
An exchange of colour, thanks his companions
rough weather. wireless messages between the after a long voyage for allowing There is ammunition to be em- Imperial Airways will mean that him to see "the reality of the harked, for in peace or war- a fast air taxi is at the port in- U-Boat warfare that we carried out sufficient ammunition to the fleet never goes to sea with- dicated, awaiting the disembark-out sa chivalrously." ation of the passenger and ready
mekt even the most formidable to fly with him at high speed,
emergency. say to London.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports,
HAKUNA MARU
KATORI MARU
30th May. 13th Juno.
ATSUTA MARŲ
Saturday,
KAMO MARU
Saturday,
MANILA.
TAIYO MARU
Monday,
27th June, 25th July.
1st June.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,
KAGA MARU
Thursday,
† HAKODATE MARU
Saturday,
11th June. 27th June.
SOUTH AMERICA. (West Comt) via Japan, Honolulu,
Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama, GINYO MARU
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.
TAKETAYO MARU
LIVERPOOL vla Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.
...... Wednesday,
Sunday,
Monday,
* Monday,
Friday,"
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
+ DAKAR MARU
PENANG MARU
HAKONE MARU
SHANGHAL KORE & YOKOHAMA.
+ Cargo only.
24th Juno.
14th June.
16th June.
8th June.
12th June.
For further information apply fu-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 30291. (Private exchange to all departments.)
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K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT-į Ando Maru
lawan Deli & Colombo.
Belawan
+ Thurs., 11th June
TERDAM & ANTWERP
via Shigapore, Colombo,
Suez & Port Said.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS | Montevideo Maru ...
Fri.,
26th June
& BUENOS AIRES via
Saigon, Singapore, Celom.
bo. Durban & Capetown.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Sumatra Maru
Wed.,
DURBAN, LOURENCO Chicago Maru
Fri.,
MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-
EB-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR
& MOMBASA via Singa-
pore & Colombo.
MELBOURNE vía
Manila, Sydney Mara
Brisbane Sydney
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Tacoma Maru
Fri.,
Tues.,
Belawan Deli & Rangoon.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE,
TACOMA & VANCOUVER
vin Japan Ports.
NEW YORK vin Japan ports, Kinni Maru
Mor
Los Angeles & Panama.
Call Direct
at Boston,
Philadelphia & Baltimore.
JAPAN PORTS (Freight Ser-Atlas Maru
vice).
HAIPHONG vie Hollow & Monado Maru (under
Pakhoi (Fortnightly).
KEELUNG vla Swatow
Amoy (0 p.m. every Bua- day),
TAKÃO via Swatow & Amoy
(Fortnightly).
Sun.,
5th June
2nd Juno
Fuel and lubricating ofl have to be taken in, as well as coal for use in stoves and galleys, or kit- chens, and the steam pinnaces.
There is a description of two U-Boats, meeting by chance in the Irish Sea, co-operating in an The cast of a special aeroplane attack upon a convoy. U 63 re from Cherbourg to London, for mains upon the surface leng one passenger, is £50, for passengers £58 or for three £65, while UB 78 creeps nearer to at two enough to attract the destroyers,
The "incident" which marked while an air apccial from South- tack with torpedoes, one
the last Atlantic Ficet leave ampton to London costs for one which went home. Formidable period serves rather to emphasise passenger £11 11s. for two pas-is torpedoed by U 24; but almost the enormous amount sengers £13 108., and for three sinks her attacker. The submar which is done without any ves- people £15.
ine lists heavily. The lights go tige of a "moan."
15
By availing oneself of these new wireless and air facilities the passenger in haste could, it may be noted, be in India with- in only ten days of the arrival of his liner at Southampton.
NEW USE FOR RUBBER.
Interesting Exhibition In London.
out.
sca
of
She plunges down to the next morning, when she begins bottom and lies there till
to limp home to port.
The submarines were not the best of seaboats. The narrow quarters, the foul air, the ten-
SATURDAY, MAY
30, 1931.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
TRAVEL EMPRESS
The White Empresses are the largest and fastest liners
on the Pacific. Hong Kong Shanghal Lowe BERTO
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June 22
July 20
Aug. 17
Aug. 30
Sept. 14 Sept. 27
Oct. 12
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Emp, of Canado June 12 Emp. of Russia June 25
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Manila
June 14 June 27
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EASTERN PORTS.
DETAILS OF EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
Plague.
Bagdad: 4 cases, 2 deaths. Bassein: 1 case, 1 death. Bombay: 1 case, 1 death.
Cholera.
Bagdad: I caso. Bombay: 8 cases.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This creas-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
12 13 14
16
17 18
111
15 116
Calcutta: 40 cases, 24 deaths. Chittagong: 38 cases, 7 deaths. Madras: 11 cases, 2. deaths. Pondicherry: 2 cases. Bangkok: 1 case, 1 death. Saigon: 34 cases, 25 deaths. Canton: 2 cases, 1 death.
Small-pox,
$2
07
18
21
24
Calcutta: 19 cases, 17 deaths. Madras: 3 cases, 5.deaths. Rangoon: 1 death.
Vizagapatam: 5 cases, I death. Pondicherry: 7 casos, 7 deathe.
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32 33
Pnom-Penh: 1 death.
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dency of oil to get into the food, The health bulletin of Eastern the feat of balancing and wedg-ports for the week ended May ing necessary to maintain one's 22, issued by the Director place in sleeping-berth made life Medical and Sanitary Services. difficult. But in heavy weather gives the following cases:- and on the surface men had to be roped to stations in the con- An exhibition now being heldning tower. They were frequent- in London at Bush House, byly wet through, in spite of oil- 3rd June, Sorbo Rubber Products, Ltd., has skins and tarred capes. At times 5th June
attracted several shipping men were swept overboard. visitors, because of the increas. There is one terrible story of the ing use of rubber in yachts and attempts to raise a submarine liners. A model of a yacht at the which had struck a mine. Divers exhibition shows how useful rub- were sent down Some of the ber may be in all parts of the men were still alive and could re- vessel. The spongy properties ply to the knockings of the of Sorbo rubber give it a new divers. Hawsers were fixed. But value in bathrooms, cabins, cor- as often as the submarine was ridors and public rooms on board raised they parted. Bad weather 1st Jundships, while its wide range of sprang up and the supply ships
colour allows it to play a pro- had to
When return to port. minent part in schemes of de- they were able to return and coration.
raise the submarine the men The exhibition is a remarkable I were all dead. One narrative de review of the development of scribes how a submarine was sponge rubber from the old bath hunted off Dublin for eight hours 11th June sponge to the hundred uses of by armed trawlers. Another 31st May modern requirements. Sponge tells of a white vessel, looking 17th June rubber is a
very interesting like a yacht, which was seen day material, and there seems to be after day off the coast of Nor 4th June no limit to its application at the way. At length it was cautious-
present time. Its production is ly approached when it opened deaths, now in the hands of a flourish-fire, and the submarine barely. ing British industry, and one of escaped with a whole skin. Per- its most serviceable forma is up-haps the least eventful story is holstery, replacing springs in that which describes the last chairs and beds and couches. journey of Sir Roger Casement The promoters of the exhibition to Ireland. It is a strangely ma- LINE doo well, in a small space,
to indicate its wide. uses.
docking)
Hozan Maru
Canton Maru
Deli Haru
Thurs.,
Sun, SUD,
Thurs.,
For farther particulars please ìpply to:-
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. Telephone 28061,
BRITISH
WUCHOW
14th June
SAILING DATES FOR MAY, 1931 (Subject to Change). DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 pm, Wuchow 3 p.m.
Leaves
Hoar Hong
S.S. "TAI MING”
(649 Tons Capt. W. H. Lawton.) •
Arrives Wachow
Leaves Wuchor
Artives Hong Kons BAT. 30th
Ports of GallBambut, Shuthing, Takhing & Doshing. Fares Return (not including meals) $18.00.
Meals and Wines are to be obtained on board.
Hong Kong Arrivals & Departures from Tal: Hing Wharf.
For information apply to
29, Connaught Road, West,
· Phone 20890
SANG WO Ltd.,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICES ·
Consignees of cargo ex 4.8. Gange are reminded to take dell- very of their goods which will be subject to rent after June-2,
Consignees of cargo 8X 8.8. Benlomond are reminded to tako delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after June 5.
STEAMER MOVEMENTS.
The BL 15. Talma left Binga- pore for this port on May 28, p. and is due here on June 8, am.
cabre composite these narratives
Canton: 1 case.
Shanghai: 3 deaths.
Greater Shanghai: 1 case.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Shanghai: 9 deaths. Greater Shanghai: 3. cases, 2
·COMING ? ??
JUST MAGINE
make. The collection makes a notable addition to the literature r of the war
WARSHIPS IN PORT.
The following Britich warships. were in harbour to-day: Bruce North arm.,
Odin-In dock.
Dtus-In dock. Bandwich-North wall Seamew-In dock. Sterling North arm. Tamer Baslp.
Thracian in dock. Vindictive-West wall dock;
Foreign Man-of-War.
Mindanao-American' gunboat.
FOX
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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18-Bone (Latin) 17-Boy's nama 19-A ring-shaped coral
aland. 20-Bafore .21-A1 com
23-Otherwise
24-Prefix-pertaining.
4. to the day before
the present
25-To have a feeling
doubt
26-Violatos 80-Entrests
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15-Torrible
86-A grain
442
47
150
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40-War Department
(abbr.) 41-Larga monkey 42-To grab
44-A continent (abbr.) 48-Romained 47-Long-legged bird. 49-Besoech 50-sert.
VERTICAL
1-Thallium (abbr)
2-To knośc
3-Any open space
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from rose petala 23-Completed 26-The forehead 27-Country thorough.
fara
28-Consume (29-Vary: swift
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monarch
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fating way-h
off an unhealthy
yellow color 6-Appendage
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measure
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19-Portion
I people
88-A bristie (bat) ¿57-A ssport of Upsin Jaland, Samoa
66-Organe of hearing 41-Bwiss river |43-Interdict-
[44-Township (abbr.) 48-Palat of compass
(abbr),
(The solution of the above crossword puzzle will appear in Monday's issued along with no cross-word puzzle.)