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Eastern & Australian Lines
THE CHINÁ MAIL,
CREDITS FOR SHIP
BUILDING.
Suggestion Arouses Strong Opposition.
London, June 17. The suggestion that the British Government should provide export credits to facilitate the building of merchant ships, or the transfer of British ships to another flag, has aroused strong opposition from the
LIFE-SAVING.
Royal Humane Society Awards.
SMALLER NAVY FOLLY.
Admiral Sir R. Keyes' Warning,
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger A striking speech was made by
hail.
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). International Shipping Conference, Alexander H. W. Webbs (21); an flag will be struck my active
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TAKING CARGO FOR
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PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
S.S.
Tonм
From Hong Kong About
1931. RAWALPINDI 17,000 18th July
Noon 7,700 25th July *IPERIM
9,000 KHYBER
1st Aug. KIDDERPORE 5,300 5th Aug 6.800 8th Aug. *tSOMALI
KAJPUTANA
15th Aug. -6,000 22nd Aug. *IPADUA
Aug. KARMALA 9,000 ( 29th
15,000 12th Sept. 0,800 19th Sept.
17,000
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles & Londen. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp." M'selles, L'don, R'dami & A'werp Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles, Gibraltar, Hlavra, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. Bombay, Marseilles & Lendon. Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham
Hamburg Marseilles, Londen, Rotterdam, Ant.
werp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & Indon Marseilles, Hayre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant
werp & Hull.
whose members number about 301 per cent. of the whole...merchant (tonnage of the world.
would then also abstain.
CYCLONE THRILLS.
Vessel That Was Carried Inland.
Our Heritage.
The following awards have been made by the Royal Humane Society in connection with life-saving from drowning:-
Silver
Medals The Royal Keyes (Commander-in-Chief, Ports- Humane Society's silver medal has mouth Station) when he was ́ ́n been awarded to Paolo Falzon guest at the annual dinner of the National Association of Head (19), a Maltese, of Prince of Wales Road, Sliema, Malta; Petty Teachers at the Portsmouth Guild- Officer Victor G. A. Parsons (34),
"In a few days," he stated, "my R.N., H.M.S. Witch; Able-Seaman "In Memoriam" silver medal to career in the Navy and long aaso- Driver Sydney E. Picton, R.A. (who clation with Portsmouth will come lost his life); and a bronze medal to an end, and it is very unlikely to Gunner Dennis Clarke, R.A., all that I shall ever have another op A representation meeting of the of whom, on February 6, at Tigne,portunity of speaking to such an Conference in London yesterday Malta, attempted to save Mrs. A. influential body of educationists.
"My education from your point passed a resolution declaring that Palmer Cohen (23), wife of Sur
Cohen, of view ended when I went to the the application of Government ex-geon Commander Palmer port, credits to the building or sale of H.M.S. Glorious.. Mrs. Cohen training ship Britannia at the age of merchant ships, irrespective of was washed into the sea at the of twelve and a half, and from the status or nationality of the bathing place near Tigne Barracks, that time onwards it was practical, buyer, would be against the in- very heavy sea running at the ly confined to technical matters.
"There are, however, two sub- terests of the shipping industry. time. Falzon alone saw the ac-
The Conference urged Great cident and plunged in. He manag-jects in which I can claim some because Britain to refrain from applying cd to reach her. 30 or 40 yards out knowledge - geography, such credits, as other countries and to bring her close to the II.M. ships have taken me all over shore; but they were carried out the world; and history, because. I gain and again by the backwash, have had leisure to read, and his- and eventually he was thrown ontory (particularly its naval side) the rocks alone and hauled up by is of absorbing interest and of in- means of a rope. Meanwhile the calculable value if one can only alarm had been given in the bar read the lessons aright. racks, and Driver Picton ran down Then Petty Officer Parsons and plunged in fully dressed.
and "These two subjects-is you who Able-Seaman Webb came' up and teach them can readily appreciate plunged in, Picton disappearing-bring out the magnitude of the about the same time or just after debts we owe to the atout-hearted courage, and, self- A three-masted sailing vessel, they swam out, They reached Mrs, enterprise, the Elizabetha, owned by Capt. Cohen and between them brought sacrifice of our forebears, who Voss,, a veteran who has met with her in to shore (aome 10 yards orlaid the foundations and built up. many a perilous adventure, arrived so), hut, owing to the heavy seas the British Empire, which is our in Colombo from the Seychelles, and backwash off the rocks, could heritage, and which it is our duty The Elizabetha hus a tonnage of not make landing, became to hand on to our children intact. "Geography and history also 200 with an average speed of 12 separated, and were with difficulty
us that At this teach
ather, great helped out themselves. knots an hour.
arisen, declin- went in, Empires have On her arrival in Colombo she stage Gunner Clarke
because the was steered into port by a pilot, swam out, and, got within a few ed, and perished unlike other sailing ships, and two yards of the lady, but was then descendants of those who found- wero unworthy suc- mooring boats from the Harbour compelled to return and helped out ed them
Mra, cessors. In the Great War the in a battered condition. were employed to berth her.
majority of our race were true to Capt. Voss, who is accompanied Cohen's body was not recovered.
Bronze Medals were awarded to the blood of our forefathers, and by his wife and sister-in-law pur- chased the Elizabetha about three Duncan Bassett McGill (23), Fly men and women of every degree years ago when another vesseling Officer, R.A.F., who, on Janu- and profession united, and by their and self-sacrifice added bearing the same name was wreek-ary 23, at Spithead, attempted to valour
Eric Habens (21), A.B., another golden page to our story. ed in a cyclone while she was at save
to drift: anchor in Madagascar harbour. H.M.S. Courageous; and Kenneth "But it is easy On that occasion a huge tidal wave F. Hammond (29), electrical ar- memories are short, and lessons of caused by a cyclone carried Capt. tificer, who saved McGill. Habens history are forgotten in the stress Everyone is Voss's ship inland for a distanco slipped while manning a boat and of everyday life.
A life-buoy was agreed that war is hideous and of more than five miles. Tho fell into the sea, Elizabetha' was borne on the top thrown to him as he drifted asters; should never recur, but there are seem to think that or the wave with such amazing but he seemed to be unable to people who
ean Flying Officer leagues, pacts, and treaties rapidity that Capt. Voss became make use of it. B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for. 1st conscious of danger only after it McGill pulled off his tunic and take the place of armaments and
had been whirled away several shoes and jumped overboard from will eliminate war.
"Such agreements are a 'delay- and 2nd class passengers..
miles from the harbour.`
II.M.S. Courageous, dropping about For twenty days the cyclone 20ft. into the sea, and swam to action fuse in the circuits of in- EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), blew with great violence during Habens, and was at once clutched, ternational relations and justify which Capt. Voss and his crew of but managed to get to the life-belt, some reduction in armaments; but 14 men were imprisoned in their which he had to relinquish on ac- to trust to paper pacta without a would be vessel venturing out at risk to count of the man's struggles. He, force behind them Mania, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney their lives to obtain food by hunt however, grasped a rope thrown analogous to trusting to our lawe
ing wild fowl,
him from the ship and managed to without police to enforce them. & Nebourne.
"Unless a powerful international On the present trip from Liver bring Habens alongside, but pool, the Elizabetha attained a now too exhausted to hold him any police force can be formed-and more, and Habens sank and did not surely that is a dream outside prac the way from the Seychelles It reappear. At this stage Hammond tical politics-a nation must be could no do more than 210 miles came on deck and, seeing the dan- free to take such measures as it a day owing to exceptionally ger, dived overboard and swam to considera necessary for its own strong winds owing to which ahe McGill. Another line with a life security and to carry out its
buoy was lowered, and .both were obligations.
"In our case our communications. Capt. Voss cruises In Indian assisted on deck. waters calling at Mauritius, the Vellum Award-Granville Simons are as vital to us as the air we on the sloop breathe; hence the necessity for a Seychelles Reunion Islands, etc, (21), first mate
CATHAY *ISOUDAN
*KALYAN
9,000 26th Sept.
Rotterdan & Antwerp.
Cargo only. Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti.
g Calls, Karachi & Port Swettenham.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- atantinople, l'requs. Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the: Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
Singapore, Penang & Calcatta. Aug.. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta,
'1331."
*SIRDHANA
8,000 27th July
*TILAWA
10,000 7th
8,000 23rd Aug.
SANTHIA
* Calls Port Swettenham.
VELLORE TANDA NANKIN
1931
2,000 1st Aug. 7,000 2nd Sept.
2nd 7,000
Out.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai, and Japan speed of 265 miles a day but all and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union S.3. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New lost a number of sails. Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch, Service of steamers to London vin Suez.
Was
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and with cargo for these ports. On his Diamond, on November 8, 1990, at Navy of sufficient sfrength to guard Landon vin Panama Cazal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan, June to Sept.
TILAWA RAJPUTANA
⚫ALIPORE SANTHIA KARMALA TANDA
SOUDAN
CATHAY
ZTALMA
*NANKIN
1981,
p.m.
10,000 16th July Amoy. S'hai, Moji, Kabe & Osaka. 17,000 17th July Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama
Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.
10 a.m. 5,300 22nd Jaly 8,000 81st July Amay, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka. 9,000 31st July Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama 7,000 6,800.
7th Aug. 1 S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama Bth 15,000 14th Aug.
Aug.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama..
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, Moji. Kobe & Osaka.
10,000 | 14th Aug. 7,000 27th Aug.
*Cargo only. Calle Nagoya.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Calling Wei-hal-wol, Tsingtau & Shanghai on return from Japan.
All dates are approximato and subject to alteration without notice. Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer."
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans on Punka Louvre System free of charge.
Steamers on London and Austra Han Lines are fitted with Laundries, Parcels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Com pany's Office up to Neon on the day previous to sailing.
present trip he is travelling for Somerset, Bermuda, saved Henry our long. trade routes and seagirt pleasure as well. The vessel will Brown (23), a helper on the sleep, shores. Yet, every reduction of stay in port for some time and who lost his balance when clearing our Navy is hailed by some people after she has discharged her carga a rope on the vessel and fell into as another step towards perpetual of phosphates will set sall for the the ees and was carried away by peace. What blind folly it all is
the current.
(Continued at foot of next Column.) Seychelles.
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Consignees of cargo are hereby in- their mettle and showing that they formed that all goods are being land- were as fearless and ready for ser-ad at their risk into the hazardous vice as ever. They have been, and and/or extra hazardous: Godowns of always will be, in times of great The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and. national anxiety and stress; only the wharvas delivery may be obtained. Gedown Co., Ltd, whence and/or from it is up to you and me and every. No claims will be admitted after the one who has the true interest of Goods have left the Godewas, and all peace and the welfare of our Em Goods remaining undelivered after the 16th July, 1931, will be subject to pire at heart to keep vigorously rental pesa! alive the splendid spirit of All claims against the steamer must patriotism and service which is be presented to the Undereigned on or sometimes latent and is often as before the 29th July, 1931, or they saffed as militariam by so-called All broken, chafed, and damaged
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