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REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING FROM £79 TO £120 ON SALE.
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan "Ports & Honolula.
TATSUTA MARU
TAIYO MARU
HIYE MARU
Wednesday, Tuesday,
11th November, 24th November.
Brd November.
10th November.
SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
Tuesday,
HEIAN MARU (Osaka direct) ..... Tuesday,
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez,
KASHIMA MARU
YASUKUNI MARU
Saturday, Friday,
14th November. 4th December.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
KITANO MARU
Saturday,
ATEUTA MARU
Saturday,
21st November. 28th December.
Wednesday,
11th November.
Thursday,
26th November.
BOMBAY vla Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
IYO MARU
↑ TOTTORI MARU
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,
Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama, †GINYO MARU
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama,
+ TAKAOKA MARU
Wednesday,
26th November.
Thursday, 10th December.
LIVERPOOL vin Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa
& Marseilles.
7th November. 14th November.
† TOYOOKA MARU
Sunday,
15th November.
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Perang & Rangoon,
+ MALACCA MARU
Saturday,
† AKITA MARU
Saturday,
SHANGHAI KORE & YOKOHAMA
† CALCUTTA MARU
Tuesday,
SUWA MARU
Saturday,
ATSUTA MARU (Nagasaki direct), Friday,
+ Cargo only.
3rd November. 14th November. 20th November.
For further information apply to:- NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 30291. (Private exchange to all departments.)
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LIGHTSHIP MEN.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Going Into Exile Off the Thames.
the
It
and the
when Was mid-afternoon relief tander Alert dip-
ped her onsign to the Mouse sailed eastwards towards Giblin Girdler, -Arthur and I sat perched on a coil of rope in the ship's bow to writes Lorne Bartram in the Daily
Express.
"What do you do with your spare time aboard a lightship?" I ask- ed.
He got up and began searching through the mounds of gear that littered the deck.
Shipping
Intelligence.
diy-
Wirelcas telephone, I had covered, was used for ordinary routine by the lightships.
·
North Sea Storms.
The Tongue, seven miles duo north of Margate, was plunging in the waves when we drow near an hour later. We came up on her stern, lowered a motor-boat to pick up a line that was made fast to a drifting white buoy, and paid out A heavy four-inch manila, hawser to the lightship.
Now I saw a now way of tending of the storm lightships-the way talk,
and gale the way that the light ship men are reached during the long winter months when the winds beat down from the North Sea and the rollers awcop in white-capped; savagery against the little vessels.
The stores were lowered over The men crept down a the side.
away ladder, and "Here," he called, and when I frail rope joined him he was standing proud-chugged the tiny craft, bouncing ly beside a little six-foot row-boat, on the seas towards the Tongue.
Lines were passed astern to the "I am building a boat for my wife," he explained, "and me and Alert, and the oil and water pipes hauled back aboard the one of my mates are going to finish were it this time. My wife is in a sanatorium, you see, and I want to give her this present when she gets
better."
"Anything else?" I suggested.
Their Own Band. He began rummaging around for the second time. First a dulcimer, then a cornet, then a violin--and he laid them on the deck.
"I play seven instruments," he said, "and we have our own band aboard, and one of my mates is a better step dancer than you'll see on most music halls, so we have lots of fun,"
!
“DREADNOUGHT.”
Report of Seamen's Hospital Society.
The hundred and tenth annual report of the Seamen's Hospital So- ciety ("Dreadnought"), at Green- wich, records that the receipts last year amounted to £99,065 and the expenditure to £108,241. In view of the serious depression. In trade, particularly in the shipping world, the society's income was higher than in the previous year, but that was due to the legacies having been increased from £2,286 to £9,865.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1931.
THE
MPRESS OF JAPAN
Largest-Fastest
Liner on the Pacific
Che utmost in comfort
SIZE
SPEED
SPACE
LUXURY.
offers
*
and
SERVICE
Sails
SATURDAY - NOON NOV. 7
for
VICTORIA & VANCOUVER
via SHANGHAI-KOBE and Yokobama
Koba Hogarak Loure
LAATO
Yokohama Housiału Vancouver
LOSTO
1932
12
Arrive
Nov. 22
Dec.
Dee, 30
Jan
1932.
1932
Jan. 17
Feb. 22
Mar. 6
Mar. 21
Apr. 11
MAY B
Emp, of Russia Mar. 4 Mnr. 7 Mar. 8 Mar, 10 Max Max. 28: APF 2
Hong Kong Shanghal
10171 Leave
Nov. 12 Nov. 14 Emp. of Japan Nov. 7 Nov. 10 Emp. of Asla Nov. 20 Nov. 23 Nov. 24 Nov. 26 Nov. 28
Dec. Emp. of Canada Dec. 5 Dec. 8
10 Dec. 12- The alterations to the Dread-
Emp. of Russia Dec. 18 Dee. 21 Dec. 22 Dec. 24 Dec. 26
1992 1932 1932
1932 nought Hospital are now well under
Jan. 7 June 2 Emp. of Japan Jan. 2 Jan. 5 way. The board have taken the im-
Emp. of Asia Feb. Feb. 8 Feb. 9 Feb. 11 Feb. 18 Feb. 25 Feb. 27 Feb. Emp. of Canada Feb. 20 23 vision of a ward of 25 beds for the portant step of approving the pro- and 20 beds
Mar. 30 treatment of women
Emp, of Japan Mar. 16 Mar. 18
20 Mar. 22 Dreadnought,
Emp. of Asia Mar. 25 Mar. 28 Mar. 29 Mar. 31 Anr. 2 Emp. of for the dependants of
Canada
Apr. 12 Apr. 9 Apr.
Apr. 14 Avr. 16 Apr. 22 Apr. 27 for children in the primarily
Erap. of Russia Apr. 22 Apr. 25 Apr. 26 Apr. 28 Apr. 30 sailors. This will enable the bos-
May 12 May 14 May, 20 May 25 Emp. of Japan May 7 May 10 Emp. of Asia May 20 May 23 May 24 May 26 May 28 June June 10 The pumpa were started and re-pital to be recognised by the Gen-
Emp. of Canada June 4 June 7
June 9 June 11 June 17 June 22 training school for Emp. of Russia June. 17 June 20 June 21 June 23 June 25 fuelling went on without a hitch. eral Nursing Council as a self- The motor-boat returned for coal, contained tina of petrol for the fog-horn en- nurses, and obviate nurses having gines, and chugged back to the to take part of their training in a and children, lightship. In fifty-five minutes hospital for women we were clear, and the winch on and will also reduce the period of the foredeck rattled as the heavy their training hawser was wound back on board.
Tongue.
Trapped in Cabin,
years.
from 8 to three
The board has received £2,000 The motor-boat was swung quiet-from King George's Fund for ly aboard on the davits, and the Sailors for the Tropical Hospital Alert headed south in the rain- Fund, in addition to their annual now falling in sheets for the grant of £2,800, and 2,625 from Brake, once the Gull, which was King Edward's Hospital Fund. The damaged la collision, repaired, and Seamon's Hospital Aid Committee I watched Giblin gathering his put into service with a new name. had endowed a twelfth bed in the entire belongings together as we drow
Only one life was lost in that Dreadnought, making an near the Girdler-a curious little accident two years ago. The aged ward. The total number of in- figure with his gold earrings, iron master, completing his last period patients treated last year was 6,576| 5th Nov.grey hair, and wide grey eyes, like of duty before retiring on a pen- and out-patients 26,187-in all
BAILINGS FROM. HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS Rio de Janeiro Maru Thurs.,
& BUENOS AIRES via
DURBAN, PORT ELIZA
JANEIRO, SANTOS &
Bib Nov.
1
Darkness had fallen over
the
a pirate that had graduated from, gion, was trapped in his cabin when | 82,743, as compared with 83,034 in Oxford.
a big 10,000-ton liner loomed out the year before. The ship slackoned speed, and we, of the fog and came in collision circled to draw alongside bow to, with the little lightship. the wind. Once more the decks were alive with men getting stores, oil, and water over the side. I felt someone touch we on the shoulder. It was Arthur Giblin.
"My ship," he pointed to the Girdler. "Good-bye."
And he was gone, dragging his boat, calling to his mate to give him a hand, and loading boat, in- 8th Nov.struments, and his radio battery,
on the deck of the lightship.
Saigon, Singapore, Colom-
bo. Durban & Capetown.
MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR, Arabia Maro
Wed,
4th Nov.
DAR-ES-SALAAM, DEINA
LOURENCO MARQUES
BETH & CAPETOWN
THENCE TO RIO DE
BUENOS AIRES via Sings-
pore
& Colombo
BRISBANE, SYDNEY, MEL- Melbourne Maru
Fri.,
BOURNE AUCKLAND &
WELLINGTON via Manila.
JAPAN PORTS (Frequent
Borrices).
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT- London Mera
Sun.
TERDAM & ANTWERP
via Singapore, Colombo,
Sucz& Port Said.
NEW YORK via Japan ports, Kwansai Mara ......
Sat.;
Los Angeles & Panama.
Call Direct at Boston,
Philadelphia & Baltimore,
Mon.,
Penung & Colombo
Madras Maru
Frl.
CALCUTTA Via Singapore,
TAIPHONG vin Eshow .... Monado Maru
......Thurs.,
12th Nov.
Horan Maru
Sun., Sun.
Thurs.,
8th Nov, 15th Nov.
5th Nov.
BOMBAY vin Singapore, Celobes Maru
Belawan Deli & Rangoon
JAPAN PORTS via Keelung
EEBLUNG via Swatow &
Amoy (3 p.m. every San-Canton Maru day).
TAKAO via Swatow & Amoy Dell Maru
(Fortnightly).
For further particulara please apply to:-
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 28061.
12th Dec.
sun, and the rain. spaltered and HONG KONG TIDES. glistened on the decks. Dead ahead the red flashing light of the Brake gleamed at intervals through the downpour.
I heard the wireless telephono bell ring on the bridge, then, the hum of conversation.
"We lle astern," was the decision. Down in the relief fo'c'sle, a theatre-like space far below under the bridge, I found the lightship men gathered around tables in the glow of slectric lights.
The time used is Standard, or mean time of the meridian of 120 deg. E.; 00h. is midnight, 12hrs, in noon. The heights are referred to the datum of the largest scale Ad- miralty chart of the place and should be added to the depths given on the chart unless proceded by an astorisk (*), when they should be subtracted from the depths.
A wind whipped up as we left the Girdler, and the sun vanished behind a bank of cloud in' the west.
Some of them were writing-the The Alert lunged into the rolling Ewell with the breeze whining last letter home before going 2nd Nov through the rigging and the black, aboard for duty.
IJATE smoke from her funnel trailing Some were reading the first
letter from home since the last re- ctolet Uko a vell across her beam.
Up on the bridge a bell rang-alief ship passed a month before. telephone bell, it seemed-and I They chattered like magpies as
they learned their domestic news: heard an officer talking.
6th Nov.
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
SAILING DATES FOR NOV., 1931 (Subject to Change), ‚' DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 3.30 p.m., Wachow 3 pm.
Lexyes
Steamer,
Hong Fong
Arrivea Wockow
Leaver Wuchow
Arrives
Hong Kont
TAI MING TUES. TAI MING MON.
TAI MING BUN, TAI MING FRL
6th SAT: 6th FRL 3rd THURS 9th WED. 11th THURS 12th FRI.
17th WED. 18 THURB. 19th 15th TUES.
24th 20th SUN.
23rd TUES. 22nd MON.
28th SUN.
20th 29th MON. TAI MING THURS. 25th SAT.
7th
-18th
1
"Hello, Tongue," he called. could hear the buzzing nolsa of his receiver as the answer came back, "Can we come alongside?”
Again the buzz and the conversa tion was over.
Ht
November 2 to 8, 1931.
HIʊH WATER | Low WATER
tpdard
Standard. Times
IIt
Tmes
1.
X
II. M
Mon. 1
3d
Tues?
002
09 63
18
01 10
19 25
18 31
It was a group divided in half one half for exile, the other half
One half for the Wod, for liberty. fireside, their wives and tiny tots: the other half bound for the lone Thors f
Pr liness of a lightship moored out at sea.
Outsido nows didn't interest Bat.
They had their lie these follows.
Bun: (Continued at foot of Column 1.)`.
"Long swell," I heard the chief officer, Mr. Carrick, report to the captain.
"We'll have to
astern."
Perta of Call-Bamahaf, Shulking,, Takhing & Doshing. Fares Return (not including meal) $20.00
Meals and Wines are to be obtained on board.
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down..
They rattled on-the lucky half Cape Town at the age of ap- while the solemn-faced group proximately 216. He was said to have been 100 years old at the looked on.
"Never mind, mates," ared-time of the Battle of Waterloo, haired Irishman with the brogue of when he arrived in South Africa Cork spat out. "We won't be out from the Seychelles,
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