YKLIN
LINE
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General Passenger Agents in the Orient for
Cunard Line
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and flonolulu.
CHICHIBU MARU (Omit Shanghai) Friday, TATSUTA MARU
ASAMA MARU
Calls Nagasaki.
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.
10th Aug. Wednesday, 15th Aug, at 10 am.
6th Sept.
Wednesday,
HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe) Monday,
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934.
· DEPRESSION HITS
BRITISH SEAMEN
Merchant Marine Is Diminishing.
London, June 25. The number of seamen employ- jed in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands has steadily decreased during the past two years..
The latest census figures publish- ed in the Board of Trade Journal reveal a drop of more than 20,000 since 1931.
ROUND TRIP
SPECIAL SUMMER EXCURSIONS
Tь JAPAN: Nagasaki Kobe Yokohama
-
1st Class H.K.$226
255
HIKAWA MARU (starts from Kobe). Monday,
10th July
30th July
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM
British
Foreign
The figures are:
1933
1932 96,916 99,342 108,882
1831
7,661 8,185
11,204
KATORI MARU
Saturday,
7th July
Lancare
42,475 43,403
49,125
KASHIMA MARU
Saturday,
21st July
YASUKUNI MARU.
Friday,
3rd Aug.
Total
147,052 150,730, 169,211
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports-
ז
KAMO MARU
Saturday,
28th July
KITANO MARU
Saturday,
26th Aug.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo.
TANGO MARU
Wednesday,
11th July
+MAYEBASHI MARU
Sunday,
29th July
GINYO MARU
Saturday,
11th Aug.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu.
Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama,
BOKUYO MARU
Monday,
30th July
NEW YORK via Panama,
+TAKETOYO MARU.....
ASUKA MARU
Tuesday, Thursday,
17th July
16th Aug.
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul,
Piraeus. Genoa
and Valencia,
DURBAN MARU
Saturday,
14th July
CALCUTTA via Singapore, l'enang & Rangoon,
BENGAL MARU
Saturday,
7th July
MORIOKA MARU
Saturday,
+PENANG MARU
Sunday,
14th July 29th July
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
HAKONE MARU
Friday,
6th July 20th July
KITANO MARU (Nagasaki direct), Friday,
↑ Cargo only
Telephone 30291. (Private exchanges to all departments). For further information apply to :-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
+Carge only.
S. K.
RAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION
NEW YORK via Japan, Lay
Angelor and Panama.
Tokai Maru ...
Thurs.,
12th Aug.
Call Dirert at Cristobal, Puerto,
Colombia, Boston Philadel
whin a Baltimore
KIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS. Montevideo Maru
AIRES via
MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS
Tues..
Singapore, Port Colombo, Durban, Elizabeth and Cape Town
La Plata Maru ....
Thurs.,
MOMBASA,
ZANZIBAR,
DARES-SALAAN, BEIRA,
DURBAN, PORT ELIZA
BETH, CAPE TOWN,
SOUTH AMERICAN
Colombo
Hawali Maru LOURENCO MARQUES. Arizona Maru
PORTS via Singapore &
MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, Melbourne Maru
BYDNEY; WELLINGTON Sydney Maru
AUCKLAND direct...
BOMBAY & KARACHI vis Taijin Maru
Perang and
Sat.,
Tues.,
23rd Aug.
FEWER TELEPHONES IN WORLD.
United States Has More Than Half Total.
New York.
The world is using fewer tele phones than it was a year ago, (according to figures issued by the
New York Telephone Company.
On January 1 there were 32, 941.570 instruments in commie. sion throughout the world comi
Admiral David Foote Sellers, Commander-in-Chief of the Unit- ed States Fleet, pictured with Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Henry L. Roosevelt (right) as they attended the colourful ball to welcome the fleet to New York. Admiral Sellers was the guest of honour at the celebration.
THE PLANT
When I came to the fire had died
(Continued from
Page 9).
pared with 35.057,669 on the right down, and I felt slightly an-mine-same size, shape and colour noyed with myself for having slept (as far as I could make out). That same day last year.
As I got up from the similarity wasn't peculiar; there are More than half the world's so long.
the probably hundreds on the road the telephones are in the United chair I remember looking at States. New York city alone has clock, but I can't for the life of me safie shape, site and colour as mine. Its back was towards us, and the more than Asia and Africa com remember what time it was. bined.
think it was sometime before eleven, little red tail light was quite daz- The United States has about but I can't be certain. You see, Izling in the darkness. These cars, 14 telephones to every 100 per fell a bit hazed in the first few by the way, have their petrol tanks sons, Canada about 12. Great minutes after my recovery, and in at the back.
I dropped the tin of juice on the Britain and Germany about four any case I had no reason to make and France about three-Reu-any particular note of the time-road and seized upon the filler cap
ter.
AFRICAN DROUGHT
CAUSE. Superstitious Natives Blame Crocodiles.
of the petrol tank. I pushed and then.
Anyhow, I remembered that the twisted for quite a time before 1 the realised that it had been screwed! with car was still standing out in road, and I went out of the room on too tightly to be undone
man hadn't to put it away. Passing through bare hands......The the hall I saw a letter lying on the made a sound all the time, and when what table, addressed to me.......It was turned round to ask him from Old Smith, and seemed to have about a tool of some sort I couldn't! been written in a drunken moment, see him,
He'd gone, but just as 1 was go- It had neither rhyme nor reason, and read (as far as I can remem ing to yell out something (thinking he'd gone to the front of the car) "Since I have not heard from he appeared holding out a spanner, you during to-day, I take it that As I took the tool from him I noticed
Ihe was wearing thick gloves. our arrangement still stands.
Alma (Transvaal). Natives in the Waterberg 24th July Bushveld were in despair beber) something like this:
cause of a drought. Eventually, at a council of elders. they decid- ed that the crocodiles were res- ponsible. "They have to protect their eggs from getting wet" 4th Aug.said one elder "and when they see 4th Sept. rain clouds they point their tails]
upwards and the wind comes and blows the clouds away."
con-
shall call upon you at ten to-night, noticed that because my hands were I may as well tell you now that cold, and I wished I'd put mine on
1 do not propose to let you carry before coming out, out any such scheme as you Bug- gested.
I did think it rather strange that
1
he was so content to let me do the "A. L. Smith." dirty work, but it isn't the sort of! 'God knows what it meant. I thing you can make any remark on "It is for us, now,"
"he
..and I know a lot of people cluded "to find and destroy the couldn't remember any arrangement
for that night, nor did I know of like that. eggs."
So all the young men set out any scheme which I would have din- 5th Sept. the next day on a crocodile-nest-cussed with him......and quite ner at first, because it was covered
Sun., Wed.,
5th Aug.
Bat
Singapore,
Honolulu Maru
Fil
Colombo...
CALCUTTA
via Singapore. Havre Maru
Fri.,
Belawan Dell, & Rangoon Ilimalaya Meru
Wed.,
lal Aug.
JAPAN PORTS (Kobe and Borneo Maru
Buti
8th July
Oanka)
JAPAN via Takan & Keelung Canada Maru
Wed
11th July
KEELUNG vin Swatow and Hozan Maru
Amo
Sun..
8th July
Canton Maru
Sub..
15th July
TAKAO via SWATON and
AMOY
↑ Omits Porta Marked.
For Further Particulars Please apply to:- OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,
Telephone 28061.
SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS,
BOILER MAKERS,
FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENÉ, AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL
I couldn't get a grip on the span-:
is grease, but after a bit of a
It had siruggle and a fair amount of noise
ing expedition. They found one obviously he hadn't come at ten.
The thing was potty. 7th July neat with 100 eggs and a number 20th July of smaller ones with fewer eggs. been delivered by hand since there the filler cap began to turn. The eggs were solemnly carried was no stamp on it and I did think inished the unscrewing with away and ceremoniously burned. of noking Parker who had brought hands and again turned round 20th JulyReuter.
It, but he would have been in bed this time to get the tin of juice. then, and it wasn't worth getting him up to ask something which would do quite as well in the morn- Ing. So I left the note on the table and went out to garage the
SWEDISH "CABBIES" TO LEARN ENGLISH
Stockholm.
car.
(I should have mentioned that my garage is built on to the side of
Taxicab drivers in Stockholro are learning to speak English.
They have formed a "Taxi In. the house, so I didn't trouble to put terpreter Club," the object of on a coat or anything like that),
I'd got as far as having the door which is to teach its members foreign languages. English of the car open and was bending to heads the club's curriculum. get in when up came the mysterious Reuter.
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
ENGINEERS.
-DRY DOCK
OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.
Wirelem Calf SALVAGE TUGʻ“TAIKOQ”
V.P.ĜN, 800 Meters,
"TAIKOODOCE,” HONG KONG. NË: S0212)
Length 787 Foel, Length on Blocks. 750 Feet. Depth on Centre of
8|11 (JL.W.0.8.7.)-34 ft. 6 inn. THREE SLIPWAYS- Capable of Handling Bhips Up to 4,000 Tons Displacement. Electric Crane at Sen-Wall, Capable o Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Badius.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTBALL HONG, KONG, CHINA & TAPAN.
Numeral One ” over “Ans. Panzant:”
ду
Well, the second time he had gone and so had the petrol can!
(Continued on Page 11).
CONSIGNEES
LLOYD TRIESTINO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES
"GANGE"
I
On sale July, August & September Return limit 3 months. Final limit Oct. 31.
Tickets interchangeable with M. M..
P. and O. and N. Y. K. (Pacific Service).
To HONOLULU
VICTORIA
VANCOUVER
Tourisi
G$224
*G$240
1st Class G$365
*G$432
SEATTLE
*Fares via Empress of Japan and Empress
of Canada slightly higher.
TO MANILA (1st Class)
Ke
#.K-5180
On sale July, August & September
Return limit one month.
Astro
Kong Shai Neganuki Kobe 1'hama Male Victoria Leave Arrive Pace Leste Leave LASTE
July 0 Em. of Boss's duly 1. Jute 15 July 17 261; 19 July 19
Aug. Ang Au. 9 Avg. 14 Em, of Japan duty Di July 2
En of Asing. 19 Aos. 12 Aug. 14 Aug. 15 Aug. 1 Aug, 23 Aug 01 Dan, of Canada.....-Artg. 21. AULIS
Aug. 20 Aug. UI Sept. 7. Sep, 12
TO MANILA
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July 20
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LIVERPOOL · SERVICE.
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1 Aug. Tripoli, Havre, Hirerpool, Glas- gow.
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12 July Victoria, Seattle &- Vancouver.
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man-though, of course, he didn't strike me as being particularly Steamer mysterious then. He liked quite nicely if I could let him have some from TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI,|| "IXION" petrol, an his car had run dry just PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO around the corner of the crossroad, Knowing what a rotten business
I
A SINGAPORE
Consignees of Cargo are hereby in
Optional cargo will not be landed
it is to run out of juice on a deformed that all Goods are being land- serted road like that, I said, yes, Ted at their rick into the Godewas of could: and went off to my garage to the Hong Kong and Kowloon Whart et one of the two gallon tins 1& Godown Company, Ltd, at Kowloon, keep in there. When I got back to whence and/or from the wharves de-
livery may be obtained. him, tin m hand, he said very de Bnitely that his car was not far kere, unless notice has been givan 18 enough away to justify daing mine hours prior to vessel's arrival, but car ried on from port to port to the final to get to it so we walked,
He wasn't what you'd call a cheery port of call to which the option
jextends. companion. In fact, he didn't say. No claime will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all a word all the way..
Actually, I thought he had a cold Goods remaining undelivered after the or something, as his speaking voles 11th inst; will we wobjejet to rent. All claims against the vessel mait had seemed strained, and he kept be presented to the undersigned on or his coat collar pulled up so high before the 20th Inst, or they will not that the only part of his face. I saw be recognized..
"RHEXENOR"
7 July From Pacific Coast via Japan & Shanghai.
14 July From New York via Manila. Speclsily reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamers with Umited passenger accommodation.
For freight, passage rates and information, apply to the under mentioned.
Butterfield & Swire,
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All broked, chafed, and damaged Enjoy Your Shors Lease in Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Sydorp-tg. Dan, was his nose and it was too dark Goods are to be left in the Godowns, to see that properly. I did my best where they will be examined on the to keep up some sort of converas 11th Instat 10 am. by our surveyore tion during the short walk, but, as Mestru, Göddked & Douglas,
the only replies. I got were grunts
In the case of dutiable cargo, con- signses are requested to inform the TAIPING and nods Indichting agreement Imporis & Exparts. Offer that they CHANGTB:
TAIPING with everything said, I bhut up, have such goods for, examination.
We came upon his car just around the corner of the cro hu'd said it WAR, knd
the same sort
No Fire fasurance has been an ected: CHANG TE Bill of Lading will be countersign-
DODWELL & CO. UTIL
Hong Kong, 6th July, 1954,
LONDON (via Australia) Tro (Australian Newügipaka "bie "fle)", "inte
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