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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

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

July 20

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FREIGHT AND

LONDON SERVICE "PERSEUS"

"DEUCALION"

11 July Casablanca, London, Rotterdam, Hamburg and Hall. 18 July Marseilles, Londos, Rotterdam, Ifburg & Glasgow

LIVERPOOL · SERVICE.

“AGAPENOR"

NEW YORK

1 Aug. Tripoli, Havre, Hirerpool, Glas- gow.

SERVICE.

"ADRASTUS" 14 July loston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimoro, via Manila, Straits and Sass.

PACIFIC SERVICE.

(via KOBE & YOKOHAMA.) "IXION"

12 July Victoria, Seattle &- Vancouver.

INWARD SERVICE.

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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Beicbann, Sydaný kind kalibarna, British Steamers: Changte - TAIPING

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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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