ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINES
Passeng
*Laeur perated in Lay Neshertakin on KONAKLINE FAVA-CAMA-PARIYARK-LIMUN KY. AMATEUR
JAVA-CHINA SERVICE
"TJIBADAK".
"TJITJALENGKA"
"TJISADANE”
Arrivals
from Shanghai 21st May
from Macassar
& Java Ports 20th May.
from Macassar
& Javaporis With June,
Ballinge
to Java Ports
& Mibensar
25th May.
to Shanghai
27th May..
to Java Ports
* Macassar
Dth Juna
to Shanghal
10th June.
to Juvaports
& Macassar 23rd June.
HONGKONG-MANILA-CHINA SERVICE
Arrivals
Serea se za sme sa from Manila &
Amoy 1st May,
Salilogs
to. Manila & Amoy 911-pays an
SUMATRA-MALAYA-CHINA SERVICE
WAN KIEMSDIJK“
"VAN HEUTSZ"
Arrival
from B. Dell
& Straits
20th May.
from B. Dell & Straits
1st June.
ASIA-AFRICA-S. AMERICA
"STRAAT SOENDA"
"TEGELBERG"
"TJIKAMPEK"
"KUYS"
Arrivals
From Japan 23th May.
FROM SOUTH
AMERICA &
SOUTH AFRICA,
7th June.
10th May.
10th July,
Satlings
to Straits &
Belawan Dell
28th May.
to Straits &
Belawan Deli 10th June SERVICE Bailings
TO E. & S. AFRICA &
8, AMERICA
26th May.
22nd June.
10th July.
10th August.
All Steamers Calling Mombasa & L. Marques Direct.
Transhipment cargo on through Ba/L to Dar-Es-Balaam.
Zanzibar accepted. on all sailings.
Agents: HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE
"MOLENKERK”
"MEERKERK"
"AMSTELDIJK"
DEEMSKERK“ ·
Arrivals
Sallings
FROM JAPAN end May
TO EUROPE VIA MANILA,
& STRAITS
End May.
FROM EUROPE sarly Juna
End June.
early July
End July.
early Aug.
End August.
Transhipment cargo on through Bs/L accepted to Indian, Méditerráncan and Norikern European porta.
Dffice Address: King', Building, Phones: 28015, 28016 & 23017
Chinese Agents: 82. Connaught Rd.
DE LA
Tel. 31196 & 21533
RAMA LINES
ARRIVING FROM U.S. ATLANTIC COAST VIA LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO
m.. "DONA NATI"
M.V. "BATAAN"
翁路,
19th Mar
28th May
SAILING FOR U.S. ATLANTIC COAST
VIA SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES
"DONA AURORA (calls Shanghai & Japan)
.. "DONA NATI"
17
"
**
8th June
") 22nd June
THE DE LA RAMA STEAMSHIP CO., INC.
(Incorporated in the Philippines)
MARINA HOUSE Tels. 23676-22675
CHINESE SHIPPING OFFICE Tels. 23738-20153
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
OF COPENHAGEN
M.S. “NORDFARER”
LOADING about 23RD MAY
for
AVEN, PORT SAID, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG,'
OSLO, GOTHENBURG AND COPENHAGEN
M.S. "KOREA"
LOADING MID JUNE
for
ADEN, PORT SAID, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, OSLO, GOTHENBURG AND COPENHAGEN.
Tanks sxallabio for the cantage of oil in bulk
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
Quean's Bldg. 2nd floor.
·
Tel.. 34111 & 34112
THE HO HONG STEAMSHIP
CO., (1932) LTD.
85. “HONG SIANG”
For SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON Loading
Balling
21st May
Bubject to Alternsign - Without Noties
For Particular Freight & Passage Plenie Apply:
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1849.
HONG KONG WATERFRONT
BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER
Here is a composite picture of familiar scenes along the Connaught Road Praya. (1) Hang- ing at halfmagt second from left is a fisherman's bamboo topee which signifies that the master be painted on his craft by the authorities. (2) Confusion le awaiting the licence number to reigns AG scan the gangplank of a chip from Swatow or Amoy it down when men, women and (3) An Assistant Marine Officer.com. children struggle grimly to get aboard or get ashore, pleting his day's work after patrolling the harbour checking on amall craft. (4) Street urchins picking bits of vegetables roam the Praya in search of food, scooping rice from the road dropped by coolles unloading them.-("China Mall" Photos),
or
Life In The Raw On
Hong Kong Waterfront
A patched gunny sack fluttering above a sailing croft or grimy stroot urchins fighting desperate- ly to scoop fallen rice on dusty pavements— these prosent only a facet of the primitive mode of life to be seen along the Connaught Road Praya.
Hero one sees the varied livelihood of the floating community, the wretched circumstances of re- fugees and the "survival of the fittest."
after
✓
when squeezed as they descend the narrow gangway.
Babies cry noisily as their 'mo- thers struggle to get ashore, with their offspring struppel behind and both hands carrying their baggage.
WHO'S WHO
A familiar figure who roaNK the Harbour and boards ship at will is a husky, maglinet- Thoking Afghan 'who plays important role in turbing pil fering in local port activities.
Ho le Firdos Khan, supplier of trained ship guards, who das been operating in the Colony for the past 22 years
Firdos came to Hong Kong in 1012 as a holent. Later he joined the Hong Kong and Kowloon He timekeeper. Godowns as a worked for 15 years before h resigned to begin supplying guards to keep vigilance aboard ships in port.
In men were mostly recruited from the Poilce. Today many are Macao Police pensioners,
came here to live a more sedate iffe. They are mostly natives of Pakistan. Despite the civil strife at Home, the local Pakistanis and the Indians
gol along harmonious. ly in work and in play.
To cope with the present demand for guards, Firdos has "imported" some former Palice persoanel from Pakistan. He has about 60 trained men working for him today.
Ho le himself a former Police-
man.
"There, kind of people have the keeping necessary training in guard. They know the ropes ami have a shrewd knowledge of how the thieves operate," the 61-year- old Afghan sald,
"And they are honest and very dificult to ho bribed," he added.
Ships have from six to 25 guards aboard when they are in port. The the Kurds "keep vigilance on docks, the holds, passengers' cabins, angway and crew's quar-
Lera.
ол They work schedule.
11 24-hour
"Before the war, there were only Indian guards. But towards the Some eager ones clamber out-outbreak of the mat war, some side the gangway to board the Chinese joined the ranks," Firdos
Others ship.
ás Eager
throw recalled.
Today there are many Chinese down their luggage from the ves-
guardé. sel to the pler-about 10 feet.
Once ashore, they line up to get through the barrier, beyond Revenue officers search which "The for prohibited articles.
trouble for a comer begins as soon as he leaves
During the last war. Firdes went back to his native town and returned in 1948 when he service, to ro.orlanisod
from flnd strong competition new-
Chinese, who were already maintaining the quard service on a large scale.
Waifs' Hard Time the pler. The new arrival has
Only a stone's throw from the owners.
Some even colour their mast 20th century setting of the Colony these people live their head in different ways to provide own way--fervently observing identification. centuries-old traditions but re-
Along the Praya between the engaged two "black-conts" (out- luctantly accepting legalities im-
"Pilfering between 1945 and posed by the authorities.
Wing Lok arid, the West Point side ccolies) to carry his lug- Disciplined
Beneration
Matheson) (Jardine,
Wharves, gage. These men are demanding 1947 was carried on on a the "water people" street generation,
throughout urchins roam
for the four cedented scale. Shipping offices. exorbitant Sumg
the lack of trained faced with ormed with sill stick to their own system of the day-cach
pieces. a crude communication
traditional broum, a haversack and a by
An argument ensued, with guards, were compelled to engage symbols, ace
accepted even by then shovel-in search of food.
the passenger getting the worst raw recruits," Firdos sald,
"But eventually, with stricter They scoop fallen rice off the of it-called at by the coolles and local authorities in some respects. Here are somė observations,
or pavement
men in operation, 1948 w practised today in port operations, unload bags or at when coolies embarrassed by the curious stores regulations and with more trained decrease of this lined up to the stores, A gunny sack is hoisted
To "save face" he pays-and considerable ined up along that
he declared. when the master needs a tow bont to deliver the roots by part of the Praya. When bits of normally some conlies get away netarious activity,
vegetables fall off baskets as with charging $2a plece, four Recalling his experiences during pilferers his own craft within the speci- they are being carted off from times the controlled rate accepted the beetle days when
were brought to book daily, Firdos Once this
ingeniously tampered with, with out anyone the wiser, until they were optried.
of the others.
.a
fed period: This is necessitated cargo craft to various destina- by the 'redeoats. is over, the said canes and crates would be by bad weather-either because tons, the grimy boys and girls,, the wind is unfavourable or when whose ages range from 10 to 15 problem of transport prments it- there is no wind at all.
for pos- self. desperately
Rickshaw coulies years, light
exploit To call for water, n wooden session of what is to them much-
the Bituation. With so many others rushing to get them, our
the charge-usually limes the normal charge.
bucket is dangled
gled at halfmast. needed food. Small "water "carriers" operate
"We caught many 'Chinese' and
mong the multitude of sailingnate walte, mostly Swatow friend has no alternative but to Europeans at the wharves and
natives who came here with the craft along the Praya, in Yaum-hundreds of refugees from China, ti Typhoon Shelter-and-Aberleen live along the sidewalk-in-Con- Harbour, to mention a few only. naught Road.
Goods Hung Up
cameraman
cere. of
nece accept
five
buoys
ly
IN MY LOG
during those days, practical-
Firdes said.
crackers and Joss sticks-strewn come and go with their cargo. sing, 'regulation" in the licen-A native of Ningpo, Mr. Tung!
We used to nab them-red-hand- ed with the loot doncealed in They live day by day-fight.
various parts of their bodies," he ing for
recollected. As seen in the top picture, the
fallen vegetables and rice. Soma
for money beg bamboo fisherman's
"topee"
we hear of very few *Today hanging midway up the mast
during "eleure hours."
Last week saw the appearance cases indeed," he added, water Publie
pipes provide of a long overdue' handbook Firdos works alone and gathers signifles that the master is await-
"refreshments" to these ing his licence number to
squatters. be
which is he first of its kind in his men by lip service. A phenomenon is that very few the Colony. painted on his craft by the au-
Local Indiana and Paklatanis In the vicinity
their thorities.
It is a compilation by Mr. F. congregate at
respettive The sailing junk in accidents occur question has recently been bullt. where the boys and girls, some-Brett of abstracts from the Mer- mosques dolly-which provides a The owner lives aboard with his times cvch grown-ups, rush chant Shipping Ordinance 10 of means of communication.
there scooping 1000
nan and published by the three young sons and his wife, about here and When
up rice or picking up bits of food, Marine Department. ghot" by our Inst week-end, there were still chasing one another or fighting The
(Continued from CoL 5) andhable
contains cer- the tain grimly, without regard to the lawiching traces of
information for the $2,700 as reward from the British traffic. monial prerequisites-pieces
general guidance
of owners, firm, lorries "lucky" red cloth, bits of fire-
masters and
and control of began working as an ordinary
vessels,
to quarter- motor deck-hond, rising all over the deck.
The master himself was busy scooping frantically from the boats, junks, lighters and other minster and eventually bosun Is last ship was the' ss. Shanfung. with his sons in touching up the road, pavement, under the vehicle similar types of craft. cruft, painting the partitions to or from the deck. One or two
Features of the book include which has been sold to a loen! form several small lockers along would be caught on the lorry just the Ordinances
covering arms firm to be scrapped. as it moves. They would jump
And ammunition, smuggling
The CSU approached the com→ into down recklessly from the moving China (Control) 1948, Prevention pany last week on behalf of Mr. toaded When the
craft is
"compensation" with cargo for salo, he will voblcie.
of Cruelty to Animals, Suppres- Tung regarding 'hing up the article for sale, A Disembarkation Rush. sion of Piracy and insanitary and for his long service.
bundle of firewood denotes the A famillor confusion" along overcrowded vessels. type of goods aboard. To in the Praya is the disembarkation dicate that pottery and earthen of hundreds of arrivals from Ware are for stove whit be pacarthern China. Here
the sides.
symbola.
up..
Every hour of the day,
Then one 'sees These urching
launches,
teny
There are several maps of the The presence of numerous sub- Typhoon Anchorages, Hatbour merged wrecks in several Phillip- Anchorage and boundaries of the pine ports ls endangering naviga- one sees "the survival of Sino-British Customs agreement. tion, personnel of ships arriving To identify their own craft, the filtest" as man, woman, and The handbook is on sale at here from Manila revealed. [bout mastera hang up individual children fight grimly to gel $9.00 a
This has affected port opera- www.copy.
tions considerably, and San Fe- Thanks to the Chinese Sea-Handd, "North of Subic Bay, is them, each craft will be identi Passengers aboard scream for men's Unlon, Mr. Tung Hing-fat, one of the ports which face loss fled by tassels, hung at the mast-coolies to carry their luggage. 65-year-old bosun, who retired of patronage of ocean-going ves- head. The different manner of The "red coats" (wharf coólics) | after 43 years of service with gels. Iringing the tassels and the varl-shout themselves are trying* Butterfield and Swire, received ed“ numbers serve to guide the to keep order. People shriek (Continued on Col, 0)
of the sides the pennants ashore or get aboard ag the gang-| which patronize plank is down.
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TO HONOLULU AND SAN FRANCISCO
"vla SHANGHAI & JAPAN
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May 22
Juno 12 June 25
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via JAPAN
"President Taft“.. "President Mddison"
May 28
June 4
TO NEW YORK; BALTIMORE & BOSTON via PANAMA
"President Jalinson" (Direct to Pacific Coast) "President Nidrrigan" (Direct to Paclito Coast)
June 16
July 12
The continued presence of the sunken wrecks-victims of Allied or, Japonese bbmbs or those scut- lled during the last war-has virtually paralysed port tramet
soveral incidents, they mentioned that the ms. Mimcaster Castle had a dificult time entering the port becaúra of Tradequate guidance in the way „ot beacons and also becauqu
the many danger points,
of
A large number of Chinese Seamen's Union officials arrived here during the week from North China porta including Canton
Shanghal.
Understood rellably,
ROUND THE WORLD
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FORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA, NAPLES, MARSEILLES,
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"Marino, Snapper" "President Polk"
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"President Harrison" ....
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MAY 17 June 1"
June 15
May 17
, June 4
Tel. 28172/15,
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to and from
Atlantic Coast Ports of
The United States and Far Eastern Parts
NEW FAST CARGO SHIPS
ARRIVALS FROM ATLANTIC
"PIONEER DALE" "PIONEER LAND" "PIONEET WAVE"
May 16 May 22 May 31
SAILINGS TO MANILA
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May 17
May 23
June '3
SAILINGS TO ATLANTIC
vla SHANGHAI, JAPAN & PANAMA CANAL "PIONEER DALE" .....Arrives June "PIONEER LAND"... "PIONEER WAVE”
4 "June 13 July 4
June 6
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"BENAVON” BENARTY "BENVENUE"
BENLOMOND" "BENVRACKIE" "DENLAWERS“
SHIP
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"BENRINNES" "BENKRTY" "BENYRACKIE”
"DENLOMOND"
ARRIVALS
FROM „O.K. vin Singapore
SAILINGS
TO
London, Antwerp, Rotterdamf, "Ham- burg & Hull,
DUE
: Abt..21st May,
26th May. End of May, Ist kalf Jaño. 2nd half June. End June. Early July.
LOADING
29th May. 2nd half June. 1st half. July.
Liverpool & Glasgow
1st hall June,
End half June,
1st half July,
Livérbóðì, Hàvre,” AnyD: Batter-
...Genon, Londen, Ant- 2nd half July.
"werp *** Scotterdam" %
Hainbury.
* Accepts cargo Lar Fnhátí
I calls at Port Sudan.
· Fur Further Paržlenlera. Applu To- W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (CHINA) LTD. Agents Fork Building
* Telgphonei !: 54165.
KLAVENESS LINE
SAILINGS
Direct to Los Angeles, In 16' days Thence San Francisco Vancouver, Seattle & Portland MS. “SUNNYVILLE!
30th May
ARRIVALS FROM PACIFIC COAST: M.S, "FRANCISVILLE”. M.S. "CASTLEVILLE”
though it could not be confirmed, MS. locally, that these officials have respective cities be- Pyongynist military i
CSU branch pre sported to be operating as usual in Red-held
22nd May 21st June
Failing to Singapore, Fort Swettenham Penang, Be an & Batavia. “FRANCISVILLE
Faisinger AgDOWNDERSTA
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