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ERZURINISILAGENI SERIRODAN AGILE ROADKOMISIONEZIJE.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1080. ` \
HONG KONG WATERFRONT
BY OUR HARBOUR REPORTER
The first Polish ship to make her debut in local waters in the 8,500-ton motor vessel Warta, which arrived here during the week to mark the inauguration of the first Polish`ship. ping line for the Far East, The Warta has some 3,000 tons of general cargo for. Tierteln, the laet port of call on her Europe-Orient run. ("China Mail" Photo).
New
Polish shipping line for Far East
The recent visit of the mv. Warta, the first Polish
ship to make her debut in local waters, has
a dual significance and is a welcome indica- tion of the development of the merchant marino botwaon East and West.
Firstly, the presence of the sleek 8,500-ton freighter in Far Eastern waters marks the inauguration of the first Polish shipping line for the Orient and, secondly, the Warta herself is the fore- runner of the establishment of o direct sea link between Hong Kong and Poland.
The Warta is the first of luxe accommodation for eight four, similar modern vessels only) and crew were incorporat- placed on the Europe-Far East ed in the reconversion. run by the Gdynia-America Line, which serves ports in Germany, Italy,
Belgian,
First call
At the helm of the Warta is Egypt, Indin, Straits, Philip-Captain Bohdan Jedrejewski.
ISTHMIAN LINE pines, Hong Kong and Com-
(Isthmian Steamship Company, New York)
DIRECT MONTHLY SAILINGS TO ́NEW YORK
VIA LOS ANGELES and PANAMA *STEEL SURVEYOR"
.27th Oct.
SAILINGS TO SAIGON, BANGKOK &
DJAKARTA (BATAVIA)
"STEEL AGE"
"STEEL SEAFABER”
ARRIVALS FROM U.S.A.
*STEEL AGE"
"STEEL SEAFARER”
.30th Oct. .21st Oct.
Sails N. X. Sajla S.F. Dus HLX.
Salled Salled 9th Oct.. Sailed 20th Sept. 20th. Oct.
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
Tel; 31140
Chinese Freight Agents: HIN FAT & CO., LTD. Tel: 28823, 25553 & 23483,
SWEDISH EAST ASIA CO.,LTD.
ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE
m.v. "TONGHAI" m.v. "BALI”
7th Oct.
..early Nov.
BAILINGS TO KUBOFE
:
m.v. "DENGAL"
m.v. "TONGHAI”
m.v. "BALI”
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.2nd Oct.
31st Oct.
..end Nov.
ADEN, PORT SAID, GENOA, MARSEILLES, CASABLANCA,
ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, BREMEN, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, OSLO & GOTHENBURG
Deeplanks available for Huikeli
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
· Tel. 21146
munist China (Tientsin).
The line will have regalar schedules to the various Orient poris. A few other vessels will "tramp" round the globe..
Manned by an all-Polish com- plement of 48, the Warta is a "resurrected" ship and has had & colourful career.
All her personnel are visiting the Colony for the first time-to
all, except the skipper, their maiden call was evidently some- thing not to be cherished.
According to certain officers of the ship, the vialting Poles wera not permitted to go ashore. Ex- cept for Captain Jedrzejowski, who was the only person allowed Originally designed and con- to land, the remaining 45 men structed in a German shipyard saw Hong Kong only from mid- for a Norwegian shipping firm harbour, before the war, she was launched: when the war broke out and was not available from the Im- operated by the Germans as a transport.
In 1942, the vessel was tor- pedoed by an Allied submarine. To avold further attacks, she was sent to Poland, then occupied by the Germans. It was while await ing to enter drydock in Gdynia, Poland's Baltic Sea port, that the ship was aguin bombed. She caught Are and sank.
After the war, she was refloated by the Poles and rebuilt in a Gdynia shipyard. Modern ameni tles specially designed for long
sea voyages for passengers
(de
How's your harbour I.Q.?
Do you know where this picture was taken? it identi Be one of the Colony's pro.... minent shipping 'organisations the only one of its kind, Incidentally. Turn the pag® Around and see whether you're right!
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"HAN FRANCISCO, LOB' ÁNGELER
"TRADE-WIND”
"ANDREA LUCKKNDACH”
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VICTOR
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OVERLAND PAND NEW YORK-LIIICAGO-DETROIT-TORONTO "MONTERAL/AND ALL AMERICAN GANADIAN, CITIES.
Best.. 24
Sept
San Franciscu vẫn Guum,
Tally Befrigerated, Bewylu,- Dry
(Though an plicial statement
migration authorities regarding the ban, it was learned that one reason given was that it was be- cause this was the first visit of the ship. "It would be possible to have shore leave call."
on the second
Husbandry only for Jap ships
Permission has been grant. ed 17 Јарановс merchant 'marine to call here.
BCAP has obtained ap. proval for the entry/exit of Japanese vessels at 27 major foreign porte, but the extent of clearance is sub-divided into several classifications- blanket clearance, husbandry only, for specific lifts and tankers.
under
Hong Kong comes the second category—necçês- saty ship service. · (Others in. clude Capatown, Durban and Singapore.)
No blanket olearance, has been given
British to any porte.
Santos
Russian subs off Manchuria?
Whether or not Rusalan sub- marines are based in Manchurian waters is a matter of conjecture; but speculation is rife among certain sections of the. Colony s Praya circles.
תם
Now and then seamen return-' Ing
Dairen-Tsingtao: from the area after prolonged visits have casually
remarked
having noticed at great distance a crati with the silhouette of a sub- marine when they were off the Manchurian coast.
Without supporting evidence- usually, "local" reports of such marine activity in that area-no serious thought has been given to the somewhat persistent "rumours."
However, a recent analysis of the position of the American fleet in the For East by a Washington asserts that the correspondent Russlan Navy is basing its sub- marines at a number instead of a few major bases; "undoubtedly out of Vladivostok, same out of Dairen...
The analysis further declared that the North Koreans "are ben Ieved to have no submersibles."
Nor hos Red China any such naval craft.
"The cruising range of big fleet type us means that they can roam Eastward from the Pacific as well as close In to the Asiatic mainland," it added.
NORWAY BACKS DEFENCE PLAN
Oslo, September 23. Norway today announced. her
The Global Plans
TO HONOLULU &‘SAN FRANCISCO
Pree. Olaveland Gen: Gordon Pres.- Wilton
vio JAPAN
Arr Oct 14 Galla Oct. 15
Art-
·ÁTN ·
Oct. 18 Balla ·OOL · 19 Nov. 3. Balia. Nov.
TO SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES
vio JAPAN
Prik. Plarte Pres. McKinley
buna, Arti Oct.
4 Ballo Oct.
Afri Oct. 24 .Bail Oct. 25
TO NEW YORK, BALTIMORE & BOSTON
via PACIFIC COAST & PANAMA
Prom Fillmora Pros. Tyler
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Arr. Bapt. 27 Galfa Supt. 20 Arr. Oct. 20 Balls Oct. 80
ROUND THE WORLD
-VIA MANILA, SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, CQOHIN, BOMBAY, KARAGHI, BUEZ, PORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA, NAPLES, MARIEILLES, GENDA, NEW YORK and DOBTON
Pro Jettermon ...............* Pres. Van Buren* ....
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Bept. @upt.
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Tel. 28172/6;
*OMITO MANILA, KARACHI & ALEXANDRIA
St. George's Bldg.
BEND LINE
a
"SENGLEUCH"
support of the proposals for joint defence forces in Europe.
After 日 secret session of Minister, Parliament, the Primo
Mr. Einar Gerhardsen, said the Norwegian Government and Parliament fully agreed with the All parties were proposals. also agreed that the Government should continue “negotiations this matter, he added. Reutor.
survivor
recalls
tragedy
an
They were all taken to Shang-
"BENYANNOGH"
"BENVQRLICH"
"BENMACDHUI”
"BENALDER"
"BENAVOND
"GENREOCH"
"DENVENUE
"BENLAWERS"
"BENVORLIGH” "BENALDER" "DENVENUE”
"BENVANNOOM"
"BENWYVIS"
#BENOLEUCHT
"DENMAODHUI”
the
"BENA
Five survivors of the 1,300- mine 12 hours before within the To quote Chief Engineer Stanton Panamanian freighter San-came vicinity. ley Goclawski: "at least 35 sea-tos, mined in the Yangtse last men on this ship out of the 48 June, headed by Captain hai without further incident risked their lives to ferry supplles Hwang Cha-fang, have return- for the Allies when Poland was to the Colony recently fighting against the
Germans.
Recalling the rescue of second cook who was the sel person bar
aboard the.. sinking-vessel because of his Many Poles died in the Battle of bringing with them the tragic and "stranded" Britain while fighting under the story of their experiences broken thigh, an officer said, they now disclored here publicly heard cries of "save life" when for the first time.
their lifeboat was about 20 yards
Allied banner.
we were given shore leave. Even should the crew forbidden to
"Now we come to a British port and -are-treated like suspl-The "Chlum Mat!"-learned-ex-off the Santos which was then clous people. Why?
clusively how the second engineer, already waterlogged up to the "At all the other British ports one of five fatal casualties, was upper deck. Aden, Colombo and Singapore knocked out and went down with We could not turn back be the ship; how a stoward talled cause it was regarded as dan to recover some 40,000 jen min
gerous as the boiler might blow jand a port, the captain and piao and drowned when he miss-up. But the injured man crawled the chief engineer by right shoulded a lifebuoy; the rescue of the to the edge of the deck and wat be given special permission to go
thrown bodily into the sea as the ashore to carry out certain duties second cook who suffered relative to the operation of the fractured thigh, and the escape of ship went down. The cook clung ship," the officer declared.
the Number One fireman from to a floating log and was picked the
informant room, where the mine up eventually the engine exploded..
related.
"Illogical
The group which arrived hero Steward's death by train from Shanghal recently A steward lost his life when he comprises the skipper, the second attempted to recover his savings. officer, the third officer, the wire Instead of jumping into the life- less operator and the third en-boat, he ran back to his cabin.on. sincer. The chief officer is mean the lower dock to get his money, while remaining in Shanghai with
totalling some 40,000 Chloese some 15 seamen,'
currency..
Chief Officer Radoslav Nowa- kowski, veteran of the Polish Navy in which he served for 20 years, retiring, as commander, thought it illogical for the man to be kept aboard. In mid-harbour "because British or any other | foreign ships' personnel are free According to the informants,
Finding his cabin already water- to come and go in our country. the Santos was sent to the Yang- logged, the man ren back but by There is no such nonsensical re- tse after plying between Dairen then the lifeboat was off the strletion."
and Tsingtao vla Tientsin for sinking ship. He added that the 'Singapore | 11 months beginning
*The steward thrown lifebuoy authorities were very co-opera- September.
Into the sea and jumped after it. tiva.
The 1,300-ton freighter, former-But he missed the buoy and was The Warts was held up inly a British hospital ship, reached carried away by the current "Re Kowloon Bay on her arrival on the Communist port without in- could not swim," the informant Thursday for nearly five hours before she was eventually freed" cident. to moor at A12.),
lust
added.
On June 19, 1950, the Santos The Number Ong'fireman had a cleared with only 200 bags of narrow escape from being sent to mail for North China. She ata watery grave, He was working chored some 50 miles downstream in the engine room with the
Another officer, denounced the ban. He assorted seamen care nothing for politics and all they want is to spend their money, go off Shanghal for the night "bosecand enginter when the mlüt touring and relax after a long cause we knew of certain dan stetick the
Kerous areas on the route and He remarked that personnel that it would be risky to proceed of certain Russlan and Chinese under darkness." Communist, ships. in Hong Kong
trip.
waters
were permitted to go Violent explosion
ashore, "which I learned from
certain local sources.
was flung from its position, and
hit the officer. who was knocked out.
Steam was then filling up tho room. The steel companion ladder was red-hot thus preventing the fremda from running out by that exit,
The Santos weighed anchor at "Now, tell me why we Polish 8 a.m. on the following day. One seamen are not given a privilege hour later, a violent explosion He crawled out from the ven which other Foreign visitors rocked, the vessel. A mine had tilators when the ship: had Ilsted have 7" the youthful oficer asked. hit the starboard side of the en- to a level which enabled him to
BOAT CROSSES
ATLANTIC
Now York, September 23,
Atlantic crossing.kove inʼsight off
gine.room.
Captain Hwang was on the bridge. He blow".." on the ziren but it stopped: 30 seconds inter because the steam had ¡given out, b The 67
lifeboats
euch the opening. He suffered
severe burns,
The "casualty toll listed by this informant was 15. injured; Includ ing. Ave seriously, and five fatal
ctims the
second engineer and A 30-foot sail-fost on'a trans- few scrambled into the COMEARENA APARAN D
alewards which were success«|-, Divers were
corpresa week as the Santos began cover the ent/down to re- Later
flantos, owned by the Santos
end of 3,000-mile voyage
to list
the New York consiline today. at fully adually from 'starboard; but none was found. D the Coast Guard reported that to port submerged totally Trinity Developront Company, of
the craft, soen off Jones Beach.
Long Island, headed into Now 124 minutes after the explosion. Hong Kong, has been declared York harbour, DER KAN A check latera disclosed, that tqUE Flose by the Shanghalau
Its crew of four Irish students Avo persons were missing they thoriulce, it was
left their bomeland bus June 16, have been declared fatal castle moye making their first stop at Bertok CATANIA mada on August 2R 25Th was BA Communist LST and 19 forint after 75 days
landing cratt "arrivedi two-houra in She i They left Bermuten Septem. Inter The Santos sensorial found to ber: 12. BUTIMI-403 ear old bone aboard the 55 per members or China the Itund, was bought) by the the crew of the Panamanian elan students for: PUReuter. İtreighter Valve, which bea bite t
nod. She left
Sarfall:victim to
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THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.
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