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BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1951.
CHINAQ Mystery Ships Used By French
MAIL 1 lars,gkunga sisteḥa
CHINA_NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
"SHENGKING”. "BUANHI "SHENGKINⱭ“ "HUPKH *KWEIYANG”
"YOCKOW". *HTANG
"AZECHUEN"
SAILINGS TO
Keelung
Bangkok Keelunt
Tientaln
Singapore, Djakarta & Sourabaya Bangkok
Tiontaln
Yokohama, Osaka
Se
5 pm. 18th Sept.* 1 p.m. 20th Sept.
5 p.m. 22nd Sept.*
10 a.m. 21st Sept.
6 p.m. 23rd Sept.
6 pm. 25th Sept. 10 am. 20th Sept. Nagoya, Kobe
1st ́6 pan.
Oct,
• Salls from Custodian Wharf
ARRIVALS FROM
"HUNAN"
.Tientsin
"KWEIYANG"
Sibu
"AHENGKING"
"YOCHOW"
Keolunt .Kobe
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4.
18/10th Sept.
19th Sept..
7 a,m, 20th Sept. 22nd Sept.
A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE
"CHANGSHA"
"TAIPING"
"ANKING"
BAILINGS TO
4
18th Sept
24th Sept. 2nd Oct.
...Sydney & Melbourne
Bydney & Melbourne
Nauru Ocean Is, & Sydney
"CILANGSHA"
'ARRIVALS FROM ....Yokohama & Shimizu
"TAIPING"
Kobe
In Port 21st Sept.
"ANKING"
Kobe
29th Sept.
"MYRMIDON”
"PYRRHUS“
&
Holland •
BLUE FUNNEL LINE
Bebadnied Sailings to Europe via Aden & Pori Sald
"BELLEROPHON" London
"CYCLOPA**
Dublin & Liverpool
...Marsellies, Liverpool.
& Glasgow
Liverpool & Glasgow
Scheduled Sailings from Europe
Balla Liverpool
22nd Sept. 20th Sept.
6th Oct. 7th Oct.
G.' “FYRRHURM
Boiled
Balls Botterdam Solled
Arrives
Bong Kong
15th Sept.
8. "BELLEROPHON"
do
10th Sept.
8. "ANTILOCISUB"
Mo
29th Sept.
do
8. "AUTOLYCUS"
do
..... 18th Bapt.
17th Sept.
E. "CLITONEUS"
21st Sept.
G. "ANCHISES”.
28th Sept,
29th Oct. 2nd Nov,
4th Oct.
"
Q. “CYCLOPS"
G "PELEUS"
8. "ARTYANAX"
d. Loading Glasgow before Liverpool, 6. Loading Swansea before Liverpool. Carriers' option to proceed via other ports to
load & discharge cargo.
5th Oct. 8th Oct. 16th Oct,
8th Nov,
DE LA RAMA LINES
ARRIVING via MANILA FROM
U.S. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS "MENESTHEUS"
"AJAX".
24th Sept.
7th Oct.
Lathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
Houle
HIK/Bangkok/Singapore
Departa Hongkong Arrives E.K fon reinen) 8.30... Wed. Bat.
U.B.A. to tangoon)
(DC-4) 0.00p.m. Tues, Fri. (Connects at Bangkok with
(DCS) HK/Handl
incui HK/BAgen/Singapore HK/Manta/B.. Borneo-(DC-3)... HK/Halphon
(DC-9)
150, Titer. 1:00 p.m. Wed. 6.30 am..Wed...
7.00 am Fri.
4,00 p.m. ues. K.15 p.m. Thurs. 4.45 pm. Thurs. 4.30 p.m. Fri.
All the above subject to alteration without notice. For passare and Freight particulars please apply to
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To Combat Vietminh Smugglers PO B.I. E&A
A large lotilla of French landing and river-craft and a "Q" ttle-known fleet of army mystery ships. account for
The French have learnt the hard way not to be distructed by the muce and not to make cursory examinations because of the sickening odour.
Saigon, Sept. 18. 1 French Navy boarding parties China border, through a mazo literallyamot out of reefs, Islands and jutung A French Navy Squadron often
to the Gulf of suspected contraband runners, promontories of mainly veteran ships for the robola frequently, carry Slam and the Siamese · border. accounts for 10,000 Com- in their cargoes jars of vile it passes hundreds of river)
and hidden sandbare. vitamin-packed mouths muntat junks and sampans smelling but
NA" NIGHTMARE The beautiful Bay d'Along has the Vietnamese eat with their every year in a never-ending Noue Mam, n fish sauce which
for centuries been the haunt hide-and-geek battle against Indo-China's Vietminh arms
of Chinese plates. When fog shrouds His thousands of islands, smugglers,
with their sheer sills -rising from the deep blue water, it
It is a mariner's nightmare. To avoid the French.
patrolling vessels the Vietminh junks and another 10,000 Vietminh Voulets, By no means all the smug-vesse
About half of the annus gling junks and sampans sub-sampans usually try to move at night, "bag" is captured by the Navy, mit willingly to the French down the consiline
of the hugging the shoal-ridden shore. with between 8,000 and 10,000 Navy's routine search tons of cargo, ranging from all thousands of small craft which When the morning sun peeps
the
Son they 'race China sorts of arms to salt, rice and ply night and day along the over oven Vietminh paper currency, 2,000-kilometre, (about 1,200 for the nearest hilde-out.
miles) coset,
It may be up a creek where mangrove clumps and tropical The treacherous coast stretches palms provide camouflage. It
be in
in a
rocky crevice of
polni d'Alang. In the north, by the
the rebels may just pull their craft ashore on a sandy beach and desert it until dusk falls again. Notice to Shareholders
Saltors,
who come ashore here theor a routine month at sea, say NOTICE 18. HEREBY | THE
the Vietminh boats LAND that when HONGKONG GIVEN
that AR Interim INVESTMENT & AGENCY are caught, they usually fight the
treacherous way, Th
They may, walt Dividend in respect of the
COMPANY, LIMITED. until the boarding party is al- year 1951 of $1.10 per share,
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED
If not prepaid a booking fee free of tax, has been declared of 50 cents le charged,
payable on and after 17th September 1951.
DEATHS
pital, Dr Leopold Eder, dentist
Applications for Dividend EDER ---ON September 13, 1951. Warrants should be made At 3.30 pm at St. Therese either personally or by letter from Tientsin, N. China, age 59; ❘ the Company, P.&O. Funeral will take pisce at Roman Catholle Cemetery to the Registered Office of North China and Austrian papers Building, 4th Floor.
Happy Valley at 0.30 pan. today.
please copy.
FOR SALE
"ARISTOC" RED MARKING PEN-/
CILS $55 per gross, $3 per dozen 50 cents each. Obtainable at "B. C.
M. Post."
COLUMBIA COPPERPLATE PEN- CIES. JB and B 122 per gross, ti por duzen. 3050 cách ăn sale at
S.. C. M. Post."
WEIGHTS AND MEASUREMENTS of cargo exported from Hong- kong and South China, compiled by the Swon Measurers, 815 from the "5. C. M. Post.”“”
of
The Register of Membera the Company will be closed from the 3rd day of September, 1951 to the 17th day of September 1951, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board GIBB LIVINGSTON & COMPANY · LIMITED. Agents.
from the pinnacle-studded Bayherous
NOTICE
to Shareholders
gunwale.
for
September, 1951. The Registhrow grenades
the opportune moment
in the
10
Notice
most alongside their funk then with a machinegun open up from the cargo, They may wear HEREBY in their belts and pull NOTICE TS
gremdes GIVEN that an INTERIM the pins as the sailors cross the DIVIDEND in respect of the
If their sampan la brached year 1951 of $2.00 per share,
the day, they will le less Tax, has been declared jungle cover watching for and ready payable on and after the 24th French patrols
or open fire at ter of Members of the HAZARDOUS MAZE Company will be closed from When the wind is favourable Monday the 17th September, rebel Junks will try to outwit 1951, to Monday, the 24th French patrol boat by scatter
ing in all directions, jettisoning September, 1951. both days their
cargoes as they tack off during
angles: which tight and left at all inclusive,
When the patrol boat overtakes period no transfer of shares W
of them it is usually a can be registered.
decoy. After a lot of arguing the стом
well may produce forged ship's papers. By then, the others are gone.
By Order of the Bond of Directors,
B. C. FIELD,
Secretary.
Hongkong, 10th August, 1961. Hongkong, 17th Aug., 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
| WHEN YOU AWAKE, YOU WILL FORGET YOUR WIFE HAD A BRACELET - YOU
| WILL TRINK YOU LEFT
YOUR WALLET AT HOME---WAKE.
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FERDINAND
DRI
DRIP
DRIP
GOSH, I JUST REMEMBERED--
I LEFT MY WALLET)
AT HOME-
QUITE ALL
RIGHT. NO
CHARGE
GOOD DAY.
DO YOU STILL THINK
YOU GAVE ME A
NEW DIAMOND
BRACELET?
one
Another lace is to lead an unwitting French navigator over reefs, and shoals where he may aground. Out of firing range, the elusive Vietminh wave a cheery goodbye.---Router.
rum
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
WHAT BRACELET?
NOW--WHERE DID I LEAVE
MY WALLET?
HAHA--HE COMES BACK OH,SWAMI FOR HIS WIFE'S BRACE LET-AND I TAKE
| HIS WALLET--HAHA-".
SOMEDAY YOU'LL
GO TOO FAR.
COMPANIES
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO..
PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
Leaves London
23rd AuguNË
Arrives Hongkong 14th September
20th Septemte 22nd October-
Outwarda "CORFU" *"CANTON"
"CARTHAGE"
"CHUSAN"
18th. October
2nd November
10th November
30th November
Via Southampton, Port Sald, Aden, Bombay, Colombo,
-Penang- & -Ringapore.
Homewarde
"CORFT""
"CANTON"
"WARTHAGE"
"CHUSAN"
Leaves Hongkong. Dus London 18th September 19th Octoper 10th October 2th November 22nd November
23rd December 4 December 31st December
Accepting cargo for Bingapore, Penang, Colombo, Hame
bay. Aden, Port Bald London.
Outwards
"SHILLONG" "THESILLIAN" "SURAT
Homewards "SHILLONG"
'Accepting · CATKO
FREIGHT, SERVICE
Duo Hongkong 38th September
6th October 10th October
Leaves Hongkong.
0th October
for
From
London & Continent
For
London & Continent
Singapore, Pori · Swettenham, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Port Bald, Genoa, Atarseillies. London, Hamburg, Antwerp & Rotterdam, with. liherty to call at Bombay is inducement offeis Tanks' available for carriage of oll in Balk
Limited passenger Space for refrigerated cargo.
accommodation.
BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.
."BIRDHANA”
"BANGOLA"
cue 30th Sept.
sails 3rd Oct.
- due 3rd Oct. ``. Fails 5th Oct.
⚫ from Calovista.
Rangoon via Stralle for Japan
from Japan
for Calcutta. Nani» goon vin Singapore & Penang
(These versels have refrigerated cargo space)
"UMARIA"
P. & 0./B. I. JOINT SERVICE `
due 24th Bept.' from Karachit
Bomber, Colombo, Be Straita
Lör: Japan
salla 26 Sept.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN S.S. CO., LTD.
"NELLORE"
"EASTERN"
What-er Joke
By Mik
› Dine
·At the⋅
due 12 Oct. Aut's 2nd Nov.
due 25th Oct.
from Sydney
for Port Moresby, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne
from Bydney
All vessels have Uberty to call ́at any ports 'on or off the route & the route & calling are subject to change or amendment with or without notice,"
For full particulars apply la:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Telephone Nos. 27721-4.
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DRIP
DUE
21st Sept. 26th Sept.
NANCY
SHIPS
FROM
"BENVANNOCH“...U.K.
"BENDOKAN
"BENAVON" UK. via Singapore B.N.D. via "BENÁLBÁNACHU.K2 via Singapore B.N.B "BENCRUACHAN" U.K. via
U.K, via Singapore
www do
on or abt. 28th Oct.
8th Nov,
8th Nov.
18th Nov.
do.
24th Nov...
"BENCLEUCH"
"DENWYVIB"
BENVANNOCH
"BENAVON"
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Liverpool, Cilasgow.
30th Sept.
Avonmouth & Hull.
Liverpool, Dublin' ***Hambury & Antwerp,
21st Oct.
31st. Dol,
10th Nov.
**BENALDANACH" London; &. ́Antwerp,
Liverpool, Glasgow &
"BENCRUACHAN" "Hambura.
¿Liverpool; // Glasgow, 27 Avonmouth & Hall.
Liverpool(2) Dub ffn...! **Hamburg &: Antwerp,
&), Yokohama. Havre, London, & 'Rotterdami
12th Nov,
18th Nov...
20th Nov.
20th Nov.
Singapore, Port Sweltenham, Port Suden & Port Said,
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Paris, Sept. 13. The Israel Foreign Minister, Mr Moshe Shareit, arrived here by plane from Tel-Aviv today, en route to New York. to attend the launching of the United Jewish Appeal fund- raising drive.
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He planned to stay, only. few hours, before boarding plane for New York, to confer with members of the Taracli
delegation to the Palestine peace conference sponsored the Un
United Nations. The UN Commission,
meeting
Willy
sideratiis hurried
by
whose
the Israelis this afternoon lasted less than an hour, will present its own re commendations to tho two.
on Monday, A
through meeting to give the delego- tion, led by, are Minister to Paris, Mr Maurice Fischer, time to
Sharett confer with
the
Mr Ely
the-United
Commission chairman, Palmer of States
issued a background report on
on development
of tho to the
past three years leading present imparte
Referring to the fallure of the..
| Unitech | Nations, to end the *Mr Palmor said: "With- attempting to
determine
out
where the primary responsi- bility for failure may be, all those here must now recognise and altare responsibility for
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