BUTTERFIELD and SWIRE.
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD,'
SAILINGS TO
... Kuching ..... Bangkok
& Sibu1
......Yokohama, Nagoya, Osaka & Kobo
"PETER REED"
"FOOCHOW"
"YOCHOW"
"PAKHOI"
"FOOCHOW"
ARRIVALS FROM Shanghal Kobe
8 m. 24th Nov.
3 p.m. 24th Nov,
10 am. 25th Nov.
1a.m. 22nd Nov, 10 p.m. 22nd Nov.
A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE
"CHANGTE"
"CHANGTE"
SAILINGS TO
Kure & Kobe
ARRIVALS FROM
Australia &
Munila
BLUE FUNNEL LINE
I
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1953.
the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE
THE
"
Crossword
12
30th Nov.-
20 2
27th Nov,
22
Scheduled Sailings to Europe vin Adon & Port Said
"DELLEROPHON"Liverpool
"MENTOR"
"PATROCLUS"
Liverpool &
Dublin
10 Paradise 11 Bom 12 Devotee 13 Filters
ACROSS
& Dublin Genoa, London Rotter→ tam, Amsterdam Hamburg
Load 23rd Nov.
Kalja 24th Nov,
&
1 Cupola
23rd Nov.
26th Nov.
Marseilles, Liverpool de Glasgow
5 Residence
Sovial city
5th Dec.
13th Dee.
23rd Dec.
dth Dec. 14th Dec. 24th Dec.
Bails Rotterdam
In Port H/Wharf 24th Nov.
Arrives Hong Konr
30th Nov.
8th Dec.
14 Dec.
27th Dec.
29th Dec.
20 Twisted
7th Jan.
"ANTILOCHUS" Liverpool & Glasgow "CYCLOPS"
Scheduled Sallings from Europe
G. "PATROCLUS"
Balla Liverpool
X. "ANTILOCHUS"
G. "CYCLOPS"
3. "AUTOLYCUS"
G. "PERSEUS"
8. "ANCHISES"
G. "CLYTONEUS"
5. "ASTYANAX"
18th Nov.
. 24th Nov. 3rd Dec.
G. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool, 8. Loading Kwansen, before Liverpool Carriers' option to proceed via other ports in load a discharge cargo.
DE LA RAMA LINES
ARRIVING FROM U.S. ATLANTIC &
PACIFIC COAST PORTS.
"AJAX"
"HAINAN"
"AGAMEMNON"
"DONA AURORA”
"DONA ALICIA"
Sailed
-do-
17 Aged
IB Iospital Inmate
22 Negative word
23 Age
25 Greek god of wat
27 Secure, u
20 Poker stake
1 Put on
a wil
DOWN
2 Mineral roska
3 Encounter
4 Old ulo measure
5 Pronoun
6 Scandinavian god
7 Disorder
8 Entomology (ab.)
14 Decay
15 Fourth Arabian caliph 10 Fish
Salla N.Y.
Balls 8.5, Salled
Arr. H.K
4th Deo.
to dom
25th Nov.
11th Dec.
2nd Dec. 17th Dec.
2nd Jan,
18th Jan.
31st Jan.
10 Solar disk
14th Dev. Sist Dec.
SAILING for NEW YORK, via SAN FRANCISCO,
LOS ANGELES & CRISTOBAL.
"TELEMACHUS"
"DONA NATI"
"BENAKES"
Loads
Balls
21st Nov.
22nd Nov.
4th Dec,
4th Dec.
19th Dec.
20th Dec.
Accept cargo for Kingston and to Central & South American ports on
through bills of lading.
Tathay Pacific Airways Ltd.
Route
..
Depart Hongkong
IK/Bangkok/Singapore (DC-4) 7,000.In, Tue. Fil. (Connects at Bangkok with U.B.A. on HK/Manila/B.N. Barttea (DC-3) 0.30a.m. Tue. Fri,
(DC-4) 11.00 a.m. Wed }[K/Saigon/Singapore
HK/Honal/Ilaiptiong (DC-3) 10.00a.m. Wed.
HK/1angkok/itangoon/
Calcutta
(DC-4) 21.00 p.m. Sat.
All the above subject to Alteration
Arrives N.K. (on return) 1.15 am. Wed. Sat, Tuesdays for Rangoon) 2.49 p.m. Wed, Sat, 500 pm. Thủ.
2.45 p.m. Th.
4.30 p.m. Bun.
without notice.
for particulars plassa spply to:
Butterfield & Swire (Hongkong) Ltd:
1 Connaught Rd. Tel: 30331/8
Branch Office: 50 Connaught Rd. Wast.
0331: 25975.32144.24878
EVERETT LINES
EVERETT ORIENT LINE Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo- China, Siam, Malaya, Rangoon, Calcutta and Chittagong.
"NOREVERETT"
Arrives Sails
Nov. 27 from Singapore. Nov. 28 for Kobe
"REBEVERETT”
Arrives Sauls
Dec. 2 from Manila
Singapore, Dec. 3 for
Yokohama.
Rangoon (Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Fusan and Robe/Okinawa)
Penang, Calcutta
EVERETT STAR LINE
Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo- China, Siam; Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Persian Gulf Ports.
"STAR ARCTURUS"
Arrives Salls
"THAI"
Arrives Sails
Nov. 22 from Singapor, Nov, 22 for incheon Pusan, Kobo &
Yokohama.
Nov. 28 from` Sandakan,
Nov. 29 for Okinawa, Kobe
Yokohama,
"STAR ARCTURUS”
AITIVES Solls
&
Dec, 13 from Japan. Dec. 14 for Singapore, Fort Swetten- ham, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Khorramshahr, Basrth & Bahrein,
(Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Hobe/Okinawa)
EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION- S/A (Incorporated in the Republic of Panama
Wild Limited". Landlilly
Queen's Building, Tolephone 31206. Chinese Department: Telephone 28293.
18 Minute skin opening
20 Gascous element
21 Horse's gait
24 Exist
20 Street (b.)
27 Parent
Scramblegram
PUZZLE
Scramble "a dance step" and have "tree fluid"; again and have "a snake; once more and have "#inineral spring,"
Hidden Boys
The puzzle man has hidden & of these boy's name in coch rentences, Can you find them?
They were all enraged at the decision,
Mix-Ups
These strange tincs really are the names of three boys,
rearrange You
to
have letters to And them:
PHONE SAL
LAD NOD
NET ORD
*
De-Tailed Words
Remove the tall
from
PATCH
Musical Square
and
in
Water That P&O B.I. E&A
Vanishes
rightORTUNE
1...
The puzzle man has hidden but roven musical instruments
the tho this Equere, Find
tellers sometimes then read | ↑ claim to bring epirits back starting point every letter either up, down, from the dead. This is one of backward, or forward (never their tricks. diagonally)
you'll find them in order:
group of players" and love " beverage": repeat and have a symbol for tellurium."
Diamond
HEALTHY is the
centre of The
the diamond this week.
1s "a meadow": eecond word third temporary grants": th "poker stakos“ and sixth "ex- clamations for quietude."
1
HEALTHY
Whaling
and
ENRTTE
You will need a glass that is about half full of water, cello- across the phans tapo placed lop, a straw concealed in your pocket and a room that can be completely darkened.
to
Klass Show your magic your friends. It is coay to sco that no one could drink from 11. You can call on spirits, to re- move the water if you use the proper magical words.
POORIN BMA PI ANCLEC EO OB0\0\ NOTEL O PH SPOT
XAMU Rights
(Solutions: Page 30)
Darken the room and do some magle talking to call forth the rpirits. While your friends sit quietly in the room walling for the spirits, slip the straw from your pocket and sip rome of the water. Replace the straw and order a helper to turn on the
No one will know that you were the magic spirit whe I moved the water.
IC
Was Dangerous
Business in Early Days
A
By MANUEL ALMADA
of
LTHOUGH scientists By the time the whale's first classify the whale as a rush had used up the 200-foot slack of ropo in the water, the mammal, old whalemen meer steering the boat and the referred to it exclusively as harpooner had changed places, the world's biggest fish. "In the attack on the whale,
100 The whalemen of
years the harpooner's job was merely marvelled to tie the boat to the whale by would ago.
have and smiled at the Helicopters, means of the harpoca. radar-equipped ships and bomb- ing guns of today's whalomen.
In 1850 the whale, a fish big- house, was attackest ger than and captured by six men in 30-foot rowboat.
rowed Four men
the bout near the whale, the bont officer steered the boat with a long 18- foot oar, and the harponner stood in the bow of the boat.
The eight-foot harpoon was an iron spcor, sharper than razor, fastened to a wooden pole.
The harpoon was tied to a tub made. full of the finest rope The harpooner kept about 200 feet of this rope at his feet, out After spearing the of the tub.
the harpooner whole,
tm-
He put the boltle on the table,mediately threw this slack rope She is to sing a solo Monday, overboard.
Mr. Canary Felt Very Sad
--All the Outdoor Birds Were Planning to Fly South-
By MAX TRELL
INARF and Hanid, the shadow-
KN
children with the turned- abcut names,
right
away.
noticed
Something
happened to Mr Canary.
--
had
His
cage hung in the sunny window
in the playroom.
Each moring, as soon as
grew light, Mr Canary
would
burst into Eong. It was always a happy song, filled with trills and chirps and runs and gur-.
who gle. It made, everyone heard the song feel as happy as Mr Canary was himself.
But this morning Mr Carfary hadn't ung his usual rong. He hadn' sung any song. This is what Knarf and Hand had no- ticed.
He Was Silent and Sad They went at once to Mr Ca- nary's cage to see what was the matter. They found him sitting an a perch, very silent, very ead. He uttered a Bitle chirp in greeting.
"Oh you
poor dear," Henid.
and "faint
sald
"Are you sick?" asked Kaart, UNO
I'm not sick," replied Mr Canary. "It's something cle I always feel like this in ths autumn.”
"Why?" asked Hanid.
a while. Finally he said: "May-
9-17
The actual killing whale was the job of the ofeer who replaced pooner in the bow.
A WHALE MAY BE A MAMMAL, BUT TO WHALEMEN
IT'S A
Bie
FISH-
WHALING WAS AN
lungs, or elsewhere, and he soon died.
Althoun many whaling
cap-
lains went through entire life- times without losing a man, whaling was a very dangerous type of fishing.
Sometimes the giant Osh re- acted with much fantastic speed. that the men hart to pour water the on the
ropo to keep it from boat burning as it flew over the edge
Many of the bort.
n poor. whaleman lost an arm or a leg
the
hor-
IMPORTANT AND DANGEROUS
INDUSTRY IN NEW ENGLAND IDO YEARS AGO, AND MUNY A KAAN LOST AN
ARM OR A LEO-
TODAY HARPOONS ARE FIRED. FROM THE
BIG SHIP, WHERE
THERE IS LESS PANGER OF BEING
HIT BY A WHALE'S HUGE TAIL..
not
The weapon used to kill the by getting it tangled in the rope whale WAS the lance, a four- fastened to a rushing whale.
sank Whales sometimes foot, double-edged iron, sharper than a surgeon's knife. The only whalebonts, but the very lance was tied to the boat by a ships which carried the whole- rope; this enabled the officer to boats. pull it back out of the whale A Nantucket sleigh ride way after every thrust.
the term given by old wholers to the towing of a whaleboat by
The officer's strategy was to keep plunging the lance into the whale until the big Ath's "life"
was reached.
Was
a runaway whale. Many whale- men died during such rides.
It is easy to understand the The whale's "lite"
the motto of the men who rlaked reservoir in which his blood was their lives to catch the world's stored. Once the lance pierced biggest Ash, "A Dead Whale or
blood rushed into his a Stove Boat."
STAMP OF THE WEEK
Mr Canary was happy to learn it, the it was always summer indoors, summer is and where the sun miade shines every day. That me so sad that I couldn't sing."
Harld said; "But Just this
Already th33 year cut her foreign A HAND rises from the desert, properly.
clasps a rose--and gives us she has
on food south a Mr Canary, if you fly
modernistic highly
stamp currency expenditure with the other birds, there'll printed in recess, perforated 14 Imports by nearly 20 percent. be no birds left here this win and bordered in white on two The answer to this
curlall- 1er to sing."
sides only.
ment of bought-in food is held Mr
Cenary thought this. Then he said: "Yes, you're right,"
about
Not Everybody Goes
Knarf "And," said
the
"don't
*hand coloured the green for fertility and the background colour of sand, Israel have con- quered the desert.
In this stamp, with
·200
dogs
and
A proud boast-and behind it lies a story stay of herole endeavour and desperately hard Hanid. work
Mr Canary didn't answer for think that everybody goes south claims to
in the winter me. The people to be this will sound foolish
stay here, The cows and because you. I feel this way I've been listening to the birds and trees and the run
the moon!
and the story outside the window-the robins
here," and swallows, the thrushes and
"And canaries," sold Wren-all the birds who fly the flowers even stay Eouth for the winter.
Hoard the Birds Outsida "Do they?" said M: Canary. "Early this morning, when I "The birds outside the window first woke up and got ready to said they all go away." sing, I suddenly heard the binds Hanid smiled and pointed to outside. They were raying to the geranium standing in its right one another: ' just a few clay pot on the table weeks more, we'll be Rying under the canary's cage. "This sold. south. To summer is dying flower stay here" she
bloom All here. The wind will get cold. "And It's going to The leaves will fall from the winter long. It may be winter troes. But we won't be here, purtside, but it will be summer We'll By south where it's warm in this house. You won't have and suring."
to fly south, The south will be "Then," said Mr Canary, to right here, all over the house.
"My
mid Mr Knart and Harid, "those birds
goodness" Inalced in through the window Camary I never thought of and saw me in my cage. 'Come that. I'm glad you told" me" us, Canary, they And the next lestart he tell along with Bald. Don't stay here all win. happy again.
férl Corte with us where it's It was a Hille late in the but Mr Canary still summer and where the sun, morning, thines every day,"
Bong zang his early morning Just the same. Everyone in the whole house heard 1.
Mr. Canary shook his heat. "How I wished I could go with themi But I can't I live in this cago. The door is always shut. I can't get out. I can't fly with them to the south where the
"Mr Cantry, is happy, again." they all said, Awek
But only Kroet and... Henta and you know why,
For Israel must raise the sandy food from wastes if she is to live
to be the quickest pos sible extension of the aren under irrigation. It is estimated that
a quarter acre of such land Is
10 enough all the food supply needed by one person.
helping Stamps are isract's drive for foreign currency. This new one and many are selling in The many countries, "Desert Rose" costs 13 Id. in London-JA.A.
more
Rupert's Coral Island—17
The Girl Guides are startled to"
see what has happened. Running to Pauline they make sure that she is not hurt and' then they shout
the late, bene stumbles forward, but by the time he has discovered what to do he is on the wrong side of the thast and the sail comes down on top of him.. "Thils is td Rupert. "Lower the sail, lower dreadful!?? he gaspa.
** We must
the sail! The tide will bring you, be in deep waters, 1 do hope wa’20,
' again !?"; "Feeling very dated, not going to sink 1 ??,
CALL RIGHTS "ALKIATER
COMPANIES
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.
PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
Odiwarde
Leaves London Due Hongkong "CARTHAGE" 12 November 18th December 10th December
11th January ;
"CORFU
"CHUSAN" 10th December 16th January Vis Southampton, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombe
, Penang & Singapore..
Homewarde "CARTTAGE"
"CONFU"
"CHUSAN"
Latch Hongkong Due Lendon ·
18 December
161 January
Jixt
January
1st January
15th February
1st March
Accepting cargo for Singapore, V'enang, Colombo, DombaY, Aden, Port Bald & London FREIGHT SERVICE
Outwards
Arrives "BHILLONG" 2411 November "ROCOTRA"
"BUNDA"
tlomewards
"SHILLONG”
Tanks
3rd December
4th December
Balls
15th December
For Singapore, Penang, Port Swettenham. Coleinbe, Aden. Port Salil, Genoa, Marsailles. Havre, Lon don, Antwerp, Rotterdam & Ifamburg.
With liberty to call at ilelawan before or after Stralis Forts and as Dombay if inducement obers,
available for cargo of O in Bulk. Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited Passenger actammadatlon.
BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.
salle 23rd Nov. for Singapore, Penang.
Hangoon & Chloulta, from Japan
"ANKING" A
"WARLA" due 8th Dec. sal 7 Dec.
"SANTHIA" due 7th Dec,
atih Dec.
que 11th Dec. mails 12th Dec.
"WARONA"
"SIRDHANA" due 13th Dec.
"ORDIA"
salle 14th Der.
for Singapore, Rangoon
Chittagong
from Japan
for Singapore, Penang. Rangoon & Céleutta for Japan
from Calcutta, Rangoon & Straits
from Calcutta, Rangoon & Straits for Japan
P. & O./B. I. JOINT SERVICE
due 20th Nov, from Japan sails 27th Nov,
date 20th Nov.
sails 27th Nov.
di Dec.
"ORNA"
"OZARDA"
clue
# 7th Dec.
“UMARIA”
"OKIILA"
sails 16th Dec, due 18th Dec.
due 15th Dec.
for Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Bahrein, Kuwait, Khor- ramsitatir, Boarah, direct Outer P. Gulf Ports vis Bombay
from P. Gull, Karachi,. Bombay & Singapore for Kobo, Oyake
Nagoya
from Japan
Bc
for Singapore, Colombo, Boribay
Karschl
alsa F. Gulf Pertai Bombay
from Karachi, Bombay, Colombo & Straits for Japan
from P. Gulf, Karachi, Bombay. Colombo & Singapore
Rally 10th Dec. for Japan
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"EASTERN"
"NELLORE"
from Japan
due Th Dic.
alle 13th Dec.
for Sydney. Adelaide Melbourne
due 10th Dec.
wall 2011 Dec,
from Australia,
for Japan
Ail vessels have liberty to call at any ports on or all the route & the route & sailing are subject to change or amendment with or without notice.
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