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THE P. & O. HOUSE FLAG. ITS HISTORY.
The following is taken from the Blue
THIBETAN POSTAGE
STAMPS.
THE GROWTH OF HANKOW.
The following is an extract from the
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THE FINEST BUND IN THE EAST. Living Records Mr. Fred J. Melville. writes in the Daily Telegraph. Almost the last edun Report of Mr. X V. Afaze, Cousioner that Never Die try to open up the extension of postal of Customs at Hankow, on the trade of Peter, a magazine of sea travel:-
དྷཱ, ། སོ The origin of the P. & O. Company's communication, Thibet has had her own the port in 1981;
distinctive postage stamps for ten years. The new building of the International house-flag is sometimes a subject of en- They are quaint little labels of native Banking Corporation or the British quiry. In the second issue of The Blue manufacture, and are said to be inscribed. Bund has been completed, and extensive in the Bong or headless language, which godowns, etc., are in course of construc Peter there was published a short history is the one used by the priests and physion by Mesars. Butterfeld & Swire on which recalled the service rendered in 1833jciens. The design is the white lion ofthe site adjoining the Hongkong and by Mears. Wilcox & Anderson, the Comthe mountains, a sacred emblent for the Shanghai Bank, while the Asiatic Petro- dwellers amid the Himalayan mountains, leum Company are about to build large pany's forbears, to the Queen of Portu The stamps seem to have been prepared premises on the lot imutediately to the The Arst association of Messrs to the instructions of the Dalai Lama borth of the Commissioner's house. gal. Wilcox & Anderson with Portugal was of during 1912, when, having been expelled British Bund, indeed, is rapidly becoming from Lhassa by the Chinese, his where the banking, and business centre of the exrlier date, as their vessels, sail or steam,abouts were for some months "wropt in Concessions, and as time progresses will The native artist has taken cease, to bein quarter for private resid- I had för some years, previously been re- mystery.
the ranna stamp of the King Edward cure. It is predicted that this tendency gularly plying between Falmouth, Lisboa, issue for India as his model, seen by the will increase, and it is expected that a Cadiz and Gibraltar. It was from these frame and the ornamentation in the foreign residential centre will be develop early connections with the Iberian Penin spandrels. The inscriptions include thee to the west of the race-course and that sala that, the house-flag was evolved. The words Tibet Postage in English, and the godown accommodation will continue to native characters are interpreted-As provided and occupy sites on which fuff or inger side of the Portuguese royal ton Fod-Thibet; Sheng-Government, private residences now stand on the river Hag was blue; the outer half being white; Below: Tig letter: The us stamp: Kha front in so far as the needs of river superimposed in the centre of the Bag Kang Thibetan coic, approximately steers are concerned, but in regard
From equal to 1 anna.
to occan-going steamer trafic it will prob were the Portuguese royal arms. this flag were derived the blue and white. The denominations, five in number, are ably be convenient to make provision one-for future requirements by establishing triangular upper quartering of the respectively one-sixth, one-third, house-Bag-the red and yellow of the flag ball, two-thirds of one trang-ka, and one wharves and godowns in the vicinity of
વો of Spain furnishing, by adoption, the trang-kes, which is equal to 4 antas Indian Seven Mile Creek. The question voleurs which till the lower triangle. The money. These five values and their claiming about 100 feet of foreshore and earliest extant representations of the flag colours are: One kha-kang (1-8 trang-ka), extending the Bankow band accordingly slow some, divergence from the form in green: one karma-ng (1-3 trang-ka), blue: remains in abeyance. The bank which which it is known today. In contempor-one che-kye (1 trang-ka), mauve; one sho-has formed of late years along the face ary pictures of the Royal Tar (306 tons, kang (trang-ka), crimson; one trangka, of the Bund wall would reader reclama- tion work easy and comparatively inex built 1832), Jupiter (U10 tons, built 1933), vermillion. Brand (658 tons, built 1931) the Bag is
The stamps were lithographed on thin pensive; but there is a divergence of shown as a pennant, with the yellow quar-native paper, but sets may be formed on opinion respecting the disposition of tering at the top, flown by the two earlier thick paper, as the native-made paper the innd reclaimed should the scheme There eventually materialise, and the proposal vessels at the lore and by the last-named varies considerably in thickness nt the main.
is an interesting error on one of the stamps in the sheet of the one sho-kang, crimson. the English word at the right reading Potsage-instead of Postage.
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to erect godowns on the river-front has The picture of the Bagnar above
not been favourably received in Bone quarters. In many respret the "Hankow alluded to shows the guu ports on the
und is the finest in the East, and in lower deck, and similar ports opening out
point of length is probably unsurpassed, wards from the main saloon beneath the
and the desire to avoid interfering with SHANGHAI OFFICE- Although these were the first strictly. its present amenities is therefore intellig.
DA, PEKING ROAD, poop, and it may be recalled that the earlier contracts, for the carriage of mails Thibetan stamps, the collector has earlier ible; but, on the other hand, it should were male, not with the Post Office, but philatelic souvenirs of the Forbidden be understood that as Hankow is purely AGENTS for Hongkong with the Admiralty. Under the contract City. Twenty years ago a mysterious a business centre, the requirements of ship- of 22nd August, 1837, made between the label was reported as a supposed postage ping and the establishment of adequate Admiralty and Richard Bourne on behalf stamp of Thibet, but it was probably no-godown facilities are of paramount im of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam thing more than a spal. In 1904 Colonel portance, and measures.calculated to im Packet Company," it was stipulated that Younghusband's mission was accompanied prove existing conditions in this respect an officer of His Majesty's Navy should by a field postal establishment, which set deserve favourable consideration. Plans. be carried on board the mail packets asup its base in the Chumba Valley, and for the new Custon House have been Agent of the Government. In the con-which later opened a field post office in prepared and work on the foundations tract of 26th August, 1840, it was a con Lhassa. The mission reached Lhassa on has begun. The building designed is a dition that the ships hy which the service August 3rd, 1904, and left on September handsome granite-faced structure, a con- was to be carried on should be constructed 22nd, and examples of letters sent through spicuous feature of which will be a central le carry guns of the largest calibre the field post office, bearing Indian clock-tower some 150 feet high, and it stamps, ind postmarked will be erected on the enlarged site at now used in the Navy." It was a part of postage the Mail Contract of 1st January, 1853 Las are of a high degree of interest, the extreme southern end of the British that ships over 1.100 tons, driven by pad. Some of them are found with the miss Band on which the temporary Custom House (old British Municipal building) dle wheels, were to be fitted for carrying spelt postmark Lahssa."
By virtue of the arrangements conclud formerly stood. It is expected that and firing one 10-inch piece at the bow and as a stern pivot, one 3-poundered by this mission agencies of the Indian building operations will be complete, and were. established and that the building will be ready for occu and four 32-pounders as a broadside; Postal Service. while crew-driven ships of 1,100 tons and maintained at Tatang, Pharijong, and pation, about the close of 1991,
The Gyantse, using Indian stamps. upwards were to carry, and did eight maintenance of regular postal communi 12-pounders. Enter contracts, made with
cation with Thibet forms one of the most the Post Office, contrized no stipulationFomantic phases of the modern history of us to guns, the practice of currying which the Indian Post Office. in the Eastern mil steamers thus fella 1911 China opened up post offices atty in the vicinity should lay out future into disse. But the P. & O. steamers Lhassa, Gyantse, Pharijong, Shigatse, buildings in such a manner as to leave continned to carry heavy stands of small and Yatung, and at these offices Chinese space for a 50-inct road on the river arcs. In the Red Sen and China Seas stamps
used, surcharged with front. Both the Customs and the China ships were for a long time liable to be values in Indian currency in Chinese, Merchants Steam Navigation Company' attacked by pirates, especially in the event English, and Thibela, in three lines in have followed this principle and arranged af temporary stoppage through accident black. There were clever values of these accordingly, but the owners of intervening to their machinery.
from 3-pies to 2 rupees, but they were only in use for a short time, when the crude bat distinctive stamps of Thibet came into use.
With the lengthening of the P. & O, routes and the extension to India, China and Australia of the Company's obliga tions, the connection with Iberian ports, save Gibraltar, pame to an end. But in the house-flag a continual reminder-sur- rives of the days when the little steamers of the line first began to ply across the Bay carrying mails, passengers or cargo to Portugal and Spain.
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SUBMARINE'S ROLE IN
FUTURE WARS.
AMERICAN OFFICER'S" VIEWS.
The kind of thinking about submarine commerce-destroying that must be combated THE MYSTERIOUS ASIATIC: vigorously by all sane people says the CHINESE COLONY IN AMSTERDAM.
J.
Recently the foreman of the Chinese who are accommodated in the lodging house of the Netherlands Steamship Co.
Naval and Military Record is once more shown in an article in the New York Army and Navy Journal by Major C. A. Dravo, as The Navy, the organ of the Navy League. The writer is an army man, which fact might be held to excuse a lack of
argument advanced in this sentence:
at Amsterdam, was the victim of a mur clarity of thought on paral matters. But, derans attack by another Chinaman. This foreman has been employed by the comix our view, nothing can excuse the kind of pany for ten years, and is prominent in the yellow colony at Amsterdam, Ha engages, Chinese personnel as stokers for the company,`,`
That the commander of an American submarino should lay himself open to haring violated the laws of war because ho attacked without warning & merchantman' fying a hostile flag is so repulsive as to need little comment. The crew of the merchantman attacked is as much engaged in the conduct of war as is the crew of a munitions troop train, or are the mules bitched to a wagon train, and is entitled to as little consideration from the naval officer as are the others from the officer flying a bombing plane.
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Although the polica have instituted an extensive inquiry, extremely little has transpired. The man himself declares that he does not know who attacked him from behind. The other Chinese declared: that they had seen a man attacking the foreman, but that he disappeared imme diately. They deny all knowledge of bis identity. There is no doubt, however; but that they know more than they care to tell, says a correspondent of the Tele The major's fundamental mistake, con granf. Some time ago, during an aquiry tinues The Navy, is in Ansuming that a following on the murder of the thing merchantman flying a hostile flag is neces- men, the witnesses lied throughout Itsarily edgaged in active transport of war is a curious fact that one of the inter-material It is as likely as not carrying preters employed seemed to enjoy the con-neutral passengers, who are proceeding over. Sdence of the Chinamen, whilst the others on the business of their uation, without duct. The reason for this was unknown. any reference to the hostilities. It is impera. Aumber of Chinese were sentenced native that the world should once and for all this guilt was absolutely proved. They determine that the spirit as well as the letter described the manner in which they had of the Boot Resolutions is to be honoured, committed the murder, but they were and that sinking without warning of say silent as regards the motive.
All this shows that Chinese witnesses merchantman is to be classed as a crime against humanity. It is clouding the issue are quite unreliable. It is practically to talk about the entire man-power of a certain, however, that these crimes are notation being mobilized in modern war. political ones. The motive is probably Mach obloquy bas been cast on French robbery. The colony at Amsterdam is divided into two sections. No, Euro- naval writers for their arguments in favour of submarine commerce destruction: It is Dean is ever admitted to their gatherings and it is practically certain only fair to show that other nations have that opiom smoking is indulged in their apostles of frightfulness, It is the Many people have endeavoured to; learn business of public opinion the world over to something concerning the mysterious show those gentry that they are in a dis- Society, but without any success. After credited and outlawed minority. the murders of a few years ago, the Chloeso were warned that a recurrence
would mean that the whole colony would. After prolonged discussions, the Com he priced to the foreigners campmittee of Bankers, sitting in Paris, have This proved a temporary preventive, but came to the unanimous conclusion that it it-ierexported that the present outrage is not possible to grant, an external loan will be followed by others...
to Germany,
It may he incidentally mentioned here! that in order to make provision for the ultimate extension of the Bund rond lo the mouth of the Hon-River has, besa suggested that riparian ors of oper
property have enclosed their Bund space with railings and have erected buildings on the river-front; thereby effectively blocking and rendering impossible this highly desirable public improvement. It should be understood, of course, that in the nature of things some years must necessarily elapse before this extension of the Bund could in any case materialise, but this fact does not lessen the desir- ability of, arranging for future require ments as Bund lots become available for building purposes. «
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