CANADIAN
NATIONAL RAILWAYS
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28TH, 1924
TRAVEL via CANADA to EUROPE.
The New Route of CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS offer excellent service with moderate rates.
Daily "trains-VANCOUVER to MONTREAL Highest Rocky Mountain Peaks viewed en route. Complete information and illustrated Booklets supplied ou request.
CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS. Asiatic Building, Queen's Rd. C..
Phone C. 2004.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-
JCJL
York Building
Bongkang
LIJN.
Tel. Address
JAVALYN
Tel Central 1371
REGULAR FORTNIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN JAVA, CHINA AND JAPAN,
EXPECTED
WILL LEAT ON 'OK
STEAMERS
Frox
TILIWONG ... Java via M'sar.
ON OR ABOUT
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AMOY & SHANGHAI MAKASSAR & SOERABAJA
BATAVIA
HANGHAI
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TIBODAJ
SHANGHAI
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4th
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JAPAS
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TUIBONDARI...
BATAVIA
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TUIKANDI
JAVA via M's
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9th
JAPAN
TIKEMBANG S&N. CHINA 14th
17th
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Wireless Telegraphy.
The steamers are all Stted throughout with Electric Light and have accommodation
for a limited number of saloon Passengers. All steamers carry a daly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at through rates to all ports in Netherlandı India and Australis.
For Particular of Freight and Passage, apply to the
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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
EAST ASIA LINE
of the United Netherlands Navigation Company.
Regular Four-weekly Service betweeA
Japan, Vladivostock, China, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore
and
Rotterdam. Amsterdam, Hamburg, Bremen and North Continental Ports
ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE:
• "OUDERKERK”
44. “SALAWATI” "OLDEKERK"
"SCHIEDYK"
SAILINGS FOR EUROPE:
44 "OUDERKERK”
All Steamers have a Limited Accommodation for Passengers. ⠀ For Freight, Pennage and further Particulars, Plesso Apply to~-
18th November 18th December 14th Jan, 1995.
26th November Endifof December
JAVA CHINA JAPAN
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Telephone Central No, 1576.
York Building,
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.,
COPENHAGEN,
The M/S. "PANAMA "
will be loading for ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN and other BOANDINAVIAN PORTS.
Further Sallingr
Afrika
Malaya"
"Annam"
About 7th December, 1924. Expeated on Brabont
Will leave homeward-bound on or about 26th December 18th Jan., 1925
12th December
lat January, 1935
"Australien”-2 2nd February...??.
Bubject to change without notice.
For further particulars, please apply to:-
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.
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CRUISER BUILDING.
VISCOUNT CHELMSFORD'S
INTEWS.
BEAUTIFUL SINGING. NOT THE FAINTEST NOTION
IN ENGLAND.
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INDO-CHINA
STRAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
TIENTRIN
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
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EVERY THREE DAYS
Viscount Chelmsford, who was First Lesturing at King's College Strand, Lord of the Admiralty in the Labour W.C., last month, Professor EW. Scrip Government, and Lord Darling were ture, Professor of Experimental Phone guests of the Navy League at their Nelson tica in the University of Vienna, said Day banquet.Param
England was known on the Continent as Viscount Chelmsford, in a speech, said the land without music." that between 1914 and 1924 we had had it was certainly the land without the eight First Lords of the Admiralty, and ability to sing. He once heard a per- it was not beyond the bounds of probformance of Verdi's "Aida" by ability that in the course of this year w British company. All the people on the might buve another. (Laughter.) Surely stage shouted and screamed in an effort it could not be otherwise than unsatis to drown their neighbours and the or factory that so often in a decade we had chestra. None of them had the faintest these changes in the chief of this great notion of bel canto, the art of beautiful department. (Hear, hear.) In Nelson's singing. Everyone of them had been time frigates were, regarded as the eyes badly trained. of the nation. Now wo were substituting| Bel canto had been stated by an Eng cruisers for frigutes, and some months lish, vocalist to be a lost art.
REGULAR SAILINGS ARE MAINTAINED AS FOLLOWS: That was go the present Government decided to not true. In Vienna, he had heard many CALCUTTA HONGKONG-JAPAN LINE...EVERY TEN DAYS build five more. They were subjected to singers produce a perfect bel canto. It SHANGWAY-HONGKONG LINE In good deal of criticism, and were told was also untrue that bel canto was not HONGKONG-MANILA LINE
that they were building not for the needs possible in a large theatre.
HONGKONG-HAIPHONG LINE of the Navy, but in order to relieve un Bel canto was the art of producing HONGKONG-BORNEO LINE employment. He would remind them beautiful tones by perfect breathing, per.
HONGKONG-TIENISIN LINE that the Washington pact did not lay fest intonation, and perfect enunciation,
HONGKONG BANGKOK LINE down any limitation with regard to The essence of perfection lay in bringing craisers, beyond saying that new ones about the result without effort. Caruso built were not to be of more than 10,000 and Miss Geraldine Farrar, the Ameri tons, or to carry heavier armament than can singer, could both sing bel canto. &inch guns. It was not true that we had Caruso would come off the stage quite started a race in armaments, but if other unaffected, while his fellow-singers were nations built cruisers of certain dimen dripping with perspiration. Miss Farrar sions it followest that we must follow suit tossed off her tones with the lightness of
(cheers)-because history showed that a child blowing soap bubbles. for Inferior cruisers to meet others of Vocal schools in England taught pupils larger size meant certain death. As to to breathe laboriously and to produce relieving unemployment, he gave that an tones laboriously. The result, was the emphatic and categorical denial; he had work of a labourer which produced shout. always taken up the position that he had ing, screaming, wobbling, and gargling, nothing to do with unemployment, but but no beautiful singing-
ADDRESS ON BILLS OF LADING.
ORIGIN OF CHARTERPARTIES.
only with the needs of the Navy. (Cheers, and Voice: "Quite right."). Not only were cruisers the eyes of the fleet, but they had to control the great sea tradef routes. The latter was a very difficult question. In the last war one single ship: was able on a trade route to hold up all other, ships and do irreparable damage livered at the City of London College on An address on bills of lading was de At one moment, with Von Spee's vessels, October, 16th to members of the grain afloat, we bad as many as seventy-five trade by Mr. J. C. Singer. Siz Ernest cruisers "looking for them. The life of Glover was in the chair. After describ a cruiser was calculated by experts to ing in detail the features of bills of lad be fifteen years. Many people, though: ing, Mr. Singer declared that the widely. that too big an estimate, (Hear, hear.) accepted story that charterparties were During the war we built a great number at brat cut in two, one-half being handed of cruisers with very small fuel capacity to the master and the other to the cargo for service in the North Sea, but now we owner, was a fable. He suggested that had to look forward to warfare on the the contract was written out twice on a ocean very much further away, and re single sheet of paper and that it was quired vessels of much greater fuel capa then divided into two, signatures appear. city. We had now 48 cruisers as eeming on each portion. Each party could pared with 115 in April. 1814. By wastage, then if no replacements took place, we should simple test of fitting the two portions a guard against fraud by adopting the not have a cruiser fit to take the sen by together to see if they had been one 1937. He was confident no Government whole and by comparing the signatures. would take the responsibility of ignoring! that very serious state of things. (Cheers)
SEA SUPERSTITIONS.
[SYR BARRY O'BRIEN.]
There is no place in the world where superstition is so powerful as on the
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Let an absent-minded anilor whistle on board ship and his mates will curse him for bringing on a stiff breeze when it is not wanted...
But for a sailor, to whistle when the ship is enveloped in dense fog is permis; sible, since the cecult wind may dis perse the very material fog.
Mr. Singer remarked that the present
as a most opportune time for extending the principle of mutual good will and negotiation between shipowners and mer chants. He thought that no better au- gury for the future was wanted than the result of the very delicate negotiations which were conducted between shipown. ing representatives and merchants' repre sentatives, in connection with the draft International Convention of Bills of Lading that formed the basis of the British Carriage of Goods by Bea Act,;
1924.
A SATINGS OF A WEEK..
Communiam is a product of Tsarim and war brutality-Mṛ.. Ramsay Mach Donald.
In no circumstances, however, is a The people in Great Britain are prob young steamship-trained helmsman allow-jably the kindest and most humane in the ed to mount the weather side of the world-Prof. Raymond Turner (Michi bridge."
This privilege is reserved for old shell- backs, who have been seven times round Cape Horn. But as few seamen CRU claim such distinction in these days of **iron ships and wooden men the "lecside is now universally used.
Parsons are never popular affeat. They are supposed to bring bad luck, and are therefore blamed by the crew for any misfortune that occurs.
Seamen no longer believe that rats, leave an ill-fated ship before she sails. But they still regard the arrival of a corpse for shipment as a very bad omen, and I have known them to desert sooner than sail with it.
Strangely enough, the extent of their apprehension on this account varies with the social standing of the deceased, the remains of celebrity being more un- lucky than those of a bumble citizent
So strong was this superstition in by- gose days that the packing case contain- ing the casket had to be labelled and stowed as prdinary cargo.
The Juck of black cate is proverbial, But what is not so well known is the reason why seamen are so over-indulgent to them. This is to prevent their bring- ing ill-luck to the ship by running away. During the war black cats were at a premium. With so much extra tonnage afloat there were not enough to go round. Sometimes a young midshipman would be sent ashore in search of one. And a certain youth, sooner than return empty- handed, dyed the white patches of a black and white Jail.
stray with ink-Daily
HEALING BY PRAYER.
Careful spiritual preparation, the Bishop of Chichester said in an address to the Diocesan Council at Brighton, was necessary "before Christiana could expect healing of the body in answer to prayer.
It was quite Impossible to reckon on tangible statistical resuits of a physical character from a healing mission, and, patients must be prepared
thered to be, ready to accept dis- appointcnclusion
At the
of & faith-healing service, at which Mr. J. M. Hickson spoke, in St. Michael's Church, Padding top a woman who had been blind for many years declared that she could see the porch of the church, and was able to find her way out without assistance
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JOINT SERVION OF STEAMERS.
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Steel Twin-Screw Ocean-going. Tag and Salvage Steamer
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Brit, sagined and equipped complete by The Hongkong & Winspen Dook Co, Ltd, Hongkong for high servics, 1921. Length 163 B.P. Breadth 84 (m) Depik 17, (m) LHF. 2000. Fitted with alertzicall eubmersible and centrifugal pumps, air compressor, wireleng, nem, shlirat and all modnem spp.
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