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號壹拾五百式千宣萬式第 日拾初月七年寅丙
HONGKONG, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17TH, 1926 弐拜禮
THE CHINA COAST.
AND THOSE WHO SAIL IT.
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
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TIME TABLE.
WEEK DAYS
AM. Noor
97K 10.30 11.40 13.00
9.24 10.39
Tipo Market...Dep, 7.21
4.1.
4.M
Kowloon....
Depi 6,40
Yanmati...
Dapi
19.09
Shatin
Dep ...Dep.7.18
7,02
9.36 10.51
19.01
9.49 11,04
12,34
9.531108
17,39
Fraling
...Dep. 7.2 10,03 ||11.18
14,48
Ahoanghai.
Dap 380 1007 1132
12.52
Shamohan
Shamchan
Shrungshui
Trading
Tuipo Market
Talpo Shatin
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Art, 7,42 | 10,13 11.29 | 12.20 12.58
Dap
...Dep. 303 8.12 10.45 11.42
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS
Sundays & Pontic HOLIDAYS ONLY
736
1,000 |(4,38 (5,29 (7,10- 2.31|4,44 |5,38 (7.19 2.43 4,56 5,517,91 2.56 5,09 |6,04 |7,44. 3.00 5.136.08 (7,48 3.115.246.19 7,58 3.15.28 6.23 8,02 3.21 5.34 18,29 18.06
ملاح
4,17 5.13 6,09 5.20 8.15
8,05 10.38 11:30
1.38
8,00 8.07
8.16 10.49 11,51
524 8.19
...Dep 7.49
8.26 10.30 12.02
9.93 4.38 6.34
Dap. 7,46 8.30 11,04 12.07
8.43 11.17 12.21
9,03 | 11,37 19,41
8.25 4.43
5.58 8.33 4,86 5,51 8,46 9,50 5,06 6,09
8.58 2,37 S.58 8,16 6,11
7,06
8.29 6.33
7.39 Dep
Yaumati... Dep 8,12 8.35 11.29 12.33
Kowloon...
STATICNE,
SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.
P.M.
WEEK DAYS,
AJAX Fauling
...Dep, 7.45 11,80 2.20 6.25" Shataukok, Art. 9,40 12.25 8.15 7.20
-BUNDAÝS-AND-PUBLIQ-KOLIDAYS,–
STATIONS
AM.
EX, FX P.M.
Fanling ...Dap. 7.48 11.30 3.20 6.25 Shatankok.....Arī 8,40 12,25 415 7,30
STATIONS,
WEEE DAYS,
AM, FM, P.M. Shaterkok...Dep. 6.30 10.16 1.05 8.00 Fanting A. 7.25 11.10 2.00 5.5)
SUNDAYS-AND-PUBLIO HOLIDAYS.-
AM AM 7
3.K.
STATIONS. Shataukok...Dep. 8.30 10.15 2.05 5,00 Fanling Art. 7.35. 11.10 3.00 5.55. Further information may be obtained at the Bamway Ornicis, KöwLOOK, or fromm Messrs. Tros. Goox & Sox, Lan., Horexone, or from The Awanitan Karaim Dom PANT, HONGKONG...
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THE TRADITION.
The fourteenth century ship's master was described by Dan Chaucer in his immortal morning song of English poetry. His twentieth century descens daats have kept loyally true to that strong type. Changes in topsorial fashion may render temporarily inapplicable the famous line "With many a tempest bath his beard ben shake"; modern standards of taste may prevent narrative efforts in the genre of Chaucer's Shipman's Tale: but one can still say of each of them "Hardy he was, and wise to un- dertake. And it is in the company of the marine officers of the China Coast that one feels, as Chaucer felt in the effect of communion with free characters who have been places, seen men and can get things done
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骏七拾月八年五十國民華中
SHOOTING AFFRAY ON NANTAO 'BUND.
ENCOUNTER BETWEEN DETECTIVE AND OPIUM SMUGGLERS.
TWO CASUALTIES.
Xantao, Bund, Shanghai, on Sunday Another shooting affray occurred in morning. August 8th, shortly after seven o'clock, which resulted in the wounding of two persons, one of whom was passer- by and the other a detective, reports th S.-C. Daily News.
From official investigations it appears that three men speaking the Kompo dialect and evidently professional opium smugglers had come from Tsungming by steamer and had landed in the usual way. Each carried what appeared to be a heavy bag and in the pocket of one was noticed the bulge of a pistol.
been carefully excogitated; frank spon taneous flow of soul being reserved for more intimate ncmeats in the Second Oliver's cabin. But on the smaller ships of the China Coast association is too close for histrionics. When the Captain speaks from the head of his table he speaks to ship's officers as well as to passengers; and the formar, will connive at no carefully prepared approaches to resurrected humour. One is fully and freely admitted to the Freemasonry of the Sea. This privilege is all the more precious as so day of the senior officers, with their forty and fifty years ex-distance when they noticed that they were They walked along Nantao for some perience of many seas, are the last sur being shadowed by a detective, who ap vivors at a great breed that is passing parently knew what the bags contained. out before our eyes. Many of them have Suddenly the men came to a stop, turned spent the greatest and most interesting round and opened are on the detective, part of their service in that almost ex-who-received two-wounds-in-the-head
net creature, the old windjammer. The tales they tell are the last lingering echoes of the world's greatest romance: Instead of endowments for scientific. research it would be a good thing if someone would create an Endowment for the encourage- ment of retired sea-captains in making literary records of their lives. If it is true that only about one in fifty research students in science make contributions
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few years ago. When we left Shanghai without taking a trip up the coast is I travelled with one such recently. On of the world prophesied to take place a the papers were full of the destruction worse than having lived on the Peak his first voyage as a bay he had helped few days thence. A missionary in cen without ever climbing to the flagstaff.a painter to repaint the figurehead. tral China had been enabled to make the But it happens. Because this coast, even This was a work of so much pride, calling prediction by one of those peculiar to people who live on it, is still darken- for so many "artistic experiments and methods of bible-reading often practised. ed by that cloud spread over it in school such attention to detail, that it occupied by those whose reading is confined too geography classes. To many it remains the full time of a voyage to and from strictly to one book, Newspapers bad" a desert relieved by nothing more inter- South America. The trip was exception found the resulting controversy useful esting than that rotten mixture of his.ally free from rough weather. So he in the silly season. Everyone was agog tory and geography conveyed in the spent most of the time swinging on a with it. The captain of our ship being appelation treaty-port, and those "fivers platform, just above the bone in the old, and within with unpronouncable names and uncer- dog's mouth. The old man's face might ment, felt that the termination of the tain courses. It has had its pedants, well beam as he recalled these days of world, just at the moment when he was. but not yet its Homer, nor even its boyish delight in clean sailing, cinderless being set free to enjoy it, would be in Byron,China Coast is in this way an and oilless, and noiseless except for aaccordance with much of human fate as expression exactly antithetical to Isles one-legged captain on the bridge, who he had experienced it in a long and of Greece. The mention of the latter psed to fiddle half the day and sing like arduous career. Schemes for his life in never fails to raise bright visions of a troubadour Merrily-sails-the ship-retirement, and speculations on the pro- haleyon delights, and their actual ap- when the breeze blows fair." "These "phecy which was due to be fulfilled pearance often succeeds in causing he said
were days when an invalid before we raached Hongkong, were mixed feelings of the dullest disappointment. might start a voyage with his body wast with reports on, and circumventions of, But who has ever gazed upon a more ed and his lungs mouldering away, and, typhoons, and other less serious con- entrancing landscape than that presented after six weeks of the ozone cure, get versation. We got into Swatow on the by the China Coast anywhere between back as strong as a lion. But nowadays day prior to that indicated for the faal, Hongkong nad Shanghai, seen from the if an invalid sets cut it is ten to one catastrophe. There, where creation ap triumph of man over nature in Hong. As a midshipman he had taken part in the prophet would door us to see it.com- kong: and the display of the rude un many ceremonial escort to old-time pletely destroyed The first man who finished elementary constituents of earth captains going ashore like lards, in frock came aboard brought us the newly ar in the strange tossed boulders that skirt boats and top-hats, to pay a magnificent rived news of the Japanese earthquake, Swatow's estuary-such are nights to call on a company's agent or a colonial which had happened only a few hours wonder at What a glow of patriotic governor. With other lads of the sea before. It was certainly catastrophie pride is felt at Shanghai on seeing that. he had fought in the streets of half the news, us there among the flags of all nations decking seaports in Europe and America, had minimise disaster in the first reports. Wag no attempt to the crowded ships of that international swim back to his boat in more than one The old waterway, the Union Jack far oatnum moonlit bay, and taken a beating with white, and said, and, I believe, felt, man turned approximately bers the total of all others! Are there a firma lip, when necessary. He had seen Us next; to-morrow! But it did not any river mouths more interesting than the bird at Cape Horn which lays its prevent him from getting on with h that which reveals itself as you cross the tugs in the air, swoops down to catch work, and vigorously reviling the slo bar at the mouth of the little Peihot them as they drop, and carries them on ness of the shore hands. Don't fuss yourself if the dilatory officials its back till the young are batched and make your ship miss the tide, and con- able to fly free of the carrier: birds that demp you to spend an evening, a night, have never, for untold-generations, set and a morning, beside the Taku Forta foot on land. And in those long old You are on a historic battlefield. And the afternoons, when there was nothing there is doubtless some book in the ship to do on a ship at sea, because the fair which will enable you to reconstruct the breeze did it. all, he had fished for were at a premium events which took place there in 1859 and sharks, cut the heart out of his kill, and wrath, and his threats sublime. When 1960. If anthropology interests you more sat round to watch the disembodied heart the culprits were brought on deck there than history you will notice that the keep beating till it stopped when the Was such naked fisherman at the mouth of the
sun sank into the sea. Who are you to ing, threatening, cuffing and kicking (as tremendous stamping, harang- Peiho appear to form one of the most say that such things are not so Hei piracy, mutiny and manslaughter bad primitive communities in the world; the told me also about a long long voyage to been committed) as would have justified sampan folk of Aberdeen are super- Australia in a windjammer, which car- any expectation of a final day of judg civilized by comparison. One watches ried the strangest cargo he had ever ment.. He would send for an armed there preparing for sea in the morning known, two hundred women emigrants, guard, which he did. They would be with the peculiar interest one feels had heard of such an emigration, so in nate, bees, or captive wild animals I could believe that. He further re-gers who were hanging about the deck shot at dawn the next day. The passen living in their natural surroundings at counted how the strictness of the matron when this occurred deemed it, proper to the Zoo. Then comes the navigation ofin charge was so thorough, and com- fade away, and leave him alone with his Briver which used to be so difficult, on munication with the girls so difficult, wrath and its objects. But one smalled account of Subends and narrow banks, that paper to write on became the most child remained. She was one who had that it was regularly performed by the valuable thing -in
the ship. deliberate adventure of here and there paper, which on modern ships is scatter- his striped balls and grandfatherly Nate so far resisted all his kindly advances, sticking the ship's nose is the bank and ed about as if it were assumed that every benignity. Now, however, as his judicial letting tide or current carry her round. passenger is an itinerant journalist, storm blew everybody else away, she It is a cinema to a magic lantern, as there was mone. But men used to buy crept nearer and nearer. There were compared with sailing through the Suez or steal from one another the smallest awe and admiration in her eyes for the scrap on which-to-pencil a word. That sceptre-swinger-and-plant looks at the also I could believe. Many, another such convicted, until, as be afterwards er. thing was told by him and by others; plained it, he found himself fulminat- neither to be denied nor credited, neithering against crime with one fist, while aertod nor proved, but enjoyed both innocence had pressed a hand into the in the giving and the receiving.
ather." Then he stopped. Whether or not he had duly lacerated the souls of SUPERSTITION AND AWE. the detestable ones, it is certain that
Canal,
In the course of that work he found that some of the lowest deck hands had been engaged in trying to make a bit by, smuggling a sack or two of copper coins from Shanghai, where they were at a discount, to Swatow, where they Great was his
THE MARINERS. "Such sights, and the emotions they stir, are in the truest sense educative. But the men are greater than the trip. Efficiency and goodfellowship is their working motto, whatever may be meant. by the ornamental Latin moito on their 1 That men who follow the sen become he gained a complete conquest over the carpets. In at least one ship the Chinese superstitious is usually believed. But little mias, who kept admiringly close to quartermaster comported himself in a that they have considerable provocation him for the rest of the trip. manner worthy,an N.C.O. of the Guarda is not always equally recognised. If you The punctilious exchange of courtesies have been at the mercy of wind and
PSYCHOLOGY. between subordinate officers and the ma-tide and countless other risks, from boy- There was much speculation on the ter on duty, was as ine a thing as the hood past the prime, and have worked precise reasons for this change. Some social intercourse between officers and hard to within a year of retirement, the said it was the typical feminine leaning passengers at table.' On big passenger Chins Coast, with its typhoons and its on the man who had been found strong. liners one sometimes feels that this inter-pirates, must be a trying service in which Others thought it was a childish display course is highly artificial, and in duty to pass that final year. If the war was of that primitive worship of mere power done. The well-told story is often more considered a sufficient warrant for uni- which, according to Herbert Spencer, from the head than from the heart, and versal adoption of the three lights to one savages, children, and half developed the impromptus sometimes seems to have (Continued on next column.)
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