THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1901.
INTERVIEW WITH A CAPTURED ↑ He did not even know whether it was over
DOCTOR
HIS TRAVELS WITH DE WET. THRILLING STORIES.
In the absence of information from our own generals, we must secure it where we can, writes
Among the latest home paper. arrivals from South Africa is Dr. Poutsma, a young Dutch doctor who has been in command of a Boer ambulance since May, 1900. Dr. Paulsma is a first-hand witness for many quite recent events in the war. He was captured February last during De Wet's invasion of the Colony on the day after the border had been crossed. He had been captured several times before-once by Generals Knox, Bruce Hamilton, and Plumer, and twice by General Baden-Powell. On each occasion he was al-
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Jowed to return to the Boers. But this time he was captured by Colonials as he was lying sick in a farmhouse. His papers and instru- ments were taken from him, and he was not allowed to return. He is, therefore, now on his way to Holland.
During his year with the Boers he had every kind of experience. In May, 1960, he went direct to Pretoria, where he was in charge of a hospital for some Time. He went in a hos- pital train to Klerksdorp, bat returned to Pretoria where he shared the control of a hospital with Dr. Bierens de Haan. On the 19th August be lef Pretoria on the approach of the British, and, joining Delarey's force wandered with him tá Nylstrom, Waterberg, Zeerust, Rustenburg, and so forth. Then he joined De Wel, and has accompanied De Wet's forces in all their more recent wanderings north and south of the Dinge River. Finally, he crossed into the Colony with him in February, and was captured,. Of th events since Febru- nry he knows nothing; but he was with De Wet in all his wanderings before that, and has perhaps as much knowledge of them as anyone outside South Africa at the present moment.
A representative who saw him naturally asked him first to explain why it was that De Wet was never caught. What was the secret How many men had he?
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Dow. You say De Wet is out of the Colony," he said, and shrugged his shoulders ;—I do not know." He evidently thought little of our
official news.
MY FIRST JOKE.
[BY E. S.]
The nearer my train brought me to London, the happier, I felt at the prospect of having the mental balance of my humorous sense restored at fast.
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I did not give the spectalist time to ask me "And what about the peace envoys? Was joke about it. Certainly no prospect could sacily, "but I never teh soil in my life. They the Undersign-d, who will continue to carry
I had no intention whatever of making a how I was. I'm quite cured," I seld him, THE Business of Messrs. TURNER (CC
in Hongkong has been transferrel to Morgondaal really shot ?"
"Yes," he said, simply, and a shadow of pain well have offered fewer opportunities for hum-all-say I am perfectly well, though, and I our than a month's banishment to a nursing suppose they ought to know. But if am well,
it on under the same Name, Style and Title of † crossed his bronzed, kindly face. "I was there
home. For several weeks I had been telling I can only say I wish I wasn't, for it doesn't TURNER & when it happened. Morgendaal and Wessels,
all the people I knew, including a specialist, feel a bit nice.. And I think I shall got ill you see, were occupied in taking British pro how extremely well I felt and all they did in Again as fast as I can. But I'll never be cured clamations to the farms, when they were cap: return was to send me to a nursing home again as long as 1 live." I paused here, for tured by our men. We regarded them as spies There was nothing funny in that; it was mere the, specialist had unaccomptably begun to and traitors. De Wet bad them arrested and kept as prisoners. They would have beenly a stupid thing to do to anybody who was smile. "Capital "he ejaculated, rubbing his quite well. So I was naturally most depressed hands ton I gasped faintly. My dear tried by court-martial. But one morning we
when I found that the marron of the home was do.you had one of our scares—the British were hard
in league with the other people. upon us. Orders were given to inspan.
young lady," he answered, laughing heartily "there can't be much the matter with you if Froneman went down to Morgendaal, who was washing, and ordered him to get ready, as the
you can make a joke of the cure!" English were coming. But he would not hurry, My friends are coming,' he said, and still de- layed. Now, in regard to De Wet's share; 1 am not an eye-witnes.
But I have been told
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In the interesis of a world that wants am-
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"I am afraid you are very, very tired," she began in a soft, purring kind of voice, which no doubt would be extremely soothing if you had anything the matter with you, but only makes you feel silly when you haven't, "I'm not a bit tired, thank you," 1 answered, and that De Wet was standing some distance off, sprang briskly out of my chair to greet her.
You should never spring in a nursing home; and saw the scene. He was impatient, and
it is not considered good form. The matron was seized with passion. Shoot him, he cried
led me gently back to my seat and purred A most enjoyable entertainment took place to Froneman, and Morgendaal was shot. He was badly wounded and died some time after again. After all you have suffered," she on Friday evening at the R. A. Theatre, Isaak- went on, "A complete rest" "It's only pur. Ten vocal events and a violin walkover Wessels was untouched. I was sorry, very sorry, and told De Wet so. It was a fit of writer's cramp, I remonstrated, and I hate comprised the entire card. Col. Sauthrawt, passion an outbreak of illtemper. The cirresting It wears me out." The matron commanding the Station, was first off with
only sighed. cumstances were very trying. 1 believe You
"Perhaps," she murmured, "Just because they put him into Trousers," shoot our prisoners when they try to escape."
"if we improve your appetite--" "Oh, that deservedly popular song of Vesta Vestalias. don't," I cried in alarm. It's quite incon The gallant Colonel, if we may be permitted to Such was the picture of De Weta dour, venient enough, as it is." The matron did say 5, was just a little inclined to rush his resourceful, rather ruthless type, such as war- fare in such extreme cases is apt to develop. not seem to care about arguing, so she sug-fences, and in the sequod line of the third We turned to Steyn, who was with De. Wet. gested to the nurse that she should take off my verse, he rapped badly over a high C. Pluckily boots. The nurse, who had been obviously pulling himself togethe,she crawled home, What did the doctor think of him?
"Ah? he is a much more merciful man. waiting for an opportunity of showing that she completely done, about ten lengths behind Several times traitors have been condemned to was a nurse, promptly pounced upon my left the music. He wants a little more training. foot. Unfortunately, I did the same thing at The next to face the starter was Miss Vivienne be shot, and he has let them off. He is always on the side of mercy-never wishes that anyone precisely the same moment, and our heads Bantam, a guest among 46, who is staying should die. But, then, he is not so great a collided, so that I really had something the with her Aunt the padti's wife. She gave us. soldier-a man of peace in comparison with matter with me at last. But the matron, who "Delancy's Chicken" in a manner which defies evidently had no sympathy with real sufferings, description. For an encore, she stepped for- De Wet."
continued to fasten imaginary ones upon me. ward with some Polish antic with which we You look perfectly worn out, she insisted, are unacquainted. It was, we thought, a Bitle and managed to escape from the room while coldly received. The third event "The Oaks" I was still rubbing my head and seeing stars. was contested by Miss Dorothy Larkin and If she had not been so quick, I might have the two Misses Marvel (Ada 'and ́Luče), · At mentioned to her that I had been to a dance firat, like the Allied Powers all was sweet-com- the night before, and naturally looked a little cord and gentle courtesy; but after they had fatigued after working through a whole pro- been going for three minutes, Miss Lucy gramme and five extras. But I suppose she Marvel pecked dangerously at a deep con- would only have purred again.
traito K. and crossed Miss Durothy Just she was entering the straight. Those in the front seats are in position to 25- sure. me that the monosyllable "cat" was heard at this time, during a vocal halt in which the piano had taken up the running. It is fur ther stated by those "in the know that the two Misses Marvel (twins) became immediately in telegraphic accord, and up to the very win- ning post, so crossed and generally jostled, Dolly Lark a that only the abrupt, fall of the curtain spared us from a scene replete with salt tark and hysterical laughter We understand at an objection has been lodged; but as the question is at present sub judice, we will not sully this page with the sickly hue of prema tore partisanship.
"Did you know much of what was going on in England, and the rest of the world?"
"Very little-yes, we heard of the election last autumn, but it did not interest us very much. The news that came to us quickest was that of the Queen's death--we heard that in two days after the event ".
Has the fighting Boer any dennite idea or objective is he fighting up to a certain point or end?"
"He had over 3500 when I left him," an swered the doctor, who is very particular
As for his speak only of what he knows, escapes-there is un secret. He could not tell
"His idea is to fight on as long as be can, you himself There was one night when he seemed certainly cornered--he himself had the chance that something may happen. He
does not quite know what. But his determina given up the business and regarded himself as
tion to fight on has been tremendously increas- fast. "They must capture es,' he said. Tuted by your action in burning the farms. Now then, at ten o'clock, he came round the camps I shall never surrender,' he says. I can never and told us all to light big cunp-fires each
submit to such a rule as that.' an one for himself. We obeyed, and soon the
"But does he not wish to rescue his women vekit was twinkling with our fires. Then sud
and children 7" denly, at ten o'clock, he gave the order io trek." Every an saddled, his horne, and the whole army moved off-leaving the fires blaz ing. Your people naturally agined that the Boers were still there, and waited for the mora- ing with every confidence of the final fight But when the san rose, lo ! we were gane !"
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"No, it does not work that way. He regards rbém as sacrificed-he does not even know whether they are still alive-he hears terrible stories of what has been done to them, magai fed by your policy of concealment. And so for his lips, and cetermines to fight to the death to avenge his wife and children." "Is there any peace influence among the fighting Boers? Is not Botha the peace infiu clice?"
Which Hotha? For there are two. De Wer's strongest assistant General is Philip Botha I see that the English papers killed him with his two, sons, Now he has no sons. He was alive i
"But how did he escape on that famous ne casion when Koos was hard after him, and we were simply waiting here for the final telegram?
"There, again, the position seemed hopeless, Knox was close behind us, and the only way of escape was through a pass-the pass of Spring- haansnek. There were three hills, and on every hill guns and pat-poms. It seemed as if the witen I left the Boers on February toth. But position were absolutely commanded by the Bri I suppose," he went on, you mean Command tish guns of Coloert Thoneycroft's column. It ant Botha. Well, I can only tell you what I seemed quite hopeless that wecould get through. know. I had an interview with him on the 9th Even if we did, it looked as if the loss of life October, goa, at Steinbokfontein, at a general would be toh great ter justify it. President Steyn meeting of commandants. I asked him if he was for giving it up. We cannot do it,' he said. would surrender. "No,' he replied, not after It must be done,' said De Wet, it is our only the way they have treated us after the burn chance And so the whole Boer force went ing f our farms and the deporting of our straight up into the Nek and passed through women. I would, rather be shot! he cried. under the fire of the British guns. I was 'As long as I have fifty Boers with me, I will behind with some wounded men, and Knox fighton Before, perhaps--but since the burn- came up and took me. He was very muching, never! That is the spirit you have creat- puzzled. It seemed to the British that the Boers must have lost terribly. heard many stories of Dour dead being found, which disbelieved, as the Boers never leave their dead behind if they can help it. Well, Knox let me go, and two days after I was again with De Wet. I asked him how many he had lost in going through the pass. He said, "Nobody." Of course, I am not a witness, as I was not with him. But I believe he was speaking the truth.”
"Are the Boer losses heavy?
"I should not have believed De Wet if I had not had some strange experiences as a doctor of the lightness of the Boer losses. Do you remember uur attack on Dewelsdorp? It was a garrison of gra British, whom we attack- ed and captured before reinforcements could come up. Now, you will not believe it-but only 120 of our men attacked Dewetsdorp. The battle went on for three days, and then the British surrendered--413 prisoners and 99 killed and wounded, know their number, he added, simply as I'dressed the British wounded, because they had no doctors, How many do you think we lost in that battle? Why, only five killed and eight wounded!"
How do you account for the difference?" "Because the British soldier when placed iz a trench has a tendency to fire into the air, and so wastes his ammunition. That is the only way 1 can account for it on that occasion.".
Our representative then pressed the good Doctor to give him sonic opinion as to De Wet. Over Delarey, he had been enthusiastic. "He is a splendid, fellow," he said; "evary. body agrees as to that-friend and foc,"
Then came a sketch of De Wet.
ed."
But personally, our troops have bebaved well-is there any feeling against our soldiers
Not against the troops that have come from England-they have no hatred against them. But they hate the Colonial troops-especially those from Cape Colony. Their reputation is torrible for burning, looting and worse. I fell four times into the hands of your English gen- erals, and was treated courteously and kindly -by your Generals Knox and Baden-Powell, But the Colonial officer who took me in the Colony treated me terribly-destroyed my diary and instruments, and refused to let me return to my duties with the Boers."
The doctor at this point was handed a copy of the Government's farm-burning return, and
seemed to find it deeply interesting. He per- used it with many notes of exclamation, and occasional bursts of laughter.
"Ah! excuse me," he said, "I have been with De Wet over nearly the whole of this ground-up and down, down and up, I know interesting to me." most of these farms by name. It is deeply
Then he put his finger on the Winburg te-
turns.
This does not tell the whole truth," he said. "Winburg is practically wiped out-75 to Eo per cent. of the houses are destroyed. Then the towns of Bothaville and Ventersdorp are both wholly destroyed. And as for these excuaca for destruction, he went on, "I know nothing of them; I never, in all my wander. ings, saw the white flag misused-never saw a protected house used as a place of defence."
"Your people are saying," he went on, put ting down the return, that the Boers are using khaki. Now, that is curious, because it is the precise opposite of my experience. Some of
My last hope was in the doctor; so when be came in the morning I pointed out to him as politely as I could that there must be a mistake somewhere, and that I was not at all ill, though no doubt I soon should be if people went on curing me in the way they had begun. Some people may like stopping in bed for weeks and weeks," I pointed out; but, as it happens, 1 am not one of those people. Nobody who comes here," observed the doctor, cynically, "ever is one of those people." I was so sur- prised to hear that my complaints of the cure were not even original that I stared in silence while the doctor wrote, things about me in a thing that looked like a railway time-table. The matron, however, tho filled up all the gaps in the dialogue with the energy of a Greek Chorus, remarked for the fifteenth time that 1 was thoroughly worn out, and again escaped before I could contradict her. That is the worst of being in bed other people have a monopoly of the dramatic exits.
2nd Lieut. (now Captain) Humpy, of the Royal Ulster and Overalls, next walked over for the violin stakes. We do not wish to be considered hypercritical nor rawly sensitive, but we could have done better ourselves on a Jew's harp, or even with half a comb and piece of fine paper. At the close of this gymnastic effort, the audience appeared to have
After that, the nurse and the matron and the doctor continued to tell me how ill I was, until, after about a fortnight of it, I suddenly disaged.
covered that they were right. For the first time I felt thoroughly worn out; I could not raise my head from the pillow; I hoped I should never have to got up again. It was a wretched sensation, but i consoled myself in the most unselfish manner by thinking, how pleased everybody would be to find I was just as ill as I was supposed to be. Nurse was pleased, it is true, when she brought in my 'break- fast and found I was much too limp to eat it; but she had the quaintest way of her own. for accounting for my exhaustion. "Come, now I she remarked cheerily you really do look better, this morning." I opened one eye to see if she had gone mad, and sighed heavily "I don't like feeling better, then." I complained. Nurse's only answer was a spoonful of boiled 88- "I'm not hungry," I said, and shut my eye again. She did not answer this either, but went on offering the spoonful of boiled 88 and as was much too feeble to resist, ended in demolishing two boiled eggs, * plateful of ham and several pieces of bread and butter-without a particle of appetite. It is not pleasant to eat two boiled eggs, a plateful of hain and several pieces of bread and butter, without any appetite, and by the time the mat- ion and the doctor came in, I was in a kind of stupor and felt really alarmed about myself But they were no more concerned at it than the nurse bad been.
"I am seriously ill," I told the doctor, in answer to his usual inquiries. "Ha! haha" was the doctor's unexpected reply, and then he began writing things rapidly in the railway time table sorbat bad na chance of asking him what the joke was. I turned to the matron in des pair. She at least would be on ray side, I felt convinced. But I forgot that it is always the business of the Greek Chorus to stand by the principals. "Joking apart," she said though no one had yet made a joke, so far as I could. see "you really are looking well to-day. Didn't tell you, when you came, that you were worn our?" "You did, I agreed warmly" "but being worn out felt ever so much nicer than being well does. Must I go on being well, please, till I leave here? Because, if it's all the same to you, I should greatly prefer to be made ill again at once." Just then the doctor finished filling in the trains. "Isn't it refresh- patient who makes a joke of the cure?"
"He is very silent. He sits on the veldt-the Boers at one time took to khaki as a uni-jog,', he remarked to the matron, "to have a there are no tents-alone, and rarely speaks to anyone. He seems to be always thinking-form, but they got sho: by mistake by their own comrades. The result is that, since then, none
thinking. And, after all that thinking, out comes one of his swift ordars, and we are up and away before we can speak.".
Naturally, one would scarcely love such a man after following his tvists and turns for six mouths with an ambulance. But, after all, the chief argument for De Wet lies in the fact that he is still in a state of being,
"How were the Beers off when you left them?"
"They had necessaries, but no luxuries. Plenty of mealy and billtong, good boots and clothes, but no coffee, milk, or butter. They hoped to get such things in the Colony. That was one of the leading ideas of the invasion to feed on the undevastated, country, to live off your enemy while he was living on you."
"How did they behave? Did they burn
farms?".
"I do not know," said the Doctor. "I was laid up with fever in a small farm the day after we crassed the frontier, and there was cap tured. But the Boers undoubtedly had the idea of reprisals. You remember the proclama tion of De Wet, before he crossed the frontier? You had laid waste their territory--they undoubtedly meant to lay waste yours if they could do so without hurting their friends, Why, what else could you expect? That was February, and I am told here that the farm burning ended in November. But as we marched south through the Orange Free State, wo, scarcely found a single farm that had not been burat and wrecked. The country was a blackened desert.”
Still, our cautious doctor could not say.. Ha knew nothing of the invasion after his capture,
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they bave a positive hatred for it." of the Roers i came across would wear khaki; What is your estimate of the number still 'in the field p
"I could not say, but the Boers' estimate is from 24,000 to 2,000. De Wet had 3,500 with him, and some of the commandes now in the Colony number about 700. About 2,000 Caps Dutch are calculated to have taken up arms first to last."
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I felt this was the last straw. After suffering for years from seeing my best jokes fall fat in GODOWN-NO SA, DUDDELL STREET. an unappreciative world, it was a little hard to score my first success by an attempt to be des. perately in earnest. I appealed to the matron again, and found her beaming all over. "Al. ways a bright smile from this bed, eh, doctor?" she said jovially. 1 retorted in the bitterness of my spirit. "Of course," I said, "if a smile is all you want from your victims, naturally you get it by accident, ¡now and then; but there's a great difference between a nice smile and a nasty smile." The doctor roared with laughter at this; so did the nurse and the matron, "You are funny," they declared as soon as they could
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PPTHE HONGKONG LAND INVEST speak. serious" 1 shouted furiously but no one believed me. "Doesn't it show what rest can. do?" was all the matron said; and then she made her exit with the doctor, which was con trary to all stage precedent, I thought. The Greek Chorus always stays behind and drones while the victim is being sacrificed on the altar
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CONTRACTOR, No. 25, ABERDEEN STREET. SANITARY AED,
“ANITARY" APPLIANCES SUPPLIED DRAINS, TRAPS WASTE PIPES,& CLEANSED and R PAIRED. Sanitary Board Notices receive prompt attention. Agent for MOSAIC TILES. Prices an Applicatsour
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NOTICE
MRS FUN HUNG,
"And when will it end?” The doctor shrugged.
No one can say-perhaps in six months, Neither sido can win perhaps in twelve. hands down. The Boers cannot win, because they are too few. You cannot win, because the country is too big, and you have to use so many troops for the railways. Why, on my way down from Colasberg to Cape Town, I found that every culvert and every bridge had its guard ! it will end in a compromise whenever two sensible men, say Botha and
No. 3, ORMSBY TERRACE KOWLOON. Kitchener, agree in terms acceptable to both, By the time I left that nursing home my re
Apply to That may be in six months, or twelve. But putation as a wit was established. My consti when I left, the Poers showed no sign of sur tution, however, was shattered for life i'at least, render, and I would advise you all to accept I felt that nothing else could explain my hops.
85, Queen's Road Ceatral. Hongkong, 17th July, 1991.
G61d the stories of losses with a largs, grain, of salt. | lessly fary condition, I pointed out to the With all your devastation, you cannot remove nurse and the matron and the doctor, as they
CLARKE'S 8.41 PILLS are warranted to the sheep, and you cannot remove the mealies, stood on the doorstep, to see me off, that i Half the prisoners' you hear of are only old should never feel well again until 1` had ra. aure, in either sex, all acquired or cons men and boys dragged from the homes where covered the ill-health, used, to enjoy before ftitutional Discharges from the Urinary Organs, they awaited the coming of peace. Half the was cured but they evidently, thought this was Gravel, and Paint in the Back. Free from dead Boers' are just Kaffir stories, for the the best joka I had yet made, for I left them in Mercury: Established; upwards of 30 years Boers, as I say, bury their own dead. No paroxysms of laughter when I drove away. All In boxes, 45, 6d. ench, of all Chemists and acither side is winning it is just a deadlock my hopes were Bow centred in the specialist. Patent Medicine Vendors throughout the And with that rather dreary judgment, the The specialist was a stem, uncompromising World, Proprietors: The Lincoln and Mid- good doctor took his leave, intending to return materialist; he, surely, would not accuse me of land Counties Drug Company, Lincoln, 143 immediately to his long-left home in Holland, being funny when I was tomily, being serious England,
R. C. EAWARREN begs to inform, his numerous Customers that he will REMOVE his Office to mare commodious Premises at WYNDHAM STREET, (Opposite to the CLUB GERMANIA) on the rat, August next.
Hangkang, 23rd July, 1901
A. LING & Co.,
FURNITURENTORE.
(Next Door to Mcass, WATKINS & Co.) QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL! #Spécialité:"V FOOCHOW LACQUER.WARE Hongkong, 18th Jan Wigör,.
16429
FROM BOMBAY. HE Steamship
THE
" MELPOMENE," having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargowill be discharged hare, unleas notice to the contrary be given immediately.
Nó Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Claims must be sent in to the Office of the Undersigned before Neon, on the 29th instant, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance has been effected, and any Goods remaining in the Godowns after the 29th instant, will be subject to rent.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
SÄNDER, WIELER & Co., Agents.
17560,
Hongkong, 23rd July, 1907.
TOYO KISEN, KAISHA
NOTICE.
“ONSIGNEES of CARGO per Steamship
"HONGKONG MARU,"
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are hereby notified that their Goods are at their risk being discharged into Lighters, 40d/or landed into our Godowns at Wanchal...and............ delivery may be had either, from Lighters or from our Godowns upon, countersignature of Bills of Lading.-
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Goods remaining unclaimed after the 29th instant, will be subject to rent,
No Fire Insurance has been effected.
GEORGE ECKLEY, Acting Agent
Hongkong, 22nd July, 1001.
NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP
FROM
COMPANY.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
STEAMSHIP "TACOMA,"
TACOMA, VICTORIA,' YOKO. HAMA, KOBE, MOJI AND
SHANGHAI
The above Steamer having arrived, Con- signees of Cargo are hereby requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignature and to take immediate delivery of their, Goods from alongside.
Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at Consignees' risk Land expense.
DODWELL & Co., LIMITED, Agents. Hongkong, 25th July, 190.
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION :
COMPANY; LIMITED.
"FROM CALCUTTA, PENANG-AND SINGAPORE HE Company's Steamship THE
"CHELYDRA,” having arrived from the above Parts, Consigness Goods will be delivered from alongside. of Cargo by her are hereby informed that their
Cargo impeding the discharge or remaining on board after 4 P.M., the 27th instant, will he landed at Consignees' risk and expense inte Godowns at East Point, just
No Firs Insurance will be effected. Bills of Lading will be counteraigned by
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
General Managdist 2 Hongkong, 25th July, 1901 PDA
NOT
TOTICE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEBTS,
Neither the CAPTAIN, the AGENTE, nor the OWNERS will be RESPONSIBLE for any DEBT contracted by the Officers or the Crows of the following Vessel during her stay in Hongkong Harbour
SEA WITOH, American ship, Howes-Master.
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