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kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
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WELL NAMED.
Curiosity must often be felt among those un- familiar with Japanese words and customs about the names given to the ships of war and of INFORMATION has been received from
commerce sailing under the flag of Japan; nor the Military Authorities that GUN PRAC- TICE will be carried out from Lyemun (Pak-would such curiosity be trivial or unintelligent, There is a great deal in titles and appellations, and by no means least of all as regards ships The directors of naval policy in every maritime country ought to be more careful than they sometimes show themselves to be in the chris tening of their squadrons. The commercial community takes care of itself in this respect, and merchant vessels are for the most part use fully and significantly baptized. But it is a foolish loss of a fine opportunity to bestow upon a vessel of war a cognomen like too many which might be mentioned in more than one navy, absurdly lengthy, or stupidly unsuitable, er entirely out of harmony with the destiny of a battleship
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Hongkong, 19th April, 1904.
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HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers.
Hongkong, 15th April, 1904.
PUBLIC AUCTION, Undersigned have received instructions
to Sell by
THEU
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FOR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED,
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The Steam Launch
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yesis.
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Star Street
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Countries like Germany and Japan, not pos sessing naval traditions, have had a clean log book to write on, and their choice of names for warships becomes for this reason interesting. Japan especially, which does nothing without aiming at correctness and utility, wRS SUITE, DAB would say beforehand, to have christened her | fighting squadrons with sagacious recognition of how much may lie in a name; nor will this general opinion be gainsaid if we run over the list of the line of battleships and cruisers mail. ing under the standard of the Mikado, and why their various appellations have been
chosen.
First of all, it should be borne in mind that a ship of war and a ship of commerce have their own special words in the Japanese tongue. The latter class, from the big ocean liner of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha to the little trader or roofed-in junk going round the islands, bears the appellation of "Maru." This word, which is also used for a sword, and for the white and red flag of the empire, properly meaning a "circle," is always tacked on to passenger or trading craft, and so distinguishes them. The word for a man-of-war, from the superb Mikasa or Fuji, is "Gun-kan." But the Japanese drop the epither, not saying or writing "Mikasa Gun-Kan," but only "Mikasa," What does this signify? Simply, it is the name of a lofty and famous mountain near Nara, in the Japan- ese province of Yamato, and means "the ridge of three hats," its summit wearing the shape of the umbrella like headpiece which pilgrims carry. This mountain has been much cele brated in native poetry, in verses which I need not quote, and notably by a renowned signer, Abeno Nakamaro. Take next the battleship Hatsuse This, again, is taken from a locality much praised by poets, near Nara, and quite a household word among the people.
Next comes to mind the Asahi. That signi- fies "the morning sun," which luminary is at once an object universally praised and rever- enced in Japan, as well as being the symbol and national badge of the empire. It is “Asahi" | which figures in blazing scarlet of dawn on the standard of Dai Nippon. Shikishima is yet another synonym for the land of the rising sun, frequently employed in its poetry, I need not give much explanation of the title bestowed on the sister battleship, Fuji. Everybody knows how central and integral a factor in Japanese art and life is that beautiful and stately moun tain resting so proudly from the Pacific waves which bathe its feel, and how that lovely and wonderful peak soars into the southern clouds, eternally crowned with a glittering diadem of snow. Yashima, next in my memory, and en- rolled on the catalogue of the chief naval line, recalls the story, not of a mountain, but of famous battlefield on the coast of Sanuko, where the great combat befell between Heishi and Henji, to recite which would go beyond my permitted space.
la the name of Hiysi, a first class cruiser, we come back to celebrated hills, while another fine cruiser of the Mikado's fleet bears the name of Kongo, the "diamond" hill in Kawa shi, associated with the strong and splendid years of a bygone dynasty. One armoured cruiser is called Iwate, from a fertile province. while Idsuma bringe to every Japanese mind the sacred spot where Susanoo-no-Mikoto alighted when expelled from heaven for his sins.
Another armoured ship bears the familiar title of Adsuma, the appellation of a whole dis trict beyond Hakone to the eastward. And was it not so called because of Adsuma, faith ful and famous wife of Yamato-dakeno Mikato? Crossing the sea to lead his army, the hero was overtaken by a storm, in which he would have perished but for the devotion of his beautiful wife. Believing that the god of the sea bad been inceared, and would not be pacifed ex cept by the loss of some lifs precious to Japan, she resolved to immolate herself in order to propitiate the deity, and therefore, wrapping her body in her robe of gold and scarlet, plunged
groves, and the sparkling streains of Dai Nippon points of recollection, loyalty, and patriotism for the sailor as well as for the soldier and the citizen. Broadly speaking, the big ships have been christened after great mountains, and their smaller sisters from some well known natural feature of the country.
Is it not in "Eothen that we have a
delicious picture of a drunken Albanian, who consoles himself on a distant campaign by sticking in the floor a sprig of blossoming mynie and pouring round it a libation from his bowl of wine, after which he lies happily down, imagining that he beholds again the fragrant groves and purling streams of his native land? Japanese loyalty to the emperor and to the scarlet and white fing does not need such aid, yet it is characteristic that even the ships of the island empire testify by their names to that passionate pride and affection which the lowest subject of the Mikado feels in his native home.-Sir Edwin Arnold,
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into the furious billows and was drowned. As shop. I keep Dr. Williams' pink pills in the ONE OFFICE ROOM on second floor.
she sink out of the reach of those who would have saved her, if possible, by the sarrendar of their own lives, the sea became almost Im-] mediately tranquil, and Yamato-kakeno safely landed and defeated the enemies of his country Ever since then all those regions have borns the name made noble by this self-immolation of the Japanese princess, so that a ship of war may also proudly bear it.
Among the twelve of the "protected" class 'you will observe Chitose, meaning a thousand years, a word of prosperity Kasagi, a spot famous in Japanese history belonging to Yama: shiro ; Takasago, a place much praised by posta for its exquisite scenery, on the sea coast, near Akashi ; Akitsushima a notable appellation, for it signifies “ the dragon is the accepted badge of the whole archipelago..
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Mrs. Hande is quite right in this respect. No better topic has ever been discovered. All over the land there live strong men and women who were once miserable invalids, but whom Dr. Williams' plak pills have made strong. These pills are not a cure all. They cure the one thing that is the cause of most diseases MBORING VILLAS, No. 2 poor blood. Acting on the blood, and on the nerves, through the blood, they have cared anemia, bile, consumption, bronchitis, eczema, aus, gout, heart disease, paralysis, and the ailments which women soffor in silence. It is the genuine, pills, not substitutes (which some shopman pash), that cure. The full name on the pink wrapper is a guarantee of genuineness. Refuse pink pills that don't bear Dr. Williams'
It will than be soon, avan hy so brief a·sur· Enima. (You can send direct for the pills to Dr. vey, that the Japanese, carry: ardent loys' of Williams?medicins company, Holborn-viaduct, their own beautiful land out upon the siement : Landos, enclosing the price, two shillings and which surrounds it, upon the fage and name:|| nipspence for a bottle, or bug them at any boards of their ships of war, making the honest shop, where they sell you what you ask [ós | mountains, the dowery plains, the blossoming || jor,
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