Mails.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY AUGUST 7 1909.
Intimations.
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD. THE YOKOHAMA DOCK CO., LTD.
IMPERIAL GERMAN MAIL LINES.
FOR
NAPLES, GENOA, ALGIERS, GIBRALTAR, SOUTHAMPTON, ANTWERP and HAMBURG
SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBEĮ“
and YOKOHAMA
DWIG
TO SA
WEDNESDAY, {,
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15 Aug., Noon.
About WEDNESDAY,
· 11th August.
MANILA, YAP, NEWGUINEA),
BRISBANE, SYDNEY & MEL BOURNE......
COBLENZ
Capt. H. Regen
FRIDAY,
13th August, 10
KUDAT and SANDAKAN
Beginning of August.
for further Particulars,
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA
Hongkong, 30th July, 1909.
•
MELCHERS & CO.,
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
TO and EROM JAPAN VIÐ SHANGHAI
FOR
STEAMER
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, AUSTRALIEN "MARSEILLES, VIA PORTS ... BEREST.
SHANGHAI, KOBE YOKOHAMA.....POLYHISIN
MARSEILLES, VIA FORTS....TONKIN
Ang at IFM
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Transhipment on the Qo'z Steamers at Singapore for Bataviayas Dolombo for Qalcutta, Bombay and Australia; at Port Bald for the Levant, Donstantinople and Black So
-Through Tickets, to Londos via Paris from (37.10 up to £71,10,' ad homt tallway from Marieijles to London.
interpreters meet passengers at their arrival in Marsailles.
For further particolars, apply in
Hongkong, 3rd August, 1909
P de CHAMPMORIN,
AGENT,
QUEEN'S BUILDINGS.
MESSAGERIES CANTONAISES.
FRENCH LINE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN HONGKONG. CANTON ang
"PAU
KOUANG-SI.
IHAU,
lans, 14 knots.
KS, "OHARLES HARDOUINES 1,900 1885, 14 kunię
The speedlest, most luxuriously appointed and punctual steamers on the
Departure from Hongkong at 16 P.M. (Saturdays excepted). Departure from Canton it 5,15-P.M. (Sundays ext
*
4,
These superb steamers carrying the French Mat are fitted throughout with di
and Fans and were specially bulit for this trade. Excellent cuisine)
The Company's Own Wharf near Wing Lok Street and is berth in Canton opposites Shameene:
·For fastbor particulars, please apply to the OOMPANY'S OFFICE at Shamben, Canton,
Hongkong, 9th October, 1908. *
EYES
or toghajr Agents, TTO & 00., Hodgkong.
No. 1 DOCK. Docking Length Width of Butrance. 80 Water on Blacks 28,
NO. 2 DOCK
Docking Length.....376 ft. Width of Intrance. 50 Water,oo Blocks
NO. 3 DOCK. (INCOURSE OF CONSTRUCTION. Docking Lengit.....481 ft. Width of Entrance... 63 Water on Blocks..... 11.5
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THESE DOCKS are conveniently alienated in Yokohams karbony and the attention of Captaina and Engineer is respectfully called to the advantages ofered for Docking add repairing. Vessels and Machldery of every descriptios....
The plan" and tools are of recent patterns for dealing golckly and theaply with work and large stock of material in 'always at hand, (plates and angios all being tested by -Lloyds sur cyo:a).
Two powerful Twip Screw Towboats are avaliable, for taking Vessels in or out of Doc, and fqi taking Sajilug Venselila or ont | 1 the bay. The foating derrick is capabla of Ufflug. 40 tons.
FIRATUS.
The foest pirate bank that has ever been written is Stevenson's Treasure Island. Onn eads it with avidity, ge's no false notions of the supposed gallantry of these robbers of the sea And sons the blood-thirsty ruffians as they were. Yat in their very fiendishness there is no nasty Casto, because, if they lived cruelly, they were prepared to meet the fate, they had allotted others. When two men fight on equal terms, the primitive sense of justice absolves the win
a balf of the. crime. It was only per from when the rabbers are in an overwhelming force, and use their power on the weak and defenceless that the gorge rises.
"Now we do not know that even this palliative can be urged in favour of the ruffians who
formerly infested these seas. They took care got to attack unless they were in force, and could avail themselves of the.advantage.of.sur». prine. But the crude home idea of the Malay plate, got from the highly coloured narratives, specially served up hot and spicy for school. boys and adventurous youths' of the Western world, is in a way, amusing, in the British Isles the common idea is that every plate, and especially the Malay, with the bloody creese, is a bearded ruffian, dressed in an Steam Launches of Stedi -ör" Wood, Lightểm, Sfeer Bolldings and Kadhi Bridge impossible tropical costume, with a koste Work, and xil kinds of Machinery • ́are made on the premiser. ;
between his teeth. The beard, seems to be essential. But 'how few Malays are banided i Tanders will be mada'op•when required and the workmanship and "materig will be Then the idea that every Malay who goes to grarnoised
The cust of Docking, and repal: of any port is the world,
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will be spund to compars
sen`in a little' or big prabu'iş a pirate is also very common. Some ignorant person at Home ibly with the had the bad taste, for instance, to ask the late
Sultan of Johore about the pirates in his coun
A large mooring busio is available alongside our own works for musing vessels whilst ry: Confusing, no doubt, the old times when the Frunder repairs.
Telephone: Nos 870, 506, or 881.
Telegrams, “Dock, Yokohama," Codes A. B, C. 4th and 5th Edt.
Liebers, Scotta, Vokghagia: April 28th 1903.
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Straits of Johore were the only passage way. from east to west, and were so admirably form. ed by antare to bide the, swift praha that could dash out of some creek and attack the'mer-' chantman slowly working its way, probably against an adverse wind, round the bends of the Straits. The days of steam have dose away with that sort of attack, and have largely des- troyed all chance of the pirates getting away,
if they have perpetrated some outrage.
The Malay word for pirate is perompak, 'to rab and plunder, theft accompanied with viol ence. The Hikajat Abdullah speaks of a "sarang perompak," a nest of pirates. The Lanun pirates, in olden days, were the most famour. The pages of the Singapore Frie Press In 1847 mention that a fleet of from forty to sixty-pirate-prabus-issued from Baliol-and- ravaged a-great portion of the Peninsula, swept the Straits of Bankā, buṛnt a village not far. from Singapore, carrying off a portion of the inhabitants into captivity, and exchanged shots with a. Dutch fortiess on the coast of Borneo.
Eleven of these praan were attacked by the Honourable Company's steamer Arundis, and the largest was judged to be eighly feet in length and to have a complément of eighty men. This prabu was burt and sunk in the action, but one of the second class was captured and found to be seventy feet long, twelve broad. The average crew of each of the eleven boats was forty, with four to six guns, and the largest carried oine or tea pounder guns. The number of killed and wounded among the Eng. lish showed the skill with which they could use their weapons. A band of pirates of 450 mes was no light enemy. Forrest, in his Voyage to New Guinea as early ni,1775, gives the di- meusions of a pirate prabu which he measured "from stern to tafferil gi ft. 8 inches in breadth 26 it, and in depth three feet three inches." This boat had engaged and captured a Dutch' sloop, and took seventy slaves to Mindanao,
WEATHER-FORBOAST AND STORM-WARNings issueD.. FROM THE HONGKONG OBSERVATORY.
METEOROLOGICAL SIGNALĖ,
Meteorological signals are hoisted on the mast in front of the Water Police Station a Tsim Sha Tsui for the information of masters of vessels leaving the port. They do not necessarily imply that, bad weather is expected here- Signal
Not
1:
A CONE polul upwards
1 A CONE
point upwards and UKUM belom
A DRUM
4
A OJNE
point down wards and DRUM balow
A CONE point down. wards
A CONE pojot down. wards and BALL befow
A BALL
8. A CONE
point_upwards and BALL below
indicates a Typhoos to the North of the Cology.
indicaton a Typhoon to the Fortb-Basi of the Culony.
Indicates a Typhoon to the East of the Colony,
Indicatesa Typhoon to the South-East of the Colony.-
indicatesa Typhoon to the South of the Oolony.
indicatesa Typhoon
10 the Fouth West of the Colony.
indicatesa Typhoon to the West, of the Colony,
Indicatona Typhoon
to the North Wes of the Colony..
Red Signal Indicate that the centre, is believed to be more than 300 miles away fram' the Colony,
Black Signal Indicats that the centre is believed to be less than 300 miles away, from the Colony,
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The above signals will, as heretofore, be holsted only when typhoons... exist...in such positions or are moving in such directions that information regarding them is considered to be of Importance to the Colony or to shipping leaving the harbour,
These signals are repeated at the Harbour Offico, H.M.S. Tamar, Green filard Sibal,
Mast, and the Flagstaff on the premises.of.the. Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godawa Company at Kowloon.
URGENT BIGNAL
In addition to the above, when it is expected'
| that the wind may increase to 'full sypherin
`Á Black Cross will be hoisted if the, inme. time, superior to the other shapes.
NIGHT SIGNALS.
It was due to the axertions of Sir Jamesforce at any moment, the following Urgent Brooke that piracy was virtually abolished in Signal will be made at the Water Police Station, sud repeated at the Harbour Office :— these seat isolated-instances-still-occury in 1886 there was one off the coast of Province
THREE EXPLOSIVE HOMBS, at intervals Wellesley, la 1887 the Austrian authorities
OF TIK SECONDS, published warnings to the effect that no trading ship should attempt to sail in the waters east of Sumatra unless escorted by men. of-war, there being numerous pirates in those watert. In 1884 a gaog of Malays în boats at- tacked a Ubinesh tongkong or barge off Pulau --Bukom,just outside Keppel - arbaur and kill- ed the Chinese crew. One of the men, while hanging on to the boat, hid his hands cut off at the wrists and he is still to be seen about the Square, a victim of Malay Pirates." Five of those pirates were arrested by Pilot J.-C. Davies, who was taking a ship out to the west and was just in time to pick up the bandless
"The latest 1909 Model No. with the latest improvement, the man, and thao five of the pirates. In duntime they were tried, convicted and executed in lightest touch, the strongest and the public outside where the present criminal pri- best ever produced.
son is, which was then the civil prison, Another case of piracy I remember, was that of the Hok Canton of Penang trading to
We sell our Adler under our the West Coast of Sumatra, at her own risk, as
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A few lines will bring the, Adler for the rebels the Dutch men-of-war did not in to your office free trial.
terfere with them. One night as the Hok Canton was running along shore, waiting for daylight, crowd of natives suddenly boarded ber, killed
We sell. various makes of second. the Caplain (Woods), the chief officer, and shand Typewriters
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The following Night Bignals will be exhiba- ed from the Flagstaff on the roof of the Water Police Station-at-Kowloor, the. Harbour Office
Flagstaff, and H.M.S. Tamar.
·
I. Three Lights Vertical, Green Green Green, indicates that a typhoon is believed to be vituated more than 300 miles from the Colony.
II. Three Lights Veral, Green Red Creet, indicates that a typhoon is believed to be siteated less than 300 miles from the Colony,
III. Three Lights a tical, Red Green Red, indicates that the wind, may be expected to increase to full typhoon force at any moment.
No: III. Signal will be accompanied by the Explosive Bombs, as above, in the event of the information conveyed by this algoal being firm published by night.
These Night Signals will be substituted the the Day Signals, at sunset, and will, when necessary, be altered during the night,
SUPPLEMENTARD WARNINGS,
Ocean Vessels, a Cone will be exhibited at -For the benefit of Native Craft and passlag
that any of the above Day Signals are hoïr od⠀⠀ each of the following stations during the time'
In the Harbour,
Gap Kock.
Waglan.
Stanley,
Cape Collison.
Aberdeen.
Sau Ki Wan,
Sal Kung
Sha Thu Kok, Talipo,
This will indicate that there is a depression somewhere in the China Sem, and that a Storm Warning is holsted in the Harbour,
Further detalls can always be given to Ocean Vssis, on demand, by signal,firom the light.
T. G. 71s6,
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