THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1917.
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Seamen Demand Poalshmeat. in following each breezy speeches for Nuns' Bubarity, which had completely taken the Some very Införesting sperobre wind out of my smile. But there were delivered at the 'reamen's were two things of which they mage merring which was held at cannot deprive me, and that is, for the resolution, which it is my of the canal to the top of the the Albert Hall, London, to fret, the great boooor I have a great pleasure to support. protest against German outrages sailor in being invited to address
vault is nearly 60 feet, which Marseilles-Rhose Canal, gives a section equal to six times H. K. & S. Banks n. at fes and to demand that each a large avdienor, and Not all the digging in France that of an ordinary deuble-track MARINE INSURANCES. ad quite peniebment be admin-secondly, my great responsibility has been-for-building treachee, rail-road tunnel. The debris to Cantons istered to the perpetrators of the in speaking on behalf of the mem- frul deeds. Commander A. bera of such a noble profession sing in the world's history has twice as much as that of the Unions
North Chinas Boughton, B.N.R., president of the captains and officers of the been going an net mary miles double tannel of the Simplon Yangtazes the Mercantile M rine Service British Merchant Service. Ism sway one of the greatest paceful Pass, which still hold the
... er 73 $215 Asociation of Liverpool, ia sap- perfectly certain that the pro- engineering enterprises of modern record
FIRE INSURANCES.... porting regalation that we maters of the scheme of building times has been nearing its com- longest in the world... Thres H. K. Fires
being the China Fires b. proposed by Lord Beresford, who this great hall never imagined for pletion-the Marseilles-Rhose years mare will be required to presided, said:-Since the day one moment that it would ever be anal, intended to complete, with Enieh the Bove funnel. Oring Douglases of long, go, when the ships of used by the citizens of London to its tributary stresme, a waterway to the
SHIPPING. Thorsbih sailed the blue waters protest against the wholesale about 550 miles in length, ravig-created by the war, the expense Indos (Def.) unforeseen difficulties steamboats of the Eastern Mediterranean with murders in our own lend of in- able by beave freight barges of the undertaking will much indos (Pref.) their cargoes of gold, silver, ivory, accent men, women, and children Begun in 1903, this canal is to be exceed the estimated figures, The Shells apes, and pescocks, the south a foreign lee. Yet, in this completed in 1919-after the war, estimated expense of about 318- Ferries cheon of the seamen of civilised 20th century, we are met to-night one would be tempted to say if 280,000, of which the Rove tunnel nations has been kept bright and to protest against those crimes the same phrase, bed not already claimed $11,120,000, is expected Sugars oncollied with its motio of duty. committed by a nation which been applied to the year 1917. now to exceed $20,000,000. This Malabons houous, and humanity, but it has three years ago was credited with At any rate, work on the cans! expense is distributed among the been cloaded beɛmirobed befoaled being civilised. They are not goes steadily forward" with that of Government, the Department of and degraded by the deeds of oivilised. (Hear, bear.) They pushing the invaders back to the Bouches-du-Rhone, and City and that people whose "good old God' are "degeners tee, who have out boundary, and its constructors are the Chamber of Commerce of Raubs looks on with a smile of benign classed the Bane of Attila. Under coine work for France that will Marseiller. The benefits expected Tronohs approval at the tatblees massacre the cloak of civilisation they had (doubtless bein evidence long after from this vast expenditure are Urals of non-combiants, women ene bailt a man machine which had the trenches on the western front msoifold. Fires, the prevention Oriental Coos. children, and little babee 21 their for its object the conquest of the are filled up and ploughed over. drainage to the low land arjacent -mother's breast. Are we to wipe world, at abject which was only Says the writer of an article de- to the canal; secondly, the con- if the tablets of our memory the frustrated by our "contemptible scribing this great work in the tianity of communication be H. K. Wharves b borrors of the Lusitanie, Falaba, little Army" (cheers) that Sefentific American Supplement:tween Persis, the bospital ships Britan little band of heroes who turned Marseilles, the gateway of the Marseilles and the ports of Shal Docks
the great eaaport of Kowloon Docks b. nic, Salts, Gloucester Castle, and the tide of this war in the first Orient, is the logical link of com-the Rhone. But there is another
b. athers, the cold-blooded murder few weeks. Has it ever occurred merical connection between the advantage which looms larga of Captain Fryett and Naree you that that expression of the overseas producte which crowd in these days of corfct. This
LANDS, HOTELS Cavell, and the crowning act of Germans was one of the few ber hirves oud those of the busy will be best understood by a H.K. Hotels
AND BUILDINGS infamy in the wholesale morder of occasions when the enemy were manufacturing centres of western glance at the map of the region. Land Invest. the crew of the Belgian Prince ? right? It wa a contemptible and northern Europe accessible to The fiue interior body of water H'phreys Est No matter what may be doce by little Army in numberase compar sbe navigable Rhone. But though known as the Lake ar Pond of Kloon Lands politicians, "place hantere," and ed with the German bosts, but river and city are comparatively Berre... with a shoreline Shai Lands "clingera to office" afer pesce what it lacked in numbere it made cear each other as the crow flies of nearly 50 miles, forms, togeth-West Points is declared, no British seaman up for in British bulldog grit and they are separated by naturaler with the similar body, Laks Reclamations will, for at least 6 generation, determination (cheers) a spirit obstacles which have hitherto Caronte, an immense natural ever claep in the hand of friend- which permeates the whole of proved insuperable; on the one basin, capable of holding the Ewos ship the blood-stained fingers of our forces-Navy, Army and Mer-hand the tres obercas waters of military and commercial fleets of Kung Yiks the willing accomplices of the shant Service. When Germany the Gulf of Lyons, with its Frecce escurs from all hostile Shai Cottons arob-aasasain of Berlis. (Cheers. hike of the British Army she dangerous depths, its inhospitable attacks. More than a hundred years ago, has an attack of sgue, and when shores, and the violent winda mente of all kinds have, in fact, Orientals
Industrial establish. Yangtszepoos when at war with France (our the contemplates the British which, rushing down from the sprung up on the shores of the present gallant slly), the raiders Navy and Mercantile Marine she Cevennes Mountains, whip ita Berre Lake since the beginning Borneos
MISCELLANEOUS. of that country destroyed or cap has a fit of the blues, (Laughter.) waves to sudden fury on the of the war. Obrionsly, as soon China Light & P.b. b. tured many vessels of our Mer On the sea Germany is staking other the various difficulties sa the great war is finished, they Providents cantile Marine, but they fough the gambler's last throw on the which the conformation of the will have the advantages of cheap Dairy Farms b. with clean heads, and were always abmarins campaign, in the bape land oppoess to traffic, including freight-rates to the great seaport, looked upon as an honourable of destroying our Merchant Ser the Crau desert, the Berre lake, and thence to the Mediterranes H.K. Ice Co.,
Green Islands foe, and I believe I am correct it rice, knowing, as we do, that if and the mountsinoga projection with its facilities for reaching all
H.K. Electrics stating that on no occasion was our Merchant Service is destroyed of l'Etoile, running west to eat parts of the globe. This canal, Steel Foundries British fishing boat attacked. we cannot carry on this war. She from
Ropes the Gulf of If it is necessary for me is destroying a lot of our shipe,'Bureause, "Though the public and then by the Seone, oom Trams, Peak, old s.
For to indeed, prolonged by the Roons Trams, Low Levels. 50 have a spiritual home ir in many osses without warning utility of a waterway which could pletes a continuous waterway of Trams, Peak, new s
in and very often without trace. If overcome these obtacles has been 850 miles length, navigable by Laundries bome my Liverpool, let it be in Franer, babe war lasts another twenty clearly perceived for something barges capable of carrying 600; U. Waterboats not in Germany. And what of years she may even destroy them like a century, the decree under tons of freight. Smaller boats will Watsons those traitors in our midet, wh11, but no matter how long the which the present canal was extend this freight route by means Wm. Powells bave the frontery to continue to ar lesta she will never destroy began was pot finally signed of the Stone Caval and those of Morning Posts Bocept salaries from the country the morals of the captains, until December 22, 1808, the the basin of the Seine even to they are doing their beat to betra officera sod crews of the groat railway expansion in the Havre end to the extreme north of and bring to rain? Oor "Ger Merobant Service. They are middle of the eighteenth century France. Thus, say enthusiasts, BENJAMIN & POTTS, many must not be humiliated 18 determined as ever to see being one of the factors in the in 1919 the North Sea and the Share and General Brokers. To Hades with such a gospel ear this thing through to a victorious delay. The work is expected to English Channel will be united with the despicable cresteres who and, in spite of the U bost mensee be concluded in 1910, and to with the Mediterranean by an on- presch that gospel. Fr bette or any other menace from the cover a that pur trade with Germany Germane. (Cheers.) Bat our kilometres, or 50 miles, between France will 16affirm her claim to total length of 82 broken &qustic ribbon, and should go to perdition in sailors are paying a big price for its extreme pointe, Marseilles being a natural roadway between Satselyam of rain rather than their loyalty and patriotiem, snd bsein of the Madrague and the the astions. If this dream be too sbeald blacken our sonis, outrage when we read of the Belgian Bras-Hort of Arles. our consciences, and insult the Prince and others, can we be early promoters of the canal pro-least that the great canal will im. T/T .....
"The iridescent it cannot be doubted at thousanda of our dead comrade-urprised that our sailors are jecta no fewer than 24 locke, hatmezsely stimulate the traffic of Demand lying et ff and stark beneath the rying out for vengeance for the as it is now being built it has merchandise in Marseilles, which 30 d/s............ waters of all the oceane of the calculated and cold-blooded mar none, being at ses-level through has grown from 4,372,000 tons world. Captain J W. Grace, fere of their comrades? Sach out ite coarse.
60 d/s................ 31-18 chairman of the Imperial Her crimes as these could only be etractures connected with the tona in 1913.".
Important in 1870 to more than 21,000,000 4
31-14 chant Service Guild, of Liverpool. conceived by the fatile brain of canal are the cat of the Ulede,
T/T Shanghai..... Nom. aleo speaking to the resolution, an assesin who with one hand that of Gignac, which is a mile
T/T Singapore 1263 esid:-I feel sure you will sprites peace notes, and with the and a quarter long and 100 feet
T/T Japan ............ 13754 Ireriate the great difficult I have fiber hurls seach dealing bombe deep... and the Rove tunnel,
Nom. T/T India
Nou Demand, India the most important work
T/T San Francis-1
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co & New York) This is asid by Lerowse Mensuel sixty years of uninterrupted work T/T Marks............ Nom. (Paris), to which we are indebted as manager and part proprietor T/T Francs... 411 for the details in this article, to of the Scotsman a record probably Demand, Paris ...... 411 be not only the longest work of unparalleled in British journalism.
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