MICROBE OR MAN?.
SHIPPING.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 1. 1919,
SHIPPING.
P. & O.-British India and NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
APCAR LINES
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND)
ΤΟ
STRAITS & BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULE, AUSTRALASIA, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST & SOUTH AFRICA, RED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC. SAILINGS FOR
MARSEILLES & LONDON VIA STRAITS, COLOMBO & PORT SAID.
(JAPAN MAIL 8.8. CO.)
Santage troca Bongkang subject to Kharadk
Destination,
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKO.
FAMA
NAGASAKI & KOBE .........................................
Steamer & Displacement. Sailing Dates,
Aki Maru
'F. 12,300 Kaga M.
r. 12.300
Nikko Maru T. 9,600
leave Hoog-
S.S.
cong & out
Due Marseilles Due London
about
about
SHANGHAI & KOBE......
27th April
Zad June 1. 10th June
Kamo M.
LONDON via Singapore, Pensog. Colombo, Suez and Port-Said
T. 15,980 lyo Maru
F.
INFLUENZA REFLECTIONS.
NELLORE
FOR BOMBAY via STRAITS & COLOMBO.
DUNERA
12th April
due Bombay about 1st May
FOR SHANGHAI, MOJI & KOBE Etc.
WIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS. For Passage Rates, Handb ots. Freigh's, etc., apply to
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
→ Des Voeux Road Central, HONGKONG.
Agents.
CANADIAN BACIFIC
OCEAN SERVICES
PACIFIC SERVICE
LIMITED
SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG to VANCOUVER
VIA
Shanghai Nagasaki (or Moji) Kobe & Yokohama.
4 July. ...14 July.
30 July.
11 Aug.
T. 9,600
MELBOURNE via Manila. Zam-Nikko M.
boanaga, Thursday Is.. Town- sville, Brisbane & Sydney..... NEW YORK via Shanghai, Kobe Yokohama, San Francisco and Panama Canal
BOMBAY via Singapore, Maluc-
ca and Colombo.....
{WED... 2nd 1.Apr. at 11 am. JFRI, 4th 14pr. at 11 allia ĮTUES, lat
Apr. at 11 am.
[SAT, 5tb
Ápr. at noon. JSAT., 19th
Apr. at noon.
JWED.. 123rd Apr.
For date of sailing apply at the Company's Office. Tenshin Maru SWED., 9th
Τ.
Toyo Maru
Τ.
CALCUTTA via Singapore. Pen- Rangoon M.
ang and Rangoon val
T.
April, Middle of 1 April. (End on April.
↑ Desking Shanghai kjer Mak * Wirelona Talagraphy. HONGKONG-VICTORIA B.C.-SEATTLE YIA MANILA, SHANOMAL NAGASAKI KOBE, YOKKAICHI AND TOKOHAMA Operated by the mathelent and splendidly equipped protest sommers * Frakoni Mars ~WA MST-Exshima Mare" & "Kalon Mark," sach of over 20,000 sone dupládenect
Nasi salig trom Hangkang.
Suwa Maru
Ding Handa Bambotså
Telephone Nos 272 & 293
“MUNI "Ith May, at the
For further information aggly in
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
S YASUDA Manager.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
SAN FRANCISCO LINE
VIA SHANGHAI, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN & HONOLULU,
PAST AND LUTURIOUS MAIL- STRAM VRA
Belings from Hongkong-Bubject so mhange wilboat Costum
Steamer
PERSIA MARU
KOREA MARU
Leave Eongkong.
9th April.
9th Apr. from Yokohama. gan Aɔt. from Yokohama
5th May.
1st May
2201 Ms) from Yokohama.
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
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HONGKONG TO VALPARAISO VIA JAPAN. HONOLULD SAN FRANCISCO, SAN PEDRO, SALISO CRUZ, BALBOA CALLAO, ARICA AND IQUIQUE. THENCE BY TRANS ANDEAN ROUTE TO BUENOS AIRES
Steamers.
KIPPOR MARU
Steamer
From Hongkong
Arrive Vancouver
TERYO MARU
KHIMYO MARU
MONTEAGLE
5 April.
29 April.
SIBERIA MANU
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
1 May.
19 May.
EMPRESS OF JAPAN
14 May.
4 June.
EMPRESS OF ASIA
29 May.
16 June.
MONTEAGLE
10 June.
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
25 Juao.
EMPRESS OF JAPAN
9 July.
EMPRESS OF ASIA
21 July.
MONTEAGLE
15 Auz
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
21 Aug.
EMPRESS OF ASIA
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Į
EMPRESS OF ASIA
EMPRESS OF JAPAN
"FARES HONGKONG TO EUROPE”
MONTEAGLE
8 Sept.
3 Sept.
AXYO MARU
SEIYO MARU
KITO MARU
Leave Haarkong
4th April.
3rd May.
14th July.
mox are Izkrobangeable with the Usnadian Pacie Ocean Services. Ladi. MAZIKANTEStp Co.
PLEAngara may travel by rail betwvez porm of cali in Japan tras of skarya' For ball fodormaatiom se to raden mingi ma, kopty so
Gold $491.00
Telephone Nos- 2374 & 2375,
Gold $436.00
Payable in Local curreccy at demand rate on New York.
For particolare regarding passage fares, ELŮ). ings and reservation of scootassadation, also Siberian st wire med dosriptive literature Apply to
P. BTHERLAND,
"LAEZBIER DER ANISICES
KORRAL LÆRET Prose 152.
For freight ring and through bills of ladiizg vi Van/ERITer toutanation wish · Canadiazi Pucida Hallway to hil Oruzhand Points In Canada and Unked Biased lao to Europe and Wwer Indian, apply 10
Phone 42.
HONGKONG.
JM. WALLADE,
PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.
U. S. MAIL LINE.
Operating the new First Class Seetmera
"YENEZUELA" and "COLOMBIA,”
* ECUADOR
14,000 tons Each.
Hongkong to San Francisco.
via Shangha, Kobe, Yokohama and MUNOLULU.
THE
SUNSHINE BELT.
The most Comfortable Route to America and Europe.
$ &
Sailings from Hongkong at noon.
VENEZUELA !!
"ECUADOR"
* COLOMBIA "
31st March. at noon.
23rd April. 21st May. These steamers have the most modern equipment including over- head electric fans and electric lighting ALI, LOWER BERTHS & Large Comfortable Statercoms (all single and two berths only.)
The Safety and Comfort of Passengers is par Fim: Consideration. Special care is given to the cuisine, and the attendance au pataangare canuct be surpassed. Tickets are late-changeable with the Toys Kiian Kšisha and the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services, Ltd.
For further information, rates, literature, schedules etc.,
Apply to:-
Telephone No. 141.
.
Company's Office in ALEXANDRA BUILDING.
Chater Road.
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY.
BANKERS AND FORWARDERS. ESTABLISHED - 1841.
HEAD OFFICE 65 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS-U. S. $25,000,000.00. LONDON' OFFICES,-84, QUEEN STREET, E C.
6, Haymarket, S. W.,
11, Elbury Street, S. W., Branches & Agencies-throughout the world. Central Banking and Foreign Exchange.
We maintain Foreign Trade and Travel Bureaus. American Business a Specialty.
and the Pa
T. DAIGO, Manager.
KING'S BUILDINGS
JAVA PACIFIC LINE
OF THE
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Monthly Service between
SHIPPING.
C. N. C.
CHINA NAVIGATIO.. CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
Steamers
For
From the standpoint of high philosophy it is arguable that a mask is a form of cowardice, says a Sydney paper. We do not dare to meat the buccaneering bacteria
SHANGHAL........... ---------- Sunning on a strictly biological ground: MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO Shansi we do not, that is to say, pit the SHANGHAI & TSINGTAO Chenan natural resistances of our bodies WEIHAIWEI & TIENTSIN Kuelchow against his powers of evil; we SWATOW & BANGKOK....Liangchow
SHANGHAI... prefer to waylay our adversary
SHANGHAI.. qutside the door of our house and. after basely entrapping him, slay If the him with boiling water. microbe were able to reason about the matter, we humans would not
Sinklang ..Sulyang
To Ball
.............. 9nd ápr. at Boon.
5th Apr. at noon.
6th Apr. at d'light,
6th Apr. at noor.
7th Apr. at 108.m.
.............. 8th Apr. at noon. 10th Apr. at ncan. SHANGHAI LINE-PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO, Excellent Saloon accommodation Amidships; Electric Light and Fans in Saloon and State-rooma. Regular schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtare and Northern China Ports, Passengers are escape without anathemas upon | Landed in Shanghai, avoiding the inconvenience of transhipment our chivalry. "You great hulking | st Woosung. brutes, stamping it upon this earth
as lords of creation, to be so pitifully afraid of tiny me, some. thing too small for your natural eyesight, something you slay with hot water or carbolic acid-when you catch us! For shame, gentle- men!**
There would be nothing for it, in in that case, but to put forward Is lam as our champion; neither Turk nor Arab caring to defend.himself against any bacillus whatever,
Are
For Freight or Passage apply to
Telephone No. $6.
Hongkong April 1, 19.9.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
James
Regular Fortnightly Service between CHINA and JAPAN.
From
Exp
of about
Shan bai Java
Japan
Ware on
at
End Apr.
3rd Apr. Java 1st Apr. 20th Apr Java 5th Apr. 6th Apr
Java
Far
"The steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers.. All steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at through rates to all ports in Netherlands-India and Australis.'
For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
York Building.
but piously relying on the might Timanoek and wisdors of Allah. Far to the Tilganas | East, indeed, dwell a stifl more | Tiffahap
imperturbable race, the many- millioned Chinese, who not only fearless of the bacillus of anything, hut do not bother to call upon Allah. For them Life is B
maze, in which one turning is lucky and another unlucky: all wisdom being the art of distinguishing between the two. There are powers of earth and air and water, of places and times, and of the stars in their courses. Nature herself, so to speak, wears an ever-varying mask, and utters continually a multitude of oracles in an almost unknown language. difficult to understand, but accessible to the
initiated.
The civilised method has the advantage of what seems to be a victory over the bacillus, but, nevertheless, the logic is not altogether against either Islam or The the imperturbable Orient. European vanquishes the micro- be, with almost the facility with which the demon was exorcised out of the body of the man; but it is written that when the demon returned to the place of his habitation, and found it."swept and garnished." he brought seven worse than himself, and, entering. they abode there together, so that the last state of that man was worse than the first."
In Islam and China, on the contrary, the demon is not hunted forth, but is treated with patient,
NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO,high disdain. He is told to do
his best and his worst, to stay as long as he pleases, and go when
Telephone No. 1574.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO.,
LD.
HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORTS SERVICE.
Regular Service of Fast. High Class Coast Steamers having good accommodation for first Class Passengers, Electric Light and Fans in state-rooms and Saloon and Excellent Cuisine.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW AND RETURN. (Occupying 9 to 10 days.) Captain Haitan. H. Stewart
Steamships.
Leaving.
Į TUES, 1st Apr. at 1 pm.
Arrivals and Departures from the Company's Wharf (asa: Blake Pier).
For Freight and Passage, apply to
Douglas Lapraik & Co.,
General Managers.
INDO-CHINA STEAM
NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Projected Sailings from Hongkong-(Subject to Alteration).
For
The steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light he feels inclined. Let him slay and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers.and spare not say Islam and HAIPHONG
China because of the faith in STRAITS & Calcutta All steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken on through Bills of Lading to all Overland them that when the tale of the MANILA
slaughter is complete there sball SHANGHAI .......... Points to the United States of America and Canada.
still be men a plenty to cry "Allah KOBE For particulars of Freight and Passage apply to the
Akbar!" five times a day, or to SANDAKAN burn the propitiatory joss-stick to MANILA- the dim bat powerful lords of luck. No one can really say whether it is the West with its new- fangled science or the East with its immemorial indifference that is really right. For the lore of mankind runs only a little way
Telephone No. 1574.
Java-China-Japan Lijn. General Managers, York Buildings...
CHINA MAIL S.S. CO. LTD. back into the vast river of the
FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.
"NANKING"
"CHINA"
15,000 tons, A narican Registry) (10,0)) tons, American Registry) SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG FOR
SAN FRANCISCO
„VIA SHANGHAI, JAPAN PORTS & HONDLULU "NANKING "
April 5th, 1919.
** CHINA "** April 24th, 1919.
AN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS PASSENGER SERVICE.
Q. H. RITTER,
Prince's Buildings,
Freight and Passenger Agent.
Ice House Street. Tel. 193 4.
“ELLERMAN" LINE. (ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.)
JAPAN, CHINA & STRAITS
TO
UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
For
LONDON & ANTWERP
LONDON & ANTWERP
Steamer
"CITY OF BRISTOL " "CITY OF COLOMBO "'
Sailings 15th April, 10th May."
to approach
For particulars of sailings shippers are requested the undersigned.
Steamers proceed via Cape of Good Hope. Subject to change without notice.
or to REISS & Co. Canton
Hongkong, 11, Mar. 1917..
THE BANK LINE, LTI".,
General Agents,
the life of man. The superstition is older than the science; but neither pierces the age-long story of human life very far backward or forward. In this ancient war with the bacteria we know that man, as a race, can survive with- out science, because he has survived; but we do not know how long he, can survive with the aid of science, because he has had that aid only a very few
years.
We know that the method of the East made men tougher, for the simple reason that it is only the tougher that could survive; but we do not yet know what effect the methods of the West may have upon the fibres of man- kind; the experiment has not yet continued suficiently long. Nor do we yet, know what the re- sources of the nations of the micro-organisms are. We talk of
Од 4th Apr. at 4th Apr. at 4th Apr. at
3 p.m.
8 B.m.
3 p.m.
Steamship Taksang Fri.. ...Kumsang Fri., Loongsang Fri., Wingsang Tues., 8th Apr. at d'light. Suisang
Mausang
Yuensang
Tues. 8th Apr. at d'light. Tuas.. 8th Apr. at
£100 The
Fri, 11th Apr. at
3 p.m.
CALCUTTA LINE:-Thu Liss is now being reorganized and will sharly allard frequent and
regalar salles so Galosna via Singapors and Prog
"
Returning from Cuesta sisamom proceed via Straits and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally
calling sa Shanghai
All cars have excelias patger accommodation, ara dital with Electile Light and
Fax and carry a fully qualified Surgeon
SHANGHAI LINE:54 Approchantaly e re days between Canton and Shanghai, tomatimak maling at Swaid. Steathers as this line have a limited amount of passenger Accomme dation, and
cks can be obtained for Northers and Yagues Porta vie Shanghai
· lading are laxited to all Northern and Vazgin Ports. MANILA LINE-A weakly servica is maintained with Magia by vessala with good DEALEREST SCOSM
odation, salilagi fram both ports every Friday.
idactades.
HAIPHONG LINE:-islings approdnately weakly for passesgus and cargo, calling as Holbow wher BORNEO LINE: sa talia per month between Kanzcing and Sandakan by a stanser having epote
Cargo takes so through Bilis af lading for Kadat, Jewekom. Labean, Tawaound Lahad Dain. TIGHTSIN LINE:- raralar service is can fanm March to October betwers Beaghong and Testila
calling at Wloatwel und Thefoc.
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Under Straits Government Passport Regulations.
All European Passengers, leaving the Colony for Straits Settlo- ment, are required to produce on arrival at destination passports with their Photographs and description affixed thereto.
For Freight or passage, apply to
Telephone No. 215.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.
JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers,
The P. & O... INNAMINCIA left Singapore for this Port on the Zish inti, and is das here on the 4th April, at about noon.
The T.K. K. PERŠIA MARU recent' released from Wat service will leave
The .. SLAVIO PRINCE is due to Nagasaki, March 31st. direct for Hong-
kong, arriving bare April 4th.
the Superman who shail inherit the earib-we do not suspect that some day a Super-Microbe may arrive hue fro New York on the let emerge, a bacterium raised to the Ap fiftieth power of virulence, swarm-
The Re CELTIC PRINCE is due to
The American Mansharia Line
The B.ME. EMPRESS OF JAPAN
28th March, ind is dus at Vancouver on or about the 9th April.
ing alike in air and water, pouring arrive here from New York towards the left Yokohams for Vancouvain the into the seas as from the bowl of a end of April. satanic Ciros; swiftly and finally triumphant everywhere, not to be deterred from any prey by the most magical) of scientific incant tations, and leaving in his wake only the empty shells of the habitations of men.
The R.M.8... KEY WEST left Yoko TJITABOEM left New York for Hongkong, Maulla and Bingapore on the hama for Meji on the fat April and is 4th March, and may be expected so arrive das at koji on or about the 3rd April.
this port on the 20th May....
The EMS, EMPRESS OF ASIA IN The F.&O... TJIBODAS left Bings Bhanghai for Nagasaki on the Slav Mar. pore for this Port on the 24th instant, and is due at Hagasaki on or about the and is due here on the Lat. April.
2nd *pril