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SHIPPING NEWS.
RELIEFS FOR CHINA COMMAND.
The 1920/21 reliefs of military and naval personnel for the China Command and Station will leave! the U.K. in November on H.M.T Bremen.
RECORD VOYAGE.
The Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of France bas created new record from Liverpool 10 Quebec, doing the journey in five days, 23 bours.
WOODEN SHIPS FOR SALE.
N. LAZARUS,
29. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
SIR CHARLES LYALL'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
BROGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF LATE ORIENTAL SCHOLAR.
AIR WONDERS OF THE FUTURE.
AEROPLANES THAT MAY BE USED AS SUBMARINES.
The death in London last inonth
Wonderful aircraft are taking of Sir Charles James Lyall part in the second section of the K.C.SI, CIE, aged 75, makes a Air Ministry Competition, ma- further large gap in the older chines which have not previously school of Orientalists, in which been seen in the air, writes Major field rather than that of Indian W. T. Blake in the Daily News administration he will be chiedy These are the amphibians, craft. remembered. Born in March, which can use either water, of 1245, he was educated at King's land with equal safety, machines College London. FREIGHT SERVICE TO JAPAN.
and at which will revolutionise civil Joining the The Admiral Line has opened a Balliol.
Civil aging. in the United new freight service from Portland Service
The first satisfactory amphibian to Japan. Five steamers have Provinces in 1867. he saw little
to be produced was the Vickers been placed on the route with district service, for he was soon Viking, and it is a younger bat absorbed by the provincial sailings every three weeks.
bigger brother of this that is now Secretariat, and within six years The US. Shipping Board has he was Under-Secretary to the sing for a prize of £10,000. In
in the
appearance it is a boat with a made another attempt to sell 283 Central Government
tail which turns up at an angle The vissels are Revenue and Agricultural De
from the water. wooden vessels.
On the top of private partment. In 1880 he went this boat are two sets of planes, offered for sale on a competitive basis with 92 steel Assam to be Secretary to the with a 450hp. Napier engine 'hief Cammissioner, and later he ships.
was Commissioner of the Vallelung immediately above the boat and between the planes. This is Districts for five years. From how the machine appears when it Traffic through the Panama 185 he was Secretary of the is ready for the water, but if the Home Department, Government pilot decides to come down on of India. He WAS head for and whilst in the air he turns a so of the Assam gadget in his cockpit and lets 2 year or Government. He did well, but down a pair of wheels which after transfer to the Central
project from the noder side of the Provinces as Chief Commissioner bost like an ordinary under- he was pultu a test by the
carriage. great 1897 famine. for which he' was scarcely equal. bodiment
RECORD PANAMA CANAL TRAFFIC.
new
жете
Canal during August set a
230 record
versels passing through, on which tolls collected amounting to G.$935,000, SHIPWRIGHTS' STRIKE AT
LIVERPOOL.
As the result of several weeks of the shipwrights' strike there is at the present moment not a single ship under repair in-36 Liverpool dockyards, states & re-
cent report.
time.
The em The advantages of these air- craft are orious. When asing of conscientious thoroughness and strict justice. them between London and Paris he was lacking in imagination there will be no need for a long- and the human touch. Lord detour in order to ensure a short BRITAIN REPLACES WAR LOSSES. George Hamilton appointed him Channel crossing. The amphibian To make good war losses, Grea: in 1593 secretary of the Judicial will fly straigh: between the two Britain purchased 345 ships, of and Public Department. India Capitals, taking the Channel with which 97 were from the U.S., 60 Office, where he served until biss much assurance as if it were from Norway. 43 from South retirement in 1910 under the age der land and so saring much America, and each from Hollimit
Indeed these machines may go- land and Denmark. The average Lyall's absorbing interests werę
in Hindustani and Arabic one further, and start from the cost was more than £52 a ton.
literature He wrote fully on the Thames in the very heart of GERMAN LINE TO THE EAST,
former subject in Successive London and land on the Seine in The firs: steamer to be built in Germany since the war and to editions of the Encyclopaedia Paris, cutting out the motor jour- between cifies and remain in German hands will be Britannica," and his numerous ners used to open a new line to the translations of Arabic poems and aerodromes.
And why should this be the Indies Dutch East
for the ancient diwans are known to all
students in these fields. He was ead of this improvement? Ifying Desches-Atlantic Company.
thea tower of strength to the Royal boats can be made for use on land vessel is The
named
Asiatic Society, of which he was why not adapt them for use on Hamburg.
2 vice-presideat, but increasing the road? I can see many of my MINES IN THE SORTH SEA.
deafness of recent years hampered friends smile, but I have seen the Mines having been reported in his enjoyment of the meetings "Viking" walk out of the water, the North Sea, the Admiralty, at of these and other Eastern bodies up a steep slope, into her hangar the instance of the Imperial Mer which he regularly attended. He and I have seen her waddle out chant Service Guild, is bringing was awarded honorary degrees again, for all the world like a duck strong pressure to bear on the the Cniversities of Oxford, Edin-taking to a pond. The retractile German authorities to expediteurgh, and Strasburg, and was a undercarriage makes this possible. the work of clearing.
Fellow of the British Academy. Why not retractile wings which He married in 1870 Florence can be used when Bring and fold- CAPTAINS-WIVES.
Lyall, daughter of Henry Fravered back by a simple mechanism Wives of captains of C.S. Gov-and had a family of two sons and when it is desired to take the
His son. Mr. machine along the road? ernment owned merchant ships five daughters. now accompany their husbands on Charles Elliott Lyall, who was voyages. Captains on vessels con born at Sinila in 1877, entered the trolled by some of the private | Sudan Civil Service in 1991 and lines are already permitted to since 1917 has been Governor of take their wives with them.
the Eassala rovince.
ACCOMMODATION FOR US.
PORT SWETTESHAM TONNAGE During 1916, 63 ocean steamers called at Port Swettenham with import cargo as against 30 during 1918, and 32 organ steamers called for export cargo as against 9 dur-
ing 1918. Those figures are
exclusive of the British India Company's steamers which call regularly at the port.
A BLACK WINTER..
LABOUR LEADERS
PREDICTION.
1.
Steering it is true presents a. difficulty, but doubtless this will be overcome in time. And then, to take a further look into the fatore, wry not take the final step and adapt the machine for use under water-a wonderful craft which can be taken along roads, used as a motor boat, an aeroplane or a submarine? Such things may not be impossible to our designers of the fatre, and though the time may be far ahead, we many yet live to see them.
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Mr. J. H. Thomas, M. P.. Pre- sident of the Trades Union Congress for the rear, delivered BLUE PUNNEL CHANGES. One of the best-known freight this address to the delegates at
steps are being taken to consoli- steamers on the Pacific, the Blue Portsmouth. Funnel
Protesilaus, will After referring to the situation date the capitalists' interest, and Mesopotamia and we see abundant evidence of a shortly depart for the U.Kin Russia, and will be replaced by the Ireland, Mr. Thomas went on to growth of trusts and combines. Talbydias. The Teucer has been discuss the industrial position. Indeed, some have not hesitated to say that a fight is necessary, added to the American-Far- He said:-
All the available evidence and are preparing accordingly.. Eastern service of the company.
"I don't believe the workers which will now have the Ixion. tends to show that the coming Talthydius, Tyndareus and Teucer winter will, in many respects, be far anxious for a fight marely. the hardest we have experienced for fighting's sake. Indeed it employed on the route.
for & great number of years. is our duty not to invite DIRECT CANADIAN SERVICEŠ,
"Already there are thousands evoke such a conflict, becans.......... It is stated that the Canadian of unemployed, and there are very industrial place is as necessary Government is anxious to increase clear and unmistakable Bigus of as international place. its trade with India "and the
"But the other side mast break in the trade boom. Middle East, and is taking steps. Is it not a sad commentary.clearly understand that the years for the inauguration of direct
effort that placed shipping services. The C.P.O.S.pon our social system that, when painful
all the world requires good food, the worker in the position he cargo-ships Mattawaand Methven have already been switched on to clothes, and houses, the people holds to-day will not and must Singapore, and it is considered who are willing and anxious to not be lost, and we will be pre- That this way be the harbinger of provide these things are prevented pared, not as a section but as a "movementy:to suzept any challe- a much greater extension of the from doing so?
There are not wanting sigur |ing to our" industrial freedom ́or P.O.5. services in the direction that, in more than one industry, l'economic emancipation.*
of the Straits and India.
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