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TUESDAY, JUNE
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AMERICAN AND ORIENTAL LINE.
PERILOUS TRIP.
.. (Continued from Pags 1.)
From NEW YORK,
The Steamship.
General had dismounted and wa lying on the ground.
CHINESE TYPEWRITER.
INVENTED BY UNDERWOOD COMPANY.
After tending him at the road-York Times of May 11th:
The following is from the New
side for two hours, the. General)
"New Haven, Conn., May 15,---
"WEIRBANK” having arrived, Consignees of Cargo appeared easier and he was able The invention of a Chinese type- by her are informed that all goods to remount his pony, and continue writer was reported to-day by John are being landed at their risk intoantil a river was reached. ThiT. Underwood, president of the the hazardous and/or extra-hazard-
as Godowns of The Hongkong and had to be crossed by means of typewriter company of this City, Kowloon Wharf & Godowa Co. Ltd., coracle ferry and much delay was which bears his name. whence delivery may be obtained,
He said experienced, The General No Claims will be admitted after
was that the first machine ever equipped the Goods have left the Godowns, and placed in an improvised stretcher with Chinese characters has been ail Goods remaining undelivered after but neither passers-by nor the built at the Underwood factory, and 25th June 1026, wil
will be subject to yak-drivers would carry it.
Rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersign-
DEATH OF GEN. PEREIRA,
را
Very reluctantly, Dr. Thompson
is being experimentally used in this country for Chinese business and is being shipped to. China for the use
ed on or before 2nd 1926, or they will had to. help General Pereira on to/of firms dealing with 'Chinese,
not be recognized,
All broken, chafed and damaged his pony, and the party slowly
"Little demand for it has arisen
goods are to be left in the Godowns,wended its way into Kanze. The among the Chinese themselves; Mr. where they will be examined on 25th relief however came too late, and Underwood said, although he be-
June 1926, at 10 a.m..
| ed.]
No Fire Insurance has been effect. he died in the early hours of the lieves that a market among natives
following morning. Sixteen Tof China can be developed.
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THE BANK LINE, LTD.,
General Agents.
Hongkon, g21st June, 1926,
Bills of Lading will be countersign-batans carried the coffin" to th "Chinese characters which are ed by,
grave, and General Pereira was arranged phonetically in accordance buried in the shadow of a great with a system devised some years Tibetan Lamasery at Kanze in ago by a Chinese student in this view of the snow-covered moue country, are used in the machine. tains which border the, river.
There are several hundred of these With the road behind impassa-at present and a rather clumsy and COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES long, Dr. Thompson was aided by that it will be necessary to reduce
ble and the road ahead difficult and unwieldly keyboard is required.
"Mr. Underwood admitted to-day
MARITIMES.
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The Steamship -
«Y A LOU"
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HOTEL LAUNCH MEETS ALL STEAMERS
Tol, Central 373.
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THE EUROPE HOTEL.
SINGAPORE,
Terms: A la carte or Inclusive,
Telephone in every room. After-dinner dancing every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
GRILL ROOM
Telegrams Europe Bingapore
Telephone 2750.
From DUNKERQUE, ANTWERP, MIDDLESBROUGH, 'LONDON &c.
a traveller who had just passedj through the treacherous Golo: the size of this keyboard by a de- country and had discovered that crease of characters. Consultation the proper route was blocked by with Chinese language students will fierce, fighting between the Goloks be held to assure that the reduction
is properly done. and Seta nomads.
The Golcks, the most dangerous In connection with above Steamer of all the Tibetan, tribes, laid an are hereby informed that their goods ambush for the party in a valley, with the exception of Opium, Tren- sure, and Valuables are being landed uut four friendly tribesmen ga and stored at their risks into the warning and the party turned du Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon south, and passed the robber camp Wharf and Godown Co. Ld., Kowloon in the night without discovery. whence delivery may be obtained 'im- mediately after landing.
“The standard American type- writer has about eighty-four characters. The machines made for foreign languages carry ninety-two characters. Typewriters with Indian Japanese, Hebrew and characters have been manufactured at the Underwood plant. The Hebrew machine, which was devised Not a soul was seen for days, eight years ago, was constructed. to-anid Dr. Thompson, 'yet all the with a reserve carriage. There has
Ontional Carge will be forwarded
on unless intimation is received from
signees before 12 noon
the
day
EERIE COUNTRY
Golok
it to be landed here. while it was impossible to rid been a lively demand for this from Bills of Lading will be countersign-themselves of the impression that Egypt, Turkey, New York, Boston" ed by the Undersigned, Goods re maining unclaimed after Monday the they were being watched. Three and Palestine." 28th instant., at Noon will be sub-days later they saw two ject to rent and lading charges. tribesmen over a hill-erest
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the Wednesday the 30th rapidly disappear when the June, 1926, or they will not be recog- was sighted. Eventually
the doctor
nized
The sole agents for the Under- and wood Typewriter Co. in Hongkong party and China are Messrs. Dodwell and Co., Ltd., Queen's Buildings, was Hongkong." Extensive stocks are safe carried. Phone C.1030
All damaged nekogese will bé ex-advised to geeuro Д amined on Saturday the 26th instant conduit by asking Lamas at 10.00 am. by Messrs:-Goddard &
most them. Four Douglas
accompany
cd
J. LIMAGE,
Agent.
Hongkong, 20th June, 1928.,
No Fire Insurance has been effect-villainous looking Lamad from
wayside Lamasery were procurad and they considered it their daty to sit outside the doctor's tent at night and maintain weird and wonderful howls, which kept marauders. at bay.
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From EUROPE."
The Steamship,
"BLOEMFONTEIN"
CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS,
EUCHARIST CONGRESS.
MESSAGE FROM THE POPE.
Chicago, June 21,
His Holiness the Pope has sent la message to Cardinal Mundelein Through Lanchow and Taochao, eulogising the city's spirit and the party got through to Paot' trusting that the sacred solemn. aochen, where they had the mis-ities will meet with the auccess fortune to run into a roving band deserved. The Pope bestows the of tufei. They were seized and Apostolic Benediction on Munde-. having arrived, Consignees of Cargo forced to career about the district lein the Faithful.-Reuters Amer by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk with them, but the doctor steadily ican Service.
take other than GIFT FROM BHANGHAI CATHOLICS. into the "hazardous and/or extra-refused to
Chicago, June 21. hazardous Godowns of Holt's Wharf, European food, and when the whence delivery may be obtained.
"Cardinal Bonzano celebrated
No Claims will be admitted after bandits agreed to allow him to the Goods have left the Gedowns and send to Paot-ao for it, he wrote the Pontifical Mass in a veatment set of handmade silk ceremonials all Goods remaining undelivered after a letter detailing his plight. 28th June 1926, will be subject to
For four days the doctor went presented to the Eucharistic Con- Rent.
All Claims against the Steamer
without food, his instructions to gress by the Chinese delegation as must be presented to the Undersign each of his messengers being that the gift from a group of Shanghai
on or before 6th 1920, or they will they were not to return. Fear-women not be recognized..
ARTHUR E, ODELL, Managing Director,
ed on
Telephone C. 980.
Tel Address, GLENEALY HOTEL "Glenealy," Hongkong. 3 & 4, Glenenly.
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and children.—Reuter's
ing he might die, the bandits took American. Service:
All broken, chafed and damaged Dr. Thompson to the Belgian Ro- goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any man Catholic Mission at Ta Moor. Tuesdays or Fridays, hetween
distance of
the The priest there endeavoured to River over the Ice and reached hours of 10.45 a.m. and Noon, with- negotiate for his release and their Paotao, in casy in the Free Storage period of One demands were for 1,000 rifles, four Peking.
Week.
cd.
No Fire Insurance has been effect machine guns, $400,000, and ad-
mission to the dŕmy.
Bills of Lading will be counter- #igned by,
THE BANK LINE LIMITEŊ
General Agents. Hongkong, 22nd, June, 1928.
FORTUNATE ESCAPE.
All this time the doctor hadi continued the mapping, with the result that the whole of this previously unexplored country Subsequently the agent of a was mapped. At every placo on Chinese official bribed Dr. the route Dr. Thompson, as a Thompson's guards, and travelling medical missionary, tended sick all night, he crossed the Yellow people.
Entertainments.
UBEN
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SAIRES
TO-DAY ONLY
UNITED ARTISTS
present
WILLIAM S. HART
in
“TUMBLEWEEDS"
NOT A COWBOY PICTURE
But a tremendous romantic drama of the great West by the only screen star who knows that vast region and the ways of its vaster people.
Big In Action.
Big In Thrills.
TO-MORROW till SATURDAY
June 23rd to 26th
LILLIAN GISH
in
"ROMOLA"
with
DOROTHY GISH
A HENRY KING Production
Distributed by METRO-GOLDWYN
TIMES
5.30, 5 Sharp, 7.15 and 9.30
THE STAR
TO-DAY and TO-MORROW
'WILLIAM FOX
presents
TOM MIX
in
19
“DICK TURPIN"
The story of a gallant highway man and.....
his marvellous mare, Black Bess.
THE WORLD
TO-DAY at 5.15 and 9.15
JANE NOVAK
and
GASTON GLASS
in
"THE DANGER SIGNAL"
DANGEREDARINGI ALL FOR LOVE.