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5th Juna.
3rd July.
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AENEAS "BARP-TON"
3lat May
29th June.
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27th July.
"ANTENOR
24th Aug.
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Also cargo stosmors with Raited passenger accommodation si
pocially redwood caton.
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CANADIAN
Agents.
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QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC
TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER.
SAILINGS 1927.
VRA'VOT
Arrivo
STEAMERS
Hongkong Shangba!
LOAVO
Kobe Leave LOAVE
Yokohama
Leave
EMPRESS OF CANADA June 1 June 4
June 7 June 10
Jun. 19
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA June 22 June 25 EMPRESS OF ASIA July 13 "EMPRESS OF CANADA Aug. 3
June 28 July
July 10
July 16
July 19
July 22
July 31
Aug. 6
Aug. 9
Aug. 12
Aug. 21
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Aug. 24 EMPRESS OF ASIA Sept. 14
Aug. 27
Aug. 30
Sept. 2
Sept. 11
Sept. 17
Sept. 20
Sept. 23 Oct, 2
EMPRESS OF CANADA Oct. 5
Oct. 8 Oct, 11
Oct. 14 Dot. 23
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Oct. 26
Ogl. 29 Nov. 1
Nov. 4 Nov. 13
(R/Asia and E/Russia call at Nagasaki the day after departure from Bainghai.)
CONNECTING SAILINGS TO EUROPEAN PORTS.
MONTROSE
MONTCLARE
MINNEDOBA
Jaño 24
July 16
Aug. 5
E/AUSTRALIA Aug. 31
MONTROSE MONTUALM
Sept. 16
Nav. 10
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
AND":
AMERICAN MAIL LINE
(Admiral Oriental Line)
FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1927.
JOINT TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE A Regular Weekly Sailing
TO SAN FRANCISCO OR SEATTLE THE "PRESIDENT LINERS”
TO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
"THE SUNSHINE BELT"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
PRESIDENT PIERCE
PRESIDENT TAFT.
PRESIDENT JEFFERSON PRESIDENT GRANT
Tuesday, May 24th Tuesday, May 24th
Tuesday, June 7th-
Tuesday, June 21si
Tuesday, July 5th
Tuesday, July 19th
THEREAFTER FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON TUESDAYS.
HONGKONG TO EUROPE SPECIAL LOW RATES
Via San Francisco or Seattle
£112
£120.
DIRECT CONNECTIONS WITH ALL ATLANTIC LINES Choice of railway lines agrone United States and Canada, with liberal stop-ovor privileges for sight-seeing.- Ask for information. Following are suggested itineraries:
From
Connecting with
Steamship N. York
From Hongkong
May 18 May 24
* Vir
Spattie
San Francisco Anjostic
June
1
Boattle Leviathan,
7
Bun Francisco Olympic
June T
June 16
June 21
June 29
Boattle
a
Arriving at
June 23 Gea. Washington June 16 P'mth-C brg
June 26 Cbrg-'bmptn July 1 July 2 Cbrg S'hmpin July
8 bmptn July 15 O'rg
July 31 13 muh-O'brg
1Pmub-Obrg 4:2 Ang
610 brg 8'hopin Aug. 12 Aug. Aug. 10 O'bre 8'hmptn Aug. 16 Aug. 26 20 P'mth-C'brg Aug Ang. 24 O'brg S'hmpta Aug. 30 Sept. 30'brg-S'hapin Sept. 9
Gon. Washington July 23 brg S'hmptn July 29
San Franeisen Homeria
Seattle
San Francisco Sentilo
Leviathan Majcstio Berungaria
San Francisco Leviathan
July b
July 13
July 19
July 27
Seattle Aquitania
Aug.
Bon Francisco Majestic
TO SEATTLE AND VICTORIA VIA SHANGHAI,
KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.
"THE FAST SHORT ROUTE"
PRESIDENT LINCOLN... Wednes., May 18th, 9.00 a.m.
PRESIDENT MADISON
PRESIDENT JACKSON
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY
Wednesday, June 1st Wednesday, June 15th Wednesday, June 29th Wednesday, July 15th
PRESIDENT LINCOLN THEREAFTER FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON WEDNESDAYS
TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK.
VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ - PORT SAID-ALEXANDRIA-NAPLES -GENOA-MARSEILLES,
Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK. PRESIDENT HARRISON ... Tues., May 24th, 6.00 a.m.
PRESIDENT MONROE
PRESIDENT WILSON
PRESIDENT VAN DUREN PRESIDENT BAYES
Tuesday, June 7th 8:00 a.. Tuesday, June 21st 0.00 a.m. Tuesday, July 5th 8:00 am. Tuesday, July 19th 6.00 a.m.
THEREAFTER FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON TUESDAYS.
TO MANILA.
Frequent village to Liverpool, fellask Glasgow. Houthamptas, Cherbourg and Antwerp.
SPECIAL FARES TO EUROPE
HONGKONG--MANILA SERVICE
PRESIDENT. CLEVELAND
£120
£112
LOAVO Arrive
Hongkong Manila
May 17 May 19
EXPRESS OF CANADA
June 7 June 9
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
£83
-LARYA Arriva
Manila Hongkong
May 28 May 30 June 18 June 20
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Tol. C.752,
Tal. O. 42,
Cables: "AUAN PAC." . Cablory: "NAUTILUE,"
KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
MAATSCHAPPIJ.
Royal Packet Navigation Co. of Batavia.
M. S.
"VAN HEUTSZ’
will be despatched on 20th May.
For SINGAPORE, PENANG & BELAWAN DELI DIRECT, Offora oxcellent saloon accommodation, all lower borths English Cuisine, doctor carried, wireless telegraph.
1st. CLASS FARE to SINGAPORE $125.00.
In connection with the Royal Packet Nav. Co.'s (K.P.M.) services to all destinations in the Netherlands East Indios and Australia.
Agents-JAVA CHINA JAPAN LINE. Telephono Central No. 1574 York Building: Chator Road,
PRESIDENT HARRISON
PRESIDENT MADISON
PRESIDENT PIERCE
PRESIDENT MONROE
May 16th, 6.00 p.m.
May 24th, 6.00 8.m. May 24th, 0.00 p.m. May 30th, 0.00.p.m. June 7th, 8.00 a.m.
For Passenger and Freight Ratpa apply to
ROBERT DOLLAR CO.
GENERAL ACENTO.
HONGLONG AND SHANGHAI BANK BUILDING, GROUND FLO01 Telephones Central 2477, 2478 & 705,
HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS.
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, 'CANTON MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD., AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD. CANTON LINE.
Sailings from Hongkong-Daily at 2 a.m. aad 8 a.m. f (SundayS
12 am only). Sailing from Canton-Daily at 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. (Sundays
{
,
{ 13 p.m. only).
SPECIAL NOTICE.
The 3 p.m. steamer from Canton (Sunday excopted) on arrival in Hongkong berths at Wing Lok Stroot Wharf. All steamers will, as usual, leave for Canton- from the Hongkong Wharf.
MACAO
FROM HONGKONG:
8 A.M. and 2 P.M. (Wednesdays only)...
LINE.
FROM MACAO,
8 A.M. and 2 P.M. (Wednesdays only). CURTAILED. SAILINGS. Thursday 12th May-from Hongkong 2 p.m. fouly)
From Macao-8 a.m. (only) 13th May--from Hongkong 2 p.m. (only)
From Macao-8 a.m. (only) SUNDAY EXCURSION.
Friday
On Sunday, 15th May e.s. "SUI AN" will depart from Company's Wing Lok Street Wharf at 9 A.M. and from Macao at 3,30 P.M.
TSINGTAO'S CALM.
ONE SPOT UNTOUCHED BY CIVIL WAR.
no one
OBITUARY.
BRIGADIER GENERAL C.
PENROSE
of
CONSIGNEE NOTICE.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. And
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
"PHEMIUS"
not be notice bas steamer's from
Brigadier-General Cooper Pen- Tsingtao, May 6. Scene of historic allen strifes rose, C.B., C.M.G., lato R.E., died which soaked, her soll with the at Exmouth, at the age of 72. blond of the sons of other Jands, Born on March 8, 1855, he was Tsingtao is to-day, by curious the third son of the Rev. J. P. Consignees por Company's Steamer, irony, one of the fow spots in Penrose, of Woodhill, Co. Cork, younger brother of Mr. Robert Chine untouched by civil war.
Uniacke Penrose-FitzGerald,
From UNITED KINGDOM via
SINGAPORE. FRAN White Inland points resound to Corkbeg and Lisquinlan. He was the clamour of guns, Tsingtao, sent to Haileybury, and obtained a lovely city by a smiling sea, goes his commission in the Royal En-are hereby notified that the cargo will
normal peacefully on with the
gineers from Woolwich in 1873. bo dlackarged into Holt's Wharf, Kow- courses of life. Battleships le Six years later he was on active loon, where it will lie at Consignce's Just off-ahore, it la trae, but their service in South Africa daring the risk and subject to terms and condi- tious of storage at Holt's Wharf. a holiday ono: and Zulu war. mission is
From 1885 to 1889 he The Cargo will be ready for delivery when their guns speak, troubles even to look, for the was employed with the Submarine from Godown on and after 10th May. Mining Service of the New South
Optional cargo sound is only a salute to some Wales Local Forces: from July.
bore, unjogs new 'naval arrival.
1891, to December, 1806, as assist- landed
given prior to
carried on but arrival, In Tsingtao at least, the Chinese ant inspector of submarine de- been learned to wait for the wheel offences at Army Headquarters; and port to port to the final port of call
year as inspector. events to bring them their own. then for a It is a rather odd story, and some-From 1898 to 1901, he was Com-to which the option extends. where in it there may lie a lesson.manding Royal Engineer at Wel- haiwal, and in that capacity took The German Capture.
part in the operations in China in The first chapter opens on No-1900, when he was wounded and
mentioned in dispatches. vember 1, 1897, when the alaying
He became colonel in 1904, and of two German missionarles by local rebels in Shantung province in September, 1906, was appointed gave the German Government an chief engineer, Southern Coast excuse for seizure of Kinochow Defences, and in 1910, when he Bay and purt of Shantung Penin-was promoted brigadier-general, chief engineer of the Southern sula by a ruse...
Command. General Penrose was Admiral von Diederichs effect created C.B. in Juno, 1910, and re- When the Great ed the "eapture" of Tsingtao very tired in 1912. neatly from a military point of War broke out he rejoined and view by landing his forces under was temporary chief engineer,
of conducting
Scottish Command, in 1915-16, and pretende
The Chinese Com was employed under the Admiralty
received in
was created. 1917-19. He who had him with smilles suddenly C.M.G. in 1917. General Penrose found himself confronted with a married in 1885 Sylvia Alice, three-hour ultimatum. His smiles daughter of Mr. Thomas Greene,
had Dublin, and turned to tears, but he left. Score of
daughters.. one for the foreigner.
ocuvres.
mander
man-
2
German domination seemed clinched when the arrival of stronger squadron brought about Chinese consent to a treaty giving a 99-year lease of the district, on
March 6, 1898.
Tsingtao Changes Hands.
Years passed and 1914 came, laden with bloodshed all over the world. Even this distant bit of Shantung province was not to be spared. Kaiser Wilhelm. cabled to his army in Tsingtao, "God will
while you protect you
fight brayely; I trust in you."
Accordingly the German garri son broke down railways and bridges, increased defence-works, laid mines, landed sailors and
Japanese The
Second guns.
formally blockaded Squadron Tsingtao on August 26.
three
MRS. YAPP.
Mother of Sir Arthur Yapp.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, Tuesdays and Fridays between the the free storage period, hours of 10.45 am. and noon within
No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining un- delivered after the 17th May, will be
Steamer All claims against the subject to rent, must be prosented to the undersigned on or before the Blat May, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Agunts. Hongkong May 10, 1927.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. And
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Consignees per Company's Stonmez.
"TÁNTALUS”
From UNITED KINGDOM, vin "
SINGAPORE.
dis.
Mrs. Jane Yapp, who died at the Vicarage, Bradford, in her 94th year. was the widow of Mr. Richard Koysall Yapp, of Orleton, Herefordshire, and the mother of Sir A. K. Yapp, National Secretary of the YM.C.A., of Professor R.
"Aeneng having arrived per 3.5.
ba will Singapore H. Yapp, of the University of are hereby notified that the cargo Birmingham, and of Mrs. Stanton Jones, wife of the Archdeacon of charged into Holt's Wharf Row Bradford. For some years she loon, where it will Ha at Consignee's had been living with her daughter risk and subject to terms and condi- and son-in-law. A correspondent tions of storage at Holt's Wharf. writes of her:--Born four years The Cargo will be ready for delivery before Queen Victoria came to the from Godown on and after 12th May, Optional carge will not be landed" Throne, Mrs. Yapp lived a full and useful life until but a few weeks here, unless notice has been given the "Rev. prior to steamer's arrival, but carried father, AKO. Her Timothy Gammidge, was a Conge on from port to port to the final port In the midst of rainstorms and gational Minister at Ketton and of call to which the option extends.
in Rutland, and, under all conceivable handicaps Duddington, including hunger, surrounding despite a meagre salary, gave all point after point was captured his five children a sound educa She married in 1966, but with heavy losses on the part of tion. both Japanese and Germans. Bri- her husband died in 1873, and she tish troops gathered at Weihaiwel, brought up all her three children the free storage period. 900 strong, joined the Japanese to render useful service in one
No claims will be admitted after tha Although In the siege. Finally through direction or another.. furious attacks on September 27 sprung from Puritan stock and Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and 28 at Hu-shan and Fou-shan herself a devout Christian, Mrs. and all Goods remaining undelivered
to rent. the fate of Tsingtao was decided, Yapp was singularly free from after the 18th May, will be subject All Claims against the Steamer with a loss of hundreds of men. narrowness of outlook. Her secret
was must be presented to the undersized In the grey Fou-shan affray the for a long and happy life Japanese lost half of a company "hard work and faith." Her own on or before the 1st June, or they of 600. Ships participated in the devoted work and deep faith were will not be recognised. battle.
an inspiration to all with whom'
On November 16th the Rising she had to do; and, with them, her Sun flag floated over Tsingtao and common sense, her optimism, and, British troops marched through her love.
the streets. Germany was down and out but the foreigner still} held the reins.
MR. ALFRED TRÖDD.
Old Shanghai Resident, Another Turn of the Wheel.
The death has taken place of Japanese occupation meant ex- tensive plans and much work, Mr. Alfred B. Trodd, on board the The Japanese population ran up str, Katori Maru at sea. to 10,000 in a few months, 18,000 by the end of 1918, and 28,000 in residents
1922.
All broken, chafed, and damaged goda are to be left in the Godowns, Tuesdays and Fridays between the where they will be examined on any hours of 10.45 a.m. and moon within
No Fire Insurance will be effected. BUTTERFIELD & BWIRE.
Agents... Hongkong, May 12, 1927.
Sidney Colvin, the art and liter- Ary eritie and friend. of R. L Stevenson, was born at Norwood, a Scholar of Trinity College, Cam- London, in June, 1846. He was
his college in 1868. In 1873 he bridge, and became a Fellow of was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art and in the following year bocama Director of the Fitzwil- to London' on his appointment liam Museum. In 1884 he removed as Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum
Mr. Trodd was one of the oldest in Shanghal, having arrived in the Settlement in the China had given up Tsingtao year 1875, He was the uncle of without a struggle and watched Mrs. Frank Lloyd and Mr. W. J. the Germans lay out a model city. Gande, and at the time of his death China watched the bloody foreign was proceeding Home accompanied clash which brought Tsingtao by Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd. under the Japanese flag. But
For many years Mr. Trodd was
His fine artistic taste, wide now another turn of the wheel associated with the Shanghai Gas knowledge of art and literature took place, and the Washington
Conference of 1921 suddenly, and Co., but he retired from this firm and high ideals were exemplified in a measure unexpectedly, put in the year 1910. He was a mem-in many critical, historical and this "Magic City of Asia" back ber of the Shanghai Volunteer biographical articles, contributed under the five-barred flag of the Corps for over 25 years and many to reviews and magazines. His older members of the S.V.C. will chief publications in book form Chinese Republic.
remember him as their Sergeant are his lives of Landor and Keats "A Florentine Picture-Chronicle," Major.
"Early History of Engraving In England," the Edinburgh. edition of R. L. Stevenson's worka, edi- tions of the letters of Keats and of the "Vailima, Letters" of Ste- London, May 12.--
venson which were chiefly addres- Tho death is announced of ad-sed to Colvin and other letters of. miral Lord Walter Kerr-Reuter, the novelist, He also contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Dictionary of National Blogrupby.
LORD WALTER KERR. A Hero of Lucknow,
To-day Tsingtao la, therefore, a city of mixed population-Ger- man, Japanese, Russian, English, American, Chinese and what-not but all under Chinese jurisdic- tion. Chinese operate the water. works, build new and bettor bridges on the railway, keep up the streets, administer the laws. They seem to be doing a good job,
Lord Walter Kerr, Admiral of And they are keeping Tsingtao clear of the elsewhere almost the Fleet, G.C.B., K.C.B., was born universal strife. Perhaps here, in Scotland, September 28, 1889, in this pleasantly situated plea- He was educated at Radley Col- sure-ground of the Far East, It lege and entered the navy in 1853. 11861-1866 he served in the Bal is realised fully at last that war never payu.
tie. He was with the Naval Brigade at the relief and battle of Lucknow. In 1872 he was
The schooner "Vaterland," ball-made Captain, Rear Admiral in ing around the world to exhibit 1989, Vice Admiral in 1895, and German Industrial products and Admiral in 1900. In 1904 he was develop commercial good will, has created Admiral of the Fleet. sailed from New York after re-
SIR SIDNEY COLVIN turning an American flag captured during the war. Count Fellz von
commander of the Friend of R. L. Stevenson. Luckner, schooner, was captain of the rald- or "Sea Engle," an American vessel that was seized by the Gër-
mans.
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London, May. 12. The death is announced of Sir Sidney Colvin Router.
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But his authority and influence extended far beyond his published work. He was a man of many, friendships. The most interesting of these was his long association with Stevenson who kept in touch with him even in far-off Samoa and who regarded him as his liter nry mentor.
In 1911 Colvin was kulghted and In 1912 he resigned his post at the British Museum; His "Memoirs and Places appeared in Nov. 1921, He hae had many foreign academic distinctions conferred on him and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter
Etchers.