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JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG, CANTON AND MACAO STEAMBOAT CO., LTD,, AND THE CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.,
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Bailings from Hongkong-Daily at 8,00a.m.
(Sundays and 12.00 Midnight [12 (Midnight only). Bailings from Casilon-Daily at 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Į (Sundays
14 p.m, only).
MACAO LINE."
FROM HONGKONG :
FROM MACAO
8 A.M. and 2 P.M.
(Weekdays only).
8 A.M. and 2 P.M.
(Weekdays only. ·
Macao Race Meeting Special Excursions to Macao.
On SUNDAY, the rith March.
MACAO TO HONGKONG
HONGKONG TOMACAO
8.00 a.m. "SUI AN"
9.00 am. "TAISHAN"
4.00 p.m. "SUI AN" 5.30 p.m. "TAISHAN"
RETURN SALOON PASSAGE FARE $5.00
American Express® Travelers Cheques
Definition of TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES-
"The system of Travelers' Cheques was originated in 1891 by the American Express Company with the object of creating a form of travel currency which would give the holder thu nemurity of a letter of credit and at the same time the conveniences local currency. The Company registered the choques under the trade moe of AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS QHEQUES' the word 'Travellers' being spelled with one '1'. The advant- age of the Choques was so apperent that other banking institutions adopted the system."
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THE SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC COMPANY, LIMITED.
SHANTUNG FAMINE.
THURSDAY, MARCH
EMPTY TALK.
CONSIGNEES NOTICE."
TERRIBLE CONDITIONS NOW VARIOUS CONVENTIÓNS NOT OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD.
REPORTED.
RATIFIED.
And CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION GO., LTD,
Consignees por Company's Steamer,
"SARPEDON”
From UNITED KINGDOM via SINGAPORE,
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THE
BLUE FUNNE
Poking, Feb, 24.
London, Mar. 6. Eran atera of 100 mu of land. Sir Auston Chamberlain drow are compelled to beg because of attention to the serious situation famine conditions in western Shan-being created by the failure of tung, says a report from reliable the Longue to ratify most of the pources by om. correspondent of League conventions, notably the are hereby notified that the cargo the China International Famine Oplum Convention of 1926.
will be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kowloon, where it will lie at Con- Roller Commission.
mentioned also conventions of im-)
sirico's risk and subject to terms and Tree-leaves, grass, weeds, cotton-portance to the shipping industry conditions of storage at Holt's Wharf. Roods and what not are used. In dealing with the freedom of tran- The Cargo will be ready for delivery place of food grain; chairs, tables, sit, the simplification of customa from Godown on and after 6th March etc., are sold to keep their owners facilities and navigable waters. Optional cargo will not be landed from starving: girls have to`bo nöld
here, unless notice has been given or given away lest they die, and) The British Foralyn Secretary prior to steamer's arrival, but carried that this condition is due to com-made a special appeal on behalf on from port to
port to the final part pleto crop failure, not to military of the Oplum Convention which of call to which the option extends, oppression, is a point touched up would only become effective when "All broken, chafed, and damaged. on by the report received at the ratified by seven members of coun- goods are to be left in the Godowns, Head Office of the C.I.F.R.C. this cil, and he said the lesson to be where they will be examined on any morning Passages of the original drawn was that the League should uesdays and Fridays between the report follow:
adopt only those conventions like-hours of 10.45 am and noon within
the free storage period. "He reports that they investi-ly to be ratified Instead of the No claims will be admitted after gated 43 villages to the West and large number which fail to become the Goods have left the steamer' Northwest of Libtsing, none of effective.
Godown, and all Goods remaining un- them more than 80 11 from Lint
delivered after the 12th March will Finally on the proposal of sing city. He mentions two vil
#BARPEDON" All Claims against the Steamar
CALCHAS lages as being especially bad-Signor Scialofa, the Council placed be subject to rent. Isino Hai 1 Chuang, and To Hat on the agenda for the next Ses-must be presented to the undersigned Chuang. In both of these places slon the queation of the failure on or before the 26th March or they people are reduced to eating the of Members of the League to will not be recognised.
leaves from the tread, grass, and ratify conventions.-British Wire. BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
weeds. Those who are a little less. better off are eating cotton seed, but there are few who can get the latter. In Hsiao Hsi Li Chuang, the homes are bare. People have sold chair, tablas, and all they have to keep from starving. People with anywhere from 20 to 80 mu of land are starving along with the rest. This condition is due to the complete failure of crops not to military oppression.
In Ta Hei Chuang, a village of some fifty families, only four or five are left, all the rest having left and become beggars due to all their livelihood being gone. People who had 80 and 100 mu of land are beggars like the rest,'
BRITAIN & JAPAN.
NEWSPAPER COMMENT ON
HONGKONG VISIT.
Tokyo, Mar. 7. Emphasising the importance of the coming visit of the Japanese combined feet to Hongkong, the Kokumin hopes the result will be closer friendship not only between the two navies, but also between Britain and Japan.
The paper hopes it may lead to
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No Fire Insurance will be effected.
Agents.
Hongkong, 5th March, 1928.
THE "ELLERMAN" FAR EAST LINE.
From BREMEN, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, DUNKIRK, ANTWERP. MARSEILLES, COLOMBO and STRAITS,
The Steamship,
"CITY OF ADELAIDE" having arrived from the above parts, Consignees of Cargo by her are here- by potifled that their goods are being landed and placed at their risks into the hazardous and/or extra-hazardour "At Hung Kuen Ying, only 10
Godowne of the Holl's Wharf, whenco out of Lintsing city, in one family a revival of the Anglo-Japanese delivery may be obtained. that the investigator mentioned Alliance in the future, as it con-:
Consignees also are notified that they are trying to either sell or siders the close friendship thus before Bills of Lading will be signed, give away two girls because they engendered would make the Singa-Band is required and Underwriters their signature to General Average have no means of supporting them. pore base no longer a menace to guarantes obtained to pay contribu- He eald that, in many cases, Japan but on the contrary serve tion required. away because the parents had no the Japanese navies, if ever the the Goods have left the Ship's tactile children were being sold or givet as a base for both the British and
No claims will be admitted after other way of keeping them from occasion demands common action and/or Godowns and all Goods 20- starving."
for the preservation of peace in maining undelivered after Monday, the Orient
12th March, 1928 will be subject to rent. While the Japanese generally
All Claims against the Steamer regretted the termination of the must be presented to the Undersigned allance, and many would like to within 10 days of steamer's arrival, see it renewed, it is doubtful, how-otherwise they will not be recognised. ever, if the Kokumin represents All broken, chafed and damaged the general consensus of opinion goods are to be left in the Godowns, at present regarding its renewal. where they will be examined on Tues- --Reuler.
days and Fridays at 10 a.m. within the Free Storage period.
COOLIE KILLED.
FATAL FALL INTO SHIP'S COAL HOLD.
on
An accident which occurred board the ss. Tanda whilst in port on February 21, was recalled at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday when THE DEFENCE FORCE. Mr. W. Schofield conducted an, in- quiry into the circumstances of the death of a coal coolic who was fatally injured by a fall into the con! hold.
deceased, who was working en
"The
the vessel which was unloading coal at the Kailan Mining Administration
| Cenlyard at Inlelikok on the evening
of February 21, was at the top of the
HIGHLY PRAISED BY SIR
JOHN DUNCAN,
1. " ' . '.
London, Mar, 7.
Major-General Sir John Duncan
No Insurance whatever will effected.
bo
Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by,
THE BANK LINE, LTD. General Agents. Hongkong, 6th March, 1928.
George Bricknell, a fruit hawker, of Skegness, Lincolnshire, went to
No. 2 hold of the ship passing the has arrived in London and will take a friend's house and stated he had
baskets to the men at the bottom.
It was while passing a basket down over the command of the Firot
that he lost his balance and fell into Division.
taken 200 aspirin tablets and would be dead in an hour. He then walk- ed to the police alation, where ho the hold, sustaining a fracture of the In an interview he paid a tribule died half an hour later.
At the in- skull from which he died almost im to the good behaviour and loyalty quest the verdict was one of "Sul- mediately afterwards.
After heuring the evidence the jury-Reuter
of the Shanghai Defence Forco.cide," without any indication as to returned a verdict of necidentul death,
the man's state of mind.
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