SHIPPING MISHAPS.
USA LUZON RUNS ON DREAKWATER.
Yangtze Patrol, was the fourth vasse
In
PIRATES CAPTURED.
THREE HOURS FIGHT WITH WATER POLICE.
7
Talchow. When the piracy became
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
CAMOENS DAY.
POET'S ASSOCIATION WITH MACAO.
ARMY STORES.
THEFT OF CEYLON TEA
AND BULLY BEEF.
The theft of Army provisions able sum of money, was investi amounting in value to a consider- at the Central Police Court res gated before Mr. E, W. Hamilton terday afternoon.
ACJUNE 15, 1929.
CONSIGNEES. • NOTICE.
THE BEN LINE STRAMERS,
LIMITED
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', LONDON and STRAITS.
The Steamship,
"DENDOBAN".
Consignees of Cargo are hereby
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(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND) NM, Taking Cargo on through Bills of Lading för Straits, Jays and Burma, Veylon, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius, E. & 8 Africa, Australasia, including, New Zealand & Queensland Ports, Red Bed, Egpyt, Constantinople, Greece, Levantine Ports, Europe Ita
informed that all Goods are being PENINSULAR ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.
(UNDER CONTRACT WITH ELM. GOVERNMENT.)
Tons
From Hong- kong (about) 5,318 15th Juno
landed at their risk into the hazardous Tho, Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and/or extra hazardous Godowns of
and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or obtained.
Shanghai, June 10. A fishing vessel and an empty Junk Running arround on the Woosung wore captured by a band of pirates
Macao, Juno 11. breakwater where she is now lying at Woosung last week. Tim pirate. with big holes in her bow, the U.S.S band numbering 20 have been operate names of Portuguese celebrities. Among that splendid array of Luzon, flagship of the American ing along the coast of Wenchow and during the 14th and 16th cen- to suffer mishap in an unparalleled known to the Woosung polico authortturies, Portugal's golden age, 24 hour period of shipping accidents ties, a detachment of water police there is none that rivals Luiz Vaz
Shanghai
walers The Luzon men,
under the command of Chief In- de Camoons, the prince of Portu struck on Wednesday night at 10
Chiang freighter Kersion Miles collided with
tuguese nation. Pursuit.
He died on the 10th June in the year 1580, and the Norwegian motor ship Tal Yang near Tungtha Spit, tearing three
very year on the anniversary of gaping holes in her side and forcing
his death the Portuguese observe bor back to port with
temporary
the occasion in a solemn manner. plugs in the holes and pumps working
The 10th June has come to be at full
pressure.
The fourth vessel
called Camoens Day, and a public the B. and S. steamer Shantung
holiday is declared in the poet's which steamed Into port early yester
honour. day morning with a fire in her holds which the crew had battled for more than 100 miles.
o'clock, four hours after the Germans in, was immediately guese poets and bard of the Pori Marshall in evidence, stated that from the wharven delivery may hel
Tho
battle between the police and the pirates ensued when the police caught up with the pirates near Ya Ku laz. The police fired a shot and ordered the pirates to heave to,
pirates returned fire and the battle was on continuing from three o'clock in the afternoon until after six o'clock in the evening, resulting in the capture by the police of the pirate lender, King Sino-pao, alias King Fel-long, and five others of the band.
No claims will be admitted after
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All claims against the steamer must presented to the Undersigned on or
*KASHGAR before the 3rd July, 1920
MIRZAPORE All broken, chafed, and damaged | ALIPORE where they will be examined on the Goods are to be left in the Godowns, KHIVA 18th Inst, at 10 am, by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas..
signed by
No Fire Insurance has been effected. BIIL: of Lading will be counter GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.. Hongkong, 12th June, 1020.
LOCAL RADIO.
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| 16.558! 22nd Juno. 7648 29th June,
9,005 6th July. 1. 6,715 9th July.
*Calls Casa Ulanoa.
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SIRDEANA 7,745
25th June. 4th July. 24th July. 29th July.
8'poro, Ponang & Caloutta. S'pore, Penang & Calcutta
S'pore, Panang & Caloutta
S'pore, Penang & Caloutta
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Two R.A.S.C. officers, Captain Williams and Lieut R. W they discovered the loss when,
(JEYPORE in checking the stores towards the end of last month, it was dis- the Goods have left the Godowns, and RAJPUTANA covered that 847 lbs. of Ceylon all Goods remaining undelivered after PERIM tea, valued at £45, and 120 casca the 19th inst. will be subject to rent of bully beef were missing from the Supplies Reserve Depot at Queen's Road East,.. Macao's name is linked very in-from the Wanchal Station seized Investigating the case, the police Salvago operations aboard the
timately with that of Camoens, 125 lbs, of tea and 120 tine of U.S.S, Luzon, flagship of the Yangtzo
Leader, Five Others Captured,
and thero is very special reason the beef at a shop at No, 13, Des "Patrol, which went hard aground on the fray, and one of his band was revered by the people of Macao, marks on the tins and cases were
The pirate leader was wounded in way his name should be greatly Voeux Road the shoals off the north end of the killed. Six of the band jumped over- fer Camoens himself was among said to distinguish them as the West. Certain Weosung Breakwater at 10 p.m. on board and escape in one of the cap- the Portuguese who landed Wednesday, were practically complet-trred vensole. Five others were cap-Macno when the peninsula was keeper was charged before the
k Inte
hour last night. Early
at missing stores, and the shop. this morning an attempt to refloat the
tured. Runboat
and move her into drydock ment were wounded and were taken by the Emperor of thing in re-a receiver of the stolen goods.
Three members of the police detach taken over after its presentation Magistrate yesterday with being is to be
be made. Rear-Admiral Thomas T. Craven, the Lester Chinese Hospital, turn for services rendered in the Commander of the Yangtza Patrol. ey slawed great courage during the destruction of a pirate fleet. He detailed by Mr. Leo d'Almada, The case for the shopkeeper, as who was aboard the U.S.3. Luzon fight, firing more than 1,000 rifle then remained at Macao, many Sar. was that he was prepared when the mishap occurred, directed pirates resisted stubbornly, standing him back to India, and legend has were part of the missing stores, lots and about 80 gun shots. The months awaiting a ship to carry to believe that the goods seized operations
when American naval mechanica
a crew from the Shang- before the band broke up in an effert it that he was an habitual fre- but they contended that it
by until the polico closed in on them bal Tug and Lighter La., wore busy plugging up two deep grishes in the to cicape.
quenter of the world-famed grolton bona-fide purchaso mado bow of the gunbont.
that bears his name. Ho had al- three occasions from a European ful, poem which was later to bring European had not been identified. ready begun work on the wonder-who appeared in uniform. This him so much fame, and it is bc- lieved that in the charmed scclu-evidence of finding the goods an detective gave he composed a great portion of his dant. He said the deal was not sion of the now celebrated grove premises occupied by the defen- immortal epic, the Lusiads. shown in the man's books, but were produced which And cach year on this Portu-two billa guese holiday all the school child-ahowed that the defendant many thousands, come to this na- the central part of the city, pag- ren of Macao, to the number of bought the goods from a show. in tonni shrine to pay homage to the ing in Оне саве a price which undying memory of the man why was agreed as a good one for has left to posterity in the lines that class of goods, of his epic story, the Lusiads, the tale of that great achievement which will forever be associated with the Portuguese race, the dia- covery of the aca route to the East.
The mishap occurred when the Ragship, together with the U.S.S. Helena, were returning from target practice at sen. The Lauzon was in charge of a pilot. The weather wan a bit foggy, but just how the accident took place has not been determined, The crash came suddenly..
All Hands Called,
Boatmen Rescued.
Cung Ling, who had been captured Two boalmon, Chang Dah Fa and by the pirates along with their boats, were rescued by the police,
Pun Lai Association, who accompanied Mr. Ling Mei-ching, chairman of the police in the pursuit of the pirate band, was high in
his praise of their courage and has arranged a
All hands were called on deck, lite order to formulate a plan for ade. special meeting of the association in beats manned and preparations madequately expressing the association to take off the ship's personnel. An appreciation of the bravery of tho Investigation revenind that the gun police, and to commend those who bost was hard, aground and
was took part in the conflict, taking water rapidly through
two targe holes her bow. The compart- ment in which the water was pouring However, from the immediately
the rest of the ably and
gunboat stood.
"cut
La
off
the
no immediate
Heron
danger, the crew remained on board,
Both
the Oahu and Helena slood by to render assistance, while two motor launches from II.M.S. Kent were put out to offer nid.
The mine layera and Finch went to the nexistance of the ground- ed flagship and work on plugging up the holes started. Early
Yesterday morning special naval parties went to work unloading lonie gear and making temporary repairs, while the crew of a
lighter sent out by the Shanghal Tag and Lighter Co., TO- a large quantity of oil. Late Yesterday afternoon, the Shanghai Tug and Lighter Co., was officially Instructed to take over the salvage operations.
Temporary Repairs Made.
CAPE ELECTIONS.
CLEAR NATIONALIST MAJORITY.
Capetown, June 14. The state of the parties is: Nationalists
South African
Creswellite (Labour)
GB. 59.
G.
3.
Later.
National Council (Labour)
A Thinker and a Poet. Professor Edgar Preatage speaks thus of Cameenia:-"He in thinker as well as a poet, and he reveals a personality so virile and deep, a philosophy so broad and human, a vision so wide, and
A Chinese
was on
had
The police stated that beyond mentioning
the name of the shop, defendant was unable to give the exact location of
tho firm from which he said he had bought the goods.
The case was adjourned until the 21st instant, at 2.16 p.m.
Inter acquired by the Portuguese Government and has thus been secured to the nation for ever.
Every visitor of any distinction
The Nationalist press mouth-foremost of Peninsular bards but to Camoens is that of the British
The Nationalists have secured a clear majority over all parties. ieco puts this finally to be ten,
The South African party admite eight,
The
predominating question now la whether Mr. Hertzog will been all most completed and na efferiment, or renew the co-operation By midnight temporary repairs had form a solely Nationalist Govern- to refloat the gunboat was to be made of the five Creswell Labourlies, early this morning, Lieutenant-Com- Reuter. mander J. M. Doyle, the skipper and the entire crew are still on board where they will remain until the flag. ahip is placed into drydock should she prove in
in sufficient seaworthy con- dition to ba moved.
A dense for
ty of Tunceling in the damaged.
a form and style so nearly per-comea to Macno's sacred shrine, feet, as not only to make him the and the latest homage rendered residents in China, when, on 22nd February, 1928, Sir Miles Lamp- sot, British Minister to China, on a visit to Macao, placed a tri- bute at the foot of the pédestal on which the bronze bust stands. The tribute, which takes the form of a wreath of laurel, leaves in bronze, bears the following in- acription:
to entitled him to a place in that knall company of universal poets of the first rank.... and a score of his sonnets, two or three of his elegles, and the Babylonian roundels will canzone, eclogues and bear comparison with any com position of the same kind that other literatures can show."
therefore, that from many landa It is not matter for wonder,
tributes have come to the name of
"A Tribute of Appreciation to Luiz De Camoens
1928."
this allowed atmos
Yang, which was outward bound, was smashed into on the starboard side by the German ship which was Shang. hal bound. Both were considerably Camoens, and some of these en-
graved on granite slabs, mortised Frota British Residents in Chins, Spit, about 40| The Norwegian ship from Shanghai, a beloved to above and below the water line in grotto, may still be seen, and was holed into the rocks that form the have caused the collision between three different places, near the star-here even the Chinese viceroy, Ki-phere come the school children of
Kore the s.. Tai Yang, Norwegian motor board bow and No. 2 and 4 holds, ying knelt before the grotto to do Macho once every year to hear the ship chartered by Mekarz. Doswell while the Kersten Miles suffered a and Co., and the Kersten, Miles, Ger- very baily damaged bow, about 12 to The bust which surmounts the to this spot they bring their little homage to the Portguess, Hage story of Camoens told again, and man twinacrew steamer of Mears. 15 plates being stove In Ghg. Slemera and Co., of Hamburg.
The collision took place at about Yang indicates that the Norwegian zas from the Lusiads, was erect the foot of the statue of him who The damage sustained by the Tai pedestal, on which are some stan- floral tributen which they lay at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesday and the Tai akip was struck three times.
ed in 1866 by Comendador Lou- "wrote the Lusiads, that famous renco Marques, who was an ardent epic in which the glorious history admirer of the poet and his work of his country is entwined with n and within whose cstate
master's hand with the tale of the grotto stood. The estate was first voyage of discovery to India."
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