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press of Russia Empress of Japan Empress of Asia Empress of Canada Bepress of Kusala
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Nev. 4
Nov. 6
Oct. Oct, 17 Nov. Nov. 14
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Empre of Russia
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Nov. 29
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(L/Asia & E/Russia call at Nagasaki the day after departure from Shanghai.)
Atlantic ailing from Montreal and Quebec every few days to Liverpool, Southampton, Glasgow, Antwerp, Cherbourg and Hamburg
HONGKONG-MANILA SERVICE
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH,
EXCAVATION OF TWO ANCIENT CITIES.
DESTRUCTION. OF POMPEN AND HERCULANEUM.
TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930.
OUTRAGE ON THE YANGTSZE:
CHINESE TROOPS FIRE ON
U.S. VESSELS.
Peking, Mar. 17. Chinese soldiers got completely out of hand on the Upper Yang taze on March 14.
THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
STEAMER FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO AND BOMBAY,
Through Bills of Lading issued
Batavia, Persian Gulf, for
Continental, American and South African Ports.
A highly instructive and in- teresting lecture entitled "Pom- peil, the Resurrected City" was delivered to a crowded audience by Professor W. Brown, M.A. B.Sc., F.R.S.E., A.M.I.E.E., at the Univer
They heavily fired upon two sity last night. The lecture was American steamers, 45 miles above held under the auspices of the Tchang, on which there werb The Steamship Education Society of the Univer-American guards carried for pro- sity, the chairman: Mr. Mak Kai-tection. hung, presiding.
of
"ALIPORE"
The p.s, Chiping was assailed ao carrying His Majesty's Malls, will furiously that the vessel was hit be despatched from this Port on or The about Wednesday, the 19th March, over three hundred times. U. S. guard returned the fire with 1930, at 4 p.m. taking Cargo for he rifles and machine-guns, and above Ports, number of Chinese soldiers were observed to fall.
The lecturer said that he visited. Pompeil in January, 1926. After likening Pompeli to the victim and Mount Vesuvius to the villain, the lecturer went on to give an ex planation volcanoes, their causes and effects. He pointed
The casualties include Lieu- out that Vesuvius had not been in 4
eruption for thousands of years tenant C. M. Winslow, and five before the disaster, and the people Chinese, who were wounded aboard living in Pompell did not know the the Chiping.
Leave Hongkong Mar. 31, 6 pm.
Arriva
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Manila
Manila
Apr. 18, 6 p.m.
Apt. 2 Empress of Russia Apr, 20
Empress of Asia
Apr. 4
Apr. 25
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13th May
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Mount was a volcano. He likened The s.s. Iling was similarly at the eruption to a steam boiler tacked, one Chinese on board being without a safety valve, explaining killed.--Reuter. that through thousands of years
of inactivity the throat
of the
Mount had become choked and
Silk, Valuables and tea for Italy, France and London (under ar rangement) will be transhipped at
ceeding direct to Marseilles and Bombay into the Mall Steamer pro-
London.
Parcels will be received at this office until 5 p.m. the Day before Sailing. The Contents and Value
of all Packages must be declared.
For further Particulars, Apply
Hong Kong, 18th March, 1930.
now a the
suddenly, in 79 A.D., it burst. the city and see houses, temples, Не emphasised that by the shops and theatres as they were into- nature of the burst Pompeil was 79 A.D., Professor Brown dealt MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
Agents. covered with mud and dust and not with curios, mostly now in museums with molten rock and lava, but at Naples and New Pompeii. There Herculaneum was covered with a were such relics as pots, pans, mixture that set like hard cement. plates, cups, bottles, glasses, knives, candlesticks, lanterns, The lecturer dealt with the forks, record of a letter which enabled chisels, callipers, gauges, surgical residential town, but was them to fix the time of the dis-instruments, beads, rings, etc. considerable distance from
to further Casts of actual human bodies of shore. That was due aster as August 24, 79 A.D.
the earth, The By means of a lantern, pictures people who died in the disaster were movements of were shown of the city as it now projected on the screen, the lecturer movements had been gentle, and appears, and Professor Brown ex- explaining that the bodies were there was the remarkable case of plained the scenes, pointing out buried and the flesh disappeared the marble pillars of the Temple of mould. During Jupiter at Pozzuoli, which had been re-elevated but that Pompeii and Herculaneum leaving a hollow were neglected and forgotten for the centuries mud had seeped in, submerged and 17 centuries, being buried out of filled the hollow and bardoned and never overturned,
Herculaneum, more solidly buri- sight, while fields, woods, farms it had been found possible to make and villas existed overhead. Ex-moulds of the bodies, in which the ed than Pompell, was now being cavations were not begun until features could be seen. Professor seriously excavated, this having one unbroken been found possible with modern about 1750, and were still going Brown added that
egg had been recovered.
methods. Some interesting die- Concluding, the lecturer said coveries had already been made,
a seaside and more were anticipated. that Pompeii was
од.
After remarking on the strange- ness of being able to wander about
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8 CALCUTTA
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