TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1917.
SHIPPING
P. & O. S. N. CO.
ROYAL MAIL SERVICE
UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTYS GOVERNMENT""
TO MARSEILLES AND LONDON,
TAKING PASSENGERS AND CARDO TO STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, &c,
DOA London 1917.
Steamers
to
Colombo
Learu Hongkong Noos
Connecting Mail Steamer from Colombo.
Due" Marseilles 1017,
When Passengers change Steamers at COLOMBO Accommolation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely resurvedis Hongkong at the time of Booking.
On the Australian Route Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.
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AND PORT SAID.
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Intermediate Ports for Six Months.
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16th-MONDAY, JANUARY 28th,
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A THE PROSPECTS OF”BALVAGE..
AFTER THE WAR.
„SOLDIERS AS COLONIAL GOVERNORS.
Badding Civil Servants who intend to become Colonial Clovaruora will have to
YIBITORS AT THE HOTELS.
HONGKONG HOTELN
Mr S Althen Mr S. R. Kieknoss Mr. G. E. AndersonMr O. Larin, "gal Miss. A. G.AndersonMr. and Mrs Mr and Mrs J: W. Lauritsen
Me H. Murray Bain Lavallon
Appleton Mr G. Guidon
f. 9. Baring Lawton me B. de Baan Mr and Med R. W
Mr and Mrs H.A. Mr and Mrs J. 3.
Baxter and child Leiria
Linn
Some hundreds of merchant ships, tropeaded by German su basarines during the three years war, are now lying with their various cargoes at the bottom of the Sea. Mush they la'there for svars of can they be reluated, as Germany is reported to have refloated and taken inte Antwerp harbour, the Gorman Lloyd steamer Ghearada, which was suck at the begfaning of the war in the Scheldt This question was put by a representative of the Observer to one of the best autho rities on salvage, and his reply was that in many cases, if the labour wore available, they-or, at any rate their cargoes-could certainly, ba saived. His
It is quite likely that there is some- conviction was strengthened by many ex amples of salvage in pre-war times thing in this ideo; for we cannot see the There was the half a million in.upert Parliament, as constituted on a speria that was recovered from still more .democratic basis than at pre the P. and O. liner which went seat. voting huge size from the publier 31. Courtney Mr Cisen down, in the Channel of Beachy
a move on, says the " Straits Leho. for there is a graving impression that after the war-whenever that may be Mrs E R. Balilios Mas Campbell all the best phins in the Oversea service My C. D. J. of the Crown will do reserved for the Mr. Ricbok, Mr. Little
Mr J. D. Birrell menatam who have helped our cater S. T. Bitting to victory, and that the Govaracritips of the Straits, Ceylon. Hongkong and ather. Colonies will be occupied for many years to come by. Generals who have made good at the front.:
Mr S. Longfield Capt B. Longland. Mrs H. Bleacher Mr G. Ludin
and Mrs.0. IMajor D. Macdonald
MEL Markey Capt. R. Bottemu and Mrs O. Mr and Mrs A. I Marriott
Bonet
Me H. E. Maslin Capt. & Mrs Branch Mr H. W. Mayes
& Mrs Brunemar Me MeNeil Me W. G. Browell – Mr D. G. k MaDonald Mr & Mrs Caepmail Mr Hovan Meines Miss M. Clarke Mr. Merecki **** Mr J. T. Van Cleve Mr J. S. Nicolson Mrs Colebarn
J. Loery Mr Chen, B. Costello Mr Wong tas Ch
Mr. W. B. Davenport Facker Mr J. D. Courtney. Mr and Mrs F. W.
C. D. O. Bakleorlit C. P. Perin
G.-H. LA Mr. C. W-Falk Mr and Mrs. M. 8.
Roux
Mr B. A. Robarts Miss F. Ray
Eead, and the £100,000 worth of copper funds to the returning victors as was done taken from the Slavonia after she was even as recently as the cases of Lord wrecked in twelve fathoms of water in Roberts and Lord Kitchener. The cost the Azores. As to ships themselves that providing reasonably decent peistoas have been salved, be recalled the French for the widows of Bill Smith and Tom Er J. Recals M. 2. H. Bay transport (wrecked on a rock), which lay Jares, private, and anbaltern, will be for six months under water, and was able to steam wway in less than three quite heavy burden enough wocks after she was raised to the sure Exchequer. Bat the warworn warriors face. There is the famous rese, also-to
Mts Corneliussen Mr M. Ganjoin
for the
Mr V. Goulbourn
Mr R R Boxburgh
Mr & Mrs J. Gould
Mr & Mrs R. Sallo
Mrs Grill and 3 Man Wan Sang
children ***** Mfr B. Sikora
T.P. Ball Mrs M. Slade
mention but one other of the Milwauker, will certainly, axpect a reward, and why Cap Hamilton Mr E. B. Smith
remarkable example,
of ship which was stranded on & rock, had to have not give 1. them in the Colones? Per the forward end cut off by dynamite,sonally, we do but know that it would be and a new part joined to the old, and is
air and Mas
and Mrs W.
Mr G. Harper Mr D. 8.Hewith
Mr A. W. Spiers Mr A. W. van der
Star
Dow, after twenty years wear, practia bad thing to have an able and energetic cally as good as aver
MP Templeton The fact is that neither ships nor rapper at Gasernment House in Singa. Mrs A. G. Hodging Mr F. G. Thompson. goes, except perishable materials and pore for a few years for nothing is sacred Mr and Mrs Paal Mr RJ. Tobin foodstuffs deteriorato very much under to a Sapper, even, red-tape: and should Mr. Shelton Hooper hoom
Hodgson
Capt. F. J. Vigo- water. The chief damage that a ship
1ers is when she is one half submerged, he able to destroy some of the tradi-Men F. M. Jackson. Mrs G. N. Walden and the engines at low tide are left totions of the service which hamper pro- Mr E.M, Joseph
Mr C. D. Jackson Mr and Mrs E. W. iry in the wind, Usually, when a vessel
Waterfall that has been wrecked is being radicated gress at present the Colony would have
& barrel of oil is poured on the surface of no reason to compiniu. the water, in order to leave a deposito.
over the machinery Repairs are quickly
**
But it does muke ̈us.i.little-melancholic
cted, and sections torn by rock of to think that the horizon of the local hattered by torpedo present no great
dificulties In the work of salvage for Cadet's ambitions will have to be bounded' they can be completely replated Valu in the fire by the Colonial Secretary- able
as ar the ships themselves that now he at the bottom of the sca, the
ahip of the States or the Chief Secretary- ship of the FMS but though the
ONLY A PROLOGUE.
Mr M. R. de JournelMir Louis Weinischenis Mr Tam Sing Kai Mr N. Whelan Dr FT. Kay Mr G. G. Wood Mr and Mrs E, A. C. Mr C. Zantz
Kinppers
MD. K. Blair
FEAK HOTEL.-
Capt. & Mrs H. M. Mr and Mrs G. T. Cameron Macaulay
Breakspear"
Capt. N. Branton Mr & Mrs Neil Mac Mr and Ms A. E. Intyre and child
Carleton Capt. & Mrs Vioris Mr & Mrs F. W. Cars de Mathos Mr H. Davy Mr and Mrs Dubois
of cotton, rubber, pool, Manchester goods, iron goods, machinery, and so on art considered to be more valuable still officials who hold those posts have The question is: Can they be recovered? interesting and important duties they
Iaiany cases, yes, they can this
cannu be termed pro-("cosula." time it is all a matter of labour, and authority repeated, "but at the present
few, if any, salvage divers left. What there is no labour to be had. There are
salvage labour and machinery there was has been taken by the Admiralty, who have appointed a special adviser, and ure doing. It is believed, a great deal of→ valuable work
therefore, can be done, except the Admiralty is deing, until the end of the war "There is no reason to suppose," it was agded, "that Germany is better equipped for this work than we sre. On the contrary the best equipped salvage association in the world is that in Liverpool Some of the German companies have more steamers, but they have not so large an amount of machinery. When the time is ripe, therefore, there is every reason to suppose that this country will unive its own ships and their cargoes."
BATTLE WILL BE SHORT IF IT | Mr F. W. Evins
The Man Who Gets There
Is the man who has blood- real rich red blood and plenty of its body. WATERBURY'S METABOLIZED COD LIVER OIL COMPOUND makes blood-lots of it—fifa giving, brain nourishing strength replenishing blood.
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The British and French troops ad vanced to the attack under the leader ship of the same chief, Sir Douglas Hai Their feat of arms was accomplished in & spirit of heart-to-heart union. It was the apotheosis of brotherhood in arms.
The "Journal" writes
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