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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1918.

SHIPPING

P. & O. S. N. CO.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE

UNDER CONTRACT' WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT

TO

NEW REGIME AT MURMANSK

THE CHINA MAIL

WHERE THE RUSSIANS FLOCK,

[BT ARTHURE COPPING IS THE "NAW

Your Trus.")

MURMANIK, August

At the wur-made open" northern port, where the sua es no shining, and Rowers go on growing, and birds go on

WHY HE WAS LATE FOR DINNER.

AS INCIDENT IN THE SILENT

SERVICE

This striking incident, is told · by “Dolphin" in the Daily áfugl 1--

It was? p.m. in the smoking room of the dept of the -th Submarine Flotilla. "A signalaman came in in dripping foilskins, admiṛting a faxious awjah of j

MARSEILLES AND LONDON, singing all night long, we are in a pro- driving rain as he opened the door.

TAKING Pastane and Cargo TO

STRAITS, COLOMBO, INDIA, "AUSTRALASIA, EGYPT, &c.

1

Startapett to

Leare Hongkong

Calembe.

Noor

Connecting Mail Steamer from Colombo,

Due Marseille

When Passengers change Stasmare at COLOMBO

Due Londou

zone of order and safety, and know of the Russian revolution only by henry. Yet koow and hear of nothing else. For this is the haven whither care Russian refugees and (reimers of half a dozen other pation; ulicies. There are truckloads and traielorus of then occupying milway silings for days and weeks) and the utstanding word in their vocabulary is Bolsheviki thieving Bolsheviki. Als are there large wooden houses falk of lususes specially built with

Accommodation in the connecting Steamer from COLOMBO is definitely reserved in short suges and with countless long

Hongkong at the time at Booking.

On the Australian. Routs Tickets Interchangeable with Orient Line.

SAILINGS DIRECT TOTM

SHANGHAI, MOJI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

S. B.

Leare, Bloogkong About »

-Passangery may travel by Railway in Japan between Ports of Call, free of charge.

Noo. Trabshipment IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE MAIL STEAMERS, WILL LEAVE DIRECT FOR

INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS

J.

· MARSEILLES AND LONDON,

Dalling at SINGAPORE, FORT SWETTENÉAM, PENANG, COLOMLO AND POST SAID.

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JARRYING 1ST AND 2ND RALOON PASSENGERS AT REDUCED RATES.

STEAMERS.

PROFID SAILIN

LEATH

Leave

ET KONG

about

- Sront

abrał

Due t MARILLER. if calling

arab

Than LONDON abon!

THE INTERMEDIATE SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

All Cabina are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Berth Furnished with an Electric Reading Lamp.

Owing to the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to bu cancelled or altered without notice.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

Consignees are reminded of the necessity to apply to the Company's Agents regarding arrival of consignmente expected of which they have received documents or advice

Any damaged packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignees and the Company's Surveyors, Messrs Godu”-d and Douglas, as 10 am. on Mondays and Thursdays. All claims must be present within ten days of the teamers arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognise. No Claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

For Further Information, Page Fares, Freights, Haud Date of Sailings

et, apply to

P. L. KNIGHT,

Acting Superintendent.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

(JAPAN MAIL 8.S. CO)

SAILINGS, FROM HONGKONG BUBJECT TO ALMERATION. DATINATION

Shanghai, Kobe &

Yokohama

Nagasaki, Kobe &

Yokohama

STEAMER & DUFLÄCEMENT

Shidruoka Maru,

Kaga Maru.

Akt Mara,

|

* Nikko Maru,

SAILING DATA

Signal for you, sir, he interrupteri the 8 8.0. (senior submarine officer, who was cuating the doctor for « drink. The officer akiressed, looked at the paid, cand fora monent there was a pause in the chittor of talk, while those near hy turned and gunced towards (expectantly, 2.

hiur

No luck he said, in answer. to their unspoken question. Their faces were seriaus now, for Q3 should have been back from her putrol two days ago, and the entry of the signalman had brought the fact to the winds of evory- fece present.

eactions.

Of course, it may be the w It has been perfectly firhy All the week, and she might maily have been delayed a coeple of days by it," someone said. and the adicers round him clutcher at the straw. None mentioned wire less though the thought of it occurred to ench, and they know that attempts

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COAL, GENERAL IMPORTS and EXPORTS.

SOLE PROPRIETORS OF TAKASHIMA, OCHI, MULAKE, KISHIWAKE YOSHINGTANI, HOJO, NAMAZUTA, SAYO, KANADA, SHINNEW, KAMITAMADA, BEBAI, and OTURARI COAL MINES.

AGENTS FOR SAKITO C

COAL

Head Office -TOKYO,

Branches and

SHIPPING

PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.

U. S. Mall Li OPERATING THE NEW FIRST: CLASS STEAMTES" ECUADOR" VENEZUELA" and "COLOMBIA: 14,000 Tous each.

HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO,

vis SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA and HONOLULU, The Sunshine Belt.

The mori Qomfortable Route to Amalia and Eompe

-Sallings from Hongkong at Nonn. RS. "VENEZUELA"...O 8.8. "ECUADOR"

and the £9, #COLUMRIA "*.

پر

| grouped; tiers of shelves for i beds.

Some have been for three months and more painfully working their way by thaiays from mid ́er southern Russia, En their ranks babies are born and old men die, and still

across the they drift blurred geography of a stricken world. If God be willing and the Allies con tinue kind, and the last skirt or pair of

Representatives:- tronsers still holds out, they intend to get an answer from. 93. had been Nagasaki, Karatzu Wakamatan. Moji, some thay to reach castern Europe. made very four hours since she was Meanwhile their talk is of the Bol-overde. When a man cloes not know ure, Roba, Osaka, Tauruga, Nagoya, sheviki, the murderous Bolsheviki, whether he may be the next to be „Tokohama, Takyo. Hakodate, kuroxan, Otaru. Vindivostock, Paking. Timurtain, Dairan. Tainanfu, Hankow. Shanghai

In one group so ex professor of Petro-missing he does not dwell too much on rati University, who in his present the possible inte of an overdue boat, attire would not be denied admission to

"Tu a minute the general conversation an Fast End casual ward, was reviewing the dark chapters in Kussia's history since her serfs were liberated, the secret police, the Nihilists, the war, Rasputin, and now the darkest chapter of all, the Bosheriki, the awful, aluru Bolsheviki. His by me up to borrow a pencil

BOY RUTHLESSLY MURDERED.

"My son," said the professor when

was in full swing again, though the 3.0, only banished the worrieri lok from his face with an obvings effort to be cheerful

he

Sapin the door opened to admit the signalman entering barbour, sir,' reported, unconcernedly raising his voice slightly as the bearer of good tidings often will.

Thank you. Tell her to come

>

Taipeh, Hongkong. Cantón. Haiphong, Manila, Singapore Calcutta, London

and Now York.

Cable Address:

* Hongkong: *IWASAKI”. Canton, Haiphong: "IWASAKISAL".

the lad was gone.." bad # playoute alongside-port quarter-and let the Godesål, A, B, C, sth Ed..

in Petrogral, and hey were together

oficer of the day know, ordered 8.3.0,

Western Union and Bentley's...

in the street. Ther lad was douand none could have guessed from his nothing, but he some sort of voics how witch he bad worried during Agency for :-THE OSAKA MARINE uniform as buy cadet. Up came the last two days. severul Bolsheviki, several clumsy, crizel,

insensate Bolshavizi. They stubbed the little fellow with bayonets, then they broke his skull, then they threw him, stilt alive, into the water. Al and there was dignity in the contemptuvas » weep E the professor's are the stupid, dull Bolsheviki

Since leaving England I seem to have heard nothing but storica like that. My shin panion at sea was one who a few months ago lefs Petrograd and the works he laul controlled, there works thas employed 10,00) hands.

One day the labour unrest Tour the forms of

the

*A fow minutes later the captain of led his safe return to the S.S... banding Q3 entered the smoking room and report- him his patro: report as he did as. Clad

& FIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD. OSAKA.

*S. SAYEKI, Manager,

in sex boots and oilskins with a hugs For Particulars, apply to-- woollen scarf round his rock with ten day growth of beard, and his nice seamed and lined with whitesen "salt he looked more like the mate of a mailing ship than a naval oflicer.

Have a cocktail' offered the SS. (... and it was not until the writer, led- brought it that he asked what had hap

to delay 43's return. chused's Fritz (submarine) ray

Dandy"

of putting, bin into a sack last day out, and got him within a hawak nf

of the seck was tied: then he felt himself Laing rudely dragged for st where the deri var. Clearly he tipped out into the river. foresawhat was coming, having known athers of his class to perish that way: but the works hard i guard of old resented their master.. soldiers, mained but loyal, and they

Two days afterwards the wayward, cowardly Bolsheviki came cringing

my cabin companion and asked him to forgive them.

"I replied." he said, a voice at once! stera and and, "that they could.continue amiss them but I would put accept at work because I had no power to their apology and wished to have nothing more to do with them.

For in the prosperous previous day's it was his philanthropic hobby to establish

ni einbs and classes for his workpeople, and the paternal capitehat cannot help feeling a little sensitive, even when the bloody revolution is raging around hir

is

i

(corpedo) close in on the up survivors, and framt & seaplane on

coast. I surfaced then-to pick!

right over me and jiggere iny wireless my tail dropping as I dived again, and then he called up some of his destroyer pals and I spent

happy

day and a half doing theor when I ought to have been getting home." "He glazed at the clock. By Jove.

. I'll have to look slippy over my bath or

it be late for dinner

young man of 23 he looked younger still-entered the ward-room and apoin gised to the president for his lateness as he took his place at the table.

Half an hour later a clean shaver.

He was the captain of H. M Sub- marine Q3."

I walked up to where this little town TAXING THE GERMAN BACHELOR.

be and before & bumble habita-

out among wild dowers and

tion I found

un old

man whose worn,

dilepiluted clothes retained

dulled brass buttons and dimmed gold braid so that he suggested a poor, old,

The Chancellor of the Exebequet, is

ridically urged to make the bachdet for his single blessedless. Nobody

decayed "mariner of the almshouse in this country, however, seems to have variety. I paused to wish him good-day sister that municipalities should raise through my English-speaking Russian part of the locates ut his expense. companion, and the old man told us his yet this has becar dene savessfully, la story.

the German town of Oselatz, where single women as well as single men who are in feipt of a certain income pay a tux on dwie celibacy without complaint.

HEFUGER ONCE A ADMIRAL,

The process is very simple. All single people of marrying age are taxed with the following exceptiodu -

A few months ago he was an Admiral in high dockyard command, but the Bolsheviki had stolen all his property 12,630 tons THU., Tuch Oct, 11 a.m., and confiscated his money at the bank. 12,300 tons WED., 30th Oct., 11.,m. He had tied with the clothes ho stood in

and a little sum of 12,300 tons SAT. I9th Oct., II'sim. house, which was shared with another money. Now in this 9,800 tons SAT., 16th Dec, 11 a fantly, he and his wife [the barefooted cid larly was shaking mate at the door were living on that little sum of money and divorcues with under £315). They were as careful as they could be, bat, oh, the price of everything was very great, so their little sum of money was

wiftly running out.

Į

Bhanghai, Moji & Tetomi Karu, 7,000 tons FEI., 18th Oct.

Kobe

London or 'Liverpool via S'pore, Colombo, Delagoa Bay & Cape Town

Melbourne via Manila Zamboanga, Thursday Is., Townsville, Brisbane, & Sydney New York via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, San Francisco & Panama Canal Bombay via Singapore, Malacca,

& Colombo

Calcutta via Singapore, Penang

Rangoon

Omitting Shanghai and/or Moji

FOR DATES OF SAILING APPLY AT THE COMPANY'S

OFFICE.

Wireler Telegraphy.

HONGKONG VICTORIA B.C. SEATTLE

VIA

i

And when it is all gone, quavered the old man, "what can I do but shoot

1. Those who have only small incom.a under £00 per annum (widowers, widowe,

2. Those who have to provide foc. rela- tives (single persons who have less than'

£200 per annum of which they pay 10 per cent, for supporting relatives; widow-

myself1" And he went off with falteren, and divorcées whose income are over

In

ing footsteps to gather fuel in the wood. 15, of which they pay 30 per cent. for mentioning that house, I am re- the support of relatives); und lastly, minded of another situated within the

10. Those who have borne the respon town house with bulging planking sibilities of married life for number. embellishment, for even this town some years, to quote the worse through

lacking détails of frontage few weeks ago received a momentary scheine, and have become angle through scratch from the Bolshevist monster.desta or separation."*:*: From Petrograd an official received in- structions to send away

These few exceptions have proved to be the Allies He returned this simple answer : "I refuse quite sufficient, and, during the two years your command." Then kill him came that the law has been in force, there bas the knock-kneed order to the knock-bera no saxe in which a wealthy single kneed

adherents. So bomb ́ was

--

thrown which injured the house but not person has left the town through having to the official

Whereupon order was pay this tax. The rate is worked out en enforced and continues to reign here the basis of a municipal income-tax equal and over the contigious aires...

to 5 per cent. of the State income-tax, Within the last few da

few days the same sort of thing has happened at Archangel a fat in addition to the ordinary rate, Bolsheviki from elsewhere artrited single persons with incomes of £100 gay inaugurate a grotesque reign of terror, 5 per cent, of the amount of the State but it seems that they quickly decamped or to the municipality single persona on espying, arrivivu, & contingent of with 2500, 10 per cent.; and single per- Allied, soldiers, and without anyone with £750, 25 per cent casualties, peace and security were restored and firmly established.

Naturally, the tak is popular with the

On Saturdays Russian lad accoun married people of Cechats, and the single panied by his little brother, distributed ones do not seems to mind it either. The

the foregoing

and swinging

Manila, Keelung, Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokkaichi, Shimidza & Y Yokohama.along the streets of this town handbille burden is not felt heavily by them, sud children went do laugh where it has helped very materially to caso the Operated by the magnificient and splendidly equipped and punting their rafts, ad women put municipal finances. Considerable interest Passenger Steamers Fushimi Maru," "Buwa Maru," affairs, and men increased their industry

new zest into their, al fraco domestic has been around in Germany by the "Kashima Maru”.

1” and “Katori Maru,” each of over 20,000 with axes that perform, miracles of car experiment, and the papers show that Forst opposite poles are these in many districts people are now thinking two factors in the case the cowardly seriousls of introducing the tax into their Land crgal Romheviki I how about and Jocelifte

tons displacement,

Katari Mara, SUNDAY,

Nexu saling Hom Hồngkong

20th Oct, at iham Buwa Maru, THURSDAY, 14th Nor, at 11 gim.

Manila Eastbound.

For further information apply to

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

B. MORI, Manager

pentry

the jumple con kining, people 1 850. But more significent then" any spoken to words is the thin that 'is left unsaid.""

The talk of these Russian periple is void 'any reference to Germany. They are

of

so anumissed in their own infornal

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HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK.

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