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ONGYONG.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MAJAO PIGS AND IPIRATES.

CANTON & STEAMERS. -OINT BERVICE OF THE HOMOKONG, QARTON'»; MAULO STEAMBOAT CO. LTD, AND THE OBINA NAVIGATION 00, HID

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HONGKONG GANTON" LINETM

dellings --To Censon dally at 8 am and 10 p.m. (Hundays 10 p.m) only) From Canion dully at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Sundays 5 p.m. only)

9 AVIOR OF THE GONDRONG. OLUTON • MADAD STEAMBDAJ 00., LTD. HONGKONG-MACAO LINE

Bajaga to Macao-Dally at 6 A.K. and 2 r.. (SUNDAYS 9 AM. only). Ballings from Macao-Daily at & sad. P.M. (SUNDAYS 1 P.M. only).

Curtailed Sallings on 22nd an 1 28eð April. "MITI” from Hongkong. M. only.

SUI TAI" from Macio 8A only, EASTER HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS

MY TRAVELLING, COM. PANIONS IN CHINA.

EXCLUSIVE AMERICA

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Washington, April 19, The Senate by.62 to 6 votes passed the immigration bill, which now goes to the House of Repre- (By Stella Benson in the "Star")sentatives for discussion of the

Senate amendments.

EASTER SUNDAY :-90th April SOI AN? Inates Songkong at A.M. sud Indo-China EISTER MONDAY:-21st April) returns at 3 P.M. from Macão.

Further information may be obtained at the Company's Oerton,,da De Vanz Road Central, Misas. Taos. Cook & Box, or the American Express Company Hongkong.

DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.

NEW YORK BERTH

FOR NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA BUEZ.

8.8. "DAORE CASTLE"

.........Sails on or about 6th May.

LLOYD TRIESTINO

REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVIJL FOR BRINDISI; VENICE AND TRIESTE (FIUME). TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO GENOA, AEL ITALIAN, ADRIATIO, LEVANT, BLACK SE A AND DANUBE PORTS,

REDUCED PASSAGE RATES TO BRINDISI, VENICE OB TRIESTE.

£66.

NEXT SAILINGS.

OUTWARD FOR YOKOHAMA, KOBE, AND MOJI.

#3.8. "AUSS A"...

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8.S.

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HOMEWARD FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE.

S.S PERSIA”.

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*3.5"AUSIA”

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Bails about 80th April, Sails about 8th May Bails about 11th May Sails about 4th Jano Sails about 7th Jane Bails about 4th July Bails about 8th July Bails about 7th Angast

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS

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FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Parts. Through Bills of Lading lasued from Hongkong

For Freight or Pungo on any of the shove Line apply to:- Telephone Central 1033. DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents.

O. S K.

KAILINGS' FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTEBATION LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP --Via Slugapuro, Galambo, Auca and Port Sakl LONDON MARU... Wednesday, 30th April. RIO DE JANEIRO, KANTOS BULJOS AIRES—Via Minigun, Sẫn qupori, Gulaabe, Durban & Cape To

"CHIUAGOʻMARU..............................corona comiät Wednesday, 23rd Apr.

AMAZON MARU - monito ALPS MARU...................

SOMBAY→→VIL Singapore and Calombe.

BANGKOK-Via Saigon,

BUBHO MARU

CALCUTTA—Via Alagapore and Hangoon,

Monday, 21st Apr. Monday,

sih May Thursday, 1st May HAUDH MARU (Calla at Png).Sunday, 20th April VICTORIA, SEATTLE TACOMA & VANCOUVER-Vin Sheegtial sad Expo Parla.

ARABIA MARUaturday, 17th May NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, 529 Prsucisco and Panacea HAVANA MAHU..........................................s inte

JAPAN PORTS-Moll Kobe, Diska; Yekkstočí and Nagoya,

RYGJIN MABU......

AROUS, MANU",

SUMATRA MARU..

ARABIA MARU

KEKLUNG TAWATOW & AKOT.

SALJO MARU

Begfüning of May

„Sunday, 10th Apr

Tuesday: 29th April.. Wednesday, 30th Apr. Saturday, 17th May,

Sunday, 10th Apr. at 1 sm. AMARUJA MARU .....................................................Sunday; 27th Apr. at 11 am. TAKAŬ ría SWATOW & AKOY,

ROTAU. MASƠ MI LAm Promote wan Thursday, 24th Apr. at 10 am. TAKAO and KEEDUNG,

BATAVIA MARO...................................Borday, 18th Apr. For further particular plosse apply to

Tal Central Y 4089, 4038, 4090.

"OSAKA JHOSEN KÄIKHA.

K SHIMA, Manager.

BOSTON & NEW YORK.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

BLUE FUNNEL" LINE (OCEAN 8.9, 00% LD.' & 'CHINA" MUTUAL 8N, 00, LD.J

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE

(ILLERMAN & BUOTNALL 88, 00, LDJ -- „ALINGS FROM HONGKONG.!

18. "ENARESBRO" satuturan seasmin Canalist Apr. 8. KREMUNTM

ls dret May

88. "CITY OF GRAN” dismannenvia dues Canal.

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11th May Purnia „vis Suen, Canaliyomskizi May

• «KNARESBRO” will call at Philadelphia. desert prooved. via Suon Janai ur feusma Canal at Genere" "Option. Babjovi obangs wilcoat notice

For trelas.and parslouines appiglià.. OTTERFISKO & SWIBM ar TEE BANK LINK, LO, HONGKONG JOZOKONG 4 CANTON HOLYOAK MASSETƑ& DO, LTD. CANTON.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.

NGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRABY and IRON FOUNDERS, A} work dons in this, establishment ligualantood." "We hire over thirty yard experianon. We owo two Slipways end two soodtimodate any craft of 800 for long.

Town Office: 84, Connight Road Central, Hongkody qhipyard: 85am-Sal Po, Kowloon, Hungtong

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Hongkong Airf / L ̧¡ 1912,

Tel Central No.”

Tel Bowhood No, 9

Mengtsz, China.

LABOUR'S MIGHT,

London, April 19. Unusual Interest centred in the speech of the Premier in connec tlon with the annual conference of the Independent Labour Party at York.

Italy will suffer almost as badly as Japan under the Immigration bill, only 8.224 immigrants being Mr. Rumsoy MacDonald, open- eligible compared with under the existing law.

45,057 ing the conference, declareds that since January Labour had become The Italian Ambassador has unavailingly protested.-Reuter's bigger, not in size. but in mind. "The Party and the Cabinet" he American Service:

said, fare both doing well.". Mr. MacDonald denied the dictum that they were in office but not in power.

with the Russian representatives in London after years of mis- re-had not produced a brass farthing understanding and mischief which

The piz, even in China and Indo-China, where he is a res pected citizen. Is a poor traveller and a lazy fellow. Nobody except Susie the Mengtsz pie-hound-

No pig, in can make a pig run. fact, ever wants to see the world Yet the first thing the human

Tokyo, April 20. traveller notices in South China, Ambassador Woods lengthily and the southern conferred with Foreign Minister China seas is the seething activity. Baron Matsui yesterday after in the pig world. Your corres-noon. Ambassador Hanihara sent He alluded to the conference pondent, travelling at this mo- a second note to Secretary of ment from Yunnan to Hongkong State Hughes with a view to for a few days' shopping, has clarifying Japan's attitude as scarcely for half an hour together gards immigration.-Reuter. been out of earshot of the 'screams of affronted and unwilling pig- travellers since she left Mengstz. At almost every station along the line in Yunnan and Tonkin a pig. or a group of pigs, got into the train, and a pig, or a group of pigs, got out. One. Imagined

The Government had got to invisible tigers in the luscious, knitted green jungles below

grips with the housing problem Laokav licking their lips as our New York, April 20.Advices and a scheme was being drawn up train-squealing with tourist pigs from Seattle state that three to provide houses that would be a -went by, and then coming out American world flyers arrived at pleasure for people to live in. on to the line to sniff up the Dutch Harbour from Chignik last i He was glad to find the country exquisite pig-scent that we leftright. Reuter's American Ser- behind him in the view that the behind us on the air.

to

The travelling pig squeals in protest all the time it is on the road, and so no doubt. would other tourists squeal if compelled travel upside down with bound trotters slung to a bamboo pole. But the pig brings all its troubles on itself. All other tourists and domestic animals have learnt to adapt themselves to the conditions of modern travel. Elderly ladies have invented the air-cushion: retired colonels play bridge in P. & O. saloons; racehorses cross the Atlantic without a murmur; dogs merely wipe their muddy paws on the cushions of first-class compart ments all over the world; bullocks file philosophichalty up white was hed gangways into trucks; cats and cock-roaches frisk without fear on the decks of all ships; even a donkey could probably be Jured by a judiciously wielded carrot into any reasonable con veyance.

The

Not so the pig.

WORLD FLIGHT.

Cairo, April 19. MacLaren has arrived at Ziza.- Reuter.

Cairo, April 19. MacClaren has departed for Ziza en route to Bagdad. Reuter.

vice.

to Russia's creditors but had pro- duced unemployment and poverty for hundreds of British families.

Asked "Is Singapore still being pursued?" Mr. MacDonald de- clared: "We are in office with power."

experts' report ought to be taken

as a whole. There were things in the report he disliked, but if they began to raise details France, Belgium and Germany would do the same and they would be exactly where they started.

"Here is Europe's chance," said Mr. MacDonald. "Put it in opera- tion all at once and all together, then when that has been done go on and finish the job and bring peace and security to the Con- tinent."

the French claim that their little strip of territory is becoming over crowded with refugees from the pirates. And pigs. At Pakhai the squealing of the pigs is never drowned except by squealing of the wheelbarrows. The squealing wheelbarrows fun over the tills of squealing pigs; the pirates run after the squealing citizens, and that, one gathers, is Life at Pakhol, At Mr. MacDonald urged that their i Hoi-How a conducted tour pigs attitude should be to accept Ger-1 disembarks, descending, with loud many's word. He pointed out the squeals, by means of a squealing greatest daiger Germany now puller attached to a dipping junk offered was industrial deteriora- mast.

tion, not the danger of arms.

Neat, squealing Hakka women direct operations They wear travlike straw hats curtiined about with deep frills to their shoulders, so that their faces can only be seen when the curtain is raised and thrown back to admit of air or to emit a squeal of com- mand to a pig.

There is, I believe, a pirale-pig. at Fort Bayard. It came along side in a little junk to tout for shore-going passengers, but when

Mr. MacDonald stated that Dominion status for India was the He Labour Government's ideal. appealed to Indian friends to do their bit for British democracy to keep faith in the Labour Govern

ment

pig is so indolent and so obtuse that it will not put one trotter

He declared the Government before the other even to save

enquiry now being held was in no itself discomfort. No, it prefers

way an expedient for wasting to travel-by land squealing,

time, but must produce results bound, a fat farcial martyr with no ships are in harbour it prob-which would be the basis for con- attached, or by sea-ably dues a little pirating. Other sideration of an Indian constitu Stake squeezed into а cylindrical wise it could hardly look so pros. openwork basket and stacked perous absurdly on the top of other basketed pigs between decks with the salt spray blowing over it.

Your correspondent has both pigs and pirates as fellow-travel lers in this little French ship. The pigs rolled about like bales of cotton, came unwillingly. The pirates arrived of their own choice, Yet at this moment both pigs and pirates probably share an intense wish to be somewhere else.

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Mr. MacDonald did not see any reason why the country should be bothered with a general election for two or three years. He be- | lieved his duty was to carry on the Government and keep off an election which nobody wanted and which if it came would settle nothing.

It was a white pig, with tion which it was their hope would refied black markings; it was of help Indians to co-operate towards! an excellent pumpness, and yet the creation of a system which had escaped the excessive corset would be self-government. less corpulence developed by most Oriental pigs: it looked as if it were brushed and scented daily it walked with a racy sailor's gait about the bouncing boat under the tiway sail. Side by side with the lady captain of the vessel it ate out of a small special tub.."

The lady, who had a baby Our pirates, with a group of strapped upon her back and wore

He did not believe in coalition friends, boarded this ship, on her an old embroidered kerchief fold- last trip disguised as peaceful ed round her head in the shape of and did not think an election could Chinese passengers.. Perhaps a Victorian bonnet, looked not thereby be kept off. It would take something in the contours of their half so rich, romantle, and happy" at least two or three years to put figures suggested to the French as the pig. Your correspondent Europe on a peaceful footing and captain that their intentions were guessed thát the pig was a get industrial-relations establish- not honourable. At any rate, he pirate-pig as soon - 25 sheed in anything like a normal way. arrested two of them and found saw

scorn in the glance | Reuter. them to be wearing fire-arms it threw at the trussed, squealing, instead of lingerie. The rest of fat passenger pigs on the French the band escaped. The two cap ship's deck." The look was wither- tives:

now travelling-asing: it was the proud look of the regretfully as any tourist pig-outlaw that scorches the dull, res- under lock and key to stand their pectable citizen, the look of the trial in Hongkong.

reckless and romantic seafarer on

are

the

STUDENT'S CRIME.

Heliopolis, April 19. A British Air Force Corporal This ship has touched at three the seasick, landlubber. Our named Ryan was fatally stabbed ports since she left Haiphong-Yunnan brigands have that look near the aerodrome. Pakhol, Holhow and Fort Bayard when they pass your correS- A number of Air Force men (Kwang Chow, Wan). At every pondent. port the talk was of pigs and pirates,

Pirates.;.

pirates.

At

Pakhoi 15 wounded victims of pirates were in hospital. It is dangerou even for Europeans. to walk far from the dreary town lof Pakhoi.

At Fort Bayard

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Remembering that look, one is almost as sorry for the dull and absurd law-abider as one is for the

caught pirates yearning through.

pursued two fugitive Egyptians and caught one who dropped a blood-stained dagger."

The prisoner said he was

the chink of their rocking prison, student. It transpires he was Is domesticity, after all, such, a under police observation two years very paying proposition-either ago when Mr. Hatton of the State for pigs or men?

railways was murdered-Reuter:

SHIPBUILDERS. SHIP REPAIRERS. BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS. OXY-AUETYLENE, AND ELECTRIC WELDERS. MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

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OF HONGKONG,

-DRY - DOCK Length 717 Fență Length on Blocks 756 Fast

Depth on Centre of

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BUTTHEFIELD & SWIRY

HONGLING, CHINA JAPAN,

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1924

CANADIAN

STEAMSHIPS

PACIFIC

LIMITED

HOME VIA CANADA

Hongkong to England.

VIA Bmanomas, Nagaxami; Easy, Tomorama, Vamouvan, Mosennai, & Quinid,

From De Hongkong. VanDEIVEL,

X/isla May. May 10 E/Buania May 29 Jan 18 **

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England,

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26 July

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1. July 16

E/Scotland July 30 Ang.

Other Atlantic Ballings overy, Jaw days to Liverpool, Southampton, Glasgow, Antwerp, Cherbourg and Hamburg. Allotment of Oasis on Asiansion held here and through itekata ini.

Karly roosevation vocmonery,

Three Transonictal Trains Daly,

Standard Sleeping Cres, Cowpertmasta & Diving Rooms

Canadian Paolße Hotel at Vistoria, Vancouver, in the Bookies, Calgary,

Winnipeg. Montreal and Quebes.

**CANADIAN PADIFIO THROUGHOUT”

From Hongkong April 20 May 11 June 25

HONGKONG-MANILA SERVICE.

From

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OPERATING 0.5. GOVERNMENT SHIPS.

DXPRESS FREIGHT SERVICE,

FOR HONOLULU AND SAN FRANCISCO FROM HONGKONG BY DIREOT ROUTE,

FOR SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES. FROM HONGKONG BY DIRECT ROUTE. U.S.B." West Sequanx” ***

1,8,8,B. "West Chopaka"

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Das Hongkong 96th April Leave Hongkong 28th April

Das Hongkong and May Leave Honghong 24th May "BAN_FRANCIJO0 DIRECT

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Leave Hongkong 20th May: SARGO ACCEPTED FOR TRANSHIPMENT AT BAN YRANDIBOO OF WHEELE BAILINGS FOR ATLANTIS SEABOARD, PORTS. THROUGH BILLA

LADING ISSUED TO U.S. AND CANADIAN OVERLAND FOLIET, TO `BATAVIA, SEMARANG AND SOURABAYA, 0.8.5.B. "West' Faralom *

...Doa Hongkong 22nd April Leave Hongkong 94th April THROUGH BILIA OF LADEG ISSUED TO ALL PORTS NOT SKEYED,

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L. EVERETT,

Onormal Agent for JAPAN CHINA PHILIPPINES INDO-CHINA-STRAITS AND JAVA.

Lak Floor, Queen's _Bulking, Phone Central No._2008/"

G. F. BRADFORD, Bez-ARINA,

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.

KONGKONG A SOUTE CHINA COAST PORY' SIR VICE,

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Projected Sallings from Hongkong. Subject to alteration,

"VITY OF CHRISTIANIA"} 19th April

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