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THE CHINA MAIL..

3-000-MILE VOYAGE.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926.

DODWELL & COMPANY,

LTD.

FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK Via SUEZ.

" ́§.S. "BOWES CASTLE"

on or about middle of December.

LLOYD TRIESTINO

REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (FIUME)," TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING. TO GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS."

REDUCED PASSAGE RATES TO BRINDISI, VENICE OR TRIESTE.

"A" Clam $72.10.08.

"B" Chan £66.0.0d. NEXT SAILINGS.

QUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAL, YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJL

M.V. "ROMOLO"

S.S. FIUME-L

From Hong Kong,

Sails on or about 6th Jan., 1927. Salls on or about 5th Feb., 1927.

HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE.

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M.Y, "ESQUILINO"

S.S. "VENEZIA

SS. "ROMOLO"

S.S. "FIUME-L"

From Hong Kong. Salls on or about 10th Dec. .Sails on or about 7th Jan... 1927.

Salls on or about 4th Feb., 1927. Sails on or about 4th March, 1927.

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS

FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO

SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

"UMZUMBI **UMSINGA"

Salis from Calcutta End of Dec. Salls from Calcutta 31st Jan... 1927.

Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Porta:

Through Bills of Lading issued from Hong Kong,

For Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:--

DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents. Telephone Central 1030..

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SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,

LONDON, "HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP—Via Singapore, Colombo,

Sces and Port Sald."

ANDES MARU................Wednesday, 15th December

SHIPPING SECTION.

DEAL DENIED.

LEYLAND AND RED STAR · LINES.

New York, Dec. 10. Mr. Franklin, President of th

International Mercantile Marine. denies the statement published in the New York press, that the Royal Mall Steamship Company has of- fered to purchase, the Leyland and Red Star lines. He added that he has received no offers and is "not negotiating A yale. Reuter's American Service.

ARMS TRAFFIC,

"BENGLOE'S" PAİNTER

JAILED.

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For possession of 3 revolvers and 200 rounds of ammunition, Man Put, a painter on the s.8. "Fongloe" Mr. was yesterday sentenced by J H. B. Nihill to two years' hard labour..

Mr. F. G. Vaux (defending). for pleaded guilty" und kod leniency as, it was alleged that de- fendant had been forced to carry the arms for the No. 1 seaman. De- fendant had only made one trip to Hurope and could not have been im plicated before in the muggling "game," submitted Mr. Vaux.

For the Police it was stated that defendant WHE nrrested when boarding & bus in Kowloon, after landing from the "Star" ferry, and a serious view was taken."

PASSENGER LIST.

M

ARRIVAL. Among the first class passer gers who arrived in Hong Kong 011: the "President McKinley' on Dec. 9 were :—

Mr. and Mrs. J. de Acuña, Mr. H. C. Pullen, Mr. J. J. Stranle, Mr. Ma Ying-plu Mr. A. A.

NO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vi Saigon, Singapore Mr. Ma Ying-pit

Colombo, Durban & Capstown.

MANILA MARU

BOMBAY-Via Singapore and Colombo.

UGA

MARU

Monday, 17th January.

.Thursday, 16th December,

SUMATRA MARU (Calls at Penang) Sunday, 19th December DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND

MOMBASSA Via Singapore and Colembo.

MEXICO MARU...

CALCUTTA Via Singapore and Rangoon.

BINGO MARU

• BANGKOK-Via Saigon

KOHSO MARU

Wednesday, 22nd December.

Saturday, 25th December. End of December.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER via Shanghai and Japan

Porta

ARIZONA MARU (From Shanghai) Tuesday, 14th December. BAIPHONG- HOIHOW & PAKHOL

TAIKWA MARU

MENADO MARU

Saturday, 11th Dec.. 10 a.m. Friday, 24th Dec., 10 a.m.

NEW YORK-V Japan ports. San Francisco and Penama.

Hamburg Mari....

JAPAN PORTS

.HONOLULU

MARU...

MARU

FATTLE MARU..

ILUNG

(From Kobe) Wednesday, 15th December.

vis SWATOW & AMOT.

MENADO MARU

XALJO MARU

HOZAN

TAINWA MA

YAKA in SW.TOW

·TAKLA

ROTSU MAR

BAIREN 718U HEFOO and TSINGTAU.

CHUKWA MARU...... For further particulars please apply Tel. Centen) No. 4088, 4089, 4090.

ember.

Monday, 13th December. Tuesday, 14 .Friday, 24th

... Jer,

...Saturday, 12th December.

Sunday, 12th esember, 10a.m. Sunday, 19th December, 10 am, Wednesday, 22nd Dec. 2.Ä.my

.Thursday, 16th Dec, B a.m.

Friday, 24th December,

Tuonday, 14th December. to:-OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA

M. TAKEUCHI. Masager.

Service to

SCANDINAVIA & NORTH EUROPE The M.S. AFRIKA."

wil be landing for St, Nazaire, Rotterdam. Hamburg, Copenhagen, and

other Scandinavian perts on or about

22nd. December.

Further sailings;-

Expacted on

Will leave homeward-

or about:-

M.S... "MALAYA"

M.S. "JAVA"

M.S. "DANMARK"

19th December

10th January, 1927

20th January,

bound on or about:-

Subject to change without notice. For further particulars please apply to

JOHN MANNERS & CO. LTD. Agents for:

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. COPENHAGEN.

KAIPING COAL

FOR ALL PURPOSES

HOME,

FACTORY

POWER

AND

HOUSE,

TUGS &

BUNKERS

PRAD

LOCOS

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Head Offices—TIENTSIN.

Agents:-DOWELL & CO., LTD., Hongkong.

Kennedy, Mr. J. A. Hyndman, Mr. F. Schienheimer, Mr. A, F. Alleman, Mr. J. W. Hack, Mr. Wm. H. Young, Miss A. Fitz gerald, Mr. G. Schmidt, Mr. A. N.. Spencer, Mr. F. S. Haye, Miss

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PIRACY EVIL.

"CANTON DECIDES ON A CAMPAIGN.

SPECIAL DISTRICTS,

General Tsalbum, the senior

military commander in Canton, has decided on 媳 campaign against pirates and bandite. to be carried out in three stages.

FAT". SEQUEL TO A WOMAN'S PLUCK.

DEATH FOLLOWS COLLAPSE

Mias. Francos Knowles-Foster, novelist and traveller,,, who return- ed home on September 28 in n'state of collapse after a thrilling voyage of 3,000 miles in the nine-ton motor yacht "Enchantress," died at the Tapestry Hall, Old. Windsor, on October 23, aged 42 years,"

Accompanied by her uncle, Com- mander Simmonds, aged 64. Mad Knowles-Foster navigated the yacht. —a 30-year-old: ex-naval pinnace- through the Baltic and across Gør- many and the North Sea.

The first stage will be directed at certain notorious districts in the river delta, viz., Sam Kok Chow,

It was a voyage full of adven- (Fenri River), Nam Hoi. Pun Yutures and hairbreadth escapes, and Shun Tak, Houng Shan, Sun Ning, when the craft moored at Windsor Ngung Ko Tsut ("Parrot's. Beak" it was found that, in addition to Junction), Chu Tau Shan (Pig's her nerves and heart being affect- Head Hills), &c.

ed by the atrain, she had travelled hundreds of miles with a torn arm muscle and a broken finger. Com- mander Simmonds said the expedi

The 13th division, alrendy fame for exploits against outlaws will undertake. the work with the 20th divizion.

The campaign will be intensified in the second and third stages.

THE BIG GALE.

MISHAPS AT CONTINENTAL PORTS.

London, Oct. 11.-The Continent, as well as the British Isles, folt the full force of the gale on October 9 and 10 and several mishaps to ships are reported with loss of life.

A hurricane raged over Denthark and caused heavy damage, es- pecially to shipping.

An S.O.S: has been received at Esbjerg from the Glasgow steamer "Morocco" who reports her rudder smashed.. A salvage vessel is standing by

tion was one of the most remark- able over undertaken by a woman,. and that her pluck was beyond all praise.

Life of Adventure.

It was a love of the aes, and a with to cbtain first-hand material for a novel and travel book, that led Miss Knowles-Foster on her across the voyage adventurous

No woman had pre- North Sea. viously navigated a vessel of the size of the "Enchantress" on such a journey.

She

But this journey was by no means the only hazardous experience in Miss Knowles-Foster's life. was full of the spirit of adventure. a fine horsewoman, and a good shot, and had travelled extensively. She had been lost in the jungle, and” The motorship "Parkston," which had penetrated into the heart of left Eabjerg on Saturday has only China. During the war she drove succeeded in making 100 miles, her own car in the course of hos- while the British steamer "Glen-pital work. selda" dragged her moorings in Miss Knowles-Foster was the Copenhagen Harbour and smashed author of several popular books. in some of her plates before she She was a Yorkshire woman. could be re-moored.

The Dutch fishing trawler "Agatha- Maria" from Katwky-on-Sea foun- dered near Wyk-on-Sea, and the crew of 14 were all drowned..

The same evening the Norwegian bound for Boulogne, apranga leak steamer "Alaakef," from Drammen, and sank off Terschelling, but the crew of 10 men, which included three Swedes, were rescued by two Ymuiden steam trawlers and landed safely.

The storm which visited Rotter- S. Roza, Miss. M. Ryder, Mr. H.dam was directly responsible for D. Talbot and Mr. S. M. Fian. the running down and sinking of a tug on, the Maas. The four men Passengers who arrived at constituting her crew were drown- Hong Kong from Australian | edi Ports on the s.5, "Changte" on Dec. 10 included:---

Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Anthony, Mr. and Mrs. D.. W. Roxburgh, Mrs. J. Tewkesbury, Mr. and Mrs. CS, Stanton, Mr. and Mrs. W. Glendinning. Mr. and Mrs.

Tidal Wave off German Coast.. A tidal wave caused considerable havoc on the North Sea coat. The British steamers "Athen "Port Wellington" were;*** of Cuxhaven, and there. vented tugs leaving for fine rub.

had to return.

S. T. Williamson, Mrs. H. John-Some 40 ships which left Hamburg ston, Rev. L. Mullany. Mr. J. Howard, Mr. A. Singias, Mr. C. H. Benson. Mr. E. A. Williams, Mr. W. Dorfman, Miss G Herbert and Mr. J. Kany

FAR EAST HEALTH.'

The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week endel, Decero, ber 4 is: Plague: casos A Mauritius. 1 at Alexandria, 1 at Bombay, 1 at Rangoon.

Cholera 31 cases' at Calcutta, 2 at Rangoon, 1-at Tuticorin, 2 at Singapore, 15 at Haiphong, 5 at Tournne, 1 at Bangkok.

Smallpox: 2 cases at Bombay, 45 at Calcutta, 3 at Madras, 1 at Rangoon, 1 ut. Tuticorin, I Vizag patam, 5 at Bangkok...

In reference to the above, a wire- less message from the Australian liner "Port Wellington" announces

abandonment the

of the atr. Catena whose crew of nine were "Athena," of 258 tons Tegister, owned at Great Yar- mouth, was bound to Yarmouth. from Hamburg with

of a cargo coal.

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GERMAN SHIPPING.

REPORTED GROWTH IN THE PACIFIC.

Dr. Kurt Ziegler, German Consul- General in San Francisco, gives "The Chronicle" an enthusiastic account of the growing trade relo- attions between Germany and the

Pacific Coast.

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"Before the war, all German- 4 LINERS IN PORT.

American trade went through New York, even from the Pacific Coast," Four big liners were in port yea-

says Dr. Ziegler. "To-day it is terday, these being the "Malwa" different. Trade relations between from Singapore, the *Macedonia" Germany and the Pacific Coast are from Shanghai, the "President growing, rapidly, and American McKinley from Shanghai and the firms here are dealing direct with "Changte" from Australia

Germany without any intermediárý. We have direct steamship lines from Hamburg to San Francisco, Los Angelés, Portland and Seattle, with bi-monthly sailings, which carry both passengers and freight

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

The P &0. 8.s. "Martun" from Hong Kong arrived Marsellies on December 10, at noon.

The B... "Takiwa" loft Singapere for this port on Dec.

old ships and replace them with hy are planning to take off the

new boats having a greater passen- ger capacity and more modern equipment. These boats will be

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8 and is due here on Dec. 13. stoll-burners, and will be run by the about 7'a.m.

The P. & O. 6.8. Kashmir left; Hamburg-America and Cosm08 Singapore for thin port in Dec. 8. "Germany's immigration quote

Lines. at noon, and is due here on Dec. 18, to the United States is always at about 7 a.m.

The CP.S., R.M.S. "Empress of lied, and will continue to be for Canada" left Vancouver for Hong industrial conditions and compara

many years, on account of our Kong, via Japan ports and Shang- tively low wage scale. Many of hai, on December 4, and I dua here these German immigrants are com- on December 28,

ing direct to this Coust. The high Praia, Cape Verde, Dec. 10-

rate of unemployment in Germany is forcing many of our workers to Captain Barros the rallian air-seek a livelihood in other countries. man, who started out to sitempt to Wages for, akilled labour average fly across the Atlantic from Italy to from $2 to $4 a day at home, and Brazil, has given up the flight there are more than a million and Ventor

a half mon out of work;

She

An example of excellent dispatch is reported from Leith. The Solt. steamer "Polyphemus", arrived on cargo of 6,200 tons of of th Nov. 1 from Newport News with a went into No. 7 berth of the Im- perial Dock, discharged her cargo, loaded between 800 and 400 tons of ballast, drydocked for painting and scraping, and sailed on Nov. 7.

AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT LINE.

Operated

R.Shine Board

By WAYNE & HOYT, INC. FOR SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES ES. "WEST. ISLIP" Dec. 20. FOR MANILA & CEBU ......

SS. "WEST CHOPAKA" Dec. 12. For full information apply to-- SWAYNE & HOYT, INC. L. EVERETT, Inc.

General Agents" Telephone C, 8008

1st Floor, Queen's Building.

CANADIAN

PACIFIC

QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC.

TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER.

STRAMERH

'EMPRESS OF ASIA

EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

SAILINGS 1927.

'Kong S'hal Kobe Thama

Leave Lexro Leave Leavo

F'ver Arriva

Хал. 5 Зап. 8. Jan. 11 Jan. 14 Jan. 23 Jan. 20 Jan. 29 Feb. 1 Feb. 4 Feb. 11 Feb. 16 Feb. 19 Feb. 22 Feb. 26 Mar, 6 Mer.. Mär. 2 Mar. 15 Mar. 18 Mar. 27 Mar. 30 Apr. 2 Apr. 5 Apr. 8 Apr. 17 Apr. 20 Apr. 23 Apr. 26 Apr. 29 May 8 EMPRESS OF ASIA May 11 May 14 May 17 May 20 May 29; EMPRESS OF CANADA June 1 June 4 June 7 June 10 June 19 EMPRESS OF RUSSIA June 22 June 25 June 28 July 1 July 10 EMPRESS OF ASLA July 11 July 14 July 19 July 22 July 31 :(E/Asla' and' E/Ruuzia call Nagasaki day after departure from Shanghal)

Connecting sailings St. John to Liverpool. MONTROSE February ↓ MONTNAIRN February 19

· MONTCALM March 12

1

MONTROSE

MONTCLARE

MINNEDOSA

April 2

April 23

May 13

"Frequent sailings to Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow, Southampton,..

Cherbourg and Antwerp.

BOOKINGS NOW OPEN.

Barly application for space is advisable."

SPECIAL FARES: TO EUROPE

0120

£112.

283

HONG KONG-MANILA, SERVICE.

Leave

Bong Kong

¡Dec. 33

Arriva Manila

21

Leave Manila

Arriva

- Hang Kenf Dec. 27 EMPRESS OF CANADA Dec. 28 Dec. 30

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8.S. "CITY OF LAHORE"...London, Havre, Rotterdam & H'burg

Fares to LONDON: 1st Class £72, 2nd Class £49 108. S.S. "CITY OF CALCUTTA". Marseilles, London, Havre & H'burg

Färes: 1st Class to MARSEILLES £73; to LONDON 280, 2nd Clasa to MARSEILLES £51; to LONDON £55.

·AUSTRALIA

ELLERMAN LINE

13th Dec. 13th Jan.

9th February.

.24th March.

AUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE Sallings from SINGAPORE on 5th of every month by "CITY OF PALERMO" or "CITY OF SPARTA

to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney and vice versa. Through Freight and Passenger bookings from Hong Kong in conjunction with "Ellerman" Line or

other services.

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE..... AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN UNE

8.8. "COLORADO”.

via Suez Canal.

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SERVICES TO

via Suez Canal

BOSTON & NEW YORK

M.V. "WEIRBANK” MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA

.31st December.

AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE::

.30th January. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE

Loading for Maurition, Delagon Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay, Port Missbeth, Mossel Bay

and Capetown, S!! Through Bill of Lading issued to Beira, Quilimaine, Ibo, Port Amelia, Mozambique, Chinde, Inhambane, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kilindini, Port Nolloth, Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay and

Madagascar,*--

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