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THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1927.

P. & O.-British India SHOVE HAPENNY.

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND), MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS. TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES,, MAURITIUS. EAST AND SQUTH AFRICA. AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA. EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE: PORTS. EUROPE," &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

22nd Jan Noon

Pub.

Eth Feb

Feb.

| 9,144 99th Feb.

2nd March

S. St

Tona

From Hongkong

About »

KASHMIK

9,00%

DEVANHA

8,155.

fat

MOREA

DELTA KALYAN

· 10,018- 19,007

18th

NELLORE

8,862

MANTUA

Goh Murch

KASHGAR

9,005

12th March

NYANZA

1,023

10th March

MONGOLIA

18,504

19th March

MACEDONIA

11,120:

dd April

DEVANHA

8,155

KARMALA

DELTA

8,097 97th

MALWA

1,10,341

KNIVA

MOREA

KHYBER

9th Apr

30th April 9,10-1 7th May 19,146 11th May

10:918

28th May

Destination

Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Hull

Singapore, Penang, Culembo & Bhay

Mursoils and Londor

S'pore, Penang, Colortho & Bombay

seilles, London. Antwerp & Hull Spore, Penang, Colombo

Mannciler & London

by

Marseilles, London, "Antworp &R'dam

Penang, Colombo & Bombay

& London

Marsailles & Lotidon

Marseilles, London & Antwerp

Marseilles, London & Antwerp

Singapore, Penang. Colombo & B'bay) Marseilles and London

M'ler, 'don, A'werp. 'berg & R'dam Marseilies, Lordon & Antwerp

Mursuilles. London"

Vrequent conection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinophs, Fireuus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khosival Mails Steamship. Co

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TAKADA

TILAWA 'TALAMBA FALMA

10,000 L

$449 24th Jan. Siagujore, Penang & Calcutta Feb.ngapore, Fenang & Calcutta 18:500) 7th Feb. Singapore. Penang & Calcutta 10.000 14th Feb.jare, Penang & Calcutta

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)

ARAPURA

TANDA...

ST. ALBANS

ARAFURA

"TANDA

ST. ALBANS

J 8,950 4th March. 14.500

6,000 28th Jun

Manila,

Kolambugan,

1st April 8,000 291) April 6,960 4,500-

Island, Sydney

Thursday: Townsville, Brisbane, Melbourne

3rd June

lut Muly

A GAME NOT PUR OXFORD UNDID GRADS"

London.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The sequel to the Oxford crew in training for the 1922 boat race play. ing shove-halfpenny with the sea, watermen was the formation of the City and Varsity Glub, bringing the undergraduates in touch with townsmen.

The University authorities have now prohibited Janfora, from joining the club. where the most popular game is still shove-halfpenny.

Shove-halfpenny was formerly a popular amusement in the country inns in England. There are still yearly tournaments. A line is drawn across the bar table, and the winner is the man who knocks his half- penny nearest so the line, by giving the coin a "sheve" with the paim of the hand as it lies protruding over the edge of the table.

ROMAN REMAINS,

London, Jan. 6.

HAMLETS POLITICS.

HOW GERMANS BAW HIM.

London.

The question of whether Hamlet' was a Monarchist or A Republican will shortly be debated in the Frus- sian Parliament, following a storm over Leopold Jeanner's production of the play at the State Thatru, ays the Berlin correspondent of the "Dally News.".

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The Nationalita claim that Jessnor atilised, Claudius to purody Gie ex-Kaiser, and that. Hamlet was represented as an anti-Monarchist.. They declare that the production thus falsifies history, as, Shakes- peare was a devoted servitor of Queen Elizabeth, and they demand Government intervention.

Jessner retorts

that producers are entitled to interpret classical austerpieces in the spirit of the pre-

sent age."

SENATOR GOULD INQUIRY.

Washington, Jan. 6.

Part of the remains of an all- The Senate elections sub-commit- cient Roman house, the mosaic tee so-day unanimously decided to puvement of a 2,000-year-old villa, investigate bribery charges brought was uncovered recently in Wood-against Senator Gould of Maine, chester, Gloucestershire. It had recently elected, without peasing been lavishly built, with pillars, on the motion to dismiss the case corridors, colonnades and court for want of jurisdiction. Aled by yards. The villa" contained 65 his counsel Testimony will start partments. Orpheus charming to-morrow or charges involving a the birds and beasts forms the railroad contract in which he was central design of the mosaig work, interested in Canada years ago.

Guglielmi Marconi, wireless inventor, ha appealed to the Pope to annul his marriage to his wife, the daughter of Lord Inchiquin, from whom he obtain ed a civil divorce two years ago.

WIRELESS WONDERS.

Ottawa, Jan. 11. Direct wireless telephonic "com munication has been established between Ottawa and Bridgewater in England Communication was relayed via trunk telephone to Drummondville, Quebec, thence by beam wireless to England. Good reception was obtained

It is understood in London that one of the first uses to which the Post Office will put the beam stations with South Africa, Aus tralia and India will be to test them for telephony.

Greater secrecy in the Anglo- "American telephone conversa- tions may shortly be secured by the use of the beam system for telephony. It is thought if this be adopted it should be possible to charge much below the present £5 for a minute in the London New York Service. Reuter's American Service.

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NY.KUNE

SAILINGS, SUBJECT TO FACTERATION.

SAN FRANCISCO vis Shanghai, Juxpan Ports & Honolulu.

TENYO MARU

"KOREA MARE

Monday, 24th January,"at Noon,

Sunday,

6th February.

Tuesday

22nd February.

SOUTH AMERICA, ela Japan." Honolulu, San Francisco, Low:

SHINYO MARU

"Calle Los Angeles.

Angeles, Mexico & PapaMWA

RAKUYO MARU

GINYO MARU

SUWA MABU

PUSHIMI MARU

Saturday,

15th Jan, at Noo Mindle of February,

MARSEILLES, LONDON, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via Porta.

HAKOZAKI MARU

Saturday,

Saturday,

15th Jan, at 11 am. 20th January,

Saturday, 12th Fobruary.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE Aur Manila & Porta

AKI MARU ... MISHIMA MARU

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Wednesday, 10th Jan, at 11 a..... Wodnesday, 23rd February,

NEW YORK and/or BOSTON vis PANAMA,

- TATSUNO" MARU

Thursday, 10th February.. LIVERPOOL via Singapore, Colombo, Port Said & Ports...

TAJIMA MARU

Saturday, 5th February. BUENOS AIRES ya Singapore. Durban & Cape Town."

KAMAKURA MARU,

Saturday, 6th February,

BOMBAY via SINGAPORE & COLOMBO,

I.

TAMBA MARU.

Thursday, 13th January,

RANGOON MARU

Saturday.. 22nd January.

CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON.

PINANG MARU

NAGASAKI KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

MISHIMA MARU ..

SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

KITANO MARU

MURORAN, MARU

HAKATA MARU

LIMA MARU

Wednesday, 10th January..

Saturday, 21st January,

Tuesday, 26th January.

Wednesday,

Wednesday,

26th January, 28th January,

Thursday, 27th January.

For further information agpipito--NIPPON YUSEN · KAISHA. · Tell Central Nos. 292. (Private exchanges to all departs ›

CHINA BORNEO SHIPPING CO.

HONG KONG-BORNEO. ROYAL MAIL. SERVICE.

To Sandakan, Tawou, Semporna and Lahad Datu,

Returning via Sundakan, Jambongan, and Jesselton. Regular Three-wockly Freight and Passenger Service..

Regülar monthly sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to

Australia.

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The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cobu, Kolambugun, Tawno, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement offers.

Frequent unnections from Australia with the following:-

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zedland, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc..

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The P. & D. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal.

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The F. & D. Branche Service of steamers, to London via the Cape. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Parama Canal

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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

TILAWA

TALANEA

KASHGAR DELTA

TALMA-

10.000 15th Jan.

8,500

7. a.m.

21Á 9:005 8.007

16th

Noon

Jum

Jan.

211

Amoy, Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Omara

Kobe and Oanka

Shanghai, Moji and Kobe

Jan. Shanghal, Moj and Kobe

Moji and Kobe

10,000 27th Jan. 10.902. 4th Feb 0.84541 511 Fab

MANTUA

NELLORE

NACPORE

1

TANDA

6,283. 7th

Feb.

6,560

Hih

Feb.

16,504, 18th

Feb.

7,02838th

Feb.

18th

MACEDONIA

Fen.

121304 March

ST. ALBANS 4,500

KARMALA

-MALWA

DELTA

ARAFURA

0,128 18th March 10,080 1st April

8,097.

1st Apr 10,000 15th April

Shanghai, Moli and Kobot

Shanghai, Moji and Kobe

Shanghai, Moji Kobe & Yokohama Moji, Koke, Osuka & Yokohama Shanghal & Kobe

Shanghal, Maji and Kebo

ghai, Moll and Koba

Kobe, Osaka, & Yokohama Shanghal, Moji & Kobe Shanghai, Moj & Kobe

Shanchal, Moji & Kabe

Maji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama

All dates are approximateland subject to alteration without notice.

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

• Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own "Hotel exponeos

Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.

All Cabine are Atted with Electric Fans free of charge.

Stumers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries.

Four of the ten aviators who will participate in the United States urmy's flight from San Antonio, through southern nations were photo- graphed at. Miller Field, where one of the amphibians, shown below, was tested for the trip.

OWNED BY ONE.

"ESCAPED LUNATIC" AT WINDSOR,

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London. Ten to one Escaped Lanatic," yelled the hilarious book- makers at the Windsor race meet- ing.

"Why give a horse, that queer name" representative of, the Evening News" asked the owner, Mr., Fleet Goldsmith.

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He röplied, "Why queer? I'm an escaped lunatic "myself, christening the horse like that saved a lot of thinking."

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MANGO TREE MEMORIAL.

London, Jan. 6. A mango tree in Ujiji, Tangan- yika territory, Africa, has been set off by a rail and atone fence as a memorial. It was at Ujiji that

GIANT MOTOR CAR. H. M. Stanley found the great ex- plorer, Livingstone, 64 years ago. Livingstone, exhausted, was, rest- ing under the tree when Stanley reached him,

NEARLY LOST IN PENDINE SANDS.

London, Jan. 5. Only frantic efforts by fifty }

with a volunteers, combined motor lorry's help, saved Capt. I Malcolm Campbell's new giant 450 hp. racing motorcar from being swallowed up by the sands

TROOPERS KILLED.

Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 1. A special dispatch to the "Star" | says that a captain and seventy men

at Pendine; Carmarthenshire, on of the Mexican federal forces were Sunday. The monster was sinking killed by Yaqui Todians on Decem- faat and in another minute wouldber 27. The Yaquia" lost 90 mer. have been' beyond recovery, The car was preparing for an attempt on Monday to cover 180 miles per hour.

He explained that he escaped from an asylum while the kinema

The car cost £5,000 and incor- was showing the sim, Telix Keeps

fort.porates, all the latest ideas of on Walking, and hid for a night, thereby gaining his legal mechanical ingenuity. During the past year several cars have been freedom, unless he should be re-

completely submerged at Pendine certified insane."

and Southport.

"I returned to my farm," added at Mr. Goldsmith, "and am following racing as far as the horses will carry me."

Unfortunately the jockey, Brown,

Parcely maneuring "Hat more than 2 ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received was thrown at a fenes and Escaped

at the Company's Onco,up to. Noen on the day previous to nalling.

Fer further Information, Passago Freights, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd. C., HONGKONG.

Agents.

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMOR}

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE:

(OCEAN 8.9. CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL 8.N. CO., LTU

AND

AMERICAN & MANCHUKIAN LINE

(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 9.3. CO., LTD.) BAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.

Via Sues Canul

S.S. "OANFA"

B... "CYCLOPS"·

da.

8.8. "CITY OF JOHANNESBURG. "

do.

8.5. "PELEUR"!

do.

8.8. "CITY OF BRISTOL"

do.

6.8. "ATREUB"

de.

14th January.

28th January. 11th February. 25th February.. 11th March 25th March

Lunatic fished last.

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44 EMPEROR COOK.”

GIVEN ROYAL SALUTE IN KUSSIA.

London--A message from Mor cow states that Mr. A. J. Cook, the British miners' leader, who 'le on a visit to Russia, has been greeted there as "our dear guest, the most. | Interesting and most brilliant figure

in British Labour."

Cook has received a "Royal Salute" from the army and from the Young Pioneers, which are the Bovlet equivalent of the Boy Scouts. He is guarded by special detectives, and is accompanied by a corps of reporters. He has been lavishly

Steamera proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners Option banquetted.

Subject to change without notice.

For Freight and particulars apply to:-

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE THE BANK LINK, LTD. Hong Kong Hong Kong & Canton JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Canton.

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At one of these feasts, Mr. Cook declared: In return for Russian halp we will prevent the Baldwin Government from Interfering in Russian Affairs,

DOGS?"

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JUDGE UNAWARE OF A NEW DELICACY.

When Counsel moved ex parte be- fore Mr. Justice Clauson in the Chancery Division for an injunction against Hot Dogs, Ltd., the Judge) exclaimed: Hot what?

Counsel: Hot dogs,

Later Counsel explained that the injunction was to restrain an alleg ed fnfringement of trade mark

There was, he said, a delicacy, In) great demand in America, known as "hot dog."

It consisted of a sausage kept hot and placed between two half rolla of bread to make a sandwich. It was in great demand at American football and baseball matches...

Managua, Jan. 12,--United States naval forces have worked their way sixty miles up the Escondido river, for the purpose of establishing a neutral zone in the interior, An- other neutral zone has been prepar- ed at the mouth of the Wawa river, which is the headquarters of many American mahogany compan Router's American Barvice,

8.S. LOK

SUN.

Next Sailing from Hong Kong Monday, January 31st, 1927. For Freight, Passage and other Information, please apply to CARMICHAEL & CLARKE, Agants, Queen's Building, Phone C.282.

or W. WATT & CO. Agents, 27, Connaught Road West.

THE AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION CO. LTD

For SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE vin. Manila, Iloile, Sandakan, Balikpapan & Rahaul

For Freight & Particulars Apply to-

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Agents.

Telephone No. Central 1036.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: " MANIFESTO" HONGKONG.

Codes Used: A1, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Engineering: First and Second Edition;

Western Union and Watkins.

DOCK OWNERS, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEER BOILER MAKERS, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTELL, ELECTRICIANS.

T. S. S. "SIANG WO”

l'assenger & Cargo River Steamer, built and engined at Kowloon Dock, by the Hongkong

& Whampoa Dock Co, Lid, to the order of he Indo-Chins Steam Navigation Co, Ltd.

for service on the Middle Yangtze, Hanków → Ichang.

Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager:

RM DYER BS, MINA, Kowloon Dock, Hongkong