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DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.

FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK Via SUEZ.

8.3. "CORBY CASTLE"..... Sails on or about 19th June.

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.

BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE LONDON

NEXT SAILINGS.

£72.10.0.

̈£80.0.0.

OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJL

M.V. "VIMINALE" M.V. "REMO"

From Hong Kong.

.Sails on or about 23rd June. ...Sails on or about 21st July,

HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE,

S.S. "VENEZIA”

M.V. -"ROMOLO”

M.V. "VIMINALE"

From Hong Kong. Sails on or about 9th June. Sails on or about 28th June. Sails on or about 26th July.

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS

FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

S.S: "UMVOLOSI" ......Salls from Calcutta 30th June,

Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Ports. 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.

NYISINE

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

TENYO MARU

... Monday, 13th June, at Noon. KOREA MARU (Calls Keelung) ... Tuesday,

28th June, et 10 am. SHINYO MARU

12th July,

* Calla Los Angeles.

LONDON via Singapore, Suez,

HAKONE MARU

SUWA-MARU

FUSHIMI MARU

Tues.,

Marseilles & Ports..

Saturday,

Saturday, Saturday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

TANGO MARU

AKI MARU

BOMBAY via SINGAPORE & COLOMBO.

SADO MARU

4th June, at 11 4.m. 18th June, at 11 am. 2nd July, at 11 aan.

11th June.

Wednesday, 22nd June, at 11 a.m. Wednesday, 2011 July, at 11 a.m.

Saturday, SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,

Mexico & Panama.

Wednesday, 8th June, at Noon SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,

BOKUYO MARU

KAWACHI MARU

Saturday, 9th July.

NEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA.

ASUKA MARU

ТАКАОКА MARU

Monday, 13th Jane. Wednesday, 29th June.

LIVERPOOL via Singapore, Colombo, Port Said & Ports.

DURBAN MARU ..

Thursday, 16th June, CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON,

Wednesday, TOKUSHIMA MARU

8th June. NAGANO MARU (Omits Calcutta)... Tuesday, 14th June. NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

AKI MARU

Friday,

17th June.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

CHILI MARU

Sunday,

5th June.

PENANG MARU (Moji direct)

Monday,

18th June.

HAKUSAN MARU

MATSUYE MARU

Monday, Friday,

13th June.

17th June.

THE CHINA MAIL..

SHIPPING SECTION.

OVERLOADING,

SHIPMASTERS" SOCIETIES'

VIEWS.

EMPHATIC STATEMENTS,

d

PASSENGER LIST.

ARRIVAL

Passengers arrived at Hong Kong by the "St. Albana" on June 3 from ports, and they are extremely rare. Australia via Manila were:-Mr. D. The case of the Eastway was.difer-McPherson, Mr. J. R. Middenway, ent inasmuch as it was 龜 vessel Mr. A. Fisher, Mles M. Andrews,

onded at a foreign port."

Miss M. Hackett, Miss A. B. Buae, Mr. and Mrs. A. Toy, Mr. S. K. Lew, Mr. Chan Wun, Mr. Y. F. Leung, Mr. Lee Chin,

Through passengers to Japan ports were:-Mr. H. L. Carnegie, Miss K. Carnegie, Mles C. Carnegie, Mr. N. Okada, Mr. P. Proctor, Mr.

SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1927.

CANADIAN

PACIFIC

QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC.

TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER.

STEAMERS

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

EMPRESS OF ASIA

The Sailor Safeguard, Generalising the position Mr. G. D. Say, of the IM.S.G. said, "Of course we know well enough that this sort of thing, of which Captain The managing director of the Coomba complains, has been going Navigators and General Insurance on with a certain anacruplous kind Co., Ltd. (Captain William E. of shipowner, but in the ordinary M. Kubo, Mr. T. Morishima, Mr. C.MPRESS OF CANADA Coombs), in the course of an.Inter-good class of company there is no Shiba, Mr. K. Oki, Mr. M. Noguchi. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA view published in the "Daily Mall," question of such a practice being in- is reported to have said:-

Captains and officers of ships are frequently reporting to me in confidence that their vessels have -been-overloaded, and they bitter

ly resent the fact that they are not free to make an exposure be cause there are so many un employed officers ready to take their jobs.

Such * sweeping statement prompted a representative of "The Journal of Commerce" to make in- quiries into the matter. The result of his investigations goes far to show that the indictment of Captain Coomba Is without foundation, and that the very few instances of over- loading which do come to light, so far from being the general rule, are in the nature of very rare excep-

!

dulged in."

6,000 NAMES FOR SHIPS,

1

·Y'yer·

Arrive

SAILINGS 1927..

IFKong S'ant Kobe Thamn

Leave

Leave Leave Leave June 22 June 25, Jane 28 July 1 July 10 July 13 July 16 July 19 July 22 July 31 Aug. 3 Aug. 6 Aug. 9 Aug, 12 Aug. 21 Aug. 24 Aug. 27 Aug. 30 Sept. 2' Sept. 11 Sept. 14 Sant. 17 Sept. 20 Sept. 23 Oct. 2 Oct. 5 Oct. 8 Oct. 11 Oct; 14 Ort. 23 Oct. 26 Oct. 29 Nov. 1 Nov. 4 Nov. 13 Nov, 16 Nov. 19 Nov. 22 Nov. 25 Dec. 4

EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Several hundred letters contain-¦ EMPRESS OF ASIA ing 6,000 suggestions from "DallyAsia_and_E/Russia_call at Nagasaki the day after departure from S'hal). Mail" readers were received at the Liverpool offlers of the White Star line by the first post as a result of the interview with Mr. A. B. Cauty, a director and general manager of the line, stating that difficulty was being experienced in finding suit-

"The difficulty, in the former canË, is to get any absolutely authentic cases of the kind because, natural ty, captains who were themselves more or less a party to it would be afraid to say anything. In auch instances they are given plainly to understand that they are to carry all the eargo the ship will stand up under and if they don't do it the owners will find somebody who will."

able names for their new ships and membered that even if the master the matter.

On the other hand it must be re-that they would be glad of help in is willing the sailors of to-day, un- The custom of the company is to like those of an earlier era, aro find names applicable to the coun- quick to complain. That is a very tries to which the vessels will sail great safety valve which reduces and alter the ending to "ic." the danger of putting to son with an overloaded ship. The seamen themselves are much more alive to the danger than they used to be, Officials of the Mercantile Marine and they are not at all diffident Service Association and of the Im-about mentioning it in the right| perial Merchant Service Guild-

quarter. who are entitled to speak with as much authority as Captain Coombs, if not probably more-independent ly expressed themselves as empha tically of the opinion that such cases, when they do occur, are by insignificant shipowners of the un: serupulous type.

tions.

Like Criminal Cases. "In the well-known concerns," said Mr. Thomas Scott, secretary of the M.M.S.A., "such a thing is never ed cases, just as there are criminal cases in many walks of life all over the country, but it does not follow because one man commits a murder that homicide is a general cedure.

done. There are elsewhere 'solut-

Scores of correspondents have submitted from 50 to 100 sugges- tions each. Here are some of the proposed names

Europic. Wyomic. Sotania Economic. Tonic. Harmonic

Cosmic. Chrichtonic. Solentic. Ecstatic. Euphonic. Storie.

In the House of Commons. The whole position is put very clearly in a reply by the President of the Board of Trade on Novem- ber 16 last in the House of Commons to Mr. Bromley in regard to the bution of £5,000 to the endowment Lord Inchcape's generous contri- Enstway. Sir P. Cunliffe Lister said, 'I am aware that the "East- fund of the Company of Master way" sank on October 22, with the Mariners is very welcome, and losa of 23 lives, and that allegations forda tangible proof of that have been made that the vessel was Sympathy with the movement which overloaded. A Board of Trade in-he expressed at the first banquet of quiry will be held, at which all the the Company, held on April 18. circumstances of the casualty will His example will no doubt be fol be investigated. The checks on lowed by others, and thus the Court overloading at foreign ports are of the Master Mariners should that the loading is marked on the soon be in a position to carry out of securing adequate ship's aide and the Joadline certi- its aims ficate is posted up on board; parti-status for, and otherwise advancing culars of the loadline are entered in the nautical profession. Accord- "Arising out of the Eastway case, the agreements with the crew and in ing. to presont intentiona, the num- I see that the matter has already the official log; the draft of water ber of members is to be limited to been touched upon in Parliament, and now that judgment has been de- and the freeboard have to be enter- 500, and it is fairly obvious that livered it may be possibly mention- ship leaves port; and a naval court meeting necessary charges, would ed in the official log every time the the subscription income, after ed again in the House.

"In cases where shipmasters are

can be summoned by a Consular not go far in giving effect to the induced, in the exceptions mention-officer if a complaint is made by any programme which has been decided ed. to overload their ships I can member of the ship's crew, which upon, and hence the necessity for well believe that they would be appears to require immediate in- nn endowment fund. reluctant to say anything. If the vestigation. It is not considered. had direct or implied instructions that these provisions can be from the owners to overload they fully extended.".

pro-

uac-

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.

Asked whether he had come would take the risk rather than

The E. & A. Co.'s s.8. ""Tanda" Jose their jobs. Of course,

Mr. Say said, left Moji for this port on May 27, the across such cases average master, even in taking such "We have heard of cases where men a chance, would have to be satisfied have protested and had the matter P., and is due here on June 18, at

about daylight. in his own mind that he had a good investigated, and our opinion is that chance of taking his ship through it is not nearly so easy a matter to overlond ship nowadays as it safely."

was formerly.

Cases Very Rare.

"Another safeguard is that by reason of the fact that an overload- ed ship is unseaworthy within the meaning of the Act, such a proceed- Ing constitutes a criminal offence, and an ordinary decent shipowner is not going to take that risk. The few who do run the risk are men of the get-rich-qulek type, who do not scruple to endanger the lives

To the suggestion that it is the duty and the endeavour of the Board, of Trade surveyors to discover any breaches of the law in this respect, Mr. Scott said undoubtedly they do so to the best of their ability. "but I don't think it is right to assume for a moment that it is at all common practice,” sald be. "There

of is nothing in my experience to

their men, and the masters who justify such a statement. Where a assist. are simply doing so out of a Case is reported to the surveyors mistaken zeal for the interests of know from past experience the their employers." Board of Trade are very keen to make sure whether there is any risk.

at-

.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

"Whenever I have drawn their tention to cases they have dealt very Consignees of Cargo are reminded promptly and very drastically with that all goods ex a., "Benverlich" the delinquents. Of course, such 'remaining undelivered after June 2, cases are of vessels leaving home will be subject to rent.

The m.v. "Benares" (Swedish East Asiatic Co., Ltd.) left Antwerp on May 20, and is due here on or about June 28.

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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION, LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM Colombo, Sues and Port Said,

& ANTWERP.-Via Singapore,

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigen, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town. ANDES MARU

SANTOS MARU

BOMBAY Via Singapore and Colombo,

..Saturday, 4th June. .Friday, 10th June,

-INDUS MARU....(Calling Penang) Monday, 20th June.

DURBAN, DELAGQA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND

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CALCUTTA-Via Singapore and Rangoon.

TACOMA MARU

BINGO MARU

BANGKOK-Via Balgen.

SEKKOW MARU

Thursday, 7th July,

.Middle of June.

Saturday, 26th June.

Middle of June.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Vis Shangbai and Japan

Porta.

PARIS MARU

...(From Shanghai) Friday, 17th June.

HAIPHONG.VÌ TOYEON & PAKHOI

MENADO MARU

TAIKWA MARU

Tuesday, 7th June, 10a.m.

Tuesday, 21st June, 10 am.

NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San Francisco and Panama. FOR TIENTSIN VIA TSINGTÀU.

KINZAN MARU ..........

..End of May,

HAMBURG MARU..(for Shanghai) Tuesday, 7th June, TIENTSIN &'TSINGTAU

JAPAN PORTS

SEATTLE MARU

KEELUNG Vin SWATOW & AMOY.

HOZAN MARU

KAIJO MARU...

TAKAO Via SWATOW & AMOY,

TAKAO, & KEELUNG

DAIREN--VIA TAKAO

NITTO MARU

...Friday, 24th June,

Sunday, 5th June, 11 .m Sunday, 12th June, 11 a.m.

Saturday, 4th June.

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PROJECTED SAILINGS OF THE S.S. "FUH TAI”

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6th June.

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Arrival

May 29

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>

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JAMBONGAN

SANDAKAN Arrival

Arrival

30

6 4.m.

Departure

31

.6 4.1.

$1.

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Departure

June

1

6 p.m.

TAWAU

Arrival

2

4: p.m.

Departure

5 8.m.

SEMPORNA,

Arrival

NOOR

Departure

4

6 a.m.

LAHAD DATU Arrival

b.m.

.Marseilles, Havre, London & Hamburg

Havre, L'don, R'dam, H'burg. ..Harre, L'don, R'dam, Fburg.

5th June. 13th July, 18th Aug.

Departure

SANDAKAN Arrival

5 8.m

5. a.m.

Departure"

HONG KONG - Arrival.

5 p.m.

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