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FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1928.

P. & 0.-British India Apcar and

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(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS:

TAKING CARGO FOR

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

LAND OF MYSTERY.

25 YEARS WORK IN SARAWAK,

SOME NATIVE BELIEFS.

THE CHINA MAIL,

"The tropical forest in shrouded. with a gloom that is not of this world. It is at once a marvel and a terror."

•

The speaker was sitting in a chair at the Royal Colonial In- stitute, a man of commanding pre- sence and over 8 feet in height. He is Dr. Charles. Hose, who has re- turned to England after 25 years spent in Sarawak, the strange part of Bornea which is an independent State within the British Empire and has an area of 60,000 square miles.

:

# To A representative of the "Sunday Times" Dr. Hose said the natives of Sarawak comprised some half-dozen tribes, and one of his duties was to keep the peace and Inculcate a respect for law and order,

Spreading of Rumour,

"The primitive Bornean can be forgiven for his fear of some evil

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY lurking in the dense jungle," he

DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

B. 8.

Толь

DEVANHA

DELTA

KHYBER

MACEDONIA

From Hongkong About

8,155 21at Jan. 8,097 27th Jon. 10,086 4th

Fcb. 9,114 18th Feb. 6,858

11,120

25th

Feb. Brd Mur.

9,135 10th Mar. 8.985 17th Mar 9.128 24th Mar. Bist Mer. Apl. 7th

MALWA

NELLORE

*KRIVA

KASHMIR

KARMALA

MANTUA

*KALYAN MONGOLIA

10,046

0,144

16,504

MOREA

10,953

KASHGAR

9,105

MALWA

DEVANHA

14th April

28th Apr. 16th May 10.080 26th May 8,156 0th June

MACEDONIA 11,120 23rd June

Destination

Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Hull Straits and Bombay Marseilles & London. Maravilles, London, Antwerp & Hull Marseillon & London Marsellios & London Marnelles, London & Antwerp Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Hall

& Antwerp

Marseilles & London Marsailles & Lendon Marseilles, London Marseilles & London Marseilles & London,

Marseilles, London & Antwerp, Marseilles & London Marseilles & Lendon Marcilles & London

* Passengers to Singapore only. Limited accommodation available for

2nd class passengers from Hong Kong to London.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Thedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta

TAKLIWA

BÁNTHIA

TAKADA

7,936 14th Jan.

2.30 p.m. 7,754 28th Jan, 6,049 12th Feb,

Singapore, Penang & Calentta Singapore, Panang & Calcutta

B. I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)

ARAFURA TANDA

&

6,000 | 27th Jan. Manila, Sondakan, Thursday Leland,

Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney 6,956 2nd Mar. Melbourne. Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Australia.

The E. & A. 3.5. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Hollo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement offers.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:- The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

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

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape,

said. "The tropical forest must be visited to be realised. With its dense mass of trees and under- growth and foliage and its wealth of wild life, both beneficent and fearsome, it has always struck me as nearer to the early state of the world than anything surviving on the face of the globe. It is a land of gorgeous beauty and of primeval terror.

"What effects of fear cannot the weird sounds and unseen dwellers

of the creeper-clad forest exercise on the simple but sensitive minds of the jungle dweller? Among people living in isolated villages, with only jungle paths and rivers as their means of contact with the Government and its officers, it is! easy to understand bow rumours, especially where fear, superstition,

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Destination

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Cauton

Straits and Calcutta Straits and Calcutta Sandakan

Steamer

Sailing

„Sun.,

15th Jan., at 7 a.m.

Wed.,

18th Jan., at 7a.03. Wed. 26th Janj at 7am. „Sun.,

29th Jan, at 7am.

.Wed.,

18th Jan, at 7a.m.

Wed..

25th Jan, at 7am.

YATSHING NAMSANG

Tues.,

17th Jan., at 28.m.

Wed.,

KUMSANG

HINSANG

1st Feb., at 3 p.m.

Tues., 7th Feb., at 5 p.m.

Wed, 25th Jan, at 8p.m.

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....31st January. 8.3. "WEST NOMENTUM”?

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24th January.

8th February.

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or malice are aroused, spread, and before people became convinced grow as they spread. One of the that the rumour was untrue."

remarkable phenomena in

most

One of the enterprises associated native life is the rapidity with with Dr. Hose's work in Sarawak which rumour travels.

was the development of the oil re-: sources. of the State. Thanks to his Initiative, Sarawak is now re- tognised as a potential oll-bearing field of great importance.

"Very often in cases of panica, actual or anticipated, Government Interference has been necessary to avert a catastrophe. A case in point was the occasion of the total eclipse of the sun. We started our plan of preventing a scare two months before by sending informa tion to every chief whom it was possible to reach. Each one was ANTI-CHINESE

given a strip of rattan, knotted

according to the custom prevalent

among all natives of the interior, so as to mark the exact number of

Canton Agents: JOHN MANNERS & Co., LTD.

CONSIGNEES.

LLOYD TRIESTINO N. CO.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

M.V. "VIMINALE"

From Trieste, Venice, Brindisi, Port Said, Massana, Aden, Karachi, Colombo, Penang and Singapore.

RIOTS.ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hore-

WAICHIAOPUS PROTEST TO

JAPAN.

Peking, Dec. 26..

days that would elapse before the eclipse; these strips they were instructed to carry about with The Walchlaopu early last week them, removing one each night, and lodged a protest with the Japanese were told to spread the information Legation following receipt of re- as widely as possible.

porta from the Chinese Consul- General in Seoul that there were. anti-Chinese disturbances in cer-

Incantations and Dragons.

by informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com- pany, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

ed unless notice to the contrary be Optional Cargo will be forward-

given before 5th January, 1928.-

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns,

"On the actual date of the eclipse tain parts of Korea. The protest and all Goods remaining undeliver crowds of boats from all parts came requested the Japanese authorities od after the 11th instant, will be

down the river, and I arranged that a gun should be fired exactly

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and an hour before the eclipse began. London vin Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

NELLORE

6,858 15th Jan.

5 p.m.

TAKADA.

6.040

KHYBER

9,114

KHIVA MACEDONIA

TANDA

KARMALA

NAGPORE KASHMIR KALYAN MANTUA

BT. ALBANS

LAHORE

MONGOLIA

MOREA

KASHGAR

MALWA

DEVANHA MACEDONIA

9135

11,120

6,956

21st Jan. 21st Jan. 3rd Feb. 4th Fob. 7th Feb. 0,128 11th Feb. 5,288 17th Feb 8,986

18th Feb. 0,144 18th Feb. 10,948

2nd Mar .4,500 6th Mar 6.252 12th Mar. 16,504

17 Mar. 10,958 30th Mar, 0,005 18th April 10,980 27th April 8,156 11th May 11,120 26th May

* Cargo only.

Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama

Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka

Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Hoji & Kobe Shanghai, Moji, Hobe & Yokohama Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohania Shanghai, Moil, Kobe & Yokohama "

Moli, Kobo & Yokohama

Shahal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama

Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.

Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. Mojl, Kabe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohams Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Koil, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Hoff, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Holi, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moff, Kobe & Yokohama

to devise ways and means to curb these outbreaks at once.

Mr. Yoshizawa replied to the When this urder became known the

protest on Saturday, pointing out various peoples were affected in

that the information conveyed by various ways. Some of the older the Chinese Consul is slightly at people brought keresine oil in large variance with the facts and that quantities; they had sven a pre-

tried the Japanese authorities vious eclipse, but were afraid that their beat to curb the agitation. on this occasion the sun might go The Japanese further said that the out permanently as it had nearly

agitation arose from the illtreat done so before.

Bubject to rent.

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the Under- signed on or before the 21st instant or they will not be recognized. -

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 11th fastant, at 10 a.m. by our sur- veyors Messrs. Goddard & Dongias. No Fire Insurance has been effected. "Others thought that the moonment of Koreans in Manchuria and Bills of Lading will be counter-

that if the Chinese authorities re-signed by was about to be devoured by avised their attitude toward them,

DODWELL & CO., LTD. dragon, and

Agents. charms, spells, and incantations to the movement in Korea would die

Hong Kong, 5th January, 1928, scare the monster away. When the a natural death--"Kuo Wen.”

devised

various

eclipse. began there was terrific ex- eltement, men yelling, women becoming hysterical, gongs being beaten, and incantations being ahouted to drive away the dragon. However, everything passed off without trouble. When daylight was once more restored all was

occurred had not these precautions been taken it is hard to say.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice.well; but what disasters might have

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Human Sacrifice.

STRANGE THREAT.

"FLEE WITH ME OR DIE!

"Flee with me' or ́äle,” Weried Paolina Pizzo, fifteen-year-old Palermo girl, the pretty daughter of an Italian millionaire, pointing a "In Borneo human sacrifics is the revolver at Giuseppi Marchesfa survival of a very old custom. The good looking mechanic and a friend idea was that if Mother Earth war of the family, disturbed by the works of man, she Marchesi hesitated. "Kidnap-me could best be appeased by the or I will kill you, repeated Paolina, sacrifice of human lives by those whers upon Marchesi accompanied who disturbed her. In time these the girl to hor motor car. On the sacrifices became Jess real in their morrow he returned with the platol to Paolina's father and asked him importance. Old men and slaves to fetch his daughter back imme sufficed until in the course of time diately. Paolina, delighted to Igura

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AND

heads taken in battle, to ensure the drama, went home quietly.ne fertility of the soil and the pros The happy father has promised perity of community, becoming the that she shall marry Marchest

when she is older. symbols of sacrifice.

In 1894 there was a widespread and devastating panic in Sarawak. Its origin seems to have been con-

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or Panama Canal at Ow

rocure those heads

were seized with

tat night.

not dare to

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