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THROUGH BOOKING TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES, £120, £112, £110, £102, £88, via San Francisco.

G$440, G$420, via Japan and Seattle.

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai,,Japan Ports & Honolulu.

TENYO MARU

KOREA MARU

Calls Keelung.

HAKONE MARU

SUWA MARU

LONDON via Singapore, Suez, Marseilles & Ports.

Saturday,

Saturday,

Tuesday, 3rd April. Tuesday, 17th April.

7th April.

21st April.

26th April.

28th March.

Thursday, 10th April.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

AKI MARU

Wednesday,

.... Wednesday,

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,

+ GENOA MAKU

THE CHINA MAIL,

SHIPPING

SECTION.

THE SEA DEVIL.”

t.

GERMAN AS NEW CAPTAIN KIDD.

"SEEADLER'S" EXPLOITS.

DISTRESS SIGNALS. "SANNING" AGROUND Picturing himself as a modern

AUTOMATIC ALARM AT

SEA.

LIVE-SAVING DEVICE.

A notification issued by the Har bour Master's Department states:

In the interests of safety of life at sea, the General Post Office with

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, the concurrence of the Board of

Mexico & Panama. BOKUYO MARU

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Poris.

10th April

HAKATA MARU

.Tuesday. NEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA.

MAYEBASHI MARU

+ TOBA MARU

Tuesday, Saturday,

27th March. 14th April

LIMA MARU

LIVERPOOL via Singapore, Colombo, Port Said- & Ports.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, l'enang & Rangoon.

Saturday, 14th April.

TAKITA MARU

NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

MISHIMA MARU

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

SEIYO MARU (Kobe direct)

Friday, 30th March,

Friday, 20th April.

Thursday,

WAKASA MARU (Kobe direct).... Saturday, HAKOZAKI MARU

Monday,

29th March. 31st March. 2nd April.

*Cargo only.

Subject to alteration without noilce.

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8th May,

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For Marseilles

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Trade has authorised the fitting on board ships registered in the Unit-

IN PIRATE INFESTED.

DISTRICT.

WARSHIPS ASSISTANCE.

of

The Count recalls that the ex-

bloodless Captain Kidd and claiming that he did not kill anybody al- though he did £1,000,000 worth of damage to British shipping and caused incalculable damage by de- laying vessels which were afraid to sail, Count Felix Von Luckner, Commander Df the "Seeadler," The 8.8. "Sanning.", on the Hong publishes the record of his raids in Kong-Kongmoon. run, is reported book entitled "The Sea Devil." to be aground in the pirate infested The book contains a portrait of Von district of Talping Sha and protec- Luckner wearing two rows

Iron Cross tion from possible attack has been medals, including the

and and four other decrations. afforded by H.M.S. "Nessus" HALS. "Onslaught" both of which, it is reported, have unsuccessfully endeavoured to help off the "San- ed Kingdom of an approved auto-ning" which is hard aground. matic apparatus which will res- pond to a special signal called the Alarm Signal. That signal, used in conjunction with the Distress Signal (S.O.S.), will actuate the automatic apparatus which will summon an operator by means of n call-bell, and ships so fitted will in effect be able to, maintain constant watch at sea for distress purposes even although they may carry only one operator.

a

Kaiser paid for his Naval education, The ex-Kaiser, once discussing the "Seeadler's" chances, pointed out Admiralty con- It is stated that lighters have that the German been requisitioned for discharging sidered it was madness for a wind but it appears that there will have jammer to attempt to pass to be a considerable rise of water British blockade. before it will be possible for the "Sanning" to get off.

"ATSUTA MARU."

SEQUEL TO "DETENTION". AT

SHANGHAL

JAPANESE CONSUL 'ACTS.

Captain's "Wife"

the

Count Von Luckner replied: "The British think the same. Therefore they will not look for anything as absurd as a raider disguised as a sailing ship."

The ex-Kaiser replied: "Right, May the Almighty's hand be at your helm."

The "Sccadler" was formerly an American clipper.

In view of the fact that certain ships which trade abroad and do not normally cuil at ports in the United Kingdom will be equipped

She sailed during the Christmas with the auto-alarm device while

Shanghai, March 20,

hurricane in 1916 and baffled the abroad, and, as the installation of

The Japanese steamer "Atsuta British cruiser "Avenger" because such apparatus permits in certain

Maru," which figured in an accident she faked a Norwegian make-up, circumstances a reduction of the on the Yangtze River resulting in including lettera and photographs number of wireless operators or the loss of more than 300 lives, will from Norway in the forecastle,

board, the be cleared from the port of Shang-while watchers carried

hand, EL fair-haired silm Board of Trade deem it necessary hai by the Japanese Consulate if dressed as the captain's wife, was that when so equipped such ships the Customs authorities do not scated on the deck, his huge feet should be inspected immediately give the vessel the necessary clear-hidden by a rug.

on

in order to ensure that being quirements are with.

their teance, according to a communication complied sent to Mr. F. W. Maze, Commis- sioner of Customs, by Mr. S. Yada,

In the circumstances, the Post-Japanese Consul-General. master-General considers that it will suffice, in cases where a ship is newly equipped with an auto- alarm at a Colonial port, if veri- fication of the fact can be obtain ed by a visit to the ship; for the ship's wireless operator to demon- by strate to the visiting officials means of the tests described in Rule 14 of the Merchant Shipping (Wireless Telegraph) Rules, 1927. Application should be made. to the Harbour Master for the inspec- tion of auto-alarme fitted at this port, and any failure of the device should be reported to him for the information of the Board of Trade

and of the General Post Office,

Captured Champagne.

Count Von Luckner, in relating

The "Astuta Maru" was ordered the capture of the "Horngrath," to be detained in this port by Mr. which was loaded with champagne, Quo Tal-chi, Nationalist Commis in the Atlantic, anys that he pre- stoner of Foreign Affairs, pending tended that the "Seeadler" was on When the "Horngarth" came a settlement of the claims of the fire.

the "Hein Da Ming," near the crew subdued the fire and owners of

Count Von Luckner shouted the Chinese-owned vessel which was the "Seendler" revealed herself. sent to the bottom of the river

trump "bluff." He declares that when struck by the "Atsuta Maru" "Torpedoes clear" which was his even the threat of a tropedo was on the night of February 18. Seamen Take A Hand.

sufficient. The terrified Britishers

God's sake shouted "For New developments in the

included

a torpedoes." troversy, yesterday

The prisoners captured included statement by the Japanese that the board of arbitrators suggested eight marines and the crew and the by the owners of the "Hain Da "Hornganth's" five-inch Ming" must be limited to four also taken. members and not five, as was re-

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gun was

The "Seendler's" armament was a commended by the Chinese. The small gun placed in a section of the Japanese also stated that the de- smoke stack which made a huge! cision of the arbitrators must be noise but was harmless. unanimous in the matter of in- demnity.

At Chatham Dockyard, on Feb. 18, the refit was completed of the hospital ship "Maine," which has

In Chinese circles. yesterday, it

A vessel named "Deido," under undergone a refit since returning was reported that as A result of

Ardrossan from China. The "Main's" medical the action of the Japanese another construction at the

the African Steam- staff is under the command of anti-Japanese boycott by

Chinese Dockyard for

She Surgeon Captain J. H. Ferguson, looms in Shanghal. This, accord-ship Co., has been launched. who recently succeeded Surgeoning to reports, may be coupled le 355 ft. b.p, with a moulded beam Captain W. W. Keir, C.M.G., the with another strike of the Chinese of 49 ft. and latter officer having been appointed Seamen's Union. The union isins., the gross in charge of the naval hospital at reported to have held a general A six cylinder Hong Kong. ordered to leave Chatham for Malta meeting last night to discuss the engine is to

The "Maine" is

on Feb. 28, and will resume duty with the Mediterranean Fleet, to which she was attached before "being transferred to China at the time the Shanghai Defence Force was sent.

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