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Saturday, 10th May.

Thursday, 17th May.

Saturday, 12th May,

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Russia" from Hong Kong--Noon, May 9th, 1928. WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM

Divergent Shipping Interests. One can well sympathise with Discussing the shipping inter- the 200 foreign captains, officers, ests concerned, Mr. Macmillan and engineers in the employ of said they were divergent, to the the China Merchants' Navigation extent that those who owned Company in their refusal to ac tankers thought there was no copt the offer of part of their thought there was. If there were of their demand that their ar- danger, and those who did not November salary in satisfaction

real danger in admitting tankers rears of pay should be made up London. Only two speeches through the difficult part of the to the end of the year at least. by counsel remained, when the river would there be divergence? At the same time, from its pecu

Would there not be the greatest liar composition, the company is Ministry of Transport inquiry at Junanimity?

in a vary awkward position in re- He said that Mr. Bibby, from lation to the various temporary the Port of London Authority's offices was resumed respecting the Liverpool Shipowners' Asso- rulers of the rivers, and al- ciation, despite the disaster to the though the officers claim that the mit oil tankers to proceed up the ping the petrol traffic to the Mer- the Nationalist coffers are exces- Thames as far as Purfleet. sey in fact would not hear of sive, the unfortunate Chinese Mr. Tyldesley Jones, K.C., ad- such a thing. He did not even gentlemen at the head of the want more stringent regulations, affairs of the company are cer- dressing the Commissioners on despite the enormous traffic in the tainly getting a very bad time behalf of the Thames Land Com Mersey. But he did want them from the various dictators.

The constitution of the com- pany and Messrs. Harrison, said here

Then there were the lighter-'pany is the most extraordinary in euch of them owned lands suit-

men. They admittedly did not the world, for it was the first able for ocean installations and want petrol on the river in any truly native concern to be started It was for all refineries. All those lands form. But they could not ex- in the Celestial Empire.

clude it, and so the largest barge organised in 1874, with the very were to-day sterilised for those

and lighter owning company on strong support and encourage- purposes because of the inability the river decided to remain neu- ment of the Imperial throne, who to bring tankers up there., tral.

were realising that the native "We are not here," said Mr.

He could have understood the merchants were no longer satis- Jones, "pretending to be acting opposition of the Thameshaven fied to trust their goods and per-

Oil Wharves, Ltd., had they come 'sons to in the public interest. The public forward and said, having spent monopolised the native trade for the junks which had interest is in charge of the Port large sums of money in establish- so long, and were flocking to the of London Authority. We are ing their magnificent installation,, British stearners, which were get- here to say that unnecessary re- they would suffer serious damage ting a very strong hold of the if the bye-laws under which they coasting trade. In order to help strictions are put upon the use had developed were relaxed, and it the Emperor was willing to of our lands by these existing in this way favoured competi-grant it several invaluable pri- | bye-laws, which are doing us tors.

vileges, including the monopoly The Port of London had the of the steamboat carriage of tri- great injury."

Mr. H. P. Macmillan, K.C., said obligation to admit impartially,bute rice from the various pro- Commis-every form of traffic and com- vinces to the capital, which was he thought the sioners must by now have reach-modity, only devising special pre-in itself a colossal trade.

cautions where the particular risk ed the limit of saturation.

Position of British Officers. « that was attached demanded opened the case for the Port of them in the interests of public Steam Navigation Company was In its early days the Shanghai London Authority some months

The members of the the most important rival of the ago (laughter)--and up to that safety. day the report of the proceedings tral, and men of vast experience was in a position to buy out its authority were all absolutely neu-China Merchants, but in 1879 it represented 1,789 pages of print, and expert knowledge.

rival, and, under the guidance (including 17,769 questions to wit-

nesses, as well as fifteen speeches: there was not risk in this pro-Hung-chang, it became of more The authority did not pretend and protection of the famous Li (Laughter). They had probably cedure. There was risk in bring-and more importance in Eastern citor who advised counsel, "We There might be a little more in in sticking to the original regula- all heard of the story of the soli-

ing

petrol to Thameshaven, waters. He was very particular have no case; abuse the oppos-bringing it to Purfleet. But the tion that none but native Chinese ling attorney." He had been sub-

ject to something mere subtle, be-whole of our commercial life was should be admitted as sharehold

attended with risks.: "Safety ars, but he fully realised the DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND Cause the opposition had seemed first has never been the motto of necessity. of employing British to act on the principle, "We have commerce in this country" said officers and engineers, who had no case; praise the farmers and Mr. Macmillan, "and I hope it been in the service of the com the moderation of the promoters".

never will,"

pany ever since. counsel." (Laughter).

He thought it was a matter for would be benefit to the trade and 1900 the wily Li Hung-chang During the Boxer rising of regret that the L.C.C. had come the public generally by the altera- found that his interest in the there and had criticised

that tion. One tanker with 10,000 company was distinetly embar- sister authority in administra- tons on tion, suggesting that they had Thameshaven and Purfleet, take Great Powers, and he had to board would, between rassing in his relation with the

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

Foreign warships: French: not given this important matter the place, of one hundred barges, watch practically all the ships of

Vigilante; Portuguess: Patria; that serious and careful consider- roughly thirty-three "tows" of the company temporarily trans-

Warships in port this morning American: Sacramento (at No. 11 ation, which the County Council three barges each.

buoy) and Pampanga. ferred to the British, German were as follow: gave to 'important matters.

It seemed elementary to say and United States flags on ac- North wall basin: Wild Swan, There had been a suggestion on that this would relieve a congest-count of the political situation. Wanderer; the part of counsel for the ship-ed portion of the river very At one time the company tried Onslaught East wall basin: ping interests that the Port of greatly. The authority had satis- the experiment of running a ser-Nessus, Moth, LS, L27; North arm London Authority "posed as an fied themselves that the time had vice to San Francisco, but they of Dockyard: Titania, Withering- Kimberley.The death is an- impartial authority which had come when the additional facility found it very expensive, and soon ton, Wivern: West wali Dock: nounced of the Right Rev. Wilfrid been engineered by the Anglo-to the great oll trade could be went back to the purely local Francol, Beigol; in Dockyard: L15, Gore-Browne, Bishop of Kimberley. American Oil Company and

given with reasonable safety. trade in which they have made L19, L20, L33; No. 1 buoy: Born in 1858 at Auckland, New others like them interested in the.

The inquiry on the main ques-and are still making very large Hermes; No. 2 buoy: 'Verity, Zealand, the son of the late Colonel tion was concluded, and it was de-gross profits. But the European Wishart; No. 8 buay: Wolverine: Sir Thomas Gore-Brown, the bishop cided to endeavour to settle other officers have had very consider No. 4 buoy: Foxglove, Magnolia; was educated at Harrow and other meeting. points of bye-law detail at an-able trouble over their conditions No. 6 buoy: War Krishner: No. 7 Trinity College, Cambridge, ordain-

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SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,

LONDON HAMBURG,

ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore

..Friday, 11th May.

Colombo, Suez and Port Said. AMUR MARU

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

SANTOS MARU

Friday, 25th May.

BUMBAVY Singapore and Colombe,

HONOLULU MARU

Friday, 4th May.

SUMATRA MARU (Calls at Penang) Saturday, 19th May.

MOMBASA-Via Singapore and Colombo.

· MEXICO MARU

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KASADO MARU

Friday, 25th May. VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Ports,

LONDON MARU (from Shanghai)Monday, 30th April. ALABAMA MARU (from.Shanghai) Thursday, 10th May. HAIPHONG-Vin HOIHÓW & SAKAOL.

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MENADO MARU

JAPAN PORTS

HOZAN MARU.....

KERING TN, GWATOVE & AMOY

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.Sunday, 6th May noon.

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China Merchants' steamers are No. 10 buoy: Cornflower; No. 12 curacy at, Pallion, Sunderland, the County Council and fully proved in all its details. with all the

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