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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1928.

P.&O.-British India 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 SOUTH 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.)

9. 9.

LAHORE

From

t

Tons Hongkong

About

| 5,252 19th +KIDDERPORE | 5,334 | 22nd 10,986 26th

Destination

Bay | Mles, L'don, A'werp, Bam &H'burg Strait Colombo, Bombay & Karachi. Bombay, Marsoilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

May May 6,279 1st May

MALWA

TALIPORE-

JEYPORE

DELTA

+MIRZAPORE

RANPURA

16,601 | 23rd

INOVARA

| 6,089

5318 End June N.097 9th June 0.75

10th

Juno 1 June

Jone

RAWALPINDI

3.114 7th 16.610

8,985 4tl.

16.568 18th

10.088 1st

[9,144 | 15th

Aug- Aug. Sept. Sept.

EGYBER

*NANKIN

*KASHMIR

RAJPUTANA

NALDERA

**KALYAN

July 216t July 7,058 28th July

***Cargo only,

A GENERATION.

IMPROVED SHIPPING

CONDITIONS.

SIZE AND SPACE.

THE CHINA MAIL,

INDO-CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

Steamer

Destinailon

Tau via Swnlow & S'hal Tau vin Swator & S'hai Ttau vin Swalow & S'hai Ttau via Swalow & S'hat, Osaku via Asoy, Shanghai KUTSANG

Moll & Kobe Canton ..

Straits & Calesita Straits & Catsuita Sandakan Tientsin

Sailing

HANGSANG Sun, 20th May at Noon FOOSHING....Wed, 23rd May at Noon CHAHSANG...Sun., 27th May at Noon YATSHING Wed., 30th May at Noon ...Fri, 18th May at Noon ...Mon., 21st May at 8 p.m.

.Tuos., 22nd May at

3 p..

CHAKSANG POOKSANG HOSANG

HINSANG

YUSANG

.Tues., 29th May at 3 p.m. .Tues., 29th May at 3pm.

Tues, 20th May at Noon

For Freight and Passage apply to:-

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

Telephone Central 215.

that it

General Managers.

PASSENGER LIST.

DEPARTURES.

"Taiping" to-day for

Passenger departed by the s.s..

Australia ports via Munila were:-

In no branch of British indus- try, perhaps, has the condition of those employed in it been so im- proved as in seafaring-as re- gards the rank and file, at any rate-during the last 30 or 40 years. Even within the last twenty years we made a voyage neross the North Atlantic in a passenger liner the first-class ac commodation of which waS in- ferior to that of the third-class of many liners of to-day. True, she was a very beautiful thing to look upon from the shore, with her clipper bow and graceful lines, but she was rapidly nearing the end

of her days, and has, of course, long since passed into the eaten with enjoynient. The Hobri- hands of the shipbreakers. Andet of the "doctor" given to the ship's cook probably dates back to if this was the case with the pas- much earlier days, since it was aengers, what was there, to be doubtless applied to him on ac- count of the fact that it was his said of the accommodation pro-function to disguise, or "doctor," vided for the crew? Writers of the food available so

Mr. and Mrs. W. K., Reynolds and sea stories now living have told might reach the men in a more or son, Mrs. II. Webb, Miss E. Webb, us something of the dark, il-less palatable form. Little com- Mias J. Wobb. Mrs. H. S. Hills,

piaint, however, can ventilated and cramped quarters with the quality or the scale of Hills, Matr. Feter Hila, Mr. II. L. be found Miss Helen Hills, Msir. Stuart with which the seamen of their rations served out aboard ship Jackman, Mre. R. E. Crowe, Mr. J. tem of refrigerations has helped H. J. Anderson, Mr. P. T. Susman, Since then considerably, and even aboard Mrs. J. V. Hutton, Mrs. L. C. Lewis, have been ships which have no such inatalla-Mr. E: Cock, Mrs. J.. C. Early, Dr. very great strides made in all respects. Fifty years tion, the art of canning and bot- and Mrs. J. L. Shellshear, air. and are two-thirds of the tonnage of tling has been brought to such a Mrs. A. Joyce, Mr. T. W. S. degree of perfection, and is em- Parsons, Mr. H. Parsons, Miss M. the world's mercantile marine ployed nowadays to embrace so Pearson. Ah Once, Harold Charles consisted of sailing-ships, and it wide a field, that a variety of Julum Hoong, Wong Young-how, needs but little effort to imagine food is possible, even in the veri- Mrs. How Hoy, MIAB Nillie Yee the discomforts inseparable from cat tramp, which was undreamed Tong, Andrew He, Mrs. Sadle Ho,

of a generation ngo.

Mass Lee Hin-mun, Osborne Claud, a voyage in a windjammer which

Another direction in which awong Dong, Goon Yow, Chee Hoy, taken Chin Quee, William Lee Jang-sing remarkable change has place affecting the welfare of a Wing Chen, Charlie faring men is in the matter of Wang Tsol, Harry Moo, Hay Sing, Gee Sing, safety at sea. In the first place, construction in relation to the character of the cargoes carried has, profited by lessons which ex- perience has taught. Little more than 30 years ago a class of vessel was in use cargoes out and bulk grain heme, for carrying coal which events proved was quite unsuited for the latter cargo in particular. It was of the two-

Miles, Lidon, A'werp, R'dam & IPburg/ Younger days were obliged toto-day. In this respect, the sys- Chalmers, Mr.. F. H. J. Trayes, Mr. |

Bombay, Marseilles, L'don & A'werp feign contentment.

Straits & Bombay.

Bombay, Marseilles & London, Murseilles, London, Antwerp, Hull,

Rotterdam & & Hamburg. Marseilles, London, Antwerp & Hull. Ronbay, Marseilles & London. Miles, Llon, A'werp, Riam & Il'burg Marrellten, London & Antwerp. Bombay, Marsrilles & London Bombay, Marseilles & Tordon. Marseilles, London & Antwerp. Calls Casablanca.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Canstantinople, Firenze, Smyran and other Lesant Ports by steamers of the were borne by those whose lot it Khedival, Mail Stranship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

*HATIPARA

TALMA TAKLIWA

7 11.11.

7,764 19th

10,000 26th 7:34 4th

*Cargo only.

May S'pore, Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta,

May Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. June | Singapore, Penang & Calcutta

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

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

TANDA ST. ALBANS ARAFURA

6,056❘ Int June 4,500 29th June 6,000 3rd Aug.)

Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island,

Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.

The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugun, Tawao, Tintor, Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

offers.

was to man them. Perhaps it was "running the Easting down," with a following sea sweeping the decks and flooding the fo'e'sle; or fighting to round the Horn in un outward-bounder in the bitter cold of an Antarctic July. As Kipling puts it:

Or

"Hail, now an' ice that praise the Lord; I've met them at their work,

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Nowing way to the motor. Zealand, Vancouver. San Francisco, etc.

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

SAILINGS. TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

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CONSIGNEES.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

"BENCLEUCH"

of

Bra

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Under- signed on or before the 1st prox., or they will not be recognized.

All.broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godorns, where they will be examined on the 17th inst., at 10 a.m., by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

An' wished we had anither roule or they anither kirk."

deck type with a depth about two-From MIDDLESBRO, ANTWERP, even worse, crossing the thirds of the breadth, and if once LONDON & STRAITS, Atlantic in an old wooden ship, the cargo shifted during a gale timber-laden from the Gulf of the chances of the ship, recover.HE. Steamship Mexico, leaking like a basket and jing herself were slight indeed.

CONSIGNEES floating on her cargo. Those who and the number of steamers of

Cargo survived were men indeed, but it this sort which went a-missing on hereby informed that all Goods are was a heavy price to pay, and one the homeward voyage from the being landed at their risk into the can be glad that such tests of en-Black Sea pointed the moral. hazardous and/or extra hazardous durance are no longer demanded. Heavy toll was also levied on Godowns of the Hongkong and Kow- Twenty-five years ago four- grain-carrying steamers from thetoon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., fifths of the tonnage of the world | Atlantic seaboard, until a shallow whence and/or from the wharves consisted of steamships, while er and beamier type of vessel delivery may be obtained. now steam in its turn is fast giv-came into vogue, and the older No claims will be admitted after ones were got rid of. The Safety the Goods have left the Godowns, A motor-ship may or may not Conference of 1914, which dealt and all Goods remaining undeliver- be a better vessel to sail in than with subdivision, boats and life-ed after the 18th. inst., will be The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.

a steamship from the crew's point saving appliances, collection rega subject to rent. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and of view, but size is an important lations and wireless telegraphy, Luzulon via Panama Canal.

factor where comfort is concern-contributed largely to the increas- ed, and the average dimensions of ed safety at sea, and there is no vessels have been practically doubt that the general use of doubled in the last 30 or 40 years. wireless on shipboards has done In 1897 the average gross ton- more towards the saving of life nage of merchant vessels, launch-than any other one factor in re- ed of 100 tons gross and upwards cent years. Substantial progress was 1,612. In 1907 the figure had has also been made in the use of

reports risen exactly 800 tons to 1,912, direction-finders, while in 1917 the average jumped, practical experience in to 4,066 tona, due probably to war trades proving the value of the circumstances which would not instrument. Wireless beacons for operate in normal times. For use with the direction-finder are 1927 the figure was 3,804 tons, now in operation, in many coun- which showed a gradual but tries, and arrangements are being steady yearly rise from the 2,908 made to increase the number so. tons which was the mean for as to provide shipping with wire- 1928. With this development in less means of making the chief the average size of vessels launch-landfalls. In 1890 the number of ed it may safely be said that the British ships totally lost was 407; designers of them-whether they ten years later this figure had be passenger; or cargo, beats fallen to 226, and in the next ten have not regarded the matter of years to '171. In 1920 it was crew accommodation as of little still further reduced to 184, or no importance, and the quar- while in 1926-the last year for far in advance of what was ob- the number reported was 80, or ters allotted for this purpose are which the figures are available- tainable a generation ago, though, barely 20 per cent. of what it was as we showed in a recent issue, 37 years ago. It is gratifying to there is still room for improve-know that in the last seven years ment. Closely associated with the the loss of only one British steam- to over- question of housing and sleeping ship was attributable

*DEVANHA

SANTHIA

6,715 20th May

Ga., *MIRZAPORE 0,715 21st May

10a.m. 8,155 22nd May 16,601 25th May 10,000 2nd June 7,058 5th Junc 4,600 5th June 8,949 7th

June KHYBER

0,114 8th June. TA LAMBA

8,018 17th June RAWALPINDI 10,019 22nd June

RANPURA TILAWA

'NANKIN ST. ALBANS

TAKADA

*NELLORE KASHMIR

ARAFURA

RAJPUTANA

KALYAN TANDA

Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

Shanghai, Moji & Kobe,

Shanghai, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama. S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama.

Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. S'haf Maji, Kobo & Yokohama.

Wei Hal Wei,

Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama, Amoy, Hoji, Kobe & Onka.. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokoberen. Amoy, Moji. Kobe' & Yokohama, Shanghai, Tsingtao,

Kobe & Yokohama. 6,863 3rd July S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, 8.ЗЕБ 6th July. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama 6,000 10th July Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohams, 10,568

20th July S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama 9,144

3rd Aug. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 6,980 7th Aug. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama.

• Cargo only,

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice,` WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS,

Passengers for Hangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.

All Cabins are fitted with, Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

For further Information, Passages Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

Agents.

P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., HONG KONG.

of No Fire Insurance has been various effected.

Bills of Lading, will be counter- signed by GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,

Agenta. Hong Kong 11th May, 1928.

is the matter of food, and here loading or bad stowage, and that again conditions have been great case was taken up and the person ly ameliorated during the pre-responsible dealt with by the sent generation. The days seem law. Finally, the lot of the sca far off when a versifier in a Lon-farer, whether deck, or engine-

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE, don daily newspaper was moved room hand, cook or steward, has

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE. (OCEAN S.S. CO., LTD. & CHINA MÚTUAL S.S. CO., LTD.)

AND

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE. `(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.)

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.

8.8. ADRASTUS"

Via Suez Canal.

9.6. CITY OF NEWCASTLE"

Via Suez Canal

S.8. "HELENUS"

Via Sugt Canal

.S.S. "CITY OF OSAKA"

Via Suca Canal

S.S. "DARDANUS"

Via Suez Canal

B.S. "LYCAON"

S.S. "CITY OF EVANSVILLE" Via Suez Canal

Via Suez Canal

4th June.

15th June... 29th June. 18th July. 27th July...

10th Aug. 24th Aug.

to describe the woes of the Bri-been much improved within the. fish sailorman, and included last 15 years. Instead of the £4 among them the fact of his be a month which was the regular ing served out, as part of his daily pay of an A.B. before the war, the rations, with:

"Game old Government tack, High old Government tack,

That has fought the Boor

and the Black, And; by.devious ways, Now ends his days

scale, operative since. August, 1925, is £9, a boatswain now get ting £10 10s: as. against £5-for- merly: Similarly, firemen, trim- mera, carpenters, etc., can all claim a scale of pay practically 100 per cent. more than they were paid in the early part of the pre- sent century, while rates of pay to the catering departmenttr Yet the words themselves show have undergone a similar revision. that this was written within the For this improved state of things. last 25 years. The state of things there is no doubt that seamen,owe was," no doubt, somewhat exag: a debt to the wise conduct of their

In the belly of Merchant

Jack."

Steamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners' Option, gerated, but weevily biscuits were union, the leading spirits of which

Subject to change without notice.

For Freight and particulars apply to BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LTD, Hong Kong Hong Kong & Canton: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Canton,

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a stock complaint", "harness- came to see at last that there was cask”, and “salt, horse" were com more to be gained by reasoned to the salt beef, or pickled pork tion than all the strikes that had mon expressions when referring argument and diplomatic negella- which many of us have, after all, ever been engineered. "Syren."

"Martha, have you noticed the long lists of prominent people who arrive and sail on the President Liners? Practically every- body I know travels on them. And if you have even as much as been aboard one of the Liners, you can well understand why they are so extremely popular."

Weekly Trans-Pacific Service

To Sau Franckoo and Los Angeles The Sunshine Belt sia Honolulu Fortnighty sailings on Tuesdays

+

To Scalo and Victoria The Short, Stwight Route to America Forcaighdyilings on Wednesdays

Pres. Grant...May 22nd 11 n.m. Pres. Lincoln ........May 29th Fres. Cleveland ....June 6th Pres. Madison ..June 12th Pres. Pierce

June 19th Pres. Jackson ....... June 26th Fres. Taft...........July 3rd! Pres. McKinley July 10th

120, 112 Special through sates to Europeia United States. Direct

connections with all Adlantic lines.. Choice of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stup-over privileges för sight-seeing.

Europe and New York Direct

ROUND THE WORLD

Fortnightly selling on Sunday via Marila. Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria Naples, Genoa, Maneilles, New York and Boston. Fres, Wilson....May 20th 8 a.m Pres Polk.....July 1st 8 n.m. Pres Van Buren June 3rd 8 a.m

Pres. Adam...July 15th 8.m Fres, Hayes...June 17th 8 a.m. Pres. Garfield..July 29th 8 .m.

To Manila

Pres. Wilson...May 20th 8 u.m., Pres. Van Buren June 3rd 8 a.m. Pres. Lincoln May 22nd 6 p.m Pres. Madison June 5th 6 p.m. Pres. Cleveland May 28th 6p. Pres. Plerto...June 9th 6 p.m.

For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Informalen apply co Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795

Cable Address "Dollar"

American Mail Line

and

Dollar Steamship Line

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.

ENGINEERS and SKIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done In this establiskmont is guaranteed. We here over thirty years' experience. We own two Blipways and can accommodate any craft of 209 feet long.

Town Offee: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong, Tel. Centra! No, 459: Shipyard: Sham-Sal-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel. Kawigor No. 9. Estimates furnished an application,

Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: “MANIFESTO" HONGKONG.

Codes Used: Al, A.B.C. FINь Edition; Engineering: First and Second Edition; Western Union and Watkina, ..

DOCK OWNERS, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS, ELECTRICIANS,

S.S. “TAIPING,”

Speed 14.77 LH.P. 4090 D.W. 4215 tons.

Built and engined by the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd.

to the Chief Manager:

R. M. DYER, B.SC., MI.N.A., Kowloon Dock, Hongkong.