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MONDAY, MAY 21, 1928.

P. & 0.-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

PONTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

A NEW LINER.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE "OXFORD."

THE CHINA MAIL,

SAFETY AND COMFORT...

A notable addition has been made to the liner flect of Bri- tain's merchant navy by the com- pletion of the R.M.S. "Oxford,” of the Orient Line. This vessel is the fourth of a series of sister ships designed for the Australian route, and representing the very latest practice with regard to safe and comfortable ocean travel. Her predecessors are the "Orama” and "Otrano," built by Vickers- Armstrongs, of Barrow-who also built the "Oxford-and the "Oronsay," constructed by John Brown and Co., of Clydebank. A fifth unit of the same class, the "Orontes," is now on the stocks at the Vickers-Armstrong yard in, Barrow,

INDO-CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION CO, LTD,

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

Destination

Steamer

Salling

T'tan via Swatow & Shai FOOSHING Tlau via Swataw & S'ha CHAKSANG...Sun, 27th May at Noon Wed., 23rd May at Noon Ttau via Swatow & S'hai .YATSHING Tiau vis Swatow & S'hal KWONGSANG..Sun., 3rd June at Noon ....Wed, 30th May at Noon Osaka yla Amoy, Shanghat NAMSANG

Moji & Kobe Canten ... Straits

& Calcutta

Biraits & Calcutta

Sandakan Tientsin

3rd June at 7 a.m.

CHAKSANG FOOKSANG

....Sun.,

...Mon., Zist May at 8 p.m.

HOSANG

HINSANG

YUSANG

Tucs, 22nd May at 9 p.m. Tues., 29th May at 3 p.m. Wed., 30th May at Noon

.Tues., 29th May at Noon

-For Freight and Passage apply to:---

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

Telephone Central 215,

£200,000 PLOT.

KIDNAPPING TO WIN. ELECTION.

General Managers.

"BRITISH PLOT.”

"DRIVE TO EXHAUST"

U.S. OIL..

news-

A party of Press representa- tives and other guests joined the "Oxford" at Southampton for a cruise in the Channel. The Vossel riext left for A crire to the Mediterranean with a heavy passenger list. Other ertises will be made during the summer, including several Lo the Norwegian fjords and the Northern capitals, but in record out-matches

Chicago-Chicago's daily crime October the vessel will be placed serial atury ever

the brightest written for the on the Australian route.

Designed by Mr. Walker, the. While one section of the community popular magazines. "Oxford" is of approximately is using murder as a means to win 20,000 tons gross, with a lead dis- the election for placement of 26,000

the cily's rulers tons, the length over all being 658ft, and another is engaged in the greatest petroleum supply while conserving +KIDDERPORE 6,334 | 22nd May Straite, Colombo, Bombay & Karashi, the breadth 75ft. The depth to kidnapping plot yet recorded in the their own so as eventually, by co

|'history of American crime. A

trolling the world's oil resources, to The release by the police of put themselves in a position to ask

WIS held to Navy's fuel." of single-berth cabins, fitted with car salesman, bedsteatis in place of the old-ransom for 120,000, has broken up fashioned bunk.

to kidnap. The dining à plan

20 wealthy

S. S.

Tons

From Hongkong About

MALWA

Noun

Destination

10,986 26th May į Bombay, Marseilles & London,

31At May Suits, Culembo & Bombay,

5,273

5318 2nd June

Uth

"A" (or boat) deck is 8ort. feature of the internal accom-

readers

of

New York-The Ilearat papers have discovered another "British plot" against the United States.

investigate the alleged "British They demand that Congress shall drive to exhaust the American

M'es, 'don, A'werp, R'dan & I'burg/modation is the large proportion Thomas Gaynor, a wealthy motor-their own price for the American

June Bonnay, Marseilles, Lion & A'werp

Straits & Bombay.

8,007 6,715 19th June 16,001 23rd June

0,989 301%

Bombay, Marseillex & Landon,

who

Naval officers have been investi- gating reports that oil from the

June Marseilles, London, Antwerp, Hull, saloon, foyer, lounge, .cafe, and. Chicagoans and demand their reNaval Reserve fields in California}

other public rooms are most taste, lease at a price of £200,000. All and Wyoming is dralning into ad-

Rotterdam & Humburg:

HALIPORE

+JEYPORE

DELTA

MIRZAPORE

FANPURA

NOVARA

.KKYDER

ANANKIN

"KASHMIR

RAJPUTANA

SALDERA

*KALYAN

9,114 7th July RAWALPINDI 16.618 21st July 7,068 29th July 8,085 4th Aug. 16,508 18th Aug. 14,088 1st Sept. 99,1-1-4 15th Sept. ¡Cargo only.

Bombny, Marseilles & Londoni. Bombay, Alarseilles & London. Marseilles, London & Antwerp. * Calls Casablanca,

Marseilles, Landon, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseillor & London, Alles, 'don, A'werp, I'dam & IIburg Maseries, Lention & Antwerp.

· Frequent connection from Port Suld for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople Pireaus, Saying and other Levant forts by steamers of the

Khedival Mail, Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TALMA TAKLIWA

10,800 | 20th

7,906 4th

*Cargo only.

May Singapore, Penurig & Calcutta. June | Singapore, Peinnig & Calcutta..

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

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

TANDA . ST. ALBANS ARAFURA

6,956 1st June 4,500 20th June 6,000 3rd Aug.)

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, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement .offers.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

fully decorated, the whole scheme the time these plotters were play- giving an effect of restfulness and ing with death, for that is the jacent wells owned privately. Their quiet charm, in happy contrast to penalty for the crime of kidnap-report, according to the Secretary for the Navy, will be made publie the ornate and overpowering de- ping.

No writer of detective stories within a few days. An allegation corations of certain liners of a former day. Special attention has could have invented richer details that such a leakage was probable been paid to ventilation, the at-than have been told by Gaynor, who constituted an important part of mosphere throughout the ship be has now returned to the bosom of Mr. Albert Fall's justification för

leasing the oil ing kept cool and fresh even in his family. Seven men were cap-

Harry Sinclair. warm latitudes. Apart from the tured when Gaynor was found in a

Mr. Hearst now publishes a re- promenade decks, there is ample lttle cottage near Crystal Lake, 40 room for sports and games on the miles from Chicago. Their leader, port that aniline dyes placed in the boat deck, which is remarkably once a politician in Chicago and Teapot Dome wells have leaked out spacious and free from obstruc- now a gambler, was a friend of the in the flow from adjacent wells out- tions.

rich motor-car dealer whose kid-side the Government reservation, napping he planned.

thus proving drainage.

The Union 8.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New and the rakish funnels and masts.kill Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

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

The P. & 0. Branch Service of slummers to London via the Capo.

dirty

reserves to Mr.

are

Propulsion is effected by twin screws driven by two sets of Par- Detectives' Machine Guns.

The horror of this alleged dis- sons geared turbines, taking When detectives, well armed with covery is increased by the fact steam from eight oil-burning machine guns and revolvers, burst that these adjacent oilfields boilers at a working pressure of into the cottage where Gaynor was really subsidiaries of the British- 215b. per square inch. The de-a captive they found two men on owned Shell Oil Company. Hence, horse-power, the contract speed him," said one man, signed, output is 20,000 shaft guard. "He's in there; go and get Mr. Hearst finds justification for nodding his care headlines to the effect that being twenty knots. Even when head towards the darkened room in British interests are railing United the turbines are running a speed which

States oil reserves, and that in. Gaynor was imprisoned. Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, there is no perceptible vibration, When the first detective threw open future the American Navy may be Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney the absence of which contributes the door and entered Gaynor seized dependent upon a foreign country

so much to the comfort of ocean him in his arms, crying: "My God, for fuel in war-time. like the earlier vessels of her I thought I would travel. Moreover, the "Oxford," man, you are an angel from heaven.

.Senators and representatives are never get out quoted as speaking in praise of Mr. class, is a capital sea boat. Her alive. I feel pretty seedy.

Hearst for exposing a scheme by apparance is singularly graceful, "They wouldn't give me a China-British of interests to corner the thanks to the straight stem, man's chance of a bath. They put of supply. Senator Jones, chair- cruiser stern, lofty upperworks, guns to my head and threatened to man of the Commerce Committee, me if I didn't write letters states that America should learn a The -ship steamed west-praying for the ransom money,"

lesson from the British and copy ward from Southampton as

Sack Over Head.

their methods by conserving its far as Torbay, follow.. With clothes. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and ing the contour of the seaboard, dishevelled and a week's growth of foreign felds.

own oil and

resources and exploiting and keeping well inshore. The beard on his chin, Gaynor looked

As Senator Borah sees it, com- visitors were thus afforded a like an out-of-work tramp Instead panies subsidiery to the British magificent panorama of the of a dapper salesman who made a Shell interests are selling American] Hampshire, Dorset, and Devon fortune selling motor-cars. Later of abroad in competition with coastline, clothed in spring ver he told the full story of his adven-American oil companies, and he dure, and lapped by a sunlit sea.

wants it stopped. Speaking after dinner Sir Alan

Mr. Hearst declares also that the I was riding home on a Sunday Anderson, chairman of the

evening, he said, when I was members of the Naval Committee Orient Line, made an eloquent

of the House of Representatives crowded to the kerb and instantly plea for the encouragement of tra- three men were in my car hold-realise that, should the oil reserves vel to Australia, whose future he

ing revolvers to my chest. I was in the United States become inade- painted in glowing colours. It is,

ordered to lie down or I would be quate, the national defence would he stated, a young but vigorous

killed.

Wo drove away and be seriously Impaired. country, full of hope and promise

somewhere in the city we changed for the British settler. There is

cars. A tape was found over my no doubt that the great liners now

eyes. I was forced to put on coming into service, and of which the "Oxford" is a fine specimen,

glasses and a sack was drawn my head. We drove for will furnish new and important

hours. I could feel the road links in the chain of inter-Empire

becoming rough and knew we communications,

were far from Chicago.

London via Panama Canal,

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

*DEVANHA

LANPURA TILAWA 'NANKIN

ST. ALBANS TAKADA KHYBER

TALAMBA RAWALPINDI

⚫NELLORE

KASHMIR ARAFURA RAJPUTANA KALYAN TANDA

8,155 22nd May Shanghini, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama.

·30,001 25th May S'ha, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 2nd June

7,058

5th June 4,500 5th June 4,940 7th June

0,114

8,018

Amoy, S'hai, Mojt, Kobe & Osaka. S'hai, Muji, Kobe & Yokohama. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohams. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

8th June S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 17th

Moji. Kobe & Yokohama,

Wei Hai Wel,

June Amoy, 20

16,819 22nd June

Tsingtao Kobe & Yokohama. 0.853 Srd July S'hai,

Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, 8,985 6th July S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama

10th July Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. 20th July S'hai, Kobu & Yokohama,

3rd Aug. S'hui, lofi, Kobe & Yokohama. 7th Aug. Meji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama,

6.900 16,508 9,144 0,050

* Cargo only.

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

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

All Cabins are filted with, Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundrica Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1ft. 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.

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

Agents.

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE.

(OCEAN S.S. CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL S.S. CO., LTD.)

AND

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.

(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.).

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG,

8.S. "CITY OF NEWCASTLE"

Vla Suez Canal

4th June.

Via Suez Canal

Via Suez Canal

15th June. 28th Juné.

Via Suez Canal

13th July.

Via Suez Canal

27th July.

Via Suez Canal

10th Aug.

Via Suez Canal

24th Aug.

6.3. ADRASTUS”

B.S. "HELENUS"

'S.S. "CITY OF OSAKA"

S.S. "DARDANUS"

S.S. "CITY OF EVANSVILLE

5.B. "LYCAON" ·

Subject to change without notice.

Steamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners' Option.

For Freight and particulars apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE or THE BANK LINE, LTD., Hong Kong. Hong Kong & Canton: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Canton.

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

STEAMER FOR STRAITS, COLOMBO, AUSTRALIA, DOMBAY, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS, AND LONDON.

THE

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THE Steamship

KIDDERPORE” carrying His Majesty's Malls will be despatched from this port on or about TUESDAY, the 22nd May, 1928, at Noon taking Cargo for the above, Ports.

Sik, Valuables and Tea for Italy, France and London (under arrange-

ture.

over

We stopped and I heard one man say, "I will get out and secure the cottage." I lost all trace of days and nights and was fed only on sandwiches and coffee so that I could not distingukb between breakfast and supper. I slept on chairs.

Then they moved me. Their car broke down and I was forced to walk miles through rafu and mud. Unable to see, being still blindfolded, I stepped up to my knees in water. At last we ar- rived at the cottage, where, after a week's imprisonment, the police found me.

The "million dollar kidnap ring" is the name the police give the gang who have been fattening on ran soma in Chicago, Detroit, Pitts- burgh, and Philadelphia.

ment) will be transhipped at AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT

BombayInto the Mail Steamer proceeding direct to Marsellies and London.

Parcels, will be received at this Mice until 5 pm the day before. all packages must be declared, sailing. The contents and value of

to

For further Particolare, Apply MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO...

Agents Hong Kong, 18th May, 1928.

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