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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY -30,

P.&O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian

Lines

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

TAKING CARGO FOR

'BTHAITS, JAVA, burma, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND FORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE

PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY 'DIRECT ROYAL MAİL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with HM. Government.)

*8. 8.

Tens

"ALIPORE

*KIDDERPORE

From I

Hong Kong About

6,273 31st Jan,

Destination

Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

Ő a.m.

MOREA

·10,053

2nd Feb.

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

5,33-1

KASHGAR

9,005

7th Feb. 18th Feb.

MACEDONIA 11.10

2nd Mar.

*PADUA

5,907 9th Biar.

KHIVA

M'seilles, C'blanca, L'den & Hall Marseilles & Lendon.

M'seilles, London, A'werp,-R'dam &

Hamburg. 0,135 16th Mar. i Marseilles, London & Hull. *Cargo only. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Lavant Peris by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TAKLIWA

TAKADA

TALAMUA

TALMA

7,036 14th Feb. 6,949 23rd Feb. 3,015 11th Mar. 10,000 12th Mar.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

Bl. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for let and 2nd class passengers. Ail steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

ARAFURA

TANDA

ST. ALBANS

ARAFURA TANDA

6,000 Ist Fab.

4 p.m. 6.050 tat Mar. 4.500 30th MIAT. 6,000 3rd May 0,056 31st May

Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island,

Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne...

Calls Iloilo & Port Holland.

THE CHINA MAIL

BURDENSOME LAW

SHIPOWNERS AND ALIRN SEAMEN

LEGAL ANOMALIES

While one may not be'able'quitä. fully to subscribe to Tony Weller's succinct and pertinent dictum; *The law in a hass," one can at any rate appreciate ita significance to be able to realise the burdensome nature and obvious: infústics :(01|| many of our Acts of Parliament, A concrete example is to be found | in the Allons Restrictions Act, which is a product of war-time necessition.

INDO CHINA

STEAM NAVIAGATION CO., LTD. SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

6th Feb. at 7 am Wed, 13th Feb. at 7 a.ti Sun, 17th Feb., at 7am

Ttau via Stow: à S'hai......... KWONGSANG .Sun. 3rd Feb, at 7 m. T'tan via Stow & Shal ...! KWAISANG 2 Wed., Tian via Blow & 8'ha! „CHAKSANG Tiau vis Stow & ̃8%af FOOSHING... Kobe via Keelung, Shal,

Osaka via Moji & Koba Osaka via Mojl & Kobe Straits & Calcutta :: Strain & Calcutta Sandakan

Sandhkan [Canton

*HOSANG

. NAMBANG

KUTSANG --FOOKBANG

TUENSANG MAUSANG

Tues., 5th Feb. at 7 am! Fri, 18th Feb. at 7 am Sun, 24th Fab. at 7

Sat, 2nd Eob, at 1 pik .Tues., 12th Feb, at 1 pat Sat, 9th Feb. at Noon!

•Wed., 20th Feb, ut Nooil KWAISANG ..., Wed, 30th Jan, at 5 pm.

HINSANG

For Freight and Passage apply to:---

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO, LTD., Telephone Central 215.

eneral Ma

Prior to 1914, as it is only too|| [well known, Great Britain was the dumping-ground of all the anarch- ists and undesirables of Europe. Expelled from their own countries or fled therefrom În fear of their lives, they found in London and the great commercial cities a safe re- fuge wherein they might concoct mischief, seldom disturbed by the Inquisitorial arm of the law. Then came the war and the vital neces- jsity of excluding from our shores

foreigners who might prove a That, a heterogeneous mixture of menace to national safety, and individuals of this kind are not there followed the Allens Restric- readily distributed to their various tions Act of 1914.—

destinations fa disily conceived, "An Act to enable H. M. Gov-and it may be said that when many eroment in time of war or im- of them are almost without papers minent danger or great emer- of any value" Whatever and are gency by Order in Council to: Im liable to be repudiated by their sup- pose-restrictions on aliens and posed country of origin, the matter make such provisions as appear is more complex et!!!. necessary or expedient for carry- Hence the necessity ing such restrictions into effacti" | circular Issued by Amongst the powers thus obtalatain shipping' organisation quite Jed was that of

recently, asking its members carrying His Majesty's Malls will "Prohibiting allens from land-to warn their masters to exer-be despatched from this port on ing in the United Kingdom...else the greatest possible car in or about Thursday, the '018 and of imposing restrictions or picking up seamen abroad and at January, 1929 at daylight taking conditions on alions landing all costs to refrain from shipping Cargo for the above Ports,

Egyptian, 3; Russian, 4; Estonian, | THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL 28; Finnish, 10.............

STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

for a

A cer

STEAMER FOR STRAITS, COLOMBO, AND BOMBAY. THROUGH BILLS OF LADING 18SUED FOR BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF "CONTINENTAL, AMERICAN AND SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

THE Steamship

ALIPORE” ̧·

or arriving in any port in the men in Russian parta. Usually, Stik, Valuables and for Italy, United Kingdom.".

President Liner

SAILINGS

Weekly Trans-Pacific Service

Erődik Francléon disk Los Angeles T6 Soutile gud Victorin

~~The Samiktne Belt eta Manolada--The Short, Straight Rominio Amar

Fortnightly sellers on Tonedion

Fortninktly suišines on Tumlaju .Pik. 17th Pres Lincoln Feb. lith 7 a.m.

Pres. Cleveland

Fres, Pierce

Pres, Taft

Pres, Jefferson

e Feb 16th | Pres. Madison Mar 17th | Pres. Jackson

.Feb. 19th

.Mar. 5th

Mar. 25th-Pres. McKinley .....Mar. 19th

£120, 112 Special through rites to Surope via United States. Direct

* connections with'äll Adantic lines. Choice of mail lines akross United Statesand Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing,

Europe and New York Direct

**ROUND THE WORLD

Fortnightly “Millings on Banday vis Manila, Strals, Colombo, Sour Crawl. Alemodela

„.. Naglag Groos, Marociles, New York and Bosne. Pres. Polk...Feb 10th Ba.m.Pres. Johnson Mar, 24th 8 n.ziz, ¦-

·Pres. Adams' .......Feb,24th Sa.m. Pres. Monroe..Apr. 7th 8 a.m. Pres. Garfield ...Mar, 10th 8 n.m. Pres. Wilson...Ápr. Zist 8 a.m.

To Manila-

....... Pres. Cleveland «Fab. -2nd-6-p.m. | Pres. Jackson ..Feb. 28th 6 p.m. Pres Madison Feb. 12th 6 p.m.Pres. Taft ..........Mar. 2nd 6 paru. Pres. Pierce...Fob. 26th 6 pm. Pres McKinley Mar. 121 6 p.m.

For Bookings, Passager and Freight Information apply 10 Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Grauiul Floor Telephon's Central 2477, 2478 and 795

· Cable Address "Dosiar"

GANTON BRANCH-No. 4, Sha Kee Street

American Mail Line

- and

these seamen, engaged in Russian France and London (under arrange Dollar Steamship Line

Bombay into the Mail Steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London.

Parcel's will be received at this Office until Noon, the day before sailing. The contents and value of all packages must be declared.

In due time the war was over,ports have no identity papers, and mont) will be transhipped at and the Government of the day, the Soviet Government refuses to having learned the utility of this recognise them on their return, Allens Act, determined to con-which creates as nearly as pos-

во useful taue

measure, sible an insoluble problem for the. and We had the Allens Res shipowner. A striking example of trictions (Amendment) Act, 1919, this is to be found in the case of which applied the provisions one of the Russlans in the above of the war-time measure for Hat-a stowaway without papers- one year and extended its scope, who came aboard the ship in ques-to- Then, as year succeeded year, wetion at the beginning of this year, MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., have, had the Expiring Laws Con- and is still being carried round the tinuance Act,, which has perpetuat-world by the shipowner. led this and other war-time mes-i sures some necessary and some the reverse.

For further Particulars, Apply

Agents.

Hong Kong, 28th Jan, 1929,

HONG KONG TIDE.

··British and Yet Allen · Perhaps not the feast of the bar- Gan of the Act, and certainly the Exit Foreigners

greatest anomaly, thereof "Is in respect of the natives of British Those associated with shipping Dependencies and Protectorates. are aware of the state of things Take, for example, the Arabs. Dur obtained by aid of the Tide-predicting

The tide-table given below has be which existed before the war so far ing the war the Governmsat Machine, which includes 40 components" a foreign seamen were concerned, was only too glad to recognise these for the better prediction of tides, from which was that almost every port seamen as of British nationality, the result of the analysis of the tidal in the United Kingdom had its very and were ready to overlook the abtidai observatory under the direction observations, taken at the **Kanhang large quota of resident and floating sence of identity papers. Now, of Dr. Doberck during the years 1837, allen maritime population, which when they are shipped abroad and 1888 and 1889. was, indead, at that time a menace brought to Britain they

mzn.

are

to the well-being of the British sea treated as aliens, and upon the A great change has taken British shipowner is imposed the place since the war, and the num-obligation of sending out East as bers of alien seamen in our large passengers subjects of the Empire Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong ports have been considerably re-who are unable to justify their

{duced; in this respect the Aliena

to Australia,

ducement offers.

as

Act has probably conferred a bene it upon a deserving class of worker. But it has at the same time placed considerable burden upon thi shipowner,

The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghal, Hollo, Ceba, Kolambugan, Tawno, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route

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. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and

London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

TAKADA

MACEDONIA

TANDA

TALAMBA KHIVA

- MIRZAPORE

TALMA MALWA

NAGPORE

ST. ALBANS

KAYDEN

SANTHIA

NALDERA KARMALA

LAHORE

❘ 6,949 | 1st

11,120 Ist

Feb. Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 0a.m.

Feb. Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama. 3 p.m. 0.950 5th Feb. Moji, Kobu, Osaka and Yokohama. 8,018 12th Fob.

Amoy, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka, 0,115 16th Feb. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 6,715 18th Feb. Shanghai, Moll & Kobe, 10,000 19;h Feb. 10,090 1st .Mor:

5,283

4th Mar. *4,600 5th Mar.

6th Mar. 0.114 8th Mar. 7,754 15th Mar. 16.038

15th Mar. 9,128

22nd Mar. 6,252 25th Mar.

• Cargo only.

Amoy, S'hal, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama. Mojl, Kobe, Osaka & Tokohama, Shanghal, Moli, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai.

Amoy, Moji. Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & "Tokohama,

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

Passengers for Rangoon 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. Farrels measuring not more than 2 x2 ft. x1 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.

Atinis.

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

claim to be such by the necessary

papers.

The times and heights are given for Raniang; but they may be used for the Victoria Naval Tard and Aber deen, the differences being very small The times of high-and-low-water must not be considered to enineide with the timen of slick-water" and change of current, the two' phenomena being quite distinct,

DAT

January 26 to 81, 1929.

*■ High Water (Lower 'WATER.

Standard ¿Standard: Times EL -Times.

9 8 83

There was a period when the de- 'sertion of British seamon in the United States ports was encour aged on the other side, and the The sub-section of the Statutory high wages prevalling there made Rules-and Orders under the Allens the same frequent. Many of the Act appertaining to such engage-substitutes engaged were unable to ments reads as follows:

produce nationality papers, and Fri. 28 m 10:51 | 43 m 3-61-08| "Any alien to whom this sub-shipownere were put to endless section applies shall be removed trouble and expense in negotiating

Slat 36 from the United Kingdom by the and effecting their repatriation, master of the ship in which he which in some cases was practical- arrived or, if directions for the ly impossible. purpose are given by the Secra- Desertions are now less frequent, tary of State or an emigration however. The US: Mercantile T. 1) officer, by the owner or agents of Marine have apparently sufficient Wed 30 m 0°F that ship, to the country of which personnel who are claimed at any

pa. 17

m 11:28:13 m 4 33 0.1

0.00, 0.1 213

0 100 43 m 8.13 0.3 10.458

1286 m. 6 23 13

43 a '20 -18.5") ma 7 19 | 1.7

he is a national or from which he rate as Americans, and in the case Thur 91 m 177 embarked for the United Kingdom of deserting Britishers, the alien

or where (if a Reamon) he was laws are being more strictly apate engaged."

+

宇

plied. Wille the numbers are lesa, |-------- This sounds quite simple, but however, the situation is little less when translated into actual prac-unsatisfactory. When substitutes Itice causes a very considerable

have to be engaged in. American amount of trouble and no little cost. ports they are frequently Creeks or The statistics which have been Spaniards, and other Contirentais, furnished refer to a small area only who have served time in the gaols, of the shipping community, and who are sometimes foisted upon while the cost when averaged over British shipmaaters, and who have, the ships and men does not per of course, when they arriver, to haps appear so very great, it is be repatriated to their country of auiclent to enable one to realise

origin that, multiplied, by the great numn The

Mins Act," however, has ber of vessels which are continualno doubt come to stay, every for- ly having to employ seamen abroad,aign seaman shipped abroad under It must be considerable in the ag whatever circumstances must be [gregat."*.

returned at the expense of the un- During the nine months of this fortunate owner who has engaged }year to September 80, 50% him, and the only remedy is a foreign seamen of varying nation-special surveillance of the crew in alifies, engaged abroad through foreign ports where desertions are variety of circumstances, were likely to occur, and greater vigil- brought to a certain East Coast portance on the part of the master and upon 111 vessels, and the cost of officers in engaging the necessary their repatriation to the owners substitutes to see that they poMESS

NEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE, wie 519-16% 44. While some the papers of their country of

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

BLUE FUNNEL" LINE.

'(UCEAN BS, CO., LTD, & CHINA MUTUAL 8.8. CO., LTD.)

AND

of these vessels had only one or two.origin. allons abroad-in some cases. stowaway for which the owner fa likewise responsible others had sa Projected arrivals 'as nd depar many as ten or a dozen, and these - tures, from Hông from a distant eastern land, from ers under the mar all of which it will be observed Bank Line

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE, that the cost to the individual

(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 8.8. CO., LTD.)

KeyboSAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.

BA AUTOLYCHUB".

Via Suez Cana).

6.8. "CITY" OF GUILDFORD"... VIK Suer Conal

B.B. LAOMEDON"

Via Bues Cansi:

8th February Szend ?Maráh. 5th April

teamers proceed Via Fuez Canal di Panaini Canil at Owners Option

Subject to change

BUTTERF ED & SWIRE OF THE BA LINE. LTD.

Hong Kong & Canton: FARS

MATHESON & COF)

owner of Thess" lätter méntlåted: 4 8.3.

blazic" 1rom New York,

-WEEKLY SAILINGS

For KWONGCHOWWAN, S.S. "WINGLEE” CAPTAIN F. SMITH and European Officers.

First class 'Passenger sccommodation, Fans, Electric Lights, in every stateroom, Baths Hot and Cold. Excellent Cuisine. The Round, trip taken ons week.

For Freight or Passage apply to:-

YIU XUÊN & CO.,

87, Connaught Road, W.

MAN LOONG. PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS.

NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGER. "Beat quality-Prompt attention to Exporters, -Office:—231,"Queen's "Road Central Tel. C. 2580. /

Factory:-2 Godown, Praya, Dundas St., Mongkok. Tal E. 18.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO.. LTD.

ENGINERES and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS. IRON FOUNDERS, All work done in this estakichment to guaranteed We have over thirty yours" axperience. We own two Blipways und OÜ -secoinmodate any craft of 200 feet lung.

Town Offer $4, Connaught Road Central, Hàng Kếng, Tel: Chytral Na, 45P, Shipyard? Sham-Bui-Po, *K*whion, Houg Kong

Mathilatde fúrakkeď sa syplicäde

Hong Kong, Ap¤ll 1, 1994. .

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS : “ MANIFESTO ~ HONGKONG,

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THON, STEEL AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS

ELECTRICIANS.

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