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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.),

8. 8.

TORS

*KIDDERPORE

6,334

MALWA

10,980

*KASHMIR

8.085

MOREA

MANTUA

From

Hong Kong i About

Destination

Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London & Hull. Bombay. Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London, Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

15th Aug. 17th Aug. 31st Aug. 10,953 14th Sept. 10,946 28th Sept 0,715 2nd Oct. 5,273

Oct. 9th *Cargo only. Calls Casa Blanca,

*MIRZAPORE *ALIPORE

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the

Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TALMA BALGOMA

*TAKLIWA

10,000 4th

1. 3,013 | 8th

7,936 15th Aug. 10,000 | 31st Aug. 1' 5,953 4th Sept. 6,949 5th Sept. Oct. Oct.

TAKADA

TILAWA TALAMBA

Calls Rangoon.

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

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

THE CHINA MAIL,

WANG FU

A STORY OF THE CHINA SEAS

Wang Fu was an "engine-room artificer" upon the Gracie Leigh; just an ordinary Chink that nobody would notice, tolerably dirty, fairly industrious, but very "everyday" and usual; still, when it came to the test, Wang Fu had it in him to be a-herp, and he was.

bit.

This is a story of the high seas, although all the people who could come forward and prove it are dead; it was not gunfire or torpedo in the Great War; nothing so romantic as that! Just a storm acting on an old hooker, but that canie long after this

The Gracie Leigh was flapping and whistling her open-seamed way to hell across the China sea like a ten-year-old "flvver" whose driver hated himself to be seen in her, She was a steam scrapheap, nothing more, though her owners described her as a tramp steamer. She was cheap, everything on her was cheap and most of it nasty. Her officers were cheap, 83 was the crew, and most of that, too, was nasty, All

this because the owners would not part with a penny until it was forced

out

of them by a prossure that would blow the boilers off their set- tings. The engines rattled and screeched; the plates wheezed at every move of her hull; there was no paint anywhere. She was just a bright red patch on a grey sea--the red of rust.

was a

Chief Engineer Cheap The chief engineer, was cheap, though, in his case, there little excuse. He had just got his ticket and ships were scarce. So, for the sake of experience, he took the first that offered and did not grouse. He was the kind of young man who does his job to the best of his ability no matter what may be his surroundings; he had fought his way up on his own feet; there had been no one to help him, and he was going to make his way in the world. The Gracie Leigh was not to be his home for long, but he felt if he could work her across the China seas there would be no job between Seattle and Suez he could not face with equanimity.

It was not very long before trouble broke out on the Gracie

Leiga. It began over the quality

of

crew

the food. Most of the denied this totally; they said that, as the food had no quality, it was impossible for it to cause апу

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). trouble, and, anyway, the quantity

TANDA

ST. ALBANS, 4,500 4th

ARAFURA

TANDA

6,956 | 30th Aug Oct. 6,000 1st Nov. 8,956 23th Nov.

3rd June

1930

ST. ALBANS 4,500

Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.

Regular monthly, sailings from Bong 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 porta en route as in ducement offers.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vin 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,

was far too small for it to give rise to much trouble. But there was trouble for all that, and things took on a serious aspect when the deck officers had to go about armed with guns in holsters and the Old Man to keep a couple of sawed-off shot- guns on the bridge, just in case of accidents.

The Gentle Hand

Touch and Go

"Please, do not interfere with me, air," answered the Third.

honda apart, and, while his back was turned, one of the stokers took up It will be understood that this is the shifting-spanner that had slip- more a paraphrase of the conversa-ped from. Montallen's ne verless tion than a verbatim report. As a grasp and with it beat in the matter of strict truth, it occupied Chinuman's skull. about half an hour for the two of

Whining Groan arm was in a sling, his face was one them to worry through with the With a little whining, groan Wang gorgeous blue, and he could only use discussion, and the onlookers decid-Fu fell forward on his enemy's body, one eye with any real effect. Heed that, so far as they were judges dead, but not even in death did he was a mixture of Greek, German, and they had all had some experi- relinquish his fatal grip, and it was and Malay, and perhaps one or two ence), the disputants did not leave minutes before the united en- other races, but he classified himself aut anything of any value that had deavours of the men could get his as an American citizen, though what the remotest bearing upon the mat- hands away.. the United States had ever done to ter before the meeting. The ances- deserve it no one ever understood,

tora of both parties, to quite a dis- tant scale of relationship, were A few nights after his little drawn into the argument and the argument with the American, the habits and customs, both profes- Chief was lying on his bunk with a sional and private, of the two of pad of paper on his drawn-up knees them were freely ventilated. Details trying to persuade himself that the of their personal appearance were bunkers contained sufficient coal to discussed frankly and unreservedly, carry the so-called ship into Chanand, again on the word of their Chung, the first port on their jour audience, men of all races, there was ney. Provided a puff of wind did no epithet, sacred or profane, ex not blow a peek of coal dust off the pecially profane, that was left out stanchions, they might do it but it of the controversy. would be touch and go, and, with things as they were, he did not feel any too comfortable. His eaf caught a gentle scraping on the cabin door, and, without turning in his bunk, he grunted "Come in."

The door was slightly opened, just a crack only, and, through that slit, there sidled in one of the Chinese engine-roam artíficers.

Montallen was not quite dead; as a matter of fact, he lingered on in fearful agony for nearly two days before he passed out, never recover- ing his full consciousness. But the Chief had no further difficulties with the men on that voyage. If there were any dissentients among them, they kept quite in the background, for when an officer has so far gained the affection of the Chinks that one. of them will give his life to save him, it is obvious that men of other tints should treat him with respect. Fred. Grove-Palmer in the "Empire Review.” .

MODERN DRESS

VENETIAN PATRIARCH'S

PROTEST

often

Coolness Astonishing Through it all the Chief kept his temper and was amazed to notice that Montellen did so as well. The coolness of the man was astonishing and the Chief could not be quite sure whether he was holding him- self in for a deadly purpose or if he had scared him stiff. If the Third

"Wretchedly short .dress, was bluffing, it was up to his boss "Hallo, Wang Fu, what are you to call his bluff. So the Chief in- with truncated sleeves and pitifully after?" he asked, quietly. Hevited his man to come out on deck test by the Patriarch of

decollete," are the subject of a pro- gathered from the secretness of the and be put under arrest for insub- Cardinal La

Venice, Fontaine, man's entrance that he did not ordination to his superior officer. monition, which takes the form of a

His ad desire to have his visit loudly ad That did it; Moatallen Immediately letter addressed to the clergy and pro- vertised.

came off it and apologized humbly. plc, describes such fashions as cer "You have won, sir," he said, tainly not Italian, but importations contritely, "I apologize and will do from abroad. my duty."

Velly had chop!" replied the Chinaman; "Now my talky sideway you, my talky tlue when my speaky you. You wanchy know?"

"Sure, I know you will tell me the truth. Something serious, is it? Well, come along out with it."

"My flend belong you; long time maky stay topside: too muchy bobbly come by'n by."

"Come on, what is it all about?? queried the Chief.

"Him maky swear talk; him say

smartness,

"I would not have you believe that "Good; get to it!" answered the aim at robbing your dress of all Chief, terning away to look at a big pear in public in semi-monastic gerb," that I reduce you to ap- leak in the forward main, port side. says Cardinal La Fontaine. He then That, was where he made his mis refers to the admonition of Saint Paul take. He had not taken a couple of and to the precept of St. Francis of steps before he heard a scuffle; he Assisi, who said that neglect in man- span round swiftly as lightning,ners of dress gave an impression of dis and, in the dull steam-laden light of respect towards those with whom the the stokehold, he saw the cause of reflected vanity and flippancy.

wearer associated, while exaggeration it. When he had turned away, Finally the Cardinal urges mothers with greater had seized a big shifting-spanner, modesty, and laments that the name intending to smash in the Chief's of hygiene should be invoked to excuse head with it, but Wang Fu, one of un-Christian fashions even in this the most interested of the specta- respect.

it he stretch you, you belong Moutallen, far from being contrite, to dress their children fighty downside."

The Chief was not long in getting the hung of this. He gathered that, next time he should have occasion to go down into the stokehold, the tors, had saved his beloved chief's Third would be waiting for him and life by hurling himself in the way. would kill him. The Chief was that type of young man who bates to disappoint anyone, even his worst enemy, so he patted Wang Fu

on the shoulder.

man. Here is

1

A Stutining Blow "Out of the blasted road, you

yellow son of a pig," bellowed the half-bred half-breed, and at the same time he struck the Chink a stunning blow with the butt end of the spanner.

Quite the Little Friend "You are a good boy, Wang Fu; quite the little friend to your fellow a dollar for you. Now you run back and do not fel anybody where you got it, or I shall have the whole gang trotting

both his hands and gripped his with joyous information. So long.

Chinesa And Wang Fu slipped out through enemy. The grip was a the, crack again. This was not the stranglehold, and he began first time that the Chief had voyaged squeeze. It was not one of those to the Far East, and he had learnt grips that

Wang Fu sank on his knees in with a front of Montallen, and, superhuman effort, arrested his fainting semes. He stretched out?

..

to

are adopted in polite. and even

Appalling Yells

a few things. One thing he had fighting by white men, learnt was the method of getting among the Chinese themselves it is There was trouble, too, in the the best out of Orientals. Thoan considered as a foul of the worst engine-room. One day the Chief who treat the native races like dirt order, to be used solely as a last discovered the third engineer drop-beneath their feet and call them possible resource; but Wang Fu only ping coal-dust into the graphite dogs and other unsavoury things remembered that the Chief was kind used for lubricating the bearings. are the very people who find it to him and his people and that he. He was annoyed. Later on, he dis- necessary to talk about their lazi must be saved at all costs. covered that the same gentle hand ness, their inefficiency, and their

The onlookers seemed to be had plugged the outflow from the treachery. The Chief knew better; The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and slide-valve lubricator with a wad of he called them friends and behaved hypnotized by the appalling yells of London via Panama Canal.

waste mixed with dough. The Chief to them as if they were friends. So agony from the Third as the China- increased his pressure. In took the Third on one-side and told they looked up to him and did their man him that, if he continued this sort duty by him. There was no slack-vain, the Chief shouted to Wang Fu of thing very much longer, he shoulding in discipline. He exacted prompt to let go; he did not hear; there was be forced to speak to him severely obedience and punished hard, but only room for about it; frankly, he did not con- he was just, and any man-white, Chinaman's brain: he must kill to sider, it was exactly the behaviour yellow, or black-will stand his save the Chief. Montallen sank to the grating, rendered senseless from expected from his junior officers and | gruelling, if it be just.

the terrible pain he was undergoing, really it must stop.

The but still Wang Fu held on. Chief looked around for something he might use to prize the man's

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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

TAKADA

•SHEAFMOUNT

*GARBETA

KARMALA

*MIRZAPORE

ST. ALBANS

*NAGPORE

TILAWA

ALIPORE

MANTUA

TALAMRA

KALYAN

*NELLORE

*KIDDERPORE

10,958 16th Aug. Shanghal. Moil, Kobe & Yokohama

6,949 16th Aug. | Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka.

17th Aug. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 5,327 20th Aug. Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 9,128 80th Aug.

Moji, Koba & Yokohama. 4,715 6.283 4th Sept. 4,500

10th Sept. 10,006

10th Sept. 5,278 11th Sept. 10,946

5,384

* Cargo only.

2nd Sonthang Moji & Kobe,

Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka Shanghai, Moji & Kobe,

13th Sept. Si

17th Sept.

Moji, Kobe & Osaka: 26th Sept. Shanghai, Moji & Kobe, 27th Sept. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 29th Sept.

Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

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 Cabina are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Lantidries.“ Parcels measuring not more than 2% ft. x 2ft x 1 ft. will be received

at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

For further Information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

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Agents

Shaby Propellers

Of course, the Chief did not put Early the following morning the it in exactly those words. As a Chief descended into the stokehold matter of fact, the rest of the

to see if it might be possible to do engine-room staff had the idea that anything towards improving a few the Third had been monkeying with of the more serious steam-leaks. the tail end of a West Indian cyclone Every ounce of coal saved meant a and had failed to find the ball: his few more revolutions of the shaky clothing was merely a few odd rags,

propellers and a few inches better he walked with a decided limp, one

chance of reaching part. The first person he saw was his friend the Third busy doing nothing on earth with an oil-can and a lump of waste. The Chief was no fool; he could ten as far through a concrete partition as most men. The plan obviously was that he should remonstrate:

HONG KONG TIDE.

The tide-table given below has been obtained by afd of the Tilo-predicting Machine, which includes 40 compon- ents for the better prediction of tides from the result of the analysis of the naturally, the Third would have tidal observations, taken at the Kow-something to say and would say it loon tidal observatory under the direction of Dr. Doberck during the years 1687, 1883 and 1889.6

The times and heights are given for Kowloon; but they may be used for the Victoria Naval Yard and Aberdeen, the differences being very small,

... The times of high-and low-water must not be considered to coincida with the times of slack-water and

being quite distinct.

NEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE change of entrent, the two phenomena

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(OCEAN 8.0. CO. LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL. 8.S. CO., LTD.)

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with a certain amount of gusto; this would cause the Chief to hit out, then the fur would fly. Although the deck officers carried guns, the Chief did not, nor would he allow his subordinates to carry them. He held that the man who totes a gun is either a bully, or a coward; he claimed that he was equal to any one man whether armed or not, and he did not think he would need to tackle more than one at a time, for rela Hons between the engine-room stan Frere better on the Gracie Leigh than they were on deck.

Superabundant Energies The Chief walked across the Sat. 10 ml 1847 m27 28 grating and observed; "Mr. 190 48 71 23 Montallen, would it be troubling you Sun. 1) m 1 of 40 m – 33 30. unduly if I asked you kindly to cente 10th September Mon. 1 m 4 Alm9 10 81 wasting your valuable time and 30th September

B353,3 make some effort to concentrate Ines. 1 m. 8:34, 6, 10r your unflagging and superabunda

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Aug. 11, 11th Sunday After Trinity,

Choral. Eucharist, 8 am Children's Service, 10a.m. Sunday School at Peak School, 10 a-m.

Matins, 11 a..

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Sunday Services: Morning, 10.15

8. M.

Preacher: Rev. J. Foster. Subject: "God's Fellow-Work-

ers."

Evening: 6 p.m.

Preacher: Rev. J. Foster. Subject: "They Shall See God."

Sailors' and Soldiers' Home Sunday: 3 p.m., Men's Bible Class.

Sunday: 8.15 p.m., Service Men's Hour.

Monday: 3 p.m., Ladies' Church Aid.

Mecting.

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Wednesday Evening Meeting at 5.30 o'clock.

Reading Room at above address, open:-

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Week Day Sailing from Hong Kong at 2 pm.

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Salling from Macao, at 7.50 a.m.

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