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THE CHINA MAIL,

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20,- 1929.

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THE GROWTH OF NEW INDUSTRIES

A GREAT FUTURE

LAST MAN TO LEAVE “The trade of the Port of London

SINKING SHIP

CAPTAIN'S GALLANT ACT

FURNESS LINER

COLLISION IN FOG

is greater to-day than it has ever been in its 2,000 years' history, and the zenith has not yet been reached,' said Mr. J. H. Estill, lecturing to the ON Incorporated Secretaries' Azsociation. Mr. Estill is the commercial mana- ger of the part, and he drew a very attractive picture, with lantern slides, of the future of this great trading and financial centre. Mr. Patrick Howling, was in the chair.

New York, Yesterday. The Furness liner "Fort Victoria," 7,784 tons, with 280 passengera sank after a collision outside New York harbour with the Clyde liner "Algon- quin," which was carrying 180 passen Kors.

Mr. Estill, in the enurse of a copl ous history of the Port of London, sald:--

CANADIAN

PACIFIC

A DELIGHTFUL CRUISE DE LUXE

by the

Empress of Australia

21,850 Tons Gross, Length 615 feet.

LEAVING HONG KONG 17th FEBRUARY, 1930.

Arriving NEW YORK,

APRIL 17th, 1930

Two days available for sight-seeing in NEW YORK.

Leave NEW YORK

APRIL 19th,

1930

THRILLS OF "STRANGE TALES OF THE SEVEN SEAS"

"LITTLE JIMMY'S" DEATH

How pale and feeblo are the efforts of the most imaginative romancers beside the grim, stark records of the Court! Especially is this so in tales

The physical advantage of the port of the sex. The British race has pro duced a school of sea-novelists which

is its broad and deep river, enabling in paralleled in no other country, but

vessels of the largest class to enter Its docks with facility. Over 33 mil- not one of them can give us tales of terror comparable with actual hap

The collision happened in a fog. All lion tons of goods pass through an-

via Keelung. Shanghai, Chinwangino (for Peking), Beppa, Kobe, ly transferred to a pilot boat after the which the port occupies penings on the high seas. Anybody aboard the "Fort Victoria" wore safe-ually, 20 million tans being oversea

produce. The important position | Yokohama, Honolulu, Hifo, San Francisco, Balboa, Panama, through "Strange Tales of the Seven Seas," accident,

in relation the Panama Canal to Cristobal, Colon, Havana and be to oversen trade may will get

a feast of thrills such as ho

New York, Yesterday.

gauged from the fact that in 1028 the im- bus bus seldomn partaken of.

"Women and childrons first" was ports and exports, excluding coast- A few of these stories are fairly the order given quietly and implicitly wise, amounted to nearly £700,000,000, familiar. There is the account of the obeyed aboard the "Fort Victoria," exceeding those of Liverpool, the "Flowery Land" mutiny, for instance

after the sharp baws of the "Algon-next most important port, by over Our grandfathers remember the sensa tion caused by the trial of the quin" deeply gashed her part side, twice the combined oversen trade of £200,000,000, and being more than and it became evident that all aboard Hull, Manchester and Southampton. mutineers at the Old Balloy in Febru

London talked of nothing must leave as quickly as possible, if a ary, 1801.

Nearly one-third of the total oversea else, and to aurt was crowded with great loss of life was to be prevented. trade of the United Kingdom in dealt society people anxious to feast

their

The papers here pay tribute to the with in London. eyes

on the bloodthirsty wretches re- coolness of Captain Francis for his

New Interesta for sponsible

atrocities. discipline with the crew of the ship, in Within the last few years there There was no Englishmen among the an accident which might casily have has been a decided tendency for ad- "Flowery Land" pirates. The crew

had consequences comparable with ditional industries, such were a mixed lot of Chinese, half-

those following the sinking of the Bel-£97

manufacturing, engineering, breeds from Manila, a Turk, a Greek

tish steamer "Vestris" a year ago. paper-making and cement manufac- and others of various nations. It is

The collision occurred when

turing, to be established in or near. said that John Smith, the captain, one

the "Fort Victoria" slowed up to drop hernesses to be

London, and for important busi- of the first victims, was a brute and a

cantralised there, due bully, and that the food was bad; but harbour pilot. The "Algonquia," largely to the development of plec- of the chief causes of the mutiny which was following behind, had not to tricity and to the shipping, trading was the idea among the crew (totally do is, as she is a coastal stip. and other facilities in which London unfounded) that there was 2 vaat When the "Algonquin" loomed out of is pre-eminent. treasure hidden in the captain's

The shipuing entering the port has cabin. Doomed Smith had his mis a dense for it was too late to avoid

mis. a crash. The "Fort Victoria's" 5.0.5.Increased 1 om 050,000 tona in 1700 givings before the voyage bogan. #1

to the hugo figure of

nearly 60% can trust the ship," he told his brother signals brought many rescue craft, to

million not which Her passengers were transferred.

register tons in 1928. who WHS salling as a passenger,

This figure la over 17 million not "but such a crew as they have given | Captain Franels and a dozen men re-register tons more than in the Arat ma will wan: watching night and day."

mained aboard vainly hoping to have year the authority took office, and The mutineers, eight of them, stabbed the crippled ship towed to the pier, constitutes a record in the history and 'beat to death the captain, his until the water was knee-deep on the brothor

the port. A comparison with the and the first mato, one deck. They they jumped overboard shipping figures for

the outports Karswell. The attack was made at and swam to the nearby tog. Capt.shows that London exceeded Liver- three o'clock one fine night, when there Franels was the last man to leave the pool, the next tending port, by

breeze, quiet men and a fair

0,000,000 net register tona in 1918, and

over 29,740,000 nat register tons In 1928. Those shipping and trade figures prove that the port author- ity's bold pelley of extensions and improvements has been amply justi- fied,

one

was a

BO many

(Calls at Bolawan Deli.) VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER-Vix Japan Porte from of the captain and the first mate. For

Shanghai,

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Sunday, 22nd December,

ALABAMA MARU (From Shanghai) Friday, 27th December. MELBOURNE Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.

BURMA MARU.....

BAIHON—Vin Holhow & Pakhoi.

WARSHIPS IN PORT

"Seraph,"

motor

Arriving SOUTHAMPTON & CHERBOURG,

APRIL 27th, 1930.

Shore excursions and sight-seeing tours at all Ports.

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DECEMBER SAILINGS.

DEPARTURE HOURS:

Hong Kong 5.20 p.m. Wuchow 1.30 p,m S.S. "TAI RING"

[1,003 tone-Capt. Trott.] DECEMBER.

The Sal Kong (or the West River)

SUN.

22nd

is the third largest river in the Chin-

For various reasons the murderership.-Reuter's American Service. spared the loyal minority, including Taffir, the second mate, whose expert knowledge they needed in order that the ship might be navigated. They also

British warships in port this morn. ZANZI.refrained from killing "Little Jimmy"

Early the ship's boy, whose evidence ing were:-

Over 60 per cent, of the shipping at the Old-Bailey subsequently made

In basin of B.N.

entering the port discharges in the him the hero of the day. The others

Dockyard: docks, the remainder being dealt with never knew from one moment to an

etersfield," "Magnolia." at wharves, at manufacturers pro- other when they might share the fata

"Marazion," "Cornflower."

mises or at moorings in the river. West wall: "Ken!" (flagship). A large tonnage of goods not in-ese Republic and second only to the In ghastly voyage con. weeks the

Dock: "Sepoy,"

tended for immediate consumption Yangtze in importance. This magni. tinued--three weeks

goes into the authority's warehouse of perpetual "Thracian." terror for the honest men-till the

ficent trade route was opened to for- on the dock quays. No. 4 Buoy: "Herald."

This warehous. coast of Brazil was sighted. It would No. 6 Buoy: "Hermes."

ing business is of

algn traffic in 1897, but how many great importance comprising, as it does, every class of foreigners travel on this important take too long to tell how the mutineers No. 6 Busy: "Cofnwall," then planned to scuttle the ship and

merchandise entering the port. The No. 7 Buoy: "Iroquois."

-waterway? The scenery along the principal commodities leave the honest men to drown, and

No. 12 Buoy: "Sirdar."

grain, the latter cocaped, and sub-

timber,

and The only foreign man-of-War in har-frozen meat, sugar, tea and tobacco.

route is beautiful. We recommend it spirits, wool, sequently laid Information with the

bour was:-

to any person who wishes to spend a Brazilico authorities, whereby the

Over two million tons of Imported short and economical holiday. Chinese murderers were arrested and extra-

goods yearly are passed over the au dited to England.

thority's quays while the present "On the scaffold | Ching."

stock of they showed themselves cowards

goods stured is about well as murder

680,000 tons, a striking figure when derers," says the author. "Those were the days when the public

It fa remembered that the modern were permitted to view a hanging.

into consumption. and when the first of the prisoners

The P. & O. 5.5. “Mirzapore" left Durano-stopped on the platform be

greeted with such a howl of Singapore for this port on December execration from the mob that he fell 19 at 7 a.m., and is due here on De- back half-fainting.

Saturday, 4th January.

Thursday, 26th Dec, 10 am.

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Wednesday, 8th January.

Tuesday, 24th December. Sunday, 20th December.

Sunday, 22nd Dec., Noon. Sunday, 29th Dec, Noon.

Tuesday, 7th January.

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how

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vessel

"Lion

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMER

newspaper of | cember 27 at about 6 a.m. the day assures us, however, that the hangman-one Calcraft-carried out the execution through without A hitch.

to

wines

nre

tendency is for goods to go directly EMPRESS OF CANADA

The stocks held

| have been as much as 1,000,000 tons. The authority also carry on a large

business in the conveyance and ship. Some Particulars of the

Extensive Overhaul quays annually be-

ment of export goods, the quantity passed over the ing about 700,000 tonn.

PASSENGERS LIST

'ARRIVALS

The C.P.O.S. "Empress of Canada" which has been re-engined and re- conditioned by the Fairfield Shipbuild ing and Engineering Company, Ltd, of Govan, Glasgow, recently under-

FBI. 27th

9.5. “TAI MING"

( tuns--Capt. G. J. Spink.]

'. DECEMBER.

TUES. 24th SUN. 29th For information apply to

KWUNG WING G

87, Connaught Road West, Phone: Central 893,

CPR liner "Empress of Japan"

which is now

under construction at

Field, it was decided last year to

install new Parsons single-reduction geared turbines, along with Weir re generative condensers, and to suppla ment the existing turbine-driven gou- The story of the man who actually it came to Mr. S's turn. Instead,

erating sets with oil engine driven survived walking the plank is full of however, of falling at once into the

generators, which work was recently Korrors, Ho (called throughout the sea, he, with great muscular efforts,

At the same time the completed. boilers were fitted with smoke tube narrative "Mr. 8) was aboard a ship clung to the plank and refused his

fate... In which also carried a large number of tried

vain the murderors

superheaters and stage feed heating Chinese convicta going to fulfil their

prod

with pikes. He де

Per . "Aki Maru" from Austra- went successful trials on the Clyde, was added. The designed output of several sentences at different depots.

dodged

points

auc-lla on December 19:

She was built at the Fairfield yards

the new machinery until

longth

in about 28,000 You will expect to hear that con- cessfully,

G. N. Brown, Mrs. H. G. Brown, in 1922, and was originally equipped vice, with a maximum overload rat 9.E.P. at 120 r.p.m. in continuous Ber victs

dear war the Cole Chinese, creeping forward, almod a Prof. H. Lark, Mrs. p. 310E, TOSO

at him with a sabre, In guards which they did

Clark, Miss E. Clark. A. Williams, with 21,000 S.H.P. double-reductioning of 29,000. S.H.P-If required. Now rative goes on: Mr. S. quickly return.

tering the stroke Mr. S. lost his hold and Mrs. L. Wliams, Master A. Williams, general turbines, giving her a spead propellers have also been fitted, and

fall into the Bes.

The intended Sister F. Guay, Sister van Oost, G. victim floated until he managed to

the reconditional liner will now, as of over 20 knots. To give her a before, be the fastest scramble into the ship's bast, which Murchie, M. Kishimoto, J. Matsudaira, spoed similar to that of the now

in the Ccm- ch. Suzuki, Bishop J. Reas

pany's North Pacific service. derers were was towing astern, and the mur- so taken aback by his m comingly miraculots escape that they allowed him to go

masters of

At

avoid-

B

ed to his cabin and was groping for his arms when the captain rushed in, fired his pistol through the skylight, and crying out that the Chinese were of the ship, darted up the stops, threw himself overboard, and

his cabin and did was drowned. A few moments of

not molest him for the remainder suspense followed, when a party of

*Party his time aboard. In fact, one of the convicts come

and, without molesting me below,

ordered her has bloodstained wretches came every day Compelled to oboy, he to the cabin to ask him what he would found the deck deluged with blood than the unfortunate mate, who was ilke for dinner! He was better off and the victorious convicts compelling dragged from the rigging, hamstrung, the survivors of the British crow and and left to bleed to desti.. Sepoys to walk the plank." Present the most extraordinary and gruesome

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One of

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unarmed

out

officers the first and second Having killed them and at- mates, tacked and severely wounded the cap tain, they slew the man at the wheel, the carpenter, and a white scaman. Twelve men were sleep in the fo'c'ale, and though they sallied forth to In vestigate when they "ware aroused by the struggle on deck, the mutineers drove them En panic hack to the fo'cale, where they barricaded, thems in Eventually the p

after mutineers, the loyal crew had smashed their w out with an axe, which had been smuggled in to thems by the Chiness cook, jumped overboard. Firat, how ever, they had set fire to the ship, and the captain and the rémülader of, tạo ship's company

were compelled to take to the box. The amazing fact re- males comments Mr. Lockhart, "that a pair of determined cooles, without Krearmagnstered !! Company twenty, killed five: wounded, four, and overnwed, the remainder for a period of forty-eight hours; and the cler ketive men were quite counteng, during that period to remata Hory deck while

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