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BAN FRANCISCO via Shangħal, Japan Ports & Honotala.
TAIYO MARU
CHICHIBU MARU
Sunday, Thursday,
20th July. 31st July.
SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
HIKAWA MARU
Wednesday, 16th July. LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. PERUKUNI MARU
Saturday, 12th July. Saturday,
HAKUSAN MARU
26th July,
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
AKI MARU
KITANO MARU
Tuesday, Tuesday,
22nd July.
10th August.
BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
SHIDZUOKA MARU
Friday, Morclay,
11th July. 28th July.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING:
SECTION:
TILBURY LANDING.
NEW PASSENGER FACILITIES OPENED.
اگو
CHINESE PILOTS AND "SKY PILOT" OF THE passenger landing-stage at Tilbury
FOREIGNERS.
A DEMAND REJECTED.
Shanghai, June 10.
THAMES.
Vicar Who Visit Ships by Launch.
!
The opening of the great floating
on May 16 marked a new era for the Port of London. Henceforth the largest vessel in the world will) be able to tie up in the river at any state of the tide.
Passengers will disembark, pass through a spacious customs hall, and. be transported to London termini in considerably less than an hour. This Intest facility will dis- Rev. William Charles Bown, who is passengers by tender
The Vicar of Tilbury Docks, the pense with the practies of conveying between tite
The endeavours of the Shang- hai Chinese Pilots' Association to persuade the National Govern- ment not to issue certificates to spiritual pilot to thousands of seashore and vessels lying in the river. foreign mercantile marine officers all over the world, is also skip- and of embarking or disembarking jhave falled, according to a 'report per of the motor launch Sir Edward passengers In dock.
The opening ceremony was per- SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, appearing in the Chinese Press Cooper, in which, he visits ships
Mouse formed by the Prime Minister, who
FRANGOON MARU
Mexico & Panama, RAKUYO MARU
Monday,
28th July, SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore. Cape Town & Ports,
BINGO MARU
Wednesday, 6th August.
NEW YORK. BOSTON via Padama.
TOYAMA MARU
Tuesday,
8th July,
↑ ATAGO MARU
Saturday.
Zad August.
LIVERPOOL vin Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa,
+ DURBAN MARU
Monday,
14th July.
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
+ MURORAN MARU
Thursday,
7th July..
† AKITA MARU
Tuesday,
15th July.
KAMO MARŲ.
Monday,
7th July: 10th July. 10th July.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
+ CEYLON MARU (Moji direct) Thursday, KAGA MARU (Nagasaki direct) Wednesday,
+ Carga only.
Telephone 30291.
+
yesterday.
cester.
It may be recalled in the Thames, from the that the Pilots' Association asked Lightship to the training ship Wor-assisted in making fast the P. and 0. Mongolia, outward bound for the Chiaotungpu not to issue cer-
The masts and funnels of ships Australia, the first vessel to arrive tificates to foreigners in order to prevent the latter from encroach-san be seen from the vicarage win-at the landing-stage.
dows, and the wall of sirens in the At a luncheon which followed, ing on China's sovereignty and to night prevents the vicar from ever Lord Ritchie of Dundee, chairman
prevent Chinese mercantile marine officers from being affect- ed.
forgetting his parishioners.
of the Port of London Authority, Mr. Bown has the clear, far-sight-presented Mr. MacDonald with o ed eyes of a mariner, and if it were silver inkatand as a memento. not for his black cassock one might well take him for a captain of a
merchantman.
Responding to the toast
health, proposed by Sir
of bis Josiah Stamp, president of the L.M.S. Rall- way, Mr. MacDonald said there was no highway in the world, either on
In its reply, the Chiaotungpu says that it is well known that the number of qualified Chinese mer- cantile marine officers is insuffi-
"I have 18,000 parishioners," he cient to meet requirements. The Government has no desire to in-aid, "as well as a large visiting terfere with the employment of Population of sailors who come to the land or on the sea, that was Juller and more crowded with foreign officers by various native my church.
"In my launch I visit incoming colourful shipping companies and, since ex ships and talk to the seamen.
pageantry than For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
the (Private exchange to all departments.perienced mercantile marine off essential to understand their pay sea. Referring to the place in which It is Thames from London Bridge to the cers are necessary for the safety chology and to talk to them indivi- they were met, Mr. MacDonald ob- of ateamship passengers and their property, it is not advisable to dually. The parson who asks, Are served that it was not the first ex- make any change at the presentou saved?' or who attempts to dis-perience he had had of a Customs tribute tracts cuts no ice with House baggage hall. "When you see sailors.
an official in uniform oozing out "Sometimes I deal with lascars from behind a counter demanding, and talk with them in pidgin Have you anything to declare?' at inquatant. I have never found my a time you have got a couple of visits unwelcome on board, nor have hundred cigars packed away in the any seamen ever been rude to me."
O. S. K 0.
BAILINGS FROM BONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
time:
Furthermore, the reply says, foreign officers employed by native shipping companies natur- ally serve on native vessels and they are required to obey the laws
LONDON, HAMBURG. ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore of China. The issue of mercantile
Colombo, Suez and Port Said.
ALTAI MARU
ATLAS MARU
Saturday, 12th July, Monday, 11th August,
►
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Saigon, Singapore, Chinese-owned vessels so no fent
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.
MONTEVIDEO MARU
LA PLATA MARU.
BOMBAY-Via Singapore & Colombo.
BURMA MARU
BORNEO MARU
Friday. 18th July,
Friday, 29th August.
Saturday, 5th July:
Saturday, 10th July,
marine certificates to foreigners by the Chiaotungpu is limited only to those who serve On
need be entertained that foreign- ers will encroach on China's sovereignty.
As soon as China has a suffi cient number of qualified marine
DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZI. officers, the Ministry. will see to
BAR & MOMBASA-Viz Singapore & Colombo.
PANAMA MARU
CANADA MARU
SEATTLE MARU
Monday, 7th July. Wednesday, 6th August,
Friday, 18th July.
CALCUTTA—Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER-Vix Japan Porta from
Shanghai.
MELBOURNE--Via Manila. Brisbane & Sydney.
BRISBANE MARU
HAIPHONG–Via Unihaw & Pukhoi.
MENADO MARU
Sunday, 8th July.
Thursday, 28th July.
Wednesday, 9th July.
NEW YORK-Via Japan ports & Panama.
JAPAN PORTS.
HIMALAYA MARU
KEELUNG-Vis Swatow & Amoy.
TAKAO-Via Swalow & Amoy.
TAKA & KEELUNG
SOURABAYA MARU
Friday, 11th July.
it that the number of foreign officers on Chinese-owned vessels is limited to the minimum.- N. C. Daily News.
BANGKOK AND BACK,
THE AMERIKA'S MAIDEN -
VOYAGE.
Australia.
his hands at Tilbury.
May 1
CANADIAN PACIFIC
STEAMSHIP
FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1930.
EMPRESS OF CANADA
will sail for
MANILA
5 P.M. TO-DAY.
Passenger Dept.: Tel. #0752 Cables: "Gacanpac." Freight and Express: Tel. 20042 Cables: "Nautilus,"
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WORLDS GREATEST TRAVELSYSTEM"
ITISH WUCHOW LINE
JULY SAILINGS. DEPARTURE HOURS:
Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wuchow 1.30 p.m.
8.S. TAI HING"
(1,038. tons-Capt. Trott.]
8th
TUES. MON.
14th
JULY.
FRI. 25th
WED. 30th
corner of a suitcase, and when you In Australia.
look with fear and trembling at Mr. Bown vialted Australia a year several suitcases, wondering which ago to study emigration conditions the eagle-eyed representative of the and travelled 6,000 miles through Government is going to plek upon, visiting hundreds of and when, by the malignant guid- migrants who had passed through ance of an impartial fate, he has picked upon the right one-to you "I have often been asked by sea-the wrong one-then your knees be-- men," he added, "to keep my eye on gin to tremble and your civic recti- their girls or their wives while they tude begins to accuse your troubled
(Laughter.) are at sea, and I have special ar- conscience. rangements here for speedy wed-confess that I, the Frime Minister, have gone through those trying "We hold Communion service at moments? However, great the pains
We and penalties of being Primo Minis-Yangtze in importanc. This magni- have a new church hall and club ter may be, I here and now confess ficent trade route was opened to for- which was opened recently by to you that there is no greater piece eigu traffic in 1897, but how many Princess Mary, and we make of generosity shown by the public foreigners travel on this important WED. 10th every effort to make life ashore servants of this State than the gen-waterway? The scenery along the For information apply to- happy and pleasant for the seamen." ervsity which allows me now to leave route is beautiful. We recommend it
A tattered white ensign hangs in the deck of a ship and go straight Mr. Bown's church. It flew on
to my place In. the train. H.M.S. Tilbury when she led the (Laughter). attack in the Dardanelles.
dings.
unusual hours to suit seamen,
STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS
SUN. 20th
8.3, "TAI MING"
The Sai Kong for the West River)
is the third largest river in the Chin- ase Republic and second only to the
SUN.
FRI.
[640 tons--Capt. G. J. Spink.). JULY. 6th TUES. 32nd 11th SUN, 27th
Co.,
Ltd.,
to any person who wishes to spend a short and economical holiday.
KWONG WING
87, Connaught Road West, Phone 20893,
There is only one double-acting two-stroke Burmeister and Wain engine ship so far in operation,
When Scotsmen Joke, and it is extremely significant
"A short time ago I landed 'at that this vessel, the Amerika, a
Southampton in a state of more or single-screw cargo and passenger-
tess' decrepitude and was met by abe taken as serious when he is jok-, London (Cape Province) finds The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of carrying ship of 10,100 tona gross, Asia from Hong Kong
customs officer. He did not ask meling, and as joking when he is little support by experts. on June H TAKEUCHI. Manager. brought to a successful conclusion 25, left Yokohama on July 3 nt put it to him he just said, 'Oh. Sentch joke except a Scotsman, and W. Clark Russell, the writer of
If I had anything to declare. When serlous. Nobody understands
Sir Herbert Russell (a son of ¡recently a maiden voyage of
20,000 miles. She is owned by P.m., and is due at Vancouver that is all right!""
there is no more emphatic and con- sea stories, and himself a journ- the East Asiatic Co., Ltd., Copen-
"I said, 'I have just landed from clusive proof that we are the chosenalist and writer on naval mat- hagen.
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ENGINEERS.
n July 12.
The C.P.S, R.M.S. Empress of
Wharf.
ill, and they perhaps feared on the
MYSTERY OF THE SEA
Д
The total distance out and home, anada (from Manila) is due here America and I have got two bottles people in the eyes of God than that ters) says "You get the highest sens in the world off the Cape. st 8 am on July 8 (Tues.), and of champagne, three bottles of 1820 common experience." (Laughter.) to Genoa was 17,148 miles, to will berth at Pier No. 5. Kowloon brandy, and one bottle of pre-war
Perhaps the Waratah suddenly which must be added the remain-
Scotch whisky. I have been very
entered shoal water and was der of the trip calling at St.
The C.P.S. R.MS. Empress of
swamped. In such circumstances Nazaire, Le Havre, London, Rot- Canada, Capt. A., J. Halley, R.N.R.. way across a change of health for
n broken sea, broadside on, is a terdam. Hamburg, and finally, will leave here for Victoria and the worse that very often happens London, May 16-The associa terrible thing, but I am sceptical Copenhagen, making an aggre- Victoria, B.C., via Shanghai, Kobe
to Innocent passengers on the tion of the mysterious disappear. about its being the Waratah. A gate, in round figures, of 20,000 and Yokohama at noon on July 10 Atlantic. He just smiled at me and ance of the liner Waratah in merchant ship, unlike a warship, took my sober truth as a Scotch 1909, off the South African coast rights herself when she grounds, Leaks developed in the welding
joke.. (Laughter).
with an African airman's story so that unless the Waratah lay "There is no greater calamity that of having seen a large submerged on her side her masts would have can overtake a Scotsman than to wreck off the cliffs near East been seen long ago!'
miles.
(Thursday).
of the fuel pipes on three occa- CONSIGNEES' NOTICES sions, but these were of very minor importance and caused a
Consignees of
delay of about ten minutes each "Benalder"
carro Ex 3.5. pre reminded ta take time. Other incidents to be re- delivery of their goods which will be corded are the occurrence of subject to rent after July 6. cracks in the springs of the main Consignees of cargo ex M.V.
"Java" аге fuel pumps, causing no delay delivery of their goods which will be
reminded to whatever, as the springs can be cubject to rent after July 6. replaced wtih the engine
take
running. No other difficulties of any sort arose in connection with (Continued at foot of next Column., any of the machinery. It may be stated therefore, that the per- formance, for a new ship with the first engines, main and auxiliary,
DRY DOCK
Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Feet, Depth on Centre of
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The Amerika left Copenhagen for Bangkok on January 23, call- ing at Aden for fuel. She bunk- ered Anglo-Persian oll of 0.880. specific gravity at 80 degrees; F. All the fuel is passed through centrifugal purifiers before use. Between Port Said and Aden the speed was 15.74 knota. From Aden to Penang 15.07 knots were attained; from, Bangkok to Singa- pore 15.57 knots; from Singapore to Penang, 16.89 knots; from Penang to Colombo, loaded on the return voyage, 14.46 knots; from Colombo to Port Said, 14.88 knots, and thence to Genoa, 14.16 knots. Al
The fuel expenditure works out at between twenty-eight tons and twenty-nine tons, daily for all purposes. The lubricating oil consumption is sixtos, or about one and a half gallons a day for hand oiling (including air ma chinery in the chip) and fifty- five kilos, or twelve gallons, for the main engine cylinders, No. decurate estimate of the total
could be fsion the Imes
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