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MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1930.

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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghal, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

Thursday, 21st August Thursday, 18th September BEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

Wednesday, 24th September.

HIKAWA 'MARU

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang,, Colombo, Suez

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

23rd August..

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

6th September.

HYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports

KITANO MARU

Tuesday,

ATSUTA MARU

Tuesday,

29th August.

BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

† PENANG MARU

KAGA MARU

Friday, Thursday,

10th August 23th September.

11th September.

UTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,

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GINYO MARU

HEIYO MARU

Wednesday, 27th August Saturday, 30th September.

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Porta

KAWACHI MARU

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa,

LYONS MARU

CALCUTTA _vla Singapore, Penang & Rangoon

Tuesday,

9th September.

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.

+ TOKIWA MARU .. †KUMA MARU

Saturday,

Tuesday,

23rd August.

2nd September,

. Tussday,

16th September,

† CALCUTTA MARU

Friday,

29th August.

† HAKODATE MARU

Monday,

8th September.

TANGO MARU (Nagasaki direct).. Wednesday, HAKONE MARU

Friday.

+ MURORAN MARU

LIMA MARU

20th August. 92nd August. Wednesday, 27th August. ...Thursday, 28th August.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA

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Intelligence.

LIFE ON A MODERN per bridge, ara transmitted be N.Y.K.'S WEEDING OUT

SUBMARINE.

Thrills and Trials Under

the Sea.

"Life on a modern submarine, with its many trials and mysteries, was explained to a Straits Times pre- presentative, when he was recent-

ly shown over one of the craft that visited Singapore."

marines commissioned in 1929 the They are the latest type of sub-

Odin, Osiris, Oswald and Olus.

low by an electrical contrivance.

we

POLICY.

Tenyo Maru to Be Sold..

Beneath the Surface, `·. "Once we get beneath surface," he said, "we navigate by electrical power as of course no other is pos- sible under water. To dive flood the main ballast tanke, and operate the hydroplanes on either

The Mainichi-reports that the The hydro- side of the craft. planes act in much the same way, NY.K. has decided to dispose of

superannuated as the ailerons in an aeroplane,

steamers, only the medium is water, instead totalling 48.831 tons, in the near future. According to the Osaka journal, contract has almost

ship company and the Los Angeles been reached between the steam- Steamship Company, Los Angeles. for the sale of the Tenys Maru,

of air."

A lever

was depressed and a When the end was midway between shining cylinder rose from the deck.

the steel roof and deck, we gazed through the periscope and saw the Medway lying peacefully in the afternoon sun and away to the left.

the hills of Blakan Mati.”

In the binzing heat of the after noon (writes the representative). I was privileged to see the inside of one of these amazing craft. I crept gingerly up the narrow

Further on through the centre of gang-way and made my way to the the craft we went. Stumbling up bridge. ¿

small steel ladders and crouching to avoid contact with the low roof we came upon a small door. It was padlocked."

"This is the wireless cabin," - plained the officer.

"Wireless?" I exclaimed, "But how-under the sea?"

At that moment an officer popped his head out of a circular hatchway and greeted me. He was young. very ft looking and bore little signs of his life "under the ocean wave." "Watch your clothes, as you come down here," he warned as I lowered myself down an aperture barely An official mask immediately large enough to admit a man, "Be- | spread over the officer's face. low a heavy fetid atmosphere. "That is one of our secrets," he reeking of oil closed round us like anid. a blanket. This was the for'ard part of the craft, Immediately in front of us were the torpedo tubes, long, ominous-looking objects. On either side of the small space in which we stood, there were racks for more torpedoes.

With bent shoulders and wary steps,, we made our way along a narrow passage. Even with fans going at full blast, the heat was terrific and we applied pur hand-

ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP VI Singapore kerchiefs generously to our drip

Colombo, Suez and Port Said.

AMAZON MARU

ALASKA MARU

Wednesday, 10th September. Friday, 10th October.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.

LA PLATA MARU BUENOS AIRES MARU BOMBAY-Via Singapore & Colombo.

'HONOLULU MARU SUMATRA MARU -DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES,

ZIBAR & MOMBASA-Via MEXICO. MARU CHICAGO MARU

Frklay, 29th August.

Friday, 3rd October.

Wednesday, 20th August. Wednesday, 3rd September BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAN- Singapore & Colombo,

Tuesday, 28th August Sunday, 23th September.

CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon

CELEBES MARU

TACOMA MARU

Monday, 18th August. Monday, 1st September.

ping foreheads. A few yards along the steel encased passage, a room opened out on the right.

The Ward Room. "This is the ward room," said the officer.

Though it was a small enough room in actual dimensions, it was well-equipped and seemed infinitely larger than one would have expect ed after traversing the narrow pass- Here thare, was a table and age, seating accommodation for four officers.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER--Via Japan Ports from the depot ship (H.M.S. Medway?

Shanghel

MELBOURNE Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.

SYDNEY MARU ...........

TLAIPHONG...Kia Hoihow & Pakhol

Wednesday, 3rd September.

NEW YORK-Via Japan porta & Panama.

JAPAN PORTS,

MADRAS MARU

KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Amoy.

TAKAO-Via Swator & Amoy.

TAKAO & KEELUNG.

SOURABAYA MARU

Friday, 22nd August.

For further parlcularà please apply to-08AKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

Wednesday, 10th September..

Tel. 28001.

M. TAKEUCHI, Manager.

COLOURED SEAMEN.

of British crews.

We reached the after end of the

were

submarine. Two hatches open overhead and a life-giving breeze fanned our perspiring faces.

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seven

A

18,500 tons, which has been tled up in Kobe since last month, at about Yen 400,000.

Awa Maru Sold for Scrapping.

The Awa Moru, 6,023 tons, of a Nippon Yusen Kaishe, which was laid up some time ago on ac count of the decline of the pas congera and the cargo movement, has been sold to the Osaka Kaiji Shokai for Y141,000. The boat will be dismantled later, in ac cordance with the conditions of the contract concluded between the seller and the buyer. Kaisha intends to sell the Tamba In addition, the Nippon Yusen Maru, 5.846 tons, the Sado Maru,

5,898 tona, Kaga Maru, 5,860 tons, and the 6,800 tons class immigra tlon ships. the Kamakura Maru "Good, that!" I gasped. He

and the Kanagawa Maru. How. -looked at me with a smile. "Well ver, these boats will not be sold you have seen the interior of a sub-to any steamship companies for marine.It is hot, isn't it? It is actual service, but to these who just about twice as hot when you intend to dismantle them.

get beneath the surface. - Think you would like the life?"

I shook my head very firmly No. I was in the Air Force during the War-I love fresh air."

The officer. thought a

minate Yes I've often thought of that. Submarine life is a matter of ups and downs.

"So also is the Air Force."

SAILORS STABBED,

MIDNIGHT QUARREL IN A RESTAURANT.

Berlin, July 6. An unfortunate incident has occurred during the visit of the British cruiser Centaur and four destroyers to Danzig.

Thua hard times are blamed for the N.Y.K.'s decision to sell seven large passenger boats aggregating 48.881 tons. It is expected that other steamship companies will also follow the example in face of the present universal depression.

"EXCUSE ME, CAPTAIN-" AS THE SHIP WENT DOWN.

Berlin, June 26.. "Man the boats!" "Excuse me, captain, might I trouble for my passport?"

The scene was the deck of the German steamer Casablanca which, with a rent in her side large bu

enough to take

a London omni-

"Of course we take our meals on

when we are in port," he explained,

was rapidly sinking in a "and only keep a watch on board

thick fog in mid-Channel, after Three British sailors, members here."

of the crew of the cruiser, who having been in collision with the Further along the passage, which were spending Saturday evening

British steamer Henry Stanley. amazing amount ashore, dropped late at night German captain of the bristled with an

The dialogue was between the of machinery; we made

our way, into a local restaurant, and got and a British passenger, who so steamer viewing in turn officer'a quartors, into conversation with E.R.A.& mess, C.F.O.'s mess, which Danzig workmen, sitting at a his ridiculously, cool request that

some amused the German opened out from the narrow space neighbouring table. and extended to the sloping sides of the submarine. They are all designed with a marvellous economy of space,

crew with

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cool as

a cucumber to the cap they laughed and so averted a tain. dangerous panic.

"As calmly as though he were It is part of a dramatie descrip- about to land in the ordinary way tion of the disaster given by at Tilburyor Southampton, the member of the crew who return- Briton asked the captain for his ed to Hamburg to-day.

passport. At the Pumps.

A quarrel ensued. Two work. men who had taken a foremost part in the dispute left the re- staurant, and waited outside until We climbed a small steel ladder, the Britons came out when bending low to avoid varjous in- they rushed at the sailors struments and appliances which with their knives and stabbed in- jutted out everywhere. We enter-discriminately, ed a large square space, which was

The Britons were taken by SCHEME OF REGISTRATION TO long time, been a cause of frie fitted out after the fashion of the surprise, and two of them were pumps until the last minute, were into an ugly sceno.

a steamship wounded so seriously that they captain's bridge on though far more elaborately. Here had to be taken to hospital, and of appliances, clocks, they had not recovered conscious the number

this switches dazzled one, graduated instruments, levers and ness

morning. • Their lives are said to be despaired of.

ARRIVALS OF SH.PS.

BE INTRODUCED.

London, July 27.

A

The crimping system has, for

tion between white and coloured seamen in various ports,

The police are taking special precautions in case seamen's resentment at the regis- the coloured tration scheme leads to violence.

Considerable resentment is felt in Cardiff and other Bristol Chan- nel ports by alien coloured sea- men against the scheme of regis- tration for coloured seamen drawn STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS up by the Shipping Federation"

men,

and the National Union of Soa-The P. & O. 9.5. Kidderpore left Shanghai for this port on August 16 at 2.30 p.m., and is due here on August 20 at about 7 a.m.

The P. & 0 8.8. Morea from Hong Kong arrived Marseilles on August 16 at 7am.

The scheme, which comes Into operation next week, is aimed at the elimination of crimps who supply. British ships with colour ed seamen, often to the exclusion

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There is where we steer from, when we are under water," the officer explained. "We are now in the centre of the submarine, which la the most important part when we are navigating.

Sunday, August 17. Calchas, British str., 6,313 tons, Capt. Power, from Singapore, He showed me gyroscopic com- Holt's Wharf.-B. &.S. passes, magnetic compasses and ex-Chak Sang, British str., 1,470 tons, plained how they locate their bear-

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"I have not the slightest doubt," "The water was rushing in the German seaman added, "thai said the German seaman, "and the the Briton's action prevented what crew, who had remained at the might otherwise have developed struggling towards the boats. It almost seemed that there was go-The tension was broken, so that "As it was, every one laughed. ing to be a panic, when, sudden- the crew took their places in the ly, all eyes were concentrated on boats in an orderly fashion and the amazing spectacle of a Bri-rowed away from the sinking ship tish passenger strolling up As without a single life being lost."

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Haru Maru, Japanese str., 1,6856 tons, Capt, T. Yachl; * from Chinwangtao, buoy No. B60.—— Wada Timusho. Kut Sang, British str., 5,847 tons, Capt. V. M&C. Leddell," from Calcutta and Strafts, Kowloon Wharf Jardine, Matheson, &

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Sagara Maru, Japanese str. 1,007.

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