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THE

STOWAWAYS' LUCKY

ESCAPE.

Disappointed Emigrants' Ordeal to Get Home,

CLINGING HAND.”

CHINA MAIL.

Shipping

Intelligence.

Since then they have spent the lays on the small dock beneath the after bridge, in the clean wind and the sunshine, scraping paint off iron posts. They have food and a bed.

Forrest has a young wife and two children in Colchester. He left them in England to make a new home in Australia. After a few days in the Immigration Home at Fremantle he and Briggs were sent out on farming jobs. Port Said, July 3, After three weeks they were Two young men who stowed both on the unemployed list. away in the Aberdeen and Com.They roamed the country, but monwealth liner Largs Bay when found no work. Forrest says that she left Fremantle (Western he asked three farmers to let him Australia), for Southampton, on do some work in return for food. June 12, narrowly escaped with but was refused. So it was back their lives. They are:-

to Perth and the Labour Bureau for both of them.

James Duncan Forrest, aged 28, of 18, Canal Street, Aberdeen, whose wife and two children live in Colchester.

Francis Briggs aged 22, of 27, Cumberland Road, Plaistow,

If the boilermaker aboard the liner (Mr. W. J. B. Pollock) had failed to notice a hand clutching at the side of a steel doorway, the two men would have been trapped in pitch darkness in a little hell

Forrest tells the story well enough himself. "Briggs and I joined forces in Fremantle. When we got aboard the Largs Bay each of us had had about three weeks' work in eight months. Without a penny between us, Briggs and I lived in a hut on the foreshore,

"INCIDENT" AT WUCHOW?

Chinese Passengers Turned Away.

TROUBLE ON THE RIVER,

The China Mail is in receipt of the following communication from the Canton News Agency.

Wuchow, September 1. An unusual incident occurred yes-i terday afternoon, when Chinese paa- sengers intending to travel by the British steamer Tai Ming, for Hongi Kong, were turned away by military Kuards at the jetty.

Upon inquiry in official circles, it was learned, that the case of this: arose when two military officer? boarded the Tai Ming at Samshul en her last trip from Hong Kong a week ago, and were informed by the captain that they could not travel on his boat, as they were carrying arms, "A baker in Fremantle let me der their arms to the custody of the The officers then offered to surren chop wood in return for two loaves captain, who, it is said, absolutely door would give me some dripping. the other hand, the officers insist- Their desperate effort to get We lived on that and slept in the ed on remaining on the boat, giv back to their own people and hut. There was not a job to being as the reason that they were their own country after eight had, and some employers to whom carrying important despatches to months' search for work in West- we applied said that they would the Military H. Q. at Wuchow.

REPUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING/over the boilers, without food or of brend a day, and a butcher next refused to take them on.

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water,

ern Australia would have ended in a very horrible death for them both but for the flash of an elec.

exhaustion.

rather give preference to Austra- lians who were out of work.

Or

The captain set sail, but on the tric torch picking out the hand Bay would be passing through ling the West River, which met the "When I saw that the Largs way, it is alleged, he sent a wireless message to a British gunboat patrol clinging at the side of the small Fremantle on her way back to Tai Ming midway between Samshal doorway in the darkness 'tween England, I made up my mind to und Wuchow, it is said, the two decks. As it was, they had been try and

stow away. Brigga without water for a day and a wanted to come with me, so we ashore. The officers managed to get officers being taken off and put half and were in the last stages of made the attempt together. My back to Wuchow, and reported what great fear was that we would he There was another stowaway found before the ship got to had happened. Acting upon that re- on board, but he was discovered Colombo. Looking back on it took the above action, and the. Tal port, the Headquarters yesterday day out from Fremantle, and now, I do not know how we came Ming left the port without a single was put ashore at Colombo to be through those 12 days. The memory-of-them-is a nightmare sent back to Australia

Forrest and Briggs well knew Both of us were at our last gasp the same fate awaited them it when found." they were found before the ship reached Colombo. They hoped to remain undetected until after Port Said. Then, whatever mea. sures were taken to deal with them, they would be carried back to England. Forrest had been u

seaman.

12 Days on Two Loaves.

He and his companion, without a penny in their pockets, slipped on board at Fremantle, went to the boat deck and climbed down the steel ladders in a ventilator leading to the boilers. At the foot of the ladders a narrow steel door gives entrance to a small store-room. Through a grating in the floor they got into a dark, tunnel-like space over the boilers.

ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.

Tuesday, September 2 Antung, British str., 2,187 tons. Capt. G. A. Morac, from Amey, buoy No. B34.-B. & S.

.1

Siberia Maru, Japanes str., 11,790 tons, Capt. B. Kaneko, from Shanghai, Kowloon Wharf.

N.Y.K.

Sumatra Maru, Japanese str., 4,272 tons, Capt. G. Shinmura, from Moji, Kowloon Wharf.-O.S.K. wing Lee, Portuguese str., 641 cons, Capt. J. Antunes, from Kwang Chow Wan, buoy No. C40-Wo Hop. & Co..

Wednesday, September 8.

British str., 1,297 tons, Capt. J. H. van den Berg, from Whampoa, buoy No. C15.-Shun Tại & Co.

They had two loaves of bread and some biscuits. Without hav-Borneo, ing experienced them for just a few minutes, it is impossible to these two men managed to exist imagine the condition under which

for twelve days.. The heat was terrific, and the air thick with oil fumes.

Hai

Yang, Britsh, str., 1,363 tons.

Capt. Erwin, from Swatow, Douglas Wharf-Order.

Chinese passenger.

PASSENGER LIST

ARRIVALS

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1930.

CANADIAN PACIFIC

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Jan. Empress of Canada Dec. 25 Déc. 20 Bec. 30

1 Jan. 9 Jun. 15. Jan. Så Empress of Russia* Jan. 7 Juu. 10 Jan, 13

Jan. 29 Feb. Fein 3 Feb. Empress of Jupan

Feb. 13 Empress of Asia' Feb. 25 Feb. 28 Mar. 3 Mar. Mar. 14 Empress of Canada Mar. 12 Mar. 16 Mar, 17 Mar. 19 Mar. 27 Empress of Russia Mar, 25 Mar. 28 Mar. 31 Apr. 2 Apr 11 Empress of Japan Apr. 4 Apr. 7 Apr. 9 Apr. 11 Apr. 19 Empress of Asia Apr. 17 Apr. 20 Apr. 23 Apr. 25 May

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When they pass the Shiching Gorge, the American travellers say "Well, we guess this beats the Hudson River, our show place." Continental visitors remark that it reminds them of the

SEPTEMBER SAILINGS.

DEPARTURE HOURS:

Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wuchow 1.30, pm.į

9.9. "TAI HING"

[1,068 tons--Capt., Troft.]

SEPTEMBER.

~7th* ~TUES.

SUN. FRI.

“23rd

12th

MON. 29th

WED.

17th

5.5. "TAI MING" (840 tons-Capt. G. J. Spink]

SEPTEMBER,

SAT. 20th THURS. 25th◄

Per s.s. Siberia Maru from Van-"Rhine and Switzerland." Whilst

TUES. 9th couver vin ports on September British tourists declare "Surely, the MON

15th Lake district or the Scottish moors: For information apply to

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STEAMER'S MOVEMENTS

The E. & A. 8.a. St. Albans-left

Hozan Maru, Japanese str., 2,847 Manila for this port on Septem- The only other entrance to the

tons, Capt: Oyama, from ter 4, p.m. with the outward Aus- storeroom is an emergency door Swatow, O.SK.Wharf.-ds.x.tralian Mails, and la due here on leading to the stewards wash-Hydrangea, British str., 661 tons, September 7, a.m. room, which, fortunately for the stowaways, had, been left unlock.

ed.

That allowed them to creep.) out when nobody was about and fill two tins with water. Within two hours it would be almost too hot to drink, but it kept them alive.

Just before reaching Colombo the emergency door was locked, cutting off their only means of getting water. They held on in the terrible heat, and under con- ditions immeasurably worse than those experienced by the en: gineers who work in shifts of four hours.

Captain R. W. Grierson, from Swatow, Chiu On Wharf.-Chiu On 9.5. Co. Kentucky, Amèrican str., 3,640 tons,

Capt. Svehang, from Shanghai, buoy No. A5.—-—States & Co. Kwong Sang British str., 1,123 tons,

Capt. A. D. Kelman, from Swa- tow, West Point Wharf.-J. M. & Co,

Palembang, Dutch str., 1,029 tons,

Capt. F. W. Wildschut, from Singapore, A.F.C. Wharf- A.P.C...

from

Pleasantville, Norwegian str, 2,749

tons, Capt. L. Hassel, Manila buey, N. AZ-Thore- Sanka Maru, Japanese str., 1,50

sen & Co.

tone, Capt Okada, from Mike, Yaumati M.B.K.

On the evening of the day after leaving Colombo Mr. Pollock was making an inspection, as the mon- soon promised rough weather, He had previously noticed that Tai Lee Chinese str., 1,044 tons. the small steel door into the store room was open and it was his in. tention to close it,

Capt. Z. Masaki, from Chofos, buoy No. C18 Loong Tai Hong

He was astonished to see a hand Talthyblus, British str., 6,514 tons, A passenger and cargo steam-grasping the side of the opening. T

Capt. J. Davies, from Mike, When he flashed his torch through

buoy No. A27.—B. &S) dat

Capt. Pilcher, from Moji, Kow- loon Wharf. Mackinnon,. Maċ- kenzie & Co.

Tainan, British str. 2,100 tons, --- Capt. J. Pinson, from. Canton,

buoy No. B12÷R! & ̈8.

ship is being constructed by the doorway the sight which met Tands, Britlah str., 6,966 tons, Commell, Laird and Co., Ltd., his eyes appalled him. The following table, Issued by Birkenhead) for service on South

A 'man, entirely naked, sweat the. Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows in English fest American routes. The vessel, 56 streaking the dirt on his body, a fortnight's growth of beard on the water levels on the West by 371t, will be fitted with triple his face, was hanging to the door: Fiver, North River and East River, expansion engines

and· an way gasping for breath.te on the dates named:

exhaust-steam turbine... Foreign The second stowaway, naked, Sept.1. Sept. 2 owners have ordered (from Work Althy, unshaven, and exhausted. 9.9 10.4man Clark 1928 Ltd., Belfast) like his comrade, was lying inside 7.4 6.2 whale oil-factory ship for sor on the floor. 48 5.1" Vice in the Antarctic The boat 27 2.2 will be similar to the Kesm The highest levels on record are: bull year by the same firm Shlubing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, which has tons

of 17,800 29.2 feet: Samakul, 273 feet, and a length of Sheklung: 15.6 feet,

eigu Owners Kay

Talngyuen

Shlubing

Samahuli

Shedlung

The lost love on record at (from "Smita Sarishuj is minus 5 feet and at South Bank on Säexjung mingis 27 feer

Both men were carried out and Iced water and tea did a great deal to revive them.

CONSIGNEES NOTICES »

Consignees of Cargo per "Vanozia-L are reminded to take delivery of their goods which will ha sublect to rent after September

But for Forrest's hand being sible the door would have been red cutting off what little a supply there was, and the two men anayonar

- Consignees of cargo ez BRI reminded to take

puld have paid for the venture delivery of their goods which will be

eubject to rent after-September 8.

but with a little icss vegetation." Now why not take a five-days' round trip and 300 for yourself. It costs you only $40.

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