1930-11-28 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1930.

NYISLINE

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING

FROM £83 TO`£120, ON SALE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

LONDON, MARSEILLES. ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.

BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

Thursday, Sunday:

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

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Telegrams i

'•+ MOTTARD."

WOMEN SMUGGLERS. U.S. SHIPYARDS BUSY

CHICHIRU MARU TAIYO MARU.

Thursday, Sunday,

11th December. 21st December.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA'via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

HIKAWA MARU

HEIAN MARU

Wednesday, Thursday,

3rd December.

19th December.

TERUKUNI MARU

Saturday,

13th December.

HAKUSAN MARŲ

Saturday,

27th December.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

ATSUTA MARU

Tuesday,

23rd December.

KAGA MARU

11th December.

#TOKUSHIMA MARU

28th December.

Mexico & Panama, RAKUYO MARU

Sunday,

21st December.

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

Wednesday, KAMAKURA MARU

NEW CUSTOMS WAR ON DUTY EVADERS.

17th December.

Thursday,

11th Docember.

Friday,

12th December.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoồn.

† PENANG MARU

Sunday,

30th November,

+ NAKODATE MARU

Monday,

8th December.

TANGO MARU (Calls Moji)

Saturday.

Tuesday,

Sunday,

Sunday,

20th Noveraber. 2nd December. 7th December. 14th December.

NEW YORK. BOSTON vin Panama. -

+ TAKAOKA MARU LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.

DAKAR MARU

SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

KAMO MARU

AKITA MARU

KATORI MARU

+ Ceruc only.

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

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(Private exchange to all departments.)

O. S. K

NOW EMPLOYING 40,000 WORKERS.

Izstallation and Rapus of Class Engine and Moteri Lor Karina and Braonary a specialis

EGYPT'S MAILS.

FOREIGN OFFICE BAG EXAMINED.

New York.A shipbuilding pro- An intensive campaign to stop gramme giving employment to

The contents of the diplomatic smuggling by passengers travel more than 40,000 men, whose ah-mailbag containing Foreign Office ling to Britain from the Contin-nual wages aggregate $60,000,000 correspondence which was recent- ent has been ordered by the Cus-Is in progress in the United States. ly recovered in the salvaging of toms authorities.

according to a report just sent to the P. and O. liner Egypt-sunk in President Hoover by the National a collision off Ushant in May, 1922 Council of American Shipbuilders have been on view at the Foreign here. The sum paid. In wagos re-Office, London. able dresses, undergarments, and stockings in Paris and elsewhere presents 60 per cent, of the total The mail-bng was sealed and ad- and carry them into Britain with-Cost of $75,000,000 for the ships. dressed

the report stated. out declaring them.

The chief object is to catch the women who regularly buy duti-

New tonnage on order, or about to be ordered, is sufficient to keep the yards active until the end of 1934, it continued, stressing that this is in sharp contrast to con-

It is the intention to take people who offend in this way to the police court so that they may be punished by the publicity ns well as by a fine and the confisca-ditions abroad, where the reduced tion of their goods.

to IL.B.M. Legation, Tangler, and, as is the custom in the case of official documents sont by the Foreign Office to diplomatic and Consular officers in the Far East, was given to the captain of

the liner, being British, to be de-

livered by him to H.M. Agent and amount of construction has caus- Consul-General at Tangier. The Excuses and offers to pay thood unemployment in the shipbuild-captain of the Egypt kept the mail- duty will not be accepted. "More ing centres. ---- prosecutions" is the instruction,

An estimate by Customs officere is that at least 60 per cent. of passengers from France and Bel gium who purchase small quan ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Via Singapore tities of dutiable goode abroad do

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

LONDON, HAMBURG.

Colombo, Saer and -Port Said.

LONDON MARU

ANDES MARU

Sunday, 14th December. Wednesday, 24th December.

RÍO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Salgon, Singa-

pore. Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.

RIO DE JANEIRO MARU MONTEVIDEO MARUA...

BOMBAY-Yix Singapore & Columbe.

Friday, 28th November.

Tuesday, 30th December.

SUMATRA MARU (Calls at Karachi) Thursday, 4th December. DURBAN, LOURENÇO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAN-

ZIBAR & MOMBASA-VI®

CANADA MARU

Singapore & Colombo.

Saturday, 6th December.

CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang Rangoon.

- TACOMA MARU MADRAS MARU

Tuesday, 2nd December, Thursday, 18th December.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER.

ARABIA MARU (from Shanghai) Monday, 15th December MELBOURNE-Via Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.

* SYDNEY MARU

.... Saturday, 6th December. (Calls at Wollington & Auckland.) HAIPHONGV.. Hohow & Pakhoi

MENADO. MARU

Thursday, 11th December.

Saturday, 6th December.

NEW YORK-Yin Japan Ports & Paname.

HOKUROKU MARU

not declare them when they arrive in Britain.

"Women provide us with our most difficult problems," said a leading Customs official. "They glory in smuggling dresses and underwear, and seem to think there is nothing wrong In the businesa, They do not realise that in addition to robbing the State they are doing infinite harm

to

bag in the steel safe in his cabin, While the report was compiled The safe was brought up from thei refute rumoure indicating a Egypt, and when it was prlied cessation in activity in American open it was seen that the sea water yards, it served the double pur- had got into it. The mail-bag had pose of showing the number of rotted, and its contents, *sodden men who have been given work mass of papers, had to be carefully

contracts

The liberal loan provisions of the act and the mail available under it have given an impetus to shipbuilding which

will soon

A

on new maritime construction sub-lifted out and placed in a wooden, sequent to the passing of the box. This box, on being opened at Jones-White Marine Act, to which the Foreign Office, disclosed a the council of shipbuilders. at- heap of yellow, mouldy documents, tributes the new era in American stuck together, which emitted shipping.

musty smell. The papers were mainly printed Foreign Office re- There were also packets of sealed ports and Consular Instructions. letters, marked "Confidential" and States with a merchant marine in Japan, Korea, and Slam. The provide the United addressed to Agents and Consuls comparable with those of other principal document was a Foreign . "Frequently, when we hold up powers. a woman who has dutiable goodę

Office dispatch, dated May 17, Contracts exceeding $140,000,000 1922, to "M. A. Robertson, Esq. In her luggage, she says in mitin value. for the construction of H.M. Agent and Consul-General, gation, 'Oh, but I have worn new merchant ships have been Tangier," Duplicates of all these them.'

executed, the report stated, and official papers were sent out by the "That la no answer at all. with additional orders totalling Foreign Office when it was ascer Everything of a dutiable nature $135,000,000 will mean an expen-tained that the mail-bag had gone whether it has been worn or not diture of $275.000.000 daring a down with the ship.

must be declared and payinen: five-year period ending In 1935.

to British trade.

LOS ANGELES, PANAMA, NEW YORK. BOSTON, BALTIMORE, AND made on it.

PHILADELPHIA,

JAPAN. PORTS.

SEATTLE MARU

(Takao & Keelung via Amoy.)

KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Amay.

HOZAN MARU

TAKAO-Via Swatow & Amoy.

Tuesday, th December.

Sunday, 30th November, Noon.

For further particulars please apply to OSAKA BUOSEN KAISHA.

M. TAKEUCHI Manager

Tel. 28061.

BRITISH SAILORS HONOURED.

The Boulogne Humane Society,

an Anglo-French institution, dis tributed awards for life-saving during the past year. Amongst the recipients of medals

were

+

Of the total cost of a vess!,

Several Letters Readable.

40 per cent. is expended in the On examination several of the

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Vancouver

Arrive

12 DAYS FROM CHINA AND 8 DAYS FROM JAPAN TO CANADA AND USA.

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Leave Empress of Asia". Dec. 10 Dec. 13 Dec. 16 Dec. 18 Dec. 27

Jan. Empress of Canada Dec. 25 Dec. 28 Dec. 30

Jan. 9 Empress of Russia* Jan. 7 Jan. 10 Jan. 13 Jan. 15 Jan. 24 Empress of Japan Feb. 5 Feb. Feb. 10. Feb. 12 Feb, 20 Empress of Asia' Feb. 18 Feb. 21 Feb. 24 Feb. 26 Mar, 7 Empress of Canada Mar. 5 Mar. 8 Mar. 10 Mar. 12 Mar. 20 Empress of Russia Mar. 18 Mar. 21 Mar. 24 Mar. 26 Apr. 4

ધોરાજીમ Empress of Japan

T Apr. 1 Apr. 4 Apr. Apt. 9 Apr. 17. Empress of Aala* Apr. 10 Apr. 13 Apr. 16 Apr. 18 Apr. 27 Empress of Canadat Apr, 25 Apr. 28 Apr. 30 May 2 May 14 Empress of Russia" May 8 May 11 May 14 May 15 May 25 Empress of Japant May 23 May 26 May 28 May 30 June 10 Empress of Asia* June 5 June 8 June 11 June 13 June 72 Empress of Canada June 20 June 23 June 25 June 27 July 8 Empress of Russia July 3 July 6 July 9 July 11 July 20

*(Call at Nagasaki the day after departure from Shanghal) Calle at Honolula on May B. Calls at Honolu.u on Jans 5.

HONG KONG ---- MANILA SERVICE.

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Emp. of Asia ..Dec. 1 Emp. of Canada Dec. 11

Telephones: i'masenger 20752 Freight.20042

Arrive

Manila

Dec. 5

Dec. 19

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The Sai Kong (or the West River) is the third largest river in the Chin- ese Republic and second only to the

NOV. DEC. SAILINGS.

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Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wuchow 2 p.m.

8.8. "TAI HING"

(1,888 tons-Capt. Trott]

30th

NOVEMBER.

DECEMBER.

SUN.

FRL

5th MON. 22nd

WED.

10th

SAT. 27th

TUES,

16th

S.S. "TAI MING”

19th

8th WED. 24th 14th TUES. 30th

Yangtze in important. This magni [649 tons-Capt. W. H. Lawton.)

DECEMBER. Acent trade route was oponed to for

TUES. 2nd FRI. eign traffic in 1897, but how. many foreigners travel on this important SUN. MON.

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vessel he was travelling in was at tacked so patches falling into the hands of as to prevent the dia-

bag did not sink and was picked up the enemy. In one case the mail- by the enemy torpedo-boat. The with holes having metal rims to mail-bags were then perforated

allow the son water to get in and, sink them in such an emergency. But this device was not found to work, and at length, by a happy

"Prosecutions will be authoria-

we discover women yard for labour, an analysis show-letters were found to be readable. bag. This letter, after a lapse of ed whenever cre trying to evade the Customs." ed; 40 per cent, more is in the There was one amusing discovery eight years, has been forwarded to Recently the Customs officers procurement of materials, 10 per This was a lotter to the Legation, the addressce now Sir Malcolm have caught a number of women cent. for the cost of these Tangier, with the superscription, wearing two and three dresses and materials and the remaining 10 atill quite legible. "Found at the ordinary and Flenipotentiary at

Robertson Ambassador Extra rets of underwear in the hope of per cent, for transportation, Insur bottom of empty bag returned to Buenos Aires. What was particu- bringing in their Paris purchase ance and taxea,

Foreign Office, 18-3-22," which without paying.

having been lost on its second out-of papers was the vividness of the larly noticeable in the sodden mass ward voyage, has now been re-

vermillion wax seal of the Foreign covered from the bottom of the sea. Office on the flaps of the envelopes. in the history of the Foreign Office, The incident is said to be unique

The Librarian of the Foreign and as a memento the Jetter is to Ofice, Mr. S. Gaselee, stated that be preserved among the curiosities there was no other record of a thoughi, newspaper picture-blocks There was also found a personal recovered from the sea. in the Library of the Department. diplomatic mail-bag having been

There was the case of a woman who wore no fewer than six sets Corporation of Harbour. Portera

of everything under her dress, in- subscribed amongst themselves and presented mementoes

ciuding alx pairs of new silk stock- to the three men in recognition of their them because she thought the inga. She said she was wearing courageous acts.

crossing from Calais would be cold.

three members of the crows of LINER DAMAGED IN SHIP CANAL.

the Channel mail steamers.

In May last a harbour porter laden with luggage fell into the water from the gangway, and Sea- man Frank Drury, of the Blarritz, at the risk of being crushed be tween the ship and quay, humped overboard and saved him. A few days later a similar accident oc- curred, and Seaman Alfred May and Steward Hand William Terry, of the Maid of Orleans, went over. the side and saved another part-

er".

Shortly after these rescues the

. The Anchor liner

Castalia (6,601 tons), which was due to sail for Bombay was placed in dry dock at Birkenhead for repairs after à remarkable mishap in the Manchester Su Canal.

The vessel was being towed to Liverpool when she was struck by a heavy squall in the canal and thrown against a jetty at the en- trance to Barton locks. The Caa talla's stem. was broken and sev eral plates were damaged on both sides of the bow.

SHIPBUILDERS,

SHIP, REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND

ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

ARRIVALS OF SHIPS,

Tong Ha.

illustrating England's part in the

During War were put into the mail-bage.

Wednesday, November 20. Shun Chili, Chinese str., 1,251 tons, Capt. T. Thorbjerusen, from Saigon, buoy No. B21-Chang Taigo Maru, Japanese str., 14,657

tons, Capt. Y. Tomioka, from letter addressed to "M..A. Robert the War, he said, it sometimes hap- These were heavy enough to sub- Shanghai, Kowloon Wharfson, Esq." (the Consul General) at pened that the King's Messenger merge the bags if necessary and, N.Y.K......

the Travellers' Club, Paris, which, carrying dispatches to Ambas if all went well, were distributed King's warehouse of the Customs Wing Wo, Portuguesa str., 405 being forwarded to the Foreign eadors abroad had to throw his to the Prese in foreign countries department is stocked with expen-

tone, Capt. I. D. de Lemos, Office, was included in the mall-mall-bag Into the sea when the for propaganda purposes. sive Paris dresses and lingerie from K. C. Wan, Salkrag which belonged to women smug- Wharf-Wo-Hop & Co. glers.

All goods which women attempt

to smuggle are confiscated. The

The owners are given the chance of buying these goods back. Otherwise the articles are sold through trade channels.

- Penalties for attempted smug- gling consist of fines up to three tirnes the original value goods, plus the duty which should have been paid, and forfeiture.

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Capt. S. O. Mitford, from Can- ton, buoy No. B30.—J.M. & Co. Clara Jobsen, Danish atr., 1,145 tona, Capt. J. Davidson, : from Hothow, Shum Shui Po.-

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Kwai Sang, British str., 1,435 tona, Capt. M. Costello, from Swa- tow, West Point Wharf.-J. M. & Co. Menostheus, British-atr., 4,818 tons, Capt. Dodd, from Singapore, Holt's Wharf.-B. & S.. Montor, British str., 4,772 tons, "Capt. Salter, from Singapore,

Holt's Wharf B. & S.. Nitto Maru, Japanese str., 1,278 tons, Capt. K. Masuda, from Canton, Yaumati,-0.8.K.; -; Rio de Janeiro Maru, Japanese str.. 5,848, tons, Capt. T. Ichikawa, from Kobe, Kowloon Wharf.

O.S.K, Ryujin Maru, Japanese str. 902 tona, Capt. Y. Makagawa, from Keelung Yaumat-M.B.K. Tchekam, Chinese str., 808 tons, Capt Lal Yée, from K CO Wan, CMSN, Wharf. Ping On & Op

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