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FORNIGHTLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVKIE FOR
BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE
vla Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Saez & Purt Snid Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading
to Fiume, Genoa, All Wallan, Adriatic, Levant,
Black Rea and Danube Ports
Passengers to LONDON (Overland).
NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG
M.V. "COL DI LANA”
ESS. "CRACOVIA”
S.S. "MONCALIERI"
*S.S. "GANGE"
S.S. "CARIGNANO"{
8.S. "PILSNA”
NO":
For Shanghai
& Japan
May 5
May 4
May 27
June 1 June 30
For Singapore & Inly May 10 May 17 Junc 3 June 17 July 5 July 12
Passenger Steamers with First, Second and Second Econo- mical Classen.
† Outward voyage to Shanghai only.
Particular attention is enlled to the ss. Gange which will make the voyage Hong Kong/Italy in 24 daya and Hong Kong/London in 26 days.
For Freight and Passages apply to
Queen's Building.
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DODWELL & CO. LTD.
Agents.
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THE INDIAMEN.
WHEN SAILS CAME TO LONDON.
Perhaps the greatest service London ever did the British Em- pire was in the enterprise of her Merchant Volunteers, who laid the first foundations of oversens triominion in India, in the great flects they built for over two cen- turies, in the maritime supre- macy their ships so helped to establish, and the wealth they brought to us just when it was most sorely needed, writes Boyd Cable in the Evening News.
LARCA AMI MENY».
Intelligence.
fleet of warships, and after a MARINERS WARNED. fiercely contested engagement broke and drove it off in flight. The sorely battered Frenchmen concluded they had been fighting WRECK IN THE SOUTH CHANNEL
ENTRANCE. • a flect of battleships disguised as merchantmen.
The Indiamen made no attempt at fast passages everything be Notice is hereby given that 8.9. ing sacrified to safety and corn- Dahchong lies sunk in the South fort. Every evening, no matter, Channel Entrance to the Yangtsze how fine the weather, the royals, River in a position from which tuns'ls, and light kites were Woosung Lighthouse bears N. 85 tuken in for the night, and in deg. 10 min, W., distant 3.8 miles. any heavy weather sail was re- No part of the wreck is visible duced to a minimum and the ship above water, hove to so as to ride out the gale with the driest possible docks.
A green wreck-marking buoy, showing a green flashing light! A captain was allowed to call at every 3 seconda, thus:- any convenient point for fresh Light... 0.3 second, provisions, and every effort was Eclipse...... 2.7 seconds, The first founding of the East made to keep the cabin and has been moored about 1% cables India Company, and from it our fo'e'g't well fed. A regular farm-S. 88 deg. E. from the wreck. From Indian Empire, was due to a yard was carried-cows, pigs, the position of the buoy, Woogung
Sir happy chance.
Francis sheep, and poultry - and
bears one Lighthouse
N. 85 deg. Drake, in one of his audacious passenger, writing to his home, 05 min. W., distant 3.96 miles. cruises to singe the beard of the old how, on the eve of arrival in All bearings given are magnetic. King of Spain," led'n fleet of the Thomes after an eight Chart affected: Chinese Ad- four Queen's ships and thirty pro- months' voyage, the captain "kill-miralty Chart No. 1011. vided by the merchants of Loned a fatted calf for all on board."
don.
Besides such an exploit as foreing his way into Cadiz Har- boor against the forts and six warships, plundering and sinking, there over a hundred big ships, it might seem a small matter that.
When two Indiamen met at sun it was not unusual for them to heave to for hours, while boats passed to and fro, and officers and passengers exchanged visits and feasts.
:
KULUND THROUGE TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA USA, VARYIN; off the Azores, he captured plete colony of shipwrights and
FROM 983 TO 1199 ON SALE
SAN FRANDSEn via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu,
HEIAN MARU LONDON, MARSEILLES. ANTWERP. ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
Saturday,
Saturday,
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manik & Ports,
CHHCHAU MARU
TATSUTA. MARU
SEATTLE, VANCOUVER vin Shanghai & Japan Ports,
HIYE MARU
Tuesday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, 29th April. Wednesday, 13th May.
2nd June. 30th June.
TERUKUNI MARU
HAKUSAN SARU
2nd May. 16th May.
KAMU MAKU
Saturday,
KITANO MARU
Saturday,
25th April. 23rd May,
BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,
† TOTTORI MARU
† YAMAGATA MARU
Monday, Thursday.
27th April. 30th April
Honolulu,
Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama, RAKUYO MARU
Saturday,
-23rd May.
NEW YORK. BOSTON vin Panama.
† TSUYAMA MARU
Saturday,
2nd May.
Friday,
15th May.
CALCUTTA Vin Singapore. Penang & Rangoon.
+AKITA MARU
Wednesday,
4 NAGATO MARU
Friday.
SHANGHAI, KORE & YOKOHAMA,
† DAKAR MARU
KAGA MARU
Tuesday. Tuesday,
+ PENANG MARU (Moji direct).... Thursday,
KATORI MARU
Saturday,
20th April. 8th May.
28th April. 28th April. 30th April. 2nd May,
† Cargo only.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan.
· LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople). Genoa.
†TOYOOKA MARU
For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 30291.
0.
Private exchange to all departments
S. K
BAILINGS. PROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT- London Maru
Tues.,
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the
Blackwall, by 1800, was a com-
Spanish carrack
shipbuilders. homeward seafarer people bound from the East Indies. Butriggers, block- makers, copper- it was this last incident that had smiths, rope-makers, aud
families of seamten and officers, by far the greater results.
The Brunswick Basin, to the cast The carrack was found to carry not only a cargo of enormous
of the Blackwall yard, could take value but also complete papers 50 of the biggest ships, which the were to be seen lying there in showing how great was wealth of the Indies, all the tiers. methods of trading, the parts and the centres of trudic, and the like.
The Tiny Pioneer Fleet. Under charter of Queen Eliza. beth was incorporated, in 1600, "The Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading.. with the
Their East Indies." first venture was of six, ships, ranging from the 600-tonner of the Admiral, to one of 180 tons. The total of the six made about 1,000 tons, and this tiny feet carried nearly 500 people, ships in those days still being regarded largely as floating forts to carry guns and fighting men.
The first voyage was so profit able that the building yards of the Thames were at once set to work on new ships, and, although the next voyage was less success.. ful, the Globe in 1611 made 219 per cent. profit on the cost of her building and cargo, and in 1612 three ships earned profits of 340 per cent.
For the next two hundred years the fleets grew and poured into Britain pickings from the enormous wealth of the Indios and of China. Under the Com-
From morning to dark the shores resounded to the clatter of hammers and caulking mallets, and rarely a month passed with- out from ane to six stately ships of 700 to 1,500 tons burden being launched.
The ships were of enormous strength. Nothing but the best went into them oak, elm, teak. and mahogany, copper-fastened throughout. Their solid strength is indicated by the tale of the Kent, which caught fire in mid- ocean and burned for a night, a day, and part of a night before the flames reached the powder magazine, although for many hours all attempts to keep the fire under had been abandoned.
"In Funeral Order." She carried over six hundred
souls, sailors, soldiers, passen- ers, and wives and children; und all except one woman, twenty-five children, and fifty- four men, were saved by the heroic efforts of the sailors, and
the crews and boats of two small vessels which, by little short of a miracle, came to the burning wreck.
It is a tribute, too, to Indiamen pany's monopoly such goods as discipline that only one woman silks and spices brought fabulous perished and that nearly 1 the 26th May prices, the peppers and spices, children were got away,
especially in the earlier years, only to die from exposur being greatly sought as practical-cold and wet. The childr went ly the only means of preserving first, then the women, the sol foods in more palatable form
diers, and last, the officers - "in than pickling them in brine.
funeral order" of the youngest Fame and Riches.
first.
TERDAM & ANTWERP
via
Singapore.
Colombo.
Suez & Port Said.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS] Santos Maru .......
Mon..
27th Apr.
& BUENOS AIRES via.
Saige. Singapore, Colom
bo. Durham & Capetown.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Shanke Muru
Mon.,
4th May
Penang & Colombo,
DURBAN, LOURENCO Mexien Muru
Tucs,
5th May
MARQUES, BEIRA. DAR-
ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR
& MOMBASA vin Singa-
pore & Colombo,
MELBOURNE via
Manila Melbourne Maru....
Wed.,
Brisbane & Sydney.
Sat,
SEATTLE,
CALCUTTA via Singapore Seattle Maru
Belawan Deli & Rangoon
VICTORIA,
TACOMA & VANCOUVER
via Japan Ports.
NEW YORK via Japan porta,
at Boston,
JAPAN PORTS (Frolght Ser- Madras Maru
EASTERN PORTS.
DETAILS OF EPIDEMIC DISEASES.
The health bulletin of Eastern ports for the week ended April 18, issued by the Director of Medical and Sanitary gives the following cases
Plague.
Servicest
Bagdad: 5 cases, 2 deaths. Bombay: 4 cases, 4 deaths.
Typhus. Alexandria: 1 case.
Cholera, Calcutta: 82 cases, 51 deaths. Chittagong: 10 cases, 4 deaths. Madras: 1 case, 1 death. Pondicherry: 3 cases. Prom-Penh: 1 case. Saigon: 3 cases, 3 deaths.
Small-pox.
Bombay: 2 cCRBCE.
Calcutta: 60 cases, 42 deaths. Chittagong: 1 case. Cochin: 11 ensen. Karachi: 5 cases. Madras: 4 cases, I death. Moulmein: case, 1 death. Negapatam: 1 case. Rangoon: 2 cases. Pondicherry: 26 cases. Singapore: 1, death. Canton: 2 casca. Shanghai: 7 deaths. Greater Shanghai: 1 case.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever. Batavia: 1 case, 1 death. Shanghai: 9 deaths.
Greater Shanghai: 10 cases, 1 death.
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.
.ough
Thursday, April 23. o the Fong Lee, Chinese str., 1,259 tons, Capt. Y. Yamaji, from Amoy, buoy No. B18. Loong Tai Hong.
One seaman, seeing the boats take 40 to 50 minutes or each
By 1800 the East Indiamen were the attraction and envy of the finest seamen in the world, bringing under their flag as offi-rip through the raging cers the young sons of the high- est families, enlisting or training 6th May, the pick of sailors.
2nd May
May
Kinai Mara
Mon.,
1st June
Philadelphia & Baltimore.
Los Angeles & Panama. Call Direct
vice).
HAIPHONG via Hoihow & Menado Maru
Pakhoi (Fortnightly).
Sat.,
Thurs.,
KEELUNG via Swatow & Canton Maru
SUE.,
Amoy (3 m. every Sun-
day).
TAKAO vin Swatow & Amoy Deli Maru
Thurs.,
(Fortnightly).
For further particulars please apply to:-
OSAKA SHOSEN, KAISHA
Telephone 28061,
9th 20th Apr.
26th Apr.
21st May
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
JUMBLE SALE
accepted
MAY 5th, 2 P.M.
CITY HALL
CLOTHING & HOUSEHOLD GOODS gratefully CITY HALL any MONDAY - or HURSDAY, between 10.30 and 17:30-
is to
the last men left could never the rescue ships, and beneving
escape, took up a place seated over the powder magazine, say. ing that if he had to go, at least
The officers made fortunes out of the "indulgencies" granted he'd go quick. But at last he them. The captains and officers jumped up
angrily, shouting, had a certain amount of cargo "Well, if you won't blow up you space allotted them for transport old so-and-so-me if I don't leave of their private trade goods. The captain also had a percentage of you to it." He did--and escaped. Great Ships.. . Great Crews the total cargo carried, and took
Even after the magazine ex- the passage-money of the twenty ploded and blew the whole inside to thirty passengers each carried -rates being from about $100 of the ship into the air, the lower for a subaltern and 250 for a Part floated for hours, with the General to larger amounts for ribs cracking through the smoke, red glowing framework of her Governors and high officials, before she finally plunged under. their wives and families. One Great ships and great crews! way and another, a captain made Neither London nor any other £7,000 to £10,000 on each voyage port has ever sent. better to sea. of about 15 or 18 months.
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STEAMERS MOVEMENTS.
The men were equally well treated, not only in their pay, their food, which was the best possible, and plenty of rum, but in the pensions to which every man was entitled after eight
The E. & A. s.8. Nellore left years' service, and the liberal provision made for the wives and Moj for this port on April 24, familles of any man killed or in pm, and is due here on April 29 capacitated -und there were at about daylight.. plenty of these, since in the fre- quent wars between 1600 and 1800 there was no lack of brisk fighting,
But the Indiamen were built, manned, and armed more like warships than merchantmen, and could always give so good an ac-1 count of themselves that they made no mean item in the set supremacy built by the warships
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The Ben Line 8.A. Benrinnes from Middleabro', Antwerp, Lon- don and Straits left Singapore for. this port on April 29, and la due to arrive here on April 29.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE
Consignees of cargo ex 1.8.
of those days. French. Bennevis are reminded to take-de-
DA 'Brush' with the
In 1804 a convoy of about a livery of their goods which will be score of Indiaren met a French subject to rent after April 30.
Friday, April 24, Chian Lee, Chinese str., 1,850 tons, |
Capt. K. Jahti, from Canton, buoy No. A5.-Yee Tai Hong. Chichibu Maru, Japanese ma., 10,286 tone, Capt. Y. Araklda, from Los Angeles via Japan, Kowloon Wharf.-N.Y.K.
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1931.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC.
AN ADDED ATTRACTION EMPRESS OF JAPAN
&
EMPRESS OF CANADA
will call at Honolulu during May, June and July, making the voyage Hong Kong to Victoria
· and Vancouver in 18 days. Interchange arrangements have been made eumbling passengers to stop at Honolulu and proceed to either Victoria, Vancouver, San Francisco er Los Angeles.
Telephones
Passenger Freight
20752 20022
WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
SAILING DATES FOR APRIL, 1931 (Subject to change).
DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong kong 5.30 p.m.. Wuchow 2 p.m.
S.S. TAI MING"
[649 tons-Capt. W. H. Lawton.].
TUES. 28th
APRIL.
S.S. "TAI HING" [1,068 tons-Capt. Trott.)
THURS. 30th
APRIL. Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Stemmers Having Good Accommodation for First Class Passengers. Elvenie Light and Fans in Staterooms and Saloon. The as. Tai Hing" is fitted with Wireless. These vessels leave Hong Kong for Wuchow (via Samahui, Shiu- bing. Takhing & Dosing) and retura to Hong Kong (Vid same Porla) every five or six days.
Fares for round trip (not including mexist $20. Meals & Wines are to be obtained on board.
Hong Kong Arrivals and Departures from Tai Khz Wharf. For Informatiar apply tone was
29. Connaught Road, West. Phone 20393.
SANG WO
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
Co.,
Ltd.,
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but
our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic
spellings, such as harbor, plow, and oftho.)
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Captain J. H. Gregory, from Swatow, buoy No. A6.--Ho Thong & Ca.
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34 35 36
37
Hong Hwa, British str., 1,024 tons,
Hupeh, British atr.,' 1,206 tons,
Capt. W. Peplow, from Amoy,} buoy No. B14.-B. & S. Kamo Maru, Japanese str., 7,954 tons, Capt. T. Takechi, from Nagasaki, Kowloon Wharf.- N.Y.K. Lycemoon, British str., 1,734 tons,
Capt. E. Holmes, from Hofhow, buoy No. 24.-Kwong Nam & Co. President Lincoln, American str., 8,359 tons, Capt. M. M. Jensen, from Scattle, Washington, Kowloon Wharf.-A.M.L. Rajputana, British str., 16,600 tons, Capt. H. Morton Jack, from Shanghai, Kowloon Wharf.-M. M. & Co...
Tal Lee, Chinese str., 1,044 tons, Capt. B. Masaldi, from Dairen, buoy No. C4-Loong Tai Hong.
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