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TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1931.

P.&O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian

Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

BTRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.

(Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.8.

From

Tan 4 Eung Bong

About

Dard May May

Soun 30th

9,000 6th Jun 17,000 20th Jon: $4,800 th July July July

Destination.

Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg

Í"ALIPORE

COMORIN

*BURDWAN

5,304

15,000

1931. } 21 May Neon

*KASHMIR

RANPURA

KASHGAR

KAWALPINDI

17,000

*PERIM

7,700 261

*KRYBER

*SOMALI

PAJPUTANA

6,800

17,000 19th

1 Aug. Aug.

Aug.

The

*PADUA

KARMALA

CATHAY

*SOUDAN

↑KALYAN

Rotterdam & Antwerp. Mars, 'don, Hull, R'dam & A'wery, Bombay, Marseilles & London. M'seilles, L'don, Riiam & A'werp. Bombay. Marseilles & London. Marseilles

London.

COCKLESHELL

BOATS.

Strain of Waiting on Rum Row.

ALL ROMANCE GONE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

St. Pierre Et Miquelon. One of the real tragedies of the rum racket in the

eyes of the veterans of the North Atlantic fteet is that all the romance has gone out of the traffic to-day, leaving it entirely at the mercy of the cold, drab principles of "Big Business," writes C. J. Ketchum in the Daily Express.

The fact is, of course, that the notorious position formerly known as Rum Row, because of its concentration of drinking. Iroistering adventures in cpmmand of a solid fleet of rum runners twelve miles off the coast of New York, no longer exists.

If there is a Rum Row at all to-day it stretches from the Canadian Labrador in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south.

HONG KONG AND MACAO LINE in Good Speed

S.S. CHUEN CHOW

Daily Sailing from Hong Kong at 2.00 p.m.

Sailing from Macao at 7.50 a.m.

Sundays excepted.

Freight and Passage apply:-

CHUEN ON STEAM BOAT CO., LTD, 241, Des Voeux Road C.

Tel. 26061.

and at the end of the month if She is dragged into port, her there is a bonus coming his way master and crew imprisoned, it is also placed promptly to his and then freed on bail. Mean- credit.

while, friendly negotiations be That is all he cares about. Hetween the lawyers representing does not worry, even if he is not the operator and the "higher told the destination of his carge. ups" of the coastguard service He moves off and, supposing and the police have begun, some these are his instructions, ar-cold cash changes hands, legal ranges a rendezvous on the first technicalities are adduced to moonless night after the first show why the vessel should week in the month at a certain never have been arrested, and longitude and latitude with a within a week off she goes scot- sixty-footer off the coast of Long | free to Nova Scotia. Island, exchanges a torn section The average rum-runner carry- of a dollar bill or two as a marking a full cargo of liquor is worth of identification, and discharges about £30,000, and, according to 10,000 cases of good whisky to my well-authenticated informa the ship.

tion in Novia Scotia, the usual rake-off takes, in these "mis- taken seizure" transactions amounts to £5,000 or £6,000. This payment is well worth it to the operator rather than forfeit both ship and its valuable cargo.

The real ordeal of the skipper comes when the smaller auxiliary contact-boat fails to make proper connections.

The great number of these vessels, seized SO unceremon- iously one day and released with so little explanation the next. proves the efficiency and indeed the power of the big rings behind the whole racket.

The end of Rum Row, as it was originally known, actually came when America's hostility to the racket reached its zenith and Congress made its first definite attempt to sweep the rum ships from the sea. Millions of pounds were then allocated to the coast-

Sometimes many guard service, whole fleets of re- weeks, and even months, elapse venue cutters were laid as

he waits patiently twenty, down, and ex-war destroyers thirty, and sometimes as far as converted into fast moving auxi- sixty miles off the coast, in liaries to combat the traffic. touch with land by wireless but not knowing why his smaller vessel, engaged to transport the stuff ashore, has not turned up.

Unexpected Gunfire, It may even be that the con- Their capacity to pay up only tact-boat

never arrive. proves once more the enormous may Small cockleshell boats that they profits accumulated in the traffic. severe storms peculiar to are, they are often caught in the Such payments are simply drawn the from standing "defence funds" eastern American coasts and the in the coffers of the rum barons toll of lives taken in this man-

of New York and ner can

Chicago. never be reckoned. They amount to comparative Many, too, perish at the hands of little money when the annual unexpected guntire of the coast-balance sheet is brought forth in guards without a dog's chance to review.

wider

front. known

The campaign then had only a temporary effect on the rum-rum- ning business. suit at the time was

Its only real re- to disturb the complacent concentration. of: the wet navy and scatter its ships along the whole length of the among Atlantic mariners to-day loosely as Rum Row of the north.

Yet as time passed it brought with it a drastic transformation in the methods of the trade. drove the little man, with his slow-moving schooner and steam 19th Sept. Marseilles, London. Hull, Hamburg. vessel, from the traffic, and

จ

M'seilles, L'dan, R'dam & A'werp Marseilles, Landon, Hull, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp.

mbay. Marseilles & London.

6,000 22nd Aug. Marseilles, London, Hull, Hamburg

2015 Aux. 12th Sept.

f Rotterdam & Antwerp.

Marseilles & London,

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

!

9,000 115.000

9,000

26th Sept.

!

q

Marseilles & London

* Cargo only. † Calla Casablanca.

Rotterdam & Antwerp.

Calls Port Swettenhami,

Prequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Curgo Lo Con- stantinople, "Pirenas, Smyrna and other Levent Ports by aleamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship to

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1931. 10,000 30th May 8,000 16th June 23rd June

TILAWA SANTIA TALMA

! 10,000

I

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

It

awakened the more powerful operating syndicates, not only to a fresh realisation of their opper- tunities, but to the urgent neces sity of their giving their whole time to the business.

The result to-day is that rum running has become a systemis- ed industry. It is "Big Business" run strictly in accordance with the principles of big business. The old days when cargoes were disposed of for cash over the rail

and it was nothing for an enterprising skipper to accumu late £10,000 to £15,000 on a voy

communicate the fate that has befallen them.

These, then, are a few of the many risks run by the skipper of the average rum-runners to day. Every effort is made by his principal, both at the base in St. Pierre Et Miquelon, and in America, to ensure proper contact so that delivery will not be impeded. Private long-distance telephone lines run to-day into the very hotel suites of the operators in Nova Scotia and in the island in St. Pierre Et Miquelon. They are the medium of communication, both for in-

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st age have gone and gone probstructions to ships at sea and for

and 2nd class passengers,

ably for ever.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). hands at sea. Wireless and long-

TANDA BT. ALBANS NELLORE

1031

7,000 30th May 5,000 Brd July 7,000 1st Aug.

re-

No longer does money change

distance telephones have medied this necessity until to-day all negotiations are carried on by syndicate principals over the Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney heads of, and, as a rule, far out

Melbourne.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan und Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vla New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Servige of steamers to London via Suez.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

RANPURA

SANTHIA

TALMA

KASHGAR

ST. ALBANS *PERIM

TAKADA RAWALPINDI

*SOMALI

SIRDHANA KHYBER NELLORE

RAJPUTANA

TILAWA

SANTHIA

KARMALA

*NANKIN

1931. 17,000 22nd May Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

8,000 22nd May Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 4th June Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

9,000 6th June Shanghal, Moli. Krbe & Yokohama.

S'hai, Moji, Kobe. Osaka & Yhama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

Maji, Kobe & Osaka. a, Kobe & Yokohama, Kobe & Yokohama.

5,000 5th

המדיד

7,700

[ 7,000

Jane

10th June

18th June

[ 17,000

19th June

B 800

27th June

2,000

9,000

17,400

10,000 17,000

8,000

10,000 | 7,000 * Cargo only,

2nd July Amoy, Maji, Kobe & Osaka. 3rd July Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. 6th July S'hat, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Thama 16th July Amoy, Mojl, Koba & Osaka, 17th July Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 30th July Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 31st July Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

1st Aug. Shanghal, Kobe & Volohama,

All dates are approximate and rubject to alteration without notics.

• Passongers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.

All Cabins are fitted with Electria Fans on Punka Louvre System fréz of chargo.

Steamers on London and Australian Lines are Atted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Com- pany's Omes up to Noon on the day provious to sailing.

For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.

Agents.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON .FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slip- ways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.. Town Quice: 54, Connaught Road Central. Hong Kong. Tel. 20459. Shipyard: Bham-shal-po, Howloon, Hong Kong.. Kowloos Tel 57039. Estimates furnished on application

Hong Kong, Apell 1; 1924-

the arrangement, of fresh fin- ances whenever they are required in New York.

quired urgently for the re-equip If, for example, £5,000 is re- ment of a fresh vessel for hurried shipment to New York, the operator simply lifts the receiver, engages for a moment in an ap parently innocent conversation, then hangs up the receiver, hav ing arranged the immediate transmission of another small- sized fortune for a deal.

of the sight of, the navigators. Three and four years ago now known as the good old days -drunken orgies in the larger auxiliaries and in most of the mother ships were a common- place. These vessels were rarely

The main task of the principal at men without a bevy of bright

to young women on board, and life in America is, of course, while lying for long periods wait-Astonishing stories are told me "square" the coastguard service. ing for the smaller boats to come alongside for their supplies was one long glorious carousal,

here of how the system of “pro- tection" works, one skipper de- scribing to me in intimate detail how a revenue cutter, seventeen miles out at sea, actually trans ferred his whole cargo to a light- er craft.

Orders Obeyed. But things, as I have said, have changed. Every ship movement in the racket to-day is made strictly on schedule time. Skip-

Another task for which they pers who sign on with their operators at St. Pierre do so with must always remain prepared is the undertaking that they will to straighten out the difficulties obey their orders to the letter. of their vessels, which are so fre- They set sail on the tick of the quently arrested nowadays many hour. They must go where they miles outside the twelve-mile are sent and never question the limit, and brought in by Revenue wisdom of their instructions. cutters on a pretext. They do not loiter or lose time. They render full and complete re ports and a strict accounting of their cargo.

Corrupt Officials. For it is well known that the majority of these improper seizures provided one of the prin cipal sources of graft to those corrupt officials of the American coastguard service who are will- ing to he bribed.

There are times when the master to-day does not even know his boss. He receives his orders from a middleman acting for his operator and, under the The procedure is simple enough. terms of his contract, simply The vessel, perhaps twenty miles carries out his instructions. His off the coast, plying her peaceful salary is banked for him in Half-way on the high seas, is sudden- fax, Lunenburg, or Yarmouth,ly apprehended on "suspicion."

TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

TO AUSTRALIA. Calling at Manila' (P. Is.), Thursday Is. Cairns, Townavilla, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne,

BRITISH STEAMERS: CHANGTE - TAIPING (NEA)

FASTEST and WOST UP-TO-DATI STEAMERS IN THE SERVICE. “ELECTRIC LAUNDRY, BARBER SHOP, SUROBON 124 STEWARDESS CARRIED, Enjoy Your Short Lease in Antralia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Sydney +19 Days.

FIRST CLASS FARE TO SYDNEY. #76 RETURNE

... LONDON (via Australia) from £136.15.0. (Austrálias Kiewspapers on fle)

STEAMER

"TALING'

TAIPINO

GILANITA - CHANGT

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Juna 19

Lars Hong Kong.

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May 25

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Aug. 18

June 2 July 20 Aur.

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Bapt. 4-

LIMITED

AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL LINE,

CHUTTERSTELD & BWIRK, Agms/YŽONG KONG--SHANGHAI

Yes, save for the roar of the coastguard guns to-day and the heavy toll of the sea, all the romance

has gone from Rum Row.

"Big business" has taken its place.

Yet, even now, here in these bleak, northern waters, any one. endowed with the slightest imagination cannot fail to com- pare these hardy old Canadian skippers who actually bear the brunt of the racket, with their seafaring ancestors of 1812-14, when their black-hulled, swift- the wind" and, in the King's aniling privateers "whistled up

name, preyed on the commerce of a United States then in its in- fancy.

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

The following British worships were in harbour to-day:-

Bruce-In dock. Hermes-No. 1 buoy. Odin-In dock. Otua-In dock,

Proteus-North arm. Sandwich-No. 7 busy. Sirdar-West wall dock. Somme--No. 18 buoy. Sterling-North arm.

Tarantula-East wall. Tamar Basin.

Foreign Men-of-War. Argus-French gunboat. Beaver-American gunboat; and

submarines.

5

PRESIDENT LINERS

DIRECT SAILINGS

TO

NEW YORK

VIA PANAMA.

WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

To San Francisco, Los Angeles | To Seattle & Victoria.

& New York via Panam

The Sunshine Bell via Honolulu

Fortnightly sailinga on Tuesdays Pres. Pierce May 26, 6 am Pres. Wilson..... ..June 9 Pres. Johnson

June 23

The Short, Straight Route to America

Fortnightly sailings on Sundays.

Pres. Taft Pres. Jefferson

Pros. Lincoln

May 31

.June 14 June 28

£120, £112 Special trough rates to Europe vin Unit-

ed States, Direct connections with all AL- lantic lines. Chelee of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight- vecing.

ROUND TRIP FARE TO EUROPE. From Hong Kong to Naples

.. Marseilles London

Full particulars upon application. EUROPE AND NEW YORK DIRECT ROUND THE WORLD.

£152. 5.04.

£161, 0.04. £169.15.04.

Fortnightly sailing on Sundays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Gença, Marseilles, New York and Boston.

G.nt.

4.1. [ Pres. Fillmore ....May 31, 8 Pres. Van Buren..June 28, 8 Pres. Monrad...........June 14, 8 | Pres. Garfield ........July 12, 8 TO MANILA

Pres. Pierce...May 19, 4 p.m.¡ Pres. Jackson ..June 2, 4p.m. Pres. Madison May 23, 4 p.m. Pres. Jefferson June 6, 4 p.m.

CANTON BRANCH:-4, SHIA KEE STREET,

LINES

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP AMERICAN MAIL LINE

BARBER

YURI

LAVE

PANAMA

EXPRESS

SERVICE

BARBER WILHELMSEN

LINE

THE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE TO NEW YORK

and other US. Atlantic Ports via Panama.

All vessels call at SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES en route.

Passengers desiring to travel by this interesting route will find the accommodation provided well up to their expectations, and at a cost most reasonable.

42 Days To New York.

For Passenger and Freight information please apply:-

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's Buildings,

Aroats.

Telephone 26021.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD., HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS:

KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 23011.

Telephones:

KOWLOON DOCK 58053,

Telegrams: "MANIFESTO, HONG KONG."

DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS,

FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.

On Lloyds

list of

approved

Cast

Btwel

Manufac

ture

T.S.S. "EMPRESS OF JAPAN"

Harbour

Call Flags

Engineer

Boiler- maker

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Shipwright

In No. 1 Dock. Dimensions:-666′0′′ O.Ą. x 93′6′′ x 48'6" Mid, 26,000 tons Gross.

The Company possesses Six Granite Docks and Two Patent Slipways. The dimensions of No. 1 Dock are 700'0' x 98′0′′ x 30′0′′! over sill, H. W. O.S. T. Salvage Tug "Henry Keswick.” 2,000 LH.P. Wireless Call Signal V.P.B.T. and Flag Call Signal T.H.Q.B. Sheeries capable of lifting 80 tons.

Codes, Used: AL, AB.C. Fifth Editions Engineering, First and second Edition. Western Union. Bentley and Watkins.

Kindly send enquiries to the Chief Manager,

R. M. DYER, B.Sc., M.IN.A., Kowloon Docks, Hongkong.