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P. & 0.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

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

TAKING CARGO· FOR ·

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

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.S."

Tony

From Hong Kong About

0,700 '. 8th *MIRZAPORE RAWALPINDI | 17,000 18th

Destination.

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp.

1931.

July

Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

**PERIM

7,700 25th July

July

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

1.

*KHYBER

*KIDDERPORE

9.000 6,300

*ISOMALI

! 6,800

CAJPUTANA

*IPADUA

*KARMALA

CATHAY *‡SOUDAN

+KALYAN

THE CHINA MAIL.

SILK SMUGGLING.

Cargo Coolies' Ruse Detected.

Cargo coolles with yards of silk. hidden around their walets and in their turbans were arrested by the police as they attempted to leave the B.I. steamer Morvada, in Colombo harbour, after they had broached case of silk, says The Times of Ceylon.

Acting on information bbtained that a case of silk in No. 3 hold of the Morvada had been opened the Harbour Police placed two con- stables, one aft and the other fore, of the ship, to keep a look-out for any cooling warking on board, who made an attempt to smuggle silk ashore.

One of the polkenien on duty saw a man come on deck about 1 a.m. and try to get away by means of a rope's end hanging over the ship's Bide. The policeman went up to on searching him found eight and a half yards of silk the coolie and hidden round his walst.

A little later another coolle made an attempt to get ashore from the other end of the ship, but on seeing

PROTECTING BRITISH COASTAL TRADE.

Advantages of Open Freight Market.

DEATH AT SEA.

Mental Patient's Leap Overboard.

A tragic incident occurred on board the British India Steamer Margha, which arrived in Colombo on June 18 when it was travelling

off Dondra.

Dr. Harrison, ¤ ̧ medical practi- tioner of Madras, who, owing to mental breakdown, was being con- eyed to London for treatment, committed suicide by throwing him- self overboard from the bridge deck.

Those people who have declared that British coastal shipping should be protected to the extent of keep ing out the foreigner, as we are kept out in the coasting trades of Ger- many, France and the U.S.A., may have forgotten how small.le the per- centage of foreign coastal shipping In 1913 the in our home waters. arrivals and departures of British coastal ships in home ports totalled

The steamer was about 80 miles 44,497, and the foreign figure was only 569, enys the Journal of Com-off Gaile when the officer on watch

heard a splash in the water. merce.

de In 1530 our total of arrivals and Immediately peared over the side of was $6,491, and the the ship, but it was so dark that he departures

He foreign total was 387, These could not discern any object. figures explode the bogey that the therefore gave the alarm of "man foreigner is getting all our coasting overboard."

The master of the Margha gave trade, while we can get none of his. In discussing the depression in our orders to turn the ship round, and a coastal shipping it is wist to bear life-boat was got in readiness to these facts in mind. If we shut rush to the assistance of the man the door on the foreigner coastal overboard. shipping would not suddenly regain On arriving at the spot where It should be remem-Dr. Harrison had fallem a life buoy bered that Canadian ahipbuilders was let down but the fare round it have proposed the reservation of the did not show any signs of the miss- For one hour and coastal. trade for Canadian ships ing doctor. only: India has been pressing for fifteen minutes the crew searched

prosperity.

any trace of the missing man.

a policeman on duty, he quickly the same sort of unreal monopoly in the area, but were unable to obtain turned away and went in the directa coasting trade, but it is by main- tion from which he first came.

The policeman'a suspicions were aruused and he, followed the man.

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This coolie was also searched and

yards of silk found on him. A third arrest was made at 6 a.m. when the coolies, who had been at work on the night shift were leaving the ship.

One of the coolies had

an extra

Dr. Harrison was travelling under the surpervision of an Indian doctor He told them and an attendant. that he was going out on deck for a breath of fresh air.

The death occurred at sea in the

taining the principle of an open freight market in our home waters that British commerce can take full advantage of our own seaboard, and get the most economical sea trans- port service. On the other hand, The Chief Officer told a reporter our coasting trade is in sore need that probably Dr. Harrison had on the ship's propellera, of encouragement, with better port fallen facilities and fairer taxation. which may have hacked his body to

We must not forget the opinion pieces. expressed by the Board of Trade be- fore the Royal Commission on Tran- outward mail steamer Orama, be- tween Port Said and Colombo, of sport, that "the existence of efficient and adequate coasting ship- Patrick Duncan, aged 69, a third- The three men were charged at ping service is of manifest import class passenger bound from London the Joint Police Court before Captance," and that the freest, and to Australia.. E. C. Stubbs, R.N., Master Atten- most flexible and most economical dant and Joint Police Court Magis-distribution of the materials of in- Ant-rate, and

sentenced

to three dustry and the means of maintain- months' rigorous Imprisonment ing Hfe is impossible without full each.

use of sea transport"round the coasts.·***

1st Aug. Baelles, L'don, R'dam & A'worp 5th Aug. 1 Straits, Colombo & Bombay. 8th Aug.) Macilles, Gib'tar, Havre, L'den, Hall,

Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant-

werp & Hull.

15th Aug.

17,000

6,000 22nd Aug: 9,000 20th Aug. 15,000 12th Sept.

6,900

30th Sept.

Rotterdam & Antwerp. 9,000 20th Bept. I Marseilles, London, Rotterdam,

werp & Hull,

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marsellles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

*Cargo only. †Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mall Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

*TAKADA

SIRDHANA

1031. 7.000 11th July 8,000) 26th

July

* Calls Fort Swettenham.

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

large turban on his head and on this being removed three yards of white silk were found wrapped round the

man's head.

TITANIC HEROES.

Memorial Unveiled at

Washington.

A memorial to the men who gave their lives in order that the women and children might be saved when went down on April 18, 1912, has been unveiled on the banks of the river Potomac at Washington.

BL Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st the liner Titanic and 2nd class passengers.

EASTERN-&-AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS_(South). Mr. Stimson, the United States

VELLORE TANDA NANKIN

1081

7,000 1st Aug. Manila, Rabaul. Brisbane, Sydney 7,000 31st Aug.

Melbourne. 2nd Oct. 7,000

Secretary of State,-presided at the unveiling ceremony, which was at tended by President and Mrs. Hoover.

The memorial was unveiled by ex-President William H. Taft,

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

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from Austraila with the following:-

The Union 5.9. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francjaco, etc.

The P. & O. Roys! Mall Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal,

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan, June to Sept.

*NELLORE *KIDDERPORE TILAWA RAJPUTANA ALIPORE

BANTHIA

KARMALA WANKIN

1981.

7,000 8th July Shanghal, Kobe, Moll & Yokohama.

Noon 5.300 6th July Shanghai, Moji & Kobe. 10,000 17th July Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, 17,000 17th July Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

22nd July Shanghai, Moji & Kobe, 5,800 8,000. 81st July Amoy, Majl. Kobe & Osaka. 3,000 81st July Shanghal, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. 7,000. 28th Aug. Shanghal, Kobe & Forenama.

Cargo only +Calls Nagoya,

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notics, Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans on Punks Louvre System free of charge.

Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries." Parcels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Com- pany's Office up to Noon on the day. previous to safling.“

For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to: MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD

on

Coastal and Foreign Trade.. What is the reason, that Dur constal trade does not take that share in transport to which it is fairly entitled? Foreign trade, as measured by entrances and, clear- ances, rose in the hundred years be. tween 1825 and 1926 from 5.8 mil. lion to 117.8 million net tons, but the coasting trade measured in the same way increased only from 24.9 million to 31.8 million net tons. In other words, it has been practically stationary.

Is the cause of this stagnation to be found in the British coastal trade

Duncan died of heart failure, a5- centutated, it is said, by the heat, and was buried at sea.

CONSIGNEES.

THE BLUE STAR LINE.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Steamer:

FREE* CELTIC ·ETAR” ·

From CONTINENTAL PORTS, CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf And Godown Campany, Ltd., at Kow. loon, whence au 1/or from the wharves

Optional Cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given 48 hours prior to vessel'e arrival, but. carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option

delivery may be obtained.

extends.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and ali, Goods remaining undelivered after ine 9th inst. will be subject to rent.

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 18th inst. or they will not be, recognised.

itself, or in the lack of modern facilities in many of the smaller "of what ports and the existence some people call "anhealthy" forms of competition-referring to road and rail transport? The Royal on the Commission, on Transport, Symbol of the Cross.

facts presented to It, reached the The memorial was erected by the one conclusion that the first step of America, more than to be taken to assist coastwise ship 20,000 of whom contributed to it ping is that of the improvement of It la.in the form of a draped the ports used by coasting vessels,"

All broken, chafed, and damaged figure of a man with outstretched and it is wiser, as it should be Goods are to be left in the Goddwns, arms, symbolic of the Cross.. more productive, to concentrate where they will be examined on the The White Star liner Titanic, upon this one aim rather than to 9th inst. at 10 am, by our surveyors, 46,328 tons, was the largest ship in bring up the bogey of foreign com- Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.

No Fire Insurance has been effect. the world at the time she was built. petition. Successful shipping has

eri! She gank on her maiden voyage from always been a free and international Bill of Lading will be countersigued Southampton to New York after business, and this maxim applies by striking an iceberg..

just as soundly to coastal shipping,

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Agents. More than 1,500 live were lost in as to the shipping of the Seven

Sean. the disaster.

Hong Kong, 3rd July, 1981.

THE HONGKONG &

WHAMPOA D DOCK CO., LTD., HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS: Telegrams: KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 28028

Telephones:

"MANIFESTO, HONG KONG.”.

A KOWLOON DOCK 58058, 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

Cart

Steel

*Harbour

MONDAY, JULY 6, 1931.

PRESIDENT

JINERS

SAN FRANCM.CO

NEXT SAILING: S.S. "PRESIDENT JACKSON" NEW YORK

4.00 A.M. TUESDAY, JULY 7.

WEEKLY TRANS - PACIFIC SERVICE

To San Francisco, Los Angeles To Seattle & Victoria.

& New York via Panama“..

The Sunshine Belt via The Short, Straight Route

Honolulu

to America Fortnightly sailings on Tuesday Fortnightly sailing on Sundays. Pres. Jackson".....July 7, 4 Prea. Cleveland...July 12,.7 Prea. McKinley ..July 21 Pres Taft

July 26 Pres, Grant

.Aug. 4 Pres. Jefferson 77...Aug. 19

X

`aim.

£79 £112 £120 Special through rates to Europe via

United States, Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.

ROUND TRIP FARE TO EUROPE. From Hong KUDE to Naples

+

Marseilles ..London

Full particulars upon application, EUROPE AND NEW YORK DIRECT

ROUND THE WORLD.

$162, 5.04. £181. 0,00. £169.15.04

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

1.M.

Pres. Gardeld....July 12, 8 Pres. Adams .....Aug. 9, 8 Pres. Polk ... July 26. 8 Pres. Harrison...Aug. 23, 8 TO MANILA Pres. Taft...July 18, 6 p.m.Pres. Lincoln ..Aug. 15, 6 p.m. Pres. Jefferson.Aug. 1, 6 p.m. Pres. Cleveland Aug. 29, p.m.

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TRANS-PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE

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NEXT SAILING

M.V. “TAL PING"

on JULY 17th.

for

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & BOSTON,

42 Days To New York.

For Passenger and Freight information please apply:

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Agents

Telephone 28021.

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DODWELL-CASTLE·LINE."

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Motor Vessel,

THURLAND CASTLE"

LLOYD TRIESTINO NAV. CO.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Steamer

"PILSNA

From TRIESTE, VENICE & PORTS.

Consignees of: Carge are hereby in-CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby formed that all Goods are being land-informed that all Goods

are being

ed at their risk Into the Godowns "of landed at their risk into the Godowns the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves de livery may be obtained

Optional Cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried on from port to pert to the final port of call, to which the option extends.

No daims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godrwn, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 6th July, will be subject to rent? - All clalma" against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 10th July or they will not be recognised

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns,

8th pidly at

of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Corapany, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will not be landed here, unless hotice has been given 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends to Buy by No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goodz remaining undelivered after the 8th July will be subject to rent.

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 16th July) o they will not: be recognised

All broken, z chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godearna, where they will be axia 6th July at 10 km by

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Boller

make

Second Edition

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*MINA. Kowloon Docky Hongkong