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P.&O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

TUMULTUOUS

WELCOME.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Empress of Britain in Her £2,000,000 Dock.

Quebec, June 2.

Never did a vessel have such a reception at this historic port of Quebec as the giant white wonder ship, Empress of Britain received last night-nover, at least, since one of her predecessors came bringing the Prince of Wales.

We steamed slowly up river to wards one of the most magnificently alted cities of the Empire. Crow

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).ng the high-bluff citadel, Quebec

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS,, 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.

Tons

From Hong Kong About

Destination.

1931. *MIRZAPORE 0,700 9th July | Straits, Colombo & Dombay.

Daylight RAWALPINDI 17,000 18th July Bombay, Marseilles & London. *‡PERIM

7,700 25th July Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg.

Rotterdam_&_Antwerp. 1st Aug. M'seilles. L'dón, R'dam & Alwerp 5th Aug. Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

9,000

*KIDDERPORE 6,300 6,800

8th Aug. 17,000 15th Aug.

·6,000 22nd Aug. 8,000 29th Aug.

+KHYBER

*ISOMALI

RAJPUTANA *IPADUA

KARMALA

CATHAY **SOUDAN

KALYAN

15,000 12th Sept. 0,800 19th: Sept.

9,000

26th Sept.

M'scilles, Gib'tar, Havre, Lien, Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp. Bombay, Marseller & London. Marselles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam & Antwerp.

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

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

werp & Hull.

dominutes the long reach of St. Lawrence, and the quaint buildings of this old French city cover the steep slopes leading to the river side below..

Ail the afternoon aeroplanes had bean circling overhead or roaring past level with the Empress of Bri- tain's decks. The green wooded banks of this lovely river were thronged with peasant farmers and their immense familles. Every vee- sel we met sounded her siren and dipped her ensign in salute.

GOOD-BYE TO THE SEA PORTHOS COLLISION.

AFTER 46 YEARS.

A Talk with Sir Arthur Rostron of the Cunard

A VERY BUSY LEISURE,

1

Pilot of French Steamer

Gives Evidence. ··

The first hearing of the Kikusui Maru-Porthos colllon case. was held in the Osaka Marine Court on the 2nd instant, Judge. Ishida pre- Captain Sir Arthur Rostron, Commodore of the Cuvard Line, has siding. The disaster in which the retired. He told

was sunk, with himself Japanese steamer

passengers, 00- when I talked to him at his house the loss of many

curred in the Akashi Straits on on the hill that overlooks South-

about 7 p.m. in a ampton, writes an Evening News February 9 at

severe snow storm. ! correspondent.

me so

"Really retired," "he said. "Not about to retire or thinking of retiring, but has retired. I re- tired-after 46 years at sea and 36

The oca has been his life.

as fourth officer in

Mr. Mori Denhich; the pilot of the Porthos at the time of the ac eldent, was next examined.

Mr. Tojima Kanichi, first en-! gineer of the ill-fated Kikusui Maru, was first to be examined. His examination lasted two hours, description of the circumstances in years with the Cunard Company, during which he gave a minute

After nine years in sailing ships which the disaster occurred." he joined the Cunard Line in 1895, the Umbria. Promation followed quickly: he

Their testimony did not tally in commanded the Brescia and the

When the Titanic many respects, and they were sub- Carpathiu, foundered off Newfoundland after jected to further examination when iceberg it was Sir the Court resumed the hearing in Arthur who picked up the wireless the afternoon. For reference, the message of distress and rushed to depositions of two passengers of the Kikusui Marü, Horikawa Seitaro, the rescue.

and Ikawa Kahel, were read.

Counsel then asked several ques tiona.

striking an

i

He saved more than 700 passen- gere.

It is these hazards of the sea that to-day-the first day of his retirement were exercising his mind.

Massed Spectators. Meanwhile, Lord Rothermere, Mr. W. D. Herridge, the new Canadian representative at Washington, and other distinguished passengers were giving short broadcast talks to the whole Dominion and the United "My retirement," he said to me be devoted to two States by the ship's wireless tele- "is, going to phone system.

objects. The first is the improve- As we approached Quebec wement of my profession. I want to gradually accumulated a whole fleet help all seafarers.

The hearing was resumed the when Procurator following day, Taminaga addressed the Court. After describing the movements of both steamers after their departure from Kobe, he said that the ships, which were sailing in the same direction at a disparity of four an hour in speed, came miles

of escorting excureion steamers, "There is in Southampton a local tug-hoata, speed-boats, and motor-Club-The Master Mariners' Club gradually nearer to each other and craft of all kinds, their decks and I am going to put in a good deal at 7.13 p.m. about 400 yards separ- crowded with cheering people and of time working for it. We want ated them off Hiraiso. The Porthosi maintaining a constant blare of to get rid of all the difficulties and attempted to outsall the Kikusui sirens which was taken up by ves- the dangers that we sailors know Mary on the latter's port side, but failing in this attempt changed her. eels lying in Quebec Harbour, in still exist in our profession.

course to the right. Just at that honour of the largest ship that has

time, the Kikusui Maru turned her course to the left, resulting in a collision. The

leven come up the St. Lawrence.

Porthos failed to

"Ships are getting bigger and more expensive and more difficult to After a day of perfect Spring navigate. We want to do every weither the sun set in a blaze of thing to improve harbours, buoys, vivid crimson behind Quebec, throw-lights, lighthouses and every other act as she was required to act under Articles 24 and 27 of the Naviga- Marseilles, London. Rotterdam, Anting her high towers and the gun-nid to navigation."

tion Law when she was very, close werp & Hull.

studded bastions of the old fortress I recalled the Titanic disaster.

was unto the ship which she, intended to "The Titanic tragedy into black relief.

doubtedly the event of my life," said outsail, while the Kikusui Maru'also: Sir Arthur, slowly. "One can for- made a mistake in going ahead without regard to the bearings of get an event like that

the two ships on each other when she was in a perilous position.. On this ground, the Procurator asked the Court to suspend Mr. Morl Denkichi, the pilot of the Porthos, for a year as captain or as pilot, and. to suspend Mr. Tojima Kanichi, the

first for the same period a8 first engineer of the Kikushi Maru

⚫ Carge only. Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti.

§ Calls. Karachi & Port Swettenham.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Can- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Parts by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

"TAKADA

*SIRDHANA

1 1031,

July 7,000 12th

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8 p.m. 8,000 27th July Singapore, Penang & Calcutta..

Calls Port Swattenham.-

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Then a chain of electric lights sprang out along the famous Dufferin Terrace, and we saw its whole length was thickly massed with spectators.

"The other thing I want to do now," he went on, s, to try to im- On every skyline more figures prove our relations with America."

silhouetted against the twilight sky, and shrill cheers rang out constantly across the water.

were

A Word For America. Sir Arthur, of course, knows hundreds of Americaus; he has re- ceived the freedom of New York, and was awarded the coveted U.S. Congress Gold Medal

Like A Ghost Ship The ship's Hoodlights, illuminat- ing her funnels and upper-decke,

'I want Britain to realise the engineer. had been turned on, and her search real position in America," he said, light constantly swept the shore, 85"and all the difficulties the Amer- that she looked like a gigantic white ghost vessel.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st successors. and 2nd class passengers.

icans have to face...

Really, in England we scarcely realise what America has done or what America atands for.

COOLIES RESTLESS.

Rumours Without Real Foundation.

Rumours of a disturbance caused

We rounded the Citadel and went on to the new £2,000,000 dock that has been built for this ship and her

"Millions of people have arrived Here another huge in America in the past who have crawd was waiting, and cars were actually had to be taught to speak by Chinese coolies at Port Swetten- parked thickly on a belt of reclaim- English! America has had difficul- ham, current in Kuala Lumpur dur-. ed "foreshore that had been bullt ties that Europe never imagined. ing the week-end, are without real foundation, says the Malay Mall, which adds:

EASTERN & AUSTRÁLIAN SAILINGS (South). along the edge of Wolfe's Cove, "America is not looking to Bri-

NELLORE TANDA NANKIN

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7,000 1st Ang. 7,000 31st Aug. 7,000 2nd Oct.

THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931,

ACROSS THE PACIFIC

IN

16

DAYS

From Hongkong To Seattle In 16 Days

The American Mall Line Fleet offers the fastest time aross the Pacific.

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where he landed his troops to captain for help, but she would like ture Quebec in 1759. The heights some encouragement. I don't be What actually happened is of Abraham, which they scaled by lieve in the prevalent cynicism follows: About 2,000 coolies had I believe that been taken to Port Swettenham for Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney a secret path, have been plerced by about America.

a special railway tunnel at a cost America is making progress all repatriation, and were expected to & Melbourre.

of £200,000 to link the Empress of along the line.

leave the port on a Triday. The Britain's new quay with the rail-1 "Apart from these two things, steamer was delayed at Penang, way lie for New York,

there is plenty for me to do. There however, and did not arrive until is the garden .... and things about the night of the day in question. the house... no idleness for me!"

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai, and Japan Captain Latta brought his 42,500-

and Hong Kong to Australia.

ton' ship alongside the new dock

A section of the men became without the least perceptible bump,

restless, and complained of, hunger, though it was "a starboard land-

eventually raiding a food stall on 135,000 who have not already seen the wharf. The situation never got highest test of skill in handling a their city's new pride, for, as one out of hand, and the only damage

me inhabitant said to big vessel.

to-night, done was that to the stall. No one

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

And so, through a densely puck, There's never been auch a fuss was injured.

The steamer left early on the The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and ed, excited mob, we landed. There made about any ship since Noah's London via Panama Cansi,

can be few of Quebec's population of Ark."

following morning.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent 'connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union SS. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Newing," which sailors regard as the Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, utę, į

The P. & 0. Royal Mall Steamers to London and

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

1981,

T

10,000 17th July Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, RAJPUTANA 17,000 17th July | Shanghai, Koba & Yokohama,

5,300 22nd July Shanghai, Moji & Kobo.: 8,000 81st July Amoy, Maji, Kobe & Osaka.

TILAWA

•ALPORE

SANTHIA

KARMALA

*NANKIN

9,000 81st July

Shanghal, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. 7,000 28th Aug. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

Cargo only. Calls Nagoya,

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

All Cabins ara, fitted with Electric Fane on Punks Louvre System free of charge.

Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more. than 3 cu. ft. will be recalved; at the Com pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD., HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS: Telegrams: KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 28810.

Telephones:

KOWLOON DOCH 58058.

"MANIFESTO, HONG KONG."'

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

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CONSIGNEES

"CELTIC STAR" From CONTINENTAL PORTS.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP LONDON AND STRAITS.

'BENALDER ***

lunded at their risk Into the Godowns The Steamship, of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart and Godowa Company, Ltd., at Kow.. toon, whence and/or from the wharves formed that all goods are being land- Consignees of cargo are hereby in- delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will not be landed their risk into the hazardous bere, unless notice has been given 48 and/or, extra hazardous Godown of hours prior to vessel's arrival, but The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and sarried on from port to port to the Godown Co., Ltd, whence.and/or from final port of call to which the option the wharves delivery may be obtained. - No claims will be admitted after the extenda.

foods have left the Godowns, and Good remaining undelivered after the 15th July, 1931, will be subject to rent,

No, elajme wil be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and at Goods remaining undelivered after the 9th inst. will be subject to rent

All claims against the Texel: must

All claims against the steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 10th that or they will not before the 29th July, 1931, or ther be recognised hated and damage will not be recognised. *Lll broken,chated,

All broken chated, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, Goods are to be left in the Godowns," where they will be examined on the where they will be examined on the 9th:inst, at 10 n.m. by our/surveyors, | 14th July, 1981, at 10 am- by Messṛa. Heers. Goddard & Douglas, por Goddard & Donglang nakakas

Insurance has been affect---: No Fire Insurance has been affect-

B01 of Lading wil be countersighed *Bilis of Lading: will be countersigne

GIBB, LIVINGETON & CO, LTD.

Hong Kong, 8th

DODWELL & CO. LTD.

Docks, Hongkong

Hong Kong Brd July, 1991.

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