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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1931.

THE CHINA

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FROM £TO TO £ì20 ON SALE:

SAN FRANCISCO in Shanghat. Japan Ports & Honolulu,

TATSUTA MARL

ASAMA MARU

Weingarty, Hith September. Wednesday, 30th September, SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

HIKAWA MARU ....

Tuesday,

6th October LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang.. Colombo, Suez.

TERUKUNI MARU

... Saturday,

... Saturday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

HAKUSAN MARE

ATSUTA MARU

KAMO -MARU

Saturday,

Saturday,

BOMBAY vin Singapore. Penang, & Colombo.

KAGA MARŲ

Friday. Monday,

17th September.

3rd October,

26th September. 24th October.

11th Septembe

14th September.

· AMERICA' (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

4 YAMAGATĄ MARU

SOUTH

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama.

BOKUYO MARU

Saturday,

NEW YORK. BOSTON via Panıma.

.TOBA MARU

Tuesday,

Sunday..

Tuesday, Tuestiny.

12th September.

29th September.

13th September.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said. Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.

+ LYONS MARU

CALCUTTA văn Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

+ CALCUTTA MARU

4. PENANG. MARU

SHANGHAI. KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

KAMO MARU (Nagasaki direct)... Friday. KATORI MARU

Saturday,

↑ TOKUSHIMA MARU (Kobe direct) Thursday,

+ Carvo only.

15th September. 29th September,

18th September. 19th September, 24th September.

Delay in Turning at

Jutland Battle.

Shipping

Intelligence

PASSENGER LIST.

ARRIVALS.

Per sa. Talping on September

8:-

WATER LEVELS.

Details for West, North

and East Rivers.

Sept Sept.

Ü

18.3 17.7

17.3

The death occurred recently of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Abraham, The following table, Issued by Rear-Admiral Wilfrid Allan' Eger- Mias D. Blakiston, Mrs. J. Christie the Kwangtung River Conservancy ton, son of the late Sir Reginald { and child, Miss W. M. Clegg, Mr. W. | Commission, shows in feet the Egerton. He died at his home at Coath, Captain A. W. Cook, Mr. and water levels on the 'West River, Heckfield, Hants, of septic polson-Mrs. R. A. Dyoti, Miss M. B. North River and East River оп

the dates named:— ing, at the age of 50.

Dyott, Miss E.. Finlay, Mr., A. 8. Educated at the Oratory School, Gubbay, Mrs. C. J. Hall, Mr. and Birmingham. he served as a Mrs. A. W. Ingram and 2 children.

West River at Shiuhing midshipman with Capt. Prothero's | Miss Ruth Ingram, Miss D. Lowrey, North River at Samshu! 16,2 Naval Brigade in the South Miss Mary Matson, Mr. and Mrs. North River at Tsingyuan 10,0 12.2 African compaign, being pre- R. Melish, Mr. T. P. Mangan, Miss East River at Sheklung 8.0 9.8 sent at Belmont,

The Graspan, H. W. Newton, Miss D. L. Nolloth.

highest levels recorded Modder River, Magersfontein, Miss D. Oliver, Mr. John Reed, Mr. are:-Shiuhing, 41 feet; Tsing- Paardeburg, and Driefontein. and Mrs. Sandmier and 3 children,yuen, 29.2 feet; Samshul, 27.3

Mr. J. B. Smith, Miss B. M. Tonkin, feet;. Sheklang, 11.5 feet.

The lowest levels Mr. M. Weill, Mr. S. T. WillamsOI),

on record are minus 5 feet at Samshuf and Miss D. Walters, Mra. Hilda T.

minus 27 feet at Sheklung, Young, Mr. Hunter H. Yule.

During the war he was comman- der of Triumph, which was destroy eu at the Dardanelles, and later he was flag commander in Barham to Vice-Admiral Sir Hugh Evan- Thomas,

the Fifth Battle Squadron, at the Battle of Jutland, and was commended for his ser- vices,

of

of

The movements the Fifth Battle Squadron gave rise to much controversy when the history of Jutland came to be written. On the afternoon of May 31 the light eruiser Galated saw แ steamer about eight miles off stopped and molested by two strange vessela, Germin torpedo-boats, and im- "Enemy in

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only 9,000 yards away auddenly | Admiral Sir Lewis Cinton-Baker turn about and steer eastward to in the East Indies. Fór four wards the enemy. The result of years until 1928 ho was in the Evan-Thomas's eight minutes' delay in turning, "was inexorably to keep him and, his tremendous guns, out of the action for the most critical and most fatal hsif-hour, and ejen thereafter to keep him at extreme range o

Plans Division of the Naval Staff, and then, in June, 1928, he was appointed to command Queen Eliza- beth as flag captain, t

Last year he was promoted rear- admiral, and appointed A.D.C. to the King. He was a C.M.G., and After the war Everton was Assia-held the Legion of Honour, the tant Director of the Naval Staff Order of the Sacred Treasure of College at Greenwich and later was Japan, and the Order of St. flag captain and Chief of Staff to Stanislas of Russia.

sight." This was at 2.20. All the British light cruisers drew to wards Galatea, and eight minutes later she opened fire.

The Calatea's message at 2.20 and the sound of her guns at 2.28," saya Mr. Winston Churchill in "The World Crisis," were sufficient for Admiral Beatty, in his flagship Lion; he realised that 聽 hostile enterprise WBS in progress and, having warned his consorts by signal of his intentions, turned about and set off in chase of the

German ships. All the battle cruisers followed Lion, and execut ed the Admiral's orders.

Ten Miles Behind The Van

"But the Fifth Battle Squadron,

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ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.

Monday, September 7. Bengal Maru, Japanese str., 3,231 fons, Capt. H. Kannanchi, Trom Sakito, Kowloon Wharf N.Y.K.

Corona, Norwegian str., 1,953 tons. Capt. O. M. Klette, from Chin- wangtao, buoy No. B26-Dod- well & Co. Daviken, Norwegian str., 1,778 tons, Capt. G. Svane, from Swatow, West Point Wharf.- J. M. & Cor Kingyuan, British str., 1,546 tons,

Capt. J. Taylor, from Hoihow,. buoy No. A15-B. & S. Kumsung, British str., 3,341 tons, Capt. J H. Ferguson, from Amoy, Kowloon Wharf.-J. M. & Co.

President Witson, American str., 8,319 tone, Capt. M. Ridley, from Shanghai, Kowloon Wurf.-Dollar S.S. Line. Talna, British str

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STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS.

The P. & D. 8.8. Cathay left Shanghai for this port on Septem- her 8 at 4 p.m., and is due here on September 11 at about 7 a.m.

The C.P.S. R.MS. Empress of Asin arrived at Yokohama on, Sep- tember 9 (Wed,) at 8 am leaves Yokohama

on September 10 (Thurs.) at 6 am, and is due at Hong Kong on September 17 (Thurs.), am, She leaves Hong Kong for Manila on September 17 (Thurs.) at 6 p.m.

The P. and O. s.8. Khyber, from Hong Kong arrived London on Sep- tember 7, 3 a.m.

The P. and O. s.8, Mantua left Singapore for this port on Septem- ber 6 at 7 a.m., with the outward English Mails, and is due here on September 10 at about neon.

The submarine Nautffus, which had caused some anxiety last week owing to long silence, but sub-

into sequently got

radio com- munication with a shors station, 6.154 tons, arrived at Longyear City, Spitz- Captain R. W. Hocking, from bergen, at 1 p.m. yesterday says Shanghai, buoy No." All-Reuter.

M. M. & Co...

Tuesday, September" 8"

four and a half miles astern," says Aagtekerk, Dutch str., 6,581 tons, HONG KONG TIDES.

Mr. Churchill, "continued to carry out the previous instructions, and for eight minutes steered in exact ly the opposite direction... as if oblivious of the vital change in the situation.

During these eight

minutes the Fifth Battle Squadron

Capt. Fries, from Shanghai, buoy No. A2.-J.CJL. Ardent, Norwegian str., 1,101 ions,

Captain H. A. Johnsen, from Bangkok, buoy No. B19.-K. Larsen & Co.

Chenan, British str. 1,355 tons,

Capt. Newton, from Canton. buoy No. B17-B. & S.

was losing touch with the battle- cruisers at the rate of over forty miles an hour. When eventually they turned at 2.40 they were al-Kiungchow, British atr., 1,545 tons, ready ten miles behind the van."

The controversy centred round the delay of the Fifth Battle Squadron in turning. It was con→ tended, on the one hand, that Rear- Admiral Evan-Thomas did not make out the signal Nags til 2.40; on the other hand, that he knew at

Capt. W. J. Larter, from Swa- tow, buoy No. B14,B. & S. Melwu Maru, Japanese str., 5,115

ton, Captain Mataurb, from Mike, buoy No. A13.-Y.K.K. Seistan, British str., 1,571 tons. Captain Alex. C. Inglia, from Holhow, buoy No. A14.Jeb- shan & Co.

2.20 that enemy, ships were in sight; Shun Lee, Chinese str., 949 tons,

that Barham, his flagship, received

at 2.39 by wireless the course about

to be steered by Lion, and that his dominant orders were to keep with- in five miles of that, vessel.

No one on Barham's bridge, says Mr. Churchill, "could

miss seeing all the six enormous British ahips

(Continued at foot of Columi 1.)

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the place miralty chart of

on the chart unless preceded by an Asterisk (*), when they should be subtracted from the depths.

DATE

September 9 to 15, 1931.

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