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THE

P. & 0.-British India THRILLING DAYS AT High on and

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, 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.

(Undect with H.M. Government.)

8.8.

*KIDDERPORE

RAJPUTANA

/

From

Tons Hong Kong

About

1931. 6,300 iat Dec. 17,000 5th Dec. 15,000 19th Doc.

0,800

20th Dec.

+CORFU

*180MALI

RAWALPINDI

17,000

*KARMALA

1932. 2nd 1,000 16th

CHITRAL

KASHMIR NALDERA **SOUDAN

Destination.

Straite, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles & London. Marsailles & London.

Maresciller, Havre, Londen, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull

Jan. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Jan. M'seilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. 15,000 30th Jan. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

0,000 13th Feb. M'sailles, L'don, B'dam & A'worp. 16,000 27th

Marseilles & London. Fob Bombay Ludon, Havre, Hamburg, 0,600 5th

Mert Awerp & Hull.

15,000 12th Mar.

CARTHAGE

Marseilles & London. RAJPUTANA 17,000 24th Mar. Marseilles & London, CORFU

15,000 Oth Apr. Marneilles & London. RAWALPINDI 17,000 23rd Apr. Bombay, Marseilles & London, RANPURA

17,000 7th May Bombay, Marseilles & London. OHITRAL

15,000 21at May Bombay, Marseilles & London.

*Cargo only.

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

TAKADA

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

SIRDHANA TILAWA

1931

7,000 1st Dec.

3 p.m.. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta 8,000 16th Dec. 10,000 24th Doc.

B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 181 and 2nd class passengers.

SEA.

Memories of Sixty

Years Ago.

ADVENTURES WITH CANNIBALS.

CHINA

end. He and his bro- thers, Joseph and Samuel, each commanded racing clippers In the ocean tea races.

In 1867 his brother Joseph won the race in the Taiping in record time, and the then Prince of Wales, in recognition of their performances in the races, invit- ed them to dinner at the Fish- mongers' Hall.

A Robinson Crusoe. 'Once, while becalmed among Captain John Dowdy, of the Solomon Islands, Captain Hunstanton, Norfolk, the last Dowdy had a strange experience. of the skippers who commanded A boat put off to his ship from the old windjammers engaged one of the islands. He was hall- in the great tea races of 60 years ed in English, and what appear- ago, was 85 on September 17-ed to be a native came on board, and he is still hale and hearty. The man explained that he He is the oldest member of was an Englishman who years, the Shipwrecked Mariners ago was shipwrecked and thrown At first tho Society, and he has congratula- up on an island. tory letters from King Edward hatives were going to kill him, but the daughter of one of the and the present King.

headmen pleaded for his life.

His career has been remark- Jable and full of adventure. 1.

Running away to sen at the age of 13, he commanded every form of sailing vessel, and finish- ed as captain of a Union Castle liner.

As you would expect, he has been in many dangerous plights. On one occasion, when in the barque General Havelock, the decks were swept clean by a typhoon in the China Sea. Tim- bers were crashed in by storms und the vessels could only be kept afloat by the crew pumping night and day.

He subsequently married her and had been elected king of the island.

Captain Dodwy invited him to return to England, but the man glanced back at the island and think "All my relatives said: me dead. I have four children and these people lose me. No. I will stay with them,"

Diplomats in Distress, Another incident in his life was when three important for eign diplomats, wearing high hats, found themselves water at Capetown.

in the

They had remained

on the quay to talk after being request- ed to come on board and so Cap-

Alone to Get Help. The bravest deed of his life was when he was first officer in the Seagull, 68 years ago, whentain Dowdy sailed without them. she was wrecked on a reef in the Indian Ocean.

The crew made for an island, but starvation threatened the whole ship's company, and Mr. Dowdy, a young

then, volunteered to try to reach Point de Gulic, Ceylon, 460 miles away, in an open boat.

man

He made the journey, in spite of bad weather, in four days, and securing a small steamer, re- turned and rescued his ship- mates, who by that time were in Ja'bad way.

Later he narrowly escaped capture by cannibals when the Ada, which he was commanding, Iran on a reel in the Indian Ocean

and stuck hard and fast.

Sixteen bopts, loaded with hostile savages, set out from an island to the stranded vessel.

They tried to jump on the ship and missed.

When asked for an explana- tion Captain Dowdy replied: "You said the mails were not to bo delayed on any account, and my ship does not wait for de bates to end."

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE.

The new G$8,000,000 Dollar Liner, 6.8. President Coolidge" will arrive in Hong Kong on the afternoon of Sunday, November, 29, and will Bail for Manila on Monday, November 30, at 6 p.m., one day ahead of printed schedule.

The local office of the Dollar Line advise that this advance is made to They were about to lamber permit the President Coolidge to lover the side, and Captain Dowdy connect at Manila with the Dollar was ready to shoot, when happi-Line Around the World steamer 6.8. ly the vessel swung off the reef and was able to steam away.

Pirates and Smugglers. Comparing seafaring life of over 70 years ago, Captain Dowdy said that, although piracy was almost stamped out in those occasional

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), days, there were

TANDA

7,000

1981 2nd Dec.

NANKIN NELLORE

p.m. 1932 7,000 2nd Jan. 7,000 30th Jas.

Manila, Rabani, Brisbane, Sydney

& Melbourne.

савев.

Smuggling still existed, and he remembers it being carried on around the Norfolk coast.

An able seaman was paid £2 108. a month when Captain Dowdy was at sea. The work was hard and dangerous and the food was very poor. Men were a fort-

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan often wet through for

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Bydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union 3.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom' via.. New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

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

The P. & O. Branch Service of ateamers to London via Baes.

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

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

President Adams for New York vin Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples and Marseilles,

MAIL.

CLAREMONT

PRIVATE HOTEL. Austin Road. Kowloon. (Facing the Kowloon Cricket Club. Four minutes from ferry by bus.)

Baltes of rooms (single and double), hot and cold water system, all modern sanitation, private bathrooms attached.

EXCLUSIVE TABLE entirely under European management.

Hotel has a splendid aspect in one of the flueat locations in Kowloon, away from noise, yet easily accessible.

Terms very moderate. ResCITE= tion by lottar or cable.

CLAREMONT

Tels.: 57880 & 57885 (Private). Telegraphic Add: "Fern" HE Our motto is "SERVICE.”

Maurice CHEVALIER

- The Smiling Lieutenant"

a Paramount Picture

[COMING KING'S

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRAUS and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done to this establishment in Euaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slip- ways and can sccommodate any craft of 200 feet long. Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong. Shipyard: Sham-shui-po. Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Estimates. furnished on application. Hong Kong. Apríl 1, 1924.

Tel: 20459. Kowloon Tel 57009,

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD., HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS: Telegrams: KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 28020.

Telephonen!

KOWLOON DOCK 88053.

"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.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1931..

"S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

will arrive HONG KONG on

SUNDAY AFTERNOON

NOVEMBER 29

and will sail for

MANILA

at

6.00 p.m.

MONDAY - NOVEMBER

30

to connect at Manila with 8.8. "President Adams" for NEW YORK via Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa and Marseilles.

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE

YUELGI

PALIKA

LAE

EXPRESS

SERVICE

BARBER WILHELMSEN

LINE

THE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE TO NEW YORK and other U.S. 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.

Telephone 28021.

Agents

BANTHIA KARMALA

0931

*KHYBER

TILAWA

RAWALPINDI

9,000 10,000 17,000

20th

Nov. Shanghai & Kobo.

4th Dac. Amoy, Mofi, Kobe & Osaka.

On Lloyds

4th

Doc. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

NANKIN

*MIRZAPORE

Dec. S'hal, Moji, Kobe, O-aka & Y'hams. Dec. Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.

list of

approved

Cast

Mo

Steel

Manufac

turers,

CHITRAL TALMA NELLORE KALYAN TAKADA KASHMIR *SOUDAN NALDERA TANDA CARTHAGE RAJPUTANA

7,000 7th 8,700 7th 8,000 18th Doc. Amoy, Mofl, Kobe & Osaka 9,000 18th Dec. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama.

1932. 15,000 1st Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 3rd Jan. Amoy, Moji, Kobs & Grak.

7,000 4th Jan: S'hai, Moll, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama. 9,000 Oth Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 2,000 15th

Kobe & Osaks. 1,000 16th 0,800 26th

Jan. Shangha), Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 29th Jan. Shanghai, Koba & Yokohama.

7,000

511

Feb. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 16,000 12th Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Feb. Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama,

17,000 27th

* Cargo only.

Jan. Shanghal, Hoji, Kobe & Yokohama.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. All Cabins are fitted with. Electric Fans or Punka, Louvre System. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels faasuring not more than 5 ex. It. will be received, at the Com- pany's Qfice up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

For further inforination, Passage, 'Freight, Handbooks, etc, apply to:--

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. "P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.

Agenia.

T.S.S.

EMPRESS OF - JAPAN.”

Harbour

Call Flags

Enginom

"K."

Boller.

maker

wg."

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

SAILING DATES FOR NOV. 1931 (Subject to Change). DEPARTURE. HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wachow. 3, p.m.

Shipwright

Steamer.

Leaves

Hong Kong

TAIMING THURS. 251| SAT. TAI HING MON. 30th WED. -

Arrives

Wachow

Leaves

Wachow

Arrives Hoar Kor

2811 SUN. 27th, MON.

2nd THURS. 3rd FRL

Both

4th

In No. 1 Dock. Dimensions:--666′0′′, O.A. 1 88'6" x 48'6" Mid. 26.000 tons Groes.

The Company possesses Blz Granite. Docks and Two Patent Bilpways: The dimensions of No. 1 Dock are 700′0′′ × 98′0′′ x 30′6′′ over all, ÏÌ‚ ̧W 0.8.T Salvage Tag "Henry Koswick.” 2000 1.H,P. Wireless Call Signal V.P.BT., and Flag Call Signal T.ELQB. Bheurlegs capable of Ufting 80 tonal 18)

Codes Used: Ai, A.B.C. Fifth Edition: Engineering, First and Second Edition. Western Union. Bentley and Watkins

Kindly send enquiries to the Chief Manager,

R. M. DYER, B.Sc., MJNA, Kowloon Docks, Hongkong.

Regular Service of Fast, Higa Class River Steamers having good Accommodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fana in Btate-rooms and Baloon. The as "Tai Hing" is ft- ted with Wireless.

Ports of Call-Bamshul, Skniking, Takhing & Doshing.

Faroe Return (pot Including meals) $20.00.

Meals and Wines are to be obtained on board.

Hong Kong Arrivals & Departures from. Tai Hing" Wharf,

For information apply to:

29, Connaught Road, West,

Phona 20893.

SANG WO

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