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THE CHINA MAIL.

P.&O.-British India Finding A New Way

Apcar and Eastern & Australian

Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND),

STEAMERS.

MAIL AND PASSENGER

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMĄ, CRYLON, 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.)

8.5.

+ SOUDAN RAWALPINDI... "KIDDERPORE RANPURA **BURDWAN

KALWA RANCHI "CARTHAGE **SOMALI

NALDERA

RAJPUTANA

BANGALORE

CORFU COMORIN +*BHUTAN

'RANPURA

KAISAR-I-HIND

Tons HongKong

From

About

1982.

6th Aug.

6,800

Noon 17,000 18th Aug. 5,300 24th Aug. 17,000 27th Aug. Brd Bapt. 6,500

11,000 10th Sept. 17,000 24th Sept.

14,000

Destination.

Fombay, Marseilles, London, Bavre, Hamburg, R'dam, Antwerp & Hull Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles & Londen.

Home

Via The Black Sea And The Danube

"ACROSS EUROPE

BY RIVER TO LINZ FROM

· BUCHAREST.

Just a strip of embroidery hanging down front and back, the men long trousers gathered in at the angles, a jacket reaching to the knees, belt- ed at the waist, every flounce or ham worked in wool or silk, in beautiful patterns. The main street, the Calea Victoria, has some amusing cafes and nouveaute shops attractive to anyone who has been months in the East. The river, the Damboritza, is merely a trickle. the colour of gravy.........

Another train took us to Giurgiü, the village which is the terminus of the river steamers.

On The River.

That evening we were installed' in a spotlessly clean paddle boat whose double berth cabins were fitted with hot and cold water, travelling slowly up the broad grey river. The south bank was Bul-

The all-important Danubian pinky-gold in the rays of the set-garia, the "home of roses, where question so much discussed in the ting sun; through the Dardanelles rose-leaf.jam and delicious sweets "Iron Gates" the Press of to-day brings this great at night, where the monument to are made from the petals. As we waterway of half a dozen countries the fallen British is lit up every neared the into the minds of the general sixty seconds by flashes from the scenery became more, billy and public; but it is not widely known powerful lighthouse: Dawn in the wilder. The "gates" are two stone to us of Western Europe that there Sea of Marmors, and by noon we walls, ona in midstream and one is an excellent service of river saw Constantinople's mosques sil-en the bank, built some forty years steamers to carry tourists and houetted between blue sky and ago to enable ships to navigate the travellers from Glurgiu in Rou- blue sea.

once impassable rapide. In Constantinople.

mania to Passau in Germany.

Forty-eight hours from Giurgiu' Our three days in Constantinople Belgrade. Every day it seemed Last year I disembarked from the 8. Ranpura at Port Said, were all too short, and we sadly we had to pay for our meals in s the different coinage; hundreds of lei, travelled via Cairo to Alexandria sailed up the Bosphorous in by train, to Constantinople by s.8. Dacia among the medley com- a reasonable number of dinars, or Khedivial Mall Line, and to Con-pany of Turks, Greck priests with a few pengos. "In Belgrade it is a stanza on the Black Sea by Royal their long black hair in "buns" atmatter of luck whether or not the Roumanian Line; to Giurgiu via the back below their birettas, and suspicious Slay officials will let one Bucharest by train, and practically Albanians in long white stockings, ashore, visa or no viss, but we right across Europe by Danube and tasseled navy blue caps and skirts were lucky. The steamer anchored with the traditional 32 yards of for the night, and we had time to The whole journey is surprising-calico. And so through the nar-look at. Yugo-Slavia's capital, and ly cheap. The first class fare from row channel that separates Europe sit in a cafe among olive-skinned, Alexandría to,, Constanza is about and Asia with its old fortresses, well-dressed women and officers £12; and the Danube steamer tic-huge white palaces and tiny villages with white coats, red trousers and kets, including meals (which are half hidden in the wooded banks. shining steel swords, like those of

Eighteen hours on the Black Sea paid for separately in the currency

Rhine.

Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg, R'dam, Antwerp & Huli.

of the country) worked out at and we were in Constanza, the the Ruritania of plays." Bombay, Marseilles & London..

about 128. or 15, a day. Travel- ancient Constantiana" founded in

Marseilles & London London.

&

The "Blue Danube."

lers cheques or English £1 notes the year 800 A.D. in honour of the By daybreak the Jupiter was

8th Oct. Bombay, Marseille, Hamburg, can be changed everywhere for sister of Constantine the Great. struggling upstream again, between |

6,800 15th Oct.

16,000 22nd Oct. 17,000 5th Nov. 8,500 12th Nov.

15,000 19th Nav. 45,000 Srd Dec.

6,000 10th Dec. 17,000 17th Dec. 12,000 31st Dec.

Marseilles, London,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, & London.. Bombay, Marseilles, London, Ha

Eburg, 'terdam, Antwerp & Hull, Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, M'seilles. L'don, Havre, H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Bull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

+1

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

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

By

hotels and incidental expenses. The only harbour of the Black Sea the low marshy banks of the "Blue

In The Piraeus.

open all the year round, and the Danube," still a muddy grey: and Less than two days after leaving fashionable watering-place of Rou evening found us in Hungary, and| Alexandria we woke to find our-mania, it is a city of synagogues, noon next day in Hungary's capital. Budapest is one of Europe's most selves in the calm waters of the mosques, churches of all creeds. harbour of Piraeus; the s.s. Rashid In one of the squares is a statue beautiful cities-and to approach was surrounded by craft of all of the poet Ovid, who was exiled her by water is to arrive at the front door, so to speak. All the kinds: "Greek battleships, cargo fand died here. boats from all over the world,

train past wheat-fields, finest baildings are along the river rowing boats crammed with vendors ploughed fields, long stretches of bank: on the newer Pesth side are of every kind of rubbish. We marshes, willow trees, pools, with the magnificent hotels de luxe, and selected one, of the least evil-masses of water-liffes, rich pastarej the domed Houses of Parliament; looking guides who swarmed on land, long-horned cattle, fat black while on the Buda side (the original board and went ashore, walking pigs and rather thin horses, wells city), are the St. Gellert Statue, on past the little cafes and booths worked by a long. pole with a the site from where the saint was where sailors of every nationality bucket at one end and a weight rolled in a nail-studded barrel "into "Halasz were drinking, smoking and bar-at the other, fields of purple the river below, the gaining, and took the electric train flowers, like catmint and yellow Battya" Fishers' Bastion, the old through cornfields, fig plantationsmustard plant. At the stations, Coronation Church, the palace and suburbs into Athens.

peasant girls with herchiefed heads where Hungary's kings used to Onwarda, late in the evening, sold us strawberries and bunches dwell.

Away from. Budapest, past the through Byron's beloved "Tales of of wild flowers; the language was Greece," once the scenes of much quite unintelligible, but anyone "Margit Hid," the pleasure resort plundering by the corsairs of the connected with railway stations of the city, with Czechoslovakia on the B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for Mediterranean. Morning found us always seems to know what to do the north and Hungary on

In the lovely bay of Smyrna, en- with tongue-tied foreigners, what south, stopping af Pressburg or are Bratislava, whose ruined four- 1st and 2nd class passengers, '-

circled by hilla wooded with silvery they want and whither they

towered castle dominates the town. olives and dark cypresses, among going.

Then Bucharest. Neither eastern The influx of the Marava river houses. On the quay-where nor yet what one terms European: marks the Austrian frontier; sen- traces of the disastrous Are still just Balkan. We stayed two nights tries are everywhere and boats remain decrepit horses pull ram-in a mediocre hotel, none too clean. ready to chase delinquents are Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & shackle trams, and small children It was a fete day, and in the Parc moored to the barks.

Melbourne.

run after one to sell quantities of Carol were strolling hundreds of

in Vienna. peasants in national costume-the

Vienna is reached next day, and luscious cherries,

Smyrna and the glistening piles women had wide flounced skirts, Regular monthly sailings trem Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan of salt along the coast are left baggy sleeves caught at the wrists, after three days of delight there behind and we pass more islands, embroidered bodices and aprons, or (Continued at foot of next Column.)

†TILAWA

TALMA SANTHIA

1932. 10,000 5th Aug,

8 p.m. 10,000 20th Ang. 8,000 5th Sept.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

† Calls at Rangoon.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), which clustered red-roofed white

TANDA NANKIN NELLORE

1932. 7,000 2nd Sept. 7,000. 1st Oct 7,000 2nd Nov,

and Hong Kong to Austraila.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent commections from Australia with the following:

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

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

Tas P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and:

The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamere to London via Buen

The New Zealand Shipping Company'e atommare' for Southampton and London via Panama Canal..

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

+TANDA

SANTHIA

MALWA *NOVARA TAKADA RANCHI

SOMALI

SIRDHANA CARTHAGE

NALDERA

BANGALORE RAJPUTANA CORPU

BHUTAN

1982.

7,000 5th Aug. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe, & Yokohama.

6 p.m.

8,000 11th Aug. Amoy, Moli, Kobe & Tokohams. 11,000 11th Aug: Shanghai, Mo, Kobe & Yokohama. 7,000 18th Aug. Shanghai, Moff, Kobe & Yokohama. 7,000 25th Aug. Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. 17,000 26th Aug. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

6,800 6th Sept. 8,000.... 8th Sept. 14,000

Amoy Kobe & Yokohama.

Mall, Kobe & Yokohama, not 8th Seat Shanghai Kobe & Yokohama

16,000 22nd Sept Shanghai, Koff, Kobe & Yokohama.

6.500 lat Oct Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Turchill. Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000

Shangha

7th Oct. Shanghobea Yokohama. 15,000 21st Oct:

6,000

2nd Nov, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 4th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000 18th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohams. 11,000 28th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. KAISAR-1-HIND 12,000 2nd-Det Shanghal, Eobe & Yokohama's

COMORIN ** RANPURA.

MALWA

RANCHI

CARTHAGE

17,000 16th Dec. 114,000 30th Dec.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

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Time In Transit.

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we embarked once more. A few, afterwards Nürnberg. Thence on miles outside Vienna is the monas- by train to Mainz, where we board-, tery of Klosterneuberg, built to be ed the Rhine steamer, filled with a palace; then Tullin, an old rowdy tourists bear-drinking, Roman settlement, where later the gesticulating, perspiring; not near- Nibelungen were supposed to calely as peaceful as our three Danube brate their festivals; Altenworth, boats,Calcutta Statesman. where Charlemagne conquered the

Avars; Krems, an old world village

CONSIGNEES, NOTICE.

with quaint courtyards, churches

and tortuous streets winding along

Consignees of cargo er m.

the banks; Dürnstein, where Blon-

del sang and freed Richard Coeur Java are reminded to take delivery

de Lion; high hills, vineyards, of their goods which will be unb trees, fields; Weissenkirchen, an jeet to rent after August B. artists' paradise; cornfelds with

opples

istles,

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