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FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1933.

P.&O.-British India Apcar and

RUSSIA IN-GRIP

OF FAMINE

Colossal Disaster Impending.

THE CHINA MAIL:

PEASANTS TOO WEAK TO WORK

Eastern & Australian, Lines

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

CARGO FOR

TAKING

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.)

B.S.

RAWALPINDI *ALIPORE

+'SOMALI

RANPURA

*MIRZAPORE RAJPUTANA

BANGALORE

RANCHI CARTHAGE **BHUTAN

NALDERA CORFU **SOUDAN

MANTUA RAWALPINDI **BURDWAN

COMORIN CHITRAL **SOMALI

From

Abort

Tons Hong Kong

1933. 17,000 15th July 6,000 17th July 6,800 22nd July 17.000 29th July 6,000 9th Aug. 6.000 19th Aug:

17,000 26th Aug. 14,000

6,000 16th Sept.

Destination.

Berlin.

ARRIVAL

THE MODERN GIRL OF 1833.

OF SHIPS Comparison With

Wednesday, July 5. Arabis Maru, Japanese. str., 5,883 tons, Capt. H. Obhi, from

·

Moji, buoy No. A¤—40.S.K.

Modern Débutante.

SINGING A "LOST ART”!

London. British str., 903 tons, debutante-already leading her What a contrast to this year's Capt. Baldwin, from Amoy own life, driving, her own car,

Wharf.-William-possibly flying. her own

"Russia to-day is in the grip of Kamona, famine which is proving as dis- astrous as the catastrophe of 1921, when millions 'died,” said Mr. Gareth Jones, former

political

secretary of Mr. Lloyd George, when

ing trip through the Ukraine and

'other districts of the Soviet Union.

Laichikok son & Co.

plane.

Thursday, July 6.

aero-

Yet only 100 years ago, the Modern Girl of 1883, in wasp!

be arrived in Berlin recently en Conte Verde, Italian str., 18.765 waist and billowing skirts, was route for London after a long walk-

tone, Capt. G. Camelli, from content to take genteel walks in Singapore, Kowloon Wharf.the Park with her chaperone, or Dodwell & Co.

to drive in stately fashion, 80-| fuently, was the first foreigner to Hofhow, British str. 1,629 tons, vants, to the new Zoo in Regents companied by numerous ser-

Capt. A. Cook, from Tsingtao, Park. buoy No. E17.-B. & S.

Mr. Jones, who speaks Russian

visit the Russian countryside since the Moscow authorities forbade foreign correspondents to leave the

Her life was governed by what city. His report, which was de-

Mr. Mark Edward Perugini in livered to the Institute of Inter-Nellore, British str., 4.256 tons, "The Omnibus Book" calls the Capt. H. J. Bright, from Mani-"Maiden's Mentor"a little book - la, Kowloon Wharf--M.M, & full of excellent advice which

Co.

would cause much amusement jo her 1933 sister.

national Affairs explains the reasonj for this prohibition.-

In an interview with the New York,

Evening Post, Mr. Jones said that

"Mental Improvement,”

she tons. Captain Robert Jensen, was told, "should always be made from Canton, buoy No. B2- conducive to moral advance- J.M. & Co.

ment; to render a young woman wise and good, to prepare her Prosper, Norwegian str., 1,377 tons, mind for the duties and trials of Capt. A. Hytten, from Saigon, life, is the great purpose buoy No. B6.-Nam Ta! Loong.education.

famine on a colossal scale was im- Norviken, Norwegian str... 1,779 pending. It meant death to millions by hunger, and the beginning of serious unemployment in a land which was hitherto prided itself ou every man having a job. This sammed up Mr. Jones'a first-hand Iobservations.

•

of

"The arrest of the British ea-Shantung, British str., 1,568 tons, "Accomplishments, however gineers in Moscow is a symbol of Capt. C. H. Jones, from Swa-desirable and attractive, must Bombay, Marseilles & London,

tow, buoy No. BI1.-B. & S. panic and is a consequence of con-

always be considered as secon- Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

dary Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, ditions worse than in 1921 when 'Protesilaus, British str., 6,118 tons. objects when compared.

Capt. J. G. Reynard,

those" virtues which from the with Bombardam Antwerp & Hull. millions died of hunger, declared

Shanghai, buoy No. A2-But-from the character and influence Straits

terfield & Swire.

the power of woman in society." Obedience.

Marseilles & London. Colombo & Bombay.

Marseilles & London.

Marseilles, Havre, London, H'burg,

"R'dam, Antwerp & Hull

Marseilles & London.

Marseilles & London.

16th Sept- Marrelles, Havre, London, R'burg,

R'dam, Antwerp

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

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Buil Marseilles & London.

16,000 23rd Sept. 14,000

7th Oct. 6,800 14th Oct.

11,000 21st Oct. 16,000 4th Nov. 6.000 11th Nov.

15,000 18th Nov. 15,000 2nd Dec. 6,800 9th Dec.

• Cargo only.

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

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

R'dam. Antwerp & Hull.

Calla Casablanca.

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

TAKADA

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

SIRDHANA

TALMA

TILAWA SANTHIA TAKADA

1933.

7,000 12th July Singapore, Penang, R'goon & C'cutta. 7,000 21st July Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 70,000 6th Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calentta. 10,000 19th Aug. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000 2nd Sept. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 7,000 10th Sept. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

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

Mr. Jones. "The trial is merely a sequel to the recent shooting of 35 prominet workers of agriculture including the vice-commissar in the Ministry of Agriculture, in an at- tempt to check the popular wrath at]

CLEARANCES

July 6.

the famine which haunts every dis-Arabia Maru, for Singapore.

trict of the Soviet Union.

|Brisbane Maru, for Brisbane.. "I walked alone through villages Bronec, for Whampoa. and twelve collective farms. Every- Conte Verde, for Shanghai. where was the cry "there is no Hafthor, for Bangkok. bread; we are dying!" This cry Hong Kheng, for Singapore. came to me from every part of Hop Sang, for Canton. Russia.

Hydrangea, for Swatow. Scraps From Spittoon, Kamo, for Amey. "In a train, Communist denied to Lungshan, for Canton. me that there was a famine. Lyder Sagen, for Canton. dung into the spittoon a crust of Mabella, for Bangkok. bread I had been eating from my New Mathilde, for Hoihow. lown supply. The peasant, my,Tjizalak, for Hoihow.'

fellow-passenger, fished it out and Tjisalak, for Shanghai.

I threw orange Pronto, for Whampoa ravenously ate it. peel into the spittoon; the peasant Yingchow, for Swatow... again grabbed and devoured it.

-"The communist, subsided.

"A foreign expert. returning from Kazakstan told me that a million out

STEAMERS MOVEMENTS

The B.I. & Apcar Line

$.B.

of five million have died of hunger. Takada will leave Amoy for this

I can believe it.

hated Port on July 9 and is due here "After Stalin, the most man in Russia is Bernard Shaw. To July 10,

many of those who can read and

have read his glaring descriptions of |plentiful food in their starving land

the future is blacker than the pre- ROYALTY OF THE

sent.

"There is insufficient seed.. Many

of the peasants are too weak to

WORLD.

work the land. The new taxation Mrs. Thornton Cook's

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, policy which promised to take only

1933. 4th Aug.

a fixed amount of grain from the peasants will fail to encourage pro-i {duction because the peasants refuse

2nd Sept. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & to trust the Government."

NELLORE

TANDA NANKIN NELLORE TANDA

7,000 7,000 7,000 30th Sept.

7,000. 2nd Dec.

7,000 3rd Nov.

Melbourne.

New Book.

"ROYAL LINE OF FRANCE”

London.

on

For

But if the 1933 debutante is tempted to laugh at this advice, she will latigh heartily when the chapter dealing with Obedi- ence:

even

more she reaches

"Obedience is so much de- randed in the female character, that many persons have conceiv- ed it as the one virtue called for in a woman-as it must be deem- ed by all to be such in a child.

“If man, as the guide and head of woman, were himself a per- fect creature, this would, un- questionably be true; but as being accountable to her Creator, and endowed by Him with rea- 901,

unqualified and implicit lobedience to a creature, like hep

self, liable to many errors, can- not, consistently, be required."

One accomplishment, however,

а

in which the 1933 debutante can- not compete with her 1833 sis- ter, is singing. A hundred years) lago, all girls who had beef, "pr

perly" educated, were able to aing. How important was this accomplishment may be judged from the ominous warning:

"Habits of querulousness, or ill-nature, will communicate a cat-like quality to the singing, as infallibly as they give a peculiar character to the speak ing voice."-Beuter.

MOTOR STILL DISCOVERED

Galena, Illinois. In short, concluded Mr. Jones, the

Federal prohibition Mrs. Thornton Cook must have claim that they have caught a agents Government's policy of collectivisa-

many admirers. tion and the peasants' resistance to a great it had brought Russia to the worst she concentrates on Kings and travelling still which was dis catastrophe since the famine of Queens-and in these days, when guised as a grist mill mounted on Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan 1921 swept away the population of Crowns are becoming increasing-a car and moved from farm to ly anfashionable, people seem to farm, manufacturing com liquor Coupled with this, the prime res, have more interest than ever in to suit the owners' requirements son for the breakdown was the lack the doings of Royal Personages. from the stock of grain on hand.

Reuter. The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New of skilled labour and the collapse of Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

transport and finance.-Reuter.

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The P. & O. Royal Mail 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:

NELLORE

1931. 7,000 7th July

6

*BANGALORE ¦ 6,000 13th July

BAJPUTANA

TALMA

TILAWA

17,000 13th July

10,000 18th July 17,000 27th

27th July

10,000 27th July

1,000 6th Aug.

6,000

9th Aug.

14,000 10th Aug.

RANCHI

TANDA

BHUTAN CARTHAGE

SANTHIA

16,000 24th

7,000

3,800

TAKADA NALDERA NANKIN **SOUDAN

CORFU BANTUA

BURDWAN

RAWALPINDI

•COMORIN *SOMALI CHITRAL

8,000. 16th Aug

Shanghai, Moji Yokkaichi, Nagoya,

Kobe, & Yokohama..

Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, Shal, Mej. Kobe & Osaka, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Quaka. Shai

whole districts.

BOLSHEVIK POET LAUREATE,

Order Of Lenin For Popular Writer.

CELEBRATES 50TH BIRTHDAY.

Moscow.

Mrs. Thornton Cook has given

Jus books about the Royal Lines

of England and Scotland and now

THE HOLIDAY SPIRIT!

she brings forth "The Royal Line

of France" (John Murray, 18/-)

Istanbul

in which she parades a picture. A holiday crowd has almost sque procession, starting, with wrecked the railway station at Louis XI, in 1463 and ending, Boudja near Smyrna.

Annoyed because they considered with a Royal coffin, in 1850. There are

many illustrations that not enough trains were being typical of those over-clad men run, the people flung stones, smash- and women of vanished thrones ed windows and altogether did a who stare back at us an air of great deal of damage to the station Well bred vacuity too many

property-Reuter.

There are

rather

HONG KONG TIDES

£12 FIRST CLASS

ALL-INCLUSIVE

EXCURSION

to MANILA

by the

PRESIDENT COOLIDGE

Steamer Your Hotel during

3 DAYS STAY

in MANILA

Leave Hong Kong. 6 P.M., August 8th

Arrive Manila Leave Manila

8 A.M., August 10th

3 P.M., August 12th

Arrive Hong Kong.. 8 AM, August 14th

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Full details may be obtained on application at the Radio Counter.

INWARD MAILS.

TUESDAY, July, 11

WEDNESDAY, July, 12 Europe Suez (Letters and Papers) London,

June 15 and Parcels, June 8.

SATURDAY JULY 8.

Japan and Shanghai Japan

Shanghai and Swatow

.General Lee .Takada

Sinkiung

Straits

.Lyons Maru

Rajputana

..Rawalpindi

..Pres. Jefferson

Moricka Maru

Taiyo Maru

FRIDAY,

July,*14

Japan and Shanghai U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai (Seattle, -

June 24)

Japan

USA, Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San

Francisco, June 20)

2.30 p.m. 3.30 D.T

OUTWARD MAILS.

SATURDAY,

JULY 8.

Sandakan Foochow

Hinsang

Hollow

Anking

SUNDAY, JULY 9,*

General Lee'

9 .m.

Hofhow

9 LM.

Kiangsu

9. 8.m.

Hopsing

9. a.m.

Amoy

Manila Foochow via Bwatow Bangkok via Swato Foochow via Swatow

MONDAY JULY 10. Hethow and Bangkok

Kweiyang TUESDAY, · · July, 11 *Manila. Makasser and Sourabaya Tiinegara

Pres. Hoover

Time Meridian 120 deg. E. (Zone--

Heights are referred to the datum of the largest scale Admiralty chart of the place and should be added to "In the intervals of con-depths, unless preceded by an asterisk (Manila" ducting military campaigns(") when they should be subtracted.

The fiftieth anniversary of the difficult names and dates, but it Moji, Kobe, Osaka & ham birth of Demian Byedny-the Poet is a book in which one can wan Shanghai,

Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

Laureate of the Bolshevista was der for many pleasant hours. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Skor Shal Amoy,

Majl Kabe Osaka

celebrated in the U.S.S.E. recently. And Kings and Queens are sel81 ooh is midnight, 12h, is noen. 7,000 24th Aug, Amoy, S'hai, Mel Kobe &

Osaka

The Presidium of the Central dom. dull company, Shanghal,

Koik Kobe Yokohama. S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Thama, Committee of the U.S.S.E. has Try this extract: Shanghai,

Moji Kobe &

& Yokohama, awarded him the Order of Lenin for Shanghat, Kobe & Yokohama. hia literary work and the services it Shangaat, Moll, Robe & Yokohama. has rendered to the working class. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Robe & Yokohama.. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

Sept. 14,000 7th 11,000 21st Sept

6,100 4th Oct

17,000 5th Oct. 15,000 20th Oct

0,800 lat Nov. 16,000 3rd Nov.

Cargo only.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Punks Louvre System. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Com- ipany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to saßing

Date*

and consolidating. her claims He received congratulations: from to the Austrian crown, thé the Central Committee of the Com- Empresa Maria Theresa had munist Party, the Council of 16 children. Marie-Antoinette Peoples' Commisaars, and from was the ninth, and suitability. various literary and social organisa in age decided her fate. Pro- r26 tions;

traits, were exchanged, and Byedny, whose real name is Efim]• thp busy mother engaged two Sat. Alexeyevich. Prodvorov, is the sen French actors in order that

of a peasant and probably the most the future Queen of France" popular writer. In modern Russia. might learn to speak the Mơn.

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He has been writing in revolotion-1 languages of the country,

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THURSDAY, A...- July, 18′′

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*Japan and Canada-due Vic-

toria B.G., August 7 Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu, Gans

da, USA., - Central and South America' and Europe via Van- couver B.C. and Europe via Biberia

5 p.m.

1.30 pm

9.80 a.m.

4.30 p.m.

2 p. 2.30 p.m.

10.30 am

Empress of Canada (Das Vancouver BC, Aug, 2);

July 18, 5 p.m. itions July 14, 9.15 am. 107a.m