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YKLINE

General Passenger Agents in the Orient for

Cunard White Star Line

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports And Honolulu,

·ASAMA MARU

TAIYO MARU

ASAMA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

Wednesday, 8th May at 10 am. Friday,

24th May

.

Wednesday, 8th May

HIKAWA MARU (Starts from 'Kuba). Monday, "'-HIYE MARU (Starts from Kobe) ... Monday,

20th Mar,

3rd June

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM.

KASHIMA MARU

Saturday,

27th Apr.

YASUKUNI MARU

HAKONE MARU...

Friday, Saturday,

10th Mar.

25th May

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manlia & Porta.

KAMO MARU

Saturday

27th Apr.

KITANO MARU

Saturday,

25th May

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo. - †MAYEBASHI MARU (calls Katachi) Sunday,

28th Apr.

LISBON MARU (calls Karachi) ...... Monday, GINYO MARU...

6th May

Saturday,

11th May

SOUTH AMERICA (West Const) via Japan. Honolulu,

Los Angeles. Mexles and Panama.

Wednesday,

Thursday,

Tuesday,

LIVERPOOL via Port Said. Beyrouth, Istanbul,

BOKUYO MARU

12th June

"NEW YORK vis» Panama. .

INARUTO MARU

9th May

NAGARA MARU

4th June

Piraeus. Genos

and Valencia.

TOYOOKA MARU

Wednesday,

15th May

CALCUTTA vis. Singapore, Perang & Rangoon.

+TOTTORI MARU

Monday,

29th Apr.

†TSUSHIMA ·MARU

Tuesday,

PENANG-MARU

Wednesday,

BHANGHAL KORE & YOKOHAMA,

SUWA MARU

Saturday,

FUSHIMI MARU

Saturday,

7th May 15th May

27th Apr. 11th May 17th May

1g only

Telephone 30291

ATSUTA MARU (Nagasaki diree), Friday,

S. K.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUIJECT, TO ALTERATION.

Mon.. Tuen,

NEW YORK vis Japan, Los Hokuroku Maru

Angeles and Panama. Call Hokkal Maru

Direct at Cristobal, Puarto,

Colombia, Boston Philadel-!

phia and Baltimore

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS Dio De Janeiro Maru

Tues.,

Tues.

AIRES

via

Singapore,

Colombo, Durban, Port

Elizabeth and Cape Town

MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR, Africa Maru

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Montevideo Maru

DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA Tawaii Mard LOURENCO MARQUES,

DURBAN, PORT ELIZA-

BETH. CAPE TOWN.

& SOUTH AMERICAN

PORTS VIL Singapore &

Colombo

MELBOURNE, BRISBANE Melbourne Mart

SYDNEY:

WELLINGTON Sydney Marn

& AUCKLAND direct....

KARACHI via Bingapore, +Penang and

BOMBAY &

Colombo

Sat.

Mon.,

Mon,

Fri.,

6th May 7th May

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 2

This spectacular photo shows ships of the Greek, Navy, whose crews joined the recent revolution, in fight after having been at- tacked by the air feet sent out by the Government.

ALTITUDE RECORD

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the thin air without obeying the rudder. Colder than the cold of empty space was the thought, that his oxygen would not hold out till he out-distanced the 11.702 metres which John Macready achieved.

THOSE 'SIX KINGS OF CANTERBURY

Identified By Old

Manuscript

-300-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY

CLEARED

Canterbury, Eng.

A

TRIP IN A TARANTULA INFESTED SHIP

Harrowing Voyage On China Coast

ONE DEAD AND ANOTHER BLINDED

A nightmare voyage down the Chinese coast in a steamer full of escaped tarantulas, during which many of the native crew went mad and European passengers locked | themselves in their cabins without food and drink for days, is de- scribed by Mr. Ragnar Nyberg, a Swedish Mercantile Marine officer, who recently returned to his native country after fifteen years, serviçe in Chinese coasting vessela.

It was during a voyage from Newchwang to Shanghat that be encountered the dreaded spiders. The vessel carried a mixed cargo which included evil-smelling soya bean cakes, and among the pas songers were 200 Chinese recruits who had enlisted in the French Army.

For the first day or two all want well and then, writes Mr. Nyberg, in a book just published, three of the Chinese suddenly developed large blisters. The next morning there were eight more patients.{ That night a native quartermaster] discovered one of the spiders in! This bunk and the mystery was

solved

But by this time it was obvious that the spiders had spread all over, the ship and panic began Among the Chinese crew.

Took Refuge up Pasta" "When dusk began to fall," writes! the author, "the crew got quite 'out of control. In large groups they Every took refuge up the masts. now.and then the ship re-echoed with shrieks and yells and the Chinese recruits, half man with climbed the masts, only to fee fright, rushed to and fro and from them again when one of their Inumber imagined that he had seen

Time crept slowly and leadenly on. Again he began gasping, felt his heart beating, fought for breath,'!

A 300-year-old mystery in Canter- He forced himself to think of the bury Cathedral has been tentatively laboratory experiments and to be cleared up by the discovery of lieve that this was only an early small roll of manuscript in phase and without danger. But BD many fishes flocked towards him, neglected drawer in the Chapter

Library by Mr. Charles Cotton,ja tarantula up there." 21st May big and little, glassy-eyed an Deputy Librarian of the Canterbury

Meanwhile the passengers had lacked themselves in their cabins, alupid, defying the allen element.

blocked all the ventilators, and Mr.

23rd Apr.

He knew In flashes that he was

Chapter Library.

Many of the visitors who came to ying at a very great height, and the cathedral in the pilgrimage to refused to allow anyone in.

Nyberg himself discovered one also that something was wrong: Canterbury last year inquired as to 4th May He know that it could be corrected the identity of the six kings scuip-the, spiders hidden in his wash 3rd, Jun. by a simple grip of his hand. He

stand.

of

Kasped painfully for breath, but tured on the screen build by Prior

Thomas Chillenden .(1390-1411.) "It went past my face like a flash could not make his hand grip. It was all these flashes flocking round But for more than three centuries when I took down the towel. In no one has been ablé definitely to the first moment of horror I hard. that prevented him..

Now be got to it. He must do attach names to these monarchs. ly knew whether the creature had

Mr. Cotton's discovery, however, is got me." something with the middle lever.

By the time the ship reached 6th May He lifted his hand. Then the lever manuscript apparently written 7th June rushed away from it, it eluded his about 1845 by Sir Gilbert, Scott, who Saigon, five days after the discovery, was then engaged in restoring an- there were 32 men who had to be grasp, now to the front, now

One of them the left; he could not find that cient buildings. This paper gives taken to hospital. 30th Apr. damned lever. He raised his large Scott's identifications of the kings, died and another lost his sight.

enumerating them from north to The presence of the spiders fs goggles, presumably to clear away the flocks of fishes, and bared his south as Henry V, Richard II, King attributed to the fact that the ship Thurs., 2nd May eyes in the left one his monocle Ethelbert, William the Conqueror, had previously carried fruit.

was clipped. He felt a stab to his Henry IV and Henry VI. brain and then nothing more.

Manju Mare

Tues.,

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Himalaya Mart

Belawan Deli, & Rangoon .....

JAPAN PORTS

Sumaira Maru

JAPAN via Takao & Koelong 'Madras Maru

direct for Keelung ...

¡Panama Maru

Mon..

Wed., Мол.,

Sun.,

22nd Apr.

KEELUNG via Swatow and Hozan Maru

Amoy

TAKAO via SWATOW and

AMCY

+ Omits Ports Markod.

For Further, Particulars Please apply to: -

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Telephone 28061

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD &

28th Apr.

to

The machine "Marie Lemaire!

not

BACK MEMORY

Scientist's Theory Proved

24th Apr. (S.A.III. 26) was picked up the HYPNOTISM BRINGS 18th May same day, floating on a sheet of

water. Oddly enough it was very greatly damaged. The dead lieutenant sat in the cockpit, his hand frozen to the joystick; his the eyes too were frozen and. monocle was still clipped in the left one. The sealed instruments showed that the height reached was 12,149 metres; 447 metres more Ithan the record.

ENGINEERING COMPANY

OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.

BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHPS.

BUILDERS OF RECIPROCATING STEAM ENGINES.

BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND BOILERS.

BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY.

Under License From Messrs. Parsons,

BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES.

Under Special License From Messrs. Sulzer Bros, Winterthur.

Licensed To ManufactureLanz Perlit Iron, Specially Suitable

For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts. DOCK & SLIPWAYS.

FOR DOCKING VERY LARGE, AS WELL AS SMALLER VESSELS, ON ANY TIDE. ALL CLASSES OF SHIP, ENGINE AND BOILER REPAIRS AND EXTENSIVE WELDING, BOTH ELECTRICAL AND OXY-ACETYLENE, SKILFULLY AND

PROMPTLY CARRIED OUT.

Tel. Address : “Taikoodock,” Hong Kong,

Telephone No. 30211,|,

Call Flag: Numeral One" over Pennant Ann

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents Hong Kong, China & Japan

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

--From-LEITH MIDDLESBRO',

ANTWERP, LONDON

AND STRAITS,

The Steamship.

"BENLOMOND"

Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- formed that all Goods are being landed

Los Angeles. Hypnosia was brought into play to return the memory of a young girl auffering from amnesis, thus partially proving a 'theory advanced

at their risk into the hazardous and/or to the scientific world by Dr. Robert extra hazardous Godowns of The Hong Kennedy, Los Angeles scientist. Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Dr. Kennedy theorized that Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the amnesia, or loss of memory, is.mere-wharves delivery may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the lly a form of hysteria. A girl was Goods have left the Godowns, and all brought to his office whose mind es Goods remaining undelivered after the regards past incidents was a perfect 25th April, 1986, will be subject to blank, she had told the police. All claims against the steamer must The young woman was hypnotized be presented to the Undersigned on or by the doctor-and when she awoke before the 9th May, 1985, or they she remembered she was Miss Ruth will not be recognized. Parr, aged 20, of San Francisco. Warehouse Regulations consigness must To comply with the General Bonded She had lost her memory, she said, have a Revenue Oficer in attendance due to worry over the fact that when damaged dutiable goods Care she was out of work.

MURDER CHARGE AFTER 12 YEARS

Two Accomplices Paid In 1923

A native has been arrested at Estcourt, Natal, on a charge of murder after being "wanted"! for 12 years

In 1928 a native was killed and 15 others were tried for murder, Two were sentenced to death and hanged, and four to 18 months hard labour. The rest were discharged.

_-_The_man_now under arrest was not among those previously

examined.

"All broken, chated, and damage? Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 24th April, 1985, at 10 a.i., by Messrs, Goddard and Douglas.

by

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be counter-signed

"GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.

Agents Hong Kong, 18th April: 1986.

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GOING HOME ON LEAVE?

TRAVEL VIA CANADA

Regular Pacific and Atlantic Sailings TO VANCOUVER.

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May 6 May

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Japan.May 17 May 19

Empress of

Aia May 31 Empress of

June 2 June

Canada June 16 June 16 Empress of

Russia June 23 Juno 80 July Empress of

Japan "July 12 “July 14

7. May 9 May 11

Leave Arrive

May 20

May 22 May 24 May 30 June) 4'

4 June 6 Juna B June 15 June 81

June 10 June 21 June 28 July 8

July 15

July 17 July 19 July 25 July 30

2 July 4 July '8

TO MANILA.

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA' EMPRESS OF JAPAN

SPECIAL ROUND THE

WORLD FARES ·

April 25 May 10

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PATROCUS

Sails 24 Apr. for Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Glasgow Saile 8 May for Marseilles, London,

Rotterdam & Glasgow.

Sails 1 May for Havre, Liverpool,. &

Bromborough,

LIVERPOOL SERVICE, BELLEROPHON

NEW YORK SERVICE, ADRASTUS

Sulle 8 May. for Halifax, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, vin Manila, Batayia, Straits & Suez.

PACIFIC SERVICE.

(via KOBE NAGOYA & YOKOHAMA) TANTALUS

Sall 27 Apr. for Victoria, Vancouver

and Seattle,

INWARD SERVICE. MENELAUS

ANTENOR

Due. 22 Apr. from U.K. via Strafta. 27; Apr. from U.K: via Straits.

Specially reduced faren are quoted far cargosteanters with limited passenger accommodation.

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Hong Kong to Sydney 10 Dayn

FIRST CLASS FARE TO SYDNEY, 276 RETURN

"

WHAT LONDON (via Australia) from £127.15,0 (Australian Newspapers on 'file)

INTRAMANIÊN DDus Bin) Konga Leuven Hong Kong: Lesyse Manila, for Den bydiy

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May June 18 June July 119 July

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23.

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