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MONTHLY EXPRESS SERVICES FAR EAST-INDIA—ITALY Hong Kong-Italy-21 days. "Hong Kong London 23 days SPECIAL RETURN TICKETS Validity 100 days at greatly reduced cost allowing of 24 months stay in Europe. Special concessions to 1st and 2nd class travellers to London

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SCHEDULE OF SAILINGS

.HONG KONG TO ITALY

B/s "CONTE VERDE”

HONG KONG TO SHANGHAI

3/5 "CONTE. VERDE"

28th June m/s “HIMALAYA” 30th July/a "CONTE VERDE” 30th Ang m/s "VICTORIA”

14th June

20th June

/ "CONTE ROSSO”

mis "VICTORIA"

3rd Oct.

• Freighters with limited passenger accommodation

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1936)

Berr Oswald Spengler, abare, the well-known German philowo- pher, died recently in Munich at the age of 55, from heart-failure. His main work" was "Untergang des Abendlandes, which camed a considerable stir at the time of its publication.

A GATEWAY TO THE PACIFIC

(Continued from Page 6)

the

HERZOGIN CECILIE

PASSES

A PROUD SHIP GREETS

HER ENDING

LAST OF THE WINDJAMMERS

The sad intent of the four-mast-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie suddenly ending her career on a rock off the Devonshire coast, after 35 years' sailing the seas, is more full of significance than may appear at first sight.

A

For a hundred years steam has been competing with sail, but especially since the last decade of the nineteenth century. Up to the year 1914 British ocean-going windjammers were still pluckily playing a losing game; fetching home such cargoes as timber, grain, and nitrate.

CANADIAN PACIFIC

-WORLD'S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

SAILS FOR

VANCOUVER VIA SHANGHAI, &~JAPAN

AT 6 A.M.—FRIDAY, JUNE 12TH

Fab Toko- Hong Shang Nags Kobe

~cogret Kong hai

bama. Honolul Fictoria

Louse Arrive Leave Leave Leave Leave Arrivo . But it wa the Great War topsail schooners, ketches, shingais June 12 June 14 June 16 June 18 June 20 Jube 29 which destroyed nearly all the squadrons, and yachts remained to

E/Jspas June 25 June 28

July 1 July 5 July 9 July 14 survivor of a great tradition, carry on the use of sail that man E/ASI July 10 July 12 Jily 14 July 16 July 18

July 21 though most people were too ocihad employed for at least 8,000) E/Canada ̋ July 24 July 25

July 29 July 31 Aug.. 7 Ang, 13 cupied at the time to realise exact-years. If mechanical power was E/Bussin Ang, 7 Aug. 9 Ang. 11 Aug. 13 Avg. 15

EATADEA

Aug. 28 Aug: 23 Sept. 3 Sept, # ly what this meant writes Ebound in

Aug 21 Aug. 23 any case to win, that

Reble Chatterton in the Observer struggle might have been pro

The whole history of our nation-tracted a few decades longer bat its progress, prosperity, prestige for German hostilities.

had been bsised

wind-

War Loses

0322

Idian Empire would not have come

spars.

Horn, and three months later the

propelled ships; our wealthy In- When the cruiser Leipzig, on Three men. John, Morton, to us through the Honourable East December 2, 1974, just before the Sam Brighouse, and William India Company except by means battle of the Faidands, captured sailing vessel Druzmauir Hailstone, who had crossed the of those slow ret stately vessels the Atlantic in the cable-ship Great with their cordage and heavy |-(1,844 tons), 70 miles east of Capt Eastern, on their way to diggings were attracted by the The Armistice of -1918 enabled elusive cruiser Dresden scuttled beauty of the spot and decided us to look into our losses, to per- the Conway Castle (1,694 tons) in to stake out a claim of occupa-ceive that the British flag had all the Pacific. 560 miles S.W. of! tion. They cleared half an but disappeared from the sailing Valparaiso, the last chapter in the Lacre, built a log cabin and feet. Save for a mere handful of Windjammers story had begun. barn, and settled to the life of all ships working under reduced Other raiders, such as the Mowe) the pioneer.

crews, and Seeadler, carried these sink- canvas and with skeleton The three soon earned enoughly the coasting barges, a few ings to a fine art; but when the submarine campaign got going it meant the massacre of the most from Government employment in road-making, for the benefit

defenceless of all vessels. buy of the gold-seekers," to

This area) another 550 acres.

with the eastern route blocked

Especially dangerous is now the very heart of Van by ice in the winter, a natural area around the Fastnet, where. couver city. Their intention process

after long yoyaging of anxious Vancouver to-day can handle days, a barque would first sight was to set up a “milk ranch,”

as practically the whole of the land. Here, along the south Irish and their spirit was such not to be deterred by the pros-Alberta crop, and it is the chief coast, and up the Irish Sea, many a sailing ship came to a sudden clear winter grain-shipping port of pect of having first to their land of thick forest. But the world. The great grain end by gun, torpedo. or, bomo.

are Thus we deleted from the regis- nieanwhile there had been new-elevators along the docks meant the inlet. from lately established port of

•

was that

the the outward sign to the visitor try such famous sailing ships as New of this step forward in its pro- the following: Glenholm, Crown of Westminster. Lumber mills perity.

A fourishing export trade 'is were built, exploiting the first jobvious source of wealth in the done also in timber, canned and LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth Istanbul, Piraeus, perion. Around one of these sait fish, flour and apples. The Galgate, Grenada, Naiad.

TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

2nd July

TAIYO MARU

21st July

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

HIKAWA MARU (Starts from Kobe) 'Friday. HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe).... Saturday, NEW YORK via Panama.

14th July

1st Ang

+NOJIMA MARU

Tuesday,

*NOTO MARU

Monday,

1th July 7th July

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama

HEIYO MARU”

Saturday,

KASHIMA MARU

Saturday,

YUSUKUNI MARU

HAKONE MARU

Friday, Saturday,

4th July

20th June 3rd July

18th July

and Valencia.

†DELAGOA MARU -

Friday, 10th July

f

ATSUTA MABU

KAMO MARU

.Saturday,

Saturday,

NAPTUNA (calls Saigon)

27th June 25th July Saturday, 4th July.

BOMBAY via Singapore. Penang & Colombo.

†TOYAMA MARU..

†MALACCA MARU

INAGATO MARU

Sunday, 28th June -Thursday, 2 July DENMARK MARU CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

16th June 29th June

Tuesday,

Xonday.

SHANGHAI, KORE & YOKOHAMA

KAMO MARU (Nakd direct)

Friday,

SUWA MARU

“Saturday, Saturday,

19th June -29th June 27th June

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

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India, Dumfriesshire, Bengairn, Inverlyon, Cardonia,

Ravenhil Kin

purney, Isle of 4rra, Belford, wills on the south shore a small vessels of 55 deep-sea lines Eudora, Pinmore, Invercauld, Fort village grew up, to be called make Vancouver their regular Jackson, and many another; whilst

Granville.

port of call, and nearly 12,000,- 000-tons of shipping clear from some, though not sunk, were crip- Fire And Rebuilding

ipled for life. We could also-add it annually. In addition, the

to this list the molested sailing Granville remained the name city has its own industries ships of other nationalities.

"Gran-

Well-Being Assured

German Ships

Only a few years ago, the! barque Garthpool came to a tragic fend, and was the last of the Bri-

of the whole settlement, until meat-packing; shipbuilding, en- 1884. In that year the Cana-gineering, milling, sugar-refin- dian Pacific Railway, Syndicate ing, and railway construction concluded its plans for the among them. trans-continental line. ville" was to be the Pacific Coast On such foundations is thetish sailing feet: the Red Ensign thereafter only at "the terminus, and at the suggestion well-being of Vancouver assur-auttered

and fed of the vice-president

Its 300,000 people, most of stern of steamers and motor ves Germans, Danes. manager of the company, the them of British stock, look for sels. But the township was renamed Vancou-ward to the future with a self-and Finns have always shown a Be- ver. In preparation for its confidence reasonable in the modern appreciation for sail.

substantial (the first light of so

an fore the War Germany's five- future importance passenger train on the trans-achievement in so short a time. finasted ships used to make regular between Hamburg and continental did not arrive until There are men still living and passages May, 1887) Vancouver, on April at work in the city who saw Peru; the Fotosi, for example, ran of the eleven consecutive voyages at an 6, 1886, was given the dignity the forest-clad shores of incorporation

The "city" peninsula before a town was average of eleven knots.

After the War German ave- at that date numbered 2,000 in-built on it, and the next genera- habitants. But there was ation may see changes as great masters were square rigged only on the first and third masts. It catastrophic. rebirth to follow. in degree if not in kind.

one of these, the Adolph Vancouver has owed its deve-was The town was built entirely of wood, with shingle roofing.lopment to its superlatively good Vinnen, which get ashore near the Shortly after midnight on June location on the east-west route Lizard, on February 11, 1923, Fring 3rd July Mon, 22nd June 13, fire broke out. "Fanned by across the continent and on the during her maiden voyage, and ja high wind, the blaze raged main lines of communication became a wreck

The Herzogin Cecile was built fiercely for

As air BLX consecutive across the Pacific. hours," at the end of which transport supplements railway at Bremerhaven for the German time nothing remained but an and liner it can only grow still Lloyd Line as a training-ship for about 100 cadets, and her fine hotel, a store, and a few houses more in importance.

to make some Within the Dominion Vancou-lines enabled- her The loss of life was also heavy,

With characteristic energy ver has the destiny of the chief very fast tripe. After the Waq and patience the people set to city of a rich and progressive she was eventually purchased by work to rebuild in stone-Province. Facing out on the Captain Erikson, and passed un- 6th July where they could. By the end Pacific, and with growing con-der the Finnish flag as a trader.

Never Be Replaced 1st Aug of the year 350 new buildings nections with the Far East and

The loss of this lovely 3,242 had been erected, and one of Australasia, it has a part to pay the earliest municipal purchases also in the affairs of the whole tons (gross) vessel was a fire engine. From that Empire.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

JAVA

Tawau, Sourabaya, Sema Canada Maru rang, Cheriton & Batavia. Erie Maru NEW YORK via Japan, Los Hokkal Mart

Angeles and Panama Call |

Direct at Cristobal, †Puerto, Colombia, Boston Philadel

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and Baltimore

Mon, 15th June

RIO-DE-JANEIRO. SANTOS Santos Maru

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Rio de Janeiro M. AIRES Tiz Singapore,.. Colombe Durban, and Cape Town

Thes., 23rd June Taes, 21st July

KOMBASA, ZANZIBAR, Manila Marn

Mon.,

DARES SALAAM, BEIRA, Africa Maru

Sat

LOURENCO MARQUES,

DURBAN, ALGOA- BAY

CAPE TOWN & SOUTE

AMERICAN PORTS via

Singapore & Colombo

BOMBAY & KARACHI via Sumatra. Mari

Singapore, Penang Colombo

KodĮ "Taijin" Maru

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Hamburg Mara"

Belawan Doll, & Bangoor¡ Himalaya -Maru .-

JAPAN viz. Takao & Kaslung Panama Maru...

*JAPAN POETS

KEELUNG “via Swatow and Canton Marn

Hozan Maru AIDAYTM

TAXAO via Swatów and........

AMOT

* Cargò, only.

Hongkong Mars

time of reconstruction Vancou

2

ver has never looked backey save ADELPHI TERRACE Tues., 19th June for temporary commercial de- 4th July [pressions. In 1892 the popula

Sat..

tion had risen to 10,000.

Wed, 20th June

Taura, 2nd July

Coming Of Railway

The greatest single impetus was the coming of the railway.

DISCOVERY

150-Year-Old Skeleton Of A Cat

*

mertis one

additional peragraph in the golden

book that will soon be complete:

TO

MANILA

EMPRESS OF JAPAN EMPRESS OF ASIA

+

Aug. 24

JUNE 19 JULY 2

For Information Apply To Your Own Agent Of

CANADIAN PACIFIC

HONG FONG

THE

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LIVERPOOL SERVICE

*MENTOR

Sails 27 June for Havre,Liverpool

and Bromborongă

NEW YORK SERVICE

GLAUCUS

Sails 4 July for Boston, New York,

Pizizdelphia and Baltimore vir” Manila, Batavia, Straits, and Cape of Good Hope.

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(via KOBE NAGOYA & YOKOHAMA » IXION

Sails 18 June for Victoria, Vancouver

and Seattle.

INWARD SERVICE

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Doe 15 June from UK. via Straits. Due 19 June from UK. via Straite. Due 29 June from UK. vir Sturite. Due 5July from U.K. via Straits. Specially reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamers with limited passenger accommodation.

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Aug. Sept.

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Ang. 6 Sept 11 Sept. 14 Sept 20

Juna

Tues, 16th June This was followed by the con-j Workmen engaged on demolition The mysterious disappearance of struction of docks for ocean work in the historic Adelphi Ter-this able vessel with all hands in the South going steamers, and, in 1891, race discovered in a celling the a few years ago Sun, 14th June the inauguration by the Cana-skeleton of a cat which had pro-Atlantic is still one of the sex's Wed, 17th June dian Pacific Railway of its bably been there for over 150 mysteries. And in a very short Sat, 21st June trans-Pacific Service of years. The ceiling is in an upper while not a square-rigger of any TAIPING

Vancouver room of the famous Adams' house sort will come rising over the CHANGTE., 11. "Empress" liners.

in the latter half of the horizon. The glory of 8,000 years TAIPING had already become an import-built ant seaport when, in 1915, the eighteenth century, in which is vanishing until the cost. and the opening of the Fanama Canal Robert and James Adam, the ion of introduced its second great era architects who designed the drop of oil, have been extracted of expansion. The canal re Adelphi, resided. It is next door from the ground. Perhaps the Idaced the all-sea route from to the house where David Garrick, and not till then-will such cres-

Liverpool" to Vancouver by the actor, lived.

tions as the Herzogin Cecilie, nearly 6,000 miles. The ship The skeleton was almost intact, lovely in design and picturesque to ment of grain by this route and is to be presented to the behold, once again be allowed to becime fæst a feasible and then, National History Museum.

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