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COMPANIES
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.
PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
Outwards "CORFU” "CANTON" "CHUSAN”
Leaves LONGER
Due Hongkong
mart.com
5th Deprinber
JINE
14th December Joth Jan. 1935
Inca Jan..
#tti
Via Boubampton,
flomowarda
"CORFU"
19th December
17th Jan, 1950
"UANTON"
"CHUSAN"
14121
And Feb
Jan. 1135
"
14th Feb., 1955
Zo4 Marc
14311
"CARTHAGE" Oth Jan, 1000
Port Said, Ades, Bombay, Colombo, Jeans 4 Bingapore
Lever Gongkong Due London
"CARTHAGE"
VIA
Singapore, Penang, Colombe, Dombay, Ades
Port Bald # London
Also calls Marseilles,
FREIGHT SERVICE
"BUNDA"
beads Bpth Flex
"SOUDAN"
DOKI DIEZ p
for 'port.
Swetten. ham, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Port Said, GenONE, Marselites. Stavre, Lon don, Antwerp, flotter. dain & Hamburg
from UK t'ontinent Vla Straits
Tonda 32 þary Jan
tor
posta
***UNDA" above
***
With herty to call at Balawan before or after Stralin Ports and at Dombay if inducement offers.
Tanks available for carriage of Ofl in Bolk, Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited PassengDE accommodation,
BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD,
"WARLA"
10th Dec.
trum Japan
Mills 1 Dec. for Mingapore, Rangvun,
Vaivulla & Cabingun
P. & O./B. I. JOINT SERVICE
OZANDA”
مل اور رواة الراية
#4
- Nov
from
- ANDR
I Japan
"OBRA"
útic
430 Nov
CULI
-URDIA"
due 2905 Nov
122 JADRA
For
italy. ALORSPANK
Bingapore, Pakisaj, Bombay.
Karachi, Baaran, Abadan, Khoti Taitabakir & Kuwait
trota P.G. & Karachi
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN 5.S. CO., LTD.
"NANEIN"
J
4ur 8th Dec. 7th Dec.
from Japan for Bandakan. Buhilan Lae, Rabaul Brisbane, byd
Melbourne &
Alf vessels have liberty to call at any ports on or of the route & the route & smiling are subject to change or amendment with or without notice,
For full particulars apply to:- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
OF HONG KONG LTD. Telephone Nos. 27721-4 ̊.
EVERETTO
LINES
EVERETT ORIENT LINE
Fast regular freight refrigerator passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo-China, Slam, Malays, Rangoon, Calcutta and
Chittagong,
"BRADEVERETT”
Arrives Saila
Nov. 29 from Singapore, Nov. 29 for Kobe & Yokohama,
"NOREVERETT"
Arrives Safla
Dec. 14 from Manila.
Dec. 15 for Singapore,
Penang,
Rangoon & Calcutta,
(Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobo/Pusan and Kobe/Okinawa)
EVERETT STAR LINE Fast regular freight refrigerator passenger service to Котев, Japan, Philippipes. Indo-China, Siam, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Persian Gulf. "THAI
Arrives
Balle
Dec. 8 from Singapore, ! Dec. 9 for Kobe
“STAR ARCTURUS“
Arrivas Sails,
Dec. 8 from Japan Dec. 9 for
Yokohama.
Manila, Singapore, Madras, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi, Khorramshahr,
(Accepting, cargo for transhipninni Kobe/Pusam and
Kobe/OkinawB)
EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION`S/A
Chatryaented to the Republic of Vademe
Department: Talenhose 28293,
Owen's Building, To shone: 21205,
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THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC || House, Happy Valley,
COMPANY, LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
General
on
November,
They are
Fasting Fakir VIRTUAL END OF
Was Stuck
With Snake
Paris, Nov. 23.
"UNKNOWN". NEW GUINEA
Canberra, Nov. 23. Ten native porters have died in recent weeks
An attempt by fakir Thursday, 26th
Burma to beat the world's
1964, at 5.45 p.m.
fasting record. which is 92 days and already belong- ALL MEMBERS are ed to him - nearly ended Notice is hereby given that cordially invited to attend and tragically in Rouen (West in the flooded rivers and jungles of New Guinea.
Extraordinary alwage wot an
The men who lost their lives were members come, should be addressed to the Meeting of the Members of which may ensue.
participate in any discussion France).
To make his bid more easa- of one of several expeditions pushing through the Company will be held at invited to forward to the ional, he had placed in his the Registered Office of the Secretary in writing at least vipers and a number of other open up parts of the Territory where oil may be glass ocffin a pythen, overal largely unexplored jungle in an intensive effort to Company, 4th floor, P. & O.seven days before the meet-replies. He had intended that found. Building, On Thursday, the ļing is due to take place, any they should, alsu observe the 23rd day of December, 1964 matters which they may wish some regimen on him, that is, at 11 am. for the purpose of to bring up for discussion.
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"ATREUS"
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be surveyed November, 1947 be ter-
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Hongkong Electric
By Order of the Board of Directora,
WATER
The first report on the progress of the expeditions has been made by an Assistant District Patrol Officer, As the days passed by, the Mr D. J. Clancy, who commanded the armed escort python began to shew signs
of 13 native police accompanying the Australian of
which gradually nervousness
He worsened.
growing | Petroleum Company's oil-search team. weak but he was tili strong cnough to cause the fakir con- siderable trouble if he chose,
CUT OFF HEAD The faldr, fearing the worst would happen, took
a radical step. He picked up a dogger that he had been careful enough to take into the coffin with hims and with a surprise move, cut off the reptile's head. It was a hard struggle between the man and the snake, but finally the ion won.
Because a large part of the expedition's route lay through unexplored Jungle country peopled by primitiva, war-liko natives tho insisted on the escort,
side through the strugging ines
of porter without injurying any of them,
The natives, of the Tar and Administration | Duna tribes are small, dark Berco people who spend a great part of their life in sayage inter-tribal fights.
evon
RECEIVED PEACEFULLY
Mr Clancy's report stated tersely: "Generally, native tfbes ropolved the patrol peacefully,
with friendliness." But when the fakir asked for That Mr Clancy, who lost two the coffin to be opened to get and a half stone in weight in rld of his
undesirable his two months' trek, zucceeded
who had to python, the bailif
making Finison with the affixed the seals on his coffin natives wis no powid:nt, could not be found; he had gone
took His porters with them fishing over the weekend,
trade goods steel axes and knives, bright lengths of cotton material and highly prized native currency of cowrle and mother of pearl shell.
now
The seals, however, could not be removed without his pre sence, and the fokir had to sleep two days in company with the dead snake which was be ginning to omit a foul smell.
The ball Bnally returned, Just as the fakir was about to give up his attempt Bi the | record,--France-Pressc.
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FAST PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
saing Dec. 3rd salling Dec. 31st
"LAOS" "VIETNAM"
W. STOKER. General Manager.
FAST FREIGHT SERVICE
"BIR HAKEIM” "MEKONG" (1)
sailing Dec. 21st sailing Jan. 5th
(1) will call at London
Hong Kong, Tuesday, 23rd November, 1954.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
WE'VE A SOLDIER EVERY OTHER FOOT, SURROUNDING THE PALACE! MANDRAKE CAN'T GET IN WITHOUT OUR KNOWING IT.
FERDINAND
NANCY
1 HATE TO REMIND SLUGGO, BUT HE PROMISED TO RAKE MY LEAVES TODAY
JOHNNY HAZARD
↑ WHO ARE YOU, SISTER? AND WHERE YOU HEADED
·IN: SUCH A BIG, FAT
HURRY!
IS ALL THIS-- FOR ONE MAN? MUST BE QUITE | A GUY!
WHO KNOWS !! THEY SAID-- LET NO ONE
THROUGH.
WHY. DON'T
YOU GO OUT IN THE YARD FOR SOME
AIR ?
· LEAVE ME ALONIL): I AM THE CONTESSA
PRIVATE SECRETARY GYDU HAVE NO KAHT TO STOP WI
O.K.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
THERE'S THE PALACE BELOW US. LOWER OVER THE ROOF,PILOT.}
YES-
SIR.
ONLY TWO O'CLOCK YOU. BURK HOT BASY WORKING HOURS! HEY GIFF.LOOK WHAT I FOUND TRYING TO SNEAK OUT THE BACK
WAY!
9-18
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By Mik
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Frank Robbins
60, THE LITTLE FOOL DIR OVERHEAR US... AND WAS TRYING TO WARN HAZARDI. GOOD THIS TURN OF EVENTS
SIVES WE TIME TO GET
THERE FIRST
In
The expedition set out inte May to face some of the most formidable country in the world.
For two months, the loaded porters and alert Constabulary arined with service rifies talled over mountains and along the course of the F River,
The Strickland Gorge, a great deep crevasse in the jungle, only four miles in six days.
Mr
Clancy, ac
accustomed to long patrols in rugged country and in hazardous conditions, makes Little of the hardships of the journey in his report. Al- most laconically, he reports n miraculous escape from death for the entire party.
HUGE LANDSLIDE
A huge landsilde seni hundreds of tons of rock crashing down a mountain.
TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS
AND REFRIGERATORS
"THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FAMOUS"
BLACK MAGIC
ASSORTED
CHOCOLATES
Can Miguel
They surround
with deep ditches, extensive
their bumies urmuringly
when it is realised that the only tools they posSCAS are made of wood and stone.
they fights arrows, stone axey
in their tribal use bows and and bone daggers.
But
to the they responded of Mr Clancy's patrol, When given the choice, they those red cotton and seized enterly on steel axes.
Some of them become portera for a while--and revealed L talent for the dramatic. Tiring. or with a too heavy load, they would fling themselves to the ground.
ound, wailing and "die" con vincingly.
Tragedy, which claimed the lives of ten of the party, struck towards the end of the patrol" mission.
in
Crossing a swollen river by vanoe, a native constable dis- obeyed instructions.
The Administration report received
Canberra
stated: "Every precaution in loading was taken and 18 canoes were tel iri pairs for greater stability. while two smaller ones were used as scouts.
TURNED TOO WIDE
"Everything went weil until a alivo constable in charge of one of the double cariots did not follow in- structions and swung too wide at a turn in the river.
The error took the 11-fátod craft into a whirlpool and 9 of its 12 occupants were lost,"
Another native was drowned ho pt- when, against orders, tempted to swim the river.
The Administration believes This expedt ion means the virtual end of the discovery of "unknown" parts of New Guinea.
that
"Although subsequent patrols may locate small po kels of previously uncontacted primitive groups in Isolated inland por- tions of Papua and New Guinea this one wrote the Binal chapter In the little-known but splendid record of the discovery of the territory, the report said.
their
But whereas the Adminstra- tion patrols have finished work, the oil companies only just bogun.
have
Geologists and technicians are sweating their way through the Jungle seeking ofl.
ANOTHER EXPEDITION
Another expedition which left Angoram in September is only now reaching the tringo of a 1,650-square mite search permit' area,
Other expeditions will follow 10 take up the work of men Hike Mr D. J. Clancy and his colleagues of the New Guinea and Papuan Constabulary——— China Mail Special.
Free Passage Scheme
To End
London, Nov,† 23. The free polsinge scheme for British ex-servicemen sexi wo- men, emigrating to Australia is to be ended on February 28, 1955.
Mr Harold Watidinson, PITUR. mentary Secretary to the Minis- |try, of Labour told the House of Commons today' tho'declaton had boen taken "with tho concur. rence of the Australian Clover- ment,"
The Australian High Commis sioner in London, Bir Thomas the White, suld today that scheme on assisted migration to Australia - would not be affected in ? my degree by the fórmal. termination of the arrangement under which ex-servicmmacki, and woman of ⠀⠀ the 1089–1945: war hád been given free passages to
On the other hand the nailstod: passage" schémé, which provides] 210 / pakatges for adultar and
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