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THORNYCROFT

JOHN 1. THORNTCROFT & Co., LIMIT

SHIPBUILDERS AND ENQISHI,

LONDON, SOUTHAMPION AND BAGSTORY.

Shanghai Ofce: 65, Szechuen Road.

MARINE MOTORS AND MOTOR BOLIS. MOTOR LIGHTING AND PUMPING. SETS. SHALLOW DRAFT SILAMERS. THORNYCROFT GIL FUEL SYSTEM.

Commercial, High-speed and Pleasure Craft.

THORNYCROFT WATER-TUBE BOILERS. THORNYCROFT MOTOR VEHICLES.

Our Motor Engineer and our Naval Architect. both Thornycroft experts, now resident in Shanghai, will gi.e attention" to all inquiries.

Early deliveries can be made of 15-b.h.p. 30-b.h.p., 45.b.p. and 70-b.h.p. Kerosene Marine Engines.

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RE ROXBURGE.

Manager for China.

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FRANCE'S OUTPOSTIN

MYSTERIOUS SYRIA,

Daily

Percival Phillips, the Apres Special Correspondent, writes from Beirut under date March Ist

From the deck of the Bargn Call (the most dilatory steamer that aver loafed along the Syrian coast northward "from Port Said) Beirut was the fairest picture of a town I had seen this side of the desart. Which should have been sufficient warning to expect "the worst. The real Beirut reminds me of nothing so much as Kingston after the earthquake.

We elbowed our way into the crowded harbour, and gazed hopefully on her deceptive beauty. Tier pon tier of white houses rose steeply from the water's edge; there were alluring splashes of groen among the rooftops, ornate public build- ings, church domes, and minarets; a back- ground of steep mountain slopes reach- ing skywards to the snowy crest of Lebanon, lost in drifting clouds. A desirable city indeed, obviously outrank ing in size and splendour her competitors for the rich trade of Syria.

The harbour shouted as much. Thirty steamers of half a dozen nationalities struggled for room inside the little breake water, demanding more or less profanely and in an any languages an immediate supply of lighters and longshoremen. The mother of all, ironclads aired her washing jat a buoy.

A trim Messagerier mailbone edged daintily through the horde of anchored Greek, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese freighters-some of them renamed German prizes beginning a new and better life and exhibited the lates, general on her bridge deck. A trooper was discharging her cargo of Algerian infantry at the quay Soldiers overran the foreground of this lively scene, add the tricolour of France few tant in the morning breeze

Beirut is the great base of the new Army of Occupation, and looks in

MIRAGE OF BEIRUT.

When a brusque young lieutenant of colonial infantry had stamped our pass ports-rejecting those not bearing the visa of his Consul at Port Said-we were at liberty to go ashore and be disillusion-

ed.

The mirage vanished like an Arabian Nights' set at Drury Lane

Remained only the usual dirty, dust-f ridden, down-at-heal city of the Bist crying out for fresh paint and sanita on half European and Eull Oricatal wholly dilapidated and decayed, enfer ing from the extra affiction so it seemed

la prolonged earthquake.

You imagine you are back in the war everywhere zone. French troops are The familiar scenes of the Western front keep crossing your mind; and yet it is nut the same. Not the same type of soldier, nor yet of officer. These are, for the most part, hardbitten, scarred, and scorched legions of Northern Africa Algerians in red fezzes and khaki wander among the bazaars; occasionally a shiny black Senegalese flashes his gleaming teeth at you from a ration cart

Elderly majors, burned brown by the African sun, lean, wrinkled, and liverish, stare grimly at you thriugh pince-nez, tailored young subalterns, thinking of Paris and bating Beirut, ransack the meagrely stocked bookshops; black-beard- ed captains from the Midi and slim Haff officers from headquarters in the hill Spahin, and gunner, sift through the varied throng which is Beirut out of doors.

From time to time a trooper is relapen with khaki and vanishes northwards column marches to the railway-slation,

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NERVOUS TENSION.

The city itself is as calm as London. Yet beneath the busy routine of everyday life you detect an air of anxiety, a feel- ing of tension, of uncertainty inged with apprehension. Syrians talk guard- edly, and are non-committal in their intercourse with rangers. You feel that the French, while otwardly impas- sive, are curiously alert and suspicious, nawontedly tacitura, perhaps a little too grimly watchful of their neighbour "At night the quays are picketed. Nervous

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The country is troubled, and so are its people. So are its new tenants on the conet Bo are the strangers who come seeking business. Every one is expectant of what They cannot tell you. They only know that tho present situation cannot be continued indefinitely m

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The only patient people are the poor, gratitude the doles of rice given them by the bindly French, but they seem to have little interest and less hope in the future. They have suffered much As I came back to my dilatory steamer I saw little ragged children hovering in the road- way A Inden lorry dashed, by at break- neck speed. They darted into the, dust, and when had passed groped there, with enger hands. They were searching for grains of corn that might have fallen from the bursting sacks

Like an old friend of mine used to do when he had too much to drink you should recite the Psalma instead of using filthy language said the Mayor of Canterbury to a defendant at the Police Court

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OF JAPAR

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RIGAUD &

INDO-CHINA

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ALLINGS BUBIKUT TO ALTERATION

SHANGHAI via

BHANGHAI SWA

HALPHONG TL HQIHOW

KOBE

SHANGHAI

ANILA

SINGAPORE & PENANG vis Akor.

BANDARAN

CALCUTTA

HANGIANG Sun: 16th May. D'light "CHOYSANG.Tues. 18th May, Dught. "TAKSANG Tues, 18th May, 8 m "LAISANG***** Tues 18th May, 8 MAR "KWONGSANG "This, th May, Dtight YUENAAND" Fri, 21st May, po FOSHING...Mon, 4th May, 3 pu

FINSANG Thurs, 27th May, Moon

"INE -Thi Lise affords regnar miings to Dalensis, xening and *Bings pors; returning from Calcatta steamers proosad via Strache and Hongkong to Japan, wasionally mailing as Shanghai hả All steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, art. ätted with Electric Light and Fans tei ostry =" fülly qualified

SHANGHAI LIFF: T

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sypruzimately every five days between Caftan ans Shanghay sometimes calling as Swacow, Thringhi tlakain, canli be obtained and throngly Bills of Erslag arm iurned wo; ALT

farther and Tangismo Forts via Shanghai, d LINE-A weekly service it maintained with Bianlia by yasagis with good,

passenger accommodation; silings frous both porte every Friday. LINE:Sanings approximately woolly for passengers and carge.

calling at Holbow when, inducement offert kit, LINE:-One salling per month berysen Hongtong and Sandakan by

» steamer having up-to-date accommodation, for "passengers. Cargo taken on through Bile of Lading for Kusdat; Jousiten Labass, Izwan and Emad Data TIISTEIN LINE -A"-267ular servion le ran from March November betwee

Hongkong and Tientsin, caring at Weibalwal and Chafen,

HAIPHONG BORNEO

CALCUTTA

S.Ş.

LINE.

FOOSHING

will be despatched on or about May 24th, for SINGAPORE,

& PENANG via AMOY,

Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, PORT SWETTENHAM, MADRAS and CALCUTTA.

For Freight or Passage' apply to-

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltely.

GLEN

GENERAL MANAGERS

AND

SHIRE

Joint Service of Steamers.

U.K.-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.

Vestal

OUTWARDS.

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HOMEWARDS. Leaves Hongkong

20th May 29th May.

GENOA, LOSPORT &

LONDON.

GLENADE* "PROFESSOR"

Die Hongkong

£id May

Movements are subject to change without notice.

For freight or farther particulars please apply to:-

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

"The Glen Line, Lids AGENTS: The Royal Mail Steam Packet Cor

Owners of "Shire" Linez

Tel. No. 11 amb. ex -13)

Cable Address

Kawakiam, Kobe

Bentley's, A.B.C. $th ́Ed.

and Boott's Codes

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KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA

(KAWASAKI

STEAMSHIP.00.)

CAPITAL PAID-UP more Audre

Preddent: Mr. Y. KÁVA

Y20,000,000

Vice-President: Mr/ L HarroZÁLL. Managing Director: Mr. MARATA ÁSZ

The Company has on hind a Large Number of

NEW CARGO STEAMERS

ALWAYS READY." FOR

GHARTERS of

descriptions.

The following are comprised in the Company's Fleet pin

Eleven steamers of 9,100 tons each deadweight.

And, under the Company's ma

Twenty steamers of about 19,100 to

Two steamers o

eight each

each

of about 6,104 Belonging to the Kawaakt Lookyard Co, Lad.

For Charler Rates and all other particulars

KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA.