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THORNYCROFT

John L. TuchaTczOrt & Co., Lanz

SHIPBUILDRES AND ExGisans,

LONDON, SOUTHampton Ard- BAKTÉOSTOKE,

Shanghai Ofice: 65, Szechuon Rond.

MARINE MOTORS AND MOTOR BOA18. MOTOR LIGHTING AND PUMPING SETS SHALLOW DRAFT STEAMERS. THORNYCROFT GIL FUEL SYSTEM.

Commercial, High-speed and Pleasure Craft.

THORNYCROFT WATER-TUBE BOILERS. THORNYCROFT MOTOR VEHICLES.

Oar Motor Engineer and our Naval Architect, both Thornycroft experts now resident in Shanghai, will give attention to all Inquiries."

Early deliveries can be made of 15-bhp, 20bhp, 45-h.h.p, and 70-b.b.g. Kerosene Marine Engines.

119

RR. BOXBURGE

Manager for China.

THE FUJI TRADING CO.,

- LIMITED

(Ing. in Japan)

PAPER

Descriptions la Stock:

dureas: Lay Chater-Road Central, Hongkong.

P. O. Box: 640;

Telegraphic Address: Fujiboyaki, Hongkong.

Head. Office: OSAKA..

Just received from U.S.A., a ne ♬

different models.

Inspection cordially invited by

Telephone 7482.

UNIVERSAL IMPORT & EXPORT CO.

HOTEL MANZIONE,

TOP FLOOR,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 31st,

""HONGKONG. 1).

THE CHINA & AUSTRALIA S.S. CO.

For MELBOURNE & SYDNEY VILMANILA, HANDAKAN & QUEENSLAND PORTS

HWAH PING"

+ VICTORIA "|

For Fausage and Freig

On or about Jane 11st.

THE CHINA & AUSTRALIA SS. CO., 113, Connenght Road Central

HOTELS IN

JAPAN MANCHURIA

JAPAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION.

Chazena Bilkku]*\

از به فر با باده توان به خود

POLAND IN THE MAKING,

THE GENERAL SITUATION

The special correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writestone bate

ing

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

BEN" LINE OF STEAMERS. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

ANTWERP

"MIDDLESBRO, LONDON & STRAHTS.

FROM

No Game will be admitted after the Gonds are left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining mdudruk ndise the 14th inst, will be malajar

craft in the Be

All Chales aging," tha

There is a disposition in some quarters ta criticise severely the results attained by the Government of Poland since the

The Steamship “BENMOHR” declaration of independence in the satumn of 1918. Certainly there is room for

ONEIGNEES or Cargo are hereby informed hostile criticism. The public services are

that all. Goods are being ianded at their far from satisfactory, much dishonesty con tinues, eloquence is plentiful, while perfk into the hammer and/or caws hamardem Irmance is slow. The economic stato of hodowas of the Hongkong and Kowloca Whart the country is deplorable, and the finances and Godown On Lal, whetics idal or from

be obtained bave fallen into so pazioas a condition saharren delivery may to constitute a very grave danger. Nor does the Government venture to set with the authority which is required to stom the worst of those abuses. But everything must be seen in due proportion if correct conclusions are sincerely sought. It is ended to the Undersigned on or befees the only common fairness and common sense lat. Inst, or they will not be recognimal, pinn to remember the stupendous tank which All brakes, obsted and damaged Goods ar had to be accomplished in order to reunite to be left in the Gadows, where they will b

10AM. the provinces of a Btate which has been ained on the 24th fnat. dismembered and subjected to alien con-Note Inementen has been affected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned querors for 150 years, an

LIVINGSTON 200. Not only was Poland torn into three GIBB, LIVIN parte, but her sons were engaged on oppos

Bengkong, May 17th, 1950. siden in the late war in approximately equal numbers. Nor has this tragedy INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION left no open wounds. Incomparably the

LANTOOMPANY, RIMERED best administrator of the Polish provinces Was the German, and the risest measure would have been to have adopted the ministrative system of Fosenin

Smeral for the whole country. Hatred of German rule and of all things German, Jealousy of the Polish officers and officials who have bad a German training, and who therefore the most capable, has hindered this solution, with the result that Russian aring arrived from the above port, Consignees of Cargo by her aro hereby informed that all methods with all their shortcomings are Goods are being landed så their risk into the more in vogue in Poland than the Cenazardous saror extrs hagious Godowns man system. The Austrians have supplied. many important men to the army and to the diplomatic service. Inevitably where all had to be created afresh many mistakes were made, many unsuitable appoint and many regrettable incidents oc curred, but kiven the chaotic edition of the whole country in 1818, devastated to be left in the Godowat, here they be examined. Claims against the gleaner by the war, without Government, common must be presented within 10 days of arrival, code of laws, cainage, or any of the essen-other id they will not be recognised. tial machinery of a civilised State, a candid critic must admit that a great deal has been achieved, and that on balance great praise, is due to the Polish people and chiefs. Great credit also due to the foreigners who have at their aid, and not least to the British officers, mili tary, naval, and diplomatic, who have amiduously toiled in support of the Polish States.

THE BOLSHEVIK WAR

ATE

Polish

territory had to be wrested forcibly from the Germans when the Kaiser's army and power dissolved; this feat was not altogether contemptible, for

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. From CALOUTTA PENANG and

or BINGAPORE. ALLE Stormship

h

PAS "LAIBANG"

of the Hongkong and Kowkom Wharf and Godown Company, Limitad whence and/or from the wharves, delle may be obtained

Goods not cleared i

by May Bird, will be subject to rente

and damaged packages packages All broker

No Fire Insurance will be affected by us in any mm WAS HOTEL.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned JARDINE, MATHESOR & CO.

men General Manageme. Hongkong, May 18th, 1220.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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OCEAN STEAM SHIP COMPANY, LTD.. UHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LTD.

it could never have been effected if the MORRIGA

Poles had not combined with patriotic

per Company's Steamer

*THIRESIAS"

zeal and unanimity. But a far more scare hereby notified that the Cargo will be uns strife was the war with Bolshevik discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, Bussin. When the German troops were where it will host Consignee's risk. The disarmed and sent home, their places had Cargo will be ready for delivery from Go

be taken by the down on and after May 16th

immediately

to

damaged goods are

to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined or any Tacadays, and Fridays between the hours of 10:45 am. and Noen within the free storage period

forces of Poland herself, i and in a Optional cargo will be landed, unless very remarkably short space of time notice has been given prior to steamer's the immense front of Central Europe against Communist Russia was manned broken, chafed and adequately guarded by the Poles The emergency served the good purpose of rendering this hastily-levied militia into formidable troops who have now waged war, victoriously en a grand scale with the armies of the Soviet. Certainly the domestic affairs of Poland have necce sarily been-subordinated to the imminent danger of invasion, which may explain why the army has developed and improved far more rapidly than the civil admin- istrations Moreover, the work of the French staff has been invaluable

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have lett the steamer's Godown od all Goods remaining undelivered after the 11th May, will be subject to rent

All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 7th June, or they will not he recognised.

No Fire Insurans will në affected Aligendigen hel BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Agents Fongkong, May 18th, 1930

989

it is certainly not sufficiently appreciated in England that it is the Podian armies along which have stemmed the tide of Bolshevisms for eighteen months on the and the sale of oid clothes, in particular great plain of Central Europe. If Poland the clothes of the victims of the disease, had not done so, England and France spreads it effectively. It is conjectured must have kept large armies in the field from what reports are available that there. or have yielded to the Bolshevik menace. are more than two million cases in Bus with incalculabie consequences. The Polesia, and the total will have reached thres feel acutely that they have not had the million by the end of the winter. The credit they deserve, and are especially dispersal of Denikin's forces is spending sory at wink they believe to be English the courge, which now threatens to grip indifference to their fate The Warsaw the Austrian territories in its deadly Press has held up Mr. Lloyd George to claws, whence it will assuredly spread west- its readers as unfriendly to Poland, and ward, for it is most infectious and travels as ignorant or careless of the politics of once. After the physical and moral Central Europe. Nor can it be denied dangers of Bolshevism the grim peril of that steps should be taken to remove the s grat plague of typhus is impending and impression which has been created Less demands the careful consideration of the reasonable is the Polish resentment of the Western States while there is still tim, 10 neutralisation of the port of Danzig, it take the necessary measure to check it. Poland eventually gets the place, becauso British management is quite essential to give Darzig a fair start se the great port of Poland, and to link it up satisfactorily with the Polish railway system which is not in as good: & condition as it should be even after allowance is made for Inck of experienced personnel, rolling stock, and other difficulties. The administra tive work is still bad, and the robbery himself a Socialist, and unquestionably

STRIKE, AND PROPAGANDA

Poland is still plagued with sporadic strikes. It is difficult to judge what degree of justification exists for theso strikes behind the back of the army which is defending Polish independence against formidable odds. No doubt the workmen in certain industries have real grievances, but the Chief of the State stijl calla

of goods on the railways still provalis to exerts all his influence in the home Govern

En outrageous extent

TER TYPHUR SCOURGE

in favour of the proletariat, nor is there any disposition to exploit labour. Economic questions are very difficult; mevitably here is hardship and even suffering, the wonder is that the people in the cities have as much food and clath ing ns they actually get nor could the problem nave been solved by any but a military, régime on a war footing, with,

absolute authority

Statistica collected by the American Typhus Commission give the most eloquent proofs of the deadly nature of this epidemic. The number of cases in Con gress Poland the original territory of the Treaty, wherein alone are any reliable official statistics—in January, 1820 were |_ estiranted" at 26,000. But the maindy was

more severs in the territoric bordering On March 11th the éséctris power. on Rumia, Le East Galicia, Volhyni, stations, gas and water works stopped, and Podolia. No less than 00 per cent. but the Chief of the State immediately of the inhabitants of many villages in | decided to militarise these services, with there provinces were known to be infected the result that the strike immediately last January. It is estimated by the Ame-collapsed, Bons concessions were then rican Commission that there were no fewer nccorded to the workmen Out of work than 75,000 cases in the whole of Poland pay is distributed on a large scale. It is last January. Now typhus increases hard to say how far the Russian Bol- rapidly in the cold weather, when the sheviks are implicated in these strikes, poor folk huddle together in their stay for naturally they are suspected of being cabine from January to the middle of the origin of all evil There is no doubky April. In the month of February, 1920, however, that Bolshevik propaganda has 40 per cent. of the Polish doctors in the intensited lately, and in concervable or three had provinces who were fighting News of the German revolution puzzled the cumstances would be very dangerous, -2df

some men the Foles. Some hold the theory that ib difficulties

weaken Germany others fear an ante, from attack from the Germans in

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INDO CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED

MANITLA

·JAILINGS (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION

KEMAYLENBANG" Fri. 2's May, 3 pmc TENTSIN VIA WHEATWE & CHIFOO" CHECK G&HING*Tue, 16th May, light. SINGAPORE & PISANG vis AMOT KORK

SANDAKAN

STRAITS & CALGUTTAKES? -

FUOSHING Tues, 95th May, 3 pm.

» TRUMBING Thai toàn diy 2

- HINBANG"...... Thurs. 3rd June, Neca AIBANG Thurs, 3rl Jane, 3 pt.

CALOUTTA JINK -This Line afforda ragnar wings to Uslcatta, Gang and

Singapore, rubdradog from Calonte stowators procond via Stratte and Hongkong to Japan, wasionally calling at Shanghai "All risensere - have excellent passenger accommodation, fitted with Elsatele Light and Fans and carts fully-qualided

• Barreon, na BATT

baseen CamDIK” BEEN SHANGHAI „LUNK ---Skiings approximuksly every Ave i

Shangnal, somaluse calling of Swalow. Through make own be obtained and throughs Bils of Ledlog are issued, so all

and Yangism Fort via Bhanghai, c -MAKILA....... LINK ---A weekly service is maintained with Manila by ronin with poor

ocation maßings from both ports every Friday,

personjera" and a carpe, calling at Holloerier Neben Indromaans MAINE **Oslo falling" per indath betwse Boogkong sad Sandakan by

“steamet having up-to-dam adɔommodation for parseDITORS. Cargo taken en Marough Bum of Lacing for Kundan rossolang LABRES, TAWHaớ ang tahad. Dudkit"

SORTEO

TUINTIKINĮ LINE

· Froguiar "varrías frirum from March to November bakwesa Hodyrong and Tiens being maliling 13 Walhalwal and Chefer,"

CALOUTTA

LINE

8.8. “FOOSHING"

will be despatched on or about May 25th, 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., Lt,

GENERAL MANAGERS

AND GLEN

U.K-STRAITS,

GLENA

GLENTARA

GLENADE" PROFESSOR:

SHIRE

Joint Service of Steamers data

CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.

OUTWARDE.

HOMEWARDS.

Lever Hodgkon

27th May

29th May

Das Hongkong Lindi Maya 19th June

330sh Jame 12th July.

Dicharrer

„Gesoa, Losdor & Auršine.

Movements are subject to changs without notice.

For freight or further particulars ploxan spaly

Tel. No. Tik

Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd.

AGENTE:

Cable Addrem

-Kobe

Bentley, ABC 8th Ed. and Scott's Coder

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Owners of "Shire" Line,

KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA

(KAWABAKI - STEAMSHIP. [00.)

President: - Mr. Y. KawaharL

PITAL PAID-UP

*

Vice-Prekons♪ Mr. K. MatroxatA, ading Director : ME MILANA Š

Y20,000,000

The Company has on bead a Large amber of

NEW CARGO STEAMERS

ALWAYS READY FOR:

all dese

GHARTERS:

The following AZT

tons-deadweight each 6,100 tons deadweight each-

-KAISHA