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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN

ŠTRAHEKS

REGULAR FORTNIGHTLY BERVICE BETWEEN

JAVA,

CHINA AND

JAPAN.

WILLYS

Глом

ON OR ABOUT

Fox

ON OR ABOUTĚ

TJIKINI

JAPAN

in pert

in port

TJILATJAP

JAYA

5th April

at April 4th Apri 11th Apri

TISONDARI... SHANGHAI

* Wireless Telegraphy,

BATAVIA via BANKA BATAVIA DIRECT

JAVA

The Stomers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and have sococamodatio for a limited number of loon Passengers. All stemmers carry a duly qualified curgoon, Cargo taken at through rates to all ports in Netherlands India and Australia.

For Partlanlars of Freight and Passage apply to the York Building, First Floor

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN..

Telephone No. 1574,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 81, 1922.

BRITONS IN THE FAR EAST. DAIRY FARM NEWS

LAND OF THE LONELY MAN,

THE SETTLEE AS SOLDITE.

(IT VISCOUNT NORTHCLIFFE.)

"SINGAPORE, December, 1921. From this Far Eastern land my infnd's eye travels Home, and sees there all good people who sit in fireside comfort, with the atlas of the world on their knees, and pat themselves oa the back for their own share in the "parts colour-

nad "those ed

Juany parta of

the enormona British Empire which separated by huge distances all about the great globe. And I fall to wondering how many of these Impérialists understand the life of the man who is chiefly waponsible for those red patches on the map, or know how much they are in his debt.

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This man is the Englishman, the Scot, the Irishman, the Welshman, in the Far East. If we are to reckon up what we owe him, we must call not on the present only, but on many dead and gone generations for their testimony.

His work often lies at the spot on the globe furthest from his native Britain,

VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDSCH farthest from all that he holds dear, furthest

SCHEEPVAARTMAATSCHAPPIJ

(United Netherlands Navigation Company).

HOLLAND OOST AZIE LIJN

k.

(Holland-East Asia Line)

(Members of the Straits, China and Japan ConferencG8). ..

Regular monthly service between

from all which for most of us makes life worth while.

In the majority of cases, perhaps the man in the Far East, lives a life utterly unlike that of any other white man in the world. For years and years at a stretch, in many cases, be is cut off from the home which keeps tugging at his heart-strings. Soinetimes such a man, married and with children; may not see the land of his birth for 15 or 20 years after he has come out to the East..

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For the newly arrived bachelor life many

JAPAN PORTS, SHANGHAL HONGKONG ANI be solitary, but interesting. He has the joy

MANILA

AND

'AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG

AND BREMEN

Saling, rubject to alterationa

For

Salling on or about

Steamers "ROTTI" ...ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM & HAMBURG. 24th Apr. "OOSTKERK" AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM & HAMBURG. 22nd May "OLDERKERK” KOTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM & HAMBURG, 20th June

For tuli parciesturs please apply tom

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIYN.

General Agents.

Tx Buildings.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

COPENHAGEN

The M/S. "AFRIKA”

will be leading for ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM. COPENHAGEN and other SCANDINAVIAN PORTS.

Further

Sailings.

M/S Tongking ".

M/S.. Malaya

M/S. "Java

M/S. "Pern "

or about.

About 1st Apr!!.

Expected on

14th Apr.. 7th May 15th June

Subject to change without notice.

#

HAMBURG

Will leave for above ⚫ports on or abont,

25th April 28th May

15th June... 23rd July.

For further particulars please apply to:-

MANNERS & BACKHOUSE LTD

"PHILIPS"

A PHILIPS LAMP

IS A PERMANENT

ECONOMY

SOLE AGENTS

Holland-China Trading Co Hong Kong

ASAHI BEER

SPECIALLY BREWED FOR EXPORT

DAI NIPPON BREWERY CO.

LIMITED.

TOKYO, JAPAN."

Aparta

SOLELAGENTS.

MITSUI

BUSSAN KAISHA LTD.

HONGKONG;

of taking up new work in new scenes which are often even more beautiful than he had imagined them to be when fate or his own desire chose for him a career of exile. Ia many districts he may find excellent sport; and although games may be hard to get- perhaps impossible except on his brief holidays-there is much to render the Eastern life pleurant to a young man with active tastes, to whom companionship is not indispensable.

So'fur, se gool, for the "bachelir. Bet when the wife and the little ones come-

The father of a family must so arrange home when they are seven years old. That his finances that his, children can be sent

is essential if they are to grow up healthy: in body and sturdy in mind. And their education means a beavy drain on his resources. The other day I heard of a man who had not been home for 18 years; his income was £1,600 a year, and £1,200 i of it went on the education of his children. Suppose his childless, still his wife must, as a rule, leave the tropical climate and go home for the necessary change at least once in every few years,

We may all but set aside the thought of the unanding struggle to make hoth ends

meet in lands where there is a natural - ten- dency towards extravagance to the man in the Far East that is a small matter com- pared with the heart-breaking separation from wife and from children for many, many years.

Suppose the boys are sent home at the g of seven. They will not Lave it school before they are 17 or 18. And that is an age at which it is most univisable to bring larle East again. They must be at home for some years yet. Say they are lucky, and when they are old enough obtain jobs or appointments in their father's die trict; between the time they go home and the time they come out again it may be 14

years,

STORAGE OF FURS, CARPETS

AND WINTER CLOTHES.

As a protection against Moths and humi dity, you cannot do better than store your Winter Clothes Furs and Carpets in opi Cold Stores.

Packages can be insured with us against Fire and Theft.

For particulars apply to the Secretary,

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COND STORAGE CO, LTD.

A. G. DA ROCHA.

LOUTIONEDE, SURVETOR AND GENERAL BROKER.

No. 24, D'Aguilar Street, Teler anne No. BI1

WEEKLY' AUCTIONE, TUESDAYS :-

MISCELLANEOUS. GOODAL

THURSDAYS :-- -

FALUABLE

HOUSEHOLD

SATURDAYS :—

FURNITURE

EXCELLENT ROCS HOLD PURS TORE

INSURE WITH THE

OCEAN

GUARANTEE TION,GLIMITED

SHANGHAI OFFICE-

994, Szechu-n Roul AGENTS for Hongkong

and South China, DODWELL & CO. LTD. TELEPH. 1030 2, QUEEN'S BLDG..

lofty rooms. at the size of the bou-a, at the beautiful garden and the troops of apparently perfect servants. Cooled by punkahs, they cat piquant and delicious luncheons and dinners, while they gaze out over exquisite scouory. They do not see what lies behind it all. They do not see what brings those untimely lines upon the white face of the brave laly of the honse, who must age years before her time because of the all bnt unendurable burden that her, Fourteen years-and those the most diffi-nothing of the ceaseless supervision of life sometimes becomes. They know cult, the crucial years in their lives, the the servants, but for which the whole years which almost always determine domestic scheme would collapse; nothing success or failure for their" whole future of the exhausting strain of keeping. Can you not imagine the mental tartare some kinds of natives up to their work, the which is the daily life of the inan in the Far drudgery of struggling day in and day out East, whose children have gone home; whose wife must leave him for twelve months perhaps three times every twelve years; who must remain, year in, your out-tailing to scrape together the money which keeps him from all that he most loves; always wondering, always afraid. lest the whole agonizing sacrifice may have been in vain, and his children return to him strangers in character and oütlook? -

We talk lightly of "luks of Empire,"

against their inbora laziness, their feck- lessness, their general sympathy with dirt. Above all, they know nothing of the lone- liness of the woman's life in a remote station, where the nearest white woman may be half-a-day's ride or drive away.

The wife of the man in the Far Eaft must be a pearl among women to support, year after year, the steady inroads upon her health and her locks made by the climate,

the conditions, the narrowness of social life. She must be content with simple amuse- ments, and with what at Home would be deadly monotony.

but it is no light thing for us at home to understand just how lonely these men are Their wives are away for long periods; children for so long that they return East to find, not the playmate of their nursing or bridge, or (but only in favoured stations) She must be happy to play lawn tennis, daye, but a prematurely grey-haired and golf with the same people month after middle-aged stranger. In their loneliness mouth. She must never grow weary of these men turn for solace to what is seeing the same faces day after day." perhaps, the loneliest life of all-the life of and the faces of none but her servants the club.

They make their little club the centre for weeks at a time. Not the least and pivot of their lives, spending as much among her trials, if she be a normal time as possible there for the sale of the

woman, will be the difficulty and the expanse of dress. Unlow-she is a slattern mere human companionship. Gradually or a genius, she will not care to face her they drop back into bachelor life, with its husband and her friends in any but supposed freedom; but it is bachelor life with all the zest gone out of it. Behind it hard to come by the Far East. She must *lecent clothes"; and such things are lies always the empty bungalow, peopled realize, and realizing it, cheerfully accept, with mournful thoughts. who must live in what are universally existence. And she most put a brave înce The unluckiest of all are the planters the decree that the best years of her life shall pass far from her normal way of acknowledged to be the most monotonouson it while he watches ber children grow of surroundings-the rubber plantations. pallid, knowing that the money to send Theirs, as I have previously explained, is a them to home and health will be forth particularly hard fife, because, apart from coming, perhaps not for three or four years the inevitable loneliness of work carried onerhaps, as in some terrible cases, never. far from other men's habitations, and apart The Far East, as often as not, is the from the heavy gloom of the plantationit nd of the lonely man of the man who sif, there are many hours of the day which gives up who sacrifices himself, who, frɔm must be spent without either work or com

panion-hip-hours in which a solitary mal wastes his life. That view is very fir a conventional point of view, buries himself may fall to' brooding.

from the truth. Nine-tenths of what THE WOMAN IN THE FẢN EAST, In smaller matters, too, the man-ani

nakes life tolerable he gives up, volun- especially the man-in the Far Eat tarily, with his eroa open. The remainder suflers in a way which we in car comfort-be use no one else can do. That able, weatherproof, nugly arranged Briton in the Far East is unique.

remainder is work. As a worker, the cannot understand. Globe-trot ters come out and spend a few days seems to sink his own personality into that As he falls into the routine of the life be in a plaster's bungalow. They are fasstrange aggregate of men and women who cinated (and rightly) at the spacious, represent Britain in the Far East.

(Continued at foot of next co-ul?!).

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INDO-CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED

SAILINGS, SUBJECT TO ALTERATION

HAIPHONG HOIHOW MANILA

TIENTSIN

BANGKOK via SWATOW

HAIPHONG

SHANGHAL

SWATOW

SHANGHAI...

SANDAKAN

STRAITS & OALUUPTA

... "TAKSANG* Saturday,

"LOONGSANG...Saturday,

"WAISHING"

...Monday,

"UHUNSANG"...Taosdsy,

LEESANG

KWONGSANG

*OHAKSANG

Walnesday,

“MAUSANG* Mooday,

1st April, 8 a..

1st April Sp 3rd April

4th April, 10

4th

April, 10

4th

April, Daylight

3th April Daylight

10th April, Noon

“ KUMSANG* ...Thursday, 20th April, 1pm..

CALOUTTA LINE:- This Lade affords regular sailinge to Calcutta, Penang ang

12

Singapo returning from Unicants steamers proceed via Strateg and Hongkong to Japan, cosastonally calling at Shanghai.

All steamers have acallant passenger accommodation, ar

itted with Electric Light and Fans and carry a fully-qualified

阵

SHANGHAI LINE 3, sometimes calling at Swabow. Through tickets can

approximately every three days potwan Canton s

MANILA

ba obtained and through Bill of Lading aro lazed to Northern I and

sailing Hania by vosania with good

rice is maintained LINE only saw Langħass Ports via Shangha

passenger socommodation,

from both porta evezy Friday, HALPHONG LINE-Salgs approximately rookie rangers and car

at felbow when inducement offers.

༔

BORNE - LINE-Fortnightly salltags to and from Bandakan by two. 5,000 tons

teamers "HINHANG” and a “MAUBANG" both tomor naying excellent passenger accommodation. Cargo inken es shrough Bill of Lading for Kudat, Jesselton, Labuan Lavas and Lahad Deta

FLESTRIN

BANGKOR

LINE:--A regalar service is run from March to November betwee

Hongkong and Tientals, calling at Welhalwat and Chatoo. LINE;-A weekly service is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok į ria Bwabow, by five steamers fisted with un-to-date ¿Sabeengek accommodation

CALOUTTA

$.5,

'

LINE

KUMSANG" will be despatched on or about Thursday, 20th April, at 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA

Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, MADRAS, FORT SWETTENHAM and DUTCH EAST INDIES.

For Freight or Passenge apply to-

TELEPHONE NO. 95.

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.,

GLEN

GENERAL MANAGERS.

AND

SHIRE

Joint Service of Steamers.

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

Verm

S.S.CARNARVONSHIRE" M.V." GLENIFFER" M.V. "GLENGARRY" MV. PEMBROKESHIRE

Veldi

M.V. "GLENTARA” M.V. "GLEYARIFTE" ALV." GLENOGLE' M.V. “GGEVAPP? S.S. CARNAVONSHIRE"

OUTWARDS.

HOMEWARDS,

Leaves Hongkong

Dae Hongkong

16th April

25th April.

3rd May

18th May

Discharges

... 8th Apr. GEDA, LONDON, ROTTERDAY, & HAMBURG, ... 14th Apr.

do

... 9th May. GENOA, LONDON, ANTWERP & HAMBURG.

15th May, GENDA LONDON, ROTTERDAM & HAMBURG 7th Jane, Losnox, HULL, ROTTERDAM & HAMBURG. Movements are subject to change withoat notlos For freight or farther particulars please apply to 1-

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltde The Glen Line, Ltd, avzam

„Telephone No. 215 raber. 13 and 3896

Cable Addrom

Kawakizsa, Koba.

Bentley's A.B.C“ 5th Ed.

and dooza's Coder,

KAWASAKI

KISEN

10

Irispons Hannomiy

7844212913,

(KAWASAKI STRAMAHIT "GO,)

MAFITAL PAID-UEL-

NEW

Freddent: Mr. Y. KAWAJARL" Vice-President Mr. E. MassuKATA. Managing Directore Mr. Maxata Air

KAISHA

ne Compaar haa on kandBA)Large Hamber al

CARGO STEAMERS

ALWAYS BEADY FOR CHARTERSI of all descriptions.

The following are comprised m the Company's Fleet un

Eleven stasiners of 9,100 tons each ácadweight. And muder the Company's Mannesmant p

Twenty steamers of shout 9,100 tons deadweight es Two steamers of about 6.400 tons deadweight -

(Belonging to the Hawazaki Dockyard (6., Ltd.)

For Ohore Rd, and z vllar articulars spoly to the

KAWASAKI KISEN KAI89

"No."8, Berni Kósa