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THR HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY ST, 1912.

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BRITISH SHIPPING "WELL AHEAD.

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Dealing with shipping in his intreste

ROPE

BRIDGES,

A PRIMITIVE WAY OF CROSSING (SWIFT: RIVERS."

which he fell the P. & O, Buer Egypt, off or report ones foreign trade to the not, only their own course, but that ch

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moment

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A broad swift river is undoubtedly a serious obstacle, and it can hardly be denied that rivers have in the past changed

history. Though the Alps appalled nei.{ ther Hannibal nor Napoleon, yet Alexander halted at the Imlus, na the Romans did) at the Rhine. Yet in the long run a virer is not so formally a barrier as range of high insuntains, and is rule if over, so diferire nsa frontier. The ways ma but none is more quaint than the repe have discovered for crossing rivers are many,

bridges of Thet. They are bridges by courtesy only, at their effectiveness mine can dispute.

NOW ON SALE.

THE DIRECTORY

AND CHRONICLE

1922,

FOR CHINA JAPAN

KOREA,

- "INDO-CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES,

·NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP PINES. BORNEO, EM..

SIXTIETH

ANNUAL ISSUE containing

K

Abridged Edition

$

Ushnot, on May 20th,It is pirerd toge

| Chinese Maritime Custionis statisties for ther from the mirratives of sarvios who were taken to Brest. All speak of the 1924, Mr. d. W. H. Ferguson states:--

"wer apply of tonnage, taken in mguishing experience they jonseil through from the time" that the Eggps collided fromjnetion with depleted teagle, has had with the cargo sienam Neing to the a "disastrous effect on shipping and ship, of their rescue. The liter left ifting throughout the world. From Loudon at leven o'clock on Fridag fore-every part"one bears of tonnage laid up anen, anal on entering the Pas de Calais und ggond ships being disposed of a she struck a bank of fine which extended! (ramidiy prices far below replacing cost, gross the Channel and into the Atlantic and the Amut Summary of the Mer

These rupe bridges span the rivers of Devan

The Egypt was familiar witheantil- shipbuilding of the World, puls through earrow, steep walled garges. The south-eastern Tibet, which roll swiftly fogs. She had made the voyage to India fished by Lloyd's Register, also tells ends of the rope, which is made of cun sities 1997, and had weathered the most that the world's total output for 10 singly twisted bamboo strands, are terrible of storns without sustaining the was about 1.50w,rool tons below that for cured to wooden posts driven into the

1,500 PAGES! 14 MAPS: leash arcidem, Captain Collyer is a fine 19, Severtheless, an, increased antal ground, smalt lever platform being cut SPECIAL NEW MAP OF HONGKONG seauan, and the question is asked "whetitage of vessels entered and clearest out of the precipitous bank. The starting ther, on this occasion, his was more afraid in mind the stagnant state of the China of the finishing post, thus allowing er ha

at the Maritime Pustms, which, bearing post is perhaps 20 feet above the level, AND THE NEW TERRITORIES. of this thick fog than the, forty-fale packets during 121, causes misgivings a distinct downward slope, but the sag

$12 Angers and 201 metr of his crew. What Great Britain has fully maintained rupe tant by band, insures a slight up od regards the financial results obtained, and the impossibility of stretching the ever tears the "teg had inspired, he was her position and is again farile prines is grale at the finish which tends to check hopeful of reaching Marseilles, where he in the natter of tonnage which nowereessive speed. Thus at every crossing

to receive his complement

stands at 4 million tons, against 40 ropes are required, un sloping each port and cities of the Far East, from Netter- THE DIRECTORY covers the notable even million tons in 9. The Japanese Ang patsengers"

succeded in adding a millim tong to war. On top of the rope runs a wouden land India to Siberia, in which Baropeau The French cargo stamh Sig, which her last year's aggregate and now slider, about a foot in length, shaped like resids. Bad kel Le Pallide for Haspe, is a stout gisters A total of 1.7 million tuus.

Not only is the Directory as felland compete vessel belonging to th France fattie Chinese Shipping comes next with 27.1 Comptons, and was trially built for million tons, which is an increase of 3.4 navigating in seas where for heldagare millions as compared with 120, no to be found. During her life-time sla hos account being taken of junks, which support pany end- shorks with ior, and toraled anorker 47 million tons, while Tha Tibetan who essays the passage, story of the collision has been published, to 15 million tons. French vessels enter raw, which passes over his head to its ter equain, La Barzic, when graphic American tonnage dropped from 4.7 standing on the platform beneath the

The Information in these Descriptions, consist his vest winht energe safely, through crops of 365,719 tons as compared with holding on to the adder with both hands, statistics of the Trap of each Country and was also, it seems, full of confince thated and cleared recorded a healthy in foundation post, ties himself up and ing of a buadral interesting articles, packel with fsets concisely wet out, and containing the for

As soon as he entered the for the previous years, standing at 11,75 steps off into space; thus he slides geport, would alone suffice to fill a large volume. Länk he made full use of his sirens About seven werk. When the dinner, Dutch lag, which mu than doubled its muling himself up the last few yards trs in 1921, closely fallowed by the fully down the rope in a sitting position, g snel on heard the Egg, and onnage, thus Teaching 1.115.255 tons in hand over hand. But before the stringer her ergery bad taken their places in 1921, as 'against "565, tons in the dining salg the piercing shrink of Portuguese tonnage likewise made exe into. To begin with the rope is the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS

goes prer certain formalities are looked a whistle reached thon" marl, the

Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Firus Seine The soul was very near, and

lent progress from 98,61 to 212,750 tons, The German dag appears again for the reased with butter, to reduce friction. Nor of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larg used surprise. The next Portes mass rose up ant barrel the rst time since 1987 with four vessels does the stranger tie the knots himself. Commercial Centres Srime's route. Her captda was on his regating 2210 tons,

haja doubly scotted, and a stick thrust bridge, and imigliately gave the order Regarding the referripes above, it may through the last knot to assurance *Full speed astern." Alts: no human to mentioned that the tables, accore. Then the word is given, he is lifted foren could have prevented what allows pansing the port, credit China with an, and silps into space with a word of d. The enormous rass was the hight, toning of 31791.4, which places, he warning on no account to touch the rope To say that the impact was viclent second on the list, with roughly 30,em It is an exhilarating experience, that ruah hardly serifies the terrible character of tons more than Japan. The tonnage of through the air, with the river foaming the elliston. With a hug, gaping hole All nations was 14GIOSA,

and roaring beneath. in her site, into which the sea poured. the Bugt ploughed ahead and disappent

d in the fog.

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bicycle tyre cover, gripping the rope, In the thickness of the wood near the top in two slats are cu, and through these pass the bulber thongs from which the passen. ger is suspendal.

Port or Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIP TION, carefully revised each year, most of which will serve as accurate GUIDE ON THE TetEIST, Kiring every detail in connection with the places, their History, Topography, etc.

reserved for the purpose, and uniformity is every rangement greatly facilitates reference

The Book is printed from New Type specially

The

ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS the Far East, contains the paws of cre

20,000 FOREIGNERS,"

arranged with the Initials as well as the Sar names, in strictly Aphabetical Order, a tha: any name can be found instantly.

THE MAFS AND PLANS

The Directories and Descriptions are of

Tientsin

Cuixa

Peki

Soochow Cayton Chinking Whampie Peitaiho Soaking Kotloos

Chinwango Walu

Ast

The baggage is sent across exactly the same way; it is tied upand slides down by its own weight. When it stops, a man At this point the survivors of the Egypt | JAPANESE,

PHOTOGRAPHER | climbs along the rope, suspended from a jake up the story. Everybody on bed knew what had happened.

slider, and looking hilers Toned the load, of the principal ports of the Far East have been A frightful; collision had wrazed, and passenges and

pulls himself nudit op hand over fad.red by one of the most eminent Firms to FINOTOGRAPHER AND ADMTIČAL.

Great Britain and are annually, corrected and rew thought of two things, two alternn-,

Tastly come the baggage animals, ponies or tires-death or safety. At such a tragic Le Northelife, speaking in London little platform, blindfolded, and trussed up, together with the Tests of all the most import

donkeys. One by one they are fed on to the tought up to data

The CHRONICLE covers the notable erentă. moment everybody was flied with alarm, recently, said:-There are a good many For a moment they struggle desperately to Nevertheless the hoer's exptain and Japanese in Australia photographers.

ont Treaties concluded with the countries of offers, though they realised the rormity Je is an extrapulinary thing that wherever keep their feet on the ground, then they are Eastern Asia, the various Customs Tarile of the disaster that has Buppened, come in the Far East you find the pushed over the sige and sail neross, kick-Trade Regulations, Chamber of Commerce, ported themselves with great coulness. giving and obeying orders with commend landed in Bartree member of the ppens that the shder slips off the rupe Fees Hongkong Stamps Duties, Signal Japonese to be a photographer, “When ing the air incfectually. Sometimes it Scales of Commissions, Consular and Court alde narrity. Naturally Arst thoughts rumeur said to me! One of the altogether, leaving the frightened beast Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money. why concentrated on the best and most surprising things happened to us suspended in mil river: whereupon en Weights and Measures and other Com- ujávy was made towards them. Enterately. The Japanese squadren me in. slide down to the rescue. Not without mercial Information. Tunately there are allegations that the head to our amazement the local photodically is the slide righted, and the Linseurs and Portuguese Indians frog

It is published at the Office of the "Hoxe' in board and spent animal huuled to safety. If the rope is at

KONG Dîtx PREIS." tion, forgot all the rules of discipline andern day-wer

a day with the admixat," (Laughter.) broke into panic Many of those dusky That did not strike me as lies at all all wornal where the trafje is heavy, an sailors thought of their safely stabueriaal. It struck me as being exactly, the main runtes, it peds to be "fre- and growded round the hity, In their what the Germans did. For, with some questly changed-the friction of the slider feverish determination to save themselves improvements, in some « respects thecomes a great that smoke rises from it, a several of these men are alleged to have Japanese are the Germans of the East-biut that it is time to get a new rope. invaded the boats, which, crowded beyond perpetually burrowing, working pro- capacity, were overturned on rechazading er how much Japanese ing the surface of the water, The Engpt's world.

migrating, spying all over the offers had, it is stated, to adapt riger propaganda nomcy is spent in this town mus ziensures so that the work of lowering and this mutes! Yim will find out the boats could be properly organised. when you look at the newspaper letter writers who reply to this spurch. APPEALS FOR MELË,

(Laughter.)

The newspapers of this Meanwhile, the liper was inclining La fountry are in no way involved in it, but her port side, and threatened to sink you will always, find some surprising | Hrubáth the waves at every moment. The letteret front curious people in reply to

seeno on beard' was tragic in its emotionaux, riticism of Japan. Passengers in evening dress bail seram Thers is 6' reply to the fact that the MM. Onliburg and Ryziger tike"ad- hird of deck as best luy could. Homeprise are penetrating North America vantage of the fact that penals are usually were making heartrending appeals for oud they they have very covetous eyes on ired with a small hole in order to thread them on strings or wires. They help, and all were rushing about the deeds: toninoneth and the Dominion, jostling one another in the fog. in this

place this bole in the optical axis of a scene of anguish, half-inked sailors figur,"

microscope and illuminate it by focusinit With great trouble a passenger bus ceeded in placing his wife and two chil

THE SLUMP IN JAPAN.

a strong light through the translucent wall. A very minute mirror is then intro- dr. one

daerd into the hole. of right months, in about. Subleally are of the ropes state that make the closing of one of its dyed it strand on it, hens the point.

Th Ishikawaiima Shipbuilding Ch.

At first they em ployed's steel needle with a highly polish- ped, and the boat fell into the set, bring fries and the discharge of some 20 Later on they folind that a droplet of ing with it the

occo pants. Two of the m managed to cling to it, but the cord at more workmen. A spirit of unrest ance mercury served the purpos better, the the other end broke in tuen, and the butaiu presails aurong, the employees rounded surface forming a convex mirror fell on the heads of those swimming in there, who will confer to discuss their which reflected the interior of the pearl the water. This is culy or of several future policy.

and allowed photographs to be taken. similar incidents,

An Osaka wire reports that the Thay chim that in the cultivated peri "All this time the French vessel was Lot Sumitom Copper Co. has announced there is a

"CULTIVATED" PEARLS.

A NOVEL METHOD OF DETECTION,

MM. J. Galibourg and F. Byziger hav caramunicated to the French Academy of Scieners a new method, by which they claim to be able to distinguish between Japanese cultivated prarfs and truly natural pearls.

inactive. Taking n hre of the damages dentsion to discharge 1.000 workmen, the introdus line of division between

ucleus" and the subse

his steamer bad sustained. Captain and its desire for the remaining equently deposited layers, whereas, in a Barzio strove to discover the whereabouts lives to take their own course of atural pearl, although many concentric of the line. A stride, whistle and the action. The announcement. Beuter says can be observed, the outlines of cries of her passengers called Bites to have been reeived with little ally fade one into the other. The con

are not sharply marked, but gradu-" locate her. A few minutes afterwards he eseitigent, because the company has centrie circles doubtless are due to sea- had lowered all his oats and was able promised, to pay sufficient discharge sonal differences in the rate of growth, to effect taken a rescues. Among these allowances and special grants to

but the whole process is sufficiently con was the wireles aperator plugs aflise yours' staniling

tinusug to prevent the appearance of any of the Aggut, whe had queensingly sent out "enils of distress. Unhappily be was

sharp divisions, in an exhausted condition and dia ou the deck of the Sti Front the news The death agony of the Burit lasted which has reached here it is not possible twenty minutes. Explosions occurred are the most perfect double focus glasses to give his mine, but it has to be added among her machinery. Wreckage of all for both reading and distant. In the to the list of wireless telegraphy hercesorts was eating on the water, and dead

KRYPTOK LENSES

who did their duty to the last, Mean-bodies were seen kept on the surface by ordinary bifocal lena, the segment or while the Egg was now lying completely the cork of their lifebelts. A few men part for reading in cemented to the die on her port side. It was found impes clinging to the debris were observed

Taku

Autong

Kewkiong

Sankow

Manchurian Yochow

Trade Ctres Shasi

Newchwang

Dairen

Port Arthur

Chefoo

Ichang

Tainasta Santund

Kobe

H

Kongmoun Namning

Wachorfu

K'Chauwa Pakkoi

Haibox Lungches

Szemao Tongyea Changchaz Hunchur

Taków Anping

Weibsiwei

Mekden

Foochow Blonghai Amoy Harvin Swutow

Kirin Longkow

Lungchingchun”?

Jars & FosMOSA.

Tokyo Yokohama

Osaka

Keeling

Moji

Tainanic

Nagasaki Hakodata

Shimonoseki

ELTZEN SIDERIA.

Vladivostock

Nicolajovsk

Seoul

Chemulpo Fusen Kunsan

Hanoi Haiphong Toptin

Provinces

CHOSEN (Korea).

Wousan

Pingyang

HONGKONG AND ITS DETENDENCIES, Maçad,,

FRENCH-INDO-CHIE

Quidhon

Mokpo Chinnampa Sungchin

Tourabe Saigon Cambolgs

Manila

PHILIPPINE Boilo

Oeka

BORNEO. Sarawak Branei British North Borneo

Labtas

Ferak

Negri Sembilan. Jobora Kelantan

·Pakanz

Kedah

BANGIOL

MALAY STATES

Salanger

Trengganu Perlis STRAITS. SETTLEMENTA Bingapore, Panang, Malacca, Prov. Wellesley

NETHERLANDS LIDIA Samarang

Padang Buitenzorg Bourabaya Macamar Fast Coast of Sumatra. BRITAX AND AMERICAS SQUADRONU IN.

sible to launch in normal conditions at struggling with death. Two were Boat- ant lens, raising the segment above the any rate, those of her bonis still at the ing bolding on to a plaukų, They were surface of the main" lens. - The segment disposal of the passengers Two officers Bramper and the second officer of the and the line of union are always mors and a steward, whose me is given as Egypt. doctor was exhausted, but Heppy, mide strenuous deavours to eat was urged by his companion to cling to or less noticable. In Kryptok lens, no the ropes

The ship's printer, Genner, the plank. Suddenly ha cried out, “Let who had left his wife and child at Dayer, me, say good-bye to you; I am Bnished."sement is used, but the reading segment had put on a life-belt and was preparing And he disappeared.

is electrically fused in a depression in to jump into the sea when he saw a The Seine entered Brest with 247 Bur- the main lens, while the whole lens is woman pikenger running on the deck in vivors on board, including twenty-nine ground smooth on both sides to the great distress shouting for heln. Genner

Batavia passengers and 218 men of the crew. The desired focus. Kryptok lenses of any thought-no-mo-of-taking the plunge number of those who lost their lives is prescription in either regular. or Torle and, approaching the woman, gave her his put down at eighty-eight During the form are manufactued by the Hongkong lifebelt, suving. I do not know how to afternoon the Infatigable and Surrez Optical Co., successore to Clark & Co., kwim, madam, but take it." Genger met toate returned totport with some bodies. Optical Prescription Specialists: located a hero's death,

the greater number, being thour of 10 53, Queen's Bond Central.—Advt. (Continued at fond of airt columu.) Lancars-Daily Telegraph.

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