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OUTWARD from Hamburg via Porta of Call

Steamers

Hindenburg...

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Tonnige, d.

"12,950 tons

9,000 tons 12,300 tone 9,000 tona

Arrival

18th November. End of Desember. 1st half of January, 1924. 1st half of February,

HOMEWARD for Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg

Adolf von Bayer

*Emil Kirdorf

Hindenburg ...

*Scheer

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*Albert Vögler

Tozzago, dow.

*Departure

9,000 tons.

24th November, 1923,

Calling at Manila.

12,250 tons

$,000 tons

12,800 tons

9,000 tons

These steamers are fitted with all comfort for the convenience of about 50 frst class Passengers.

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BYGONE SEA TRAVEL "WAS IT MORE COMFORTABLE THAN MSGONOWADAYSTEA

TOY SIE BRESKRT 'EUSSELL).

"I am interested to see that Mr. Joseph). Conrad has raised the question ay ta whether the old enlling clippers were Zoro. comfortable to voyage in than the great Ocean diners of today.' 'And, being moois Armed old shellback, with onder memories of the spacious day of tacks and sheets, is japerhaps only natural that he should awer the query in the affirmative.

But I think the master is one upon,

which we must differentiato The old sailing ships of the era before the hateful term **wind-jammer" was invented, were pre bably more comfortable than the gigantis liners of today, in the senso that home." lines means comfort But they were nothing like so luxurious, Personally, I think the modern liner is an abomination. When I go to sen I like to feel that .I at sea. I do not want to be hauntsch by the environment of a palatial hotel Palm courts, jazz bands, cocktail bars, barbers' shops, swimming baths and suchlike see 20 23 an anomaly upon the face of the Great Green Mother.

Am

---Imagine that Mt. Conradh feels-very much the same way. He tells us he pre ferred the old making ship to the modera finer because there was we vibration or noises, and the cabins were larger This latter statement will probably come na surprise to those whose ideas of a travel in brgolas are based upon Fiding desertion of the Lisbon Parket," or Dickens' inimitable picture of the George, Washington, in which be returned from America. Incidentally her is a glimpse of the sort of comfort in that ship to which, 1 take it, Mr. Conrad refers:-

CLIPPER FARE

Wo breakfasted at eight, lunched at twelve, dined at three, and took our teu

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20ru, 1983.

RESIDENCE, FARMING, TRAVEL The Union of South Africa is laterest to Europeans in the Far East If they are retiring on pension, there are many pleasant South African towns in which to live-If they seek

· Kar career, and have a moderate capital, there is scope in South Africa for planters and farmers." And for those in need of a holiday, the country. 13 famed as a travel and health resort---

The climate is equable. It is aunny but temperate, being neither so inclement in winter as that of Northern Europe, nor so enervating in summer as that of the East. It is a genial, wholesome climate in which Europeans thrive.

The rougher work in South Africa is done by coloured "labourers and Jumestics. Educational facilities are good, the young can now take their University degrees in South Africa. The larger towns are modernly equipped, and many of the smaller omesure very congenial residentially... There are numerous resorts-moun- tain, river and marinë, for an occa sional change. Sport is plentiful The cost of living and income tax- ation compare lavourably with those elsewhere.

In short the Union of South Africa is an uncommonly attractive country.

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· Lundon, ie, 1: 2. Soedikürequirements.

at half past when We had abundance of BOWERN & CO.,

amusement, and dinner was not the least among them; firstly, for its own sake; secondly, because of its extraordinary length, its duration, inclusive of all the being

No B MUGE BOLD, SHANGHAL

long-pauses between the cour ball, (Shanghai), Mr.T. W. BOWERN, Fellow of

seldom, less than two hours and a which was a subject of never-failing enter tainment By way of beguiling the tedi ousness of these banquets a select associa tion was formed at the lower end of the table, below the mast, to whose distinguish e prisilent modesty forbids me to take ay further allusion, which, being a very hilarious, my jormal intitution, was (prod. judice apart) in high favour with the rest of the commanity, and particularly with a black steward, who lived for three weeks in a broad grin at the marvellous humour thee incorporated worthies,"

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Do the passengers in a modern liner getClass Condition the chance to become such shipmate? How often do they remember that they are at sen at all? Many of them may not want to

But there will be others, leaning over the rail 40ft. above the creaming wish of the water, who feel how isolated they really are from the spirit of old ocean, and how absolutely the ramauce and adventure of the lift, has Bickerid out beyond the rim of the steam floughed wastr...

FAR OLD INDIAMES.

But this is a digression, Inasmuch as it has nothing to do with the comfort of the

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modation. There may still be living met who can remember the East Indiamen, but their memories will be dim. indeed, and

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they can tell us nothing of the rich magni- to flash their dollars. Card sharps may ficence of the stately vessels. Their eut likewise think it the goods, because it But to the man who dies, extending the whole length under the savours of plunder. poop, were panelled in the dark wouds of really loves the sea--and he is legion- India A great shining fable filled the the quiet, phantom beauty of the old sail- centre of the heavily carpeted saloon, with ing ship would irresistibly appeal in the heel of the mizzenmast, ensconced in preference the outbreak of the war there

Down to Side wonderful carving, intersecting it,

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Wednesday

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Baragore returning from Oslanija, stusmara prossed via Birni

and Fang kong so Japan, soutionally galing at Bamghai All gleamers, bars" smallest PROMETER

#tand With Wirelam amd exrry a fully-quailed Smegvon,

GRANGKAI LISFi-gallings approximately every threa, "daja bermans. Canton nud Barucha, ismelnas saling at Swasaw. Through kinkube com begabtained and through BIR of Lending ky men, Ennod. Korsharm and Tangites Parts via Bhanghai) 2 MANILA — LINK —A winkly surelas it maturalnad wish Manila by vasenie with coun

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board fit for a maharaja's palace horu were still sailing ships carrying passengers, their loads of silver plate. The settee'd such vesels as the Port Jackson and Ved transom was curtained off by densa fuldsy, and believe they were always booked of Oriental plusb.

On either side of the up. Bat the people who can afford the cuddy were the Venetian doors of the stato time to go to Australia by sail are very room, low beamed cabins, lit by little few and chiefly health seekers, who need square windows, almost oppressive in the the presence of a doctor, which is too ex

pensive an addition to the complement of a massiveness of their teak furniture.

I fancy we have reached the Prople did not miss the electric fan for sailing vesel they had never known it, and the windsail apex alike in size and extravagance of and punks were not such bad substitute luxury in the modern liner for awhile, af The breeze from the wide, white hollow of any rate, The tendency is to build con- the mizzen topsail struck down through the siderably smaller ship, with corresponding. open skylights in a cool soft song. Dark. ly more comfort and less leather and eyed, turbaned stewards fitted silently prunella. ́ ́ about, and there was never more noise than came from the grand piano right aft Army officers lived in their scarlet tunics or Blue-and-gold table jackets in those days, leading brave dash of colour to the dluner scene. And on Saturday nights the toast of "

of "Sweethearts and wives หง drank with most solemn punctiliousness.

The Blackwall liners--the Al: copper- bottomed ships of the fifties and sixties were not so richly apported as these East Indianen, but their interiors were full of warm comfort. We cannes realize in these day of combines and companies the In crdinate pile which the old-time, ship builder the shipowner took in their

was to good to put into They

some of them, at any rat pay their tailors 11 am feed them disgracefully. But their ships were their fetishes. On many he prefourly impress ed, indeed overayed, by an Aquitanic.or a Majestie, but one cannot somehow think of loving her in the same sense that George Thompson loved the Thermopalye or Jacke Willis, the Cutty Sark

2021 COSINESS

Yes, I am pretty sure Mr. Cunrad is right, and that there was more solid com fort in the old Blackwall liner, with her ugle cuddy and two dort or so state. Yours, than in all the piled-up super. structure of the present day leviathan. You were nearer the water in the railing ship, and so got more fully the contrast between the interior counow and the out-

sids cheerlessness, and

in

Luxury may crase to be comfort and be "come a mere baring surfeit, The Savoy Hotel is all very well in its place upon the Embankment But the Savoy Hotel in mil-ocean on a moonlight night is a bit of a nuisance. You want to get away from the atmosphere and the people of the grill. room. You do not want the perfect her. enity of an exquisite scens bruken in upon by a ban-ing band playing "Yes, we have no hans," and the voice of flappera; and, amrar-heads joining in. In fact you

+dp not want the kinema stunt obtruding into the mystio hush of the ocean right. A few Yankee millionaires may like this sort of thing becinso gives them an opportunity (Continued on next column))"

LIMW

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Fortnightly rulings to and from Sandakan by twa 5.000 tris FORAMUTH LA. HINGANG" and KA, TAUHANG (both statueIN. having oreslon) paningar, accommodations Cargo Naken zog through Bils of Lading los-Kadat-Jasfalten. Labuan Tarie and Lakad Datu TINNTAIN - LINS:—a regular servies is run from March to Meramber beiwaam

Hongkong and Tlectia dading si Weihaiwal and Chotoo BANGKOK LINN (—A Wankly Okevien is provided browsex Hongkong and Bangkek

ela Below, by fra mamare:Iktadirwish Resoramolation.

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.... "KUTSANG" will be despatched on or about for SINGAPORE, PENANG Saturday, ist Dec., at 3 p.

& CALCUTTA.

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For Freight or Passage apply to

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