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REGULAR FORTNIGHT SKAVICE BETWEEN JAVA, CHINA AND JAPAN,

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JAPAN

25th

7th

TJIKEMBANG

SHANGHAI

27th

9th

MAKANKAR & SCABANATA

BATAVIA

Wireles Telegraphy.

The steamers are all itted throughout with Electric Light and have accommodation for a limited nuber of saloon. Passengers. All eteamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at through rates to a ports in Netherlands India and Australia.

For Particulars of Freight and Pavaga, apply to the

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 9TH, 1924

& ANTWERP via Singapore,

Saturday, 31 May

THE STRANDED CROCODILE,

VESSELS EXPECTED.

LONG WALKS THROUGH JUNGLE Amboise (M.M.), due May 12th.

Egetoje (Blut Funnel), due May Hist. Hemmodoens (Bins Funnel), due Juas 7th, Empress of Rust the May 19th. Helenos (Be Funtil), due to day. #indealing (Hugo Stinnes), die May

30th.

AND FOREST, Crocodiles (anys Captain C. R. S. Poman in Barkod, are amphibias, ads aften make long journeys on the dry and mit from choie, bat from fore of elreum "Am quite sure that but less of stances. I the people who are well noquainted with the enters realise that then moving on land they do a crawl along with Telli on the ground. but says at a

» kistrE waddling run, just like th af monitors of iguanas, with bulis right off | President Mudisma - (Admiral Orjental),

date May 14th. the ground and legs nearly straight, and this gives them

Preddent Piovel (M.Ma, due May 10th.

larg

Sort

Laomedim (Blue Fannel), due May 13th. geaus (Rhie Font), due May gird. entur (Be Funnel): due May 14th. Patrick Henry PM, de May th. President Harrison (Dollar). due May

May 24th.

HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTERE

Hongkong (servatory, May 2th..

The tail for compeal appene drags on the grount. d why the soil is suft Laves a track. which is not unlike that made by a masive plough: A friend of mine who was a keen Titil Sportsman and naturalist, and wha

in this en dit many years of experienan the Chanda jungles of the Central Pre- vinces, told me that he had once actually met a crocodil in the heart of the foret

the day at the end of dry weather, and that it was evidently making its way back to water: FL Finticed.

the Barometer partenfarty plough-like track made by the tail, with Temperatur the quite unmistakable footprints on either Humility

though have no doubt that these | Wind Direction. trades would puzzle most peoples and rather

Forcy

bly result is their conjuring, up the vision of some fearsome prehistoric mous tor On another occasion he came neruss a similar track the hugh magy from the nearest river, though this time he did not see the beast itself

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What happens is soothing like this" In the ruins wason, when the large rivers

to high food, the erocodile finds 1

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rather, hard. There is an abundance of water everywhere and thegame 'neither ! comes to the rivers to drink nor does it any buger le up in the luxuriant cool griss on the islets or in the marshy areas in the low-lying river-bed. It is true that The plitrit carca come floating fiver, but they are often fow and very caught far between, while, unless actually backwaters, they are more likely to be mised than capture Wone may also Satur 10 cegasionally be Seized when filling their

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HAIPHONG LIFE-Sailing approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling 'st

Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by "two 5,000, tan steamers, L.FI INSANG "MAUSANG," both steamers Cargo taken on having excellent passenger acctmmation. through Balls

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KISHU MARU"

Telephmid Sox. 4088, 4083, 4090.

consequence, the crocodiles begin to Ties. 13 m 6 make their way hp tributary dreams and

Wil aullahs, which are dry as other sensats, but which during the 'mension lead them far inland to localities

where they have a Thur. capturing ga

gau Thi ero codile then takes up his abode in some favourable pot where he does not hav to go hungry, and podibly later on dis Covers that the mullah he is lying in is fast drying up His next maves is probably to betake himself to the acarest la pol for a while, he will be very joth to leav ach comfortable quarters. Instinct wil probably rull hin whether the pool is likėļe to dry up as well, and if this is the se, there are only two alternatives left for: him. He can either return to the, parent j river, or he or take up his abode in a village dank.

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2nd July

18th

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10th June

20th July

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engine,

They are to be exhibited by their owners, the London and North-Eastern One is Stephenson's No. 1, which drew the first train at the opening of the first passenger railway in the world-Stockton and Darlington Railway-in 1845. The other is the Flying Scotsman.

The little No. I weighs about 2 tons and the Flying Scotsman about 340 tons. an oficial of the London and North Eastern Railway told a reporter. "The speed of the first was 12 miles an hour; the second could, if necessary. do 100- miles an hour. Its average speed on 22 long run is a mile a minuta.

"To complete the atmosphere of the exhibit, Stephenson's engine stands on the original this iron rails embedded in the i original stone siccper used on the ald Stockton and Darlington Railway."--

The liby engine which nearly a century

ad

went proudly puting through the astonished countryside has been brought to "Wembley in a truck all the way from Darlington Station, where it has stood for many years. The "Flying Scotsmanl was run into the grounds on its owners' lines, which extend from Wembley Hill Station. It, is one of 44 engines of its kind now ruaning.

RUINS FOUND BY CHANCE. A NEBUCHADNEZZAR BRICK.

1.

BAGILDAD. Profesor Langilen, the Oxford Profe sor of Assyriology, who is directing the Weld-Blundell Expedition, has just made the following interesting statement in relation to bis recent most important find ofa Sumerian library of cunciform zablets in the Kish ruk

I was convinced that a great library lay on the western side of curtain mound, and I Jug there ainly for weeks. After that, work has temporarily abandoned. but the conviction that the library was there disturbed my mind and even haun ted my sleep.

chance of divination,

despair, and

grasping a I went alone to the top of the mound and chow a brick of the age of Nebuchadnezzar, which lay at my foot, and marked on it an arrow. Then, after blindfolding, myself and turning round many times to lose my barings, I threw the brick backwards over my head.

The next morning, digging was recom- menced at the place indicated by the tgrow, and within two hours a large nest of valuable literary tablets was found.

Professy Langdon aho stated that twenty libmre rooms, which obviously formed a part of Kish College four thou sand years ago, had now been excavated, aad. in his opinion, there were no limits: to the posibilities of further great dis coveries next year.—Reuter.

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PRICE

the MEETINGS of the COUNCIL for the

Revised by the Members,

$5.

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"OLEYGARET" Loados,

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