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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JUNE 1st, 1928.
C.P.R. AIR LINERS. BLOW TO MOSCOW. MYSTERY OF TWO SHIPS.
LINKING-UP WITH STEAMERS.
ATLANTIC PASSAGE.
QUICKENED.
EXPERIMENT WITH MAILS AND MERCHANDISE.
„FOREIGN CAPITAL
DEPARTING.
CONCESSIONS GIVEN UP.
Rra, Latvia Omcials of the Harriman man- ganese concession in the Chisturs kinija district of the Caucasus
11
ARSENIC IN A KETTLE CONSIGNEE NOTICES.
IN 'GERMANY,
11 MEN UNACCOUNTED FOR FIFTY WORKMEN POISONED
AFTER CHANNEL COLLISION.
BRALIN.
believed to be political in origin Aa taprecedented crime which is occurred at the Rheniih Ironworks. at Daren, when afty workmen werc taken violently ill after their coffer at the morning interval ror nine o'clock breakfast. They rolled in convulsions on the Boor.
NOTICE TO CONSIONPES.
OCKAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION CO., LTD. Fox UNITED KINGDOM VIA
AND
SINGAPORE.
CONSIGNËTO
per Co. Steamer * PERSEUS re hereby notidad that the Cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where will lie at Consigneon tions of Storage at Holt's Wharf. The Carro will be ready for Delivery from Godown on and after 30th May
A revolutionary step in world Mountains have announced their cerning the subsequent events to contain a strong dose of arsenic. | risk and subject to Terms and Condi
air line.
communications has been taken by the Canadian Pacific Railway, who have decided to inaugurate to-day the first part of a vast international
This is the first time in history that a railway or steamship com- pany has made a serious effort to counter the growing fear of aerial competition. The C.P.R. thus be come the only line in the world to Bontrol linera, railway trains, and aeroplanes working in close con- junction.
A collision which occurred in the English Channel, 30 miles south of St. Alban'a. Head, Dorset, between the Royal Fleet auxiliary Bacchus (3,000 tona) and the Greek steamer Loannis Fafalion (3,100 tona) was followed by conflicting reporta con-
The water in the Eettle was found intention to discontinue, activities An Admiralty announcement in Russia and take a huge loss issued at 4 o'clock stated that the A stomach pump which was used rather than work under the threats Bacchus reported having sunk the on all the atty men is believed to of Communist union leaders. The Greek ship, but that she was stand have aaved their lives, but hitherto statement has crested consterna ing by making up men and requirit has been impossible to interro
ed no assistance. tion in Moscow, which is witnessing
At 8.30 another Admiralty an the failure of cae large concession nouncement stated that the Bucchus after another. It is a serious blow reported that she was in distress, to Soviet propaganda to induce making water forward, but it was groups of foreign capitalists to ex-added: ploit the natural riches of the country,
Promises Ignored. Soviet Labour Unions, is reported Commissar, Topski, leader of the to have offered the American engi neers guarantees against further labour troubles. The concession holders refused, however, to listen to his promises,
As soon as the North Atlantic liners reach Rimouski, a point oa
The Lena Goldfields Company, the southern shore of the St. Lawn English concern which has taken control of its former property upon rence, where the pilot comes on a concession basis and which is board, over 200 miles North from operating with British and Ameri- Quebec, aeroplanes will be waiting can capital, is also having seriove
to rush merchandise, money, valu ables, and urgent mails to Quebec City. After a abort stop the aero- planes will continue another 100 miles to Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto.
The liner requires over
seven hours to complete the journey, down the St. Lawrence, and after Cus- toms delay the mail takes a night to travel from Quebec City to Man treal, another night to Toronto, and several hours to Ottawa. This gives some iden of the enormous 'saving of time. The whole journey by air from Rimouski to Toronto, at an Average speed of 100 miles an hour, could thus be made while the liner was on its journey to the landing-stage at Quebec City.
labour trouble.
Harrimans' investimenta in Rus- eia are reported to be more than £3,000,000, while the Lena com- pany's investments are also large.
Many powerful German industrial groups which during the past two years obtained concessions in Bus- eins have already withdrawn with big losses and bitter experiences. The latest to leave Moscow is the large building firm of Kossel, which participated in joint, Rueso-German construction.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH.
HOW SHE SPENT HER BIRTHDAY.
WINDSOR NURSERY FULL ·
OF TOYS,
Princess Elizabeth celebrated her second birthday on Saturday, April 21st at Windsor Castle.
The journey by air will be one of the most picturesque in the world. The route follows the St. Lawrence | River from the wide reach near Rimouski to the narrower reaches south of Quebec City, where great forests can be seen on either side. The Laurentides, Quebec Bridge, Three Rivers, Joliette and Sorel
The morning was fine and sunny, are some of the places over which and, after receiving presents and the aeroplane will pass. From greetings from the King and Queen Ottawa the route will be over Perth, and her parents, the Duke and Peterborough, and the North Shore Duchess of York, the Princess, of Lake Ontario to Toronto.
dainty figure in white, was wheeled in her perambulator into the Grand Quadrangle to listen to the band of changing of the guard.
No Passengers At First. The London Morning Post under
H.M.S. Tiger is in the vicinity, and should have reached her by now. Two Service tuga have pro- ceeded to her assistance from Portland.
** Ship ́Abandoned.
7:
gate them.
Optional Cargo will not be landed hero, unlo Notice has been given prior to Steamer's artiral, but oarried on from
port to part to the final port of call
Where they
to which the option extends.
All broken, shafed and d
BRITISH INDIA. S.S. CO., LTD. | are to be left in the Gamaged frooda
FROM CALCUTTA, KANGOON, PENANG AND SINGAPORE.
THE Steamship
*** TILAWA" having arrived from the above Ports, A few minutes later the Ad. Consignees of Cargo are bereby informed miralty announced:
that their Goods are being landed and The Bacchus had eleven aur-placed at their risk in the Hong Kong vivors on board, but survivors and Kowloon Wharf and crew have now abandoned Company's Godowas at Kowloon, where ship. The steamer Clan Mackay Delivery may be obtained as soon a
·Goods are landed. (3,182 tons) appears to be at the position given.
|
med Godown
Goods not cleared by 6th June, 1928, will be subject to Bent
No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.
At 7.30 p.m. a Daily Mail cor respondent at Weymouth telegraph ed that messages had been received Damaged Packages must be left in the by the naval authorities at Port Godowas for axamination by the land stating that the Bacchus was Consignees and the Company's surveyors, still afoat, and that her crew and Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, 42 IÚ the survivors of the Greek steamer, Mondays and Thursdays. had returned to her. The Bacchu was reported to be steaming stern first for Portland at two knots.
At 9.20 p.m. a further message was received at Portland-from H.M.8. Tigerstating that she had found the Bacchus and that tugs had been ordered to take her in
Low.
Her position was then miles south of Portland Bill.
It is believed that the Greek steamer had a crow of 99, so that eleven men are unaccounted for.
The Bacchus is a store cärrier and distilling vessel for the Medi- terranean Fleet. Eleven ships are reported to have answered bet 8.0.8.
BLACK DIAMOND MYSTERY.
"
BUTCHER'S FIND WHEN
KILLING A COW. :
LATVIAN JEWS DISPUTE OWNERSHIP.
All Claims must be presented within Ten days of the Steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised
No Claims will be admitted after the
Goods have left the Godowns.
Master.
A Protest has been noted by the HACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Hong Kong, 80th May, 1993. [624
VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDS- CHE SCHEEPVAART- MAATSCHAPPIJ. (UNITED NETAZELAMIS NA GAZION CO.)
"HOLLAND-OOST AZIÉ LIJN
(HOLLAND-East Asia (Linx}..
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. FROM AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, BREMAN & GENOA.
THE Steamship
"ZOSMA
will be Friday
NOOK
within
on any Tuesdays and the hours
hours of 10.45 AM. the Free Storage period, No. Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's down, and all Goods remaining un cred τα after the 6th June, will be subject Rent
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 20th June, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurancs will be effected).
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents,
[6392
S0th May, 1928,
NOTICE TO CONSIONERS.
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
4
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION 00., LTD.
FROM NEW YORK VIA MANILA.
ON
ONSIGNEER per Co.'s SteaMET
"PYRRHUS"
are hereby notified that the Cargo will ba diatharged into Holt's Wharf, Kow- loon, where it will lie at Consignoes* riak and subject to Terms and Condi Sons of Storags at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for Delivery froxa Godown on and after 30th May.
Optional Cargo will not be landed bord, unless Neuce has been given prior to Steamer's amiva', but carried on from
port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends."
All broken, chafed sad damaged Goode" are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on say Tamedays and · Fridays between the hours of 10,45 AM, and Noor within the Fr66
Storage period.
No Glaizar will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all: Goods remaining undelivered after 6th
haring arrived from the above Forts, June, 1928, will be subject to Consignees of Cargo by her are notified
All Claims against the Steamer muet. that all Goods are being landed at their be presented to the Undersigned an or rink into the hamsidons and/or extra-
not be recognized, an
stands that passengers will not be the Coldstream, Guards during the the south-eastern corner of Latvia, hazardous Godown of the Chins before the 20th June, 1928, or they wil
BOOD
carried at first, but if the scheme proves successful this will follow.
It is not difficult to imagine what enormous possibilities this first stop opens up. Air experts are wondering whether a like scheme will not be started on the Pacfic coast, and whether passengers dua to sail at Sonthampton on the com- pany's ships will not be able to travel by special boat aeroplanes, Instead of boat trains in the near future.
..
Riga Dvinsk, a large Jewish city in is enthralled over the romance of After the soldiers had marched a black diamond which was found down the hill, the Princess accom- in the stomach of a cow by a panied by the Hon. George and the butcher. A Latvian, pensant sold Hon. Gerald Lascelles, the little the cow in the market to a local sons of Princess Mary, Viscountess Jowish butcher, who in Lascelles, was taken by her nurse brought it to the slaughter-house to turn to the gateway leading the East be dispatched in Kostier fashion. Lawn, outaide which a number of
The rabbi butcher found a shin- people had assembled to catch a ing black stone in the com's glimpse of the baby.
stomach, and declared the cow to Women waved their handkerchiefs | be non-Kosher. The curious stone and the Princess waved her hand he gave to a friend, a jeweller, who repeatedly to them..
informed him it was a valueless Canadian aviation has increased Birthday gifts poured into the piece of coal, but kept it. The next enormously during the last few castle from far and wide and by the day the jeweller cheappeared. The months. Letters and parcels that end of the day the nursery in rabbi made inquiries, and found he took five weeks to come down from Victoria Tower was filled with had gone to Riga. Murray Bay to Quebec by slaigh beautiful toys. From her mother are now delivered twice a week the Princess received a delicate within 24 hours of posting, and chins breakfast set. whole regions, hitherto unexplored, are now being discovered for the first time by air.
There are seven important lines in the United States, including one from the coast to coast, along the route of which great searchlights are installed for night flying every four or five miles.
A HUMAN MONSTER.
BELA KUN'S CRIMES.
* HESPONSIBLE FOR 70,000-
DEATHS.".
GENEVA.
vident Loan & Mortgage Co., Ltd, whence and/or from the waarres, De livery may be obtained. 1998, will be subject to Beat
Goods not cleared by the 4th June
All broken, chafed and damaged Pack- they will be examined on 2nd June, ages ars to be left in the Godowns, where 1928, at 10 am, by Mears, Goddard and Douglas, Hong Kong.
Claims against the Steamer muat be presented in writing within Ten days after arrival of Steamer, otherwise they will not be recognized.
No Firm Insurance will be affected by the Undersigned in any case whatever.
Bills of Lading will be countersigned by
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
General Agents.
Hong Kong, 26th May, 1928. (633
REGISTER,
The stone turned out to be a black diamond, and the rabbi filed a suit against the jeweller. The There were hundreds of telegrams peasant who sold the cow is also and letters from all parts of the claimant, and the butcher has HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL British Isles, and two, letters from also petitioned the court to estab Canada. The Princess was partilish his ownership. cularly pleased with the many birth. The cow was found wandering day cards sent by children, and she near the Soviet frontier, and the examined them over and over again, police believe some smugglers were While the King and Queen and using the animal to convey the the Duke and Duchess of York were diamond across the Russian border. at the Cup Final at Wembley in the afternoon, the Princess gave a small birthday party in her room," when the cake was cut.
£40,000 CHEQUE STOLEN.
ANOTHER FRENCH POSTAL MYSTERY
PARIS:
1
Hong Kong Observatory, May 31st.
Previons Os Date On Date
Day At at 2 p.m. 6 am. p.
29.69
29.68 99.69 79
טר
77
98
Barometer.. Temperatur £100 DAMAGES FOR MONS Humidity 87, ---* 96
Wind- GENERAL
Direction E Force
· SIR A. CURRIE WINS. HIS LIBEL ACTION.
MONTEZAL, May 1st.
A verdict for Major-General Sir Arthur Currie, with £100 damages,
No Fire Inmarsace will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Agusta 30th May, 1929,
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE,
THE BEN LINE STEAMERA, LIMITED.
FROM MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, STRÄITY &
PHILIPPINES.
The Stammship "BENVORLICH"
CONSIGNEES of Carge are hereby
from
-informed that all. Goods are being. landed at their risk, into the hazardous i and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or the wharros, Delivery may be obtained.
No Claima will be admitted after the Goode bars left the Godowns, and all. Goods remaining undelivered after the 1st Jane, 1928, will be mbject to Rent,
"All Claims against the Steamer must be presentar to the Undersigned on OF before the 15th June, 1995, or they will not be recognized.
All brokan, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where izby will be examined on the 31st instant, at 10 am, by Mosers, Goddard & Douglas, No Fire Lumiuzte has been affected.
·Hils of Lading will be countersigued by GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD. ...17 0.00 1.60
Lågenta, Highest open-air, Tamparature, 70ik: 79 Hong Kong, 25th
May, 1999.
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Bain...
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HONG KONG THE TABLE.
From Jane lat to 7th, 1923.
„Low: WATEX.
Hong
Hong
Kong
Standard Standard
Time.
Kong
Time.
In connection with the recent
B-Blue sky; 0-Olondy; D arrest at Vienas of the Hungarian Another postal theft, this time was awarded at Coburg, Qatario, Drizzle; F-Fog; L-Lightning: Commumst Bela Kun, Dr. Georges of a £40,000 cheque, recalling the to-day, in his libel action against M-Mist; O-Overcast P-Passing Ludygevsky, former director of a recent stealing of a £50,000 neck the Port Hope Guide with refer-howers; Q-Squalls; fi-Ilain; To Red Crom Committee for the relief lace from a registered package inence to an article in that news|| Thandar #
France, is engaging the attention paper on the capture of Mons by: of the Paris, detective force.
the Canadians in 1018. Sir Arthur The cheque, which was crossed, | commanded the Canadian forces was on its way, in a registered at the time. package from, a post office near the Major-General Currie
claimed Opéra to a bank in Italy £10,000 damages following the pub- The waybill which accompanied lication of an article written by sealed zack which left the post Mr. WT. R. Preston in the Fort office for the Gare de Lyons show- Hope Guide charging Sir Arthur ed that the package had been duly with deliberate and useless waste placed therein and checked. When of life on the eve of the armistice the sorters in the train opened the through the capture of Mons by AA sack an hour later, with Paris left the Canadians,
DA far behind, the registered letter! Mr. Preston, in his address" to was not there.
the fury last night, demanded the Fri, The £50,000 necklace, it will be impeachment, of Major General Cur- remembered, was stolen by a Paris rie" on behalf of the widows and Bat postal worker, and was found hid-mothers for needless loss of life der in an old, waistcoat which he in a useless attack on Mens on the fas
of victime of the Russian revola tion, gives an extract, in a Swiss newspaper from the official Red Cross report. The statement de #cribes Bela Kun's crimes while occupying a prominent position under the Soviet in the Crimea.
At his orders 7,300 persons were shot at Kaffa, 18,000 at Simferopol, 10,000 at Sbastopol, 6,000 at Kertch, and 5,000 at Yalta (including 17 nurses and 3 Red Cross doctors),
At the municipal sanatorium at Aloupka 300 sick and wounded per sons were shot one after the other many of them as they fled from the establishment
Date of
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HAMBURG-AMERIKA - LINIE,
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THE Steamship ??
LUDENDORFF ” having arrived, Consignees of Cargo are hereby notified that their Goode are being landed and placed (at their risk în the Hong Kong Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company's godowne at Kowloon," where Delivery can be obtained us the Goods are landed.” ke
Optional Cargo will be landed, unless Notice kar boen given prior to Stommer s
No Claims will be admitted after Goods have left the Godown, and
hum na haw/L [a: Goods remaining undelivered, after 3rd. 168.62m 1
June, 1928, will be subject to Rent Sup 2.1545
chafed and damaged Goods All broken in the Godowns, where
they
10
Will be summited on 1st June, 1999,
STEROL What to save pa neat to his mother" and day of the
artistice. MOSSAMAYAll Claims mazzez 2007 af before 17th
ifi, ali, Bela Kun was responsible for the deaths of 70,000 in this
too large the victims were ordered No sooner had the necklace been.
The judge, in hie summing up
to dig big tronches for their own recovered than £12,000 worth of instructed the jury that they would graver, after which they were banknotes disappeared on board have to consider the article from grouped round the edges
mowed down by machine, And the French liner Hoggar, bound the point of view of "the ordinary Wed.
It believed that before he was captured in Vienna Bela Kun paid
s visit to Geneva.
for West Africa, and 271,000 worth render, and decide whether it desig
of pearls vanished without trace on famed Bir Arthur Currie and bald Thar
a voyage from, South America to him up to scorn, hatred, and in-
jur-B.U.P.
10:
13.
1407
at 10 am, by our Surveyors, Mom
Goddard and Douglass
recognised.
Bo Firy Lanzenze bill be enotext.
Bills of Ladi will, be countersignad
by the Undel
&00 Agesia. Hong Kong, 27th May, 1228. [6308
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