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MASON'S

DELICIOUS

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ESTABLISHED 1857.

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No. 22,117

號柒拾百壹仟弍萬弍第 日登初月伍年已己· HONG

KONG, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1929.

伍拜禮

PIRACY PROBLEM

IN CHINA SEAS.

ARE MARINE CONVOYS INADEQUATE?

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

On and after AFKIL 8th, 1929, antil further Notion (all previous Time Tablas sancelled.)

UP TRAINS

STATIONS

K. IN,

L.M. L.M.

Bla.23

Ho. No. No, 14 Ya. 18 Nati Kals NoM4 FG, 22 NGJ

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6:40 8.5

Kowloos. Dep.

Yazmati.Dep. 6.49

Shatin...Dep. 7.61

Taipo. Dep. 7.15

Tsipo

Market,Dep. 720||

Fanling Dep. 7,80

Shoang-

abui...Dep. 7,35]

Shum-

-

chan...Arr. 7.41 845

Canton...Afr.

13.05

Sans, & Holis, only

8.30 9.15 10,00 12.10 1.15 2.81

9,25 10.06 12.11.23 0,38 10,9 $12,A) 1,35: " + 43 1033; 13,43, 1.45°

9.58 10.37 12.47, 1.52 --- |10.10 10.47)19,67, 2,09-

9.07 10.15 10.55′ 1.02 2.07 3.00)

3.20) 4.80) 5,40) 7.85

4,98 5.48 7.43 14,50) 8,00) 7.85 6.04 6.19 8.0%

5.09 6.17 8.12 5.18 6.27 6.25

5,23 4.38.26

9.13 10.31 10.38 1.03) 9.18; 3.15 1.03 5.29 6,38 8.31

5,48

DOWN TRAINS

7.18-

STATIONS

No

Hai Hor AX. A.M. A.X.

No.1 No.17 p. 14 Na 219No, 13.

P. P.M. PMR: F.K,

...Dop..

8.10

8.95

Carton

Shumchun...Dop. 7417 8.03 10.34 11.27 11.47 2.53 439 3.47 6.42

Sheungakui „Dep. | 2,15 8.11 10.49

Fanling

... Dep. 7,30

8.16

10.47

Taipo Market. Dep. 2,40

Taipo

Shalin

8.28 10,37

Dep. 7.44 8,3 11,01 Dep.

7.57 8.44 11,74

Yazmati... Dep. 8.11 8.56 11.26

Kowloon Arr. 8.179,09 11.32 1907

15

11.55 13,01|4,45 | 6,54 19.00 3.06 4.50 5.68

12.11 8.175.00 6.06 13.18 8.1 5.04 6.13 12.90 3.965.176.26

12,488,48 (6.29 | 6.39

1248 3.54 5.35 6.44 7.22

7.07

7.14

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7.49

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FAMOUS NAVAL WRITER'S OPINIONS.

The seizure of the steamer Anking by Chinese pirates at sea on September 26, 1929, and the killing and founding of certain of her officers and crew, is no isolated incident (writes Tafrail in Cham bes's Journal).

Piracy and brigandage have been prevalent in China since time im- memorial, as is only to be expected in a country where a mediaeval feudal system stili obtains, where huge provinces are divided into smaller districts, each governed by its own official responsible for the local taxation, and where bribery and corruption are rife throughout even the official classes.

Piracy Prevention Ordinanca,

So long ago as in 1914 the Gov- ernment of Hong Kong issued its

Ordinance * Piracy Prevention

These, and allied regulations. among other things, conferred upon the police wide powers of search; provided that vessels trading from Hong Kong should carry armed Indian,guards, and be fitted with grilles for the protection of bridges and engine-rooms, as well as to re strict the free movement of native passengers.

They also required that arms, ammunition, and signal-rockets should be carried in all ships, and directed officers of the British Mor- chantile Marina to resist piratical attack by every means in their power,

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that misunderstandings had beez cleared up, cordial relationa re- stored, and that China welcomed British co-operation and goods, lu is to be hoped that this utterance from one in authority, portends a happier state of affairs for the future.

the request of a Consular Officer, and then only for the protection of British lives and property.

Throughout 1923, though British ships were rarely attacked, the fre quant piracies were having an ill By effect upon British trade. January 1924, at which time pirate

Piracies of ocean-going steamers, or bandit outrages were almost of daily occurrence in some parts of however, like that of the Anking. the Delta, two attacks upon British continue. In thei: main features, all these attacks have been carried vessels brought matters to head.

out in similar fashion" by pirates The gunboats were reinforced, re gular convoys and patrol systems embarking as passengers and rush- were instituted, and the Cantoning bridge and engine-room at their Government was at last persuaded own selected moment.

As in the

reaistance

IA

to set its house in order by sending case of the Anking, they do not various punitive expeditions to scruple to

offered. deal with the pirates ashore.

if

Their methods are simple in the Anti-British Campaign.

extreme, though, since the assault Working in co-operation with the may be launched at any moment British gunboats, the efforts of the of the voyage, and at any time of Chinese troops met with a tolerable the day or night, they are exceed degree of success, so much so that tingly difficult to counteract. by the time of the Chinese attack upon the British settlement in Can- ton in June 1925, the suppression of river piracy was almost within sight.

the

An Impossible Task, One cannot but wonder at the ex- cellence of an organisation which enables the pirate gangs to board Then, subsequent to the Shameen steamships at, say, Tientsin, in the anti-British Gulf of Pechil, and Singapore, outrage, came movement and boycott and a general not far from the Equato:, places condition of chaos throughout the nearly three thousand miles apart, Delta. The gunboats were tied to and to synchronise the arrival of the Trenty Ports, British merchant- the captured ships at some anchor- men ceased to run, and piracy reage like Bias. Bay, in Chinese ter- commenced. Before long the Chi-ritory forty miles up the coast from nese trade also had come to a com- Hong Kong, with the movements of confederates ashore. Their intelli- plete standstill.

East.

日月陸年九廿百九仟联英

This anxiety on the part of the When the easier political situa gence system and means of com- Hong Kong Government to deck | tion permitted a resumption of munication are as perfect as they piracy is not difficult to under- British trade, a regular convoy and can be, and the organisation must stand, for the colony is, if not the patrol system was reinstituted for be in the hands of able men with largest, one of the largest through the benefit of British ships. The a network of spies all over the Far ports in the world. It owes its native traffic was left to look after

British men-of-war obviously can- prosperity to its vast transit trade itself, in the hope that the con

"every South in all kinds of produce; but chiefly tinual depredations would force not patrol the approaches to in tea, silk, rice, sugar, camphor, Canton to safeguard its own in- possible landing-place is cos, cotton, leather, matches, oil, terests. The Chinese Government, China, nor is it possible to in- 1 peace-time convoy and tin. Much of this varied mer- however, showed no inclination to augurata. chandise passes through the chan-co-operate in the work, and piracy system for the great volume of nels and branching tributaries of continued. Three attacks were anade coastal trade, any vessel of which the Canton Delta, that large stretch upon British vessels in the Delta may be atacked if the opportunity of rich alluvial fand lying roughly between September, 1927, and Janu offers. It is manifestly out of the question, moreover, to conduct a between the lines joining Hongary, 1928.

lengthy and expensive punitive ex- Koag, Canton, the Treaty Port of

pedition in territory belonging" to Samahui on the West River, the

country with whom we are st Treaty Port of Eongmun, and the

peace Portuguese possession of Macao.

River Gunboats.

British river gunboats are coa- stantly on patrol in the area, and their task is no sinecure; but they cannot do everything. Their pria cipal duty is to safeguard the lives And property of the little British communities in the Treaty Ports, und during the past few years, with the overthrow of successive War Lords and the disbandment of their ill-disciplined armies, the work has

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Defence may come from within British gunboats which constitute the ships themselves, but even in the West River" Flotilla. They cases like these of the Sunning and work far out of the limelight in the Anking, where officers and In. the face of continual obstacles and dian guards put up the stoutent re disappointments, and time and time sistance, the vessels may be capti again bave saved British communi-ed at the cutset. Bus all men are sare calibre, and. ties from outrage and possible not of the massacre at the hands of brigand naturally enough, some officers of bands or mobs of disbanded soldiers the mercantile marine, outnumber- ed by desperate men, have not been serving no masters but themselves.

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keeping down piracy, but are handicapped in that they are work ag, so to speak, in Chinese ter ritory, and may not open fire except upon pirates caught red-handed, or when in actual pursuit of a gang official luncheon given at Canton British lives and property cannot after some outrage. Armed blue-te the British Minister, the virtual be checked by mere evasion and But some Brands are better than others.' jackets cannot be, landed except at head of the Government declared polite regrets.

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To-day. (June 7.)

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Sunday. (June 9.)

2nd After Trinity.

Lawn Bowls:-Division L. Tai koo R.C. v. Police, Craigengower v. Kowloon C.C., Bowling Green, v Christian Fellowship Meeting, Kowloon Dock, Recreio v. Civil Mohammedan year 1349 begins.

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Peak Tramways Co. Annual rice . Taikoo, Yacht Club v. Re- Love," and Sam Ku West.

Bowling World Theatre: The Lone Wolf Meeting, Hong Kong Hotel, 11 am, creio, Kowloon C.C. v.

Green,

H.K. Electric. Craigen Returns Queen's Theatre: Man, Woman

Star Theatre: "The Missink gower. and Sin," and Sam Ku West.

Lawn Teonis: "A" Division: Link." World Theatre: "Another Scan-Indian R.C...B.K, IKO.C. dal."

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Dinner Dance Peninsula Hotel,

European Mail-Outward: Queen's Theatre Man, WomanEurope-via-Siberia (Suwa Maru). and Sin," and Sam Ku West. 10.30 4.m.

World Theatre: "The Lone Wolf Returns"

Star Theatre "The Missing Link."

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