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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO,
AND
LTD.
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM
NAVIGATION CO., LTD..
YONSIGNEES nar Co.'s Vossal
CONSIGN AGAPENOR"
FROM UNITED KINGDOM VLA SINGAPORE
are hereby notified that their Cargo will Le discharged into Holt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it will loss Consignees risk sad subject to Terma and Conditious of Storage, at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will be ready for Delivery from Gödown on and after 25th August..
Options! Cargo will not be landed hara unless Notice has been given prior to Steamer's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends.
STO
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods
be left in the Godawas, where they will be examined on any Tacedays And Friday between the hours of 10.45 AM. mud Noow within the Free Storage period.
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, And all Gooda remaining undeliva ed After the 31st August, will be subject
to Rent,
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on 07 before the 14th Sept., 1933 or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effectid.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIB",
Agenia
L
25th August, 1933.
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THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD. COPENHAGEN.
THE
BE Danish Motor Vessel
**AFRIKA”
having arrived from Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo, Botterdam and Bam- barg, Conxigneas of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being larded and placed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godawns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., where Delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.
No Ulaims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining undelivered after Zad September, 1933, at 4 p.m., will be subject to Rent.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godown, where they will be examined by Messrs. Ander- son & Ashe on the 1st September, 1933, at 10 am,
All Claims against the Vessel must be presented to the Undersigned within ten days of the ship's arrival, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected. Billa of Lading will be countersigned by JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FROM
NEW YORK & LOS ANGELES.
THE Motor Vessel
SILVERS ANDAL" having arrived from the stove Port on 3rd instant, Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, Kowloon, and stored at Consignoes risk and expense.
All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on Tuesday,
29th instant at 10 sm.
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large enough party, headed by the financial and mercantile interests, bitterly opposing aggression in all forms. With the doors of every market alammed the "business world becomes ready enough to back a battering of these gates by bombs and artillery.
was
ANNOUNCEMENT
SIR SHOU-SON CHOW and family
NEW AREAS ARE INUNDATED
desire to thank all friends and 10,000 Homeless In
" stitutions for the many letters of condolence sent them in, their recent sad bereave- ment, and also for the foral: tributes sent and attendance at the funeral.
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Shansi
to prevent the threatened disaster.
NEWS SUMMARY
The foreign YM.C.A. in Shang
The extent of the calamity hai are sending a strong contingen which would be involved in å of swimmers to Hongkong, to meet. change of the Yellow river's cour the V.R.C. in October.
Page se may be visualized from the fact
On Page 1 of this issue Mr. Upton Clove
continues
his outspoken that the stream, 2,700 miles long. miles For untold years it has drains a basin of 475,000 square Analysis of the situation in the
Pacifc. been dyked and so silt-laden interesting libel action in which the Echoes of 1939-a most curious & the stream that at many points Governor was sub-poenaed-appear its bed is above the level of the
on Page 6, surrounding countryside.
Nanking, Aug. 24. Reports received from official DEATHS.
sources indicate that 2,000,000 per MacGREGOR.-On August 5, 1933, sons have been affected and tens
passed away" at 40. North of thousands Street, Havant, after a long Shantung floods which have in- drowned in the and painful illness, patiently undated mare than 3,000 villages. borne. Donald MacGregor, late The entire population of, Hote-
Perpetual Disaster of Shanghai, the husband of
hsien, numbering approximately
In the past the Yellow river has Helen MacGregor. From his 500,000. has been virtually wiped changed its course and each chan- loving Wife and Daughters. (Shanghal papers, please copy.) out, with 400.000 being either lost 8e has been attended by disasters Funeral at Wardlington.
or marooned with little chance of ¦ of major proporuons. The earliest
Chinese STILL-On August 3, 1933, George escaping the angry waters.
records show that the Edmond St, late of Monte-
Yellow river originally entered video, third son of C. F. Suli,
the Gulf of Chihli by two mouths, Hong Kong, aged 76. Crema
one now occupied by the Pel Ho at tion Golders Green. -
Tientsin and another farther BIRTH. HOPKING. On August 3, 1933, at Frimley Cottage Hospital, to Gladys (nee Salsham), wife of Captain H. R. Hopking. The Suffolk Regiment a "daughter.
Tsinan and Lokow are threaten- ed, the water standing only a few inches below the top of the dykes, with the Yellow River still rising.
#
Pathetic Incidents
Pelping, Aug. 24. The raging waters of the Yellow
ces.
south. In the Shang Dynasty another branch flowed past Tal- nantu in Shantung province
a
Police Reserve Orders: Page 10 Hong Kong Stock Exchange oth- cial report for Monday. Page 13. London Financial Notes by spe- cial Airmail Service appoar Page 13.
on
A page of news of interest to motorists is published on Page
Our Swatow correspondent "des- cribes & determined campaign in that city to get house rents reduced. Page 7. Our Wuchow. correspondent "re. parts that the annual flooding of. the West River is this year much through the basin of the Ta Ching less than over 1
Page 7 Ho and in the days of Confucius
At Central Magistracy yesterday; the stream.flowed southward... to a Chinese man was sentenced to 19 what is now the Hual river. In months' imprisonment and a womanı the third and fourth centuries the to 6 months, in connection with a
river mouth only Yellow
was kidnapping charge.
Page T Ching Ho but in A claim for $310 the Ta
brought 1200 A. D. the stream again Mrs. A. B. Oxberry, managress of went south and entered Many of the victims were mas
the the Palace Hotel, against Mr. A. rooned in tree-tops and on noat-Yellow Sea by the Hual river. This Wheeler of Messrs. Thomas Cook & ing wreckage. The loss of life and course was retained until 1853, Sons, respect of a hotel bill in-.
when "China's Sorrow" returned curred.by Mrs. Wheeler. property was tremendous.
Page T Another wide ares in the Liu-to the Ta Ching Ho course with The first breach of promise case, inhalen district, in Western Shan-
disastrous effects on the popula- to be heard in the Hong Kong courts si, was claimed by the foods. A
tion. In the years since then failed owing to the lack of corro- thousand persons were reported to
floods have been frequent and al-borative evilence of the plaintif have been drowned.
ways the Yellow river is linked claim. Mr. Justice Lindsell was the with death and destruction. It is judge. It was not an edfying case, of but little use for navigating be-
Page 12 Williani Frederick Gardner, un-
ver today inundated new areas and spread death and destruction in Shansi and Shantung provin- MARRIAGE THOMSON HOWSON. - On July
Ten thousand persons were left 29, 1933, at St. Mary's Finchley, homeless when 10 feet of water EX Robert Arnold Thomson
to swept over Paotenhalen, eastern Lilian Cafe. Howson. Tientsin Shansi. papers, please copy. Copies of "The Outlook," the official organ of The Victorian Diocesan Association which is Issued bi-annually have recently arrived in the Colony. Amongst the other interesting items and an- nouncements regarding the Diocese this number of "The Outlook" con- tains the first of the Rev Ronald Hall's notes to the Association in his capacity of Bishop of Victoria.
OBITUARY
Mr. Archibald Kerr
of
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hui river collapsed, flooding the In Shantung dykes on the Chus
country Kuyeh.
was
between Anchuan ivia; cause of its allt and the vagaries imployed, was committed for trial
No relief was in sight from the devastation of the Yellow river. often called "China's Sorrow," which is threatening to change its course again from Honan province eastward to the sea.
of its water levels.
Banks Collapsing
at
the next Sessions, by Mr. Wynne-Jones in the Central Police At present the banks and dykes Court yesterday; when he was
are in a of the stream
state charged with obtaining credit to of collapse for miles at the amount of 8295.29 from the Sin- stretch. Efforts to prevent floods cere Company Ltd, without disclo have been futile. And the burdening he was an undischarged bank of water carried from the interior rupt. is 30 great that despite the volume released over now-inundated areas upstream the danger down-stream is but little diminished.
The nature of the disaster is Shanghai, Aug. 21.
such that experts fear that next The remains of the late Mr. year, if not this, the Yellow river Archibald Kerr were laid to rest in will break entirely away from its Hungjao Road Cemetery yesterday banks and wonder uncontrolled afternoon in presence of a large over a far-flung countryside seek- In the Chang Huan area, near attendance mourners. The ing a new outlet. Cities, villages, Kaifeng in Honan province, the widow and son were the chief rallways, farms and all other ap- Yellow river has inundated more officiated in the Chapel and at be destroyed. mourners. The Rev. C. W. Allen purtenances of civilization would than 300 villages. This disaster is the graveside. The
Because lack of due partly to the action of ban- were:-Messrs. A. E. P. Wood P. because of
_pall-bearers funds and engineering ability and dits who destroyed several miles official preoccupation of dykes in order to make It easter Mason, R. Elder. H. McMahon, with political questions and the, for them to pillage a devastated G Muller and M. McVicar.
general disunion" of the country countryside. the Chinese Government, is re- - In Shansi province thousands garded as helpless to take steps (Costinvel ́ow next column).
at the close of which a pocession
where the committal service was
LOCAL AND GENERAL
Mr. Joha Leslie Urquhart, of
chairman of the Russo-Asiatic Con, well-known mining engineer and
solidated, left £283,739.
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