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CHINA'S MERCANTILE

MARINE

New Vessels To Resuscitate

Service

Shanghal, Nov. 1.

Ship after ship dipped their fags A dark smudge on the horizon in answer to her salute and spe- at Woosung which quickly resolved | cial notice was paid by C. M. vės- itself into a smart vessel with a sels. high raked bow and the lines, of; an ocean liner yesterday marked & great day in the history of the Chinese mercantile marine.

The vessel which threaded its way through a fleet of junks wal- lowing in the Yangtze flow was the Hal Yuan Arst of the four stea mers built at British yards for the China Merchants. Steam Naviga- tion Company under the E400,000 | building programme made possible by the British Boxer Fund trustees. Two others are on their way to China and the fourth is leaving to-day, Captain F. Scury, who has supervised construction, being a passenger on the vessel,

Embodying modern principles of design and construction, with all modern navigational alds and

quipment and luxuriously atted. the Hal Yuan presented a pretty picture as she have lato sight

about noon after picking up a pilot. and was boarded by represents- tives of the builders and the owners. She had completed the voyage from Newcastle-on-Tyne to Shanghal in 47 days, three days ahead of schedule, which elicited the congratulations of Mr. A. Mal colm, of Messrs. Malcolm & Co. Ltd, representing Messrs. Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd, the builders, and Captain F

Tanner, of Messrs. Scurr, Tan ner and Co, naval architects for the fleet of the four new vessels

Crowds See Her Fass

|

On arrival at Klangnan Dock, she tied up next to the two Amer Icar. gunboats, the Luzon and the Panay, at the dock for refitting. and a large crowd welcomed here and boarded her as soon as the

necessary quarantine and other formalities had been completed..

LONDON NOTES

By The Air Mail

(From Our Own Correspondent)

London, Oct. 17. & ceremony which dates from the time of King John took place in the House of Lords. Sir Stephen Kilik. Lord Mayor-elect, attended to hear from the Lord Chancellor

(Lord Sankey) the King's "appro-, val to his appointment, au "Ste- phen was accompanied by Mrg. Stanley Greenland. his daughter, who is the Lady Mayoress-elect, the Sheriffs, and

aldermen and City officers and a number of

officials.

Mr. Holman Gregory, KC., was Present, this being his first official duty since his appointment as Re- corder of London.

|GREAT-GRANDSON OF DICKENS

LAMMERTS AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE

Duderagnad have received Instructions

TO BALL BY

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PUBLIC AUCTION:

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FRIDAY, NOV., 9, 1934

Commencing at 2.30 PM.

At Taxis SALES ROOM," DUDDELL STREET.

À QUANTITY OF

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· VALUABLE · HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.

Comprising

Captain. Enthusiastic

Captain Simm was highly en- thusiastic about the vessel the between Lieutenant Gerald Henry The engagement is announced command of which he whaur- Charles Dickens, R.N., and render in the next few days. The Joyce Miller, eldest daughter of Couches and Armchairs, Hai Yuan is the tenth ship from Mr. E. A Miller, of Karachi, and Cabinets, Teak Expension Dining

the Tyne that he has delivered in parts as distant as Bouth America and China. He is no stranger to these waters, having brought out the Changklang, the railway ferry railway at Nanking and Pukow steamer for the Shanghal-Nanking another vessel butli with returned British Boxer funds. His last job

was to take a super-train ferry from Newcastle to Dover for the

new

al-

cross-channel service, though he regards with greatest pride the occasion on which he delivered to the Egyptain Govern- ment the fishery research vessel Mahabiss, which has been lent to the Indian Government for fishery research work in the Indian Ocean.

The trip out from Newcastle was,

of

Miss

Mrs. Miller, of Wychcotes, Caversham. Lieutenant Gerald Dickens is the only son of Mr. H C. Dickens, who is the grandson of Charles Dickens.

Fielding Dickens, the late Common His grandfather was Sir Henry

who died recently following a the novelist's son,

Serjeant and

street accident.

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Teak

Hatstands, Chesterfield Teak

Tables and Chairs, Teak Cheat of Drawers, Teak cokcares, Teak Bed stead, Tiak Wardrobes with Mirror Door, Tek Dressing Tables, Ten Poys, Screen, Ice Chest, Bronze ward,

Brass Cutlery, Dinner Crockery, Glass and Ware, Pictures, ~ Carpelst ing Cabinets, Office Deks, Type, Gramophones sail Records, Teak Fil-

writers, Rattan Chairs and Table, Clocks, Glóisonne Vases, Books, Meni Safes, Golf Clubs, Fire Brusses, elc,,

M. Policare's Speeches Lucidity was of M. Poincaré as a speaker. He usually wrote his speeches before- hand, and then memorised them word for word. He rarely changed even a sentence.

the characteristic | eto.

alno

A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD WARE

and

One Cottage Piano by Robinson

! Piano Co,"

Though he had none of M Briand's warmth, his clear, and on the whole, quite good, but it unemotional style af oratory could was made possible by the excell-be extraordinarily effective, ent qualities of the ship for the One of his finest speeches was his north-east monsoon and the tall welcome to Marshal Foch on his One Kelvinator end of the recent typhoon were en- reception at the French Academy | Ona Grandfather Clock countered. From Newcastle, only in 1920. one stop was made. That was at Port Said.

This concluded with a dramatic account all the more telling for its absence of rhetoric, of the drawing up of the Armistice.

"His Softer Side

M. Poincaré had: his gofter side.

As she entered the Whangpoo River the new vessel attracted the attention of many people at Woo-

"The Hai Yuan surprised us with sung and she received her first salute from another C. M." vesšel her sea qualities and her go-ahead en route to Foochow, a small and qualities," the Captain declared. old boat which provided abrupt "We did a lot of bumping in the comparison with the first of the rough weather but she was con- company's new acquisitions, Cap-tinually going ahead. She seemed tain John Simm, who brought the to be stealing over the waves and

He loved the bird because "tea- vessel out under contract from New-no matter what happened she castle, a veteran of the sea who gets there. She is a splendid sea thing my lessons to Raymond"

like his has delivered new vessels to many boat, and I can tell you that with the bird was named

master "teaches them to me at parts of the world from the famous this ship I wouldn't mind butting the same time. shipbuilding centre of which he is into any kind of weather this coast native, was quick to notice it. My can supply.

Only One Stop

"I thought I could get her out in

ON. VIEW FROM THURSDAY,

THE 8TH NOVEMBER, 1984.

He always kept pets. His first was | TERMS 1--Caaw of Dalivät. a parrot.

A couple of days before his elec- tion to the Presidency of the Re- public, M. Poincaré disappeared for a whole morning.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS.

was Postmaster-General, the late Col. Sir Henry Hozler, secretary to Lloyd's, had pubilely criticised the telegraph service and Mr. Buxton stated in debate in the House of Commons that this criticism Was

Duel Challenge to Lord Button As she proceeded up-river - to- Kiangnan Dock, where she is to

The late Lord Buxton was the enter drydock this morning to 140-.

"He had gone to find out what last Cabinet Minister to be chall- dergo a little sprucing up for the 50 days owing to the weather like- was wrong with some goldfish be- enged to a duel.

When as Mr. Sydney Buxton he official handing over next weeks to be encountered and she belonging to his brother Lucien, He when the Red Duster will be re-ing a light vessel, but she far ex-found they were being improperly placed by the Chinese marine dag. ceeded my expectations We did fed, and put the matter right be. the Hai Yuan dressed ship, her it in 47 days, and I might add that fore returning to see about his gay bunting adding to pobile im is only time in the passage of election. pression ashore and afloat. The 10.800 miles when the engines were Bund. was lined with people see:] stopped was at Bort Said, which, ing her pass, the first of China's is, of course compulsory. This ap- Many Londoners will be remind-"a travesty of the truth" modern steamers which should plins to every auxillary on board. ed by M. Poincaré's death of his rank high along the China Coast, as a seaworthy ship I can high-frst visit to this country as Frest The windows of the China Merly recommended her. With the dent in 1913. chants Head Office were crowded peculiar system of ballast tanks with officials and employees, who you can trim her to your likius in stopped work to see the vessel pass. I any kind of weather.”

A.C. MACK HURT SHANGHAI POLO

Hit With Shovel

Shanghai, Nov. 1.

A. C. Mack, who was convicted In H. M. Supreme Court in the

SUCCESS

Triumph In North

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"Tuloyons"

"Among the street decorations of London were streamers inscribed "Tutoyone."

There was much puzzlement un- til it was explained that French people use the singular "tu" as a

mark of special intimacy, and that "tutoyons" meant "Let us be close friends."

The Last Survivor With M. Poincaré's death, fol- lowing on that of M. Barthou, only one of the outstanding war states- Peking, Oct. 29. men in France remains. N Rounding off their visit to the This is M. Mullerand, the sole North, the Shanghai, Interport polo survivor of the group of leaders team played a mixed Feking and which included Clemenceau, Tientsin Interport team on the Briand, Viviani, Blots, Ribot, and Peting Polo Club ground this Pichon

afternoon.

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Colonel Hozier, as he then was, regarded this as an attack on his honour, and forthwith sent a chal- lenge to the Postmaster-General. suggesting that the duel should be fought in France.

The letter containing the chal- lenge was penned by Mr. T. Deve- rear, who recently retired from

the position of chief clerk to the Committee of Loyd's and who was then Col Hozier's secretary.

When Mr. Devereux is asked - what resulted from the challenge he only replies, "Nothing happen- ed. Perhaps he may now be less. reticent.

The late Sir Henry Hozier wal Mr. Churchill's father-in-law.

A Transplanted Church

Although the Bumop of London is greatly delighted with the church of Bt. Andrew, Neasden, It is un- Ikely that the experiment which accounts for its presence will he repeated."

At 75 M. Millerand, whose re The Shanghai team comprised cord of public service is second the same players who successively only to that of M. Polnesré, stiil defeated the Peking and Tientsin on occasion practices in the courts, teams last week namely:-Count

Formerly it was the famous`St. Lord Sempill's Flying Family Andrew's Wells-street, which Lord Sempill is also flying to Queen Alexandra frequently at

celebrated Chartered Bank fraud case last spring, was in the Police Hospital yesterday sudering from severe head wounds inflicted with 8 shovel wielded by a fellow prisoner in the Amoy Road Gaol The assault on Mack occurred on Tuesday afternoon and before warders could interfere the man had been dealt several strong 3 du Rivan (captain), N. F. All- blows which left deep incisions in man. R. Moller, and W. L Painter his scalp. His ́-assallant; " Banta

The combined. Peking and Tient- Melbourne during the next few tended. Sentiment prompted the Singh an Indian was overpowered sin teum was made up of: Lieut. Cays. He is not, however, com- iden of demolishing it and rebolin. and removed. It was said the Jernigan (Peking); Lieut. Syden-peting in the race, and though he mg it at me by stone at Nerden. Indian struck Mack in aat of ham Clarke (Tientsin), R. Gordon will follow approximately the same The cost was about £40,000. This -maniacal rage, and consequently (Tientsin), and Major Worton route, will take the trip easily, is a good deal more than that at the attacker was taken to the (Peking), S

making the journey in short hops | building day entirely new church... mental ward. Mack's condition,| Shanghai won the match by 9 He plans to fly round Australls The old parish of St. Andrew's while serious is not considered goals to B, but only after an extra and then to go north to Manchu has been joined to critical.

(Era Fkuo. His return journey will bring | Souls, Langhamnisce, Last week, by defeating Peking him back by way of Singapore.enough, is not the Muck, the principal figure in the by g-4 and Tientan by 5-4, Shang-|- All members of the Bempill | parlen, The result bank fraud case, was found guilty had won the beautiful French Cup, family are expert, aviators. - Lady | enlarged parish now bas by a jury on three charges of presented by the French Commu- Sempli has done remarkable All Bair "uttering, alding and abetting in nity of Shanghai to encourage things in cross-country flying. On the midst of respect of a forged cheque and polo in the Far East-

chukker.

was sentenced by Judge A. G. Reuter,

on each charge, the sentences to

Mossop to two years' imprisonment

run concurrently. He was con victed early in April,

* Willing. Is the Word

one occasion last year she left, Scotland before breakfast, lunched with friends, in Corentry, and rea- ched Devonshire by way of the Bristol Channel in planty of time

"Let us go to the circus, they nay, for dinner tags

• Santa Singh, according to re- one of the monkeys is so intelli-|^^ Hia two daughters, aged 14 and cords, was convicted in H. gent that he does the work of | 12, like those of Lætt Londonderry Police. Court, in -connection - with), three men.

are quite capable of fly

unable to hold a licence

the wounding of another-Indian, And you call that smart!" ex- chins, though natura Fouja Bingh

"claimed the other:

some glorious mas

apat have done. Why

400 miles a day!"