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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE

REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE.

LONDON SERVICE

(Direct)

PHILOCTETES 27th Nov. London, Hull, "Antwerp & R'dam *PYRRHUS

4th Dec. London, Amsterdam & Antwerp ALCINOUS 11th Dec. London, Rotterdam & Hamburg

LIVERPOOL SERVICE (Direct or vis Continental Ports)

DEMODOCUS MERIONES DANFA

ACHILLES

FALTHYBIUS

1st Dec. M'es, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow. 20th Dec. Genos, M'Bles, Liverpool & Glasgow, 23rd Dec. M'lles, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow. PACIFIC SERVICE ·.

(via Kobo and Yokohama)

5th Dec. 1 Victoria, Sesitla & Vancouver

19th Dec, f

NEW YORK SERVICE (via Suez or Panama)

Sth Dec,

34th Dec.

15th Jan.

AGAPENOR

CALCHAS

MACHAON

PYRRHUS

MENTOR

23rd Dac.

MENTOR

TEIRESIAS

via Suez via Suez via Suez

PASSENGER SERVICE

4th Deo. for Singapore & London 9th Dec. for Shanghai

far Singapore & London

12th Feb. for Singapore & London

For Freight and Passage Rates and all Informatisa Apply to:-

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

(JOHN SWIRE & SO48, LTD.)

AGENTS.

THE NORWEGIAN AFRICA AND

5.3. ATNA

S.S. ATNA

AUSTRALIA LINE.

(CHINA AND JAPAN SERVICE)

OUTWARDS.

1

due Hongkong

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20th. November.

M.S.TENERIFFA due Hongkong 2nd half of December.

M.S. TENERIFFA

HOMEWARDS.

Loading at Mongkong 2nd half December.

+

2nd half January.

Subject to change without notice.

The ships are taking carzo at Conference Rates for Ports in

Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Scandinavia.

For space and particulars apply to

THORESEN & Co.

Agents.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.,

COPENHAGEN.

Regular Freight and Passenger Service for Bangkok, Hongkong. Swatow and return.

M.S.

S.S.

BINTANG "BANKA"

Expected on or Will leave for

about

Bangkok.

21. November 26th. November. 19th December 17th. December. Subject to change without notice. For further particulars please apply to:-

JOHN MANNERS & CO.,

Agents,

LTD.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD.

COPENHAGEN.

The M.S.

*

'MALAYA"

will be loading for Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Copenhagen and other Scandinavian ports, about 7th. December.

Expected on or Will leave for above

about,

ports on or shout. 18th. January 1923

M.S. AUSTRALIEN" 12th. December.

Further Sailings :-

Į

M.S." AFRIKA"

M.. 'CHILE "

10:h. January 1923. 16th February

5th. February 1913. 12th. March

Bubject to change without notice.

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For further particulars please apply to:

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LIP.

Agents.

Hongkong. 3rd. November, 1902.

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NOTICE.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1924.

SCOTLAND FARD *BURGLED. **

Office.

THE COWIE HARBOUR COAL Hanl From Lost Property

- COMPANY LIMITED. SILIMPOPON COAL.

ble rates.

Two thieves, contemplating & collection of umbrellas and old coal must be enjoying one of

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THE undersigned are prepared the best practical jokes aver in- to quote prices for beat quali-dulged in at the expense of Scot- 17 freshly mined SILIMPOPON|1and Yard. COAL, trimmed into Bunkars at The Yard itself, indeed, is BERAÎTIK or SANDAKAN

not above savouring the humour' (British North Borneol or to of the situation. For the gamps contract for regular Bunker Sup-and. coats were stolen from plies for 6 or 12 months at favour-the Lost Property Office attached to what any fiction Steamers calling at SEBATTIS writer worth his salt will ar SANDAKAN exclusively for describe

the most Bnakers are exempt from pay-stupendous institution for detect-1 ment of ordinary Part Chargesing and preventing crime that The minimum draft of water the world has ever seen."- alongside the Company's Wharf The theft occurred between 6 at Sebattik is 23 feet at low water and 7 o'clock in the morning of Spring Tides Charts of Cowie Oct. 6, and is, therefore, techni- Bay (Sebattik Harbour) and any caily housebreaking. But the required information concerning men concerned (writes a repres the port can be had on applica-entative of the "Daily Chron :ion to

icle') are either of the Super- cracksman type of courageous amateurs acting under the stim- The OWIE HARBOUR COALulus of a wager.

CO. LTD.

BRADLEY & CO. LTD.

Agonis,

JAPANESE MASSAGE.

YRS. H. SUGA MR. V. SUGA

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No. 11. D'Aguilar Street, 2nd. Fluor.

MRS. SEKAI

MASSAGE THE CANION BANK, 2nd. Floor, NO. 11. DO UNDELL ST. HONGKONG

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TALES OF THE CUTTY SARK.

Chief Officer's Story.

The news that the world-famous

It impends over the embank- ment, and in one part-furthest from that of the robbery-the night-duty detectives and such of the "Osing squad" as were standing by ready at an instant's notice to project themselves at high speed into crime investiga. {tion would be thinking of break-Cutty Sark, one of the fastest clippers the world has ever seen, Neither they or the solitary has been bought from her Portu- policeman or two oa patrol in the guese owners by a British master neighbourhood in their wildest mariner and is to remain in a imaginings would ever think of British port, has greatly gratified Scotland Yard being "cracked."all lovers of the sea, and especial.

The thieves selected the easternly all old sailors, ead of the single-storey building Fow are now left who were as- for attack. Years 320 the sociated with her in har earliest authorities must have considered daye her maiden voyage, was that this angle was vulnerable, made as long ago as 1870-but for its rock is surmounted by her first skipper. Captain Moodic, formidable fringe of overbanging is still living, an old gentleman of spikes.

ninety-five; and the chief officer of her second voyage out and home, Mr. William James Cock, who is young and active at eighty, living in a charming old-world house at EL buttress on to the flat the top of the hill, almost within roof. forced the kylight sight of the sea, at Kirby-le-Sober. through which one dropped into in Essex. the lost property office.

THROUGH THE SKYLIGHT. But thieves intent upon such a coup are not deterred by obstacles of this type. They climbed up

QUICK SAILING.

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decks being thoroughly cleansed making sail or taking it in. It and fumigated after the cargo had was four hours on and four hours been discharged, and then lined of throughout the passage, and with bamboo matting before the in heary squalls all bands were coolie

stevedores fitted each called up, so that their rest was fragile chest into its proper place. broken frequently, whilst in fine weather there was the mending

HER BEST POINT.

"In those days clippers were and washing of clothes to be seen built to race against every other, to. There was little time for rec- and the first that arrived home reation or for thinking of any with her cargo of tea had so much thing but work. The strain, too, The was pretty great, especially in a ton more for her speed. Cutty Sark was undoubtedly built foul weather, for if anything was to beat the Thermopylae; and, as carried away you had to know There Mr. Basil Lubbock says, she was what to do in a moment, the only vessel which could ser- was no sickness on board, Rod iously dispute her contention that though the sailors were ill paid she was the fastest ship in the in those days there were wall fed. Whether they ever had time to world."

"What," I asked, "did you go ashore or not in the East consider her best point?" re- I hardly remember. I don't think calling that it was Lubbock's I did. It was hard work all the view that it was with strong beam time. At ses you were racing or quartering breezes, on which against everyone else, and in occasions she could beat Thermo- barbour you were either discharg Pylae or any other ship ever built. ing or taking a cargo

"I agree with Lubbock," Mr. After the voyage home in 1871 Cock said. "What she required Mr. Cock left the Cutty Sank för was a good whole sail breeze. a steamship and afterwards joined that the the Union Steamship Company. Lubbock considered He handed up to his

Mr. Cock told me (writes a rep. con- federate an armfal of umbrellas resentative of the barter) that Australian voyage suited her best, now she Union Castle. For many and a collection of overcoats, he joined the Cutty Sark in Nov. and for the very good reason that years he has given up the Sea.

the Roaring

The last I saw the Cutty Sark. long unclaimed, that were lying ember, 1870, as chief ofcer, and there, down in in a corner. A night watchman was with her for about fourteen Forties, you get a gale of wind he said, was in London about heard suspicion pounds, and, months. Her passage from Los behind yoo. In the China seas twelve months ago. She had then what you a very different rig. Her beautiful entering the building, saw what don to Shanghai in ninety-eight you don't know

teak rails and the bouse on deck, had occurred and raised the days was the fastest of any of the are going to get.

a beautiful ship which was also built of teak and alarm. The cracksmen, however, China clippers that winter. "The

lox," he said, producing that well. in every way, and in faint airs used to be kept polished like The Daily Chronicle repres-preserved document, "shows that she used to slip along and travel mahogany, were painted white.

brasswork All the 2 we passed through the water without entative, examining the. scene, on November 10 noted footprints on the soft earth through the Downs at 3 a.m.; we ripple. The one awkward thing painted over. Her huli, of course. by the barttress, and found, lying were off Dungeness at 6 a.m., about her was that, being built of looked all right, but she had not. on a projection of the buttress it Beachy Head at 9 am, the Owers teak, her decks got very slippery the smart yachtlike appearance self penholder complete with J.lightship at noon, and the Start in heavy weather, and it was she had in the seventies." nib, the point of which was badly light at 9 p.m. That was mighty difficult to stand on them. stubbed. The end had been bitten, quick sailing.

IS YOUR BABY GETTING while there were stains as of "Da January 28 we fell in with

HIS TEETH?. nicotine halfway down the holder. two other famous clippers, the He took it promptly to Scotland Titania and the Taeping, is com

How Baby's Own Tablets Help. Yard, where an expert eyed it psay. The Titania had left Lon- we were in port we used to Every parent knows the worries thoughtfully. No lens

was don on October 27 and the Taep get a horse's tail and put in that come when baby is teething, necessary to detect its peculiar-ing on October 17. For three her hand to represent the old Many parents have found in ities. But it was disappointing to days, during which there were mare's tail, which, in Burns'sstory, Baby's Own Tablets help which find him discard it as a clue. light aire, we kept in company she pulled out. At ses the arm seems almost magical at this

"Motive for the crime?" be with them, and on February 1 they was taken off to prevent it from

were never seen.

We went

'She

WAS

FIGUREHEAD OF THE WITCH.

"Her figurehead was the white witcb, with her long hair and cutty sark' flowing back. When

being washed away. Her stern had the ship's name in gold, with Port of London and the motto, 'Where there's a Willis away, this being a punniog allusion to

Captain Willis."

Clarke's Blood Mixture echoed, with a queer gleam in his went out of sight astarn. On eye. "Well, perhaps some sports- February 11 we picked up the men, going to the races, thought pilat sad auchored off Shanghai. it was going to rain--"

"After unloading in Shanghai This reminds one of the famous we want to Bangkok for ric, instance of a Chinese thief which we took to Hongkong. the name of the first owner, removing

there the clock from the From

to Supreme Court at Singapore Foochow for poles, which we

while a trial was to progress.

took back

and to Shanghai, then got ready for bringing the tes bome. It is quite true what Mr. Carr says in his letter to the Obsecrer about the great care that was taken in loading this choice |cargo, the lower bolds and 'tween

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By assisting nature to set wrong conditions right these Tablets promptly ease the pain and bring natural sleep, from which the baby wakes up rested and refresh- ed. They gently regulate the bowels, cool feverishness, cure HARD WORK ABOARD. infantilo indigestion. colic, "What romance and charm diarrboes, colds, expel worms, these voyages in the Cutty Sarkare guaranteed absolutely harm. must have bad!" I suggested. less to even the youngest infant.

Chemists sell them, also post free, 60 cents the vial, from Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., 95 Sze-, chuen Road, Shangbai,

"I don't think we ever had time to think about it in that way," Mr. Cook said. "We were kept hard at it all the time, either

WHY DIDNT YA FEEL "TH' WATER B'FORETM

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IN IT? ALL SHOW YA

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