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HONGKONG, 3rd July, 1923..

TUESDAY JULY 3 1923.

DAY BY DAY.

NEW RIVER BOAT.

The "Lungshan” Launched.

launched the last ship for the Steamboat Company. Some - of the older residents would remem- |ber that about twenty-eight years

go they built another ship of the same name. Since 1890 it bad not been necessary to order now Vossels from Home and their CEREMONY AT KOWLOON friends the Dock Company, in

DOOK.

open competition with other ship. by the Hongkong and Whampoa Shanghai, had built vessels for The Lungshan, a steamer built builders in Hongkong and in

were not handed back to the Central Government, the Powere would be false to their pledge.

ABOUT THE MOST IMPORTANT. That, apparently, would not worry

THINGS... QOING ON YESTER- Dr. Sun, who is seemingly more DAY WERE WATERPROOFS.— concerned with causing the col MacWhirter. lapse of the Feking Goverment by withholding what is its dus

Sir William and Lady Brunyate than he is with the justice left by the P. and O. as, Khivs of the case. It is equally absurd yesterday for the North.

Dock Company to the order of the them with good results. It for Dr. Sun to accuso the PowerS

Hongkong. Canton and Macao bad given themi groat plosauro of practically imposing on the

Steamboats, Co., Ltd, to replace to ask Mrs. Clarke, the wife The Ray, J. Romanis Lee, the Honam, which steamer, it is of Capt. W. E. Clarke to perform country a Government repudiat M.A of Hongkong University, estimated, has covered well over the launching ceremony He ed by it. The Powera have im- was to preach at evensong last a million miles, was successful y asked those present to join with posed no Government on China. Sunday in St Andrew's Cathedral launched at Kowloon Dock this him in drinking to the continued

Singapore.

morning. The Neither have the people repúdiat-

christening) prosperity of the Hongkong and ceremony was performed by Mrs. Whampoa Dook, coupled with ed the Paking Government-they

W. E, Clarks. The launching the names of the absent manager, arrangements were under the Mr. R. M. Dyer, and the acting supervision of Mr. D. Keith., chief manager, Mr. E. Cock

Amongst those present were Mr. Cook replied on behalf of Commodore Grace, the Hon. Mr. Mr. Dyer and himself and he P. Holyoak, the Hon. Mr. called for a tasst, to the visitors, R. H. Kotewall, the Hon. Mr. coupled with the name of Mr. W. Chau Siu-ki. Mr. J. Arnold, the 5. Bailey. The Mayor of Canton has Ray. V. H. Copley Moyle, Cap-Mr. Bailey, replying on behalf issued a notice that no lease of tain F. - T. Wheeler, Lieut, of the visitors, spoke at some A deal of Dr. Sun's criticisms properties to foreigners will be Conway Hake, Mr. J. Reid, Mr.length on bis friendly relation- of the militarista might be ap-recognised unless previously ap-G. W. Barton, Mr. W. S. Bailey, ships with Captain Clarke and

proved and registered.

Col. Roberts, Mr. K. E. Greig Mr. Arnold. He mentioned that plied with equal force to his own

and many others.

the first ships of the Steamboat actions. He asserts that the idea

After the launching ceremony, Company were, built in America. of Disbandment Conference The sa. Derbyshire, which is the visitors adjourned to the fine They were wooden ships and to bring the 1st Bn. East Surrey new head offices at Kowloon, they had American captains and Regt. to Hongkong in November, which have recently been built, engineers, and they ran with is due to leave Malta in September and there partook of rofresh great Buocess. Mr. Bailey with the 2nd Bn. Royal Sunesx ments. Regt. for Singapore, to replace the 2nd Bn. Middlesex Regt,

goes to India.

have had po opportunity of doing. The VRC. are bolding their so. The present Government second night fate on Friday. The annual acquatio sports are fixed may not be to tho liking of for the 26th, to the 29th. Septem- certain olomonta in China, but|ber, inclusive. they must put up with it until it bas been changed by constitu- tionál methods.

which

thought the first steel vessel was the Honam, which the Lung-

A Progressive Company. shan was about to replace. Op In proposing a toast to the behalf of the visitors, Mr. Balley successful career of the Lung-added his best wishes to those. shan and to the continued prosiready expressed for the success

does not appeal to the militarists, because it would deprive them of the tools on which they depend for & realisation of their ambit. ions. Then he accuses them of sending expeditions and subsidis ing traitors to make war on the

The Hongkong Naval and Mili-perity of the Hongkong, Canton of the ship and the prosperity of Southern provinces. The people, tary Directory, brought thorough and Macao Steamboat Company the Hongkong, Canton and too, he tells us, have suffered ly up to date, has just been is Mr. Barton said the Company Macac Steamboat Company. THE SUN MANIFESTO. long and heavily under. the sued by the South China Morning had long been one of the in- Details of the Vessel.

burden of militarism, which has Post, Ltd. In addition to com- stitutions of the Colony and their

This steamer, built for the Hong- plete lists of naval and military activities were so well known that Dr. Sun Yat-sen has issued brought civil war in its train, officers and addresses, the little it left him with very little to add.kong-Canton river service, has the another Manifesto to the Powers. Has not Dr. Bun depended on booklet contains much informa- For a long time they had been following principal dimensions:

Length overall We have read it carefully through, militarists to help him realise his tion of a general character and it the link between the neighbour We cannot say that wo

ambitions? Is he not doing so should find a place on every busi- ing ports of Canton and MacED Length between perpen

Desa mau's desk, "The price is 50 and they stili held the premier unduly impressed by ic Tis at the present moment? Did he cents.

position on this run, both for cargo and passengers. The vessel object is to induce the Fowers not himself endeavour, to carry

13'-0" they had just launched formed to withdraw recognition from out an expedition against the

cycle,

The Long Shan has three decks as the speaker, tho Peking Government until North ? And did be not subsidise

understood, that the Lungsband accommodation is provided for was to take the place of the Ho-61 lat saloon passengers in 17 two- Buch time * AD administra-Yunnaneso and Kwangal Gen-

nam, which had been on the borth staterooms and 17 single

Alo

ARMED ROBBERS.

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diculars.. Breadth moulded Depth moulded

B. 990'-0”

542-0

tion is catablished which can erals to oust Cantonese forces Yaumati Gang Enter House, service, he believed, some forty barth rooms, also for 84 2nd saloon fairly claim to be representative from their native province ? Is

Five men armed with revolvers years. There came a time when passengers in two, three and four

of the country and command the he not to day in the grip of the carried out a successful robbery at place old ships with new ones of

it was more economical to re-berth ropme.

The dining saloon is situated at

the Lungahan their very best and The 1st class staterooms are large looked eagerly forward to her

respect and support of the pro-militarists? How else can hea house in Reclamation Street, vinces." If we read the present explain the continuance of publio Yaumati, at about nine o'clock more modern type. A pro the fore end of the saloon deck

gressive company should always situation aright, that time is still gambling and the commandeer. this morning:

keup this in view., Old, hands and is handsomely panelled and The inmates were gagged and were prone to think that the old finished with hardwood pilasters. very far distant, although we ing of labour for military pur: bound, and the property stolen things were best. The Hongkong Fourteen tables, sentod for four, are have no doubt that, once recogni-poses? Indeed, ie he not himself comprised for the most part and Whampoa Dook Company provided, also apholstered settees tion were withdrawn, Dr. Sunt militarist? What else can the jewellery, the precise amount of wore old friends and it was a and lounge chairs and largo teak- and his followers would coine

title of Generalissimo imply which has not yet been ascertain great satisfaction to the speaker wood sideboard. The floor is laid

ed. Detectives working on the to see that friendship conserved. with parquetry. forward and claim such a dis-His manifesto seems to us a most case afterwards made two arrests The Dock Company had put into

The Stateroomė. tinction for the Government" pointed instance, of the pot call-on suspicion. now attempting to function in ing the kettle, black. Dr. Sun

Success Mr. Barton thanked and airy, being fitted with all the. Canton. The latest Manifesta rante loudly against militariste- may, indeed, be regarded as the but only against those militarists largely exceeded. While Mr. Mrs. Clarke for her assig-latest conveniences, the wash basins Darbishire was a merchant prince tance in the launching cere having a continuous supply of water first step towards that end. We who are not fighting on his side. in Singapore he found leisure, to mony and, on babalf of the Dock from a large tank on the casing top. cannot forget that Dr. Bun still As for his disbandment scheme, probe much of the departmental Company, he asked her to accept Lavatory accommodation is on a regards himself as the only right it may look all right on paper. work of the Government there, & amall souvenir of the occasion. generous scals and all the fittings ful President of China, although

but what guarantee would there and his views on whatever failings Mr. Barton then proposed a toast are of the best description. The he discovered were expressed to the Lungahan and to the end class staterooms are situated at the moment, for reasons best be that these former troops, once with a rare vigour in Legislative Steamboat Company, in which all at the after ends of the boat and

converted into labour battalions, Council debates. He has lost present joined." known-to-himself,-be-prefers

would not speedily be armed if none of his independence-of-A-Warning to Labour.wire mattresses, sparred seat, an emergency arose Bribery is opinion, and still retains his Captain Clarke said he had been wash basin and mirror, etc.

characteristic manner of sticking with the Hongkong, Canton and small saloon, reserved for Indies, a very potent force in China, and to a point that might be wrong Macao Steamboat Company for is provided. no Government recognised by the no idealistic echemo drawn up by but appears to him to be right, forty-six years and be considered

The captain, officers and engineers a Disbandment Conference would Aad as it happens, his view of it a very great compliment that dispel that factor. To sum up expenditure in Malays being to launch the fine ship, the Lang.in large rpms, their quarters being the likelihood of departmental his colleagues had asked his wife are housed on the boat deck forward the Chinese must work out their considerably in excess of the shan. On behalf of his wife, he separated from the cabin passengers

to be known by the self-crested title of Generalissimo." With!

Powers, therefore, can there be

saloon decks and are furnished with

any doubt that Dr. Sun and his benchmen would press for an acknowledgment of their legal own salvation, aided by foreign estimates has a great deal of thanked the Company for the by a steel bulkhead and grill. status? The motive underlying assistance, maybe. If Dr. Sun procedent to justify it. the present Manifesto is obvious, and his associates want to come A Challenge to Others?

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handsome souvenir with which usual in river steamers the crew's they had presented her. He was accommodation is Gitted in the fore- aure she would always treasure castle and here is also a powerful It seems to us that if Dr. Sua inte power, they must follow the But the most important part of it as a momento of those days, ateam windless (by Clarke Chapman really wants the Powers to with-long and winding path of con- this former Singaporean's state. He was sure the shareholders and Co.) which; besides working the draw recognition from the Pe-stitutional methods. To proceed ment is his assertion that Britain of the Steamboat Company and cables, also actuates a shaft connect

will find strong naval bases the travelling public 'would wel king Government, he might have by any other way would be an springing up all round the area come the new vessel to theired to the warping capstan on the clothed bie requent in rather less absolute negation of republican deficed by the self-denying fleet. The builders were to be forecastle head A similar function offensive language. A suitor principles, on which Dr. Sun ordinance signed at Washington." congratulated on turning out astern is provided by a steam cap- Despite the fact that this such a splendid ship. The late stan at the after end of main deck. does not usually abuse the object would have us think he sets so viaw is contained in a letter to Sir Thomas Sutherland remarked The ship is fitted with a completo the Daily Mail, we can believe some years ago that he hoped the double bottom. There are two main Mr. Darbishize to be sincere in day would come when vessels of holds and a silk room. -... A strong his suggestion of future. naval this size would be balls on the room and a mail room are also competition in the East, and not banks of the Yangtze, and the provided. The rudder is controlled China's present troubles at the

Closely connected as we are merely to be trying to make the speaker had often wondered why from the bridge by a system of rods door of the Powers. He asserts with the question of the British British public's flesh creep, Un- he did not mention Hongkong, that the Powers have given Fe Navy in the East, and future fortunately for the Utopisa dream with its fine barbour and works, laid to Hastic's steam" steering gear king. "moral prestige and fin developments in the struggle for of the brotherhood of man, and They had seen some fine vessels and from thence to quadrant at ancial support, have intervened power that seems to be fore-federation of the world," there is completed in Hongkong, and Capt rudder head by chains and rods shadowed, the controversy still already an indication that the ain Clarke hoped that they would The electric installation consists of in China's internal affairs by raging over the proposed naval Powers are taking steps to safe continue to see this good work to 10 K W. Dynamos, practically imposing on the coun- base at Singapore is of more than guard their interests in the East carried on. The speaker warned The Engines,

The vessel will be propelled try. Government repudiated by ordinary interest to this Colony on a large scale As Mr. Darbi Labour leaders that they must A London cable published to-day abire points cut, there are develop. not increase coste, or they would it" and have "hindered China gives further anti" views of Mr. ments at Pearl Harbour, Honolulu, only and in driving the work acts of triple expansion direct from establishing an effective O. W. Darbishire, a sturdy contemplated by the United States elsewhere. The speaker had been acting surface condensing engines, and atable Government." Such opponent of the scheme on the of America and Holland la personally connected with the each living three cylinders, 20, an indictmont, which is wholly score of its probable excessivo preparing to establish a navel Dock Company for very many 33" 65 diameter by 30" stroke, ho milux type with unwarranted, is scarcely likely expense and its possible useless are in her East Indies, Japan, years and it was a pleasure to Each engine is fitted with a surfaco

ness, except as an indication of again, has strengthened her base him to be present to see the condenser, of the to help the cause which Dr. Sun aggression and cause of rival in the Bonios The best thing launching of the Lungshan. He a separate steam driven circolating, ospouses. To conform to his re- efforts by other nations with a Mr. Darblehire and others like proposed the health and prosperity pump. Le cach condenser. The air quost would be regarded by him stake in this part of the world him cars do will be to realles that of the Dock Company and the food and bilge pumps, are worked Mr. Darbiabire has a tilt at the only the combined efforts of all Steamboat Company, which was by lovers off the L.P. engine boilers, four in number-10-6 diameter by self and his supporters as a tacit notorious way in which Govern the big nations of the world responded to in the usual way,

11-7 long each fitted with three acknowledgment of the truth of ment concerns uspally squander can ever bring about the Others Days Recalled,

He declares that as a abolition of the war menace. Mr Holyoak, speaking on behalf Morrison's corrugated furnaces with thosa allegations. The"financial money.

result of his experience of the and in the meantime it will be of the co-directors and himself,Į support" to which Dr. Sun refers Public Works Department at Sing suicidal for any Power to neglect thanked the visitors for their Patent withdrawable back ends represents revenues which come sporo he believes the ostimated that old, and wise, injunction presepos. It was nearly ten el futernal diumcter, constructed

"Be prepared."

years since the Donk Company (Continued on Puge 1) undor foreign control. If these cost of the anchome will be very!