The str, Antung, was informally, launched at Taikoo the same after-hoon, Miss Stirling, daughter of the Commodore, performing the naming ceremony.
'The Antung has been built to the order of the C igation Ca., Ld, The voss ingle screw turbine steamer, of the awning deck type and' has an overall length of 350 feet, a beam of 49 feet and 34 feet depth to awning deck, built to scantlings approved by the British Corporation on tha deep framed system, with a cellular double bottom all fore and afe three complete decks, and four cargo holds. A large' steel deckhouse amidships has accommodation for 20 first class passengers with saloon at fore end. On the promenwle deck are staterooms and saloon for eight saloon passengers 'The dining saloon hay been design. ed_and panelled which, with the pleasing upholstery, makes a very neat and harmonious room, The officers and engineers "are accom: modate in rooms abuft the passén-gers' staterooms. On the boat deck in a steel house are the captain's rooms with chart room forward. At the Japanese commissioner of Customs cease entertaining his naval officer friends, and when he flatly refused to do'as they wished they contaminated the well of his house. Guards have been placed about most of the foreigners' homes, by the labourers and conditions have become so unbearable that most. merchants have decided to close up shop in Wuchow. It is understood: that both the Standard Oil and the Asiatic Petroleum Company will remove their offices from that town, Bribes to do Business Business in Shameen is, of course, as dead as can be, for the strikers continue to seize goods brought in or out of the gates, What business is done by British concerns is done on the quiet. There. are plenty of Chinese ready to do' business with foreigners, irrespective of nationality, but such business has often to be done in a roundabout way. The strikers now permit goods to be brought from Hong kong if they go by way of Shanghai, unless such goods be of British manufacture, when they are invariably seized unless a squeeze be paid the proper persons. A good number of Chinese are engaged in the business of bringing in shipments direct from Hongkong. Very' often they are successful in running: the blockade of pickets, in other cases they pay the pickets to turn their backs. Even when goods are confiscated by the strikers money' talks, and they are as a rule released for a monetary considerat
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