Four large liners are to leave port to-day, the Victoria for Italy; the Carthage for London; the President Doumer for Marseilles; and the Gneisenau for Yokohama (completing the balance of her outward journey from Germany).
The Lloyd Triestino liner Victoria arrived in port yesterday, when she tied up at the Shanghai & Hongkew Wharf Co.'s Hongkew Wharf. She s to sai on her return journey to Italy, by way of the usual ports, at 11 o'clock this morning, and tenders with outgoing passengers are to leave the Customs Jetty at 8.30 o'clock this morning.
At the same hour, passenger tend-Ipave the Customs Jetty for the P. & O. liner Carthage. The ship will be sailing later in the day for Marseilles and London, and will be calling at Colombo, Cochin, Aden, Port Said and Malta en route.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon, the Messageries Maritimes inv. President Will be sailing from the Hongkew Wharf Co.'s Hongkew Wharf. She is due to tie up at the wharf at about 8 o'clock this morning from Kobe, passengers coming ashore by tender. Outgoing passengers will travel down to the wharf by.tenders which are to leave the Messageries Mpritimes jetty on the Quai de France at about 11 o'clock this morning.
The Norddeutscher Lloyd s.
Four Shots Fired As Alarm Is Raised Gneisenau arrived from Hongkong on Sunday, tying up at the Shanghai Hongkew Wharf Co.'s Pootung Wh She is to sail for Yokohama to-day A Chinese tenant at 1256 Jessfield Road, in Jessfield Village, was wounded yesterday morning before daybreak by a member of a robber gang of three. The bandits awake ened the occupants of the house at 2.30 a.m. and started to look for loot. An alarm was raised, however, end the robbers opened fire. One of four bullets dispatched struck one of the tenants in the shoulder. The gang then fled, without loot.
The wounded man was taken to the Chinese Red Cross Hospital in a Fire Brigade ambulance.
During the noon hour, yesterday, four bandits ransacked House 10, Lane 97, Myburgh Road, and escaped with a quantity of jewellery and clothing. The value of the plunder was set at $260. No shots were fired.
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