Local offices of the N.¥-K. expect their liner Hakone Maru from Europe and way ports, at the company's wharf, on Thursday morning and announce that she is to leave for Kobe and Yokohama on the following day. The same company's s. Shanghai Maru sails for Nagasaki direct from the company's wharf, today at 9 a.m.
Arriving from Manila and Hongkong, the Maersk Line inv. Grete Maersk is due on Friday. © Stopping here for about two days, she leaves for Kobe, Nagoya, Yokohama, Los Angeles, Panama, New York and Boston, calling also at Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, Norfolk and other Atlantic Coast ports..
The next D.KK. Tsingtao and Dairen sailing is their s. Tsingtao Maru which leaves the company's wharf today at 11 am; while their s, Hoten Maru leaves for the same ports on Wednesday at 11 a.m.
It is announced that the I-C.S.N. Ca. s. Hangsang is due from North China ports, tomorrow at the Roosevelt Terminal Wharf; while the s. Taiseunhong arrives on the same day at the same wharf from Hongkong and Swatow. The s. Fingal leaves the Roosevelt Terminal Buoys tomorrow at noon for Chefoo and Tientsin, and the s. Suiwo sails from Hunt's Wharf for Sanchakong, tomorrow. at 630 am. Her passengers are to be conveyed from the Peking Road Jetty by tender leaving at 6 a.m.
Other near future coastal sailings include the C.N. s. Hsin Peking which leaves the French Bund tomorrow' at noon for Amoy and Swatow; the same Company's s. Kingyuan which leaves the same bund tomorrow at about 1230 pin. for Amoy, Chuanchow, Hongkong and Canton; and the s. Kaiping which sails tomorrow for Chinwangtao direct, Madame Chiang Tours Hankow Villages Hankow, Sept. 25.
Braving heavy rains, Madame Chiang Kai-shek is personally visiting villages and townships in the vicinity of Hankow, including Huang-pi, Hsiaokan, Yingchen and Yunmen in order to explain to peasants their duties during the present crisis Several groups of women workers áre carrying out a publicity campaign in villages under the supervision of Madame Chiang.—Reuter.
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