The Archive · 1939

Via Suez Canal

BY THE FOLLOWING

or any later departures Arr.

Duetoteave Arr. Arr, Art. North Vessel Shanghai Italy Marseilles England Europe Victoria Carthage Chr. Huygens Haruna Maru Sibajak Rajputana Felix Roussel Conte Verde Sarpedon Katori Maru Gneisenau Jan. 17 Jan. 19 Feb, 12 Feb. 17 Feb. 4 Jan. 20° Feb. 7 Feb. 12 Jan. 24 Feb. 23 Feb, 26 Mar. 4 Jan 27° Feb. 14 Feb. 1 mina Mar. 3 Nar. 10 Zan. 31 Mar. 1 Feb. 1 Feb. 25 4 Mar. 9 Mar.15 Feb, 7 Mar.10 Mar.13 Mar. 20 Feb. 8 Mar. 3 world of pivotal appointments about which Shanghai, like the music, appears to go round and round will not gloss over the fact that the Council has been behaving with a generosity which verges on prodigality. Indeed it will make the ordinary man in the street, enduring present hard times as best he can, wonder with what degree of a sense of responsibility the Municipal Council is handling the affairs of the ratepayers, The general effect of these new provisions is that the men already drawing their salaries in thousands of dollars will have them doubled in some cases, or increased by 66 per cent. in others, while the rest will have received a meagre 15 per cent. increase, nich in effect does no more than restore the cuts which were effected just prior to the outbreak of the China Incident. It may be readily believed that the old excuses about people having sterling commitments "from Singapore

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