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Pacific Mail Steamship Co. (The "California-Orient Line") from San Francisco to Honolulu to Japan (Kobe, Yokahama) to China (Shanghai) to the Philippines (Manila) and return...
...Dollar Line (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). These the white-bearded merchant Captain Robert (''Robbie") Dollar and his son, R. Stanley Dollar, put to work in a unique round-the-world one-way service. One sails every fortnight from each of the following ports in circuit: San Francisco, Honolulu, Kobe, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez, Port Said, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseille, Boston, New York, Havana, Colon, Balboa, Los Angeles, San Francisco and around again. They carry about 100 passengers who are permitted stopovers. These globe-girdlers...
...past 50 years. Said the diplomatic correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, London journal: "It may be that the 'difficulties which have arisen over the North Persian oil concessions, originally promised to the Sinclair syndicate, will eventually prove to Japan's advantage." The Peruvian Consul at Kobe was attacked by a would-be assassin, who mistook him for an American. The assailant was afterward liberated, the Consul having tendered no complaint...
Prince Tokugawa has added to his glory as patron of music in Japan (TIME, Dec. 10) by the notable success of Jascha Heifetz' tour. In spite of earthquake, the violinist appeared at Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka and three times in the auditorium of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, where the Prince had installed a radio broadcasting station. Heifetz' visit to Tokyo was the first of any artist since the earthquake...
...relief boat returned to Kobe, loaded with over a thousand Chinamen, Russians and other foreigners. Meanwhile measures had been taken for emergency hospitals. The Oriental Hotel, an American establishment, was turned over for the purpose. Here volunteer nurses worked over the sufferers, each day removing the bandages so that the doctor might make his round of the fifty patients in as short a time as possible. The cases where operations had to be made, were sent to the regular hospital...