SATURDAY, JUNE. A LESO
THE LATEST AND LARGEST MOTOR SHIP.
BAST ASIATIC CO.'S AFRIKA
SHIP'S CAPTAIN LOST.
TAKEN ON SUBMARINE AND
NO NEWS SINCE.
In the Probate Division, the Presi dent made an order presuming the death of Captain Dan Owen, who was captured in the Mediterranean on January 17, 1918, by an enemy submarine, on or since the dite mentioned.
The following description of the motor "vessel Afrika, owned by the East Asiatic Company; of Copen hagen, appears in "Engineering."
“Your, supposition is, I take it, Pictures of the vessel, which is the
remarked the President, "that the latest and largest of ocean-going man was murdered.” “
There can be no doubt about it," motor ships, and of her machinery, are also published by our conplied Mr. Buckmill, who made the
application. *temporaryTM
The motor ship Afrika, built by Messrs. Burmeister and Wain, of Copherhagen, Denmark, is designed for the trade between Europe and the Far East and other distant places, her oil fuel capacity being sufficient for a journey of one and a halt times round the world.
The vessel is built to class 100 A1; British Lloyd's special survey, awning deck with freeboard, and with certifi cate for carrying fuel oil in double bottom. The scantings of the more important parts are in excess of Lloyd's requirements, and the outfit and machinery are in every way of the latest design.
The vessel has a length of 464ft Gin.. Overall, or. between perpendi culars, of 445ft. Her moulded breadth is 60ft., and depth moulded to lower deck 24ft, to upper deck 33ft., Sin, and to awring deck 42ft. Her gross tonnage is 8,597 registered tons, and net tonnage 5.458 tons. Her dead weight is 13,300 tons. The capacity of her hold is about 700,000 cubic feet of grain. The vessel has an o fuel capacity of about 1,500 tons, and ber engines develop 4,500 indicated
horse power.
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SI. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.
FIRST SUNCAT ÄFTs Tamry
Junx 6TX, IV30.
Holy Communion at 7.50 am. Children's Service at 10a.m. Mains at 11 am.
Responses, Farial; Venite: Book;
Fealms, 1 (We-lay) 3 (Hopkin) (Hopkins To Deem, Woodward, Smart, Turle; Benedictas, Garrett Hymns 189, 391.
William Farmum's engrossing pic ture "Rongh and Ready" in `-six parts commences its run at the Hongkong Theatre to-night. The play is a powerful one. It is a story of the Northland portraying all its primitive passions.
But Stratton turns to this region endeavouring to forget that he has been filted. Here he discovers the girl's father Mr. Buckaill explained that Mr. who after being successful in his Owen, who belonged to Cardigan, left Alexandria on the date mention search for gold, experiences one of ed in the steamship "Windsor Hall, fortune's reverses. His daughter in of London, bound for Marseilles. Arcoming cut to him and it is only by 9.45 that evening the vessel was the efforts of Stratton that she and torpedoed and foundered. The crew her father are saved from falling on were taken of in boats.
further evils. One of the most excit-") ing incidents in the film is the fight! between Stratton and Belmont, in which a terrific struggle is 'shows. Union The picture should prove a great draw
Captain Owen and the other officers went off in a lifeboat, and the submarine coming to the surface covered the boat with guns and demanded the captain of the ship. The other people said he was not on board the boat, but apparently the enemy identified him by his uniform, and took him on board the sub-
marine.
The submarine then disappeared into the darkness, and from that moment nothing had been heard of the captain.
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THE MODERN DANDY.
HIS MORNING TOILET.
RIVALLING THE LADIES,
Luxuries for the modern dandy
Holy Communion 1f noon. Evensong at 6 pm.
Full Ct sir Responsos, Ferial: Pasima, < (Monk) ? (Cooke). 8 (Tucker); Magnificat, Havergal (7th evening); Kane Dimittis, Baraby; Anthem, Why seek ye.' Hopkins; Hymns 185,27,
Church, Kennedy Road
Sunday, Jobs &
Bervices conducted by Ber:G. Williams 11 am. Subject of Sermon: What is
Heaven (Is it a place or only taste of mind 4 What kind of a life does is represent ! What kind of people go there!) Hymns, 13, 329, 333 Mat Pa. 124. 6 p.m. Subject of Sermon: The Worth of Hamar Personality (Jesus Christ's Inventory of man. His estimate of the values of man's sort. Reasons for this valustion. Supreme im- portages of realising the. souls' values)
Hymns, 2, 297, 107, 552.
"It St. Peter's Church, West Point,
The Admiralty sent inquiries through neutral Legations stating that the number of the submarine: was not known, but that they had reason to believe that she subwho has apparently little to learn sequently returned to her base: The from the ladies in the uses of "special Germans replied that no vessel was preparations," formed a feature of sunk on the day in question by a of the Chemists' Exhibition. German Submarine in the vicinity of may be an after war reaction," said a Alexandria, and added that perhaps salesman to a Fress correspondent, 1st Sunday After Trinity Juce 6th 1920 an Austrian submarine might be "but the fact remains that a large! concerned.
body of men do not nowadays disdain the use perfumes, washes or creams." He drew a delightful word-picture of the possibilities offered to the 1920 exquisite daily breathing the odours of Araby, and gave illustration to his remarks by producing the articles he named.
Counsel said that it was not likely that if the captain was taken on board and subsequently "disposed of" he would be heard of.
His Lordstip made the order as stated.
The hall is divided by seven watertight bulkheads and three The Austrians said that at that continuous decks, and in the period no Austro Hungarian sub frigerated bolds with a platform marine was operating within an area deck. The width of the cargo hatch of 35 miles north-west of Alexandria, is 18ft, and the main hatch has a and that Captain Owen's name did length of 37it. 4in.
The deck not figure in any list of prisoners of machinery is electrical throughout, war from submarines. and consists of 20 winches of 5 tons, 3 tons, and: 1 tons lifting power and the corresponding derricks of 5 tons, 3 tons, and 2 tons capacity The foremast is equipped with a 30- ton and the main and misen masts each with a 15-ton derrick. The electric windlass for the 2.433in. cable was constructed by Messrs. Burmeister and Wian, as was also the hydro-electric steering engine, which is perfectly balanced with plungers fore and aft of the rudder. stock. The deck officers and pas sengers have their accomodation in the house on top of the same, which are specially fitted out to meet the requirements of the tropics. The culinary arrangements are in accord ance with the latest practice, ré frigerated provision rooms, ice generator, &c., being provided.
The engine staff and the crew are berthed amidships and in the poop For the crew the rooms are fitted out for two men each, and five separate messrooms are fitted for the officers and men of different grades.
The equipment is complete with all up todate refinements for min- imising manual labour, saving time and adding to the safety of the ship as, for instance, with electric sounding machine, "Navigater" log recorder, loudspeaking telep ones, Clay's order transmitter, powerful wiseless installations, &c
A LOST GERMAN TRADE.
OPTICAL GLASS MANU. FACTURE IN BRITAIN,
Professor F. J. Cheshire, formerly Optical Director to the Ministry of Munitions, speaking at the annual dinner of the Photographic Dealers Association of Great Britain and Ireland alluded to the rapid growth in the production of British cptical glass.
"Rising nimbly at 8.30, the first thing to do is to select wha@harmony of scent he shall use for the day.
5. Holy Commarios, Preacher: The Chaplain. Il'am Litiny and Sing Eucharist.
Feak Church.
8.15 a.m.-Holy Communion.
30 p.m.-Evening Service:
First Church of Christ Scientist,
MacDonnell Road.
Soldiers' and Selors' Home,
Arsenal Street.
Here," waving to a row of phials. are 40 different sorts of special extracts symbolising everything lovely, from a 'golden morning' to a Sundays, 11.15 am.
vision of India. Sponging the Wednesdays, 5.30 pm. aight-cream from his complexion,, he goes to the bath armed with crystal-{ shaped soaps, perfumed boxes of) bath-dust, eau de Cologne solidified, and perhaps a lavender shampoo powder. They are all here! He Sanday Evening, Gospel Meeting, & pm. comes down with a glad smile and artlessly flings * tabloid "into a bowl, with which liquid he toilettes his teeth, and proceeds to spill, some polishing powder upon his nails. Manicure complete, he da'ies with his razor, dusts his complexion with tale and seizes a box of solid brillian- tine to annoint his hair.
"In 1914," he said, "the position of British manufacturers was that although glass had been made in this, country since 1848, the produc "Slightly flushed with exertion, tion of German glass had practically may be, he applies sticks of iced " killed the industry. The progress perfume to his brow (they can be made during the war had been in obtained in many odours), and is conceivable and since the war pheno-intrigued with a row, of dainty spraya menal.
It had been decided that for war with six different types of glass but purposes the industry could carry on members of the Air Force considered that the only possible lens suitable for their work was a German lens. British manufacturers took up the cballenge, with the result that, after experiments, in which members of the Air Force were the judges, a decision was given that British glass, for photographic and general pur
poses was superior to German makes.
filled with a few drops of the absolute essence of, say, jasmine.”
And, then?" queried the writer. "Then, thoughtfully sucking a cachan, he is ready to go out and appreciate the glories of nature in springtime," concluded the happy salesman.
UNPALATABLE FOOD.
Roman Catholic Cathedral, Glenealy.
Mass at 6, 7 and 230 sun. Bigh Mass at a to. 5.30 pm-Benediction of the Blessed
Sacrament.
St. Joseph's Church,
Garden Road.
Mass and Sermon at 10 am, followed by the Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.
HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB
ТЕР
HE EXTRA GYMKHANA MEETING OK. THE SEASON
12th instant,
The machinery consists of one set of Burmeister and Waia's four-cycle twin-screw standard marine Diesel engines of the enclosed, forced lubricated, crosshead · type. Each engine has eix cylinders, with a That was the end of the German In the United States of America cylinder diameter of 740 mm, and fetish. On the day the Armistice alcobol has been suppressed, tobacco will be held at HAFFY VALLEY on 1,150 mm, stroke, both engines was signed English firms were turn-is threatened, and now an attack is SATURDAY, the being able at normal load at sea ing out a quantity of optical glass being made on the remaining to develop a total 4,500 horse which was equal or twice the world's pleasures of the palate. Threcommencing at 4 PM power at 115 revolations a minute. Each engine is fitted with a main Peace demands, namely, about fifty pestilent physiologists of the Jeffer $100 for others than Members of the
son Medical College, Philadelphia, compressor for injecting air, enclosed, tons per year.
have conducted experiments with the forced-lubricated, and of the three
stage type. According to the firm's DARING LIVERPOOL DOCK object of determining whether or no
LOAD
THEFT.
OF GOVERNMENT · ́ CHELJE CARTED
AWAY.
the human body derived less nutri- usual practice, all the other necess
ment from food uspalatably served ary pumps and the auxiliary
than from the same food palatably machines are electrically driven,
served. The ignoble inquiry was independent of the main engines.
carried out with the exact methods. For the production of the necessary
of the laboratory. For seven current for working the auxiliary.
days the unhappy subjects were machinery, as well as the steering
The daring theft of 45 crates of placed on a uniform diet served gear, windlasses, and winches, the Government cheese from the Liverpalatably. and amid pleasant ship is fitted with three auxiliary pool docks has been reported to the surroundings. The exact proportion Diesel engines, each of 100 horse city police. A cargo of New Zealand of the nutrient constituents of the power, and, further, an engine of cheese was lying in No. 1 shed, food retained by the body was ascer of the same size is provided for the Canada Dock, on the morning of tained. Then followed a two-day refrigerating machinery. Each of Thursday, April 15th, with an un-period during which the same diet the other engines can serve as loaded waggon standing by. A man was served in an unpalatable cones- stand-by b
approached with a horse, loaded the tion amid dirty and unpleasant Sur The trial trip was run on March waggon just as if he was employed roundings. The meat, biscuits, jelly, 27, and went off very satisfactorily. by the contractor, and drove off, the cornflour, pudding, and so forth, All the engines were tested and were empty waggon being found the next used for each meal were stirred to put through à series of manoeuvres day in Smithfield-street, off Titlebara-gether in a large fat porcelain During the trials several runs were street. Forty-five crates altogether trough, the dish itself and the beaker carried out over the measured mile at were taken, each crate containing used for drinking having been: an average speed of 131 knots. The two cheeses, the value of which is smeared with animal charcoal, The engines form the second set built for given as £550.
table was dirty and strewn this abip, as the first set was delivered The police have issued a handbill with dirty dishes, and an offensive to the United States Shipping Board describing the wanted man, and chemical substance was smeared on in 1919. When the machinery of the £25 is offered by the Head Constable the floor. The subjects were not Afrika was half completed, the United for information leading to his arrest toid the constituents of the mess put States Shipping Board wished to and the recovery of the stolen pro before them, and one of them even acquire a set of such engines as soonperty. The man is described as failed to retain a meal after he had as possible, in order to obtain about 24.25 years; 5ft. to 5ft 6inearen it. But it was found that the experience with them, and the East medium build; ruddy complexion; digestive organs were not dainty. Afiatic Company consented to the clean shaven; dressed in blue serge if they could be cajoled into making transfer being måder:
suit, dark cap, signs himself. J. the effort, they retained for the needs Rimmer, was driving dark bay or of the body almost as much from black horse, and used's waggon No. the dirty food as from the clean 7.075.
food. In the one case 85.7 per cent.
CAUSE OF DESPONDENCY, The cheese is differently maked; of, the nutrient constituents was ESPONDENCY is often caused by some bearing "Board of Agriculture absorbed, in the other 86.7. This
Dandelion and constipation, sod
(with a broad arrow) factory, New say the professors, should be good
quickly disappear when Chamberlain' Zealand, and others." New Zealand; news to millions of people who eat Tablets are taken. These tableta strong net 161 lbs. Oxford Free Crear unpalatable food in untidy surround then the digestion and more Akse bowale: For asie by all Chemists And Stone Factory cheese, with either one rings. It should be bad news for kooper
two broad scroWK, -
everyone else.
The Charge of Admission will be Hongkong Jockey Club or Gymkhana
Soldiers and Sailors în uniform Half
Club.
Price.
The Committee invite the Ladies of Hongkong to be present.
Hongkong, June 4, 1920.
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Hongkong, May 17, 1950:
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American fim fer one or two
months. Good knowledge of English essential Reply stating experience and malaries wanted to bax No. 1204, cjo
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Manager.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.-
THE Undersigned have received instine“ Mon to sell by Publis Auction,
02
TUESDAY, June 5, 1920,
commencing at 11 m
at their Sales Rooms, Daddell Street
• Oscillating Electric Table Fans 18
da
do. do do 12
6. Electric Table Fans 12" 8 Hotpoint Boudoir Sets. Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Austioneers.
OF
TUESDAY, June 8, 1920, commencing at 11 am
at their Sales Booms, Daddell Street.
2 Bales Cetion Tara
4 Cases Cottca Yarn, (all more or less damaged by oil) Terms-Cash on delivery.
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