DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.
FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK Via SUEZ.
Sails on or about 19th Fobruary.
M.V. "RABY CASTLE"
LLOYD TRIESTINO
REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR BRINDISI, VENICE' AND TRIESTE (FIUME), TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS.
REDUCED PASSAGE RATES TO BRINDISI, VENICE OR TRIESTE.
"A" Class £72. 10. Od...
"B" Class £66. 0. Od:
NEXT SAILINGS.
OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KØBE & MOJI.
M.V. "VIMINALE" M.V. "REMO".
From Hong Kong. Salls on or about 3rd February, Sails on or about 3rd March.
3
HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE: AND TRIESTE.
M.V. "ROMOLO"
M.M. "VEMINALE
M.Y. "REMO“
From Hong Kong.
!!
Sails on or about 4th February. Sale on or about 4th March. Sails, on or about. 5th April
NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS
FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO
SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
Sails from Calcutta 31st January. "UMSING A“ Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Forts.
Through Bill of Lading issued from Hong Kong,"
For Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:- 5
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents.
Telephone Central 3030;
S. K:
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
LONDON. HAMBURG ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP.-Via Singapore,
Colombo, Suez and Port Said.
ALTAI MAKU
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vin Salgon, Singapore,
Colombo, Durban & Capetown.
MANIDA MARU
BOMBAY Via Singapore and Colombo.
HONOLULU
KORRYU MARU. (Calls'nt Po nang) Welursday, 19th January.
Saturday, 15th January,
..Monday, 17th January.
MARD
Tuesday, 18th January.
MANSHU
MARU
BES MARY
Sunday, 23rd January. Sunday, 30th January.
..Saturday, 22nd January...
Tuesday, 26th January,
Sunday. 30th January.
CELEBES
AN, DELAGOA
DURBAN,
BAY, BEIRA. DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND
MOMBASA Via Singapore and Colonlle,
CHICAGO MARU
CALCUTTA-Via Singapore and Rangoon.
SEATTLE MARL
BANGKOK-Vln Saigon.
is som
SEKKOW MARU .....
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Vin Shanghai and Japan
Ports,
LONDON MARU,, (From Shanghai) Thursday, 27th January,
BAIPHONG VO HOROW & HÀN HỒI.
MENADO MARU
Saturday, 22nd January.
NEW YORK-Vin Japan ports, San Francisco and Paxama.
HAVRE MARU...(From Shanghai) Thursday, 10th February, JAPAN PORTS
AMAZON MARG
SANEKI MARU
KEELUNG VI SATOW & AMOY.
HOZAN MARU
TAIKWA MARE
KALIO MARIS
TAKAO Via SWATOW & AMOY.
Kotsu MARU
TAKAO & KEELUNG.
BATAVIA MARU
DAIREN Via CHEFOO & TSINGTAO.
RYUKG MARU
Wednesday, 19th January,
Tuesday, 25th January.
Saturday, 18th Jantury, 10 a.m. Wednesday 19 Jurbary. Sunday, 23rd January, 10a.m.
Thursday, 27th Jan., 8 a.m.
Saturday, 29th January.
Middle of January,
For further purticulars please apply to:-DSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
Tel, Central No. 4088. 4089, 4090,
M. TAKEUCHI, Manager."
THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD,
COPENHAGEN.
The M.S.MÀLAYA "
will be loading for Rotterda a, Hamburg, Copenhagen and ather Scandinavian ports un or about
18th January
Further sailings!
Expected on
or about:-
M.S. "DANMARK"
M.S. "ANNAM” MS. ASIA”
20th January 28th February
11th March
Subject to change without notice.
For further particulurs please apply to:--
Will leave homeward.. bound on or about:-
JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.
Agents.
K. M. A.
#
CERAMIC & REFRACTORY PRODUCTS
CLINKER,
PAYING,
BUILDING
& FIRE
BRICKS
STONE-
WARE
PIPES &
GLAZED
TILES
Ask for our Illustrated Catalogue Compare our Prices and Inspect our wide Range of Sampler
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents; Hongkong.
非
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING SECTION.
“MAURETANIA.”
i1
FAMOUS CUNARD LINER DOCKED.
There is probably o merchant ship afloat to-day that has found, so much favour in the popular esteem as has that famous Cunarder, the "Mauretania," says the "Journal
ره
LINER'S GIFTS.
*
SURPRISE FOR DUTCH.
SUBMARINE.
MILE-DEEP BED.
OCHAN EXPLORATION, PLANI
Dr. Wam Baube. Director of Re senrek fas the New York Zuologicul Society, proposes to explore the bed of the ocean.nt a depth of one milo or more, and says that there is a suitable place for she experiment within forty miles of New York. A steel tank or cylinder of suitable dimensions is being built for Dr. Beebe, the walls being thick enough London, Dec. 23.
to withstand any possible pressupo Amsterdam-A long letter from a mile below the surface of the sea.. a member of the crew of a Dutch Dr. Beebe says that he will make submarine is published in the "Ban his own oxygen inste the cylin delsblad" narrating how the sub der. He hopes to be connected with of Commerce.", It is difficult to say
marine alghted the P. and O. steam- the surface by means of a telephone, and will dictate a running story of [ how this feeling almost of affectioner "Cormorin," between Aden and his descent
a stenographer has arisen, perhaps it is on accounts Colombo, and how the submarine's describing what he sees through a of the ship's pleasing exterior crew! were surprised: the little glass window. His theory la
by appearance, which inherently con "Cormorin" signalling Please that there is much the same ocean veys, the impression of speed and
life at a depth of a mile beneath the stop I will send a boat." grace inherited as it were from the
Whereupon a boat was lowered surface in all parts of the sex, ir- respective of latitude pr loagh- clipper ships. Perhaps she ow and ruuched, the submarine. 15 un-
tade. Dr. Beebe will take with him her popularity to the fact that her loaded books, magazines, chocolates a hand motion picture camera, and jappekrance of speed is founded on
and blocks of ice, causing the crew expects that the sale of the pictures fact, and that though the public of the submarine.to dance with joy will defray the expense, of his ex- memory is proverbially short, the
The "Handelsblad," in an ed-pedition. The New York Zoological man in the street, remembers that torial article extols the action of Society has not yet oflesally approv she was designed and built to res the "Carmerin's captain as, one of ed the proposal. but is said to be ahxlous to facilitate any plan which which friendship between nations as well may be likely to add to the world's
store of scientific knowledge. as individuals.
those
things
maintain
LAUNCHED 28 MILES OF SHIPS.
J
"SHIP IN DISTRESS.
capture from the Germans the blue Friband of the Atlantic. This she stid, and in doing so played no mean part in the, hirtofy of the North At- Fantic passenger business. During ranil week there was constant stream of visitors to the Liverpoo!
Mr. Andrew, Robertson, a native
Bremerton, Washington, Jan. 8.-. Landing-age intent paying
of Perth, who has died at Hebburn, The schooner "Sophie McPherson" their respects to the ship that was
on-Tyne at the age of ninety, served is drifting helplessly with a damag- once such a familiar sights on Morsogrife.
The "Mauretania"sixty years with Hawthorn Leslie, ed rudder in a gule-15 miles off Cape and Co., shipbuilders, and as a fore-Fittery. There is no mediate looked as impressive as ever, though,manshipwright he launched about danger.
on
The submarine 5-12 collided with a freight barge in the East River at New York, tearing a huge
hole in the bow. Had the hole boen lower the submarine would have sunk, with possible loss of life.
her paintwork is perhaps showing signs of a strenuous, season on the Atlantic. By the end of her visit to the Mersey she will be as freshi as ever, and doubtless fibefor many inore yours of service to the "travel ling public. She is a splendid tri Late to the British Shipbuilding and engineering "industries in gên- eral, and in particular té Sir George Hunter, K.B.E., and his Arm, Messrs. Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., who built her.
FRANCE'S NAVY.
f
Berlin, Jan. 3. The French 1927 Naval Buik- ing programme provides for 95 new units, including tep thousand- ton eruiser, The total navy eat mates amoun to two milliard Franca,
OF
NEW STRAITS STEAMER
Another new Straits steamer has arrived from Holland. She is the "Kian Guan," of 1,594 tons, und has been built at, Rotterdam for the Neap Eng Moh Lihe. She will be put on to the Java-Singapore run. Captain H. Smith brought, out the ship and handed her over to her new master. Captain Gibson. Cap- tain Smith is making another trip: Home to complete his lervé"before returning to the 'Straits.
460 ships, which plaged end to end would have measured about twenty- eight miles,
PASSENGER - LIST.
ARRIVALS.
[.
A.
Saloon passengers who arrived it Hong Kong on the "Empress of Russia" from Vancouver and ports on Jan 14 were:--Capt. A. Brown, Mr. 3. R. George, Mr. C. S. Richard- san, Mr. R. H. Short, Mr. Y. Saan- moto, Mr. H. G. Allen, Mr. Beattie, Mr. W. Bollmán, M. T. A. Candlin, Mr. C. David. ME F. Edmondson, Mr. W. S. Ellis, Mr. and Mr. W. Fleming, Mrs. K. Pribe, Mr. S. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. 1. D. Gillespie, Mr. J. and Miss Harrop, Mr. F. C. Henley. Mr. S. J. Hicks, Airs. P. H. Ho, Capt. J. G. B. Horn, Mr.T. P. Kan, Mr. 1. Kwun, Mr. P.1. Lam, Mrs. A. W. and Mrs. J. Lester, Mr. F. H. Jowe, L. J. V. Palmer, Mr. W. J. Pirie, Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Ritchie, Mr. R. R. Röeburgh, Mr. D. R. Russell, Mr. P., de Schubert, Miss B. Sharp, Mr. W. A. "Stewart, Mr. H. V. Stokely, Mr. A.-H. Shen, Mr. K. T. Chen, Mrs. W. E. Clarke, Mrs. B. Rowe, Miss F. and Mr. E. Schroter, Mr. and Mrs. F. Vida, Mr. J. Winterbotham, Mr. J. M. Weng. Miss E. Winterboth, Miss G. B. Carpenter, Mrs. C. M. Yvanovich..
IN
U.S. GUNBOATS.
CONSTRUCTION DELAYED BY
}
CHINESE.
Washington, Jan. 14."
The 'officials of the Navy Depart ment report considerable delay in the construction of the six- tiver gunboats, which a Chinese firma inj
AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT Shanghai is building for the Ameri
LINE,
Operated for
U. S. Shipping Board
By SWAYNE & HOYT, INC.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO &!
LOS ANGELES.
8.S. "WEST CARMONA" Jan. 19. S.S. "WEST IVAN" Feb. 5..
FOR MANILA, ILOILO. ZAMBOANGA & CEBU.
For full Information apply to
SWAYNE & HOYT, INC. LEVERETT, Inc. General Agents Telephone C. 2008 ", 1st Floor, Queen's' Bailding.
can Naval service in Ching, and doubt is expressed whether, owing to the present crisis, the boats will now be completed. Reuter's Ameri- aan Service.”
FATAL SPARK.
EXPLOSION ON BRITISH
STEAMER.
Tampico, Mexico, Jan. 14.
A spark from the crashing to- gether at two steel girdera, which were being removdd, caused an ex- plosion in the gasolane tank of the British steamer "Essex lalça." Thirty-coven longshoremen were killed and the ship got on fire Router's American Service.
RUM ROW GONE.
Washington. Dec. 20. Rum Row is definitely gone and pletures of it are fakes, pure and simple, says Admiral Bullard, Com- mandant of the Coast Guard.
MOVEMENT OF STEAMER. wwwww..com
The m.v. "Canton" (Swedish East Asiatic Co., Ltd) left Antwerp on December 18, 1926. and is due here on or about January 21, 1927.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927,
CANADIAN
PACIFIC
A DELIGHTFUL CRUISE DE LUXE
S.S.
by the
"EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND"
25,000 Ton Gross, Length 697 Feet LEAVING HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 13th, 1927. vin Shanghai, Chinwangtao (for Péking ), Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco, Balbon, (Punama), through the Panama Canal to Cristobal, (Colon), Havank.
Arriving NEW YORK, April 12th, 1927. Two days available for sight-seeing in NEW YORK Leaving NEW YORK 14th April, arriving SOUTHAMPTON, April 20th, 1927. Shore excursions, and sight-seeing tours" at all Ports.
For Particulars Apply To:-
CANADIAN
Tel. Central 752.
PACIFIC
Tel. Address "CÁCANPÁÇ”,
A WEEK'S PAPERS IN ONE.
OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
now
focussed on
The eyes of the whole world are Hankow. Every day comment is broadcast to indicate the views of all interested parties. That information from the spot is early sought is plainly abundant. All the daily reports, collected from all sources, are comprehensively and faithfully reproduced in the "Overland China Mail."
As will be seen in the daily issue, these reports come, from the largest variety of sources this week, making up a complete and vivid pen-picture of the stirring events. Not only do they reflect the opinions of British and the Chinese Nationalists, but also of disinterested parties.
Such a collection is the best for sending away to friends. at Home and abroad, friends who eagerly look forward to re- sidents in China telling them all they want to know about the developments, not only at Hankow, but in other Treaty ports.
Be sure to get a copy for posting in good time to catch the mail.
READY TO-DAY. Homeward Mail closes on Saturday at 9.30 a.m. and the Siberian mail at 5p.m.
SINGLE COPY....
.*30 Cent's.
[Sold on the streets and at the boekstalls or you can send your subscription to the office.-H.K. $13 per annum, or
$15 including postage abroad.]
BANK LINE LTD.
AGENTS FOR
ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE.
UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT,
S.S. "CITY OF GLASGOW" Passenger Service,
For M's'lles, L'don, H'burg & Havre
S.S. "CITY OF LAHORE"...London; Havre, Rotterdam & R'bury
Fares to LONDON: 1st Class £72, 2nd Class £49 10s. S.S. "CITY OF CALCUTTA" Marseilles, London, Havre & H'burg
Fares: 1st Class to MARSEILLES £66; to LONDON 172.
2nd Class to MARSEILLES £47; to LONDON £49.10
AUSTRALIA
ELLERMAN LINE
.14th January,
.12th February.
.:20th March
AUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE Sailings from BINGAPORE on 8th of every month by "CITY OF PALERMO" or “CITY OF SPARTA’
to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydnay and vice versa. Through Traight and Passenger bookings from Hong Kong in conjunction with "Ellerman” Line or,
otiter services.
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
3.8. "CITY OF BRISTOL"-
via Suez Canal
ALSO AGENTS FOR
H
ANDREW WEIR & CO.
»SERVICES TO
BOSTON, NEW YORK & HAVANA
M.Y. "WEDBANK”
M.V. “LARCHBANK"
via Suez Canal
vin Suez Canal
MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA
11th March.
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE
...30th January. .....80th March.
ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE
Loading for Mauritius, Delagon Bay, Darban, East London, Algon Bay, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay
and CaputowIL. Through Bill of Lading larued to Beira, Quillmaine, Ibo, Port Amelia, Mozambique, Chinde, Inhambane, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kindini, Port Nolloth, Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay and jenifadagascar.
For
freight c
Telephone
or passage on any of the above lines apply te
“Central 4791..
THE BANK LINE, LTD.
A