DODWELL & COMPANY, LTD.
FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK Vi■ SUEZ.
"RABY CASTLE”
.Sails on or about 19th February.....
LLOYD TRIESTINO
REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (FIUME). TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO GENOA, ALE ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS.
REDUCED PASSAGE RATES TO BRINDISI VENICE
OR TRIESTE,
"A" Class £72, 10. 3.
程
"B" Class £66. 0. 02.
NEXT SAILINGS."
OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJE.
"YİMINALE" "REMO
From Hong Kong. Sails on or about 3rd February. Sails on or about 3rd March.
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HOMEWARDS. FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE...
"ROMOLO"
***VIMINALE"
"REMO
From Hong Kong. "
Sails on or about 8th February, Sails on or about 4th March. Salls on or about 5th April
NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS
· FROM ® CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO
SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
Salls from Caleutta end of Feb.. "UMSENGA"
Sally from Calcutta 31st March. "UMZUMBE Regular Passenger and Cargu Service to South African Ports. Through Bils of Lading issued from Hong Kong.
For Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to:-
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents. Telephone Central 1030
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S. K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore,
Colombo, Suez and Port Said.
ATLAS MARU
..uesday, 1st February.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Ya Saigou, Singapore,
"
Colombo. Durban & Capetown.
MONTEVIDEO MARU
BOMBAY-Via Singapore and Colombo.
BORNEO MARU
INDO MARU
.Tuesday, 1st March.
Friday, 4th February:
.Tuesday, 15th February,
DURBAN, DELAĠOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR AND
MOMBASAVI Singapore and Colombo.
PANAMA MARU......
CALCUTTA-Vin Singapore and Rangoon.
-TACOMA MARC
BANGKOK Via Saigon.
SEKKOW MARU
Wednesday, 23rd February.
Friday, 25th February..
Saturday, 5th February.
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Shanghai and Japan.
Ports.
HAIPHONG—Vi HOIHOW & TAKEOI "
MENADO MARU
Thursday, 24th February.
NEW YORK-Vin Japan, ports, San Francisco and Panama.
HAYRE MARU...(From Shan ghai) Thursday, 10th February.
JAPAN PORTS.
ALASKA MARU
KEELUNG Vis SWATOW & AMOY.
KARD MARU
TAKAO Yin SWATOW & AMOY.
KOTSU MARU
TAKAO & KEELUNG.
DAIREN Via CHEFOO & TSINGTAO.
RYUKO MARU”..................
.Saturday, 12th February.
Sunday, 6th February, 10 am...
Thursday, 10th February, 8 a.m.
Middle of January,
For further particulars please apply to:-OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
M. TAKEUCHI, Manager. Tel. Central No. 4088, 4089, 4090.
OREGON ORIENTAL LINE.
Operated for
UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD E.F.C. By COLUMBIA PACIFIC SHIPPING COMPANY.... FOR PORTLAND vla KOBE, NAGOYA & YOKOHAMA
.February 4th. S.S. WEST CADRON
FOR MANILA, ILOILO, CEBU AND DAVAO
.February 12th. S.S. "WEST NOMENTUM"
All sailings subject to change without notice. Through Bills of Lading issued to all rail Overland Points in the U.S.A., also to New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, via Panama Intercoastal ateamer.
ADDRESS:
Room 26, Bank of Canton Building, “ Canton Agents:
6, Des Voeux Road Central, JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD. Telephone Central 4871.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, ROILER MAKERS, BRASS and IRON FOUNDERS. Al work done in this establishment is guaranteed; We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can arcommodate any craft of 200 foot long.
Town Office: 84, Connaught Road Central, Hongkong, Tel. Central No. 459. Tel Kowloon No. 9, Bhipyard:. Sham-Sut-Po; Kowloon, Hongkong.
Estimates furnished on application.
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Hongkong, April 1, 1924.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING SECTION.
N. D. L.
GERMAN BID FOR NORTH ATLANTIC TRADE
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HAMBURG-BREMEN RIVALRY.
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German shipping circlee are greatly interested in the sudden change of plans by the North deutscher-Lloyd in ordering two new vessels of the "Columbus" class Instead of one. There is a tendency to regard it as a further interpreta tion of the rivalry between Bromen and Hamburg for the North Atinn tie paasenger traffe, apart from the question of International competi tion.
that the
A
RECORD YEAR. 5
THE PORT OF RANGOON EXTENSIONS.
"OCEAN COLLEGES.
Imperial ocomp colleges for boys desiring to tour the Dominions are proposed by the British Empire Union (says the London "Daily Naws). If the ackeme mate- rialises, saillag ships will be usod. Every ship would' accommodate 100 boys, in charge of a chaplain, doc- tor, and three masters. There would be study, based on an ad vanced scholastic curriculum, while The present the boys wore nt ren. intention a sufficient number of During the year ending March boys of 18 or 10 years can be at 81. 1926, 1,813 steamers, with antructed, and the co-operation of of "public schools aggregate set tonnage of 4,049,299, headmasters and 164 sailing ships, totalling secured, is first to visit Canada, and 10,269 tons net, entered the port of then to sail to South Africa, Aus
the ad trafia and New Zealand. Rungoon. According to ministration raport of the Commis-turn would be by way of Cape Horn. sioners for the port, these totals for a call at the Falkland Islands: constituto a record; they show an The tour, it is expected, would oc- The increase of 1CB in the number, and cupy about nine month. 374,707 tons in the net tonnage of main object of the scheme is educa- tion by travel, and to give the boya steamers,
an opportunity of deciding whether
The re-
The receipts for the year amount- ed to Rs. 85,88.932, and the pay-greater opportunities await them monta to Rs. 73,33,776, leaving in the Dominions or in, Britain. surplus on the year's working of The tour would give the boys n In view of the wider, cholee of careers. At the Rs. 12,55,158. satisfactory fhanelal position, the various ports of tall the boys would be allowed to visit ini..nd cities. Commissioners decided to make temporary, reduction of 2 annas a farms, ranches, sheep stations, and lon in the rates of river-due, which dairying centres in order to study The reduction came into force on August Dominion life at first hand.
promoters look forward to the day 1, 1928.
when this form of travel will be an accepted part of the British educational system.
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Designs on Blue Riband. Not the least significant feature of the new Norddeutscher Lloyd hips is their high speed. Although the directors have not committed themselves to any netual speed Agure, their statement that the new ships will be given a speed which will enable them to complete the voyage from Bremer to New York
Various proposals for developing in six days, and from the Channel additional and improving, existing ports in five days is capable of one facilities for shipping and traffic interpretation only. The new ships within the port have been finally on this basis will be surpassed in upproved." Among those are the AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT
and Pazundaung. The Lapaud by.
Mauretania" Botatoung.
LINE the Here is evidence, then, schemes,
development of i only.
Norddeutscher Lloyd Dawbon estate, and the provision
Operated for
are out with
denite of moorings for sea-going vessels. bid for at least a share, in the It is proposed to carry out the cream of the high-class Channel above works, during a period of not! passenger traffe which, since the lese than 10 years,, and to finance war, has largely been dominated by the total cost, which is roughly the Canard and White Star Lines, estimated at Rs. 30,00,00,000, by with the "Leviathan" taking also means of loans. a Sertain proportion of it. The new Detailed plans and estimates are! development may even be of a mort being prepared, and work has been ambitious character. The history started on the Ratatoung and of the ex-German Hapag ships Pazundaung schemes and on the The Vaterland" and "Bismarck," now moorings for seagoing vessels: "Leviathan," and "Majestic show-Botataung scheme provides for the ed that although these vessels were construction of roads and railway nominally powered for a speed of sidings and the erection of jetties. barely 23 knots. they nevertheless pontoons and warehouses along a were able to knock up 25 knots on stretch of the coast and foreshore. il service. In the past the Lloyd have won and held the coveted "Blue Riband" of the Atlantic, and it is not ouseide the realms of pos- sibility that in their new ships ashore, the erection of a jetty and quiet are undemonstrative attempt the construction of roads, drains, may be made to secure the distine railway sidings and Warehouses, tion and the decided extra pull in the passenger business which ut tends the possession of the "Blue Riband."
The Financial Position,
The laying out of a new salt im- port depot at Pazundaung will com- prise the reclaiming of 9.52 acres of land, the revetting of the fore-
fact that the Norddeutscher Lloyd: is systematicaly pursuing a course of its own-the course, htat is so day, of resolute competition in the North Atlantic passenger services.
It will come as a surprise to many in this country that a German ship ping company should to-day be in a position to finance an undertaking
"A Surprising Decision," of this character. It will be even
So far the Hamburg correspon- more surprising to learn that the dent of the "Kolnische Zeitung" and Lloyd will finance the epnstruction the observations of "other journals of both ships without appealing to are in the same strach, showing the money market. To-day's price that the object of Bremen's recent for ships of the high-class and speed activity in the shipping, as also in is In Germany around £50, or 1,000 the shipbuilding, world is clearly The "Frank-furter Reichmarks, per "gr.t., so that the regognised. dual contract involves an expendi- Zeitung" speaks about the "surpris ture of 92,000,000 marks. Of the ing decision" of the Norddeutscher capital increase of 50,000,000 marks, | Lloyd'a decision which has been recently decided upon 37.5 million dictated not merely by business marks will be offered to the share-enterprise, but also by considera- holders at 122 per cent., giving a tions of prestige." The new plans yield, therefore. of around 45,-| go far beyond the Lloyd programme 000,000 marka. A somewhat higher as it has hitherto been developed. yield will probably be realised from "The Bremen concern is entering the remaining 12.5 million marks, upon a different road from that se, that, including the 10,000,000 which has so far been followed hy marks of shares which the Lloyd the Hamburg-Amerika Line, since can issue from its capital increase the Lloyd is making the pure luxury resolutions of August 2 last, there will be about 80,000,000 marks available in toto. How the balance of 12,000,000 marks will be raised is not clear, but this will presum- ably be found from current revenue or from other liquid resources. It 'is even possible that some considera- The decision of the Lloyd, the tion has been given to the compen-Frankfurter Zeitung" thinks, has sation which the Lloyd hope to re- been based chiefly on the develop. ceive for pre-war assets in the ment of the passenger business in "Apart United States. In any case, as the the last couple of years, Norddeutscher Lloyd have also cer- from the Columbus, Gérman ship- tain extensions of their freight busi- ping has hitherto lacked the large ness under contemplation, involving and luxuriously equipped vessels new cargo tonnage, it may safely be which appeal to the taste of Ameri assumed that their financial post- can travellers, and which were to tion is remarkably sound.
be found only in the hands of the H.A.L. and Lloyd Lane...
Engilsh and American companies. The extension of the Bremen In the luxury class of liner ship- company's " shipbuilding pro- ping, Germany la at the present time playing only a very small part. Hamburg correspondent of the "Kolnische Bremen Company desires to recover The new decision proves that the Zeitung," is ก matter a of special importance, as it distinctly the leading role in the German affects the relations between the passenger-carrying traffe which it Lloyd and the Hamburg-Amerika occupied before Ballin's time." A Process of Re-Grouping. Line, providing, as it does, a decid-
gramme,
Bays
the
com.
passenger ship with higher speed the basis of its North Atlantic ser- rice, whereas the Hapag, depart ing from the old Ballin principles, has attributed more importance to the combined freight and passenger ship of medium size and speed."
ed compensation for the absorption Whether the hopes of the Lloyd by the Hapag of the Kaamos" and in this direction will be fulfilled re- Austral lines. Apparently, how-mains for the future to show. In ever, the objects of the two com- any case, as the "Frankfurter Zer- panies are not the same, for while tung" points out, a process of re- the Hamburg Company is strength-grouping is taking place in the At ening its position in the cargo trade, lantic "parallel business," and the Lloyd is aiming at again placing especially between English au itself in the position which it held American shipping. "The tendency before the war at the head of the of the foreign lines is apparently in North Atlantic passenger traffic. the same direction as the new pro- After the delivery of its new gramme of the Llody, and it is only liner, the "New York" in the spring natural that German shipping of 1927, the Hamburg-Amerika Line should be anxious no tto remain in will have a total of about 100,500 the background. tons employed on the New York "The question as to whether ships berth.
the while, after
of these large sizes (Columbus and pletion of the "Bremen Imperator classes) can be operated and "Europa," the Norddeuts- at a profit has been strongly con- cher Lloyd will have about tonded in the last few years, and 214,600 tons. But the importance the experience of the American of these figures lies in the fact that State feet with the former. German the big liners of the Hapag, bath in- steamer "Vaterland" has frequently dividually and on the average, have been cited as an argument against a smaller passenger capacity than such gigantic vessels. On the crack steamers of the Lloyd, as other hand, the much discussed well
as in the fact that both in size plans of the Cunard lead to the con- and speed the main passenger fleet clusion that the other large vessels of the Lloyd will be fur superior to have come up to expectations which
them." that of the Hapag. If one of the were based upon new Lloyd steamers does the trip After discussing the position from Southampton or Cherbourg to which the Lloyd will occupy when New York in five days, which would ita two newest vessels have been de-i be possible at an estimated speed livered. (probably in the spring of of 25 sen miles per hous, that, says 1929), the "Frankfurter Zeitung" the Kolnische Zeitung." would con- states that the Bremen Company's stitute a most decided advantage, plans are being watched in Ham m the face of which it would be burg with no little attention and aseless to attempt to disguise the mixed feelinga
the
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A DELIGHTFUL 65 DAYS CRUISE DE LUXE by the
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LEAVING HONGKONG, FEBRUARY 13th, 1927. -
Calling at Shanghai, Chinwangtao (for Peking), Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco, Balbon, (Panama), Panama Canal, Cristobal, (Colon), Havana.
Arriving NEW YORK, April 12th, 1927. arriving SOUTHAMPTON, April 20th, 1927.
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AGENTS FOR
ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S, CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE. "UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT
Passenger Service.
B.S. "CITY OF LAHORE...Condon, Havre, Rotterdam & H'burg
Fares to London: 1st Class £72. S.S. "CITY OF CALCUTTA" Marseilles, London, Havre & H'burg
Fares: Ist Class to MARSEILLES £66; to LONDON £72.
2nd Class to MARSEILLES £47; to LONDON £49.103.
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AUSTRALIA
·ELLERMAN LINE
12th February.
.15th March,
AUSTRAL EAST INDIES LINE Sailings from SINGAPORE on 6th of every month by "CITY OF PALERMO" or "CITY OF SPARTA'
to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney and vice versa. Through Fraight and Passanger bookings from Hong Kong in conjunction with "Ellerman" Line or
cthor, services.
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE.....AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
9.S. "CITY OF BRISTOL"
ylo Suez Canal ALEO. AGENTS FOR
ANDREW WEIR
SERVICES TO"
BOSTON, NEW YORK & HAVANA
MV. "WERBANK” M.V. "LARCHBANK”
vis Suez Canal via Suez Canal
5th March.
& CO.
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE
.30th January, 24th March.
ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE
.20th April
MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA
from Hong Kong 8.S. "TINHOW"
Loading for Mauritius, Del'agoa Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay
and Capetown. Through Bill of Lading issued to Beirs, Quilimaine, Too, Port Amelia, Mozambique, Chinde, Inhambane, Zanzibar. Mombasa, Kilindini, Port Nolloth, Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay and
Madagascar:
For freight or passage on any of the above lines apply to:-
Telephone........ Central 4792.
SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND ELECTRIC WELDERS, . MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL
THE BANK LINE, LTD.
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.
ENGINEERS.
Tel. Address: "TAIKOODOCK,” HONGKONG... Telephone: Central No. 212.
Call Flar;, “C” over “ANS. PENNANT”
-DRY DOCK-
Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Fest, Depth on Centre of
Sin (H.W.0.8.T.) 34. ft. 6° ́Inm.
THREE SLIPWAYS-
Capable of Handling Ships Up to 3,000 Tons Displacement. Electric Crane at Sea Wall, Capable of Lifting 100 Tons at 70 Feet Radius.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS. HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN