DODWELL &
COMPANY, LTD.
FOR BOSTON AND NEW YORK Via SUEZ.-
"WRAY CASTLE"
...sails on or about 19th May.
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.
BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE
--LONDON
£72.10.0. £80.0.0.
NEXT SAILINGS.
OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJE.
S.S. "VENEZIA”
M.V. "ROMOLO"
M.V. "VIMINALE"
From Hong Kong.
.Salls on or about 28th April.
.Sails on or about 26th May. Sails on or about 23rd June.
HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE.
M.V. "ESQUILINO“
S.S. "VENEZIA”
M.V. "ROMOLO"
M.V. "VIMINALE"
From Hong Kong.
.Sails on or about 6th May. .Salla on or about 31st May, Salls on or about 28th June. Sails on or about 26th July.
NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS
FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO TO
SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.
9.S. "UMSINGA" S.S. "UMVOLOSI"
.Salls from Calcutta 3rd June.
Salls from Calcutta 80th June.
Regular Passenger and Cargo Service to South African Ports. Through Bills 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.
NYKLINE
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
*Calle Los Angeles. SOUTH AMERICA via Japan, Honolulu, Los
SHINYO MARU ..........
Tuesday, 3rd May, at Noon.
* SIBERIA MARU (calls Keelung).... Sunday, 15th May, at 10 a.m. TAIYO MARU.......
31st May.
Angeles, Mexico &
Thursday, 28th April, at Noon. Wednesday,
8th June.
Tuesday,
Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,
Panama.
ANYO MARU
BOKUYO MARU
ATSUTA MARU
KASHIMA MARU
MARSEILLES, LONDON, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM vla Ports.
7th May, at 11 a.zi. 21st May, at 11 aan. 4th June, at 11 am.
HAKONE MARU
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE vin Manila & Ports.
MISHIMA MARU (Calls Zamboanga) Wednesday, 26th May, at 11 am TANGO MARU
.Wednesday, 22nd Juno.
NEW YORK and/or BOSTON via PANAMA.
LISBON MARU
TSUYAMA MARU
Thursday, 5th May, Saturday, 14th May.
LIVERPOOL via Singapore, Coloinbo, Port Said & Porta.
DAKAR, MARU (Calla Saigon)
Sunday, 15th May.
BUENOS AIRES via Singapore, Durban & Cape Town.
WAKASA MARU ........
.... Saturday, 28th May, BOMBAY via SINGAPORE & COLOMBO,
28th April. Saturday, 30th April.
TOTTORI MARU (Calls Penang).......... Thursday RANGOON MARU
CALCUTTA via SINGAPORE, PENANG & RANGOON.
MORIOKA MARU
NAGATO MARU.
NAGASAKI KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
TANGO MARU
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
SADO MARU
SUWA MARU
DELAGOA MARU
FUSHIMI MANU
Saturday, 90th April. Tuesday, 10th May.
Tuesday, 24th May.
Saturday, 30th April. Monday, 2nd May.. Thursday,
6th May: Monday, 16th May.
For further information apply to--NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. Tel. Central No; 292 (Private exchange to all depts.)
M.M.
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES
LIGNES COMMERCIALES (Cargo Boats). Monthly Sailings direct to HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, DUNKIRK:-
3/8 "SI KIANG"
6th May,
3.8. "LT. ST. LOUBERT BIE" due to arrive from DUNKIRK, 'LONDON, HAVRE about the 22nd. May.
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS (Mail Service)
Steamers.
CHENONCEAUX ATHON IL.. DARTAGSAN A&GEUS
PORTHUM BRUIK...
callings
from Marseillon
8th-Apr 22ud Apr.-
del May
2th May
Arr. at Hong Kong & Ball.ngs for Bhanghai and Japan
26th May 7th June 2183 Juno
Bailings from
Hong Kong for Marellion
10th May E2th May 7th June "Flat:Jane?
Bih July Da Wih July
RATES, OF PASSAGE MONEY TO MARSEILLES
(lacluding Table Wine and Free Doctor's Attendanc
A Class) Int Clu....... £39. 02 Od:: B Class ¦ ¦¦: Let Claru - Steamers, 2nd, --. £70. On, Od, Steamers 1- 2nd
Through Tickets to London and Leading Towns of Ear
Accommodations reserved in the Trains at, Marseillaa, 5) (Bailings (subject to alteration without noti For full Partiolara zapply to:
Cledes: MESS
CONSIGE
THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING SECTION.
SUNDAY CARGO.
CAPTAIN OF "TALLEE" CHARGED.
QUESTION OF PERMIT.
morning, before Lt.-Comdr. G. F. Hole, R.N., to a charge of work. ing carge at 8 pm; last Sunday without a permit.
Sub-Inspector Brown of the Water Police prosecuted.
A sergeant deposed to seeing cight bags of flour brought on to
P. & O. S. N. CO.
Ten Per Cent. Tax Free Dividend.
|NICARAGUA CANAL?
FUTURE. DIESELS.
DOUBLE-ACTING TWO-STROKE
TYPE.
18
Dr. Lucke, of Columbia University, and Emeritus, Profes sor. Peabody, of the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology, is that the gas turbine, is beyond the range of metallurgy. That is, unless some metal can be develop- ed which will permit the blades of the turbine to run at a white-hot heat, we will not be able to develop a successful gas turbine.
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927.
CANADIAN
PACIFIC
| QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC. TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER,
STEAMERS
EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
BAILINGS. 1927.
H'Kong
Leave
S'hal
Leave
V'ver
T'hama Kobe Leave. Leave - Arrive
May 11 May 14 May 17 May 20 May 20 June 1 June 4 June 7 June 10 June 19 Juno 22 June 25 June 28 July 1-July 10 July 13 July 16 July, 19 July 22 July 31 Aug. 3 Aug. 6 Aug. 5 Aug. 12 Aug. 21 Aug. 24 Aug. 27. Aug. 30 Sept. 2 Sept. 11 2 Sept. 14 Sept. 17 Sept. 20 Sept. 23 Oct Oėt.
24 5 Oct. 8. Oct. 11 Oct 14 O^t (E/Asin and E/Russia call at Nagasaki the day after departure from S'hai).
EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA
CONNECTING SAILINGS TO LIVERPOOL
June
June
24
15.
MINNEDOSA - . ' Aug, MINNEDOSA Sept. Montrose
Sept.
MONTCALM MONTROSE MONTCLARE July
10
Frequent salilugs to Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow, Southampton,
Cherbourg and · Antwerp.
U.S. ENGINEER'S OPINION.
Mr. I. W. Jackman, of the COUNTRY'S RESOURCES AND marine départment of the
POSSIBILITIES.
Worthington Pump and Machin- ery Corporation, believes that the Commercial possibilities of the double-acting two-cycle Diesel en construction of a canal across the gine will ultimately be selected as Captain Midgeley of the British Nicaraguan route, which had been the best typo. steamboat "Tai Lee" pleaded "not considered for many years before In his opinion the double- guilty" at the Marine Court this the completion of the connecting acting two-cycle engine not only EMPRESS OF ASIA
link between the Atlantic and weighed less per horse-power, but also did useful work 100 per cent. Pacific across the Isthmus of of the time. Of course, he con- Panama, are discussed in an`arti- cle in the March logue of "Com- turbine, may be developed with tinued, an internal-combustion
merce Monthly," published by the still higher efficiency. The opin
ion of auch well-known authorities National Bank of Commerce."
"Traffic through the Panama Canal,"
says the article, makes it appear not improbable that the constructions of a second canal will ultimately become desirable, Following the ratification in 1916 of a treaty involving a payment of £600,000, Nicaragua granted to the United States the exclusive That the thermal efficiency. of right to construct an ocean-to the Diesel engine is far superior ocean canal across its territory, to anything yet developed. In steam. is well known, but few of As a result, the potential economic Mr. Jackman'a audience realised status of that country has become the still greater superiority of the a matter of direct interest:
Mr. motorship while in port. "Nicaragua is the largest of the Jackman stated that they had ac- Central American countries. curate figures for port consump With an area of 49,000 square tion of the recently-converted the ship and said that when he miles, it is almost exactly the motorship "Tampa" when her questioned the No. 2 compradore, Same size as the State of New main. and auxiliary machinery the latter admitted that freight York. The most striking topogra- were steam-driven, and that her at 5 cents per bag was charged,phical feature of the country is port consumption averaged 12 but that the coolies handling the the immense inland body of tons of oil per day as compared gools travelled free to Kong-water of the same name as the with 8-10ths of one ton which was country. The travel facilities the amount of her present port furnished by its hundred miles of consumption. length and forty miles of breadth combined with those of its outlet.
Satisfactory New Engines. The development of double- the San Juan River, have played a major part in the history and acting engines in the United development of the country. Up States, Mr. Jackman pointed out, this river and across Lake Nicara Pump and Machinery Corpora
was started by the Worthington |gua runs the route of the propos-
London, April 2 The P. and O. S. N. Company has declared an Interim dividend at the rate of ten per cent. per annum free of taxation.-Reuter.
cor.
The first cable from London regarding the dividend, published locally this morning, was rected by a later cable from London. The message is correct na it appears above.]
moon.
The ship's purser, a Chinese, gave evidence that the cargo hatches were all closed on the Saturday afternoon.
His Worship remanded the case for the No. 2 compradore to ap-
pear.
SHIPS IN PORT.
i
ed canal, with but a few miles of tion, who have successfully over- larid separating the lake from the come heat troubles by using a Pacific, Lake Managua, with the
forged steel cylinder with a cast- river connecting it with Lake iron liner. The forging takes care This morning there were 61 Nicaragua, extends the possibil. of the strength, while the cast- iron handles the heat stress. The ocean-going merchant vessels inities of north and south naviga shape of the Worthington cylinder Hong Kong harbour, of which tion by about fifty miles.
head, he pointed out, which is number 22 were flying the Bri-
similar to that of a projectile, tish flag,
has solved the problem of cracks..
During the 24 hours ended at 9 a.m, to-day, there were 10 arrivals (6 British) and 15 departures (7 British).
Above Sea Level. "Although Lake Nicaragua at its closest point is only about The first two double-acting en- thirteen miles from the Pacific it gines built by the Worthington drains southeastward to the Company have been installed on Caribbean, a distance of about 120 the "Tampa' and "Unicoi," and miles. Throughout its course the have performed satisfactorily San Juan River averages about without any repairs up to date. AMERICAN AUSTRALIA ORIENT | 1,000 feet in width.. A sand bar The "Tampa' is now on her way the South America, and across its mouth and four rapids to make navigation hazardous. The "Unicoi" has made a voyage from drop from the lake to the sea is the Gulf to Trieste R 110 feet. The lowest point in the Mr: Jackman said that a new divide between the lake and the Pacific is only 135 feet above the level of the lake.”
LINE.
Operated for
U. S. Shipping Board
3.
By SWAYNE & HOYT, INC. FOR SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES. S.S. "MONTAGUE"...May S.S. "PAWLET"
..May 17. S.S. "WEST ISLIP" May 31. FOR MANILA, ILOILO & CEBU. S.S. "ELKRIDGE" ...April 27.. For full information apply to- SWAYNE & HOYT, INC. L. EVERETT, Inc. General Agents Telephone C. 3008
1st Floor, Queen's Building.
'HARBOUR OFFENCE,
engine of 250 horse-power per cylinder would arrive in New York shortly to be installed in a grain elevator boat for the Interna tional Elevating Company, Mr. Jackman's audience realised the still offers possibilities for ferries and tugs. The New York Central Railroad, he pointed out, had re- For firing crackers, without cently demonstrated one of their permission, on board the steam-vessels fitted with this type of launch "Norge," the master was drive which works very easily, fined $10 at the Marine Court and is entirely controlled by one this morning.
unan in the pilot house."
BANK LINE LTD.
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Leave
SPECIAL FARES, TO EUROPE
£129
£112
£83
'HONG KONG MANILA SERVICE.
Arrive
1
Leave · Αντίνο Manila Hong Kong EMPRESS OF ASIA
9 May 7 May EMPRESS OF CANADA May 28 May 80
Hong Kong Manila
April 29 May May 17 May 19,
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Cables: "GACANPAC."
Cables; "NAUTILUS."'
O. S. K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM
Colombo. Suer and Port-Said. *AMUR MARU
匙
ANTWERP-Vin Singapore;
Tuesday, 10th May..
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS. & BUENOS AIRES-Vio. Saigon, Singapore.
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.. *LA PLATA MARU ..................................... Friday, 6th May,
(calling Port Elizabeth).. BOMBAT—Via Singapore and Colombo.
INDO MARU
CELEBES MARU
.Saturday, 7th May.
Thursday, 18th May
DURBAN, DELAGOA BAY, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM; ZANZIBAR AND
MOMBASA--Vix Blagapore and Colombo. .MEXICO MARU
SEATTLE MARU
Saturday, 30th April. ·
CALCUTTA-Via Singapore and Rangoon,
.Saturday, 30th. April
Saturday, 30th April.
BANGKOK-Vis Saigon.
SEKKO MARU
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Shanghai and Japan
Ports.
ALABAMA MARU (From Shanghai) Friday, 6th May." HAIPHONG_YI HOHOW & PAEHOL
TAIKWA MARU
Tuesday, 24th May.
NEW YORK Via Japan ports, San Francisca and Panamo.
*HAGUE MARU
...Saturday, 30th April *(Omitting San Francisco).
TIENTSIN & TSINGTAU JAPAN PORTS
Friday, 18th May.
.Sunday, 1st hiny.
Sunday, 8th May.
ALTAI-MARU
KEELUNG Via SWATOW & AMOY.
KAIJO MARU
HOZAN MARU.................. TAKAO VIX SWATOW & AMOY.
- ... KOTSU MARU
TAKAO & KEELUNG DAIREN VI CHEFOO & TSINGTAO.
KINZAN HARU
For further particulars please apply Tel. Central No. 4088, 4089, 4090.
CHINA BORNEO
Thursday, 6th May.
:Beginning of May. to-08AKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
M. TAKEUCHI, Manager.
SHIPPING CO.
Hong Kong-Borneo Line.
For Sandakan, Jambongan, Lahad Datu, Semporna and Tawau returning via Sandakan & Jesselton
PROJECTED SAILINGS OF THE
HONG KONG
SANDAKAN:
JAMBONGAN
S.S."FUH TAI".
Arrival
Tuesday April 26
Departure Wednesday May 14
5 a.m..
Arrival⠀⠀ ....Thursday. May 58 ami Departure ...Friday May 6 Arrival ....: Friday
Departure
6.p.m."
Monday -May .2
6. A.M.
Departure
Tuesday May
Arrival
Tuesday May
Noon
LAHAD DATU
5.a.m
SEMPORNA
TAWAU
May
6 8 a.m.
Departure Saturday
Arrival
Departure
May Saturday May 7, 6 pm. ¡Sunday May 8 5.a.m.
7
Noon.
SANDAKAN
JESSELTON
Arrival Departure
Wednesday May 11
4.a.m.
Arrival
Thursday May 12
'6 am.
ELLERMAN LINE
Departure
Thursday May 12
4 pm.
HONG KONG
Arrival
Tuesday May 17
Noon
5th May.. 5th June
ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE
UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT
S.S. “CITY OF WELLINGTON”": Havre, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg SA "CITY OF PEKIN"
AUSTRALIA
Havre, London & Hàmburg i
AUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE Sailings from SINGAPORE on 8th of every month by "CITY OF PALERMO"! or “CITY OF SPARTA
to Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney and vice versa. Throughs Freight and Passenger bookings: from Hong Kong in conjunction with "Eliorman”- Lino or
other services.)
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE...AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
ANDREW WEIR
Monday May 9 6 am.
Excellent accommodation for Saloon Passengers.
9.
Through Billa of Lading issued to other B. N. Borneo Ports.
For Freight and passage apply to
27, Connaught Road West.
W. WATT & COMPANY, Agenta,
Phone C. 4963-
AMERICAN ORIENTAL HONGKONG HEIGHTS.
MAIL LINE.
Operated för
U.8, Shipping Board-
For the information of visitors the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published
ALSO, AGENTS FOR
CO
SERVICES TO
BOSTON & NEW YORK.
M.VÄ“FORRESBANK?
AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LIN
ADMIRAL ORIENTAL
pvis Buez, Cans
Laland. Victoria Peak Signal Station MUA
1774
ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE
Mounta
1725
The Pesk
877
MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA
Loading for Blauritius, Delagon- Like and Cab
Through, Billatos, Ladimų Issued
Mamb
THE BANK LINE, LID.
LINE
88CUPRUM"
will sall on or about" May 1st
ILOILO CE ZAMBOANG,