WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1929.
P. & 0.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO, FOR
BTRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
THE CHINA MAIL,
LINER WRECKED
WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ASSIST GROUNDED SHIP
MERCHANDISE JETTISONED
ran
Colombo, Yesterday. Thu Hansa iiner "Lauterfels" was wrecked on the island of Minicoy to-day when attempting to assist the Gor- man liner Hoechst" which aground while homeword-bound on September 25 with a cargo of rubber, tea and generai merchandise which was jettisoned in an attempt to save the ship.
Owing to rough seas and a high wind, both vessels were quickly doom- ed despite frantic salvage opera- tions carried out by the tug "Hercules," the Hansa liner "Tautenfels" and the Hamburg-America "Hanau."
Hinor
When it became evident that the two ships were doomed to destruction, final efforts were made to save what remain-
ed of their cargoes but were unsuccess Cut owing to the rough sea.
THE OLD CHAMPION
STEAM REMINISCENCES BY CAPT. RIESENDERG
The "Mauretania" has at last been distanced by a faster ship. This mat.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY ter of spiel per hour, por day, and
DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.),
8. 5.
Tons
KARMALA
*MIRZAPORE KALYAN
*NAGPORE
9,128
From long Rong About
12th Oct, Neon 6,715 17th Oct. 9.141 20th Oct.
6,283 2nd Nov.
MACEDONIA 11,120 9th Nov. *KIDDERPORE 5,34 19th Nov. KASHGAR
9.005 23rd Nov.
Destination
Marseilles, London, Hull, Rotterdam
& Antwerp. Straits, Colombo & Bombay, Marseilles, London, Hall, Rotterdam
& Antwerp. Margollies, London, Hull, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay, Marseilles, London, Hall, Rotterdam
& Antwerp. *Cargo only. † Calla Cesa Blanca. Calls Karachi. Frequent connection from Port Said, for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus. Smyrna and other Levant Parts by steamers of the Ebedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
*TILAWA
TALAMBA
TAKADA
10,006 12th
Oct. 3 p.m. 3,013 28th Oct. 6,9.19! 8th Nov. 7,841 15th Nov. 10,000 18th Nov. 8th Dec. 10,006 17th Dec. *Calls at Rangon.
SHIRALA TALMA
TILAWA
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
Slagapero, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang &. Calcutta. Singapore, Perang & Ceutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta,
B.I. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).
NELLORE
TANDA
6,853 1st Nov 6,056 | 29th Nov.
1930
ST. ALBANS NELLORE
4,500! 3rd
.6,853 31st
Jan. Jan.
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne,
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.
The E. & A. 5.3. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawan, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as in dacement offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:--
passage, looms large in the public mind, and a list of greyhounda.recorda the names of ships famous on the North Atlantic, and important in the story of the development of little and power. Speed has always thrilled us. It was speed that fixed the names of the clippers on the imperishable scroll of the sea. Out of the past we re- call the fast packets, the finest ships of their day and, considering them in point of maximum hourly speed, and recording only the carly racers cap- able of 20 knots or over, the ships line up as follows: "Campania," 21, and "Lucania." a little better, begin- ning in 1893, Then we have 3-knotters "La Lourraine," and "La Savole," of about 1900, and the "Espagne" of 1999. The "Oceanic" of that year was a 20-knotter.
Then a feld of willing old girls strained their boilers to the utmost to get within touching distance of the two- score mark per hour. How they struggled across is a matter of his- tory: reciprocating engines, coal-fired. boilers, sweat, dust and cursing.
Brave-Hearted Ships
the
The four American liners were in that crowd, brave-hearted ships that drove through fair weather and foul to keep up their reputations in the somewhat faster company of their time. In those days Cunard and White Star went to Liverpool, and the "St. Louis" and "St. Paul" to Souththampton, and awaiting them was the London train,
Passengers bound east would meet in London and compare notes as to their arrival. Channel fogs were cut at hazardous speed, all to meet this train on time and save the face, as it were, of their respectability. Then came a a new
aries of liners. The "Campania" were passed by the
and "Lucania"
CONSIGNEES.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES."
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS.
The Steamship,
BENGLOE" Consignees of cargo are hereby in- formed that all goods are being land- ed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained. No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all
The Union 9.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf and Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco,, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamera to London via Suez Canal, The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and Goods remaining undelivered after the
London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*DELTA
MACEDONIA
TAKADA
8,097 10th
!
Oct, Noon 11,120 11th Oct.
6,945
"KIDDERPORE 5,33-4
•BELTANA
SHIRALA
4 p.m. 12th Oct. 61.7. 10th Oct 23rd Oct. 7,841 20th .Oct. 9,005 26th Oct. 10,000
Oct. TANDA
0,950
5th Nov. RAWALPINDI 10,619 Oth Nov. 5,304 11th Nov 5273
12th Nov:
KASHGAR
TALMA
*LAHORE
*ALIPORE
KHYBER
0,114 Cargo only.
17th Nov.
21st Nov.
11th fast, will be subject to rent.
All claims against the steamer mast ba prosented to the Undersigned on or before the 26th ist, or they will not be recognised
All broken chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined on the 9th inat, at. 10 a.m. by Messrs.
Amoy, Maji, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka. ed.
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD
SAILINGS SUBJECT, TO ALTERATION. Destination
Steamer
Sailing Thanvis Stow & S'hat.. FOOSHING...Thurs., 10th Oct, at 7 a.. Tau via 'tow & S'hai .. WAISHING...Sun., 13th Oet, at 7 am, Tisu via Stow & Shai.. HOPSANG ....Wed, 16th Oct. at 7am. Tta via Stow & S'ha! HANGSANG..Sun., 20th Oct. at 7 a.m. Osaka vis Amby, Moji &
∙Kobe .....
SUISANG ....Wed, 18th Oct, at 7 min, Osaka via Amoy, Moji,
Yokohama & Kobe ..... KUMSANG ... Fri., 25th Oct. at 7am. Osaka via Amoy, Moji &
HOSANG .....Wed., 6th Nov. at .7 m. Kobe Diska via Amoy, Moji & KUTSANG....Tues., 19th Nov, at 7 am
p.m.
Kobe * S'pore, Penang & C'cutta. NAMSANG...Mon., 14th Oct. at S'pore, Penang & Calcutta YUENSANG ..Mon., 21st Oct. at 3 p.m. Sandakan
MAUSANG ...Thurs., 10th Oct. at Noon Sandakan...
HINSANG ....Sat, 26th Oct. at Noon Tientsid via Wei-kal-wel &
Newchwang....
CHIPSHING.Sun., 20th Oct. at 10 am. Tientsin via Wei-hal-wel & CHEONGSHING Thurs., 31st Dci, at 10 ■.m,
Newchwang .....
For Freight and Passage apply to:- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
Telephone Central 215.
racers of the North German Lloyd. The "Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse" did 22 in 1807; the "Kronprinz Wilhelm," 22%, in 2001; the "Kaiser Wilhelm II,” 22%, in 1903, and then the "Kronprinzessin Cecile did. 23 in 1007. But Cunard Was on their trail. The "Lusitania" and "Mauretania" were out in 1907, coal burners then, with 26 knots reeled off in the wake, and the Blue Ribbon a shifted again to the British. This speed jump was a great that talk was in the way of disparaging such performances from the standpoint of economy, vibration and what not, The "France" came out in 1912, steaming 23 knots, and the Humburg-American Line had three gigantic ships on the ways, the "Im- perator," the "Vaterland" and the Bismarck." The former WAS credited with a speed of 22,66 knots int 1013. As we know that theze ships were, really faster, the "Lovia- than," ex-"Vaterland," is now doing 28, if you count fast: So the newar fuel, oil, coming in after coal, and the improvements in turbine engines, were driving the race to the higher speed bracket, where we find it to-day: in the 20 years just past, thu survivor of a great pair of racers, the "Mauretania" has held and improved her pace, beating her own record time in September, 1928, when sho steamed from Cherbourg to New York in 5 days, 2 hours. and 34 minutes. In this renewed competition. a race that has started with more vigour than ever before, we can hard- ly expect that any ship will again hold
20 first place for
years. The "Olymple one of the last of the coal burners; did her 22 in 1911, Before she was altered for oil, I had the good: fortune to go through her firerooms after one of her calburning voyages.
man-
A Man-Killer The wing fires were fully six feet above the Яoors. "She's a killer, loody hell," a fireman. re- marked, when I spoke to him about stoking those fires. The
grest race across the beann has been a procession. of gigantic effort. Bles have burned their herets ut in the battle, and the reward
been a minor item in some hás Bimanas, naming only a ship: In the last 20 fears the fast ships have a
I I creased it a point where 20 knots is no longer regarded as news; in fact, it
is slow, and the growth, in length and in tonnage, is creeping up to the growth, in length and to tonnage, is creeping up to the line where a thau- aand feet over all will become a fact, and
not ah impossible or improrbable dimension. While the laurels have been taken from the "Mauretania" by the "Bretton, it is not improbably
follow, that the Europa," soon to
wlit carry away these honours. And com- ing alen are fast ships planned by Cunard, White, Star, and the French Line, and the two great ships soon to be laid down by the United States Lines, Looking back over 20 years we can realize the record' of 'this' stout
ship by the things that have passed away while she held her course in the lead of ocean liners. In 1907 Aging was still merely a myth, a sort of hazy possibility, for short hops. The mighty James J. Jeffries had retired as champion of the world, and was still to come to the fore as the de- fender the white race in the great and only "Battle of the Century at Jack Johnson was an un- Reno.
Moj & Kobe. Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effect-known and hungry pugilist who in 1907 dattoned Jim Flynn' in eleven Bills of Lading will be countersign-round at Colima, Calif. The "Maure ad by,
tanin" was a champion even in those Edward VII was King of Eng- land when this ship made her first. fast runs, and Teddy was President'
Shanghai, Moji & Kobe. Shanghai Hell, Kuba & Yokohama. Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka, Shanghai, Moll, Kobe. & Yokohama. Amoy, Moji, Köbe & Osaka, Mojl, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Boj, Kobe & Yokohama. Moji & Kobe.
Moji, Kobe & Osaka,
Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS. Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenser · at Singapore while awalding the on-carrying deamer,
"All: Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge.
Steamers a Landon and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 2ft x 2ft x 7 ft. will be received.
at the Company's Once up to Noon on the day presious to selling.
For further Information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, ate, apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
P. & O: Building. Connaugle Rd. C., Hong Kong.
Agenia.
HONG KONG AND MACAO, LINE
in Good Speed
S.S. CHUEN CHOW
Daily Salling from Hong Kong: at 200 p.m.: Sailing Irom Macao at 7.60 m
Sundays excepted.
Freight and Pranage apply -
CHUEN ON STEAM BOAT CO., LTD. 24' Connaurh Road W.
C8081
GIBD, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., days.
Agents, Hong Kong, 4th October, 1920.
AUSTRALIAN - ORIENTAL LINE, LTD.
ARC
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"CHANGTE” & “TAIPING" These, New Vessels Maintain a Terujar Service from
HONG KONG TO AUSTRALIAN PORTS'
vla MANILA, and THURSDAY ISLAND Through Bill of Lading sued to all Australian, New Zealand
and Tasmanian Ports. mona k g Excellent and Most Up-to-Date First and Second Class Passenger Accommodation. HONG KONG TO SYDNEY÷I9th DAYS, “
Steamers ¡CHANGTE TAIPING
CHANGTE TAIPING
Dae Hong Kong
در ارزی
Bus to Bail
* 18th October
. 15th November;
17th December
7th January, 1930
8th November.
-10th December
14th January, 1990
For Freight and Passage app ly to BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Tel. 86.
Agents.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD
ENGINEERS, and SHIPBUILDERS BOILER MAKERS. HIRON-FOU DERBLAIK work done in this establishment
Zást de 500 feet!
Saught Road Central, Hong Kong..
furnished on
General Managerż.
and they were busy busting up the Standard Oil Company.
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Cheap Whiskey Days
In those days, if you care to con- ault the World Almanac to verify my statement, you could get à gallon barrel of seven-year-old, pure rye whiskey, direct from the distiller, by sönding $3 to responsible Arm in Baltimore. Zinfandel Claret was 75 a gallon; port, #1, and California Brandy, $2.60. Rheingold, Warburg- er beer, was $1 per case of 24 pints, delivered at the home in New York, Those who won beta on the "Maure- tania" in 1907 might have invested their winnings in Allis Chalmers at 4 for the comina, or 14 the preferred; International Mercantile at 4%; or! U. S. Steel, then a small ecncern, at 21%, nccording to their judgment.
great length of time during which this ship held the lead may be vizualized when we think of the vast changes the world has suffered since those distant days. And the wonder of it is this-the old girl is as smart as the best of them today. "Nautical Gazette."
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS
The P. & D. s.5. "Kashmir" from Hong Kong arrived London on Octo- ber midnight.
The Ben Line s.9. "Benclouch" from Leith, Middlesbro', London, Straits and Manila is due to arrive here on October 17.
HONG KONG TIDE
has
The tide-table given below been obtained by aid of the Tide-pre- dicting Machine, which includes 40 components for the better prediction of tides, from the result of the analysis of the tidal observations, taken at the Kowloon tidal observa tory under the direction of Dr. Doberek during the years 1867, 1888 and 1889.
The times and heights are given for Kowloon; but they may be used for the Victoria Naval Fard and small. Aberdeen, the differences being very
The times of high and low-water must not be considered to coincide with the times of slack-water and change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct,
October 9 to 15, 1929,
HIGH WATER LOWEK WATER.
Standard
Times Bt
DATE
October
12 m. 148 6.3
Standard Time Wed. No aferior Him 8 16 27 Thurs 10 m 0 to 6.7
for Low W in 9 45 2.8 Noinferior d. nor Low W. 11.28 6,6m 11 14
Noinferior Haar Low W.
18 m 4'7}
Noinferior H.
Lov
Fri.
Sat.
Sun.
6.3 or W. * 9:10.
10.30 49 | 2.3 Mon, 14 m & 49 6.5.0.960
8-1853
Tes
5
Going to Europe or America?
Five Reasons for President Liner Preference
California fruits, vegetables and dairy products are served every nical throughout the voyage.
Every stateroom is on an outside deck and is equipped with russing hot and cold fresh water, thermos bottles and reading lamps."Twinbeds of the finest manufacture are standard equlpazent in every stateroom on the Presi dent Liners.
There is a swimming bath aboard every President Liner.
3 It is refilled daily and is always available for use
4
A College orchestra, versatile in its musical accomplish. ments plays for luncheon, ten-slancing, dinner and for evening parties.
Ses Egypt at no additional cost, and without loss of time, Many jassengers avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing Egypt by leaving their President Liner at Suez, going hy motor to Cairo and rejoining ship at Alexan- Jela three days later.
On your next trip to Europe or America
travel от
the President Liners..
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on OCTOBER 21st
for
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42 Days To New York.
For Passenger and Freight information please apply:--
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Queen's Buildings.
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Single screw steci passenger and cargo motor ship. Dimensions: — 15% 0" BP. 28-03 Mid, x 1176” M.; D.W. 470 tons; B.HP 360; Speed 10% knots. Built and machinery-installed by The Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd., to the order of La Naviera Filipina Inc., Cebn for Philippine coasting service
Please address enquiries, to the Chief Managem
R. M. DYER, B.Sc., M.IN.A., Kowloon Dock, Hong Kong.