THE CHINA MAIL.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1930.
NYKLINE
REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
TAIYO MARU CHICHIBU MARU
Sunday, Thursday,
28th September.
9th October,
SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports. LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo. Suez. YASUKUNI MARU
HAKONE MĀRU
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Parts,
Tuesday,
AKI MARU ...
..... Saturday, 4th October at 8 a.m.
Saturday,
18th October
21st October.
Saturday,
with September. Saturday, 11th October.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
MALACCA MARU
*TANGO MARU
308TH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico. & Panama.
HEIYO MARU
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama,
† TOBA MARU LIVERPOOL vin Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.
LIMA MARU
Tuesday, 30th September, SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) vin Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
KANAGAWA MARU
17th October.
Friday,
Tuesday,
7th October.
Tuesday,
14th October.
Mondiny.
20th September.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
+ NAGATO MARU (Moji direet) ... Saturday, TAMBA MARU
HAKOZAKI MARU
Moarlay, Friday,
Cargo niz
CALCUTTA ́ via ·Singapore. Penang & Rangoon,
+ TOKUSHIMA MARU
27th September. 29th September.
3rd October.
For further informatión apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 30291.
(Private change to all departments.
O. S. K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
LONDON,
HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP-Via Singapore Colombe, Sura and Port Said. ALASKA MARU
Friday, 10th October.
210 DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon Singapore
Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.
BUENOS AIRES MARU SANTOS MARU
BOMBAY—Via Singaporn & Colomba.
HAVRE MARU
Friday, 3rd October. Friday, 31st October..
Saturday, 4th October, Sunday, 10th October. BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAN- Singapore & Colombo,
BORNEO NARU DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, ZIBAR & MOMBASA—VÍĽ CALCUTTA—Via Singapore, Penang & Rangson.
BURMA MARU
SEATTLE MARU
Friday, 3rd October. Saturday, 18th October,
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER.
ARABIA, MARU (from Shanghai) .. Thursday, 2nd October. -MELBOURNE---Vin' Manila, Brisbane & Sydney,
BRISBANE MARU
£} HUNG...via Higihar | Futbol
... Monday, 6th October.
NEW YORK-Vix Japan porta & Panama.
SANYO MARU
JAPAN PORTS.
HIMALAYA MARU
GANGES MARU
KEELUNG-Via Swatow & Amoy,
HOZAN MARU
CANTON MARU
TAKAO-Via Swalow & Amoy.
TAKAO & KEELUNG.
.KOHSO MARU
Saturday, 25th October,
Wednesday, 24th September. Friday, 28th September.
Sunday, 5th October, Noon, Sunday, 12th October, Noon.
Saturday, 11th October.
For further partcular please apply to...-08AKA SUOSEN KAIŠIA
Tel 28063
FISHERMAN'S DEATH
WIDOW AWARDED RS. 1,500 AS DAMAGES.
Madras, August 5. At the Madras High Court to-day,
M TAKEUCHI. Nonager
her husband's death was due to the negligence of the ship's crew in going astern without warning.
The damages claimed by the plain tiff were both for her husband's
two
death and for the loss of catamarans and a fishing net.
Pachlammul and her children
bir. Justice Wallace delivered judg. were awarded damages of Ra. 1,500. ment In the suit brought by with costs, against the Brocklebank Pachiammal and her
children Line. The claim against the Deputy against the Deputy Port Conserva Port Conservator
Ivas dismissed "tor and the Brocklebank Line, for with costa.
damages, amounting to Rs. 6,000.
On May 26, 1928, Govinda Pillai, A seaman named J. Naunton, of a fisherman and Pachlammal's hus- the Southern Railway's steamship. band, was caught in the propeller Engadine, became entangled in a of the Manner, a vessel belonging to capstafi ropa at Folkestone and was the Brocklebank Line, and killed whirled round several times before just outside the entrance to Madras he was, released, with Injuries to the Harbour. Pachiammal claimed that) head.
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Installation and pairs of Diesel Kusinan aml diators for Marine and Stationary
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FLEET AS CIRCUS. A NEW CANAL FOR
WORLD'S BIGGEST SUBMARINE TERROR.
If you would rather have been a sailor; if you are a girl who would rather have been a boy; if you have ever had a smothered longing to go
chance.
FRANCE.
Economic and Defence. Arguments.
Paris, August 25. With a mixture of economic and to sea, or simply a curiosity to prynational defence arguments, the Into the life of the Navy afloat. powerful textile and metallurgical Navy Week will give you your interests of northern France are bringing strong pressure to bear upon the French Government for the construction of a great ship- ping canal from the port of Dunkirk to Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing.
It begins to-morrow, says a mail week paper, and the Fleet has come in from the sea to the dockyards of Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth to be offered up for a seven days' wonder to the landlubbers, and to give us a taste of the terror and
marvel of warfare at sen,'
The Navy is turned into a decor- ous eircus. It is brought, for this one week of the year, intimately back to the people it defends.
Days of the Pigtail. The battleships are in the hands of the women and children, who swarm over the long decks, scramble
that the seamen take at a bound, up and down the steep iron ladders pry in the turrets and finger the
guns,
Chatham rehearsed the sights that arc
Navy her share of Week. There is something to move all imaginations.
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This region; one of the richest and most prosperous in France during periods of peace, is beg ging for a waterway which will allow it to move its textiles, steel and iron cheaply to a French port instead of shipping across the Belgian border
Antwerp. French shipping companies in stead of Dutch will benefit, they argue.
to
It is now understood the Gov. the expenditure of $200,000,000 ernment has practically approved. spread out over a period of 5 years, providing M. Andre Tardieu's ambitious national de velopment project is approved by the Chamber of Deputies this fall.' The cost of this canal, however,"
variously estimated
to model of the old frigate Kent, sail-$400,000,000
more, $1,250,000,000. ing bravely among the giant hulks, with pig-tailed seamen firing her tiny broadside from guns that look like toys under the lee of the destroyers, and yet are hardly that sank the
For the romantic there
Is the
is
STEAMER HOLED.
COLLISION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
Gibraltar, July 31.
A acrious collision between the British India Steamship Company's Nerbudda (7,911 tons) and the Spanish steamer Legazpi (4,300, tons) occurred this morning in! dense fog 100 miles east of Gibral- tar and 45 miles south-west of Almeira.
The Nerbudda reports by wireless that she may be able to keep afloat. and the Legazpi states that her on- gines are out of commission. Salvage steamers are rushing to the help of the disabled vessels from Gibraltar.
Madrid, July 91.
STEAMSHIP
EMPRESS OF JAPAN Newest, Largest and Fastest Steamer on the Pacific 15 DAYS HONGKONG TO CANADA
STABLISHED a new record for crossing the Pacific, making the run from Yokohams to Vic-. toria tri 8 days, 4 hours, 27 minutes, this being 4 hours, 26 minutes less than the previous record held by the Empress of Canada.
NEXT SAILING TO THE PACIFIC COAST OCTOBER 2ND, 1930.
The Compagnia Transatlantics, CANADIAN PACIFIC
whose steamer Legazpi collided with the British India Steamship Com- puny's Nerbudda, in dense fog 100 miles east of Gibraltar this morn- ing, states that the Legazpi has re- ported that she has taken off the British steamer's passengers as the Nerbudda is in danger of sinking,
The Nerbudda's owners in London | stated that the vessel was a cargo boat and could only haven few passengers on board.
Water Rising in Hold. The following wireless message from was received from the steamer than Nerbudda via Gibraltar by Lloyd's: "Freeboard now less than seven 'feet. Have partly stopped water getting into No. 3 hold. Slowly rising No. 4 hold, Position hopeful if salvage steamer arrives quickly,"
The P. and O. steamer Nankini Nerbudda in tow. Was proceeding to take the
Shipping Interests. The canal is considered assured, since it has the backing of French shipping interests who are also smaller than those
obtaining Government support for Armada of Spain.
their development. Direct access Those who are too young to have to the sea would not only benefit warfare at sea can stand French shippers, but would allow deafened in the turret of the battle French textile, iron and coal ship York while the firing commands producers to compete at a better are whistled up and down, and the advantage with the British for great guns set and loaded..
foreign markets.
acen
The project would entail the
The greatest experience, though, is to go over XI, the largest sub-enlargement of the present under- marine in the world.
sized canal connecting Dunkirk with the industrial region. The old canal is wholly, inadequate for the requirements of the region and hence is rarely used except for minor products.
She is almost as large as a destroyer, carries heavy guns and a deadly armament of torpedoes. She is a amooth, grey monster lying on
the water.
Under the Sea.
In
war-time, for
A long, precipitous stair takes you down into the heart of the thing, where twenty hours at a stretch, there is the ceaseless drumming of gigantic engines fathoms under the sea; a nightmare-like tangle of machinery,
It is suggested that the new canal should be at least 55 yards wide with a draft of 20 feet, allowing fast, high-powered tugs hurry and also to enable boats to move the merchandise in under 1,000 tons to continue in- land..
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The Nerbudda le bound from! Australia to London and Liverpool. Legazpi Is bound from Santa Isabel to Barcelona.
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.
atr.,
WORLDS GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
SAILING, DATES FOR SEPT/OCT. 1930 (Subject to change). DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 2 p.m.
S.S. "TAI HING" [1,068 tons-Capt. Trott.] MON. 29th SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER.
TUES. 2lat
SUN.
5th
FRI,
10th MON. 27th
15th
WED.,
S.S. "TAI MING" [649 tong-Capt. G. J. Spink.] THURS. 25th SEPTEMBER. OCTOBER.
WED.
TUES.
7th
SAT 18th: THURS. 23rd
MON. 13th WED. 29th
Regular Service of Fast, High Class River Steamers Having Good Accommodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans
in Staterooms and Saloon. The .. Tai Hing" is fitted with Wireless. These vessels leave Hong Kong for Wuchow (via Samshoi, Shiu- hing, Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (vis same Ports) every five or six days."
Fares for round trip (not including meals) $20. Meals &-Wines are to be obtained on board.
-
Hong Kong Arrivals and Departures from Taf Hing Wharf.
For information apply tot
29, Connaught Road, West,
Phone 20893,
Ixion, British str., 5,620 tons, Capt John A. Steward, from Miike, buoy No. AB & S.
Monday, September 22. Kasagisan Maru, Japanese
1,425 tons, Capt. Koketsu, from Kingyuan, British str., 1,546 tons, Miike, Yaumauti.-M.B.K.
Capt. J. D. Whyte, from Swa- President Taft, American atr,, 8,415 tow, buoy No. C16.-B. & S.
tons, Capt. K. A. Ahlin, from Kinzan Maru, Japanese str., 938 Shanghai, Kowloon Wharf.- Dollar 8.S. Line.
Wing Wo, Portuguese str., 495 tons,
dials and tubes; precious little air, island port or basin would be con-
According to present plans an An and a hundred and eight men.
You creep from section to section coing, the three ports forming a structed at Lille, Roubaix, Tour- through round metal holes instead sort of triangle at the end of the of doors. The submarine is canal. With this arrangement it delicate an organism, and so packed could serve both the mines and with power, that she is almost alive, textile plants of this concentrated
She carries no reserve of oxygen region. Space is too precious for that, and must all be given to power.
The commander of XI is a tall man, but his bed is little larger than
a child's cot.
DRY DOCK
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.
SALVAGE TUG “TAIKOO".
Wireless Call
V.P.G.N. 600 Meters..
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Length 787 Feet. Length on Blocks 750 Feet,
Depth on Centre of
SII (H.W.O.S.T.) 34 ft. 6 ins. 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... HONG KONG CHINA & JAPAN
The entire canal would be on gian border. During the war the French territory along the Bel- canal would probably be flooded as it was during the late war in order to halt the Germans from taking Dunkirk and other French ports.
Captain I. D. de Lemos, from Kwong Chow Wan, buoy No. A28.-Wo Hop & Co.
Tuesday, September 28. Loe, Chinese str., 992 tore, Capt. S. Sano, from Chefoo, buoy No. C44.-Yu Tal Hong.
tons, Capt. T. Matsumoto, from Swatow, Yaumati Anchorage.- N.Y.K. Royal Prince, British str., 4,934 tons, Capt. W. de R. Hall from Shanghai, buoy No. Al-Fur ness (Far East) & Co. Sancho Maru, Japanese atr., 694 tons, Captain M. Tauge, from
Keelung, Yaumati.-M.B.K.
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WARSHIPS IN PORT
The following British warships are in harbour to-day:-
Caradoc-West wall dock.
Seamew-Enst wall.
Sepoy-North arm,
Serapis-In dock. Tamar-Basin
Foreign. Adamastor-Portuguese cruleer. Patria-Portuguese gunboat. Helena-American cruiser,
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It is believed the Government will ELLERMAN. & BUCKNALL S.S. CO.,
approve the project because it will facilitate the east with which this region would be flooded in such an emergency.-United Press,
SHIP'S OFFICER DROWNED.
Shanghai, Yesterday. Mr. Hartland Dunstan Taylor, the Second Officer of Messrs. Butterfield and Swire's 8.8. Whangpu, was drowned at Han- kow yesterday after falling be- tween the steamer of the China' Navigation Company's hulk. Z
Deceased was 23 years of age and was a native of Aberdeen. He joined Mesars. Butterfield and Swire two years ago, He is sur- vived by his mother at Home. Reuter.
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