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K.LINE
REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING
FROM 283 TO £120 ON SALE
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghal, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
ASAMA MARU
TAIYO MARU
Weincaday, 4th February, Thursday,
19th February.
SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
HIKAWA MARU
HETAN MARU
Thursday,
12th February, Thursday, 20th February.
-LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. KASHIMA MARU
THE CHINA
MAIL.
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BRANDT & co.
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Building and Repairs of Shyamnare
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To HW WiN-KOWLOON BAY. Telephone 67061 Day and Night. Works Manager: W. E. ARGENT.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1931.
THE EMPRESS ROUTE
YASUKUNI MARU
Saturday, Saturday,
7th February,
Blat Fobruary."
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
KITANO MARU
Thursday,
10th February.
+YAMAGATA MARU
31st January,
IYO MARU
10th February.
BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
Saturday,
Tuesday,
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama. GINYO MARU
Sunday.
1st February, SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
20th February.
6th February.
1st March.
CHINA COAST,
LATEST CHANGES IN SHIPPING PERSONNEL.
Mr. D. Wilson, chief officer, Taiyuan, is on reserve.
Mr. F. J. Gragg, from leave, has gone chief
Talyuan.
Mr. E. Wood, chief officer, Wan-
has {ng
chief gone
officer, Newchwang.
Mr. L.V. Rowe, from reserve, has gone chlef officer, Hanyang,
Mr. P. Jenkins, chief officer.
chat.
officer,
Hanyang, has gone!
Kanchow.
Mr. W Dickinson, chief officer, Kanchow, Is on reserve.
Home officer.
second
second
Mr. J. R. Middenway, officer, Kungwo, has gone officer, Yusang.
Mr. J. W. Stoneham, officer, Suiwo, has gone chief Kungwo,
DOLLAR LINE.
READJUSTMENT OF SERVICE ACROSS PACIFIC.
The Dollar Steamship Line an- nounce that effective from Hong Kong with the Bailing of their s.. President Jackson on March B1, will be a readjustment of chief there chief their trans-Paclic service to permit of their steamers to San Francisco chief proceeding through the Panama New York. Sallings of officer. Canal to 15th February.
the Dollar Steamship Line and the Mr. E. T. Griffiths, from Home American Mall Line from Hong leave, has gone second oficer, Ping-Kong up to the end of March will
be according their present; wo.
schedule but effective with March 30 sailing, the
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa.
CALCUTTA vla Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
KAWACHI MARU
Thursday,
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.
TATAGO MARU
Friday,
†TAKETOYO MARU
Sunday,
† DELAGOA MARU
Sunday,
† NAGATO MARU
Saturday,
7th February.
+ BENGAL MARU
Sunday,
15th February,
SHANGHAI KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
† MORIOKA MARU
Thursday,
SUWA MARU
Saturday,
ATSUTA MARU (Nagasaki direc tj. FUSHIMI MARU
Thursday, Saturday,
5th February. 7th February.. 19th February. 21st February.
+ Cargo only.
For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 30291. (Private exchange to all departments.)
O. S.
K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
& BUENOS AIRES via.A
Mon.,
9th Feb.
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT Atlas Muru
TERDAM & ANTWERP
'via Singapore, Colombo,
Suez & Port Said.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS La Plata Maru
Fri..
6th Feb.
Saigon.
bo Durban & Capetown.
Singapore,
Color-
KARACHI & BOMBAY via Shanko Maru
Singapore
& Colombo...
D
URBAN.
LOURENCO Chicago Maru
Wed.,
Thurs.,
4th Feb.
5th Feb.
MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR
ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR
& MOMBASA via Singa
pore & Colombo.
AUSTRALIA AND
NEW Melbourne Maru
ZEALAND via Manila ...
CALCUTTA via Singapore & Seattle Maru
Wed,
Mon.,
4th Fob,
2nd Feb.
Rangoon.
VICTORIA,
SEATTLE, Arabia Maru (from
TACOMA & VANCOUVER
Shanghai)
Sat
21st Feb.
vla Japan Ports.
NEW YORK via Japan ports, Sanyo Maru
Fri.,
6th Feb.
Los Angeles & Panama.
Call Direct at Boston,
Philadelphia & Baltimore.
JAPAN PORTS (Freight Ser- Nitto Maru
Sun.,
vice).
HAIPHONG via Hoihow & Menado Marn
Pakhoi (Fortnightly).
Thurs.,
KEELING via Swatow & Canton Mari
Sun.,
1st Feb.
5th Feb.
1st Feb.
Amoy (Every Sunday
TAKAO via Swatow & Anty Deli 'Maru'
Thurs.,
(Fortnightly).
For further articulars please apply to
Telephone 28051
Noon).
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12th Feb.
PHOTOS TAKEN DAY AND NIGHT. Zeisa, Kodaks, Cameras, Films, Plates, and Papers, etc.
Developing, Printing, and. Enlarging.
AT 24 HOURS SERVICE
Price Moderate.' ・・
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THE KWONG KWUI CO., LTD.
-74, Queen'e Road Central, Hong Kong.
Tel. 22170.
SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS,
BOILER MAKERS,
FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
Mr. W. T. D. Murphy, officer, Tatung. Has gone officer, Wanhalen.
Mr. A. S. Lewis, second officer. Tungehow, has gone second officer, Tatung.
Mr. S. de Candlu, second omcor, Wanhsien, has gone second officer, Tungehow.
Mr. R. B. C. Lee, chief officer. Hupch, has gone chief oficer, Hain Peking.
Mr. E. M. Swan, chief oficer, Hsin Peking, is on reserve.
Mr. A. H. Finnie, chief officer, C. N. Co., is, on Home leave.
Mr. W. P. B. Paul, from reserve: has gone chief officer, Chusan.
Mr. D. S. Simpson, from reserve, has gone second officer. Chusan.
Mr. C. J. M. Bennett, second officer, Anhul, has gone second officer, Tainan.
Mr. E. G. Long, second officer, C.N, Co., is on special Home leave. Mr. E. Williams, from reserve. has gone chief officer, Hupeh.
Mr. A. G. Corbin, second officer Fatshan, has resigned from the C. N. Co.
Mr. N. McMillian, from reserve, has gone second officer, Fatihan.
Mr. K. A. Pegden, from reserve, has gone second officer, Liangchow. Mr. A. M. Buchanan, from
reserve, has gone second officer.
Chungking.
Mr. R. A. Smith, from reserve has gone second officer, Luchow.
Mr. E. Bruce, second officer, Lu- chow, has gone second
officer, Szechuen.
Mr. R. L. Stenner,"second officer, Fengtien, has gone second officer; Телп.
1
Mr. A. C. Smith, second officer, Pingwo, is on reserve.
Mr. N. H. King. from reserve, has gone second officer, Kwaisang.
Mr. E. V. de Maimanche, from reserve, has gone second officer, Tingsang.
Mr. R. G. Gillespie, second officer, Luenho, bas gone acting chief officer, Suiwa
Mr. D. S. Pethick, chief officer, Yusang, has gone chief officer. Kwaisang.
to
steamers of these two lines will be divided as fol- lows:
Од the San Francisco Line. steamers will proceed from Manila to Hong Kong, thence to Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Balboa, Cristobal, Havana, and New York, and from New York, will return to the Orient
over the same rout: through the Panama Canal to San Captain W, Field Hook, of the Francisco and return to the Orient via Japan and Chinh ports. The Hosang, has gone master Suisang.
Captain R. J. J. Sneddon, of the steamers used in this service will Suisang, has gone master Hosang.be President Jackson, President
Mr. C. M. Boas, from reserve. has gone chief officer, Sulsang.
McKinley, President Grant, Presi- dent Cleveland, President Pierce,
Mr. S. Schofeld, chief officer, Sut-President Johnson, President Wil sang, is on reserve.
Bon, and President Hoover.
Mr. J. Rees, from reserve, has gone third officer, Leesang,
Mr. T. A. Goldenberg, second officer, Kwongsang, has gone second officer, Mausang.
Mr. W. Le Brun, second officer, Mausang, has gone second officer,
Kwongsang:
Captain L. Hutchings, of, the Kwongang, og reserte.
Mr. A. Baggott, second engineer officer, Hüpeh, has gone second engineer officer, Tungchow.
Mr. F. C. Crone, second engineer. Tungchow, is on reserva.
Mr. H. A. Morrison, chief on- gineer officer, Sinklang, is on re-
Mr. F. C. Webb, second officer, Tean, has gonė second officer, serve.
Fengtien.
Mr. I. Callender, from reserve,
Mr. W. E. Hargreave, from re- has gone chief engineer officer,
gone second
serve, has Chengtu.
Mr. J. F. C. Bartley, officer Chengtu, has gone offeer, Shuntian.
en-
officer, Sinkiang,
Mr. J. W. S. Hood, second second gineer officer, Sinkiang, has gone second acting chief engineer officer, Hul-
chow.
Mr. E. M. Foster second officer, Shuntien, is on reserve.
Mr. W. Paxton, second engineer officer, Chungking, has gone second officer, Kalgan.
Mr. J. R. G. Gow, from reserve, has gone second officer, Shengking. Mr. J. Will, second engineer Mr. F. H. Smith, second officer, officer, Kalgan, is on Home leave. Shengking, has gone second officer,
Mr. RT Maddison, chief Chinhua.
gineer officer, Tsinan, has gone Captain R. Allinson, of the Wan-chief engineer officer, Wanlic. tung, has gone master, Shengking.
Captain R. H. G. Ashby, of the Shengking, has gone master, Hsin Peking,
Mr. G. Boulton, chief engineer officer, Wanliu, has gone chief en- gineer officer, Tainan.
|
On the run Manila to Seattle via Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe, Yoko hama, and Victoria, Canada, the steamers President Medison, Presi dent Taft, President Jefferson, and President Lincoln will be used.
the Company still maintaining their These alterations will porrait of weekly sailing from Hong Kong, alternating between Seattle and San Francisco and will at the same time permit of the extension of their service from the Orlent to New Canal. It York via the Panama will not in any way affect the pre- sent round-the-world service of the Dollar Steamship Line and that ser
vice will still be maintained as in the past with a fortnightly service from Hong Kong.
LUCIA MUTINY.
CAREERS OF DISMISSED OFFICERS.
The
officers
по
London, Yesterday.
concerned in Mr. Alexander's statement
the Lucia affair yesterday are:
Commander 0. E. Hallifax. Lieut. Commander J. W. Hoskyns. Commissioned Boatswain F. A Wright.-Reuter.
CANADIA
STEAMDHIP
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Shortest and Quickest ORIENT-AMERICA-EUROPE
SERVICE PAR EXCELLENCE
SPECIAL THROUGH FARES
TO EUROPE
SPECIAL NOTE
£83
£120 £112
Canadian Pacific representatives meet all steamers at all ports of call to assist passengers. Railroad, Sleeping Car, Hotel and Steamship reservations arranged at any Canadian Pacific Office
CANADIAN PACIFIC
WORLDN GREATENT TRAVEL SYSTEM
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE|
The Sat Kong (or the West Elver) is the third largest river
in the Chinese Republic and second only to the Yangtzo in import ance. This
CIB
JAN-FEB. SAILINGS,
DEPARTURE HOURS:
Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wuchaw 2 p.m. 5.S. "TAI HING"
FRI.
[1,068 tons-Capt. Troit]
WED.
30th
JANUARY.
FEBRUARY.
4th
SAT. 21st
TUES. 10th THURS. 26th
MON. 16th
B.S. TAI MING"
magnificent trade (649 tons-Capt. W. H. Lawton]
FEBRUARY.
8th 13th
24th
WED. 18th TUES
For information apply to
route was opened to foreign traffe in 1897, but how many foreign -MON. 2nd
SUN. travel Øn this important
FRI. waterway? The sconory along the route is beautiful. We recommend it to any person who wishes to spend a short and economical holl- day.
SANG WO
Ltd.,
29, Connaugh Road, West,
*Phono 20893.
YACHTING TRAGEDY, their families, and in more
THREE KILLED IN EXPLOSION.
than
one case parents tossed their in- fanta aboard the Dorothea "and willingly offered to remain in the water waiting for other boats.
A number of bables are missing. Her glass bottom broken, the Eureka II. sank in a short time.
Mr. G. E. Barrett, master of a
fishing vessel, who saved 27 people from the wreck, sald to a British United Press correspondent:
With 135 people on-board, bent on viewing the colourful tropical vegetation under the soa, the glass- bottomed pleasure yacht Eureka II. sailed out from Miami Beach, Florida, on December 14, and with in a few hours met with disaster.
"We saw the flames coming from A fire broke out, followed by two the ship and Immediately beaded wes for the Eureka. When we reached [H.M.S. Lucia is a vessel of 6,805 explosions, when the vessel
about 15 miles south of Miami.
her wo saw men, women, and tons displacement with a comple-
There was a panic after the first children floundering helplessly in Mr. W. M. Stewart, chief en- ment of 202 officers and men explosion. Women and children the water and crying frantically Mr. W. H. Angas, second officer.gineer officer, C. N. Co., has retired Originally the Hamburg-Amerika ran round the ship, screaming, for help. We took every person we Chungking, has gone second officer.on pension.
liner Spreedwald, built in 1907, Mr. B. Symington, third engineer she was captured in September,
while some people jumped into thecould carry Kwelyang.
officer, Slangwo, has gone third ex-1914, by the cruiser Berwick and water.
headed for Miami. gineer officer, Kwaisang,
The 'second explosion. threw the converted into a submarino depot remaining passengers headlong in-
Baby First. Mr. H. Turner, third engineer ship.
to the sea. officer, Fausing, bas gone third en-
"One man swam around our boat So far, three dead have been re holding a baby in his arma, bog- gineer officer, Siangwo.
and is also in command of the covered. The number of people ging that the child be taken on second submarine flotilla of which agencies to be from 12 to 82.
missing is reported by various board. the Lucia He is the third son of the late Rear-
Mr. W. Bambro, second offcor, Kwaiyang, has gone second offer Kaying..
Mr. D. S. Simpson, from reserve, has gone second officer, Chusan. ·
Captain A. McDowall, C. N. Co., Is on Home leave.
Mr. E. Kermode, chief officer, Newchwing, is on reserve.
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AGENTS HONG KONG CHINA & JAPAN.
Commander Oswald E. Hallifax, D.S.O. is the captain of the Lucia
on board and then
Mr. F. Dickie, from reserve, has gone third engineer officer, Tuckwo
Mr. J. Fowles, third engineer
"'Don't save me, but save ́-my Was the parent-ship. Before the second explosion baby, he cried. * officer, Tuckwo, Is on reserve.
Mr. R. Clark, from reserve, has Admiral John S. Hallifax and has flames with water from a drinking
some of the passengers fought the i gone second engineer officer, two brothers in the Navy, Captala tank and from the sea, using any Yusange
G. W. Hallifax, naval attache at
up by the yacht Josephina.
The baby was afterwards.picked
One survivor, took his two-year- old child to one of the rescue boats, but, refusing to be rescued himself went back to look for his wife. Both were saved later by angther craft. All the rescue ships arrived at Miami loaded to the safety line. Eureka II, was one of a number
Mr. F. Kerslake, second, en-Paris, and Captain R. C. H. Halll-utenells they could find. gineer officer, Yusang, has gone fax, who commands the Fifth A Plucky Musiciona. second engineer officer, Fooshing.
Destroyer Flotilla of the Atlantic The passengers, had been, listen- Mr. W. Jack, from reserve, has Fleet.
ing to the strains of dance music gone third engineer officer, Kutwo. Commander Hallifax, who is to at the time of the disaster, says
Mr. D. de Carvalho, third es be placed on half-pay, served the Central News, gineer officer, Kutwo, is on reserve. throughout the war in submarines In the midst of the pandemonium
Mr. J. McDonald, from reserve, and was awarded the D.3.0. for which followed, the musicians of small motor craft used for short has gone second engineer officer, his abilities in under sea warfare. stuck to their posts and, helped pleasure journeys. She was 64ft. Pingwo
The Executive Officer of the by a passenger with a saxophone, long, with 20ft. beam and had a Lucia is Llout Commander J. W. continued to play fazz masie in au 25-h.p. engine. Hoskyne. A
-NINE FLASSED IN A SHIP.
effort to still the panic and restore
The four men sentenced by order.
court-martial were: A. B. T. Grat- Women who were told to jump
ton, three months hard labour overboard were afraid to do on ac- HONG KONG HEIGHTS
A loscar lost his life and eight and dismissal. A B. Edward Towl, count of the sharks, others were gassed during famiga- six months hard labour and dis The yacht Dorothea, which was tion operations on board the erfgomissal. A. B. W. J. A. Wilson, six cruising nearby, raced to the spot Vessel City of Khartoum, borthed months' detention. A. B. Joseph and helped to pick up the passen at Elderalle Dock, Glasgow. ALuck, six months' detention
gére. Gromán discovered the men in their bunks when he went to call the watch.
MATAHITI CAPTAIN PRAISED.
The New Zealand Nautical Court
Darkness fell as the Dorothen, pucked with survivors, raced to wards Miami to fetch assistance.
SOS Calls.
808 calls were sent out, and of Inquiry in its report on the loss dahing craft, coastguard launches, of the Tahld in the Pacific last and other yachts belonging to the August, Bayeshi "Captain Amillionaires rushed to the scene Toten's Handling of the situation is of the disaster, where other pas worthy of the highest praise. He sengers still swimming amid the displayed cool, accurato ndg wreckage were taken on board. ment. The loss is attributed to
Many of those taken out of the 3,"an unavoidable perii of the res.” ....
water had to be reparted from
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE
Consignees of cargo ex Bb. Penreach are reminded to take de Ilvety of their goods, which will be subject to rent after January
For the information of visitors highest points on the Island and the following Hat of some of the Mainland is published :---
Island,
Victoria Feak Signal Station
1825
1774-
M Parker
1781
Mountain Lodge'
1725
The Eyrie
1725
Peak Hotel
1205
Taikoo Sanatorium
1000
Mt. Dars
677
Bowen Road (Altor
Feel
Kowloon Feäk
1871
Talmomban
8124