P. & 0.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
STRAITS,' 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.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
B.S.
Топа
From Hong Kong About
*
1931. 17,000 16th Aug.
Nuon 6,300 19th Aug. 8,000 22nd Aug.
9,000 29th Aug.
15,000 12th Sept 8,800 19th Sept
Destination
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straita, Colombo & Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull, Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant
werp & Hull,
Their Origin and Career.
THE
CHINA
MAIL.
ATLANTIC ICEBERGS may be said to be four completely and strength of the winds. A pre- ice-free months, but on the Cape valence of northerly winds helpe Race (Newfoundland)-Europe track to bring the bergs South, since there is none entirely free from their size gives the wind a good ice. South of lat. 40 deg. N. bergs hold. Southerly winds, on the con- are rarely seen. The area where trary, tend to push them back, or, they congregate, break up, and melt at least, to check their advance and les east of the Grand Banks, be- to hasten their melting. All these tween lat. 48 deg. and 42 deg. Nu problems come within the scope of and covers an aren, of some 74,000 study of the International Ice! square miles.
Patrol which guards the shipping Causes of Variation in Numbers,
routes of the western North ‘Atlan-. The annual variation in the num-tic, during the ice-berg season. ber of bergs and the date of their arrival has been attributed to many causes. This year again the JAPANESE & YANGTSZE Cargo. lack of bergs has brought the ques- tlon into prominence. Of course, as usual, the Influence of the Gulf
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CONSIGNEES.
THE BLUE STAR LINE. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEER
Steamer:,"
must
"OREGON STAR" From CONTINENTAL PORTS.
The polar ice that at certain times of the year baunts the western North Atlantic and menaces shipping is of two dis tinct sources of erigin, although in popular language any piece of ice sven by a traveller in the North Atlantic is spoken of as an iceberg. Icebergs are all of land origin, and represent the seaward ends of glaciers that have calved off through the buoyancy of the sea
With the tightening up of the as the glacier has flowed outwarda Stream has been invoked, but there anti-Japanese boycott in Shanghai, and downwards from its gathering are other causes that may be British shipping men are realising/ ground on high Aretic lands. An equally or more potent in this re-what a big proportion of Yangtsze
ordinarily carried iceberg is built entirely of conspect. The passage of the bergs cargo is
One British Arya, solidated snow, but nevertheless begins when summer conditions in Japanese ships. has a hardness that is amply auf- the North not only allow calving after many weary moons of carry- cient to cut the steel plates of a to take place from the ends of the ing cargoes averaging about 20 per ship, writes R. N. Rudmose Brown glaciers, but also ilberate the berge cent. of capacity, finds its tonnage in The Manchester Guardian...
that have been imprisoned in the almost insufficient to handle the There are very few Arctic lands sea-ice during the Winter. A pro- extra cargo now on offer. With an that have the conditions recessary longed Winter, season of firm sea- annual subsidy from the Imperial for the formation of large glaciers, Ice would prevent the usual genera- Government of well over a million and virtually all the large Arctic tion of berge. This is what normal-yen, the Japanese shipping firm icebergs come from the enormously happens in the far North of which serves the Yangtze ice-sheet of Greenland. Yet they Greenland. Another possibility is have been doing, quite well even in are small compared with the gigan-involved in the suggestion that an recent lean years.Shipping Re- tic towering berge of
the unusual number of berga has view. South Polar Seas, which stranded in shallow water off the have lengths often to be coast of Labrador and been measured in milles and heights checked in their passage South. of several hundred feet above the This fatality to the berg could have waterline. It does not however been caused only by the coast of need a particularly large berg to Labrador being singularly free threaten shipping_if_the_weather is from pack-ice, which in Spring and. thick and misty, as is so often the early Summer invests ita coast, case in the western North Atlantic, and there is no evidence of this where cold and warm currents of having been the case, although It Small must be admitted that the supply both water and air meet. bergs riding low in the water may of Arctic pack-ice varies consider CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby be dangerous, and berga with pro-ably in different years.
informed that all Goods are being jecting tongues below water
Another possible explanation lies landed at their risk into the Godowne the worst of all.
in the weakening. of the Labrador of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart is current.
Ocean currents certainly and Godown Company, Ltd. at Kow
delivery may be obtained. changes in the intensity of atmos-
Optional Cargo will not be landed pherie currents. A weakening of here, unless notice has been given 48 the high atmospheric pressure over carried on from port to port to the hours prior to vessel's arrival, but the Arctic regions might reduce anal port of call to which the option the outflow of water from the polar extends.
No claims will be admitted after the seas and so weaken the Labrador current, but our knowledge of the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the genesis of polar currents is not 18th inst. will be subject to rent. The icebergs of the North At-sufficient for
any definite
All claims against the vessel ciust lantic are all derived from the clusions to be reached. On the be presented to the Undersigned on or other hand, a strengthening of the before the 25th inst. or they will not Gulf Stream, especially if contem-be recognised.
All broken, chafed, and Ramaged sheet mests the watera of Baffin
poraneous with, a weakening of the Goods are to be left in the Godowns. Bay, and Disko Bay are notorious Labrador current, would result in where they will be examined on the for their iceberga.. The bergs drift warmer water of the Newfound 15th Inst. at 10 a.m. by our sur with the current across
the bay land Banks, and so a readier dis-veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effect and southward along the coast of Integration and disappearance of ed. Batin Island and Labrador, even the bergs. Finally, there is one Bill of Lading will be countersign- tually, to be turned adrift in the factor that probably is of greated by North Atlantic to the east and importance in reducing the number south-east of Newfoundland. There of bergs-that is the persistence they cross the shipping routes be tween Europe and northern North American ports. They first appear -in-February,-become-more....numer.. oua in March and April, and reach a maximum in May and June. In
as the summer goes on they become rarer, until in the darkest, months of the year they are few in number. A record of berge passing south Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney along the coast of Newfoundland,
& Melbourne.
and naturally it is incomplete, gives numbers varying from 100 to
Bombay, Marseilles & Londoz Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
RAJPUTANA
*ALIPORE **PADUA
+KARMALA
CATHAY **SOUDAN
KALYAN
werp & Hull.
MANTUA TRASHMIR *IBURDWAN
11,000❘ 10th
Oct
Marseilles & London.
9,000 24th 6,500 31st
Oct.
M'elles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp.
Oct.
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
NÁLDERA +KASHGAR' RAJPUTANA CORFU
16,000 7th Nov.
9,000 21st $7,000 5th
Nov.
*ISOMALI.
15,000 19th 0,800 | 26th
Dec.
Pack-ice, or feld-ice
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AZO
It
9,000 28th. Sept. Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Ant sometimes called, ie, in contrast to vary from year to year owing to loon, whence and/or from the harves
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Bombay, Marseilles & London. M'ueilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. Dec. Marseilles & London: Des. Marseilles & London.
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam & Antwerp.
•Cargo anty. Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti.
5 Calls Karachi & Port Swettenham,
Frequant connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Fireuus, Smyrna and other Lavant Forts by steamers of the Khedival Ball Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
*SANTHIA
TALMA
TAKADA
1031, 8,000 23rd Aug. 10,000 8th Sept. 7,000 21st Sept.
Calls Port Swettenham,
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation, for 1st and 2nd class passengers
berg-ice, frozen sea
water.
The
flues of this ice may be hard enough at times, but they are relatively thin and readily disintegrate with rough seas and warm currents, so that they are rarely a menace to shipping on frequented routes.
Their Course.
western glaciers of Greenland, Melville Bay, where the great ice
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). July they are less numerous, and
TANDA NANKIN NELLORE
1931 7,000 2nd Sept 7,000
2nd Oct. 7,000 31st Oct.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan 1,000 in the course of a year, with
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-10 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union: 5.8, Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The F. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamere to London via Suez The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan, June to Sept.
*NANKIN. KALYAN
48T. ALBANS
MANTUA SIRDHANA
*BURDWAN KASHMIR TILAWA NELLORE SANTHIA NALDERA
KASHGAR... TALMA
1931. 7,000 27th Aug. 9,000
28th Aug. 4,500 81st Aug. 11,000 11th Sept. 8,000 11th Sept. 6,600 12th Sept. 9,000
25th Sept.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hai, Mofi, Kobe, Oraka & Y'hama. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai Moli, Kobe & Yokohama. 10,000 26th Sept. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Oanka.
7,000 5th Oot S'hai Moji, Kobe, Daaka &: Y'hama. 8,000 9th Oct. Amoj, Moji, Koba & Ozaka, 10,000 10th Och Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
17th Oct. Shanghal, Gioji, Kobe & Yokotamo. 9000 10,000- 28rd Oct. Amoy, Moff, Kobe & Onaka. 11,000 24th Oct. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000 8th Nor. S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. RAJPUTANA 17,000 7th Nov. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
MACEDONIA
TANDA
CORFU
15,000
RAWALPINDI
17,000
21st Nov. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokoham
5th Dec. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
7,000
NANKIN
FARMALA
7th Dec. S'hai, Maji, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama," 9,000 10th Dec. | Shanghai, Moji; Kobe & Yokohanın.,
Cargo only. † Calls Nagoya
Calling Wei-hai-wel, Teingtau & Shanghai on return from Japan.}
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration, without notice, Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying stemmer.j
*** All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans on Punka Louvre System free of charge
Bleamore on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Com pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing,
For further Information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-
MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO.
0. Ballding, Connaught Rd. C. Hong Kong.
Agents.
an average of 800 to 400. On the United States-Europe track there
con-
DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents,
Hong Kong, 10th August, 1931.
THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.
ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BRASE and IRON FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment in geranteed. We have over thirty yours' experience. We own two. Slip- WAYE and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long.
Tel. 20459. Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong.
Kowloon Tel. 57009. Shipyard: Sham-abui-po, Kewloon, Hong Kong.
Estimates fornlehed on application
Hong Kong. April 1, 1924.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD., HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS: KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 28020.
Telephones:
KOWLOON DOCK 58053.
Telegrams: "MANIFESTO, HONG KONG."
DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS. FOUNDERS,
FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.
On Lloyds
Itt of
approved
Cast
Sleef
Manufac
tur era.
T.S.S.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1931.
SPECIAL" ROUND
TRIP FARES
TO
EUROPE.
WEEKLY TRANS - PACIFIC.- SERVICE
To San Francisco, Los Angeles & New York via Panama. The Sunshine Belt via Honolulu Fortnightly sailings on Tuesday
Pres, Lincoln Pres. Pierce
Pres. Wilson
.73.
To Seattle & Vistoria.
The Short, Straight Route to America Fortnightly saillage on Sundays.
1.01.
..Aug. 18, 10 Pres. Madison Aug. 23, 6
Sept. 1
Pres. Cleveland.....Sept. 6 Sept. 15 Pres." Taft *****Sept. 20-
£79 £112 £120 Special through rates to Europe via
United States. Direct connections "with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rail lines across United Staton and
· Canada, liberal stop-over privileger for sight-seeing.
ROUND TRIP FARE TO EUROPE. From Hong Kong to Naples
11
Marseilles
κοπάσει
Full particulars upon application, EUROPE AND NEW YORK DIRECT
ROUND THE WORLD,
£152. 5.04.
£161, 0.01. £169.15.04.
Fortnightly sailing on Sundays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genon, Marseilles, New York and Boston.
JL,
Pres. Harrison...Aug. 23. 8 Pres. Fillmore.... Sept. 20, 8 Pres. Hayes......Sept. 6, 8 Pres. Monroe.....Oct. 4. 8 TO MANILA
Pres. Harrison, Aug. 23. 8 a.m.Pres. Hayes...Sept. 6, B'.m. Pres. Pierce..Aug. 25. 6 p.m. Pres. Wilson...Bept. 8, 8 a.m. Pres. Cleveland Aug. 29, 6 pm. Pres. Talt.....Sept. 12, 6 p.m.
CANTON BRANCH:-4, SHA KEE STREET,
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
MEHELISEE
EXPRESS
GARDER
NE
PAJAMA
SERVICE
BARBER WILHELMSEN-
LINE
נין
TRANS-PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE
vin PANAMA. NEXT SAILING
M.V. "TAI YANG"
on AUGUST 18th.
for
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & BOSTON,
42 Days To New York.
For Passenger and Freight information please apply:-
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Queen's Bulldings.
Harbour
Call Flage
Engineer
Boller-
maker
WA
Shipwright
EMPRESS OF JAPAN” In No. 1 Dock. Dissensions: 868′0' 0.A. x 83′6′′ x 18'6" Mid 20,000 tons Grosa,
The Company possesses Stx Granite Docks and Two Patent Slipways,
The dimensions of No.1 Dock are 700′0"x88′0′′ x 306" over kill, H.W. 0,8. T. Salvage Tug "Henry Kenwick.”: 2,000 LILF. Wireless Call Signal V.P.B.T. and Flag Call Signal T.H.Q.H. Sheorlags capable of lifting 80 tons,
Codes Used: Al, A.B.C. Fifth Edition: Engineering, First and Second Edition Western Union Bentley and Walkins,
Kindly send enquiries to the Chief Managers,
R. M. DYEK, B.SEN LINA. Kowloon Docks, Hongkong.
Agents,
Telephone 28021
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE
Lentes
ŠAILING DATES FOR AUG., 1831 (Subject to Change). . . DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 6.80 p.m., Wuchow 3 pm.
Los Tes Steamer.
Hong Kong TAI-HING MON. TAIMING WED. TAI HING BUN, TAI MING TUES. TAJ HING FRI. TAIMING MON.
Arriven Wachow Hour Kong 17th WED 19th THURS, 2016 FRL › Zist. 19th FRIE
2in1 BAT. 22nd BUN, 29rd 23rd TUES, 25th WED. 26th THURS. 27th 25th THURS. 27th FRLA 28th SAT. 29th 28th GUN..
31st TUES. 31t|WED.
8rd FRL
Wachow
30th MON,
2nd THURA.
Ports of Call-Samshui, Shulbing, Takhing & Doshing. Fares Return (not including meals) $20.00.17 Mens and Wines are to be obtained on board. 120) Hong Kong Arrivals & Departures from Tal Hing Wharf.
For Information apply to a dock
29, Connaught Road, West, SANG WO
Phone 20899.
lat
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1931.
WE'RE GONNA TAKE
YOU TO SEE
PROFESSOR- BEN A FITTS-
YES! HESA.... HYPNOTIST AN' HE'LL SHOW YOU HOW IT'S
DONE FER A HUNDRED BUCKS.
I'LL BET
THES A
FAKE-