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P. & O. 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.)
8.8.
Toni
FYOM Boar Koer About
*MIRZAPORE
5,700
1932. 6th Jan.
KARMALA CHITRAL +KASHMIR NALDERA **SOUDAN
9,000
15,000
CARTHAGE
RAJPUTANA
1 BURDWAN
CORFU
RANPURA
10 a.m. 16th Jan.
30th Jaa. 9,000 13th Feb. 16,000 27th Fab. 6,800 5th Mar.
Destination
Straits, Colombo & Bombay.
M'agilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. M'neilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London, Havra, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Anwerp & Hull. 16,000 12th Маг. Marseilles
& London. 17,000 20th Mar. Marnefiles London.
0,500 2nd Apr. Bombay. Marseilles, London, Havre,
& London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay. Marselles & London. May Bombay. Marsailles & London. Marseilles & London. London.
THE
SECRET INFORMATIO
The Destroyers Leave the Forth.
CHINA
MAIL.
Bur
"There y'are! What did I tall] There is a loud, knock at her you?" asks Able-Seaman Bramble door. The house has been as black smoke begins to creep rounded in answer to a telephone slowly from the cold funnels of the call from Edinburgh. The "old first group of detroyers which Cap-lady's" Edinburgh friend was ar tain "D" visited. "What d'you rested an hour before, and visits make o' that, cookay?”
are now being paid to the various It is war! Long, grey, ghost-like meditatively, leaning out of
"Only smoko, replies the cook people who rang her up when the shapes lie out in the stream. They galley.
fleet was sailing. are the battle cruisers and their makes smoke meself." lights are haloed in the mist. No
"Often makes smoke.
his
I
and bacon we 'ad for supper last
night."
A boatswain's pipe shrills and everyone listens.
bawis a voice.
"Canteen Liberty-men fall fa---["
"Smoke right ahead!" shouts
Able Seaman Bramble who is the
It is a German destroyer flotilla. Singals fash, the alarm is given and the waiting gun crews come russing up.
movement in the air ruffles the you didn't half smoke them egza lowing morning.
"You does!" agrees Bramble. lookout at eight o'clock on the fol- swirling waters of the Forth as they ebb into the still North Sea.
"Just the weather for the 'Una!" declares Able-Seaman Bramble. "You mark my words. We'll 'ave a go at 'em yet." To give point to his assertion he spits into the har- bour, a privilege only to be enjoy ed from the "outside boat" of each group of destroyers lying at the jettles..
Near the galley stands the cook. He too has heard, and is looking "There" triumphs the cook. "If up we was goin' out there wouldn't be makes an offensive gesture at him. at Bramble who grins and
no canteen leaf."
-Nigel Lee in The Navy.
Groups of men assemble on the Someone starts a gramophone a They propose visiting the canteen
quarter-decka of the destroyers. STEAMERS MOVEMENTS. present from an old lady in the to enjoy what entertainment the of a destroyer at the opposite jetty. from monotony and they will re- January 4 (Mon.) at 9.80 a.m., left neighbourhood—on the mess deck place affords a temporary escape Asia arrived at Yokohama on The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of The "tinny" notes from its well-turn as usual before six-thirty. worn record The Bing Boys are
Yokohama on January 4 (Mon.) at "What time's slack water, Mate?" 4 p.m., and is due at Hong Kong mellowed as they travel across the Bramble aska another man as they on January 11 (Mon.), at 7 a.m. water through the cold air of the walk along the jetty together. winter's afternoon? The sound of
She leaves Hong Kong for Manila a distant train is heard, and its the speaker is an authority upon
"About seven-thirty, I reckon," on January 11 (Mon.) at 6 p.m. lights twinkle past the massive such matters because he is the Japan arrived at Shanghai on The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of girders of the Forth Bridge which navigating officer's chief quarter- January 4 (Mon.) at 9 a.m., left rear themselves high above the harbour. The engine is surmount-
Shanghai on January 5 (Tues.) at Bramble looks down at his des- 5.30 a.m., and is due at Kobe on ed by a golden plume where the troyer and sees a "steaming watch" January 7 (Thurs.) at 5 am. She glare from its furnace strikes the of stokers going down the smoke. It is a pretty sight up in held hatchways.
stoke-leaves Kobe on January 7 (Thurs.) He also notices at 3 p.m., and Yokohama for Van- the sky, and always entertains the that smoke has begun to issue from couver crews of the destroyers, who are the centre funnel.
on January 9 (Sat.) at 3 The cook is p.m. wearied by the monotony of war. leaning on the galley door and
Who is in the motor-boat which Bramble hails 'him:
The P.&O. 8.a. Mirzapore left Shanghai for this port on January enters Port Edgar so fast?
"Ere, Cookey, raise steam for 1 at 8 a.m., and is dus here on "Captain D isn't it?" asks
two 'add boiled eggs by a'past January 5 at about 8 2.10. seaman, becoming alert. "What's seven. Don't smoke 'em or the
'e up to?"
master.
Germans 'I smell it," he adds, HONG KONG TIDES. As the boat reaches the gangway grinning at the smoke-enshrouded: swain ringa thrice-the signal to of the nearest, destroyer, the cox-Botilla.
The time used le Standard, or mean An intensely respectable old lady time of the meridian of 120 deg. E.;. "go astern." White foam is churn-also sees the smoke and Is not de-puh. midnight, 12hrs.
in noon. The ed noisily by the propeller. stern-sheetman throws out his boat comin ashore to the canteen. She the place and should be added to the The ceived by the fact that men heights are referred to the datum of are the largest scale Admiralty chart of
to. Rotterdam
& Antwerp.hook, hooks the destroyer's rail rings up an equally respectable depths given on the chart andera per {
RAWALPINDI
CHITRAL
15,000 9th 17,000 23rd Apr. 17,000. 7th 15.000 21st
Apr.
May
RANCHI
17,000 4th
NALDERA
Jule
June
Bombay, Marles &
16,000 18th
June
Bemba
Bombay, Marseillos
RAJPUTANA
MANTUA
2nd 10th
July 30th
17,000
London. 11,000
London. Marseilles & London. RAWALPINDI 17,000 18th
Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & Londen. RANPURA
17,000 27th
Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. MALWA
11,000 10th Sept Bombay, Marseilles & London.
July
July
Bombay, Marseilles
Bombay, Marseilles
Bombay,
KAISAR-I-HINDI 12.000
boat
January 6 to 11, 1982.
Date
High Water Low Water Standard Ht. Standard Ht.
Times.
Times. Jan. H. M. F. H. M. F.
5. 08
01 42 1.7 19 4.3 13 05 7.2 12 18 8.. 09 45 4.4 02 40
7. 10 3D
with a click, and holds the motor-friend in Edinburgh, with whom ceded by an asterisk (*), when they alongside. Captain "D" she holds a statistical conversation should be subtracted from the depths., quickly climbs the destroyer's hang upon various innocent topics. ing ladder. His news is secret. When the destroyers put to sen Enemy spies are not lacking a seven-thirty that evening, they round fleet bases, and each time are followed in turn by the cruisers the ships go out strange telegrams and battle-cruisers. The ships are couched in terms of commerce go counted carefully by the old lady to some neutral country for trans-who acrutinises them through an Tues
• Cargo only. Calla Casablanca. Calls Djibouti.
mission to Germany. It is impor-efficient pair of marine
night Wed. taat, therefore, that no one shall glasses. Then, she picks up a tele Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Cot-know the hour at which the fleet phone receiver and again asks for Thurs. stan.nople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the
will sail, or what will be their ob- the Bhedival Mail Steamship Co.
number of her Edinburgh jcctive. All sorts of precautions friend. The exchange has some
Fri. are taken to preserve secrecy, ships; difficulty in making the connection. Sat. even make smoke at arranged times and asks for certain details about to simulate the appearance of rais-the speaker. At first the old lady Sun. ing steam, thereby given false is annoyed by the delay; then she alaruma.
becomes alarmed.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1932.
SANTHIA TALMA
8,000 8th Jan. 10,000
22nd Jan. 8,000 th Feb.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
TALAMBA
As Captain "D" visits each group of destroyers, their commanding officers meet him. To avoid signal- ling such accret' matters he has
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for lat come personally to tell them the and 2nd class passengers.
hour of sailing. He gives them times, speeda, bearings, distances, crulaing diagrams, and the expect
the German light forces at 8-0 a.m. on the following morning.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). cd position of
NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
We too have our aples, but if the Manila,
Rabeul. Brisbane, Sydney Information they sent from Ger- 4 Melbourne.
many should become public, they would soon be rounded up.
1932 7,000 30th Jan. 7.000
4th Mar. 7,000 2nd Apr.
Regular monthly anilings from
Hong Kong to Shanghal and Japan
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-10 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 8.8. Company's steam or to the United Kingdom vis New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, te
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London viz Susz. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Cana L
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
*KALYAN
"ALIPORE
TALAMBA
KASHMIR BOUDAN
NALDERA TANDA CARTHAGE BURDWAN
RAWALPINDI $80MALI RANPURA
1932. 9,000 í 10th Jan Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 5,800 18th Jan. Shanghai, Moji & Kobe. 8,000 15th Jan. Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Y'hama. 2,000
16th Jan. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. 6,800 26th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, 18,000 29th
Robe & Yokohama. Sara Moji, Kobe Yokohama. Fob. Shan, Kobe 4 Yokohama
Shang Kobe &
7,000 -18.000
8,500
Jan. ShangZA{"
Feb.
Feb.
12th Hist 12.000 28th
& Yokohama. 18,000 11th Mar.
Kobe & Yokohama. 17.000 24th Mar
Mar. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 8,800 5th Apr. Shangkal, Kobe & 17.000
Apr. 16,000 21st Apr,
8.800 28th 17,000 16,000 19th
Sharp Kobs & Yokoham
&
Kobe & Yokohama.
Lush Robe
May ghal, Kobe & Yokoham
Mon.
19 60 7.7 18 01
20 84 8.1 8. 11 10 4.6
21 15 8.4 9. 11 47 4.7 21 58 8.4 10. 12 24 4.8 22 86 8.3 11 18 00 4.8 28 14 7.8
04 45 15 08 3.8 05 25 0.8
15 49 8.9
06 01 1.0 18 30 4.0
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Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.
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NALDERA
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tur arm.
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P
May Shanghai, Moll, Kobe
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1 Dock. Dimensions:-866′0′′; 0.A. 188P' T45′6′′ Mid. 26,000 tons Grees. The Company possesses She Granite Docks and Two Patent Slipways.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1932.
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期
Jan. 5
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Feb. 6
£79 £112 £120 Special through rates to Europe vis
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**
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Leaves
Hong Kon
TAIMING TUES. TAI HING THURS. TAI MING MON," TAI HING WED
Arrives Wackow
| 5th{THURS. - 7th | FRL. 7th SAT... #th{SUN 11th WED.... 18th (THURS, 13th FRI,
Arriven
Wachow
TAIMING SAT
TAI HING TUES.
8th SAT. 10th/MON. Fath FEL 15th SAT. ......18th [8UN. 18th MON. 18th TUES, 19th WED. 18th THURS. ZIS FEL --22ød | SAT.
11th ∙15th:
17th
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25th
TAI HING MON.
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TAI MING THURS. 21st SAT. 23rd SUN. 24th MON
251 WED. 27 THURS. 281 PRI
29 SAT: 30th SUN:
TAI MING WED.
TAI HING BAT
27th FRI.
30th MON, 1 TUES. 2nd WKD. of Call Samahal, Shothing, Takhing & Doshing Vares Return: (not including / meals): $20,000 MOUT *Meals and Wiosenna: toy be obtained, on-board.
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