TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1932.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
.
THE CHINA MAIL
NOVEL THRILLS FOR GLOBETROTTERS
Sailing Ship Owners Take Passengers.
"WINDJAMMER TOURS"
Johannesburg, August 19.
Travel by Windjammer!" is the latest slogan among the Towhers of salling-ships and the globetrotter: to and from South Africa, will be- fore long be able to travel by this romantic kind of vessel...
Captain Gustaf Erikson, a well- known nautical magnate at Hel- singfors, Finland, some time, zgo
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).decided to carry a certain number
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES," MAURITIUS, BAST 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 HM. Government.)
1.8.
Toma
ĦALWA.
RANCHI
"MIRZAPORE
CARTHAGE
**SOMALI
NALDERA
RAJPUTANA
*BANGALORE. CORFU COMORIN **BHUTAN
RANPURA "KAISAR-1-HIND
Cargo only.
From Hoa Soar About
1982 11,000 10th Sept.
Noon 17,000 24th Sept: 8,700 6th Oct
· 14,000 9th Oct
3.800 15th Oct.
16,000
·17,000:
22nd Oct. 5th Nov. 6.500 12th Nov: 15,000 19th Nov. 15,000 3rd Dec. 8.000 10th Dec.
17.000 17th Die. 12,000 31st Dec.
Calls Corablanca.
Dantination;
Bombay, Marseilles & London..
Marseilles & London."
Straits, Colombo & Bombay, Bombay Marseilles & Londen. Marseilles, London: Havre, Hamburg
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marsailles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, London, Har
Eburg, 'tordam, Antwerp & Knit Bombay, Marsellies & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. -.. Bombay, M'sailles, L'don, Havre,
H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Hal Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay. Marsailles & London..
Frequent connection from Port 8d for Passengers and Cargo to Con stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and oth Levant Ports by" steamers of the Khedivial Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
*TAKADA SIRDHANA
TILAWA
1932.
7,000 15th Sept. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.. 8,000 28th Sept.Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, 10,000 15th Oct. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
*Calls Rangoon,
B.I. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.
of "Landlubbers as passengers in his, fleet. The trial has been so successful and the number of people attracted by this mixture of excite- ment and cheapness so considerable, that he has decided to extend the number of such- voyages avaliable to include Northern and Southern Africa, Australia and the West Coast of America. -
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
Mail can now be forwarded to Europe via Siberia.
"SAIGON-MARSEILLES AIR MAIL SERVICES.
-Latters will be accepted for transmission by the above-mention- ed Air Mill Service to the destinations specified. Begistered letters may be sent by the service but not insured letters.
The rates charged will be the regular postage rate plus the special air mail premium ma fmifcated in the following table
Destination
Air
Salgon/Marseilles,
Siam (Bangkok) Burma (Rangoon) Persia (Djask) Persia (Bushire). Iraq (Bagdad)," Falestine (Beyrouth)
PRESIDINI JINER
SAILINGS
Weekly Sallings Transpacific
Charge
· Exta per 3⁄41⁄2 ounce
Mail Servica
20.26
*0.25
0.75
$0.85€
TO SAN FRANCISCO, EOS
-0.05
ANGELES & NEW YORK
1.05
+1.20
vin PANAMA
Italy (Naples)
1,35
France (Marseilles)
1.35
Great Britain and Irish Free State.
(London)
Pres. Lincoln
Pres. Coolidge
1:85
Europe, other countries (Marseilles for
onward transmission by rail)
1.35
Greece (Athens).
The air mail for each country will be landed at the place nami-
Although the provision of ac-ed in brackets. commodation (and suitable kitchen-
The Air Mall Service from Saigon to Europe is weekly. The Hong arrangements for passengers is Kong-Saigon connection will be maintained by the regular fortnightly subsidiary to the main purpose of sailing of the French mail steamers and on alternate weeks by any the clipper, which is to carry available steamers that can make the connection at Salgon.
Latters for this route should be marked "Saigon-Marseilles Air freight, it is learnt that no fewer than 19 would-be voyagers applied Service" and handed in at the GP.O. or Kowloon Post Offer. to Captain Erikson's agents in London for berths when the news Letters and postcards for Europe and South America are forward- ed "via Siberia" if so superscribed. became known.
Included among the ships that
take know
passengers are the famous Herzogin Cecilie which has won sailing races from Australia on several occasions; also the vessels Paamir and Viking.
The New Conditions."
The trouble about travelling by clipper is that such vessels do not. follow fixed schedules, as a steamer does Times for the voyages are to-day much less than they were in the days of our grandfathers."
This is not principally, due to metal hulls or better seamanship although the use of steel and similar improvements have had an influence-but rather because of superior meteorological knowledge.
INWARD MAILS."
TUESDAY, Shanghai and Swatow ... Calcutta and Straits...
SEPTEMBER
Kiungchow ¡Sirdbana 7.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Europe via Suez (Letters and Papers) Lon-
dón, August 11 add Parcels, August 4..Carthage Straits Shangha! Manila
Novara ..Gange
„Empress of Asia
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9
Japan and Shanghai U.S.A. Canada, Japan & Shanghai (Seattle,
.President Madison Aug. 20)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12.
Shinyo Maru Japan and Shanghai
...Malwa...
OUTWARD MAILS.
TUESDAY,
Every Windjammer" to-day car- ries. a radio and can thus get! advance news of storms, of wind currents and other priceless data which was hidden from the "old-Swatow, Amoy and Foochow
Manila timer." The voyage to the Cape from Europe, formerly a matter of 80 or 90 days is now often down Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu U.S.A., *Canada, Central and South. in 60 or less. The same applies to.
America and Europe via, San other routes.
Francisco
"PRESIDENT DOUMER" TO BE LAUNCHED SOON.
New Super-Liner Nears Completion.
Paris, Aug. 10. "President Doumer" is to be the
name of the new French super-liner of the "Ile de France" type, which
Swatow
WEDNESDAY,
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius,. E. & S.Africa, Egypt & Europe via Brindisi,
SEPTEMBER
Hal: Ching President Lincol Sandviken
p.m. 4.80 p.m.
5. p.30.
Asama Maru [Due San Francisco Sept. 28.) Registrations Sept. 6, 5 p.m. Letters..... Sept. 7, 8.80 a.m. SEPTEMBER
Gange
K.P.O.
Registration Letters
Sept. 7, 3 p.m. .4 p.m.
THURSDAY,
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). is now being built at St. Nazaire. Amoy
NANKIN
NELLORE TANDA
1934.
7,000* 1st Oct. 7,000. 2nd Nov.
7,000 2nd Dee:
Regular monthly sailings fron
and Hong Kong to Australia, S
Hong Kong to Sydney—19; days.
In spite of all the controversies and delays over her construction, it is Hoihow and Bangkok hoped that she may be launched on Straits and Calcutta Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney. October 29, and make her maiden
Melbourne.
voyage from Havre to New York in the Summer of 1984. ".
Her total length is 1,017 "et;
Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan beam 115 feet, and is fitted with
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New
Mealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The F.&O. Royal Mail Steame to London and
The P. O. Branch Barrice of steamers to Londos vis
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.
jengines developing,160,000 H.P.
Amoy
8.
SEATFLE
VICTORIA
Fortnithtly sailings on Tuesdays, Fortnightly saliings on Satan
Pres. Wilson
Sept 13 Pres. Madison
Sept. 27 Pres. Cleveland
Oct 11 Pro. Talt":
ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE & AMERICA Special through rates to Europe via United States Direct. connections with all Atlantie lines. Chofesor rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop ove privi- leges for sight-seeing. Full particulars upon application.
Fortnightly via Suer to Europe & America
Fortnightly sailings on Sundays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Bombay Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Geno
Marsalf, New York and Boston.
Pres. Van Buren Pres. Garfeld
Sept. 16 Prem. Polic
Oct Pres. Adams
TO MANILA
Next Sailing, Pres. Lincoln Sept. 6, 6 p.m.
.Sept. 10 Fren. Coolidge ove
Sept. 18. Fras, Cleveland
Pres. Madison
Sept. 20 Pren Van Buren
Sept. 24 CONNECTING WITH S.S. MAYON TO CEBU, ILOILO,
ZAMBOANGA.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
ANTON BRAND
BARBER
LINE
WILHELMSEN
(Due Brindisi, Sept. 29.) G.P.O. Registration Sept. 7,3.45 p.m. 4.80 p.m. Letters Tai Yuan
8,80 p. SEPTEMBER
10:30a.m.
Sept. 8, Noon Sept. 8; 1 p.m.
·8.80 pim.**
Kwelyang
Kutsang
Parcels
EXPRESS SERVICE TO NEW YORK
Via
SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES,
_____ PANAMA.
NEXT SAILING.
M.V. TORONTO"
on 18th SEPTEMBER.
ALL VESSELS HAVE EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION
FOR 12 PASSENGERS:25
Letters
Kingyuan
Superscribed Correspondence only.-_-_-
THE HONGKONG & & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.,
HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS:
HONE"KONGL
KOWLOON HONG KONG
DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MAHINE ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS
"FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECT
NDERS
Hong Kon
Kong to Lo Hong Kong to Now
FOR FREIGHT AND PASSENGER INFORMATI
APFEY TO
DODWELL & CO. LTD
Telephone 280217
NANKIN
*NOVARA
SIRDHANA CARTHAGE NALDERA
1932. 7,000 6th, Sept. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama,
p.m. 7,000 8th Sept. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
On Lloyds
CORFUME BHUTAN COMORIN RANPURA *SOUDAN MALWA
TAISAR-L-HIND FRANCHISM- *BURDWAN: CARTHAGE"
8,000 8th Sept. 14,000 8th-Bept. 16,000 82nd Sept. 6,800, 25th Sept. 6,500 4th Oct. 1 £17,000 7th Oct
15,000 21st Oct 6,000 30th Ock 15,000 4th Nor 17.000 1815 Nov. 8,800 2601 NoT. 11,000 28th Nor
Amoy, Moji, Osaka & Kebe. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama: Shanghai, Moil, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
ughal Kobe Yokohama. ghai, Kobe & Tokohama. hal Kobe Yokohama.
1. Kobe *
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