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ASAMA MARU
TAIYO MARU
CHICHIBU MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.
Wodnesday, 18th March.
Friday, Wednesday,
24th March.
12th April.
27th March. 10th April.
HIKAWA MARU (starts from Kobe). Monday, HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe)... Wednesday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via
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HAKOZAKI MARU
Saturday,
18th March.
TERUKUNI MARU
HAKUSAN MARU
Friday, Saturday,
31st March. 15th April.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
ATSUTA MARU
Saturday,
KAMO MARU
Saturday,
25th March. 22nd April.
BOMBAY vin Singapore, l'enang, & Colombo.
KAGA MARU
Saturday,
† TOTTORI MARU
Wednesday,
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan,
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NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama,
Friday,
11th March. 15th March.
Honolulu,
10th March.
LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piracus, Genoa
and Valencia.
LYONS MARU
Wednesday,
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
16th March.
† YAMAGATA MARU
Wednesday,
↑ RANGOON MARU
Wednesday,
16th March. 29th March.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKORAMA,
† MORIOKA MARU
Wednesday,
† HAKODATE MARU
Wednesday,
KAMO MARU (Nagasaki direct)
HARUNA MARU
Friday, Friday,
8th March. 8th March. 17th March. 17th March.
+ Cargo only.
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K
SAILINGS FROM BONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
THE CHINA MAIL.
PROGRESS IN MODERN INVENTION
and as they know that vaccination i
AMAZING STRUCTURE OF prevent small pox if appiled in
TECHNICAL ACHIEVMENT
WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS
time. They are planning and try- ing out new suggestions with the weapons provided by science.
"The Lone Dove."
Our wildest guesses of twenty-one years ago were all too modest. No one was bold enough to suggest that a solitary girl could fly over mist- A vivid picture of modern scien- Television is here; it will be no clad mountain and shark-infested tife progress and what the next 20 novelty in 1954. Sitting in your seas in a few "hops" from England years may bring forth in the way armchair, watching a screen artis- to Australia. Not one of UB of revolutionary inventions
wastically set as a panel in the wall thought in 1912 that within twenty- given by Professor Middleton- of your room, you will see and hear one years we should hear in Hong Smith of the Hong Kong Univer- the acts and words of men and Kong the King of England address- sity, in an interesting radio talk women as they are performed and ing the whole world at a microphone last night.
spoken thousands of miles away. in London. Nobody out bere then "It Keeps Going On" thought that there would be an aero- The longer we live the more do For four years, out of the last drome at Kai Tack in 1933. we realise how difficult it is to twenty-one, Europe was stunned We can be sure that the scientific account for actions and events that and mutilated by Armageddon, but developments of the next twenty-one have profoundly influenced our in spite of all that scientific pro-years will be greater, more rapid lives. An appointment missed, an gress continued. Mr. Wells makes and more amazing then those of the accidental meeting, an unexpected one of his Cockney characters say last two decades, because of the new wind-fall-any of these things' may "This 'cre progress keeps going on. knowledge that accumulates in snow- entirely change our environment It's wonderful 'ow it keeps golugball fashion each year. and even our outlook on life. Chance on".
When the power of steam became or fate affects us all.
He said:-
It would be very awkward, indeed manifest, it took about half a cen- It may seem unnecessary to men- it would be the catastrophe of un-tury for it to become known to the tion this in connection with such speakable herror, if it did not keep five continents. But a year or two a trivial affair as my endeavour to going on. It is moving too fast after broadcasting was first demon- entertain you to-night; but I want to stop.
strated a popular song told us that to make it clear that even in this Just at present it seems that cer- "Eskimo Joe" had a new radio- small matter chance appears, for tain powerful sections of the com- time and space mean something I might qulie easily have been in munity cannot keep pace with the different to-day than was the case in Faziand or lying in the depths of progress of mechanisation. There 1912. Everyone may know in 1954 the sea, but my fate was Hong is a sort of traffic block in the what Einstein knows to-day although Kong.
distribution system. The indus- he talks a jargon we cannot as yet Of course my presence here to-trialists in Europe tell the scien- understand. But some one will ex- night is partly due to the fact that tists that they want more of a plain it in simple language and | for nearly forty years I have been metal called gold, so as increase make it all seen very easy,
immersed in the study of new in the speed of distribution; but the
Cold in The Tropica
ment.
All The King's Horses
In years gone by the only power homes. Is it too hot and humid? a man could control was a team of Then turn a switch to-lower the horses or
on
of
ventions, their practical applica-scientists have up-to-date - been Though the steam-clouds men tion and the experiments which are unable to supply the yellow metal and machinery have brought to the sign-post of change and move-in the quantities said to be neces-your homes electricity to give you sary. It has been suggested that light, power and heat. More won- But there was also a casual meet- perhaps after all, it is not gold, but derful still, by the use of heat, men ing, an amusing argument, and ingenuity that is needed. There may and machinery have produced in the sudden challenge made by a hign be diacovered some motive power tropics cold that is cold enough to lol authority, to send out the other than the yellow metal to change water into ice. If you will ideas that follow over the wireless. speed up the wheels of trade. pay for it, any sort of weather can|
It is difficult to resist any appeal
now be manufactured for your which reminds us of the modern ideas about citizenship and our ob- ligations to each other because of
a gang of slaves. To-temperature and aqueeze out the the many advantagea that we enjoy day with one finger he can, in the moisture in the air and live in what! 10th Apr. In this Colony.
fraction of a second, set off a mine experiments
thousands It is the urge of curiousity in that will immediately destroy the humans have convinced us is the thousands and thousands of minda work of a thousand man-years. In zone of health and comfort. Only that has produced the modern ma- an electrical power station there is the wealthy can afford it to-day but chines which have so affected our now concentrated in one machine the morrow is coming when the lives. We cannot escape them-energy more than could be given apparatus will be as common as the they are our fate. The sirplanes, out by 150,000 horses, even if they cold machines you now find is 80 the talkies, wireless and electric were flogged by whip and spur; and many homes in this Colony. power have all grown up out of the steam turbine works on, hour The baby auto has brought health countless actions and thoughts over after hour, úreless and indifferent and pleasure to many thousands- which most of us have had no con- to externals, in a manner unknown shall we have the baby airplane in tral.
in living organisms. That one the near future? Experiments with machine can supply about five gliders make us hopeful of cheap times the biggest demand yet made and private air travel. When all the for electricity by the combined world is on the wing, life will be populations of Hong Kong and very different to our experience to- Kowloon.
date. But nobody doubts that it
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Mon..
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Sun.,
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Sun.,
Amoy (every Sunday)
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9th Mar,
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Amoy (every other Thurs-
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SHIPBUILDERS, SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND
ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERS.
Twenty-one Years Ago
Your air-mull letters reach Lon- don in eleven days. Soon you will be able 'travel to London in less than a week,
To look back over the 21 years since I first thought about Hong Kong, is to ho struck by the enor mous revolution that has taken place in the period. There have A shoe-maker in ancient Rome will come. been amazing changes in material took 6 days to make a pair of things, in manners and customs in shoes. In a modern plant he could political institutions, in scientific make 86 pairs-but for whom? knowledge and in the mechanism It is said that if all of the ma- at man's disposal. In that short chines for making boots and shoes Every Wednesday the giant air- space of time existence for millions were worked at full load to-day planes leave both London and Cape of people has become longer, larger, everyone on the earth could have Town for their flight along the Afri- safer, more varied, more full of six pairs a year! But there are can skyway. The 8,000 mile course hope and choice. There is no ex-millions without any shoes because can be covered at an inclusive cost cuse for being dull in these days. there is not enough money for them of £130. Thus 1932 witnessed a fur- Activity in all around us. There are to pay for them; and the ther conquest of the Dark Contin- interests and recreations unavail- machines are idle men are unem-ent. Africa's formidable interior is able to other generations.
ployed and yet shoes are badly yielding to the new conqueror and We obtain new ideas from broad- needed.
the vast stretches of desert, forest) casting which only a dozen years In agriculture one man can do in swamp and jungles are regularly ago was little more than a acfenti- one hour what it required 3,000 traversed by these argosics of the fie toy. Yet last year (1932) the hours for him to do in 1840. In air. radio stations of the world had an automobile plant a total of 208 potential audience of more than 140 men turn out 10,000 chassis million people. In 1954 radio in the frames per day and 34 miles of home will be as universal as clec- pipe line. tric light.
-DRY DOCK
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OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.
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A more startling illustration is in the Incandescent lamp industry. One man can do to-day as much as It took him 9,000 hours to do so short a time ago as 1914,
These things are all due to the From TRIESTE. VENICE, BRINDISI, PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, substitution of molecular energy
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