THEATRE
i
ROYAL
RETURN ENGAGEMENT FOR A SHORT SEASON
OF
The most Popular Company that ever played in Hongkong.
BANVARDS
AMERICAN MUSICAL COMEDY COMPANY.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, AUGUST
4
ATLANTIC FLIGHT.
NEW WORLD RECORDS.
1
TWO MILES PER MINUTE.
IN À REPERTIORE OF BRAND NEW MUSICAL TREATS. per minute, taking sixteen hen
COMMENCING
THURSDAY EVE-AUGUST 7th."
THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
-AUG 7TH, AUN, STH, SATURDAY, MONDAY..
AUG. 11TH, Aro, PTI. SAT. MATINEE AT 5.15%
TUESDAY,
WEDNESDAY,
Acc. 12th,
Av. 13th,
WED. MATINEE AT 515.
And Presenting
The Breese. Refreshing, Musical Treat
THE KING OF PATAGONIA
The Speedy, Mile--Minute Musical Comedy "STEP LIVELY"
A BIG DOUBLE BILL The Laughing, Musical Mis-up **THE TOURISTS
Add Head-Line Program of VAUDEVILLE"
Bookings now at MOUTRIE'S-Curtain 9 15 p.m.
Prices $3 82. & $1-
i
IMPORTANT
Matinees Sat. & Wed.
[1058
NOTICE.
IN Manufactures the invst Important Point is Improvement, and in Dietetics
Cleanliness. Science always insists on these Maxims, »
Groundnut or Peanut Oil can be used as a substitute for Olive Oil, Butter or Lard, but when Slightly Dirty is injurious to health.
In China, by the Ordinary Methods of Extraction, Dirt and Dust are not guarded against Our Method'shows a great advance By the use of New Machinery and New Methods Scrupulous Cleanliness is Assured.
Our Machinery during the Process Filters the Oil, while our Factory is Free from Dust. Our Off is Clear, Sweet and Fragrant; and Compares most favourably with other Oils used for Culinary purposes: there is no residue.
j
Prices are moderate so as to induce new business.. Analysis is always given before Shipment to Foreign Countries.
NAM CHAU OIL FACTORY, Office:-No: 28, Connaught Road West, HONGKONG. Factory-No. 6, Kwei Lin Street, SAMSHUIPO. This Sole Proprietorship of this concern balungs entirely to a Chinese, Citizen.
1814 TOO YEARS.
ESTABLISHED 1914
JOHN
HADDON
AND CO.
Export and Import Agents
For ONE HUNDRED YEARS' în the CITY OF LONDON we have acted as Buying and Selling Agents for Traders,Storekeepers, Growers of Colonial Produce. Are you requiring the services of London Agents to promote We shall be your interests? pleased to enter into correspond- ence with a view to arranging terms ..to mutual advantage.
·BANK CREDITS ARRANGED. CASH ADVANCED" AGAINST SHIPMENTS.
JOHN
HADDON
AND CO.
Colonial. Merchants and Produce Agents, SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON, EC.
[896
43
[57
-
COUTNE
the distancez qe twelve}
S. K. TSAN & CO. HONGKONG & ́SWATOW.....
1ST,
WHOLESALE AND BETAIL 5]Swatow Drawn Thread Work, Canton Embroidery, Grass. Cloth, Filet, Cluny, Point Crochet Lace and Silk Fancy Goods, etc., etc.
54, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL. HONGKONG.
(1041
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD.,
AND
CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
[BY MAJOR C. C. TNR. 1 In two-thirds of the day a span of twenty-four hours the Atlantic has been crossed by a flying machine. At this time of the year the journey could have been by daylight all the way. Capt. J. Alcock and Lieut. A. W. Brown have rowed the ocean at an average speed of two miles
henry minutes, to cover. exactly 1950 miles between St. John's, F., and Clifden, cu Galway This is a triumph of mechanical fight far sur passing any previous achievement. It beats the previous red-that of the 4-by 25 per cent, and it American was a much finer Bight from the naviga tion standpoint, for the airmen had no chain of mark boats to keep them
their It was Hawker's feat over again, with all the same risks, displaying the same skill and endurance, but happily
That Capt marred by no mishap.
Alcock and Leat. Brown had to learn:
Probable. from Hawker's failure is Doubtless dia
they
"PYRRHUS " possible to prevent radiator the succes
are hereby notified that the Cargo will of the Vickers-Ruila- Rover has certainly increased the con be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kow. fidence" of who
Hane loan, where it will lie at Consignee's methods
handsome the
have Capt.
į rink. The Cargo will be ready for Godowa co sad after Alcock and Licat, Brown in their Vickers delivery from Rolls-Royce an entirely British produc July 30th.
Optional cargo will be landed, unless tion both as to design and workmanship benten the recent America record with the NC ying-boat, that British aviatice has been given prior to steamer's
arrival. tion is completely the first
vindicated. America Europe, and éan claim Credit per to wiser choice of method and route: bus this brilliance of the British achievement, even from the technical point of view, outshines theirs in every respect has that of priority. And the triumph is reflected back to Hawker's failure, which is now seen to have lives so very near success.
of the navigation of
holds the honour
SOUND CHOICE OF WEATHER.
The Vickers machine started at 4. Greenwich time) on Saturday afternoon. The weather reports indicated winds between SW. and N.W. all the way neross, and therefore, if the navigator could keep a fairly straight cour the cruising speed of the machine about 15 mitles per hour would be increased per- haps by as much as an average 20 or 25 per bour These expectations were fully justified; the Vickers maintained' an actual travel Iniles
CONSIGNEES per Company's steamer
"All broken, chaled, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.43 a.m. and noon within the free storage period.
No laims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods, remaining undelivered after August 5th, will be subject to rent.
All Claim against the Steamer man be presented to the undersigned on or before August 19th. or they will not be re- cognised.
No Fire Insurance will be affected:
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agents. Hongkong. July 30th, 1919: $1051
speed of almost exactly 12 ASAHI BEER
The hour The navigation methods employed were the same as those my sucessfully applied. by Com, Mackenzie Grieve and Mr. Hawker. Observations of the sun or stars could be taken to ascertain position, and by that means check the drift caused by otherwise unnoticed change of
wind
A plate-by which the course of the
- relation in any lixed' object
at
possible an estimate of the drift any one moment-although chiefly of us when dying over
land,
Commander this instr with
Mackenzie Grieve bermaking
rent
lay
wave Obviously, it slow-travelling ship would, if allowance, were made for it motion, permit the taking of in-rooght, » observation. How all this answered will be seen from Capt. Alenck's narrative,
PREVIOUS BEST" NON-STOP FLIGHE
Two or
The flight of Capt. "Alcock and Lieut. Brown has created a world's distance re cord and a world's oversea record for Britain. It is not a duration record; but it is the longest flight of an aeroplane driven by engines of great power. three tights of greater duration at: before the wa were with low-power engines in the neighbourhood of the aero drome with everything subordinated to
duration.
MID
MAY 15-25, NC. 4 (United States), dew
from Newfoundland to Lisbon,
May 15-Sopwith-Rolls Royce (Hawker and Grieve), few from St. John's, but compelled to give up by radiator
I
trouble about 1.000 miles out,
MAY 25-Breguet-Renault (Lieut. Etoget), Hew from Paris to Robat, Moraru,
1375 miles in 11 hours 30 minutes. 1916.
Jely 25 and-Liut. Marchal flew from
Nuney to Kavenezu,
1.242 miles.
distance of
MACHINE AND ITS ENGINES.
The Bight is an unqualified triumph
for the machine and its engines. Vickers added an aeroplane department to their mans sided netivities as long ago as the beginning ui They almost immedi-
1917. ately acquired the British rights in the REP., French aeroplane pow solete. They produced a monoplane of somewhat similar design.
They
then produced a a 1nipulum: fif the "
pusher gundu type carrying a single gun in the bows. Later thy acquired the French Breguet biplane, an ali-steel type.
say, they
numerous
They achieved no spectacular successes in the years before the war, but carried out a vast
of experimental work. details, needless to Among their was the late Harold Barnwell, who alsy was a pilot. During
war Vickers has produced a the
a largo series of machines, including a fast single seater scout, and various two-seater
Sight ers, then two-engine Vimy The latter was merely adapted for trans-Atlantic flight, but it has been transformed by the fitting of an entirely new type of body
dy into the Vickers-Rolls- Vickers Vimu with the Rolls
Royce
the
PILSENER BEER
GRAND PRIZES
PANA PACIFIC CYNIOTIKA!
ASAH
DAI NIPPON BREWERY
BEER
SAHI
LAGER BEER
SPECIALLY BREWED
FOR
EXPORT..
COMPANY
JAPAN.
LIMITED.
*
SOLE AGENTS MITSU BUSSAN KAISHA
The Rolls-Royce Eagle" VIH, is an engine of 12 cylinders, set in two rows V. The
wise on the crank-ease. It wrighta 8471b. twa engines each of 373 h.p.) was (about 2b. per hp.).. it runs aurmally altered to give a petrol capacity of 885
at 1,800 revolutions per minute, but can gallons about 5,000lb.) and 30 gallons of
Ku up to 2000. It turns its geared-done &
Kubricating oil. She has a length. Her er minute
of G7 fret, propeller normally at 1,050
and is 42ft. 8in. in uver-all
12
It
hour 23 gallons of at sea level but
top speed near the ground is 110. miles 1 petrol pe rate of consumption decreases
per hour, and at 10,000ft, altitude 50 miles conrue,
per hour. Her cruising speed is about 96 with altitude The Rolls-Royce is an ela-
miles per hour. For the two-engine bomb ing class who has exceptional speed. She weighs, all on, about four tons.
MECHANICAL MIRACLE.
1
veira
burate, piece of work, the development. of man MARY
research and experiment, in which no expense has been spared in week- ing for reliability. Some idea of the The tumph is, if anything, even mechanical miracle involved in."such an greater for the Rolls-Rover engine, it is engine will be gathered from the fact that
ench of the Bagie VIII's in
in the
course of true that mechanical flight is a great the flight across the Atlantic made about scientific achievement alone, but it is 2,000,000 revolutions.
moving up and down of its 12,
in its clander would not have been possible beyond the gliding stage had it not been for the miles. The valves of each engine must be internal combustion engine, which gives opened no fewer than 2,000,000 times. The power with far less weight than was actual amount of work done by each formerly possible,
engine may be expressed as equivalent to (Continued at foot of next column.) 4,000,000 foot tons-Daily Telegraph.
dependent upon motive power, and it sted a total distance of about 400
1919.
LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE
CIGARS AND CHEROOTS
made from selected and perfectly matured
leaves of tobacco
in
MANILA-
Cigars and Cheroots of all sizes can be
obtained from all local stores.
SOLE AGENT:
TABAQUERIA FILIPINA,
15, Wyndham Street,
HONGKONG.
MOTOR BOATS
built under European supervision with the very best materials, and fitted with the following reliable Motors. CAILLE-PEERLESS-SCRIPPS.
ALEX. ROSS & CO.,
4. Des Voeux Road Central-Phone 2487.
"1-2, Canton Road, Kowloon-Phone K11.
+
OSRAM
FIETSETE TAULUTLUM
THIS IS THE BRITISH LAMP
The OSRAM Lamp that bears the initials G.E.C. is a product of Britain- the outcome of British commercial enter. prise,industrial skill and untiring research. The tungsten for the wire comes from Australia. The glass for the bulb is blown in Newcastle: The Lamp itself is made in London-made by the General- Electric Company, Ltd., one of the great- est of all British Industrial enterprises.
A WARNING.
It is possible that, after the straw: af Peace,"Daramı” lamki of fertige manufacture may be offered for sale in this country. Remember that it is only OSRAM LAMPS brating the initial G.EL. which are of genuine British mannjuctura, Look for the insisals G.E,C. on every Lamp
you bay,
Osram
G.E.C
Obiainalis from all leent Finetririmis, Stores and IronmemorLÍ.
Adner of the General Electrioni Ca. al Calze, Ltd.-Z, Quez's Buildinge, Houthout-
[769
$1005