THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, JULY 25TH, 1924
HUGE WIRELESS STATION,
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD BREMEN CONSTRICTION WORK SOUTH OF
FAR EASTERN PASSENGER AND
STEAMERS:
•ACCOMMODATION FOR T
CABIN CLASS AND 120 INTERMEDIATE Class
- PANSENGARN,
"SCHLESIEN
"AACHEN."
TRIER
FREIGHT SERVICE.
NEXT SAILINGS:
HONGONG TO: GENDA, ANTWERP. ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, AND BREMEN VA MANILA, SING SPORĖ, Betws, COLOMBO AND Peer said.
ARHIVARE FONGKONG
SAILINGS PAC
*ND
SAILING PER
SHANGHAI AND JAPAN.
-ELBERFELD
“COBLENZ "
"FFALZ
27th July
26th August
14th September
With Detailer
10th November
11th Decentr
"DERFFLINGERTM
** SAÄRBRUEČKENT
***TRIER"
** FULDA
Talmost C. 4557.
3, QUEEN'S BUILDING,
CHATER RÅD
Bal January, 199
2nd February,
1st March
20 March
**
10th September
11th October
18th, elle
ith Savenber
1th Dece
17th Jannury, 192
4th Velenary
th March
5th Ap
and May
For Freight and Passage, 'piens apply to-
MELCHERS & CO.,
AGENTS,
HONGKONG.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN
LIJN.
York Building
Hängkong:
Tél Address D
JAVALYN.
Tel Central 1571
REGULAR FORTNIGHT SERVICE BETWEEN JAVĀ, CHINA AND JAPAN,
STIANZAS
From
EXPECTED ON, OR ABOUT
WILL LEAVE ON OR ABOUT!
TJIBODAS
SHANGHAI
in pert
TJIKANDI
JAVA
25th July 28th
11
TJISONDARI ...
JAVA
29th
TILIWONG
TIKEMBANG
TJISALAK
TJITAROEM
TJIMANOEK
JAVA BRANQIAL S-MAR JAPAN ΒΑΤΑΝΙΑ
24th July
Both
nil
7th Ang.
17th-
80 8th
13th
Wireless Telegraphy.
Jri Aug.
For
MAKASSAB & SOBBADATA JAPAN SHANGHAI
Amor & SHANGHAL
BATAVIA
YOBORAMA
BATAVIA
SHANGHAI
The steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light, and have accommodation for a limited number of salcon Passengers. All steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at through mats to all port in Netherlands India and Australia.
For Partieners of Freight and Fassage, apply to the
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
HOLLAND EAST ASIA LINE
of the United Netherlands Navigation Company.
Regular Four-weekly Service between
Japan, Vladivostock, China, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore
and
Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Bremen and North Continental Ports.
OLDEKERK "BOETON
BOETON
BOEROE
OOSTKERK
J.
SAILINGS FOR EUROPË:
From Hongkong
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ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE: Die Hongkang
All Steamers have a Limited Accommodation for Pasengers, For Freight, Fange and further Particulars, Please Apply to
Telephone Central No. 1574.
13th August Mid ile of September
29th July 26th August 23rd September
JAVA CHINA- JAPAN LYN,
Agents.
York Building,
The Bird-like Strut of her Silkened Legs The Brazen Lure of her Stencilled Face- The Seductive Spell of her Lithe, Young Body- Selling her Ankles and her Soul for What?
SEE
ALIMONY
At the WORLD THEATRE, To-day.
་༔
RUGBY.
*
The little wayside station of Kilsby and Crick, a few milles south of Rugby, on the London. Midland and Scottish Railway. bulks largely in the melight these days for it is there, that all the material for the largest and most powerful wireless station in the world. How in course of erection at Hillmorton, is being delivered.
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL
STEAM NAVIGATION CO
STEAMER FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO AND BOMBAY, THROUGH BILLS UP LADING ISSUED FOR EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN AND CONTINENTAL PORTS AND LONDON
THE Steamship
*JEYPORE**
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
MANILA
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
BANGKOK via SWATOW .....
RAIPBONG vis BOTROW TSINGTAO via SWATOW & TEEN GAL
SHANGHAI
TIENTSIN
YUENSANG'
HANGSANG
"MINGSANG*
"WAISHING*
"CHIPSHING"
*HOSANG*
FOOSHING"
***
MAUSANG
EAIFEONG và HOLFOW.
SUISANG
STRAITS & CALCUTTA ... KOBE
LEESANG
FOORSANG
KUTSANG
STRANTE
A CALCUTTA SHANGHAI via SWATUW... SANDAKAN
MANILA vis AMOT
Saturday,
Monday, Tuesday,
goth. July, 11 auto 28th July, 5 p 29th July, 7m.
Wednesday, 30th July.10. Wednesday, 30th July, Noam, ...Wednesday, 30th July, 3 pm Ist Aug, 10am.
Friday ...Friday.
Saturday,
Sunday,
1st Aug 2nd Aug,&pe 3rd Augo? 5th Aug,, 3p.m.
7.
15th Aug. 7
The great aerial-1 miles long and
carrying His Majesty's Malls, will de despatch. half-a-mile wide will be supported out from this Port at: Noos, on WHEN ES. 12, steel masts, each 520 it high, or more DAY, the Jr, taking Carge for the than twice the height of St. Paul's There!
above Ports. are 300 tons of steel work in each mast,
Silk a
and Valuable Carry
for Laly, France and the London, Midland and Scottish and London (under arrangenuent) will be con- Railway Company, who are responsible eyed by this Steamer proceding to Bombay for the transport of the material, have anil taste transhipped to the on-carrying | OALOUTTA LINE-This Line now affords regalar sailings to Calcutta, Penang and
make special trak arrangements for Steamer for Marseilles and London. their onveyance. The sections of the ast dre so huge as to be out of gauge on the railway, so they have to be trans ported on Sundays or at rights, with the adjoining tracks blocked to other train traffic. Inside the masts lifts to hoki four nen will be installed."
The wireless station is to be under the control of the Government, and it will he capable of maintaining commünication with the remotest corners of the earth. Several of the masts, are already in place on the 050-acre site of the station, and, section by section, are rising skywards. It is hoped that it will be possible to Begin a wireless service from the station by the end of the year.
Power for the wireless station will be obtained from a three-phase public supply generated by motors arranged to give a high tension direct current output of 1,000 kilowatts at any voltage between 4,000 and 15,500.
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A NOTABLE SHIP SALYAGE. THE ** GLENAMÓN."
Parcels will be received at the Office until 5 .. on the Day previous in Sailing, The contents and alue of all packages must be declared.
For further Particniars, Apply "to-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.. (1076 Hongkong, 2nd July, 1924,
J
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S.S.YANG-TSZ.""
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
NOTICE.
SHANGHAI
Singapore returning from Calcetta atoomers proceed via Strait
and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai
All
steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, an Afted with Wireless and carry a fully-qualified Surgeon. LINE-Sailings approximately every three days between Canton and Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow. Through tickets can be obtained and thronga Bill of Lading ara isened to all Northern and Yangtze Porta v Shanghai. LINEA weekly service is maintained with Manila by vessels with good passenger accommodation, sailings from both ports every Saturday, BAIPHONG LINE Sailings approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling ni
BORNEQ
MANILA
ONSIGNEES of Carro from ANTWERP TIENTSIN
LONDON, MANCHESTER, .. a connection with Above Steamer.
with BANGKOK hereby informed that their fools the
670
Treasure Bed
exception of: Opin and stored at
Valuables are lesing their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Gedown Co., L Kowloos, where delivery may in obtained immalistely after landing.
Bills et fading will be countersigned, by the Undersigned, Gools remaining anclaimed after the instant, at Noos, will be subject to Reat and Landing Charies
"
All Claims must be sent in to me on or before. the th instant, wor they will not be recognized
R. RODENTUSER,
Acting Agent Finngkong. 19th July, 1924.
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. Fi
OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD. „
AND
Commercial Notes in the Times, of j June 14th contain the following reference
All damagal packages will be examined an to the salving of the Glennanny:—Lloyd's Friday, the 27th instant, at 10 am, by ngout “at Shanghai telegraphs that the Mess, Godard & Douglas, British liner Genamng, which strandede Fire Insurance has been effected. on Wilo Island na May 12th, has been refloated and has praefedel to Chisam for inspretion. The salvage is a notable on because the valus involved are large, and at one time the prospect of salving the whole of the vessel was 0. sidered to be "unfavourable. The file- amdy, of 7.200 tons, vidued at £180,000. went ashore, while bound from London | CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION and Hongkong for Yokohama with a general cargo. which was estimated on a moderate basis to worth, well over £150,000. At first, 6 per cent. was quet- ed for reinsurance: Later a report was received from authorities on the spot to the feet that the only way of saving the audanaged portion of the liner would be to cut through the stem Forward of No. buckbend, and to abandon the fore part. This course was not, however, found, neessary, and the ship has bee22 Before news of the refloated as a whole, successful salvage as carried. 25 Cent was quoted for reinsurance,
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VARIOUSLY INTERPRETED
· MONSOON, Nothing, observes the Calcutta English
, is more puzzling to the average person at this time of the year than the old, old quarrel as to whether the mon- soon is with us or not. The quarrel is really over a definition of the tenn. To the sean high winds" and "heavy seas continuing for. prolonged periods con. stitute the monsoon; to the argiculturists the monsoon means rain: the land, lubber with no concern of agriculture is content to dub the season the nonsoon if there be heavy clouds, coolness, wind and mois ture. Though he would probably describe it as a failure if there were not consider-
M able precipitation of rain.
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in etual point of fact, however, is simply a corruption of the Arabic word mansim which means season and nothing eles. Therefore, strictly, the term soon "is meaningless if not qualified. "Monsoon rains or. "monsoon winds" the JT! intelligible enough, but to Beirntific mind-and in the case of the weather we are all at the mercy of the scientific'mind-" monsoon" might mean Thu any of a number of conditions. matter is further complicated by, the use of the term Garut (Hindustani: rain), from which another corruption has arisen,, the "burst" of the monsoon. We cannos very well use the Hindustani bursat in jextaposition with the Arabic mousin, though the meaning of the two combined, rain season," is "just what we want to get at, and so we have to fall back on the inadequate and var
W zonsoon. iously interpreted
100 PER CENT. AMERICAN. From the quila. Times of July 17th: Yesterday our otensional contrilmtor, Corp. Bull, commemorated the rainy season, in a few chasie verses, in which he rhymed wet with caliaret." The Times 10-day recrived innumerable teleplane calls, challenging the corporal's pronunciation of cabaret," which it для asseverated, should are bech cabaray." Possibly these purists are Pighi, bt we are inclined to gide with our non-commissioned" poct. Ever since we heard an estudiante tell how a friend of his drove a Chevrolet from the cabaret to the chalet we have been con vinced that the English language is com- petent to meet any two foreign lang uages and lick them, single handed. Be- gidės, to be consistent, if one cabaray, who not say toiley or cigaray? Years ago in the States one sometimes heard of but rarely saw) a "vallay." To-day, however, British usage has been adopted, and a valet is very properly a val-ct.
Rayz
We need no exclusion law again
inst alico expressions. We can assimilate them easily
CO. LTD.
ONSIGNEES per Company's Stamer.
CONSIGNSTROLLUS
are hereby notified that the Cargo will be di charged into Bolt's Wharf, Kowloon, where it. will lie at Cousignees risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf, The Cargo will be ready for delivery
23ml Joly from fiodown on and after
Optional Care will be landed, unless Notice has been given prior to Steamer's arrival.
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be
zamired on any Tuesdays anil Fridays between. the hours of 10.46 A. and Noos within the free storage
No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 29th July, wil be subject to Rent.
All Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before the 12th Angust, or they will not be recognised.
No Fire Insurance will be effected
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
·Agents,
[1060 Hongkong, 22nd July, 1924,
THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.
THERAPION NO. 1 THERAPION No. 2 THERAPION NO.3
Bo.1 for bladder Gasaren. Xo.1 tar Blood &. Ezin piscasas. He for Chronia W saŽO CELLS. LOLD TY
CHEMISTS,PRICE IN ENGLAND,SA YORK CITE CR MAIL FROM 20, 1 GRE, FIRST STERET, BAE PILICHOU
At 11 am.
Heihow both ways
LINE-Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 tom
steamers, 1.9. HINSANG" and a "MAUSANG" both steama
Cargo taken on haring excellent passenger accommodation.
Bill of Lading for Endat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tano and through Labad Data
LINEA regular service is run from March to November between Harg
kong and Tientsin, occasionally calling at Weihaiwet and Chefoo LINEA weekly service is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok vis Swatow by five steamers fitted with up-to-date passenger accom. modation.
CALCUTTA LINE
8.8 "HOSANG" will be despatched on or about Wednesday, 30th July, 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA.
Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, MADRAS, PORT SWETTENHAM and DUTCH EAST INDIES.
For Freight or Passage apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
THOM NO. CENTRAL 215.
GLEN
GENERAL MANAGERS.
AND
SHIRE
JOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS.
U.K.-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SERVING
|"
OUTWARDS.
Vessel. "PEMBROKESHIRE,
GLENIFFER "GLENOGLE”
Due Hongkong Vessel
6th Aug.
20th Aug.
3rd Sept
HOMEWARDS.
***Leave Ekung. Discharges.
... 19th Ang. Hamburg
"GLENBEG" London, Botterdam
Movements are subject to change without notice.
For Freight or further Particulare, please apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. THE GLEN LINE, LTD., AGENTS. Telephones: Central No. 215 her. 23, and Central 3596.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK Co., LTD.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESEL "MANIFESTO," HONGKONG.
Corse GED A1, A.RO. Fifth Edition: Engineering: First and Second Edition Wertern Union and Watkins, Benson's, Marooni.
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Dock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makori, Izozi and
Brass Founders, Forge Magters, Mootridians
OIL TANK STEAMER " "PALUDINA”
-427 0′ 58′ 1′′ ·81′ 0o 8,400 102, 69x 2100 BP,
Built by THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOOH CO, LTD, at HOWLOON DOCKS to the ende
of THE ANGLO SAXON PETROLEUM CO., LTD, being one of fdar similar vessels built in these WORKĄ to the me order,
Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager;
EM DYER B 80, MLN.A.. Kowloox Dock, Horace.