CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS
TRAVEL via CANADA to EUROPE.
The New Route of CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS offer excellent service with moderate. rates.
Daily trains-VANCOUVER to MONTREAL. Highest Rocky Mountain Peaks viewed en route... Complete "information and illustrated Booklets. supplied on request.
CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS, Asiatic Building, Queen's Rd. C
Phone C. 2004.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1ST, 1924
HOLLAND EAST ASIA LINE
of the United Netherlands Navigation Company.
Regular Four-weekly Service between
Japan, Vladivostock, China, Hongkong, Manila, Singapors
and
Rotterdam. Amsterdam, Hamburg, Bremen and North Continental Ports
ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE:
*.*. "SALAWATI"
1.4. "ÖLUEKERK"
SAILINGS FOR EUROPE:
4. “OUDERKERK" --4.8 "SA LA WATI”
All Steamery have a Limited Accommodation for Passengers, For Freight, Fange and further Particulars, Pienas Apply to—
Telephone Central No. 1574
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17th December 14th. Jan., 1993,
$5th 'December End of Jan, 1925
JAVA CHINA - JAPAN LIN.
Agents.
York Building.
DOMPANIA TRASATLANTICA DE BARCELONA
Spanish Royal Mail Line"
For MANILA SINGAPORE, COLOMBO, SUEZ, POET SAID,
BARCELONA and OTHER SPANISH POETS.
6.8 "ISLA DE PANAY
B.B "LEGAZPI
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15th Dec, 1924
For YOKOHAMA, KOBE MOJI, and SHANGHAI,
H
SALEGAZPI"
3rd Feb, 1925
18th Jan, 1925 The steamers of this Company are all classed 100 Al at Lloyd's and are fitted with every modem conveniense for the comfort and safety of the passengers. Stewardess and Doctor carried.
„0. D. BARRETTO
18, Central Avenue, B.C., Oarton.
SOUTH
For Freight and/or passage apply to sim
BOTELHO. BROS..
# Alexandra Belldine, Hongkong
MANCHURIA
RAILWAY
OPERATING ALL LIAA IN SOUTH MANCHURIA AND CHORN (KOREA) KAST OF MURDER.
SUMMER HOLIDAY
RESORTSTM*
NO
SOUTH MANCHURIA AND CHOSEN
BOSHIGAURA.-Finest Seaside Bammer Holiday Resort in North China. Five mile from Daizen, but connected with the city by special motor andcarriage rond and sleetri tramway, Yamato Hotel (35 rooms) and 12 furnished bungalowsin charming elit gardes Bathing, Boating, Fubing, Golf, Tennis, Billiarde, Orchestră twice a week Capital place for children OGONDAL-Most beautiful and select Seaside Resort in the Far East: Two milesfrom Part Arthur. Formerly the Summer Resort of the high Ruslan officers and oficials, Yamato Hotel and 20 villar and bungalows, mostly with detached servants' quarters. Excellent Wonderful Scenery, Historie Battlefields, Rained and Dismantled Forta Miles f Walks and Drives. Abundant Pienicing Facilities. Orchaka twice a week Best place for high-dius families. PORT ARTHUR.-Famous for its two memorable Sieges and its beautiful landlocked Harbour. Exactly as hour's joumey Dairen by express train. Yamato Hotel (16 rooms) Buffident place of historical and some interest to fill a month with frah walk or drive every day. Most healthy and alubrious spot in the Far East. KONGOBAN. The famous Diamond Mountain of Korea. A special Summer Resort rivaling Switzerland for climate and scenery. Beautiful peaks and chrming casosdos Graad recuperative dalition.Kongossa Hotel (10 rooms) at Onsetri and Choani Hotel (11 romme) Cho enri
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all under the direct management of the SOUTH MANCHURIA RAILWAY (CO,
Illustrated Booklets and all Information post free on reque Applications may be sent to the Hotel Managers at the various resorts or to
THE SUPERINTENDENT OF HOTELS, Trade Department. “Cable; Add.? MaxterSU... SOUTH MANCHURIA BAILWAY, Dairen.
Codes A.B.C. 5th Ed A1. Liebers,
KAN PRAGEREA
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To EUROPE via USA
FAST
AST route, new ships, excellent food. Through tickets can be bought in all the large cities of the Orient at special rates. Choice of American railroads. Thence the famous U. S. Lines ships from New York to Europe.
UNITED STATES LINES ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE 4 Des Voeux Rd Hong Kong PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY Queen Building, Hoor Koon AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY 4A. Des Voeux Rd., Central Hong Kong
THOS. COOK & SON, Des Voeux Rd. Hong Kong Agencies in Principal Chies
Managing Operators for U. S. SHIPPING BOARD
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THE TRANS-PACIFIC FREIGHT
BUREAU.
FACING DISSOLUTION. :
WRANGLE OVER BILLS OF LADING.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
AND
UHINA METUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.. ONSIGNEES per Company's Steamer TELAMON
The controversy over issuing shipped CONS on-board bills of lading for raw silk cargo are hereby notified that the Cargo will be from Japan ports before the goods are discharged into Holt's Whart, Kowloon, where actually on board Trans-Pacific steamers it will be at Consignees' risk and subject to has assumed such proportions that it Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's threatens the very existence of the Trans Wharf. Pacific Freight Tariff Bureau
An important conference was convened recently in Kobe in an effort to settle the present difficulty amicably. Mr. EF. Townsend, Oriental Traße Manager for. the Dollar and Admiral Oriental Lines:
on
The Cargo will be ready for delivery from Godowa on and after 28th November.
Options! Cargo will be landed, unless Nation
been given prior to Steamer's arrival. All brakes, chafed and damaged Goods are to bo Mr. V. M. Smith, of the United States it in the Golowas, where they will be '
Tuesdays and Fridays Shipping Board, and Mr. Allan Camer within the free storage period.
between. hours of 104 a. and Noo on. Oriental manger for the Canadian Pacific. are arriving in Kobe on Sunday from Fongkong and Shanghai on the Admiral Line str. President Madison and the conference is being postponed until their arrival.
BREAK WITH BUREAU LIKELY. Should solution to the present hifficulty fail to be arranged, the alter native is that the Shipping Board lines may elect to withdraw from the Trans Pacific Freight Tariff Bureau.
the
No Gains will be admitted after the Goods
are left the Steamer's Godown, and all Goods will be abject to Bent. remaining andelivered after the 4th December,
All Claims against the Steamer must be 18th Doumber, ca the wild on or before the
will not be recognised. No Fire Insurance will be effected.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents, Hongkong, 28th November, 1924,
(1548
$.5. "ANGERS,"
COMPAGINE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,
NOTICE.
The practice of issuing shipped-on- board bills of lading on silk cargo prior to actual loading of such cargo was dis continued some weeks ago by the Admiral Oriental, Pacific Mall. Struthers and Barry, and the Columbia. Pacific Shipping Company in Kobe and Yokohama by order of the United States Shipping Bonru. The practice is outlawed byLES, de in connection with above ONSIGNEES of Cargo from MARSEIL- Steamer are hereby informed that their Goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd. Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.
American statute.
All of the other members of the Bureau, however, with the exeption of the Shipping Board Lines, have con: tinued to issue bills of lading before receiving mate's receipts, to the obvious disadvantage of the lines that have dis- continued the practice It has been customary to barer any possible loss
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the through non-loading or damage of cargo Undersignal Goods remaining unclaimed after hefore leading, exacting a guarantee from the 1st December, 1974, Noon, will be shippers. Recently the shipowners sugubject to Rent and Landing Charge... gested that a letter of guarantee.from All Claims must be sent in to me on cr before stituted for the shippers guaranter to the Japan Export Association, he sub-the 4th December, 1924, or they will not be
"ecognized. make the guarantee more effective.
All damaged Packages will be examined on Saturday, 9th instant, 1924, at 10 a.m., by Messrs. Goddard & Dougla
No Fire Insurance has been efected.
R RODENFUSER,
Agent. "Hongkong, 24th November, 1924.
COMPROMISE 15 REJECTED)).
This proposal as submitted to the United States Shipping Board as a com- promise, but likewise was declared un acceptable and illegal as far as American law is concerned
Moreover, it is reported that the Shipping Board has issued instructions to its operators that unless the bill of lading controversy, can be satisfactorily settled, that the alternative may be the withdrawal of the Shipping Board oper ators from the Trans-Pacific Freight Tariff Bureau. Seeh notion would in all
FROM
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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
FREMANTLE, MELBOURNE, PORT PIRIE, SYDNEY, BRISBANE AND MANILA,
THE
JUFUKU MARU**
probability sound the death knell of the Steamp Bureau and usher in an era of competi-having arrived from above porta, on 25th Nov tive rate cutting.
The issue probably will he decided this werk.-C. Daily Neirs..
S.O.S. AT SEA."
[HY M. J. MCGRATH. ].
Over all the seas there falls a sudden hush. The thousand voices of ships and and stations that a moment ago, were clamouring of passengers. cargoes, hunk Pes and water, have faded into silence, and fand and son is listening in awed, breathless expectation for the distant signal at whose first. faint murmur this deep, stillness fell upon the world.
Presently, from out the stillness. comes a plaintive stark from the far south- ward:..
il
Who said 5.0.5."
Immediately the hash is shattered by score of angry ships: "QRT,,| 8.0.S. ( Stop transmitting: vesel in distress. And the curious one joins the great, invisible throng of listeners.
Suddenly, from oyer the grey wastes ni veran, comes the call. whispering faintly in S.0.S., 5.0.8. Here the s.s. E struck the telephones: $.O.8, submerged wreckage in latitude 47.10 north, longitude 16.25 west. Heavy list to port; forepeak flooding. In urgeat need of assistance."
From an Atlantic liver Hashes an in- proceeding to your assistance." Earth- .stantaneous reply: "Received 0.K. Am
with there comes a clamorous outburst as ships and land stations take up the try of the sinking ship.
Even as the beacon-free that once Bured above the Channel ultimately warned the burghers of Carlisle,' 50 the call flies from station to station and from land, to land. Ushant and land's End cry it up and down the English Channel and far out to the Western Ocean.
Finisterre, Oporto, and Lisbon. puss the word down the European coast until, at length, the grin Rock tells it to the Mediterranean. Algiera discusses it | briefly with an East-bound Messagerie boat, and a homeward-bound P. & Ở off Cape St. Vincent proceeds, after the lofty manner of P. & O. boats, to broad- cast it to lesser craft.
Ship after whip esils the sinking vessel |and acknowledges The SILK. Yually adding her own position and prozi mate distance from the scene of the ac- cident. Distantly, the distressed vessel can be heard talking with craft that are rapidly approaching to her assistance, re porting the inroads of the hungry sen and the probable time she expects to be Fable' to remain aboat.
Later an impatient vessel. demands: Is that 8.0.87 clear yet? The reply of one of the rescuers comes back dis- tinctly: Yes. Three ships now stand- ing by her." The impatient one proceeds to call up a sistership: "What about that radio for the Old Man' 7 Bush it 1" Ship and shore take up the cry; " All clear, Go ahead! Immediately the in- numerable Voices of land and sea burst forth, seeking to make-up for last time in a sudden, fiores access of energy, a violent babel of sound that gradually eases to a steady tumult; the myriad, un- ceasing wireless voies to which night or day brings but little variation or sur- cease, the unwearying and monotonous clamour of those who transact incessantly the affairs of ships and men,
ember, 1924, Consignees are hereby requested to present their Bill of Lading in exchange for Delivery Orders, and take immediate delivery from alongside the Steamer.
All Cargo not taken delivery from the Steamer by 17th November, 1924, will be landed into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, at Kowloon, and stored at Consignees' risk.
All broken, chafed and damaged Carga in to be left in the Godowns, where it will be examin- ed at 11.4 1st December, 1924," have left the Godpans, and all Goods remaining
No Claims will be
I be admitted after the Goods
undelivered on ansi after 3rd December, 1924, will be abject to Rent.
"
No Fire Insurance whaterer will be effected.
YAMASHITA KISEN KOGYO
KAISHA, #
Agents. Hongkong, 26th November, 1924. [1541
THE NEW BUENOM BEMEDY.
THERAPION N0-1 THERAPION N₫2 HERAPION NO. 3
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INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,. BANGKOK via SWATOW TSINGTAU via SWATO TË.
BHANGHAI SHANGHAI via SWATOW MANILA TIL AMOY STRAITS & CALCUTTA SHANGHAI via SWATOW
HAIPHUNG TỪ LỜI TOW
BANGKOK via SWATOW SANDAKAN TIENTSIN
KOBE MOJI
MANILA via AMOY.
** WAISHING* 'FOOSHING* "YUENSANG*
NAMSANG
Eth: Dec, Noon
.*** YATSHING," Monday, lat Dea, 10, Wednesday, 3rd Doo, 7. Friday 3th Dec, 7am. Saturday, Saturday ...Sunday, Sunday, Monday
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6th Dec, 3pm.
7th Dec, 7 Am
7th Deo, 9m."
Seh Dec, 10 m
"HINSANGTM "CHLONGSHING* Wednesday, 10th Dos, Nons
LAISANG "
Sunday 14th Dec, 2.m
Monday, 8th Dec, Noon.
*..... “YUENSANG". ...Saturday, 20th Dec No
REGULAR SAILINGS ARE MAINTAINED AS FOLLOWS CALCUTTA—HONGKONG-JAPAN LINE EVERY TEN DAYS
SHANGHAI HONGKONG LINE HONGKONG-HAIPHONG LINE HONGKONG-MANILA LINE HONGKONG-BORNEO LINE KONGKONG-TIENISIN LINE HONGKONG BANGKOK LINE
For Freight or Passage, apply to➡
EVERY THREE DAYS
EVERY SATURDAY FROM BOTH PORTE EVERY SUNDAY From Born Por ....... EVERY FORTNIGHT ...EVERY FORTNIGHT
EVERY WEEK
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JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD...
TELEPHONE CENTIAL No. 915,
GLEN
GENERAL MANAGERS,
AND SHIRE
JOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS..
U.K-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SEHVICË.
HOMEWARDS.
Leave H'kong
"GLENAPP" London,
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Botterdam
"CARNARVONSHIRE"
London Rotterdam 卤 "GLENTARA" London, Botterdam and
Kovements are subject to change without notics,
For Freight or further Particulare, please apply to
Dinkargoef ard Des. Hamburg.
7th Jan.
15th Ja
Hamburg,
Hamburg.
JARDINE MATHESON & 00., LTD) THE GLEN LINE, LTD., AGENTE. Telephones: Central No. 215 rab-ex, 23, and Central 1506.
ASAHI
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BEER
BREWED FOR SIPOBY
DAI NIPPON BREWERY CO.
LIMITED.
TUKYO JAPAN
JOLE AGENTH
MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHAJ LTD.
HONGKONG!
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Steel Twin-Sarow Ocean-going Tug and Salvage Steamer
Henry Keswick
Bult, engined and equipped complete by The Hongkong & Whampos Dook Co, Ltd, Hongkong for their own service, 1921. Length 18 B.P. Breadth 84 (m) Depth 17 (m). LIP. 2000. Fitted with electrically drin submersible and contrifugal pumps, sir comprseace, wireless, sen, påfight and sil modam appliances for Shivage WIRE Pl caseaddress enquiries to the Chief Manager
R M. DYER. B.Sc. M.IN.A Towzoon Door, Horozona