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Sails for
MANILA
5 p.m., FRIDAY, 24th July.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1931.
Shipping News Daily Statement, Waterfront News.
YESTERDAY'S FREIGHT
RETURNS.
IMPORTS 18,400 TONS;" THROUGH CARGO
20,800 TONS.
The returns, shown at the Har- bour Office, of vessels carrying cargo to the Colony during the 24 hours ended at 9am. yesterday
Through
Porte.
were:-
British Menclaus,
Cargo for H.K.
Liverpool 700 Benarty, Leith 1,150
4,700 2,125
SHIPS IN HARBOUR
The following merchant ships were in harbour yesterday:
OTC.
ARRIVALS.
July
July 21,
Capt. E, Himmelstiup, from Dairen Taingtao, buoy No. A13-John Manners & Co. Angers, French str., 6,388 tone,
Wharves: Kowloon: President McKinley, Hikawa Maru, Benarty; Cremer, Dutch str., 2,78 tons, Halt's: Menelaus; Chiu On: Gum Capt. 1G, J. Harmsen, from tom Mara, Hai Wing, Tin Tze, Kwong Ying; Socony, Laichikok:
Singaporn, buoy No. A16- J.C.J. Courageous Shum Sui Po Hwa Shun, Tek Hing, Sekai Maru..
Docks: Kowloon Limehow, Trivia, Taikoo: Anhui, Chinhua, Afrika, Danish str., 3,108" - tons, Anking, Asama Maru, Szechuen.
Buoys-A Tjibadak, A3 Tyn!] » darous, A4, Tipanas, As Kaying, AB Kwanení Maru, A9 Alipore, AIG Cromer, A11 Afrika, A15 Apees, B1 Chaksang, B2 Waithing, B8 Ardent; Bo Suiyang, Bis Kweiyang Bis Halldor, B21 Borneo, B25 Ryusei Mara B26 Qushu Mara, Ci Hiran, Ce Kamo, C Michael Jobsen; Co Tonkin, C. Sodegaural Maru.
Bay: Anchorages: Yaumati 7,065 Telemachus, Svale, Wong, Shek Kung, Marly, Kittawa, Produce; Kowloon Bay: Pleidon,
Kweiyang,
Aug. 17.
Bangkok 1,176
Ang, 80
Chinhus,
Sept. 14
Conten→→
180
Sept. 27
3,115
Oot 12
Americans.
Oct.
Proa, McKinley,
Manila. 31
2,300
Courageous,
Baltimore 1,792
Nevada,
Portland 1,372
German. Oder,
Bremerhaven
11 ..6,323 1.1
€,525
Dutch Cremer,
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WARSHIPS IN PORT
948
2,743
The following warships were in 3,125———- 5,001 | port yesterday —
Singapore 085 685 34.34 Danish
Basin.-Tamar.
South Wall Sepoy, Stormcloud. East Wall-Odin, Útus," North Arm. Serapis, water, Seraph.
West Wall Dock-Caradoc. Dock.-Moorben,
Bridge-
Foreign Men of War-Portu- RCB cruiser Adamastor, Freach 8,300 8,300 sloop Regulus, French gunbont
Argus, U.S.S. Mindanao."
Afrika,
Dairen J
Japanese
Hikawa Maru,
Seattle 1,070. Goshu Maru,
Wakamatsu 6,771
Ryusei Maru,
Sodegaura Maru,
Dairen 1,290
Keelung 1,085
1,019
1,420-ig
1,019
Chinese Chung On
Shanmet 15 14
18,370
Capt. Angelvin, from Saigon, Kowloon Wharf.-M. M..
0,608 D'Artagnan, French str.,
tors, Capt. Malanssens, from Shanshui, Kowloon Wharf M; M: Corneville, Norw. str., 2,747 tons,
Capt. Carlsen, from Manila,|
Anchorage.
Stonecutters. "Thoresen & Co. Hinsang, British str.,, 1,885 tons, Capt A.B. Osmond. frena Sandakan, buoy No. B22 M. & Co.
Japan, Swedish str., 3,202 tnos, Cant, F. N. Borgstrom, from Manila, Kowloon Wharf.-Gil- man & Co.... Kaiapoi, British str., 1,246 tons, Capt. J. Baldwin, from Wham- poi, Yaumati Anchorage-Wil- liamson & Co.
Nevada, American: str., 3,817 tons, Capt. J. S. Smith, from Kobe, Stonecutters Anchorage.States. S.S. Co.
1is
UNSINKABLE SHIP CLAIM. Tchekam, Chinese atr., 508 tona, Capt. Lai Yu, from Holbow, buoy No. B17.-Woo On 8.8. Co.
SUCCESSFUL TESTS IN
FRANCE.
Paris-What is elnimed to be an unsinkable ship has been. invented by M. Joseph Chartrain, a French- man living at. Clermon Ferrand.. The invention has been offered to 20,834 the French Admiralty, and a com- mission of naval and engineering experts recently went dowh to Vichy to experiment on a model.
ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES
Tonjer, Norwegian str., 1,949 tons,:
·Capt. H. Rasmussen, from Can- ton, Passing.Dodwell & Co.
CLEARANCE.
July. 21,
The model is 12 feet long, weighs Afrika, for Singapore., about half a Lon, and has the form Angers, for Shanghai.
The arrivals and departures dur- of a Transaltantic liner. To test Ardent, for Bangkok.
ita vulnerability to shell, fire the Benarty, for Shanghai. ing the 24 hours coded at 0a.m.experts first armed themselves with Chaksang, for Swatow, yesterday were
Arr. Dep.
British.......
.0
American............ 3
"German
1
0
0
1
0
Dutch
Danish
Panama
Japanese
Chinese....
Norwegian
17
ASIATIC DECK PASSENGERS,
The following eels brought Asiatic deck passengers to the Colony during the 21 hours onded at 9 a.m. yesterday:
Kweiyang (British), Bang-
kok ...... President McKinley (Ameri
can), Manila
158
Cremer, for Swatow. D'Artagnan, for Saigon. Hajching, for Swatow. Kurchime Maru, for Singapore. Nevada, for Manila
heavy steel spikes with which they attacked the model's sides and decke, driving, heles representing a diameter of 23 feet in a full size ship. This is larger than the hole made by any known naval shell. Nitto Maru, for Keelung. ^
Although pierced in nearly a Sodegaura Maru, for Keelung. hundred places, many of them be-Suiyang, for Swatow.
low the water line, the model only settled an inch or two in the water. It was then tilted 45 degrees side- ways and hold over on its, beam, but on being released it immedi ately righted itself.
Finally large weights were plac ed on board, while three members of the commission sicod on the deck.
Tai Poo Sek, for K. C. Wan. Tjipanas, for Menada.
SHIPPING MOVEMENTS.
The R.3.S. Empress of Asia nr- rived at Shanghai on July 20 at Under this load the model sank 7 p.m. left yesterday at 1 pm is completely, but as soon as the men due at Hong Kong to-morrow jumped off she bobbed up again. | (Thursday) at 2 pm. She will leave. violently pouring out water from for Manila on Friday, July 24, at
5 p.m. every point.
The secret of M. Chartrain's de-, vics is not yet divulged, but the inventor, claims that it makes a left Vancouver for Hong Kong, via ship ecmpletely unsubmersible, and Japan ports and Shanghai, on July only increases the weight by 10. per 18, and is due here on August 7. She will sail for Manila on the same afternoon."
448 cent.
Cremer (Dutch), Singapore...2,043 Cheung On (Chinese), Shan-.
Inci
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Without expressing any view as to its practicability in surface craft
a member of the commission said
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2nd Sept.
7000
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