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First week in March.
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WEATHER REPORT | SHIPS LOST
Hongkong
ns Roral Observators
10 am, Feb. 15..
Barometer (at sea level). 30.29 jns. Temperature, 60 F
Humidity, 83 per cent Wind Direction, East... Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Temperature; maximum yesterday
13 F.
Temperature, minimum last night
'57 'F:
Rainfall for 24 hrs.. ending it am
today, nil
Total rainfall since January tat
0.32 ins. Against an average of, 3.05 ins. Sunset tonight, 6.20 p.m.
Sunrise to-morrow, 6.56 a10.
4 p.m., Feb 15. Barometer (at sea level), 30.19 ins Temperature 61 F. Humidity, 75 per cent, Wind Direction, ESE Wind Force (Beaufort), 4 Maximum temperature, 88 · F. Minimum temperature. 57 F. Rainfall, nil
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 18 to 22 Feb. 1940.
HIGH WATE.
Month.
Days of
Date of*****
Wook
Hong Kong Standard Time.
Height
07103
Height
29 05 13 1
LOW WATER
Hong
→Kong
Standard
Time
TEL: 28171.
h. m.
h. m.
Fri
16 01 18
1449
67
Bai.
11
02 34
3 9
07 30 3
15.09
80
23 40.97
Sun. 18
04 B5
3 €
'08 02
24
18 10
6 3
Mon. 19
07 00
.17 28
00 16
Fem. 20
07 55
40
01 28
18 35
17 0
11 50
Wod. 21
.08 30
441
02 08
I 1
19 35
75
13.04
18
Thor, 22
09 05
+7
02 45
2020
178
14.00
10 8 12 8
N.Y.K. LINE
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The quarantine restrictions im- posed by the Government of Palestine against arrivals, from Hongkong on account of cholera have been removed.
Lieut.-Col. W. Keith Rollo. Director of the Rollo Tea Estates of Ceylon, Ltd, and only son of the late Keith Rollo, so long in charge of Wanarajah. Dickoya. fett £14,394 (net personalty £7- 995).
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CONSIGNEF NOTICE.
Tar 8.8.
BRINGING CARGO FRON MARSEILLES vis SAIGON.
NONSIGNEES are hereby informed that their goods with the exception
of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed & stored into the godowns. of the Hong Kong Kowloon Whaf and Godown Co., Ltd Kowloon, Thezoe delivery may be obtained immediately after landing-
All Claims must be sent in to me on or before the Wednesday, 318 Feb, -1940, or they will not be recognized.
Damaged Packages will be examined by the Company's Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas in, the presence of the Consignees at 10.00 am on the 17th Feb., 1940,
Consignees must have a RevERDE Oferr inattendance when any datjable goods are examined by the Company's Surveyors d
No Fire Insurance will be effected by ue in any case whatever.
R. OBL
Agent.
Hong Kong 1940
AT SEA
THREE BRITISH.
VESSELS:
LONDON, Feb. 15 (Reator)- Two British tankers were lost in the North Sea on Tuesday.
But He's Not Der Fuehrer!
LONDON. Feb. 15 (Renter)- Hitler is now on shore leave. In England-no, not Der Fuehrer, "but a cat from H.M.S. Repulse,
SHORE LEAVE
The Repulse, which has been ung time and again by Dr. Goeb- thebels, but is otherwise unharmed, is now in dock, so that she can get reft and her men get shore leave. Half of the crew returned à fróm shore leave yesterday and the other, half are now enjoying a holiday.
The Gretafield was sunk off North-east coast of Scotland and twenty-eight of her crow were resened, While thirteen
missing.
Are
The British Trinmph (8.501 tons) capsized after an explosion, her crew of forty-two are safe.
FIVE MISSING
With them went one of the ship's two cats, born on her last tip to sea. He is called Hitler!
A later message stated that five
SAFE AND SOUND... ́.... men are believed to be missing
A reporter who went on board from the British Triumph. Twenty-one of the members of the Repulse reports that she is "quite safe and sound" despite her crew landed at an east coast Dr, Goebbels, An officer told him port and twenty-one at a second
port
that although she had no herole sagas to sing, she put In 130 days TWICE SHIPWRECKED
steaming before returning to the The sixteen-year-old wireless g
base.
.. ' operator told how, twice in two months, he had been rescued from
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oil tankers sunk by explosions. The British Triumph was at- It was his second voyage on a tacked by enemy aircraft in the Yarmouth roadstead A British boat and on each occasion Great
fortnight ago. --
he had been shipwrecked.,
On Dec. 3 he was assistant wire-
SHIP TORPEDOED NEW YORK, Feb. 15 (Reuter)— The Mackay Radio reports that
less operator on the tanker San Calisto, which struck a mine and sank, he received an internal In- the British steamer Sultan Star. Fury, necessitating an operation (12,000 tons) was torpedoed at He had only just recovered, when 4.42 pm, (G.M.T.) yesterday. Her
ere are abandoning the ship. he joined the British Triumph.
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