HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
PRESIDENT LINER
SAILINGS"
To SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES
via SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU
8.4. "PRESIDENT FIERCE"
S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"
S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT ”
To NEW YORK and BOSTON
Aug. 29 Sept. 7
Sept. 13
via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG COLOMBO, BOMBAY and CAPETOWN
S.S. "PRESIDENT HARRISON"
Aug. 18
S.S. PRESIDENT POLK"
Sept. 13
To SINGAPORE & PENANG
S.S. "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO"
Aug. 14
S.S. "CITY OF LOS ANGELES"
Aug. 27
To SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES
..
DIRECT
8.S. "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO"
* via Yokohama.
Sept. 3
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"ROUND. WORLD SERVICE"
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SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Hönolulu..
ASAMA MARU
KAMAKURA MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER
(Convenient connection from HELAN MARU
NEW YORK via Panamas.
* AZUMA MARU
LIVERPOOL via Cape Town
HUSIMI MARU
Thursday, 8th Aug. „ Friday, 30th Aug.
(Starts from Kobe) Hong Kong).
Wednesday, 14th Aug,
Wednesday, 21st Aug.
Bunday, 11th Aug.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila.
KAMO MARU
***
BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo.
ANYO MARU
* OKITU MARU
RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore
NAGATO MARU
KOBE & YOKOHAMA
ASAMA MARU
HAKUSAN MARU
Cargo only.
Wednesday, 28th Aug.
Tuesday, Sunday,
8th Aug. 11th Aug.
Thursday,
8th Aug.
Thursday,
8th Aug. Wednesday. 14th Aug,
Complete Information From Your Agent ori
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KING'S BUILDING
Telephone 20291..
General Passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
To AUSTRALIA
Calling at Manila, Thursday Island, Cairns, Towns- ville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne, etc.
NEXT SAILING
MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER, 1940.
For Freight or Passage apply to:-
·BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
U.S. Gunboat Caught In Maze Of Fleeing Chinese
Ships
CHUNGKING. Aug. 1(Reutor)
The United States gunboat Tutulla, ou Yangtze River patrol duty at Chungking, bad in ex- citing day Wednesday during a major Japanese air raid in China's wartime 'capital,
GENERAL RUSH
DEPARTURES FROM
THE COLONY
The following left the Colony on Monday:
THE WEATHER
The maximum temperature yes- terday was 84 and the minimum
78
The Royal Observatory report states:
A wenk anti-cyclonic area covers Manchuria and ridge of high pressure extends from it to the Loogho0s,
Pressure is relatively low be tween the Philippines and the Western Caroline.
The depression over SW, China is filling up,
Major A. Fitzroy Somerset.
Mr. Henri Bar, Miss E R. Bar- ker, Mr. F. Ellis, Mr. Carl" Hudson. As 3 wave of Japanese war Mrs J. H. Jessen, Mr. Walter Kel planes approached the city there ly, Mr. E. 8. McBain, Mr. L. Nelt- was a general rush of Chinese man. Mr. Yoshio Okafuji, Mr. J. C. boats toward safer anchorages. Pool, Mr. P. I. Sizov, Dr. William R.AS.C., who falled when boating The Tutuila, In the pathway of L. Wallace. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. On the Nile to respond to a, sen- this fight, was bumped by Wentland, Mstr. Rankin H. Went-try's challenge, was fired on and was in a motor-boat, Chinese steamer and three sam-land. Mstr. Roger B.. Wentland, killed. He pans which broke their moorings Mr. Howard W. Ziegler, Mr. Everett and it is thought the noise of the and drifted uncontrolled down the|L Ziegler.
engine prevented him from tear- swollen river.
ing the challenge!
The Japanese warbirds unload- ed 250 bombs destroying 400 buildings in the. suburbs of Chungking. Authorities estimated that the raid casualties totalled about 80.
HEAD-ON CRASH
A 300-ton Chinese steamer, car- ried by a ve knot current," crash- ed headon into the anchored. "American gunboat. The steamer rebounded, aldeswiped the gun- boat and fouled its anchor chains. As the Japanese raiders roared overhead members of the crew of the Tutulla lashed the helpless steamer alongside. It remained there throughout the rald.
During the four-hour attack three smaller Chinese craft. caught by the current, harmlessly bumped the Tutulla, which kept up full steam ready for any emergency.
Three Japanese air bombs fell within the American Methodist mission compound but the build- ints there escaped with only a bad shaking-up.
WEATHER
REPORT
Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 a., Aug. 6. Barometer (at sea level); 29.85
ins.
Temperature, 82 F.
Humidity, 90 per cent. Wind Direction, SSE. Wind Force (Beaufort), 4 Temperature; maximum yesterday,
84 F
Temperature Minupum last night.
78 F."
Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th
today, 0.05 ins.
Total rainfall since January Ist,
07.34 ins,
Against an average of 58.8 ins. Sunset tonight, 7.01 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 5.57 am.
4 D.
Aug. 6.
Barometer (at sea level), 29.81 ins, Temperature, §1 F.
Humidity, 83 per cent,
Wind Direction, E/S. Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Maximum temperature, 84 F. Minimum temperature, 78 F. Rainfall, n
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE
From 7 to 13 Ang, 1940.
"
HIGH WATER.
LOW WATER
Hong
Hong
Kong
Kong
Week
Dats of
Month.
Standard Time.
Height
Standard
1980
Height,
Time
b. m.
irt. in.
b. m.
細
Wed. 7
Thurė
11 2017 2
0459
1800
00 250 B "050
12 24
185
1837
Fri.
9
13 20
58
1936
2.3
Set.
10
01 68
58
1444
6.0
Sun. 11
0256 60
1812
4.4
08 10 1984 12 8
50:47
2 6
Von, 12 0404
611 113 12 4
1755
43 9142
Tues. 13
0508
6 4 1249
20
1999
2301 3 8
(43)
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1940-PAGE 18
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NEXT SAILING EARLY SEPTEMBER
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Following sailing third week September,
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