HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
PRESIDENT LINER
Sailings
TO SAN FRANCISCO nad LOS ANGELES
vis SHANGHAL KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU
SS. "PRESIDENT PIERCE”,
SS. "PRESIDENT. COOLIDGE"
S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT
To NEW YORK "and ROSTON
Oct. 20
Nov. 3
Nov. 12
via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO, BOMBAY and CAPETOWN
S.S. "PRESIDENT GARFIELD"
Oct. 18
8.8. "PRESIDENT MONROE"
Oct. 22
To SINGAPORE & PENANG
"5.8. "CITY OF NORFOLK”
S.B. “CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO"
Oct. 26 Doc.
To SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES
- via YOKOHAMA
S.S "CITY OF NEWPORT NEWB"
8.8 "CITY OF NORFOLK”“
Oct, 15 Nov. 17
AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES
"ROUND. WORLD SERVICE
AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN – AIR.
AND UNITED AR LINES 12, PRODER ST.
TEL 28171
N.Y.K. LINE
SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via
TATUTA MARU"
YAWATA MARU
Monday,
Monday,
21st Oct. 4th Nov.
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER
(Starta from Kobe)
Monday,..
18th Oct.
HIKAWA MARUJ
NEW YORK via Panama.
• SAKITO MARU
Thursday, 31st Oct.
SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Japan & San
Francisco.
YASUKUNI MARU
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila,
Sunday,.. 20th Oct.
Tuesday, 29th Oct.
MADRAS via Saigon (Cargo acceptable for Saigon) «
KITANO MARU·
* MURORAN MARU
* TOKIWA MARU
HARUNA MARU
BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo.
RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore
TURUGA MARU
KOBE & YOKOHAMA
YASUKUNI MARU
TATUTA MARU
KAMO MARU
✦ Cargo only.
Saturday, 20th Oct.
Tuesday,
Monday,
15th Oct. 28th Oct.
Saturday,
26th Oct.
Sunday,
20th. Oct.
Monday,
21st Oct.
Friday,
24th Oct.
Complete Information From Your Agent or:
NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA
KING'S BUILDING
Telephone 30291, 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 NOVEMBER, 1940,
For Freight or Passage apply to:-
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
CAMEL CORPS OFFICER'S London
HEROISM IN SOMALILAND
POSTHUMOUS AWARD OF V,Q. LONDON, Oct. 11 (EWS)-His Majesty the King has approved, the posthumous award of the V.C. to Llantenang. "(seting " Cap- tain) E C. T. Wilson, East Sürrøy Regiment, attached to the Soma- illand Camel Corps, who, in the words of the official notification was "fighting to the last and was killed."
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KEY POSITION ·
Lieutenant Wilson was in com- mand of the machine-gun” Posts manned by. Somail soldiers ma
placed them and. regardless of his wounds, carried on while his Somali sergeant was killed beside himi.
This was only the beginning of Lieutenant Wilson's herofqm. On Aug. 12 and 14. the enemy again concentrated field artil- lary fire on his guns, bat he continued, with his wounds untended, to man them. On "Aug. 15° two of his machine
posts were blown to pieces: yet - Klentenant Wilson, now suffer- ing' from malaria, in addition to his wounds, still kept hie post in action. ..own
The enemy finally overran the post at 5 pam. on Aug. 15, when. Lieutenant Wilson, fighting to
the last, was killed,··
Express Train Derailed
LONDON, --- Det. 13
(Reater) -
A number of people were killed and 30- believed injured when an express train, bound for London, deralled when approaching the London area.” “
As the express was approaching. a certain station at speed, a bar- row fall on to the Une and was carried forward by the engine un- some tl ( became wedged in points causing the derailment.
The engine overturned and 2. number of conches' were telescop- ed and some others overturned.
key vosition of an observation hill CHINA NAVIGATION
and defended the post in defen-
sive organisation of the Tug Argan
Gap in British Somaliland.
The enemy attacked the hill pn Aug. 11. Lieut. Wilson and the Somali gunners under his com- and mand beat off the attack opened fire on the enemy troops attacking the mill hill, another post within his range. He in. flicted such heavy casualties that the enemy determined to put his guns cut of action,"
TWO DIRECT HITS They brought up a pack battery. to within 700 färds and scored two direct hits through loopholes in his defences, which, bursting within the post," wounded Lieuten- ant Wilson severely in the right shoulder and left eye, several of his team being also wounded.
Hla gana were blown off their stands, but he repaired and re-
WEATHER REPORT Royal Observatory, Hongkong, 10 a.m., Oct. 13. Barometer (at sea level), 29.94 ins. Temperature, 81 F.
Humidity, 75 per cent.
Wind Direction. E/N
Wind Force (Beaufort), 5. Temperature; maximum yesterday
36.
Temperature; minimum last night,
77 F.
Rainfall for 24 hrs, ending 10th
today, 0.04 ins.
Total rainfall since January 1st.
112.76 ins.
Against an average of, 80.53 ins. Sunset tonight, @ p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow, 8.19 am.
4 p.m.. Oct. 13.
Barometer (at sen level), 29.87 ins. Temperature, 80 F.
Humidity, 82 per cent.
Wind Direction, E/N. Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Maximum temperature, 81 F. Minimum temperature, 77 F Rainfall, nil
HONG KONG,TIDE TABLE
From 14 to 30 Oct. 1940.
Dats of
Month.
Kong St ndard
Time
Height.
Height.
HIGH WATER.
LOW WATER
Bong
Hopg
Kong Standard E
Time
iftin
b. m.
Mon, 14
06 14
6. 4.
01 48.
3 5
50
4
1406
25
Taen. 10
0454
6 3 02 29 31
21,09
[6.6]. 1436
Wed. 16
04.33
16 * 03.07
21 20
6 9-25 08
Thür. 17
10 09
16 0 03 45
Fri. 18
15 8 04 23
22 00 7 3
16,05.
Sat.
19
118 16
05:01
22 25 7 4
16 FO
Sun 20
12.00 52
0641
72.04 174 10.50 3
2741 7.1, 15.35 1044
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1940. ~PAGE 11
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#ISSANCOUVER.
FIRST WEEK IN NOVEMBER
(Omitting Honolula)
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA: FOURTH WEEK IN OCTUBER
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for Mauritius, Reunion, Tamatave, Lourenço Marques, Durban and Cape Ports
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