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CANADIAN PACIFIC
ROYAL MAIL.
STEAMSHIP LINE.
From Hongkong
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
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NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP 00.
28,
Empress of
Japan Empress of Russia
5th Mar.
19th Mar.
Monteagle Empress of
Asla
8th April.
16th April.
All Steamships leave llongkong at noon. The" EMPRESS OF RUSSIA;" and "EMPRESS OF ASIA” are now quadruple screw 21 knot turbine steamers, of 16,850 tons gross, 30,625 displacement, the finest, fastest and most luxurious on the Pacific.
The direct route to Canada, United States and Europe, call- ing at Shanghai, Nagasaki (through the Inland Sea of Japan), Kobe, Yokohama and Victoria, B.C.
Destination.
Projected Sailings from Hongkong→
MARSEILLES, 1 LONDON & AN-1
Subject to Alteration
Steamers.
TWERP, via Hirano Maru Singapore. Capt. Fraser. Malacca, Penang, f Katori Maru Colombo, Suez, & Capt. Murai' Port Said....Bas
B.C.,
VICTORIA,
and SEATTLE Shanghai, Via Moji, Kobe, Yok kaichi,
and Yokohama via
All Steamers of the Company's Pacific and Atlantic Fleets are equipped with Marconi Wireless apparatus.
PASSAGE RATES HONGKONG TO LONDON,
'EMPRESS OF RUSSIA."
Optional Atlantic Port. £71.10.
"EMPRESS OF INDIA."
Optional Atlantic Port £65
"EMPRESS OF ASIA."
·EMPRESS OF JAPAN," via SYDNEY & MEL-
via Canadian
Intermediate service, "MONTBAGLE", Atlantio port £43, vis Boston of New York £45.
Rates quoted above do not include meals and sloping car across Canada. Those, if required, will be furnished for £6 additional.
SPECIAL RATES (First Class only.) allowed to Naval and Military officers, Civil Service employees, Missionaries, etc, etc. Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Round Trip passage. tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by the atuamers of the Pacific Mail S.S. Co., or Toyo Kisen Kaisha...
Local and through passengers may, if desired, travol by rail between Ports of call in Japan.
For further information, Maps, Routes, Handbooks. Rates
of Freight and Passage, apply to
D. W. CRADDOCK, General Traffic Agent for China. Corner of Pedder Streat and Praya, opposite Blake Pier.
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.
APCAR
LINE.
Regular Service Between
CALOUTTA, STRAITS, SHANGHAI and JAPAN FORTS.
EASTWARD.
S.S. "Dunera," 5,389 tons, Capt. Dickinson, will be despatched for YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI on 3rd Mar.
S.S. "A. Apcar," 4,450 tons, Capt. Walker, will be despatched for SHANGHAI, NAUASAKI, KOBE & MOJI on 18th Mar.
WESTWARD.
$.5. "Dilwara," 5,378 tons, Capt. Ramnge, R.N.R. will be des patched for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA on 2nd Mar.
S.S. "G. Apcar," 4,600 tons, Capt. Drake, will be despatched as above on 12th Mar.
The above steamers have excellent salcon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeon..."
For freight or passage, apply to,
Hongkong, Feb, 28th, 1914.
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD. ·
Agents
THOS. COOK & SON, Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.
Head Office for the Far East:-16, DES VEUX ROAD, HONG:
KONG, SHANGHAI: 2-3, Foochow Road: YOKOHAMA
32, Water Street. MANILA: Manila Hotel.
TICKETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP LINES and TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY. TOURS arranged to ALL PARTS of the WORLD. BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest rates.
LETTERS of CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES ISSUED and
CASHED Chief Office:-LUDGATE CIRCUS, LONTON, EC.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH
Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft "HANSA."
EAST ASIATIC SERVICE, Regurar Bailings from JAPAN, CHINA and PHILIPPINES
vin STRAITS sãd COLOMBO,
TO
Marsellies, Havre, Bremen and Hamburg and New York. And from Manila, Hongkong and Japan to Vancouver (B.C.) and
Portland (Or.). '
Tailng Carto at Through rates to all European North Contanate and British Ports, also Trieste Lisbon, Dobro," Genos sod, other Medierranean Lavanilsa, Black Baide Sun and Ports, and all North and South Amricas Ports
Next Sailings from Hongkong :
OUTWARD.
For Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama:
1st Mar Sambla.........
Hoerde.............18th Mar." Wuerttemberg
Assyria..
Suedmark
Brisgavia.
Uckermark
18th Mar, Segovia
1st Apr. Emden.....
5th Apr. Frisia .....
HOMEWARD.
...25th Apr.
1st May. 11th May.
1914.
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HONGKONG
LOG BOOK.
Japanese Visitors.
Japanesa Government officials have been among recent visitor
PHILIPPINES. to the Manchester Ship. Canal
nad Dooks, including Captain K Yazawa, who is connected with: the Communication Department. STEAMSHIP CO. is Mr. X. Tomita, bivil engineer Another visitor shortly expected
For
PHILIPPINES
Sailling Date Steamship.' T.
Captains.
T: 16,000
T. 20,000
WEDNES., 11th Mar. at 10a.m. WEDNES., 25th Mar. at 10a.m.
Zafiro
4000 F. S. McMurray
Rubi ... 4000 J. Miller.
Sailing date,
Manila, Mangarin, TUES., 3rd Cebu and Iloilo. Mar. 4 p.m. Manilo,Mangarin, FRI., 13th
Cabu and Iloilo. | Mar. 4 p.m. Electric light Faus in every cabin; competent stewardesses
carried.
Passangers holding round trip tickets may return by any steamer of the Pacife Mail 9.8. Do., Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Norddeutscher Lloyd and Eastern and Australian Steamabip Co., Ltd.
For Freight or Passage apply to
Sado Maru Capt. Asakawa Yokohama Maru Capt. Wada
T. 12,500
T. 20,000:
TUESDAY, 10th Mar. at noon. TUES., 24th Mar., at noon.
Hongkong, 23rd Feb, 1914.
BOURNE, via Kumano Maru
WEDNES., 11th Manila, Thurs-Cap. K. Soyeda T. 9,300 1 Mar, at noon. day Island, Tango Maru
JWEDNES:, 8th Townsville and Capt. T. Sekine T. 13,500. Apr, at noon. Brisbane
·
| CALOUTTA
JSATURDAY, via) Ceylon Maru S'pore, Penang Capt. Noguchi T. 12,500 17th Mar. & Rangoon BOMBAY via Sings-1 Colombo Maru
(SUNDAY, pore and Colombo. Capt. Kawachima T, 5,000 1st Mar.
1 Kashima Maru
WEDNES., 10th KOBE & Yokohama) Capt. M, Yagi
T. 20,000 Mar. at 11 am. NAGASAKI, Kobel Tango Maru
WED., 11th & Yokohama... Capt. Sekine SHANGHAI, Moji)
and Kobe..........
T. 13,500 Mar. at 11 am.
(TUESDAY,
SHANGHAI, Moji, Tosa Maru
Kobe & Yokohama Capt. Yokohama T. 12,000 13rd Mar.
+ Cargo only.
§ Fitted with new system of wireless telegraphy.
PASSENGER SEASON 1914. FOR EUROPE.
Hirano Maru 16000 tons sails Wednesday Katori Kamo
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
GENERAL MANAGERS
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN
« From
LIJN.
Expected on or about
For
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to the Japanese State Railways. and the docks are also to be in- spected by Mr. R. Kameyama, Saperintendent General of Police to the Formosan Government,
Titanic Claimr. Claims aggregating G $13,- 000,000, that is about $2, 600,000, are awaiting the decision
of the United States Supreme Court as a result of the Titanic disaster, The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, which own- ed the vessel, ia seeking to induce the Court to decide that the Ame- rican Admiralty laws are applic able to the case, thereby limiting the Company's liability to the cost of salvage from the wreek and | reducing the amount of claims to 00,000 dollars fabout £18,000). The relatives of the passengers Regular Fortnightly Service between
who lost their lives in the disaster JAVA.
CHINA and JAPAN.
are claiming full damages, ac- cording to what is declared to be Tjibodas......JAVA 1st half Mar.......JAPAN..1st half Mar. the British practice, the content- Tjiliwong ...JAPAN...1st half Mar....... JAVA ...1st half Mar. Tillaroem ...S'HAI 1st half Mar.......JAVA ...1st half Mar. on being that American Admiral- Tilmanoek...JAVA...2nd half Mar......S'HAI 2nd half Mar. ty laws do not apply on the high Tilatjap....JAVA ...2nd half Mar.......JAPAN ...2nd half Mar. 8819. Tipanas.....JAVA...2nd half Mar......B'HAI 2nd half Mar.
Services by the Panama Route. Tjikin! .8'HAI ...2nd half Map. .............JAVA ...2nd half Mor. A new undertaking entitled Tjimahi JAVA 1st half Apr......JAVA 1st half Apr. "South Atlantic and Orient Line," The steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light, and bee (says “Fairplay ") bean or have accommodation for a limited number of saloon passengers, and gonized at New York with the will take cargo to all Ports in Netherlands-India on through B/L.
object of establishing regalar For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the
monthly steamship service bat. JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN. ween the Southern States of North
York Building,
415 Telephone No. 1574
America and ports of China and Japan, via the Panama Canal. The concern is to be a combina-..
H
TOYO KISEN KAISHA"tion of the Indra Line and Castle
SAN FRANCISCO' LINE
VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA, THE INLAND SEA,
JAPAN AND
'HONOLULU,'
Sailings from HongkongSubject to change without notice."
Displacement
11
Kashima
11
20000 16000 20000
11th March. 25th
31
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8th April. 22nd
P
FOR AMERICA.
....
12500 tons. saila. Tuesday
12500
24th January.
14
E
12500
luth March 24th
1
12500
12500
7th April. 21st
Steamer. Chiyo Maru Tenyo Maru
15
Nippon Maru
Hongkong Maru
T UUKOTO, Manager.
Shinyo Maru
Tons & Speed 22,000-21 knots. Sat., 22,000- 23 knots Sat.,. 44,000 - 18 knots Wed, 11,000 - 10 knots Sat., 22,000 - 21 knots, Wed.,
25th
29th
yla Manila. "Omitting Shanghai.
Aki Maru Sado Yokohama Awa
Shidzuoka
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For further information apply to Telephone No. 292..
CHINA NAVIGATION
For
CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION,
Steamers.
To Sail. SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU...Kanchow .28th Feb, at m'night SWATOW & SHANGHAI ...Shengking ........1st Mar, at d'light SHANGHAI. ..........Shachsing 3rd Mar, at noon MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO... Chinhua ....3rd Mar. at 4 p.m. WEIHAIWEI & TIENTSIN... Kueichow 5th Mar. at noon. SHANGHAI ........................................................Anhui
5th Mar. at 4 p.m. SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU...Chenan
7th Mar, at m'night
DIRECT SAILING TO WEST RIVER, Twice Weekly. "8.8. LINTAN " and " 8.8. SANUI ” MANILA LINE.-Twin Screw Steamers "Chinhua," "Taming" and "Tean." Excellent saloon accommodation amidships; elegtrio fans fitted: extra staterooms on deck aft on “Taming” & “Tean.”
SHANCHAI LINE-Tho Twin Screw steamers
Anhul " "Chenan," and the S.8. "Llangchow," "Luchow" and "Yingchow" having excellent accommodation with Electric Light throughout and Electric Fans in the State-rooms and Dining Saloon, maintain a fast schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, leaving Hongkong for Shanghai dírect every Thursday and Sunday, taking cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangteze and Northern China Ports,
The steamers leaving Hongkong on Sundays proceed from Shanghai to Tsingtau, leaving there on Tuesdays for Shanghai, Hongkong and Canton.
N.B.-Passengers must embark before midnight on Saturday för the Sunday morning sailings. A Company's launch leaves Murray Pier at 10 o'clock every Saturday, night.
These steamers land passengers in Shanghai, avoiding the incon venience of the trans-shipment at Woosung.
Reduced Fares-Single $45: Return $75.
For Freight or Passages apply to
Telephone No. 36
"Hongkong 28th Feb, 1914.
21st May RUSSIAN
..29th May.
...28th Mar Scandla.... For Dunkirk, R'dam & H'burg: Aragonia............. 3rd April.
For H're, R'dom, B'men &H'burg; For M'ies, R'dam & Hamburg;
O.J.D. Ahlers.....28th Feb. Sachsen.......................23rd Mar. For Marseilles, 'burg & Awerp; For Havre & H'burg;
Suevia 2nd Mar, For Marseilles, Havre & H'burg; Sithonia ***** 6th Mar. Form las, H're, R'dam & H'burg; Bermuda....... 8th Mar, For Havre, Emden, & Hamburg; Spezia ..............14th Mar, For Bremen, H'burg & Antwerp:
Senegambla For Vitoria, Vér,8'tle & P. (Or.).[ Suedmark 18th Mar,
For Further Particulars, apply to-
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
Agente
Leave Hongkong.
7th Mar.
4th Apr. 8th
All steamers will be despatched at NOON. First Class to London £71.10. Return (6 months:) £120. First Class to New York.........£60.
£96.10. San Francisco £45.
£68. Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Return tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by steamors of the Pacific Mail 8.8. Co., or from Vancouver by steamers of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
Special Rates given to NAVAL & MILITARY, CIVIL SERVANTS, MISSion. ARIES ato.
ROUND THE WORLD Tickets issued in Connection with all the Principal Mail lines and the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Passengers may travel by Railway between porte of call in Japan free of
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
charge.
Line, of Liverpool, the firm of Watts and Co., of London, the Barber Line, and the firm of Funoh, Edye and Co., of New York, the last-named firm having the management, The American oorts of departure are to be Now Oleans, Savannah, Port Tampa, Gilveston, Pensacola, Mobile, and others. The plan includes the establishment later on ofan express Lorvics from New Orleans via the Panama Canal to Yoko hame.
Funnels Like Tunnels: Another important stage to wards the completion of the con atraction of the mammoth new Canarder, Aquitanic, Britain's largest liner, has been reached by the placing in position the last of the four buge funnels. Exten aive preparations had to be made for hoisting the fannel and
VL JAPAN FORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, MANZANILLO, SALINA lowering it into position. Several CRUZ, CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAISO.
Thence by TRANS-ANDEAN ROUTE to BUENOS AIRES. For Full Particulars as to Passage & Freight, apply to
Telephone No. 231
S. MORIMOTO, 'Agent.'
KING'S BUILDINGS,
hundred men were employed in the operations, including a large, body of engineers and rivetters, waiting on the ship to secure the massive structure. It was lifted- by the 150-ton orane, and to obtain
THE EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN the proper adjustment all the
4.
"STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED. Mail Service to Australia
via Manila.
MAIL SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO MODIFICATION).
Arrive Hongkong from Australia.
Steamers.
St. Albans Eastern.................................
Leave Hongkong for Australis,
21st Feb.
10th Mar.at
1
f
14th Mar.
9th April at
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gangways had to be taken away, The width of the fannel fore and aft is 24ft,, or as large as a rail- way tunnel. The top is over 161ft. above the keel, or to make another comparison, it would extend over 20ft. above the Nelson column în Trafalgarsquare. Each funnel, with its section of up-takes and boilers, weighs 1,500 tons, and the total for the four fannels 6,000 tons will convey some idea of the massive proportions and ex- tend of the machinery necessary to propel the world's premier liner. German Shipping interesta According to a report of an in-
The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, enterview with the Company Herr suring & Plentiful supply of Ice, French Provisions, etc., and are lighted throughout with Electricity: All State-Rooms have Electric Fans. A duly qualified Doctor and Stewardess are carried.
For further particulars, apply to
Ulbb, Livingston & Co.
Arreute.
VOLUNTEER FLEET. DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP
4 HONGKONG AGENCY.
Homeward Bound,
(Odessa via ports of call,)
Ballin general director of the Bam- burg-American Steamship Com- pany, hasdisposed of its holding of shares in the Austro-American Steamship Company to a syndicate beaded by the Vienna Bank Ver- ein, and has also renounced the
CO., LD, right of exercising the option
Hongkong-South China Coast Ports. Highest Class, Fastest and Most Luxurious Steamers on the Cosat, having splendid Accommodation for First-Class Passengers, The 8.8. Klev, 5,566 R.T., Commander Stetzky, is expected to Electric Light. Excellent Cuising, din arrive here about the 5th day of March, 1914.
"FOR SWATOW, AMUY AND FOOCHOW RETURN.
(Occupying 9 to 10 days.) Steamships.
Captain
Leaving. W.C.Passmore. TUESDAY, 3rd Mar. at 11 am. J. S. Roach ....... FRIDAY, 6th Mar. at 11 am. A. E. Hodgins... TUESDAY, 10th Mar. at 11 am. FARM FOR SWATOW,
The 8.8. Vladimir, 5,620 R.T., Commander Kamichansky, is For Havre Emden & Hamburg; expected to arrive here about the end of Maroh, or beginning o
Assyria, 4th April. April, 1914. For V'torla, V'ver, 8'tle & P. (Or.)
Hoerde
.14th April. For Havre; Bremen & H'burg, 17th Mar. Bayern ... 24th April.
Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hongkong Office,
Outward Bound. (Vladivostok via Nagoenkl.)
Haiching
| Haitan
Halyang
The S., Yaroslav, 4,494 R.T., Commander Lokhmatoff, is Haimun J. W. Evans SUNDAY, 1st Mar. at 10 am expected to arrive here about the 21st day of March, 1014,
Haimun J. W. Evans WEDNES, 4th Mar. at 11 am. NB-This outward
aleamer on the way to Nagasaki and Steamers will arrive at and depart from the Co.'s Wharf near Vladivostok will call at Hongkong if the room permits,
Blake Flor. For Freight, Passage and further particulars, apply to
For Freight and Passage, apply to * Capt. D. A. LUKHMANOFF, Agent Hongkong, 18th Feb, 1914.,
Hotel Mansions, Tel No 1234
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Douglas Laprak & Co.
General Manaweza,
bald on's further block of shares in the Austrian ⠀
company. In the emigration question the Crer man company has been granted. the right of establishing control stations on the Austrian frontier, and also on the ships. The share- holding of the Hamburg-Ameri can Company in the Austrian company hna existed for a number of years past, and amounts, toget her with a similar holding of the North German Lloyd Company to 9,000,000 crowns.
18 said that the North German Lloyd hag, also expressed its readiness to transfer its shares, rot
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