THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY,
Shipping
CANADIAN PACIFIC
ROYAL MAIL.
STEAMSHIP LINE.
From Hongkong.
Shinning
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA:
THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP 00.
All Steamships leave Ilongkong at noon.
The "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA," and "EMPRESS OF ASIA" are now quadruple screw 21 knot turbino steamers, of 16,850 tons gross, 30,625 displacement, the finest, fastest and most luxurious on the Pacific.
Projected Sailings from Hongkong-
Subject to Alteration
Steamers.
MARCH 5, 1914.
Shipping
HONGKONG
LOG BOOK.
Rescue in Mid-7cean.
Eight of the orew of the British barque Malawa bave arrived at
PHILIPPINES. Key West (Florida). They were
4000 F. S. McMurray
.4000 J. Miller
I
f
rescued in mid-ocean from their sinking ship. The Drow spent a day in the rigging, and CO.attracted, by means of traches, the
Sailing date.
STEAMSHIP
For
Manila,Mangarin, TUES., 3rd Cobu and Iloilo, | Mar. 4 p.m. Manila.Mangarin, FRI., 13th
Cobu and Iloilo. Mar. 4 p.m.
PHILIPPINES
Empress of Japan Empress of Russia
5th Mr.
19th Mar.
Monteagle Empress of
Asia
8th April.
16th April,
Destination..
Salling Date Steamship, T.
Captains.
MARSEILLES,
LONDON & AN-
TWERP, via Hirano Maru Singapore, Capt. Fraser
Malacca, Penang,
Colombo, Suez, & Port Said..
Katori Maru Capt. Murai
T. 16,000
T. 20,000,
WEDNES., 11th Zafiro Mar. at 10 am [WEDNES., 25th |Rubi
Mar. at 10a.m.
kaibhi,
via
and
VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE
Sado Maru Shanghai, Moji, Kobe, Yok-Capt. Asakawa
Yokohama Maru Capt. Wuda
T. 12,500
T. 20,000
TUESDAY, 10th Mar. at noon.
TUES; 24th Mar., at noon.
"EMPRESS OF ASIA."
via
"EMPRESS OF JAPAN," via
The direct route to Canada, United States and Europe, call- ing at Shanghai, Nagasaki.(through the Inland Son of, Japan), Kobe, Yokohama and Victoria, B.C..
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
MONTEAGLE”, Intermediate service, Atlantic port £43, via Boston or New York £45.
Rates quoted above do not include meals and sleeping car across Canada. Those, if required, will be furnished for £6 additional.
.:
(WEDNES., 11th
T. 9,300 i Mar. at noon.
JWEDNES., 8th T. 13,500 1 Apr, at noon.
¡SATURDAY,
Yokohama
SYDNEY & MEL-
BOURNE, via Kumano Maru Manila, via Canadian
Thurs-Capt. K. Soyoda day
Islund. Tango Maru Townsville and Capt. T. Sekine Brisbane CALCUTTA via) Ceylon Maru
S'pore, Penang Capt. Noguchi T. 12,300 17th Mar, & Rungoon BOMBAY via Singa-
poro and Colombo.]
Kashima Maru KOBE & Yokohama
Capt. M. Yagi NAGASAKI, Kebel Tango Maru
& Yokohama ...... Capt. Sekine SHANGHAI, Moji
SPECIAL RATES (First Class 'only.) allowed to Naval and Military officers, Civil Service employees, Missionarios, etc, etc. Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Round Trip passage tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by the steamers of the Pacific Mail S.S. Co, or Toyo Kisen Kaisha.
Legal and through passengers may, if desired, travel by rail between Ports of call in Japan.
For further information, Maps, Routes, Handbooks,, Rutes of Freight and Passage, apply to
D. W. CRADDOCK, Gonoral Traffic Agent for China. Corner of Pedder Street and Praya, opposite Blake Pier.
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.
for
APCAR LINE.
Regular Service Between
CALCUTTA, STRAITS, SHANGHAL and JAPAN PORTS.
EASTWARD.
"Dunera," 5,389 tons, Capt. Dickinson, will be despatched ZOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI on 3rd Mar,
."A. Apcar," 4,450 tons, Capt. Walker, will be despatched for SANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE & MOJI on 18th Mar.
WESTWARD.
5.S. "Dilwara." 5,378 tons, Capl. Ramage, R,N.R. will be des- *patched for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA on 3rd Mar.
at 11a.m.
..I
S.S. "C. Apcar." 4,600 tone, Capt. Drake, will be despatched ss above on 12th Mar.
The above steamers have excellent saloon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and curry a Auly qualified surgeon.
For freight or passage, apply to
Hongkong, Mar. 3rd, 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 in 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, LONDON, E.C.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
IN CONJUNCTION WITH Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts Gesellschaft "HANSA."
EAST ASIATIC SERVICE, Regurar Satinga from JAPAN, CHINA and PHILIPPINES
pia STRAITS and COLOMBO,
/
TO
Marseilen, Havre, Bremen and Hamburg and New York. And from Manila, Hongkong and Japan to Vancouver (B.C.) and Portland (Or.)
Takby Cargo at Through eaten to all European North Continental and Belts Porte, alas Trissen
hon, Oporto, Genoa, and other Mediterranean Levantine, lech Baltic Sea and
Ports, and all North and Seatb, American Parts,
Hoerde
Next Sailings from Hongkong
Suedmark... Brisgavla... Uckermark... Sambla....
OUTWARD.
For Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama:
18th Mar. | Wuerttemberg ...18th Mar,Segovia .......................... 1st Apr. Emden.......... 5th Apr. Frisla.................... ......25th Apr.
HOMEWARD.
Tor Marseilles, Havre & H'burg; Sithonia..... 8th Mar, ForM'les, 're, R'dam & H'burg; 8th Mar Bermuda..... For Havre, Emdon, & Hamburg:
Spezia....
14th Mar.. For Bromun, H'burg & Antwerp: 17th Mar, Senegambla Forv'torin, Viver, S'tle & P. (Or.) Suedmark..... 18th Mar For M'les, R'dam & Hamburg;
23rd Mar. Sachsen.
F
1st May, 11th May. 21st May. 29th May.
For Havre & H'burg;
Scandia ............ 28th Mar For Dunkirk, R'dam & H'burg; Aragonia.............................3rd April. For Havre Bindon & Hamburg
Assyria,........ 4th April. For Vitorla, Vver,'tle & P. (Or.) Hoerde........14th April.. For Havre, Bremen & H'burg;
Bayern
.24th April.
For Further Particulars, apply to-
Hamburg Amerika Linie) Hongkong Office,
and Kobe
Bombay Maru
SHANGHAI, Moji, 1 Tosa Maru
İSATURDAY.
T. 5,000 7th Mar.
WEDNES., 11th T. 20,000 Mar. at 11 a m.
WED,, 11th
T. 13,500 Mar. at 11 a.m.
TUESDAY,
Kobe & Vokohana Capt. Yokohama T. 12,000 (3rd Mur.
#Cargo only.
Fitted with new system of wireless telegraphy.
PASSENGER SEASON 1014 FOR EUROPE
Hirano Maru 16000 tons sails Wednesday Katori Kamo
19
Electric light Fans in every cabin; competent atowardosses
carried.
Passenger holding round trip tickets may return by any steamer of the Pacific Mail 8.3, Co., Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Norddeutscher Lloyd and Easter and Australing Steamship Co., Ltd.
For Fraight or Passága apply to
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
Hongkong, 23rd Feb, 1914.
GENERAL MANAGERS
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN
LIJN.
notice of the British steamer Cas trian, and were resoned thereby. They were afterwards transferred
to a United States revenue cutter. The Malawa was abandoned as a derelict.
Shipbuilding in 1913. Ia is review of engineering" progress during 1913, published on the 30th January, The Times saya:-**
The predominant position which the United Kingdom occupies in weight of shipbuild ing output can be shown in the deûuite form of figures denling with the tonnage launched from British and foreign yarda, though the place hold by Great Britain in ship design and construction is outside the range of mere statistice, and its real significance is to be revealed only by a critic-+ xl examination of the many types of ships included in the tounsge - Will inayo on or About Isunchod. Tjibodas...... JAVA...1st half Mar. ...JAPAN ...1st half Mar. Tiiliwang JAPAN 1st half Mar... JAVA Titaroem...S'HAI 1st half Mar.......JAVA Tjimanoek JAVA...2nd half Mar. S'HAI Tiilatlap.JAVA 2nd half Mar......JAPAN Tjipanas......JAVA ..2nd half Mar......S'HAI Tjikini.S'HAI...2nd half Mar.......JAVA
AMA
Tjimahi
Regular Fortnightly Service between JAVA, CHINA and JAPAN.
·
Troń
Expected on or about
Yor
י
Ai a moment wheu, opinione 1st half Mar. with regard to passenger ship 1st half Mar, design and construction are to a ...2nd half Mar.
2nd balf Mar. Certain extent in the melting pot ...2nd half Mar. there are fewer changes than us 2nd half Mat. jual from old practice in the con- ...JAVA...1st half Apr.......JAVA 1st half Apr.truction of passenger ships. The The steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light, and big ship is still in evidence, bat have accommodation for a limited number of saloon passengers, and it is merely a development from will take cargo to all Forts in Netherlands-Indin on through B/L.
For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the
„JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
York Building.
115 lephone No. 1574
TOYO KISEN KAISHA
SAN FRANCISCO LINE
VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN AND HONOLULU,
Sailings from Hongkong-Subject to change without notice.
Displacement
20000
11th March. 25th
16000
*
8th April,
Kashima
20000
22nd
17
#
Aki Sado Yokohama
FOR AMERICA. Maru 12500 tons sails Tuesday
12500
M
11
12500
24th January. 10th March. 24th
Steamer.
Awa
"
Shidzuoka
12500 12500
1
7th April. 21st
Chiyo Maru
Tenyo Maru
Nippon Maru
Seiyo Maru
Hongkong Maru
P BUMUMOTO. Manoran
Shinyo Maru
Tons & Speed 22,000 - 21 knots Sat., 22,000 - 23 knots Sat:, "44,000- 18 knots Wed.,
Sat., 11,000- 10 knots Sat,, 22,000-21 knots. Wed.,'
4th Apr.
8th
13th
25th
13
29th
For further information apply to Telephone No. 298,
CHINA NAVIGATION
CO., LTD.
To Sail.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. For
Steamers. .Tientsin NINGPO & SHANGHAT SWATOW, AMOY & S'HAL...Wenchow WEIHAIWEI&TIENTSIN... Kuelchow MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO...Chinhua SHANGHAI.....
Anhui SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU...Chenan S'TOW, C'FOO & TIENTSIN Huichow SHANGHAI,
Liangchow MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO... Taming
via Manila. Omitting Shanghai."
Leave Hongkong.
7th Mar
31. A
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All steamers will be despatched at NOON. First Class to London.......£71.10, Return (6 months:) £120.
£96.10. First Class to New York£60. ·
268. San Francisco £45. "Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Return tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by steamers of the Pacifio Mail S.8. Co., or from Vancouver by steamers of the Canadian Pacifio Rallway Co.
ARIES etc.
charge.
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE,
similar ship of lower tonnage. More attention is now being given to the design of the double bottom and the arrangement of balkheads and watertight com. partments in the endeavour to evolve the unsinkable ship which the practical shipbuilder regarde as the crux of the problem of safety at sea. The provision of hoats for all, and the installation of new types of davite nad im. provel methode of boat laua. ebing, are expedients adopted rather as concessions to popular opinion and fears than from any profound belief in their life- saving qualities; and with the development of wireless signall ing at se-there are now 2,000. vessels registered at Lloyd's atted with wireless telegraphy- the aim of the shipbuilder is rather, to make the passenger ship itself remain aflost until the work of rescue can be effected than to provide means of escape from it by the aid of boats.
The big British-built passenger ship of the year, which is of 47,000 gross tonnage, was the Aquitania, which is now being
Viu. JAPAN PORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, MANZANILLO, SALINA fitted out at Clydebank. In this CRUZ, CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAISO.
Thonce by TRANE-ANDEAN ROUTE to BUENOS AIRES. For Full Purticulars as to Passage & Freight, apply to
Telephone No. 291
S. MORIMOTO," Agent,
KING'S BUILDINGS.
Special Rates given to NAVAL & MILITARY, CIVIL SERVANTS, MISSION- 4th Mar. at d'light Mail lines and the Trans-Siberian Railway.
ROUND THE WORLD Tickets tested in Connection with all the Principal ....4th Mar. at 10 am.
Passengers may travel by Railway between ports of call in Japan free of 5th Mar. at noon ...5th Mar. at 4 p.m. ...5th. Mar. at 4 p.m.
7th Mar. at m'night 8th Mar. at 9 am 10th Mar. at 4 p.m. .10th Mar. at 4 p.m. SHANGHAI.
Luchow .....12th Mar. at 4 p.m. DIRECT BAILING TO WEST RIVER, Twice Wookly. "B.S. LINTAN "and" 8.8. SANUL " MANILA LINE. Twin Screw Steamers "Chinhus," "Taming" and "Tean." Excellent saloon accommodation amidships; electric fans fitted: extra staterooms on deck aft on "Taming" & "Tean,"
SHANGHAI, LINE,-The Twin Borow steamers น
Anbul" Chenan," and the 3.8. “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 direct every Thursday and Sunday, taking cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtaze and Northern China Porte.
The eteamers 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 for the Sunday morning sailings. A Company's launch leaves Murray Pier at 10 o'clock every Saturday night.
These steamere 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 in
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Agents
Tolephone No. 36
Hongkong 3rd Mar, 1914.
RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER
HONGKONG AGENCY.
Homeward Bound.
(Odessa via ports of call.)
THE EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED.
Mail Service to ustrali
via Manila.
vessel special attention has been given to an extensive system of -abdivision by means of water- tight bullkheads and flats, a method of construction on which
the co ment made in the annual report of Lloyd's Register is that it makes her." practically unsink able." An even larger vessel was the Bamburg-Amerika 56,000 ton liner Vaterland, built at the Hem- burg yard of Messrs. Blohm und Voss. The Britannic, which is under construction for the White Star Line at Belfast, and which is nearly ready for launching; will Leave Hongkong probably stand between these
for Australia.
wo ships. Other notable pas- anger liners of 1913 were the 20th Mar.at 10a.m. Norddantecher Lloyd Columbus, 9th April an 1st May 29th May.
MAIL SCHEDULE (BUBJECT TO MOLINIUATION
Steamers,
St. Albans ercenaries Eastern Aldenham
Empire......ATUTINTASUOM
Arrive Hongkong from Australia.
14th Mar. 4th April.
2nd May.
35,000 tons; the Hamburg- Amerika Company's Tirpitz, -21,000 tona; and the Allau liners The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, en Alsatian [and Calgarian which suring & Plentiful supply of Ice, French Provisions, etc., and are were both of 18.500 tons. It has lighted throughout with Electricity: All State-Rooms have Electric heen the year of German rather Fans. A duly qualified Doctor and Stowardess are carried..
For further particulars, apply to
Gibb, Livingston & Co..
Ageats
FLEET DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP
CO.,
Hongkong-South China Coast Forts.
LD.
Highest Class, Fastest and Most Luxurious Steamers on the Coast, having splendid Accommodation for First-Close Fassengers, The 8.8. Klev, 5,566 R.T., Commander Stetzky, is expected to Electric Light. Excellent Cuisine. arrive here about the 5th day of March, 1914.
:
The B.8. Vladimir, 5,620 R:T., Commander Kamichaneky, is expected to arrive here about the end of March, or beginning of April, 1914.
Outward Bound. (Vladivostok via Nagasaki.):
The BS. Yaroslav, 4,494 R.T., Commander Lokhmatoff, is expected to arrivo here about the 21st day of March, 1914.
N.B. This outward steamer on the way to Nagasaki and. Vladivostok will call at Hongkong if the room permiten
For Freight, Passage and further particulara, apply to
Capt. D. A. LUKHMANOFF, Agent,
Hotel Mautions, TOI NË 1224,
Hongkong, 18th Feb., 1914
Steamships.
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHÓW RETURY, (Occupying 9 to 10 days)
Leaving. Captain 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 a.m.
FOR SWATOW.
Haiching Haitan.... Halyang
Halmun
J. W. Evans ... WEDNES., 4th Mar, at 11 am. Halmun JW. Evans, SUNDAY, 8th Mar. at 10a.m..
Steamers will arrive at and depart from the Co.'s Wharf near
-Blake Pier." For Freight and Passage, apply to
Douglos Lapralk & Co,
General Managersizin
thau of British builders in the domain of tho big ship. The two Dutoh liners built by Messre, Alexander Stephen and Sons on- the Clyde, which were sisterships of 14053 tons, are, however, noteworthy examples of modern naval architecture, and are pro- bably the best examples of modern naval architecture, and are probably the best examples of liner luxury aflost.
A feature of the year's work in the large number of ships of 10,000 tone and upwards which were launched or laid down. The ordinary tramp steamer has been in less evidence than usual, the reason being that con- ditions were not favourable for the building of such ships. The
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