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THE KIEL CANAL.”
A Part of Bismarck's Scheme.
The Globe naval correspondent
writes :-.
KOWLOON'S NEW
GARAGE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1914.
POST OFFICE.
Ships' Letter Boxes.
1. It is hereby, aotland that during the respondence must be posted at the Genor Post Office or at any of its Branoh ofices.
continuance of the War all outgoing cor
'}
2. Ships' Officers are striatly forbidden
to receive on board their vessels any correspondence from the Public.
3. Shipmastore are not allowed to place boxes for the purpose of collecting corrca- er expose on board their vessels letter pondance; all such boxes fuard exposed au bourd their vessels will be removed and returned to the General Post Office,
SHIPPING NEWS.
ARRIVED.
Haiman, Br, 19, 611, Stewart, 27th Inst.— Swatow, last, 26th Gon.-D. L & Co.
WEATHER REPORT.
On the 27th at 10.35-The northern depression in passing into the Pacific.
Pressure is now highest oyer Korea and
MAIL STEAMERS
THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL S. N. CO.
ENGLISH MAIL.
along the coast from Foot how to forest. WILL despatch VESSELS to the Undermentioned PORTS on or James, and over Formosa and Luzon,,
Manchuria. It has decreased slightly
S.
&
Foodhow, 25th Inst., Gen.-P. Candia, Br. a.. 4,125, R. E. Poel, 27th inst.
O. B. N. Co.
Hongkong Rainfall for the 24 hours 27th inst.-Manila, 24th instant, ending at 10a.m. to-day, 0.12 inches. Gra.-J. M. & Co.
Yuensang. Br. J. 1,188, G., H. Tough,
Br... 3,031,8. Saxby, 26th inst. Yokohama, Ballas:-D. & Co.
The Dragon Cycle Company have established a new branch garage To judge from the auccess with in Kowloon, at 20, Nathan Road, which the German Navy has where they have an up-to-date concealed itself with the solo ervice of care either for hire or exception of the Gcaben not one purchase. There are care suitable of its big ships has been seen or for two people, while in others heard of since the war began parties of four or six can be the Kiel Canal is one of the few accommodated at very reasonable military enterprises undertaken rates. One point which may be by our enemies which is giving mentioned is that no extra charge anything like a return for the will be made for picnic parties money spent on it. It used to be who desire to keep a car a couple claimed by German naval strate of hours standing while they go gists that the canal doubled the sight-seeing. Prompt service is potential value of their navy, guaranteed and caly experienced inasmuch as it would involve an and capable drivers are employed, enemy in the necessity for navall under the personal supervision ering both the Bight of Heligo of a European. The roads to land, into which the cutting de- Yaumati, Kowloon City, Shatin bouches on the North Ses side, and Taipo offer splendid facilities and also the passages leading for motoring, and the tired and into the North Sea from the jaded business man in need of Baltig. But this claim has so far relaxation after a hard day's work cers must send to the Foat Office ALL Miyazaki Maru. Jap. x.s. 5,270, J. Terana- | beon falsified by events. Instead can spend a couple of enjoyable of increasing the mobility of the hours in the country at a very ports from which they sailed, or unywhere Aldenham, Br. a.a. 3,000, Smith, 27th inst.
4. Shipping Companies must not re- Atboll, their abips' Papers any but bona fide con- ceive from the Public for inclusion in signees lettore which should be left open for inspection when required.
last.-Batavia, 16th. Inst., Sugar
Timahi, Dut. 5.8. 3,815, S. Oushugs, 26th
J. C. J. L
.
5. Shipping Companies should stato in their notifications to the Post Office the Nankin Marv, Br. s.s. 4250, G. Manley, in order that the public may have overy exact hour of departure of their vessels facility for posting at the General Post Office.
6. Shipping Companies and Ships Off- correspondence except bona fide cons'.
gnees lettera posted in the Ships' Letter
Boxes or received by Ships' Officers at the-
on route to Hongkong..
7. The above regulations will not affect
+
26th inst.-Colombs, Gen.-P. & 0.$. N. Go.
FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW,
Steamers
about the DATES named- For SHANGHAI.
MOJI, KOBE AND
YOKO- HAMA
Forecast.SHANGHAI................
LONDON & Gonos]
District.
1. Hongkong and Neighbour. E. winds,
moderato; I flac. hood
To Sail On Remarks:
Nankin
Capt. G. Manley
}
d'light. 27th Oct.
Freight &P'sage
Vis Singapore, Candia
Penang C'mbo,Capt. R. E. Pael.
Port Said, and
Marseilles
LONDON, via Us-) Nankin
ka, 26th InstLondon, 12th ult., Gen.-N. Y.K.
ual Ports of Call
2 Formosa Channel.
The same
as No. 1.
Manila, 24th inst., Gen.-G. L.& Co.
3 South coast of China ba-) The same
as No. 1. tween H.K. and Lamock s
5 South coast of China be- tween H.K. and Halaan...
the licensed, privato letter boxes carried sels belonging to or managed by the between Hongkong & Canton by the vos Kallong, Br. B.. 897, H. Mathias, 27th Hongkong Canton & Macao Steamboat
Company.
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE THE
NAMES OF THE VESSELS BY WHICH MAILS ARE FORWARDED WILL NOT BE ADVERTISED IN THE MAIL
NOTICES
Inat-Holbow,26th lost, Gen- B. & S.
PASSENGERS ARRIVED,
Per a Timahl from Batavia-M
CORRESFONDENCE (INCLUDING PAROELS) IS BEING DESPATCHED AS OPPORTUNITY OFFERS: BUT Roosendaal. ALL SERVICES ARE IRREGULAR AND UNCERTAIN AND ALL COR- RESPONDENCE IS LIABLE TO DE. LAY.
4.5
THE PARCEL FÖST SERVICE TO
FRANCE IS SUSPENDED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
ΤΗΣ
i.
Per us. Aldonham from Sydney etc.- Miss E Simon, Cape W E Clarke.
Capt. G. Manley
Subject to alteration without notice.
.10 a.m. 28th Oct.
Freight
Freight
"4 p.m. 6th Nov.
& F'sage
All the above steamers are fitted with Wireless Telegraphy. NOTICE TO SHIPPERS..
SHIPPERS are informed that the P. & O. Company's Vessele The same are insured under The British Government National Insurance as No. 1.Scheme and the, can offect War Risk Insurance on individual shipments wi The National Insurance Committee, London, through their representatives there.
China Coast Meteorological Register.
Státion.
Toklo
Oshima
27th Oct., 4.
Winds
Hour.
Harometer.
Tomperature.
Humidity,
Weather.
D'tion.'
Force.
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30.08
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30.11
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30.13
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30.13
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30,08
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Per 9.5. Miyazaki Maru for Hongkong
whatws!
30.16 56 94 me
1 be
Hankow
Kiuklang
Changaba
Cherman Fleet, the Kiel Canal modest outlay. seams to have served the purpose of rendering it indefinitely im mobile: The ships could certain paniment. The work was just ly not find a much safer retreat completed is time to enable the fleet to make use of it in the wor. than in the 62 miles of waterway The depth was increased to which separate Bruasbuitel from 38 feet and the width was Holtenau,
doubled, while many of the Sometimas known as the Baltic Ship Canal, and more frequently sharper curves in its cours Gs the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal,ore straightened out to permit the passage of the eighth-of a this work was begun in 1887, mile battle-cruisers projected for and was part of a scheme which Bismarck had long cherished for the fleet. This enlargement is estimated to have cost £11,150, connecting Kiel Harbour with 000, as compared with the Emden, the most westerly point £7,800,000 which the original . on the German littoral, by means work is said to bave cost. In the
Por ss., Nankin from London etc-Wostook a 30.22 38 20. Mr A' J Pamfrett, F. W Mazo, Yemuro of a great waterway enabling latter case, however, the actual
J Stall, Maitland, Misa N Blagg, Hakodate squadrons and flotillas of war-figure was considerably higher..
NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT AL-
Kochi Both entrances to the Canal are ships to traverse the whole coast.
THOUGH EVERY POSSIBLE PRE- Miss G Chottle, L Fastos, Miss E Kenney line secure from seaward inter-provided with a double leek, the CAUTION IS TAKEN TO SECURE WJ Hodge. Mr & Mrs Poarse, R Innes, Nagasaki
PAC
K'agima ference. What we know as the object of which is simply to THE SAFETY OF ALL I OSTAL
KETS WHILST IN THE CUSTODY OF Mr & Mrs Kuck nan, Mr & Mrs Knotten- Kiel Canal is the only part of this neutralise the effect of tider, einca THE POST OFHCE THE POSTMAC hott, Mrs Wintelor, M Necimento, Mr&Nahs work which has been carried the sea-level is the same at either TER GENERAL CANNOT GIVE COMMrs Lowenstein, Mr & Mrs Donosan, Hahl'ima through, although Wilhelmshaven end. There are eight enormous PENSATION FOR ANY 1.038 OR DA-Li, Chen Cho-ya, Heis.
MAGE WHICH MAY BE DUE TO THE nad Emden are joined by a small sidings where ships may pass, ACT OF THE KING'S ENEMIES, UN canal through which torpedo though these are obviously less TILFURTHER NOTICE NO LETTERS necessary now than before the BOXES OR PARCELS FOR BELGIUM, BRAZIL CRETE OR MONTENEGRO of the Kiel waterway was.com-jenlargement. The four largest AND NO LETTERS, BOXES OR PAR: Brodio, Mr & Mrs H Soborne, Miss J
Ebanghai plated in 1895, and in June of of these sidings have a width of OELS FOR MALTA CAN BE ACCEPT- Stuart, Mr & Mrs C Craig, Master & Cra-
ig, Miss B Watson, Mr & Mrs Sidebottom, Gutzlaff that year a large international 5381t, and a length of 3,650ft., ED FOR INSURANCE. Boet assembled at Kiel for the and at these places all but the THE PARCEL POST AND'INSURED Muster J Sidebottom, Misses D & J Side-Sharp P. 72
Swatow Surmar, Mies H Mauchan, Rev McKies. Taihoku opening ceremony. This occur longest ships in the Navy could LETTER SYSTEM TO BRAZIL IS SUS bottom, Miss 3 Whitford, Mr & Mrs J Amoy
PENDED... red on Jane 20, when the be turned round with comparative
THE PARCEL POST SERVICE TOtry, JH N Mody, Mr & Mrs Brifrer, Talchu Tainan German Emperor, in the imperial ease. In these sidings the whole HE UNITED KINGDOM IS IN FULL Mra DO Casulli. AW Schneider, HP Koshun yacht Hohenzollern, steamed of the German Navy could to WORKING ORDER IN BOTH DIREC
Smith, W Cooper, Mra E.Sanderson, JP'dores through from the North Sea end comfortably accommodated; by TIONS BY THE LONG SEA ROUTE. at the bead of a set of twenty which, however, it is not intended
THE PARCEL POST SERVICE TO Colbeck, B Mather, Rav H B Erown, W Canton thred ships.
to suggest that our enemy's fleet EGYPT AND CERTAIN COUNTRIES Keeley, Mra OM Hughes, Mr & Mra T'kong
MENTIONED, SERVED BY EGYPT Scott. Miss C Scott, Miss E Scott, Miss M. At a banquet following the has actually sought their shelter. 18 RESUMED FOR ORDINARY PAR- Scott, Master W &T Scott, A Jamieso opening of the Canal, the Kaiser, The highest spred allowed in pass- CELLOR, SYRIA, TURKEY, ITALY, Cheng. T8 Low, FL Giudice, SP Siew. knowing full well (as did his ing through the canal is 15 kaotel ALGERIA, TUNIS SWITZERLAND guests) that the work was and that only in the case of smal, AND (LYBIYA) TRIPOL! primarily a military measure of vessels, the average time taken the fret magnitude," delivered in the ran from sea to seu being how will it futuro be closed or a
A late mail for Swatuw Amoy & Foo- himself as follows:-"The parabout nine hours.
Douglas ateamera 20 minutes before each ticipation in our festivities of the The northern end of the Canal steamer sails, Ordinary corespondence Powers whose representatives we debouches into the
will be received after the regular mall "Reichs has closed at the side west entrance to sec among us, and whose splendid Kriege flafen," or Imperial War the G. P. O, in the June off Des Voeux Swarow, Amoy & Foochow.....30th Oct. ships we have to-day admired, Harbour, of Kiel, about four Road noknowledge the more readily as miles from the head of the fiord I believe I am right in perceiving and on the western side. Kiel is therein a completo vindication of the German Portsmouth, and is the efforts we have always direct defended accordingly, powerful ed towards the maintenance of batteries lining both sides of the peace, Germany will range the harbour. The heaviest batteries. work inaugurated to-day on the
ONLY: CRETE CYPRUS.
War risks are not covered by possi registration or insurance,
The service to Tsingtau is suspende
Austra-
11
FRIDAY, 30th Oct.
Philippine Islands, Australia, Tamaria & New Zealand via Port Darwic & Now Gainon
vin Thursday 1.30th Oct. 11a.m.
1 p.m.
SATURDAY; Slet Oct.
Wel Hai Wol & Tientsin......31s: irat.
4 p.m.
SUNDAY, 1st Nov." The Now Year Mall will be closed at 5 Cwatow 1st Nov. 9 a..
|
Insured parcels will only be accepte
of departure are liable to alteration. -
d
The Public are informed that the are those of Friedrichsort, about Christmas Paroni Mail to the United ide of those accomplished in the two miles below the canal en Kingdom will be closed in this office at 5 service of peace, and will esteem trance, which are supported by pa. on the 5th of November 1914. herself fortunate if the Kaiser others of only slightly less power Wilhelm Canal in this sense at Labos and Moltenors, on the pm on the 19th November. furthers and strengthens our other side of the harbour, which
TUESDAY 3rd Nov. friendly relations with the other at this point is from 1,500 to for the United Kingdors. The above date. Powers. I drein my glass to the 2,000 yards across, and therefore
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow The mail from London (vin Siberiz) of welfare of the friendly sovereiga capable of being swept by all
......3rd Oct. 3. Friday the 25th ulto, la due to arrive Philippine Is. Powera." Germany no longer calibres of gans. admires our "splendid ships,"
The southern end of the canal, bere to-morrow. preferting to respect them at a which issues near Branshittel, is distance; and the world is not some distance up the Elbe and likely to forget in a hurry the ships of any size can only apsiberian, this, part which Germany hae played prosch it by means of a narrow in falfiling the "mission of channel close to the strongly
civilisation."
fortified southern bank of the
MAILS DUE.
MAILS CLOSE TO-MORROW,
1a.m.
r
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As originally constructed, the river. The jat of land upon Kiel Canal was 20 feet deep, which Cuxhaven stands has been Hoihow, Haiphong & Fakhol 29th st with a width of 72 feet at the described as the most strongly Philippine fa..... 29th lost., 9am. bottom and 200 feet at the top, fortified district on the whole swatow, Amoy, Shangbai & N. China..
28th Oct. 11 am. and so it remained until the German coast, and a ship with a coming of the Dreadnought. The drought of more than twenty Swatow 25th Oct., noon. epormons increase in the size of feat-that is, anything bigger Bangkok 28th Oct. 1 p.m. shipa made it immediately ap than a cecond class cruiser is Japan via Kobe parent that in the altered condi. compelled by aandbanks to keep Shanghai North China & Japan via Kobe tions the Kiel Canal could no within 2,000 yards of the coast
is
...28th Oct., 2 pm.
.....28th inst., 4 poziv
Anping......28th Oct., 5 pm.
longer discharge its strategic for a distanos of over twelve Srstow. Amor, Formosa via Takao & fazotions. Germany's last pre-miles. Brudebuttol itself Dreadnoughts were 398 feet long, strongly fortified, and is equip and 72 feet in beam, with a moaned with two docks and a large draught of 25 feet; but her first fuel depot.
Dreadnoughts advanced to a length of 452 feet, a beam of 89 feet, and, a draught of 20 feet. It was therefore decided, though with considerable reluctance, to enlarge the canal so as to make it navigable for the new type of Warehip The work was taken in
BILIMPOPON COAL. BUNKERS
can be supplied at cheap rate SANDAKAN &
SEBATTIK
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hand in 1900 and was completed At those ports steamers calling as recently as June 21-last, when the Kaiser again steamed through for bunker oon! exclusively are exempt from all shipping dues in bin yacht, though this time and charges.
without any international accom
BUNE
THURSDAY, 29th Oct. Holbow, Haiphong & Pakhol 29th lost
A'can &
Mall
English
Mali,
Nov, 10a.m.
FRIDAY, Gih Nov.
3rd
Straits, Burmah, Coylon, Ade- lalde, Western Australia, India, Aden. Egypt, and Europe Late Letters 10.30 a.m. to 11 Extra Postage 10 conte). (Lotters posted in all the Pillar
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this contract mail). The parcel mall will be closed on Thursday, the 5th Oct., at 5 pm 8th Nov. 10.30a.m.
"Tulip Bread,"
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The production of a Marine Risk Policy is not immediately
For Freight or Passage, apply to
necessary..
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E. A. Hewett,
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T. F. Claxton, Director,
Hongkong Observatory, Oct. 27.
1 Barometer, reduced to 32 degrees Fahrenbelt on the level of the sea in in- obes, tenths and hundredths...
2 Temperature, in the shade, in deg so Fahrenheit.
3 Humidity, in percentage of saturation, the Humidity of air saturated with mois ture being 100.
4 Direction of Wind, to two points
5 Force of Wind, according to Beaufor Beale.
State of Weather, b bius aky, a de- tached ploud, d drizzling rain, ffog, & gloomy, h ball, I lightning, o overcast, p passing showore, a squally, r rain, & snow, tthunder, v vlaibliity, w daw wat
0 Rain in inches, torths and hundredthe
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76.
82 talip balba. The bread is said Humidity.......... Formona via Klung, Japan via to be very nourishing and the Wind Direction ... Moji Victoria, B. C., Tacoma & United Kingdom via Canada war ministry has recommended
29th Oct. 2 p.m.
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