SHIPPING
RIPPING
P.&O.S.N.CO. MIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
ROYAL MAIL SERVICE.
WILI- despatch VESSELS to the Undermentioned PORTS on or
about the DATES named:-
For
LONDON. & Bom-
bay via Singapore, Penang, Colom' o. Port Said and Mameilles
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BHANGHAI, Moji
and Kobe
SHANGHAI, Moji,1
Kobe and Yoko-. hama
LONDON viaSinga- pore, Penang Colombo, Bombay,
Port Baid and
Marseilles.........
"
Steamers
To Sail On
Hemarks
Connecting at Colombo with Australia Mail Steamer.
Direct Service.
THE JAPAN MAIL GREA MEHIP: 00.
Projected Sailings from Hongkong—
Subject to Alteration
Steamers.
Destination.
"SHIPPING
C. N. C.
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
Steamers.
Salling Date
BWATOW
SHANGHAI
SHANGHAI.
For MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO Taming
Luchow Chenan Slakiang
SHANGHAI
Awa Maru Capt. Hayashi T. 12,500
Yokohama Maru
T. 12,500
WED., 7th
MANILA, CEBU & ILOILOʻTean
Feb., at noon. WED., 14th Feb., at noon.
L'DON vía Singa-1
fore,
Malacca, Penang, Colombo, Delagoa Bay, Cape Town, Tenorrife VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE vis Shanghai, Moji, Kobe, Ng goya & Yokohama Capt. Terada..
SYDNEY & MEL-
Direct Service.
Direct Service.../
WIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS. Return tickets at a fare- and-a-half available to Europe for two years, or Intermediate Ports for six months. Round-the-world and through tickets to New York, at Special Rates.
For PASSAGE RATES, HAND-BOOKS, FREIGHTS, Dates of Sailings etc. apply ts
P. &.0.8. N. Co's office, Hongkong, Jan. 2, 1917.
E. V. D. Parr, Superintendent.
A
CANADIAN PACIFIC
OCEAN SERVICES
TRANSPACINC.
LIMITED
QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC
To Canada, United States and Europe via Vancouver in connection with the Canadian Pacific Railway-
Hong Kong to Vancouver 17 days.
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA and EMPRESS OF ASIA
38,625 tons Displacement, Quadruple Screws, Speed 21 Kneis,
Largest and most Zumrious shija on the Facißc..
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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG {exifoot to change) BAILINDA FROM KONGKONG
Monteagle
... 3 Feb. 1 EMPRESS OF ASIA ...12 Apr. EMPRESS OF ASIA 15 Feb. Monteagle
...14 Apr. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA 15 Mar. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA May. ... 28 Mar. | Empress of Japan ... 23 May. Empress of Japan
Calling at Shanghai, Nagasaki (Inland Sew), Kobe and Yokohama, Montongle calls Moji instead of Nagnanici,
Through Bills of Lading issued via Vancouver in connection with Canadian Pacific Ry, to all Overland Points in Canada and the United Stater, also to Pacific Coast Points, European porte and West Indies.
F: Further information as to rates of Freight and Fassage, Sailing Lists, etc. please apply to
P. D. SUTHERLAND,
Üheneral Agaui, Passanger Department,
Hong Kong
J. M. WALLACE,
General Agent, Long Kang
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.
APCAR LINE.
Regular Service Between
SHANGHAI and JAPAN PORTS.
EASTWARD.
WESTWARD.
The above steamers have excellent saloon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeon.
For freight or passage, apply to
Hongkong, Jan. 2, 1917.
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD.. Agents.
"ELLERMAN". LINE.
(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.)
JAPAN, CHINA & STRAITS
TO
UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT,
For particulars of sailings shippers are requested to approach
the undersigned.
Steamers proceed via Cape of Good Hope.
Bubject to change without notice.
or to REISS & Co. Canton
Hongkong, 2 Jan., 1917.
THE BANK LINE, LTD.,
General Agents,
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.
NEW SERVICE OF STEAMERS BETWEEN Yokohama, Kobe, Hongkong and Rangoon. Shermers are despatched Eastward and Westward at regular intervals taking Passengers and Cargo at current Rates.
For Freight and Passags, apply to
£16.215.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., 'LD."
BOURNE, via Manila, Thursday Island, Townsville and Brisbane......
C‘CUTTA via S'pore, F'ang & Rangoon.
BOMBAY via S'pore,).
Malaces & Obo...... SHANGHAI, MojiĮ
and Kobe...... SHANGHAI, Kobe
and Yokohama
[MON, 5th
To Sail ......31st Jan, st
Ist Feb. at Dood,
noon
...... 1st Feb. at 4 p.m. 1st Feb. at 4 p.m. 4th Feb. at d'light. 7th Feb, at noon.
DIRECT SAILINGS TO WEST RIVER, Twice Weekly. S.S. "LINTAN" 'and 8.8. “ANSUL" "
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EMANILA LINE.—Twin Scew Steamers and "--" Excellent saloon accommodation smidehips; electric fans fitted, extra staterooms on deck'aft'on
SHANGHAI LINE-PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO. # 8.5.
----" and
SHIPPING NEWS.
·Germany's Lost Ships.
-
The "Vossische Zeitung' (December 9) states that. at a lecture given at the Ins itute of". autical Science on December 8 Capt. C. Schroter, of Hamburg, on the basis of a great mass of statistical informi tion, described the present state of German mercantile shippinz. Ho stated that since the war 152 ships, with a tonnage f 442,000 tons, had been destroyed either by mines or torpedoes; 267 ships. with a total cargo room of 8 7,000 tons, and made the most ecmplete use had been retained by the enemy,
of by them. In beutral harbours 621 merchant ye ser, with a total
with excellent accommodation, electric tonnage of 2,341,000 are lying in Hght and fans in Saloon and State-rooms, maintain a regular terned, condemned to in ctivity
and 490 steamers, of altogether. schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, leaving 2,410,000 t ns, are still at home. Hongkong for Shanghai-direct every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday, taking cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtare and These figures correspond to 7.1 Northern China Ports. Passengers are landed in Shanghai, avoid-per cent. of the total tonnage of ing the inconvenience of transhipment at Woosung.
For Freight or Passages apply ko
Siyo Maru Capt. Takano T. 12,500 Feb., at 10 am.
Miyazaki Maru
¡MON., 12th
Telephone No. 36.
+
Hongkong Jan. 30, 1917.
Capt. Teranaka T. 16,000 1Feb., at 10 a.m. | NAGASAKI, Kobel Tango Maru
JSATUR., 10th and Yokohama... Capt. Soyeda T. 13,500 1 Feb, at 10 am, EASTBOUND NEW YORK LINE VIA PANAMA CANAL. (CARGO ONLY).
NEW YORK via Manila, San Francisco, Panama and Colon.... sme se aap kastat von
Wireless Telegraphy. Telephone Nos. 292 & 293.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA, B. MORI, Manager.
TOYO KISEN KAISHA,
SAN FRANCISCO LINE
VIA SHANGHAI, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN & HONOLULU, Sailings from Hongkong-Subject to change without notice.
Bteamer.
Persia Maru Korea Maru
Siberia Maru
Tenyo Maru
Nippon Maru
Shinyo Maru
Displacement Tour & Speed 9,000 - 14 knota 18,000 - 18 knots 18,000-18 knots 22,000-21.knots 11,000 -15 knota 22,000 - 21 knots
1st class to London G$318 (£71.10.0),
13
Leave Hongkong
31st Jan, at 10 am. 10th Feb.
26th Feb. 6th Mar.
20th Mar.
2nd Apr.
retura G16), (LIM). return G$437,50.
to San Francisco G$250.
*Carge only. Proceeding to South Amics Ports. *For th's voyage the Persia Maru will call at Honolulu Special Batee gtyas to NAYALA MILITARY, QIVIL SERVANTS,MIKKIONARIES ta
ROUND THE WORLU Tickets Immed in Connestion with all the Principal
| Mail linne and the Trans-Siberian Railway,
Pamengers may travel by Railway between parts of sali la Japan free of obarge,
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
Via JAPAN PORTS, SAN FRANCISCO, HONOLULU, ILOILO, LOS ANGELOB.
Steamer
Tons & Speed - Leave Hongkong
For Full Partionlazu na to Pansugs & Freight, apply to
Telephone No. '291.
T. DAIGO, Agent,
KING'S BUILDINGS.
JAVA PACIFIC LINE
OF THE
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Monthly Service between
MANILA, HONGKONG AND SAN FRANCISCO. Next sailings for SAN FRANCISCO via NAGASAKI.
Subject to change without Notice. S.S. Tisondari 16th Feb. 8.8. Tjikembang 13th Apr.
Bintang 18th Mar.
Arakan 14th May. ALL STEAMERS FITTED WITH WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. The steamers have accommodation for a limited number of saloon passengers and carry a duly qualifiel surgeon.
Cargo taken on through Bills of Lading to all Overland Points in the United States of America and Canada.
For particulara of Freight and Passage, apply to:-
JAYA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN. Managing Agents.
Hongkong, York Buildings.
CHINA MAIL S.S. CO.
CO, LTD.
FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS,
S.S. CHINA
WILL SAILING FROM HONGKONG FOR
SAN FRANCISCO ®
را
VIA SHANGHAL, NAGASAKT, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU, FEBRUARY 3, APRIL 11, JUNE 23, 1917.
AN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS 'PASSENGER
INTERMEDIATE- RATES. SERVIDE AT
O, H. RITTER, Freight and Passenger Ageat.
Prince's Buildings, Ice House Street.
Tel. 1924.
THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET
COMPANY.
(0)
Owners of The "SHIRE"
Line of Steamers.
· FOR SAILINGS TO AND FROY THE UNITED KINGDOM AND INTERMEDIATE PORTS,
Please Apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LD. Statenbon's No. 215. Sub Ex. No. 10.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agenir.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Tjikini Tjibodas ...
Regular Fortnightly Service between
CHINA and
From
JAPAN.
Expečied on
or shoul
Will luare as or short
29th Jan. 3rd Feb. SHANGHAI
1st Feb. 7th Feb. KOBE *All steamers fitted with Wireless Telegraphy.” "The steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light. and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers. All steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken through rates to all ports in Netherlands-India and Australia."
For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
York Building. Telephons No. 1574.
118
at
THE EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN STEAMSHIP CO., LIMITED.
MAIL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA. (SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE.)
Steamer.
Arriva Hongkong
from Australia.
4
Leave Hongkong for Australia.
the German mercantils marine finally and irremediably lost; 14.1 per cent. in the hands of the enemy, and 43 per cent, in neutral ha bours.-N. C. Daily News."
The Weather in the North.
·
The intense cold in the first werk of January, which com- rletely closed Tientsin River. practically put a stop to trade at several of the "open" ports arcund the Gulf of Fechil, says an Ex- change. At thefoo the ice along shore was so thick that, although teamers could o ter and leave the port, no cargo could be brought off to them and none discharged, wb la even at Tsing- teu the port 's said to have been pr clically closed by ice for some days. In the Gulf, for a distance of fifty miles from the Bar, the 1. C. F.8.Kingsing found the ice packed so heavily za to leave no clear water vis ble, and it would have been possible for the pilot, who brought the ship out to the Bar, to have walked tome acress
the ice. The versel took thirteen hours to work her way through the ice from the light-hip to Shaluteen and, when she went astern to ram the fild in a second' obarge, the open water was seen to be freezing under her bows The Japaness Rokko Maru when north of the Fromontory. on Januars 7, encountered pack ics of great thickness and was - in her way from Chinwangtao to Shanghai.
The above Steamers are fitted with Befrigerating Machinery, en-compelled to put in Port Arthur suring a plentiful supply of Ios, Fresh Provisions, etc., and are lighted throughout with Electricity. All State-Rooms hare Electric Fana A duly qualified Doctor and Stewardsus are carried.
All Steamers Fitted with Wireless Telegraphy, For further particulars, apply to
Gibb, Livingston & Co.
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD.
HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORT SERVICE.
Regular Service of Fast, High Class Coast Steamers having good accommodation for first Class Passengers, Electric Light and Fans in state-rooms and Salonn and Excellent Quisine. ·
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FODCHOW AND RETURN. (Occupying 9 to 10 days.) Steamships. Captain
Haihong... | J. W. Evans ...... | TUES. Hailan | A. E. Hodgins... | FRL, Halching | W. C. Passmore | TUE),
Leaving. 30th Jan, at 11 a.m. 2cd Feb. at 11 am. 6th Feb, at li a m.
Standard Shipbuilding.
Arrivals and Departures from the Company's Whart (near steamships
For Freight and Passage, apply to
Blake Pier).
"Mr. C. W. Merse, hrad of the United States Steamship Com- piny announced plans by which his company hopes to become "to the ship-building ind:stry what | Mr. Ford and his factories are to the automobile business Mr. Morse is going to build ocean- going livvers. That is, be will operate a $100,000 shipbuilding, plant near New London, can, along the same methods that hive made Ford's automobile With factories so successful regard to size, however, the vese sels his company wil produce, will be far from fiivvers. Thy will be 8,030 to 10,00-ton steel
But by quanti y production and by building vas- sels indentiaal in type, Mr. Morsa and his associates expect to reduce the co t of production to such an extent that they can sell their ships for remarkably low prices. Detals of these plans of the United States Steamship Company were made public when it became known that the com- pany had purchased a thirty- acre tract of land near Nowg London, Conn., on the east bank of the Thames River, which will For
Steamship
te the site of the new plant. The SHANGHAI vis Swat w Wingsang
2nd Feb. at d'light, tract has been known se the H.E. MANILA katıcılıklidemmen Yuensang Bat..
3rd Feb, at 3 p.m. Rowe prope ty, and is six miles SHANGHAI ............................................ Kwongsang Tues., 6th Feb, at d'light., from the shipbuilding yard al- 8'HAI, Koba.& Moji......Kutsang"
Tues., 6th Feb. at d'light, ready operated by the Morse in- SHANGHAI
Choysang Sat.,
10th Feb. at alight, terests at Noant, Conn, Mr. MANILA
Loongsang Bat., 10th Feb, at 3 p.m.1
Morse did not divulge the pur- chase price, but said the plant. CALCUTTA_LIKE:-Three mai îngs per moush from Hongkong to Calcina calling 14)ingapore sod
be erected would cost at least $1,00,000. It is expected to Returning from Calcutta steamers proceed to Kols and Mofi, frequently calling si Shanghal,
start construction early in These stramers hate excellent passenger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light and the year and to begin produc
Douglas Lapraik & Co.,
General Managers.
INDO-CHINA STEAM
NAVIGATION
CO.,
LTD.
(Projected Sailings from Hongkong.-Subject to Alteration).
carry a fully qualified zurgeon,
Fri,
On
SHANGHAI LIKE:-Sailings approximately every five daya bermeen Canton and hanghai, sing ships in the spring. Follow calling at MALON Steiners on this line have limited amount of passenger a comming Mr, Ford's plan of producing dation, and shir ugli slek ua cau - otraised for Forther and Yanguis Porta via hanghai automobiles, the shipbuilding Through Riflending are faned to #3 Northern and Vanglaza f'urta.”
plant will be
sembling MANILA LINE:-A weekly servire is maintained with Mantia by vessels with god page Adcom factory. Most of the various
odicum, ingetrum bili ports avery Saurday.
HAIPHONG LINK Sailings approximately week'y for psengers and cargo, calling as how we
inducement offers
BORNEÓ LIKE : - Two andlings per month berweis Bongbong and Sandakan by steamers having a
e date accommodation for passengers,
Cargo Laken on through. Bile of lading for Kudat, Joselion. Lalnun, Towns and Jalad Dais. TJEKTSIN LINEMA reruter servics la run from March to October between Longkong and Tiantia,
Calking at Weikalwai pad Credon.
Under Straits Government Passport Regulations.
an
parts of the vessel, including the steel plates, will be received in finished form and put together at the New London. yards, In this way the company exprota to ba able to turn out twenty verseis-n year. By making vessels identi cal in type a great say ng w il be: made on the cost of designing.
All European Pasatongers, leaving the Colony for Straits Bett'es ment are quired to produce on arrival at destination pansṬorts with their Photographs and description afixed thereto,
*** For Firight or pamage, apply to t
*HANHINE, MATHESON & 00; LTD.
For the best. Moals, Befrei ments, Broad. Cakor ant U
WALEXANDRA GA