THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SHIPPING.
SHIPPING.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1919.
P.&O.S.N.CO. NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
ROYAL MAIL SERVICE. UNDER CONTFALT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT. STRAITS, BURMA, COLOMBO, AUSTRALIA INDIA. EGYPT &c.
FOR MARSEILLES & LONDON VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO & PORT SAID.
8 9.
leave Hong- kong a out
Duo Marseilles
about
NORE
23rd February
NOVARA
12th March
NELLORE
9th April
30th March 17th April 15th May
Due London about
8th April 26th 24th May
FOR SINGAPORE, COLOMBO & BOMBAY.
DUNERA HEJAZ
14th Feb., 4p.w.
17th February
dus Bombay about
4th March
9th March
FOR SHANGHAI, MOJI & KOBE Etc.
NOVARA
For
| Shanghai, Moji & Kobe
WIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS.
PASSAGE RATES.
HAND-BOOKS,
FREIGHTS & FURTHER INFORMATION apply to :—
P.&O. S. N. Co.
Hongtong, 19th February, 1919.
E. V. D. Parr,
Superintendent.
CANADIAN BACIFIC
OCEAN
SERVICES
PACIFIC SERVICE
(JAPAN MAIL 8,8. 00.)
Destination.
Beninge from Bouchong ankžnas in allocation,
Steamer & Displacement.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKO-
HAMA
|NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKO-
BAMA
SHANGHAL Man & KоBE...
"Iyo Maru T. 12,330 *Shidzuoka M.
T. 18.530 *Tango Maru
T. 13,760 *Nikko Maru
T. 9,600 Yamagala M.
T. 8,000 Taisho Maru
T. 7.000 *Mishima M.
T. 15,190
LONDON or Liverpool via Singa-
pore, Malacos, Penang. Colom-Sado Maru bo, Suez and Port-Said.....n
| MELBOURNE via Manila, Zan-
F. 12.560 *Kamakura M.
T. 12,410
boanaga, Thursday Is. Town/Tango Maru sville, Brisbane & Sydney ...............
| NEW YORK via Shanghai, Kobe
T. 13,760
Sailing Dates,
SHIPPING NEWS.
SHIP'S NAMES.
The practice adopted by our great Shipping Companies of naming soma of their vessels
SHIPPING.
C. N. C.
CHINA NAVIGATIO CO., LTD. VAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
Por
disamers. ...Chenan
Changchow Shengking
after foreign countries and places, with many of which they are not and never can be connected in | SHANGHAI..
conceit of trade, is a
the | SWATOW & BANGKOK.. cosmopolitanism to which wo, SHANGHAI Almost alone among the nations, SHANGHAI................Sunning HAIPHONG '. Kaifong are addicted. Its inconvenience TTAO, WWEI, UFOO&TTSIN Hulchow
BATUR, tod {Feb. at 11 am. JWED., 19th
Marat 11am (SAT, 22nd {Feb. at 11 am ƒMON., 31st {Mar at 11am. SATURDAY, 115th Feb. JTUESDAY. 18th Feb. (FRI, 21st
Feb. at 11 am.
became apparent when the war SHANGHAI...... broke out and the foreign country
j SAT, 22nd
For date of sailing' apply st Yokohama, San Francisco and the Company's Office.
Panama Canal
BOMBAY vi Singapore, Malso-
ca and Colombo
| CALCUITA via Singapore, Pan-¡
ang and Rangoon ................... «up........
Hwah-wu
T.
Yubari Maru
T. 8,000 *Akita M.
T. 8,000
THUKS, 26th February.
Į Beginning of
March.
J Beginning of
March.
* Wirnimin Talidranky
became AB
For Freight or Passago apply to
reisphony No. 38.
Hongkong Feb, 15, 19.9.
To Sall
......15th Fob at 3 p.m. ...16th Feb. st10%,m. ...... 17th Feb. at 3pm. ......19th Feb. at 10am. ...... 90th Feb, at noon. 80th Fab, at 4 p.m. 22nd Feb. at $ pm.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Steamer
Regular Fortnightly Service between CHINA and JAPAN.
For
Yingchow SHANGHAI LINE-PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO, enemy country. Excellent Saloon accommodation Amidships; Electric Light and An Index Expurgatorius had to Fans in Saloon and State-rooms. Regular schedule service between be set up, as it was obviously Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, taking Cargo on through Bills of improper that there should be a Lading to all Yangtze and Northern China Porte, Passengers ats Galicia, a Carinthia, an Elbe, Landed in Shanghai, avoiding the inconvenience of transhipment
Danube,' a Teutonio, or at Woosung. Feb. at ilam German' fost under the Blue JWED., 19tb
or the Red Ensign. No vessel in Feb. at 11am-allowed to go to sea under an JWED., 26th
Her name alias.
cannot be (Mar, atllam changed by the stroke of a clerk's pen, but must adhere to it until the proposed alteration has been publicly ad- vertised and sanctioned by the Board of Trade. During the autumn of 1914 and the following winter not a few ships were thus permitted to shed their names and |to re-appear upon the undulating ocean under appellations more appropriate to the flag which they Tipanas flew. Subject to this in-wong convenience a ship may suitably Tlimarock
jikini take her name from an alien. country to which she usually Tillaljap carries passengers or with which she usually trades; but to name ships after an inland kingdom and a province of Italy which has no seaboard, as was done in the cases of two of the earlier fast Atlantic liners, the 'Servis' and the Umbria,' is paradoxical. Other examples in the past or present Cunard fleet are the ill- fated Lusitanis, the Mauro- tania, and the Anranía.' 'Lusi. tania is poetical for Portugal, bat neither 'Mauretania' and the *Aurania 'can be found in the atlas. The Cunard Company standardises its ship names
& Cutting Shanghai kjer Muj HONGKONG VICTORIA KC-SEATTLE YIA MAHILA SHARONAI,
· KAGASAKI, KÖSZ, TOKKAICHI AND YOKOHAMA. Operated by the magnticians and spieradiɗy vgatypač pakanagar steamers “ Feshima Maru.” *Sewa Mary,***** Kaskma Mars," & "Katori Man,“ mod at grese Ba000 tona disj morosanÀ
Hess andings from Bangkang.
• Fushimi Maru
** Suwa Maru
* Chagantin Hautbound
LIMITED
M
SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG to VANCOUVER
VIA
Shanghai Nagasaki (or Moji) Kobe & Yokohama.
Steamer.. EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF JAPAN EMPRESS OF ASIA MONTEAGLE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
From Hongkong
Arrive Vancouver
27 Feb.
17 March.
12 March.
2 April.
27 March.
14 April.
5 April.
29 April.
24 April.
12 May,
EMPRESS OF JAPAN
7 May.
28 May.
EMPRESS OF ASIA
22 May.
9 June.
MONTEAGLE
10 June.
4 July.
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
19 June.
7 July.
EMPRESS OF JAPAN
2 July.
23 July.
EMPRESS OF ASIA MONTEACLE
17 July.
4 Aug.
13 Sept.
for parentes regarding pamangs bem, mis
•han and swervación at Monettemodations. also Weirsele si actos and descriptive StarsBITS
P.
Phone 757
SUTHERLAND,
ZASEINNA DOPANTHERA
20 Aug.
Per freight rated and through hills of lading eh Vancouver in godzimesion with Chandle Pacific Balesy to all Ovezland Polam in Chunda and Unded Bletan sino ka incepe sod Was
¿M. WALLACE,
TEKKAL. AS1271.
Prom 42
HONGKONG.
BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.
APCAR LINE.
Regular Service Between
SHANGHAI and JAPAN PORTS
EASTWARD.
The above steamers have excellent saloon accommodation for passengers and are fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a düly qualified surgeon.
For freight or passage, apply to
DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD.,
Agents.
Hongkong, Sept. 24, 1917.
PACIFIC MAIL S.S. CO.
U. S. MAIL LINE.
Operating the new First Class Beemers ECUADOR." "VENEZUELA" and " COLOMBIA,"
14,000 tons Each,
Hongkong to San Francisco.
vin Shangha), Kobe, Yokohama and HONOLULU. THE SUNSHINE BELT.
The most Comfortable Route to America and Europe.
Sailings from Hongkong at noon.
+4
" COLOMBIA"
** " VENEZUBLA "
"ECUADOR"
26th February.
26th March. 23rd April.
These steamers have the most modern equipment including over- head electric fans and electric lighting ALL LOWER BERTHS & Large Comfortable Staterooms (ali single and two berths only.). Te S,fety and. Comfort of Passangers is our. Kiras Conedération." Special care i- given to treculsins, and the attendanos os passengers cannot be mirpassed,
Ticketure lase okanzeible with the Toyo Kisen Kalha ard the Canadian | Paelfi Ocean Severn, td,
For further information, rates, literature, schedules etc..
Apply to
Company's Office in ALEXANDRA BUILDING. Telephone No. 141.
Chater Boad.
Telophone Nos. 232 & 293.
SATUR., 22nd Mar. at 11 a.. MUN.. 5th May, at 11 a.m.
11
For further portacomatom spply la
NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA. 8, YASUDA, Manager,
TOYO KISEN KAISHA.
SAN FRANCISCO LINE
VIA SHANGHAI, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN & HONOLULU,
PARK AND LUSTRIOUS MAID STEAMERS,
Hatings from Hongkong--Bubjani lo shange without notice.
Stamera
TENTO MARU
KORZA MARU
SHINYO MARU
PERSIA MARU
"
KOREA MARU
1
RIPPOR MARŲ
SIBERIA MARY
Late Hongkong-
15th Feb
28th Fab. fron Yokohama.
5th March
27th March
22nd Apr. from YokohamN,
gind May. from Yokobama,
in port 19th Feb.
22nd Feb. JATE
Exportal on
From
on ab
PETITIVE D De about
Java
**
Java
Java
Java
Macassar
2nd Feb. 147th Fab Shanghai 23rd Feb.
8th M. 12th Mar. | Japan "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 at through races to all porta in Netherlands-India and Australia."
For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN, A
York Building.
Telephone No. 1574.
:
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP
CO.,
LD.
HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORTS SERVICE.
Regular Service of Fast, High Class Coast Steamers having
to the extent good accommodation for first Class Passengers, Electric Light and
2th Apr. from Yokohama.that they must all be nouns Fans in state-rooms and Saloon and Excellent Cuisine.
SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.
HONGKONG TO VALPARAISO VIA JAPAN, HONOLULU,
BAN FRANCISCO, BAN PEDRO, SALINO ORUZ, BALBOA, CALLAO, ARICA AND IQUIQUE.
THENCE BY TRANS ANDEAN ROUTE TO BUENOS AIRES.
Steamers.
ANTO MARU
SEIYO MARU
KITO MARU
Leave Hongkong.
Hist Myrch.
Sed May.
17th July.
with the classical caudal appendage-ia; and the longer the word the more does it seem to suit the fancy of travellers by sea, who prefer a ship bearing sonerously polysyllabic name, and who would not be so readily in- clined to take their passage on one of equal tonnage, speed and comfort, but having the homely
Emkan ere jarabangsabla mizo the Canadian Paolo Cosan bertions. Lad to the ran, British word 'Liverpool," "New-
MOLÍ Diaming Co.
Passengers may kravel by rail between part of sell in Japan tras of sharya Werfel Information se lo ráken, milzgs, etc.. seply to
Telephone Nos. 2374 & 2375,
T. DAIGO, Manager.
KING'S BUILDINGS.
JAVA PACIFIC LINE
OF THE
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.
Monthly Service between
NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO
LI
The s.s.. BINTANG "
from JAVA 1st, March, Sailing for SAN FRANCISCO 3rd, March, 1919.
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 on through Bills of Lading to all Overland
Points to the United States of America and Canada.
For particulars of Freight and Passage apply to the
Java-China-Japan Lijn. General Managers, York Buildings.
Telephone No. 1574.
00
WAS
FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOOCHOW AND RETURN.
(Occupying 9 to 10 days.) Steamships. Captain
Leaving. Hallan A. H. Stewart I.TUES. 18th Feb. at 1 p..
Arrivals and Departures from the Company's Wharf (near Blake Pier).
For Freight and Passage, apply to
Douglas Lapraik & Co.,
General Managers.
castle" or "Bath' in brase letters her bows and storu. As the Cunard Company insists upon the use of nouns for the nomenclature of its fleet, so like. wise does the White Star Com- pany insist upon adjective, and these must all end in ic. A story, which if not true is at least ben trovato, is told that an official of the Company was heard com- plaining that the flest
Projected Sailings from Hongkong, (Subject to Alteration). increasing so rapidly that it was
For-
Steamship
On difficult to find its names for S'PORE & Samarang Hinsang three new ships about to be HANGHAI via Swatow.Taisang
Sat, 15th Feb. at $p.m." launched, and that $ sar SHANGHAI via Ningp› Yosang castic person, who no doubt HAIPHONG
Taksang had suffered from mal de mer and SINGAPORE & Penang Van WaerwijckThur., 20th Feb. at 9 p.m. other discomforts of the Atlantic MANILA voyage, protested that the SHANGHAI difficulty was imaginary."Why MANILA not call your three new ships the TIENTSIN
Dyspeptic, the Rheumatic and the Emetic "?" There does
INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Tues., 18th Feb. ut d'light.
Wed. 19th Feb. at' d'light.
Thur, 20th Feb. at 8 am
Yuensang Thur, 20th Feb, at 3 p.m. Kooushing Fri., Loongsang
..............Chipshing STRAITS & Calcutta Yaishing
21st Feb: at d'light.
Frin Sat,
21st Feb. at 3 pm.
22nd Feb, at d'light.
Sat.,
1st Mar. at 3 pan.
not seem to be any good reason CALCUTTA LINE :-Tab: 1a in temporeely dheargalused oring to the war, but at pagpunk a monthly service ir makstained with Calcuna by the ga. * KWAISANG * and *VITIM* calling of why ship names should be drawn
The reset the Fane, and cherisa a fally qasfiled fargos.
and Prang The foesse vizal kar moralear_passengm accommodation, is letad from two parts of speech only, SINGAPORE LINE:IM L “YAN WAERNUCK” me for Slagapore approximately every
fortalgic Light and wd and also carries a fally quaided Supos.
Accomodation for first chili passangers, and he decade Barongboat with
Or
why adverbs or aven prepositions should not be im-SHANGHAI LINEllingt zyprezimately every few days bergens Chaton and Skuachal, kopatiwe
into the service. For an
Atlantic liner
CHINA MAIL S.S. CO. LTD- Adante der making her round
FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.
"NANKING"
“CHINA"
(15,000 tons, American Registry) (10,000 tons, American Registry) SALLINGS FROM HONGKONG FOR
SAN FRANCISCO
VIA SHANGHAI, JAPAN PORTS & HONOLULU,
** NANKING"
March 27th, 1919.
-** CHINA **
April 24th, 1919.
AN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS PASSENGER SERVICE.
O. H. RITTER.
Prince's Buildings,
Freight and Passenger Agent.
Ice House Street. Tel. 1934.
́ELLERMAN'
LINE.
(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.)
JAPAN, CHINA & STRAITS
ΤΟ
UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.
FOR LONDON.
8.6. "KALOMO" Sailing about
February.
For particulars of sailings shippers are requested to approach he undersigned.
Steamers proceed via Cape of Good Hope, Subject to change without notice.
or to REISS & Co. Canton Hongkong, Jan. 2, 1917.
"THE BANK-LINE, LTD.
General Agents,
pating si, awutry. Steamers on this kas kavo a tutted amount of prarengu scommu dation, and through tickets can be obtained for Hartbees and Yangines Forts via Glangini Personah Hills of ladbug are Iarned sa sið Northern and Yangtomų Porta.
trip to New York within a fort-MANILA LIKE:-6 wekly Movies ja makstained with Mhalia by vessein with good pameùgat som night, 'To and Fro' would be an
odation, wellings from both ports avery Friday. HAIPHONG. LINK :-Sulings approximatały weekly for passengers and cargo, calling ni Hafer wher appropriate name; while the
índungana udari.
to
dale scoor sadition for pa'sESCO's Cartu takaa ka lhrough. Bills of Inding for Kadat. Jesmizan, Labuan, Tawseiät Läbid Data.
LINE :-3 regalar Morrice is ran from March to October between Ranglong and Zimanigl
maker at Walsźwał und Chelan:
Under Straits Government Passport Regulations.
Telephone No. 215.
JARDINE MATHESON & CO. LTD. General Managers.
humble tramp" steaming on BO BORNEO LINK: „One selling par manik betwase. Hoagkang und Sandakan by a stoumor having nosa » customary track, but nosing for cago wherever it was to be found, † TIENTSIR might be aptly named 'Here and There. The aristocratic P and Q Company, the chief shuttle in the loom of Empire, for many years
All European Passengers, leaving the Colony for Straits Settle refrained from fancy nomen-ment, are required to produce on arrival at destination passports clature, but named its ships with with their Photographs and description affixed thereto. especial regard
the For Freight or passage, apply to places with which it traded. Thus the Delta' and the Massilia* marked the period before the Suez Canal was opened, and when the mails were carried from Marseilles to Alexandria and then to Baez by the overland route. Of late years, however, it has adopt- ed what may be termed to borrow
metaphor from the Recruiting Offices Group, or Clase system. An "M" group and siso an "N" group were launched; each of which was composed of vassels built about the same time and for particular services. In the same group with a Mooltăn was'a 'Majola," "Mookan' is, an appropriate name for a ship carry ing mails, and passengers to Hindustan; but "Majola, & pass in Switzerland over which a few travellers and Alpinist struggle in the difficult heights of the iced mounted sir," is the absolute an- Hthesis of an ocean liner,
AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,
Cka
BANKERS AND FORWARDERS.
ESTABLISHED 1841.
HEAD OFFICE--65 BROADWAY,--NEW YORK. CAPELAL AND SURFLU8-U, 8, $25,000,000,00. LONDON OFFICES,--84, QUIEN - STEMET, E C,
6, Haymarket, E, W, 11, Elbury Street, B, W. Branches & Agencies-throughout the world,- General Banking and Foreign Exchange. We maintain Forth's Trade an ravel Bare American Business z Specialty.