THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1919.
NOTICES.
NOTICES
THE RED HAND COMPOSITIONS LIMITED, LONDON.
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Contracters to the Admiralty, India Office, War Office, Crown Agents for the Colonies, &c...
"THE RED HAND BRAND."
Antifouling Compositions for Ships' Bottoms. Antisive Paints, Ready mixed, for all purposES,
Supplies available from:
DODWELL, & CO. LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE GO.
New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment Principal features: Small Premium, Liberal Surrender Value, He Medical Examination, Return of Premium in the Event of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25.
FULL PARTICULARS TO WUITE FOR PAMPHLET AND
DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.
CORONA
The Personal Writing Machine.
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The
CORONA
Price
$80.00
Nett Cash.
Portable Typewriter waighe only Six
It has the Pounds and folds up into a compact travelling case. universal standard keyboard with 84 letters and figures, and does the same work as any large machine.
Fitted with either Pica or Elite type. Completa typewriter in travelling case $80. This price is nett cash and is based on present high rate of exchange.
Here it is folded,
DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO.
HEAD OFFICE & GARADÉ−24 & 25 DES VŒUX RD, CEN. BRANCHES 157 PRAYA EAST & 26 NATHAN RD.,
SOLE AGENTS' FOR:-
+
OWLOON.
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AND
ELGIN MOTOR
CARS
HARLEY DAVIDSON MOTOR CYCLES
AQENTS FOR STERLING TYRES
NEW CARS & TYRES" IN STOCK
1321
EXPERT DRIVERS
TEL. 482. BEST CARS IN THE COLONY TEL. 482.
· FOR HIRE.
FOOK LEE & CO.,
'always in stock, large quantities of Tinplates, Wire nails, Pig Lead, Pig Iron, Steel Plates, Black Sheets, Galvanized Wire, Galod Sheets, Yellow Metal Sheathings & etc.
Telephone
1174 & 1950
Nos, & Hillier Street, and, at
Fork Building. Chater Road,
ALEX ROSS & Co.,
ready to ostry.
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING:
ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTURES OF
PURE MANILA ROPE
3
STRAND
to 15"
Machinery Dept.,
4, Des Voeux Road Central,
Sole Agents for South China.
CABLE LAID
4 STRAND 3" to 10" CIRCUMFERIXOL
£50,000,000 RECOVERED.
VIROU MYKKENUE
5 " to 15"
OF LOUN OF 18240K
01 Drilling Cables of axy sise up to 3,000 feet in length. Prices, Samples and fall particulars will be forwarded on application.
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
General Managers.
OWING to the present high rate of EXCHANGE we are now offering our KODAKS and FILMS at very lowest possible prices. Inspection cordially invited.
A. TACK & CO. 20, Des Vaux Road, Ctl.
CREEN ISLAND CEMENT COMPANY LIMITED.
PORTLAND SEMENT,“
In Oaks of 375 lbs. not. In Bage of 150 lbs. net.
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.-
General Managers. Hongkong, 15th August, 1916.
HONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION,
MP. U. SUGA Mr. L HONDA
Mrs. A SUGA Mrs. S. HONDA
B Queen's Boad Central.
Bongkong.
METALS
of all kinds, especially for ship- building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stock in the Colony.
SINGON & CO.,
(Established A. D. 1880.)
Phone 515 HING LUNG ST.
MEE CHEUNG PHOTOGRAPHER, FOR ARTISTIC PHOTO- GRAPHS CALL AT ICE HOUSE STREET OR RING OP 1013.
-THE-NEW› FRENCH REMEDY.
THERAPION N°1 THERAPION NⱭZ THERAPION NG3
THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE CO., LTD.
(Capital Paid up...$1,230,000.)
Loans in Mortgage of Konse Property, de Goods received an Elopkendim AUTADOR IDade co
Loans code on the Promidasi Bystatio
TRUSTIE EXECUTOR OF Widell, ATTORNEY, de Undertakso and Exsectioć. (Baser and Particulars on application) To the Omo cứ
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO.
General ManEKSTS.
NORTH BRITISH
AND
MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO.,
in which are vested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE
- CO., LTD.
AND
THE RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.
The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates, SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.
MASSAGE HALL
23, FLOWER STREET.
MR. T. TAKAYE.
MRS. MORITA. CERTIFICA ED MASSEURS, PATIENT CRVATED IN THE OWN Boxes 17 DEPKED.
PUBLISHED ANNUALLY..
THE
TREASURES FROM THE DEEP.
Hidden in the mist of silence that is a tradition in the Navy little is known of the labours of the salvage fleet.
Salvage craft were hurried to her, and the weight was then 2,700 tons-a figure which, before the spot and the whole convoy In- the Salvage Department was was refloated in ten days. created, would have been regard-genuity accounted in part for the ed as impossible. Within three swiftness secured, for destroyers months the collier was in com-were employed to race around the mission again notwithstanding waters. at topspeed and so to that she had been submerged create a wash, in which one or seven months.
two of the stranded vessels stid
Similar methods were used to
Once the conventional methods off. were slightly diverged from-this
the U.S. transport There is a touch of romance was at Folkestone. A trooper. refloat surrounding & wreck; the work of the Onward, caught fire and was Narragansett, which stuck on the a diver stirs the imagination; but, scuttled, and in the absence of Bembridge Ledge, Isle of Wight, apart from wrecks and divers, capstars on the quay, arrange and was in danger of breaking this small fleet-vital as were itsi ments were made for disengaged her back. operations when unrestricted sub-railway engines to haul the wreck marine warfare strewed the upright.
seas with derelicts-had nothing spectacular to recommend it.
Four engines were straining at
NETTING BOAT.
One of the smartest pieces of salvage, linked with seamanship. the Onward simultaneously, but relates to a U boat, with a dis- Yet it bas lifted cargo steamers after all this expenditure of effort placement of 700 tons, which was off rocky ledges and has dragged and ingenuity when she was sunk 35 miles off the Tyne. The them, badly boled, from the depths towed round to the Thames she department was ordered to bring of the sea. It has brought up was reported upon as not worth her into dock for examination, from submerged holds kegs of reconditioning!
with a view to obtaining informa-
butter and bars of gold. It has During one of the "pushes on the tion concerning enemy designs applied its famous patch to Western front, when Boulogne and plans.
wreck. miany a craft ht by enemy barbour was a vital link in the Divers located the torpedo and mine, and has made lines of communication-for
passed lifting wires under her, them capable of reaching the receiving men and munitions which in turn were attached to a repairing yards.
In the five years covered by the rain ship, the Araby, grounded lighter, and the whole was taken in the fairway and broke her in tow and brought to the month back.
about
of the Trne Here a four hours'
war 440 ships were salved in home and foreign waters by the The salvage feet promptly cat wait occurred, during which the operations of the department, and her in halves and brought them submarine slipped from the wires. the total worth of the ships and across to England, thus clearing But again she was grappled up
salved was property
what might have proved a disand brought into harbeur. £50,000,000.
astrous obstruction in the way of! Gathering of intelligence from the projected attack. The opinionsunken U toats was a recognised SEA YIELDS ITS SECRETS.
in the Navy is that the Gerinansanction of the salvage section. In the intervals of work in
would have poured out colossa! When the armistice was signed various waters it has acted as a
he department was engaged in CARGO OF GOLD."
raising a U baat that had become valuable intelligence agent to the wealth to introduce this block. fighting forces, and has compelled;
In the case of the Laurentic, entangled in our défensive nets, enemy submarines to yield up their secrets from the sea bottom. from which bullion valued at and had "touched off" a mine
was tecovered by and gone to the bottom. Now that this splendidly £1,900,000
con-divers working at a depth of 23 GERMAN OFFICER'S DEATH-GRIP. efficient organisation has
The diver who descended for cluded its work, the members are fathoms," the strong rooms in
crew Was
of
in many cases, pursuing their which the bars of gold were locked the examination and to secure calling with private firms the bad to be forced with explosives any secret papers and do'uments she might carry found that the last contract under its supervis-and the ensuing debris removed.
It has happened that after crew consisted entirely of Ger- at American ion, rescue of steamer at Penarth, was com-weeks of arduous labour & vessel man officers. Protruding through has been refloated with the hatchway were a pair of hands, pleted a few days ago.
Some of its divers are still standard patch-"not unlike the in the lifeless fingers of which were clutched the documents he bringing up gold from the strongid of a rollo desk" is the dis- rooms of the Laurentic; but its cription of applied to the sought. When death came that nucleus of salvage steamers-gaping wound inflicted by torpedo member of the Melita, Racer, Reindeer. Mariner or mine, and has been towed to endeavouring to cast adrift the and Wrangler may be purchas-within a few miles of the repair secret order for the submarine's ed with all the latest equipment. yards when disaster has again last hope" cruise.
No reasonable-sized map
contain the One such ship, duly patched, these islands can Suggestions appeared now and again that weird secret appliances after salvage on this aide was chartings of the wrecks strewn the sent to America to relieve the in our waters during the war. In were being employed in work; but only the principles pressure on our own dockyards, the Admiralty archives there are already existing, although vastly and when nearly across the four books bearing in gilt lettera
Atlantic she was torpedoed again. the title :- improved by Commodore Young. Another ship, salved and patched United Kingdom in Depthe Under have been used.
There was an inventor with on the East Coast, was sent 20 Fathoms at L. W.S." (low faith in the gradual inflation of round to the West for repair, and water springs).
of. 416 They hold records a balloon to expel water from when nearing harbour received a sunken craft; but his applica- torpedo on the side opposite the vessels.
patch-the latter, tion of the.⚫ systear ..to a
him was remaining in position. wreck allotted to
LONDON DIRECTORY, SHIP LIFTED BY LOCOMOTIVES, overtaken her.
Tilb Provincial & Foreign Sectless. sables traders to emmaalaste direct with MANUFACTURERS & DEALERO
in London and in the Provincial Towns and Industrial Centres of the United Kingdom and The CERE, the Cootient of Europe. addreen and other detalls are ciamised under more than 2000 trade besdings, indading
EXPORT MERCHANTS.
with deacited perilenlar of the Goode shipped and the Deionisl and Foreign Markets suppood; STELISKIP * LIKES
arranged under kha Pune sowie es
and indicating the syproximata Bellings'
Ano-Cards: BURIMERE CANON of Tirza Going The accomadi altade strassatione; or Dass Cards CL
DIALIZE SEEKING, LOENDIES.
a failure. The Admiralty relied
Sache geo Ky pës; LE32 (wholly upon the steamers, with | Susta, konding fndar which they use-isoncat:|
Laegse advorinumants from 49 14 ALATURI
A spy of the firsejory will be sent by perest post for #2, weti cars vilk order.
THE LONDON DIRECTORY, CO., LED, 25, Abcharch Lane, Louisa, E.C. 4, England,
́BEKTENIS KRtablished 105, TEARS.
however,
WASHED TO SAFETY BY DESTROYERS.
"Wrecks
Around
FOREIGNERS; IN JAPAN. Returns compiled by the Japan ese Department of Binance słowa To off-set this there is a long that 15,341 foreigners entered their extraordinary pumps, and a series of six lifting lighters, con-list of successes. A convey of Japan during the first half of this verted from bopper dredgers, three merchantmen and two des- year. The countries whose sub- which can support a strain of trovers, sailing from Liverpool, jects entered to the number of ran into a heavy fog and grounded 1000 or over are as follows:--- 2.000 tons with 9-inch wires.
In one instance, indeed, where off the north-east coast of Ireland Great Britain, 1603, United A collier was sunk in the an-four of them within a radius of States of America, 2,434, Russia,
2715 China, 6,889, chorage" at Rosyth, they lifted, half a mila.
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HONGKONG.
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A SHIPMENT HAS JUST BEEN RECEIVED OF HUILE VIERGE
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