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LIVERPOOL SERVICE
"PELEON"
What Dec. "OYOLOPS"
20th Jun. "BENTOR*** 20th Feb. "IDUMENEUS 20th Mar.,
PACIFIC SERVICE
via Kobo & Yokohama "ACHILLES"! "TYNDAREUS“
17th Dne. 7th Jan
Genoa, Havre, Liverpont & Glargow Genna, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow Ganon, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow Genna, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow
NEW YORK SERVICE *MADHAON"" 10th Dec
PYRRHOS“ 13th Jan,
Victoris, Vancouver & Southle Victoria, Vancouver & Sentul,...)
New York, Boston & Baltimore New York, Hoston & Baltimere
PASSENGER SERVICE PATROULUS" 27th Deo.
"ANTENOR"
"HECTOR".
**AENEAS"
25th Jan.
22nd Feb
20th Mar.
Singapore Marseilles & London Singapore Marseille & London Singapore, Marseilles & Lon-on Singapore, Marseilles & London
Also cargo steamers with limited passenger accommodation as: specially reduced fares..
For freight, passage ratos, and information apply to:-
Butterfield & Swire,
Agents.
Courtesy is in Your Ticket
The Thinking Traveler always uses President Liners, because he knows that he will constantly receive that genial, courteous, personal service and attention that ensures him of pleasant, tarefice and enjoyable voyages.
The magnificent President Liners are bunad of beam and exceptionally steady." All are bil bumiers, swift express liners.
The public rooms are luxurioußly appointed and inviting.
All staterooms are outside, splendidly furnished and equipped with beds-not benths. Each roun has hot and cold running water, also lans, wardrobe, thermos bottles and reading lamps. Private bath and showers in connection with many count perfect the travel comfort of these giant, passenger Hours.
The Cuisine is world famous. The deliciously prepared minus will delight you, And how the orchestra adús sest to your dining,
The decks are spacious. The Glass-enclosed Promenade always popular. Dick spons, open air swimming pool, movies, evening dances, everything has been done to make your trip. A happy unc. Unexcelled anywhere is the courteous and efficient service accorded you by the trained personnel about the President
Liners.
The great frequency of sailings and the liberal stopover privileges of the Dollax Steamship and American Mail Lines have made these giant passenger liners our standingly popular among travelers.
WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
TO SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES
The Sunshine Belt via Honolulu Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays Pres. Jackson Tuan,, Dec. 29th Pres. McKinley... Tues., Jan. 3rd Tuse., Jan. 17th Tues., Jaa. 31st
Pres. Grant Pres. Ulovland ...
TO SEATTLE and VICTORIA' The Short, Straight Route so America
Fortnightly sailings on Wednesdays -
Pres. Fierce Wed., Deo. 14, 6 .. Pres. Taft ... Wed., Dec. 28th Pres. Jefferson Wed., Jan. 11th Pres. Lacola... Wed., Jan. 25th
Special Through Rates to Europe, via United States, £120, £112. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines: Choice of railway lines across United States and Canada, with liberal atop-over privileges for sight-seeing.
TO EUROPE and NEW YORK -
ROUND THE WORLD
Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays via Manila, Strales, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Napics, Genos, Marseilles, Boston and New York. Pres. Garfield Sun, Dec. 18, 8 a.. Pres. Wilson San., Jan. 28, m Pres. Harrison...Sun., Jan. 1. 8 u.m., Prea. V. Baron Sun, Feb. 12, 8.m Prea. Monroe ...Bun., Jan. 15, n.. Pres, Hayas...Sun., Feb. 26, BA.m
TO MANILA
Pres. Jackson
Pres. Garfield
***
Prea.
ft...
Dec. 12th, 6 p.m. 1 Pres, McKinley Dec. 26th, 6 p.m. Dec. 10th, Ba.m. Pres. Harrison, Jan, Jat; 8 km. Pres. Jefferson Jan. 3rd, ti p.m. ... Dec. 20th, 6 pm.
For Bookings, Passenger and Freight information Apply to Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 795 Cable Address "Dollar"
Dollar Steamship Line
Vand advan
American Mail Line
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE WATER SUPPLY.
ALL RESERVOIRS BELOW OVERFLOW.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1927.
STEEL MELTING.
NEW ELECTRICAL METHOD
IS DEMONSTRATED, A
London, Dec. 7.
All reservoirs in the Colony are below overflow, with the excep- The new high frequency elec- tion of Tytam Intermediate, which trical furnace for melting steel remains level. "The altuntion is was demonstrated yesterday at far from satisfactory. Although Sheffield at the works of Messrs. there has been six inches more Edgar Allen and Co. The fur- rain this year than last, the amount of water in storage is no less than 167,000,000 gallons less on the Island above.
THE VOLUNTEERS.
ORDERS FOR THE COMING WEEK.
Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps. Orders by Licat.-Colonel I. G. Bird, D.3.0., Administrative Commandant,
1
Hongkong, 8th Dec. 1927. 1. Annual Camp.
nace is the first of its kind in the Full particulars regarding annual world to be used commercially for eamp which takes place between lat the manufacture of high quality December and 18th December have tool steel. It marks a striking ad-been issued to alt-ranks on 18th No- The following figures, taken vance on the old-fashioned cru-vember hy typewritten circular.
to Camp the even- from the monthly Water Return, cible process in which pots con-ing of
inning.
day before, ie.
Friday on shows storage, in millions and detaining about 60 lbs of materiali
of 9th December, 1927. cimals of gallons on December 1 are heated by coke or gas fires. [], C. Companies will
will report this year and last!
Tytani
Tyam Bynalı
Tytam Intermediata
1926 31638 9.23 196.39
1927
301.96
校
3,281,78
Wong Nel Chunk
10.52
Total
Tytam. Tak
Pokering
123,10 1,320,28 10.00 36.11 20,94
1,868,61
Men can
The
to the
NA
In the new furnace about 450 Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. as soon
ibs of steel are heated in about possible the number of members at- tending camp, stating meals required, One hour. The heat is not put
so that rations can be arranged hele into the furnace from the outside Those wishing to have
י,
but is induced within it by means baggage sent to the Camp at Fanling of alternating currents of electri-must deliver it, clearly labelled with 17.25eity. The walls of the crucible owners' names, at Corps Headquarters Consumption has increased he merely serve as the purpose of aby on Friday, 9th December.
2. Corps Signals. ing over tiro gallons per head per container and the furnace Itself ay more than a year ago. Last is contained in a square wooden
Parade at Corps Headquarters on Monday, 12th December and Thors- year the consumption figures (bax which remains cool. were 245.38 million gallons, and The purity of the steel produced day, 15th December at 5.30 p.m. for
Signal Instruction. this year 283.83 million gallons. is one of the technical advantages There will be a shoot with a team The estimated population was of the new proceSS. Having no from one of H.M. Ships or the 406/760 and 117,080 respectively, contact with the fuel, the steel is Miniature Range on Wednesday, 14th showing the daily individual con- extraordinarity free from sulphur December. Team to be notified later. sumption as 22.7 galjons as against or phosphorous effects, It is Some members are still without
20.1 gallons in November of 1926. estimated that whereas the cost of hosetops; they are to draw them with- There was a full supply in all melting a ton of high speed steel out further delay from C.Q.M.S. Mil-
lington. rider main districts during Novem-under the old process ranges from bor last year and this year, with £10 to £24, the cost will be about
3. Artillery Company, the exception this year of the dis-one half
Parade at Corps Headquartera nt or two thirds of that urlets west of Eastern Street where sum under the new method-5.25 p.m. on Thursday, 15th December an intermittent supply was given British Wireless.
for Battery Drill.
There from Nov. 18 to 30.
Thursday, 22nd December.
Kowloon Figures.
The storage figures for Kowloon
on December 1 were as follows:
Kowloon Reservoir Shakini Romervoir Reception Reservoir
4
Tutal
נו
STUDENT RIOTS.
1024 .138,70
1927 269.00
100.0
29.fa
31.61
435.00
829.71
The consumption in November,
AGAINST JEWS AND MAGYARS.
Budapest, Dec. 7.
I will be lecture by an Officer from Kal Tack on Aeroplane co-operation with heavy Artillery. All ranks of the Corps are invited to be present.
4. Engineer Company, The Field Sections will go to Camp from 8th to 12th December. All ranks will parade at Kowloon" Rail- way Station on 8th December at 5.15
at train.
5. Strength.
1926, was 73.52 million gallons by The police, reinforced by gen-p.m. in érder to catch the 5.43 p.m. an estimated population of 157-darmerie and cavalry, have 720, giving the daily consumption length quelled the bloody con-- per head at 15.5 gallons. This flicts in the former Hungarian. The following recruit is taken on year the consumption had in-town of Nagyvarad, which has now the strength on 1. 12. 27. and posted creased to 93.41, the population to been annexed to Rumania, where to No. 7 Platoon (Scottish Co.) 162,700 and the consumption per thousands of students from Jassy. head per day to 10.1 gallons.
No. 1284 Pte. A. N. Braude.
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6. Sergeants' Mess Meeting. There will be a Sergeants' Mess. meeting at 6.00 p.m. on Thursday, 22nd
from Bucharest and from various The Government Analyst's re-places throughout Transylvania, port shows that the quality of attended a congress. water is antisfactory. The total. The students began demonstra- December. All members will please rainfall up to Nov. 30 is given as 106.50 ins. against 100.33 ins,
SPIES FOR RUSSIA.
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL AT OLD BAILEY,
London, Dec. 7. McCartney und Hansen have been committed for trial at Old Bailey. Both pleaded not guilty and reserved their defence. Reuter.
R. A. WOLFE MURRAY, MAJOR,
Adjutant, H. K. V. D. Corps.
tions against the Jews and even-attend. tually against the Magyara, and at- tacked and wrecked the residence. of the Chief Rabbi, several news- paper offices and the Union Society's offices.
Catholic
Up to the present it is known that one has been killed, and many; seriously injured.-Reuter,
EXTINGUISHED:
EARTH DUMPED INTO VOLCANO CRATER.
CHINA WARFARE.
NOT COMIC OPERA
London, Dec. 7. General Sutton, who for the last few years has been on Chang Tso- lin's staff, has arrived in London after an absence from England of eight years. In an interview with Reuter, he said it was quite wrong to regard the fighting in China as a sort of comic opera warfare. He declared that he left China be cause he wanted. a change. He | Cartney, Counsel for the prosecu-whose poisonous fumes ruined a was given a nice little present by tion declared that McCartney, quarter of Nicaráguá's coffee crop Chang Tso-lin. It is understood allas Hudson, was a member of for years, German engineers have this was £10,000.
A message dated London, Dec. 4 stated: At the resumption at Bow Street of the hearing of the
Managua, Dec. 7. charges of espionage against With the iden of permanently George Hansen and Wilfred Mc-extinguishing the Santiago volcano,
the British Communist party and dumped thousands of tans of earth General Sutton is trying to in- liansen, alias Johnson, was a into the crater. The result is that
capitalists in a terest British German subject. The foreign the burning sulphur bed has been cheme of Yailway development in Power concerned in the case was apparently extinguished-Reuter's | British Columbia.-Reuter
| The Government of Soviet Russin.]| American Service.
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For FREMANTLE, ADELAIDE, MELBOURNE & BYDNEY.
3rd January 18th January
14th February,
20th February.
INDIES. LINK . 7th January. 7th February.
Through FREIGHT and PASSENGER baskings from HONGKONG in conjunction with "ELLERKAN"
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BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE
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B.S. "MACHAON" ...
8.8. "CITY OF LAHORE"
8.8. "PYRRHUS"
8.8. "CITY OF BEDFORD"
28.8. "CITY OF KIMBULEY"
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via Suez Canal 18th Dec. via Suez Canal 27th Dec... via Suez Canal 18th Jan via Suez Canal 23rd Jan. via Suez Canal 20th Feb, vía Suez Canal 9th Mar,
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Fare Hongkong to London £82.
TO LONDON, ROTTERDAM & HAMBURG via STRAITS & COLOMBO,
Steamship
Steamship
CARNARVONSHIRE" (Via Oraní 28th - Doc. "GLENIFFER" (Via Oran).... Motor Vossel "GLENA MOY" (Via Oran) Steamship "GLENBANDA" (Via Oran) ...'
TO SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & VLADIVOSTOCK.
Steamship "GLENIFFER";
Mator Vessel "GLENOGLE”
Mator Vessal. "GLENA MOY"-
Steamship
"GLENSANDA"
Motor Vessel "GLENAPP"
25th
Jan.
2nd Mar.
7th Mar.
Due Hongkong.
"
9ch
Doo
22nd Doo
21st #Jan.
26th Jan.
2nd Fob
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Changte" & "Taiping.”
THESE NEW VESSELS MAINTAIN A REGULAR SERVICE FROM HONGKONG TO AUSTRALIAN PORTS.
VIA MANILA, AND THURSDAY ISLAND.
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Dos HoxoxoNG UN ON ABOUT
9th December
7th January
7th February
9th March
JAILS AKKOR ON UN AMOUN
16th December
14th January
14th February
16th March
Agenta.
cor Freight & Passage, apply to—BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Pel. C. 35.
SHANGHAI THANKS. land, Switzerland, and Spain, for
APPRECIATION OF THE DEFENCE FORCES:
what the Defence forces on land and sen here meant for them, is contained in the announcement of a representative Committee of a fund being organised "to make Christmas spent so far from their Shanghai, Dec. 7. homes and loved ones a huppy A striking expression of the one for the men for whose endeav gratitude of the nationals "of ours on our behalf this fund will. thirteen countries unrepresented create of long-waited opportuntity militarily in Shanghai, including to show appreciation and thank- Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holfulncas. Reuter,
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