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TUITION WANTED.
Private tutoring wanted in laboratory chemistry. Stato qualifications and fees. Apply by letter. Yan, 2nd foor, 248, Prince Edward Road, Sham Shui Po.
WANTED KNOWN.
ELECTRIC BATHS.-Ideal for lum- bago, rheomatics, etc. Recommended for reducing. Givon by skilled at- tendants, Tester Beauty Parlour, Kaymally Building, ground floor. Telephone 22108.
HOUSES, ETC.
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH
MEN CHARGED WITH ROBBERY.
Lammert's Auctions.
NOTICE.
We bog to notify our Customers |that on and affor the 25th August, 1931, the Tax! Fare in accordance with Government's approval wil} be as follows:- First mile
50 cents Every subsequent mile. 40 cents per mile
The New Taxi Co. Ltd. (Telephone No. 26180.) Blue Taxicabs, Ltd. (Telephone No. 57417.) Hong Kong & Shanghal Taxicab Company, Ltd. (Telophone No. 20408.) Star Taxi Co. (Telephone No. 26748.) Hongkong, 24th August, 1931.
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
FOR SALE OR TO LET furnished) SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES four-roomed house at Cheung Chan.
Electric Light. Large garden. Write
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
Bon No. 758, "Hongkong Telegraph.” The Steamshija,
APARTMENTS TO LET.
Under
HOTEL-23-25, Nathan AIRLIE Road, Kowloon.
European Management. Excellent Cuisine, Modern Apartments. Terma Moderate Three minutes from ferry. Tel, 67357
METALS
of all kinda especially for ship-building and engineering work. Complate stock. Best Terms. Immediate delivery.
SINGON & CO
ESTABLISHED A. D. 1930.
Telephone: 20515. HING LUNG ST.
CREDIT FONCIER D'EXTREME. ORIENT.
Mortgage Bank & Estate agents, "PEAK MANSIONS"
Prince Edward Road,'
Kowloon
Detached and Semi-detached villas. Modern construction with garage.
"Cambay Buildings"
Fists with modern conveníancem
"PORTHOS"
Arrived, Hongkong on Tuesday, the 1st September, 1931,
From MARSEILLES & Consignees of Cargn by the above named steamer are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuable are being inated and placed at thele risk in the Godowan of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kowloon, whence delivery can be ol tained as the goods are "landed.
Gools not cleared within 7 days in cluding date of arrival, will be sub jeel te rent.
All claims artist be sent to the undersigned before the Thursday, the 10th Septemler, 1831, or they will not be recognized.---
Daninged Packages must be left Fin The Godowns for examination by The eonsignees, and the Company's Surveyor Messrs; Goddard and Douglas at 10,00 1.m. en Saturday, the 7th September, 19:41.
No chains will be wdmitted after the goals have left the Godsaws,
No Fire Towarance will be riveteul
in any case whatever.
by
R. OBL
Agent. Hongkong, 1st September, 1931,
MRS. MOTONO. Massage.
Hand and Electric 31h, Wyndham Street.
TO BE SOLD.
55 The Peak, lately occupied by Dr. Harston and adjoining the Peak Hospital. Unfurnished. Con- venient, comfortable and cool. Six rooms and Dressing room. Four bathrooms,
cold hot and water. Modern sanitation, Gas and Electric Light. Use of Tennis Court. Suitable for a Mons of five, or could be easily divided to sult Lwo couples. Close to Tram Station and Motor Road.
Apply:
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Exchange Building.
ADVERTISING
It is a sad commentury upon present day civilisation that we permit nature to be crucified: the countryside scarred and made hideous because the phrase "it paya to advertise" has been abused by wrongful methods of doing so. In England there is a campaign against hideous advertising hoardings and luckily it s meeting. with a good deal of success. Preventive legislation would put everyone on the same foot- Ing. Let us have it. We would then have to full back' upon the personal element, the spoken word for "Speech is morn. ing to the mind: it spreads the beauteous images. abroad which else lie furled or clouded in the soul. Our advertis. ing is purely informative: it is not combative or destructive. You will not find throughout the Colony a space with the name of WAKEFIELD. on It. There are signs, outside Garages but they do not offend the eye or interfere in any . way with the natural beauty of the Colony. Vandalism is running amok under the guisa of advertising but we are not a party to it. Castrol gil ia distinctive, it is the product of an All-British-Firm:-ita-name-le-a-tradition-in-the-motor- ing world but it costs no more then ordinary motor oils,. It is the only off in the Colony gold by the British Imporin! gallon which is the legal measure.
Robertson Wilson & Co, Ltd., Sole, Agents in South Chinu for Mesara. C. C. Wakefield & Co. Ltd., the All British Firm of Oil Manufacturòrs.
SEQUEL TO RAID ON UNNUMBERED HUT.
A raid on an unnumbered hut by a number of coulles in the early hours of the morning of August 9 had a sequel at the Kowloon Magistraes yesterday afternoon, before Mr. Frasur, when two men, numsed Kwong Fu and Tra Sang, were charged with robbery, together with others not in custody, at
at Chu Kn Tsale New
Kowloon Tong. A third man named Lin San was originally charged with the two defendants, but Detective Sergeant Goodwin yesterday withdrew the charge against him. Outlining the case, Sgt. Good
the two defendants, to- gether with others, entered a hut TRAI, New Kowloon in Chu Tong, at about 12.30 August 9. Two of the men were armed with iron bars, and they, frightened the three women in the hut into silence with the threat that they would be killed if they mude any noise.
4.11. on
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1931.
THE LOSS OF THE KWONGSANG.
(Continued from Pape 1.J
they did know that the typhoon hit the ship about midnight on August 0, when the wind and sea increased in violence.
"Front that hour onwards, the weather grew worse and worse" the men declared. "The
RCA rose to great heights, sweeping over the ship, time and time again They carried overboard avery. thing not lashed down. One could hardly move about on deck. About 4 o'clock in the morning it commenced to rain very heavily, so hard you could not see even a few cables' lengths from the Vornel.
Terrible Storm.
CANTON TELEPHONE.
OPENED.
(Continued from Page 1) the forerunner of a telephone nei work embracing the whole of that vast country.
"In establishing telephonie com- munication with Canton, the Com- pany, in co-operation with the Canton Administration, resolved that the best possible grade of service should be given to nub- scribers, and consequently the whole of the line has been placed underground and will therefore be free from interference even under the most adverse · weather conditions.
"Demand" Basis.
"The service will be operated on
POST OFFICE NOTICE
From Java via Batavia Shanghal and Amey Japan
INWARD MAILS.
Per
Tjikembang
Tainan
Daa .September 1.
.September 1.
Huonas Aires Maru.... September 2.
Shanghal and Europe via Siberia.
(London, tith August)
Ningpo Europe via Negapatam (Letters and
Papers London, 0th August) Haruna Maru Canada, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan
and Shanghai (Vancouver D. C 15th August.) Japan
.September 3.
.September 1
Empa, of Japan Sydney Maru
.September 4.
.September 6.
.September 5.
U.S... Ifonelulu, Japan, Shang
and hai (San Francisco, 7th August) Pren. Hayes
OUTWARD MAILS. REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are closed 16 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where maile are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. registered and parcel mails are' closed at 6 p.m. on the previous day.
For
Fer Swalow, Amoy and Foochow
Calcutta via Straits
Amay
Ordinary letters only for Europe superscribed "Vin Siberia, Alemail Shanghal-"Manchoull"
"None of the members of the 4, 'demand' basis, that is to any, Samahui and Wuchow crew slept. We all crouched in under normal working conditions what protected alleyway or hole we the caller in Hongkong will be could find. None of us, although connected at once with his corres many had gone to sen for many pondent in Canton, and vice veran,
the irritating
delays years, ever saw auch waves, such without terrible wind that you could not which, under the older system of the stand up almost
trunk operating, one always as- tosociated with long distance tele-Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A., impossible
phone calls,
"The
defendants, with others, numbering five in all, were in the hut for about half an hour, at the end of which period they left in the direction of Shatin.
hut then The inmates of the nde a report to the Shamshulpo Poller Station, and Police officers who immediately went to the scene discovered the hut to have been ransacked.
The case was adjourned,
SUGAR MARKET.
THE LATEST CABLED QUOTATIONS.
It was
Haiching Konso
Date and Time
Tues.. Sept. 1, 3 p.m.
Tues., Sept. 1, 4 pm.
Rangoon Maru..Tues., Sept. 1, & p.m. Sui Song Tues., Sept. 1, 6.p.m.
...Chichibu Maru
K.P.O. G.r.o.
•Canada, Central and South America and Europe via San Francisco and *Europă vin Siberia Chichibu Maru
feed the furnaces so greatly did the ship jump and roll with the "I will now ask your Excellency to formally open this important WaveR. But both the foreign en- gineers and firemen remained be.trunk service by dialling "O" and low at their work, never stopping requesting the trunk operator to one montent as they knew connect you with Mr. Lin Yun-koy. team must be kept up.
Provincial Governor of Kwang-Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, E. and Africa, Egypt and tung.
Europe vio Morseilles
for
"Most of the deck officers, think,
were on the bridge," the men continued through the inter- preter. "It seemed
UA the typhoon would never cease when suddenly, about 7 in the morning
to
we struck some
Munken
rocks, More huge waves swept over uN. The after lifeboats were smashed
H.E. Returas Thanks,
At the conclusion of the cere mony. Mr. Markfe handed His Ex- cellency a small momento of the ocensión. Sir William replied:
Swetow
The fullowing cable at the close to pieces and carried away, Doore the telephone, but I must thank Manila, Rabaul, Australia and New
of the sugar market yesterday been received by Messrs. treath and Co.
has were stove in. The mid-ship life Pen-boats were apparently hadly dam-
[aged at the sun time.
London Terminals, March 1932 6/1 down ad. May 19:12 6/3 down d. August 1982 6/5 no change. December 1931 5/10 down 1⁄4d.
New York Terminals, March 1932 1.34 down 3 pts. May 1932 1.40 down 2 pts. July 1932 1.45 down 3 pts.
Lifeboats Smashed
"For a few minutes--anyway, it seemed very long-the ship was battered and swept anh hung on the rocks. Then even more terrible Waves hit against us and the force of them carried us, smashing and crashing, over the ledge into pts.deep water again.
September 1931 1.32 down 3 December 1931 1,30 down 4 pts.
IF IT'S
THE BEST
-IT'S
MUMM'S
GORDON ROUGE
Obtainable from
all wine merchants.
PUDLO
BRAND
ELMENT WATERTROY,
Can on May
DRY AS THE DESERTU
blond by the
Bale A poule for nap 215
DOD WELL- DOMPANYS Hongkong.
|
"I had at first intended to confine my remarks to thone I made over
the Company for this very ne memento. It has been great pleasure for me to perform this ceremony, although I cannot say that I am a great telephone fan, and am always glad to have my telephoning done for me."
Zvalán via Brisbane
Wed., Sept. 2. Sept. 1, 4.80 p.m. .Sept. 2, 8.30 a.m.
.Wed., Bapt. 2 Registration Sept. 1, 6 p.m. Letters Sept. 2, 8.30 a.m. (Due San Francisco, 23rd Sept.)
Hector
Wed., Sept. 2. K.P.O.
.10 a.m.
...10 a.m.
G.P.0.
11.45 a.m.
Registration Letters..... Registration Letters ... 12.80 a.m. (Due Marseilles 1st Oct.) Hang Song ....Wed., Sept. 2, 10a.m.
Tanda
Pareris
Registration Lettera,
Wed., Sept. 2.
...3 p.m.
.3.45 p.m.
.4.30 p.m.
(Due Brisbane, 19th September.)
Hathow, Pakhot and Haiphong..... Menado Maru Thurg, Sept. 3. 8.38 a.m.
Straits, Saigon,
Ceylon, India, Mauritius, East and South Afrien and South Americań Ports
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow
Sir William roferred to the many advances runde in telephony in the last few years and referred to the Ahoy occasion when Lady Peel spoke Fochow vis Swatow from a vessel in Hongkong Har- Amoy "The captain immediately order-bour to London. ed both anchors to be dropped. This was done and life jackets served out to each member of the crew, Then efforts were made to launch the life boals but most of them were either gone, washed away, or badly smashed. far we rode the sens nil
right And it seemed as if we might sur- vive the atorm.
So
vin Brisbane'
"It is a pity," concluded Siraiphong William, "that this coupling up of Shanghal, Japan and Europe via Canton and Hongkong by telephone Siberia does not synchronise with the Main coupling up of the various parts *Mantia, Australia and New Zealand of this great country. It would be great delight if it did, but nt present we can only continue to maintain friendly relations, and who knows but that this telophone service may lead to a disappear- ance of all misunderstandings."
He offered his congratulations to the company on the accomplish- ment of its task.
Shanghai, Japan, U.S.A., Canada, Central and South America and *Europe via Victoria B.C., and
Europe via Siberla
Sudden Sinking. "Then, it must have been about 8 o'clock, one hour after we first struck the Kwongenng suddenly shnok all over and dived towards the bottom, bow first. It happened so quickly no man hal a chance to do anything. Her bottom mast. have been badly torn on the rocks.
"We
Two of the latest innovations in sucked underneath the water but soon came up again. On telephone services that are pos-Shanghai, Japan and Canada via all sides could be seen the heads sible with the inauguration of the Vancouver BC. and. *Europe via of men, some of our foreign off-trunk line to Canton, will be the Siberin- shlp sails on Monday, 8th
and teleprinter cers; some of the Chinese members telephoto
Sept, at A a.m.
were
Telephoto Apparatus.
ap-
of the crew. Among them also paratus, which have been install- were the heads of horses anded at both Hongkong and Canton. sheep, which animals had been and are available for public use. part of our deck cars Every following experiments with
Improvement has been rapid men, and animals, were trying to
th: swim and find some wreckage.
"Two of us managed to secure planks and hold on to them. The other man saved clung to a ense of cigarettes. For hours after this very little can be remembered. The Rea continued to be very bad with huge waves. It rained. In this manner we drifted, battered, | thirsty, hungry and exhausted for
over two days.
Washed Ashore.
Amoy Manila
Swatow, Amay and Fermosa Bangkok via Swatow
Swatow. Amay and Foochow Swotow *Straits and Calcutta
telephoto, and where nt first only blurred and indistinct results were obtained, the latest apparatus Sandinkar installed by the Hongkong Tole Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, phone Company is capable of sending through a reproduction that is little, if at all, inferior to the original print. Photographs, drawings, Chinese characters und
East and South Africa, Aden and Egypt
Buenos Aires Maru
Thurs., Sept. 3, 0.30 a.m. Tjikembang Thure, Sept. 3, 2.30 p.m.
Chipshing
Txinan
Hai Ning Canton
...Fri., Sept. 4, 10,30 x.m.
..Fri., Sept. 4, 1.30 p.m.
....Fri., Sept. 4, 2 p.m..
.. Fri, Sept, 4, 2.30 p.m.
Harana Maru Fri., Sapt, 4, 3.30 mm. Emp. of Japan Fri., Sept. 4, 3.30 p.m.
Sydney Maru
Parcels Registration
Letters...
..Sat., Sept. 6,
....3 p.m.
1.4.16 p.m.
......6 p.m.
(Due Brisbane, 19th September).
Prés. Cleveland
Parcels
Reg
Letters,
.Sat., Sept. 5.
..8 p.m.
..4.16 g.. ..5 p.m.
(Dua Victoria R.C., 2nd September.)
Antung ...
Pren. Hayes
Hozan Maru Kalgan
Sat, Sept. 6, 5 pm. Sat, Sept. 6, 6 p..
Sun, Sept. 6, 9 n.m.
Sat., Sept. 6, 0 a.m.
Heino Maru.....
Registration. Letters
-Mon., Sept. 7, .11.15.a.ii. Noon.
(Due Vancouver B.C. 28th September Haiyang..Tues., Sept. 8, 1 p.m. Kwai Sang Wed., Sept. 8, 10.30 am.. Kumsang
Wed, Sept. 0, Parccis
.Noon, Letters
p.p1. Mausang...Wed., Sept. 9, 1.30 p.m.
Gange.Wed., Sept. 9, 4 p.m. *Superscribed Correspondence only.
any description of writing and sage is typed direct on to a strip printing can be Fent over the at both ends and is cut up and wire.
pasted on to a form, if required, to make it up as a letter.
.
Harbour, fald what was the biggest submarine trunk cabis east of Buez. Accom-
This we successfully plished by the Company, and short-mmmmm "Finally when it seemed as if it
Mode of Operation.
ly after construction work Wes would be better to give in and
History of New Line.
atarted by the Standard Telephones drown, two of us were washed
The mode of operation is:--
& Cables, Ltd. from the Canton The photograph or document in
The history of the laying of the end. The border at Shumchun wES ashore on what later proved to be
ap-Canton trunk line is a triumph over reached in January 1981, the cable Santu and Funing Bays. We lay for paratus and the current switched what at first seemed unsurmoun-up to this point being carried en- the mainlund, a peninsula between inserted in the transmitting hours on the beach, just able to on The matter to be sent is table diffeuilles.
tirely along the route of the rall- drag ourselves above the reach of
affixed to à drum which slowly For some years past the Hong-way. No untoward Incidents were An intensified light kong Telephone Company had been expos senced in the laying. On the waves. Here we were found by
by revolves.
beam is directed on to the villagers, fuhermen, who took us
the river at Shunchun, to their huts. We two thought we ture and the reflected light froc considering the project of laying an
from underground cable between Hong- further submarine cable was laid were the only ones saved. Then, this beam affects a photo electric kong and Canton, but there were and the cable route continued along several days inter, our comrade valve which controls the current many obstacles in the way, the the railway to a point just above who had been washed ashore on to be passed out to the line offer chief of which were the
general Fanling. From there the railway his cigarette case some three or amplification. At
was end the received
is unsettled conditions of the end the and and thermozardous I down the beach.
current is again between these two places and the and the cable was therefore
four
wreck and could not walk
"A
or
As we are Tientsin men we could not talk very well with the natives of this coast who told us wo were about 100 l. from Santu
the
system
road brought to the village where we amplified and passed through coils lack of a good telephone By along the New TORRADA" were. He had been hurt in the which affect the movements of in Canton to which to connect from this point,
small
Taipo suspended magnet upon With the advent of the China Market and Talpo to which is
a point near fixed & mirror.
Electric Co Ltd.-a subsidiary Shatin, where it again joined the The reflections from this mirror Company of the International Tele-railway, and through Beaconhill are transmitted through lenses to phone & Telegraph Co-into the Tunnel to the Star Ferry approach. sensitized
The field of service in Canton, however, 500 Registrationa on the mirror are of the problem of a good exchange aya. In the meantime, Island (approximately 33 English vibrations per er 'a Alm.
the special miles). But after two weeks in course, in complete accord with the tom was solved in 1920.
switchboards for operating at both theae villages we managed,
vibrations or varied reflections of to
ends had been installed and, 58 necure a passage on a trading junk the light and shade on the item be-
light caused at the sending end by 30 Simultaneous Conversations. soon as the cable was terminated, to Foochow.
ing transmitted.
GRAF ZEPPELIN.
SIGHTED OVER THE ATLANTIC.
-Berlin, Aug. 31.
for
Shortly after this, consultations teate were begun. The overall tests A number of photographs and were arranged between the Hong of the cable
were well up to all letters have been transmitted kong and Canton Authorities, and sonnel has been steadily trained
requirements.
Tho
operating par- already over the line, and the re-manufacturers, and finally an Dr
con der for-the-cable-was-placed with this class of work, and it is production is perfect.~~
subscribers Standard Telephones & Cabins, fidently the The Teleprinter.
agreeable surprised at the Ltd., of Woolwich, England, wity expected that sube The teleprinter ls, in effect, a the supply of
Bervice avallabies grade of The demon-miles of cable cambiately distant typewriter.
of carrying in Hongkong and Canton
to the present over 500: įstration model fitted in the officen 80 simultaneous conversations and
Mered "or the Telephone Company, is
the characteristics of the cable
service, and ap procedure, as outlined by the
140
Wigh
home port on Saturday night at w another one in the offices of the tion to be not more than approxi/ TheWane Company in its leaflet of
The Graf Zeppelin which left its nected by wires in the tell cable affecting transmission and recep- plications are steadily coming in.
Pornambuco was
10.30 for a non-stop run to | Canton Telephone Administra- mately 12 miles of ordinary under
last nighted at tion in Canton, and a typist with ground cable, such as is used be charges and regulations applying
to the trunk telephone... tween subscribers and exchanges. which can be obtained on demand service,
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5 p.m., in a position 36° 42°N, 6 out any technical skill whatever over the Atlantic flying at the can proceed to type messages in rate of 120 kilometres per hour in Honkong, which are received in brilliant sunshine with no wind. Canton, and vice versa. The mos The ship reported all well,
The laying of the cable was begun at their offices, fully explains the in 1989, when the Hongkong method of usage and the charges Telephone Co, by laying the sub-made for various classes of ser marine section across Hongkong vice.