THE
BLUETUNNEL
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST | PASSENGER SERVICES
FREIGHT AND
ONDON SERVICE.
CHILLES
AENEAS
ails 29 Apr. for Casablanca, London, Rot
terdam, Hamburg & Hofi matis -May, for Marseilles, Landan. Not. terdam, & Glasgow
IVERPOOL SERVICE
AUTOMEDON mails 1 May for Havre, Liverpool &
EW YORK SERVICE
GLAUCUS anila 4 July
Bromborough
fur Boston, N.Y., Philadelphia & Baltimore via Manila, Batavia Straits & Cape of Good Hope
ACIFIC SERVICE (via Kobe, Nagoya & Yekonsinat TINDAREUS pail. 14 May for Victoria, Vancouver & Seattle
NWARD SERVICE ·
PROTESILAUR Due 20 Apr. PERSEUS Due 4 May TYNDAREUS Due May
From Europe vin Straits
From U. K. vin Straits
From Pacifle via Japan & S'hai
Specially reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamers with
limited passenger accommodation.
For freight, passage rates, and information apply to
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
Tel. 20333.
Agent
1, Connaught Rond, C.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1936.
NEWS IN PHOTOGRAPHS
NAVAL AND air fortifiCATIONS AT MALTA
BURNS PHILP LINE M.V. “NEPTUNA"
In keeping with her huge home defence programme, Britain is also spending lavishly rebuilding fortifications in other parts of the world. Chief among these strat egle points is Malta, where, it la announced, Britain plans to build a new base. The great naval base at Valetta, Malta, is to be ro constructed to include a military air base in answer to the challenge of Italian aeroplanes from Sleily.
The naval arsenal at Valetta is reported working in 24-hour shifts. ABOVE layout shows TOP, the
target harbour at Valetin. BELOW, one of the coast defence guns roaring in
practice. INSET, Lt. Gen. Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, recently appointed governor of the little Mediterranean island.
RAJPUTAN
GREENOCK
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND TERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
Taking Cargo For
Straits, Java, Burma, Ceylon, India, Peralan Gulf, West Indies, Mauritius, East and South
Africa, Queensland Ports, and Red Sea, Egypt, Istanbul, Greece, Levantine Forts, Europe.. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY,
DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT
"All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route,and the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice".
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS
8.8.
CARTHAGE RAJPUTANA *BHUTAN
CHITRAL
*BEHTAR
Cargo only.
From
Tons Hong Kong
About
Destination.
14,500 2nd May Marseilles & London. 17,000 16th May Bombay, Marseilles & London.
6,000 23rd May Marseliles, Havre, Londen, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
15,000 30th May Bombay, Marseilles & London.
6,000 6th June Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
Calls Tangier
† Calla Casablanca.
All vessels may call at Malta.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo ta Istanbul, Piraeus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers cl the Khedivial Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
SHIRALA 8,000 26th Apr. 10.30 am.
TILAWA SANTHIA TALMA SIRDHANA
"
+10,000
0th May
8,000 23rd May Singapore, Port, Sweltenham, Penang, *10,000 Ctk June Rangoon and Calcutta.
8,000 20th June
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
7,000
2nd May
7,000
5th June
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney Melbourne & Hobart, ..
7,000
3rd July
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
"BEHAR
OHITRAL
SANTHIA
TANDA
RANPURA
TALMA
Cargo only.
. 6,000 30th Apr. Shanghai & Japan.
15,000 30th Apr. Shanghai & Japan.:
8,000 30th Apr. Amey, Shanghai & Japan. 7,000 10th May Shanghai & Japan.
17,000 14th May Shanghai & Japan,
10,000 14th May Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
A
All dates aro approximate and subject to alteration without notice. For further Information, Passage, Freight, Handbook, etc., apply to
The Agents.
Phono 27721
MACKINNON MACKENZIE CO
P&O BUILDING CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRALPHONGKONG,
PASSENGER & FREIGHT SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA
Next Sailing 2nd May
for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Salamaua, Rabaul, Sydney & Melbourne.
First Class Fore to Sydney:
Singlo: £47.10.06. Roturn: £76.
Passenger & Freight Agents:-
·
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
"" P. & O. Building.
Joint Passenger Agents:-
NIPPON YUSEN-KAISHA
King's Building.
SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC
GO LTD
SERVICE OF FAST MOTOŘ VESSELS
-(with limited, but exceptionally good, passenger accomodation). Homowards to:
Port Sudan, Port Said, Marseilles, Algiers, Oran, Antwerp, Rotterdam (Amsterdam), ffamburg, Oslo, Gothenburg and other Scandinavian Ports.
M.S. TAMARA"
vin
Manila and Straits Settlements
M.S. "SHANTUNG"
M.S. "AGRA”:
Outwards for:
-M.S. "TAMARA!!
M.S. "PEIPING"
Passenger Ratea:,
Hong Kong to Antwerp
gents:
Shanghai, Yokohama, Kobo and Osaka.
Hong Kong to Mediterranean
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
"Hongkong,
2nd May
1st June
2nd July
19th May...
*18th Juno
G. E. HUYGEN
Canton.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN D. DINGELL, of Michigan, U.S., thinks airships fine, aeroplanes fine-but thinks a combination of the two would be simply splendid. He has proparod a Bill authorising expenditure of £300,000 to construct giant dirigible-planes which he claims would serve for long-range, bombing and scout-
Ing. Experts query why wings? Or if the thing's a 'plane-why a gasbag?
THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY
OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.
BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS.
BUILDERS Of reciprocATING STEAM ENGINES. BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND BOILERS. BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY
Under Licence From Messrs. Parsons.
BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES
Under Special Licence From Messrs. Sulzer Bros., Winterthur.
Licensed To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Sultabla
For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts.
DOCK & SLIPWAYS
FOR DOCKING VERY LARGE, as well as SMALLER VESSELS, ON ANY TIDE.
ALL CLASSES OF SHIP, ENGINE AND BOILER
REPAIRS
AND EXTENSIVE WELDING, BOTH ELECTRICAL AND
OXY-ACETYLENE, SKILFULLY AND PROMPTLY CARRIED OUT.
Tel. Address "Talkoodock" Hongkong, Telephone No. 30211.
Call Flag: "Numeral One" over, "Pannant Ans.'
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN
BARBER-WILHELMSEN
LINE-
MONTHLY SERVICE
To
NEW YORK
Via SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & PANAMA CANAL PORTS.
NEXT SAILING
M.V. “TAL SHAN”
on
18th MAY
"EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION: FOR 12 PASSENGERS.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Agents.
Hongkong Bank Bldg.
Telephone 28021.
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
To AUSTRALIA, Calling at Manlin, Thursday Is., CAIRNS Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. British Steamqrs: CHANGTE TAIPING (Oil Burner"}} FASTEST & MOST UP-TO-DATE STEAMERS IN THE SERVICE OPEN AIR SWIMMING POOL ELECTRIC LAUNDRY, BARBER SHOP, SURGEON AND STEWARDESS CARRIED. Enjoy Your Leave in Australia and Now Zealand. Hong Kong to Sydney-10 Days. FIRST CLASS FARE TO SYDNEY, £76 RETURN
STEAMER TAIPING
CHANGTE TAIPING
H
LONDON (via Australia) from £127.14. (Australian Newspapers on filo).
Due H'Kong Leaves II'Kong Loaves Manila Duo Sydney
8 May 12 Junō ·
7 July
CHANGTE 11 Aug.
15 May
18 May
8 June
19 June
22 Juno
8 July
¡A July
17 July
2. Aug.
18 Aug. 21 Aug."
6 Sept.
AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL LINE, LIMITED
Ballings subject to alteration without notice. For Freight or Passage, apply to pr
Butterfield G Swire, Agents--Hong Kong China-Japan
Telephone 30332.