P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR_AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
Taking Cargo For
Siraits, Java, Burma, Ceylon,
Red Sea, Egypt, Istanbul, Greece, India. Persian Gulf. Mauritius, Levantine Ports, Europe. East and South Africa, Austrālis,
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,-aral the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice." PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS
8.5.
From
Tons Hong Kong
About
Destination.
CHITRAL 15,000 19th Sept. Noan Marsrifles & London.
3rd Oct. Bombay & Karachi only,
Havre, London, Hamburg. Hotterdam & Antwerp.
*KIDDERPORE
4,000
RANPURA
**BHUTAN
HAWALPINDI
"DEHAR
17,000 6,000
17th 17,000
6,000 24th
awi Qet. Marselles & London.
Oct. Marseilles, 1001
Cei. Murshilles & London. Oct. Afarseilles,
CORPU
Hull,
Ilull,
Havre, Larion, Hamburg, Rotterdam & Antwerp, 14,50 311 Oet. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Calls Casablanca,
+
Cargo only. All vessels may call at Mulia,
Colls Tangier,
Frequent connection froth Pork Said for Passengers and Cargo, to Istanbul, Pirncus. Smyrna al other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khediviai Mail Steamship Co.
TILAWA
SANTHIA
"GOGRA
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS
SIRDITANA
SHIRALA
Cargo only.
10,000 26th Sept. }
8,000 10th Oct.
7,000 24th Oct. Singapore, Pori Swettenham, Penang, 8,000 7th Nov.
8,000 31st Nov.
Rangoon & Calcutta,
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
NANKIN
NELLORE TANDA
2nd Oct. 7,000
Oct. 7,000 31st 7,000 4th Dee.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney.
Melbourne & Hobart..
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
SANTHA 10,000 17th Sept. 6 m. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan, RAWALPINDI 17,000 17 Sept. 10 ani, Shanghai & Japan.
"SOUDAN
CORFU
"GOGRA
NELLORE
Cargo only
6,000 29th Sept. Shanghai & Japon.
14,500
Oct. Shanghai & Japan.
7,000 1st
Oct. Direct to Japan.
Oct. Shanghai & Japan.
7,000 4th
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. For further Information, Passage, Freight, Handbook, elc., apply to
The Agents, Phone-27721.
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE.CO
PIETOSBUILDING CONNAUGHT ROÄDUCENTRAL HONGKONG
ENY.K.
General Passenger Agents in the Orient for the
CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE.
San Francisco via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu,
Taiyo Maru
Chichibu Maru
Tatsuta Maru
Seattle & Vancouver.
.Fri., 18th Sept.
Wed., 30th Sept.
Wed., 14th Oct.
Helan Maru (Starts from Kobe) Mon., 5th Oct. Hikawa Mara (Starls from Kobe) Wed., 21st Oct. New York via Panama.
Naruto Maru
Nagara Maru
Hakuyo Maru
Tues., 22nd Sept. .Sun, 11th Oct
South America (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,
Los Angeles, Mexico & Panama.
London, Marscilles, Antwerp & Rotterdam.
Hakusan Murú
Haruna Maru
Katori Maru'..
- Mon, 12th Oct.
Sat., 26th Sept.
..Sat., 10th Oct. .Sat., 24th Oct.
Sat. 10th Oct.
Sat., 26th Sept.
Liverpool va Port Sald, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus,
and Marseilles.
Lima Maru....
Sydney & Melbourne via Manila & Ports.
Atsuta Maru
Bombay via Singapore, Penang. & Colombo.
†Toyama Maru
+Calcutta Maru
.Mon., 28th Sept.
Wed., 7th Oct.
Calcutta via Singapore, Penang & Rampoon.
+Malacca Mari
Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama.
+Nagato Marv
Kitano Maru .
Kazhima Maru
Glayo Maru
Cargo Only.
Wed., 16th Sept. Tues., 29th Sept.
Mon., 21st Sept.
.Sat., 20th Sept.
.Sun., 27th Sept.
*Burna Philp Lines, Joint. Passenger Agents,
Gibb, Livingston & Co., Ltd.
Tel. 30291.
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1936.
Queen Mary "Sister" to Reach 36 Knots
A crowd of 100.000 persons at Venice, Cali- formin, ehcerrd decision of judges who picked Miss 1930." She Phyllis Dabrun as "Miss California will represent her state in national competition for the title of "Miss America."
TANK TESTS SOON
Keel Will Probably
IT
Be Laid In
November
is learned that the sister ship of the
Queen Mary, the keel of which will pro bably be laid in November or December, is to have a peak speed of 36 knots.
Leading, draughtsmen of John Brown and Company are now plotting out the final theoretical designs for "552.”
As soon as they are finished models, built to the paper measurements, will be tried out in the company's experimentai tank.
The liner will be about 90,000 tons and at least 12 feet longer than the Queen Mary.
These stipulations will muite her without doubl the largest and fastest liner in the world.
BEST OF BOTH
The best features of both the Queen Mary and the Normandie will be embodied in the new ship. For economic running the Queen Mary beats the Normandie. But the French liner is said to be better streamlined.
The geared turbine system of the Queen Mary has satisfied the experts that it is {superior to others, and the same | type of engines will be adopted in
Science Is Working To Show the sister ship.
How Child Can Make
Best Of Life
HE child-what will it become?
THE
Ceaseless tests by John Brown and Company since the Quee Mary left the Clyde have demon- strated that the turbine system can be perfected to save about 15 per cent, more in ruting costs.
MORE WORKERS Arrangements have already been anade to take on the extra men re- quired for building the ship.
As soon as the decision to lay the
ployed and by the end of next year,
BANKS
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI
BANKING CORPORATION
Authorlard Cxplial .....................
lasted and -Fully l'ald-up
Renstva Funde-
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$20,000,000 10.000.000
4.600,000
Currency Reserve $10,000,000
11.
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Incorporated by Royal Charter 1953. NKAD OFFICE-LONDON, Pald-up Capital ... £3,000,000 Resors Liability of Proprietors... £3,000,00
- Liability of Proprietars· 120,000.00/Heverve Fund £3,000,00
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A180 up to date BAFE DEPOSIT BOXES in varios les TO LET.
Hongkong. 18th April, 1936.
HONGKONG SAVINGS BANK,
The Instures of the above Bank la con ducted by the Tiongkong and Shanghai Bank- Ing Corporation. Rufer may be obtained da appilestion,
FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI UANKING CORPORATION
V. M. GĦAYBURN,
Chiel Manager. Wongkong. 24th February, 1938.
THE BANK OF EAST ASIA LIMITED
Authorial Capital Pald-up Capital Hswerve and Undivided
I'renta
·
$10,000,000.00 5,200,000.00
1,085,395.02
HEAD OFFICE HONGKONG. 10, Des Voeux Bond Catal
BOARD OF DIRECTONS:- Hon. Bir houson Chow, Chal fl Koon Chun, Eng. Lan Gang.
q.
P. R. Kwok, Esq. Wong Chu Son. Ed. Wong Yun Tong, E. Kan Ying Po, Erg. Chan Ching Shek, Eag.
Kan Tong Po, the Chief Manager. 1 The Fang, Dag.. Manager,
Amoy
keel made, 2,000 reen will be em- when she is expected to be launched, how Hu-out 4,000 will be engaged on her
In two years any parent faced with this old problem, providing he knows his family history for three genera- tions, will be able to have the answer supplied by the man Heredity Bureau.
This Story Should Be
On Page Six
A woman who says her exis- tence is controlled by the figure six appealed in an "agony column" of a. London paper re- cently for a numerologist to solve her "interesting problem."
At her house in Sussex Place, Kensington, she said:
the last nine months the "For figure six has followed me every- where,
registered
"Y car has been CUC GGG;
"The telephone bill was £6 Gn.
Ed
"Solleitur's account, £0 6s. Gd.
"When I came by train to London the other day my ticket was num- bered 0680 and my ment cost Us Bd." She is haunted by a prediction that civilisation will be affected by strange happening on Sept. 16, 1935. "It may be that the man, whose number is 686 is Hitler, Mussolini or one of our statesmen," she said.
Soury
Anton Sydney Talhoku
Subscribed and Pakd-up Iteria Fund
£5,000,000
2,594,150
180,000
HEAD OFFICE. 117-122, Leadenhall Street, London, EC.S. WEST END RANCH, 14-16, Corkayur Street, London, D.A.1. BRANCHES, Calcutta, Calicut Combatere. Lelumbe Hongkong, Badra, Shanghel, Singapore,
I
of the
'Agencies in ali principal town world,
General Exchange and flanking busine transseted. Loans and overdrafts granted on approved security. Current and Fixed Depo kerounts opened),
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN LOCAL CUR. RENCY Internet allowed at % per annum. STERLING BAVINGS ACCOUNTS Interest akiwed at reten which
may be obtained an application,
TRAVELLERS' LETTERS OF CREDIT and TRAVELLERS' CHEVEA ved also Passenger' Letter of Credit for use unly on boned 1 & 0. and H.I. Steamers and at ports of CulIL
British Income Tax Recovered. Executorships and Trusteeships underlaten.
W. J. WADDINGTON,
Manager. Hongkong, 17th April, 1036, THE MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LIMITED
Tead Mee-15, Gracechurch Street, Landon, EC3.
Authorised Capital
Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capital
Ileserve Fund and Rest...
JANKERA.
£3,000,680
1,800,000
1,000,000
1,247,836
BRANCHES AND AGENCIES:-
Melbourne
Bingapore
FALAVIA
NARXI
Khanghai
Humbay
New York
Calcutta
Слаба
Canton
Park
Halphong
Priping
Penang
Tientaln
uses
use. 10
From then until the ship leaves the Clyde in 1940 the number of men employed will steadily increase until at the peak of the fitting out in her busin at least 12,000 will be work- ing on the ship.
ifonctulu Kabo Kuwloon Func Manila
Jiangoon
Tokra
Salgon
Van River
San Francisco Yokohama Seattle
IKI:
BRANCHES-+-
Semarang
Every description of Banking
and Ex
Bangkok Huinbay Calcutta
Jpnh Kuantan
New York
Penkt
Kamiz
change business transected. Loans on appruted seruzitiem.
granted Calambe
Karocht
Deli
Kota Bharu
Sinta
Kuala Li
Singapore
It will be two years before the heredity "brary" is ready for
These are some of the which it is likely to be put:-
'Doctors and bospitals will be able to give the best treatment for each individual case instead of general treatment for a disease.
chart
The doctor wit A in a showing the medical history of the patient's family.
By means of its indexed know- ledge the bureau.will be able to tell him what are the weaknesses and strengths of the patient..
construction.
CROWD CHEER AN
EXECUTION 10,000 WATCH NEGRO HANGED
Again, by studying the family's All Night Parties In history of talent, brains and
0C-
cupation the bureau will be able to say what kind or kinds of work child is most likely to do well in. I
Should we make our boy an architect?
I am thinking of marrying a man who is going to India. Should I be able stand the climate? These are the kind of question which the Bureau expects and which
it will be ready to answer.
Wife 'Jealous'
Of Platonic
Friendship
A Wimbledon Civil Servant told the magistrates there re- cently that his wife:
Kentucky
New York, Aug, 24.
A cheering throng of between 10,- 000 and 15,000 persons crowded into a three-acre plot to witness the public hanging of a negro at Owensboro, Kentucky.
and
The man, Malney Bethea, aged 22, was condemned for criminally a sulting murdering Mrs. Eilse Edwards, a 70-year-old white woman. The crowd jeered at the priest who attended the man on the scaffold, and after the execution brake down the barricade and tore the black hang- mon's hood from the head of the dead man, ripping it up into small pieces for souvenirs.
It was the Orst public execution in the history of Owensboro and brought crowds from Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky In all sorts of vehicles. There had been many all-night colo-
Ethel May Women,
brations, even children of high school OIL CONCESSION IN
ade participating in "hanging parties." Mrs. Florence Thomson, the woman ARABIA
Sheriff, had
had said that she. would Could not understand there was through with her ofcial duties re- BRITISH GROUP WINS
such a thing as platonic friendship quiring her to conduct the execution. between a man and woman; She did arrange the details, but when The Iraq Petroleum Company.
Was jealous of every woman be the retual time arrived she delegated which consists of four Kroups:
spoke to; and
the springing of the trap to Arthur British. American. French and Dutch,
Was u "natural, moaning, | Hush, a former Louisville policeman, and owns the 1,150-mile pipe-line
grumbling girl."
She watched the execution from her from Iraq to Haifa and Tripoli, has.
The husband was George Thomas, 50 yards from the gallows. Just securest from 1bn Saud, King of
WOMEN AND CHILDREN Saudi Arabia. concession for the Webb, of Gladstone Road, Wimble-
young girls, and children whole of the Hedjuz and Astr from don. The wife, Mra. the Red Sea to a uniform depth east-Webb, asked for a separation order made up nearly half the big crowd,
alleging persistent cruelty.
and it was not unusual to see women wart of 100 kilometres.
"I have stood it long enough, and from the hill country with babies in The concession was obtained by
cannot stand it any longer. I cum-their arms, and amalt children hang- Longrigg, who already has Mr. S. H. Lo had experience of similar negotiations not sleep and it makes me get crassing on to their skirts.
with my children,"
she
sald.
As soon as the sun tose the crowd in the Hedjaz.
Geographically, this area is pro- | "My husband has been mentally began to cry. "Bring out the nigger. mising, but drilling alone can prove cruel to me ever since that wedding Let's get going." what quantities of petroleum une day three years ago. He rarely takes. About 20 minutes later the police who was available. In many other parts of me out, and the other woman is at arrived with the victim,
hustled through the crowd to the foot Arabia traces of oil are to be found, the bottom of it all.
of the scaffold, where Father Herman Lammers, a Roman Catholic priest, permitted him to kneel in prayer.
This
but tow ure. No region.
accessible us, this
THE "OTHER WOMAN”' FRIENDSHIP FOR DRITAIN "I found out about her after we
thik
was
him up. Up to the trap so that, we of the crowd, who shouted "Take
can see him."
Bethea himself mounted the seaf-
It is understood that a certain Euro-had been married two weeks." bern of appeared to anger some mem- Lady Wells (presiding magistrate); pean Minister at Jiddn showed great anxiety to secure this concession for Did you know at the time you were his Government, but Ibn Saud was married
husbond your to demonstrate his friendly with another woman? Yes, fold calmly, faced the rising sun, and only too glad friendship for Great Britain by and now she le trying to get revenge awarding it to a British company, because she is annoyed that he did though, naturally, he has not allowed not marry her. sentimental reasona fo affect
The husband, questioned on what business deal.
he did after finishing work, said he But for financial considerations, went to the pictures, to cricket Indeed, Ibn Saud would not a few matches, or played billards. years ago have given the concession The Clerk: Do you go by yourself? for the castern part of his vast --Sometimes I go with a woman. domain, the Hasa province, to
Lady Wells, grunting the order, American company, the Standard Ollgave custody of the child to the wife, Company, of Californa,
with 358, n week altogether.
an
talked with the priest while his arins and legs were being bound and the hood slipped over his head,
At the signal the trop was sprung. land Bethea's neck
was InstanUy broken, but it was nearly 10 minutes before his heart stopped beating.
Even while doctors were continuing their examination spectators had managed to snatch the hood, which was promptly divided into, email pieces.
The Bank of England & Midland Bank, Ltd.
Current Accounts opined in Local Con Galle rency and Fixed Depolta received for one langkong year or shorter periods in Local and Foreign
Howrah Currencles GO Terma which will be quoted
on application.
Safe Deposit Box To. Let
RAN TONG PO,
Chief Manuget.
THE YOKOHAMA SPECIE
BANK
LIMITED
Capital (fully-paid-up).
....... Y.100,000,000 Reserve Fund Y130,500,000. HEAD OFFICE1-YOKOHAMA. Branches and Agencies Bi
Alexandela Hongkon
Bangkok
Kataria
Berlin
ombar
Calculia
Can tod
|
Itsinking
Karachi
Nobo
London
Les Anzeim Mapila
Dairen (Daisy) Moli Fenatien
Nagasaki
(Mukden) Nators
Hamburg
New York
frankow
Osaka
Herbla Honelala
Para
Pelping
Rangoon
Klo de
· Janeiro
San Franekoò
Seate
Semarang Shangha ilarato
Sourabaya
Sydney Tientsin
Tsingtao
Tokyo Yingkow
Interent allowed on Current Accounts. Devuelta received for fixed periods mi razem in be obtained on application.”
G, KISHINAMI,
Hongkong, 11th September, 1916.
35
Mungu.
Kuala Lumpur
Madras
Rangoon Shanghal
HONGKONG BRANCH.
Every description of Banking and Exchange Business transacted.
Travellers' Cheaten Ised,
TRUSTEE AND EXECUTORSHITb
UNDERTAKEN.
Interest allowed on Current Accounts and Fix Deposits at Ralem that may be sacen Lained on application.
E-KENNEDY.
Manager.
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COVERAGE: For many years the "South China the leading Morning Post" has been regarded as newspaper in Hongkong and South China. le bas by far the largest circulation, ponotrating to the Outports and inland centres, "The Hongkong Telegraph" onjoys a similar pre-eminence as the leading afternoon, newspaper.
IN THE HOME: The newspaper that 'pro- duces profitable results to the advertiser is the nowspaper that is read and re-read by the family, The S. C. M. Post reaches most families with morning tea. Similarly, "The Hongkong Telegraph" is the afternoon favourite with the majority.
LOCAL PRESTIGE: The judgment of "the man on the spot" in respect to media selection is based on sound knowledge and can be followed with confidence. Year in and year out leading focal firms expend the greater part of their allocations in the "South China Morning Port" and "The Hongkong Telegraph."
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