P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
Taking Cargo For
Straits, Java, Burma, Ceylon, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius,
East and South Africa, Australia,
Red Sea, Egypt, Istanbul, Greece. Levantina Porta, Europa,
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 railings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice." PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS
From
Toner trong Ros
About
Destination.
5,000 24th Dec. Bombay & Kornchl only. 10,000 20th Dec. Marseilles & London.
7,000 2nd Jan. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
8.8.
*ALIPORE
COMORIN
**SOMALI
RAJPUTANA
17,000
*KIDDERPORE RANPURA *BANGALORE
RAWALPINDI
9th Jan. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 5,000 10th Jan. Bombay & Karachi only. 17,000 23rd Jan. Bombay. Marseilles & London,
0,000 30th Jan Marseilles, Ilavre, London, Hamburg.
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
17,000 6th Feb: Marsellies & London.
t Calls Casablanca,
Carga only. All vessels may call at Malta.
Calls Tangler.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo Istanbul, Piraeus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of thr Khediviai Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS
TALAMBA TALMA SIRDHIANA SHIRALA
TILAWA
NANKIN
8,000 2nd Jan. 1
10,000 10th Jan.
8,000 30th Jan.
0,000 13th Feb.
10,000 27th Feb.)
Singapore, Port Swettenham, Penan
Rangoon & Calcutta
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
NELLORE TANDA
7,000 2nd Jan. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney
7,000 20th Jan.
7,000 5th Mar,
Melbourne & Hobart.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
TALMA RANPURA BANGALORE NELLORE
SIRDHANA
BAWALPINDI
SHIRALA
• Cargo only.
10,000 24th Dec. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
17,000 25th Dec. Shanghal & Japan. 8,000 26th Dec. Shanghai & Japan. 7,000 3rd Jan. Shanghai & Japan.
8,000 17,000
7th Jan. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. 6th Jan. Shanghai & Japan. 8,000 21st Jan. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice... For further Informatión, Passage, Freight, Handbook, etc., apply to
Tho Agents.
Phono 27721
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE.CO
PICIORBUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG;
NYK
General Passenger Agents in the Oriont for the
CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE.
San Francisco via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.,
Asamu Maru
Taiyo Maru
Chichibu Maru
Scattle & Vancouver.
Wed. 6th Jan. ,Wed., 20th Jan.
Wed., 3rd Feb.
Hye Maru (Starts from Kobe) Sat., 26th Dec. Ician Maru (Starts from Kobe) Sat., 23rd Jan. New York via Panama,
+Noshiro Maru
†Nako Maru
..Sat. 2nd Jan.
Wed., 18th Jan.
South America (West Coast via Japan, Honolulu,
Los Angeles, Mexico & Panama,
Bokuyo Maru
Fushini Maru
London, Marseilles, Antwerp. & Rotterdam,
Hakozaki Maru
Liverpool va Port Said, Bayrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus,
and Marseilles..
†Durban Maru
Arima Maru
Wed., 10th Feb.
Sat., 2nd Jan,
Sat., 16th Jan.
Sat., 16th Jan,
.Sat., 9th Jan,
Hamburg via P. Sudan, Alexandria & Casablanca.
Sydney & Melbourno via Manila & Ports.
Atsuta Maru
Kitano Maru
Sat., 20th Dec. Sat. 23rd Jan..
Bombay via: Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,
Mon., 28th Dec.
Wad, 20tir Doc. Mon., 11th Jan.
Calcutta via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
Toyama Maru
Kotohirn Maru
Tango Maru
Nagato Maru
Toba Maru
Ginyo Maru
Shanphal. Kobe & Yokohama.
Hakusan Maru. 1.
↑ Carge Only.
Tues., 29th Dec. Tues., 6th Jan
Tues., 20th Dec,
Fri., 1st Jan,
*Burns Philp Lines, Joint Passenger Agents,
Gibb, Livingston & Co. Ltd.
Tel: 30291,
V
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1936.
World Buys £8,000,000 Worth Of Diamonds Shortage Price Up 60 Per Cent. And It Will Be Higher Still
Things
Diamonds.
Help To
To Make
CARS, SHIPS, GUNS AND
EVEN BREAD
THE world's diamonds are becoming more expensive,
more popular, and more useful.
They are all mined and sold, practically speaking by one gigantic concern, the Diamond Corporation.
Neither guns nor airplanes could be made without diamonds. All the wonderful accuracy and efficiency of machinery of which the modern world bönats is achieved only through these stones.
Even bread depends on them. The
rollers which roll out the dour are ground into shape with a wheel trued up by a diamond.
As a result of all this the price of the best class of industrial diamonds has doubled.
WORLD SHORTAGE
the safes of
2
Widow In Tears As
Husband Is Buried With Second "Wife"
Horbury, Yorkshire, Dec. 15.
Diamond Corporation were crammed bodies of Jack Hodgson, a young Midgeley
with useless discoloured "Industrial diamonds.
bricklayer, and of the girl of 28 who was believed They were looked upon to be his wife, were buried in the same grave here to-day,
They were killed together in a motor accident.
in the light of a white elephant.
Since then the whole situation stones have been sold off gradually for millions of pounds. Sold off to such an extent that there is A world shoriage.
has changed. The "valueters"
During the slump the sales MAKING FILAMENTS of uncut diamonds of this cor-
But these cutting tools have come poration were about £2,000,000. into existence only because of the Tink is one of the least expected By 1934 they had reached use of industrial diamonds, which strokes of Juck the Corporation has
are hard enough to cut the had. £3,700,000. For 1935 they alone
One of the biggest British firms For 1936 culling tool and give it its keen edge. were £6,200,000.
Diamonds have decreased manu- of Industrial diamond distributors they will probably be more facturing costs.
sold 3,000,000 stones last year.
And who dominates than £8,000,000.
the world's A truly wonderful increase. And a striking index of world prosperity.
MORE
IMPORTED
look at the world diamond Take situation.
The Diamond Corporation can get four times as much for diamonds from the culiers of Holland, Bel- glum and America as it did a few years ago.
4
Once steel for machines had to be
cut into shape when the steel was soft, and then steel wns case- hardened. This meant great loss of
necuracy.
Now a piece of steel can be taken as hard as it is possible to make steel and it enn be cut into shape as it is.
The hairiike wire which is coiled into electric light flaments can only be made with the aid of a diamond.
It is drawn by passing the metal through a diamond with a tiny hole in it, like a bend.
The average price of diamonds A piece of tungsten the size of has gone up 60 per cent, since the half a thick pencil makes fifty-eight
will go higher mites of lamp.wire. world slump. It
yet.
size (ten Diamonds of large carats and over) are actually felch- ing higher prices than they have ever done before.
There
were 40 per cent.
more
cut stones imported into the United States in the first six months of 1930 than for a corresponding period n year earlier.
GREATEST BUYERS Americans are at the moment the world's greatest buyers of diamonds. as a gilt-edged They regard them security,
After French.
the Americans come the buying The British are more damunds than they formerly but we are still very small buyers comparatively,
ese.
There is a great shortage of dia- moncy monds in Germany. Only
has been paid out to buy which "essential" (not luxury) articles is permitted by the German Govern- ment to leave the country. There- fore if diamonds are sold openly in Germany the seller cannot take his money out of the country. The irode is not worth while.
It
Is stated that if a buyer went Into Germany with half a million pounds'
he worth of diamonds could sell them in a single day. Practically the only stones sold in
those which Germany are smuggled in and the money for them out. These are not small
though..
in
Arc
are gradually becoming rate. Fewer and fewer of the larger stones are being found. They are gradually becoming more and more valuable.
POURING IN
In the twenty years between 1910 and 1830 the yield per ton of ore from the great Jagersfontein mine dropped almost 50 per cent.
Among those favoured by fate in the diamond situation are the. Spanish grandees, whose Jewels are now pouring into the London and Paris markets.
But by far the most interesting part of the world situation to-day is the fact that the diamond is being put to work.
Only half the diamonds mined are fitted for jewellery. The rest, though. Just as hard, are diseploured. They ure brownish or yellowish.
A certain proportion, but not a large one, of these have always been used in Industry.
But of recent years the demand for industrial diamonds creased by leaps and bounds.
has in-
that
The truth of the matter is industry cannot do without them. If the supply of the cheap discoloured ones failed, manufacturers would have to buy the brilliant diamonds out of jewellers' shops. VITAL TO MACHINERY
This situation actually arose dur- ing the war on a ilmited scale. Germany could get no industrial diamonds and they had to take the stones out of women's rings to make their guns.
To-day diamonds are used every- where to true up the very hard car- borundam wheels which grind into part of modern shape every machinery.
Nothing else will cut the corbor- undum wheels.. Without These wheels--no modern machinery.
Hardly any one yet realises the extent to which the industry in this country
intry is coming to centre round the diamond.
The motor-car Industry could not on for a minute without dia- monds. The tool which grinds the aluminium piston to take a perfect At with the cylinder is pointed with a diamond.
In
The Ford Motor Company
Nor is that the limit. Wire can be drawn through a diamond so fine that it cannot be seen at all except with a magnifying glass.
Barr
supply?
Museum Flies Will
Be Safe
Hodgson's legal wife the woman whose dramatic evidence at the inquest on the dead man revealed that they were married In 1920 and that not having seen him for 12 years she had as sumed him dead and had married again-was at the graveside.
Leaning on the arm of the man she had believed WEB hor husband-Mr. W, Bruce, (of Craven-street, Middles Nine spiders webs, ingeniously brough-the woman sobbed bitterly the body of her husband was mounted between sheets of gloss and Oppenheimer, the head of the Dia-black background, form a new and preity young weaver whom Hodgson. The name of the man is Sir Ernest made visible by baby powder and a lowered into the grave. Near her were relatives of May Bowers, the mond Corporation, who lives in Interesting exhibit at the Naturalnarrlet" 13 weeks ago and whe Johannesburg.
History Museum, South Kensington.
was killed with him, WOMAN, 118, LIVES UNDER 4 FLAGS, SPANISH, MEXICAN, TEXAS AND U. S. ALBUQUERQUE, Dec. 20.-"Hard work and plenty of it," is Mrs.
Carmargo's formula for longevity,
White Label" / HEST SCOTCH WHISKY /
America has a thousand of them in VT
constant use.
The precision cutting of steel, ú vital factor in every machine of this machine age, can now be done at about a tenth of the tormer cost. This has come about because very hard alloys have been discovered to make the cutting tools.
OF GREAT AGE
DISTILLERE
PERTH
Mrs. Carmargo, born 118 years ago in Old Mexico, lives in an adobe hut in southern New Mexico with her youngest son, a "lad" of 70. She calls him "mi hijo"-"my little boy"
She chops wood, does washing and other household chores and ean thread needle, despite her advanced age.
"I am happy to live as long as I can work," she says. "When I am unable to get around, I'll be willing to die. Not before."
She has lived under four Angs- Spanish, Mexican, Texan Republic and United States-and has seen more than 100 years of Southwestern border history made.-United Preas
"Good
Her coffin was carried to the grave by girts from the mill in which she had worked. Hodgson's coffin was first lowered, Into the grave and was followed by that of the girl.
"Mr. Bruce and I will be married
as soon as matters are cleared up," the reat Mrs. Hodgson said to-day.
V.C. LANCE CORPORAL DEAD Ex-Lance Corporal W, R. Parker, who wan awarded the V.C. for bravery at Gallipoli in 1915, has died · at Stapleford, Nottingham.
December 1936 Dear George.
This Christmas I am making you a present of.....
and best wishes
| from good
"Better!
and best wishu from your old
pali for
case of WHISKY, and as I know you are a pretty good judge
"Best!
and list arishes
from your old
pat Joe
Jam Sending you
the best
DEWAR'S
"WHITE LABEL
The Christmas Spirit
SOLE AGENTS
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED
ESTABLISHED 1841