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SEATTLE and VICTORIA
Via Kobe and Yokoltama
S.S. PRESIDENT GRANT Sails Friday, Dec. 31, 8 a.m.
NEW YORK and BOSTON
Via Manila, Blagapure, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Naples. Genoa and Marseilles.
S.S. PRESIDENT VAN BUREN
S.S.
Sails Sunday, Jan. 2, 8 a.m. MANILA.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
Sails Friday, Dec. 31, 9 p.m.
MOAT PREQUENT SERVICE ON THE PACIFIC
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FEDDER BUILDING HONG KONG.
CANTON BRANCH:-1, FRENCH CONCESSION.
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DUE 5th JANUARY
PASSENGER & FREIGHT SERVICE TO
-AUSTRALIA
Sailing Sunday, 9th January
for Saigon, Madang, Salamaua, Rabaul, Sydney & Melbourne.
First Class to Sydney: Singlo: £47.10.0d. Passenger & Freight Agents:
Roturn: £76
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
Telephone 28031
P. & O. Building. Joint Passenger Agents:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
King's Building.
NY.K.
San Francisco via Japan Ports & Honolulu.
(Starts from Kobal.
Chichibu Maru
Taiyo Maru
Mon., 27th Dec.
Mon., 10th Jan, (1988)
Tatouta Marů V.............MTTues, 25th Jan. (1938)
Seattle & Vancouver (Starts from Kobe).
Hye Maru...
*
Hoian Maru .ASA
New York via Panama.
†Noto Murp;
Nako Maru
.Sat., 25th Dec.
Sat., 22nd, Jan (1938)
..Fri., 81st Dec,
Mon.. 24th Jan. (1938)
South America" (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,
Hilo, Los Angeles, Maxico & Panama,
Rakuyo Maru
Wed., 12th Jan. (1989) London, Marseillos; Antworp & Rotterdam,
Kashima Maru
Yasukuni.Marú.
Hakone Maru
Sat., 1st Jan. (1938)
Fri., 14th Jan. (1938) .Sat., 29th Jan. (1938)
Liverpool via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus.
and Marseilles,
Durban Maru
Mon., 10th Jan. (1988) Sydney & Melbourne víá Manila & Ports.
Ataula Maru.......................Sat., 26th Dec. Kitano Maru
Wed., 22nd Jan. (1938)
Bombay via Singapore, Penang & Colombo.
Toyama Maru
Hakodate Maru
Toyooka Maru
Calcutta via Singapore, Penang
Ryuun Maru
+Tsushima Maru..
Mon., 27th Dec,
. Mon., 10th Jan♫(1938) Thurs., 27th Jan, (1938) & Rangoon ? ..Sat., 26th Dec ...Wed, 5th Jan, (1938)
Kobe & Yokohama. (Omitting Shanghai)
Fushimi Moru
Hakoznk! Maru
Kamo Maru
+ Cargo Only.
Wod., 1st Jan, (1988)
Fri., 14th Jap. (1938) ...Fri, 21st Jan. (1938)
General Passenger Agents in the Orient for the CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE.
Tol.:30291;
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
23,
1937:
THURSDAY, DECEMBE
JOYERIA
Swan Culbertson
Fritz Sa
Investment Dankers and Brokers in Securities and, Commodities Dally Now York and London Stock Exchango Service Commodity Futures on the principal American
Members of
New York Calton Bechango
Chicago Board of Trade
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York
marketa
Canadian Commodity Exchatigo. Inc., Montreal New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange Manila Block Exobabge.
Correspondents for
Hayden, Stone & Co.. New York and Boston J. K. Swan & Co.. New York
Telephone 30244
Cable Address SwanSTOCK Hongkong & Shanghal, Bank Building, Hongkong
Offices: Shanghai and Manila
Store fronts in Madrid, besieged capital of Spain, barricaded wih protective sandbags against
the erashing shocks of Insurgent air bombs and artillery shelling. While in centre of the plcture is the Broadway cafe-bar, the sign "Joyeria" next door has nothing to do with a night club, but is Spanish for jeweller's shop.
The Price of Progress
VERY time a pilot is killed in air-|
theories into wire, steel, wood,
E easing, or trying to put up a new Test Pilots Mustanvas. Any one of them might
record, a number of people cry out;
In protest. Is it any use, they ask, sacrificing lives like this,
mad heiter-skelter dashes about the skies, in un endeavour to put a mile or two on the speed record over a given course?
Face Risks
have burled me to destruction-a good many tried to.
I am just an ordinary test pilot. There are dozens like me, who earn their daily bread by facing risks on new designs.
By Captain II, C. Llard
There are others who have had bad American have blueprinted a hun-fuck and got killed, racing, testing. There is only one answer:-Racing | dred-tonner. The biggest machine in for Just quietly flying about. But not must go on; lives must be given so commercial service now is, I believe, one life was wasted. Each death that the quiet, everyday passengers about 18 tons.
helped the designers to bring greater who want to use air services for business and pleasure shall keep their lives and their safety.
I was flying in 1911 when the top speed in the air was between 40 and; 60 m.p.b. In those days, all pilots, called fools und potential
were
suicides.
Perhaps they were. I know we
I have tested hundreds of new Butely into public and private air- designs, things thai were mere craft.
Tragic Golf Stories-And Others
came flopping down often enought the casual observer the rules as meaning "one club of a kind only."
If the wind blew, down we enme; we tried to get about at night, down came; if anything upset due balance in the air, causing a simple sideslip, a loop, or a spin--down we
wc
come!
I came down a few times myself, Once the man who is now Air Chief Marshal Sir John Salmond crashed a machine that I was due to fly as soon as he stepped out of it. Lessons Learned
golf
which govern the game of golf, But what ʼn field here for legal argu- especially in the various champion- ment! ships, may seem unduly strict, but Another peculiar case of extreme these laws must be as stringent as hard fuck happened to two golfers those of the Medes and
Persians. in a Glasgow competition. While One can recall a few curious inci-
amused themselves by hitting a dents when a momentury Inpse by waiting their turn to play off they the competitor was fraught with ball from one to the other some dis- serious consequences.
tunes from the first tee. The out- The most recent 'incident was that ward man, while driving back to his of a few weeks ago, when a noted friend, sliced his ball 鏡 ttle. It player, practically assured of victory, struck a tres and rebounded on to thoughtlessly dropped his ball on the one of the greens. The ball was im- green for practice shot while wait- mediately retrieved, and they gave ing for his opponent to play, and was the matter no further thought. at once disqualled.
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Once Lord Trenchard came down
The incident, however, had been A very hard luck case, again, was observed by some sharp eye and re- heavily when I was his passenger. The ground knocked off most of the that of Roger Weatherhead during ported, and when the two competi undercarriage and shook the life out play in the Open Championship at tors returned with the best score of of the rest of the machine--and neat St. Andrews. In the course of the the day they were informed that ly out of us-but what was learned game his ball lay a few feet from they were disqualified, as the club from that fight was of invaluable the hole, and lie prepared to putt. rules, while allowing practice on the He walked towards the hole to note fairways, forbade the use of the service to the designers.
have tested hundreds of machines the lie of the ground, and in step- greens. and flown in dozens of big races-ping backwards his heel came into up. Schneider Trophy, and contact with his ball, and he was penalised-a-stroke: Ile-tied with
-King S
The Broken Club
many
In one King's Cup Race, my pro-Hutcheson for first place, and lost woller flew peiler oll, chawed up the solitary on the replay. engine, broke, hit me on the hend, and stunned me for a second or two and then fell exactly between two boys playing in a backyard. They were delighted!
Many Excuses
A somewhat similar case accurred during a club competition at Luff- ness. Two members while waiting their turn started quite innocently to practise putting on the last green. Some queer things, too, not so well They awoke to the stern realities of known, happen in club competitions. the situation when they were prompt- I was over Newcastle at the time I wonder how the majority of golfers ly debarred from taking any further and it looks jolly spiky from the would solve the following problem: part in the competition."
I got down somehow on the only The club competition was a "one To finish in less tragic vein one open space for miles a factory slag-club only" game that is, the com- might recall the farewell speech of petitors could select one club and a certain Mr. "D" of Glasgow, who one club only, to play throughout the at the age of 80 resigned his club match. One contestant armed with membership at a dinner given in his the misfortune half-way through the
air.
and the the popular choice, a mid-iron, had hon pained me to discover," he
heap,
On another occasion, I crashed a Schnelder racer going flat out. We hit the sea at 300 m.p.h. machine flew to bits like a bomb. It wasn't nice. But an Improvement in the design of that machine the old S. 1-is now incorporated in many essentials in all private and public aircraft in this country.
Dert Hinkler was my pal. He put up a lot of records and then got killed in the Alps, trying to make one more, Again, the industry learned some thing.
Improving Design
The machine that won the Aus- tralia race was a racer pure and of R simple. But now machines similar type-only four times as big -are flying the Atlantic, renity for next summer's mail and passenger service to Amerien,
In the last King's Cup race the "scratch" man's machine was built by students who will be our dealgnerą of the future. What they learn now from successes and failures, from crashes and arrivals, will serve the alr-going passengers of to-morrow.
We are miles behind America and Germany now the performances
in
per of our civil aircraft. Our machines are much slower, and no safer. We need races to improve design and add swiftness and staying power.
game to break his weapon, where-sald, mid the hilarious laughter of upon he borrowed another and An- an appreciative if somewhat con- ished the course, returning the best selence-stricken audience, “that any score of the day.
opponent I happened beat these last few months has invariably been affilcted for that day only either with lumbago, neuralgin, spinal meningitis sleepy sickness, the bolts, or house-
He was promptly objected to an the grounds that he had broken the "one cluir rule by actually using two clubs. The matter was referred
to the Club Committee for decision, maid's knee, and I refuse to be any and it was eventually decided, I longer associated with such a set of think rightly, that the expression decrepit invalids.“ {"one_club_only" might be construed
I say "hats off" to the pilots who give their lives to the game! We have never lacked them. We Bewi the Atlantic firal. Wo
won the Schneider Trophy "for keeps." We won the Australia race.
Since I began flying at Hendon in 1011, I have seen the speed record put up to more than five times what it was. The altitude record has gone up almost as much, Safety In" the air has gone up about 葑 hundred times pa much.
In those days we carried one or two - passengers at our perll-and theirs! Now I have flown a machina capable of carrying 148 passengers. It was n midget beside machines whose blueprints are already in the
J. C. O.
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RESUMPTION OF CALL AT SHANGHAI Commencing with the Empress of Russia from Hong Kong January 26, 1938, Canadian Pacific "EMPRESSES” will call at Shanghai on the castbound voyage.
The Empress of Asia from Vancouver will call at Shanghai on January 24, on route to Hong Kong.
SAILING TO MANILA
EMPRESS OF JAPAN
Jan. 14,
TO CANADA, UNITED STATES and EUROPE
EMPRESS OF CANADA
EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
EMPRESS OF JAPAN.
EMPRESS OF ASIA
MAKE BOOKINGS FOR 1938 EARLY desirable accommodation.
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.at 5 pm, Dec. 24,
.Jan. 20.
.Feb. 8. Feb, 23.
in order to onsurg
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4 The first tragedy managed to do this to the ten little nigger boys (B).
8 Solitary, and mostly so behind-
hand (8).
9 Kind of Scots cap (8)..
10 The car that is this is not a
Koing concern (6).
11 Not a bed case (10).
10 One casts this with us in sport
(4).
18 Men smelt it to their advantage
(3).
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sugges-
tive of Cockney grief (7). 31 Precious stones make this part
of England (8)..
22 The heart greets, and all is not
TR (5) Jost
23 One who may help to adorn the
One(7). stars
20 Shelter for a backward flah (3). 20 The turn of the tide in the
Mediterranean (4),1))
29 It has safety on une side, peril
on the other (10).
33 Making a record, but not in a
particular note (6).
30 This plays when it works (8).
36 Ever and over (8).
37 Where dates are found (8).
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1 In Russia this girl is identified with current movements (4).
2 Spurs, were not worn in this
part of a warship (7),
3 The fish possessed a plant (7).
4 This is no credit to anyone ☎). 5. Even the poorest can keep his
head above this (8).
6 Evidently, one of two members
of the family has "gong native"
(5):
7 A double humorist (5),
10 A^" dlg - about the stutude ja
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12 The weight to beat (5). 13 What is 'tried could be made
to detest (8);
14-Men-more readily anagram of this in war time to this request (6),
10 Coming to
the point, both halves may be binding (8), 16 Compelled to proceed (6).
17 This would be beneath a M.F.H.
of course (0)."
20 This has never gone out of
fashion with artists (5).
24 And this is to come in again
(7). 25 Standing successfully for Par.
Bument is a, necessary prelude to this (7).
27 A small commission, no doubt
(0).
30 The cold may not leave one the
to notice this (5).
sense
31 This painting depicts ordinary
life (5). 32 A neighbour of the, magple (5). 34 Seeds of sorts (4).
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