Swan Culbertson &
Frith
Investment Bankers and Brokers in Securities and Commodities Daily New York and London Stack Exchange Service Commodity Futures on the principal American markets
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3
New York Colton Exchange Chicago Board of Trade
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Commodity Exchange, Inc., New York
Canadian Commodity Exchange, Ina.. Montreal Now York Coffes and Bugar Exchange Manila Block Exchange.
Correspondents for
Hayden, Stone & Co., New York and Boston J. E. Swan & Co., New York
Telephone 30244
Cable Address SWANSTOCK Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building, Hongkong Offices: Shanghai and Manila
P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
(Companies Incorporated in England.)
Taking Cargo on through Bils of Lading for STRAITS, JAVA & BURMA, CEYLON INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, MAURITIUS, E. & 9. AFIUCA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUD INO NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, NED SEA. EGYIT, EUROPE, ETC PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT 'ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS
(Under Contract with 1M, Government.)
All vessels may call at any ports on or off the routs, and the route and all sailings ero subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
Steamers
CARTHAGE
Destination
10th Fob. Marseilles & London, 26th Feb. B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull,
Hb, R'dam & A'werp. 5th Mar. Marseilles & London,
Tons
From 'Kong about
14,500
SOMALI
COMORIN
7,000
15,000
KAISAR-I-HIND | 11,000
**BANGALORE
0,000
NALDERA
RANPURA
**BHUTAN
10,000 17,000 0,000
16th Apr. Marseilles & London.
RAWALPINDI 17,000
2nd Apr. Marseilles & London.
THE HONGKONG ⠀ ⠀・・ TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, · FEBRUARY: $15,
APPOINTMENTS TO
CHINA STATION
Recent appointments to the China Station, notified by the Admiralty, includo:
Payr. Cdr. A. G. Spears to Kent (February 17). Wt. Engrs. G. T. Willdnson to Medway (February 7) ;. J. W. Northwood to Regulus (undated),
Commander A. F. St. G. Orpen hus
Station, and was scrapped in 1930,
The new Birmingham is on her way to the China Station.
+
| been appointed in command of the river gunboat Gannel, in the Yangtze Flotilla, to succeed Commander D. P. Return of the Enterprise Evans on the latter completing two
H.MS. Enterprise, Captain C. E years. Commander Orpen was pro- moted in the New Year list from the Morgan, p.5.0., has left Colombo
on Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. Hoher withdrawal from the East Indies entered Osborne na aendet in zinco her completion in 1020,
Station, on which she has served over September, 1910, and specialized in
Her submarines as a sub-lieutenant. His place is to be laken later in the year by the new cruiser Manchester, Cap- tain H. H. Bousfield, completing at the works of Hawthorn, Leslie and Co. on the Tyne.
last foreign service was in the cruiser Delhi in the Mediterranean from 1932 to 1034,
Portland Dockyard Commander A. B. Funshawe, reliev ed on January 1 in command of the turret drillship Erebus at Portsmouth,
has become Commander of the Dock- yard and Assistant King's Harbour Master at Portland, in succession to Commander G. E. Boulber, whose lenure has expired, and who is to be- come Admiralty Liaison Officer for the RN.R, and Merchant Navy in the Scottish Area. Commander Fanshawe, who entered Osborne in September, 1900, served throughout the War ni sub-ileutenant in destroyer floullas. Ile was promoted to his present rank In 1929 when executive officer of the cruiser Caledon in the Mediterranean. In 1925-27 he commanded the river gunboat Moorhen in the West River Flotilla, and in 1930-32 the Gannet in the Yangtze Flotilla.
23rd Apr. 1'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, Forth is expected to be
H'bg, R'dam & A'werp. 30 Apr. Marseilles & London.
The Enterprise will make several calls during her passage home, na follows: Hode da and Kameran, February 19-31; Jeddah, February 23-26; Suez, February 27, Fort Salg, Gibraltar, March 8; and she should February 20; Malta, Murch 3-5; arrive at Portsmouth on March 12. She will probably, be employed on a trooping voyage to China, S
Royal Air Force
1938.
SEVERE PAINS IN THE STOMACH
Everyone who has endured the tormens of stomach pains will sympathise with Mr. Pittock. Many who will auffor with stomach trouble can benefit from his experience. If you neglect nature's warm- ing you may be faced with serious danger. If you do as Mr. Pittock did-as tens of thousands of stomach außerors have done
then you have no need to four. Mr. Fittock welton --
'I was suffering agony with pains in the stomach, wind round the heart and loss of appetite. I tried modicina, tablote and various other romedies, but seemed to get worno instead of better.
"A friend recommended Maclean Brand Stomach Powder and I purchased a bottle. After one dose I felt reifof and now, after a fortnight's treatment I am well again; all pain lías gone and my appetite is practi- cally normal."
Now remember, for your own sake, the very next time you feel paina in' tha stomach-however alight they may bo go out and get a bottle of the original MACLEAN BRAND Stotisch Powder. Make sure the signature ALEX G MACLEAN " is on the bottle and carton, Then you are certain of quick relief from stomach discomfort--protected against all threats of serious developmonta. "Genuine Maclean Brand Stomach Powder is sold only in bottles in cartons. Naver sold torte. Powder or Tablets.
If you have any difficulty in obtaining it rom your local chemlat or store, write to
destruction is belteved to have been Enser & Co. 20. Dax 530, Hong Kong.
caused by malaria or by anopheles mosquito,
HOUSE-FLIES' crimes
the
Group Captain W. A, S. Duck, Then think of the ubiquitous house O..E., has been appointed to head-ny, the carrier of many diseases, Singapore, fof duty as Principal culosis, which slays quarters of the Far East Command, such as dysentry, typhus, and tuber- Medical Omeer in succession to Wing children annually in all the slums thousands of Commander J. B. Gregor, who has of the great cities of the world. completed three years in this post.
Win
Man is the highest form of crea- Group Captain Duck, who
Lion, but when one considers the. formerly a surgeon in the Navy, will power of the insect world, he is not Submarine Depot-ship
complete 25 years' service on April o marvellous in spite of his won- 11. When the War began he was jump as high as a flea, he could derful inventions. If a man could medical officer of the river gunboat cicar St. Paul's Cathedral in a Commander (E) R. W. V. Reeves
Robin, in China. On these boats
a single 10th Mar. Marseilles & London.
has been appointed for duty in con-
being laid up he received a War ap-
he could, in comparison bound. It he 20th Mar. B'bay, M'sellies, Havre, L'don, Hull, nexton with the building of H.M.S.
polatment to the hospital ship Delta, Forth,
hin H'bg, R'dam & A'werp.
the submarine
stature, construct buildings as depot-ship and from March, 1910, was medical high as the ants construct their nest ordered under the 1037 programme officer of the
Biarritz. from John Brown and Co., Clydebank. He later joined No. 6 Wing of the 39 high as 20 feet), the sky scrapers
minelayer.in.
in Africa (many of these nests rising and laid down on June 30 last. The RNA.S. in the Mediterranean, and in New York would be dwarfed In similar ship after the War received a permanent comparison with the mighty crec to tite Maidstone, launched by the commission in the R.AF, as squadron tions he would build. If he could same firm on October 21, 1937, and leader. He has had charge of the multiply as fast as the insects, there due for completion shortly. Com-air force hospitals at Finchley and mander Reeves, who entered Osborne Palestine, has been deputy P.M.O. in world in a few years!
would not be standing room in the as a cadet in May, 1913, served as the Coastal and Inland Areas and in midshipman of the Valiant in the Iraq, and from 1928 to 1932 was medi-
Joyen Kingdon. Grand Fleet in 1916-18, and was op- cal officer in the Wessex Bombing pointed
College to Arca. For three years up to Septem- Keyham specialize in engineering as a sub- ber last he was leutenant in January, 1920. He has Directorate of Medical Services, Air employed in the had many years' experience with sub- Ministry. marines, was engineer officer in the. steam-driven submarine K 2 in 1024- 23, and more recently bas been engineer officer of the submarine depot-ships Titania, in homo-water, and Medway, in China.
• Cargo-only † Calls Casa Blanca All vessels may call at Malta,
BRITISH INDIA APCAR SAILINGS (SOUTH)
KHLAWA
"SANTHIA TALMA SIRDHANA SHIRALA
| 10,000;
15th Feb.
8,000
26th Feb.
10,000
12th Mar,
8,000
26th Mar.
·8,000' 9th Apr.
Singapore, Port Swettenham,
Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta. -
sapien zerribillik
די י
B. I. Apcar Line Steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.
TANDA
NANKIN NELLORE
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (SOUTH)
7,000
5th Mar,
7,000
7,0001
2nd Apr. 30th Apr.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Hobart.
Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Shanghai and Japan and Hongkong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-10 days.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
TALMA
10,000 KAISAR-I-HIND| 11,000
*BANGALORE
SIRDIJANA
0,000 0,000
“NALDERA
10,000
RANPURA
17,000
*BHUTAN
SHIRALA
0.000 0,000 Cargo only.
17th Feb. Amoy & Japan. 18th Feb. Shanghai & Japan. 19th Feb. Shanghai & Japan.
3rd Mar. Amoy & Japan. 4th Mar. Shanghal & Japan. 18th Mar. Shanghai & Japan. 10th Mar. Shanghai & Japan. 17th Mar. Amoy & Japan.
All dates are approximats and subject to alteration without notice, parcsia measuring not mora. than § cft. will be received at the Company's Office up to noom on the day previous to sailing,
Connaught R.C.
For Passage Nates, Handbooks, Freight, etc., apply
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Agents
to
Officer for New Zealand
Lieutenant-Commander T. Ellis,
from the Junior Officers' War Course
MAN'S DEADLIEST ENEMY
(Continued from Page 8.)
at Portsmouth, is being lent for duty small weevils
pursue their way of under the New Zealand Government. destruction, and it is calculated that Lieutenant-Commander Ellis was
transferred from the R.N.R. to the they destroy colton In the U.S.A. to Royal Navy as midshipman in 1918, the sum of £8,000,000 annually. No while serving in the battleship Thun-
derer in the Grand Fleet, and from certain remedy has yet been dis- April, 1910, was sub-lieutenant and covered for their complete destruc- second-in-command of patrol boat tion, although vast sums of money P 75. After the War he served on have been spent in trying to and a the Africa and China Stations, and after graduating at the Staff College in 1930 he was staff officer in the South African Naval Service until it' was reduced in 1033.
Birmingham Presentation
remedy, and trying, to produce a cotton plant which will resist attack.
In Ceylon alone, during the year 1034, 214,224 deaths occurred from malaria, and this does not include
The visit to H.M.S. Birraingham at
thousands who died of starvation Phone 27721 Portsmouth on January 31 of the Lord
Mayor of Birmingham, to make a and want, owing to there being no presentation of plate to the ship on one to cultivate the land. 'All these behalf of the citizens of Birmingham, deaths are due to the tiny anopheles recalls that it is just 24 years ago that
malarin is enused the previous cruiser of this name (the mosquito, first to be called after the city) was entirely by the bite of this insect, commissioned at Portsmouth by Cap- taln (now Admiral Sir) Arthur A. M. Duft. This Birmingham accounted for the first enemy submarine sunk
NY.K.
San Franciico via Japan Ports & Honolulu.
(Starts from Kobo).
Chichibu Maru
Taiyo Maru
Tatsuta Maru
.Tues., 22nd Feb. Mon., 7th March «Tucs., 22nd March
attle & Vancouver (Starts from Koba).
Hiyo Maru
Heian Maru
New York via Panama.
+Nojima Maru
Mon., 21st Fob.
Mon., 14th March
.Sat., 26th March
South America (West Coast), via Japan, Honolulu.
Hilo, Los Angeles, Mexico &. Panama,
+Atago Maru (Starts from Kobe) Mon,, 7th March Helyo Maru (Starts from Hongkong) Mon., 14th Mar.
London, Marrolllos, Antwerp & Rotterdam.
Hakozaki Maru ..............................Sat., 26th Feb. Suwa Maru
Terukuni Maru
Sat, 12th March
Liverpool via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus,
and Marsailles.
+Delagoa Maru
.Fri., 25th March
.Tuct., 1st March
sydney & Melbourne via Manila & Ports.
..Sat., 26th Feb. ..Sat, 20th March Pombay via Singapore, Penang & Colombo.
....Sat., 26th Feb.
..Wed, 9th March
Kamo Maru
Atsuta Maru
+Nagato Maru
Anyo Maru
ilcutta via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,
+Malneca Maru..
..Men., 7th March
mbo & Yokohama. (Omitting Shanghai)
Atsuta Maru
Hakusan Maru
Haruna Maru
Kitano Maru
Kalori Maru: A
• Cargo Onio
..Fri, 18th Feb.
.Fri., 25th Fob.
Fri., 11th March
................ Fri., 18th March
Sat, 20th March
General Passenger Agenta in the Orient, for the CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE.
Tel. 30291
03
The vast ruined cities of Ceylon, and the huge artificial lakes, known as tanks, which once Irrigated fargėj
Facts (2)
The average 'Income: for the. 154 new cases dealt within November was! $1.84 hoad
per
por month.. These people are part of the vast pool of 'cheap la- bour' by which Hongkong trade is carried on.
The 'cheap labour" is pos sible because they are living on this income.
HELP US TO HELP THEIR CHILDREN
In the War, U 15, on August 9, 1914. tracts of land and supported a great HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE
She served in the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron of the Grand Fleet, and population, are all derelict and now! was present at Jutland. After the buried in the jungle, their inhabi-! War she was flagship on the Africa tants entirely wiped out. All this |
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