PACK 11.
NEWS OF THE DAY
IN PICTURES FROM FAR AND NEAR
Hongkong Telegraph
PHOTONEWS
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1939.
HAPPENINGS
AS SEEN BY THE CAMERA'S EYE
THE
BLUE FUNNE
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES
FREIGHT AND
LONDON SERVICE
ACHILLES
HECTOR
salle 23rd Feb. for Marsellies, London, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Hull. salla 0th Mar, for Marseilles, London,
"Rotterdam & Glasgow",
LIVERPOOL SERVICE
TEUCER
Bails 23rd Mar, för Havre, Liverpool & Bromborough.
NEW YORK SERVICE
GLAUCUS
sails 6th May for. Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore via Cape
of Good Hope..
'
PACIFIC SERVICE (via Dairen, Kobe, Nagoya and Yokohamin) sh sails 13th Mar. for Victoria, Vancouver and Scattle.
IXION
INWARD SERVICE
CHIANG QUITS PREMIERSHIP -—' Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek, right, who has given up the premiership of China to devote all his time to prosecution of the defence against the Japanese- invasion: The vacancy haa' been filled' by appointment of Dr. H. H. Kung left, former Finance Minister and brother-in-law of Chiang. Dr. Kung is a graduate of Oberlin and Yale.
IN TRIUMPH-Heading a pa- rade of infantry, mechanised units, tanks and naval" units, while war planes roared over- head, here is General Iwane Matsul as he led bis conquering Japanese army 'into the ancient Chineso city of Nanking: Tho General and his staff are shown entering the city by the Chang- shan Gate in the East Wall, to proceed along a mile-long ov- enue. Reports said the entry was one of the most glittering modern triumphal marches.
HENRY VIII ON SKIS-Charles Laughton, widely known English film star who made the character of Henry VIII famous, is shown about to push off on one of the ski runs at St. Moritz, Switzer- land. Mr. Laughton was one of many prominent persona enjoying a vacation at the famed winter resort in the Swiss Alps,
LYCAON
AENEAS
Due 24 Feb. From U. K. via Straits, Due 1 Mar. From U. R. via" Straits.
ATREUS
Duc
PERSEUS
Duo
2 Mar. From U. K. via Straita. 8 Mar. From U. R. via Straits. Epecial reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamers with
limited passenger accommodation. ́
for freight, passage rates and information apply to
BUTTERFIELD
Tal. 10333.
SWIRE
BURNS PHILP LINE
Passenger & Freight Service To
AUSTRALIA
BROADCASTS INAUGURAL — Right Rev. Henry Bt. George Tucker, newly elected presiding bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church in the United States, established a precedent when he broadcast his inaugural address, from St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York City, as above. He urged Christian influence in personal, domestic and international affairs. =
UFS
RESCUE Coast Guardsmen, carry, survivors of the Greek freighter Tzeeny Chandris, that sank in a storm off Caps Hatteras, ashore at Norfolk, Va., from the cutter Mendota. From parched and swollen throats the 18 survivors told of clinging to wreckage for 30 hours in a raging sea while they fought sharks that devoured bodies of other sallors already drowned and of livestock washed from the foundering ship. Seven the crew were lost,
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 Mossrs. Parsons.
BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES
Under Special Liconce From Mossrs. Sulzer Bros., Winterthur.
Liconsod To Manufacturo Lanz Porlit Iron, Specially Suitablo For Internal Combustion Engino 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 "Trikoodock" Hongkong. Telephone No. 30211.
Call Fing: "Numoral Ono” over “Ponant Anı.”
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN
QUESTS AT WHITE HOUSE Dard Obert Cell, President of the-Leantio of Nations Unióny in Great Britain, kai Lady Cecil, a khay Arrivodjst the White House to spend the week, and as guentu at President XoomTelt
Count the TELEGRAPHS" everywhere
M.V.
"NEPTUNA"
duo
12th MARCH
sailing
16th MARCH-
For
SAIGON,
MADANG,
SALAMAUA,
RABAUL, SYDNEY. AND MELBOURNE.
Excellent passenger accommodation with a largo numbor of single cabins at no supplement Built-in Swimming Bath and Spacious Sports Dock.
First Class to Sydney:-
Singlo-£47.10.08. Retum-£76.0.0 Passenger & Freight Agents gibb, livingston & CO., LTD.
Tel, '28031
P. G O. Bldg.
BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY SERVICE
To
NEW YORK
VIA LOS ANGELES & PANAMA CANAL PORTS.
M. V.
NEXT SAILING
"TRITON“
on 5th March
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Mong Bank
rents
28021
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