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Shipping In Doldrums
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A tablo prepared by Harbour Department showing the total shipping of all einans at the port of Hongkong dur- 1910 to 1938 ing the years
makes the Interesting--and depressing-disclosure that the Bante for 1938 to the lowest on the list. It is 30,002,750 tons, Shipping reached its peak in 1024 with a tonnago of 50,- 731,077.
Bince then the figures hayo remained in the forties tatil 1937, when the figure suddenly feli to 37,830,730 tons from the 41,731,010 tons of 1030.
A consoling feature, how- ever, in that foreign shipping has suffered most of the loss.
British ocean-going ship.. ping, which WRI 11,844,752 tons in the peak year of 1924, fa til 11,307,133 tons,
4-POWER TALKS IN GENEVA
Peace-loving Group To Confer
PARIS, May 10.-The "In- transigeant" asserts to-day that Poland, Russia, France, and England will hold a four-Power conference during the forth. coming League Council meeting in Geneva.
The paper points out that the League business alone is no longer matter of great interest to politicians and statesmen who go to Geneva
these days.
The meetings are now regarded ILA D favourable opportunity for establishing diplomalle contacts which might attract undue attention if held elsewhere.
Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. May 11, 1939.
Five-Fold Increase In Planes
REPORT REVEALS AMAZING ROYAL
AVIATION
GROWTH
DURING PAST YEAR
HIGHLIGHTS in the amazing aviation develop- ment of Hongkong are con- tined in the annual report of the Director of Air Services, Commander G. F. Hole, issued to-day.
It is shown that:
More than Ove times the number of planes used Kui Tait in 1938 than In 1930.
Passengers arriving and departing at the Colony airport increased 500 per cent.
Big Developments
in clvil Unprecedented growth aviation in Itongkong took place in 1938, according to report.
The number of passengers arriving and deparling at Kai Tak airport rose from 3,605 In 1937 to 9.900 in the year onder review.
16 HONGKONG MARINERS
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FAILED IN EXAMS
Examinations hold in Hong-
under kong last year
the Board of Trado regulations
13
tho. gAVO
soamen moro right to be called "Master," but 16 others who sat failed. Less than half of the candi- dates for a first mato's tickor-
bants, construction of murine terminal and pontoon landing stage, n weigh- bridge for aircraft.
Revenues from liences, fees of court, ele. totalled $62,800 against $25,000.
Chief among the aviation develop-"
52 Colony Pilots ments in the Colony in 1838 was the. In 1938 there were 52 licences Inauguration of the All-up Mail by Issued to pilots in the Colony and six Imperial Airways in September, and licences to commercial pilots.
Six registration certificates were the extension by Air France of its Paris-Hanal service to Hongkong.
issued for planes. jury to personnel occurred within the Colony.
No uccident to aircraft causing in-
More Than 1,000 Planes
The Services
Regulur services from Kal Tak In 1938 total number of 633 were maintained by: planes brought 6,000 passengers to Imperial Airways, Ltd. twice week- Kai Tak. Of these planes 110 were ly to Bangkok connecting with the British and 517 were foreign. 458 England-Australia trunk route. Alt of the plane trips were from China, France, once weekly to Paris, via 35 from Manila, and 140 from Indo- Hanoi.. Pan American Airways once China 35.0 tons of mails were weekly to San Francisco vin Manila. brought by the British pinnes.
China National Aviation Corporation Outgoing trade was heavier stund Eurasin Aviation Corporation to and dio planes, carrying 3,903 pas- Kwellin and Chungking, sengers left Kai Tak airport. British planes numbered 115. They carried 20.1 tons of mail,-
Chinese Planes
Effect Of War
On the morning of the 24th August Dougins D.C.3 air liner of C.N.A.C.,
The paper regards it as certain that
458 Chinese planes arrived and outward bound, was forced down by M, Bor et, Viscount Halifax and Colonel Beck will meet M. Potemkin 475 Chinese machines departed from Japanese aircraft 30 minutes after at Geneva during the forthcoming Kal Tak in 1938. They brought 5,330 leaving Hongkong. The Amerlean meeting of the Council-Trans-passengers and left with 3,201 pas-
Ocean
sengers.
The amazing development of the Colony's aviation is shown by the fact 123 planes that in 1936 a total of
trips to
pilot, Chinese radio operator and one passenger escaped but the remaining 14 passengers were either killed by machine gun bullets or drowned when
river the aircraft sunk in the
On
off
ly Inspired article in the "Express 033 machines nakung. In 1838, which it had been forced to descend.)
Tit For Tat! WARSAW, May 10-An apparent-made trips to Poranny" states that any attempt at a one-sided solution of the Danzig problem by the Danzig Nazis or Ger- many is destined to failure.
sired
The paper adds that if it is de- to arrangD a plebiscito in Danzig, Poland will insist that a plebiscite should first be held in Babemia and Moravia.
the
Hongkong airport. During the same period the passengers carried in- Creased from 135 passengers in 1930 to 6,000 in 1938.
The same can be said of the out- ward trafe during this period, for in 1938 only 121 planes left Kai Tak with 649 machines Just compared year.
Passengers in 1938 who left here It is announced that the authorities by, plane were 3,063 compared with
154 people taken two years ago. 13 Germans from the have expelled Polish frontler zone ut Posnan on a
Expenditure Doubled Expenditure on charge of spreading false rumours
in ulr services
being
aircraft A Junkera J.U..52
by Japanese Eurasia was fired at machines when flying from Hongkong
Bth September.
The to Luchow on
but aircraft was hit by 10 bulleto
casualties and the there were no journey was safely cumpleted.
Best Blockade
were
also passed, the successful candidates numbering four out of nino,
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Report Tells Of War After 8 Months
· THE TANGIBLE effect of the Japanese Invasion of South China upon the operations of the Kowloon-Canton Railway is the Rall- vividly described in way's annual report, issued to- day.
No-one, records the Harbour Master in his annual report, sought a second mate's corti- ficate. Of ten who were ox- amined for first class engin- cer's certificate (ordinary) three passed, and three of
secured fivo candidates second class engincor's corti- ficato (ordinary). One of two candidatos won first class engincor's certificato (motor) and one of two candidates also secured a second class angin- cor's certificate (motor). "Sixa 30-ton crane, belonging to various secured first class motor ondorsement.
Of 79 candidates examined for certificates as coxswains 66 passed and of 109 examined as engineers 105 passod.
NO INQUIRY COURTS
Thoro word по Maring Courts of Inquiry during the ycar.
In the Marine Magistrate's Court 450 cases were heard. The principal offenders were, --Boarding ship without par-
mission of the master, lying inshore during prohibited hours without a permit, making fast to ships under way without permission of the master, and failing to exhibit regulation lights.
Honeymoon Records
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Last year was a record year for These incidents led to the tempor- honeymooners In Hongkongl ary suspension of the services until) The Annual Report of the Re- night dying operations
in-gistrar of Marriages, issued to-day, CN.AC. and Eurasia disclosed that more marriages were augurated. now operate in and out of Hongkong solemnised in the Colony in 1938 entirely between sunset
sunset and sunrise. than The fall of Hankow and Canton to han in any other year in the Colony's
history.
Five
It shows that not only did the invasion on October 12 cause com- plete disruption of the through ser Ivice to Canton, but that on the mor- ning of the invasion a small masonry bridge between Wang Lik and Sheung Ping, some 37 miles north of the border was damaged by hostile aircraft, which resulted in six car- ringes and 20 wagons owned by the British section being detained Chinese territory, while 15 locomo tives, 24 carriages, 242 wagons, and Chinese raliways were held in Bri- tish territory.
in
Various structures on the Chinese section were demolished by the Chinese milliary forces during their retreat north. The more important of these, in order of mileage, were the Tong Tou Ha river bridge (four spans each of 40 feet), the East River south channel bridge at Sheklung (four spans each of 224 feet and two spans each of 60 feet), the East River north channel bridge (three
spåns of 224 feet and two spans each of 100 teel, and two s spans each of 00 feet). These bridges are located 20, 48, 49, and 54 miles north of the border respectively.
As far as can be ascertained, parls of the super-structures, and not the sub-structures, have been damaged,
Bombed Regularly
The Chinese section of the line was bombed regularly by Japanese aircraft during the first nine and a half months of the year, adds the report.
Allogether 1,490 bombs dropped from 718 planes in 107 raids on 103 different days. The suspen- sion of traille caused by 'ilieso at- tacks aggregated only 19 days, or three and a half per cent. of the total period.
Statistics kept since the first air rald took place on October 14, 1937 disclose that the estimated damage per bomb amounted to $330 La Chinese national currency, that 83 per cent of the 2,216 bombs dropped did no harm to the railway.
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and of disloyalty. Two women have Hongkong in 1038 was nearly double the Japanese entailed the abandon- hundred and forty-four couples of these raids" confirms the opinions
been.expelled from the frontler zone of the Polish Corridor for illegal ac- tiviller ngainst the State frontier" In the Posnan district.-Reuter,
timi of the previous year, $101,138 against $51,030.
Chief-items-on-the-expenditure were three rubber buoys for flying
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ment of air services to these towns, but very heavy loads of passengers and mails are carried to those places in China still accessible by air.
The experience gained as a result were united during the year, The predominant number being Chinese, aldent of the Reichsbahndirektion expressed by Dr. Ing K. Remy, Pre- The-total-represents an increase of Cologne, at the Fourth International 123 3 over the previous year.
Rail Congress held at Dusseldorf, Flying Training School
Two hundred and eight non- Germany. The Far East school maintained a Chinese couples decided that double-
Commenting on the great value of dect of five neroplanes during the harness was better than celibacy.
defence, rallways in
ho sold: year which flew a total of 1,000 hours,
Twenty-four couples took out "Railways, though possibly hamper- including the training of Uie Air Arm special licences each costs $50-and ed in their operations, cannot be of the Hongkong Volunteer
Defence 287
couples Corps, six Reserve
were married by the vitally wounded or finally eliminated Force Registrar Omcers and 20
Two hundred and thirty- by a series of destructive attacks.” nils for pupils
flying опо couples had Church weddings, Two wagons and four goods
11810 licences,
and 100 hours for Army One poignant feature of the Report
the British Gwned Co-operation
portwagens, purposes. Twenty-six is the fact that death was the wit section, were damaged during the nir Government certificates were award-
of the company, “
of Alr
New Equipment
ed to pupils of the engineering sectiores in. two marriages, under Section raids, and were subsequently repair- 2 of the 1893 Ordinance. These wed- dings, sometimes known as "dented. It is believed that another wagon was practically destroyed, bed weddings," ure
ure oficially termed although the report has not yet been A new 1,200,000 c.p. floodlight has Marriages in Articulo Mortis. One confirmed. been installed on the north boundary took place in St. Paul's Hospital, Operating effelency deteriorated of the landing area to replace the one Causeway Bay and the second In considerably due to the aerial at- destroyed in the typhoon of Septem- | King's Terrace, Kowlcon.
tacks. ber, 1937.
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