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"THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1927.

P. & 0.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS. TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA,

AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND

QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE

PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

S. 5.

Тепа

From Hongkong About

Destination

GREAT CARGO TRADE

LIVERPOOL' AND THE FAR EAST.

EXPORTS HIGHER THAN IMPORTS.

Trade With China,

THE CHINA MAIL.

WORLD GANG.

THE PILFERING OF CARGOES.

BIG THEFTS LAST YEAR.

PASSENGER LIST.

DEPARTURE.

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE

N

AND

BANG

AMERICAN MAIL LINE

Admiral Oriental Line)

JOINT TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

A Regular Weekly Sailing TO SAN FRANCISCO OR SEATTLE. THE PRESIDENT LINERS

TO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

"THE SUNSHINE BELT".

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

PRESIDENT PIERCE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON PRESIDENT TAFT

PRESIDENT GRANT

Tuesday, May 24th 1 a.m.

Tuesday, June 7th.

Tuesday, June 21st. .Tuesday:

July 5th.

...Tuesday, July 19th.

Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdays.

Passengers departed from Hang Kong by the, 8.8. "Taiping" for Australian porta via Manila on May 18, were:Mr. and Mra, John To most people, even if they The alarming amount of Plummer, Mrs. Hardman, Mrs. Mc. live in Liverpool, a liner is a pilfering from ships' cargoes in Donald, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ely, Mr. steamship with several funnels ports and warehouses all over the and Mrs. S. A. Seth, Mrs. McLeod, and a jazz band. The more world has led officials of shipping! Mr. A. C. Savage, Mrs, L. V. Hutton, numerous the funnels, even and trade organisations to believe Mr. and Mrs. W. Faid, Mr. and Mrs. though they be dummies, the that a world-wide organisation of FC. Martin, Miss Mary Mills, Rev. finer the ship. And yet Liver- receivers is at work.”

C. E. Hieka, Mr. J. G. Paton, Mr. So serious have the losses be-Jennings, Misa A. I. Hill, Miss R.

H. Hausmann, pool is pre-eminently the port of

Mr. and Mrs.. the cargo liner-the steamer come that the Sydney (Australia) Fugl, Miss W. G. Edwards, Mr. specially built to run regularly Chamber of Commerce has A. Y. Hitch, Miss C. Knox, Mias E., on certain routes and specially requested the Federation of Poppins, Miss E. J. Lundle, Mrs. equipped to handle safely and Chambers of Commerce of the J B. and the Misses P., M. and D. speedily the varied merchandise British Empire to investigate the McCaw, Miss B. G. Rowe. Miss which constitute the bulk of the problem,

0. M. Pemberton, Ms. Bailey, Mra. general import and export, trade

The view that a gang with Seabrook, Mr. H. Lyona, the Misses Darby, Matr. D. Darby, Mr. A. T. of the country. The Far East- world-wide ramifications is in- J. and B. Lyons, Miss Tradinger, ern trade is especially a cargo volved is supported by London the Misses H. and L. Reid, Miss liner trade, because the com- trade organisations and shipping H. A. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. C. Best, modities in which it deals companies. It is thought that Mr. William Norman Ah. Che, Mrs. seldom move in quantities suffi. this gang may also be the re- Mary, Mr. Willie Ah Che, Mr. Ah cient to provide the whole car ceivers of property from fraudul-Ken, Mr. Ah Bow, Mr. Low Wing, goes of a homogeneous nature ent bankrupts, a greater part of Chun-yee, Mr. Goon Jack, Mr. Ling Mr. Siu Cheng, Mr. Henry Lee which support the "tramp." which, it is known, is sent abroad. Men-lap, Mr. Ab-jang, Mr. John Thousands Lost Yearly. Gog Gum, Mr. Chi Woit, Mr. Ah The exports to-day from The losses of insurance com- Mun, Mr. Yee Tong, Mr. Wong Yuk- Liverpool to the Far East- panies in London alone amount to suen. Mrs. Tahai Tsun-chin, Mr. Burmah, Malay States, Straits hundreds of thousands of pounds Tseng Kwong-kbl, Mr. Wong Moo- Settlements, Java, Philippine every year. Although both ship-gun, Mrs, Ivy Kwok Sea-pam, Mrs. Islands, China and Japan ping companies and traders re-Yeu Yam, Mr. Lai Fook, Mr. Louie Leung Shi, Mr. Yee Pang-joong, Mr. approximately gard a certain amount of pilfering Kin-hop, Mr. Leong Get. Mr. Hee 900,000 bill of lading tons ain the Port of London amount-Hop, Mr. Mah Tsun. Mr. Jan Tim, And of this the Malay, ing to tens of thousands of Mr. Hog Yan, Mr. Lee Hok-hee, Mr. Peninsula and Japan each take pounds every year-as normal, Hau Wing, Mr. Jow Sang. about 200,000 tons. China the Chamber of Shipping of the 250,000 tons, and Java 75,000 United Kingdom, in view of the tons. A long list might be made complaint from Sydney, is to re- of the many articles commonly open investigations. carried, but the largest in- Mr. Leigh, secretary of the

North Wall, Danae; East. Wall dividual items are probably the Federation of Chambers of Com- North Ara, Titania:. In Dock, May

Thracian and Subs. L15 and L19; products of the textile mills of merce of the British Empire, told Wivern and Verity; Talkoo. Dock; Lancashire and Yorkshire and a "Daily Mail" reporter:-

Aphis; Kowloon Dock, Hermes and Jane the great chemical works of! "Shortly after the war the Ladybird; Coaling Camber. 19: Jono Widnes and Northwich.

losges Cotton

from pilfering were Buoy 6, Frobisher; Buoy 7, Delhi; Jone enormous azıl

1921-22 Buoy 8, Dragon, Buoy 9. Peters- July 6 amounted to hundreds of thou-field; Buoy 10, Sterling: Buoy 11, July 19 San Francisco

July 13 sands of pounds, but as the Somme and Sepoy: Buoy 12. Bruce; July result of a vigorous campaign, Ruthenia and Kharki: Buoy 20. Aug. Buoy 13, Marazioa: Buoy 18. Aug. during which numbers of men Francol; Buoy 25, U.S.S. Helena; were sentenced to prison, the Buoy 2A, H.S. Maine; Buoy A25, logs was reduced. Although War Charata; O Fuel Jelty, we had hoped that our losses Fortal. would remain at a level we have come to regard as normial, we are trying to trace the plague to its source. It is almost im- possible to tell whether the thefts take place at British ports, in the ship, or at the destination port,

amount

year.

to

Spare, Pang, Collo, B'bay & Karachi spinning and weaving machin-

NYANZA OKEA

| 7,023 | 26th

: 10,963 | 28th

KASHMIR

8,085 11th

May May June

Marseilles & London.

Marseilles & Loudon

KHIVA

[Hth

1

Jun

Marseilles & London

MANTUA

10,9NG

25th

June

Marseilles, Landon & Antwerp

KALYAN

1 9.144 | ch

July

Marseilles, London & Antwerp

MACEDONIA į 11,120 | 23rd

July

rselles & London

0.005 fith

Aug.

KASHGAR

Marselles, Loudon & Antwerp RAWALPINDI 16,519 20th Aug. Marseilles & London

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Ganstantinople, Pirvas, Snyrna and other Levant Ports by straniers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

SANTHIA

TALAMBA

7,754 | 21×

May Singapore, Penang & Calcutta

8,018 10th June Singapore, Pernng & Calcutta

1,

ery is a growing article of ex- port to such countries as China and Japan, which have hitherto bought cotton goods direct from Lancashire.

But the bulk of the cargoes carried consist of a hetero- geneous collection of common; articles. It must be remember- ed that in addition to the native populations, there are large Europear communities in the) East to be supplied with the everyday requirements of civil- ized life in this country.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) regular of the cargo liner trades,

TANDA

ST. ALDANS ARAFUKA.

6,956 3rd June 4,500 | 1st July |0,000 | 20th July

Manila. Sandakan. Thursday Island, Townnville, Brisbane, Sydney, & Melbourne,

in

"It is apparent that the thieves have ready means of disposing of stolen articles,

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"ELLERMAN" LINE.

From EUROPE.

probably through a world-wide THE Steamship organisation of "fences." Until

obtained.

"CITY OF KOBE"

Fastest and Most Regular. The service maintained from the Mersey to the Far East is amongst the fastest and most and the lines particularly asso- we' can get at the root of this having arrivad, Consignees of Cargo: ciated with it are the Bibby organisation. and break it up by her are informed that all Goods Line, the Henderson Line, the there seems little chance of are being landed at their risk into Nippon Yusen Kaisha, and the stopping the evil."

the hazardous and/or extra- Blue Funnel Line. The first All Kinds of Cargoes..

hazardous Godowns of Holt's two supply each a fortnightly An official of the Shipping Wharf, whence delivery may be service to Burmah, the third a Federation said that practically monthly steamer to the main every kind of cargo was sub-

No Claims will be admitted after ports of the Straits, China, and ject to pilfering on a large scale. the Goods have left the Godowns, Japan, and the last-named a. "A few years ago pianos were and all Goods remaining undeliver- weekly service to the same ports, actually being stolen at the led after 24th May, 1927, will and in addition a regular fort- docks, but this has now been be subject to rent.

stopped."

All Claims against the Steamer Problems of Loading.

The Chamber of Shipping of must be presented to the Under- Next, the steamer's own the United Kingdom committee, signed on or before 31st May, equipment must consist of the which investigated the subject, 1927, or they will not be recognised. maximum possible number of came to the conclusion that much Goods are to be left in the Godowns, All broken, chafed and damaged The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and hatches, derricks, and winches, so 'pilfering took place in Australian where they will be examined on any

Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Australia.

The E. & A. 5.5. Co., Ltd., stexmers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other porta en route as inducement offers.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Now nightly steamer to Java. Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & D. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez Canal,

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers. to London via the Cape.

London via Panama Canal;

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

TRIBARTHA

MANTUA ST ALBANS KALYAN MACEDONIA

• NOVARA KASHGAR ARAFURA

4,597 24th May

10,946 | 27th May 4,500 7th June 0,144 10th June

Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji & Kobe

Maji. Kobe, Osaka and Yokohama Shanghal, Moji & Koba

11,120 24th June

Shanghai. Moji, Kobe & Yokohama 6,980 20th June

Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama 9.005 8th July Shanghai. Moji, Kobe & Yokohama 4,000 5th July Maji. Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Will not take passengers northwards.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses a Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer.

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge.. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are Atted with Laundries. Parcels mensuring not more than 2 ft..x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

For further Information, Passage Freights, Handbooks, etc., apply to:-

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd, C.. HONGKONG. Agents.

A. MEDITERRANEAN RESCUE.

that from the moment of arrival ports. she can load cargo from the quay' along the whole of her length.

Even this must not exhaust her capacity, and, on her outer side, she must be prepared to den!! simultaneously with cargo from

Tuesdays or Fridays, between the houra of 10.45 a.m. and Noon, within the Free Storage period of One Week.

No Fire Insurance has been

A very interesting ceremony took Liverpool, when Captain, Shillinlaw place on the steamer "Nirvana" at effected.

June

HONG KONG TO EURÒPE SPECIAL LOW RATES.

Via San Francisco or Seattle. £320 £112

DIRECT CONNECTIONS WITH ALL ATLANTIC LINES

Choice of railway lines across United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over privileges for Sightseeing. Ask for information. Following are suggested itiner aries:-

Chrg-Simpte July 18

From Hongkong

Vin

Connecting with Stewaship

From N. York

Arriving at

24 Han Francisco

Seattle

Majest in

Jane 23

Obrg-hmptn July

Leviathan

July 2

brg-Shin July

7Bn Francisco

Olympio

July 0

13 21 San Francisco

Beattle San Francisco Scattle

. Reattle

Gao. Washington July 18

Honwrie

July 23

Leviathan

Ang, 1

Majestic

Aug. 0

Berengaris

27

Beaule San Francisco Seattle

Larvinian Aquitania

Aug. 10 Ang. 90

Aug. 24

Majostle

Sapt. X

Maareentia Sopit 4

Iath-Gbry July 21 Gbrg-Shapin July 20 P'mth-Carg Agg. Gbrg-Shmptn Aug. 12 Curg Thmist Aug. 16 P'mile-C/bry Aug. 21 Chrg Shmjin Aug. 30 Ubeg Shmpin Sept. Finih-brg Bejt, 12

TO SEATTLE AND VICTORIA VIA ̈SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

"THE FAST SHORT ROUTE"

PRESIDENT MADISON... Wednesday, June 1st

PRESIDENT JACKSON PRESIDENT MCKINLEY PRESIDENT LINCOLN PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

Wednesday, June 15th.

Wednesday, June 20th.

Wednesday, July 18th..

Wednesday, July 27th.

Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Wednesday.

TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK. VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ- PORT SAID-ALEXANDRIA--NAPLES

-GENOA-MARSEILLES,

Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK. PRESIDENT HARRISON Tuesday, May 24th 6.00 a.m.

PRESIDENT MONROE PRESIDENT WILSON PRESIDENT VAN BUREN PRESIDENT POLK

.Tuesday, June 7th 8.00 a.m. Tuesday, June 21st 6.00 4.m. Tuesday, July 6th 8.00 a.m. ..Tuesday, Aug. 2nd 8.00 a.m.

Thereafter Fortnightly Sallings on Tuesdays.

TO MANILA.

May 24th May 24th .May 30th ..June 7th June 7th

6.00 a.m.

6.00 p.m.

6.00 p.m.

8.00 a.m.

6.00- p.m.

PRESIDENT HARRISON PRESIDENT MADISON PRESIDENT PIERCE PRESIDENT MONROE PRESIDENT JACKSON

For Passenger and Freight Rates apply to

as many lighters or coasting presented to Second Ofleer W. T. D. signed by

Bills of Lading will be counter- THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO

steamers us can squeeze alongside Dunn, the Royal Humane Society's of her. Last but not least, the diploma in recognition of a parti- liner needs a skilful stevedore to cularly gallant act in saving one of load her. Most people are in-the crew of the British India steam- capable of packing even a sult-er "Nerbudda," on which Mr. Dunn case decently. Let the reader was serving as fourth officer. imagine, then, the task of stow- Australian ports to London, and on The vessel was on a passage from ing a ship with a mixture of the morning of December 26 was bales of cotton goods, railway steaming at full speed through the lines, motor cars, velour hats, old Mediterranean when one of the horse shoes, bottled beer, barrels crew jumped overboard.

Mr. handkerchiefs, and galvanized diveating himself of his coat and of tar, chemical manure, pocket Dunn, who was on the bridge, after iron each so disposed as to be boots, dived into the sea and kept| found uppermost at its propere man afcat until a boat port of discharge; and he will not lowered. be surprised to meet a superin- tendent stevedore who looks worried.

Was

The London Midland and Scottish Railway, who had announced that The Return Cargoes. their Heysham to Douglas steam- Liverpool receives from the ship service would not be in opera- Far East considerably less than tion during the coming season, it sends there. In all it imports have, after representations made to rather less than 500,000 tons a them by the Isle of Man authorities, year, of which almost a half is they officially announce that the reconsidered their decision, and from Burmah. The chief items service will be run during the com are the various cereals, nuts, and ing season. leguminous olls, which provide

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE. the raw materials for the local

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE. (OCEAN S.S. CO., LTD. & CHINA, MUTUAL SN, CO., LTD.} AND

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE (ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL SÅ. CO., LTD.) SAILINGS FROM, HONG KONG,

Via Suez Canal Via Suez Canal

8.8. "ELFENOR"

5th June. S.S.."CITY. OF KOBE"

...10th June. Steamers procond via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Gwners' Option

Subject to change without notice.:

For Freight and particulars apply to: BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE oF THE BANK LINE, LTD, Hong Kong. Heng Kong & Canton: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Canton

manufacture of margarine, soLP, and cattle-cake.

no fewer than seven million tins. Malayan Bago flour, used for Liverpool's trade with the Far the "sizing" of cotton materials, East has not altered greatly in is an important feature. Hemp recent years. For purposes both comes in considerable quantities of import and export it has a for rope-making, but perhaps the hinterland to serve which is made articles of food, namely, the may call an "economic water- most interesting are two ready-bounded and defined by what one familiar tinned pineapple-where shed." Cargo flows to and re- would fruit salads be without it? turne from the seaport which is and an excellent variety of economically the nearest" in | tinned salmón. The pineapple is terms of the cost of haulage. The grown and prepared in Singapore Ocean services between Liverpool and Liverpool imports as much and the Far East are second to as 16,000 tons. In a year. The none in efficiency and despatch: salmon comes direct from the the amount of cargo that ails Japanese fisheries on the coast of itself of them remains largely de- last year one steamer, discharged the Ambassador of Commerce.^ Kamchatka, and in September of termined by other factors. From

THE BANK LINE, LTD.. Geral Agents. Hong Kong, 18th May, 1927.

GENERAL AGENTS.

Hor Kong and Shanghai Bank Building. Ground Floor

Telephone, Central 2477. 2478 & 795.***

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

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"TAIPING."

Speed 14.77 I.H.P. 4090 D.W. 4215 tons.

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