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FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928.

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P. & O.-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.)

6. S

Tons

From ! Hongkong About

BAWALPINDI

16,619

NANKIN

7,058

21st 28th

*KASHMIR

8085 i. 4th

Aur.

(KIDDERPORE

6.334 11th

Aug.

RAJPUTANA

1856 18th

Aug.

ALIPORE

5,273 28th Aug.

NALDERA

110,088

1st Sept.

*KALYAN

Destination

July Bombay, Marseilles & Lordon. July Mes, L'don, A'werp, R'dam & B'burg

Marcelles, London & Antwerp, Straits & Bombay.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits & Bombay.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London & Antwerp.

16th Sept.

* Calls Casablarice.

9,144 †Cargo only. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna, and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

ALAMBA·

8,018 | 15th July Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

2.30 p.m. TALMA

10.000

Aug.

·TAKLIWA { 7,936* 18th Aug.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

AKAFURA PANDA

6,000 3rd Aug. Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, 6,060

31st

Townsville, Brisbane, Sydoor & Aug. 4,500 28th Sept. *Calls Port Holland and omits Sandakan.

*ST. ALBANS

Melbourne.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.

The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will alse call at Shanghai, Ilello, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement offers.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

I

ROSYTH TO-DAY.

DECLINE OF A GREAT DOCKYARD.

POSSIBLE FUTURE.

THE CHINA MAIL,

[By Hector C. Bywater, Naval Correspondent of "The Daily Telegraph."]

Rosyth Dockyard.---Twenty years ago the Firth of Forth, although visited from time to time by I. M. ships, had no particular signific- ance from the naval point of view.

To-day, as I write, battle cruisers and other fighting craft are lying in the Firth, but they are here on a routine visit, which has no connec. tion with the strategie situation at

Bea.

And yet, within this com paratively brief cycle of years, these Northern waters formed part of the stage upon which was enucted the greatest drama of modera civilisa- tion.

In the British Navy as it now ex- iste we see only a remnant of that mighty armada that thronged the East coast harbours of Scotland in 101.. In 1908 the dockyard of Rosyth was only a paper project. Ten years later it had become the largest and best-equipped naval base in the world.

INDO-CHINA

STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO › ALTERATION. Destination

Steamer

Sun

*** Salling

15th July at Noon

Tiau via S'tow & Shal.. CHAKSANG ... 'Tiau via' Stow & S'hai ;. YATSHING ....Wed., 18th July at Noon Tiau via Stow & S'bat KWONGSANG.Sun., 2nd July at Noon Tau vin Stow & Stal HOPSANG.....Wed., 25th July at Noon Osaks via Amoy, Mojl

Kobe

...........KUTSANG ...... Fri

„NAMSANG ....Fri,

Osaka via Amoy, Moj &

Kobe

Osaka-via Amoy, Moji &

Кове

Canton..

Straite & Calcutta Straits & Calcutta Slugapore Sundakan Tientsin

KUMSANG KWONGSANG FOOKSANG HOSANG YUENSANG

HINSANG

CHIPSHING

20th July at 7am.

3rd Aug. at 7 a..

„Tkara,, 16th Aug, at 7 a.m. „Tue, 17th July at 7 a.m. Wed, 25th July at 3 p.m. .Frl., 3rd Aug, at 3p.m. Thers., 10th July at “3 p.m. Wed., ́25th July at 8 pm, Tues., 24th July at Noon

For Freight and Passage apply to:- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Telephone Central 215,

General Managera,

AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION COMPANY

S.S." CALULU,”

will be despatched from Hong Kong

on the 8th August, 1928'

for SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE.

via Manila, Iloilo, Kolambugan, Taracan, Sandakan, Balkpapan & Rabaul

For Freight and Passages apply to:

Queen's Building.

DODWELL & CO., LTD.,

Agents.

Tel. No. Central 1030.

Yet to-day, little more than twenty years since the first and was cut, this great base lies dere- Helt a mute reminder of stirring times that we all hope may never recur. GERMANY'S SEA CHALLENGE.

To trace the history of Rosyth to its source we must go back to 1898, for it was in 'that year that Ger- many hatched her scheme for the 110f. wide at the entrances, and For several years before the war conquest of the sens. Few in Eng 36ft. deep over the sill at low water: land interpreted the portent be-

a straight river wharf 2,730ft. in times. At that date the centre of length; and a large space for coal naval gravity lay in the Mediter storage. Three dry docks ware ranoon, as it had done for more constructed, each about 860ft. long than a century. But in the early and 110ft. in width, dimensions for years of King Edward's reign the in excess of any warship then afloat rapid growth of the German fleet or in contemplatten. These docks compelled our naval strategista to could-be lengthened by some 30ft. readjust their ideas.. How leisure in case of need. Dockyard facili- ly this mental process was is.indic-ties were also provided for a large ated by the fact that in 1908-ten number of destroyers and sub- years after Germany had entered the lists as challenger of our naval marines, and with the increasing use of liquid fuel oll tanks were multiplied.

without a supremacy-we were single organised fleet base north of the Thames.

It was not the least of Lord Fisher's inestimable services to his country that he, made good this grave deficiency. During his tenure of office na First Sea Lord of the Admiralty work was begun on the new base at Rosyth, which until the theory of far-distant blockade led to the selection of Scapa Flow, was designed to be the main base of the British fleet in a war against

Germany.

or

As originally planned, the works at Rosyth were estimated to cost 23,000,000, exclusive of machinery Upon their completion seven eight years later a much greater sum than this had been expended. The outbreak of war found the Scottish base far from finished, and for many months afterwards a float- ing dock, hurriedly towed from a Channel port to Invergordon, re- presented the only menna that the

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New Grand Fleet had of docking its hat- Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Süez Canal.

The P.&O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canet. '

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

RAJPUTANA

TAKLIWA

ALIPORE

ALTAN TANDA *WARMED

NALDERA *NAGPORE KASHGAR

1 10.568 | 20th July 18'hal, Kobe & Yokohama.

7,936 | 23rd July

Amoy, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Thama,

6,273 23xd July

3,344 2nd

6,956 1 7th

Aug.

Aug.

11th Aug.

i 10,000 8th Aug.

15,290 50th Aug.

0,005 91st Aug.

*Cargo only.

Kobe.

J'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Moj; Kebe, Osaka & Yokohama, S'hal, Moft & Kobe." Shanghai.

S'hal, Moji, Hbe & Yokohama. S'hai, Maji, Kobe & Yokohama.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notke. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS. *Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expensen (at, Singapore while, awaiting the on-carrying steamer.

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers an London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries, Parcels measuring not more than 2ft x 2ft x 1ft, will be redefvad

at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing,

For further Information, Passages Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.

P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., HONG KONG.

Agents.

the ships within the main zone of

War.

It is not too much to say that Rosyth was one of the main pillars of British sea power during the Great War. To the spacious docks, up-to-date equipment, and skilled atult of this great yard the Grand Fleet owed in large measure the maintenance of its material effici ency. Practically every major ship in the. Fleet was docked at Rosyth, and in many cases extensive repairs were carried out at the yard. the date of the Armistice 7,230 hands were employed there-not an excessive total in view of the fact that the Grand Fleet, at the same date, numbered at least 260 vessels of various types.

At

Invergordon, on Cromarty Firth, was undergoing development as a secondary base, and the building of oil tanks began in 1912. The headlands guarding the anchorage, the North Sutor and South Suter, wese fortified, the defences being erected and manned by marines, who are accommodated in the old battleship. "Renown." Admiralty officials were meanwhile surveying Scapa Flow, where it was proposed to establish naval magazine and build wharves, but very little had been done by the outbreak of war.

Another base, chiefly for sub- marines, was being prepared at Dundee. On the West Coast, Lam- lash, situated on the Firth of Clyde, had been approved as a naval anchorage, while Loch Ewe was founded on Aug. 10, 1914, as a se- condary coaling station for the Grand Fleat.

It is of interest to recall that the approaches to Loch Ewe were heavily mined by the German minelayer "Meteor" in September of that year, just after the Dread- mought battle flect had arrived there to coal and clean boilera. Among the ships temporarily blockaded was the Fleet flagship, "Iron Duke," on board. which Mr. Winston Churchill, then First Lord, and the Chief of the Wart Staff had betaken themselves to confer with Admiral Jellicoe. Fortunately the mines were soon swept up, though not before they had claimed several minor vie tims.

With the extinction of German naval power at the close of the war the strategical outlook at sea underwent a radical change. It was clear that the British Fleet could serve no useful purpose by continuing to cruise in the North Sea, which no longer harboured a potential enemy. Nevertheless, the Rosyth yard PLANNED ON GRAND SCALE, continued for some years to func- Compared with the naval esta- tion as a repairing base, and numer- blishments then in being, Rosyth ous chips were refitted or recon- was planned on a grand scale.. Provi- structed there between 1919 and

In April, 1921, 60,000 work sion was made for dredging a basin 1924. with an area of 52% acrea, with a people were still on the pay-roll. projecting pler, giving a total At that date, and for some time wharfage of more than 7,000ft, after, the Rosyth docks were the with a uniform depth of water of only naval docke' in the kingdom 88ft. Other works comprised an sufficiently spacious to accommod- entrance lock, available for use as Ate H.M.S. "Hood" and the large time." a dock if necessary, 850ft, long bulged eapital ships of the Fleet.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON & STRAITS.

TH

ECONOMY AXE,

In 1922 and subsequent years Rosyth, in common with all othe naval establishments, felt the edge of the economy "ixe." The final blow fell in September, 1925, when this yard and the establishment at Pembroke were jointly ordered to be, closed down. By that time the staff at Rosyth had been reduced to 2,500. The Admiralty did what It could to mitigate the hardships which this decree inflicted on the workers and their families. As many men as possible were trans- ferred to other dockyards, but the vacancies were limited, and the majority of the Rosyth staff went to swell the local army of unemploy

THE: Steamship

TERMS BENRINNES” - Consignees of Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the hatar dons and/or extra hazardous Go- downs of The Hongkong and Kow toon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., ed.

delivery may be obtained.

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE, hence, and/or from the wharves. Here in the district immediately

JOINT SERVICE OF

"BLUE FUNNEL" LINE. OCEAN S.S. CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL S.S. CO., LTD.) AND

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE,

(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL 3.S. CO., LTD.)

SAILINGS FROM HONG ‘KONG.

58. "DARDANUS”.

9.8. "CITY OF EVANSVILLE

8.5. "LYCAON”.

B.S. "PHEMIUS"

9.S. CITY OF LINCOLN”

Vin Suez Canal"

Vin Buck Canal --

Via Buex Cara

Vin Suez Canal

27th Jals 7th Aug || 24th ARE.

21st Sept 5th Oct

Vla Suck Canal

affected one hears bitter comment No claims will be admitted after on the Government's action, yet it the goods have left the godowns, would certainly have been dificult and all goods remaining undeliver to justify the maintenance of ed after the 17th just, will be Rosyth in full activity after

was the

ceased subject to rent:

North Sea had - All claims against the steamer to be a zone of pris

must be presented to the Under gle Importance At it signed unor before the 31st workshops, and plant are being fnafy or they will not be kept in reasonably good conditi recognized

by caretaking parties. If, fore, it should become deal

All broken, chafed, and damaged goods are to be left fi the, Go- downs, where they will be exa

Inst

on the 16th

2.m. by Messrs. Goddard & Don SVRTINE Insurance? his

Steamers proceed vin Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners Option.. efectamin

Subject to change without notice.

For Freight

BUTTERFIELD SWI

BAN

Billa" of Lading will;

LAVINGS

any time to station anoth

feet in these water sources of Rosyth dockyi

atrate- docks

Under present-day conditions all these former fleet stations on the Scottish seaboard count as factors of negligible importance in the ba lance of power. It is, however. conceivable that in the fullness of time the pendulum may swing back, restoring to Rosyth and other Northern bases some measure of the Importance which attached to them in nineteen hundred and war

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Weekly Trans-Pacific Service

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Portalsbile sülses on Tuesdays Pres. Grant

To San Francisco and Los Angeles The Sunshine Belt via Honolulu Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays Pres. Jefferson July 17th 9 4. Pres. Lincoln .... July, 31st Pres. Cleveland Pres. Madison Pres. Jackson

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.July Zith

Aug 7th

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.Sept. ata

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Pres. Monroe..Aug. 26th 8 a.m. Pres. Wilson Sept. 9th 8şam. Pres. V. Buren Sept. 23rd 8 a.m.

To Manila

Pres. Aiams ...July 15th 8a.m. | Pres. Gürfeld.......July 29th 8 xăm, Pres. Grant July 17th 6'p.m. Pres. Cleveland „Aug. 31st 6 p.m. Pres. Lincoln July 21st 6 p.m. ↑ Pres. Madison Aug. - 4th 6 pan.

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Estimates furnished on application.

Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.~.

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