1928-12-29 — Page 5

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1928.

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1928

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 HM. Government.)

Destination

1

.9. 9.

Tons

From ! Hong Kong

About

MANTUA KALYAN

*ALIPORE

1920 -10,940 5th Jan. 9.144 19th Jan. 5,273 24th Jan.

MOREA

10,053 2nd Feb.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Maravillon, London & Hull, Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

*KIDDERPORE

5,334

KASHGAR

9,005

7th 16th

Feb.

Strafta, Colombo & Bombay.

Feb.

Marseilles, London & Hull.

11,120 2nd

*PADUA

Mar. 5,907 0th Mar.

Marcilles & London.

M'acles, London, A'werp, 'R'dam

MACEDONIA

*Cargo only.

Hamburg.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Porta by ateamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1029

Gth Jan.

TALMA

SANTHIA

TILAWA TAKLIWA TAKADA

TALAMBA

10,000

7,754 28th 10,000 Oth 7,030 13th 6,943

8,018 4th

18th

Jan. Feb. Feb. Feb. Mar.

!

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

ARATURA

1920

6,000 1st Feb, TANDA

6.964 lat Mar. ST. ALBANS 4,600 30th Mar.

⚫. Melbourne,

THE CHINA MAIL

[N. ATLANTIC TRADE,

HAPAG, LLOYD AND FAST LINERS

WHAT GERMANY IS DOING

Nobody who has watched recent developments can doubt that the next two years will witness somo far-reaching changes in traffic rela- tionships in the North Atlantic trade, especially in the passenger- carrying branch. Whether or not those changes will be rentised peace- | fully and without an undue amount of friction is a question which re- mains for the future to answer.

Perhaps the weakest spot in the Trans-Atlantic situation is to bal found in the relations existing be- tween the two leading navigation cumpanies in Germany, which havo their headquarters respectively at: Hamburg and Bremen.. To this! matter frequent reference has been

TRAVEL SERVICE.

Steamship and Railroad tickets issued to all principal Cities of the world.

Reservations made-Domestic and foreign traveller's cheques issued.

FRAICHES THROUGHOUT CHINA

CONNECTIONS ABROAD.

'YOU CAN SAVE YOUR TIME & TROUBLE BY BOOKING

THROUGH US.

CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE,

GENERAL TOURIST AGENTS,

6. Queen's Road Central,

Tel. C. 2823-6176.

HONG KONG TIDE.

The tide table given below has been obtained by aid of the Tide-predicting Machine, which includes 40 components for the better prediction of tides, from the result of the analysis of the tidal. observations, taken at the Koulung tidal observatory under the direction of Dr. Doberck during the years 1887, 1888 and, 1889.

The times and heights are given for Kaulong; but they may be used for the Victoria Naval Yard and Aber-

made in the columns of "The Journal of Commerce." Tha. North Atlantic. trade is perhaps the most to mammoth liners, the directorate highly organised branch of the in-of the Hamburg-America⚫ Line ternational shipping business, with stated that with their fout highly its various "pools" and "confer remunerative 21,000 conners of the ences," but when two or more Albert Ballin class, they possessed parties to these arrangements are such a splendid Instrument that at varlance between themselves the they did not contemplate any fur whole fabric of the carefully con- ther building plans for years ahead. structed organisation may easily be They did not then think of running endangered.

the risk which the Norddeustcher It is precisely over the question Lloyd was taking upon itself. They of large luxury liners that the apparently did not take quite the Hapag and the Loyd have failed to same roseate view of the traffe-de-deen, the diferences being very small, come to the working arrangement.velopments in the North Atlantic as after which they have been striving was taken in Bremen. for rather more than year. To-day, however, the Hapag Is When it is found that other confronted

by the fact that the companies

adding Lloyd has gained a big and even Veszula of heavy dangerous advantage over it in the l tonnage to their fleets it becomes highest class of the North Atlantic

luxurious

are , also

obvious that all the elements of bitter rivalry are In preparation. For it is doubtful whether the

passenger: business,

The times of high and low-water must not be considered to coincide with the times of slack-water and change of current, the two phenomena being quite distinct.

: Dec, 28, 1928 to Jan. 8, 1929,

DATE HIGH Watze Lowes Watır."

Standard Standard Ht Times.

Tins

I t

31355 b343

8 55 #

President Liner

SAILINGS

Weekly Trans-Pacific Service

To San Francisco and Los Angeles. To Seattle and Victoria

The Sunshine Bolt via Honalula The Short,Straight Route to America

Foralshtly wailings ca Tusadaya

Fortolably laws on Tuesdays Pres Taft.....

Pres. Jackson Jan. 1st Noon.

Pres. McKinley

Pres. Grante

Pres. Cleveland

Jan. 15th

Pres. Jefferson

Jan. 29th

Pres. Lincoln

Feb. 12th Pres. Madison

•

Jan. 8th

..Jan. 22nd .Feb. 6th ...Feb. 19th

£120, 112 Special through rates to Europe via United States. Direct

connections with all Atlantie lines. Choice of rail liges cross United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing, a

Europe and New York Direct

ROUND THE WORLD

Portalghtly sailings on Sunday via Manite, Scruits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria Naples, Gepor, Marseilles, New York and Boston,

Pres. Wilson...Dec. 30th 8 a.m. Pres. Van Buren Jan. 18th 8 am, Pres. Hayca ....Jan. 27th 8 a.m.

Pres. Polk Feb. 10th 8 a.m. Pres. Adoma....Feb. 24th 8 n.m. Pres. Garaleld..Mar. 10th 8 ..

To Manila.

Pres. Taft.....Jan. 1st 8 p.m. Pres. Grant...Jan. 19th 6 p.m. Pres. McKinley Jan. 5th 6 pm. Pres. Lincoln..Jan. 29th 6 p.m. Pres. Jefferson Jan. 15th 6 pm. Pres. Cleveland Feb. 2nd 6 p.m.

For Docklaus, Passenger and Freight Information apply to

2

Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 2477, 2178 and 795

Cablo Address "Dolar”

CANTON BRANCH-No. 4, Sha. Kee Street.

American Mail Line

and

Dollar Steamship Line

Dec.

Fri 18 m 11 4

A 67%

Sat.

29

7. 0 42 43

1. 3ła 1.7

4.4m

31 R 4.0

7 7 55 15

WEEKLY SAILINGS

42 1.

#n]0% g | £198.1

38

77 IU

Sup 39 Mon, 21 Taos. 1 m 0 55 71

2 m 1.68.

N47 m 4 145 4.9 8 41 4.3 Thurs 3 m 3 436*24

8.2 10 13

Wed.

41

an

Hapag and Luxury Liners Should the Hapag now decide to & amount of traffic will increase pari carry out the plans, which it is pussu with the additional accom-understood already to have discuss- modation, and then it, will be a ques-ed, for luxury leviathans exceeding tion whether these ocean glants will the Lloyd's 48,000-tonners, they show a profit at the end of a year's could only appear on the scene at running.

the very least two and a half years Present Situation

inter. An Interesting account of the That the Hapag to-day has dif- German view of the present situa-ferent ideas about the risk to be tion is given by Herr Rudolf Singer, taken with luxury Hners to those the Hamburg. correspondent of the which it entertained something like "Vossische Zeitung.". Traffic con- a year ago, is clear from the fact ditions in the North Atlantic, be that in the Jast negotiations points out, have changed very con- over an. understanding it de- to to readiness

FROM DEVIL'S ISLE siderably since the days of the late clared its Albert Ballin. The United States tako over either the "Bremen" are not only attracting from year to or the "Europa." As the Lloyd did

Cherbourg-After seven yeara year an increasing number of not and could not accept this offer, of freedom. Henri Heleine,

Devil's convict from travellers bent on business, but are the attempt to reach an understand escaped

to nothing. The - Lloyd | Island, is once more lingering" in'n also sending more and more passen-ing came gers to Europe, partly business men, had to refuse the relinquishment of cell here.

When the war broke out Heleine but to a larger and ever growing one of the steamers because three EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).extent people who want to visit their ships were necessary for the regular applied to the governor of the

old homes.

"turn" of six-day liners-three island to be allowed to go to the Even if the United States should, which the Lloyd would possess with front, but his request was refused. Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island,

as some think likely, undergo an the. "Bremen," the "Europa," and He escaped and reached the main- Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney & economic set-back, that, in Herr the "Columbus," which is now land of South America, where he worked in the tropical forests Singer's opinion, would cause no undergoing transformation. break in the upward 'sweep of tha!

If, in spite of all this, further fashioning canoes for the natives. in an Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong would seem, therefore, some justi-plans-in which the Hapag has obtained his discharge in Canada,

North Atlantic traffic, curve. There discussion is taking place over these He then became a stoker

American tramp steamer and

whence he returned to Cher- The B. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Halle,fication for the optimism of those even declared its readiness to allow Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawas, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as in far-seeing shipping men who are some of its steamers to be despatch bourg and got work as a docker.

bending all their efforts towards ed from Bremen-it all goes to

He worked hard and honestly. Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

placing new, large and swift pas-show the great importance which one day the found himself face The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vig New senger vessels on the route between the Hapag attributes to having a to face with П warder from fast and farge luxury steamer under Devil's Island who had retired on North America and Northern Europe.

its flag.

a pension. He told the ex. The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamers to London vin the Cape.

It is record-hunting, Herr Singer warder his adventures and asked The writer alludes to the ship. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and building projects of the Cunard anys, which is the decisive paycho- him not to give him away; and the and the White Star Lines, the logical factor, and which sets the ex-warder promised to keep the Norddeutscher Lloyd and the Cana- pace also for the Americans. The secret.

But one night Heleine had a dian Pacific, and points out that idea that the Lloyd's mammoth when the vessels they are building liners could only show a profit if quarrel with the man and lodged have been completed there will be they had at least 50 per cent, of a complaint with the police. His only two classes of ships on this their accommodation filled, seems identity was discovered, and so he great high road of world traffic: the now to have been abandoned in awaits the decision of the Cher

bourg, magistrates as to whether fast luxury liners and the rest, Hamburg.

The present altuation as between or not he is to be sent back to | chiefly slower and amailer ships for

that Herr Devil's Island. the transport cabin passengers and the two companies is tourists.

Stimming, managing director of the Lloyd, has declared his opinion that an understanding is "probable," but that it is economically impossible to divide the two new steamers be [tween the two companies. Dr. Cunn, representing the Hapag, on the other hand, describes an under- standing as "desirable," but says that it is only possible on the basis of "complete equality within and without."**

to Australia,

ducement offers.

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

Tha P. & O, Royal Mall steamers to London via Suez Canal.

London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

*ALIPORE

SANTHIA

Maji & Kobe.

Jan. Amoy, Shanghal, Moji, Kobe, Y'kama

Osaka.

S'kai, Moji. Kobe & Yokohama. Moji & Kohe.

5,273 4th

Jan.

5 p.m.

MOREA

ARAFURA

TILAWA

7,754 4th

10,953 4th *KIDDERPORE), 5.334 | 7th

6.000

8th 10,000 14th

Jan. Jan.

Jan. Jan.

9,005 18th 5,907 18th 7,936 20th 6,940 28th

Jatt. Jan. Jan. Jan.

Amoy, Moj, Kobe

Osaka,

6,715 | 20th

Jan.

11,120 1st

Fob.

8,950 5th Feb.

KASHGAR PADUA

TAKLIWA TAKADA "MIRZAPORE MACEDONIA TANDA

* Cargo only,

Ma, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama, Amor, S'hui, Moli, Kobo & Osaka. S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hal, Moji. Kobe & Yokohama,

Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, Mol & Kobe.

Shanghai. Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Moji, Kobe, Osaka and Yokohama.

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

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

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge.

Replying to a question some time ago as to their intentions in regard

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

'THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON & STRAITS,

HE

Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries, Steamship

Parcels measuring, not more than 2% ft. x2 ft.x1 ft, will be received 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.

Agenta.

P. & 0. Building. Connaught Rd. C, HỒNG KONG:

"BENMOHR"

**

}

Herr Singer expresses the view that so far no new basis for au understanding" has been found, but that there is still a possibility of renewed negotiations. It is pro hereby informed that all Goods are foundly to be hoped, he says, that being landed at their, risk into the all questions of prestige and causes hazardous and/or extra hazardous of friction will be avoided. Godowns of the Hongkong and Kow-

CONSIGNEES of Cargo

aro

loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., ·Projected arrivals at and depar- whence and/or from the wharvestures from Hong Kong of steam- delivery may be obtained; M. ers under the management of the

NEW YORK, BOSTON & BALTIMORE. No claims will be admitted after Bank Line, Ltd., are as follows

JOINT SERVICE OF THE

“BLUE FUNNEL" LINE.

(OCEAN S.S. CO., LTD, & CHINA MUTUAL S.S. CO., LTD.)

AND

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE.

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

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.

8.3. "EUMAEUS" 8.8. "AUTOLYCHUS"

Vin Suez Canal

Via Sdez'Canal

14th January

8th February.

Steamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Owners' Option.

Subject to change without notice.

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

the Goods have left the Godowns. Arrivals at Hong Kong and all Goods' remaining undeliver. $.3. "Levernbank," from New ed after the 28th Inst, will York, January 6.

be subject to rent.

**

Sis. "City of Bedford," from All claims against the steamer New York, January B must be presented to the Under

SSCity of Pekin, from

signed on or before the 10th Janu-Europa, January 25 lb ary, 1920, or they will not be re- cognised.

3.5 "Poloric," from New York, February 1

Sallings From Hong Kong

All broken, chifed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowan, S.S. "Levernbank," Boston, New where they will be examined on York and Baltimore, January 6, the 27th fast. Vát: 10a.m. by S.S. "City of Bedford," Shang Mehere Goddard & Douglas, Mahal, January 9, dy v

No The Insurance has been 3.5. "City of Lahore," Straits, effected.

Colombo, London, Rotterdam and Hamburg"" January 0.^ ***

• Bills of Lading will be' counter- ilghed by

my po GIHU, LIVINGSTON & CO. LTD.,

Hong Kong 20th Doc., 1928

88 "City of Pekin," Shanghel and Japan ports, January 28, 2018 SS Poletic, Saigon, February

For KONGMOON.

S.S. «

WINGLEE"

CAPTAIN F. SMITH

and European Officers.

First class Passenger accommodation, Fans, Electrle Lights

In every stateroom, Baths Hot and Cold. Excellent Cuisine.

The Round trip takes one week. For Freight or Passage apply to:--

YIU YUEN & CO., 87, Connaught Road, W.

THE QUEEN'S MOTOR BOAT CO., LTD. Queen's Statue Pier.

MOTOR BOATS FOR HIRE

DAY and NIGHT.... MODERATE CHARGES.

Office:-84, Connaught Road C., 1st floor.

Tel. C.459.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO., LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS, BEASS and IRON FOUNDERS. AU work done in this 'establishment is guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Slipways and can accommodate any craft of 200 feet long. •

Town Ofice: 54, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong, Tol. Central No. 459. Tel. Kowloon No. 4. Shipyard: Shum-Sul-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Estimates furnished on application. Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: “MANIFESTO" HONGKONG,

Codes Used : A1, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Engineering : First and Second Edition;

Western Union and Watkins,

+

DOCK OWNERS, SHIP BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER

MAKERS, IRON, STEEL AND BRASS FOUNDERS, FORGE MASTERS,

ELECTRICIANS.

Twin Scr

Steamer “ELIZABETH, built and engined by The Co., Ltd, for the Federated Malay

en Penang and Pral

lease address engairias to the

DYE

Kowloon Dock