1929-05-22 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929.

NYKLINE

THROUGH BOOKING TO EUROPE AT REDUCED RATES, £120, £112, £110, £102, £83, via San Francisco, £95, £90 109. via Japan and Seattle, SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

TAIYO MARU

TENYO MARU

SHIDZUOKA MARU

Wednesday, 29th May, Wednesday, 12th June.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA, við Shanghai & Japan Ports.

YOKOHAMA MARU

17th June. Monday, Monday, 1st July.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez,

KATORI MARU (Calls Lisbon) ATSUTA MARU

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

Saturday, 1st June. Saturday, 16th June.

TANGO MARU

AKI MARU

Wednesday, 28th June. .... Wednesday, 24th July,

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Cowbo.

PENANG MARU

SADO MARU

Tuesday, Tuesday,

28th May. 11th June,

FRENCH NAVY

SHIPPING

OFFICIAL STATEMENT AS TO. CONSTRUCTION

ton-

SECTION.

"3-CORNERED"

DOLLAR AND STANDIFER MAKE CHARTER OFFER

ROOSEVELT'S REQUEST

The three-cornered struggle involv- ing the Dollar, Standifer and Roose-

PORT SWETTENHAM, veit Line interests for the eight con-

APPEAL ON BEHALF OF MARINERS' CLUB

Baiked by a representative list of Patrons and committee members an appeal has been issued for funds to a mariners' club at. Port establish Swettenham. The appeal states inter

M. Appell, in reporting the French to the Chamber of Naval Budget

that the new Deputies, stated stractions proposed were: 1 cruiser of 10,000 tons, & destroyers of 2,700 tons,

submarines of 1,560 tons, 1 subalia marine mindlayer, 2 petrol boats, and 2 despatch boats. Amongst the chief reasons brought forward by him for their necessity, he recalled the follow ing:-

The total tonnage of Icalian light vessels on January 1, 1930, will be 198,252 tons, that of submarines 33,780. Spain has just built 3 cruisers of 8,000 tons, and appears to intend to build more powerful cruisers. Germany is undertaking (after well-known con- or, rather, of a battleship of 10,000 tons (armed with guns of 280, the first of a series of six).

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, troversy) the building of a cruiser

Mexico & Panama.

GINYO MARU

Thursday, 30th May.

SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports

WAKASA MARU

NEW YORK via PANAMA.

† ASUKA MARU

Friday, 7th June.

Friday,

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Geneva, Marseilles.

DAKAR MARU

31st May,

Monday, 10th June.. CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

AKITA MAKU

Thursday, 30th May.

SHANGHAL. KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

+ DURBAN MARU

HAKONE MARU

AWA MARU

Cargo only.

Thursday,.

28rd May, Monday, 27th May. Friday. 31st May,

Reduced 1st Class Excursion Rates quoted between Manila and Australia.

Fer further information apply to-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

Tel. Central No. 292 and 3997. (Private exchange to all departments.)

O.

S. K.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore

Colombo, Suez and Port Said.

ANDES MARU.

Sunday,

9th June.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Saigon, Singapore,

Colombo, Ducban & Cape Town

MANILA MARU

BOMBA 1-Vin Singapore & Colombo.

Thursday, 27th June.

SHINNOH MARU (Calls at Karachi) Monday, 3rd June. DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIKA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZANZIBAR

& MOMBASA-Via Singapore & Colombo. CHICAGO MARU

Friday, 31st May,

CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Rangeon.

INDUS MARU

..... Saturday, 1st June.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Forts. MELBOURNE Via Manila, Brisbane Sydney.

MADRAS MARU

HAIPHONG via Hoiho & Pakhoi.

MENADO MARU

NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San

JAPAN PORTS

SANUKI MARU

TACOMA MARU

SELUNG Via SWATOW & AMOY.

CANTON MARU

TAKAO Vis SWATOW & AMOY.

DELI MARU

TAKAO & KEELUNG

SANUKI MARU

6th June. Thursday,

Thursday, 6th June 10 am. Francisen & Panama.

Wednesday, 22nd May. Friday, 24th May.

Sunday, 26th May, 3 p.m.

Thursday, 20th June Noou.

Wednesday, 22nd May.

For farther particulars please apply to.-OSAKA SHOSEŃ KAISHA.

Tel Central No. 4088, 4089, 4090.

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verted Diesel cargo ships which the Shipping Board soon expects to have ready for service promises to result in a bitter contest, especially between tize first two groups, which have their headquarters on the Pacific Coast, says Lie "Manila Bulletin."

The Dollar Line of San Francisco,

has just submitted a proposition to the Shipping Board to charter the Since it was opened. to shipping some fleet of eight modernised vessels and

use them in the establishment of 30 years ago Port Swettenham has de- new American line between the Paci veloped from a collection of sheds upon fic Coast ports and Europe the same the edge of a melarious swamp into a proposal that has already been made healthy town and the main port of the

to the board by the Stndiffer group, hand the Roosevelt On the other Federated Malay States. Every

of New York, is Steamship Company, between 50 and 60 ocean going vessels of the Mercantile Marine in addition to about 80 local coasting steaners enter. reported to have made application to allocation of the eight vessels use In addition to these merchant vessels the board some months ago for the we have the periodical visits of ships in strengthening and developing the merged American Indian, Atlantis of the Royal Navy. who call here for week-end rest from survey duty or to Australian and Atlantic division of

show the Flag." Each ship, according to her sike, her business and her na the Pioneer Line, which the company tionality brings numbers of men who is now operating for the board. The

ships now operated

the. Roosevelt by France herself will have, on January have been many days at sea and who, Company include eight or nine ves- 1, 1930, a total tonnage of light vessels) when their work is over, wish to stretchsels which were Dienelised last year! of 186,759 tons, and a tonnage of sub- their legs ashore. marines of 60.645 tons. But fairly For some of these men a game of and they are regarded as among the

finest cargo ships afloat. large number of vessels are approach-football fills the time, for others, less The Dollar and Standifer interests ing the age limit, viz, seventeen years stronuously inclined, perhaps a stroll for cruisers, fifteen years for destroy- through the country side, but after-claim that their proposals involve so ers and torpedo boats, and twelve years for submarines. If these periods of duration are observed (and they must be, for above that age the value of vessels diminishes rapidly), the follow- ing cruisers, torpedo-boats and sub- marines will be deleted from the fleet list in the course of the years 1929 and 1330: 4 armoured cruisers, type Jules. Michelet, 56,000 tons; 3 light cruisers,- ex-German 18,000 tons; 14 torpedo. boats, type Mangini, 11,200 tons; one- twentieth of the submarines, type Sane, Arroide or ex-German, 14,000 toʊs.

SEA PASSENGERS

ARRIVALS EXCEED DEPARTURES LAST WEEK

Passenger figures for the week ending May 18 again showed an ex- departures. arrivals over

Carried away

cess

of

Ocean-going vessels

more passengers, than they brought, in, but the arrivals by river steamers numbered 3,000 more than the depar- turea.

Details follow:-

Ocean-Going

River Steamers Junks and Launches

Totals

Arr. Dep. 12,660 15,515 .28.783 22,619 461 491

.38,804 38,628

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS

The C.P.S. B.M.S. "Empress

of Russia" from Hong Kong on May 1, arrived at Vancouver on May 18.

The B.I. 9.3. "Talamba" will leave Amoy for this port on May 22 p.m.. and is duo here on May 23 p.m.

The

C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of Asia" arrived at Kobe on May 21 left Kobe on (Tues.) at 6.30 am., May 21 (Tues.) at 4 p.m., and is due at Yokohama on May 22 (Wed.) at noon. She leaves Yokohama en May 23 (Thurs.) at 3 p.m.

The C.P.S. RM.S. "Empress of France" arrived at Kube on May 21 (Tues.) at 5 p.m., left Kobe on May 22 (Wed.) at & a.m., and is due at Shanghai an

May 24 (Fri.) at 11

a.m.

The P. & 0. 5.3.

"Mercs" left Shanghai for this port on May 21 at 2 p.m., and is due here on May 24 at about 6 a.ui.

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expense to the government, but an as sured annusl income from charter. rates, while the Roosevelt Line's bid for allocation is based on the ground that the Shipping Board is bound to support its own lines.

Shipping men believe that the two Farife Coast groups will receive the backing of at least two Shipping Board commissioners in the persons

of

Captain Samuel S. Sandberg and Jeferson Myers, both of whom have frequently advocated in the past the establishment of an American flag service between the Pacific Coast and European ports in which more than cleven powerful foreign lines are now finding profitable employment.

Whether the Roosevelt Line, which is headed by Kermit Roosevelt, will be able to muster enough support in the Shipping

Board to defeat the on the part of the Pacific move Coast shipping interests had been widely discussed.

the

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SAILING DATES FOR MAY, 1929 (Subject to change).

DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 2.00 p.m.

S.S. TAI HING" [1,068 tons-Capt. O. B. Wilks.]

· MAY

S.S. "TAI MING" [649 tons Capt. G: J. Spink.]

MAY

FRI.

24th

WED.

29th

SUN.

26th

FRI,

31st

to pay $10 a deadweight ton plus the cost of their conversion, which in the case of the eight vessels now being

Regular Service of Faat, High Class River Steamers Having Good Ac- sought after ranges from $500,000 to commodation for First Class Passengers. Electric Light and Fans in State. $600,000.

This, coupled with their rooms and Saloon. The s. "Tei Hing" is fitted with Wireless. tonnage value, roughly placed at $1,000,000 bring their total value up to approximately $1,500,000, a pro- hibitive price for cargo ships in this country.

The eight ships now being convert- ed from steam to Diesel drive are the second group in a modernisation pro- gramme on which the Shipping Board

spending $25,000,000. This second group includes the "Galveston," "City of Elwood," "Oldham Ward," "New Orleans," Wichita," "Jeff Davis" and

Potter."

WHARF STRIKE

BACK TO WORK ON THE SAME DAY

These vessels leave Hong Kong for Wuchow (via Samahui, Shiubing, Takhing & Dosing) and return to Hong Kong (vis same Ports) every Ave

idays.

Fares for round trip, (not including maals) $20. Mesils & Wines are to be obtained on board.

Hong Kong Arrivals and Departures from Hoi On Wharf.

For information apply to- 87, Connaught Road West, Phone: Central 893.

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THE FINISHING TOUCH A most interesting ceremony was recently performed by the Mayor of Southampton, who, attended by the his Mace Bearer, re- Mayoress and cently visited the Chilean torpedo

"Serrano" boat destroyers, "Orella," which had been completed at the Southampton works of John fresented silken ensigns for hoisting 1. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd. when he on both vessels.

and

KWONG WING C

would give

fidence that the boats them excellent service and be a last- ing credit to the flags they were now proudly flying, as well as to Messrs. John I Thornycroft & Co., Ltd., who have been entirely responsible for their design, construction and equip.

ment.

EXPORT OF CATTLE

The object of the present appeal is to build a Club which will provide read- ing and writing rooms, a billiard table, a verandah overlooking an open space, a bar supplying refreshments at pricen suited to the pocket of the sailor, dress ing rooms for those who have taken

Between thirty and forty men on- part in games on the neighbouring padang and a slage and hall capable of gaged in discharging the cargo of two

Following the proclamation issued accommodating 200 people. The Club ships at Messrs. Mark Brown's Wharf, will be inter-denominational and will Tooley-street, London, went on strike.

"So far, the reason why the men

of the by the Government of Australia rais- be open to men of all European na-

The principal members have gone on strike is a mystery," the tions.

It is

of cattle, sheep, pigs and goats into estimated that a permanent manager told a reporter. "There is no Chilean Naval Commission in Londoning the embargo on the importation building of this description will cost dispute whatever, and the union officials journeyed down for the occasion, and

a further $26,000

Construct, to

furnish and do not know why the men have struck" were afterwards entertained to lunch that Dominion from Scotland, Ireland proclamation has been issued permit- "We have not issued any ultimatum with the principal officers of the and the Channel Islands,

of stock from equip, and since no such institution can be self-supporting without defeating its to the mea, but it may come to that," ships, when the Mayor took the op- own object the supplying of rest, res said another official, although I exportunity of expressing his appreciating the importation

soon fizzletion of the contract which had pro- England, states the Royal Agricul

tural Society. vided work for many hundreds of freshment, newspapers and games at pect the whole thing will

Cattle cannot be shipped between further the lowest possible coat--a

outhe men concerned were engaged in men in their own.

in bách Admiral Costa Pelle, in response, May 31 and December 1 $25,000 is required for endowment, It

year, owing to the warble fly, and it is considered that this amount will en- unloading a cargo vessel at the wharf.

fx two therefore proposed to the club's future maintenance.

quarantine periods during May. We cannot expect the sailor ashore at

Sheep, pigs and goats cau be ship Port Bwettenham for a few days in a

ped in any month of the year. long peried, or perhaps one day in his life, to Pay

substantially to the funds of the Clube

The Government has állotted a most | excellent site which will be given rent Total number of vessels in port is free. It is close to the Railway Sta

The following are the Nationality and numbers of vessels arrived in and departed from the Colony during the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. to-day-

Arrived Departed

British

Japanese Norwegian Chineso Dutch

French

German American

66.

Total

23

23

H.M.S. "KENT" FOR HANKOW

Shanghai, Yesterday.

sure

tion and Harbour, and faces the small-

er padang or football-ground of the

port, an which the Port Swettenham Recreation Club already stands. leading firm of architects has kindly consented to draw up the plans for H.M.S. "Kent," with Admiral the building. The Association of the Waisteil on board, has left for Han- Public Schools of Eugland" has ex- kow. Reuter.

pressed its interest and will provide a billard-table when the time Finally, the British Bailors Society; a strong institution and the oldest so- ciety of its kind, with branches in most British and some foreign ports, has adopted the Port Swettenham Mariners' Club

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comes.

A good deal of preliminary work has now been done and the Committes issue this appeal in full confidence that the public will make it possible for the work to be carried into effect.

Contributions', may be sent to the Sub-Agent of the Chartered Bank, Klang.

WARSHIPS HERE

The following are the warships in|| barbour

Basins HM.S. "Tamar." East Wall Basin KMS/ms. L15". and L19, boat Stan

North Arm: H.M.S. "Thracian.” West Wall Dock:-H.M.S. "Corn- wall.**

Bad

No.

In Dock: H.M.S. "Brace," "Somme"

"Sirdar."

8 bucy: H.M.S. “Carysfort”

Foreign Men-of-War Chinese Oruisers: "Ying Swei" "Hai Yung", "Kwang Yuan" and "Chu. Tar

CONSIGNEES NOTICES.

NO.

Consignees of cargo-EI "Fiume-L" are reminded to take delivery of their goods which will be inbject to rent after May 26

Consignees of Cargo EX MV "Slam" are reminded to take delivery of their goods which will be subject to rent after May 37.

As the result of a meeting between expressed his great satisfaction that officials of the firm and the Transport the ships, which had been completed and General Workers' Union, the men in record time, had given results bet- decided to return to work in the after, ter than the contract conditions.

The Chilean officers had every con- noon of the same day.

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9th August,

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3rd June ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE

Loading for Mauritius, Reunion. Delagos Bay, Durban, East London, Algos Bay (Fort Elizabeth),

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Through Bills of Lading led to Beira, Qulimaine, bo, Port Amelia, Mozambique, Chinde, Inhambane, Zanzibar, Mombass, Kilindini, Fort Nolloth, Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay and Madagascar.

For freight or passage on any of the above lines apply to:-

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