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Sails on or about 6th August.

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OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KOBE & MOJI.

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M.V. "REMO".

From Hong Kong.

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S.S. "DUCHESSA D'AOSTA” Sails on or about 3rd September. M.V. "ESQUILINO"

Sails on or about 12th September.

HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE,

M.V. "HIMALAYA"

M.V. "VIMINALE"

S.S. "PIAVE"

From Hong Kong.

Sails on or about 3rd August. .Sails on or about 20th August.

Sails on on about 7th September.

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS

THE CHINA MAIL,

SHIPPING

ON THE “JEFFERSON”

SOME OF THE PROMINENT PASSENGERS

Aboard the "President Jefferson" which left for San Francisco via porte at 3 am. to-day are:-

connected. with the Mr. H. Ehaw, Asiatic Exploration Co., Inc., Los Angeles, returning to the U.S. after taking a large number of moving pictures in Bangkok, Siam.

Mr. and Mra, Theodore Roosevelt, returning to the United States, after a very successful expedition in Java and Indo-China.

SECTION.

"LOK SUN'S" FATE

FIRE AMIDSHIP CAUSED BY COMBUSTION

Colony

SOLD FOR $11,900

News was received in the yesterday that the s... "Lok Sun" was badly gutted amidship by a fire which broke out in the hold.

Sports will have their share in the daily life of the passenger who takes The "Lok Sun" went on the rocks the new ships. There is the tiled swimming tank supplied with chemia Samun Island about three weeks cally purified water, which is kap; at ago. She was holed and wedged in a set temperature by heating equip between two rocks. The "China Mail" ment, and medicinal baths. Thers is then predicted that she would have to the gymnasium with ample space for be cut in halves, like the J.C.J.L. liner floor games, an indoor golf course, a "Tjileboet" two years ago. It is now shooting gallery, and bowling alleys understood that salvage is impossible for those whose athletic pursuits take and that, if she is to be saved, she a milder form.

would have to be cut in halves, but the

Dy

opinion is held that she is not worth

such expenditure.

TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929.

CANADIAN

PACIFIC

EMPRESS OF FRANCE

WILL SAIL FOR

VICTORIA & VANCOUVER

On Friday night her crew abandon-via Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

According to cable dispatches, the ateamer "Bremen" arrived in New July 22 on her maiden trip York on from Cherbourg. The "Bremen

speed record hted her, and a wireless message was re- established a new beating the old record held by the ceived here by the Naval Authorities on Saturday afternoon that the ship steamer "Mauretania" by 8 hours and

The old speed record was on fire. H.M.S. "Bridgewater," 17 minutes. was four Shanghai, thence back

days, 18 hours and 15 which was on patrol duty nearby, went minutes, to the United States.

to the scene, but owing to the roughness of the sea, no assistance could be ren- dered to the stranded vessel.

Mr. H. J. Coolidge, nephew of the ex-President of the United States. travelling to

General Chan Chai-tong, Military Governor of the Kwangtung Province. travelling to Nanking in company with other members of the Kwang tung Government

OCEAN RACE

293's

in

hard-

of air-

IRELAND'S FREE PORT

CLAIMS OF DUBLIN

CORK

AND

Sold by Auction The "Lok Sun" was sold by auction yesterday afternoon at Mesers. Lam- There mert Bros. auction rooms. were about 200 prospective purchasers present. After much bidding the iran for

Capt. T. H. G. Brayfield, principal of the arm of Messrs. Carmichael and Clarke, who are the local agents, went out to the "Lok Sun" yesterday on the Taikoo tug. together with Capt. Edmondson, master of the ill-fated The Chairman of the Dublin Port steamer. They found that the fire was "BREMEN'S" RECORD ACROSS

(Mr. P. J. Law- a serious one, the vessel having been THE ATLANTIC

and Docks Board

out amidships, rence), advocating Dublin as the site practically burned

a free port in the Irish Free whilst the bridge and upper works When the

liner for express new

State, gees in it the possibilities of

were gone. Four boats and the aft- "Bremen" glided from the harbour of

house have also been damaged by fire. marked progress and prosperity, and summer and her Bremerhaven this

that it should receive the ear-The cause of the outbreak is not de- urged that the six- bow turned westward for

nest attention of the Government.

finitely known, but it is thought that day trip to New York, the world

A free port, he explained, should the most likely cause was spontaneous witnessed the first skirmish

Acombustion in the bunkers, where. 150 ritanie struggle for supremacy on the be free from Customs control.

long and It will be a

portion of such port should be set fought battle; its results rest in the

apart for the storage and finishing of tons of coal was stored. future and in the hands of ship goods to be re-exported without Cus-

of the designers

any kind. Dublin toms supervision builders and craft,

for "Popular Mechanics had plenty of accommodation

ships and for goods. The "Bremen" and her sister ship, the "Europa," were launched fast the star-and-anchor summer under house flag of the North German Lloyd lines.

The "Europa," whose original sailing date was set for early this summer, was badly damaged by fire which swept the upper decks while she was under construction and to postpone the caused her owne!! maiden voyage until early in 1900.

Both are giants, and stand fourth in rank of size among the great ships plying the Atlantic. tonnage of 46,000, their long decks stretch $20 foot from stem to stern. In their fourth classes there will be accommodations for 2,000 passengers in quarters setting new standards in ocean travel, a crew of 950-the cream of the Lloyd's veteran seamen

will man each

FROM CALCUTTA & COLOMBO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS.

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NYUSUNE

O EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING FROM £83 TO £120 ON SALE

SUMMER EXCURSION RATES

and return From Hong Kong to Shanghai

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS

+2

Nagasaki Moji Kobe Yokohama

11

H.K.$120

165

190

210

235

SAN FRANCISCO via Shangbal, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

7th August. Wednesday, Wednesday, 21st August. SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

TAIYO MARU

TENYO MARU

IYO MARU

SHIDZUOKA MARU

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Monday, Monday,

12th August. 9th September.

10th August. Saturday, Saturday, 24th August.

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. FUSHIMI MARU

HAKOZAKI MARU

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KAGA MARU

TANGO MARU

Wednesday, 21st August. Wednesday, 25th September.

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombe.

TAMBA MARU

TOKUSHIMA MARU

Mexico & Panama.

BOKUYO MARU

Sunday, 11th August.

28th August. Wednesday,

а

With

a

The speed of these new vessels will not be definitely known until the maidon trips. Officials of the Lloyd have kept details of the engine de- sign of the sister ships secret. They have, however, announced them as five-day ships-the first Atlantic ves- sels cver to

that ba placed on schedule. The two iners will inske a bid for the speed records across the Atlantic now held, as it has been for

STEWARD SUED

There were no difficulties, he said, in the way of obtaining a navigable depth of 35 feet at high water in the steamer was sold as scrap

which would be ample for all $11,000 to the Sun Fat S.S. Company, port, vessels in the North Atlantic trade-of No. 640, Canton-road. There was available space for ware- for additional in- houses, and sites dustries, accessible to the railways and to the city. Few realised the great development that opportunities for were presented at the port of Dublin. But, in the absence of a free port full advantage was not likely to taken of these opportunities.

Before Mr.. Justice J. R. Wood at the rea which could be Summary was a reclaimed area

Court yesterday, the Sai cut off to form the suggested free port. Nam Steamship Co. were plaintiffs in

There

CLAIM BY SAI NAM STEAMSHIP COMPANY

At 6 a.m.

on

WEDNESDAY, 31st. JULY

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BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

Contrasting what was done else-

ean action taken out against Kwong where, he quoted the example of Lam for the recovery of A sum of Gothenburg, which had come into ser- SOBO.75. Defendant was the former River? Then let us tell you that you. vice as a free port in 1922. Traffic

there had increased at such a rate that steward on

board the s.s. "Charles

You haven't been up the West

you can

JULY-AUGUST, SAILINGS

DEPARTURE HOURS:

Hong Kong 5.30 p.m. Wuchsw 200 p.m

S.S. TAI HING" [1,068 tons-Capt. Trott.]

WED. 31st

TUES. *6th

SUN. 11th

FRI.

16th

AUGUST

JULY

WED. 21st

TUES. Nib

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

AUGUST

SUN.

FRL

4th 9th WED. 14th

MON. 19th

SUN. 25th

FRI. 80th

For information apply to for various

and stop at Wuchow. These steamora are admirably suited to this service and you will enjoy the five-days' round trip Immensely.

port authoriy had prepared plans Hardonin." He was given certain arti- have in store one of the most inter- possibly take. for additional accommodation. Dublin eles and cooking utensils for the parenting trips WAS better situated than Gothen-pose of his job. Later the steward- The s.8. "Tai Ming" and "Tai Hing," to another after leaving Hong Kong, call at burg. A start could be made at ship was "farmed” out Dublin, where excellent accommoda-party and defendant was alleged to Samshai, Shiuhing, Takhing, Doaing tion had been, extended to facilitate have failed to account increasing traffic.

articles, the cost of which formed the As a distributing centre for Engsubject of the claim.

After hearing evidence, his Lordship land, the geographical position of Dublin favoured it as the best in the

There was Free State.

regular non-suited plaintiffs, with liberty to to defendant service of steamers into Dublin distri- apply, and gave costs over twenty years, by the "Maure-buting English and Continental goods, with an order that execution be defer-

und

of the Free red for one month. exporting the products State. It would be a saving to ships in

the Atlantic irade if they made Dublin a port of call for the Clyde or Bristol Channel or Liverpool, which absorbed a large proportion of the Atlantic trade.

tania.

In spite of marvellous innovations in occan transportation in the last thirty-five years the installation of private baths and other luxurics, the introduction of turbines, the recovery of radio communication, the inven tion of devices for detecting icebergs

there has been practically crease during the period in the speed of vessels.

no in-

The "Etruria" made the voyage from Liverpool New York in three hours under aix days. That was in 1892. Later the "Campania" cut trans-Atlantic time to five and a half days on a trip from Queenstown to New York. The "Mauretania" hold-

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,er of the speed record from 1907 to

Monday,

19th August. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports.

Friday, BINGO MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.

9th August.

Saturday, Saturday,

3rd August. 17th August

Sunday,

11th August.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Constantinople, Genoa.

+ KUMA MARU

+ CALCUTTA MARU

+ DELAGOA MARU

+ BENGAL MAKU

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

† MALACCA MARU

Thursday, 8th August. Friday, 18th August.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

+ MORIOKA MARU (Kobe direct). Monday, KITANO MARU

+ MATSUYE MARU

+ Cargo only.

5th August.

Tuesćuy, Saturday,

6th August,

17th August,

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

For further information apply to--NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

Tel Central No. 292 and 3897. (Private exchange to all departments.)

0.

S. K.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

LONDON,

Mr. A. E. Hall appeared for the plaintiffs and the defendant was repre- sented by Mr. Frank X. d'Almada.

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS

of

At Alexandra-road, abutting Alex- andra Basin and North Wall, there. The CP.S. R.M.S. "Empress

storage

accommodation for Asia" from Hong Kong on July 10, several million gallons of petroleum arrived at Vancouver on July 27. products, which was connected by pipe lines into Alexandra Brasin. For coal-burning vessels it was only a short run from Dublin to the Scotch and Welsh coalfields.

or

The Position of Cork A claim in favour of Cork to be the has site of the proposed free port the present time, bas made the jour-

Harbour been put forward by the ney in slightly less than five days.

Board. Some doubts, however, ap- She is, however, a six-day ship, and

pear to exist as to the efficacy gen- that is her normal time for crossing.

These new North German Lloyderally of such a port, and the chair- vessels. arc

make the scheduled to

man of the Board; Mr. Wallace, asked for a definition of free port, crossing from the Channel ports in

whether it would benefit manufactur- five days-120 hours and the trip

ers or consumers. fron Bremen" in six-a scheduled tine below that of any passenger ship afloat. What they will be able to do to beat the "Mauretania's" re- cord is a mystery, but rumours on good authority place the speed of the sisters at not less than twenty-seven and a half knots (thirty-three and two-thirds land miles an hour). With this average speed, it is

not improb- able that a four-day crossing of the Atlantic will be nothing unusual in the future. the fut The placing of 46,000-who represents large shipping inter

schedule is more ton liners on such unusual when

that one remembers the "Mauretania" is a boat of only 30,000 tons, "built like a yacht."

Thirty engineers supervise the pro- polling machinery of each ship, con- sisting of high, medium and low- pressure turbines, werking in two separate engine rooms and driving four seventeen ton bronze propellers The steamI used for power is con- densed by a cooling apparatus which calls for 32,000 tons of sea water per hour.

plants supplying the ships with electric power are as large

house of the

The HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore Colombo, Suez and Port Said.

RIO DE JANEIRO,

·Sunday, 11th August. ATLAS MARU, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES Via Anigon, Singapore,

Colombo, Durban & Cape Town.

BOMBAY Via Singapore & Colombo.

MONTEVIDEO MARU

*HONOLULU MARU

GANGES MARU

(Calls at Penang)

Tuesday, 80th July,

Monday. 5th Augast.

Monday, '19th' August... DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM,

ABAR & MOMBASA Via Singapore & Colombo, CANADA MARU

Tuesday, 6th August.

Thursday, 1st August. Sunday, 18th August

CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

SEATTLE MARU

KUSADO MARU

university city of Heidefperg. Signal bells and telephones, also operated are located at by the power plant, 10,000 point in each ship...

To cut the time for express mail, an airplane on the sun deck of the ships will be catapulted for a speedy ZANZI-trip with mail when the liners are 1,000 kilometres (about 620 miles) from shore.

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER Via Japan Ports from

Shanghai,

ALABAMA MARU (From Shang bai) Wednesday, 14th August. MELBOURNE Via Mantle, Brisbane & Sydney.

HIMALAYA MARU

HAIPHONG Yls Holhow & Pakhol

MENADO MARU

..Wednesday, 7th August.

- Thursday, 8th August, 10 am.

NEW YORK-Via Japan ports, San Francisco & Panama,

HAMBURG MARU

JAPAN PORTS

ALASKA MARU

CANTON MARU

pa

Sunday, 4th August, Sunday, 11th August, 3 p.m.

Sunday, 18th August

Sunday, 11th August.

BERLUNG Via Swatow & Amoy.

TARAO VIA SWATOW & AMOY

TAKAO & KEELUNG.

BOURABAYA MARU

HOZAN MARU

DELY MARU.......

Supplies for ship's population of 3,000

persons are taken on at Bremen, and include the following items for each trip: 100,000 pounds of meat, 30,000 pounds of fish, 35,000 pounds of fowl, 10,000 pounds of bread, and 45,000 of four for bread and pastry be baked in the elec

to tric ovens, 4,300 pounds of coffee 300 of tea and 600 of chocolate. There will be 17,500 quarts of milk, 2,000 quarts of cream, 15,000

It was stated by Mr. Gorgan that his idea was a port to facilitate the import of raw materials to be used in the manufacture of articles free of duty, until sach times as these were Attempts were being distributed. being made to divert the idea of such Д port from Cork to Dublin, and the Board should see that they were not out-manoeuvred.

It was pointed out by Mr. Horne,

ests, that members of the Free State Government, when on a visit to Cork, had conceded that in the event of certain developments in the har- bour, Cork should be constituted a free port, but there should be develop- ment on a larger scale.

In connection with this matter a report was received from a committee who had inspected the reclamation works in progress at Tivoli. It was recommended that negotiations should be commenced with the Great Southern Railways Company to pro- vide

a connecting railway link or siding. approach road shout 1,000ft. in length and 40ft wide is in There is to course of construction

allowed for be a width of 60ft. wharves, which would give a total! width of 100ft. in front of warehouses built on the off-side of the roadway

Ther and facing the wharves should be no lettings until the ap proach roadway was completed.

TURKEY'S CUSTOMS TARIFF

It is reported from Constantinople that the National Assembly in An- gora has voted a new Customs tariff, which is definitely Protectionist in character. It will come into force three months after ita ratification, pro- In addition to getting a new record Practically all imports will have to for speed, the "Bremen and the pay an average increase of 25 per "Europa" are also expected to sur cent. Owing to the increased tax pass any of the previous ventures in upon paper, the Government have pro- #Every stateroom, mised to grant bonuses to the news- third class up to first, has hot papers to enable them to continue and cold ruling water. The first publication. Turkey resumes her class cabina all have private toilet liberty of action in the matter of facilities, 180 have individual baths, Customs tariffs five years after tita and 100 are fitted out with showers. ratification of the Treaty of Lausanne,

of butter and 2,000 of 1 pounds ably, some time during September.

hursday, 18 August, Noon trom 888

Friday, 16th August.

For further parlentars please apply to OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA. Tel Central No. 4088, 4080, 4000

M. TAKEUCHI Manager,

The P. & 0. 5.5. "Rajputana" from Hong Kong arrived London on July

25 at 5 ДТП.

The B.I. s. "Talamba" will leave Amoy for this port on July 31, p.m., and is due here on August 1, p.n.

The B.I. as "Talma" left Singa- pore for this port on July 27, p.m., and is due here on August 1, x.m.

KWONG WING

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