MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1930.
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.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BIG COMBINE
Two Important German Companies
Cologne, Saturday.
The Hamburgh-Amerika and the Norddeutscher Lloyd lines, Ger- many's two biggest shipping com- pantes, are amalgamating their in- terests for the next 50 years. Each company will retain its in- dependenco and sail under its own fag.
There will be an interchange of a portion of the members from each board and receipts henceforth will he equally divided.
agree- де many
он
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION CO. LTD.
Sailing
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Destination
Steamer Tiau vin Stow & Shai CHAKSANG ... Wed., Tian via B'low & Shal.EWAISANG ...Sun., Tian via S'tow * Bħat . FOOSHING Tinu via B'tow & 8'kal ..HOPSANG
Wed,
Sun.,
S'pore, Penang & Calenta YUENYANG S'pore, Penang & Calentta KUMSANG Osaka via Moji & Keba ...HOSANG ............ Wed, Osaka via Amoy, Majl &
Kobe ....
NAMSANG Tues.,
Kobe
Tues,
Thurs.,
Chaska vis Amoy, Shangha!,
Moji & Kobe
26th Mar. at 7 am. 30th Mar. at 76m2, 2nd Apr. at 7am. 6th Apr. nt? a.m. 25th Mar. at 8 p.m. 3rd Apr. at 8 p.m. 28th Mar. at 7 a.m.
8th Apr. at 7 am.
18th. Apr. at 7 a.m.
SUISANG
Fri, 25th Apr. at 7 a.m. HINSANG ..... Wed. 2nd Apr. at Noon ....HAUSANG....Thura., 17th Apr. at 8 p.m.
Tues
8th Apr. at 7am.
Osaks vis Amoy, Møjt & KUTSANG ....Fri.,
Bandakan
Sandakan
Tisin via Stow & FoochowCHIPSHING im-
The purpose of the ment
to place YOBAols
possible ne portant routes with the view of eliminating the construction of new Vessels and thus enabling each com- pany to develop new routes.
It is expected that the working expanses on the more or less un- profitable routes will be diminish- ed and that past rivalry will be done away with.-Reuter.
[A message, dated Berlin, the
18th inst., stated that a most im-
portant step towards a general agreement between the Hamburg- Amerika and Norddeutscher Lloyd Shipping Companies has been taken by a practically-decided arrange-
Ttain via Stow & Foochow CHEONGSHING Thurs., 17th Apr. at 17 a.m. For Fraight and Passage apply to:- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Telephone Central 215.
General Managers.
PRESIDENT WILSON Company, and the Tokyo Die-Cast Com-
pany.
Prominent Passengers Naples before continuing around the
on Board
Mr. and Mrs. N. Watkins.--Mr. and Mes. Watkins are disembarking at
world. Mr. Watkins is Vice-President and General Manager of the Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Company of The Dollar Line Steamship Pre-Honolulu.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Wrampe.-Mr. and New York and San Francisco, via Mr. Wrampe plan to disembark at Honolulu, Kobe and Shanghai, en Naples, Italy, whence they will route to the Straita Settlements, visit all the points of interest in Europe and New York.
Europe. Mr. Wrampe is a retired busi- ness man of Los Angeles, California.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY ment to pool their interests in the ident Wilson arrived yesterday from
DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
Frem
8.8.
Tona Hong Kong
About
1930
RAWALPINDI 10,819 MALWA *MIRZAPORE
20th Mar,
10,080 6,715
12th Apr.
RAJPUTANA
18,568
'BELTANA
0,005
23rd Apr. 20th Apr. Brd May 10th May
KASHGAR
⚫ Cargo only.
Destination
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseillos & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marseilios & London. Marseilles London. Marseilles, London, Hull, Rotterdam
& Antwerp.
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.
TALA MBA
*TAKADA *TALMA
SHIRALA
1 1930 8,018 int Apr. 9,640 1nt Apr. 10,000 10th Apr. 7,841 20th Apr.
"Calls Rangoon.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
BI. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and earry a qualified surgeon.
South American traffic.
It is understood that this "ration alisation" will also extend to the Far East, thereby enabling the withdrawal of from eight to ten |ships without affecting German in-beard were:-
tereats.]
GERMAN SHIPPING
The World's Biggest Fleet of Motor-Ships
Among the prominent passengera on
Mr. R. Conkling Peck-Mr. Peck, Miss Mary Beard-Miss Beard is en having "done" the United States tho route to Manila where she plans to roughly, is en route to Marseilles, stay for a time before embarking for France, where he plans to take in" all Europe. She is the Director of the of France before Journoying through Rockefeller Foundation of New York. the rost of Europe. Mr. Peck's official Mr. E. 1 Bean-Mr. Bean is return residence is in Los Angeles, California.
Mr. and Mrs. ing to Ipoh in the Malay States where
A.
Widdis he
are making connected with the Tavoy Tin who
A tour of the Dredging Company, in the capacity of in. Marrallies, France, for
world. They plan to stop a time, Engineer.
they will "continue land is on route to Singapore to in-tired Circuit Judge of the
Mr. Newton Cleaveland-Mr. Cleave through Europe. Mr. Widdis is a re- vestigate the mining conditions for the Yuba Associated Engineers of San
States,
Europe. Mr. Baird is well known in Council Bluffs, Iowa, as the Vice- President of the State Savings Bank, as a lawyer, and as having served as a State Senator.
to stop in Penang before going on, to
Mr. W. J. Calder.--Mr. Calder, ac- companied by his wife, is en route
the interests of his com- pany, the du Font de Nemours Com- pany of Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A. Dr. Calder is the manager of the Shanghai office of that company.
whence
on
United
Mr. C. G. Fulton was re-elected chairman of the Glasgow committee
year.
HONG KONG TIDE
bar
The tido-table given below been obtained by aid of the Tide-pre- dieting Machine, which includes 40 components for the better prediction of tides, from the result of the analysis of the tidal observations taken at the Kowloon tidal observa tory onder the direction of Dr Doberck during the years 1887, IERS and 1880.
A distinguishing feature of the German mercantile marine is the large percentage of motor-ships it includes. About 690,000 tons (equal to 14.5 per cent.) out of its totalFrancisco, of which he is Managing tonnage consints of ships with Director. Diesel drive.
Mr. William Baird.--Mr. Baird, se- This type of vessels, though practically unknown twenty companied by his wife and two sont, is of the Liverpool and Glasgow Sal- years ago, has since then become making a tour of the world. They plan vage Association for the ensuring increasingly popular with merchant ship owners of almost all seafaring nations. The motor-ship has been found particularly useful in the Far Eastern and West Indies services, as well as on the routes to Brazil. the River Plate and the Pacific Coast of the American. The first Germanto Colombo shipping undertaking to introduce motor-ships on the North Atlantic route was the Hamburg-American Line. Its two 16,750-ton passenger
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Belcher.—Mr. motor-ships St. Louis and Mil- and Mrs. Belcher are en route to Suez, waukee were entered in that ser-
Egypt, where they plan to stop before vice in April and June 1929 re-completing a trip around the world. the largest Real Estate companies in spectively. They are the biggest Mr. Belcher is the manager of one of owners. Among the other Hapag Log Angoles. vessels of this kind special mention should be made of the passenger motor-ship General. Osorio (12,000 gross reg. tons) engaged on the South American berth and the two motor-ships Orinoco and Magdalena employed in the service to the West Indies. Altogether, the company now owns more than. 35 motor-ships aggregating more than 250,000 gross reg. tons and 315,000 tone This is equal to about deadweight. 23 per cent. of the Hapag's total
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).tor-ships possessed by German
⚫ST. ALBANS 4,500 NELLORE TANDA
0,858
1930 4th Apr. 2nd May
0,950
*Calls Port Holland.
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island
Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney
Melbourne.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong
10 Australia.
The E. & A. 8.9. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawas, Timor, Darwin, or other ports on route as in ducement offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Newtonnage of 1,100,000 grasa reg. tona, Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London via Suez 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 Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
1930
•MIRZAPORE 0,716 25th Mar Daylight RAJPUTANA 16,568 28th Mar. SHIRALA
7,841 6th Apr. *BELTANA
Oth Apr. *KHYBER
0,114 8th NELLORE
8,853 8th Apr.
KASHGAR
"KIDDERPORE
TAKLIWA MANTUA TILAWA
LAHORE KHIVA
9,005 11th Apr. 6.334 16th Apr.
Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohams
so that the company owns the big gest fleet of the motor-ships, now in existence.
BUILDING FEAT
Vessel Cut in Two to Be Lengthened
་
is one of the most well-known motion Mr Richard Wallace. Mr. Wallace
picture directors in Hollywood, Call- |fornia, where he is connected with Paramount Famous Players' Lasky. In the company of his wife he is mak- ing a tour of the world, stopping in all the principal countries in order to be come more acquainted with the cus- toms and mannerisms of people in the different parts of the world. plan to disembark at Suez before em- barking for Europe,
They
Mr. L. H. Arcblas-Mr. Archias, ac- companied by his two daughters Marian and Ruth Ann-is making a tour of the world. They plan to stop in Alexandria, Egypt, for time before continuing on to Europe. Mr. Archlas ly well known as president of a large Boral concern in the United States.
Dr. and Mrs. Glen C. Burbank. -Dr.
Mrs. Burbank are And disembarking at Alexandria, Egypt, in the company of
large number
of passengers who number of
of whom passengers
in a tour of
Dr. Burbank is directing in the world.
An interesting shipbuilding feat was performed at Alexander gray- rig dock, Belfast, when Mossrs.
Mina Margaret Smith--Miss Smith is Workman. Clarke and Co. cut in a member of the party disembarking two the United Fruit Company's at Alexandria. She was a very popu- motor ship La Marea, 3,689 tons. lar student at Stanford University at The vessel's Diesel electric machin-Falo Alto, California, where she is Kobe, Osaka Yokohama.
Moil, Kobe & Yokohama.ery is being replaced by turbine ranked highly as a scholar and socially. She plans to return to the University Moji & Kobe..
electric machinery, and this neces-
at the completion of her trip around The rivets were drilled York University, out right round the four, decks of Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama the shell, and eventually the ship 9,185 0th May Shanghai, Moji, Koba & Yokohama. winches were connected by wire Cargo only. Not carrying passengersz
ropes with mooring pawis on dock alde. Steam was raised, and the bow end of the ship was pulled 30ft. forward. The operation was per- formed in five minutes and was completely successful.
7.936 18th Apr. Amoy, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. sitates the lengthening of the ship the world, and a year's study at a New
10,046 25th Apr. Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe Yokohama. by 80ft. 10,006 28th Apr. | Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka.
8,804 6th May
All dates arb upproximate and subject to alteration without notice, · WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying stemmer..
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamors on London and Australian Linen, are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 24 ft 1-2 fL = 1 ft. will be received at the Company's 'Office up to Noon on the day previouis to sailing.
For further Information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, ste, spply to:
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,
P. &0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong,"
Agents.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Parmetes who
are en route to Naples, from whence they plan to journey through Europe. Mr. Parmales in one of the owners of Parmiee-Dohrmann and--Company of Los Angeles. thu?
...Mr. and Mrs. M. Ueki-Mr.
Mrs. Uekl aro and
Journey ing to Naples, Italy. Mr. Ueki in well known in Japan where The new section will be built into he is president of the Tokyo Drup the vessel in six weeks.
Forge Company, the Tokyo Motor Boat
The times and heights are giver for Kowloon; bet they may be used for the Victoria Naval Yard and Aberdeen, the differences being very
The times of high and low-water must not be considered to coincide with the times of sinck-water and change of current, the two phenomens being quite distinct.
Ht
W.
March 24 to 30, 1930.
DATE HIGH Water Lower WATER
Standard March
Standard fimum
Times Mon. 24 Noinferior.
6 1.0.3 nur Low Tuom 91344 m 1 16
6106.1 0 3 a 49 Wed 15 m 1945 Tham 17 10 4.6 mi
7 1983
18 A
3.8 FS 8160
£ 04 B Fri. 38 m 9 1
8 201 1.3 2 21 a 10 13 8.0 26 m3 46 1.4
8 3966 Sat 19 m 9 10
16.b 09. 30 mi 9 26 6.5 9 60 ☎ 0.5
0400
An Egyptian Holiday
Travel home on the President Liners via Suez and enjoy a three day holiday in Egypt. Yet, you lose no time enroute. Leave your President Liner at Suez and motor to Cairo. The Third Day 'rejoin the same ship at Alexandria ...Make Egypt the high point of your homebound trip.
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S.S. CHUEN CHOW
Daily Salling from Hong Kong at 2.00 p.m. Salling from Macao at 7.50 m
Sundays excepted,
Freight and Passage apply : ---
CHUEN ON STEAM BOAT CO., LTD.
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EXPRESS
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SERVICE
Tel. C. 6061.
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THE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE TO NEW YORK
and other US. Atlantic Porta via Panama.
All vessels call at SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES en route.
Passengers desiring to travel, by this interesting route will find the accommodation provided well up to their expectations, and et a cost most reasonable.
42 Days To New York.
For Passenger and Freight informaïlon please applyi-
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Queen's Buildings.
Agents.
THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK
Telephone C. 1030.
CO., LTD.
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