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Wednesday, Tuesday,

SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM' via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.

TATSUTA MARU

SHINYO MARU

8th July. 21st July.

HEIAN MARU

HIKAWA MARU

Tuesday, Tuesday, 28th July,

90th June.

KASHIMA MARU

Saturday,

27th June.

HWKONE MARU

Saturday,

11th July,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

27th June. 25th July,

BOMBAY via-Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,

+HAKODATE MARU

Saturday,

TANGO MARU

Saturday,

27th June. 11th July.

Honolulu,

Tuesday,

30th June,

+ TATSUNO MARU

Monday,

18th July.

+ DURBAN MARU

Sunday,

19th July,

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

• MORIOKA MARU

Monday,

• GENOA MARU

Tuesday,

SHANGHAI KOBE & YOKOHAMA..

SUWA MARU

Saturday,

29th June

7th July/

27th June.

ƒNAGATO MARU (Kobe direct)

Sunday,

28th June.

IYO MARU.....

Monday,

20th June.

+ Cargo only.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Jupan,

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama, GINYO MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON vis Panama.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople). Genon.

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K.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

MOMBASA ZANZIBAR, Manila Maru

DAR-ES-SALAAM, BEIRA, Madras Maru (omit-

6th July

17th July

6th July

∙14th July

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS Montevideo Maru

1 Fri.,

& BUENOS AIRES via La Plata, Maru Salgon, Singapore, Colom

Mon.,

26th Juno 20th July

bo, Durban & Capetown.

Mon.,

LOURENCO

MARQUES ting Dar-Es-Salaam,

DURBAN, PORT ELIZA

Beira, F. Elizabeth,

BETH & CAPE TOWN,

Rio de Janeiro

&

THENCE

Santos) TO RIO DE

Fri

JANEIRO & SANTOS- via

Singapore & Colombo

BRISBANE, SYDNEY, MEL- Brisbane Maru

Mon.,

BOURNE, AUCKLAND &

WELLINGTON via Manila.

JAPAN PORTS

(Frequent

Services).

via Singapore Colombo.

TERDAM & ANTWERP

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT- Paris Maru

Tues.,

Suez & Port Said.

NEW YORK via Japan ports, Tokai Mara

Los Angeles & Panama. Kwansal Maru

Wed. Thurs.,

Call Direct At Boston.

Philadelphia & Baltimore.

BOMBAY & KARACHI vin Havre Maru

Sat.,

Singapore, Penang &}

Colombo.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Burma Maru

Thurs

Belawan Deli & Rangoon.

!

HAIPHONG vin Hollow &

Pakhal (Fortnightly)-

KEELUNG via Swatow & Hozan Maru Amoy (3.p.m. every Sun- Canton Maru Jay).

TAKAO via Swatow & Amoy Deli Maru

Sau.. Sun..

Thurs.,

(Fortnightly).

For further particulars please apply to:-

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA:

Telephone 28081.

9th July 23rd July

THE

CHINA MAIL.

An

CAN LIFT 500 TONS.

CRANE WHICH COST £300,000

A gate-lifting crane, said to be the most powerful piece of machin. ery of its kind in the world, has

been installed at Port Weller, the Lake Ontario entrance to the new Welland Ship Canal. This huge crane was built at Collingwood, Ontario, at A cost of about £300,000.

The crane is capable of lifting vertically 500 tons, and has been constructed for use in case of emer gency to lift the huge cana! lock gates, each leaf of which weighs 500 tana.

Shipping

Intelligence.

OPENING UP SIBERIA.

Kara Sea Trading

Now Regular.

Capt. John Rekatin, who for ten years has been engaged in the endeavour to create a regular trad Ing route to Siberia through the Kara Sea is now resting in Britain after his arduous and successful task, states the Journal of Com merco. Ip the seventeenth century. a Captall Wiggins of America was fired with the idea of making a passage through the Kara Sea to the little-known but mighty navig able rivera of Siberia. There were The gate-lifter is built entirely many expeditions after this but of steel from top to bottom, with every one falled, and for a consider walls, partitions, floors, bailast, and able number of years It was felt buoyancy tanks all of steel. It is that it was impossible to use a operated by the pressing of a but northern sea route for direct trad ton in the small control room, ing with Siberia. Norwegian navi- where one man will manage the gators then tried some years after- masa of synchronised power. The wards, and after many misfortunes gate-lifter is powered throughout proved that it was possible to navi by electricity, its own plantagate the rivers Obi and Yenesei steam engine with modern oll through the Kara Sen. burners-generating more than It was not, however, until 1929 twice as much power as is required that a serious attempt was made to * tap the vast resources of Siberia Some idea of the tremendous and the Uruis via the Kara Sea. A power developed by this machinery special body was formed by the Rus- may be had from the fact that 1,000 sian Government called the Com tons of permanent ballast is used mittee of the Northern Sea route to counterbalance the weight of with the object of carrying out all the crane tower and its load, in the necessary measures to tap addition to a shifting ballast of Northern Siberia through the Kara water, contained in eight separate Sea. tanks.

in its work.

Brick Ballast.

WATER LEVELS.

UL

DETAILS FOR WEST, NORTH AND EAST RIVERS.

The following table, issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Commission, shows In feet the water levels on the West River, North River and East River the dates named:---

on

June Juno 23 24 West River at Shishing...15.6 22.7 North River at Samshul ..14.5 19.3 North River at Tsingyuen 0.4 14.2 East River at Sheklung

... 4.5 7.3 The highest levels recorded are: Shlubing, 41 feet; Taing yuen, 29.2 feat: Somabut, 27.8 feet; Sheklung, 13.5 feet.

The lowest levels on record are minus 5 feet at Samshuf and minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.

TO SALVAGE GOLD.

Plans To Raise A Russian Warship.

The salvaging of Rusalan money valued at 2,000,000 yen from the sea-bed off Port Arthur, stored in the Russian warship Petropaulovsk which was sunk by the Japanese navy during the Russo-Japanese war, is being planned by Mr. Kuuhachi Kataoka who has return- ed from Port Arthur with the re- quired Information. He is well- known as a salvage expert. In a Prose. Interview, Mr. Kataoka said:

"There is no Irrefutable evidence

Captain John Rekstin was engag- ed by the Russian Government for The head of the tower, 110 feet this purpose and the recent expedi- that 2,000,000 yen is actually stored above the bottom of the vessel,tions made were convoyed by him. in the warship but from the report weighs twenty-eight tons, while He was born in Latvia, and his of the commander of the warship each of the steel towers on which chief journeys had been in icebound we know that, the position of the It rests weighs eighteen tons.

This fact seas, his knowledge in this respect sunken vessel is correct. When the weird vessel crawled being realised by many British ship- being ascertained, I believe that the down the canal it was carrying in owners and navigators with whom gold is stored in the ship. Tho its permanent ballast seven car he has come in contact. He is a position of the sunken vessel is one loads of brick, which, with the pig fluent linguist and can speak Eng mile out of Port Arthur at a depth iron which lined its aides, gave it ligh without a trace of accent. of 19 fathoms. There is no cur- a stationary ballast of 700 tons.

"There is no doubt," said Captain rent to speak of and there would be Yet she drew only sixteen feet of Rekstin in an interview, that difficulty in submarine work. The water.

former expeditions to tap the re- hull being covered with sand, some sources of 9iberia through the Kara work will be required to raise the Sea failed owing to insuficienter vessel. In June we shall return perlence and lack of facilities and and test the temperature of the equipment. It is generally known water. We shall probably start that Siberia. Is a land of immense the refloating in July,”; resources, the late Lord Melchett. describing it as an El Dorado. It was in late 1920 that a serious at- tempt was made to discover a pas sage that could · be regularly and safely used, but the precaution was taken to At out a costly primary expedition with the object of obtain-

In spite of its great power, the gate-lifter is not a large craft, as it is ninety feet in length with a beam of sixty-six feet. Its com- pactness, however, gives an instant 4th July impression of strength. The lift tower is twenty feet langer, when measured from the bottom of the 2nd July - vessel, than the length of the

vessel.

Strength!

28th June 5th July

2nd July

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

SAILING DATES FOR JUNE, 1991 (Sabject to Change)." DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 3 p.m. S.S. "TAI MING”

Leaves Hong Kong

TUES.

(649 Tona-Capt. W. H. Lawton.)

Arrives Wechow

Leaves Wuchow

FRI.

26th SAT.

WED.

··- 27th ́·

3rd

Arrives Bong Foar SUN.

SAT.

4th

30th THURS. 2nd

Ports of Call-Samahui, Shuthing, Takhing & Doshing.

Hong Kong Arrivals & Departures from Tai Hing Wharf.

20, Connaught Road, West, SANG WO

Phono 20893..

Fares Return (not including meals): $18.00,

Meals and Wines are to be obtained on board.

For information apply to

SHIPBUILDERS,

SHIP REPAIRERS,

BOILER MAKERS,

FORGE MASTERS,

OXY-ACETYLENE, AND

ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS:

Co.,

ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.

Wednesday, June 24. Chengtu, British str., 1,338 tons, Capt. D. Thomas, from Swatow, buoy No. 39.-B. & S.

tons, Captain Y. Hatakayama, from Sakite, buoy No. B25- Y.K.K

Shun Lee, Chinese str., 949 tons,

The lifting power is provided by four large screws, each seventy feet in length and about eighteen ing reliable, data. Special ice- Kaku Maru, Japanese atr., 2,610 Inches in diameter, two on each breakers were ordered from Britain, side of the vessel. These operate bullt, I believe, by Swan, Hunter large steel cars to which the holat and Wigham Richardson, Ltd., ing cables are attached, drawing while trained men were secured to the cars to the opposite end of the map out routes through the ice and vessel to the tower in lifting, and obtain up-to-date data for the future. driving the cars to the front of the navigation of the sea. Meteorolo- vessel in lowering the land. Two gical and wireless stations were tumbling bearings, which automa-established and a flotilla of tically drop as the car passes, take hydro-planes engaged for the task the sag from the great power with the result that the charts, and The four screws are sailing, directions are the most com- equalised so that each lifts the plete of their kind." same amount of the load..

screws;

In addition to the 500-ton ver

́ ́STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS. tical holat the gate-lifter possoases a utility boom which can be swung The M.V. Chinese Prince which as would the ordinary crane boom sailed from Hong Kong on April and is capable of lifting, 125 tons. 21 arrived at Boston on June 28

This boom is 125 feet in length and New York on June 26. and could be used for the ordinary type of crane work, and yet would

The 'C.P.SR.M.9. Empress of Canada arrived at Kobe on Juna

be a giant among cranes, capable 25 (Thurs.) at 9.30 am. left

Capt. B. Miyaoka, from Can- ton, buoy No. GL-Tee Tal Hong.

Thursday, June 25. Afrika, Danish atr., 5,469 tone, Captain E. Himmelstrup, from Singapore, Kowloon Wharf. John Manners & Co., Ltd. Antenor, British str., 6,809 tons, Capt. R. J. Woodgett, from Sin- gapore, Holt's Wharf B. & S.

Bertram Rickmers, German str

2,546 tons, Capt. D. Dirks, from Manila, Stonecutters Anchor- age, Slemseen & Co.. Golden Wall, American str., 8,129

FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1931.

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

Sails for

MANILA

On

CASADEAN PACIEN ITEAMSHIP

FRIDAY,

10 P.M. JUNE 26th.

Hong Kong to Manila-

FARES

Tst Class 2nd class

G$37.50

G$25.00 G$45.00

Hong Kong to Manila & Return G$68.00

Passenger Department: Tel. 20752. Cables: "Gacanpac.”. Freight and Express: Tel 20042. Cables: "Nautilus".

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Japan

Shanghal Java Amoy.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

INWARD MAILS.

FRIDAY, JUNE 26.

SATURDAY, JUNE 27

Europe via Megapatam (Papers only,

don, May 28) U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai

Francisco, May 29)

Manila

Straits Amoy

Atsuta Maru,

.Sul Yang .Tjimanock

Somali Tjisalak

Talma

Lon-

•Suwa Maru

(San

Pres. Van Buren President Lincoln

SUNDAY,

JUNE 28

Calcutta and Straits

Sui Sang

Francisco, June: 53

WEDNESDAY,

President Jackson

JULY 1.

Amoy and Swatow

.Cremer

Tfisaroes

Khyber

MONDAY, JUNE 29

U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San-

Java and Manila..

THURSDAY, JULY 2. Europe via Suez (Letters and Papers, Lon-

don, June 4 and Parcels May 28)

OUTWARD MAILS.

Samshul and Wuchow Swabue

Holhow and Haiphong. Manila..

FRIDAY,

JUNE 26.

4. p.m. p.m.

5 p/m

5 p.m.

Straits, Cayton, India, Mauritius, E. & S. "Africa, Aden, Egypt & Europe via Marseilles

K.P.O. Registration June 26, 4.80 p.m. Letters...June 27, 9 a.m. Manila, Australia & New Zealand

via Thursday Island'

Kong So Stanley New Mathilde Empress of Russia

Kashima Maru:

(Due Marseilles, July 27.)

G.R.O.. Registration June 27, 8.45 an

[9.80 8.nu. Letters.

Atsuta Mara

(Due Thuraday Island, July 9.)

Registration June 26, 5 p.m. Latters

tons, Captain E. J. Anderson, from Lumarao, Lalchikok An- Shanghal and Europe via Siberia Antenor chorage.States S.S.. Co. A

Capt. W. Hannevig, from Bang- kok, buoy No. B17 Thoresen

of lifting a railway locomotive of Kobe on June 25 (Thurs.) at 5 Halldor Norwegian str., 840 tons, ordinary size. p.m., and fe due at Yokohams on It is operated by cables on two June 26 (Fri) at 4 p.m. She large drams in the hold of the leaves Yokohama for Vancouver & Ca Fessel and is, Uke the main holst, via Honolula on June 27 (Sat) at Hulchow, British str., 1,200 tons, (Continued at foot of next Column); 8p.m

DRY DOCK

1787Feet

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

OF HONG KONG, LIMITED.

AGE TO

Wireless Call

G.N. 600 Met

AIKOO

Length on Blac

HOW

ها

CONSIGNEES NOTICES.

Capt. J. Smart, from Canton, busy No. 8, R. & S.ge Michael Jebsen Danish str., 1,548 tona, Captain H. Ipland, from Consignees of cargo ex 8.5. Ber-

Holhow, buoy No. 38 Chin ledf, are reminded to take delívéry

Seng Hong. of their goods which will be sub Montevideo Maru, Japanese str., ject to rent after June 294,886 tons, Capt. M. Yamaguchi, Consignees of cargo ex 8.8. from Kobe, Kowloon Wharf Afrika are reminded to take de 0.8.K, livery of their goods which will New Mathilde, British at B42 be subject

tone, Captain D Thomas, from Saigon, buoy No. C4Chang

cia-L

of their goods, which will Yatsking

rent after July 20

are rominded to take

¿the cont room by

**Registration.

Letters

SATURDAY, Japan and Victoria, B.C.

Halphong Shanghal, Japan, U.S.A., Canada, C. and S. America and Europe via Victoria, B.C

June 27, 9 a.m.

June: 26, 5 p.m. "p.m.

JUNE 27

Ixion

· 10.30 a.m. (Dus Victoria, B.C.; July 21.)- Canton

2.50 p.m.

President Liacoin p

Due Victoria, B.C., July 14,

and Europe via Siberia.) Parcela Registration UTV Letters Yingchow

June 27, 3 p.m.

4:15pm

p.m.

3.80 p.m.

Foochow

Biber)

Japan and Europe

Suwa Maru

8.80 p.m.

Apoey

Pres. Van

5 p.m.

str. 1,424 tons, lexandre, from, Can-

Swat Bangk

viat

Chow, British str 1,216 tons, cain}; Wm. Christie, from

No B20B & S

SIN PORT

JUNE

Hosan

Ka Ying.

Sul Sang

gea

4.80 p.m.