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THE CHINA MAIL.

P.&O.-British India BRITAIN'S NAVAL STRENGTH

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 H.M. Government.)

Destination.

M'neilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straita, Colombo & Bombay. M'seilles, L'dan, R'dam & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg,

Rotterdam. Anwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London. 2nd Apr. Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre,

Hamburg 9th Apr. Marseillea & 23rd Apr. Bombay,

8.9.

Tons

Hong Kong

From

About

KARMALA

9,000 16th

CHITRAL "ALIPORE

15,000 30th

+KASHMIR

NALDERA

**SOUDAN

1932.

Jan, Noon

Jan. 5,800 8th Feb. 9,000 18:h Feb. 16,000 27th Feb. 6,800 5th Mar.

CARTRAGE

RAJPUTANA

I 17,000

**BURDWAN

6,500

CORFU

15,000

RAWALPINDI 17,000

RANPURA

CHITRAL

RANCHI

NALDERA

RAJPUTANA

MANTUA

15,000 12th Mar. 26th Mar

Rotterdam & Antwerp.

SMALLER SHIPS AND PLENTY

OF THEM.

"MATERIALISM IN THE NAVY.”

CONSIGNEES.

THE EAST ASIATIC CO., LTD., COPENHAGEN.

The Motor Vessel,

* CHILE*

having arrived. Consigneas of cargo are hereby informed that all goods are being landed and placed at their frisk into the hazardous and/or extra- hazardous Godowns of The Hongkong Kowloon Wharf & Gedown Co., Ltd,

The present time seems hardly fame, are at one on these matters, where delivery can be obtained as soon propitious for advocating an in- If our resources, and those of other as the goods are landed. crease in the strength of the Navy nations, were unlimited, as are those, No claima will be admitted after the and the gradual rocovery of our of Nature, great hull tonnage and goods have left the Godowns, and all sea-power which the hysterical extremes of speed in our battleships 17th January, 1982, at 4 p.m. will be goods remaining undelivered after the "pacifism" of the past few years has and cruisers might be tolerable subject to rent. dissipated.

vices.

да

mere

de-

of men-of-war.

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON, STRAITS AND MANILA.

Godowns of

And yet it is assured- though even then, my view, they All broken, chafed and damaged ly true that the Internal collapse, would still be undesirable and a goods are to be left in the Godown, the effects of which we are about source of weakness rather than of Messrs. Anderson & Ashe

where they will be examined by to experience, makes it doubly ne- strength. But our resources are 16th January, 1932, at 10 a.m.

on the cessary that we are secure from strictly limited, so that if we per-1,

All claims

against the vessel must external alarms while we set our-sist in treating tonnage and speed as presented to the Undersigned before selves manfully in the coming gen- the main essentials of strength, we not be recognised.

the 20th January, 1932, or they will oration to restore our shattered must make up our minds to a small No Fire Insurance will be effected. fortunes and to recover our self- and excessively costly Navy with

Bills of Lading will be counter- respect, writes Captain Bernard Ac- numbers of vessels totally in-signed by worth, D.S.O., R.N., in The Navy. adequate for that complete convoy

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD.. Since the beginning of the pre system upon

Agents. which the future sent century a wave of materialism security of our trade rests.

Hong Kong, 11th January, 1932. has swept over Weatern civillaa.

I have set forth elsewhere, to the tion, breaking with all its force best of my ability, the arguments

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. upon the shares of Great Britain. against size and speed as desirable This is no place in which to enlarge characteristics

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS. upon the materialistic outlook in Speed above a certain critical, and

LIMITED. general, but it may safely be said well-known, point involves sacrifices that the Navy has not escaped in guns and protection which, if the acathless from the flood; Indeed, it speed is used to force action, as only would be absurd to suppose that it on rare occasions it can be used, could so escape, for though it is a will in all probability lead to dis- The Steamshin magnifying mirror of the country's aster. Speed, as virtues, it reflects, even though it can seldom force action upon an un- the war proved,

'BENARTY" generally reduces, the country's willing adversary, action being the formed that all Goods are being land- Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- Few will deny that in all eventual outcome of strategicaled at their risk into the hazardous departments of human activity necessity. Speed, in the last analy The Hong Kong and Kowloon Whar

and/or extra hazardous we have grown to regard excess sis, is of value mainly for avoiding and Godown Co., Ltd, whence and/or

the hallmark of twentieth

action.. century progress,

Crom though

the wharves delivery may be ab- tamped. Great hull tonnage, again, can excess has not been

No claims will be admitted after the tected as such; rather, has it been surely have no virtue as such. Pro- Goods have left the Godowns, and all vided the tonnage is sufficient to Goods remaining undelivered after regarded as a sign of the inevit-1 ability of progress-a species of mount a gun armament, and armour the 13th instant, will be subject to

over vitals, that enables it to engage rent. feverish "evolution." We seem to

All claims against the steamer must the largest ship in the world, ne presented to the Undersigned on have learnt to look

the upon extremities of size and speed as of the smallness of the hull, and thus will not be recognised.

mounting the most enormous guns, or before the 27th instant, or they value in themselves, and 38

of the target it presents to the Goods are to be left in the Godown. All broken, chafed, and damaged synonymous with progress, a re- versal of the traditional view, which enemy, is the finest form of protec where they will be examined on the did not reat content until it had re-

tion. Surely against gunfire, and 12th instant at 10 a.m. by Monars. very especially against torpedo-Are, Goddard & duced mechanical implements

Douglas, to have nothing to hit is a soundered Warehouse Regulations consignees the smallest, and particularly the form of protection than to have must have Revenue Officer in attend. with the General Bond- To conn simplest, proportions. The for excessive size, and especially for the breadth again, armoured and are examined.

craze double the length am perhaps half ance when damaged dutiable goods excessive speed, has immeasurably artificially protected at staggering

No Fire Insurance has been effect. the cost of modernist material, and we have now reached cost.

ed.

the deplorable atate in which

Would the gunnery officer of the ed by,

Bills of Lading will be enuntersign are apt to regard cost as a criterion small battleships mounting 18.5-in.

Nelson tackle with confidence two GIBB LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD of value and efficiency.

Agents. Hong Kong, 6th January, 1032. These reflections, whether they visibility? Yet two such battle- guns sighted up to the maximum of are right or wrong, are not set down ships could, assuredly be Quilt for as a philosophical excursion in ab- less than half the cost of one Nelson. The speed of battleships, provided straction, but because I believe, in We are constantly told that small-it is reasonable, is a matter of no all sincerity, that the inevitable er ships would be acceptable if other importance whatever. economies that the Navy may have nations would agree to similar of cruisers, on to face may become the means of ships. But the case for reduction should be high relatively to our bat- the other hand, rosuscitating. aur B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st premacy, and of immeasurably in-is an absolute and not a relative be related to, the speed of enemy marime Su in size rests on its own merits, and the fleet and convoys, and should not and 2nd class passengers.

creasing the material efficiency of matter. Other nations' our fleet by the exclusion of every like our own, are limited, and apart to waste of tonnage, waste of fight- resources, cruisers. The speed craze has led costly and unnecessary feature, and from this over-riding fact, and ing strength and, in a startling non-essential apart from the ability of two ships manner, to the waste of money. If to fight one while one can seldom any naval officer will face the facts In urging a reconsideration as to fight two, I maintain that, ship for of the 10,000-ton Treaty cruisers he whether great tonnage and the last ship, the properly designed smaller will, I think, agree. Tens of thou- Maoils, Rabani, Brisbane, Sydney extremity of speed are in reality of ship has an advantage over her sands of horse-power have been! advantage, I am at leset in good rival, provided always that the ton-wasted on two knots of speed which, company, for Admiral Custance and rage of the smaller vessel is suffi-If used to bring these ships into Admiral Richmond to-day, like clent to mount an ideal gun arma- action with slower and better armed and protected ships of the same

17,000 7th

15.000

KAISAR-1-HINDI 12,000 2nd

RAWALPINDI

RANPURA

MALWA

* Cargo only.

May Bombay, Ma

Jone

July

& London. & London. 21毗 May Rombay. Marseilles & London. 17,000 4th June Bombay, 16.000 18th

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London, 17,000 16th July 11.000

Bombay, Marselles & London. 30th July Bombay, Marsellen & London, 17,000

19th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 27th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 11,000 20th Sept Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- #tan.inople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedivai Mall Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1932.

TALMA TALAMBA SIRDHANA

10,000 26th Jan.

8,000 5th Fab. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000 23rd Feb.

added to

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South) the elimination of

NELLORE TANDA NANKIN

1932 7,000 30th Jan. 7,000 4th Mgr. 7,000 And Apr.

#/ Melboruria,

vessela.

to

we

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan Mahan and Colomb of last centuryment. and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 dayı.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union 8.9. Company's steam crt to the United Kingdom via Now

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. O. Royal Mall Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Saez.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

TALAMBA

*ALIPORE KASHMIR

KALYAN *BOUDAN NALDERA

1932, 8,000 16th

Jan. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yhama. 8 a.m. 5,300 16th Jan. Shanghai, Moji & Kabe. 9,000 1 18th Jan. Shanghai, Hoji, Kobe 4 Yokohama. 9,000, 10th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 6,800 24th Jan. Shanghal, Kobe 4 Yokohama. 16,000 29th Jan. Shanghal. Kobe.& Yokohama BIRDHANA

8,000 30th Jan. Amoy, Mojl, Kobe 4. Osakohama. PANDA

$2,000 5th Feb. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & CARTHAGE

16,000 BURDWAN 6,600 21st Feb. Shanghai, Kobe Yokohama.

Koby

Yokohama. RAJPUTANA 17.000 28th F

Shanghele R

Yokohama. Kobe 11th Mary Shanghai, Kabe à Yokohama. RAWALPINDI 17.000 24th Mr. Shanghal Robo

6.800516 Apr Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

And Bhangisi, Koba & (Apr." #Sharighat, Kobreak

BANPURA 117.003

$15,000

12th

CHITRAL

BANGALORE 8,500 28th Apr Shangust, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000 5th May Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohan. 16,000 19th May Shanghai. Mali, Kobs & Yokohama. STAISAR-I-HIND| 12.000 2nd June Shanghal, Molly Robe & Yokollima

EAJPUTANA 17,000 18th June Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. *SOUDAN

5,800 28th Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohams.

Cargo only.

All Cabina are fitted with Electric Fans or, Punka Louv

Bystem.

at the Com

As with tonnage, so with speed.j

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK

Telegrams:

The speed

CO., LTD.,

HEAD OFFICE, AND WORKS :

"MANIFESTO. HONG KONG. KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KONG OFFICE 29020.

KOWLOON DOCK 55053. DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS,

FORGE MASTERS, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIANS.

On Lloyds

List of

Harbour

Shipwris

EMPRESS OF JAPAN.”

87x 48′6′′ MIL. 28,000 tons Great.

sses Elx Granite Docks and Two Patent. Supwara.

[are/700′0?

065) over, sill KW 0.8. T. Call Signal V.P.B.T. míd Flag

Edition

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1932.

SPECIAL ROUND

TRIP FARES

ATO EUROPE.

WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

To San Francisco, Los Angeles

& New York via Panama.

The Sunshine Beit via Honolulu Fortnightly sailings on Tuesday

p.m. Pren Jackson ...Jan. 19, 4 Pres. McKinley ..... Feb. 2 Pres. Grant

..Feb. 16

To Seattle & Victoria.

The Short, Straight Route to America Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays Pres. Jefferson Sat., Jan. 23 Pres. Madison. Feb. 6 Pres. Cleveland : Feb. 20

£79 £112 £120 Special through rates to Earnoe via

United States. Direct commections with all Atlantic lines. Choles of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-aver privileges for sight-seeing.

ROUND TRIP FARE TO EUROPE. From Hong Kong to Naples

H

Marseille London

Fall particulara upon application. EUROPE AND NEW YORK DIRECT

ROUND THE WORLD.

$152. 5.06. $161. 0.00, £169.15.00.

Fortnightly sailing on Sundays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marselline, New York and Boston.

Feb. 21, 8 .Mar. 6, 8

Pres. Monroe.....Jan. 24, 8 Pres. Garfield Pres. Van Buren ..Feb. 7, 8 Pres. Polk

TO MANILA Pres. Jefferson Jan. 16, 6. p.m. Pres. Madison Jan. 30, 6 p.m. Pres. Monroe ..Jan 24, 8 a.m. Pres. Van Buren Feb. 7, 8 a.m. Prea. McKinley Jan 26, 6 p.m. Pres. Grant ... Feb. 9, 6 p.m.

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FANAMA

EXPRESS

BARBER WILHELMSEN

LINE

TRANS-PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC COAST SERVICE

via PANAMA

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NEXT SAILING

M.V. "TAI YANG"

on 18th JANUARY.

for

SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK & BOSTON.

.

42 Days To New York.

For Passenger and Freight information please apply:-

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's Bulidings.

Agents.

Telephone 28021.

THE KWONG HIP LUNG CO. LTD.

ENGINEERS and SHIPBUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS' BRASS and IRON-FOUNDERS. All work done in this establishment guaranteed. We have over thirty years' experience. We own two Clips Ways and can accommodate any craft of 200 foot long U Town Office: $4 Commught Road Central, Hen Shipyards Sham-shul-po, Hewloon, Hong Kong.

Batimazon furnished : am

Hong Kong, April «L, 1994...

would press them to their have at the

Should t

true that at the moment we to use the tonnage iniltted to specific tonnages they fall due

still with the same total

hipe

MINA, Kewoan Decke, Hautkas

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