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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.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.8.

Tous

From Hong Kong

About

1932.

*KIDDERPORE

RANCHI **BANGALORE

NALDERA

KAISAR-I-HIND ***BHUTAN

18,000 18th June 12,000

2nd July 8,000 9th July

17,000 16th July 11,000 30th July

6,800, 6th Aug.

RAJPUTANA MANTUA ++*SOUDAN

RAWALPINDI

RANPURA ***BURDWAN

MALWA

Destination.

Aon, Havre,

THE P. AND 0.

2 Accelerated Voyages on Indian Service.

Following the placing of the Lloyd Triestino's moter liner Vic- toria on the Genoa-Bombay route, the announcement that the P. and O., turbo-electric liner Viceroy of India will make two accelerated voyages during the busiest outward Beason to India next autuma is of particular interest, although, of course, there may be no con- nection between the two, says the Journal of Commerce.

THE CHINA MÁIL.

FUEL FOR MERCHANT

SHIPS

Plight of the Coal Industry.

ADVENT OF MOTOR SHIPS

15,000-MILE RACE. Ships' Cross-The-World Run with Grain.

Twenty sailing ships,; carrying! 80,000 tons of grain, have started on the 15,000-mile race, from Australia? to England.

The cross-the-world run is now an annual event, but the entry this season is the largest for many years. Much that is nonsense has been The majority of the ships in the written concerning the national as-grain fleet are the property of Capt. Gustave Erikson, of Mariehamm, pect of the problem of fuel for Finland.

the older

merchant ships, and in particular Down in the little riverside inns It has, indeed, been pointed out relating to the alleged loss of that while the Victoria is a fast trade to this country through the of London's Dockland, ship-she is now averaging about employment of oil fuel instead of generation of the river have much 20.3 knots on the round voyage, coal.

The plight into which the to speculate on.

Watch ship will hold the record excluding the passage of the coal industry and those who sup Suez Canal-she is in effect not port coal have fallen may be for this year's run?

Last year it was the Herzogin much faster than the P. and O gauged from the fact that sugges Cecilie, largest of Eriksons fleet, turbo-electric liners, three of tions have even been made to use which are new in service, which coal again on warships, also on who made the passage from Wal- parallel the Victoria's route for ships like the big new Cunarder. laroa to Falmouth in 93 days.

This four-maated barque, built in part of their journey. In addition, Folly can scarcely go farther. But the turbo-electric machinery

said that ship Bremerhaven at the beginning of of it is also even the P. and O. liners permits of owners should use coal because it the century, has held the record for wide variatious of speed without is patriotie to do so and gives em- the previous four seasons, her beat loss of economy or efficiency, ployment to miners. It would also run being the 88-day run from Port The two faster voyage of the cause unemployment to British Lineoln to Queenstown, in 1927.

As a contrast to the good passages Viceroy of India will occupy 16 ships and their crews if unable to days instead of the usual 20 days compete with foreign-owned motor of the Herzogin Cecile and Archi- from London to Bombay. One will ships that prove more economical, buld Russell, which made Falmouth be in September, leaving London on and it is surprising that the arguin 95 days, are the terrible experi- the 17th, and the other in October, ment is put forward by serious peo-ence encountered by the crew of the leaving on the 29th. Marseilles ple..

barque Hougomont. will be reached in five dayė, ・ andi

She arrived in London River after It can, however, be shown that Port Said in nine days. The sav- the advent of the motor ship has a passage of 145 days from Aus- ing in time will be effected by not been so detrimental to the tralia. higher speed over the whole route, trade of this country as had been For 60 days and nights she gave excluding the Suez Canal, a shor-imagined. The amount of British gallant battle to the "greybeards" ter stay at Marseilles, and the bunkering coal sold in 1980 was of Cape Horn, her sails were ripped omission of Malta and Aden" as 9,700,000 tons lesa than in 1918, to shreds, and mountainous seas ports of call.. These two sailings the value being approximately swept her decks.

of the Viceroy of India will be in- £7,000,000. During the years of! Two seasons ago the Swedish addition to the regular weekly aafl-1930 and 1981 the total value of barque C. B. Pederson, met with ings, which will be taken on Sept. motor ships built for export was terrific seas, accompanied by snow 16 and Oct. 28 by the Corfu and £12,000,000, ог

„average of and cutting hail, attempting Kaisar-i-Hind respectively.

£6,000,000 per annum. Not a penny round Cape Horn.

6,300 1st June Straits, Colombo & Bombay.

4 p.m. 17,000 4th Jane Bombay, Marseilles & London.

8,500 11th June Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre H'burg, R'terdam, Antwerp & Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay. Marseilles,

& Bull 'burg, Rams Bombay, Mareetllen & London. Hombay, Marseillen & London.

Marseilles, London, Harri The time used is Standard, or mean R'terdam,

& London.

100h. Is midnight, 12hrs. la noon. The 17,000 27th Ang. | Marseilles & London.

heathts are referred to the datum of 6,500 3rd Sept. Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg, the largest scale Admiralty chart of Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull the place and should be added to the 11,000 10th Sept. Bombay, Marseilles & London. depths given on the chart unless pre- eeded by an asterisk (*), when they should be subtracted from the depth

May 25 to $1, 1932.

to

17,000 18th Aug. Bombay, Marais Antwerp & Hall. (time of the meridian of 120 dəg. ·E« steamers and would have gone to South America to Panama, where

* Cargo only. †Cails Casablanca. ‡ Calls Djibouti. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Cone atantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Lavent Ports by steamers of the Thedival Mail Steamship Co.

of this would have been available She shipped tons of water and If British engineers had not laid was driven miles out of her course. HONG KONG TIDES. themselves out to build Diesel Eventually she had to give up machinery, for the owners in ques all hope of rounding the Horn, and tion required motor ships and not ran up to the western coast of

other countries if they had not she refitted before attempting the been able to obtain them economi- storms of the Atlantic. cally and of efficient construction in the United Kingdom. Thus, the export value of the new industry

of

is actually about equal to the loss in this country. The sum spent on per annum in the sale of bunker ships built for the transport fuel, and there is no reason why coal was negligible in comparison. High Water Low Water it should not continue on this basis Even if it did not stultify pro- Standard Et. Standard Ht. If British shipbuilders maintain gress-a policy which must, in the

Times.

Times.

their standard' in comparison with end, always recoil on its orgina H. M. F. H. M.

tors-the attempt to obstruct the 25.. 02 45

02 45 4.1 05 04 3.9 the competitors, 12 18 7.1 20 24 0.7

adoption of motor ships by British shipowners would actually be to

Date

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

May

Wed.

F.

Thurs. 26.. 64 00 4.1 05 46 4.0

Demand for Oil.

It is often assumed that the the detriment of the general trade 05 20 4.4 07.40 4.8 purchase of off means expenditure and industry of the United King-

18 04 6.6 21 20 1.1 06 13 54

1932.

Fri.

27..

*TILAWA

TALMA SANTHIA

10,000 28th May

3 p.m. 10,000 18th "June 8,000 25th June

Singapore, Penang á Calcutta.

Sat.

28 ..

66 04

14

14 55

Sun.

29 ..

18

Моп.

30

17

Tues. 81.. 07

19

* Calls Port Swettenham..

B.I. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

TANDA

NANKIN MELLORE

1932.

7,000 Brd June Manila, Rabani, Brisbane, Sydney & 7,000 2nd July

Melbourne. 7,000 80th July

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:

The Union 8.8. Company's 'ateam are to the United Kingdom via New

Bealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, ein,

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Berries of stemmers to London via Bum, The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampšos London via Panama Canal.

685 BERSNAP

OPEL

For Economical Motoring

abroad without return and with a dom. Those who talk broadly of Consequent adverse effect on the the apparently disadvantageous: 2.7 trade balance. Actually ofl is, in effect of the partial loss of the 2.0 many cases, a product dependent bunker coal market due to the ad- practically entirely од British vance of the motor ship should, capital, and only a small percentage therefore, examine the figure dis- 2.6 goes abroad. Moreover, the de passionately, and consider all the mand for oil has a very beneficial circumstances which are involved, Influence on shipbuilding. Last when it will be found that no case year moter tankers for the carriage can be made out for the retention of liquid fuel were balit in this of the coal-fired steamer merely on country totalling 266,000 tons national grounds. In any event, gross, and their cost was appro- an attempt to bolster it up artifi- ximately £5,500,000, an amount cially will finally be disastrous; which was paid to British ship-but it would also be undesirable | building yards and helped to main-„for immediate practical considers-

tain one of the premier industries tions—The Motor Ship.

THE FONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.,

HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS":

"MAXIMUM LONG KONG KOWLOON, HONG KONG HONG KOM OZZICE THE

MED KOWLOON DOCK-K995s. DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE AND LAND ENGINEERS BOILER MAKERS, IRON, STEEL, AND BRASS FOUNDERS

FORGE MASTERS, WELDEES AND ELECTRICIANS.

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THURSDAY,

BOUND

THE

MAY 26, 1932.

WORL

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OR ACROSS THE PACIFIC.

REDUCED ROUND TRIP RATES

TO CANADA & UNITED STATES.

To Victoria-Vancouver-Seattle

and retern

To San Francisco and Los Angeles

and return

G$630.00

•G$656.00 to G$674.00 Time Limit ---One Year. ··

SUMMER ROUND TRIP RATES.

To Victoria-Vancouver-Seattle

First Class Special Class

G$540.00

C$300.00

To San Francisco and Los Angeles

First Class

Special Class

G$562.00 G$345.00

On sale June-July-August, Return limit December 31.

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES

and

AMERICAN MAIL LINE

Canton Branch: No. 4, Shakee Street.

LINE

*

BARBER WILHELMSEN

LINE

THE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE TO NEW YORK and other U.S. Atlantic Ports via Panamu. All vessels call at SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES en

Passengers

Į

to travel by this interesting rata" will find the accommodation provided up to their expectations, and at a cost

42 Days To New York.

For Passenger and Fraight information please sypły

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's Buildings.

Telephone 25021.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

Cheap Summer Trips to Japan - June to Sept.

*MIRZAPORE: "BHUTAN SANTHIA KAISAR-I-HIND

NANKIN PENGEDARAN BAJPUTANA

SOUDAN

BIRDHANA®

1882

8,700 28th May | Shanghai, Maji & Kobec

6,000

B000

lat June | Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama. And June Amoy B'zal, Moja Kobe La" Osaka.

| Shanghai

7,000 SEL

1,000 16th June Amoy Mail Eobs Fombama 17,000 (16th June Shantha Lobel Yokol 6,500 28th Shanghai, Kobe at lako 8,000 30th June Amoy, S'hal, HOJE.

· Cargo only: † Calls Nagoya.

dakis ore

Harbes

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

BAILING DATES FOR MAY-JUNE, 1982 (Subject to Ch DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 6.30 pm, Wuchow

Arrivon

Steamer

Hoar Ko

TAI HING BAT

TAIMING MON.

NON.