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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 BEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

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

8.8.

Teas

From Hong Load About

1982.

Destination.

KAISAR-I-HIND 12,000 2nd July Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Noot ***BHUTAN

6,000

Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre, 9th July

H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Hall. 17,000 16th July Bombay, Marseilles & London. 11,000 80th July Bombay, Marseilles & London.

6,800 6th Aug.

Bombay, Marseilles, London, Haves Rterdam, Antwap & Hail, Bambay, Karseilles & London.

Marsellies & London.

London,

Havre, Hamburg,

BAJPUTANA MANTUA ***BOUDAN

RAWALPINDI RANPURA NBURDWAN

MALWA RANCHI ++*SOMALI

CARTHAGE

NALDERA

***BANGALORE

RAJPUTANA

27,000 18th Aug. 17,000 27th Aug.

6,600 3rd Sept. Antwerp & Hall

11,000 10th Sept. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 24th Sept. Marselles

London. & 6,800 1st Oct. Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hell, 14,000 8th Oct.Bombay, Karseilles & London. 16,000 22nd Oct. Bombay, Marseilles & Londen.

6,500 29th Oct. Marsellies, London, Harre, Hamburg

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull, Bombay, Marseilles & Londen,

1 Calls Djibouti

17,000 8th Nov. Cargo only. † Calls Casablanca. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Com stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Porta by steamers of the Khedivial Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1932

TAKADA BIRDHANA TILAWA

7,000 11th July 8,000 24th July 10,000 8th Aug.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta,

THE

FRENCH LUXURY LINER.

Huge Ship That Cannot Pay.

Known as "the ship that is cost-

CHINA MAIL

RECLAMATION OF ZUYDER ZEE.

Gigantic New Dyke Completed.

Amsterdam, May 28.

TRAWLERS" ON

THE PHONE.

New Wireless Ship Link.

An entirely new service of

steamers, trawlers,

A gigantic dyke, separating the radio-telephony, which will be ing £6,000 a foot," the French Zuyder Zee from the North Sea and available from thousands of super-liner T 6 is making fairly converting the old Zuyder Zes info rapid progress at the St. Nazaire Yssel Lake, was completed this pleasure shipyard. New information shows afternoon with simple ceremonial, coasting vessels and tugs, is be- In the presence of various Dutch ing inaugurated by the Post this vessel to be practically identi- dignitaries.

Office." cal in size with the 72,000-ton

The construction of the dyke was

Cunarder which has been lying idle started in 1927, and its completion Three of the eleven ship-to- on the stocks at Clydebank since marks a most important stage of shore wireless coast stations have the huge work of draining the already been adapted for the work was suspended last December,

Zuyder Zee. writes the Daily Telegraph ship-

scheme, and within a short time. The dyke is 18 miles long, 120 it will be extended to the remain- ping correspondent.

feet wide at the top and 400 feet The motives which prompted the wide at the bottom

A 100 feet der.

The initiative of the Post Cie. Gen, Transatlantique to em-wide road and a railway line will bark on the construction of their run along the top of the dyke, Office will begin a new era for

be- giant ship are far from comprehen- maintaining communication

sible, for her design is such as tween Noord Holland and the coastal shipping. Under inter-

would appear to render any pro-Friesian coast,

national law only vessels of 1,600'

fitable working of the vessel im- So far only a smaller part of the tons, and carrying more than 50 I possible even under normal Zuyder Zee has been drained, persons, are required to carry

Her pas namely, some 50,000 acres south of economic conditions. senger accommodation represents the former island of Wieringen, wireless telegraph sets, which the last word in luxury, for space where villages are being construct must be worked by certificated has been ruthlessly sacrificed" toed, crops are being grown and operators. give the individual voyager a quite cattle and sheep are grazing. The apparatus for the new ser- abnormal amount of room.

The draining of other parts of vice can be worked by any one, It is understood that her total the Zuyder Zee will be provisional- and is largely automatic. It is passenger capacity is extra-ty delayed in view of the financial inexpensive and can be fitted ordinarily limited in proportion to altuation, pending a discussion in quickly.

It will be enable all types of her size. In this case fares would Parliament... apparently be correspondingly The work of draining the Zuyder craft to keep not only in con- high, yet the current tendency, Zae, by which means Holland hopes atant communication with the exemplified in the recent drastic to create a new province of great shore stations, but will also en- cuts made in passenger rates on agriculture value, is proceeding. the North Atlantic route, is to re- duce rather than increase the cost of luxury accommodation in ships plying between Europe and

States.

tions.

"Blue Riband" Hope.

the

700 Acres.

At the end of 1990 three sections

able their owners to get in touch with them at any time.

In future a shipowner will simply walk into any post office of the enclosing dam were complet and hand in his telegram of in- ed-(a) from Den Oevar (Wierinstructions and it will be radio- gen) eastward, three miles; (b)

from the coast of Friesland weat-phoned to the skipper of his ship. British shipping experts are ward, a little more than three Wives and friends of the crew satisfied that the new French liner miles; (c) half-way between the will be able to do likewise.

It is etimated that this service cannot possibly pay her way even above-mentioned on the shallows of under the most favourable condi- Breezand, five miles; making to will save the fishing Industry Her first cost is estimated gether 11 miles (says The Times). thousands of pounds a year. at 770 million franca, while the Over 700 acres of reclaimed land Valuable cargoes are lost every fuel bill for driving her af 30 are under cultivation (in Decem-week because vessels come into knots from Havre to New York will ber). Bread is being made from port when the markets are glut be enormous. The length le stat-grain grown on the land and sheep ted with fish. Owners will be ed to be 1,020 feet and the breadth are grazing where there was deep able to advise their skippers

when to make for port. 117 feet, "outsize" dimensions water less than two years ago. The set the ships will carry is which must complicate still fur- Dr. Lely, who originated the ther the berthing and docking pro- scheme, believed that it would be worked on short wave-lengths cess on both sides of the Atlantic. completed before 1952 and that by and on the unilateral principle -- Thanks to the loan granted by the then-over 1,000 square miles of new a message cannot be received It French Treasury early in the year, land would have been made avall-while the set la transmitting.

was His aim work on the T is proceeding❘ able.

to leave fits into a small box and is work steadily and her launch is expected nothing of the Zuyder Zee except a ed from accumulatora. All mes- to take place before the autumn. fake of brackish water, to be call sages are received and transmit- She is scheduled, to sail on her ed the Yssel Lake. The cost of the ted by telephone, and no know. maiden voyage at the opening of whole scheme was originally esti-ledge of Morse is required. the North Atlantic spring season in mated 450,000,000 gullders

at

1984, when her owners are hopeful (£37,000,000 at par), but that figure B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for that she will capture the "blue is bound to be exceed and perhaps 1st and 2nd class passengers,

riband" from the Bremen and doubled. Europa and retain it against the challenge of the two Italian super-

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). linars which will also be in service

NANKIN

NELLORE TANDA

1882. 7,000 2nd July

é p.m. 7.000 30th "July 7,000 2nd Sept

Regular monthly sailings from

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

by then.

On the other hand, the singular Manila, Rabaul, Brishane, Sydney & circumstances in which this great

Melbourne.

ship is being built are such that doubts are freely expressed in in- ternational shipping circles as to

Hong Kong to Bhanghai and Japan whether she will ever be seen

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union, 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New

Lealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. O. Eoyal Maži Steama ca to London and

The P. & O. Branch Service, of steaman to London vis Boss.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's sinamare for Bouthampton and London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. Cheap Summer Trips to Japan

MANTUA

BIRDHANA

NELLORE TILAVA

BAWALPINDI

ΚΑΘΗΜΕ BURDWAN TALMA

RANPURA TANDA HANTELA

TAKADA BANCHI BIRDHANA CARTHAGE *BANGALORE NALDERA

RAJPUTANA

"Largo, only

June to Sept.

10,000 30th June | Shanghai, Moji, Kobe *Yokohama.

8,000

Noon

1st July Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Lobé & Osaka, 7,000 4th July Shai, Hoff, Kabe, 0 Osaka

די

10,000 14th July, Amoy, Moi, Kobe Yokazama. ! 17,000 14th

14th July Shanghaly Kobe Yokohama 2,000 14th July

14th July Shanghal, Moll Kobe Yokohama. 10.000 27th July Shanghal, Moll Lobe Tokohims.

6,500 17,000 28th Julz Ampy Shal, Moji, Kobe Osais

oll, Lobe, Oakhama,

8,000 11th Aug 11,000 11th Au

25th

8,000 8th 11,000 8th Sept S

0800-17th Sept. She 10,000 22nd Bapt-

17,000 6th Oct.

Yokohama

Shaic Mal

·Moji: Kobe,

afloat.

OPEL

For Mini Cost.

The idea now under discussion is to transform Naples into the greatest free port in the Mediter- ranean by giving it a vast indna- trial zone beyond the Customs frontier, encouraging therein the Installation of all those industries which manipulate and transform foreign material into manufac tured goods which shall be re- exported at minimum cost for transport and foreign Customs. The headquarters of the Tirrenia would in that case be at Naples.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD., HEAD OFFICE AND WORKS:

"MANIFESTO, HONG KONG- KOWLOON, HONG KONG LONG OFFICE

KOWLOON DOCK SON

LAND

UNDERS,

DOCK OWNERS, SHIP DESIGNERS AND BUILDERS, MARINE ENGINEERS, BOILER MAKERS, IRON, SIKEL, AND BRASS

FORGE" MASTIES, WELDERS AND ELECTRICIAN

TUESDAY, JUNE $1932.

PRESIDENT FINER

SAILINGS

Weekly Sailings Transpacific

TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS

TO SEATTLE

ANGELES & NEW YORK

VICTORIA.

via PANAMA: Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays. Fortnig ty sailings on Saturdays.

July 9 Pres. Wilson ....July 5 at Noon Pres. Jefferson Pres, Hoover Pres. Jacksonk

July 28

Aug. 6

July 19 Pres. Madison Aug. Pres. Cleveland ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE & AMERICĂ. Special through rates to Europe. vix United States. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rail Laen across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privi leges for sight-seeing. Full particulars upon application..

| Fortnightly via Suez to Europe & America

Fortnightly sailings on Sundays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston,

8 a.. Sun, July 10 Fres, Hayer Pres. Harrison .....Sun., July 24 Pros. Pierce

-Pres-Adaman

TO MANILA

Aug. T Aug, 21

Next Sailing, Pres. Wilson .. June 28, 6 p.m.

· Pres. Jefferson .......................July · Pres. Hoover

July 12

July 16

Pres. Adama............................July 10 Pres. Madison

CONNECTING WITH S.S. MAYON TO CEBU, ILOILO, ZAMBOANGA.

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN

MAIL LINE

CANTON BRANCH-No" 4, Shakee Street.

BARBER WILHELMSEN

LINE

THE PREMIER ALL WATER ROUTE TO NEW YORK ́and other' US, Allantie Ports via Panama.

All vessels call at SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES em route,

assengers

the ravel by this interesting

tian

ided wi

42 Days To New York.

For Passenger and Freight information pleaseS

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Queen's-Bulidings.

BRITISH WUCHOW LINE

SAILING DATES FOR JUNE JULY, 1988: (Babject to Change), DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 6.30 pm, Wnichów & pm

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