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SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1932.

THE

CHINA

MAIL:

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LLOYD TRIESTINO

FORNIGHTLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR

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BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

via Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Sues à Port Sald Taking Cargo on through. Bills of Lading

to Fiume, Genos, All Italian, Adriatic, Levant,

Black Sea and Danube Ports W Passengers to LONDON :(Overland).

NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG

For Shanghal

For" Singapore

& Japan

& Italy

* 5.8. CONTE ROSSO (passenger boat) ..

M.V. FUSIJAMA. (cargo boat).

Aug. 8

Aug. 7 Sept. 5

"Passenger boats outward to Shanghai only.

Attention is called to the

... Gange..which will make the voyage Hong Kong-Venice in 22 days thus allowing London Passengers to reach destination the day after their disem. barkation at Venleo..

For Freight and Passages, apply to:

Queen's Building.

Tel. 28021.

DODWELL & CO. LTD.

Agenta.

YK.LINE

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SAN FRANCISCO vía Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

TATSUTA MARU

Wednesday, 10th August, Wednesday, 24th August

30th August 13th September.

SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

TAIYO MARU

HIYE MARU

HEIAN MARU.

Tuesday, Tuesday,

LONDON, MARSEILLES, "ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez

KASHIMA MARU

YASUKUNI MARU

Saturday.

Friday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta.

KITANO, MARU

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

Saturday,

DOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo, ^!

TYO MARU

† TOKUSHIMA MARU

SOUTH

Thursday,

Monday,

AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan,

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama, RAKUYO MARU

Monday,

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama,

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Genoa, & Valencia.

Thursday,

† DELAGOA MARU CALCUTTA yla Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

† MURORAN MARU

† AKITA MARU

20th August.

2nd September.

27th August

24th September,

11th August..

29th August,

Honolulu,

8th August.

11th August

Tuesday,

.... Monday,"

9th August. 15th August

Saturday, Sunday,

19th August. 20th August. 21st August

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YUKUHAMA.

ATSUTA MARU (Nagasaki direct).. Friday,

SUWA MARU ..

† LIMA MARU

† Cargo only.

For further information apply to:-NIPPON TUSEN KAISHA -

'Telephone. 30291 (Private exchange to all departments.)

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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION..

MOMBASA ZANZIBAR, Arizona. Mazu,

Tue..

9th Aug.

Sun.,

7th Ang.

LONDON, ROTTERDAM, | Atlas Maro

HAMBURG & ANTWERP

via Singapore, Colombo,

· Aden, Juez, and Fort Said,

NEW YORK: via Japan, Los.) Kwansal Mari

Fri,

12th Aug

Angeles and Panama. Call

Direct at Cristobal, Philadel«.

*** phia and Baltimore.

RIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS, +Santos Maru

Thus,

25th Aug,

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS

AIRES via Saigon, Sin

gapore, Colombo, Durban,

PORT ELIZABETH "And"

Cape Town LEDERILE

DARES SALAAM, BEIRA,

LOURENCO MARQUES, DURBAN, PORT ELIZA.

BETH, CAPE TOWN and

SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS.

Singapore & Colomba:

MELBOURNE,

BRISBANE Bydney Maru

Mon

Sth Bept.

SYDNEY WELLINGTON

* and AUCKLAND direct va

BOMBAY vin Singapore, Shunko 'Maru

Fri.,

19th Ang.

Belawan, Deli and Colombo

CALCUTTA

Via Singapore, Honolulu

Bat

20th Aug.

Panang and Rangoon

PREVENTION OF FIRE

AT SEA.

Committee Of Owners

force..

¡And Builders.

Shipping

Intelligence.

CHINESE JUNK“ MODEL.

Sir F. Maze's Donation

To Museum.

The following is from The Blue Peter, the popular House journal of the P. and O. Company:

"LOST SHIP RISES FROM SEA GRAVE.

Burned And Looted By Pirates.

"

Capetown, July 31. In spite of having "Been "looted} and burned-presumably by pirates

"..

24

The setting up of a sub-committee of shipowners and shipbuilders to

An Interesting donation to the confer with the Board of Trade

Science Museum, South Kensington, with regard to the prevention of in the shape of a fine scale model of and a long rest on the bottom of fires on passenger ships is obviously a South China sea-going junk, was the sea," the wreck of a wooden sail- one of the

consequences of the made some little time ago by Siting vessel has come out of Davy International Convention for Safety Frederick Maze, Inspector-General of Life at Sea, the fire prevention of Chinese Customs.

Jones's locker to finish her weary clauses of which are not yet in The model is correctly built, voyage that has lasted 100 years,

plank by plank, to scale and repre- Fast oil burning ships have sight- Underwriters, as those on whom sente in minute detall all the in- i (the cost of shipboard fires ultimate-dividual characteristics of What Is ed the "mysterious craft at Steen- ly falls, are; in fact, largely the known as a South China Race bergh Cove, a little lalet in St. instigators of the present campaign Carriera sort of vessel found Helena Bay, for which port the When it is considered that in along the Southern coasts of China vessel was probably making when recent years marine underwriters and noted for its fast, sailing and she was sunk a century ago." have had to bear claims for enorm-weatherly qualities. Writing on the The gaunt, barnacle encrusted ous amounts as a result of fires on subject of these peculiar vessels,hulk has been closely inspected by the Norddeutscher Lloyd giant Sir Frederick Mase recalls the fact Customs officials, but revesla no steamer Europa, the French liner that as economical cargo-carriers.clue as to her identity. No cargo Paris, the

English motor-liner Chinese Junks have few equals. The or fittings have been washed ashore. Bermuda, and, more recently still, popular Western idea is that they The craft rising and falling in the the total loss of the Messageries are peculiar box-like craft, slow well is an unknown tragedy of the Maritimes liner Georges Phillipar, unweildy, unseaworthy and difficult | sea.

these specific accidents representing of navigation whereas the exact The wreck has been established in the aggregate a loss of at least contrary is the case: their under-as the forepart of a wooden sailing| £4,000,000, it will be realised how water lines are exceptionally sweeti vessel broken off at the mast. It important from a purely commer-their general design is excellent, and is 80 feet long, and has a beam of cial point of view it is that passen their sails are scientifically made in 40 feet. It may constitute a dan- ger ships should be better protected the form of a balanced lug, stiffen ger to shipping if it drifts out to against the fire peril.

ed by battens, each of which cop the open sea.

It is true that shipowners already nects with-and, indeed, forms part do all that is within their present of the sheet, thus keeping the sail make their ships fire very flat, and enabling them to point powers' to proofs, as well as seaworthy, but in close to the wind. underwriting circles, at any rate,

No Reefing.N

1

STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

at noon.

The R.M S. Empress of Russia. it is felt that until there is some

arrived at Manila yesterday at 11 By this arrangement, reefing, In official standard of fire-resisting arour conception of the word, is un-a.m., leaves Manila on August 8 and is due at (Mon.) at 4 p.m., rangements, the campaign for the necessary, and in order to shorten prevention of shipboard fires will sail the halyard is merely eased off. Hong Kong on August 10 (Wed.) make little headway."

and the weight of the sall and at 7am. She leaves for Vancou The suggestion is that if the battens brings the sail down the ver via ports on August 12 (Fri.) classification societies, such

required length between the topping Lloyd's Register, were to include the lifts faster and more convenient surveying of ships with the fire process than reefing.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. peril in view, just as now surveys The luff of the sail differs in the are held to ensure stability and various parts of China. In the Consignees of cargo ax IV. seaworthiness, an important step north It is generally about parallel Java are reminded to take delivery towards greater safety from fire at with the mast, and in the south it of their goods which will be sub- sea would have been taken...

is cut to stand out well before mast, ject to rent after August 8. which brings the centre of effort more forward. The sail is invaria

GIRL STOWAWAY ON BRITISH SHIP.

Former President's Daughter.

Lisbon, July 27.

bly hoisted on a pole mast, which

August, 6 to 12, 1982.

is usually a massive spar, some HONG KONG TIDES. times, as in the case of the Foochów seagoing junk, etc., "made” OT

The time used is Standard, or mean "built-up" and bound with strong time of the meridian of 120 deg. Ei fron collars. These heavy masta Wh, is midnight, 12hra, is noun. The are not, as a rule, stayed, but there heights are referred to the datum of are exceptions for hoisting sail; the largest scale Adidiralty chart of the centreboard, les boards, the depths given on the chart unless pre- the place and should be added to the The escaped of an 18-year-old balanced rudder, the sub-division of beded by an asterisk (*); when they South American senorita, who ran the hull into watertight compart should be subtracted from the depths. away from school in England, and ments, and the turret”, “principle stowed away in a British schooner for escaping port, dues, were all in arriving here, has just come to light vogue in China many years before to-day.

they were adopted in the west. The girl is Helene, daughter of While nearly all Chinese sailing Dr. Arturo Araujo, former Freal-craft follow certain general prin dent of San Salvadon, who fled from ciples in respect of rig, etc., in some Sat. the presidential palace during the places we find bluff bows and full bombardment last December. She lines, in others sharp" bows and Sun. made her way to St. Nazaire where, finer lines. Some types, like the dressed, as a boy, she boarded the Foochow trader and the highly

Mou three-masted schooner Shoal Fisher.| efficient Wenchow, fishing bost, for She was discovered by the captain example, are painted in bright of the vessel in the Bay of Biscay colours; while others, again, are not Wed. because she was sea-sick and had painted, but are varnished with to leave her hiding-place.

wood-oil. Each district, in fact has Thurs." The authorities here are looking ¦ its own, special type, evolved by Fri 12 after bar.

local conditions,

Date

Aug.

Tues

High Water Low Water

· Standard Ht. Standard At

Times. Times, V H.M. F. H. M. F. 8. 00 24. 4.9 (05-04 2.7 11 43 8.9 18 81 1.1 3:00

53 5.0 06 00 2.6 12 30 8.1 19 08 1.8 01 24.-5.1 07 08. 2.5

OK 5.21 - 18:25

19 42 2.2 9. 01 57 53 08:39 2.3

1480-

4.2 20 15 2.7 02.89 5.6 10 20 21 40 3.4 20 750... · 8.2′′

10

20 30 8.321 45 34 104% 45+ 6.2. 13 13 1.0 2114 3.823

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