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PRESIN LINERS

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LUXURY LINERS

Famed for a Splendid Cuisine

TO SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK, AND BOSTON..

Vis Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu Pres. Lincoln ..:8.00 a.m. May 19 Pres. Coolidge .Noon June 3 Pres. · Wilson ...9.00 a.m. June 16 Pres. Hoover

June 26 ...Noon Pres. Cleveland ..Midnight July 13 Pres. Coolidge..Noon July 24

EUROPE, NEW YORK AND BOSTON Via Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Suez, Port Said, Naples, Genos and Marseilles

Pres. Pierce.... 8.00 am, May 9 Pres. Van Buren 8.00 a.m. May 23 Pres. Garfield ..8.00 a.m. June 6 Pres. Hayes ..8.00 a.m., June 20 Pres. Monroe ...8.00 a.m. July 4 Pres. Adams

..8.00 am, July 18

TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA **THE EXPRESS ROUTE”

Via Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 1, 1937.

DUTCH SPRING

FAIR

Largest Ever Held In Netherlands

The Spring Fair of 1987 was the first fair since the crisis to show a distinct tendency towards improved economical conditions noticeable in this country,

NEW I.C.I. PROCESS

Sulphur Recovery From Smoke

The discovery of a cheap and econo-

smelter furnaces was the subject of a mical way to extract pure sulphur from the harmful waste gases from lecture given by Mr. M. P. Applebey, works of Imperial Chemical Industries, research manager at the Billingham Ltd., to the Newcastle section of the Society of Chemical Industry.

There was an important increase in participants to such an extent that the available space proved insufficient and many applicants had to be turned down.

The Fair had 1,779 participants as out of research undertaken indepen- The new process has been evolved compared with 1,645 during the Fair of 1936 and actually was the largest tries and the Swedish firm of Bolidens dently by Imperial Chemical Indus- Fair ever held in the Netherlands.

As the sections of metalware, ma- Gruvaktiebolag. Its importance may that, chinery and electrical implements are be gauged from the estimate constantly growing larger, the Fair's throughout the world, approximately Management has decided to have a 2,000,000 tons of suphur are dis-. special hall built for machinery, ad- charged into the atmosphere every

year by smelter furnaces.

Pres. McKinley ..Midnight May 7 Pres. Grant ....

...Midnight May 21 Pres. Jackson ...Midnight June 4 Pres. Jefferson Midnight June 18joining the permament Fair building. Pres. McKinley..Midnight July 2 Pres. Grant ....Midnight July 16

TO MANILA THE MOST FREQUENTË

SERVICE

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Pres. McKinley..6.00 p.m. May 2 Pres. Pierce .8.00 a.m. May, 9 Pres. Lincoln ...Midnight May 11 Pres. Grant.....6.00 p.m. May 15 Pres. Van Buren 8.00 a.m. May 23 Pres. Coolidge ..9.00 p.m. May 27

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It is claimed that the process will. contribute to the health of the in- dustrial communities of the world hy removing a large amount of the pollu- tion of the air.

com-

The section "Applicated art in indus- try" drew special attention. Only manufacturers producing quality-goods in co-operation with well-known artists were allowed to join this section.

Belgium, Germany, France and Aus- Great Britain has. at present to im- tria were represented by official and port all her sulphur requirements. collective sections.

Sulphur is Participation spread over the differ- ment programme, and a reliable source necessary to the rearma- ent nationalities was as follows:

of home supply would therefore add The Netherlands 1869, United States considerably to British national, self- of America 17, Belgium 46, Denmark sufficiency. In the first stage the pro-

Germany 149, Great Britain France 78, Italy 1, Norway 1, Austria trated sulphur dioxide, which

42, cess can be employed to give concen- 53, Czecho Slovakia 4, Sweden 9, Swit-mands a ready sale in liquid form, and zerland 8.

sulphur dioxide can be extracted from Improved Conditions The improved economical conditions gas can then be treated to produce almost all waste smelter gases. The manifested themselves in all partici- pure sulphur if required. pating groups. Roughly speaking the average percentage of the turn-over intermittent operation at Billingham An experimental plant has been in was 25 per cent, higher and the num-for several years, and now gives con- ber of visitors increased by about the tinuous production of 20 tons of sul- same percentage.

Much business was transacted in the is treated in a plant having a daily phur dioxide gas per day. This gas. groups of food-stuffs, luxury and household-goods, glassware, earthen-

output of five to six tons of high- ware, kitchen-utensils, furniture etc. quality sulphur. The new process. This increase in business →→→ according

may yet be applied to the extraction to retailer is the result of a more of sulphur from coal. If only a quar- favourable trend in the export-indus-ter of the sulphur from this source tries shipbuilding, machinery, tex- were saved, a quantity exceeding the tiles so that the public as a whole world's output of native sulphur would. in their opinion will have more pur become available.

chasing power before long.

In the building and road-building

section business was also brisk, for one By crossing primitive breeds of“. thing because of the higher prices for cattle, Berlin Zoo authorities have pro- factory-buildings and for another be duced a small herd of "Aurochs," ΟΙ cause state, county and municipal coun- European bison, animals long extinct cils have large programmes for im- in Germany. portant works, partly under construc-

tion and partly to be started in the A river near future.

steamship service from: From abroad keen interest was also Polish Corridor to Berlin and then to Koenigsberg, East Prussia, via the shown, as a result of which important Magdeburg, in Central Germany and orders for foreign account have been Breslau in Silesia, has been opened. booked: The colonial section, both for] the East and West Indies specially

drew attention to colonial industry and grave, in Arbour Hill Prison, Dublin, Mr. De Valera laid a wreath on the wood from the Netherlands Indies. of the leaders of the Easter rebellion Generally speaking the tendency was in 1916. towards higher prices and demand was noticeable Victoria priced quality-goods.

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Regular sailings from Canadian Atlantic ports to United Kingdom & Europe by Canadian Pacific Atlantic fleet.

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The 37th Royal Netherlands Indus- from the September up to and includ- rian Fair- will be held at Utrecht. tries Fair at the same time Agra-ling the September 16, 1937.

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Biahcamano” for · Italy

s.s. "Conte Biancamano” for Shanghai

8th May.

Validity 100 days at greatly reduced cost allowing 2% months stay in Europe. Special concessions to let and 2nd class travellers to London,

Fares to Venice, Trieste, Genoa and Return. $182, £88,-£56.

Special Two Months' Round Trip Tickets At Reduced Rates

information from Passenger & Freight Offices

Union Building, Hong Kong

Telephones: Passenger 20752-Freight 20042. Canton Agents, Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.

Canadian Pacific

To BOMBAY

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“ITALIA” Line Agents for the sale of through and independent tickets to. North, Central and South American ports via Italy. THROUGH TICKETS TO LONDON - 28 days — despatch by train of heavy baggage with liberal free allowance.

Special facilities for INTERCHANGEABLE RETURN TICKETS with the Dollar Lines on very Lavourable conditions.

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