1937-09-27 — Page 16

MESIDENT LINERS

LUXURY LINERE

Ramed for a Splendid Cuisine

TO SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK

AND-BOSTON.

Via Kobe, Yokohama and Honolala

Pres. Wilson...8.00 am. Oct. 6 Pres. Hoover NoomTM** Oct. 16 Pres. Cleveland 1.8.50 2.m. Nov. 3 Pres. Coolidge ..10.00 am: Nov. 13 Pres Taft. 8.00 am. Dec. 1 Pres. Hoover ... 8.00a.m. Dec. 11

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

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PRAVICTORIA PRESS ROUTE"

Kobe and Yokohama

Pres. Jackson Pres. Jefferson Pres. McKinley Pres. Grant Pres. Jackson Pres. Jefferson

Midnight Sept. 26

Midnight Oct. 22 Midnight Oct. 8

Midnight Nov. 5 Midnight Nov. 19 Midnight Dec. 3

TO MANILA THE MOST FREQUENT

SERVICE 2. NEXT SAILINGS

Pres. Garfield...8.00 am. Sept. 28 Pres. Wilson Midnight Sept. 28 Pres. Jefferson 6.00 păm. Oct. 6 Pres. Hoover ... 9.00 pm. Oct. 8. Pres. Harrison ..8.00 a.m. Nov. 21 { Pres. Hayes....8.00 am: Oct. 10 Pres. Polk ....... 8.00 a.m. Dec. 5 Pres. McKinley..6.00 p.m. Oct. 16

Pres. Garfield...8.00 am. Sept. 28 Pres. Hayes

Pres. Monroe.

Prea. Adams

8:00 am. Oct. 9 ..8.00 am. Oct. 24 8.00 a.m. Nov. 7

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES ANEMICAN HAIL LINE

10 DAYS

DAYS

OWAYS

GoEMPRESS to America,Europe

Shang- Naga

hai

saki

Arrive Leave Leave

Hong

Empress . Kong

THE CHINA MAIE, SEPTEMBER 27, 1937:

RUSH TO BUILD † LOCAL SHARE

In spite

in costs

SHIPS

treme OUS FAC

world, a rush to build

ly a yard capable of building ocean-going vessel is not well ahead.

MARKET

Union Waterboats.

LANDS, HOTELS & BLDGS: Chinese Estates $88 h...

PUBLIC UTILITIES Pesk Trams (Old) $5÷b.` Peak Trams (New) $22

The latest returns issued”... by Lloyd's Register of Shipping show that for the quarter ended June 30 the total tonnage under construc- tion in Britain was 1,199.973, which was the highest quarterly total since 1930. It was also greater than the combined total of the ton- nage under construction in the four leading foreign countries. The total number of merchant vessels building in Britain during the per“ MOST fod was 285.

STORES, &CO

Wm. Powell, Ltd. 40 ctx. 3. MISCELLANEOUS - Constructions. (Old) $11.69 b. Constructions (New) $100 b. H K Gort 3% Loan 1%% Prut.

DIFFICULT

Tonnage under construction. jabroad (excluding Russia, from RESCUE

which no returns were received) amounted to 1,682,887 tons, about $245,000 tons more than the work in hand at the end of the previous quarter.

Figures for the leading countries abroad for the same period were:- Germany, 416,881 tons; Japan, 318,- 277 tons; United States, 198,854 tons; Holland, 188,464 tons; Swe den, 138,720 tons; and Denmark, 95,615 tons. The world total was 2,882,860 tons (excluding Russia), of which 41.6 per cent. was beins built in-Great Britain and Ireland, and 58.4 per cent. abroad. -'

Repeated By Coastguards

Coastguards

difficult reso

spot, 200ft. where eighteen- Roland, of Whitef pool, was trapped

He had been cut off by the tide. while he was walking on the beach. and he attempted to climb the 500ft, cliffs to safely.

Holidaymakers in a pleasure Of the 1,199,973 tons under con-steamer, about to leave for a excur struction in Great Britain and Iresion, heard his cries for help and land, 485,914 tons, considerably less they raised the alarm.

than half, considered of motor- ships. At the same date, motorship tommage under construction abroad (1,101,149 tons) was 537,187 tons in excess of that of the

LOCAL DOLLAR

Hong

The demand rate of the Kong dollar this morning was 1/2

"Spot silver was quoted at 19- 15/16 and "forward at 19-13/16.

The London on New York cross- rate was quoted at US$4.9520 the New York on London s-rate at £-U.S.$4.95-3/16.

Singapore Raw Rubber

Kobe

Leave

Japan Oct. Asis Oct-15 Canada Oct. 29

1

Yoko-

Van- hama Honolulu Conver

Victoria Leave Leave Arrive

Oct. 14 Oct 19 Nov. 1

Oct.

Messrs. H. B. Joseph and 6 Oct.

Co Oct 19 Oct. 21 Oct. 23

have received the following quota Nov. 3 Nov. 5 Nov. 12 Nov. 17 Currency for Raw Rubber-

tions from Singapore in Straits

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MANILA

EMPRESS OF ASIA, OCTOBER 7th.

mformation from Passenger & Freight Offices

Union Building, Hong Kong

Telephones: Passenger 20752-Freight 20042.

Canton Agents, Jardine Matheson & Co., Ltd.

Canadian Pacific

Spot 29-5% b. up s Jan/March 30- b. up %. Oct/Dec. 29-% b. up 1%. Market: Nominal.

DON'T LET

WHITE-ANTS DESTROY YOUR HOMES

CALL THE EXPERT EXTERMINATORS THOMAS COWAN & CO.

White-Ant Experts: Queen's Bldg., Hong Kong Telephone 30722

"My Nerve Failed"

Coastguard T. W. Cosway, rescued twenty-one-year-old Jar King of Horn-church, Essex, from the same spot, hurried be land with lifelines.

another Coastg

Baser, he spent four hour

rope attached to the was finally low

Roland said- half-way up and

nerve"?

ed me

ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO HOAX RESORTS

A Victor Hugo Scheme"

An alleged attempt to hoax the municipalities of St. Malo, St. Ser- van, Dinard, Mont St. Michel, Fon- of gaiety to the summer season on geres and Jersey is adding a note

the "Emerald coast" Channel Islands.

and in the

Officials of a society calling it- self "The National Victor Hugo Association" proposed to organise a series of fetes in honour of the French author.

An elaborate programme was drafted and the municipalities were asked to grant subsidies, but the municipality of St. Malo was sceptical. So was the French Con- sul at Jersey, who flatly refused to entertain the idea.

Four of the "organisers" have now been formally charged with at- tempted fraud and are to appear shortly in the St. Malo Correctional Court

These four literary luminaries ed out to be a Parisian library and admirers of Victor Hugo. turn-

Clerk, an ex-school teacher, a bak-" er's assistant and an office clerk

fifth individual, the treasurer of the National Victor Hugo As- sociation," disappeared