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THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1049. Bu

18 SHIPS ENTER COLONY

BUTTERFIELD &SWIRE DAILY DURING FEBRUARY

Agents: CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

"HANYANG "PRODUCE" "TSINAN" "NANCHANG

"YOCHOW"

-"POYANG" "ANHUT"

"HUPÉ"

SAÍLINGS TO ·

Inchah & Pusan Bangkok

Swatow

Singapore, Macassar,

Hourabaya &

Semarang

Amoy, Foochow

:

4 p.m. 5th Mar.

7 .. 8th Mar,

3 p.m. 8th Mar,

9th Mar.

& Shanghai.......... 5. p.m. 11th Mar.

Yokohama & Kobe.....

Amby, Swatow, Hafhow,

12th Mar.

Salgon, Singapore, Balwan & Penang 10 am. 16th Mar.

4 p.m. 17th Mar. Shanghai

*** Hally from Custodial-yaarf..

Singapore

Bangkok

7/8th Mar. 8/9th Mar,

ARRIVALS FROM

"TSINAN"

.Яwatow

9a.m. th Mar.

"NANCHANG"

Keelung

"YOCHOW"

"POYANG"

"NEWCHWANG“

Singapore & Sandakan

Java & Stralis

10th Mar. 10th Mar. 10th Mar.

Korea, Shanghai &

Foochow

11th Mar.

Shugapore, Hofhow,

Swatow & Amay

11th Mar.

Shanghai & Keelung

12th Mar.

"FUKIEN"

"HUNAN"

"ANHUI"

"OPEN"

RIVER SERVICE

"PATSHAN" Salls for Canton

Midnight 7th Mar. & 5 p.m. 11th Mar.

Arrives from Canton

7.30 am. 7th & 9th Mar,

Agents: BLUE FUNNEL LINE

SCHEDULE SAILINGS TO LIVERPOOL

"ACHILLES"

via Aden & Port Said. -

via Port Sudan. Tangler,

Casablanca & Havre

8th Mar,

vla Genoa, Marseilles & GLASGOW 12th Mar.

TELPENOK"

Non Schedufe Salling.

Arrivals from

"ELPENOR"

UR, via Straits

"CLYTONEUS"

"TITAN"

"TYNDAREUS"

"EUMAEUS"

"AJAX"

"AJAX":

9th Mar.

UK, vla Strafis & Manila

16th Mar. 26th, Mar. 3rd April. 8th April

NEW YORK SERVICE

Arrivals from

U.S.A. vin Manila

Sailings for

17th March

"2011 "March' Carriers option to proceed via other Forts to load and discharge

cargo.

U.S.A.

Agents: Australian-Oriental Line, Ltd.

"SOOCHOW"

"SOOCHOW"

Sallings to

Sandakan, Brisbane,

Sydney & Melbourne

Arrivals from

14th Mar.

Austraila & Manila.

7th Mar.

All The Above Subject To Alteration Without Notice

General Agents for:

Booking Agents for:

AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL AIRWAYS, CATHAY PACIFIC AIRWAYS. SKYWAYS (FAR EAST) LTD. 8.0.A.C., CNA.C., H.K. AIRWAYS, P.O.A.S., P‚A‚A., P.A.L. and N.W.A.

For passage and Freight Particulara Apply To The Above.

CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL

Telephones: 363217×/Pilente! Exchangya

| Branch" Office –58. Connaught Rd, W; Tèis7-23875; 221112218785

HOLLAND-EAST ASIA LINE

M.S. "RIJNKERK"

"LOADING ON/ABOUT 14th MARCH

FOR

MANILA, SINGAPORE, ADEN, SUEZ, PORT SAID, ALEX- ANDRIA, GENOA, MARSEILLES. ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, GOTHENBURG

& OSLO.

ROYAL INTEROCEAN LINES

Incorporated in the Netherlands as Koninklijke Java-China-Paketvaart Lijnen N.V.

Amsterdam

King's Building, Connaught Road.

Tels. 28015, 28010, 28017.

►

ISBRANDTSEN

·lebrandtsen Company Inc.

20- Broadway,

New York 4, N.Y.

FAR EAST STRAITS INDIA PERBIAN GULY • MEDITERRANEAN

U.K. & CONTINENT • W. INDIES * §. AMERICA ...

STEAMSHIP DIVISION

FROM

"HARPALYCUS” Japan.

dun Mar. 5.

SAILS FOR

'Singapore, Bombay,"

Karachi, Aden, Alexandria, Geñon) & U.S.A. Mar. 6.

A. P. PATTISON

CO.

CHINA, FORMOSA, KOREA JAPAN,

DENSOR TIGEN... HONGKONG ...

12-14, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 4th floor. TEL: 28340

KANDAN CHINESE- SHIPPING, OFFICES

to Connaught Roni,10, Tet., 24559,

An average of 18 vessels, excluding junki, enter- od Hong Kong daily during last month, the "China Mail" learned officially yesterday. The vessels were 260 ocean-going ships and 267 river steamers with a total tonnage of 767,- 246 tons. Departures included 254 ocean- going ships (727,381 tons) and 277 river steamers (117,936 tons).

and

|

Retaliation By India

New Delhi, March 4,

The proposed stops at Bata- via and Sourabaya have been dropped from the Calcutta- Sydney route to be Rown by Indian Overseas Airlines (IOA), Indian Communications Ministry said yesterday.

Honduran: Ocean-going vessels, Jone (111 tons); passengers: six,

Norwelgiant. Ocean-going ves-the sels: 24 (57,960 tons): passengers $1,550.

Panamaniant Ocean-going ves-

The Ministry said it had been nels: seven (24,056 tons); passen decided to abandon plans for gers: 10.

landing at the two Induriesiun Philippine: Ocean-going vessels cities in view of the binning of four (8,280 tons); passengers: 11.KLM by India.

Portuguese: Ocean-going ves- nels: five (2,096 tons); passengers: 24.

Ocean-going vessels: two (2,171 tons); passengers: nil. Bwedish: Ocean-going vessels: 22 five (13,884 tona): passengers:

Compared with the January American: ocean-going vessels: (234,105 toni); passengers: figure, there was a reduction of 25 31 ocean-going vessels (71.304 2,089.

Bavlel: Burmaad: Ocean-going vessels: tons)

39 river steamers (25,409

the one (2.769 tonsi: passengers nil, tons) entering

Chinbee: Ocean-going vessels: Colony in February,

48 (71,500 tons); river steamers: 127 (32,012a)}- river stammer Total Foreign-ships Gceans cargo: 3,501 tons, river steder going vessels: 100 (531,79 (IS); ocean-going River-stcamera: 127 (32,012 tons): passengers: 15,305; vessel passengers: 1,069.

river steamer cargo: 3,501 tons: Denish: Ocean-going vessels: river steamer passengers: 16,395; eight (30,400 tons):.

vessel

passengers:

One tantrisk mit~agventysix. vessels of the 200 ocean-going which arrived in the Colony dur ing February, flew foreign flags. One hundred and nineteen of the 207 river senters were Chinese registered.

Total

passengers brought in by necan-going vessels and river stearners during February Wus 62,341 ms compared with 63,195 in January. Departures totalled 04,338 passengLFS IS compared with 69,904 in January.

Details of February's shipping arrivals follow:

British: 84 ocean-going vessel. (109,118 tons): 148 river steamers (18,758

river steamer

cargo 3.55 tons, river steamer passengers: 31.000; e-vessel passengers: 8,033.

American: 23 orean-going ves- Gels (149,225 tons); passengerg

70.

The airline, which is to make a proving fight shortly, now pro- poses to stop en route only at Bangkok, Singapore and Darwin. -Associated Press.

FIRE IN SHIP=====

Brussels, March 3,

workmen

Pazo

P&O B.I. E&A

COMPANIES

PENINSULAR & OLIENTAL SAN. C

PASSENGER/FR SIGHT SERVICE OUTWARDO ́ ́ LEAVES LONDOM

"CORFU“

“Ba=#CANTOK" T2:10th March

'a. "CARTHAGE”

are

AL "CORFU"

4. "CANTON"

a. "CARTHAGE"

Two Belgian missing and feared dead as a re passengers. } ocean-going

zult of a are which broke out to- 7,561.

day in the hold of the Norwegian, Dutch Ocean-going vessels: 17 Grand total: Ocean-going ves- steamer, Barbara Srovic (not list- river ed by Lloyds) in dry dock here. 254 (727,381 tons); (71,901 tons); passengers: 2,721.

277

Five workmen, installing a re- (117,030 tons); Finnish! Ocean-going, vessels: steamers:

were trapped. one (4,984 tons); passengers: nil, river steamer corgo: 7,183 tons; frigeration plant,

French Ocean-going venkels: river steamer passengers: 51,179;} Firemen rescued three, who were in a serious three (7,113 tons); passengers:" ocean-going vessela passengers: rushed to hospital

13.108.

condition.-Reuter. 55..

selx:

THEIR FINEST HOUR

(Continued from Page 6) was reached; and of course every-}

thing was subject to victory being thought the narrowest parts of gained in the air battle, which had

now been raging for six weeks.

Final Plan

the Straits of

Dover

the

jrast

ΓΙΑ ΣΤΟΥ

difficult.

To carry the whole of the 100,- men of the second wave and 2,145.

their equipments in a single opera- tion would require 2m. tonn of Chinese: 72 orem-going vessels (74,283 ton::; 119 river steminers

Even if this fantastic shipping. (30,384 tons);

river steamer requirement could have been met. passengers: 11,089; river steamer such quantities of shipping could Cargo: 3,474 konst Deca-guing not have been accommodated in the steamer passengers: 3,342,

ares of embarkation. Only the rat Burmese: One ocean-going ves-echelons could be thrown across

for the

of farinallon sel (2,789 tona); passengers; hit.

Danish: seven ocean-going ves-bridgeheads, and at least two days seix (27,353 tons); passengers: 55. would be needed to land this second Dutch: 17 ocean-going vessels echelons of these divisions, to say (70,803 tons): passengers: 2,763.

nothing of the second six divisions Finnish: one occan-going vessel which were thought indispensable, (4.004 tons): pussengers: nil

He further pointed out that French: Two ocean-guing ves- broad-front landing would mean

ht wely (2,149 tons); pussengers: 14,

Honduran:

ocean-going vessel (111 tons); passengers; nil.

(4.300 long); passengers: ofl.

Norweiglan; 24 ocean-going vessels (80,772 tons); passengers: 2,918,

DIL

On the basis of the frontage at inst fixed the final plan was made. The military command was en- trusted to Rundstedt, bet abortage of shipping reduced his form to 13 divisions, with 12 in reserve. The Sixteenth Army, from parts between Rotterdam and Boulogne, were to land in the neighbourhood of lythe, tye, Hastings and East

Ninth Army, from bourne: the porta Boulogne to Havre, attacking between Brighton and Worthing Dover was to be captured from the fly advance to the covering landward side, then both arm-

Canterbury Ashford-

In all,

line of

divisions were

|

embarkation parts, and his coastal reconnaissanco activilles, indicate that he is now expecting an im- 'mediate landing."

Yet despite delays and damage, the German Navy completed the first part of their task. The 10 per cent, margin for accidenta and losses they had provided was fully expended. What survived, however, did not fall short of the minimum they had planned to have for the first stage.

Both Navy and Arny now east their burden on the German Air Forte. All this plan of the corrt- dor, with its balustrades of mine-

to be laid and maintaine = ¦ Gelda

German Air under the canopy against the overwhelming and small craft, depended upon superiority of the British Bolillas

the defeat of the British Air Force and the complete mastery of the

դով the not only over crossing but over the landing-points, Both the older services passed the buck to Ile- ichamarshal Goering,

to hours' difference in the Mayfield-to be landed in the air by Germany over the Channel

first WaVCR.

times of high water at the various points selected. Either therefore

Italian; "one ocean-going vessel | unfavourable tide conditions must ing I was week after the land and South-East England,

seven ocean-

Panamanian: going vessels (26,025 tons); pus- sengers: 14.

Philippine: six ocean-going Vessels (11.810 tons); passengers: 19.

veracis til.

Portuguese: Three ocean-going (2,096 tons); passengers. Soviet: two ocean-going vessels (2,554 tons); passengers; two.

Swedish; five ocean-going ves- sels (13.894 tons); passengers: 19. Total Foreign ships: 176 ocean- going Vessels (451,708 tons); river-steamers: 101 (30,004 tons); steamer cargo: 3,474 tons; river steamer passengers: 11,088; ocean-going vessel passengers: 11.319.

Diver

sels.

optimistically,

be accepted at nome places, or to advance yet farther, to Grave~| simultaneous landinga renounced. send, Reigate, Feterfield, Ports This objection musl have been mouth. In reserve lay the Sixth very difficult to answer.

Army with divisions ready to rein- force or, if circumstances pllowed, to extend the frontage of attack to

memoranda.

It was

not

Th

So Confident Goering was by no means un- willing to accept this responsibility, because he believed that

The Ger- Air Force, with Its large numerical superiority, would. some weeks, of hard fighting, beat after down the British air defence, des

тап

To Victory Much valuable time had

been Weymouth Staffell the consumed in these exchanges of On

until heaviest initial task. Germany had August 7 that the first verbal din about 1,200,000 tons of seagolag cussion took place between General shipping available to meet all her Halder and the Chief of the Naval needs,

embork the invasion Stuff.

meeting Halder sald, force would

their airilelds in At thin

Tequire

troy more than

Kent and "I utterly reject the Navy's pro- half this amount, and would in- Sussex, and establish a

a complete domination of the Channel. posals. From the

Army view-point

disturbance. volve great economic

But I regard it as complele suicide. I

By the beginning of September the part from this he felt Beaured that the bombing of England, and might just as well put the troops Naval Staff were able

to report that have been landed seraight that the following had been reduce the docadent peace-loving particularly of London, would re- through the nausge-machine." quisitioned: 168 transports (of British to a conditions in which

The Naval Chief of Staff re: 700,000 tons); 1,010 bargen, 419 joined that he must equally reject | tugs and trawlers, 1,000. motor-ney would sue for. peace, more especially if the threat of Invasion

bo

the landing on a broad front, as boats. All this Armada had to that would lend only to saerifice manned, and brought to the as--Brew steadily upon their horizon. of the troops on the passage over.sembly porla by sea and canal. In the end a

compromise decision tons); neither the Army nor the Navy A

was given by Hitler which satisfied

Command Directive.

Grand Total: ocean-going ves- 200 (050,08 tons); river #teamers: 267 (110,380 river steamer cargo: 7,059 tons;

Supreme

Violently Assailed

Mean scession of attacks Meanwhile since early July we

a

river steamier passengers: 42,080; issued on August 27, decided that on the shipping in Wilhelmshave the postponement of the operation

ocean-going vessel passengers:

10,352.

Detalls of February's shipping departures follow:

British: Qocan-going vessaiz: 85 (105,586 tuns); river

the Army operations must allow Hiel, Guxhaven, Bremen and Em for the facts regarding available den; and raids were made en smait shipping space and security of the craft and burges in

French port crossing and disembarkation" and Belgian canals. When on All landings in the Deal-Rama- September 1 the great Southward

Var

The German Admiralty were by- no means convinced, indeed their misgivings were profound. They considered "Sealion" should be launched only in the last resort, and in July they had recommended til the spring of 1941, unless the unrestricted air attack and the unlimited U-boat

warfare ahould cause the exemy to negotiate with the Fuehrer on his own terms."

steamers: gate area were abandoned, but the flow of invasion shipping began, But Field-Marshnj Keltal and Gen-

150 (85,024 tons); river steamer front was extended from Folke passengers: 36,775; river steamer stone to Bognor. Thus it was cargo: 3,682 tons! ocean-going nearly the end of August before steamer passengers: 5,087.

even this measure of agreement

Peninsular

& Oriental

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Agents

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Eastern

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Australian

STEAMSHIP COMPANY. LIMITED

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Loading March 15th for. MANILA, RABAUL, BRISBANE, SYDNEY, MELBOURNE and WELLINGTON

(NEW ZEALAND) direct

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

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THE

(To Be Continued)

ISTHMIAN LINE

(Isthmian Steamship Co. of N.XX

S.S. “STEEL CHEMIST”

LOADING 14TH MARCH

for

HONOLULU, LOS ANGELES, HOUSTON, NEW ORLEANS, NEW YORK, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA and BOSTON.

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For further particulars apply

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Tels, 25583, 28823 and 23403,

The SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC Co.,Ltd.

M.S. “BALI” Loading 14th March

for

ADEN, PORT SAID, GENOA, MARSEILLES, CADIZ

:: CASABLANCA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM (AMSTERDAM), HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, OSLO and GOTHENBURG,

Deep tanks available for: Balkoll For further particulars' apply:--

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Bailed

7th April

Erd May

2nd Jane

30th June.'

DUM HONGKONG

813 March

poll**

Sth May sub Zane

4th July

1st Augosl

Via Southampton, Yorf Bali, Adams, Dombay, Colombo, Pensar a

HOMEWARDS

1.4. “CORFÜ”

BA "CANTONTM

A "CARTHAGE"

**"CORU“

"CANTON"

# "CARTEAGE"

Bingapore

LEAVES HONGKONG

14th March

25th April

DUS LONDON

14th Apri

14th May

18th Ju

18th May

I

9th June

11th July

8th July

115 Avamari

6th Aug

5th September

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FREIGHT SERVICE

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M. BOMALI”

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th Mar.

all 19th Mar,

from London, Continent. Kamchi & Bombay via Sitrajta.

for Shanghai à Japan, Hong Kong cargo franshipped at Singapore to ma, "TREVINCE”.

from Kobe à Shanghai. dum 14th Mar. ealte 16th Mr. Вот Straite. Colombe,

melis 12 Apr.

Port

Budan, U..

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for

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from London & Continent,

of ventilation,

do 20th Apr. "BOMALI" Le atted with the DRIHOLD wystem and has spen for retrizetsted cargo and ell in bulk.

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1

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do 10 Mar. malls 20th Mar,

doe and Mar. saila and Mar.

die Blat Mar. stila Brd Apr.

dus 14th Apr.

mallo 38th Ape. dua Bird Apr.

for Japan.

from Calcutta via Birafla for Amoy & Japan.

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for. Japan via Amor.

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1

(Apar Lt)

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Dth Mar.

* "NANKIN" •

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dun 19th Mar,

exits and Apr.

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direct.

from Australia.

for Australia via Babaul

2. “KASTERN“

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ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE

Dlecharging

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SAILINGS TO EUROPE

Loading

For

7th Mar early Apr.

...14th Mar. .... end Apr.

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SAILINGS TO U.S.A, via PANAMA

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