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In Boxes of 25

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IMPROVING LONDON'S PORT PREMIER HARBOUR IN THE WORLD.

SOME DETAILS OF WONDERFUL CONSTRUCTION.

The port of London is continuing with increased vigour, now that the war is ever, A construction programme which will enable it to dock auch vessels as the Aquitania (45,847 tons) and to afford landing facilities to craft as the giant United States steamer Leviathan, forn erly the Hamburg-American liner Fater-

Jand (34,982 tons).

Lond

DOCTORS AND INFLUENZA.

SUFFERINGS IN THE ARMY. The proceedings of the Medical, Pre-

at the clinical and scientific meeting of the British Medical Association, at the

BOSTOCK S

WISEMAN, LTD.

ROYAL

ventive Medicine, and Fathology Sretion, ROYAL

A

ITALIAN

CIRCUS

(Established Rome 1869).

imperial College of Science, South Ken- angton, on April 10th, took the form of

joint discussion on influenza. Major-General Sir Wilmos Haringham, in his opening papas un “Clinical Aspects. said the numbers affected in the The same Circus exhibited for Looking back at the five years of war, TWO consecutive years at Hengler's Added Sir Wilmot, it svens to me that Circus, London, and appeared on

calling in Buenza the cases we have been

armies in the field were very

great

Formerly the size of the Leviathan made is possible to berth her only in three ports this winter are of the same character as TWO occasions before THEIR those we have seem in most previous win MAJESTIES KING GEORGE V of the world, New York Liverpool

the ters, but "When

winter of Hamburg

the port of

are influenza now they QUEEN MARY and the ROYAL authority's proposed new passenger

•land 1918-17. If they in

then. There the

WHA

Family at Buckingham Palace. were pulmonary ing stage is completed at Tilbury, twenty of nary disease, the Jame six miles down the Thames from London

character of

of faver, And the s same compli Bridge it will be possible for the Lerications. And when I recollect. the than to be brought alongside and epidemic of 1880, its harmlessness to the

ogers to be whisked into the city by boat trains over new trackage now plan monia, except as a result

Young, the

infrequency of savers prev- of exposure, ned by the Midland Railway in conjuns and the frequency of prolonged nervous tion with the port authority.

exhaustion after it. am very much tempted to ask whether the present dis- lease is influenza at all, or, if so, whether it has not considerably changed its character since then.

Grand Opening Night: Tuesday, June 17th. 1919.

KOWLOON ground

next Post Office.

There will be nothing in the world's barbours to beat this landing stage, when it is finished. The floating stage will be 1,700 fees long with a depth of water nlongside of 31 feet below low water ordin Captain M. Greenwood expressed the ar spring tides. Its length will enable opinion that it must be provisionally For the first time in Hongkong.

accommodate two large

that it to

concluded passenger.

there was no clear-cut Vessels at

and the facilities with formin erence between the outbreak of

difference

200 Performing Animals 200 with which it will be equipped will enable 1339-00 and that of 1919.

r F. Bowman, ocean-going passengers and their baggage -

Major

30 Star. Artists · 30.

#b

น

to embark and disembark within an hour I tion, concluded the dealing with eausa-

of leaving the city.

It

is

minute organisme,

capable of passing through a filter, which had been grown from tissues from infect

ed animals and from filtered sputum of NOT ONE ACT influenza cases, was in all probability the cause of

disease as seen to-day of the Surgeon-General Hassett Smith gave

About

in the Navy. induenza information He said the Navy experienced the same

NOT ONE ANIMAL

NOT ONE ARTIST

TEA DANCES

TO-DAY

Tuesday. June 10th.

and

Thursday, June 12th.

D. K. KHARAS,

SECRETARY.

106

P.Wigham-Richardson & Co.,

LIMITED.

85, GRACECHURCH STREET, and at Lloyds, LONDON.E.C3. CAMURADORES ARMADORES,” LONDON. Cons; Bantlar, Commærg Pumapa COPR. SCUTER WATZINE A.1.C., A, Wartans UNION,

/

Insurance Brokers, Coal Contractors, Brokers for the Chartering Sale. Pur chase and Construction of Steamers are open to represent firms desiring business effectedin theLondonMarket.

£208

HALF A CENTURY REPUTATIONS PILLS FOR THE

of this project, the erection of prevalent character, the same intense Ever before seen in Hongkong. OLECLERC'S OLIVER & LIDH EYS.

infectivity, and the same "waves shore.

to be connected with the shore by A

of bridges which will be -hinged

fashion a to

to allow the elf to rise and fall with the tides, stage itself to First-class hotel accommodation will be available back of the landing stage for those passengers desiring it.

Outside

dock лен

now nearing completion, in the system of docks known as the Royal Victoria and Albert docks, which lie only seven miles down the river from Londonsary number of ships ready for action Bridge and five miles by road from the was to stop communication with the land heart of the city, is the greatest item in altogether. One ship, with a complement the port authority's programme dow of 77, had 665 cases, and thirty-eight deaths It Was very common in tbo actually under construction.

Adriatic, where it was mistaken for fever. A VERITABLE CITY OF CANVAS

Major Norman White said the epidemic. Major Nort

HUGE WATERPROOF TENTS in India was at first mild though wide-

NOW HAVE GREATEST INCLOSED AREA. The existing Royal Victoria and Albert docks constitute. The greatest inclosed

At the Cape the disease was so Record success attained in Europe, bad that the only way to keep the neces

The second wave occurred at the.

water area in any port and stretch over 9 September, and for the next two

three miles.

end of

To

4,933,139 deaths were reported out of 239

their

popu

For the new dock, which lies to the months India was in the throes of an 一级 many respects without 1000 south of the existing docks, already over endemic i 3,500,000 cubic yards of earth have been parallel in the history of axcavated, and the concrete walls have few months in the British required for their construction about million inhabitants. The Central 300,000, cubr

cubic yards of Bog und 70,000 Cates lost 6 per cent, of tons of cement. The

dock proper will have a water area of acres tion, and 14.7 and a depth of 38 feet. The entrance lock Villages were wiped out, and many others is to be 500 feet long. 100 feet wide and failure of crops and clothing difficult to lost half their population. With the 41 feet 8 inches below high water of neap get never-to-be-forgotten scenes occurred, tides. It is to be divided into two partments, 550 feet and 250 feet in length. by pairs of steel gates operated by hydraulic

machinery.

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Africa, America, Australia and the Extreme-Orient

ELECTRIC LIGHTS

EUROPEAN BAND.

FIRST GRAND MATINEE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18TH, 5 P.M. PRICES:-

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Bet like of which none bad, ever see BOXES & SEATS ... $20.00 before.

to the quay, but farther from it.. the main dock roadway and several lines of railway track intervening between it and

lock has been so designed as to be capable of extension, by means of a floating caisson, to 910 feet, thus allowing the docking of a vessel of the dimensions of the Aquitanin, ... 808 feet between

tem and stern and 9 beam. The passage direct communication by means of two

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CIRCLE IST CLASS Elevated 2ND

1

the transit shed. with which it is in Gallery Carpeted

or cut communicating with the existing inclined overhead covered bridges.

Royal Albert dock is also: 100

100 feet In these two bridges, electrically driven Gallery width, and is to be used temporarily is conveyors work, so that from the time the MATINEE MILITARY & afford entrance to the new dock.

holds

they

are

in their

classifed

piles

the

At the western end of the new dock areas leave the ship's refrigerator

cxamined placed a great new dry dock is nearing comple and

proper tion. In fact, it is finished except for stores, they are throughout carried by the caisson for closing its entrance and mechanical menus and keps in a freezing the machinery for pumping out the water temperatury, thus eliminating the risk

TO ACCOMMODATE 15 SHIPS. The new dock when fully equipped will of deterioration through excessive bandi-

and exposure. have berthing accommodation for fifteen large ships and transit sheds of capacityte building contains the ro

to

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navel, Pains Invaluable for demasse of these imporizat organs, the Back, Goot, Rhenostiam, do Price 85., landing Chemists, or post free. Ds. Lit CLERC MD, CD, HAVERHOOK FOLD, NWT LONDON, ENGLAND. Depote: Paris, 19, Bus CLETTO CONE; New York, 90, BEKKÁN ČIRKETY Toronto, LYAN, Lin; austrails, Stact Bace,

rdney and Brisbane; NEW ZEALAND DAVO CO , Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin. Walling fodia, B. E. Pauz & Co., Calcutta.

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THE PENINSULAB AND

ORIENTAL

STEAM

NAVIGATION 00.

STEAM

OBYLON,

FOR STRAFTS, BOMBAT. EGYPT,

1.: ·MEDITED-

RANEAN FORTS AND

+ LONDON.

THROUGH BILL OF LADING LARUED FOR BATAVIA, AMERICAN, Oos- "RNÍTAL,

AND SOUTH AFricar Por 3.50

AHE Homeward Mail Steamer 3:00 T

DUNERA* 2.50 carrying His Majesty's Mail, will be 2.00, 8mxx, 1818, taking Cargo for the above Ports. despatched from this port about JULY

accommodation in the connecting: Passenger 1.00

vessel, when available, secured before depar ture from Hongkong.

50 cts. CHILDREN

Half-Price. Book YOUR SEATS AT ONCE

·(BOXES and CIRCLE only)

D. F. BOSTUCK, Proprietor.

"“at› MOUTRIE's, machinery, consisting of an W. H. TREHERNE ALEX, ALMAZOFF, suficient handle their cargo without monia compressors, driven by electrio.

General Manager. Adv. Manager, congestion. Three sach sheds, having an motors of an aggregate capacity of 1,000 aggregate floor ares of four and one-half boree-power. The ammonia is led in acres, are approaching completion on the liquid form by insulated piping to bat- south side of the dock. One of them, teries of evaporator coils placed in the in fact, is already in use to relieve the

storage buildings. The intense cold pro- congestion in nearby sheds. Another duced by the evaporation of ammonia in and larger shed, two stories high and these coils serves to cool the air which of the length of two ship berths, is to is circulated over the coils by fans and bo built on the north quay.

distributed by bo bufe

cold air ducts, throughout the refrigerated chambers.

A feature in the design of the dock is the provision on the south quay of seven

jetties, 520

PROVISIONS FOR EXTENSION. have The cold store itself is divided into four concrete struct, paralel with the quay compactments by wall, with an intervening space of 32 feet

are further subdivif walls and these into five doorR, for barges.

Ships will berth alongside each capable of -containing 12,500 the jetties, which will be equipped with carcases of mutton, or 250,000, in the electric cranes capable of transferring whole building making, with the contents cargo from the ship either into barges of the upper floor and a portion of the lying between the jetties and the quay groundber of the transit shed, a total or directly on to the quay itself.

capacity of 640,500 carcases. COLD STORAGE PROVÍDEL.

When completed this scheme will bring accommodation owned storandan Extensive provision for cold storage is the cola

authority also being provided at the Royal Albert by the port of

up to Dock. Large accommodation for frozen about 1,500,000 carcases, and as it has

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Silk and Valuable Cargo for Italy, France and London (under arrangeman) will be conveyed by this Steamer proceeding to Bombay and there transhipped to the London on-carrying Steamer for Marseille

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Parcels will be received at the Ofoe until

the day before sailing. The conte and value of all packages are required.

For further particulars, sailing dates, etár Apply to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & 00, Agenta, P& ̈OB:"Co.

Post Box 113,

13, Des Your Road Central,

KONINKLÝKE PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPY.

(RÖYAL PACKET NAVIGATION CO. OF BATAVIA)

THE STEAMSHIP "VAN

WAERWYICK

produce has already been constructed by been borne in mind that the future de will be despatched on June 12th, to,

the port authority in the vicinity of Lon.velopment of the port may call for still don's meat centres but the new warehouses further increase in cold storage facilities,

docks are to accommodate these buildings have been so arranged as

at the Albert 'dog

It

the

extension.

SINGAPORE, "PENANG AND BELAWAN DELI.

Wireless Telegraphy.

meat-carrying vessels which are too large to be capable of practically unlimited This vessels offers excellent cabin-accommodation for saloon passenge to come further up river.

afely be said that these ware may safely

The developments projected at Tilbury houses are second to none in the world include avast new dock, 138 acres in They are buildings of reinforced concrete, extent, surrounded by quay walls aggre insulated with layers of f compressed cork gating 150 feet in length and 48 feet They

in 1913, but progress deep, teached by an entrance Jock 1,050 were begun has been delayed by the war ben comwater depth of 55 feet

feet long by 130 feet wide

with a high tion of them, however, have been

pleted, and during the war they have proved invaluable in housing large stocks

TO DEEFEN THAMES,

For Freight and passage apply to:-

Áscheme for the

deepening of the

Telephone No. 1574

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-LYN, Agents.

of bacon and frozen meat for the feed-Thames is also under way and is expected ing of London.

NEW TRANSIT SH 1,100 YEET LONG,

to bompleted in five years time. When

: Thames will have the follow-

One of the two principal buildings of ing depths and widths:-

London Bridge to Tower Bridge,

the project is a transit shed 1,100 feet long, built parallel to the quay and in 450 feet wide and 14 feat fleep. two stories, the upper floor being designed

the

From

Tower Bride to Thames tunnel, to contain 250,000 carcases of matton, if 500 feet wide and 14 feet deep.

From Thames tannel to the Greenland The normal used

entirely for storage. Merve for the sorting of meat, enabling Albert Lock, 650 feet wide and 20 feet function of this floor, however, in to dock, 500 feet wide and 10 feet deep.

From the Greenland dock to the Royal ander deep. this operation to be carried. on refrigerated conditions instead of on

From the Royal Albert dock to Cold- This building occupies the harbour. Point, 000 feet wide and 30 feet open quay length of the ship berths and the ground

deep. foor is designed to take general mer chandise in order that these berths may From Coldharbour Point to the Nors Bechmodate vessels carrying mixed car. 1000 feet wide and 30 feet deep goes, only partially

frosen consisting

goods. To

meet the

on

The rise of the tide from low water springs to high water neaps varies from condition 13 feet 6 inches at Southbend to 17 feet of the war, however, as an emergency measure undertaken at the request of the be seen that there will be ample depth 2 inches at London Bridge, so that it will Ministry of Food, & large portion of this.

floor has been temporarily con for the largest vessels afloat.

of the verted to cold storage for meat and is ver

deal of thed, a y already been capable of housing at building is a store number of herede Dredgings from

second principal about 300 feet long, 190 feet wide and his having been to be taken out and stories high. This is also built, parallel dumped at sea at a distance of about

(Cantirised of foot of next column.) Deventy miles from London Bridge.

saquired.

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