TRAVEL TALK,
CANADIAN
NATIONAL
RAILWAYS
How long have you been out from Home?
When do you go o
and
on leave?
Every day you hear these questions in Hongkong. The latter is always an interesting topic al conversation.
Have you thought about which way you will go next time? The ROUTE via CANADA offers unlimited attractions with its wonderful scenery, busy cities and holiday resorts. We will gladly supply you with fares, illustrated booklets and first hand information.
CANADIAN NATIONAL · RAILWAYS
(Separate and Distinct from C.P.R.)
WATE, CALL OR TELEPHOSE
GENERAL TRAFFIC OFFICES:
Phone C 2001
Queen's Buildings. 3. Chater Rd.
HUGO STINNES
STINNES LINIEN
Regular Monthly Freight and Passenger Service between Japan, China, Hongkong, Manila and Straits and Hamburg and other North Continental Ports.
OUTWARD from Hamburg via Ports of Call
Bonnyben
"Carl Legion
9,000 tons
Adolf von Baeyer
9,000 tona
*Emil Kirdorf
+8cheer ........
9,000 tonn 12,30 tons
+Schoor
Arrival
7th September First ball of October First half of November. First half of December,
HOMEWARD for Antwerp, Rotterdam and Hamburg
Albert Vogler
*Carl Legion
•Adolf von Baoyer
*amil/Kirdorf
Tynnage, dw,
Degervate
12,300 tona 2h Aur.,Calling at Manila
9,000 tons 19th Sept..
9,000 tons
9,000 ton
9,000 tons
These steamers are fitted with all comfort for the convenience of about 50 first einen Passengers.
+Cargo boat.
AGENTS
REUTER BROCKELMANN & 60.
26, Des Voeux Road Central.
Phone CentralNo. 478.
KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
MAATSCHAPPY.
(Roval. PACKET NAVIGATION Co. of BatAVIAI *THI STEAMSHIP
“VAN OVERSTRATEN
will be despatched to
SİNGAPORE & BELAWAN-DELI Direct
18th of August, 1923.
1st Class Fare to Singapore -8100
This vessel offers excellent cabin accommodation for salmon passingari
Bingle and double cabina.
Wireless Telegraphy:
For Freight and passage apply to:-
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-LYN,
Telephone Central No. 1574.
Agents.
K.
K
Yamashita Steamship & Mining Co., Ltd.
Steamship Owners, Shipping & Marine Insurance Broker. Coalmine Owners, General Coal Merchant.
REGULAR FREIFHT & PAGENSSER SERVICE
BETWEEN
KEPLUNG, HONGKONG & HAI PHONG
SAILING FROM Hoxoxoxo,
on or about £ard Aug -
For HAIPHONG vis Hoihow & Pakhol
11. “TAIKWA MARU” ..... For KEELUNG via Swatow & “Amay
** "NANYO MARU Nɑ 1"✨
on of about 23rd Aug.
For further parbeniam, please apply th
Braash Offloa
·Tel, Centrál No. 155;"
No. 37, Bonham Btrand, Weat
8. MITARAL
LOT... (Top Floor, King's Building, Tal, Central 65140,
HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST -14rm, 1928,
BRITISH RAILWAY; SPEED
IN 1922.
SIXTY-MILE AN HOUR RUNS, GROUPING AND COMPETITION.
At special correspondent af The Observer writes:-
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SCOTTISH ROUTES. Attention has, also beun, paid to the Scottish services, the quickest times by this route to Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, and Inverness being now hours 15 minutes, 8 hours 13 minutes (both by the 10 u,th. ex Euston, which incidentally runs the 141 miles from Crewe to Carliste Gwyr Grayrigg and Shap summits with out a stop at 51.9 miles per hour). 9 hours 19 If the summer time-tables" of 1920 were 19 minutes, and 19 hours 30 minutes, be in some respects disappointing, those of 15, 13, 23, and 85 minutes respectively, "accelerations on last year's timings ing 1923 are much more satisfactory, and show though in such case inferior to the best of that the progress in spss, which was in 1914. Here again it should not be forgot terrupted by the war, has now definitely ten that by this same West Coast route been resante. Thus there are not a few the Journey to Edinburgh was made on important towns to which the fastest time
one neraston thirty-five years ago in 7 London from
less than it ever was hears 39 minute, nud that to Perth was is fore
the war; instances of this are Cardiff regularly booked in the summer of 1996 in Leamington, Hereford, Turquny, Fold 8 hours 30 minutes. stone, Southampton, Scarborough, Hull, Conwatry, Leeds, and Stoke-on-Trent: while to the majority of others the pre war times havij licen~restored,
"Quickest times" are not necessarily the best guide to the effectiveness of a service whole; but they do show the tendency of railway policy in the matter of speed There have been periods when those res ponsible for the framing of timetables have appeared to be pr
ntraid
speed ag of something dangerous, whereas the chief object of expressenger, train is to supply it-and this tore than ever now, when the aeroplane Ex appearing on the horizon 8. competitor.
Tint this feat has been outgrown is suggested by the number of runs our English railways now of about to be booked at over sixty miles per hour from start to sto|
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
BAILINGS
STRAITS & CALCUTTA -- ANTUNG via SHANGHAI TSINGTAU via SWATOW
&SBANGDAL
SEAT via SWATOW...
SHANGHAI
vie SWATOW
TERCKOK via SWATOW
AMINOTAU Tis SWATOW.
BHANGHAI TIENTSIN
H
CALCUTTA
STRAITS & CAL KOBE via SHANGHAL... HAIPHONG BOLHOW SANDAKAN
BANGKOK via HOIHOW..
BUBJECT TO ALI ZBATIOS, ..
~Tuesday, › 14th Aug..3 p.m.
-Wednesday, 18th Ang., 1
*HOBANG*
010
"ESANG."
"FOOSHING"
"TUNGSBING"
Friday.
Ilam
...Wednesday, 15th Aug., Noon..
17th Aug.. 11
"MINGSANG" Friday 17th Aug.,3 pm. "WAISHING" ...Sunday. 19th Aug 10 am.
Monday, 10th Aug,2pm.
"CHAKSANG
KW NGSANG" "CHIPSHING"
... "LAIBANG “
KUTBANG"
** LEESANG * HINBANG*
... "CHUNSANG",
104
Wednesday, find Avg. Noon. ... Wednesday, 2nd Aug.p.m. „Wedndaday, 22nd Aug., 3pm. Thursday, 2nd Aug, Noon. ...Friday 24th Aug., Ba
Thursday, 30th Aug. 11 am. Wednesday, 5th Sept., 8 m
CALOUITA LINH – This Ling afforda esguine sakilinga' de Calcutta, Penang ana
MANILA
HAIPHONG BORNIO
COMPETITIVE SERVICES. The Birmingham services, rus is intense competition with that of the Great West- is the most efficient un the system, including ao fewer than 15 start-stop, bookings at over 30 miles per hour ShaNGHAJ rate which is not attained by any other North-Western trains-with * total milage of 1,583. Grouping," catnet of course, altogether eliminate competitions. to certain place, of which Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Leeds, and Brad. ford are now instances; and there is also definite competition between different places in the caso of certain holiday. resorts. Thus Scarborough (230 miles from King's Cross at 51 miles per hear, mak ing 4 hours 30 minutes): Torquay (195) These in miles from Paddington at 55.7 miles lady Swindon to Paddington at 81.8, Dar-hour, making a hentes 33 zile at TINIER tington to York at 61.5 Leicester to Not Bryl (200 miles from Euston at 304 tingham at 81.. Paddington to Bath twice miles per hour, making 4 hours 2 minutes) daily at B1.6 and Aylesbury to Leicester may be regarded as alternative possibil at 60.1; while in addition to these are ties manny at over fifty-eight miles per hour, a time for the holiday-maker, of which, as, regards train service. Torquay at present" of which are Birmingham to Covent has decidedly the best of it. to Wiles at 59.9. Rugby to Leicester at 59.7. Paddington and Bristol, four times daily, at 59.2 and 588. Paddington to Leamington, twice daily, and Euston te Coventy, three times, at 35.1.
THE GREAT WESTERN. The chief features of interest in the ser. vices of the four railway groups, may be briefly noticed. In the case of the Great Western wo have three of the 60-mija hour runs, and a general speeding up of an already very rapid main line service, stop speeds of 57 miles per hour or more providing in all 26 runs daily at start-to- stop speeds of 37 mile per hour or more with a total mileage of 2,850—an increase of 3 runs and 300 miles on last year. The 3.30 Frem Paddington to the West via Westbury, with its three-hour timing to Exeter (-37.9 p.ph.) which had been in abeyance since 1918, has been revived, and the 4.15 p.m. Plymouth via Bristol is allowed miles equal to 58.8 miles per 70 minutes to its first stop at Swindon, hour in the harder direction of running, The quickest time between Cheltenham and Paddington becomes 3 hours 30 minutes, as
against 9 hours 40 minutes in 1914, journey including the run at 81.6 miles per bour from Swindon. A new run without' stop between Birmingham and Chester in cach direction (83 miles) brings Chester within 3 Hours 53 minutes of London by this route (195 miles), a gain of 15 minutes on last year's best, and 20 minutes or the best of 1914. Caraliff; 1451 miles from Pad- "dington, is reached in 2 hours 40 minutes by the 8.0.p.m. train, the previous best having been 2 hours 50 minuter. Two trains are booked over the difficult 871 miles from Paddington to Leamington in 90 minutes (59.1 m.p.h.), besides a num- ber of others in each direction in 01 minutes; and no fewer than 13 trains daily ruz btoween Paddington and Birmingham, 100 miles, in two hours, generally with an intermediate stop.
THE SOUTHERN.
On the railways comprising the South- en group, the usual amplifications of the services to the holiday resorts are be- ing made, and certain of the Waterloo- Port-mouth teains uccelerated by the elimination of stops. There is naturally a rather large preponderance on these lines of seasonal improvements which will disappear in the autumn, as distinguished from permanent accelerations in the services between important business, centres. which are more momentou». Both kinds are couspitions in the altern- tions to be made on the London and North Eastern group, which included rruuctions of the present times From King's Crust as follows: To Edinburgh by 20 minutes to 8 hours by the night ex- press, and by 15 minutes to 8 hours 15 mingtes by the day; also de 7 hours 45 minites (the pre-war best) by the High- land express, which only conveys gers for beyond Edinburgh; to Aberdeen and Inverness by amounts varying from 21 to 80 minutes; to Newcastle by II miantes in the down direction to 5 hours 19 minutes, and 40 in the up to 5 hours 30 minutes to Scarborough by 47 minutes to's hours 30 minutes in each direction with only one wton, at York, between which and King's Cross the speed is 53. milos per bir to Leeds by 35 minutes down and 30 up to 3 hours 23 minutes non-stop in each direction, this being 10 minutes less on the dowe run than ever scheduled before, and representing average speed of 54.3 miles per hour; and. to Harrogate by an hour to bors, p 51 miles per hour.
The Midland Ziction of the Lordin Midland and Scottish Railway provides no thrill, and the service is practically the same's last year's save for an acceler ation to Edinburgh 'which does not, how ever, bring the time within an hour of the fastest by the East Coast, route.
31 HOURS TO MANCHESTER. Of the Lention, and North Western action one important improvement since
·last year has been the restoration of the 3 hours timing between Euston and Man- chuster by ou train in each direction, and the geral-timing-up of the-Man- chester and
and Liverpool services, whereby the average time of the three best Man- chester trains in each direction becanes 3 hours 41
minutes, almost equal to the pre- war figure of 3 hours 30 minutes, with a corresponding acceleration of the Liver
trains In neither of these cases, however, would one be disposed to say that, the limit, has boca, reached; and a three-hours timing to. Manchester will be perfectly feasible when considered expedi- eat.
Other routes must be passed over in this brief comment, as also muss be details of one very important recent development, namely, the great increase in cross-country express services in which London does not figure, of which those be tween Aberdeen and Penzance are perhaps the most striking, .--
MASONIC BENEVOLENCE.
The fifty-fifth anniversary fontival of the Benevolent Fund of the Grand Lodge! of Mark Master Masons took place on June 28th at the Connaught Rooms. Great Queen Street, under the presidency of Colonel William Long, C.M.G.. Provin cial Grand Mark Master of Somerset. when the sum of £7,723 was collected at the hands of 39 stewards. London sent £1.133 with ninety-two stewards, Somerset
£1,236 with 150 stewards. (with fourteen ludges) £1,624 with sixty- West Yorkshire
seven stewards, and
SEAMEN'S
INSTITUTE
21, PRAYA EAST, HONGKONG
ITOB the son of all. Men of the Mercantil
Marine and HLM. Navy.
Reading and Writing Booms, Billiard Boom Officers Room, OP.O.' Boom, Restauran Concert Hall, Charah'
Private : Cabins 'and beds in Doveitar es,
hum Townsh “Therencing?
A LING & CO.
19, Queen's Road Central, ΚΟΠΑΣΟΝΑ.
FURNITURE AND
PJOT
GOODS STORE. Flax Ebaking, Sign-Board and Mirror Maker. Chaton Marble in Various Shades Photographie Goods of Every Description in Block. Developing Printing and Enlarging Undertaken. Telephosa Central 118.
BANGKOK
TH
320
Bingapore a rosarning from Calcutta, steamers prooood via Bizkita and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai All 19miere have onedloat: paningar | accemmed" tion, LINE-Slings approximately say three days between Canton so Sibed with Wireless and carry a fully-qualifed Baureon.
Bhanghal, sometimes olas et Brabow Through flakste can
Lading Are be obtained and throw E 'Northern and Yangios Form via Bhanghel, KA LINN – A weekly servien in maintaland with Manila, by vessels with good Parsenger socommodation, sailings from both parts every Friday./. LINK-Ballings approximately weekly for pambugar and
calling at Holbow when inducement offers
iarned
Kill *--- Fortnightly salings to and from Bandskan by two 5,000 'sona. *BINBARG*and aa. *" MAUHANG" both stomers
TOOTH ALR
excellent passenger acermmodasies. Cargo taken m Shrunga Bills of Ladies for Indst Joscion, Tebwa, T330 and Find Data
LINE-A regular service to ran from March to November between LIBE:-Ally mervice is provided between-Bewaking and Bangkok,"
Chi Hongkong and Timisin, mailing at Walknawel and Chator.
via Bwalow, by dva zimumura fished with xp-30-daan pamenges
· accommodation.
CALCUTTA LINE
H
$,5, 'HOSANG” will be despatched on or about Tuesday, 14th Aug., at 8 pm, for BINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA,
Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, MADRAS, PORT \SWETTENHAM and DUTCH EAST INDIES.
For Freight or Pasinge apply tom
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.
TELETECHR Systrax No. 215
GLEN AND
Vel
GENERAL MANAGER.
SHIRE
Jómr Sextion' «2. STEAMERŃ,
U.K.-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE"
OUTWARDS,
Dae Hongkong
"OLENSHANE”
14th Aug-
PEMBROKESHIRE
28th Aug.
"ULENLUCE"
10th Sept.
"GLENOGLE"
... 20th Sept.
CARMARTHENSHIRE
6b Oct.
:
Yemale
BOMEWARDY.
Leaves 'kong. Discharges
"CARNARVONSHIRE ”.
18th Aug London, Hotterdam & Hamburg.
... 29th Ang Loudon, Hotterdwen and Hamburg.
" GLENBEG"
Movements are subjec. to shange without notice. For freight or further particular nious apply to:m
?
Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., The Glen Line, Ltd., T.
Telephones Camira! No 275 asbaz. Usað Contra! 2891. ⠀
The HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK Co., Ltd.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: MANIFESTO," HONGKONG.
CODES USED AL, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Engineering: First and Second Edition; Western Union and Watkins.
Book Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers,
Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.
org Steel Twin-Screw Ocean-going Tug and Salvage Steamer
70X9400 mm Dy
Henry Keswick
Built, engined and equipped complete by The He & Whampoa Dock Co., Ltd, Hongkong for their own serviae, 1921.“ Length 155 BP., Breadth 84. (m) Depth 1 (m) LH.P. 2000. Fitted with electrically driven
Work submersible and centrifugal pawps, air compresoT, WI searchlight and all modern appliances for Balvi
Please address enquiries to the Chief Manage
R. M. DYEF.-B.Sc, M.IN.A, KOWLOON DOCK, HONGKONG,
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