HONGKONG,
to
ENGLAND
vvia
CANADA.
CANADIAN
NATIONAL
RAILWAYS
PARLIAMENT
* BUILDINGS.
Separate and
distinct from
C. P. Ry.
Home
A new, quick and economical route to go by.
Bookings made via all Steamship Lines from Hongkong, connecting with Daily trains from Vancouver BC.
Fares booklets and all particulars gladly sup plied un application.
CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAYS
Queen's Buildings. 3, Chater Road.
23
Phone C 2004.
HUGO STINNES LINIEN
OSTASIEN-FAHRT
PASSENGER SERVICE
HONGKONG
TO NAPLES
ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM AND HAMBURG
VIA
MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ. PORT SAID.
SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG :
6.
* ADOLF VON BAYER"
Y
or about the 26th May,'
FARES FROM HONGKONG TO NAPLES:
FROM £71---UPWARDS
Only Calin Class Accumedation Available.
REUTER, BROCKELMANN & CO.
AGENTS
20. Des Von Road Central.
Phone Central No. 78.
KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART
A
MAATSCHAPPY.
(ROYAL PACKET NAVIGATION CO. ON" BATAVIA)
THE STEAMSHIP
VAN CLOON"
will be despatched to
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY," MAY - IST,
SINGAPORE, PENANG and BELAWAN-DELI DIRECT,
8th May, 1924.
1st Class Fare to Singapore-$100.
This vessel offers excellent saloon accommodation.
All lower, berths.
English cuisine:
Doctor carried.
Wireless telegraph.
le connection with the Royal Packet Nav. Co.'s (K.P.M.) services
to all destinations in the Netherlands East Indies,
For Freight and Passage, apply to:-
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-LYN,
one Central No. 1674
Hotels
Agents.
YORK BUILDING, Chater DAD,
JAPAN AND MANCHURIA
Members of Japan Hotel Association
c/o TAPPIC BUREAU, DEPT. OF RAILWAYS, TOKYO,
Average Rates for Single Rooms (without, Bath} including meals-
Y. 10-13 in cities and some popular resorts.
Y. 8-10 in country detorets Po
Cluzenji (Nikko),
Lakeside Hotel
Kamakura:
Kailyn Hotel Karuizawa-
Mikasi Hotel, Mampei Hotel Kobe
Oriental Hate} Tor Hotel
Fusan
CHOSEN:
Fusan Station Hotel
Chosen Hotel
Keijo (Seoul):
Saingistus
IN JAPAN PROPER:
Kyola:-
Kyoto Hotel
Miyako Hotel
Matrubima:-
Park Hotel Miyajima:
Miyajima Hotel Miyanoshita
Fajiya Hotel Nagasak
Japan Hotel
thingishu Station Hotel
Nagoya
Shizuoka-
Nagoya Hotel
Yar
Daitokwan Hotel Tokyo !--
Nara Hotel Nikko
Kanaya Hole! Osaka:-
Osaka Hotel Shiromoai:--
Sun-ye Hotel
IN TAIWAN (FORMOSA): Taiboka:Taiwan Railway Hotel
Imperial Hote!
Omori Hotel Tokyo Station Hotel
Tsukiji Beiyoken Hote!
Yokohama:
Grand Hotel
IN MANCHURIA:
Changchun:-
Yamato Hotel
Dairen S
Yamalo-Hotel Hoshigours
Yamisto Hotel
Koten (Mukden): Yamato Hotel
Ryojun (Port Arthur);--
Yamato Hotel
JAPANESE STEAMER SUNK.
-COLLISION IN FOG.
WEATHER REPORT
April 30th at 18.20-Pressure has acervası»l moderately over Japan, and slightly over 2. China and Judo-China. It has increased nel rately from Chefon to Shanghai, and is nearly stationary over Forona, and the Philippines,.
Than
depression is moving custward. Pressure is low over Tongking,
The anticyclans appears to lie feruing ove 8. China Se
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hour ruling a
Tatal since. is, bars, April 30th, 1 inch. January
1139 inchow, against En sverige. inches. of $1,7
The forcast for the 24 hours ruding at 18 hours, Max Ved
as follows:
The Japanese stener Tukufuka Mara was sunk in the Bristol Channel in dense fog at 10 pm on March 25th after co lision with the German vessel Heimdal, and 23 of the Japanese crew are missing. Seventeen of the crew way saved by from the Brimdal, including the hamed Yakoyaazi
and the chief ofher, Ishii. They were lands at Dover. The collision took place the miles south of Dungens Point, and the Japanese sp so badly holed, that she ark in thive The redut only received
Case damage to the upper works of the and was able to reach. De under own steam, bringing with her in of the survivors. The other man saved has been reported by wireless to have been picked Hongkong to Gap Rock un by another Giovani susitner, the Hana Hemouth.
ainutes.
1. District Formosa Chamel
∙1924
SW, wind Fight: N E. winds, molente to reals latest [s.winds, moderate; M.,
winds, mesletate - frash, later cloudy, les, rain. E
Spath coast of China between
Hongkong and Lamocks * South coast of China between
Hongkong and Hainan
Max.
da.
HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL"
The experiener of the Japanese cajata shows how rapidly "rents secretal each other. Almost inmediately after the cul- Esion the boat went down at the head quickly that the captain www cuscht unter the
awning or the bridge. Luckily for him an eddy swirled him out on to the myface, and bis text reyollection is of being in the stokehold of they facts dal, where the survivors were taken for warmth. The captain of the Japanese vessel and 13 of the survivors were to the Dover Patrol National Sations Home, having been fed and clothek by the Shipwrecked Mariners Society. The captain is almost the only man who can
Bardheter speak English, and in swer to a que Temperature tion as to the collision would only yumility
Please do not ask me You make ne Wind Diretion... think of my crew again."
REGISTER.
Hongkong Observatory, April 20th,
Previous:On Daten. Date Day, at at jat 3.31. 4 por
FORM
The Tukafuku Maru Klonged, to what Wisther...
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
ANTUNG via SWATOW &
SHANGHAI
KOBE via MOJI...
MANILA
TIENTSIN
BANGKOK via
SWATOW
via SWATOW &
"WOSANG"
...Friday.
2nd May, 7
"YAMSANG"
Saturday,
3rd May, 7am.
"YUENSANG"
Saturday,
3rd May, 11am
"WAISSING"
8th May, Now
"HANGSANG*
Tuesday,
6th May, Noon.
"HINSANG" ...Teerday,
6th May, 1 po
"MINGSANG”
LAISANG
...CHEONGSHING
SUISANG KWONGSANO"
...Wednesday, 7th May, 7am.
Wednesday, Friday, „Saturday,
7th
May,
8th May, 7 m
3 p.
foth May, 11am.
Sunday
11th May, 7.
149
» LEESANG “..
Boaday,
11th May, 10am.
Friday
16th May, 10.
Tuesday, 20th May, 10
"HOSANG"
STRAITS & CALCUTTA SHANGHAI via SWATOW MANILA, vin AMOY SHANGHAI via SWATOW. HAIPHONG víz HOIHOW BANGKOK is HOTHOW KOBE via SHANGHAI & MOJI, FOOKSANG" STRAITS & CALCUTTA ...
"CHUNSANG"
...Wednesday, 28th May, 3 pm
CALCUTTA LINE-This Line now fonts regular mailings to Calenta, Feully mad.
Singapore; returning from Calentta steamers proceed via Straile And Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling at Shanghai.
All steamers have
excellent passenger accommodation,
fitted with Wireless sad carry a fully-quated Surgeon
approximately every three days between Canton
Lig
ad
SHANGHAI LINE mctimes Tealing at Swatów. Through tickets can
MANILA
Le obtained and through Bill of Lading are ined to all Northern
and Yangtze Ports via Shanghai.
LINE:-A weekly service is puintained with Manila by ressels with good Jassengée Becommolation, sailings from both parts every Saturday, at 11 m.
HAIPHONG LINE-Sailing approximately weekly for passengers and cargo, calling at
Hoihow both ways BORNEO
74
ESE
=
Ľ
TIENTSIN
(3.00)
is known as the . Line, owned he the Rain Kokusai Kim Kaisha at Koh, and was lights open-air Temperature ou
early 8,000 to register, and built in Lowe's open-air Temperature on th
Included a great quan-
1019. Her Riders. building marrials.
tity of styl
etc., which had hea loaded at Bremen, Rotterdam, and Antwerp for reconstrue," tion of the earthquake-devastated area in She was aler to have called at.
her way out to the Far East.
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する
The hull was valued for insurance лt £125,000, while the cargo is probably a very valuable one. though natil further detatis ar to hand it is impossible ter estimate the amount involved. Her in- Senners vanus to the london market us retusurakers of Japanese communis:
NÄVAL PRIZE FUND. £170,700 DISTRIBUTED IN GRANTS.
be
HONGKONG - TIDE TABLE.
From May 1st to 7th, 1924.
Low Wires.
H'kong
HIGH WATER.
Days of
Days of
Mouth,
H'kong.
Stamlard
Time
AI.
Thur
Fri..
1 m
2 +
Star : :
Sun. 9:14.
The disposal of the residue of the Naval Prize Faud ie indicam in the current Mon.
The is of Admiralty Fleet Orders. Naval Prize Act, 1918, povides that, after Tues, allowing for the payment of shares, the
sidue may applied towards any of Wel
for which provision parprises made by Gredawich Hospital, and for the benefit of members and dependants of members of Fores raised and provided by the Cavernments of parts of H.3. Int inions outside the United Kingdom. Thel Bourd hav, approved of grants tatuling $178.700 Among then are:
£100.000.-R.N, Benevolĥt Trust Grand
Flet and kindred funds).
£27,500 --British Legion (Offerry” „Aici
ation).
£6,500-Royal Naval Fund.
Ch.004 Missions to Scania, Dominion,
te.. fwds,
£4,000-R. N. and Marine Orphan Homes
Pert-mouth.
M
£3,000 Soldiers. Sler, and Airmen's Famibe Association; Incorporated Sol. diers and Sailor' Help Society.. £2.500-Missions to Seamen, Londow (for
charitable purposes); 2.200-shipwrecked Fishermen and Mar uers Royal Benevolent Society, „Lon Jan, £2,000-Queen Adeinide Naval Fund; Sir F. Richards Mexorial Fund: Royal School for Naval and Marine Öffiers" Patri-
Height.
Stanslard
Time.
Height.
LINE:Fortnightly sailings to and from Sandakan by two 3,000 ten
steamers, HINSANG" and MAUSANG." both steamers' Cargo taken on having excellent passenger accumulation
through Bills of Lading for Kudat, Jesselton, Labuan, Tawno and Lahad Dat LINE-A regulat service is run from March to November between Horg
kong and Tientsin, occasionally calling at Weihaiwei and Chefoo BANGKOK LINE-A weekly service is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok vis Swatow by fire steamers fitted with up-to-date passenger accom- modation
||
CALCUTTA
5.8.
LINE
·LAISANG "` will be despatched on or shout Wednesday, 7th May, 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG
& CALCUTTA.
17 |
Through Bills of Lading issued to RANGOON, MADRAS, PORT SWETTENHAM and DUTCH EAST INDIËS.
For Fright or Passge apply to
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,.
10
G
11 22
4
*
6
TELEPHONE NO. CENTRAL 21M
BARDINET.
LIQUEURS.
"Nothing Like It."
OBTAINABLE EVERYWHERE.
SOLE AGENTS:
Daughters, Twickenham, Lloyd' 1. RUTTONJEE & SON.
Fund;
Royal Merchant Seamen's Orphanage, Bearword: Rosat Liverpool Stamen a
Orphan Institution
£1,000-
"Marine Orphanage, Royal United Service Or phan for Lirk, Devonport: Royal Alfred Aged Merchant Seamen's Lasitu tion, Belvedere,
£1.500-Port of Hulf Society's Sailors'.
Orphan Homes.
£1,000-Royal Sailors Orphan Girls'
School nad Home, Hampstead,
"
THE HYDROGLISSIA. BOAT THAT FLOATS IN SIX INCHES OF WATER.
Much interest has bend caused in Lahore, the capital of the Punjab, by experiments with the hydrozlisia, & But-bottomed bost drives over the surface of the water by an aeroplane engine and propeller. These experiments have been to succesful, says weiter. in a Lender paper that the de the signers of the boat have now old it to engineers
of the Sutlej Valley -projre, where it is being used for communication Jurpske This beut, owing to its unique con-triction, Boats in same six inches of WC
when in motion rises to the sur face, so that it will pass over a sandbank that is only a few inches sabmerged. The keel of the boat is divided into two halve By a step of nine inches, and this is the secret of the
When the 00- construction. horsepower engine is
is started up it moves compressing the water under the bey, and causes it to rise to the surface, The water
the
forward
J the rear.
swirls under the nine-inch
another
step and the faster the forward speed the higher be
Already
way is caused, lifting
boat
is lifted. with this craft a speed of thirty. five miles an hour has been obtained with no fewer than seven people on board, The advantage of this craft in India is that high speed it can pass over sub- merged sandbanks, which have always been found most dificult to locate by naviga. tors of Indian rivers.
Also being propelled by the nir, the diffinities caused by sand getting into the water propeller bearings are elmin ated
GLEN
GENERAL MANAGERS
AND SHIRE
JOINT SERVICE OF STEAMERS.
UK-STRAITS, CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.
OUTWARDS
Verserl
"GLENAMOY”. "GLENAPP"
CARMARTHENSHIRE
HOMEWARDS.
Du Hongkong Vessel. Leaves B'kong. Discharges.
7th May
"GLENGARRY"
19th May London, Rotterdam
30th May
Movements are subject to change without notice.
For Freight or further Particulars, please apply fo
7th June + Hamburg.
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., THE GLEN LINE, LTD., AGENTË. Telephones: Central No. 415 amb-ex. 23, and Central 3596, z
The HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK Co., Ltd.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS: "MANIFESTO,” HONGKONG.
CODES USED Ál, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Engineering: First, and Second Edition
Western Union and Watkine
Dock Owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boiler Makers,
Iron and Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.
Steel Twin-Screw Ocean-going Tug and Salvage Steamer
Henry Keswick
"
Built, engined and equipped complete by The Hongking & Wiampos Dock Co, Ltd, Hongkong for their w servite, 1921. Lengia 185 B.P. Breadth 84 (m) Depth 17 (m) LEP. 2000 Fitted with electrically driven aubmersible and centrifugal pumps, air component, wireless, sed higit and all modern appliances for Ekirage Work? Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager
R. M. DYEB, BSc, M1A
4. Fowloon Doan, Hexarong,
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