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The smoking room aboard President Liners-dedi- cated to the man who likes a good smoke, companion- ship and the supreme enjoyment of genuine travel comfort.

The magnificent President Liners are broad of beam and exceptionally steady, All are oil burners, swife express liners.

The public rooms are luxuriously appointed and invitinge

All staterooms are outside, splendidly furnished and equipped with beds-100 berths. Each roars has hot and cold running water, also fans, wardrobe, thermos barties and reading lamps, Private bath and showers in connection with many rooms perfect the travel comfort of these giant passenger liners.

The Cuisine is world famous. The deliciously prepared menus will delight you. And how the orchestra adik zest to your dining.

The decks are spacious. The Glam-enclosed Promenade always popular. Deck speres, open air swimming pool, movies, evening dances, everything has been co make your trip a happy one. Unexcelled anywhere is the courtcous and efficient service accorded you by the trained personnel aboard the President Liners

The great frequency of sailings and the liberal scopover privileges of the Dollar Steamship and American Mail Lines have made these giant passenger liners out", standingly popular among travelers,,

WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

TO BAN FRANCISCO and

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`LOS ANGELES

--The Sunshine Deli via Honolulus Fortnightly sailings an Tuesday's

Free. Grant.... Mon., Sept. 12th,

Mid-night Pres. Cleveland...Tues., Sept. 27th Pres. Pierce... Then, Oct. 17th Fres. Tait...Tues, Oct. 25th

TO SEATTLE and VÍCTORIA The Short, Straight Route to America --Fortnightly sailings on. Wedreadwyn,

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Pres. Lincoln......Wed, Sept. 21st 3th Pres. Madison...Wed, Oct. Pres. Jackson...Wed, Oct. 19th Pres. McKinlay. Wel, Nov. 2nd

Special Through Rates to Europe, via United States, £120, £112. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of railway lincs across United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over privileges for sight-seeing.

To EUROPE and NEW YORK ROUND THE WORLD

Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays vis Manife, Strales, Colombo, Suez Canal, Alexmonisia, Naples, Genos, Marsiles, Bosum and New York

Pres. Barrison... Tres, Sept. 13th, 6am. Prra. Manrse...Tues., Sept. 27th, 8am. Tres. Wisco....Taor, Cat. 17th, 8a.m

Pres. Van Buren Tues., Oct. 25th, 8.m. Pr. Hayes... Thes., Nov. 8th.6.m Pres. Polk Tues..Nov 22nd, 8.m. To MANILA

Pro. Harrison......Sept 13th, 6am. Prea Lincoln...Sept. 13th, 6 pa. Pres. Cleveland Sept. 19th, 8 pm.

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Pres, Monroe...Sept. 27th, 8 a.m. Prer. Madison Sept. 27th, 6 pm. Pier. Fierce...Oct 3rd, 6 pm.

For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information ADDIY TO Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 7477, 2478 and 795 Cable Address “Dollar"

Dollar Steamship Line

and

American Mail Line

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th, 1927.

DARING THAT WON OVER- SEAS TRADE.

MERCHANT VENTURES' GREAT RISKS.

TRIBUTE TO SMALL FIRMS.

MERCHANTMEN AS CRUISERS.

LIMITATIONS OF THE TYPE.

SOME AMERICAN MISAPPRE

HENSIONS,

A great deal has been made in the United States of the factor, perhaps, we should say the allega tion that in ber marcantlle marine this country poracsacs A

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CONSIGNEE NOTICES. DODWELL & CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

***ELLERMAN" LINE.

FROM ECROFE

Steamship

THE CITY OF EQMBAY“ baring arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are informed that all Goods are being. landed at their risk into the hazardons Wharf, whence Delivery may be obtained. andier extra-hazardous Godowns of Holt's No Claime will be admitted after the left the Godowns, ad all great Goods

ining undelivered after 15th Good September, will be subject to. Rout.

All Claims against the

I ask merchants and manufac turers of to-day to recall to mind the personal courage and initiative displayed by the merchant adven turers of the sixteenth and seven- teenth centuries when they opened Britain's trade beyond the seas," said Mr. A. M.Samuel, M.P., Far- potential reserve of ertisers. In liamentary Secretary of the Over a sense this is true, but not in the reas Trade Department, speaking on

be

1927

"Presented to the emer must

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July 18th at a banquet given by Sisense which is inferred in America-fed September, 1991, or they will

William Borry and Mr. Gomer The implication is that our con- Berry to members of the Advertis- tention as to the necessity of a ing Association at Olympia.

Then it was not a case of losing a few hundred pounds over a bad debt or a few thousand pounds over a shipwrecked enrgo. Courage was not limited to that as it is to-day; Now foreign travel is pleasant and life is generally secure, but in those days the merchant adventurer Look his life in his hands.

Old-World Markets.

large number of protective cruisers to safeguard the trade routes in the event of war is quite unjustifiable, since

WD already possess the material for constituting such a force in our big, fast liners. pretend that an auxiliary mercan- tile cruiser is an effective substi tute for a regular war cruiser is She is not design- sheer nonsense.

To

And

"He bought or hired a ship, filled ed nor. built for the purpose. She it with his goods. Unaided by the may, indeed, be adapted to carry scientific appliances of present-daya respectable armament of sin. navigation, and unprotected by the guns, although the stress of these results of modern medical learning, would probably soon tell upon her. anhelped by consular officers, be But she has no magazines, no pro ventured to distant cities inhabited tection to her vital parts.

the speed of our fastest ocean by strange and often hostile races, dispored of his goods, and brought liners falls about ten knots, short back merchandise of all kinds by of that of the fastest cruisers nOW exchange or purchase.

being constructed by all the prin cipal naval Powers. Their speed would be adequate in conroy work, but their all-round fighting powers would leave them no match for the class of warships which would be

Read of the history of Bruges in the fourteenth and fteenth cen- turies. Bruges was the market of Europe, whither everything from

the then known world was brought,

and there sold or exchanged.

"A man's life was often rot worth a day's purchase in Bruges ewing to the cheap rate at which human life was held. Executions went on daily. There was usually political unrest, and men were broken on the wheel or decapitated for the slightest excuse natives and foreigners alike. It required much bravery in those days to carry on, foreign trade,

Certainly many of our little Arms do not lack courage. When I say Httle frms, I mean firms where you have en employer and, say, hity work-people. These are the firms which we are so anxious to see succeed.

They are the backbone and ribs of British trade."

THE ATLANTIC FLEET. PEACE TIME TRAINING AND

DISTRIBUTION.

The idea that the addition of the new battleships Nelson and Rodney

detailed to attack them.

and

not ba recognized.

All broken, chafed and damaged Gooda will be rramized on any Tuesdays or to be left in the Godowns, where they Fridays, between the hours of 10.45 s.m. and Noon, within the Free Storage period of 'ne Week.

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bil's of Lading will be countersigned by

THE BANK LINE, LTD, General Agents. Bong Kong, 9th Sept., 1997. [5314

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

OCEAN STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.. AND CHINA MUTUAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

FROM UNITED KINGDOM VIL

SINGAPORE.

L

CONSIGNEES per do.'s Steamer

"LYCAON

are hereby notified that the Cargo will be

NEW YORK BERTH.

FOR NEW YORK & BOSTON via SUEZ.

BS. BOLTON CASTLE"

Fails on or about 15th Dati

LLOYD TRIESTINO.

REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENDEE AND FREIGHT SERVICE for BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (FILME). TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS.

. REDUCED PASSAGE RATES. BRINDISI VENICE & TRIESTE ... LONDON

NEXT SAILINGS.

£72.10.0. £80.0.0.

OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAL. YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND MOJI.

M.V. "ESQUILINO"

M.V. "ROMOLO"

9.8. "VENEZIA "

From Hong Kong. Bails hence on or about 13th Sept. Sails bence on or about 13th Oct. Sails hence on or about 10th Nov.

HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE

S.S. FIUME-L" M.V." ESQUILINO" M.V. ROMOLO,"

Fion Hong Kong Sails heace on or about 20th Sept. Sails besce on or about 19th Oct. faila hence on or about 15th Nov.

discharged into Holts Wharf, Kowloo NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS

where it will East Consignees risk and subject to Terms and Conditions of Storage at Holt's Wharf. The Cargo will. bo ready for Delivery from Godown On and after 5th September. make up num--

when detailed

for

Optional Cargo will not be landed here, anles Notice has been given prior to Steamer's arrival, but carried-on-from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends.

All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be

It is quite true that we employed auxiliary cruisers to advantage during the Great War, but they were mainly used bers, squadron work regular cruisers The usually accompanied them. defensive arming of merchant ves sels is a very sound principle. But the idea of employing them offen

In

be oxamined on any Tuesdays and sively is quite another matter. such an event regular naval ratings Fridays between the hours of 10.45 .. and gunners would have to be sup and Noox within the Free Storage period. No Claims will be sämitted after the plied, for it is not to be expected that the merchant seaman should Goods have left the Steamer's Godown, andelivered remaining be proficient in work quite outside and all Gooda of his job. The Germans of after the 14th September, will be subject

their big liners to Rent course, built specially to act as wartime cruisers, and there is reason to believe that they carried their armaments and ammunition in their holds during pearetime.

of

Against enemy armed merchant- men our vessels of corresponding type gave a splendid account themselves, as in the action between the Carmania and the Cap Trafal gar and the fight between the Al- cantard and the Grief. But when

to the Atlantic Fleet would be it came to an engagement between clear numerical gain to that com- an armed merchantman and mand was evidently a mistaken cruiser, as in the case of the Kaiser one. The Ramillies is to proceed Wilhelm der Grose and the High- to the Mediterranean, on the comfyer, for example, there was never pletion of her refit at the end of much question as to the result. next month, to join the flag of Sir Another not unimportant point Roger Keyes, and it is more than which is not recognized in this likely that the Revenge will follow American argument is that in war her inter. In this event the Atlantime we are likely to want all our tie Fleet will remain at its present mercantile craft for their legii strength, although, of course, in mate work or to act as transports fighting power it gains heavily by The idea of choosing the pick of the accession of the two most them to act as fighting cruisers a formidable expital ships in the one of those sketchy notions which world. When the Repulse and Re show a complete disregard for, or now have carried out their refits ignorance of, the elementary reall the Battle Cruiser Squadron will ties of war.-Naval and Military be at full strength. The bigship Record. ccmposition of the Atlantic Fleet will then be two lein-gun battle. ships, four 13.5in..gun battleships, and three 15in-gun battle-cruisers

NEW SUBMARINES.

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An Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on a before the 28th September, or they will not be recognised.

No Pro Insurance will be affected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. 8th September, 1927.

[$306

"GLEN" LINE, LIMITED. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Tax UNITED KINGDOM VIA

PORTE.

GLENLUCE having arrived from the abova porta, Consignes of Cargo by her are hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the bazardous and/or of the extra hazardous Godown Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company, Limited, whence, audier from the harves, Delivery may be obtained.

THE Motor Vessel

Goods not cleared by the 15th Septem- ber, 1927, at Noon, will be subject to Rent

All broken, chafed and damaged Packages are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined in the presence of Consignees by "Mesers.

1927, at 10

Claims against the Vessel including those for Cargo short

Probably it is true to say that DETAILS OF THE "O" CLASS. Goddard & Douglas on 14th September

this force is superior to all the com Lined capital-ship strength of other naval Powers in

The new submarines the

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE, and that, judged by this standaré, clues, the Queron and the Austra delivered must be presented on the Special

INCLUDING

Forma provided, and must also be the strength of the Atlantic Ficet lian Ozier, are now ready for ser-nbmittal within 30 days of arrival, is more than adequate. But for vice. From the first photographs otherwise they will not be recognized.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by the purposes of tactical training of the Oxley these submarinca ap- the very

be very similar to the ""us in any case whatever. small squadrons of the pear

Bill of Lading will be counterugned by prosent day undoubtedly handicap class as far as outward form goes.

HUGO STINNES LINIENdmirals. A large feet is easier They have a sloping snout bow JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LAD,

COMBINED FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICE. CABIN CLASS ACCOMMODATION FOR 50 PASSENGERS, FARE FROM HONG KONG TO GENOA~£73, 0a, 0d, OUTWARD.

Sailings from Europe for Shanghai and Northern Porte

8.8. "SMILETEDOBF”

8.8.

"HESSEN" B.B.BACHSEN"

8.8.PREUSSEN"

M.8. RAMSES"

ILS. ERMLAND":

HOMEWARD.

**

due here on or about the 17th Sept.,

... due bere on or about the 27th Bapt. ... due here on or about the 12th Oct due here on or about the 25th Oct, ...dne here on or about the 7th Nov. ... dua bere on or about the 23rd Nove,

Sailings for Europe yia Manila, Singapore, Colombo & Port Said:

8.5." OLDENBURG”

BS, "SAARLAND" ...

18.8. "EMIL KIRDORF"

188 "HESSEN "„

8.8. "SHEER

tor

sailing from here on or about the 10th Sept

6.8. ADOLF VON BAEYER" mailing from here on or about the 22nd Sept. sailing from here on or about the 27th Sept. ... sailing from here on or about the 23rd Oct. sailing from here on or about the 1st Nov. ... sailing from hers on or about the 10th Nov. ...sailing from here on or about the 15th Nor. Bailing from here on or about the 29th Nov.

8.8. "BACHBEN

8.8.PREUSSEN"

Calling at Genom, Botteriam and Hamburg. Calling at Rotterdam and Hamborg,

613

For Freight, Passage and further Particulars please apply to

JEBSEN & CO.

12. Fedder Street.

Tel:0, 4754.

Aganta

on the lines of war and one gun, mounted at a lower preparation than a small one. level than those of the "L" class." Hong Kong, 7th Be, 1, 1927. - [3305 Politically it may be wise to keep It has been repeatedly stated that the bulk of our Navy in the Medi- these submarines are the first to terranean. Strategically, the bear names instead of numbers,

The "O" boats displace, 1,400 question of distribution does not but this is not ko, for two Lifge materially matter in the present boats completed in 1915 were named toas, which is 300 tons less than These the L" class, and represents the posture of world affair. Economi- Swordfish and Nautilue. cally, it would be better to keep were afterwards renamed, 81 and maximum for general service sub- There are officers who the bulk of the Navy in the Nar N1. The latter was converted into marinca

floating power station at Porta- contend that the 200-ton "H" class row Seas. The question of how to dispose of our naval strength to mouth, and 81 became a surface are more efficient than the larger best peacetime advantage is dis patrol boat. Incidentally, El was boats, but war experience has pinctly a puzzling one these days, the first steam-driven submarine in shown that the medium-sized boat has many advantages which larger because the whole balance of eca the Royal Navy.

and smaller craft do not posLEKS, power has so changed. We no (Continued on next Column.) longer have any "objective" in

European waters. Germany, and,

BLOOD

before Germany, France, set us a WITHOUT PURE BLOOD HEALTH. IS. IMPOSSIBLE. very clear object, to which to respond for generations before the Great War. "We then had definite

power standards." Now

satisfied with "parity" with a Power which has

де are

PRRAPIRATION,

VETARZOEDICINES

likely ever to be equalled in diseases arising from impure blood. It sear

ches out and expels from the vital current every lurking trace of poison

ever before was there anything like it, nor are its marvellous properties

no concern in European waters at all, and very little in most of the matter, curing blood and skin diseases, scrotalous and glandular

regions surrounding

ocean

swellings, bad legs, abscesses, ulours, eczema, goat, rheumatism, goitre ther Derbyshire Necky ote. It improves the general health and quickly

British Empire. As we seem to in- removes standing bronchitin asthma and hacking, straining,

sist that any idea of war with this Power is unthinkable," it really main- does not matter whether she

tains parity or- gaina superiority

pamadic cough, too often the precursor of consumption.

LIFE WITHOUT HEALTH IS LIVING DEATHL

BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD.

in numbers over the British Navy. VETARZO For Nervous Breakdown and

If she chooses to fritter millions

for prestige, that is ber business,

Where she is going to find the mean

power to complement more ships

#Varonis Weakness.

VETARZO REGULATORS, Safe and Bellabla. English Price 3 (aither remedy), The VETARZOREMEDIES CO,

when she finds so much difficulty in Gornel Usk, S.W.8, London, Eng. Unprincipled Dealers may try to

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