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A Cuisine You'd Choose

Were It Available Ashore Those crisp salads, delicious vegetables and fresh fruits that you like so well! Every meal aboard the President Liners is a delight: The cuisine has won for these giant ships a world- wide reputation for excellence.

The magnificent President Liners are broad of beam and exceptionally meady.' Ale oil burners, swife express liners.

The public rooms are luxuriously appointed and lavicing,

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All staterooms are outside, splendidly furnished and equipped with bed-nor berths. Each room has bot and cold running water, also fans, wardrobe, thermos bottles 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 adds sest to your dining.

The decks are spacious. The Glass-enclosed Promenade always popular. Deck gons, oren dit swimming pool, movies, evening, dances, everything has beca to make your trips happy one. Unexcelled anywhere is the courteous and efficient service accorded you by the trained personnel shoard the President Liners.

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

WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

TO SAN FRANCISCO and

LOS ANGELES

The Sunshine Belt via Honolulu Fortnightly sailingi mes Tuesdays Pres. Pierce ......Tue Feb. 14th Pren. Taft...Tuen, Feb. 99th Pros. Jefferson.....Tues., Mar. 13th Prer. Lincoln...Tue., Mar. 27th

TO SEATTLE and VICTORIA

The Short, Straight Route to Amarios Fortnightly wailings on Wednesdays

Pres. Madison... Wai., Feb. 8th, Prea, Jackson ...Wed, Feb. 2201 Fres. McKinley... Wed., Mar. 7th Pros, Grant...Wed. Mar 25

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

To EUROPE and NEW YORK ROUND THE WORLD

Fortnightly sailings on Tuemlaya via Manila, Straits, Colombe, Sure Canal, Alexandria, *Nantes, Genna, Mamelles. Then and Name Yoris.

Pres. Van Buren ...Son., Feb. 18th

Pres. Adamu

Pres. Haves Pren. Polk

San Fab. 26th Sun., Mar, 11th

Pres. Garfield..... Pres. Harrison

TO MANILA

Pros. Pierce....... Feb. 6th, 6 pm. Pros. Van Buren...Feb. 12th, 6 pm Prea, Jackson... Feb 14th,

Sun, Mar. 25th Son., Apr. 8th Sun., Apr. 22nd

Pres, Taft....... Feb. 20th, 8 pm Pres, Hayes Feb. 26th, 6 p.m. Pros, McKinley. Feh, 28th, 6 p..

For Bookings Passenger and Freight Information Apply sö Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor Telephone Central 1477, 2478 and 795 Cable Address "Dollar"

Dollar Steamship Line

and

American Mail Line

M.M

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

MAIL AND CARGO STEAMERS TO AND FROM

MARSEILLES, DUNKIRK, U.K., HAMBURG & ROTTERDAM.

From Marseilles

For Shangbai and Japan"

SPHINX PORTHOS A PAUL LEGAT ANDRE LEBON

15th Feb.

SPHINX

TAP

*9th Feb. 14th Mar. 28th Mar.

PORTHOS

PAUL LECAT ANDRE LEBON

15th Feb. 29th Feb. 14th Mar. 28th Mar.

For Marseilles

·D'ARTAGNAN

14th Feb.

28th Feb.

SPHINX

*

PORTROS

18th Mar. 27th Mar. 10th Apr

From Dunkirk, Antwerp,

London

TALOU (Cargo 25th Feb. D. P. BENOIT (Cargo) 24th Mar.

For Shanghai, Japan and

North China YALOU

(Cargo)... 25th Feb. D. P. BENOIT (Cargo) 24th Mar:

G. METZINGER

PAUL LEGAT

For Rotterdam, Hamburg,

Dunkirk

YANG TSE (Cargo)...1st week Mar.

For full Particulars, apply to

Cie, des MESSAGERIES MARITIMES, Telephones: O. Lei and 740.

ON SALE,

TONG KONG-HANSARD-RE

HPORTS of the MEETING of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL for the Basien 1928.

Revised by Members PRICE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS Or

8, Queen's BUILDING.

OVER HALF A CULTURY, KEMUSI A DON

FILLS FOR THE

OR. LECLERG'S LIVER HIDNEYE SARAPORLURE of 6000 ECONSAJED GRIEL GRATIS Backman, Hot, RAMENA VINS Paw: Leading Dancigen, der Bowl Fre

Osume Mas, Co., Zwemmock là Jew.

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BATH AND KISZABLE FOR SAWAS DALE CLEROPE BOAP, 18, 00:4 2325,

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6th, 1928.

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WARSHIP MODEL EXPERI. INSURANCE CARDS RUINED. DUKE IN AN ART SCANDAL.

MENTS.

IN TANKS LIKE BIG SEX- MING BATHS.

16 FEET BATTLESHIPS.

SWAMPED AT RECORDS OFFICE.

BENEFIT OF DOUBT FOR CONTRIBUTORS,

The Thantes foods, says the Daily Mail of January 10th; have swamped the Unemployment In sprance Act. They have made it impossible in thousands of cases to determine accurately a man's right to statutory benefit.

Mr. R. W. Gawn, M.IN.A., 1.C.N.C.. has contributed to State Service & very interesting and instructive recount of ship models and experimental tanks. He pays full tribute to the pioneer work in this way of William Froude, who in 1950, under the ægis of the Ad- In such cases, it was stated at miralty, established the first prac the Ministry of Labour, it will tical experiment tank at Terquay.he necessary to give the insured This proved a successful in yield-person the benefit of the doubt and ing definite and important data re- considerably expenditure of money garding hull resistance that, in 1880, the Aduziralty opened a large tank at Haslar, which is still in This tank is 400 ket long, with varying depths, the mean average being nine feet, and 20 feet sida The models are towed from á dymnmometer truck running on rails and wire drawn by an electric motor. Constancy of speed, which is essential to the value of the ex- periments, is attained by a poten tiometer. At one end of the tank is a gently shelving beach upon which the waves of displacement

use.

be studied Larger tanks have affice been built, so as to enable bigger models to be used and higher speeds carried out.

The models used at Haslar are about 10 feet long for big ships and 12 feet lang for destroyers, al- though in other tanks where experi ments in hul resistance are car led out models up to feet long are by no means "uncommon. They are usually fashioned out of hard paraffin wax, the shell being about 1 inches thick. The models are al cut to an intended freeboard of

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MISSING GOBELIN

TAPESTRIES.

TALE OF OLD MASTER

COPIES."

BERLIN

The 23 years old Duke of Anhaft, a romantic marriage who made with a pretty actress last February, has an immense quantity of valu alle pictures, status, tapestries, and books.

Some times ago he made up his mind to part with treasures worth about £250,000 and entered into an' arrangement with a Berlin art dealer, Dr., Gurlitt, to put them on the marke

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The duke's upholsterer, who TJISONDARI ... S'HI KLONG. 6th Feb. doubtless regretted the loss of the 1.1ILKBOET commission which formerly accrued TJITAROEM to him, maintained that things TJILIWONG that would otherwise have becaware cold at far too cheap a price. TJIKARANG ... avoided may be thus entrálod. All this is the result of the

o! the Ministry of undation Labour office at Kew, where the re- corda of all these insured persons are kept. Every July, the stamped unemployment insurance cards of some 13,000,000 men and women are sent by the local exchanges to Kew, The work of entering in lodgers the particulars of the number of stamps an each occupies a section of the staff for a whole year.

Ferhaps this was why the duke de TJIKEMBANG SHAL, KLING. 20th in-clared that the contract with the

TJIPANAS art dealer was invalid

A portrait by Carpaccio and a TJISALAK rare Bible were taken away from TILEROET TJISAROEA Dr. Gurlitt's premises on ground that the portrait was really the property of Prince Eugene, the duke's brother, and that the Bible had to be handed over to the Free State of Anhalt.

About half ot. them have now been entered in books which were kept above the foods. The remain- der, awaiting entry, are led in tiers of racks, and a third of them were covered by water when the Thames burst its banks in the neighbourhood and swamped the building.

A-Pulpy Masa,

When the waters had receded and the officials went to look at them they found them little but a pulpy mass, from which stamps had been detached in wholesale numbers, 60 that in thousands of cases it may be impossible to determine accur

aid.

On the audit side there has been similar damage to the 1,250,000 re- cipta for benefit many of thera written in indelible pencil; which are received each week.

six inches, and, by gauging, the error of displacement is reduced to an absolutely negligible fraction The resistance of the model when towing is recorded in a drum by the assistance of a very sensitivaly the number of contributions coil spring. The various experi- ments are of too technical a charac ter to be desenibed here, involving

they do

various abstruse mathematical problems and the use of instruments of which the lay- man never even heare. A full ans of experiments occupies about week, during the course of which the natural changes of sinkage and trim with varying speeds are auto- matically recorded, and the profile of the wave of displacement along the ship's side, also its varying speed, is plotted from observations. Screw propellers are used, as near- ly as possible to scale, and a drum records the thrust, torque, and It will number of revolutions. thus be seen that these tank experi ments may vitally influence the original designs of a warship.

FIVE MORE GIANT AIRSHIPS.

ATLANTIC TRI-WEEKLY SERVICE PLAN.

Usually all claims for unemploy- mett benefit made at the local ex-- changes are went to Kew for sane- tion before payment.

This sanc

To Dr. Gurlitt's astonishment the portrait was exhibited in Lou- don and sold for £4,400 to a Munich customer, and as to the Bible the Anhalt authorities say that they have not received it.

Dr. Gurlitt is bringing an ac- tion against the duke for £5,000 Commission which he would have received had the contraes been carried out.

Government will intervene, for Dr. It is expected that the Anhalt Gurlitt alleges that the duke's up- holsterer

hid two valuable portraits atch, according to the arrangement between the duke and the Republican rulers who sutered: ed him, were to be handed over to the public authorities, and subeti- tuted for them two

copies,

worthless

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Wireless Telegraphy.

Amor N. CHINA ANOT,BHAI. KLONG. BATATIA

SWATOW & Sagun

AKU? & N. CHINA

BATAVIA

4th Mar. AxOT & SHANGHAI,

The summers are all Bited throughout with leotrie Light and have socommadan for a limited number of saloon Parengers, All_stenmora Carvo takon at through rates to all porta in Carry a duly qualifed #m17600. Netherlanda India and Australia

For Particulars of Freight and Famage, apply to the

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JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART

MAATSCHAPPY.

(ROYAL TAUKET Navigation Co. on Batavia).

THE MOTOR VESSEL

"CREMER."

Dr. Gurlitt proposce to call the Due to sali to SINGAPORE, BELAWAN.DEL! and

PENANG, on 16th February, at Noon.. duke's uncle Prince Aribert, to give evidence about the disappear- ance of valuable Gobelin tapestries Offers which should have been given up

to the State.

UNDER-SEA DANCING. BEAUTIFUL MERMAIDS AT THE CHELSEA ARTS BALL

LONDON, Jan. 2nd.

The tall, which will be bigger

tion depends on scrutiny of the The London art schools are con- filed recorda. As this work was im possible yesterday emergency inspiring to entertain 6,000 dancers structions were telegraphed to all at the Chelsea Arts Ball at the

Albert Hall on January 5th. local exchanges authorising pay ment of claims on local inspection of the claimant's current card.than ever, is described as an under- sea affair. The set pieces are of the sea, and the lighting will give an impression of dancing under the se Facing the organ 50 beautiful red-haired mermaids with tails will. reeline amid rocks.

AIRCRAFT CATAPULTS.

AEROPLANES IN CRUISERS.

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The various art schools have their own ideas of wiermaids costumes. Hundreds of mermaids will he there with detachable tails

Neptune's Court, arranged by the Central School of Art, will

Wit throne. have

Venus rising, from the Sen, after

excellent Saloon accommodation.

All lower berths.

English cuisine.

Doctor carried.

Wireless telegraph.

1st Class Fare to Singapore-$125.

In connection with the Royal Packet Nav. Co.'s (K.P.M.)" Service to a destinations in the Netherlands East Indies and Australia.

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Agents JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN-LIJN.

Telephone 1574. YOL BUILDING, QUATER HOLD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co.'s

STAME KHIVA" ARRIVED HONG KONG ON 2ND FEBRUARY, 1923. FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION Co's STEAMER MACEDONIA."

ANTED HONG KONG.

2ND FEBRUARY, 1928.

FROM ANTWERP,LONDON,GIBRAL TAR. MARSEILLES, MALTA, PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND STRAITS. of Cargo by the ONSIGNEEN 01

Vessel are hereby in- bov-named

NONSIGNEES formed that their Goods are being landed

and placed 47 78212 21st in the Hong

Camel Vas of Cargo by the above-

The Admiralty, it is understood. are well satisfied with the type of

which aircraft catapult originally fitted in the Findictive whilst under reconstruction some three years ago, and has been sub-

Comp

st Kowloon, where placed AT THIS aux in the Hong Kong R.100 TO BE SOLD, ject to pretty effective tests during Botticelli's picture, is the Slade Roux and Kowloon Wharf, and Godown that their Goods are being landed and

her COMMEGA100

Consignment the China School's contrixation. The birth on

can be obtained as pany's Mark by This year will see the first At catapults of way, similar design

Stalien.

a shell on the top of a high rock, the Goods are landed. od and Delivery .This Vessel brings on Cargo from lantie dir race in history. It is a

are being fitted in all new ships will be staged by the Westminster between Great Britain and

Persian Gulf er B.I.S.N. and B & F.. Germany for the honour of which We were much behind the Ameri. School of Art

Co.'s Steamers. can Navy in adopting this device, is to be the first country to inau- gurate an-Atlantic air-service be the Admiralty apparently prefer ring to follow the principle of tween the two continents.

"wait and see," lis manifestly Commander Burney, managing director of the Airship of no use to furnish a warship with Guarantee Company, Ltd., who left a seaplane unless she can send it

As result launching of a pearl, with a pretty girl inside | each Godo sorted out Mark and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Com-

rabe

M.P.,

A sea serpent 70ft. long, giant conger eels, a 30ft. shark," and a school of sea horses are other ideas for the balk

Godown at Kowloon, where each Consignment will be Forted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can be obtained ne the Goods are landed,

Optional Goods will be landed here unless instructions have been given to the contrary 6 hours before arrival of the Steamer.

Optional Goods will be landed here aaleas instructions have been given to the contrary Sir hours before arrival of The steamer.

Goods not cleared" within 8 days Goods not cleared within 8 days in- including date of arrival will be subject to

on January 11th for Canada and/fying under all reasonable condi- HONG XONG METEOROLOGIDAG) ending date of arrival will be subject to Heat wire Invarance will be effected by

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tions. The elementy plan of the United States, said:

"The R100 should be completed lowering it into the water and let by the first week in July; I hope ting it take off is only feasible to have the trials completed in a under favourable conditione of few weeks, and I them intend to weather. But with the catapult an to aircraft can be met going practical flights demonstration

ly ander any circumstances, and Canada and the United States.

There are not intended to be not least amongst the merits of this a commercial service; when R100ppliance is the fact that it takes starts a commercial air route it up such a comparatively will be ixtween Britain and Egypt. amount of space,

"These preliminary flights will simply be to demonstrate the pos- sibilities of an air liner incorporat ing the latest improvements. she can reach America successfully, it shows that she can fly on the Far East route, which is almost entirely overland.

Carriage Of Malls.

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It is my intention to build five ships modelled, on the lessons we shall learn from R100 to operate an alternate day service between "England-pod-North America

B-Blus aky: O-Cloudy; D- Drizzle; F-Fog; L-Lightning: M-Mist; 0-Overcast: P-Passing showers; Q-Squalk; E-Rain; T- Thunder.

Of course, the return of the air- craft remains quite a separate and very much more difficult problem. The catapult renders it feasible to despatch a explane in a strong right open-air Temperature, 4th:60 breeze, but a seaplans cannot pos- Lowest open-air Temperature, 5th: 68 sibly land on a warship (other than an aircraft carrier) in a strong breeze. The utmost she can at- tempt to do is to alight on the water under the lee of the vessel and be hoisted in by a derrick. It is not difficult to imagine circum- stances in which the question of the return of the aircraft would be of I have arranged with the secondary importance; she could British Postmaster-General for the make for the nearest home part earriage of the British mail on the after fulfilling her mission, or, if basis of making a surcharge over an aircraft carrier were in the and above the normal charge of ap. vicinity, it could pick her up. Pre- proximately 6d. an ounce for let sume her to have been despatched ters and 23. p pound for parcels, on a scouting trip, and to have and am now going to discuss mat gained the information required, ters with the United States and she could drop a written message Canadian postal authorities to as

over her parent ship and then make a similar arrangement her way to the nearest practicable certain if

landing Wireless in small air Tom. 7

can-be made for the United craft is never likely to be reliabley

Days of

HONG KONG TIDĦ TABLK.

From February 6th to 12th, 1928. HIGH WATKE

Mon.

and Canadian mail.

Our proposals for passengers at present are to charge £80 a berth in four-berth cabin, £100 a berth in a two-berth cabin, and £120 for a-singlederth cabin, an agon as the regular service is chaugurated.

Commander Burney also disclos ed the fact that 100 is to be sold to the company as soon as the neces sary financial operations are com--tion-received Naval and Military: domai pibled.

the installation means a serious ad W. dition to weight and the vibration

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No Fire Insurancs will be effected by as in any case whatever,

any case whatever.. Damaged Packages must be left in the (odowns for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's surveyor Mesara. GODDARD & DOUGLAS at 10 am on Mondays and

and Thursdays, within the Free Storage period.

Claims against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before 22nd February, 1828, or they will not be recognized.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.

Agenta Hong Kong, 2nd Feb., 1928. (6945

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES,

CONSIGNEE NOTICE.. SS. GENERAL METZINGER"

BRINGING CARGO FIOM MARSEILLES, &c. Aco-CANGO FROM COGNAC, Ex S.B. "TETUAN.

CO

ONSIGNEES are hereby informon thaz their Goods with the exception

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Con

guess, and the Company's "Surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & Douglas at 10am on Mondays and Thursdays, within the Free

Storage period. All Cialis against the Steamer must be presented to the Undersigned on or before 22nd February, 1928, or they will not be recognised.

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown.

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co.

Agenta, Hong Kong, 2nd Feb., 1822. [3948 COMPAGNIE DES MESSA- GERIES MARITIMES. CONSIGNEE NOTICE,

E.S. "YANGTSE.”

BRINGING CARGO Fox BOTTER- DAM, DUNKIRK, ANTWERP, LONDON, &c.; AL CARGO FROM HARVE & COGNAC, Ex 8X,

DORISE COMMANDANT

that their Goods with the exception TONSIGNEES

are hereby informed

of Opiam, Tremeare and Valuables are of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are

Boug

being landed and stored into the Godowns being landed and stored into the Go- of the Borg and Kowloon Wharf downs of the

Ltd., Kowloon, Sr. and Godown Co., Ltd., Kowloon, whenci i Wharf & Godown and Kowloon 05 Delivery may be obtained immidiately whence Delivery may be obtained in- 3 38 2fter landing.

mediately after fading. 07 All Claim must be sent in to me on before Thursday the 9th February, 01928, or they will not be recognized.

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the various to operate. During long-distance flights flast summer F several of the machines were "litted": with wireles, but in to came in Sat 11 which anxiety/wis folt for the safety of such was any communica 8. 120 45

Record.

Damaged Packages will be examined by

All Claims most be sent in to me on

or befors Friday the 10th Instant,

or they will not be recognized

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Damaged Packages will be examined

Company's Surveyors Mean by the Company Eurveyors Merca

the

ard Douglas in the presence Goddard

the Conmgnees at 10 am on Monday, the 8th February, 1928.

No Fire Torrance will be effected by

in any case whatever.

J. LIMAGE,

Agent

Hong Kong, But Jan. 1928 (5841-

Goddard & Denglas in the presence of the Consignees so 10 am, on Tuesday, the 7th February, 1923. ******

No Fire Insurance will be affected by -us in any case whateverze st

J. LIMAGE, ..Agent.

Hong Kong, 1st Feb., 1929............ 3842