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TRIP IN 1937 TO CANADA...UNITED STATES...EUROPE

one

and enjoy the advantages of Management, Ship and Shore from the time you board a Canadian

Pacific Empress in the Orient.

Sailings via Honolulu and also Direct Express Route from Yokohama.

NEXT SAILING TO

VANCOUVER

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

SAILS VIA SHANGHAI, JAPAN & HONOLULU AT NOON, FRIDAY, OCT., 16th.

TO MANILA

EMPRESS OF ASIA ·

EMPRESS OF CANADA

Oct. 22nd Nov 6th

Full information from your own Agent or

Canadian Pacific

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Telephone: Passenger 20752.

Freight 20042.

GACANPAC: Passenger Dopt. "NAUTILUS; Freight Dept.

Cantan Agents JARDINE. MATHESON & CO. LTD.

VKLINE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

TATETTA MAKU

ASAMA MARU-

་

CHICHIBO MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

HIYE YARI

HEIAN MABU

Wednesday, 14th Oct. Wednoeday, 7th Oct Wednesday, 25th Nov.

;

(Starts from Kobe) Monday. Start from Kobaj Monday,

9th Nov, 30th Nov.

17.

Tuesday, Tuesday.

3rd Nov. 24th Nov.

NEW YORK via Panama.

+ NOIMA" WABU

+ NOTO MARU

SOUTH AMERICA (West Corst) via Japan, Honolulu, Los

Angeles, Mexico and Panama.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM

Friday,

4th Dec.

Saturday, Saturday, Friday:

24th Oct. 7th Nov. 20th Nov.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth. Istanbul, Piraeus.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila and Ports.

Monday, 18th Nov.

Thursday, Saturday. 28th Nov.

19th Oct,

HEIYO MABT

XATORI MARU

KASHIMA MARU

YASUKUNI MARU

and Marseilles

↑ TOYOOKA MAKU

KITA O MARU

KAMO MARU

+MAYEB 48HI MARU

+ DENMARK MARU

GINYO MARU

+ TOTTOR MARU

Friday.

TUKUSHIMA MARU

++2

Thursday,

29th Oct.

HAKONE MARU

Friday

KAMO MARU

(Naki direct) Monday.

ANTO MARU

23rd not. 78th Oct, Wednesday, 28th Oct,

+ Cargo only.

BOMBAY vin Singapore, Pening and Colombo.

Wednesday, 28th Oct. Sunday, 1st Nov. Thorsday, 12th Nov.

16th Oct.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang and Rangoon.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

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To SHANGHAI — KOBE.

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We can issue Through Tickets to EGYPT, SYMIAN PORTS, EAST AFRICA, MADAGASCAR by Transhipment on our. Mail Steamern at. PORT BAID FOR DJIBOUTI

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1936.

Shipping News Daily Statement, Clearances,

SAFETY OF LIFE

AT SEA

Lessons Of Recent Losses

· Ships in Harbou, etc.

NEWS FROM THE WATERFRONT

Freight And Asiatic Passengers Returns

Reference to the loss in the

(BY LONGSHOREMAN), North Atlantic of the s.s. Millpool

The freight returns, received the ss. Blairgowrie and the 3.3.

from the Harbour Office, during Usworth was made by Dr. James the 24 hours ended at 9.00 am. Montgomerie, chief ship surveyor | yesterday, showed a low tonnage of Lloyd's Register of Shipping. movement when he read a paper on safety at sea at the international meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers in New York recently.

The total tonnage of general cargo carried by vessels to the Colony was 8,492 tons, with British steamers carrying 850 tons,

to

5,510 tons of which 40 tons were carried by British steamers.

Through cargo for ports be The loss of these vessels: he sala.yond the Colony amounted had directed, attention to the security of the hatchways and the efficiency of the steering gear. It was the rod und chain type of gear that was chiefly criticised, he said, but it could be proved that ac- cidents to steering gear did not occur with greater frequency than casualties to other parts of the ship's equipment.

ARRIVALS IN

COLONY

Passengers On Pres. Pierce

Among the passengers aboard the Dollar liner: President Pierce

Seattle. via which arrived yesterday from and Japan ports shanghai, were Miss B A. Rouch who is connection with the Bank of New South Wales and holds the coveted

Assistant position of Economic Adviser:

Mr. Fred C. Fornes, the new Am- erican Consul for Hong Kong, ac-

companied by his wife and young

Jon;

Mr. Edmund James Coote, ma- naging director of the Property Real Estate Inc. Ltd, New South Wales;

Asiatic deck passengers entering into the Colony during the 24 hours ended at 9.00 a.m. yesterday were 1,124, of which 696 were from British steamers.

Mr. Benjamin Sobol, Vice-Pre- There were altogether six ar-sident of the Sobol Brothers Oil rivals, of which only one was of Company, New York, was also a British registry, the remainder being of other nationalities, while Manila on a pleasure trip.

passenger. He is en route to of the six departures. two were British ships the rest being of

A breakdown of the steering gear might involve consequential loss of a serious character, but given the particular care in maintenance other different countries. Particu- which its efficient working de-a. na follows:- manded the rod and chain type of Nationality

gear was satisfactory.

Dr. Montgomerie also referred to the fact that over the last forty years the size of hatchways in cargo vessels has progressively in- creased, while the methods of mak- ing them secure against assaults of the sea had not been materially

Ships

Tonnare

British

1

690

Dutch Norwegian Japanese

1

759

12 582

Total

14,011

altered. The opening was still £50 A MONTH ALIMONY closed in with pine covers protect: ed by tarpaulins secured by lash- ings.

It did seem, he said, that the time bad come when more serious attention should be given to the various proposals which had been put forward, such as the adoption of steel covers. “

FIRE RISKS

On the subject of fire on ships Dr. Montgomerie« pointed out that in the United Kingdom from. 1926 to 1934 inclusive the total losses, both cargo and passenger, due to 22 ships, aggregating fire about 20,000 tons gross. Of these only three were ships carrying passengers, and they did not in- volve loss of life.

were

.

An analysis of the fires reported in the twelve months March, 1930. to February, 1931, showed that in | the great majority of cases the cause of the fire was unknown and that the percentage of fires in motor-ships was more thân double' that in steamers.

New York Court And Alfonso's Eldest Son

ARRIVALS

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12.

Pres. Pierce, American steamer,

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PO-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS

TAKING CARGO FOR 974

Australia, Fed. Sea, Egypt, Istanbul, Greece Levinkine Ports Europe.

Straite Java, Burim Ceylon, India Perciso Oulf, Mauritius, Fast and South Africa.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FÖRTNIGHTLY

DIRECT ROYAL - MAIL STEAMERS SANDA

under contract with H.M. Government All vessels may call at any ports on or of the route, and the route and all

milings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.

Steamship

Tons

From Hongkong

(About)

PENINSULAR &

Destination

ORIENTAL SAILINGS

· 1765 Oct., Noon. Mamailles à Eondon, 20 24th Oct

RAWALPINDI 17,00 *BEHAR

8,000

CORFU

14,500 "SOUDAN

31st Oct.

€,000

7th Nov.

*MIRZAPORE RANCHI CARTBASE

BURDWAN

6,000

9th Nov.

17, 00

14h Nov.

+14,500

€,000

gath Nov. 5th Dec.

17,000 17,000 6,000

1th Dec. 16th Dec. 2nd Jan,

Captain Henry NALDERA

12,579

tops.

Nelson, from New York via COMORIN Shanghai, Kowloon Wharf.- | "SOMALI Dollar Line.

Haraldsvang, Norwegian steamer, 1,865 tons, Captain A. Sunde, irom Swatow, Stonecuttera- K. Larsen & Co.

• Cargo only.

Kara

Havre, London, Hall, B'bg, R'dami. & A'werp. Bombay, Marreilles & London. Mara. Havre, London, Hall,

H'burg.. R'dam. & A'werp. Pomar & Karachi only. Marseilles & London.

Bum ww. Marsilles & Tendon Marseilles, Havre, London, HaN, Hamburg, R'dam. & Antwerp Bombay, Marseilles & London Bombay, Marseilles and London. B'bay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hall. H'burg., R'dam. &'Antwerp,

ו.

Calla

le Tangier

† Calls Casablancs. All veegale may call at Malta.

steamers

Kinkasan Maru, Japanese steamer. Frequent connection from Port Said for Phengers and Cargo to

2615 tons Captain E. Tak'yu, | Istanbul, Piraeus, Symrna, and other Levant Ports by from Muke, buoy No. A13.- | Khedivial Mail Steamship Co. M. B. K.

Judge Steur of the New York Supreme Court has ordered the Count of Covadonga, eldest son of ex-King Alfonso, to pay his wife, the Cuban-born, Edelmira Sam-Yeljun Maru, Japanese steamer, pedro-Ocejo. temporary of £50

1.284 tons. Captain M. Kojima, a" month and

from Tsingtao. buoy No. 15. counsel's fees pending the outcome

DK K. of the count's sult for the annul- ment of his marriage.

alimony £150

His wife asked for £150 a month and £50,000 counsel's Ices.

The Count of Covadonga fled. a sult last July in the New York Supreme Court for the annulment of his marriage.

que, Improved methods of fire pro- tection had been embodied in the latest" French haers. In the case

of the President Dcumer, it had been found possible to effect a con- siderable reduction in the use of Mc. E. L. Champnesa, managing timber by replacing it with metal. director of the Palmers Hebburn' Considerable ingenuity was also' Company, of Tyneside, "remarked ¦ used in eliminating as much wood that safety of sea travel was made

as possible from the structure of

up of many factors, of which fre the Normandie. Similar improve- had proved to be the least im- i.ments had been carried out in portant.

British ships, notably the Queen' Mary, the Stirling Castle, the Strathmore, and the Orion,

In the nine years 1928 to 1934. he said, the number of lives lost due to fire on British-owned ships of all classes was 164. For the same period the number of road deaths in Britain was 59 892, while in America in one year alone-1934 --the number Was practically 34,000.

Following the disastrous fires in the Georges Philippar and Atlanti

41

11

|

Maros, Norwegian steamer,

BRITISH INDIA - APCAR

GOGRA

7,000

14th not.

SIRI HANA

8,000

7 b Nov.

SHIR LA

8,000

21st Nov.

839

TAWA

To mo

8,000

tons, Captain Thorenfeldt, SANTHIA from Hon Kohe Bay, Stone- cutters. Thoresen & Co.

Kwal Sang, British steamer, 1,439

tens,

Costello. Captain M. from Tsingtao and Shanghai via. Swalow, West Point Whari. -. M. & Co.

الـ

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11.

Tinegara, Dutch steamer, 5.783 tons, Captain J. Adriaanse, from Shanghai via Amoy buoy No. 43.-J. C. J. Line.

CLEARANCES

MONDAY, OCTOBER 12,

Each of these had been fitted | Malayah Prince for Mantia with sprinklers, a system which Mr. Kwai Sang for Canton Champness said was "likely to hold Haraldsvang for Fort Redon at sea as on land a unique position Unyo Maru for `Singapore as the 100 per cent method of in- Anshun for Amey auring immediate detection and immediate extinction always usso- clated with personal attention." "Central News."

Tai Yuan for Canton Rakuyo. Mara for Moji Clara Jebsen for Baigon Tin Seng for K. C. Wan

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Havre, London, Rotterdam & Hamburg.

8.8. "CITY OF PITTSBURG"

+

ELLERMAN LIIP

8th Oct,

14th For.

· Havre, London, Botterdam & Hamburg, ....14th Dec... AGENTS FOR

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CO.

MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA ---merriers superperam p ORIENTAL AFRICAN, MUS

8.8. "TINHOW*

5th Nov.

Loading for Mutritius Reunion, Tamatave Lotrerco Marques, Dirhần ard Cape Porta. EAST & SOUTH AFRICA... Luxurides Pässenora Vessels......... INDIAN AFRICAN, LINE.

M.V. “INUHANGA" MY. "INTOMATI”

BV, "INIPINGO"

trom Calcutta - 4th Nov.; from Calcutta (4th Deoj

from Calcutta 4th Jani

...from Colombe 10th Nov.

from Colombo I th Dec from Colombo 19th Jan,

Taking PASSENGERS and CARGO for Mon1nes, Zanzibar, Feirs, Lourenco Marques Darbas, East London, Port Elizabeth, Messy Bag and Cape Town.

AGENTS. FOR

KLAVENESS

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(PACIFIC COAST—ASIATIO · SERVICE)

28th Out.

HONGKONG DIRECT TO LOS ANGELES (in 21 Days) SAN FRANCISCO, PORTLAND AND PUGET SOUND, M.V. "SOMERVILLE“ · Lwing through Ba/Lading to Gaza & Aztarrto Coaar with transhipment at Los Angulus by fist opporfanity, ALL BALLISON FURJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT Nonos For Freight or Famage on any of the afore fines apply *— ***

Telephone... 27791.

3, Queen's Building."

ith Tea.

19th Dec.

SAILINGS

Singapore, Port Ewettenha Penang. Rangoon & Calcutta

* Cargo only.

Now is the time to sit, Clustralia & New Zealand

landa of Funshine and Bomance. "Down, Under" you will feel a new being sid

even if you are not inclined towards Surfing, Fishing, thooting or Mountaincering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you,—including 25/- for your pound

tm the way down your life aboard will be un you wish, quiet or hectic for the B. & A. 133 humour your very with

And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and theya in of comm a Bun Deck Hwimming pool, an Orchestra and a fine Laundry.

A Surgeon, and Stewardosa med at your disposal and last but not imst-we bad almost forgotten the cuisine will set you listening erorly for the Goog

Regular monthly mange from Hong-Kong to shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to

Australia:

Hong Kong to Sydney--19 days:

Frequent connections from Australia with the following

The Union 5.3. Co.'s 'staamaze to the United Kingdom vis New Zealand, Vancouver, Ba Francisco, sto....

The P. a 0. Royal Mail Steamera to London and

The P. & C. Branch Service of Steamers 10 London via Suel..

The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Biomers for Southampton and London via Panama Cazi,

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILING 5)

NELLORE TANDA NANKIN

7,000 7,000

31st Oct.

4th Bc.

7,000

fnd Jan.

Manila,

Brisbane Rabaul, Sydney Melbourne & Hobart

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

13th Oct 8,000

1,000 19th Oct. 8,000 29 ch. 6,000 1th Oct. 14,500

30th Oct. 5th Nov.

Amoy, Shanghai & Japan Changhai & Japan Amoy, Shanghai & Japan Shanghai & Japan Shanghai & Japan

" do" Amoy, Shanghai & Japan Shanghai & Japan

NIRDHANA BANUHI SHIRALA (*BUROWAN CARTHAGE TANDA TILAWA NALDERA SOMALI COMORIN

17,000

10,000

12th Nov.

17,000

6,000

13th Nov. 25th Nov.

17,000

271b Nor

* Cargo only.

ALL DATES to approximate and subject to alteration without notice. For further information, Fassage, Freight Handbooks, etc., apply to the Agents:

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