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TRAVEL "EMPRESS”

Trans-Pacific Empress of Japan Empress of Canada Empress of Russia Empress of Asia

Trans-Canada

The Dominion Son-Dominion ·

Train 2

Trani-Ailantle Empress of Britain Empress of Australia

Duelings of Atholl Duchess of Bedford

Duchess of iclunond

Duchess of York

Montcalm

Montrose

Monteinre

Luxury with economy by the "Sun- shine Route" via Honolulu or the "Direct Express Route" to Van- couver

and service ality

Renowned meals

Cheerful Inform- and gala evening parties.

Air-conditioned sleeping cars and observation

all cars on

Trans- Continental trains a Cool Clean

Quiet Comfortable

www

Uniform temperature

Regular sailings from

Canadian

Atlantle ports to Europe by Canadian Pacile Atlantic fleet.

TO VANCOUVER EMPRESS OF JAPAN

SAILS VIA SHANGHAI, JAPAN & HONOLULU AT NOON TUESDAY, FEB., 23rd

MANILA

TO

8 P.M. Jan. 29th. EMPRESS OF JAPAN

UNION BUILDING HONG KONG.

Telephone: Passenger 20752.

Freight 20042.

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Canton Agents: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,

Canadian Pacific

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8th Feb. HIKAWA KARU .. (Starts from Kobe) Baturday,

(Starts from Kobe) Tassday, 23rd Feb. HIYE MARU

NEW YORK via Panama,

+ NARUTO MARU

+ NAGARA MARU

Tuesday, Monday,

2nd Feb.

18th Feb.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Const) viä Japan, Honolulu, Los "

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***

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*

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10th Feb.

Friday, Saturday, Saturday,

20th Jan.

18th Feb. 27th Feb.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyronth. Istanbul, Piraeus.

and Marseilles

+ DELAGOA MARU

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila and Ports.

KAMO MARU

ATSUTA MARU

MANILA

Thursday, 11th Feb.

Saturday, 27th Feb. Saturday, 27th Mar.

TATSUTA MARU

Sunday,

+ CALCUTTA MARU

31st Jan.

Saturday 90th Jan.

+ TSUSHIMA MARU

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4th Feb.

+ PENANG MARU

Friday,

12th Feb,

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

30th Jan.

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Saturday,

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(N'sali direct) Friday.

19th Feb,

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang and Colombo.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang and Rangoon.

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Shipping News Daily Statement. Clearances,

NEWS FROM THE AIRPLANE

WATERFRONT

Freight And Asiatic Passengers Returns

(BY LONGSHOREMAN). During the 24 hours ended at 9.00 am. yesterday, the freight returns. received from the Har- bour Office, showed a moderate tonnage movement.

'The total tonnage of general cargo carried by vessels to the Colony was 3,298 tons, with British

carrying 1885 steamers tons, Through cargo for ports be- yond the Colony amounted to 9,017 tons,

8.582 of which were carried by British steamers

Asiatic deck passengers entering the Colony during the twenty-four hours ended at 9 a.m. yesterday were 1,638, of which 122 were from British steamers,

tonis

SAFETY

Ships l Harbour, alt.

DEVICE

Indian Inventor Explains

The only Indian inventor to study aerodynamics, a young man of 29. has perfected and patented an invention which may contribute enormously to the safety of dying by largely eliminating stalling and permitting airplanes to land at re- duced speeds.

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BRILLIANT NEW LIGHTSHIPS

Fog Signals Audible 40 Miles Away

Powerful lamps producing a beam up to 500,000 candle-power will be installed in the new light- ships which, as announced by the Board of Trade, are being built to replace 19 obsolete ships, writes a correspondent.

APS

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PO-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND

replace, 19 obsolete wooden EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES

Details of the equipment that is being installed were given to me by a

Chance representative of Bros, and Co. Ltd, the lighthouse engineers, of Smithwick, Birming- ham

Latest Lamps

The inventor is Mr. Phiroze P. Nazir, who is working at the Queen Mary College 'under Dr. N. A. V Piercy. The device which he has invented is a combination of a cut-

The ships will have lamps simi- slot and a landing-flap in the aflar to the latest type fitted in

air- ter part of the wing of an

ughthouses, and their remarkable some distance plane

from the

qualities are Illustrated by the trailing edge.

following facts:

It has been tested in an air tun-

have been startling.

Mr. Nazir sald that the idea of

There is only one burner, in-

frequent attention:

There were altogether nine arrivals, of which four were of net at the college, and the results stead of nine or more requiring British registry, the remainder being of other nationalities, while of the 19 departures, eight were British ships. Particulars as fol- lows

Nationality British

"Ships

4

Tonnage 8.467

Datch

1

French

1

253 .950

Japanese Chinese

2

2,125 550

Total

131345

ARRIVALS

THURSDAY, JANUARY 28.

this device came to him in 1929 when he was working with an au- tomoblie company in Bombay.

PILOT'S LICENCE

A labour-saving pendulum ap- paratus, operated by a small motor, takes the place of clock- work, which had to be wound up every two hours,

The lamp, mounted in a glazed lantern, and Axed to a mast 32ft

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From Hongkong

Steamship

Tons

(About)

Destination

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS

⚫BANGALORE

RAWALPINDI MIEZAPORS CORFU

BHUTAN

6,000

12,000

7,000. W 10th Fab.

30th Jan.

6th Feb.

14,500

10th Feb

6,000

97th Feb

16,000 6,000

6th Mar 13th Mar.

14,800

g0th Mar,

$7,000

27th Mar.

17,000

+3rd April

18,000

17th April

17,000

1st May

• Cargo only.

+ Calls Casablanca.

Born in Bombay, he is a Parsee, and in his early years he suffered considerable hardship and poverty, He dreamed of being a designer of airplanes and an inventor. With his idea in mind he came over to this country six years ago and worked in airplanes at Brooklands.avigators who have Admiralty

charts with the list of lights. He obtained his pilot'a licence.

He started to work out his inven-

Submarine Defectors tion, but could at first obtain no en-

The fog signals have an in- couragement to proceed with 15 genious timing apparatus, which It was only when the Indian Gov- makes the signals sound at the ernment heard of it and obtain-required intervals of two seconds ed experts' reports that he WALS or more. They can be heard at a helped by the Indian Government's

distance of half a mile to 40 miles Aeronautical Research Scholar-away, according to the state of ship, which he has held for three the atmosphere. years.

to 40ft above the water-level, has NALDERA a beam which can be seen from *BEHAR a distance of 10 to 11 miles, and

CARTHAGE gives single, double, triple and SOUDAN quadruple flashes, recognisable by

This enabled hin: to continue to develop his invention at the Queen Mary College. Now that it ia com pleted in model form the Indian Government have assisted him to take out patents for it all over the world.

Mayebashi Maru, Japanese str. 4,320 tons. Captain K. Mitsui, from Yokohama via Shanghai, general cargo, Kowloon Wharf.

N. Y. K. Wing Wah, Portuguese steamer, 051 tons, Captain J. Teixeira, from K. O. Wan, general cargo, berthing at Salkong Wharf Ta! Fung & Co.. Nellore, British steamer, 4,292 tons,

The importance of the invention Captain H C. G. Stratford, from Yokohama via Moji, gen- lies in the fact that it will enable eral cargo. Kowloon Whari.- airplanes to land and take off M M. & Co.

with a great deal more safety and Tyndareus, British steamer, 7.188 | will dispense entirely with the pre-

tons, Capt. F. E. Holmes, from sent device of ailerons.

New Westminster via Shanghai, general cargo, Holt's Wharf.- B. & 8.

Potsdam, German steamer, 10.115 tons Captain O. Prehn, from Yokohama via Shanghai, gen- eral cargo, Kowloon Wharf.- Melchera & Co.

Dah

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R'dam, A'werp. & Rulli

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Mary. Havre, London, R'barg..

A

& Hall

Bombay, Marseillan & London

Mare, Havre, London, Hamburg,

B'dan, Antwerp. Hull

Marielles & Lind n.

Mars, Havre, London, B'bg.,

F'dm, A'werp, & Bull.

Bombay, Marseilles & London

Marseilles & London

Marseilles & London.

+ Calls Tangier. All vessels may call at Malta

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and "Cargo to Istanbul, Pirsens, Symrna, and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedivial Hall Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA

The ships will be fitted with wireless telephones and wireless SIRDHANA transmitters, and submarine de- SHIRALA

TILAWA tectors that reveal the presence of a vessel as far away as 40 or se miles.

Running hot and cold water are among the new comforts intro- duced for the crews.

Despite the many labour-saying devices, however, the ships will need as many, if not more, hands because of the extra work neces- sitated below in attending to the batteries and generator.

He kept his invention a complete secret from everybody except his Government and a few technical developed there before anybody friends until a fortnight ago, when here would take any notice of he began to try to get commercial them." assistance to experiment with it on a bigger scale.

So far the reply be has received from the airplane industry in this country has not been encouraging. He said:

Norwegian steamer, 1.145 tons. Captain A Buhre, from Tsingtao and Shanghai via Swatow, general cargo. lying at West Point Wharf. J. M. & Co.

"Everywhere I was told that al- Yunnan, British steamer, 1.834 though the invention itself was tons. Captain J. G Swart, considered remarkable, the pres. from Canton, buoy No. 3-sure of the Government expansion scheme was so great that the firms Ha Yeon, Chinese steamer, 2,078

are unable to develop research for tons, Capt. J. M. Johannessen, i the next three years." from Shanghai via Swatow, general cargo, China Merchant "Steam Navigation's Whart to develop his invention there. At

C. M. B. "N, & Co. Sandviken, Norwegian steamer. 1,775 tons, Captain P. Heesch, from Tsingtao and Shanghai via Swatów, general cargo, lying at Stonecutters removing to West Point Wharf.-J. M.

& Co.

He has had an offer from an im- portant airplane firm in America

the moment he is hesitating to ac- cept it as he wants it to be de- veloped first in England.

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"But it looks as if this invention will suffer the same fate as great many other inventions have in this country." he said. "They have had to be taken abroad and

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18th Feb,

10,000

97th Feb.

SANTHIA TALMA

$,000

18th Mar

:10,000

27th Mar,

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Hong Kong to Sydney--19 days.

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