1940-08-09 — Page 11

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRESIDENT

LINER SAILINGS.

To SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES

via SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

Aug. 29

Sept. 7

Sept. 13

via MANILA, SINGAPORE PENANG COLOMBO,

SS. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

SS. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

BOMBAY and CAPETOWN"

RS "PRESIDENT HARRISON"

S.S. "PRESIDENT POLK"

Aug. 18 Sept. 15

To SINGAPORE & PENANG

S.8. "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO"

5.5. "CITY OF LOS ANGELES"

Aug. 14

·Aug. 27

To SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

DIRECT

*S.S. "CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO"

* via Yokohama. »

Sept. 3

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

* ROUND - WORLD SERVICE”

AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR

AND UNITED AIR LINES

12, PEDDER ST,

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N.Y.K. LINE

SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu.

KAMAKURA MARU

Friday, 30th Aug.

ASAMA MARU (Starts from Shanghai) Sunday, 29th Sept.

Starts from Kobe)

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER

(Convenient connection from Hong Kong).

HIKAWA MARU

NEW YORK via Panama.

• AZUMĀ MARU-

LIVERPOOL via Cape Town

HUSIMI MARU

Wednesday, 4th Sept.

Wednesday, 31st Aug.

Sunday,

11th Aug.

Wednesday, 28th Aug.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila,

KAMO MARU

||

BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo.

*OKITU MARU

Wednesday, 14th Ang.

RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

* NAGATO MARU

KOBE &

YOKOHAMA

HAKUSAN MARU

HARUNA MARU

ATUTA MARU

* Carge only.

Sunday,

11th Aug.

Wednesday, 14th Aug. Wednesday, 21st Aug.

22nd Aug.". Thursday,

Complete Information From Your Agent or:

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Telephone 80291 General Passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD. WHITE STAR LINE

TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

To AUSTRALIA

Calling at Manila, Thursday Island, Cairns, Towns- ville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne, etc

NEXT SAILING

MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER, 1940,

For Freight or Passage apply to:-

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Tel. No. 30532.

DOUGLAS

STEAMSHIP

CO., LTD.

Agents.

1. Connaught Road.

TUEN

FAILINGS FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW&

(Sallings temporarily suspended)

KWANGCHOWWAN-HONGKONG SERVICE' Weekly sailings from Hong Kong

For particulars. of Freight & Passage apply to-

DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.,

General Managers.

&0. Building, 5th Floor.

Tel. Nos 28037 & 28038.

MISADVENTURE |ÖHINA · NAVIGATION

VERDICTS IN

SHIP DEATHS

At the Inquiry into the deaths of Mr. P. J. C. Ebbenhout (40), chter officer, and Mr. D. Offenburg (20), chief steward, who were gassed in the freezing chamber of a steamer on the morning of July 17, it was ascertained that the presence of ga's in the chamber was due to a fire which started in the insulator.

"The origin at the Bre, however, remains a mystery," remarked the acting Singapore coroner. Mr. Walter MacQuarrie. A verdict of death by misadventure was re- turned in both cases.

Smoke was first discovered belen. Ing from the freezing" chamber by the ship's baker, Mr. Rein Lendert Woeltz, who entered the chamber to get provisions. He re- ported his discovery and three men. Mr. B. J. C. Ebbenhout, chiet, officer of the ship. Mr. D Offen- fburg, chief steward, and Mr. Q Danenhaltog, second officer, enter- ed the chamber.

THE RESCUE

Mr. L G. Veltman, quarter- master of the steamer, later entered the chamber and hauled up the chief meer and the second officer with the ald of a rope When he was about to haul sp. the chief steward, he felt exhausted and had to

be hauled up himself.

The chief steward was brought up to the deck by Mr, E. T. Wickel, thiết engineer of another ship lying nearby, who went down into the chamber with the aid of an oxygen apparatus, ·

The secona

officer recovered, but the chief officer and the chief steward died.

Mr. Richard Lowery. naval architect and supervisor of con- struction works done on ships for the Admiralty, said that at about 8.30 that morning, he was sum moned on board the ship. He was told that a few persons had been gassed. No mention of fire was made, but somebody said that the fire brigade had been sent for.

THICK SMOKE

Mr. Lowery said that he went to the companionway, and noticed a thick whitish-green smoke issuing from the hatch..

"Tsuspected that burning had taken place in the freezing insula. tion," he said.

"I tried to find out where the fire had begun. I made an exam. Ination of the roof of the cooling room from which smoke was is. suing, but nowhere could I feel any heat,"

Mr. Lowery said that. he had seen a lot of insulation in many ships. "The insulation on this ship is the worst I have seen," he re- marked. "The shape itself is pecu-. lar," he added. ..'

Mr. Lowery said that the fire could have been started by a man who absent-mindedly placed cigarette end in the chamber.

FLOATING MINĖ

A

A floating mine is reported by to have the Naval Authorities been seen at Lat. 29" 26.5" N., long. 122° 27 E., at 0433 GMT. on Aug. 6, 1940.

CHU LU KOK CHANNEL

-

COMPANY, LIMITED.'

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CARTOF

TOURANE, SATor and BamoroX.

SINGAPORE PORT SWEPTENHAM and

PINIA

For further particulars regarding loading dates etc. please apply to-

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BUTTERFIELD I& SWIRE

TELEPHONE NO. 30331

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Passenger & Freight Service To

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We have

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Regular mailings for UNITED KINGDOM as opportunity offera

„NEXT SAILING THIRD WEEK' IN AUGUST,

AGENTS FOR

THE BANK LINE, LTD. ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE

NEXT HAILING END OF OCTOBER,

for Mauritius, Reunion, Tamatave, Loureion Marquis, Durban and Cape Porte.

AMERICAN-ORIENTAL LINE

Regular mailings for Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore

NEXT SAILING EARLY BEPTEMBER

For Freight or Passage on eby of the above lines apply 19 Telephone 27781,

FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1940. —PAGE 1 P

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P. &. O. S. N. CO.

We have а Sailing Homewards ABOUT THIRD WEEK IN AUGUST

Carrying Passengers and Freight. Also Frequent Cargo Departures

B. I. S. N. CO. LTD. Frequent Sailings to Straits, Rangoon and Calcutta.

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All vessels may call at any ports on or of the route! and the route and all sailings are "subject to cancellation change or deviation, with or without notice.

Passengers are requested to register their requirements but under present “circumafances sailings are" "perforce restricted.

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NEXT SAILING FROM. HONGKONG

FIRST WEEK IN SEPTEMBER

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NEXT SAILING TO MANILA SE

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