PAGE 12-HONGKONG DAILY PRESS
HONGKONG.CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS
JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG.CANTON MACAO STEAMBOAT CO LTD ETHE
CHINA NAVIGATION CO.LTD
TRAVEL
THE
SHORT
SAFE
SEA
WAY
by the British Line
CANTON LINE
WEEKLY SAILING
MACAO LINE
DAILY SERVICE
11
(including Sunday)
Nuta:-All vessels equipped with Wireless. QUEEN'S BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD
Telephona 30101
1
J. C. J. L.
REGULAR
SAILINGS
ΤΟ
BALI & JAVA
VIA P.I. PORTS
AND
APP
AMOY & SHANGHAI
JAVA
CHIRA
JAPA
Particulars of Arrivals & Departures Upon application YORK BUILDING.
MODERN
PHONE 28015...
LIJN EXPRESS SERVICE
THE
BLUE FUNN
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND PASSENGER -SERVICES |
TO UNITED KINGDOM - PORTS.
Well
Placed END OF AUGUST Sailing For dates and ports of call apply to Agents.
PACIFIC AND NEW YORK SERVICES are maintained as hitherto,
Information regarding INWARD CARCO and all matters relating to freight and passage will gladly be given by
Butterfield & Swire,
gent
Tel No. 30332.
1. Connaught Road.
Full Story Of Typhoon
Continued from Page 1
у
It is belleved the vessel deve- loped engine trouble but
ар parently got up her own steam About 5.30 o'clock and returned to the anchorage...
Despite the choppy seas, the Star Ferry continued its service uninterruptedly.. three Terries maintaining "a 15-minute service.
STOP
TRAMS
The tram service and all Hong- kong taxi services were suspended during the morning but were re- sumed in the afternoon after the No. 0 Signal had been lowered. The taxi services in Kowloon coh- tinued in normal operation throughout the day. The Peak Tram also continued a normal service..
Many offices in Hongkong "were closed to business throughout the day and employees who crossed in the morning from Kowloon were allowed to go home."
The Supreme Court did not sit for the day.
ני
Hains
130
an
Despite the weather, Imperial Airways plane, the Delphinus, left Kai Tak yes- terday morning, piloted by Capt. F. R. Garside, and First Officer J. A. Samuels. She carried two passengers and 140 kilos of mail.
Hongkong had a narrow escape from its first major typhoon of the season. The typhoon passed south of the Colony blowing in a westerly direction-Into the China Coast between ". Hongkong southern Kwangtung.
PREVIOUS STORMS
Food
Amor
Swatow
120 The typhoon which passed near Gap Rock on a westerly track yesterday morning was reported by the Royal Observatory at 5 p.m. yesterday to be situated about 60 miles to the south-west of Hongkong moving slowly westward.
+1
The maximum temperature yesterday was 84 and the mini- um 75.
The following positions of the typhoon are indicated on the map above:--
THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1940.
FOREIGN MAILS
HONGKONG, THURSDAY, 92nd AUGUST, 1940, 9.30 A.X.
The Public are requested to note particularly the time of closing the Imperial Air Mail on Tuesday, the 27th August," 1940,
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD MAILS
Japan.
London and Straits Saigon.
Japan and Formosa,
Bangkok and. Tourane.
Formosa, Amoy and Swatow
Japan
Shanghai
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Service" London and Straits
Mad Aug...
From
Dua
Bangkok and Saigon.
$2nd Aug,
Shanghai and Amoy
find Aug.
Java and Manila,
92nd Aug.
Shanghai and Amoy
22nd Aug.
Shanghai.
sand Aug.
Sandakan
22nd Aug.
4. S. A., Honolulu, Japan, and Shanghai--- (San
Francisco date, 1st August),
22nd Aug.
Australia and Manlis......
22nd Aug.
Air Mail by "Pan American Airways Dirtet
Ser-
vice."-San Francisco date, 13th August.
22nd Aug."
Bangkok
23nd Aug.
Haiphong
Shanghai,
22nd Aug.
gand Aug.
22nd Aug,
3rd Aug.
23rd Aug.
34th Aug.
24th Aug.
24th Aug.
94th Aug.
25th Aug.
26th Aug.
Manila and Cebu.
28th Aug.
U. 5. A., and Manilä-(8an Francisco date.
August).
2nd
25th Aug.
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Service"
26th Aug.
26th Aug.
26th Aug.
26th Aug:
27th Aug.
97th Aug.
28th Aug.
29th Ang.
soth Aug-
29th Aug.
29th Aug.
ver B .C. date, 10th August).
29th Aug.
Inches
0.075
U. S. A.. Honolulu, Japan, and Shanghai
Francisco date, 3rd August),
- (San
29th Aug.
31st Aug...
175
Straits.
31st Aug.
225
Shanghai.
120
Sandakan.
1st Sept.
.015
Straits and Manila,
2nd Sept.
.010
11-noon
150
12-1 p.m.
1-2
.080
135
2-3
105
3-4
.130
4-5
.050
-5-6- 6-7
185
130
Haiphong and Hothow
Calcutta, Straits" and "Salgön
"
Lat.
Aug. 18 a.is.
Long, . Mov. 17 *124* N.W.
p.m,
18
123
N.W.
Aug. 19 a.m.
18
121
W.N.W.
Japan
and
p.m.
20
120
N.W.
Manlia
Aug. 20 p.m.
21
118
W.N.W.
Aug. 21 a.m.
22
Japan.
115
W.
p.m.
21
113
W.
Java and Manila,
THE
RAINFALL
Damage was also done to "The
The following table shows the
3hanghai Shanghai.
On July 28 a typhoon entered
the coast 80 miles E.N.E. of Hong-
London and Manila'
kong walle on July 2 a depression Ritz." the new entertainment cen: rainfall recorded during the ty- Japan and Shanghai.
entered the coast south of Swa-tre being fitted. up at the North phoon from 5 am to 7 pm. yes- Canada, USA, Japan, and Shanghai -- (Vancou-)
tow. On the latter, occasion, the No. 1 Signal was hoisted at 6.36 pm. on July 1 and lowered at 2.40 p.m., the following day.
On July 28, No. 5. Signal was holsted at 3.34 am, and was lowered the next morning at 3.55. It was difficult to estimate last night how much damage to ship- ping and property had been done. The wind and the rough sea piky ed havoc with matsheds and pavilions on all the beaches,
Damage was reported to the South China Athletic Associa- tion Pavilion at North Point, and to the pavilions of the Sun Sun and Sincere Co. Swimming Club, the Chinese Civil Servants Swimming Club, the "Chang Wah Swimming Club,
the Chinese Bank Swimming Club, and to other pavillons.
Goods Will Be Shipped Back To Hongkong
Point.
¿
GODOWN COLLAPSE.
from Mataukok Road, where a two The first collapse was reported
storey matshed godown housing! Fertiliser Company lost its roof, machinery owned by the Organic
Another accident was reported from near Central Market where an unidentified Chinese was in- jured by a fall of masonry.
Blown over by the wind whilst riding a bicycle in Argyle Street a youth, Tsui Xin-ful, 17, sustain- ed injuries to his legs and was admitted to the Kowloon Hospi- tal
terday.
5-6 3.0 6-7
7-8 8-9
-9-10
10-11
out zou separate construction
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mall are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. registered and parcel malls are closed at 5 pm, of the previous day. When mails are advertised to close after 5 pm. Registered and Farcel malls are closed at 5 pm.
For
Date and Time The Bad
-
the projects are at present under way Straits.
the in Canada, including coastal de- Ewatow
In Kowloon, a section of wooden fencing enclosing Kowloon Football Club ground, as fentes, 1ortifications, hangars and Fort Bayard well as some of the stands, were submarine derences for harbours Japan. blown down.
and waterways
Saigon
THURSDAY
China Will Fight Even 30 Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolula, U. S. A. &
More Years--Gen. Kwan
"We've fought for three years, and we are prepared to fight for three more, or even thirty more years," declared Gen. Kwan Lin- cheng, hero of the Talerchwang and Changsha victories and one, of FORT BAYARD, Aug. 21 the youngest Chinese army corps commanders, at a Press confer Int'l)-Foreign goods which ence. reached Kwangchowwan des-
Manila,
General Kwan, on a flying visit tined for the interior are pro-to Chungking from the front, an- hibited from entering Chinese alysed the comparative standings
JAPANESE SUFFER Shangha territory owing to Japanese or China's and Japan's fighting IN S. KWANGSI representations,
Chinese French-leased
men after three years of war.
merchants th the territory made which are not arms or contraband much greater numbers and are but no solution is in sight at pre- willing to talk, and work for their sent.
As a last resort, the goods will COVERED WITH MUD
board. be shipped back to Hongkong and
+
1
-8.30AM
1,00 PM
9.30 PM
3.30 PM
4.30 FM
XP.O.
Reg.
6.00 PM
Ord.
5.30 PM
G.P.O.
Európe via "Pan American Airways and Trans-Reg. Atlantic Service."
6.00 PM
Ord.
7.00 Em
Amoy.
7:00 PM
7.50 PM
FRIDAY
Fri. 23rd
Amoy.
8.30 AM
Hothow and Haiphong.
Manila, Makassar and Bourabaya..
Straits and Calcutta,
8.30-AM 10.30 AM
Parcels 11.00 AM Letters
Noon 12.30 PM
CHUNGKING, Aug. 21 (Central)
braits, Rangoon and Calcutta,
SATURDAY
*3.30 PM
Sat, 24th
9.00 AM
12.30 FH
$,00 PM
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Kingdom Ord.
G.P.C, & KP.Q..
5.00 PM Ord.
1.20 PM 5.30 PM
5.00 FM 5.30 PM
Sun. 25th
9:00 AM
"Mon"""""LITE
G.P.O. & KFO.
Par. 24th 5.00 PM
Reg. 24th 5.00 PM
*****
Ord. 26th 8.30
Noon 12.30 PM
Tue...27th
10.30. GP.C.&KP.O.
4.15 PM
Ord
5.00 PM
KPOP Reg 4:30 PM
Ord.
5:00 PM
G.R.O.
Ord.
5,00 PM
KPO Reg.
4,20
Ord. 5.00 PM
OPO
4.30 PM 0.007FM
SUNDAY
MONDAY
In the early days, stated he, Jap-Chinese forces in south Kwangsi Shanghai and Parcels only for Tientsin. anese war prisoners were hard to get, and often preferred suicide to have deal severe blows to the Jap- Shanghai severni efforts to pass these goods capture. But now they give up in anese rear Hsiaotung in a series/Parcels only. for Tientsin.
of pincer attacks during the past few days, latest military
Air Mall for "Imperial Airways-Service" to Durban Reg. des-- patches indicate.
and thence by Sea Service to United They have reoccupied two im- Alr Mall for Indo-China, Malaya, Java and Aus-Bag- Shanghai whence they came pro- told to come out to China and tung, Chingligwei and Fungwang. "Japanese farmer boys who were portant points northwest of Halao- vided re-export permits are ob
tralia by the "Imperial Airways Service." tainable.
cover themselves with glory," Gen. The Japanese there were almost
Haiphong
ASKED TO LEAVE
Kwan said, "have found them-wiped out. selves covered with mud. Some- KUNMING, "Aug. 21 (Int'l)-Un- times they go on short rations, Funan, southwest of Nanning,
A Japanese contingent from Formosa, Shanghal and Japan..... confirmed reporta state that Ch often without pickled vegetables attacked the Chinese positions in Inese-residents in Indo-China are Supplying numerous units on the the northeast on August 15, meet asked to leave the French colony many fronts, each division requiring with stiff Chinese resistance, except those who have lived thereing 50 tons of food a day, dallyOn the Hupeh front, a Japanese for ten years or more.
Straits. Ceylon, India, East, and South Africa and Developments in Indo-China are
becomes increasingly Ufficult."
United Kingdom unit opposite Ichang attacking | Haiphong being closely watched by the mill-reported that the Japanese forces ago was thrown back by the Chi-
Gen. Kwan who ought to know Chaochtatien nearby a
few days Saigon tary and elvii officials here.
have deteriorated in both quantity nese with heavy casualties. and quality. A company now has Large quantities or
Under heavy artillery fire over traita cereals 120 men on an average, half-nor-11,000 Japanese moved southeast- which have just been harvested mal strength. Thirty-year-olds, ward from Teincheng in southeast Manlia, Australia and New Zealand via Thurs-Reg. are being puchased and stored with three months training, said Shanst recently. They were inter- In granaries under the auspices Gen. Kwan, now come as replace- cepted by the Chinese on the way,
day Island of the Klanga Provincial Food-menta. Osaka must work overtime and routed after an encounter, stuffs Control Bureau. A large to keep the same number of men loan has been successfully negu-supplied with bullets, for marks. Mated by the Bureau with the manship has gone off badly.-10. at Shanghai, of Mr. Augusto
The death occurred on August Air Mail for Indo-China, Malaya, Java “and Aus- Reg. £30 PM various banke in the province (Central News).
tralia by the "Imperial Airways Service."
with Which to purchase the dereais.
Maria Azevedo, aged 34 years, son
Bir Walter Citrine, general of Mrs. A. FL Hymand (Hong- of Mr. Elisa Azevedo, and brother secretary of the T.U.C. Mr. J. R. Jones of the law firm Council, cabled to Mr. William and Jimmy Azevedo, A Requiem General kong), Freddy (Macao), Alberto of Ellis and Haya, Shanghal, who Green, president of the American Mass was held at the Church of has been spending a holiday in Federation of Labour, expressing Christ The King, 235 Rue Bour- Walex is expected to return to appreciation of his demand that geat, on August 21, and was fol- Shanghai, by the end of next the United States should give to lowed by interment at the Bub- month;
the Allies all the help they need.bling Well Cemetery.
TUESDAY
Mall for Imperial Airways Service" to Durban Reg. and thence by Ses Service to United - Kingdom Ord, Printed and Published by Henry Lloyd Murrow, for the Hongkong Daily Press Ltd, at Marina House, third floor 15-19 Queen's Road Central, Hongkong, London Office, $3 Fleet Street EC
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.