1940-09-11 — Page 11

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

To SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES

vin "SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

S.S. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

Sept. 17 Oct. 4 Cer. 18

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO,

BOMBAY and CAPETOWN

S.S. "PRESIDENT POLK"

SS. "PRESIDENT GARFIELD"

Sept. 29 Oct 10.

To SINGAPORE & PENANG

S.S. "CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS'

S.S. "CITY OF NORFOLK”

Sept. 25 Oct. 27

To SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES

DIRECT

SA "CITY OF LOS ANGELES"

vin Yokohamn.

Sent, 18

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

"ROUND-WORLD SERVICE

AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL & WESTERN AIR

AND UNITED AIR LINES

12, PEDDER ST.

TEL. 28171.

N.Y.K. LINE

SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu.

ASAMA MARO NITTA MARU

(Starts from Kobe)

HIE MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)

NEW YORK via Panama.

• ŠANUKI MARU

Wednesday, 2nd Oct. Friday, 11th Oct.

1

Monday,

231 Sept.

Tuesday

8th Oct.

SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Japan & San

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE-via-Manila

Francisco.

HEIYO MARU

ATUTA MARU".

GENOA MARU

SAIGON & MADRAS

Thursday,

19th Sept.

Saturday, 28th Sept.

Beginning of Oet.

Friday, 13th Sept. Saturday,

28th Sept.

BOMBAY via-Singapore & Colombo

* ATAGO MARU↑ (also calls Saigon)

KASIMA MARU

RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

* LIMA MARU

TOTTORI MARU

KOBE

& YOKOHAMA

HEIYO MAKU

KITANO MARU

* Cargo only.

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Tuesday,

10th Sept. Wednesday, Sath Sept.

Thursday, 19th Sept." Saturday, . 21st Sept.

Complete Information From Your Agent or:

NIPPON YUSEN KÄISYA

KING'S BUILDING

„Telephone 30231. General Passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE

TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

To AUSTRALIA

H.K. WATER Japanese

STORAGE Warship Lost

In Storm

FIGURES FOR LAST

MONTH

with

Total storage of 2,353.37 million gallons in the land reservoirs on

compared Sept, 1, 1940, 2,305.22 million gallons last year is revealed in the water returns for August. Tytam Tuk had 1.406.00 milion xalions as against 1,393.00 for the corresponding period last year.

Believed Foundered Off Fukien Coast

FOOCHOW, Sept. 10 (Central)

SHIPS OF CONCRETE

WEDNESDAY," SEPTEMBER 11, 1940.-PAGE 111

ORDER FOR FLEET OF NOVEL BARGES

Reinforced concrete is being used for building British ships, the Admiralty having recently

Japanese warship steaming in ordered B number of fucrète

barges

"

Larger sea-going vessels.. may

heavy storm from Amoy ta Santu Lland, north of 'Foochow,

as lost on Sept. 1, according to also be built by this method, which has been made practicable a report reaching here,

and

She is believed to have "founowing to the revolutionary progress

made by British engineers of dered somewhere between Amov

and Santu Island.

scientists in the technique of rein- forced concrete during the years of peace.

An estimated population 830,000 consumed a total of 23.2 gallons per head per day as com- pered with 700,000 and 28.7 last year.

WES

Several Japanese planes, flying low, conducted a search for the

It is claimed for concrete ships missing ship off the Fukten coast

that they are spmetimes as much Rainfall recorded.

as on Sept. 3 but without success.

as 35 per cent. cheaper to

build follows:-Botanical Gardens 24.39 Three Japanese soldiers were ins: Tytam Tuk 26.82: Tytam killed by two drifting mines near and repair than steel vessel, they 38.38: Wongmelchong 28.17: Pok- Chwanshin Island off the mouth do not require such heavy build- much skilled fulam 23.52 and Aberdeen 24.92. of the Min River on Sept, 5. The Ing equipment, or

mines were blown off from their labour. their speed is équal to com- the parable steel ships carrying chains by a typhoon, and the

same crew and with similar en- Japanese were attempting to salvage them when they exploded, gine power, and they can with- stand buffeting from heavy seas better than their steel counter- parts

MAINLAND FIGURES.

The total storage in the Main land-reservoirs on Sept. 1. 1940 was 3,803.29 million gallons com- pared with 3.598.42 million gallons last year.

Jubilee Reservoir was level at 2921.00 million gallons as against 2,917.57 million gallons for the same period last year.

of

NEW PRESIDENT LINER TO SAIL

ON NOV. 2

VITAL PURPOSES

RAJPUTAN

ERTENGOK

P. & O. S. N. CO.

We have

a Sailing Homewards „ABOUT MIDDLE-END, SEPTEMBER. carrying Passengers and Freight. Also Frequent Cargo Departures B. I. S. N. CO. LTD. Frequent Sailings to Straits, Rangoon

and Calcutta.

E. & Á. S.S. CO. LTD. Monthly Sailings to. Rabaul, East Coast of Australia arid Tasmania.- Also frequent sailings to Shanghai and japan.

All, veasels may call at any ports on or off the route and the route and all sailings are subject to cancellati u change or deviation with or without notice!

Passengers are requested to register their requirements but under present cfreumstances sailings are perforce restricted.

Detalla may be obtained. Erem

Another enormous advantage in war time is that steel is released Malden sailing date from New for other vital purposes and Eng- York of the s.s. President Jackson, land herself has unlimited quanti- An estimated population

Arst of seven new de luxe liners ties of the chalk, stones and sand 770,000 consumed a total of 428.49

being constructed by the United for making concrete, million gallons as compared with

States Maritime Commission for During and after the last war 600.000 and 396.34 million gallons. American President Lines Round-when there was a shortage of respectively, last August

World Service, has been sit for steer and general shipbuilding Total rainfall recorded was as Nov. 2 next, according to an an-facilities, about 100 concrete ships follows:-

nouncement issued at the

San totalling 150.000 tons carrying by Royal Observatory 22.005 ins; Francisco" headquarters Mr. capacity, were built in Britain,

E. Frick... APL's Shing Mun (No. 1) 33.92; Shing Henry

Vice- Norway, the United States. France, Mun (No. 2) 31.00: Shing Mun President and operating manager. Italy and elsewhere.. (No. 3) 29.52: Shing Mun (No. 4) The complete intercoastal sche these vessels were as large as 6,500 31. Shing Mun (No. 5) 31.62; Kow-dule for the President Jackson's tons, and proved quite successful. PGO BUILDING CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG

voyage will be: New loon. 29.95; Sheklipai 28.14: Taipo malden

(although none have been built York, Havana, Cristobal, Balboa, 22.97; Fanling 25.43: Un Louk

since 1922. Los Angeles, San Francisco. 20.41 and Tailamchung 30.42.

Salling date from San Francisco

definitely not been

"deter-

The Royal Observatory total rainfall recorded from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31 was 109.105 tns., compared with 75.603 from Jan. 1 to Aug. 31, 1939

THE WEATHER

An appreciable drop in

tem- perature was "recorded yesterday the maximum being 85 compared with 90 on Monday. The minimum was 78:

*

Thas

mined..

Some of

Since those days British con- crete research has been unceasing. Compressive strength has increased improvements The second, in APL's series of (three-fold," great new Round-World vessels the as have been made in steel reinforce- President Monroe was launched ment, and a tensile strength of on Aug. 7 at Newport News," vir. 27,000 pounds to the square inch ginia, where all seven ships are is now possible, against only 16,000

pounds in 1918, being built.

NAVAL TRAINING CONSIGNEES' NOTICES

SHIP SOLD LONDON, Sept. 10 (Reuter)-

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

Tuz S.S. "

Total rainfall since Jan. 1 13 A famous' naval training ship has THE EEN LINE STEAMERS, LTT), 109.84 inches against an average been sold to provide steel for war of 70.82.

The process will enable the The Royal Observatory report Marine Society to train a greater states:

number of boys for the Navy. The anticyclone probably con-Built 50 years ago, she used to be tinues to develop over N. China: a small cruiser. pressure Is also moderately high over the Pacific to "the east of Japan.

The typhoon is about 100 miles south-east of Oshima. moving west:

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 11 to 17 Sept. 1940.

Dats o

Height.

Low WATER.

Hong

Kong

Standard Time

Height.

WEATHER

4

Arrived HONG KONG

From LONDON, STRAITS AND MANILA.

REPORTONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby CONSIGNEES of Car Grohe are

Hongkong Royal Observatory

10 am. Sept. 10. Barometer (at sea level) 29.80 iris. Temperature, 83 F Humidity, 80 per cent. Wind Direction, E/S. Wind. Force (Beaufort), Z. Temperature; maximum yesterday.

90 F.

Temperature; minimum last night

78 F..

Rainfall for 24 hrs. ending 10th

today 0.08 ins.

Total rainfall skace January 1st,

109.84 ins.

Against an average, 70.62 ins.... Sunset tonight, 6.31 p.m.

Sunrise tomorrow. 6.08 a.m.

HIGH WATER.

Bong

Kong

Standard

Time.

hm.

ft. In

h. z.

Ift, la.

Wed. 11

04:37

16 5

12 17

23

10 98

4 8

22 52

46

Thur. 12

06 63

B &

2008

13 0

13 07

21

Fri. 13

01 1-6

16 7

00,14

20 37

15.3

.13 41

Sat. 14

07 47 6 0

01.49

Sen.

15

21 04 08 31

15:5

34 18

6 9

0156

35 Wind Direction, SE

MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER, 1940,

Mon, 18

2:

Tues. 17

21 27 09 14 6 J 91 499 00 49 6 6

15-81

14 44

2:0

02.37

31

18 25

3 18

29 Minimum temperature, 78 r.

22 11 16 1

Calling at Manila, Thursday Island, Cairns, Towns-

ville; Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne, etc.

NEXT SAILING

For Freight or Passage apply to:-

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

4 pm, Sept. 10.

20 Barometer (at sea level), 29.73 ins.

39 Temperature, 83 F

20 Humidity, 80 per cent

Wind Force (Beaufort), L.

20 Maximum temperature, 85 F.

10 44 12 1 Rainfall, 0.40.

being landed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf & Godown Company, Ltd. whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No Claims will be admitted after the

Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 13th Sept. 1940, will be subject to rest. All claims against the vernol must be presented to the undersigned on 'or before the 27th Fept. 1940, or they will not be recognized,

To comply with the General Bonded Warehouse Regulations, Consignees must have a Revenue Officer in atten- dance when, daewage dutiable goods are examined.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 11th Sept, 1840, at 9 am. by Messrs. Carmichael & Clarke.

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No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned

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