1941-01-08 — Page 11

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

To SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES

vin SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

8.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT".

S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

3.9. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

Jan. 19

Feb. 5 Feb. 22

FIA MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG. COLOMBO,

BOMBAY and CAPETOWN"

SS. "PRESIDENT TYLER"

SN. "PRESIDENT MONROE"

Jan. 12 Feb. 8

Το MANILA

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT" S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND" S.S. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

Jan. 12

Jan. 99

Feb. 5,

AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES

"ROUND-WORLD SERVICE”

AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINEN TAL & WESTERN AIR

AND UNITED AIR LINES

12, PEDDER ST.

TEL. 28171.

N.Y.K. LINE

SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu,

KAMAKURA MARU YAWATA MARU

LAY

Tuesday, 4th Jan. Tuesday, 28th Jan.

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)

HEIAN MARU

Saturday, 25th Jan. SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Hilo & San

Francisco.

* AKAGI MARU (starts from Kobe) Wednesday, NEW YORK via Japan & Panama

• NOZIMA MARU

Friday. SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila,

SUWA MARU

Wednesday, HAIPHONG. SAIGON & MADRAS

Sunday, (Cargo accepted for Haiphong & Saigon)

* GENOA MARU

15th Jan..

1

24th Jan..

29th Jan.

19th Jan.

Wednesday, 22nd Jan.

RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

* TOBA MARU

KOBE & YOKOHAMA

KAMAKURA MARU

KAMO MARU

YAWATA MARU

* Cargo 'only.

Complete Information From Your Agent or:

NIPPON YUSEN - KAISYA General Passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE

BRITAIN'S WINTER SHELTER PROBLEM

In normal" times the ability to stay out of the hospital throughout the entire six months of any given English Winter is an accomplishment of monumental proportions, Par for the course is about" four colds and one bad dose of galloping pneu- monia. When war with all its privations and complications is added to the fog, rain and associated natural calamities of this island, it can be seen that the problem is one of considerable Importance.

"

Evacuee Ship Buffetted By

Monsoon

NEW YORK, Dec. 36 Captain Harry Manning. of the evacuée liner ss Washington disclosed upon his arrival here today that his ship encountered a 10-day monsoon on her homeward Jour- ney which made most of the So far the British people have does not arrive and normal" meals evacuees from the Far East sea- not "worried very much about this cannot be cooked,

sick aspect of life with Herr Hitler.

Manning said in some instances What with are, bombs and high trying to meet this problem in the wind reached a velocity of 70 explosives and the all other fo- many ways. It is urging local au- miles an hour, causing the waves genious apparatus of sudden death thorities to improve the ventila-to leap as high as 40 or 50 feet. they have not had time to think tion of shelters and spray them He said on one ocession he have about the melancholy subtleties of daily. It is putting nurses in all to for 12 hours in an effort such things as diphtheria or pneu- the large shelters, and urging peo-avoid the monsoons, monia..

ple who have colds to wear masks

THROWN FROM COTS

several

The Churchill Government is:

to

门

of

But government officials who over their faces. At the same -ne skipper sald know that health, industrial pro- time urgent efforts are being made the children and mothers aboard duction and national security are to see that all diseased persons are were thrown from their cots onto inseparable. are worrying more kept out of the shelters.or isolat-

the deck by violent heavings. about this question every wet and ed. misty night

every

엮었다

the

to

in

In the government's view the but fortunately no one was ser!- The broad outlines of the pro- disease most likely to result from ously injured, and the ship blem are clear. The great ma- people lining up in the rain and

not, damaged, jority of the people of this coun- spending their nights in this ab-

The Washington was

the American liners try live in about twenty large normal way is diphtheria, and the third of urban communities, which are also outline of the government's shelter (which made a special trip the main targets for the German health programme recommends Levacuate women and children bombers. Since at any minute that a "free inoculation system be accordance with the request of during the fourteen and a half introduced, hours of the blackout the homes of these people are liable to be destroyed by high explosives, most of them seek some form of shel- the ter and thus expose themselves to the action of the government in

All sorts of natural disasters.

+.

LAG IN DIRECT ACTION Some notion of the condition in shelters can be gained from

recent weeks. Lord Horder and

liner

the state department. The carried 1,384 passengers, including 509 children, Fifty of the passen- gera made the trip all the way to New York.

blem.

rescue.

his committee on public health of the Royal Air Force will not be IN THE COLD AND DAMP

under air-raid conditions were

Immune in these epidemics if they The majority of the people of appointed on September 14. Lord start, and have urged the most London, for example, are supposed Horder issued his report four days drastic measures to meet the pro- to spend the night in their small lätea. steel shelters. These are sunk in Despite considerable pressure

The common sense of the Bri- the sodden earth of backyards. from some sections of the British ish people themselves-the safety They are damp, cold and draughty press the government "did not valve for everything here is al-

ready coming to their and over a period of time they publish a word of what he said

season started would defy the strongest constitutor. two months, and then care- since the rainy tion plus all the cod-liver oil in fully edited it before it was let more and more of them have been the world,

out. Speaking this week in the moving indoors. Similarly, the communal shelters House of Lords on the condition cf They have been bracing up one of almost every description are a the shelters, Lord Horder said cer- room in a house and sleeping un- danger to the health of the nation. tain official progress had beender the kitchen table. It is not They are certainly not so cold or made; but he added that it would safe. they admit, but many of damp as the little steel, shelters be not only foolish but criminal them would rather die in reason- and some of them are sanitary: and wrong to say that we are even able comfort than pass out in but most of them are poorly ven- within sight of a solution to the waterlogged, backyard doghouse..

(James B. Reston in Japan tilated, unhygienic and definitely hygienic problem of shelter life." unsanitary.

This statement, together with

Chronicle) These two factors, exposure and the obviously dangerous conditions congestion, are only the beginning that exist in shelters all over Lon- ut the problem. Probably the don, has alarmed many persons most important factor is that Dec. who remember what happned ple are living abrormal lives here under more favourable con- Because of the noise, or fear or ditions during the influenza epide- both, they are not aleeping. Hun- mic of the World War, dreds of thousands of families are, broken up and the menfolk, living profession here are outspoken in THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LTD: bachelor lives, are not eating pro-their fears that epidemics. may perly and regularly. Even those sweep the country from end to end families that are lucky enough to before Spring. They have re- be together have problems, because minded the govemment that in- often there is no gas or the milk dustria) workers and even the men

LONDON STOCK

EXCHANGE

• TOTTORI MARU

BOMBAY via Singapore &

Colombo.

HAKONE MARU

HARUNA MANU

Sunday, Tuesday,

12th Jan. 28th Jun.

Monday,

13th Jan

Tuesday,

28th Jan.

Tuesday,

14th Jan.

Tuesday,

28th Jan.

Continued from Page is

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To AUSTRALIA

Calling at Manila, Thursday Island, Cairns, Towns-

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NEXT SAILING

MIDDLE OF JANUARY, 1941.

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Į

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Agents.

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SAILINGS FOR SWATOW."AMOY & POOCHOW & RETURN

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Weekly sailings from Hong Kong

For particulars of Freight & Passage apply to:-

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Tel, Nos. 280NT & 28038.”

Bristol Aeroplane Imperial Chemical. Ind. 29/10 United Steel

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{hearer)

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DELL 27

22 54

7/62 9/8

155

401

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Many members of the medical

HARBOUR OFFICE

NOTICES

The South Channel, Penang Harbour, has been dredged De tween Lat. 5 deg. 19' N. and Lat.

5 deg. 22 N., according to a Har bour Office Notification, The northern end of the channel has now a depth of at least 24.ft. at M.L.W.S. and the southern Arm has been dredged to a depth of 24 ft. at MLOP. over a width of 230 ft., that is 115 feet either side of the centre line. The sides of the channel carry a depth of 22 feet.

LIGHT BUOY

A light buoy has been establish- ed in Lat. 31 deg. 07 N. long, 122 deg. 27 E. (Approx) according to another Harbour. Office Notifica- tion. The bug is painted red and exhibits à flashing Ught every 15 seconds.

CONSIGNEES NOTICES

NOTICE TO "CONSIGNEES

THE S.S. 14

મં

From LONDON, STRAITS AND MANILA.

are

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby

informed that all Goods 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 Guoda remaining undelivered after the 11th Jan, 1941, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the vessel must be presented to the undersigned on or before the 25th Jan, 1941, or they will not be recognized.

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

All broken, cbafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on the 9th January, 1941, at 10 am, by Mesra Carmichael & Clarke.

by

No Fire Insurance has been effected. Pills of Lading will be countersigned W. R. LOXLEY & Co. (CHINA) LTD.

Agents. Hong Kong, 6th January, 1941.

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Regular sailinge for UNITED KINGDOM as opportunity offeri

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for Mauritius, Ramion, Tamatave, Lourenco Marques, Durban and Cape Porte

AMERICAN-ORIENTAL LINE:

Regular sailings for Baston, New York, Philadelphis, & Baltimore.

For Freight or Page on any of the above lines apply! Telephone 77791

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All vessels may call at any ports on or off 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 circumstances sailinge are perforca restricted.

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We have a vessel sailing

for

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