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TA SILANGHAI, KOBE YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU

$8. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

Mar. 3 Mar, 19

SS. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO,

BOMBAY and CAPETOWN

Mar. 23 Apr.

88. "PRESIDENT JACKSON"

SA. "PRESIDENT HAYES"

To MANILA

38. "PRESIDENT PIERCE"

AS. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

SS. "PRESIDENT CLEVELANDY"

Feb. 28 Mar. 1

Mar.

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

via SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES and

PANAMA

83.

Mar. 27

Apr. 13 May 8

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Tuesday,

25th Feb. Tuesday, 11th Mar. SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)

Wednesday, 12th Mar,

TATUTA MARU NITTA MARC

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HIE MARU

1.

AUSTRALIA'S WAR EFFORTS: EIGHT ARMY DIVISIONS, NAVAL & AIR STRENGTH

Army

The Dominion of Australia has already formed eight divisions-three more than in World War I, From a land of only 7,000,- 000 people some" 100,000 Australians are now in the Middle East or in England. New troops are enlisted at the rate of 5.000 a month. A home-defence force of 250,000 is being conscripted.

fence and

"

WHAT WAR-RISK UNDERWRITERS · NOW THINK OF

ITALY

World's most impartial military observers are the men who set shipping insurance rates in war- time. They have to be cold, wistJess thinkers because a mistake may mean financial ruin

When Italy blustered into the

war last June, U.S. war-risk under writers suspended publication of

In the last year 80,000 new troops, mal quarter century of industrial have been trained. Recently plans prorgess in the past two years. were announced for a costly pro-

WAR EFFORT COST gramme of mechanizing the whole

The cost of the Dominion's war Australian Army, both home-de-effort is a great strair on her expeditionary, with economy. War "expenditure ''is tanks and armoured carriers to be, directly reflected in a 1940 budget rates on Mediterranean shipping built in the Dominion. (Each

of £280,000,000 (previous budget: altogether. Now Italy looks less Australian. division now has 2,000

£100,000,000)—about $897,200,000 formidable and figures on imports motor vehicles, but few Bro

no mean budget for a nation with to the U.S. from the Eastern Medi- armoured),

a population smaller than New terranean and Red Sea (around the MOBILE SCHOOL

York City's. Determined to pay out Cape of Good Hope) were posted A new mobile school of me of revenue, the Government taxes once mcre; 10%. chanization already moves from all classes of citizens severely. Im

Nine.days later the underwriters camp to camp-three trucks loaded ports of everything except essen-thought still less of Italy. reduced with diagrams, models, textbooks, tials have been testricted, most Red Sea rates to 11%. Last week sound tims. The Army says that imports cut off entirely.

they gave Mussolini the untindest. although cabled technical advice, Before the war, Australla had cut of all: they trimmed the Red Sea figure to 5%. In areas where from England is limited. many im- many rapidly expanding export Nazi submarines operate, rates re- provements have already been markets. Today she has become an. made on English mechanization.

arsenal for embattled Great Britain mained 10% and up Among them: A Bren-type gun and Australian surpluses have carrier whose crew is protected largely. been commandeered by against dive bombers bullets, in- "Britain at low prices. Britain, for buy essentials from the U.S. fantry carriers that can move instance, takes all surplus food-¦ Australia's enormous wheat belt "right up to the battle." a "garage stutts will take all of Australia's has recently suffered sharply from trailer" carrying 90% of a modern wool clip (normally one-third of poor prices in overseas markets. service station's equipment.

her exports for the duration of high living and farming costs. the war."

There is an acuté shortage of ship-

SAVED MONEY After World War I the Dominion saved money by reducing arma- ments, relying on British sea power. It ignored Admiral Sir Reginald Henderson's plea for an indeper- dent Australian Fleet of 62 first- line ships by 1933. Today the chagrined Government ands Itself! with only two 10,000 ton cruisers Ave lighter cruisers, eleven" de- stroyers. New ship.ways have been laid down, but not for several years is Australia's naval strength likely to give, say, a Japanese admiral cause for micre than a slant-wise smile.

SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) via Hilo & San to defend, Australia banks on her

Francisco.

NEW YORK via Japan & Panama

morë

SHIPPING SHORTAGE ' ping for overseas trade, most Dom- Moreover, while Britain creditston ships have been taken over Australia for half the profits from by Britain. now deprived of the the resale of wool to neutrals, Bri-neutral shipping available to the tain will not give the Dominion the Allies in World War I. A further dollar exchange the badly needs to worry is the possibility of inflation.

WEATHER REPORT

Hongkong Royal Observatory

10 am.. Feb. 23.

"

Temperature, 81 F.

"'"

Barometer (at sea level), 30,00 ins. Humidity, 91 per cent." Wind Direction. B/N Wind Force (Beaufort), 6. AIR STRENGTH

Temperature: maximum yesterday, With thousands of miles of coast

68 F Temperature: minimum last night, fast-multiplying Air Force

50 X. than on her Army and Navy com- bined. In the three years ending Rainfal; for 24 hrs. ending 10th

today, nil. July 1942, she will have spent £50,-"

Total rainfall since January 1st 000,000* for air training. £30,-

9.32 ins. 000,000 for expansion. In 1932 the R. A. A F. had only 32 Arst-line planes. Last June it had 212. is to- day getting many more.

*Australian

• SAKITO MARU

(starts from Kobe) Sunday,

16th Mar,

AWATA MARU

Thursday,

20th Mar.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila.

HUSIMI MARU

Wednesday:

26th Feb.

MADRAS

**DELAGOA MARU

Monday,

3rd Mar.

worth $3.22.

"ist Mar.

22nd Feb. 23rd Feb.

Saturday.

BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo.

ANYO MARU

RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

* DAKAR MARU (calls at Saigon)

NAGATO MARU

KOBE &

YOKOHAMA

TATUTA MARU

ATUTA MARU

NITTA MARU

* Cargo only.

Saturday, Sunday,

Tuesday,

25th Feb. Monday, 3rd Mar. Tuesday,

11th Mar.

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I

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Tel, Nos. 18037 & 27028.

pounds. currently

Against an average of, 2:65 Ins. Sunset tonight, 6.24 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6.49 sm.

4 p.m, Feb. 23. Barometer (at sea level), 29.88 $125.

Local plants

make planes Temperature, 61 F. Vickers guns, tires, tubes, para Humidity, 90 per cent. chutes, safety harness, spark pulgs, Wind Direction, E radio and photographic equipment. Wind Force (Beaufort), 5. More than 135,000 Australians have volunteered for an air-training programme calling for 16,000 in air crews, 26,000 in ground crews. Some 800-700 start training monthly. Of 24,500 ground applicants accepted, 19,000" are already in training. Twenty schools for air crews are running, a total of 40 is anticipated,

INDUSTRIAL EFFORT

The "industrial revolution" spurt red by Australia's war effort is re- flected in her growing wartime and secondary industries, such as woollen textiles, manufacturing and food packing...Since the war, steel- ingot capacity has been stepped from 1,200,000 to 1,600,000 tons a year, reaching not only self-suffi- ciency but an export surplus.

All kinds of steel, including non- magnetic (for battleship plate), are now homemade or shortly will be By the end of 1940 the production rate of small-arms ammunition was eight times that of 1939, New 25-pounder field in mass produc- tion. Between April 1930 and last Many machine gun output multi- plled six times and rifle output 15 times. Local industrialists say that Australia has accomplished a nor-

CHINA

HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 24 Feb. to 2 Mar. 1941.

Month.

Bays of

Dats of

Height.

LOW WATER

Hong

Kong

Standard

Time

02 42

Hnight

· 1

HIGH WATER.

Bong

Kong Standard

Time.

h. mu.

b. m.

ft. 23.

Mon. 24

Tues 25

09:28

6

20 37

Ο

1347

33

09 57

49

03 14

21 20

7 0

14 32

9

Wed, 28

10 29

j& 1:

03 43

21 666 9

16 14

⚫ 6

Thur, 27

1083

04-13

12

22 30

6 6

1554

25

Fri. 28

11 7

15 4

04 42

14

23.07

6 2

1635

2 6

Sat. 1

11 41

03 12

16

23 34

17.18

$24

an

요

11 58

5 6

05 39

20

23 5*

5 41

17.57

29

Maximum temperature, 63 F." Minimum temperature, 59 F. Rainfall, nil

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