1941-03-11 — Page 11

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS

PRESIDENT LINER

Sailings

Ta SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES

via SHANGHAL KOBE, YOKOHAMA & HONOLULU SS PRESIDENT TAFT I

S.S. "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"

SS. "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

Mar. 19

Apr 2 Apr. 19

via MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO,

BOMBAY And CAPETOWN

S.S. "PRESIDENT TAFT"

S.S. "PRESIDENT JACKSON"

"S.S. "PRESIDENT GRANT"

S.S. "PRESIDENT HAYES"

Mar. 30 Mar. 30 Apr. 20

To MANILA

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

Mar. 12 Mar. 26 Apr. 12

To NEW YORK and BOSTON

via SAN FRANCISCO. LOS ANGELES and

PANAMA

* S.S." PRESIDENT BUCHANAN "

*S.S. PRESIDENT JOHNSON"

S.S.." PRESIDENT FILLMORE"

Mar. 30 Apr. 19 May 8

⚫ Cargo only

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NITTA MARU

KAMAKURA MARU

Tuesday, 11th Mar. Tuesday; 18th Mar SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)

Wednesday, 12th Mar. SOUTH AMERICA (WEST COAST) vin Hilo & San

Francisco.

HIE MARU

• SAKITO MARU (starts from Kobe) Sunday, NEW YORK via Japan. & Panama

Sunday, ̈* AWATA MARU · SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila,

KASIMA MARU

Saturday,

BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo.

• ONOE MARU

* TOYOOKA MARU

16th Mar.

30th Mar.

22nd Mar.

Thursday, Friday,

13th Mar.

28th Mar.

Thursday,

20th Mar.

Friday,

28th Mar.

Tuesday, 11th Mar. Tuesday,

18th Mar. Wednesday, 26fb Mar,

RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore

• LIMA MARU

* HAKODATE MARU

*.

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NITTA MARU

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NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA General Passenger Agents in the Orient for

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N.T.K. King's Building

Telephone 29291.

TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

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Calling at Manila, Thursday Island, Cairns, Towns-

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NEXT SAILING

"EARLY IN MARCH, 1841.

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SAILINGS FOR SWATOW, AMOY & FOOCHOW. & RETURN

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DUTCH SHARE IN WAR HARBOUR OFFICE

AT SEA: AT WORK WITH

THE BRITISH FLEET

:

The greater part of the Navy of Holland escaped falling under German domination when the Netherlands were overrun. Most of it was built for service in the Dutch East Indies and in normal times it is stationed permanently there. There was al- smaller craft, and ways at home, however, a number of the

these, when further resistance to the invader was seen clearly to be futile, followed Queen Wilhelmina's lead and came to Eng- land. From Britain they continue the struggle ara'nst the hated enemies who are now in possession of their own land. 4 small force like Holland's in arms by their British dotilla-

-1

well

NOTIFICATION

GULF OF THAILAND NAVIGATION

Light-büoys have been estab- lished in the vicinity of the Bang- kok Bar Lighthouse. Gulf of Thailand, states a Harbour Office. notice.

The Outer Light Buoy has been established 219 degrees distant 1.85 miles from the Bangkok Bar Lighthouse in Lat. 13 deg. 25'

approx.

approx.

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P. & O. S. N. CO.

Passenger & Cargo Sailings

to

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Straits, Ceylon, India, East & South Africa

&

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B. I. S. N. CO. LTD.

Passenger

8

& Cargo Sailings to Rangoon and Calcutta.

Straits,"

European Navy, however, could mates, and they also fitted well ge3 N.. long: 100 deg. 35'5.3" E not hope to accomplish much in into the general life of that com- the national

Many cause unaided Itmunity.

of them.

The Inner Light Buoy has been has therefore joined forces with grounded at school in Holland, are established 012 deg. distant 4.5 the Briush Navy, and the various now fluent in English. They acables from the Bangkok Bar

guests dr ships that compose it are bravely welcome

many homes Lighthouse in Lat. 13 deg. 26' fighting Holland's battles as units near their base. They have taken 55.3 N.. long 100 deg. 38'19.4′′E co-operating with the British enthusiastically to British recrea- Fleet, forming part of its flottas tians too; an inter-ship football

The first buoy is can buoy and taking their turn in all the league competes for a cup pre-painted red, with superstructure duties that fall to the various sented by Prince Bernhard, hockey for gas light, the second a conical arms which make up the Navy, is catching on, and the local ice buoy painted red with superstruc

Gunboats, torpedo-boats. mine rink has many patrons who learn-ture for gas light, layers, minesweepers, submarines- ed their skating on the canals or

LIGHT BUOYS all these are to be found working Holland. with their flotilla-mates of the

The two light buoys mark the Another base accommodates

at British

Navy in the common minetagers, minesweepers, and the line of the dredged channel

are moored ceuse.

Dutch training establishment for Bangkok Bar, and UNSWERVING LOYALTY ratings. Militiamen these, some eastward of that Channel at They have not been submerged who remember Rotterdam, others distance of 229 feet from its cen- in the larger Navy, however, and Dutch subjects resident in Great tre line, The channel has amiear they maintain strictly their own Britain Dutchmen who speak no width of about 196 feet.

Sea-going vessels are warned to national Individuality. Tuls is Dutch, some of them,"

they manifest to any visitor to one of were described to a visitor. All of navigate within the limits of the their depots, for the portraits of them are equally keen to fit them-channel, and to pass westwards of Queen Wilhelmina and her family selves to take their part against the line joining the two buoys

Vessels navigating outside the are to be seen on the wall of every the common fos. cabin or mess. Unswerving loyalty The minesweepers, like so many channel limits may seriously im is a Dutch characteristic, and the of their British counterparts, are pair the efficiency of the channel.

LIGHTS EXTINGUISHED brave men of the Dutch Navy need drawn chiefly from fishing craft,

finer all their share of that quailty to- and there are no

The following lights have been day to sustain their spirits in the than Dutch fishermen. The ac-extinguished at Bangkok Bar and difficult position in which the tum tual bandling of minesweeping its approaches:-At the Bangkok

at to Bar Light-buoy,

the light- of fate has placed thein.

gear comes almost naturally

of the Their own

support is assured, them, and it does not take them buoys marking the line suppiled by this country; but they long to learn the handling of a dredging channel at the Bangkok.

the Bar, at Hin Sampayou light, Hin do not know what may be the machine-gun when there is condition of their families left in prospect of using it against the Gong Nai Light, Lem Wang light, Holland, what resources are left bombers that laid waste the cities Goh Tal Ta-mun light and Goh

Pai light. to them, and how they fare under of their own land.

1.

9.5

seamen

The tide signals which are dis- the German tyrants, They do Here, too, the young Dutch sea- know, however, that the only men have fitted into the Mfe of played at the Bangkok Bar light- to be discontinued by chance of freeing Holland from the community and are welcomed house are that tyranny is to continue the in many homes. Their hosts

do į night. struggle from this side of the what they can to make up North Sea; and that knowledge them what they have lost, but can give gives us a gallant ally, the value victory over the common foe alone land.

assistance is perhaps of whose

not so generally appreciated

this country as it should be.

in

to

them back their

own

At one British naval base there OKINA

UHINA NAVIGATION

are stationed some 400 officers

and men of the Royal Netherlands

Navy, who

mad the submarines

and gunboats working with the British forces which are also based there. They

are housed In A building which has been rapidly converted to its present" purpose. There are spacious and well- equipped workshops, indispensable to a running flottila of sub- mazinas.

Another part of the building provides excellent living quarters, where the submarines' crews can enjoy that comfort which is the due, between cruisers of those in that most arduous and dangerous of service. Facilities for washing are almost non-existence in a sub- marine at sea

wartime patrol, for instance, and ar essen- tial feature of a submarine base is ilving quarters lavishly provided In that respect.

on

POPULARITY IN BRITAIN The Dutch officers" and m611 have been

brothers

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