THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY MAY 20
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KUDAT and SANDAKAN..
No. 1 DOCK.
Length inside 514 It, Width of entrance, top 85 ft.; bottom 75 it. Water on blooks, 27.5 ft. Time to pump out, 4 hours.
No. 2 DOCK.
Length inside, 975 ft. Width of entrance, top 60.5 ft. bottom 45.8 ft. Water on blooks, 28.5 ft. Time to pamp out, 2 hours:
THESE DOCKS are conveniently situated in Yokohama harbour and the attabtion of Captains and Engineer is respectfully called to the advantages offered for Docking and repairing Vessels and Machinery of every description.
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bit geographical is Central Asia.
Are:dated Dec. 10, 1907, ... Dr. Stein's first move from Ab abl;led towards, the great snowy range south, which forms the watershed betweep the Su- lil ho and Tun-huang rivers. In spite of very massive construction, all lines of walls facing art, and thus standing across the direction of the prevailing winds, have been completely breached, add in many places effaced to their very foundation, while the walls facing conh and south have escaped almost uninjured.
After surveying the great chain of glacier crowned panks which overlooks the barren outer ranges and detritus plateaus of the Nan- shan west of the Su-lai-ho, Dr. Stein and his companiocos made their way over hitherto un-
explored ground to the foot of the mountains near the famous Chia-yu-Kuan gate of the Great Wall Here a short stay enabled him to clear up so archiɔlogical problem of con.
The plant and tools are of recent putteros for 'dealing quickly and cheaply with work siderable historical interest in connection with
A HOUSE in RIPON TERRACE OFFICES in Yonk
GODOWNS in PRAYA EAST BLUK BUILDINGS, and No. 168, DIE VEUX ROAD next to the Hoogkong Hotel, FLATS in MORRTON TERRACE OFFICES on TOP FLOOR, No. 2. Con BEZ NAUGHT ROAD, facing the Cricket
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THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST MENT & AGENCY CO. LD Hongkong, 9th May, 1908.
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5P.M. 118 May. od large stock of material is always at hand, (plates and angles all being tested by the Great Wall The imposing line of this GODOWN No. 54, Duddell Street.
Lloyds surveyors).
Two powerful Twin Screw Towboats are available for taking Vessels in or out of 9 AM, 26th May. Dock, and for taking Sailing Vessels in or out of the bay. The floating derrick is capable
of lifting, 35 tons.
wall which bonds round, the westernmost part of the Soochow basis and extends to the very foot of the Naughan, has always been repre
| sented in books and maps, as the end of the Ancient Great Wall" guarding the northern border of Kansub. Yet with this assumption
Steam Launches of Steel or Wood, Ligaters, Steel Buildings and Roofs, Bridge it was difficult to reconcils contain early Chi Work, and all kinds of Machinary are made on the premises.
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About WEDNESDAY,
3rd June.
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SHANGHAI, NAGASAKI, KOBE¡ " KizisT *
NORDDEUTSCHER LLOYD,
MELCHERS & CO.,
GENERAL AGENTS, HONGKONG & CHINA.
Hongkong, 20th May, 1908,
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MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.
FRENCH MAIL LINES.
FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE TO and FROM EUROPE via SUEZ CANAL.
TO and FROM JAPAN VIE SHANGHAI.
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Through Tickats to London via Paris from £27.10 up to £71,10 20 hours' railway from
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Interpreters meet passengers at their arrival in Marseilles.
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P. NALIN,
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nese notices which seemed to place that famous gate much funkar to the west, and still more forcibly there spoke against it the remains of
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that ancient limes which Dr. Stele's explora and 8, LEIGHTON HILL The cost of Docking, and repair work, will be found to compare favourably with that tions in the spring had revealed as extending of any port in the world.
Telephone: Nos. 376, 608, or 881.”
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from An-ahi westwards into, the desert of Tun- huang. Careful examination on the spot din. closed near Chia-ya Kuan the junction of two lines of frontier defence of widely different age and purpose. One line, represented by the crumbling wall of stamped clay which mes along the whole northern border of the Boo. chow and Kancho districts, was, proved by certain ruins to have orginally continued west- wards is the dire.tion of An-shi and the Tun huang lines, and to date, like the latter, from the second century B.C. fis manifest purpose way to safeguard the narrow belt of osten along the north foot on the Nan-shan, which was in- dispensibly deeded as a passage into Eastern: Turkesten when Chinese, political and, com mercial expansion towards the - "Western regions" had commenced under the first Hun dycasty. The second line, which meets (bis aucieni wall at right angles and through which the Chia-yu-Kaan Gate leads, was shown to
be of far less ancient construction, and pro.
bably does not go back further than the 15th 16th century A.D. I was built for the very different purpose of closing the great route. towards Central Asia and the West, at a period when China had once "mora resumed her. traditional attitude of seclusion,
Sonchow, the first town" within the "wall" served as base for Dr. Stein's expedition into the Central Nan-shan, The Chinese saillers of the Kansub, oases entertain a great dread of the mountains, which, in spite of excellent graz. ing grounds and ciber natural advantages, res main to them a ferra incognita beyond the outer SCAIps of the Richthofen range. Guides were
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON LAND AND LOAN CO, LD. No. 8, Queen's Road West, Hongkong, 30th March, 1908,
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Kowloon.
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No:56 Hauso, Faraished,, Rept moderats.
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CSTREET, late Hotel Baltimore, rent moderate...
in No. 2, WYNDHAM
The Steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light and have Accommodation for oblainable only as far as the broad plateau-like Central, containing 6 Rooms and Servante)
a limited number of Saloon Paitengers, and will take Cargo to all Netherland India Ports on through Bills of Lading.
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5.S. "PAUL BEAU," 1,900 tons, 14 knots,
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The specdiest, most luxuriously appolated and punctual steamers on the e, Departure from Hongkong at to 2,4, (Saturdays excepted), Departure from Caston at 5.15 F.M. (Sundys excepted).
v lley between this and the Tolai-sham ran |where some gold pila situated at an elevation of about 13,500 ft, use worked for a few months annually by small parties of more venturesome of Hsi-ning people coming-from-the-side- After leaving these exposed mining camps, where the snow bad barely melied by the be ginning of August, na human beings were met with until the travellers, towards the close of the month, came upon Mongoli grazing in the valleys south of Kan-chow. *****
By marches covering an aggregate of over 400 miles Dr. Stein and his party, managed. during August to cross and servey in detail the three northernmost ranges of the Central Nan shan, all rising to peaks of 18,000-19,000 (t., between the longitudes of Soochow and Kan chow. All the rivers descending to those cases: as well as the Su-lai-ho, which flows towards An-shi and Tuobuang, were explored to their glacier-fed sources. The magnificent ice- crowned range which divides the headwaters) of the Su-Jai ho from the Koko-gor and Khara- nor drainage was also surveyed along the whole, length of its north face. It was curious to meet in the wide mountain-gift basin, dire, 13,000 fi, above, the sea, where the Sa-lal-ho)
There superh steainers carrying the French Mail are fitted throughout with Electric Light gathers its main source, the same combination. and Fans and were specially built for this trade. Excellent caisioc
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characteristic feature of the desert depression where the river dies away between Tup-huang and Lop-Nor. From there Dr. Stein and bis party made their way over difficult bog-covered Uplands into the uċexplored alpine tract, where the Tatang river the northernmost large tributary of the Yellow river-rises, and after this short visit to the edge of the Pacific drain- age, regali ed the broad valley of the upper Huel-ho, or, Kan-chow river. From Kan-chow Dr. Steln began early, in September the long
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In spite of these labour an rowia, and an aggregate marching distance from An-sh) of close on 950 miles, Dr. Stein had reached the north-east corner of the Tarim: Basin in good time for the explorations of the April 13
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