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SHIPPING

CANADIAN PACIFIC

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ROYAL MAIL.

STEAMSHIP LINE,

From Hongkong

Empress of

8th July.

Victorian

Russia Empress of

India Empress of

Asia

23rd July,

5th Aug.

From Quebec

All Steamships leave Hongkong`at noon.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1914.

SHIPPING

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

THE JAPAN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO.

Projected Sailings from Hongkong--

4th Aug.

Destination.

MARSEILLES,}

LONDON & AN-

The "EMPRESS OF RUSSIA," and "EMPRESS OF ASIA" arg new quadruple sorow 21 kot turbine stoumers, of 16,850 tons gross, 30,645 displacement, the finest, fastost and most luxurious on the Pacific.

The direct route to Canada, United States and Europe, call- ing at Shanghai, Nagasaki (hrough the Inland Sea of Jupan), Kobe, Yokoliamo and Victoria, D.C.

All Steamers of the Company's Pacific and Atlantic Floats are equipped with Marconi Wireless apparatus.

PASSAGE RATES HONGKONG TO LONDON.

"EMPRESS OF RUSSIA.

Optional Atlantie Pört, £71.10.

"EMPRESS OF INDIA,"

Optional Atlantic Port £65.,

-"MONTEAGLE","

EMPRESS OF ASIA.”

viu

EMPRESS OF JAPAN," via via Canadian

Intermediate service, Atlantic port £43, via Boston or. New York."£45.

Rates quoted above do nat include meals and sleeping car across Canada. Thoso, if required, will be furnished for £6 additional.

SPECIAL RATES (First Class only) allowed to Naval and Military oflicers; Civil Service employees, Missionaries, etc., etc. Passengers purchasing Trans-Paciße Round Trip passage tickets liavo the option of returning from San Francisco by the steamers of the Pacific Mail SS. Co., or Toyo Kison Kaisha.

Local and through passengers may, if desired, travel by mail between Ports of call in Japan.

For further information, Maps, Routes, Handbooks, Rates of Freight and Passago, apply to

D. %. CRADDOCK, General Traffic Agent for China, Corner of Peddor Street and Paya, opposito Blake Pior.

BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.

APCAR LINE

Regular Service Between-

CALCUTTA, STRAITS, SHANGHAI and JAPAN PORTS.

EASTWARD.

S.S. "Dilwara," 5,378 tons, Capt. Ramage, "R.N.R. will be despatched for KOBE & MOJI on fith July,

S.S.G. Apcar," :4,600 tons," Capt. Drake, will be despatched for SHANGHAI, KOBE & MOJI, on 26th July.

WESTWARD.

S.S. "A. Apcar," 4,450 tons, C.pt. Walker, will be despatch ed for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA.on 9th July.

S.S. Takada," 6,900 tons, Capt. Robins, will be despatched us above on 11tir July..

The above steamers have excellent "saloon accommodation for passengers and aro fitted with all modern conveniences and carry a duly qualified surgeon,

For freight or passage, apply to

Hongkong, July 6, 1914.

DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD. Agents.

THOS. COOK & SON, Tourist, Steamship and Forwarding Agents, Bankers, &c.

Subject to Alteration

Steamers,

TWERP, via Kitano Maru Singapore, Capt. Cope Malacca, Penang, { iyo Maru Colombo, Suez, & Port Said...

VICTORIA, B.C., and SEATTLE via S'hal, Kuelung, Moji, Kobe, Yok- kalohi, Shimidzu and Yokohama

SYDNEY & MEL- BOURNE, via Manila,

Capt.

Li

Shidzuoka Maru Capt. Degughi Tamba Maru Capt.

Thurs-Nikko Maru day' Island, Capt. Take ja 'Towneville and

Brisbane CALCUTTA

S'pore,

via) Kawachi Maru Fenang Capt. Tozawa,

Kirin Maru Capt. Katori Maru Capt. NAGASAKI, Kobol Kumano Maru

Yokohama ...... Capt. SHANGHAI, Mojil Ceylon Maru

and Kobe........ Capt..

31 Kamo Maru KOBÉ & Yokohama

¡ Capt.

& Rangoon BOMBAY via Singa- pore and Colombo. KOBE & Yokohama

| Cargo only.

SHIPPING

HONGKONG

LOG BOOK

The Improventent of the Mercantile Marine.

PHILIPPINES. It is not easy to realize tho

changes that are rapidly occurring in the British mercantile marino, alike in regard to the construction of improved vessels and tha. ro- STEAMSHIP CO. oruitment of the personnel of the

PHILIPPINES

Sailing Date:

Steamship. T.

Captain.

For

T. 16,000

T. 12,000

WEDNES,, 15th July, at 10 a.mi (WEDNES., 29th July, at 10 a.m.

Zafiro

Rubl

2000 F. S. McMurray

40003. Millor

TUESDAY, 14th T. 12,500 July, at 4 p.m.

JTUESDAY, 28th T. 12,500 1July, at 4 p.m...

JWED., 29th

T. 9,600 July, at noon.

(SATURDAY.

T. 12,000 111th July.

WEDNES

T. 5,000 18th July,

WEDNES., 15th T. 20,000 July, at 11 a.m.

TUESDAY, 28th

T. 9,600 July, at 5 p.m.

FRIDAY,

T. 12,500 117th July.

[WEDNES., 29th T. 9,600 July, at 11 am.

Fitted with now system of wireless telegraphy.

REDUCED SUMMER RATES BETWEEN HONGKONG

AND JAPAN PORTS.

Commencing from 1st Juno, onding 30th Sept.

SPECIAL EXCURSION TICKETS (1st & 2nd class) available for

3 months.

YOKOHAMA KOBE

Return. Return.

MOJI Return.

$122 $.75

$108

NAGASAKI Return. $95

$ 65

$57

Salling

Manila,Mangarin, Cebu and Iloilo. Manila,Mangarin, SATUR., 11th 1 Ceba and Iloilo. July, 4 p.m.

Electric light and fans in every cabin; competant stewardesses carried.

Passengers holding round trip tickets may return by any steamer of the Faride Mail S.S. Co., Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Norddeutscher Lloyd and Eastern and Australian Steamably Co., Ltd

For Freight or Passage apply to

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

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Hongkong, 25th June. 1914.

GENERAL MANAGERS

officers. There is an entirely new date.pirit of enterprise implied in the newa which we published recently that the P. and 0. Company are discarding overal of their old ships, are replacing them by sis others of greater speed and of loublo the tonnage of the former, and that the Kaiser-I-Hind now building, will be of 14,000 tona. Tho" change of policy in respect of tounago to the East is not con- fined, however, to one company; it is general and indicates that on expansion of trade is looked for in the near future for which it is pecessary to be prepared, All this is very welcome indeed, if only as a procf that India is not to be neglected. A very large number of old steamers have been sold out of the British registry during the past two years. This weeding out of old and obsolete vessola ...finds the British mercantilo mar- Will Avi on or abastine in a more efficient condition ...2nd half July......S'HAI...2nd half July than it has occupied for years, ...2nd half July .....JAVA 2nd half July and as the bost captains and ...2nd half July......S'HAI 1st half Aug.

retained have been officers ...2nd half July ......JAPAN ...1st half Aug. Timahi ....JAVA ...2nd half July.....JAVA...1st half Aug. to man the best boat, the Tillwang JAPAN ...2nd half July.JAVA at half Aug. naterial and the porsonnel are Tjimanoek...JAVA 1st half Aug......S'HAI 2nd half Aug. both efficient. But in spite of the Tilaljap.JAVA 1st half Aug. ......JAPAN ...2nd half Aug. bettör steaners and officers it eza The steamers are all fitted throughout with Electric Light, and bo oasily shown from the reoprd have accommodation for a limited number of saloon passengers, and of the torsos that there have boon will take cargo to all Ports in Netherlands-India on through B/L.

For particulars of Freight and Passago, apply to the

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

York Building.

115

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN

Starmar

Tihini

LIJN.

Regular Fortnightly Service between. JAVA, CHINA and JAPAN.

From

JAVA

Tjitaroem...S'HAI Tipanas......JAVA Tibodas......JAVA

Telephone No. 1574

Laugeted on or about

For

TOYO KISEN KAISHA

SAN. FRANCISCO LINE

VIA SHANGHAI, MANILA, THE INLAND SEA, JAPÁN AND HONOLULU,

Sailings from Hongkong-Subject to change without notice.

Loaye Hongkong. Steamer.

1st class.......$135 2nd class........$ 81

With option of Rail between Steamer's Calling ports in Japan. Shinyo Maru For further information apply to Tolephone. No. 292,

Chiyo Maru Tenyo Maru

T. KUSUMOTO, Manager.

Nippon Maru*

CHINA NAVIGATION

For

CO., LTD.

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

SHANGHAI SWATOW, W'WEI, C'TOO

& TTSIN.................................. {Huichow SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU...Chenan HONG-SHANGHAI..........

Head Office for the Far East:-16, DES VEUX ROAD,

KONG, SHANGHAI: 2-3, Foochow Road. YOKOHAMA:

32, Water Strool. MANILA: Manila Hotel.

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TICKETS SUPPLIED to EUROPE by the principal STEAMSHIP. LINES and TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY, TOURS arranged to ALL PARTS of the WORLD. BAGGAGE collected, forwarded and insured at lowest rates..

LETTERS of CREDIT and CIRCULAR NOTES ISSUED and CASHED

Summer Excursion Tickets to Japan by all Lines.. Chief OfficeLUDGATE CIRCUS, LONDON, E.C.

HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.

IN CONJUNCTION WITH Deutsche Damptschiffahrts Gesellschaft "HANSA." Regular Sailings from JAPAN, OHINA and PHILIPPINES

via STRAITS and COLOMBO,.

IU

Marseilles, Havre, Emden, Bremen and Hamburg and New York. And from Manila, Hongkong and Japan to Victoria. Vancouver (BO.) and Seattle, Wash. and Portland (Or.)

Taklar Catgo at Thraneb rates to at European North Continental and Bellish Parts, also Trieste,

Operio, Marieilles, Genna, and be Meditar

yasting, Binck Sex and Bala Ports, sed al! North and Spoil Americas i'orta.

Next Sallings from Hongkong :

FOR Shanghai, Kobs and Yokohamà,.

STEAMSHIP Senegambla

Holsatia

Scandia

Sithonia ...Liberia...

Steamers.

To Bail.

Anhui ......9th July at 4 p.m.

....10th July at 4 p.m.

11th July at m'night .Liangchow......14th July at 4 p.m. .14th July at 4 p.m. | MANILA, CEBU & ILOILO...Taming

PARHOI & HAIPHONG Sungkiang......15th July at 9 a.m.,

DIRECT SAILING TO WEST RIVER, Twice Weekly. "8.8. LINTAN," and" 8.8. SANUI":

H

|MANILA LINE-Twin Serow Steamers "Chinhua," "Taming,"

and "Tean." Excellent saloon accommodation amidships; electric fans fitted; extra staterooms on deck aft on "Taming" & "Tean," SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU LINE. The Twin, Screw steamers "Kanchow" Anhui " "Chenan," "Shaohsing" and the S.S.. 'Liangchow," "Luchow" and "Ylagchow" having excellent accommodation with Electric Light throughout and Electric Fans in the State-rooms and Dining Saloon, maintain a fast schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, leaving Hongkong for Shanghai direct every Tuesday,Thursday and Sunday, taking cargo on through Bills of Lading to all Yangtze and Northern China Ports..

The steamers leaving Hongkong on Sundays proceed from Shanghai to Tsingtau, leaving there on Tuesdays for Shanghai, Hongkong and Canton.

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Displacement

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Tons & Speed 22,000 21 knots Tues., 22,000 - 21-knots Tues 22,000 - 21 knots Tues., 11,000-18 knots Tues.,

a large number of vessels that went last year to swell the total of the monthly settlements of underwriters' books. Among liders mast be noted the Ulstermore, Veronese, Devon; Tyrone, and Admiral Exelmans, and although there were not such heavy total sson ne the Pericles (s) and the Titanie, some of those just mon- tioned bulked sufficien ly largo in the value of their bulls and. cargoes, to add considerably to the debit side of the account. It must not be forgotten that now quat vesseledre no langer confined to a size of 1,500 tons, ne was the case thirty years ago, burud frequently into 8,000 and 10,000 tons underwriters feel compelled to incrosse the amount of liability that they should carry in esch steamer, so that the loss of a fine liner means usually a heavy amount for each underwriter out. company to pay

it is reason- That being so, able to suppose that greater afety in navigation will ba aimed at, and that only the most skilled officers will be employed, SALINA Loth points on which, we needly.

14th July. 4th August. 25th August.

8th Sept.

Steamers via Shanghai will be despatched at noon. Steamers via Manila will be despatched at 10,30 a.m/ First Class to London £71.10. Return (6 months) £120. First Class to New York.....£60,

£96.10. £63% San Francisco £45, "Passengers purchasing Trans-Pacific Return tickets have the option of returning from San Francisco by steamers of the Pacifio Mail S.S. Co., or from Vancouver by steamers of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.

Special Eutes given to MAVAL & MILITARY, DIVIL SERVANTS, MISSION. ARIES oto.

ROUND THE WORLD Tickets issued in Connection with all the Principal Mail lines and the Trans-Siberian Hallway.

Passengers may travel by Railway between ports of call in Japan froo of charge,

SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.

Via JAPAN PORTS, HONOLULU, HILO, MANZANILLO, ORUZ CALLAO, IQUIQUE and VALPARAISO.

Thonco by TRANS-ANDEAN ROUTE to BUENOS AIRES, For Fall Particulars as to Passage & Frelykt, apply to

5. MORIMOTO, Agent.

KING'S BUILDINGS.

Telephone No. 291

"

THE EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN

LIMITED. STEAMSHIP CO.,

MAIL SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA

VIA MANILA.

MAIL SHEDULE (SUBJEET TO MODIFICATION.)

Steamer."

Arrive Hongkong from Australia.

་་་་

4th July, 1st Aug.

22nd Aug.

Eastern ..oset, Aldenham .............. Empire.

St. Albans

Leave Hongkong for Australia.

10th July, 10 a.m. 31st July, 28th Aug., 18th Sept.,

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N.B.--Passengers must embark before midnight on Saturday for The above Steamers are fitted with Refrigerating Machinery, en the Sunday morning sailings. A Company's launch leaves Murray suring a plentiful supply of Ice, Fresh Provisions, etc., and are Pier at 10 o'clock-overy Saturday night.

lighted throughout with Electricity: All State-Rooms have Electrio These steamors land passengers in Shanghai, avoiding the incon-Fans. A duly qualified Doctor and Stewardess are carried.

For further particulars, apply to venience of the trans-shipment at Woosung.

Gibb, Livingston & Co..

Agents.

Do,

Reduced Fares:--Hongkong to Shanghai:-Single $45, Return $75.

Hongkong to Tsingtau:-Singla $78. Return $125. For Freight or Passages apply to

TO SAIL

17th July ...25th July .........14th Aug..

...23rd Aug.

11th Sept. Telephone No. 36

.....Altmark....

...Arabia

Wurttemberg

..18th Sept. 9th Oct. 16th Oct.

Hongkong 8th July, 1914.

13..

11

1

Belgravia

17th Bopt. Brasilia ............ 12th Oct. .....Segovia

9th July.. M'les, Havre, Einden & H'burg

......9th July, Havre, R'dam, 'burg & A'werp...Goldenfels

.....Emden.... Havre, R'dam & Hamburg

..20th July.

21st July.

24th July.

Vitoria, V'vor, S'tle T. & P. (Or.)......Andalusia .........2nd Aug.

..29th July.

M'les, Havre, Bremen & Hamburg...Preussen

...Hoerde Hamburg and Antwerp ............!

....Silesia Havre, Emden, & Hamburg....... Havre, Bremen & Hamburg"...Markomannia ...5th Aug.

.......Frisia

7th Aug. Genoa, Dunkirk & H'burg. M'les, R'dam, Hamburg & A'werp...O. D. J. Ahlers: 22nd Aug, Havre, Emden, & H'burg.Senegambla... 25th Aug. Holsatia 3rd Sept. Havre & Hamburg

For Further Particulars, apply to

Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hongkong Of«);

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

Agente

Dr

hardly add, the general travelling public is glad to be re-assured. The policy of weeding out old vessels is to be accompanied by additional precautions to prevent that most horrible of all ocean

dangers--the risk of fire. Stopa

are to be taken to secure the safety of passengers by placing the ac commodation reservod for them quite apart from the portions of the ships allotted to cargo, and especially cargo of an inflammable natare. How essential this is may be deduced from the underwriting experiences of last year, when the total losses from fire were the Estonia, - Templemore,

and. Volturno-The-Turakina and her cargo were so seriously damaged at Rio as to bring claims of about.. $400,000. The Calna (a) on fire

at Madras, the Karema, at Boston,

the Albany (a) at Maconesar; and

the Etruria at Rio, bulked vory

largely in claims on cargo for firo and water damage. The premium for the insurance of steamers for twelve months, known as steamers for "time," formed a very con-

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LD.siderable part of the total pre-

Hongkong-South China Coast Ports.

alten auto repa

RUSSIAN VOLUNTEER FLEET. Electric Light. Excellent Cuisine.

HONGKONG AGENCY.

Homeward Bound.

(Odessa viu Forts of call.)

Highest Class, Fastest and Most Luxurious Steamers, on the Coast, having splendid Accommodation for First-Class Passengere, FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND YOOOHOW RETURN, (Occupying 9 to 10 days.) Steamships. Captain Haltan

J. W. Evans FRIDAY, 10th July at 11 am- Halyang

AE. Hodgins... TUESDAY, 14th July at 11 a.m. Halching... W. O. Passmore. FRIDAY, 17th July at 11 a.m. FOR SWATOW.

Leaving.

miums for the year, and the result. of writing this class of business often rules the result of the twelve months. About three years ago it was found that the rate of premium on halls of steam ore was far exceeded by theamount of claims, and an agreement was formed in the anderwriting. world by which the this disparity might be removed. The result was that the premiums and the values of steamers were very considerably raised, and a profit 8th July at 11 a.m. able result was looked for.haf Haimun A. H. Stewart... SUNDAY, 12th July at 10 am, result was not, however, realised.

During the months of July and August First Class Return Fares to Fooohar will-be subject to a reductioa of 20% on the full Faras.

Steamers will arrive at and depart from the Co.'s Wharf near Blake Eler.

The 8.S. Koursk 6,400 R.T., Commander Padalka, is expected Halmun.......... A. H. Stewart, WED, to arrive here on or about the 22nd day of July, 1914.

For Freight, Passage and further particulars, apply to

Capt LUKHMANOFF, Agent, Hotel Mannions, 3rd Floor, Rooms 12 & 14,

Tel No H

Hongkong, July 4, 1

For Freight and Passage, apply to se

Douglas Lapralk & Co.,

General Manager.

Oysters, Frosh, Tried or Stewed Findon Haddocks, Kippert &o

ALUKANDRA CAFE,