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SHIPPING.

THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 11: 1919.

SHIPPING.

P.&O.S.N.CO. NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

ROYAL MAIL SERVICE. UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIS MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT. STRAITS, BURMA, COLOMBO, AUSTRALIA INDIA. EGYPT &c.

FOR MARSEILLES & LONDON VIA SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO & PORT SAID

(JAPAN -MAIL 8.S. CO.)

Mailings from Hongkong subject to lbersdoo,

Destination. Steamer & Displacement. Sailing Dates.

*Shizuoka M. JWED. 19th

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKO-

HAMA

........

T. 12,520 Aki Maru

NAGASAKI, KOBE & YOKO-

HAMA

leave Hong kong & out

Due Marsailles

shout

•

Due London

about

•NORE

14th Mar.

20th April

and Mar

SHANGHAI & KOBE......

14th Mar.

2rd April

3rd May

NELLORE

1th April

27th May - Will take same bottom cargo for Rotterdam-Not available

for passenger. FOR SINGAPORE, COLOMBO & BOMBAY.

Sen May

DILWARA

14th March

dua Bombay about S1st March

T. 12.30)

*Nikko Maru

T. 9,600

Benten Maru

T 8050 Tenshin Maru

..T Inaba Maru г. 12,600 Kamp M.

r. 15,980 Tango Maru

IJ,560

*NOVARA

FOR SHANGHAI, MOJI & KOBE Etc. NELLORE 113ta Mar., noon. | Shanghai, Nagasaki, Moji & Kobe

WIRELESS ON ALL STEAMERS. PASSACE

RATES.

HAND-BOOKS. For FREIGHTS & FURTHER INFORMATION apply to:-

P. & O. S. N. Co.

Hongkong. Sth March, 1919.

E. V. D. Parr,

Superintenden)-

CANADIAN BACIFIC

OCEAN

GERVICES

PACIFIC SERVICE

LONDON or Liverpool via Sinza- pore, Malacca, Penang. Colum- ba, Sues and Port-Said

MELBOURNE vis Manila, Zam-

BOMBAY via Singapore, Malac-Yubari Maru

ca and Colombo

T. 0,100

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Pen-į *Akita M.

ang and Rangoon

T. 8,000

- Wiz

SHIPPING NEWS.

WORKING HOURS IN MERCANTILE MARINE,

The Industrial Fatigue Ro- Įsearch Board are about to embark on their investigation in respect to the relation of hours of labour; 1 Manat liam

and other conditions of employ- 1 FRI, 28th

Mar. at 11 am.ment to the production of fatigue. The subject is one of considerable MON., Slat importance to those angaged in Mar. at it am. the Merchant Service, and the Imperial Merchant Service Guild SUNDAY, have made certain suggestions to 9th Mar. this committee, which are em- WED 12th. bodied in the following letter, (Mar. at 11 am. seat by their secretary, Mr.

SAT and

Moore: Dear Sir. As represent Mar. illating over 15,000 officers of the Merchant Service, we observe SAT, 5th

TUESDAY, 11th March.

{SAT, 15th

March.

Tiagr2009

4 Ümming Khangbai Mior MIL HONGKONG-VICTORIA, 3.C-SEATTLE VIA MANILA, SHANGHAL KAGASAEL KOBE, TOCKAICHI AND TOKOHAMA, Opsented by the magniñalent and squendidiy equipped pamenger dedmare “Fenhuma Mara.” *Sava Mare," " Kaskına Mars,” A “Kulon Mark,” akan of over 20,000 sec dapaRoe meca

Sexi manngs trans Hongzoni.

SATUR., Jind Mar., at 11 am. MUN, 5th May, at 11 5.0.

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.

* Fushimi Maru 1 Suwa maru

One factie EestṣANNA

LIMITED

SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG to VANCOUVER

VIA

Shanghai Nagasaki (or Moji) Kobe & Yokohama.

Arrive Vancouver

it

Steamer EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF JAPAN EMPRESS OF ASIA MONTEAGLE

From Hongkong

13 March.

31 March.

19 March.

9 April.

27 March.

14 April.

5 April..

29 April,

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

24 April.

12 May.

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

May.

28-May.

EMPRESS OF ASIA

22 May.

9 June.

MONTEAGLE

10 June.

4 July.

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

19 June.

7 July.

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

2 July.

23 July.

EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA MONTEAGLE

17 July,

4 Aug.

14 Aug.

1 Sept.

13 Sept

For partieniars regarding pomaga farmu m bags and reservation of scoumimodation, also togestion af wipe and Aemfptive lilerakur apply to

P. D. BUTHERLAND, GENERAL · BREP?. JĀMERO. DIPAKTICENT. Prom 732

.20 Aug.

Portraight rates and through bills of lading Tth Foover is definection with Canadian Panda Rasy to all Overland Polate in Canada And United States also to Barape and Whet Indies, apply 14

Phone 43

HONOKONG.

JH. WALLACE, -

GENERAL AGENT.

BRITISH INDIA S. N. CO., LTD.

APCAR LINE.

Regular Service Between

SHANGHAI and JAPAN PORTS

EASTWARD.

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

For freight or passage, apply to

DAVID SASSOON & CO., LTD.,

Agents.

Hongkong, Sept. 24, 1917.

PACIFIC MAIL S.S.CO.

U. S. MAIL LINE,

Operating the new First Class Seemers

VENEZUELA” and “ COLOMBIA."

14,000 tons Each,

* ECUADOR.'

Hongkong to San Francisco.

„via Shangha', Kobe, Yokohama and HONOLULU,

THE SUNSHINE BELT.

The most Comfortable Route to America sui Europe.

Sailings from Hongkong at noon.

"VENEZUELA"

&&

"ECUADOR"

++

* COLOMBIA.”

26th March.”

23rd April. 21st May.

These steamers have the most modern equipment including over- head electric fans and electric lighting ALL LOWER BERTHS & Large Comfortable Staterooms (all single and two berths only.) The Sifaty and Comfort of Passengers is our First Convideration. Special caré l• girên ta the cuisine, and the attendance oi passangers sansat bawa pa ssed, Tickets are love changeable with the Toyn Kisen Kaliha and the Canadian Pacif: Cosan Bervices, Ltd.

For further information, rates, literature, schedules etc.,

Apply to

Telephone No. 141,

Company's Office in ALEXANDRA BUILDING.

Chater Boad,

For bunker inÈUTONARMIN, BUTAS NO

SHIPPING.

C. N. C.

CHINA NAVIGATIO CO., LTD. ~AILINGS SURJECT TO ALTERATION,

Zo

CHINKIANG TIENTSIN

Steamers.

Tientsin Kueichow

SWATOW & SINGAPORE Chinhua SHANGHAI..

.Sulyang SHANGHAL...

Chenan

To Ball.

......12th Mar. at 4 pm.

12th Mar. at 3 pm.

13th Mar. at 10a.m. ....13th Mar. at noon. ...15th Mar. at 3 pm

SHANGHAI LINE-PASSENGERS, MAILS AND CARGO, Excellent Saloon accommodation Amidships; Electrio. Light and Fans in Saloon and State rooras. Regular schedule service between Canton, Hongkong and Shanghai, taking Cargo oa threagh Bills of Lading to all Yangtze and Northern China Ports, Passenger are Landed in Shanghai, avoiding the inconvenience of transhipment

Wonsung.

当

For Freight or Passage apply to

Hongkong March 11, 19 9.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents.

JAVA-CHINA-Japan LIJN.

Tiilatjap Tjima dek

Regalar Fortnightly Service betwean

CHINA. and JAPAN.

Www

in port Shan.hai

Espec

תלב לי

30th Mar,

Wil Leave A

11th Mar Yokohama

1st Apr. Java

(Apr. at 11 a.m.that your Board will be glad to

WED., 26th

receive suggestions in respect to Mar. at 11 am. the relations of hours of labour bosnaga, Thursday Is., Towa-Nikko M.

and other conditions of em- ¡WED., sville, Brisbane & Sydney............A

T. 9,600

123rd Apr.

ployment to the production of Telephone No. 36. NEW YORK via Shanghai, Kobe

fatigue. We venture, therefore, For date of sailing apply at Yokohama, San Francisco and);

to suggest that the Board could turn their attention very profit- the Company's Office. Panama Canal

ably to the hours of labour in the Merchant Service. Some time ago

thei the general manager of Shipping Federation-represent- of this ing the shipowners country-in the course of, an official communication to the Board of Trade respecting Sunday labour in the Merchant Service. stated that "The maritime wage is well understood to cover a seven days week." Whilst this "The steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and is the position at the present time, have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers, it may be stated that in the great All steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at majority of cargo-carrying ves-through rates to all ports in Netherlands-India and Australia. sels, two officers only are carried, For particulars of Freight and Passage, apply to the in addition to the capt în, and these officers labour under what is known as the "two-watch" system. In other words, this means four hours on and four hours of duty. As certain duties require to be performed in an officer's" watch below," it follows that. roughly speaking, his work extends to 1 or 15 hours a day, Saturdays and Sundays included. To make matters worse, it is impossible to obtain what is essential to health, that is, seven or eight consecutive hours' sleep per diem. The most that these officers can obtain under the circumstances is from 3 to 314 bours. That such a physical burden should be imposed upon the officers of merchant ships, who have to undertake such very seriousresponsibilities, and whose duties are most arduous. is

felephone Nos. 292 & 293.

S. YASUDA (Managər.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

SAN FRANCISCO LINE

VIA SHANGHAI, THE INLAND SEA, JAPAN & HONOLULU,

" FANT AND LUTUMOUN MAIL (FRAMERA. delings from Hmglong-WnZINOT SO BÖKLéa mabant northe

Steamers.

PERSIA MARU KOREA MARU

KIPPOR MARU

TENTO MARU

::

NINTO MARU SIBERIA MARU

Leave Hungaụng.

5th Apri

Akud apr. from Yokohamı 2uta Ave. from Yokonam 3.

Sin May.

215 May

2:00 Maj, from Yokohama,

SOUTH AMERICAN LINE.

HONGKONG TO VALPARAISO VIA JAPAN, HONOLULU.

SAN FRANCISCO, SAN PEDRO, SALINO CRUZ. BALBOA. CALLAO, ARICA AND IQUIQUE,

THENCE BY TRANS ANDEAN ROUTE TO BUENOS AIRES.

Stramart.

ANTO MARU

SEIYO MARU

KIYO MARU

Leave Hǝzzkóng.

Flat M

3rd May,

14th July.

factors or interncangeable utan she'Camdias Factie Cosas DNITIONS, Led and the acids matter requiring, we submit, "the

MAD Bowship Co.

Znamungan Way travel by enli besseca parse of ent; to Japan free of charge

For fall in Fondation as to rates, miings, v., apply an

Telephone Nos. 2374 & 2375,

T. DAIGO, Manager.

KING'S BUILDINGS,

JAVA PACIFIC LINE

OF THE

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN.

Monthly Service between

urgent attention or your Board, who, we trust, will be pleased, after making due inquiry, to make strong recommendations on the

matter.

44

NETH, INDIA, MANILA, HONGKONG & SAN FRANCISCO. time in 1917. Of these 335 of a

The steamers are all fitted throughout with electric light and have accommodation for a limited number of saloon-passengers.

All steamers carry a dúly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken on through Bills of Lading to all Overland

Points to the Cnited States of America and Canada.

For particulars of Freight and Passage apply to the

Java-China-Japan Lijn. General Managers, York Buildings.

Telephone No. 1574.

CHINA MAIL

S.S.

GO.

FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS.

** NANKING ”

"CHINA"

Telephone No. 1574,

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

York Building.

DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LO.

HONGKONG & SOUTH CHINA COAST PORTS SERVICE.

Regular Service of Fast, High Class Coast Steamers having good accommodation for first Class Passengers, Electric Light and Fans in state-rooms and Saloon and Excellent Cuisine.

FOR SWATOW, AMOY AND FOUCHOW AND RETURN. (Occupying 9 to 10 days.) Captain

Steamships. Haitan

A. H. Stewart

[UES.

Leaving. 11th Mar. at 1 pm. 18th Mar. at I p.m.

Company's Wharf (near

Arrivals and Departures from the Blake Pier).

For Freight and Passage, apply to

Douglas Lapraik & Co., General Managers.

M

INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

SHANGHAI

For

Steamship Tungsning

Projected Sailings from Hongkong.~(Subject to Alteration).

Оп Wed., 12th Mar. at d'light Fri 14th Mar. at

..3 p.m. Sun 16th Mar. at d'light- Jues, 15th Mar. at d'light. Fri,

.....Wingsang

SHIP CONSTRUCTION, Lloyds Register gives the total of merchant ships under con- struction at the end of the last. quater of 1918 as 424.of a tonnage of 1,979,952 compared with 395 of. a tonnage of 1,866,591 at the same

tonnage of 1,593,283 · were under inspection of Lloyds surveyors. Of the total only eight were sail- MANILA ... ...................Tuensang ing ships of a tonnage of 2,750. SHANGHAI via Ningpo Esang There were four vessels of over SHANGHAI

Taksang 20,000 tons, between twelve and AIPHONG

aas en aumentane pee i.. Loongsang fifteen thousand. and four be- MANILA wean ten and twelve building, STRAITS & Calcaits ...Kumsang The greatest number was 149 be- CALCUTTA LIKE:-The Liùs so now being reorganized awd will shortly afford fragment and

regular mailings to Calcatis via Singapore'ana d'orang. tween five and six thousand. The

Patening trom. Calcuttą steamer procaad vis traits and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally busiest disricts wore Glasgow

welling at Shanghai, with 78 vessels and Newcastle with 71, but the latter showed a greater gross tonnage than Glas- gow. Whilst 424 ships were build- ing in the United Kingdom there were 1,765

Fri

21st Mer at.

Zist Mar, at

3 p.10.

Tues., 1st Apr. at 3. p.m.

All Selmere have etorten, panengat secounɔdation, aro Botad with Bloctric Light and

Fans and carry a tolly qualified Surgeon

SHANGHAI LIKE:-Saian di approdmately every ave days between Canson and Shangkal, sometimes

MANILA

baling se ɔwakow, Steamers on this lise have a limited sebouni of paasanga scomme kation, and throaga tickets can be obtained les Northern and Yangtze Forts Fin.Stanghet, Tarough Kills of lading are issued to all Northern and Yagisse Ports.

LINE-A KĴy service la maintained with Mania by vessals with good passenger Ketom“

odation, sailings from both porta every Friday.

LTD. et ilding elsewhere, the KAIPHONG LINE: windings approximately weakly be passenema and cargo, calling at Holbow whee

(15,000 tons, American Registry) (10,000 tons, American Registry) SAILINGS FROM HONGKONG FOR

SAN FRANCISCO

VIA SHANUMAI, JAPAN PORTS & HUNULULU. “NANKING"

April 3rd, 1919.

"CHINA " April 24th, 1919,

AN UNSURPASSED HIGH CLASS PASSENGER `SERVICE.

O. H. RITTER.

*

LI

Prince's Buildings,

Freight and Passenger Agent.

Ice House Straet. Tel 1934.

'ELLERMAN” LINE.

(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.}

JAPAN, CHINA & STRAITS

TO

UNITED KINGDOM AND CONTINENT.

FOR LONDON."

8.8. "WALTON HALL” Bailing 22nd March, 8.8. "CITY OF BRISTOL" Bailing 15th April.

For particulars of sailings shippers are requested to approach

the undersigned.

Steamers proceed via Cape of Good Hope. Subject to change without notice..

or to REISS & Co, Canton, OH Hongkong, Maz, 11, 1917.

THE BANK LINE 10,

-General Avants.

struction, leaving out enemy countries, being nearly seven millions. Of these America had 535 under construction. Holland

| 113, Norway 54. Denmark 45. Of

the steel steamers building abroad 527 of two and a quarter million tons were intended for classifica- tion by Lloyds.

AMERICAN DIKSTUFFS.

According to Mr. Robert A. Shaw, Director of the American Manu- facturers and Exporters Associa- tion, the dyestuff industry is increasing in importance and

inducement offers.

BORNEO LINE: -20 g per month between dongking and Sandaken by a simmer, having rota

I sodat de sue s1-MAJI

Carga takes through Bids of lading for Xudat, Jansalzon. Labuais, Tawns and Lahad Datu, TIENTSIN LIKE :-A regular service is run from March to October between Banghong and Tientsin

filāna si Wuliziwel and Ubefoo.

Under Straits Government Passport Regulations.

All European Passengers, leaving the Colony for Straite Settle- nent, are required to produce on arrival at destination passporta with their Photography and description affixed thereto,

For Freight or passage, apply to

Telephone No. 215.

JARDINE MATHESON & CO., LTD. General Managers. ́

exon will take part in composition AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY,

for the business the

business it can compete with Germany if given fair encourage- ment by Congress. In addition to sapplying the army and navy in 1918 American dye manu- facturers produced goods with a total export value of $1,000,000,- 1000.

'ZOYAL CIGARETTE ČASE STOLET.

À cigarette case from the King of the Belgians was one of the articles in a list valued a $105, for the theft of which from Colonel Mackintosh's fat in Jermyn-street, Horace Kingsland was sentenced at the Old Bailey to three years pensi servitude;

BANKERS, AND FORWARDERS. ESTABLISHED-184L.

HEAD OFFICE-65 BROADWAY, NEW YORK, CAPITAL AND SURPLUS-U. 8. 625,000,000,00. LONDON OFFICES,84, QUEEN STREET, LO,

6, Haymarket, 8. W. 11, Elbury Street, B. W Branches & Agencies-throughout the world, General Banking and Foreign Exchange. We maintain Foreign Trade and Fravel Burense, American Business & Sp