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THE HONGKONG

W. S. BAILEY

THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE & CO., LTD.

REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICES.

LONDON

"THESBUS **

7th Dec,

21st Dec.

" PYRRHUS "* "PHESUS ** "MACHAON" "DAN FA "

4th Jan. 11th Jan. 25th Jan.

SERVICE

(Direct)

London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Amsterdam & Hamborg Londan, Amsterdam & Antwerp Lonan, Amsterdam & Hamburg SERVICE

LIVERPOOL

(Direct or via Continental Ports)

**TELEMACHUS "

10th Dec.

DRESTES**

22nd Dec.

Es

DEMODOGUS “

24th Dee.

*

ALCINOUS **

3rd Jan.

PACIFIC

Havre & Liverpool Liverpool

Genoa. Liverpool & Glasgow Marseilles. Havre & Liverpool SERVICE

(via Kobe and Yokohama)

'TALTHYBIUS ** 7th Dec. *TYNDAREUS" 30:h Dec.

TEUCER"

Victoria, Seattle, Tacoa and

1st Feb. F Vancouver YORK SERVICE

NEW

"TYDEUS "

(via Suez or Panama)

via Suez

13th January.

HOMEWARD PASSENGER SERVICE

PYRRHUS

'ANCHISES "

"MENTOR"

TEIRESIAS"

21st December

1st February

22n) February

1st March -

for London direct for Liverpool direct for London direct for London direct

For Freight and all Information Apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

AGENTS.

CONSIGNEES.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE ADMIRAL LINE.

TOYO KISEN KAISHA.

The Steamship

CITY OF SPOKANE”

baving Arrived from Seattle vis ports, on 2nd December, consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at their risk into the Hazardous and or Extra-Hazardous Godawns of The Hon Shan Godown Co., 16 & 17 Kennedy Town. Praya. Hongkong and stored a con signee's risk.

S. S.TOKUYO MARC"

Fram SAN FRANCISCO via

HONOLULU, JAPAN PORTS.

The above named Steamer hav. ing arrived, on Tuesday, the Consignees of cargo must pre-190th Now, 1920, consignees of duce an Import permit signed by cargo are hereby notified to pre- the Superintendent of Imports and Exports. Hongkong, before sent the Bill of Lading for Bills of Lading will be counter. countersignature, and take in- signed.

mediate delivery frog alongside

All broken, chafed and damaged | steamer or the Company's Giö-, cargo is to be left in the Godowns down, where all cargo impeding where it will be examined at 10jimmediate discharge will be land- am on th ins by the Cosed a consignee's risk. Surveyors, Messrs. Goddard and Douglas.

Storage will be assessed on cargo remaining undelivered after Tuesday the 7th December, 1920.

All claims must be presented within thirty days of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized. No claim

All broken, chafed and damaged will be recognized after the goods have left the Godow; and cargo, Packages will be lauded into the andelivered on and after 8:hompany's Godowns, where same will be examined on Friday the fast. will be subject to rent. 10th December 1920 atllam

No fire insurance whatever will be effected.

Consignees are requested to aand in their Bills of Lading for countersignature immediately.

PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO., United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation

Managing Agents.

THE ADMIRAL LINE.

5th Floor Hotel Mansions.

ENGINEERS & SHIP- BUILDERS, HOR UN KOWLOON.

HARBOUR EPAIRS Call Flag - "L**.

Solo Agents for *KELVIN MOTORS

Motors from 12 B.H. P. Jo 50 it now in stat also spare parts.

Works

Tol, K.21.

Mansget...

Secretary

"

Harbour Engineer..

6.300. K369. K...

Telegrams SEYBOURNE"

CONSIGNEES.

INDI-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

LEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER

AIR:MAILS AND NIGHT FLYING.

Sir F. Sykes's Forecast.

Major-General Sir F. H. Sykes, Controller-General of Civil Avia- tlan delivered a lecture on civil aviation arranged by the Royal Aeronautical Society at the Royal Society of Arts recently. Illingworth, Postmaster.General prasided,

Mr.

Sir Frederick 'Sykes said that commercial aviation could not be fostered merely as a reserva for the country's air fores. Its test must be that of commercial suc ress Civil aircraft were of great use in the high-speed carriage of passengers, mails, small valuable gools, and for sundry purposes. such as mapping and aurves work, but mails at all events for the time being-ware the basis upon which commercial aviation, both from the constructional and transport sides, must develop There were as yet no internal air sarvices in the United Kingdom, chiedy on account of the com- paratively short distances to ba covered, the excellence of existing communications, and the un-

From PENANG & SINGAPORE.certainty of meteorological condi

tions. He believed, however, thas The Steamship

Messrs. Boardmore intended to ** FOOSHING "

start an experimental service having arrived from the above hatween London and Glasgow in poris, Consignees of Cargo by her | the near future. He hoped that hereby informed that all this venture would succeed and be goods are being late at their the precursor of further air lines

LID

frisk into the hazarlins and/or in this country.

extra hazardous Godowns of the

JARDINE, MATHESON

& CO., LTD..

be

SHIPBUILDERS.

SHIP REPARERS. BOILERMAKERS. FORGE MASTERS. ··

OXY-ACETYLENE AND ELECTRIC WELDERS.

MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL

-DRY DOCK-

OF HONGKONG, LIMITED

TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

ENGINEERS.

LENGTH 787 FEET. LENGTH ON BLOCKS 750 FEET

DEPTH ON CENTRE OF

SILL HWQS.T) 34 FT. 6 INS.. -THREE SLIPWAYS-

CAPABLE OF HANDLING SHIPS UP TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT.

ELECTRIC CRANE AT SEA WALL CAPABLE OF LIFTING 100 TONS AT 70 FEET RADIUS.

TEL ADDRESS :-"TAIKOODOCK" HONGKONG

TELEPHONE NO. 212

CALL FLAS: "G" OVER "ANS. PENNAST.”

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, AGENTS, HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN.

Angust, that only in ant about 4b. per day, and from the point of view of the transport company that was not a very remunerative undertaking. He rather disagreed with

the view taken by

GIFT TO EARL HAIG.

The presentation took place on the green of the little village in the presence of a large and distin- guished gathering.

area of the British Isles was not very favourable be an extensive tfaving outlined the growth air mail service which could only Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and present position of air mail be operated by day. On the air and Godown Company, Limited, passenger and goats services in services to the Coatineat, on the

Border Lance and Pennon. whence, an lor from the wharves, the British Empire and though other hand, a great saving in time

but the worll, Sir Frederick was effected, and he would like to Sir Frederick Sykes with re-in a quaint old world ceremony at delivery may be obtained.

Earl Haig was the central figures Goods not cleared by the 2ndSykes said the vits so far see a very material increase in the gard to the carriage of mails St. Boswells recently when he prox., will be subject to rent.

inaugurated were still in amount of malls thus carried, with Every passenger carried repre- was presented with a Border lance All broken, chafed and dam-experimental stage, and their the ultimate result of the carriage sented 15015, while a letter only and pennon, subscribed for by, aged packages are to be tait incapacity to produce an adequate of all mails by the cartified Con-weighed about half an ounce or men and women of the Borders, the Godawns where they will be { return for captal expendituretinental air services at normal one examined. Clams against the could only

oance. The question was realized by rates.

largely one of the balance-sheet. steamer must be presented within continual improvements. Their

In urging the establishment of In his view the opportunities for 10 days of arrival otherwise they watchwords must by safety air services with these islands the development of air transport will not be recognized.

and reliability. The root of the must face the fact that com were not so great hera as they No Fire Insurance will be the commercial air trans-mercial aviation could not eater were in the United States and effected in any case whatever. part problem was to discover the into competition by day only with Continental countries. It would pennon, the Duke of Buccleuch In presenting the lance and” Bills of Lading will be counter-bas: compromise between speed an efficient day and night express really be batter for an English said, the Borderers had gathered signe by

and weight carrying capacity5. railway service, thoughpossibleex-company to establish its head- together to do honour to the Besides the improvement of wingceptions right include amphibian quarters on the Continent. He greatest commander and the most design. they must continue to services between London and thought give deep consideration to the Dublin or between Glasgow and should

90m9 inducement brilliant general that Scotland bad General Managers.development of some form of Balfaat. The position was differ-port companies to stay in this to one who had saved his country. be givea to trans- ever seon, and to render homage Hongkong, 26th November, 1919. helicopter. Other factors making eat on the Continent. The insular country.

for safety, reliability, and reposition of the United Kingdom

la reply Earl Haig said he wan gularity were the timely issue of was by no means unfavourable could no; quite egrae with Sirhonour which had been conferred Mr. Illingworth said that he indeed very grateful for the signal weather forecasts, devices for to the establishment of air ser- Frederick Sykes when he said upon him. If the days had gone "direction fading" by wireless vices to the Continent. From that the future of civil aviation by when the Scots raided the in cloudy or misty weather, and the Imperial point of view, Eng-would depend upon misils. the human element-the efficiency land was detached either by the tbought they would alway be a across the Border he hoped be South with spear and sword of the pilot and ground engineer. ocean of foreign territory from very auxiliary sort of cargo for might still carry the pennon in

Types of aircraft which were the nearest Dominion of posses both aeroplanes of particular importance to us as

or airships. knightly fashion. sion. In the one case the range Those machines would mainly an island State were the seaplane.was too great for aeroplanes and depend on the carriage of goods flying-boat, and especially the in the other they were dependent and passengers. However, he amphibian. A problem of con- on foreign landing grounds. The was glad the air mails were gat siderable difficulty was the key-routes were those from Eng-ting more regular. and reliable.

If the men whose ancestors in ground organisation for night land to Egypt, and from Egyp: He did not believe that it would days gone by carried fire and ring. As soon as nigh: tiring to fadia, and they should see be in the interests of civil avia.sword to the gates of York bad Was practicable. the aring whether the airship was capablation that it should be looked after DOW capacity of the aeroplane would of running a commercial day and by the Government. From bis be doubled. Speed must be paid night service on the former. Even experience of Government control far, and for some time to come the the airship were successful, be thought it was the quickest charges for air transport must be

WATER RETURN.

Level and Storage of water in Reservoirs on Nov. 1, 1929. CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER

WORKS LEVEL.

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203 Answe

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3.4 Cont

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STORAGE IN MILLIONS AND

DECIMALS OF GALLONS.

Treat Tert

13:3.

Prosumptima 25

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1

1.535 21

2310

274 370

255 3

230.570

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CONSTATE fas 13:3 mad 1322.

1373.

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1900

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127 30

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Britain alone.

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IN MEMORY OF AMIENS. To commemorate the co-opera- tion of the British with the French Array at the Battle of Each Amiens in August 1918, a French

TRIBUTE TO BORDER

REGIMENTS.

become the King's Own Scottish Borderers, they had not lost anything of the the old warlike spirit. The 32nd Lowland Division, won for itself a great reputation in France, and they won it worthily as all who re membered their gallant sation about Caen in the storming of the Droacourt-Caen line in September 1918 could bear witness. (Cheers,)); There in the Border be could do. on less than thank the Border Regiments from his heart for the

Especially in

higher than those for other forms they should still develop the long and surest road to bankruptcy.

daiance weighs-carrying aero- 1.30 of transport. The present charges plane. capable of carrying were undoubtedly high, and it was economically 50 to 100 passengers an open question whether com-or their equivalent, and undertak- the trans-Mediterranean dan 15th of th

Consumption of ester, in the the wat mimercial services would materiallying Districs in Millione sat demisia of lions increase the volume of gode and journey, with Malta sa a stopping passengers carried untia redac-place. The onus of linking up the tion in price could be effected. Empire by air must not rest upon A gerere handicap to the reduc- Great dates are of petrol fuel, and a fuel must be

Galition of rates was the rising price Dominion or colony must form ite infantry dag has been presented splendid support they gave him No Claims will be recognised OWLOON WATERWORKS LEVEL. discovered which gave the least own nucleus of air development. to the Imperial War Museum at during the w

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu ex- the Office of Works, Storey's the neighbourhood of Galashiels after the goods have left the

chance of inflammability in itself and in its installation and the passed the hops that the Post-Crate, London. The fag, a replica he thanked the 4th Battalion steamer or Godown, and none will be entertained if presented

master-General would do what of the standard of the famous 61st of the King's Own Scot greatest power for the smallest be could to encourage civil avia-Regiment of the French 42ad tish Borderers. (Cheers) What later than three weeks after

possible consumdtion and least tion, because it was to his depart- Divisio3, was embroidered by the he was most anxious to makei arrival of steamer.

load. It was quite possible that

meat they must mainly look for wives of officers and non-com- sure of now, Earl Haig proceeded, they might eventually have to assistance at the present time. missioned officers of the regiment, was that men of all ranks what replace the petrol by the steam Every development of this kind and will be exhibited with the 75 fought so gallantly and well were must get State assistance at the millimetre gun already deposited now getting a fair share of what beginning. He hoped that the by the French War Office at the their courage and suffering had impression held in some quarters Crystal Palsca. Sir Wilfred bought (Cheers.) that aviation was going back Mond accepted the flag at the hands of General Viscomte De La would be corrected.

Patouse, the French Military Attacho with whom was Colonel Marie, of the 61st Regiment.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be efected.

Y. TSUTSUMI,

Manager.

5

Hongkong, 2nd December, 1920. Hongkong, 39th November, 1920.

Granation Bettas i

STORADE 15 MILLIONS AND DECIMALS OP GALLONS.

1023

Gravitation 343 15 Riservata... }

Jane and decimals of gallona during the moaib $! DA

1320.

13

37110

Cosenza aler in King is engine.

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Consumptica - 43.50 Estimated yogui. 104.200 Contumplien pre) 13.4

bead per day.

57.13 gallons 16 13

11.3

DEVELOPMENT OF AIR MAILS.

Aircraft had revolutionized the speed of intercommunication by rations | letter. They should approach The Government Analyst's reporte show has the question by considering not the water in excellent goality.

A. H. HOLLINGSWORTH.

what mails could, but what mails Water Authorlir.

could not, be carried by air. The

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

Mr. Handley Page said that, although 7,000 odd letters were carried by air in the mouth of

He Can Prove He Isn't Still in Heaven!

BY BLOSSER

Earl Haig afterwards laid the? foundation stone of a group of four cottages which are being built by the Scottish Veterans Garden City Association.

655 WUZZ, TAGA DON'T YOU HAFTA GoT Stool?

YEAH - BUT I.CANT GO FOR

A COUBLA

DAYS.

Hours COME You

DONT HAFTA START

DOD WAS I GOT

EFORE I CAN GO.

WHEN I DO? GEE WIZZ= }} AY BIRTH CERTIFICATE:

TO LIKET KNOW

1 WAY YOU DON'T.

WELL-KIDS LIKE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN SCHOOL - WHATS YOUR

EXCUSE FOR AUT BEING THERE?

"TU PRINCIPAL- DORSAT B'LIEVE-1 WYŻ BORN, ANʼTHEY

HAFTA WAIT FOR. PROOF!

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