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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

W. S. BAILEY

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1920.

PROFITABLE FLYING.

THE BLUE FUNNEL LINE & CO., LTD., Civil Uses of the Aeroplane.

REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICES.

LONDON

PYRRHUS

* RHESUS"

**MACHAON “ "DANFA" **IXION **

21st Dec.

4th Jan. 11th Jan. 25th Jan. 6th Feb.

SERVICE

(Direct)

London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Amsterdam & Hamburg London, Amsterdam & Antwerp London, Amsterdam & Hamburg London, Amsterdam & Antwerp

LIVERPOOL

SERVICE

(Direct or via Continental Ports)

**TELEMACHUS " 15th Doc. DEMODOCUS " 23rd Dec.

"

** ORESTES"

"' ALCINOUS **

25th Dec, 3rd Jan.

PACIFIC

TYNDAREUS"

** TEUCER "

Havre & Liverpool

Genoa, Liverpool & Glasgow

Liverpool

Marseilles, Havre & Liverpool SERVICE

(via Kobe and Yokohama)

30th Dec.

1st Feb.

PROTESILAUS” 15th Feb.

NEW

**TYDEUS **

էէ

Victoria, Seattle, Tacoma and

Vancouver

YORK SERVICE

(yla Suez or Panama)

via Suez

13th January.

HOMEWARD PASSENGER SERVICE

"PYRRHUS " "ANCHISES" MENTOR" "TEIRESIAS "

For Freight an

21st December

1st February 22a1 February

1st March

ENGINEERS & SHIP- BUILDERS, HOK UN KOWLOON.

HARBOUR FEPAIRS Call Flag' "L"

Sole Agents for "KELVIN MOTORS " Motors from 12 RH,P. to 30 B.11. now in stock also spare parts.

Works Manager...

+++

Secretary

Tel. K.1. K.329. K369. K.28.

Harbour Engineer Telegrams "SEYBOURNE.”

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

From TACOMA via JAPAN

PORTS

THE Company's Steamship

"ALABAMA MARU,”-

General Sir Sefton Brancker, K. C. B. recently lectured on "The Most Recant Developments of Civil Aviation" in the engineering lecture-room of Edinburgh Univarsity. Professor Hudson Bears presided over a

MAKE YOUR HOME CHEERFUL AND BRIGHT DURING

THE 'XMAS SEASON WITH THE HELP OF

INVERTED LAMPS

numerous attendance. General | THEŤ PROTECT YOUR EYES FROM THE DIRECT GLARING Branckerindicated three classea of

PLEASING AND HARMONIOUSLIGHTING ARRANGEMENT.

THE

FUEL STORE OF THE BRITISH NAVY,

SINCERE

1

CO..

LTD.

"HONGKONG EMPORIUM."

CHINA-AUSTRALIA MAIL S.S. LINE.

services which might be perform-RAYS OF THE ORDINARY LAMPS AND RESULT IN A MOST ed by commercial aeroplaties- 1) a regular service for mails, passengers, and goods at a high speel, as supplement to the ordinary means of transport by rail; (2) irts ularservices, carry- ing all kinds of commodities over undeveloped countries, whera railways and roads are not available; (3) survey work, such as fire patrols in large tracts of forest, the location of whales, seals, and fish. For the success of the first class of service" it) must be much faster than other services, and must run to time. In the London-to-Paris service the seroplanes were now actual-

Work has begun at Devonport ly running to time. For this on the construction of what is. work aeroplanes capable of a fexpected to be the most extensive; speed of at lass: 100 miles an oil storage in the kingdom. bour wera necessary, and they It will consisist of a large num must dy in all weathers. The ber of tanks to store oil fuel for frregular service did not make the British Nary. The tanks such high demands. Its cost will cover 80 acres on the Cornish

Largest of its kind in the Kingdom.

FOR AUSTRALIAN PORTS VIA MANILA & SANDAKAN.

S.S. "HWAH PING " S.S. "VICTORIA'

*

Sailing on 13th January. Sailing on 10th February.

For Freight and Passage apply to-

having arrived from the above would compare favourable with bank of the River Tamar, opposite VEREENIGDE

THE CHINA & AUSTRALIA 5.5. CO. LTD. Agents.

113. Conuaught Road Central.

SCHEEPVAART

NEDERLANDSCHE for London direct

"For Liverpool direct far La silon direct

for London direct

all tafor nation. Apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

CONSIGNEES.

NOTE TO CONSIGNEUS.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.

From ROTTERDAM Via HAMBURG, ANTWERP &

SINGAPORE

The Company's Steamship

* HIMALAYA MARU”

AGENTS.

CONSIGNEES.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

THE ADMIRAL LINE.

The Steamship

1.

Por Po

No fire insurance whatever will be effected.

Consignees are requested to send in their Bills of Lading for

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Y. YASUDA.

Manager. Hongkong, 3th December, 1920.

“CITY DE SPOKANE”

having arrived fron Seattle viz ports, on 2nd December. consignees are hereby notified that their cargo is being landed at countersignatures immediately. their risk into the Hazardous and or Extra-Hazardous Godowns of The Hon Shan Godown Co., having arrived from the above 16 & 17 Kennedy Town, Praya, ports.

Cargo Hongkong and stored at Consignees of are hereby notified that their signes's ni-k. goods are being landed and placed Consignees of cargo must pro- at their risk in the Hongkong and duce an Import permit signed by Kowloon Wharf and Godown the Superintendent of Imports Company's Godowns at Kowloon and Expore, Hongkong, before where delivery can be obtained Bills of Lading will be counter- as soon as the goods are landed,

signed.

Goods not cleared by the 15th; Dec. will he subject to rent.

Dan aged packages must be left in the Godowns fut examins- tion by the Consignees re- presentative and the Company's Surveyors. Messrs. Goddard and Douglas, at 10 aan, on Wednes day and Saturday. All Claims must be prosented within Tea days of the steamer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized. No claim will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns.

No fire insurance whatever will b: effected.

Consignee ure requested to send in their Bills of Lading for countersignatures immediately.

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA,

Y. YASUDA.

Manager.

Hongkong 7th December, 1990.

con-

DENIKIN PAPER MONEY IN FRANCE.

tions, and it is expected that this will help to solve the local un- employment problem.

cavations and concrete founda-

MAATSCHAPPIJ.

(United Netherlands Navigation Company)

HOLLAND-0OST AZIE LIJN

(Holland East Asia Line)

(Members of the Straits, China and Japan Conferences.)

Regular monthly service between Japan ports, Shanghai, Hongkong and Manila and Amsterdam. Rotterdam, and Hamburg. Bremen

Saülik

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FOT

December Amsterdam & Hamburg 14th Dec. December Rotterdam & Hamburg | 20th Dec. January Amsterdam & Hamburg | 21st Jan, For full particulars please apply to

JAYA CHINA JÄPAN LYN General Agents,

York Building-

KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPY (Royal Packet Navigation Co. of Batavia)

THE STEAMSHIP:

" VAN WAERWYCK"

Consignees of Cargo the actual co-t to day of transport Devonport Dockyard, and prac are tebe notified that their by coolies, oxen, and other tically alongside the moorings of gools are being landed and placed methods. The lecturer instanced our biggest battleships. at the risk in the Hongkong and

route between Peru and The total estimated cost Kowl Wharf and Godown | Brazil which could be covered in £555,000, and the "estimates pro Compans's Godowns at Kowloon, a few hours by aeroplane, but vide for the expenditure of near- where delivery can be obtained which otherwise took six weeks. If £200,000 by April next. The as won the goods are landed. He did not think aerial survey Admiralty have bought the land

Goods not cleared by the 11th had a great future for commercial trom General Pole-Carew. Der. will be subject to rent.

Transport companies. The aero- It will probably take over three Damage! packages must be plane was essentially a short years to complete the entire left in the Godowns for examin- istance vehicle. If they made scheme. Present arrangements ¦ ation by the Consign.es' repreflights of beyond 300 miles, they are to erect IS tanks of steel. sentative and the Company's were simply carrying petrol at an Ten will by built by contracts in Surveyors. Mesars. Goddard and etorbitant rate. The aeroplane sections, and four each at the Douglas, at 10 am, on Wednesday transport's one special gift to Devonport and Porissanuth Dock- and Saturday. All claims must be mankind was speed. It was goyards.

Steamers presented within Ten days of in ; to provid· a new coramusica. Teniers are to be invited for} the steamer's arrival here, after tion service, lying somewhere ten more tanks, so that altogether KANGEAN which date they cannot be re- [between wireless and

cable23 will be erected, and the site ALCHIBA

BORNEO No claim will be ad- telegraphs on one hand and rail will provide accomodation for a cognized. mitted after the goods have left ways and steamships on the other.still larger number. the Gedowns.

RELIABILITY AND CHEAPNESS. A large amount of preliminary The business man always had work will be necessary on ex- two serious objections. The first was that is was unreliable, and the second that it was too expear sive. Unreliability was the result of personal error, failure of material, and weather. He was industry. They could now By convinced personally the error almost in say weather. Ther could be eliminated as much as bad flown in wind recorded at 60 in driving ships, traics, and motor miles an hour. So long as they ears. It was merely a matter of were in the air the wind did not experience and proper training. matter-the dificulty in strong In the London and Paris service winds was in leaving or reaching there had been only two serious the ground. The only form of accidents in fifteen months. Five weather that was really difficult seroplanes had been lost. Two was bad visibility-the result off fell in the Channel through having fog or mist, or of snow or clouds, lost their way in a fog, and down over the tops of the hills and All broken, chafed and damaged

through Dat having adequate mountains. The lecturer pro- cargo is to be left in the Godowns Two Levantines recently alarm-compasses, and the want of a ceeded to give figures showing passengers. where it will be examined at 10ed that peaceable portion of aystem of weather reparts. There the cost of a service between en 8th inst, by the Co's French bourgeoisis which he was a complete saab owing to London and Paris for passengers Surveyors, Messts. Goddard and lives in grandiose Bolshevik plots an engine failing, in which no one and goods, including the capital Douglas.

backed by huge propaganda funds. was hurt. One accident occurred expenditure necessary for eight All claims must be presented Coming from Constantinople, two from the pilot being too zealous, aeroplanes and other equipment within thirty days of the steamer's travellers, Levi and Samuel, were and failing to land in Kentshire, required, the running costs cal- arrival here, after which they found in possession of double-according to instructions, when culated at £50 a trip, and the cannot be recognized. No claim bottomed trunks by the Customs there was a fog. He thought he receipts bringing out & substan- officers of the Paris terminus, knew the country very well, and tial proft. The whole question will be recognized after the goods Hidden in the depths of these would get through, and he flew was, would they get the load. bave left the Godowrs, and cargo undelivered on and after Sihtrunks were bundles of Denikin into a tree, and killed himself His own opinion was "Yes, cer- paper money to the face value and his passenger. In another tainly." The load was growing inst. will be subject to rent.

of 72,000,000 roubles. Impressed Case, after landing owing to fox. every day. He had bad more by the importance of their find, the pilot went up with a joy passengers than they could cars be effected.

the officials sen: the two men to trouble in starting. No one else charged at 81. per lb was not all the resources of that aziença carbon monoxide, a deadly gaa

night, and had although the quantity of goods- prison under a strong guard. Consignees are requested to

On riper reflection, the Pre-had been scratched in that fifteen ye: up to the desired standard. to complete sucesssfully. The which even in small quanti- send in their Bill of Lading for facture of Police realised that all months of flying in every kind of One item in which commercial ground has been been broken for ties is very injurious. The countersignature immediately.

this money was worth at current

weather.

men had seen the advantage of a vehicular tunnel under the engineers responsible for the PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.,

rates some 350 francs as waste

It is true that tunnels plans of the tunnel believe that this quick method of carrying River. paper. The notes are printed on It was not generally recognised was in ladies bats and dresses under the Hudson River have they have solved the problem of United States Shipping Board rather good quality paper. All that the air engine was working from Paris, but unfortunately existed for a number of years, ventilation tavolved in its opera- -Emergency Flest Corporation

that remains of the mystery, under better conditions than the they took up little space, and but the vehicular project presents tion. It is said that the plans according to the Temps, is the engine used for road transport, weighed only about eight ounces. difficulties which did not exist in provide for a complete change-of- Managing Agents.

object of these two merchants in owing to the absence of shocks (Laughter.) Improvements in the cases of the railway tangels tunnel air thirty-two time each taking the trouble to come so far caused by road inequalities and the structure of aeroplanes, the of the Pennsylvania or the other hour. THE ADMIRAL LINE.

with such a load. They them duet. The practical study of the lecturer indicated, would include tunnels devoted to local electric will do much to relieve the traffic 5th Floor Hotel Mansions.

selves raguely suggest anweather and the organisation of the metal propeller, and even- operation on the Bourse." It weather reporting were now to tually they might expect the all- Hongkong, 2nd December, 1930. Jshould be worth watching. be the life-blood of this new metal seroplane.

2.01.

IN

No fire insurance whatever will

An Obscure Smuggling Enterprise.

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

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HE'S A COON

DANS.

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SAV-DON'T YO ALL UNDERSTAND? MES

A COON) DAWG-COON. DAWG – GOLLYDING- GOLLYDWG!

passenger at

LADIES' HATS BY AEROPLANE

Whitle Seemed to Convince Tag!

OW, WHITIE - YOU USE STANG-AY

DOR DON'T HART AB "T" PLAY VETIA BOYS" "THAT USE

SLANG.

·HOMOAAHAAHA- WHO ALL SAID AH USE SLAAG 77 GOLLYDIAG!!

GOLLYDING!

WHY, AUT 'GOLLYDING" SLANG?

will be despatched direct to Singapore, Penang and Belawan Deli

DECEMBER 13TH.

This vessel offers excellent cabin-accommodation for saloon

Wireless Telegraphy..

For freight and passage apply to:

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LYN,

Telephone No. 1574.

TUNNEL UNDER THE

HUDSON.

A Remarkable Enterprise. The States of New York and in engineering which will call for New Jersey have begun a venture

Agents.

most elaborate system of ventila- tioo. Since this toonel will be used largely by motor trucks, the need for perfect reutilation will be easity realized. As is well exhaust of automobiles contain known, the fames from the

If the tunge) is successful, it traffic.

Provision must be made in the congestion at the ferries on the case of the vehicular tunnel for a lower part of Manhattan Island.

BY BLOSSER

SURE NIT WWO ALL DUT THAT

BUG IN YO

Caco?

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