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THE

FUNNEL

BLUE

LINE

REGULAR

AND FAST

FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICES.

LONDON SERVICE

"AUTOLYCUS" ́10th Ang." Marsailles, London: R'dam & H′burg "ASPHALION" 24th Aug. Marsilios, London, B'dam & 11'burg

SARPEDOM**. 8th Sept. Marseilles, London, R'dam & Glangów "HELEN US" 21st Sept. Maravillós, London, R'dam & H*burg LIVERPOOL SERVICE

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"EURYADES": 20th Aug. Genua, Havro, Liverpool & Glasgow' “TELEMACHUS" 20th Supt. Genon, Havre, Liverpool & Clangow "ATREUS" 20th Det. Gouws, Hasro, Liverpool & Bhagaw

PACIFIC SERVICE

vi KOBE & YOKOHAMA, TYNDABEUH"

7th Aug.. "PROTESILAUS“. 20th Aug.

M

Victoria, Vancouver A Seattle. Victoria. Vancouver & Souille.

NEW YORK SERVICE "DEUCALION" efth Aug

10th Sept.

New York, Buston & Baltimore New York, Boston & Baltimore

"ANTILOCHUS PASSENGER SERVICE "SÁRPEDON "PATROCLUS" "ANTENOR”

"HECTOR

0th Sopi. 20th Oct. 17th Nov. 15th Den.

Singapore, Marseilles & Loodm Singapura, Marselilor & London. Singapore, Marseilles & London, Singapore, Marseilles & London.

Also enrgo stommers with limited passenger nccommodation at

specially reduced rates.

For freight mid passage rates and information apply to

Butterfield & Swire.

| Agents.

CANADIAN PACIFIC

EMPRESS

EXPRESS

QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC 17 Days from Hongkong to Vancouver LARGEST & FASTEST STEAMSHIPS

Special FARES to EUROPE

£120 £112 £83 VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER via SHANGHAI & JAPAN PORTS.

Blonchong Shanghai

LAYE

STEAMERG

EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA

·EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA

Aug. 19 Aug, 22 Sept. 3 Sept. 5 Sept. 16 Sept. 19 Oct. 14 Oct. 17

Kali

Yokchon VID'Ye

Leave

Arrive

Aug 25 Aug. 28 Sept. 6 Sept. 8-Sept. 11. Sept. 20 Sept. 22 Sept. 25 Oct. 4 Oct. 20 Oct. 23" Nov. Oct. 29 Oct. 31 Nov. 3 Nov. 6 Nov. 15 Nov. 11 Nov. 14 Nov. 17 Nov. 20 Nov. 29 (E/Asta aid E/R198ia call at Nagaiaki the day after departure from Shanghai)

HONGKONG-MANILA-HONGKONG-SERVICE

Artico

Lenye Begykony Aug. il Aug. 13 Aug. 25

Aug. 27

Passo ogrpartment: Freight and Raprus:

LOCYC tanja

Arrivo Floogkong

E/ASIA Aug. 14 Aug. 16 E/CANADA. Aug. 28 Aug. 30

Tel. 0.762 Tol, C., 42

Ümble: “GACANPAO,” Cable: NAUTILUS"

JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN

LIJN

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL STEAMSHIP,

SATURDAY, JULY 31.

`AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN ", LTD.

“CITY OF BARODA”

(9670 tans d..)

The above steamer having accommodation for over 100 First Class passengers will be despatched Via Philippines, Straits, Colombo and Suez Canal on 5th November 1926, for NEW YORK whore olie is due to arrive on 3rd January, 1927.

For Freight or Passage, apply to

THE BANK LINE, LTD.

via

THE AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION Co., Ltd.

For SYNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE,

MANILA, ILOILO, SANDAKAN, BALIKPAPAN & RABAUL, 9.8. "CALULU" Sailing on or about 5th August.

For Froight & Particulars

Apply to-

il

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

Agents.

Telephone No. Central 1030.

ADMIRAL

LINE

ORIENTAL

The fast "Short Route"

to the United States!

S.S. "PRESIDENT JACKSON"

will sail for

MANILA

at

5.00 p.m.-SUNDAY-AUGUST 1st

ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE Telephono Central 2477, 2478 and 785. No. 4 Des Voeux Road. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor

ON TIMETABLE SCHEDULE

Dollar "President" linera arethe first in history to maintain timetable" sabadules for worldwide ocean traffic, comparable to railway schedulen nahora.. This dependable service enables you to perfect definite travel plans, to count

uroly on making rail and steamship connections.

Dollar linere in trans-Paethe service offer two anilings ench month, reaching San Francisco via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and Honolulu. Dollar linera afford four sailinge each month to Manila; there to Singapore and beyond, round-the-world, on fertnightly echedule.

All-outside-staterooms are big factors in Dollar Line popularity. Buite. de luxe are such as you would expect on ships that maintain the famous Dollar Line cuisine. Decks and social hills are spacious. You will enjoy travel on these clean oil-burning liners,

TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK VIA MANILA-STRAITS-COLOMBO-SUEZ-PORT SAID

-ALEXANDRIA-NAPLES-GENOA MARSEILLES Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK Fortnightly Sailings

Pres. Van Buren....

CARD INSTINCT.

WHAT AUCTION BRIDGE

» SUCCESS DEMANDS.

formb his plan of campaign. Boforo the last few tricks are played he can often place with absolute accuracy to a pip the cards held by his opponents.

The main difference between à

A HURRICANE.

100 PEOPLE BELIEVED TO HAVE PERISHED.

The "Auction Bridge Magazine," good player and a bad one lies in

Nosanu, Bahamas, July 30, publication long overdue, has this capacity for drawing infor- A hundred and fty peoplé hro made its appearance "under the ences. Of tourse, there are believed to have perished here it very able directorship of Mr. A. other differences-card-memory, the hurricane. E. Manning-Foster, who has long imagination, judgment, and so since won his way to popular forth. favour amongst lovers of the game.

Lator. "In auction, every card tells its The first number augars well. It story, and the observation of the hurricane and the damage is eati Nassau bore the brunt of the is attractively presented, and its low cards is all-important. The

Ruin-Runners 'Suffer.

drives aro

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lit-

Bories of articles will'informative-bad player holding a sequence of anted at least eight million ly encourage the beginner and low carde-say the 5, 4, 8-thinks dollars. enrich the mind of the more it does not matter how he plays Many families are homeless. mature' player,

them. They were all of equal The beautiful Under the heading "Card value, partner,' he explains at the tered with broken glass and miss- Instinct" the Editor writos:--- end of the hand, when he is asked new of debris. Nevertheless the "Is there such a thing as card why he played the 4 before the inhabitants eagerly joined in the instinct? All the brilliant bridge 9. He does not realise that sq search for the picturesque sponge players I have seen or heard of trivial a matter, as ho considers it, fleet, consisting of some two have gained their skill by constant could affect his partner's play. hundred small sloops and schoon- practice. It has not come at a

of the "A great many players fall tours, among which most bound or by inspiration, Of master the Eleven Rule, the pona

150 missing persons are believed course, the natural aptitude must asinorum of Bridge. And yet his to be drowned. be there. Without that a man elementary method of drawing There were sixty fishing smacks might deyote his whole life to the valuable inferences of the No arrayed in the harbour before the game and never improve,

Trumps game is elaborately ex-storm, and only three survived. Butt what is generally called plained in all the texts books and The outer islands suffered con- card Instinct has nothing almost universally adopted, « 'Tsiderably. For instance, eight hurled miraculous about it, nor is It could not be sure how many of rumrunning boats were birthright. It can be acquired your suit you held, sald a player. up the beach of one island and The crews That knack of doing the right Yes you could, replied his smashed to atoms. thing at the right mement, that partner. I led the 2, and so you had previously rowed ashore, "so quick apprehension of values and could know for certain that I had there were no casualtics possibilities, can be learnt.

Reuter's American Service. only four of my suit. "The average or poor player may "Here is another simple infer- marvel at the results achieved by ence which is often helpful. At

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A first-class practitioner. But the score of love the desler bids a tion, it is often possible to place, they fail to realise that the real minor suit-Clubs or Diamonds, with almost absolute certainty, the secret lie sin perfectly intelligible What can you deduce? (1) That podition of the high cards after mental processes. From the play he does not hold three Aces; (2) Dummy has been disclosed. of the first card the good playor That he has not a major suit of "Watch most carefully the starts making inferences. Every five cards with top honours; (3) Declarer's discards from Dummy, eard tells him something fresh, That he has not a No Trump' From them you will frequently be and from its play he makes cer- hand. The realisation of these able to gather important infer tain swift deductions. The de- three facto should be most useful ondes. The habit of drawing ductions may not always be cor- to you both in your declaration deductions once started, the player rect, but at least he has made and in your play. By a similar is on the high road to a good, them, and according to them lie process of inference and elimina-intelligent game,"

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--DRY DOCK- LENGTH 787 FEET, LENGTH ON BLOCKS 750 FEET

DEPTH ON CENTRE OF

SILL (HW.O.S.T.) 34 FT. 6 INS -THREE SLIPWAYS-

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TO 3000 TONS DISPLACEMENT.

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Pres. Hayes

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Aug. 38,00 a.m.

Aug. 17-8.00 a.m.

Aug. 31-8.00 a.m.

REGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SERVICE BETWEEN

JAVA, CHINA AND JAPAN.A

Steamers From

Hangsang Java

Tiikini

Tikembang

Tjisondari

Dalay.

Batavia

Expected Will leave

on or about on or about

2.August.

For

Batavia

4 August 5 August. Makassor 8 August. 11 August. Shanghai Shanghai 9 August. 12 August. Batavia

Thiliwong Java

Tjimanoek North

¡Japan".

Tjikand)

†Via Macassar

*Via Batavia

12 August. 17 August. Java;

18 August. 20 August Batavia 22 Augiast. 24 August. Batavia

The steamors are all fitted throughout with electric light and havo accommodation for a limited number, of saloon-passengers. All steamers carry a duly qualified surgeon. Cargo taken at through rates to all ports in Netherlands-India and Australia.

For Freight and Passage apply to the

Java-China-Japan Lijn.

TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

TO SAN FRANCISCO, VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI,

Pres. Wilson Pres. Lincoln Pros Cleveland

Pros. Van Buren Pres. Lincoln Pres. Hayes

KOBE AND YOKOHAMA

Fortnightly Sailings

TO MANILA

Aug. 1-12 noon Aug-15-12 noon Aug. 29-12 noon

Aug. 3-8,00 a.m. Aug. 6-8,00 p.m. Aug. 17-8,00 am.

For passenger and freight rates, apply to

Dollar Steamship Line

HONGKONG' AND SHANGRAY BANK BUILDIQ, GRodeo Broom,

dTalehōns: Centrèl'2477, 2478 and 708,

#TATPING"

Passenger and Cargo Véssel, Built and Engined at the KOWLOON DOCK by THE HONGKONG WHAMPOA DOCK Co. Ltd, to the order of the AUSTRALIAN ORIENTAL, LINE, LI

Adstralian Hongkong Service.

Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager

R. M. DYER, B. SC.M.IN. A., Kowloon Dock Hongkons