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DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE

AND

AMERICAN MAIL LINE

(Admiral Oriental Line)

JOINT TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

A Regular Weekly Sailing

TO SAN FRANCISCO OR SEATTLE, THE "PRESIDENT LINERS"

TO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI, KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

"THE SUNSHINE BELT”

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON

·PRESIDENT "GRANT

PRESIDENT MADISON ·

PRESIDENT JACKSON PRESIDENT MACKINLEY

Tuesday, Mar. 1st 10.00p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 15th 10.00 a.m." Tuesday, Mar. 29th 10.00 a.m. Tuesday, Apr. 12th 10.00 a.m. Tuesday, Apr. 26th 10.00 a.m

Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdays. HONGKONG TO EUROPE SPECIAL LOW RATES Via San Francisco or Seattle

£120 £112

DIRECT CONNECTIONS WITH ALL ATLANTIC LINES

Choice of railway lines across United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over privileges for Sight-seeing. Ask for information. Following are suggested itinerariea;-

From [N. York

From

Hongkong

Fab. 13

Fub. 16

Mar. 1

Mar.

Mar, 15

Mor. 23

Mar. 20

Apr. 6

Apr. 12

Apr. 20

Vio

Connecting with

Steamship.

San Francisco Leviathan

Feattie

Cedric

San Francisco Majestic

Sortile ¡Pres. Ronsovelt Ban Francisco mpin

Bontuo Geo Washington San Francisco Homeric

Seattle Leviathan Ban Francisco ¡Aquitania

Seattle

Majestic

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1927.

CANADIAN

PACIFIC

QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC

TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER.

Yokohama Vancouver ZERVA Arriva

"SAILINGS · 1927. BTEANDES

Hongkong ShanDEŽNÍ.

Kobe Leave

Leave LAYE EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Feb. 16 Feb. 19 Fab, 22 EMPRESS OF ASIA Har. 9 Mar. 15 EMPRESS OF OANADA'Mar. 30

Apr. 5. Apr. 8 Apr. 47 EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Apr. 20

Mar. 13

Fab. 25 Mar. 6 Mar. 18. Mar. 27

Apr. 12

Apr. 23

Apr. 26

Apr. 29. May 8

EMPRESS OF ASIA May 11 EMPRESS OF CANADA June 4

May 14

May 17

June 4

· EMPRESS OF AUSSIA June 22 Juño 25 June 28 July 1. July 10- EMPRESS OF ASIA July 11 July14 July 19 July 22 July 31 (E/Axia and E/Russia call Nagasaki day after departure from Shanghai.)

June 7

May 20 May 29 Tue 10 Jun; 19

MONTOAL

MONTROSE

MONTCLARE

CONNECTING SAILINGS TO LIVERPOOL.

March 12-

April

器

April 23

MINNEDOSA. May 13 MONTCALM June 3 MONTROSE Juna 24

Frequent sailings to Liverpool, Belfast, Glasgow, Boutkemplan, Cherbourg and Antwerp.

A DELIGHTFUL 65 DAY CRUISE DE LUXE

by the

S.S. "EMPRESS OF SCOTLAND”.

Leaving HONGKONG, February 18th, 1927. Calling at Shanghai, Chinwangtao (for Peking), Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco, Balboa, (Panama), Panama Canal, Cristobal, (Colon), Havana.

Arriving NEW YORK, April 12th, 1927. Arriving SOUTHAMPTON, April 20th, 1927.

Arriving at

Passenger Dopartment : Freight and Express :

Tel. 0.752 Tel. 0'40

Mar. 26 Mar. 20

Mar. 18 Pmth-C'brg. Mar. 12 L`poul Apr. 2 C beg S'hmpin Apr. 8 Apr. 6th Charg Apr. 18 Apr. 16 C brg 8'hmptn Apr. 22 Apr. 20 mth-C beg Apr. 27 Apr. 30 Chrg 6'hupin May 6 Apr. 30 brg S'hmptn May 7 May. 11 Cheg S'hmpin May 17 { May 14 ¡C1brg¤1lmptu May, 20

TO SEATTLE AND VICTORIA VIA SHANGHAI,

KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

THE FAST SHORT ROUTE”

PRESIDENT MCKINLEY

PRESIDENT LINCOLN

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

PRESIDENT PIERCE

PRESIDENT TAFT

Wednesday, Feb. 16th 5.00 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 9th 10.00 a.m. Wednesday, Mar. 23rd 10.00 a.. Wednesday, Apr. 6th 10.00 a.m. Wednesday, Apr: 20th 10.00 u.m.

Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Wednesdays. TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK.

VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ-

PORT SAID ALEXANDRIA-NAPLES

-GENOA-MARSEILLES,

Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK,

PRESIDENT MONROE

PRESIDENT WILSON

PRESIDENT VAN BUREN

PRESIDENT HAYES

Tuesday, Feb. 15th 8.00 a.m.

Tuesday, Mar 1st 6.00 a.m. Tuesday, Mar. 15th 8.00 a.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 29th 6,00 a.m. Tuesday, Apr. 12th 8.00 á.m.

PRESIDENT POLK

Thereafter, Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdays..

TO MANILA.

PRESIDENT MONROE.

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON

PRESIDENT WILSON

PRESIDENT LINCOLN

PRESIDENT GRANT

Tuesday, Feb, 15th 8.00 a.m. Monday, Feb. 21st 6.00 p.in. Tuesday, Mar. 1st 4.00 a.m. Tuesday, Mar. 1st 6.00 p.m. Monday, Mar. 7th 6.00 p.m.

For Passenger and Freight Rates apply to

ROBERT DOLLAR CO.

CENERAL AGENTS.

BONGIONG AND SHANGHAI BANK BUILDING, GROUND FLOOR

Tolephones Centra 2477, 2478& 705,

M. M

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

LIGNES COMMERCIALES (Cargo-boats)

Monthly sailings direct to HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, DUNKIRK.:

·S.S. “D. P. BENOIT"

S.S. "CAPT FAURE"

& sailing for

21st February. 15th

April.

8.8. "CAPT. FAURE" due to arrive from DUNKIRK, LONDON, HAVRE about the 21st Fobruary. SERVICES CONTRACTUELS (Mail service)

Arr. at Hongkong Sailings from;

Shanghai & Japan

16th Feb. 2nd Mar.

16th Mar.

29th Mar.

Sailings

Stoamers

from Marseilles

-SPHINX

.A

.....A

ANGKOR ......

PORTHOS

PAUL LECAT ......A

G. METZINGER A

AMAZONE

B 25th Feb.

30th Mar.

Hongkong for

Marsoilles

15th Feb.

1st Mar.

15th Mar.

12til Apr.

26th Apr.

BATES OF PASSAGE MONEY TO MARSEILLES including Table Wino and Froe Doctor's attendance;

A class 1st class £99.00

stoamors 2nd class £70,00

Bolass 1st class £85.00 stoamora 2ad class £61.00

Through Tickets to London and loading Towns of Europe. Accommodations reserved in the Trains at Marseilles. Sailings subject to alteration without notioo.) For full particulars, apply to :—

i.

Cie. des MESSAGERIES MARITIMES -

Telephone Central 740

3 Quoon's Building CONSIGNATION — TRANSIT - REPRESENTATION.

"Caolas: "GACANPAO.”

Onblos "NAUTILUS.”

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

From STRAITS, COLOMBO,.. AUSTRALIA, BOMBAY, EGYPT MEDITERRANEAN PORTS and

LONDON.

Through Bill of Lading Issued for Batavia, Fersian Gulf, Contin- ental, American and South Afri can Ports:'

The Steamship,

"DELTA

Capt. F. Sudell R.N.R. carry- ing His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this port on or about Friday, 18th February, 1927, at 4 p.m. taking Passengers and Cargo, for the above Ports.

Silk, Valuables and Tea for Italy, França and London (under ar rangement) will be transhipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer pro- coeding direct to Marsellles and London

.

Parcela will be received at this office until 6 p.m. the day before salling. The contents and value of all packages must be declared. For farther particulars, apply

to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & COMPANY, Agents.

Hongkong, 14th Feb., 1927.

BANK LINE LTD.

AGENTS FOR

ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.

BAILINGS BUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE.

UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT

Passenger Service.

FARES to LONDON: 1st Class £72,

ELLERMAN LINE

S.S. "CITY OF CALCUTTA" Marseilles, London, Havre & H'burg ; ... 15th March.

FARES: First Closs to MARSEILLES £60, to LONDON £72.

Second Cluas fo MARSEILLES 247: to LONDON B49 108.

AUSTRALIA

.AUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE Bailings from SINGAPORE on 6th of every month by CITY OF PALERMO” or “CITY OF SPARTA”

o Java, Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney and vice versa. Through Freight and Fanonger bookings from Hongkong in conjunction with "Ellerman" Lino or

other serviced.

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BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE

S.S. "CITY OF BRISTOL"

ANDREW

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WEIR

SERVICES TO

AMERICAN AND MANCHURIAN LINE

5th March.

via Suez Canal

ALSO AGENTS FOR

& CO.

vin Suez Canal

From Hongkong

...... AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE

24th March.

ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE

'20th April.

BOSTON & NEW YORK

M.V. "LARCHBANK”. MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA

S.S. TINHOW"

Landing for Magritins, Dalagus Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth. Mossel Bay and

Capetown. Through Bill of Lading ismand to Bears, Quilimainà, Thà, Pärt Amolia, Mousmbique, Ubinde, Inhambane,

Zanzibar Mo.abanga, Kilandim, Port Nolloth. Luderitz Bay, Walvis Bay and fadagascar

For freight or passage on any of the above lince apply to:-

Central 4791. Telephone.

THE BANK LINE, LTD.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "MANIFESTO", HONGKONG;

Coda Used: A1, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Engineering: First and Second Edition; Western Union and Watkins, Benson's. Marconi,"

Dock owners, Ship Builders, Murine and Lund Enginceré, Boilers Makers, Iron and

Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians.

S. S. "CHANGTE"

Passenger and Cargo Vessel, Built and Engined at the KOWLOON DOOK by THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK 'Co., Ltd. to the order of the AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL LINE, Ltd. Australian-Hongkong Service.

Plesso address onquiries to the Chlef Managor ****

R. M' DYER. B. SC.M.I.N.A. Kowloon Dock, Hongkong.

HANKOW PARLEY.

THE CHEN-O'MALLEY, CONVERSATIONS,

Hankow, Feb. 18. Mr. Eugene Chen and Mr. O'Malley had a conference this afternoon at the conclusion of which it was officially stated that nothing is yet available for publication.-Reuter.

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NIGARGUAN WAR.

BATTALION OF WOMEN WARRIORS.

Managua, Feb. 12. During the fighting at Chinan dega the Nicaraguan Conserva- tives were helped by a battalion of women, headed by Senorita Natalio Garela, a girl, twenty years of age.

The battalion worked feverishly passing ammunition to the men In the trenches, cleaning the guns and distributing food under fire.

Report Denied.

Goneva, Feb, 13,

Sixteen women were, wounded. There is no truth in the report that the Longue of Nations is Natalie Garcia was struck by a endeavouring to get into contact bullot in the left breast and seri with the Chinese Nationalist Govously wounded.-Routere Ameri- ornment. League.circles point out can Service. that they recognise only one China, which is already represented, and the League could not take any inl tiative in the affairs of China.

Battle-Torn Town.

Washington, Fab, 12. Mr. Wilbur, Secretary of the Anyhow, no action can be taken Navy, has ordered both the United without a decision by the Council States cruisers in Nicaraguan or Ausembly of the League-waters to despatch all their avail- Reuter.

able tinned milk to the battle-torn town of Chinandega, where the poople are reported to be greatly with the children distressed, starving..

American Marines.

The Navy Department has in formed President Coolidge that the detachment of American Marines

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The town has been taken and re-

for Shanghai will be distributed taken by the opposing Conserva- among the American wareh pative and Liberal Nicaraguan forces there, and will not land unless twice, and has been bombarded the emergency arises.-Router's two days this week. American Service.

Royal Artillery Unit.

London, Feb. 12. Thirteen officers and 250 men of the First Field Brigade of the Royal Artillery have left for Shanghai-Reuter.

The Destroyers.

Gibraltar, Feb. 12.

the

The Eighth Destroyer Flotila has arrived en route to China. It is not expected to resume voyage before Monday-Reuter. Malta, Feb. 12. The aircraft carrier Argus and left the cruiser Dauntless have for China-Reuter.

THE CUSTOMS.

NORTH TO COLLECT SURTAXES.

Nine blocks of buildings have been destroyed, and it is estimated that three hundred people have been killed and five hundred Wounded on both sides of the struggle.

The medical staff of one of the American cruisers has proceeded to the town-Reuters American Service.

KING'S GI

GIFT.

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AIMS DISH FOR NEW YORK- CATHEDRAL.

Rugby, Feb. 12. To-morrow Sir Esme Howard," the 'British Ambassador in Wash- ington, will formally hand over to the now Episcopalian Cathedral of Saint Juhn the Divine, New York, an alms dish in silver presented by King George.

The Cathedral has been complet ed with the aid of subscriptions from persons of all religious do- nominations, and the King has made his gift to commemorate this good work-British Wireless Ser-

vice.

Hankow, Feb. 12. The Nationalist Government has appointed a commission consisting of Mr. Eugene Chen, Mr. T. V Soong and Mr. Sun Fo to investi-

[Several words Are doubtful gate and report on the new, situa tion in connexion with the Cus-owing to bad atmospheric condi-

tions.] toms, created by the dismissal of Sir F. Aglen, which is regarded as a challenge from the Peking Gov- ernment.

It is officially stated that the Nationalist Government does not recognise the appointment of Mr. Edwards as Sir Francis. Aglen's | successor.--Reuter,

Northern Schenie.

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Peking, Feb. 13."

THE WIZARD.

EDISON CELEBRATES 80TH BIRTHDAY.

Now York, Feb. 13.

With 1,150 inventions to his credit, Mr. Thomas Alva Edison colebrat-

The Commissioner for Foreigned his eightieth birthday on Tob, il Affairs at Tientsin hay notified by taking a holiday which he spent the Consuls that the Chinese in the company of Mr. Henry Ford Superintendent of Customs has rending hundreds of telegrams of been appointed Director for the congratulations. collection of the surtaxes, which ho will commencé levying imme- diately. Any surtax paid in to the Maritime Customs will not be regarded as legal.

A Surtax Bureau will be opened at the branch office of the Bank of Communications in the Customs compound,

It is believed the same policy will be adopted in other northern ports, thus obviating the difficulty af attempting to compel the For- eign Customs oficials to collect the surtax, which led to Sir F. Aglen's dismissal.

The Japanese Consul at Tientsin has protested, but the British and American Consuls do not intend to protest-Reater.

NORTHERN CLASH.

FIGHTING AMONG ALLIED TROOPS.

Peking, Feb. 12. The Ankucchun Headquartora, Interviewed by Reuter this mora- ing, admit that there is some truth in newspaper reports of fighting between Fengtien troops and Wu Pel-fu troops in Honan.

They say the fighting is due to

misunderstanding: by

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Interviewed by a crowd of re- porters, Mr. Edison said that of all his inventions he would prefer to be remembered by the phonograph.

his Experimenting had been favourite amusement. "Naturo has many surprises, and it is great fun to pull them out of the unknown." Peuter's American Service....

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SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION.

The Hague, Fob. 18. The famous Dutch Islamist, Doctor Snouck Hurgrenje, on the occasion of his sevontleth, birth- day, was presented with funds for the Snouck Hurgronje Founda- tion, to which Holland, the native princes of the Indies and scien- tista all over the world contri- buted.-Reuter.

KIDNAPPED EDITOR.

SENTENCE ON MR. FRANCIS ZIA.

Shanghai, Feb. 12. The North China Daily New understands that Mr. Frapels Zin, Managing Editor of the China pub-Courier, has been sentenced by the military authorities to three and a half years' imprisonment. Reuter.

The Fengtion troops disarmed certain Wu Pel-fu troops who at tempted to prevent the advance to" Chengchow-Reuter.

CHINESE BISHOP.

Paris, Feb. 12.

EARTHQUAKE.

San Francisco,. Feb. 18.

A report from Calexico etates that a series of earthquakes rock- ed the Imperial Valley this morn- Monsignor Tau, one of the re-ing. Damage was confined to contly consecrated Chinese buildings which were under repair Bishops, has left Marseilles for as the result of shocks in the same China aboard the General Motzin district on New Year's day- gor-Reutoria

Reuter's American Service..