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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”

TOKSAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU, SHANGHAI,

KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

"THE SUNSHINE BELT"

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON

PRESIDENT GRANT

PRESIDENT MADISON .....

PRESIDENT JACKSON

PRESIDENT MACKINLEY

Tuesday, Mar. 29th

Tuesday, Mar. 1st 8.00 a.m.

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Tuesday, Mar. 15th

Tuesday, Apr. 12th

Tuesday, Apr. 36th

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 siht-seeing.- Ask for information. Following'ure suggested itineraries :

Connecting with Fram

Steamship

From Hongkong

Mur. 1.

Mar 0

Mar. 15

Mar 23 'Mar. 29

Apr. G

Ajir. 12

" Apr. 20

Vin

San Frantinen Majestic

Sumptio Pro. Romovelt

| San Primeisen Olymple

Muttlo

Deo. Washingtonj

Ean Francirao(flomeric

Spa the Leviathan San Francisun ¡Aquitanin.

Seattle

Majestic

IN. York

Arriving at

Apr. 2 beg S'huptn. Apr. E Apr. 6-C'lg Apr. 13 Apr. 16 Cbrg Shmptn Apr. 22 Apr. 20 P'uik C'brg Apr. 27 Apr. 30 Gbrg Shapin May 6 Apr. 30 (C'brg Shapin May 7 Blay, 11 beg 'hmptn May 17 May, 14 O'beg Shupia May 20

TO SEATTLE AND VICTORIA VIA SHANGHAI,

KOBE AND YOKOHAMA.

"THE FAST SHORT ROUTË”,

PRESIDENT LINCOLN ..

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

PRESIDENT PIERCE

PRESIDENT TATT

PRESIDENT JEFFERSON

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

CANADIAN

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1927.

PACIFIC

QUICKEST TIME ACROSS THE PACIFIC

TO VICTORIA & VANCOUVER.

SAILINGS 1927."

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

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

LONDON,

Through Bill of Lading Issued for Batavia, Persian Gulf, Contin- ental, American and South Afri- can Ports.

STEAMERS

Hongkong Shanghai

LAYO

"Kobe Leave Lavo

Tokohama Vancouver

*Leave

Arrive

EMPRESS OF ABIA

Mar. 9 Mar. 12

Mar. 15

Mar. 18

Hat, 27

EMPRESS OF CANADA Her. 30

Apr. 2

Apr. 5

Apr. 8

Apr. 17

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA Apr. 20

Apr. 23

Apr. 26

Apr. 20

May 8

EMPRESS OF ASIA Kay 11

May 14

May 17

May 20

May 29

EMPRESS OF CANADA June 1

June 4

June 7

June 10

Jun, 18

EMPRESS OF RUSSIA June 23

June 25

June 28

July 1

July 10

EMPRESS OF ASIA

July 14

July 14

July 19

July 22

July 31

.

EMPRESS OF CANADA Aug. 1

Aug. 4

Aug. 9 Aug. 12

Aug. 21

-(E/Axia and E7Ruania call Nagasaki day after doparture from Shanghai.).

CONNECTING SAILINGS TO LIVERPOOL.

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MONTROSE

MONTCLARE

MINNEDUSA

April April May

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23 18

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3 MONTCALM June MONTROSE Juno 24 MONTOLARE July. 16

Frequent milimga to Liverpool, Belfasi, Ülgagow, Boutbamplen, Oberbourg And Actwr75)

BOOKINGS NOW OPEN.

EARLY APPLICATION FOR SPACE IS ADVISABLE. ·

SPECIAL FARES TO EUROPE

£120 £112

£83.

HONGKONG-MANILA SERVICE

Leira Arrive Hongkong Manila.

.Fab. 27 Mar. 1 Mar. 20 Mar. 22

EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CAÑADA

Leste Arrive Manila Hongkong Mar: 3 Mar. 5 Mar. 24 Mar. 26

CANADIAN PACIFIC EXPRESS

TRAVELLERS CHEQUES PAYABLE THE WORLD OVER.

THE SAFEST AND MOST CONVENIENT WAY TO CARRY FUNDS.

Passenger Department: Freight and Exprostor

Tel. C 752 Tal C 43

Cables: "GACANPAO." Cable: "NAUTILUS"

The Steamship,

"NELLORE,"

Capt. A. H. Highett R.N.R. carry- ing His Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this port on jor about Wednesday, the 2nd March, 1927, at Noon taking Pas- sengers and Cargo, for the above Ports.

Silk, Valuables and Tea for Italy, France and London (under ar rangement) will be transhipped at Bombay into the Mail Steamer pro- ceeding direct to Marseilles and Lordon,

Parcels will be received at this office until 5 p.m. tite day before sailing. The contents and value of all packages must be declared. For further particulars, apply

to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & COMPANY, Agenta.

Hongkong, 23rd Feb., 1927.

BANK LINE LTD.

AGENTS FOR

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

821LINOS BUBSPOT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE,

UNITED KINGDOM & CONTINENT

8.S. "CITY OF BOMBAY" Passenger Service.

Wednesday, Mar. 9th Wednesday, Mar. 23rd Wednesday, Apr. 6th

Wednesday, Apr. 20th Wednesday, May 4th

AUSTRALIA

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

VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEŻ— PORT SAID--ALEXANDRIA,NAPLES ---GENOA-- MARSEILLES,

Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK..

PRESIDENT WILSON -

PRESIDENT VAN BUREN

PRESIDENT HAYES

PRESIDENT POLK

PRESIDENT ADAMS

Tuesday, Mar. 1st 6.00 a.ın.

... Tuenday, Mar. 15th 8.00 a.m. Tuesday, Mar. 29th 6.00 a.. Tuesday, Apr. 12th 8.00 a.. Tuesday, Apr. 26th 8.90 a.m.

Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdayo.

TO MANILA.

PRESIDENT WILSON

PRESIDENT LINCOLN

PRESIDENT GRANT

PRESIDENT VAN BUREN..

· PRESIDENT CLEVELAND

Tuesday, Mar. 11 0.00 a.m. Tuesday, Mar. 1st 6.00 p.m. Monday, Mar. 7th 6.00 p.m. Tuesday, Mar. 15th 8.00 a.me Torsday, Mar. 15th 6.00 p.m.

For Passenger and Freight Rates apply to

ROBERT DOLLAR CO.

CENERAL AGENTS.

HONGRONG AND Sпangbai Banя BUILDING, GROUND Floon

Tolephonea Contral 2477 2478 & 705.

OM.M.C

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

LIGNES COMMERCIALES (Cargo-boats) Monthly kailings direct to HAMBURG, ROTTERDAM, DUNKIRK :

S.S. "D. P. BENOIT"

S.3. "CAPT FAURE"

27th February.

15th April.

London, Rotterdam & Hamburg

ELLERMAR LINE

31st March."

15th March.

S.S. "CITY OF CALCUTTA" Marseilles, London, Havre & H'burg

FARES: First Class to MARSEILLES £68; to LONDON 272,

Second Class to MARSEILLES 247; to LONDON 2440 105.

.AUSTRAL-EAST INDIES LINE Sailinge from SINGAPORE on 6th of every month by "CITY OF PALERMO” „¿"CITY OF SPARTA"

to Java, Fremnaíle, Adelaido, Molbourne and-Bydney and vice veria. Through Freight And Passenger bookings, from Hongkong in conjunction with Elior mau" Line or

other service.

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE

S.S. CITY OF BRISTOL"

via Suez Canal

ALSO AGENTS FOR

AMERICAN AND MANCHURIAN LINE 5th March,

ANDREW WEIR &

BOSTON & NEW YORK

M.V. "LARCHBANK". M.V. "FORRESBANK"

SERVICES TO

vin Bucz Canal

vin Suez Canal

MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA .........

S.S. "TINHOW"

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From Hongkong

CO.

AMERICAN & ORIENTAL LINE

22nd March. 25th May.

ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE

20th April.

Loading for Mauriting, Dalagai bav, Durban.' Essť Landon, Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, Monasi Bay and.

Capetown. Through Bills of Darling jesued to Boira, Quilimonine, 130, Port Amelia, Mozambique, Ühinde, Inhambane,

Zanzibar Moabassa, Kilindini, Port Nolloth, Faderitz Bay, Walvis Bay and Madagascar..

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

Tolophone...Central 470).

THE BANK LINE, LTD.

THE HONGKONG & WHAMPOA DOCK CO., LTD.

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS "MANIFESTO", HONGKONG;

Cods Used: Al, A.B.C. Fifth Edition; Enginoering: First and Second Edition; Western Union and Watkins, Bonson's Marconi.

Dock owners, Ship Builders, Marine and Land Engineers, Boilers Makers, Icon and

Brass Founders, Forge Masters, Electricians:

JUNK CASE.

PRISONER ACQUITTED."

SHANGHAI SITUATION."

STRIKES COME TO AN END.

The case against a Chinese of

Shanghai, Feb. 34) unlawful possession of a junk, The General Labour Union an- knowing it to have been stolen,nounces that stops are being taken was concluded before Mr. Jto call off the strike.-Reuter

Shanghai, Feb, 24. R. Wood, acting Chief Justice, at the Criminal Seasons yesterday, following communique: "The gen- The Labour Union has issued the Mr. Somerset Fitzroy submitted eral strike has lasted five days and that under sub-section two, section as a result of the self-sacrificing. 80 of the Larceny Ordinance there efforts of fellow workers it has met was no case to go to the jury. with considerable success. With a This section said: "For the purpose view to the continued appeals from of this section property shall be

deemed to have been stolen where the merchant body the general it has been taken, extorted, ob Labour Union has undertaken to tained, unbezzled, converted or dis- tako steps to the end of ending the posed of in such circumstances strike.

For the time being this, however. that, if the act had been committed

in the Colony, the person commit- does he necessarily mean that the ting it would have been guilty of movement is over, because we shall an indictable offence according to continue our efforts to attain our the law for the time being in force ideals."-Reuter. in the Colony,"

Continuing, Mr. Fitzroy guid

Nearing the End.

that the reason the prisoner said A further twenty thousand nothing about the case when he strikers have resumed since yester arrived in Hongkong was because day afternoon, indicating that the the Chinese authorities' concerned strike is near the end. With mer- in the provention of salt smug chants refusing to head the Labour gilng had already imposed a fine-Union's call to strike, the complete a reasonable fine. If the man had end is expected soon, as the Labour guilty knowledge it would be rea- Union has no funds. Also it is re-. sonable that he should keep away ported that the Chinese from British territory, but he did authorities sent agents

not.

to yea-

He went to Choung Chau the French Concession and said openly "This is my boat," terday and kidnapped a large number of agitators and strike

: Applied for Licence..

He also applied for a trading leaders. The French police have licence and this was granted, al-no knowledge of the alleged kid- though he sailed away before the nappings-Reuter. numbers had been painted on the junk. When first questioned by the police authorities he told a de- liberate lie do explain his posses.

U. S. Destroyers.

Washington, Feb. 24.. It is officially announced that the

sion of the junk. That was destroyers Hulbert, Noa and natural action for a man to take Preble are going to Shanghai from in the hope that he would soon

vice.

be freed. But when the man was Manila. The destroyer Pruitt is arrested he did not stick to the going to Hongkong from Cavite same story. He said "I bought the and the Parrott to Shanghal from junk and I did not know it was Fourhow.--Rueter's American Ser- stolen."

Mr. Fitzroy asked if the pro

Flour Supplies. secution had taken any steps to

Melbourne, Feb. 24. ascertain the truth of the story The War Office has accepted by sending agents into China. the New South Wales Millers' The acting Chief Justice pointed Association's tendera for the out that there was no obligation on supply of 112 short tons of Austra- the part of the Crown to do so. llan flour for Shanghai and 100. The Attorney General, replying tons for Hongkong. The price to the point of law raised by the has not been divulged.-Reuter. defence, said that in the ense which had been quoted in support of the point there was no decision by the Full Court. In that case there was merely the opinion ox- pressed by the Judge without the matter being fully argued.

:

Defendant Discharged

NOTE TO RUSSIA.

HOME PRESS COMMENT.

London, Feb. 24. He submitted that the section of

The morning papers comment the Ordinance was intended to extensively on the British Note to avoid the difficulty of origin of Russia. offence and apply the test of Eng- The Daily Telegraph says the, lish law to the circumstances under: Note does not leave room for which it was proved the property of the course of conduct which the misunderstanding and continuance was taken.

Note denounces will bring about abrogation of the trade agreement and severance of diplomatic re-

The Attorney General asked why the defendant had not brought evidence of sale. Why did he act bring a man who would say "I am an official of the Chinese Govern- ment and seized this junk because of smuggling and then sold it per- fectly legitimately?"

lations.

The Morning Post says that Sir Austen Chamberlian cannot hope that protests will deflect the Soviet Government from the implacable The aeting Chief Justice said the course of its policy, but the Note real point was whether the pro-does not leave the Government of secution had proved any theft in Moscow with the excuse pretend- China. He found there was no ing it has been faithful to its evidence of theft and directed the agreements or that it has not been jury to bring in a verdict of "Not warned that it is breaking them. Guilty."

The jury did so and the defen- dant was discharged.

JAPAN'S TRADE.

IMPORTS AND EXPORTS DECLINE.

The Daily News declares that to expect the Soviets to abandon pro- paganda of Communism is innta- mount to demanding they should cease to exist. The outstanding fact is that we are faced with a militant Communist state, which no one really proposes to try to destroy by force of arms.

The Daily Mail characterises the Note as an inoffensive and apolo- getic sermon" and adds: "We have heard & more formidable scolding given by an elderly lady to her Pekingese in Hyde Park."

The January report on Japan's trade, received from the Japanese Consulate General, states:

Japanese foreign trade, both im- The Westminster Gazette is of port and, export, has declined the opinion that the protest may compared with last year. Expert have been ill timed in view of the has shown u notable decrease, crisis in China and the recent caused by the full in price of both Chen-O'Malley agreement and adds silk and yarn in the market abroad, that the tone is not calculated to However, some demand in the invite a conciliatory response. In China market is expected.

the meantime, we must be satis fled to await the reply and consider

In the money market interest ratos have been cut down and a fur-it on its merits when it arrives.--

ther decrease of the rate by the Reuter.

Bank of Japan is expected.

The stock market is active.

The foreign trade of Japan' dur

The trade of Japan with China

ing last month was: value of ex- during last month was: value of ports 141 million Yen; value of experts 38 million Yen; value of imports 191 million Yen; excess of imports 21 million Yen; excess of imports 50 million Yen.

exports 12 million Yen.

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Steamers

ANGKOR

PORTHOS ..A

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Sailings

from

Marsoillos

Arr. at Hongkong Sailings from;

& sailing for

Shanghai & Japan

Hongkong for

Marsoillos

1st Mar.

15th Mar.

2nd Mar,

29th Mar.

16th Mar..

12th Apr.

25th Tob.

30th Mar.

26th Apr..

12th Apr.

10th May.

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RATES OF PASSAGE MONEY TO MARSEILLES. (including Table Wine and Free Doctor's attendance)

A class 1st class £99.00

steamers 2nd class £70.00

Bolase 1st class £85.00

steamers 2nd class · £61.00

Through Tickets to London and leading Towns. of Europe. --

Accommodations reserved in the Trains, at Marseilles, (Bailings subject to alteration without notico.) For full particulars, apply to :-

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Passenger and Cargo Vossel, 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 Borvico.

Please address enquiries to the Chief Manager:

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

THE EAST ASIATIC Co., Ltd.

COPENHAGEN,

M. S.

14

DANMARK

will be loading for ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG, and.

about Scandinavian ports on or

4th March 1927.

Further Sailings

M.S." Asia

M.S. "Annam”

Expected on or

about. 12th March. 23rd March

Will leave homeward

bound on or about.

Subject to change without notice.

For further particulara please apply to:-

JOHN MANNERS & CO., LTD:

Agente.

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