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Shortest, Most Interesting Way

to EUROPE

To the United States~~

To Canada!

9 Days Across

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from Japan

The Trans-Canada Lixxlzed,

long drawn out oven trip but varied......mes joarasy with rall...... cool and comfortable! Shortest route across the Pacific......(com Japan Saprtost noross Amorical Shartsot noross the Atlantial And at each transfer, only a step from atose to train. Ampress of Canada, Empresaf Asia and Empress of Russia are largest and fastes: linors across the Paullic. 17 days from Hong Kong. 14 days tron Shanghal. 9 days from Yokohaman. Then, at Vancouverthro as the thrilling Canadian Paola Rootias..... Fifty Switzorian is in' 039."

The Atlantic Empresses and Cabin Dines Bhips sall from Montreal and Quebec. 1,000 sheltered miles on the St. Lawrence...then about 4 days opon se...to Liverpool, Southampton; Belfast, Queenstown, Chorboure. Antworp. Hamburg. This Sorrian, combined with the Pacifo; Railway and Hotel Services on route......offer you, or mambora of your family travelling alone......the utmost in comfort and solicitous persoasi atton.. tion. All one management......Canadian Pacifio,

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Let a Canadian Pacific agent or his representative tell you how attractive the through rates are and... how short, comfortable and convenient the route.

Canadian Pacific

The World's Greatest Travel System

Pacific Empres

Atlantic Empress ?

HOLLAND EAST ASIA LINE

OF THE"

United Netherlands Navigation Company,

8.8. ZOSMA

8.S. OOSTKERK

Regular four-weekly service betwogn Japan, Vladivostock China, Hongkong, Maulis, Singapors

AND

· Genos, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Bremen and Korth Continental Ports.

Arrivals From Europe.

13th December, 10th January.

Sailings for Genoa, R'dam, Aʼdam, Hamburg & Bremen.

8.8 OLDEKERK..

3.S GEMMA

S.S. ZOSMA, M

29th Novdmbor.

25th December, 22nd January:

All steamers have a Hnifted accommodation for passengers. For Freight, Passage and further particulars please apply to JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,

Agents. York Building

Tel. Central No. 1574,

GLEN LINE.

Fare Hongkong to London £82

TO LONDON, ROTTERDAM & HAMBURG via 'STRAITS & COLOMBO.

Motor Vessel "GLÉNTARA” (Via Oran)

Steamship "CARNARVONSHIRE" (Via Oran) 28th

"GLENIFFER" (Via Oran) ...

Steamship.

Steamship "GLENSANDA" (Via Oran) ...

1st

Doc Dec.

25th Jan.

22nd Føb

TO SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA & VLADIVOS (OCK. Steamship "PEMBROKESHIRE" (In Port) 28th Nov. Steamship

"GLENIFFER”.

Motor Vessel "OLENOGLE” ...

Steamship "GLENSANDA"

Motor Vessel "GLENAMQY"

8th Dec.

22nd Dec. 12th Jan 22nd Jan.

For freight, passage and further particulara, apply to:

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD. AGENTS: THE GLEN LINE, LTD.

THE SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC COMPANY, LIMITED.

SERVICE OF FAST MOTOR. "VESSELS

LOADING DIRECT FOR

BARCELONA, ROTTERDAM, HAMBURG

and SCANDINAVIAN PORTS.

M.Y. "JAPAN" M.V. "FORMOSA"

SHANGHAI, JAPAN and PORTS."

M.V. "CANTON"

Lunding about 29th Novembez

25th December

24th December

G. E. HUYGEN, Canton.

For further particulars apply to the GILMAN CO., LTD.

Hongkong.

Agents.

AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION CO.

S.S. "CALULU”

sailing on or about the

'20th DECEMBER, 1027.

FÖR BRISBANE, SYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE

via Manila, Iloilo, Kolambugan, Balikpapan, Samarai and Rabaul.

Steamer offers go‹d Refrigerated Cargo Space.

For Freight and Passage Apply to ; — ·

Queen's Building.

יי

DODWELL & CO., LTD

Agents.

Tel. No. Central 108

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH,

A NEW £10,000,000. WARSHIP.

US. NAVY'S AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

WONDERS OF SARATOGA.

The United

States aircraft carrier Saratoga. commissioned for trials on October 31, is the most remarkable warship now in

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1927.

HOTEL THEATRE.

AN INTERESTING MANILA PROJECT.

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. dad

CHINA MUTUAL STEAM

NAVIGATION CO., LTD. ·

A theatre to be run in conjunc- tion with the hostelry business will soon be established by the Manila Hotel, and plans for the early Consignees por Company's Steamor. erection of the structure are being pushed forward rapidly under the personal direction of Mr. Walter Antrim, manager of the Manila Hotel.

"MACHAON" From UNITED KINGDOM via SINGAPORE. are hereby notified that the cargo will be discharged into Holt's Wharf Kow- existence, writes a Home naval Announcement was made by Mr. loon, where it will lie at Consignee's" correspondent. Laid down seven Antrim to the effect that the pro-risk and subject to terms and cond!- years ago as a battle-cruiser of posal to establish a theatre has The Cargo will be ready for delivery tions of storage at Holt's Whart 44.000 tons, to be armed with already been approved in principle eight 16-in. guns, her construe by the Manila Hotel management. November.

from Godown on and after tion was suspended as a result of Architects, according to him, are the Washington Conference. To- now tentatively going over gether with a sister ship, the

Lexington, she was subsequently proposed plans.

re-designed as an aircraft carrier.

the

Part

28th

Optional cargo will not be landed kero, unless notice has been given prior to steamer's arrival, but carried The theatre building, Mr. An-on from port to part to the anal

of call to which the option extends,

All broken, chafod, and damaged goods are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined on any Tuesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10.45 a.m. and noon within the free storage period.

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By deleting the heavy guns the trim informed the Bulletin, will be displacement was reduced to 33. probably constructed on the hotel 000 tons, this being the maximum site, and, when completed, it will tonnage permissible for a ship be both artistically imposing and of the carrier type under the beautiful and sufficiently large to Sara-meet with the general entertain Washington Treaty. The

No claims will be admitted after the toga is 10,000 tons larger than ment and theatrical amusements 1.M.S. Eagle, our largest air-not only of the hotel guests them- Goods have left the steamer's Go craft carrier, and her length of selves but of the patrons of that down, and all Goods remaining unde- 888 ft.-nearly 300 yards-ex- place. It was impossible, howlivered after the 6th December, will ceeds by 28 ft., that of II.M.S. ever for Mr. Antrim to furnish be subject to rent.

Steamer All Claims against the details. Hood, hitherto the longest war- ship afloat.

The hotel people are having-theast be presented to the undersigned on or before the 10th December or co-operation of the Community they will not be recognised,

furnishing The Saratoga's upper deck is Players, who are

No Fire Insurance will be offected. fitted us an aerodrome. 880 ft.general information useful in con- long by 90 ft... in breadth. It is nection with the undertaking.

BUTTERFIELD & SWE

Agents. 60 ft. above the waterline, and has The Community Playera, however,

Hongkong, November 28, 1927. an aren of five acres. American it was said by A. P. Drakeford, wita suggest that the completion president, as an organization, are of this ship adds a new State to not financially or materially in-

floating neradrome, the American the Union. The flight deck is terested in the project.

designers have contrived. to en- equipped with landing nets and Two directors of the Community dow her with powerful fighting other devices which will, it is Players are soon leaving for the qualities of her own. The hull is claimed, enable aeroplanes to fly United States on vacation, and, heavily armoured against gun- off from or alight on the ship with Mr. Drakeford declared, they will fire and anti-torpedo, bulges of perfect safety in almost any wea-take the opportunity while there the British pattern are fitted ther. All the boiler "uptakes are to farnish the hotel management along the greater part of the fed into a single gigantic funnel with data that may be of value, waterline. Eight 8-in. guns with easing. 120 ft. in diameter. While in the United States the a range of twelve miles are mount- through which ton railway trains directors will visit importanted in twin turrets. There are could pass abreast. This funnel theatrical centres.

also twelve 5-in. anti-aircraft Is. elliptical in shape, and

guns and four torpedo tubes. The gether with the gun turrets,

Saratoga is therefore armed more bridge, and other tophamper is

heavily than a modern cruiser placed on the extreme starboard

Her con- side of the ship, leaving the flight licate fire-control instruments, of the "County" class. deck practically clear for aviation Every mechanical operation in sort, the Lexington, is to be ready purposes. This arrangement of the ship, from propulsion to peel-in January. the upper works was first adopted ing potatoes, is performed by American naval opinion as a by British naval designers in the electricity. The searchlights, whole is hostile to these ships on carriers Engle and Hermes. mounted in the superstructure; account of their prodigious size, have an illuminating power of vulnerability, and cost. By the 3 million.canale power.

time she is commissioned the The Saratoga herself is a vast Seventy-two aeroplanes

Saratoga will have, cost $10,000,- electrical generating station. carried in the spacious hangars 000, a sum which would have Never before has electric power below deck, varying from tiny paid for four or five of the largest been put to such multifarious one-seater fighters to heavy cruisers. A Washington service Uses afloat. Steam' turbines bombers and torpedo planes, with journals, says that "the huge size. operate the dynamos, which have a crew of three men. Aeroplanes of the two new carriers will be handicap to their an output of 180,000 horse-power. are brought up from the hold to serious

valuable and This power. Is transmitted to the flight deck by storied lifts, efficiency. So electric motors. coupled to the Single machines can be flown off vulnerable are they that the mere Four propeller shafts, which by means of a catapult regard-question of protecting them in drive the ship at a speed of forty less of the direction of the wind. warfare presents

ble... miles an hour. The Saratoga is The ship will be manned by a therefore the highest-powered crew of $1,200, but, in addition,; and fastent warship of major she will have about 250 aviation Lonnage in the world.

ranks and ratings, so that the

The Electric Ship.

to-

.........

arc

It is of interest to note that total complement will be 1.450. bailers of British design, Yarrow Se extensive and elaborately fitted and White-Forster, are installed are the workshops in the lower In the Saratoga and her sister it is stated, build any type of compartments, that they could, the Lexington. Auxiliary to the

with aeroplane, complete main driving units, there are up

motors. wards of 2 thousand electric motors on board, ranging from

American Doubts, air-blowers of 400 h.p. to tiny motors not much larger than an

making the Not content with egg-cup, which operate the de- Sarntogn the world's greatest

a grave

its

POLAR CAKE

IT'S QUALITY THAT COUNTS.

BANK LINE LTD.

AGENTS FOR

ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.5. CO., LTD.

SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE UNITED KINGDON & CONTINENT

ELLERYAN LIN'

S.S. "CITY OF TOKIO" Marseilies, London, Rotterdam & Hamborg 3rd January.,

AUSTRALIA

白好

AUSTRAL-BAST INDIES LINE Sailings from SINGAPORE on 7th of every month by "OITY OF PALEEMU" or "OITY OF SPARTA”,

to Java, Fremantle, Adelaido, Malbourne and Sydney and vicx VERSA. Through Fraight and Passenger bookings from Hongkong in conjunction with "Ellermaa" Line or

other services.

BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE...

8.S. "CITY OF LAHORE"

AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE 29th December, via Buen Canal

LSU AGENTS FUR

[ANDREW

WEIR & CO.

SERVICES TO

BOSTON, NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA & HAVANA

MAURITIUS & SOUTH AFRICA

AMERICAN & ORIENTAL·LINE ORIENTAL AFRICAN LINE

Loading for Mauritius Dalagon Bay, Durban, East London, Algoa Bay (Port Elizabeth). Musel Bay and

Capetown

Through Bill of Lading issued to Baira, Quillmans, Iba, Port Aguila, Mzambique, Chinde, Inhambane,

Zanzibar, Mombasa Kilindini, Port Nolloth, Luderita Bay, Walvis Bay and Madagascar.

For freight or passage on any of the above lines apply:- Telephone Central 4791.

THE BANK LINE, LTD.

pro-

THE

BLUE FUNNE

·

LINE

REGULAR, AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES |

FREIGHT AND

LONDON SERVICE "SARPEDON" 30th Nov. Mar’les, London, R'dam & Glasgow *"DIOMED" 13th Doo. Mar'les, London, B'dam & Hamburg "PATROCLUS! - 27th Dva Marʼies, London, R'dam & Glasgow **ORESTES** 10th Jan Marles, London, R'dam & Hamborg

• Vin Curablepaa.

LIVERPOOL SERVICE "PELEUN"

21st Doc. "OYOLOPS"

20th Jan. **MENTOR*** 20th Feb. "IDOMENEUS” 20th Mar.

PACIFIC SERVICE

via Kobo & Yokohama "ACHILLER

Genna, Havro, Liverpool & Glasgow Genos, Harre, Liverpool & Glasgow Genoa, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow Genos, Havre, Liverpool & Glasgow

17th Doc...

"TYNDAREUS...". 7th Jun...

NEW YORK SERVICE «MACHAON”. 18th Dec... "PYRRHUS"

13th Jan,

Victoria, Vancouver & Beattle Victoria, vaneuver & Boattla

New York, Booten & Baltimore Now York, Boston à Baltimore

PASSENGER SERVICE

'SARTEDUN"

PATRUULUS" "ANTENUR "HECTUR" -

3- Nov. 27th Dea.

2th Jan.

22nd Tub.

Singapore Maravilles & Loudon Singapore, Marseilles & London Singapore. Marseille & Lordoo

Singapore, Marsailles & Look ont

Also cargo steamers with limited passenger accommodation at specially reduced forve

For freight, passage rates, and information apply to 1–

Butterfield & Swire,

Agenta.

Traveling Social Registers

Look over the Guest List of any President Liner! Those who know ships; enjoy the best in transportation and demand and appreciate smart, efficient service, always travel on these great, fast liners.

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exceptionally steady.)

The magnificent President Liners are broad of beam All are of burners, swift express liners, The public rooms are luxuriously appointed and inviting.

All staterooms are ourside, splendidly furnished and equipped with beds-DOC berths. Each room has hot and cold running water, also fans, wardrobe, thermos bottles and reading lamps. Private bath and showers in connection with many rooms perfect the travel comfort of these giant passenger lincts.

The Cuisine is world famous. The deliciously prepared menus will delight pow. And how the orchestra 'adds zest to your dining,

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The decks are spacious. The Glass-enclosed Promenade always popular. Deck sports, open ale swimming pool, movies, evening dances, everything has been done to make your trip a happy one. Unexcelled anywhere is the courteous and efficicat service accorded you by the trained personnel aboard the Presidene Liors.

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The great frequency of sailings and the liberal stopover privileges of the Dollar! Steamship and American Mail Lines have maile these giant passenger liners out -standingly popular among travelers.

WEEKLY TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE

·TO SAN FRANCISCO and

LOS ANGELES

The Sunshine Balt via Honolulu Fortnightly willings un 'Tuesdays Pres. Hadison...

Tres. Dec. 6th Pres. Jackson Tues., Dec. 2011 Pres. McKinley ... Tues., Jan. 3rd

Tuos.,

Jan. 17th

· Pres. Linzola

TO BEATTLE and VICTORIĄ The Shari, Straight Routs so fmarios Fortnightly saliings on Wednesdays

Pres. Cleveland Wed, Nov. 30, 12,30 a. m Pres. Pierce Wed, Dec. 14th Prez. Taft

Wed, Dec. 28th Pres. Jefferson Wed, Jan; 11th

Special Through Rates to Europe, vin United States, £120, £112. Direct connections with all Atlantic Unes. Choice of railway lines across United States and Canada, with Uberal stops-over

· privileges for sight-seeing.

To EUROPE and NEW YORK

`ROUND THE WOILED

Fortnightly sailings on Tuesday's via Mante, Etralia, Colombo, Sex Canal, Alericidele, Naples, Geron, Marseilles, Boston and New York Pres. Adams Bun., Dos, 4, 6x.m. Pres. Monroe Sun., Jan. 16, 8 Prea. Garfield Bui, Deo. 18, S., Pres. Wilson Sun., Jan. 23, 8.m. Frea. Harrison... San., Jan. 1, 8 a.. Pres. V. Buran Sun, Feb. 12, 8 s.m.

Prea. Adams

Pres. Pierce Pres. Jackson

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TO MANILA

Dec. 4th, 8 a.m. Pres. Garfield... Dec. 18th, 8. Dee, 6th, 6p.m. Prea. Taft Dec. 20th, 5 p.m. Dec. 12th, 6 p.m. Pres. McKinlay Dec. 26th, 6 p.m. For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information ADDiy 1G Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Building, Ground Floor

Telephone Central 2477, 2478 and 796, th

Cablo Address "Dollar"

Dollar Steamship Line

and

American Mail Line