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CANADIAN

PACIFIC

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

R.M.S. "EMPRESS OF CANADA"

will sail for

VICTORIA & VANCOUVER, B.C.,

via Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

J.

at

6 A. M.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8th, 1928.

Passenger Dept.:. Freight & Express;

Tel. C. 752.

Tol. C. 42.

Cables: "GACANPAC" Cabler: "NAUTILUS."

American Express Travelers Chèques

Definition of TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES-

The system of Travellers Cheques was originated in 1891 by the Amorican Express Company with the olject of creating a form travel currency which would. give the holder the security of a fatter of credit and at the same time the convenience of local currency. The Company registered the cheques under the trade zame of AMERICAN EXPRESS TRAVELERS' CHEQUES word "Travellers' being spoiled with one "1" This advantage of the Cheques was so apparent that other banking Institutions adopted the system."

Quoted from Pitman's Dictionary of Banking by Wm. Thomson. lasued in G$10, G$20, G$50, G$100 and £5 and £10 denomination-bound in a small handy wallet and cont ouly 8/4 of 1 per cent. Secure your steamship tickets, hotel roservation and Itineraties; or plan your cruise or tour through:-

THE AMERICAN EXPRESS Co., Inc

4-A, Des Voeux Road, Central, Hongkong,

THE SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC

COMPANY, LIMITED.

~ SERVICE OF PAST MOTOR VESSELS

Loading Direct For

ROTTERDAM, AMSTERDAM, HAMBURG and COPENHAGEN, OSLO, GOTHENBURG,

M.V. "JAPAN" ...

M.V. "SUMATRA”

SHANGHAI, JAPAN PORTE and VLADIVOSTOCK.

M.V. "JAPAN"

***

M.V. "SUMATRA"

Loading about

27th Sept. 15th Oct.

22nd August

31st August Agents.

For further particulars apply to the

GILMAN CO., LTD.

G. E. HUYGEN.

Canton.

Hongkong,

M

MESSAGERIES

M

MARITIMES

MAIL STEAMERS.

Sailings from Hongkong.

To MARSEILLES vin Saigon,

Singapore, Colombo, Djibouti (Aden) Suez, Port-Said,

ANDRE LEBON... 14th Aug. CHENONOLAUX... 28th Aug. 11th Sept. KORTHOB.. ATHOS II... 25th Sept. D'ARTAGNAN...... Dtly Oot. FPHINX...... ..23rd Oot METZINGER... 6th Nov. FAUL LEGAT...... 20th. Nov. ANDRE LEBON... 4th Doc.

To YOKOHAMA via Shanghai

# Kobe.

14th Aug. PORTHOS.. ATHOB II... 28th Aug. D'ARTAGNAN. Lith Sept. SPHINX..... 25th Sept. G. METZINGER... 9th Oct, PAUL LECAT...... 23rd Oct. ANDRE LEBON... 7th Nov. CHENÓNGEAUX... 21st Nov./ PORTHOS...

5th Dec.

We can issue through tickets to Egypt, Syrian ports, East Africa, Madagascar by transhipment on our mail steamers at Port-Baid or Djibouti.

COMMERICAL LINE.

For DUNKIRK via Port-Sald, Oran, Cassablanca, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, (Antwerpj.:

8.8. "MIN"

***

4th Aug.

Cir. des MESSAGERIES · MARITIMES,

For full Particulars, apply to:-

Telephones: C. 651 & 740,7′′

INVESTIGATION OF THE UPPER AIR.

AID TO NAVIGATION.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1928.

A MEXICAN QUAKE.

CITY DESTROYED: FOUR DAMAGED.

Mexico City, Aur. 6.

German Meteorological Observa- tory in recent montha have practlenlly always exceeded the 6,000-metre ne nearly 20,000 feet). They make. it possible to study very accurately the condi tions obtaining in the upper air The many unsuccessful attempts at all states of the weather. The derived from

A very violent earthquake has minde in 1927 to fly across the results that are

these flights are of great value. partly destroyed the town of Atlantic from cast to west, no

Pinotepa and damaged Jamiltepec, The machine used by us is a Cacahuatepec, Tlamaca and Minzio. less than Capinin Korl's success-

Junkers aeroplane of the "A 20"Heuter's American Service, ful attempt in the course of the type whose engine is capable of present year, have proved beyond jan output of 250 h.p. The work doubt that the scientific Investigh-of the pilot and the observer

Ninety-six youths, sponsored by commences as soon as the machine tion of conditions in the upper has left the ground. The pilot the Big Brother movement, the strate of the atmosphere must be makes exact observations of the Salvation Army and the Young made to serve the needs of prac-temperature and the performance Australia League have left Eng- tical aviation far more exten- of the engine, the number of land for farm work in Australla, sively than has been the case révolutions of the propeller, and— hitherto. This is especially neces

with the aid of the gyroscopic sary if it is intended to achieve results of permanent value instead of successos depending more or less on accident..

horizon fitted to the machine capable of doing so. When the the vertical and horizontal post-6,600-line is reached and when the

tion of the latter when piercing a

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LINE

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layer of clouds. Clouds are often machine finds it difficult to climb the remaining 500 metres before accompanied by heavy gusta of reaching the 7,000-metre level, In Germany the German Mo-wind, and must be approached because the fuel mixture in the teorological Observatory (Deuts-and cleared with particular cau- engine becomes too thin and the che Seewarte), Hamburg, and the tion. It has been shown over and temperature too cold, the two men Prussian Aeronautical Observo-over again that the theory, and tory, Lindenberg, are utilized for practice of flying through clouds are also greatly hampered by the conditions surrounding them. The the purposes of the reserach work is of immense importance to the

oxygen content of the rarified alt referred to. Systematic ascents success of a flight.

is insufficient to support breath by aeroplane are made to studý pro conditions in the upper air, and

At the same time the observering, their limbs begin 18 feel as material is collected in connexion jots down his notes regarding the heavy as lead, and their power of with them that will help to explain thickness and position of the observation diminishes-in short, the physical structure of those layers of clouds, makes a careful the first symptoms of "air-sick regions and the chief factors in study of their shapes and the pess make themselves distinctly fluencing weather conditions in changes in their structure, and felt.

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At an clevation of 7,000 metres NEW YORK SERVICE noxion botween the always vary-

"LTOAOŃ" 24th Aug The machines used for such ing shapes of the clouds and the (about 22,600 feet) our spectacles

"PHEMIOS" * 17th-8opt aseents carry, apart from the currents of air due to the weather and, every now and then, our pilót, a meteorologically trained conditions. A great deal of allen scientific instruments as well-are PASSENGER SERVICE observer whose duty Isis tion is paid to visibility in the covered with a crust of lee, and aupplement the information regis-various altitudes which frequently the temperature is well below 10 tered by the appliances with which undergoes a rapid change in con-degrees C. below zero. We the machine is equipped by the sequence of the presence of haze therefore not sorry to leave those evidence supplied by his own which, in its turn, leads to all inhospitable regions and to return to the earth where we shall have observations and occasional phot kinds of optical phenomena,

more leisure to draw practical graphs, and who is able to co-

inferences from our observationa ordinate the results of the flights.

Jand records.

Rocent Ascents.

The scents carried out at the ying station connected with the

pre

Everything Recorded. Everything noticed by the ob- server's eyes is recorded with the And it is certain that science is aid of a pencil and a camera, at a valuable aid to practical work least so long as he is physlenlly in connexion with these matters.

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DEPTH ON CENTRE OF

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FORTNIGHTLY SAILINGS ON SUNDAYS VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, BUEZ CANAL, ALEXANDRIA, NA- PLES, GENOA, MARBEILLES, NEW YORK & BOSTON, President Harrison

President Monroe

President Wils a

President Van Buren

President Harrison

President Pierce

President Jackson

President Monroc

Bunday, Aug. 12, 8 a.m.

Bunday, Aug. 26, 8 a.m.

Sunday, Bopt. 9, 8 s.m.'

Sunday, Sept. 23, 6 6,0,

To Manila

+

...... Aug. 12th, 8

1.1.

Aug, 14th, 6 p.m.

Aug. 18th, & p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 20th, 9 a.m..

For Bookings, Passenger and Freight Information, apply to HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK BUILDING, GROUND FLOOR...!

- Telephones Central 2477, 2478 & 705

Cable Address "Dollar"-

CANTON BRANCH:-304, Ka Naam Tong Building.

American Mail Line

and

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AUSTRAL-CHINA NAVIGATION CO.

8.8. "CALULU”

will be despatched from; Hongkong

on the

11th AUGUST, 1928,

POB BYDNEY, MELBOURNE & ADELAIDE

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