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CANADIAN PACIFIC

STEAMSHIPS - HOTELS -

RAILWAYS - EXPRESS

A DELIGHTFUL CRUISE DE LUXE

by the

EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA

·21,850 Tons Gross, Length 615 feet. LEAVING HONGKONG

FEBRUARY 17th, 1930.

via Koolung, Shanghai, Chinwangtno for Poking), Beppu, Kabe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Hile, San Francisco, Balbon, Panama, through the Panama Caual Lu Cristobal, Color, Havana and

Arriving NEW YORK,

APRIL 17th, 1930.

Two days available for sight-seeing in NEW YORK. Leaves NEW YORK

19th APRIL, 1930..

Arriving SOUTHAMPTON & CHERBOÜRG,

APRIL 27th, 1930.

Shore excursions and sight-seeing tours at all Ports.

For Particulars Apply”- CANADIAN PACIFIC.

Phone Central 752,

Tel. Address: "GACANPAC."

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

NEW YORK BERTH

FOR NEW YORK & BOSTON via SUEZ

LLOYD TRIESTINO.

"REGULAR MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE for BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE (FIUME) TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIC, LEVANT, BLACK BEA AND DANUBE PORTS.

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PASSAGE RATES TO. BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE LONDON

£75.0.0. £83.0.0.

NEXT SAILINGS

OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA,

SS "HILDA"

M.V. "REMO"

KUBE & мол.

From Hongkong Sails bence on or about 24th Dec. 2nd Jan. Sails hence on or about

HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI VENICE AND TRIESTE

M.V. "HIMALAYA" M.V. "VIMINALE"

B.S. "HIDA" M.V. "REMO)"

From Hongkong Sails hence on or about 25th Dec. 2nd Jan. Sails hence on or about Sails hence on or about 25th Jan. Sails bence on or about

· 4th Feb.,

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS

FROM CALOUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS

Regular Passenger and Cargo Borvice to South African Ports. Through Bills of Lading issued from Hongkong

For Freight or Passago on any of this above Lines apply to;— DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents.

Telephone Central 1030.

AUSTRALIAN-ORIENTAL LINE, LTD.

Changte" & "Taiping."

THESE NEW VESSELS MAINTAIN A REGULAR SERVICE FROM HONGKONG TO`AUSTRALIAN PORTS. VIA MANILA, AND THURSDAY ISLAND Through Bills of Lading issued to all Australian, New Zealand and Tasmanian Ports.

EXCELLENT & MOST UP-TO DATE, FIRST & BECOND CLASB PASSENGERS ACCOMMODATION. HONGKONG TO SYDNEY-19 DAYS.

BTEAMER

TAIPING CHANGTE

TAIPING

CHANGTE

Duz HookонⱭ

7th January

11th February

11th March

11th April

DUE TO BAIL

14th January

18th February

18th March

· 18th April'

-For Freight & Passage, apply to~BU ITERFIELD & SWIKE Tel C..36

Agents.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1929.

DEATH OF SIR ERNEST THE UNEMPLOYMENT THE PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL

BIRCH.

FORMER GOVERNOR OF NORTH BORNEO.

London, Dec. 17. The death has occurred of Sir Ernest Woodford, Birch, "former Governor of British North Bornen, -Reuter,

QUESTION.

CHANCELLOR EXPLAINS THE BILL

London, Dec. 17. 'In the House of Commous "the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Philip, Snowden, referred to the financa of the insurance fund to restore the solvency of which was one of the aims of the Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill.

(Sir Ernest Birch was born in 1857, being the eldest son of Mr. J. W. W. Birch, Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settlements, who

The debt in that fund had was assassinated in Perak by grown from five million pounds to Malays in 1875. Educated at thirty-seven million in little or Harrow, the late Sir Ernest Birchfive years. But for the Act of two entered the Coloning Office in 1876, and joined the Straits Settlements Fears ago, reducing the contribu- Government service in 1878, Hetions to the fund, the debt would million rose to the rank of British Re have fallen to twenty

Government Hunds. The sident, F.M.S., in 1892, and served in various of the Malay Statea, faced wtih the alternatives of in- He became Governor of British creased borrowing powers for the North Borneo in 1900, and in 1904 fund, or the raising of contribu returned to Perak as British Re-tions or handing to the Exchequer sident, retiring in 1916. He was the responsibility for keeping the knighted (K.C.M.G.) in 1911. He fund solvent. They had decided resided at Bexhill-on-Sea, where on the last-named. he was elected Mayor in 1927: He had been associated on the directorates of several companies with Malayan interesta.]

STEAMER SUNK.

STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

STEAMER FOR SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO and BOMBAY.

Through Bills of Lading issued for Batavia, Persian Gulf, Continental, American and South African Ports. The Steamship,

"ALIPORE" carrying His Majesty's Mails will be despatched from this port on about Thursday, the 19th December, 1929, at 4 pm. taking cargo for the above Ports.

or

Silk, Valuables and Ten for. Italy, France, and London (under arrangement) will be tranship- ped at Bombay into the Mail

direct Steamer proceeding Marseilles and London.

.to

Parcels will be received at this Office until 5 p.m. the day before sailing: The contents and value of all packages must be declared.

For further Particulars, Apply to

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., Agents.

The financial proposals in the Bill were very complicated. They would add fourteen million pounds in the Exchequer contribution to the fund. The increased, benefits to young persons were a very small additional annual charge on the funds of the scheme-about £370,000. The increased rates for SR. CALLES TRAVELS. dependents would

cost

about

£1.750.000. But the altered con-

Hongkong, 17th December, 1929.,

ditions regarding the finance of HIS IMMUNITY FROM ARREST the fund were responsible for the main financial burden.

STRIKES A ROCK IN THICK FOG. Running into a fog after leaving Kwong-chow-wan at 4 am, on Decem ber 12 for a place called. Liu Chiu, the

Classes of Beneficiaries, Portuguese steamer Ka Heng struck a rock near Mandarin's Cap at 1.50

Referring to the much-discuss a.m. the next day and was wrecked.

Fortunately, the mishap uccurreded clause amending the condi- para sa islet and Capt. Cordova, tions on which the benefit is paid duster of the vessel, the other to unemployed "genuinely seeking

CONTINUES.

Laredo, Texas, Dec. 17. Senor Calles arrived in a special A detachment of United States train en route to Mexico City, Marines boarded the train, which was not stopped-Renter's Ameri-

40 members of the crew and 11 paswork." he said there were thre can Service.

LA New York message of sengers managed to get to the islet classes of working people. The December 14 stated: Among where they passed the night.

passengera lauding

from Later in the day, two fishing vast majority, ninety-nine per the

is Senor Culics, Bonts were nighted. Those marooned cent and perhaps more, were the Bremen succeeded in drawing the attention of honest, straightforward men who the ex-President of Mexico, whe the occupants of these boats and felt the humiliation of being out

was informed that a warrant had were then taken to Yeungkong, from of work. There Was another

been issued in Laredo, Texas, where a tow-boat took them to Kong, class, who will be called inefli- charging fim with, conspiring In cients, who wanted work but ex the murder of two Mexican army perfeneed the greatest difficulty officers whose bodies were found in getting it; and there was the handcuffed together negligible class who perhaps Grande near Laredo, In 1922, preferred to live in a state of en Calles, however, curries a diplo dowed idleness rather than to enrmatie passport which preciulles their living by working.

moan. With the exception of two of the passengers, all took passage to Hongkong on the Charles Hardouin, arriving here at about 11.30 p.m. on Monday.

Interviewed yesterday, Capt. Cor doya said there was a very thick fog at the time. He was on duty until midnight when the watch was taken over by the Second Officer, Ho Po, who was at the wheel when the vessel struck the rock. -

On examination, it was found that the ship wns making water very rapidly and it was soon evident that there was no hope of saying the ship. Capt. Cordova then abandoned the vessel and all the 62 persone on, the Ka Heng manageil to reach the inlet

dearby.

Although all the human beings were saved, it is believed that the large numbers of pigs mad cattle on the vessel were drowned when she sunk. Besides the 'live-stock, there was on board about 300 tins, of brown sugar, a lorge quantity of peanut

oil, som onts and hemp. The total Tabup of the cargo is assessed at about

$70,000,

nt

Ria Sr.

the possibility of his arrest on American It was much better that one in American soil. The

a thousand should get the benefit Consulat Laredo has informed the though he did not deserve it. leent authorities that Sr. Calles rather than that nine hundred passage to Mexico will be pro and ninety-nine who deserved it tected, if necessary, "with armod should not get it.-British Wireless, force."]

HONGKONG-DALLAS. .

BIG CASH PRIZE FOR PACIFIC FLIGHT.

Los Angeles, Dev. 12. Colonel WE Ensterwood, Junr., the millionaire sportsman of Dallas, Texas, has annomed that he has re-opened his offer of a prize of With regard to the vessel, Capt. 25,000 for the first aviator to

fly Cordova couidered it a total from Hongkong tu Dallan.

Colonel Easterwood said list he

The bow was still above water when

be now.

THE INFLUENZA GERM.

CLAIM TO DISCOVERY MADE IN AMERICA.

Chicago; Dec. 17. Commenting on the widespread interest aroused in the United States and Great Britain by the claim of Professor Isadore Falk, of Chicago University, to have dis. covered the influenza germ, the Association American Medical

warranted" and say "there is little or no evidence in scientific or medical literature to indicate that Falk has progressed any fur- ther towards solution of this pro- blem than workers in any other part of the world have done, now

or in the past,"

he left but he did not think it won was going to Honolulu to confer | Journal denounces the cluim as "un- |

The Ka Heng flies the Portuguess with Mr. James Dole, the pineapple flag, but is owned by a Chinese syndlarower, upon the subjeci, nud it is cate. She has a nett Lonnage of 380 expected that Mr. Dolo will offer Lona with a length of 184 feet and has another $25,000. buen for some time running 'between Colonel Easterwood remarked Hongkong

Kwong-chow-wan, that there would not be She was at one time called the Hoi The first aviator ready would get the chance and if he shequeded no Capt. Curdura said the vessel was other would need to start. worth about $50,000, thereby making t

Major Ting Ling-haung hus the total lus about $120,000,

Nain.

and

a face.

The Hong On Steam Navigation plane hall completed for the flight, Co. are the local agents for the Ka The trip includes stops at Tokyo,

Henk.

Honolulu and the Pacific Coast

ts

Shown a copy of the Journal, Falk remarked, "The full evidence of my discovery will shortly be published." — Renter's Service.

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