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SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS.

ROYAL MAIL CO.

ENLARGING OPERATIONS SET DUKE OF ABERCORN RESIGNS

FROM DIRECTORATE,

TWO RECORDS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1931.

LOCAL AERIAL PROSPECTS.

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LOOTING AT WHAMPÃO. CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

- ZOROASTRIAN PRAYER

HOUSE BROKEN INTO.

of the

and

OCEAN STEAM SHIP CO., LTD. And CHINA MUTUAL STEÀM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.

"DIOMED"

London, May 19.

London, May 19. Work in proceeding with all

It is reported by normal point at which the machhe Trustees of the Zoroastrian Funds Consignees per Company's Vessel, The Royal Mali Steam Packet speed to ensure that when the Company announce that the Duke would drop for want of sufficient that during the recent fighting at new 70,000 tons Cunard liner is of Abercorn resigned from the forward speed for the wings ready for service in the autumn Court of Directors on April 16-develop the necessary ft.

to Whampao between the Peace Pre- From UNITED KINGDOM vin

servation Corps and the troops of of 1933, Southampton shall have Reuter,

SINGAPORE. Auto-gyro, or windmill machine General Chan -Chai-tong. ample berth and dry dock necom-

On May 15 summonses the suitable for, perhaps, the more Chinese soldiers.

the are hereby notified that their cargo Prayer granted against Lord Kylsant, the veteran members of the Hongkong modation.

House Was looted by

will be discharged into Holt's Wharf. Kowloon, where it will lo at Con- During the past month, two chairman of the company, on world records have been establish charge of alleged circulation of Flying Club, and the Pterodactyl, Caretaker a number of men, all The Cargo will be ready for delivery According to the report of the condition of storage at Holt's Wharf. signees' risk and subject to terms and ed. The first was set up in the false reports, and a summons for or flying wing, this being a machine speaking Kwangtung dialect, broke from Godown on and after 18th May, work of dredging. In spite of the alleged abetment was served the without axcoptionally heavy nature of the following day

a tall, are also worth open the door of the compound and 1931. the former

watching. ground, which embraced large auditor. |

Bath can descend and then proceeded to break open the

Optional cargo will not be innded antities of green sand and

ascund at much steeper angles and glass doors leading into the main hero, unless notice has been given 750,000 ton had beun Despite the exceptional depres-much more slowly than ordinary building. They ranaacked and loot prior to steamer's arrival but carried lifted. The second

ed the premises, taking record was sian, 7,500 'veanels, almost all machines,

on from port away

port to the final of the

driving in of steel sheet piling, Arst class craft, were handled, at

linen furniture, crockery.

call to which the option extends. As regards englues, each year stores-in short, everything mov goods are to be left in the Godowns, with which

All broken, chafed, and damaged the are for the Southampton. They represented sees a further reduction in weight able excepting the iron bedsteads. graving duck, which will be the a tonnage of 54.500 tons, and er horse power for Increased The goods were taken to a cargo Tuesdays and Fridays between the where they will be examined on any largest in the world, in being en on several days as much as 250,-horse power. The type favoured hout which was later towed away

000 tons of shipping was docked. for Its lightness in the air-cooled by n launch.

hours of 10.45 a.m. anil noon within The need for dock extensiona The fleet of drefigera engaged in radial, with a weight per horse

the free storage period. was emphasised by last year's the derdging operations numbers power

This rest house was built, only No claims will be admitted after clearances

of about 1.6 pounds per seven years ago, replacing the old the Cands have left the steamer's nl Southampton 60 vessels, British Wireless,

horse power, compared with about historical prayer-houre which had Godown, 2 pounds per horse power of the been in existence for eighty years.

and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 26th May, will water-cooled, but which dispases with water weight structure, cost $25,000, the money must be presented to the undersigned

steam-cooling. The new house, a ferro-concrete bo subject to rent.

All Claims against the Steamer may u] » Ack this

disadvantage.being raised by the Parsee com Every country is experimentingmunities in Shanghai. Hongkong, they will not be recognised.

on or before the 8th June, 1931, or with heavy oil engines, which offer Canton and Baminy. so many advantages, such as re- duced weight, lower

The outrage has been reported consumption, H. 13. M. Consul General, My 11. and freedom from fire risks, to see Philips, who has mado representa- if they can be made really successions to the Chinese authorities. ful so as to justify initial experi mental expenses.

closed.

MOM

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Navigation Important.

| AUDACIOUS ROBBERY.

CIONESE JEWELLERY FIRM

THE VICTIMS.

A new method of armed robbery was employed by a Chinese yes- terday who took from the Wing Sing firm, of Queen's Road, some 3670 worth of jewellery.

As regards navigation, which is all-important nowadays, the ten- dety is to develop instruments to anaist the pilot, or even replace him, as in the case of the automatic pilot, which is a well-known device, Hit appeared in last Saturday's Hongkong Telegraph as a Robot Bilal

mystery machine, actually an improvement on the long distance monoplane of Eng- Sand-India farge. The automatic man telephoned the firm during According to a police report, the pilot works on the gyaushope and the afternoon, asking

have a level

principles. Actually it ron-election of jewellery sent up to a trols, by electrical contacts, where room at the Empress Hotel, next the machine gets off the level or 1. the Western market. A Joki comrad for which it is set before was gent along with the jewellery, hand, which is of inneuse value in on opening the door was con- had weather and night lying.tronted by the man with a revolver. Where personal error sa apt to pro- The man seland the parcel of der Jarge navigational errors and jewellery. bundled the youth into Pern loss of control, as, without the bathroom locked the door and terrestial objects or horizon, the had made of before the surprised human

bring tends to lose his sense foki recovered bis wits. of balance

and direction. Far

The youth attracted attention by example, if you get into a cloud shouting, and when liberated told without instruments to tell you his tale to the police. what is happening, you many easily out apside down, as did Alcock and Brown on the first flight ever made across the Atlantic in an aeroplane.

Come

Appeal to Business Men.

So, Gentlemen, there are, un- doubtedly. vout possibilities aviation, and we have really got to

in

of Hongkong, and particularly of the Rotary Club. be prepared to help in the development of this new feature in human life?-(Ap plause).

Hongkong Backward,

No Fire Insurance will be effected.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

Agents. Hongkong. 18th May, 1931.

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Bote Agent

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BUSSAN

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the stage where properly organised In expressing thanks to the routes give reliability and re-speaker, Mr. P. S. Cassidy said gularity, but success can only be that perhaps Hongkong had been a obtained by thorough ground or little backward as regards its in- ganisation and correct adjust- terest in flying. They would all ment between the weight devoted agree it was bound to develop to structure and instruments, in enormously and to affect, very con- other words safety as against the Colony. We had a wonderful per- siderably, the future of the attruction of increasing payload. which is so essential to commercial drome, and he quite appreciated aviation. Scientists and technicians Wing Commander Glenny's appeal to the business men of the Colony increasingly guiding and directing aviation, url we have to give all the encouragement they now reached a sture when we need could to those who were endeavour- imen of business acumen and couring to organise a flying service.

age, to help us make use of the He supposed they looked to the Rying machine in the service of † Government to take the lend, and commeren, International goodwill added that the circumstances of men would be prepared, to put their was sure that Hongkong business and human

handi- progress generally. The wretched dollar had

shoulder to the wheel, if they were How much will you business men capped business men. He said he given a lund. (Applause).

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