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P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS

Taking Cargo For

straits, Java, Burma, Ceylon, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius,

East and South Africa, Australia,

Red Sea, Egypt, Istanbul, Greece, Levantine Ports, Europe.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY

DIRECT ROYAL MAIL' STEAMERS

UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT

"All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route-and the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice." PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS

8.4.

*ALIPORE COMORIN + SOMALI

RAJPUTANA "KIDDERPORE RANPURA *BANGALORE

RAWALPINDI

•

From

Tung Hong Kong

About

Destination.

9,000 24th Dec. Bombay & Karachi only. 15,000 20th Dec. Marseilles & London.

7,000 2nd Jan. Marsellies, Havre, London, Hamburg.

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull

17,000 9th Jan. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

5,000 10th Jan. Bombay & Karachi only. 17,000 23rd Jan. Bombay, Marseilles & London

6,000 30th Jan. Marsellies, Havre, London, Hamburg.

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

17,000 6th Feb. Marseilles & London.

Cargo only..

† Calla Casablanca.

All vessels may call at Malta.

§ Calls Tangler.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo Istanbul, Pirocus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedivisl Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA

TALAMBA

TALMA

SIRDHANA

SHIRALA

TILAWA

8,000 2nd Jan.) 10,000 16th Jan.

30th Jan 8,000 8,000 13th Feb. 10,000 27th Feb.

-APCAR SAILINGS

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, · DECEMBER ́, 22, 1936.

World Buys £8,000,000 Worth

Of Diamonds

Shortage Price Up 60 Per Cent. And It Will Be Higher Still

Things Diamonds

Help To Make

CARS, SHIPS, GUNS AND EVEN BREAD

THE world's diamonds are becoming more expensive,

more popular, and more useful.

They are all mined and sold, practically speaking by one gigantic concern, the Diamond Corporation.

During the alump the sales) MAKING FILAMENTS of uncut diamonds of this cor- But these cutting tools have come poration were about £2,000,000. Into existence only because of the By 1934 they had reached use of industrial diamonds, which are hard enough to cut the £3,700,000. For 1935 they alone were $6,200,000. For 1936 cutting tool and give it its keen edge. Diamonds have decreased manu- they will probably be more facturing costs. than £8,000,000.

Once steel for machines had to-be A truly wonderful increase. cut into shape when the steel was

and then steel Bofl. a striking index of world hardened. This meant great loss of And prosperity.

MORE IMPORTED Take a look at the world diamond

situation.

ассигису.

Case- Was

Now a piece of steel can be taken as hard as it is possible to make steel and it can be cut into shape as it is

The hairlike wire which is colled into electric light filaments can only be made with the aid of a diamond.

The Diamond Corporation can get four times as much for diamonds from the cutters of Holland, Bel- It is drawn by passing the metal gum and America as it did a few through a diamond with a tiny hole

years ago.

The average price of diamonds) has gone un 60 per cent, since the world slump, It will go higher

Yet

of large

Diamonds

(ten carats and over) are actually feich- ing higher prices than they have: over done before,

There

more

were 40 per cent: cut stones imported into the United States in the frst six months of 1936 than for a corresponding period a year cartier.

GREATEST

BUYERS

Americans are at the moment the world's greatest buyers of diamonds. They regard them As a gilt-edged security.

the the Americans come French. The British are buying more diamonds than they formerly did, but we are still very small buyers comparatively.

After Singapore, Fort Swettenham, Penang Rangoon & Calcutta.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS

NANKIN NELLORE TANDA

7,000 2nd Jan.

Manila, Roboul, Brisbane, Sydney 7,000 30th Jan. Melbourne & Hobart,

7,000 5th Mar.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

TALMA RANPUTLA BANGALORE NELLORE

SIRDHANA

RAWALPINDI

SHIRALA

•--Cargo only.

10,000 24th Dec. Amoy, Shanghal & Japan..

17,000 25th Dec. Shanghai & Japan. 0,000 20th Dec. Shanghai & Japan. 7,000 3rd Jan. Shanghai & Japan. *

8,000 7th Jan. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.

8th Jan. Shanghai & Japan. 17,000

8,000 21st Jan. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. For further Information, Passage. Freight, Handbook, etc., apply to

The Agents.

Phone 27721

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE:CO

P&O BUILDING CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG

ENYK.

General Passenger Agents in the Orient for the

CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE.

San Francisco via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

Asama Maru

Taiyo Maru*

Chichibu Maru

Seattle & Vancouvor.

Wed., 6th Jan. Wed., 20th Jan. Wed, 3rd Feb.

Hiye Maru (Starta from Kobe) Sat, 26th Dec. Heian Maru (Starta from Kobe) Sat., 23rd Jan. New York via Panama,

†Noshiro Maru

†Nako Maru

..Sat, 2nd Jan.

Wed., 13th Jan.

South America (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

Los Angeles, Mexico & Panama.

London, Marseilles, Antwerp & Rotterdam.

Liverpool va Port Sald, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus,

Bokuyo Maru

Fushini Maru

Hakozaki Maru

†Durban Maru

Arima Maru

and Marseilles...

Wed., 10th Feb.

...Sat., 2nd Jan:

..Sat, 10th Jan.

Sat, 16th Jan,

..Sat., 9th Jan.

..Sat, 26th Dec. .Sat.. 23rd Jan.

Hamburg via P.-Sudan, Alexandria & Casablanca,

Sydney & Melbourne via Manila G· Ports.··

Bombay via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,

Atsuta Maru

Kitano Mara

Toyama Maru

Kotohira Maru

Tango Mara

Mon, 28th Doc.

Wed., 30th Dec, Mon., 11th Jan.

Calcutta via Singapore. Penang & Rangoon,

+Nagato Maru

†Toba Maru

Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama,

Ginyo Maru......

Hakusan Maru

ܠ Cargo Only.

„Tues., 29th Dec, Tues., 5th Jan.

Tues., 29th Dec, Fri, 1st Jan......

Burns Philp Lines, Joint Passenger Agents,

“Gibb, Livingston & Co., Ltd.

Tel. 30291,

There is a great shortage of dia. monds In Germany. Only money which

paid has been

out to buy "essential" (not luxury) articles is permitted by the German Govern- ment to leave the country. There- fore if diamonds are sold openly in Germany the seller cannot take bis money out of the country. The trade Is not worth while.

It is stated that if a buyer went Into Germany with half a million Poundel

worth of diamonds he could sell them in a single day.

ay the only stones sold in

which are

are those smuggled in and the money for them smuggled out. These are not small in quantity, though.

Diamonds are gradually becoming rare. Fewer and fewer of the larger stones are being found. They are gradually becoming more and more valuable.

and

· POURING IN

In the twenty years between 1910 1930 the yield per ton of ore from the great Jagersfontein mine dropped almost 50 per cent,

Among those favoured by fale in the atamoad situation are the Spanish grandeet, whose Jewels

are now pouring into the London and Paris markets.

But by far the most interesting part of the world situation to-day is the fact that the diamond is being put to work.

Only the diamonds mined are Atted for jewellery. The rest, though, Just as hard, are discoloured. They nre brownish or yellowish.

A certain proportion, but not a large one, of these have always been, used in industry.

in-1

that

But of recent years the demand for industrial diamonds has creased by leaps and bounds.

The truth of the matter is Industry cannot do without them. If the supply of the cheap discoloured enes. falled, manufacturers would have to buy the brilliant diamonds out of jewellers' shops.

VITAL TO MACHINERY This situation actually arose dur- ing the war

on a limited scale. Germany could get no industrial: diamonds and they had to take the stones out of women's rings to make their guns.

shape

To-day diamonds are used every- wliere to true up the very hard car- borundum wheels which grind into свети part of modern machinery.

Nalbing else will cut the carbor- wheels. Without these wheels-no modern machinery.

Hardly any one yet realises the extent to which the industry in this country is coming to centre round the diamond.

undurn

The motor-car industry could not go on for a minute without dia- monds. The tool which grinds the aluminium piston to take a perfect fit with the cylinder is pointed with

diamond,

The Ford Motor Company in America has a thousand of them in constant use.

The precision cutting of steel, a vital factor in every maching of this machina age, can now be done at about a tenths at the former cost. This has come about..because very hard allays have been discovered to make the cutting tools.

In it, like a bead.

A plece of tungsten the size of half a thick pencil makes fifty-eight miles of lamp wire.

Nor is that the limit. Wire can be drawn through a diamond so fine that it cannot be seen at all except with a magnifying glass.

this fa

Neither guns nor airplanes could¦ be made without diamonds. All the wonderful accuracy and efficiency of machinery of which the modern world boasts le achieved only through these stones.

Even bread depends on them. The rollers which roll out the flour are ground lato shape. with a wheel trued up by a diamond. As a result of all this the price of the best class of industrial diamonds has doubled.

WORLD SHORTAGE'

A few the safes of the

with useless discoloured "Industrial

Diamond Corporation were crammed

diamonds." They were looked upon in the light of a white elephant.

Since then the whole situation

bas

changed. The

"valucicss"

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stones have been sold off gradually for millions of pounds. Sold off to such an extent that there is world shortage. That is one of the least expected strokes of luck the Corporation has had.

One of the biggest British Arms of industrial diamond distributors sold 3,000,000 stones Inst year.

And who dominates the world's

supply?

The name of the man is Sir Ernest

Widow In Tears As

Husband Is Buried With Second "Wife"

Horbury, Yorkshire, Dec. 15.

THE bodies of Jack Hodgson, a young Midgeley bricklayer, and of the girl of 26 who was believed to be his wife, were buried in the same grave here to-day. They were killed together in a motor accident.

Hodgson's legal wifo-the woman whose dramatic evidence at the inquest on the dead man revealed that they were married in 1920 and that not having seen him for 12 years she had as sumed him dead and had married again-was at the graveside.

Leaning on the arm of tho

Museum Flies Willman she had believed was

Be Safe

Nine spiders', webs, Ingeniously mounted between sheets of glass and made visible by baby powder and a

as

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her husband-Mr. W. Bruce, of Craven-street, Middles- brough-the womun sobbed bitterly

the body of her husband lowered into the grave. Near her were relatives of May Bowers, the

“insiriod" 13 weeks ago and who was killed with him.

Oppenheimer, the head of the Dla- black background, form a new and pretty young weaver whom Hodgson

mond Corporation, who lives In interesting exhibit at the Natural Johannesburg.

History Museum, South Kensington.

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WOMAN, 118, LIVES. UNDER 4 FLAGS, SPANISH, MEXICAN, TEXAS AND U. S. ALBUQUERQUE, Dec. 20.-"Hard work-and plenty of it," is Mrs.

Cormargo's formula for longevity,

Mrs. Carmargo, born 118 years ago in Old Mexico, lives in an adobe but in southern New Mexico with her youngest son, a “Ind" of 70. She calls him "mi hijo"-"my little boy.".

She chops wood, does washing and other household chores and can thread a needle, despite her, advanced age,

"I am happy to live as long as I can work," she says.

am unable to get around, I'll be willing to die. Not before."

"When I

She has ved under four fings-Spanish, Mexican, Texas Repubite and United States--and has seen more than 100 years of Southwestern border history made-United Press.

"Good

and best

pat. Joe

Her coffin was carried to the grave by girls from the mill in which the had worked. Hodgson's coffin was first lowered into the grave and was followed by that of the, girl.

"Mr. Bruce and I will be married

as soon as matters are cleared up," the real Mrs. Hodgson said to-day.

V.C. LANCE CORPORAL DEAD Ex-Lance Corporal W. R. Parker, who was awarded the V.C. for bravery at Gallipoli in 1915, has died at Stapleford, Nottingham.

December 1936

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of WHISKY, and as I know you are a pretty good judge

Sending you

"Best!

the best

and last wishes

from

• your old

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