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P & O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES -

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS

Taking Cargo For

Strails, Java, Burma, Ceylon, East and South Africa, Australia, India, Persian Gult, Mauritius, Red Sen, Egypt, Europe. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HM. GOVERNMENT

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS

8.9.

Tons

RAJPUTANA

*MIRZAPORE

17,000, 7,000

RANPURA

17,000

*BURDWAN

0,000

RAWALPINDI

*JEYPORE

CORFU

*SOMALI

NALDERA

17,000 5,000 14,500 7,000

10,000

Corgo only.

From

Hong Kong

About

Destination.

21st Aug. Bambay, Marsellles & London. 30th Aug. Straits, Bombay & Karachi.

4th Sept. Bombay, Marscilics & London. 11th Sept Marseliles, Havre London, Hamburg.

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Iuil.

18th Sept. Marseilles, & London. 19th Sept. Straits, Bombay & Karachi.

2nd Oct, Bombay, Marseilles & London.

9th Oct. Marseilles, Havre, Loudon, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Bull 16th Oct. Marseilles & London.

All vessels may call at Malta.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS

!

SIRDHANA

0.000

20th Aug.i

Port Singapore,

Swettenham, Penang. Rangoon & Calcutta.

"GAMARIA

5,000

TALAMBA

7,000

SHIRALA

anon

1st Sept. Strnits, Mudras & Culmuita. 7th Sept. Singapore & Penang. 11th Sept.) Singapore,

Savet ferhter.

10,000

TILAWA

TANDA

25th Sept.) Peanut. Bingoor & Calcutta

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS

NANKIN

NELLORE

7.000, 7,000

3rd Sept.

2nd Oct. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney 7.000 30th Oct.

Melbourne & Hobart.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

RAWALPINDI

TILAWA

CORFU

*SOMALI

NANKIN

SANTHIA

NALDERA

* Cargo only.

17,000 20th Aug. Japan.

10,000

14,500

7,000

2nd Sept. Amoy & Japan.

2nd Sept. Japan.

2nd Sept, Japan.

7,000 2nd Sept. Japan.

0.00016 Sept. Amoy & Japan. 17,000

10th Sept. 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

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1937.

Spencer Tracy in "They Cave Im A Gun" showing on Friday at

the King's Theatre.

Kwangtung Food Supply

Production Programme

Organised

During this time of emergency when the entire nation is "facing an unusual crisis, the question of food supply is certainly most important, said Dr. D. Y. Lin, Director of the Bureau of Agriculture and Forestry of Kwangtung in an intervigw.

Army Attracts Recruits

Marked Increase

Shown

London, Aug. 18. Recruiting for the Army in England la progressing more rapidly since the announcement by the War Minister of a change in the conditions of ser-

Vice.

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OVERHAUL YOUR

HABITS

(Continued from Page G.)

Present recruitment is at the rate of forty daily, compared will ten of those joining the previously. colours, only ten per cent, are from "There is no need for fear of the ranks of the unemployed. very serious food shortage in this

at present in service Many men province similar to what we experi-have

the War Ministry's accepted [enced inst year," said Dr. Lin. The scheme to rejoin the colours after harvest of the first rice crop this their first period of enlistment.

Reuter Bulletin. year, as you must know, has been

London, Aug. 18. an unusually bounteous one. Accord- Over 1500 Reservists have already ing to our recent estimate, there, notified the Army Record Öfflees of a total production for the 7 sien their desire to re-join the colours in of 61,625.270 piculs and this reaccordance with the

terms of the presents an increase of about 10 per

Government's offer

recently an-

Meri could save themselves a con- what cent.

generally obtain We

nounced by the War Secretary, Mr. during normal years, and this is tore Belisha. The volume

siderable amount of trouble by mak- of resing up their minds once and for all This en- certainly providential.

ponse at this early date is in excess on the subject of giving up a scat to ormous amount, when reduced to

of the War Office's anticipation. polished rice.

a woman. should be suficient

Following the season of Military Either you believe you should or for consumption for the Kwangtung

many Territorials you do not. Yet it is perfectly ob- camps in which have participated this summer, ordin-vious that many men go through the lary recruiting for the Regular Army whole problem every time they are In Lon-confronted with it, and at the end of The cultivation of the second or jis reported to be booming. fail rice crop, according to Dr. Lin, don during the Inst ten days the staff their mental struggle they either get is just finished. The abundant rain-at the Central Recruiting Depot has, up with a self-conscious nir or sit in

pressure their seats looking sheepish, fall now being experienced promises been working at high

If it

it were a

habit to sil or stand, according to the point of view, what a lot of trouble would be saved.

Habit, as distinct from routine, is an antidote to laziness, Inefficiency and a slipshod existence. The slave of habit, and we all know someone who is, is the most boring person on earth, but he who makes servants of

population of 33,000,000 people for a period of at least 170 days."

a good start for the crop, and willBritish Wireless. mean that the second crop may be

just as good as the first, if not bet-

ter.

SHORTAGE REDUCED

"We must understand, however,"

Dr. Lin continued. "that during normal years the amual production

.

GANG RAIDS VILLAGE

New Delhi, Aug. 18. It is reported that a gang of hostile

of rice This province is 112,000,000 | tribesmen crossed the North-West his habits lives, paradoxically, a much piculs of unhulled rice or approxi- frontier and raided a nearby village, freer, simpler life than he who is mately 73,000,000 plculs of polished kidnapping five people.

rice; and since the total consump-| Bulletin.

tion for the 33 million people is put

at 82,500,000 pictils. we usually

Becond

have a shortage of about 10,000,000 piculs per year. Last year, it will be recalled, both the fest and the und crops were below normal due to drought, Rood, typhoons und insects, causing a shortage of much Inore Cham

10,000,000 piculs. But

P&O BUILDING, Connaught ROAD "CENTRAL HONGKONG || Brady have for the first crop and

THE

BLUE FUNNEL

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER

LONDON SERVICE

PATROCLUS

MEMNON

SERVICES

salla 29th Aug. for Marseilles, London,

Rotterdam & Glasgow.

ails 8 Sept. from Marseilles, London, Rotterdam, Hamburg & Glasgow,

LIVERPOOL SERVICE

MARON

NEW YORK

PHEMIUS

soils 4th Sept. for Havre, Liverpool, & Bromborough. SERVICE

sails 30th Sept. for Boston, N. Y. Philadelphia & Daltimore via Batavia,

Strafts & Cape of Good Hope. PACIFIC SERVICE (vin Kobe, Nagoya andt

Yokohama TYNDAREUS ails 17th Aug. For Victorin, Vancouver & attle.

INWAD SERVICE

MENELAUS AJAX CYCLOPS

Due 23 Aug. From U. K. vlo Straits, Due 27 Aug. From U. K. via Straits. Due 30 Aug. From Europe via Straits.

Spemal reduced fares are quoted for cargo steamers with limited passenger accommodation.

For freight.

passage rates and information apply to

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.

second

this yeur judging from what ww

what we may

have for the crop, nur hurmat shortage will be much reduced, and if we ry reonomize property by using more nweet potatoes, whent, and other minor food erojm as substitutes for rice, we may become well-support- ing

Asked what his Bureau has de- cidest It do in 11ais time uf emergency, Dr. Lin said he had been instructed to organe un Emergency Fund Preduction Programme for the Province, and that more than 130 un would be sent out within the next few days to the various huten to co-operate with the sien magis- trates in the carrying out of this Province-wide plan,

be

SCHEME EXPLAINED According to the programme, the farmers will

given fedities, including loans for the purchase of serds and fertilisers, and they will turged to save and to store up their surplus; to cultivate more up- land for the production of sweet for sotatoes to make

preparation andising winter or what they gen- erally

months for call le

the cultivation of minor food crops such wheat, barley, rapeseed, fleld pens, ele; and to realise the import- mee of cultivating, buth intensively and extensively, more land and more crops in order to produce more food not only for the province but also for the nation.

Dr. Lin concluded by urging every- budy in the province unselfishly to co-operate with the Government in the carrying out of the programme and concluded: "The question, of food supply at

this time of supreme importance. Unless it is adequately taken care of, we cannot hope to put up a long realstance and eventually to win."

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STORMING WITH EPIC SWEEP OVER HALF THE WORLDI

The last slaver on its last desperate voyage. honeymoon ship of horror!

Warner

BAXTER

Wallace

BEERY

in

Robert Allen

STAVE SHIP

ELIZABETH ALLAN MICKEY ROONEY George Sanders

+

Jane Darwell

Joseph Schildkraut

Directed by Tay Garnett Amaries Produce Huspally JohnsoT

Sand on a secol by George 3. King

Darryl F. Zanuck Chart of Produces

OPENING SATURDAY

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA

GERMAN FOREIGN Three Killed In

TRADE

| FAVOURABLE BALANCE

DISCLOSED

Berlin, Aug. 30. German foreign trade for the past seven months showed a favouròble balance of £17,500,000.

Destroyer

Philadelphia, Aug. 16.' Three sailors were killed in an ex- plosion aboard the destroyer Cassia to-day.

The explosion occurred whllo workmen from the Philadelphia Navy Yard were testing safety valves Imports from the United Kingdom, under high steam pressure-Reuter. Australia and Canada showed in- creases, compared with the same | India and South Africa decreased.— period Inst year, but Imports from Reuter Bulletin.

ENY.K.

LINE

San Francisco via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

Asama Maru

Chichibu Maru

Tatsula Maru

-Tues., 7th Sept.

Wod,, 29th Sept.

Seattle & Vancouver (Starts from Koba).

Hikawa Marti

New York via Panama.

†Nako Maru

+Naruto Maru

Wed, 13th Oct.

Thurs., 9th Sopt.

.Sat., 11th Sept.

..Sun., 3rd Oct.

South America (West Coast) via japan, Honolulu,

Los Angeles, Mexico & Panama.

Helyo Maru

London, Marscilles, Antwerp & Rotterdam.

Yasukuni Maru

Hakone Maru

Suwa Maru

Thurs., 14th Oct.

. Mon., 30th Aug.

.Sat., 11th Sept.

Sat., 25th Sopt.

Liverpool via Port Said; Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piracus,

and Marseilles,

+ Lima Maru

Sun, 10th Oct.

Sydney & Melbourne via Manila & Ports.

Kamo Mara

M.V. "Neptunn" Alauta Maru

Bombay via Singapore, Penang

Anyo Maru

Calcutta via Singapore, Penang

†Toba Maru

Genoa Maru

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

.Sat., 28th Aug.

.About Mon., 30th Aug.

Sat., 25th Sept.

.Sat.. 11th Sept.

& Colombo.

& Rangoon,

..Sat., 4th Sept.

.Sun.. 28th Sept.

Atsuta Maru (Direct to Nagasaki) "Thure., 19th Aug.

Fushimi Maru

Iakozaki Maru

个

Cargo Only.

Sat, 28th Aug.

Fri., 10th Sept.

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Tél. 30291.

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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ACROSS

4 It's smart about art, but only

Just commencing.

There may be varied strata in this English town.

Meant perhaps to signify the bride-to-be.

10 If this falls the hands may be idle, although there's no strike. 11 The warp and the woof are,

of course.

10 It might help

the mate, of course, in a humble way.

18 Land in 29 across.

19 This'll learn you!

21 A

22

A medical preparation,

that was the making of this old nomen.

23 He lives somewhere, well in. 20 This is found in the herring. 28 Lake in the Rievaulx district. 29 In this period of history there was mixed metal in the little -Insects.

33 Clothes for hubby, and can be cut down for the wife when he dles.

35 One of the family.

30 Certain bonds for guarantees. 37 Unensy advice to the lethargic,

DOWN

1 It takes some pluck to play this

Instrument.

2 He can certainly claim general

equality.

3 This may occupy the time of

walls.

4 To have put this on a scratched

horse may be kind, but won't be profitable.

4 down is a bit of this. One may see this dance in the autumn,

пе-

7 One's father's brother's

phew's daughter's cousin per- haps,

10 The rainbow, for example,

12 The Spanish and English make

this animal.

13 Just a very small fraction of whisky put into water makes a human failure.

14 A few annoy but in no feminine

fashion.

15 Give us our men In no scanty

way.

18 With feathers, and fruit first. 17 Even the peace-loving artist could stand up to this crenture after its head was cut off. 20 Formerly the reverse of art butt

always a bit over.

24 It is within a letter of being necidental that we happen to be aft.

25 We muy claim it, but to take il

in going too far.

27 Saucy directions possibly.

30 Ferminine name.

31. A rough idea of reinforcement, 132 A shot in the dark.

34 No single man could give one

such a turn.

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