THE CHINA MAIL.
P.&O.-British India NEW ROLLING STOCK
Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
FROM AMERICA.
Bought For Tientsin- Pukow Railway.
EXPANDING SERVICE.
Nanking, July 20.
With the arrival of eight new locomotives and 20 third-class conches from America for the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, it is an- nounced that an additional express service will be operated by the ling next month.
‛』 - t:, " Simultaneously with the
aug.
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).mented express service, the present
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
“TAKING CARGO FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA. PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEÀ, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
B.S.
Tous
+ MANTUA
+ SOUDAN
RAWALPINDI
*KIDDERPORE RANPURA +BURDWAN ".
MALWA
RANCHI
CARTHAGE
+SOMALI
NALDERA
RAJPUTANA
†BANGALORE
+
From Bear Bear About
1932.
"
11,000 30th July
Noon 8,800 6th Aug.
17,000 13th Aug. 5,300 24th Aug. 17.000 27th Aug. 6,500 3rd Sept.
11,000 10th Sept. 17,000 24th Sept. 14,000 8th Oct..
6,800 15th Oct.
16,000 22nd Oct. 17,000 5th Nov. 6,500 12th Nov.
*Cargo only, Calls Casablanca.
Destinatio
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg, R'dam, Antwerp & Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay, Marseillas & Landon.. Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre,
Hamburg R'dam, Antwerp & Hall Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marsefiles, London, Havre, Hamburg:
Rotterdam. Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, London, Harre H'burg, E'terdam, Antwerp & Hol.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con "stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Lavant Porta by steamers of the
Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
†TILAWA
TALMA
SANTHIA
1932 10,000 4th Aug. 10,000 20th Aug.
8,000.
5th Sept.
;
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
† Calis at Rangoon.
through train between Nanking and Loyang will be cancelled.
To further improve the efficiency of the Traffic Department, the staff will be required to undergo periodical examinations to secure promotion. According to Mr. Chu, Wei, Chairman of the Administra- tive Committee of the Railway, the aim is to advance the ablest men to the more important positions, thereby gradually eliminating the undesirable practice of making ap- pointments of untried men whose
only claim is, not infrequently the "backing" of high officials and "influential" personages. Kuo- Min.
SHIPPING COMBINE
IS PROBED. Allegedly Exists: To Fight Dollar Line.
Washington, July 20." The United States Shipping Board to-day started proceedings to determine whether "certain foreign carriers" have entéred a combication to exclude the Dollar the Lines from membership in Japan-China-Straits-Bombay. ship- ping conference.
The parties named in the pro- ceedings are the Peninsular Orien- tal S.N. Company, the NY.K, O.SK. and Dollar Lines.
The Japan-China-Straits-Bombay! "conference is similar to the Trans- Pacific and other such conferences. Membership in such a conference i8. desirable because in many instances only conference lines may receive trans-shipments, etc.)
RESTORATION OF THE
"" VICTORY."
Over £100,000 Spent In,»
Ten Years.
London, July 15. "Exactly £105,000 has been rais-
ed by the Society for Nautical Re- search for the restoration of the
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for Victory, of which over £100.000 has 1st and 2nd class passengers.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).ministration for the period of ten
1932. !!
NELLORE
TANDA
リ
NANKIN
7,000 30th July
p.m. 7,000 2nd Sept. 7,000 1st Oct.
Regular monthly sailings from
and Hong Kong to Austraila.
Hong Kong to Sydney—19.days.
been spent on the ship," declared the Admiral Sir George Hope at annual meeting of the Society.
He added that the cost of ad-
years during which the work was proceeding had been less than three and a half per cent. The work had Manila, „Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & been successfully carried out.
Melbourne.
Visitors numbered over 250,000 annually.
Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union 8.8. Company's steam ers to the United Kingdom- via New.
Ecalzad, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & 0.. Royal Mall Stṣames to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Bues.-
The New Zealand Shipping Com pany's steamers for Southampton and London, viz Panama Canal M
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN, Cheap Summer Trips to Japan - June to Sept.
TANDA SANTHIA MALWA "NOVARA
TAKADA KANGET...
BOTAENG SIRDHANA CARTHAGE WALDERA
"BANGALORE RAJPUTANA
-- 1982-** 7,000 5th Aug, S'hai, Mojl, Kobe, Osaka & Y’hama. |8,000 -11th"Aug" Amoy, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama. 11,000 11th Aug. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Ang Shanghai, „Kobuk Yokohama. Kobe & Osaka.
gokohama. Shanghai, 6:209/15th (8apte, shanghaidha Kalakala V 8,000 8th Sept: Amoya Majiji Kobe 4 Yokohama. 14,000 3th Sept Shanghai, Kobe 4. Tokobama 10,000 22nd Sept Shing him,
VIG,809 at: Of Shanghaly Tobai & Yukohama, | 17,000 7th Oct: Bhanghai, KoBE&ATOWOILMA:
*Cargo only. † Calls Nagoyardeere UK BUMI BAATS
All Cabina "ure fitted with Lalectz)
on“ London and.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.
GENERAL HOLIDAY.
-་
On Monday, Aug. 1, the General', Post Office will be open from 8 am, to noon, Kowloon Fost Office 8 am to 11 am." and the other Branch
Post Offices & a.m. to 9 am.
There will be one collection from the pillar-boxes and one de- livery of ordinary correspondence as on Sundays and one delivery of registered correspondence at 9 a.m.
C
The-Money Order Office will be entirely closed."
SAIGON-MARSEILLES "AIR MAIL SERVICES.
,,
Letters will be accepted for transmission by the above-mention- ed Air Mail Service to the destinations specided. Registered letters may be sent by the service but not insured letters. »
The rates charged will be the regular postage rate plus the special air mail premium as indicated in the following table-
Burma (Rangoon) Persia (Djask). Iraq (Bagdad).
Destination
Charge
Rate per 1⁄2 ounce
Saigon/Marseilles Air Mail Service:
Siam (Bangkok)
$0.15
0.25
0.75
0.95
1:06
1.20
1.35
1.35
...1.35-
1,85
Palestine (Beyrouth) Greece (Athens) Italy (Naples).
France (Marseilles)
Great Britain & Irish Free (London) Europe, other countries (Marseilles for
onward transmission by rall)
The air mall for each country will be landed at the place nam- ed in brackets..
Letters will be despatched fortnightly by the French Mail steamers scheduled to connect at Saigon with the Air Mail. As the Air Mail Service is weekly other vessels if available will be used, in intervening weeks.
Letters for this route should be marked "Saigon-Marseilles Air Service" and handed in at the G.P.O. or Kowloon Post Office.."
The first mail will be despatched per 8.8. "General Metzinger" on August 2, 1982.
Mails.can now be forwarded to Europe 'via Siberia.
Letters and postcards for Europe and South America are forward- ed "via Siberia" if so superscribed.
Saigon
Japan and Shanghai
...Cremer
.President Jackson
...Porthos
SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1932.
„PRESIDENT LINERS-
NEXT SAILINGS
Weekly Sailings Transpacific
TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS -
ANGELES & NEW YORK
via PANAMA.
TO SEATTLE
and VICTORIA:
Fortnightly sailings on Tuesdays, Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays. Pres. Jackson Aug. 2, 10 a.m. Pres. Cleveland Aug. 6, 1 zm. Pren. McKinley .......Aug. 16 Pres. Taft Pres. Grant
........Aug. 30 Pres. Jefferson
..Aug. 20 ...Sept. 3 ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE & AMERICA. Special through rates to Europe vis United States. Direct- 'connections with all Atlantic lines. Choice of rail lines
· across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over · privi- legea for sight-seeing. Fall particulars upon application.
Fortnightly via Suez to Europe & America
Fortnightly sailings on Sundays via Manila, Straits,' Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Bogtút..
Pres. Hayes Pres. Pierce
8 a.m.
Ang. 7. Pres. Monroe
Aug. 21 Pres. Van Buren
..
TO MANILA
8.m.
Sépt.: 6 Sept. 18
Next Sailing, Pres. Cleveland, July 30, 6 p.m.
Pres. Hayes Pres. McKinley
Aug. 7 Pres. Taft
Aug. 9 Pres. Pierce
Aug. 13. .Aug. 21
CONNECTING WITH S.S. MAYON TO CEBU, ILOILO,
ZAMBOANGA.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
CANTON BRANCH No 4, Shakee Street.
INWARD MAILS.
SATURDAY, JULY 30. Shanghai and Swatow
SUNDAY JULY 31, Shanghai and Swatow Straits
MONDAY,
Sinkiang
.Teinan .Teiresias
AUGUST
1.
Straits
Manila
TUESDAY,
AUGUST
2.
General Metzinger
WEDNESDAY,
• AUGUST Canada, U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai
couver, B.C July 16) Australia and Manila :.
8. (Van-
MUGNET
BARBER
Empress of. Russia .:Tanda
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4.
Japan
Melbourne Maru
OUTWARD MAILS.
SATURDAY, JULY 30. Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius,
· E. & §. Africa, Aden, Egypt & Europe via Marseillea
לו
K.P.O.
Mantua
(Due Marseilles, Aug. 27.). G.P.O. Parcels.......July 30, 10 am. Parcels
July 80, 1 pr. Registration
....3 pm. Registration
..4.16 p.m. Letters
“..............4.30 p.m. Letters
.5 p.m. *Manila, Rabaul, *Australia and
*New Zealand via Brisbane
*Nellore
(Due Brisbane, Aug. 16.) Parcels ..........July 30, 3.p.m.; Registration
..4.15 p.m.
(Continued on Next Column).
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WILHELMSEN
EXPRESS SERVICE TO NEW YORK
Via
SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES, PANAMA,
NEXT SAILING.
M.V. "TAI SHAN"
on AUGUST 18th.
· ALL VESSELS · HAVE EXCELLENT ACCOMMODATION
FOR 12 PASSENGERS.
Time in Transit.
25 Days
Fares G$200.00
G$220.00 €$325.00
Hong Kong to San Francisco, . Hong Kong to Los Angeles ................... 26 Hong Kong to New York
42
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Kongso
Agents,
F..
President Cleveland 4.30 p.m.
Harbour
Samshui and. Wuchow
Manila
Saigon
Clara Jebsen
SUNDAY,
Amoy
JULY 81.
Sulcang
Straits and Parcels only for Ger-
many via Hamburg.
Trave
Bangkok via Swatow
Kiangsu
8.30 a.m.
Bwatow, Amoy and Formosa....... Canton Maru
MONDAY, AUGUST
Shanghai, Japan, Canada, USA.,
*C & S America and Europe vin Vancouver, B:C.
Hikawa Maru
(Due Vancouver, BC,
and *Europe via Biberis
(Ship sails on Aug. 2157 km)
Amoy
Swatow
Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, USA, **Canada, C. and S. America and Europe la San Francisco A
ugust 22
Registration Aug. 1, 11:16 m.
Letters Anshum Hydrangea
Foon.
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(Due San Franc
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