THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 15, 1938.
TWO EMPIRE FLYING BOATS TO SINGAPORE: NEW H.K. SCHEDULE
Imperial Airways announces that as from Wednesday, February 23, all first class mail will be carried by air from the United Kingdom to Egypt, Palestine, India (including Ceylon and the Sey- chelles), Burma and Malaya (including North Borneo and Sarawak).
There will be each week two "C" (Empire) Class flying-boat services to Singapore, and in ad- dition two "C" Class services to Karachi. In other words, there will be four “C” Class flying-boat ser- vices each week from Southampton to Karachi and vice versa, two of them being continued to Singa- pore. Qantas Empire Airways will continue the services from Singapore to Brisbane and vice versa with the "Commonwealth" Class air-liner, as formerly.
Connecting with the two Karachi terminating services there will be "Atalanta" Class services operating between Karachi and Calcutta via Delhi, and in addition to the above there will be a once-weekly service between Alexandria and Basra operated by the "Hannibal" Class aircraft.
FAR EAST SERVICE::
The introduction of the “C” Class flying-boat on the main trunk route as far as Singapore will re- sult in a change of schedule on the feeder service Bangkok/Hong Kong and vice versa. As from 1st March
the services will leave Hong Kong each Tuesday, connecting at Bang- kok both with the home-bound ser- vice from Australia and the out- ward-bound service to Australia:
In the reverse direction the ser vice will leave Bangkok-for Hong Kong each Thursday, arriving here each Friday, and again effecting
-GANDHI
FOR NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Oslo, To-day.
The organisation here known as the "Friends of India," states that Mahatma Gandhi will be proposed as candidate for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Gandhi has been nominated previously for the prize-Reuter.
AMERICAN GIVEN THIRD
connexions both from Australia. WARNING
and Europe.
The
Shanghai, To-day.
NEW SCHEDULE
The third menacing letter first service to arrive in within the past week, emanating Hong Kong on the new schedule from pro-Japanese terrorists, has is due on Friday, March 4th, A been received by the Chinese summary of the new schedule is newspaper "Da Mei Wan Pao," given below:-
Leave Hong Kong-Tuesday. Arrive Bangkok--Wednesday. Leave Bangkok--Thursday. Arrive London-Wednesday. Arrive Brisbane-Monday. Leave London-Thursday. Leave Brisbane Saturday.
Arrivo Bangkok Wednesday.
Leave Bangkok-Thursday. Arrive Hong Kong Friday.
an American-owned publication.
The letter requests the paper to stop its anti-Japanese comments, adding that other Chinese papers moderated their attitude after only
its
a single warning, but. that "your paper continues to adhere to anti-Japanese policy!"
In consequence of this new warn- ing, the police guard at the news paper office, where two bomb out- The preliminary time-table in rages have already oceurred, force at the commencement of fly-peen reinforced. Trans-Ocean. ing-boat operations between Lon-
don and Singapore will provide a total transit time of 8 days Hong Kong/London and 6 days Hong Kong/Brisbane and vice versa.
The changes do not mean that all first-class mail for Hong Kong is being sent by air via Singapore. The present system is to continue for the present.
MR. MONTAGU NORMAN'S INVITATION
has
GOLDEN SUNSET FINALE
AT SINGAPORE
Singapore, To-day. Towards the end of yesterday's ceremony of opening the new dock, the sun broke through the clouds and a glorious sunset spread a gold- The Governor of the Bank of en glow over the turrets, masts and England, Mr. Montagu Norman, funnels of the armada assembled in has invited the Governor of the the straits. Rumanian. National Bank, M.
London, To-day.
At twilight, the ships
a-rocket signal-Reuter.
illumina-
Constantinescu, to come to London. tions were lit up simultaneously on
Trans-Ocean.
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