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, 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
From Hong Kong
Abort
S.S..
Tons
**SOMALI.......
7,000.
26th Feb.
COMORIN.
15.000 KAISAR-I-HIND 11,000. *BANGALORE. 6,000
5th Mar.
19th Mar. 26th Mar.
NALDERA
16,000
2nd Apr.
RANPURA.
17,000
16th Apr.
**BHUTAN..
6,000,
23rd Apr.
*BEHAR
6,000
30th Apr. 7th May
CORFU
14,500
14th May
Cargo, only.
RAWALPINDI 17,000
BRITISH
Destination
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam, & Ant- werp.....
Marseilles & London.
Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,. Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam, & Ant-
werp.
Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam, & Ant- werp.
Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam, & Ant-
werp.
Bombay, Marseilles, & London.
+ Calls Casablanca, Ail vessels may call at Malta.
INDIA
Calls Tangier.
SAILINGS
APCAR
SANTHIA
8,000
26th Feb.
9.30 a.m.
TALMA
10,000
12th Mar.
Singapore, Port Swettenham,
SIRDHANA.
8,000
26th Mar.
SHIRALA TILAWA
8,000
9th Apr.
10,000
23rd Apr.
Penang, Rangoon and Calcutta.
Now is the time to visit, Australia & New Zealand
lands of Sunshine and Romance, "Down Under" you will feel a new, be- ing and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you including 25/- for your pound.
Frequent connection from Australia with the following:-
The Canadian Australian Line to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for Southampton and, Londen via Panama Canal.
EASTE
TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE.
AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
7,000 15th Mar 7,000 2nd Apr... 7,000 30th Apr.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney,
Melbourne. and Hobart.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI and JAPAN
Amoy & Japan. Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan. Amoy and Japan.
SIRDHANA
NALDERA
8,000. 16,000
NANKIN"..
$7,000
SHIRALA,
8,000
RANPURA
17,000
*BHUTAN
*BEHAR
6,000 6,000
3rd Mar. 4th Mar. 6th Mar. 17th-Mar. 18th Mar, 19th Mar. 28th Mar,
Shanghai & Japan." Shanghai & Japan... Shanghai & Japan.
Cargo only.
apply to
The Agents:
For further information, Passage, Freight Handbooks,
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 23, 1938
POST
OFFICE
IMPERIAL AIRWAYS
Ordinary air mail letters for Imperial Airways Direct Service to Europe etc., will, until further notice, be closed at Kowloon Post Office and General Post Office at 9.00 a.m. on Sundays. Letters for this Service may be posted in the ordinary posting boxes at Kowloon Post Office and General Post Of fice. They should be clearly marked "By Air Mail" and bear sufficient pos tage. Insufficiently prepaid letters may be taxed with double the deficiency or forwarded by Steamer Service, at the discretion of the Post Office.
VIA SIBERIA ROUTE
Mail Service "Via Siberia” is temporarily suspended,
SHANGHAI AIR SERVICE
Air Mail Services to Shanghai, Nanking. Tsingtau, Tientsin and Peiping are temporarily suspended.
INWARD MAILS
U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Manila
(Seattle date, 29th January) Straits
Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways
Direct Service”:- San Francisco: date, 13th February Straits
Java and Manila
Amov
Pres. Grant Van Heutsz
February February
Pan-American Airways Plane Feb. 24. Lycaon
February 24,
Tjinėgara Santhia
February 24.
February 24.
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Maila are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m, on the previous day.
For
Straits and Calcutta
Date and Time.
Per. Wednesday
Yuensang
G.P.O. and K.P.O.'
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow Straits. *Ceylori, *India, Aden, Egypt, Achilles
and *Europe via Marseilles due Marseilles, 25th March and London Parcels due London, 1st April.
Par., Ord., Haitan
Wed., Feb. 23,
Feb. 23, Noon. .Feb. 23, 1 p.m.. Feb. 23, 3 p.m. Wed., Feb. 28.
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
Par., Reg.,
Ord.,
Thursday
Air Mail for Wuchow, Kweilin, Kwei- C‚Ñ.A.C. Plane
yang and
the Chungking by "C.Ñ.A.C. Airways Direct Service."
.Feb. 22, 5.00 p.m.. .Feb. 23, 8.45 a.m. Feb. 23, 9.30 a.m.
Kowloon P.O.
Reg.,
Ord.,
Reg.,
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, and U.S.A. by "Pan-American Air- ways Direct Service" - due San Francisto 4th March.
Ord., Pan-American
Reg.,
Ord.,
Reg
Ord.,
Friday
Kongso
Conte Verde Kiungchow Pres. Grant
Samshui and Wuchow Shanghai
Hoihow, Pakhoi and Haiphong Japan, Canada, U.S.A., Central and South America. and *Europe via Victoria B.C.-due Victoria B.C., 17th March:
*Straits and *Calcutta
Parcels, Reg.,
Fri., Feb. 25,
Feb. 24, 5 p.m. Feb. 24, 5
p.1.
G.P.O.
Feb. 24, 5 p.m. ..Feb. 25, 6 ́ a.m. Airways Flane Feb. 25, Kowloon P.O.
G.P.O.
Feb. 24, 5 p.m. .Feb. 24, 5 p.m.
.Feb. 24, 5 p.m. .Feb. 25,6 a.m.
Feb. 25, 8.15 a.m. Feb. 25, 9:30 a.m. .Feb. 25, 1 p.m. .Fri., Feb. 25,
G.P.O. and K.P.O..
Feb. 25, Noon, Feb. 25, 1.45 p.m. Feb. 25, 2.30 p.m. .. Feb. 25, Feb. 25, 4 p.m. Feb. 25, 5 p.m. Feb. 25, 3.30 p.m. Fri, Feb. 25,
Ord.,
Santhia
Japan
*Straits, *Ceylon, India, East and South Africa, *Aden, *Egyppt and *Europe via Marseilles-due Mar- seilles, 29th March.
Parcels, Ord., Hakusan Maru Somali
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
Reg.
Ord.,
Manila, Australia and New Zealand Kamo Maru
via Thursday Island-due Thursday Island, 10th March.
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
Air Mail for "K.L.M. Airways Ser- “vice”. due Amsterdam, 8th March.
Reg., Ord., Hakozaki Maru
Reg Ord.
Feb. 25, 4.15 p.m. Feb. 25, 5 p.m. Fri, Feb. 25,
Feb. 25, 5. p.m. Feb. 25, 5.30 p.m. ·
.Fri., Feb. 25,
Feb. 25, 4.30 p.m..
Feb. 25, 5 p.m. Fri., Feb. 25,
Feb. 25, 5 p.m. .Feb. 25, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
G.P.O. and K.P.O. -
Straits, Ceylon, India, E. & *South Hakozaki Maru
Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europpe vià Marseilles-due Marseilles, 27th March.
Reg Ord.,
*Superscribed correspondence only.
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MONTHLY SERVICE
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NEW YORK
Via LOS ANGELES & PANAMA CANAL PORTS.
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