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P2O BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS
TAKING CARGO FOR
Straits, Java, Burma, Ceylon, India Iranian Gulf, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Australia, Red-Sea, Egypt, Europe.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL
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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 E ORIENTAL SAILINGS
THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 1, 1938.
POST OFFICE
Christmas and New Year cards bearing not more than five written words and enclosed in open envelopes are accepted by the Post Office at the rate for printed matter, ie. 5 cents pe 2 ounces, for all countries.
Hong Kong, China and Macao at 2 cents per 2 ounces." Envelopes must not be closed.
CHRISTMAS PRINTED PAPER MAIL FOR GREAT BRITAIN VIA SUEZ The Christmas Printed Paper Mail (Christmas Cards, and etc., in open envelopes) for Great Britain via Suez will be closed in the General Post Of- fice and Kowloon Contral Post Office on Saturday, the 26th November per S.S. Rawalpindi as follows:-
Registered Mail
Ordinary Mail
9.45 a.m. 10,30 a.m.
26th November 26th November
This Mail is due in London on the 24th December, 1938.
CHRISTMAS PARCEL MAIL FOR GREAT BRITAIN
The Christmas Parcel Mail for Great Britain will be closed in the Gen- cral Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office at Noon on Friday, the 11th November per S.S. "Ranpura" and is due to arrive at London on the 16th December, 1988.
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The Public are kindly requested to post early.
Postal Service to Canton is temporarily suspended.
Ordinary letter mail only for West Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Szechwan, Kweichow & Hunan will be accepted at senders risk.
Air Mail for certain places previously served by the Chungking & Han- kow Air-lines, will be despatched via Hanoi and thence by air as services permit.
Letters and Postcards for Europe (except Great Britain and Eire) and South America are forwarded "via Siberia” if so superscribed.
INWARD MAILS
November 1.
Hoihow Japan
Japan, Shanghai and Formosa
Kanchow Nellore Memnon
November 1.
November 1.
Van Heutsz
..November 1.
Kalgan Soochow
.November
November 1.
1.
Destination
5th Nov. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam & Ant-
8.8.
Tons
From Hong Kong About
**BURDWAN
6,000
6 a.m.
&RANPURA
*MIRZAPORE
17,000 6,000
12th Nov.
17th Nov.
RAWALPINDI 17,000
26th Nov.
*SOMALI...
6,000
3rd Dec.
CANTON
&CORFU
**BANGALORE
15,500 14,500 $,000
10th Dec.
24th Dec.
81st Dec.
CHITRAL
17,000
7th Jan.
SCARTHAGE
14,500
**BHUTAN
6,000
21st Jan. 28th Jan.
• Cargo only.
werp.
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Straits, Colombo Bombay & Karachi. Bombay, Marseilles & London,
and
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,
Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam Antwerp.
Bombay, Marseilles and London. Bombay, Marseilles and London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam & Ant- werp.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,|
Hull, Hamburg, Rotterdam & Ant- werp.
+ Calls Casablanca. All vessels may call at Malta.
BRITISH IND14 - APCAR
5th Nov.
§ Calls Tangier.
SAILINGS
10.80 a.m. Singapore, Port Swettenham,
SHIRALA
8,000
TILAWA
10,000
19th Nov.
SANTHIA
8,000
3rd Dec.
TALAMBA TALMA
10.000
17th Dec.
10,000
31st Dec.
Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta.
do
time to visit Now is the time to 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 Hountaineering 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 London EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILING 5.
via Panama Canal.
NELLORE
TANDA
NANKIN
7,000
7,000 7,000
4th Nov. 11a.m. 2nd Dec. 31st Dec.
-Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney,
Melbourne and Hobart.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI and JAPAN
8,000
15,500
10,000
*SOMALI.
8,000
TANDA
$7,000
SANTHIA
CANTON
TALAMBA
"CORFU...
14,500
*BANGALORE
NANKIN
TALMA:
7,000 10,000
* Cargo only,
1st Nov. Shanghai & Japan. .4 p.m.
4th Nov, Shanghai & Japan.
6 am.
9th Nov. Japan.
11th Nov.
23rd Nov. 24th Nov.
6,000 20th Nov. 4th Dec. 7th Doc.
Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
apply to
For further information, Passage," Freight, Handbooks, The Arenta:--
MACKINNON MACKENZIE.CO
PLO BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL
PHONE. 27721
HONGKONG
Straits
Bangkok and Hoihow
Shanghai and Swatow
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mails 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
Shanghai and Japan Haiphong
Amoy
Fort Bayard and Haiphong Swatow and Tientsin
Swatow, -Amoy and Foochów
Per Tuesday
Somali
.: Sandviken Yunnan
Wednesday
Shantung
Hangsang Haitan
Date and Time.
Tues., Nov. 1, 2.80 p.m. ....Tues., Nov. 1, 7.00 p.m. Nov. 1, 4.30 p.m.
Airmail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, Pan-American
and U.S.A. by. the "Pan-American Airways Direct Service"due San Francisco, 10th November. ·
Nov. 2, Noon.
Wed., Nov, 2, 10.80 a.m.
Nov. 2, 3 p.m.
Airways Plane
Wednesday, November 2.
K.P.O.
Reg.,
Wed., Nov. 2, 5.0 p.m.
Ord,
Wed., Nov. 2, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
Reg.,
Wed, Nov. 2, 50 p.m.
Ord.,
Wed., Nov. 2, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday
Swatow
Shanghai and Europe (except Great
Britain and Eire) vià Siberia. Manila
Soochow
Gneisenau Emp. of Japan
Reg.,
Ord.,
Reg.
Ord.,
Yusang
Swatow
Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Direct Service"-due London, 10th Nov.
Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- tralia by Imperial Airways Direct Service due Sydney, 12th Nov.
Swatow, Foochow and Tientsin
Nov. 8, 8.30.a.m.
Nov. 3, 8.30. a.m. ......Thurs., Nov. 3, K.P.O.
Nov. 3, 5 p.m. .Nov. 3, 6.30 p.m. G.P.O.
Nov. 3, 5 p.m. Nov. 3, 6.80 p.m. Nov. 3, 12.30 p.m. ......Nov. 8,
Imperial Airways Plane
K.P.O.
Reg.,
Ord.,
.Nov. 3, 6 p.m. .Nov. 3, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
Reg.,
Nov. 3, 5 p.m.
Ord.,
Nov. 3, 7 p.m.
Imperial Airways Plane .Nov. 8,
.Nov. 3, 5 p.m.
K.P.O.
Reg.,
Ord.,
Nov. 3, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
Reg.,
Nov. 3, 5 p.m.
Ord.,
Nov. 3, 7 p.m.
Chekiang
Nov. 3, 7 p.m.
Superscribed correspondence only.
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MONTHLY SERVICE TO
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
Via LOS ANGELES & PANAMA CANAL PORTS also taking cargo on through Bills of Lading for West Indies ports, Rio de Janeiro, Santos, Rio Grande do Sol
Buenos Aires, South America.
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