Go Empress
ONE MANAGEMENT DIRECT to North America and Europe!
EMPRESS LUXURY
Speed across the Pacific by luxurious Empress liners, then
Victoria
stop over if you wish. and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen play- ground.
NEXT SAILING FROM HONGKONG SECOND WEEK IN JULY
(Omitting Honolulu)
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from ship's side at Vancouver take you through the Ma- jestic Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff-600 miles of travel through Marvelous Mountain Scenery. Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes can be included optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you wish.
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 28, 1940
POST OFFICE
GENERAL HOLIDAY
On Monday, the 1st July, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Offloe will be open from 8 a.m. to noon, Sheungwan Branch Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed.
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There will be one collection from the pillar boxes as on Sundays, one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11.30 am. and one delivery of regia- tered correspondence at 11 a.m.
There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11 a.m. from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Taipo and Un Long.
The Money Order Office will be entirely closed.
Air mall letters will be accepted for transmission to Europe by Pan- American Service to New York and onwards thence by sea, at $2.80 për half- ounce for the air transport, plas 15 cents per ounce to British possessions and 25 cents per ounce to foreign countries In respect of sea transport.
An experimental air service for Europe vla United States of America and Trans-Atlantic Bervice has also been introduced, the charge being $5 per half-ounce for letters and postcards $2.50 each. An approximate estim. ate of the time occupied in this transmission is twelve days from the date of departure of the Clipper from Hong Kong.
The postage rates via the revised Imperial Airways Service changed.
Small Packet Post to dil countries is suspended.
INWARD MAILS
Japan and Shanghai
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Haiphong
Then Montreal and Quebec, gay French-speaking cities on the famous St. Lawrence Seaway, and a quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Paci- fic's Atlantic fleet.
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA THE FIRST WEEK IN JULY
For Full Information Consult Your Travel Agent
Unlon
Building
Hong Kong
Telephone 20752
OR
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel System
Japan Bangkok Shanghai
Japan and Shanghai
London and Straits
Japan and Manila
are un.
June 28.
June 28.
June 28.
June 28..
June 28.
June 28.
June 29.
June 29.
Shanghai
June 29.
Japan
June 29.
U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San Francisco date, 8th
June)
June 29.
Canton
June 29.
Shanghai
June 29,
Shanghai and Amoy
June 29.
Haiphong
June 30.
Sandakan
June 30.
June 3).
June 30.
London and Straits
Shanghai and Amoy
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.
PRESIDENT LINER
Sailings
HONG KONG to SINGAPORE direct
First week in July
HONG KONG to SAN FRANCISCO direct
Last Week in June
✰✰ AMERICAN ☆ ☆ PRESIDENT LINES
"ROUND-World serVICE.”
agents for transcontinental & western air
AND UNITED AIR LINES
12, Pedder Street.
Telephone 28171,
IF YOU ARE TOO BUSY TO WRITE HOME-DON'T. '
Just Post a Copy of the Overland China Mail which gives all the News there IS
Both Local and Coastal
Dato and Timo.
For
Por
FRIDAY
Shanghai
Swatow and Parcels only for Tientsin.
Shanghai
Straits, Ceylon, India,
South Africa
and United Kingdom,
Reg.,
Ord.,
Fort Bayard
Manila, Australia and New Zealand
vla Thursday Island.
Reg.,
Ord.,
G.P.O.
Reg.
Ord.,
June 28, 12.30 p.m. June 28, 1.00 p.m. June 28, 2.30 p.m.
K.P.O. & G.P.O.
June 28, 2.45 p.m.
June 28, 3.30 p.m. June 28, 3.30 p.m. K.P.O.
June 28, 5.00 p.m. June 28, 5.30 p.m.
June 28, 5.00 p.m. 'June 28, 7.00 p.m
SATURDAY
Shanghai (Parcels only)
Calcutta
Parcels, Ord1,
Formosa, Shanghai and Japan
June 29, 9.00 a.m.
June 29, 10.30 a.m.
June 29, 11.30 a.m.
June 29, 1.30 p.m.
June 29, 2.30 p.m.
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Reg., Ord.,
.June 29, 5.00 p.m. June 29, 5.30 p.m. June 29, 5.30 p.m.
Straits, Ceylon, India, Mombasa, Beira, Lourenco-Marques,
East and South Africa
Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Ser- vice" to Durban and thence by Sea Service to United Kingdom.
Manila
• Superscribed correspondence only.
TRAVEL A.-O.
то
AUSTRALIA
LINE
CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND, CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC.
NEXT SAILING
END OF JULY, 1940.
For Freight or Passage, apply to :-
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents
Hong Kong, China & Japan.
Tel. 30332.