NEW
Go Empress
ONE MANAGEMENT DIRECT to North America
and Europe!
"EMPRESS LUXURY
Speed across the Pacific by luxurious Empress
Victoria liners, then ...
stop over if you wish and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen playground.
NEXT SAILING FROM HONG KONG
FIRST WEEK IN SEPTEMBER
(Omitting Honolulu)
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from ship's side at Vancouver take you
the
through Majestic Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff-. 600 miles of travel through Marvellous Mountain Scenery, Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes can be included as optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you wish.
Then Montreal and Quebec, gay French- speaking cities on the famous St. Lawrence Sea- way, and a quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Pacific's Atlantic fleet.
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA THE LAST WEEK IN AUGUST
For Full Information Consult Your Travel Agent
Union Building
Hong Kong
Telephone 20752
S.
YORK
via
OR
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel System
Japan, Los Angeles and Panama, Call Direct at Cristobal, Boston, Philadel- phia and Baltimore RIO-DE-JANEIRO,
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG
TO CANCELLATION SUBJECT
Tosan Maru 22nd Aug.
SANTOS,
MONTEVIDEO & . BUENOS AIRES via Singapore, Colombo, Durban and Cape Town MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR, DAR- ES-SALAAM, BEIRA, LOU- RENCO MARQUES, DURBAN, ALGOA BAY, CAPE TOWN &
POST OFFICE
Small Packet Post to all countries in auspended.
AIR MAIL SERVICE
The air mail postage to U.S.A. and Canada by Pan-American Airways has Been Increased to $3.50 per 1⁄2 ounce with effect as from 2nd August. The air mail rates to other American coun tries etc. via Pan-American Airways have also been increased and a sche. dule of rates is exhibited in the Genera Post Office.
at
The following air mail services are
The present available to
United Kingdom:
By Imperial Airways to Durban and onwards by sea. (via Imperial tc Durban)
$1.15 par 2 oz
By Pan-American Airways to U.S.A
and onwards by Trans-Atlantic Air Service (via P.A.A. & Trans-Atlan tic).
$5.00 per 1⁄2 oz
By Pan-American Airways to U.S.A. and onwards by sea (via P.A.A, c U.S.A.).
$3.50 per 1⁄2 oz, plut
15 cents per oz.
. All air mall correspondence bear the blue air mail label.
INWARD MAILS
SATURDAY
Java and Manila Strails
U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai (Scattle
date, 9th July).
Straits
Japan and Shanghai
Japan, Shanghal and Formosa
Shanghai Salgon
SUNDAY
Japan and Shanghai Straits
London and Straits Sandakan
Shanghai and Amoy
FOR
DATE & TIME
OUTWARD MAILS
SATURDAY
Rabaul. Saigon, Madang. Salamaua.
Austraila and New Zealand via Sydney.
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Parcels Reg.
Ord..
1.00 p.m. 2.45 p.m. 3.30 p.m. Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South, Africa, Lisbon and United Kingdom.
G.P.O. &.K.P.O.
Reg.
Ord,
5,00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.
Parcels only for Straits, Ceylon, India,
Lisbon and United Kingdom.
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Parcels
4.00 p.m. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Ser- Durban and vice" to Indo-China, thence by Sea Service to United King- dom.
Ord.
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Reg.
5.00 p.m.
5.30. p.m.
Shanghai
5.30 p.m.
SUNDAY
Brasil Maru. 19th Sept.
Fort Bayard
9,00 a.m.
MONDAY
Amoy
8.30 a.m.
Shanghai
Haiphong
Shanghai
SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS via Arizona Maru 2nd Sept. Singapore & Colombo
BOMBAY & KARACHI via Sin- gapore, Penang and Colombo.. CALCUTTA via Singapore, Bela-
wan Deli & Rangoon
KEELUNG via Swatow & Ainoy CANTON.
FOR FULL
PARTICULARS
PHONE 28061 OR APPLY TO
Atlas Maru
9th Aug.
Kaisyu Maru Sirogane Maru 15th Aug. Sirogane Maru 21st Aug..
OSAKA SYOSEN KAISYA
PRESIDENT LINER
SAILINGS
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu
S.S. PRESIDENT PIERCE
S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
$.3. PRESIDENT TAFT
To New York and Boston
August 29 September September 13
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,
Bombay and Capetown
S.S. PRESIDENT HARRISON
8.S, PRESIDENT POLK
To Singapore & Penang
9.5. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, S.S: CITY OF LOS ANGELES ..
Fort Bayard
Bangkok
10,30 a.m.
:.. "Noon.
12.30 p.m.
12.30 p.m.
2.30 p.m.
"Superscribed Correspondence Only.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-
sion.
12.30 p.m.-B.B.C. Dance Orchestra and
The Street Singer.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03.p.m.-Hungarian Folk Music by Nagyari Imre and His Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra.
1.15 p.m.-Songs by James Melton and;
Frances Langford.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press. Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.
1.45 p.m.-Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and
His Boy Friends,
2.15 p.m.-Close Down.
6.00 p.m.-Beethoven "Kreutzer" Son- nta, Cortet (Piano) and Thibaud (Violin).
6.33 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-1
tions.
76.35 p.m.-Songs by Benlamino Gigli
August 20
(Tenor).
6.45 p.m.-London Relay-A North of
England Programme.
7.15 p.m.-Alfredo Campoll and
Orchestra.
His
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.. September 29 8.03 p.m.-Light Opera Selections.
The London' Palladium Orchestra and Columbin Light Opera" Com- August 14
pany with Orchestra, August 278.27 p.m.-Chabrier-Cotillon
To San Francisco & Los Angeles 'Direct
*S.S. CITY OF SAN FRANCIsco,
• Via Yokohama.
September 3
** AMERICAN ☀ ★
PRESIDENT LINES
“ROUND-WORLD SERVICE,”
AGENTS FOR TRANSContinental AND WESTERN AIR and United AIR LINES 12, Pedder Street..
Telephone 28171.
-
Ballet Music.
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati. p.m.-London Relay London
0.45
Log.'
9.00 p.m.-London Relay The News|
and Topical Talks,
9.45 p.m.-A. Variety Programme_with The Western Brothers, Ann Penn Murgatroyd and Winterbottom, Judy Garland, Max Kester with John de Grey, A and Bob Harvey, Arthur Askey, Steffani and Hle Silver Song- stero, Ethel Waters, and Elsie Car Hale.
11.00. p.m.-An hour of Dance Music by Ambrose, The Organ, The Dance Band and Mo, Tommy. Dorsey, Jack Hylton, Orquesta" Tiplea Francisco Canaro, The Casa Loma Orchestra, Red Nichols, Victor Silvester, Oscar Nabin, and Hal Kemp. 12,00, midnight-Close Downt
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1940
THE
BLUE FUNNEL
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST
FREIGHT AND
PASSENGER SERVICES
To UNITED KINGDOM PORTS
NEXT SAILING 2ND WEEK IN AUGUST
For dates and ports of call apply to Agents.
PACIFIC & NEW YORK SERVICES
Are maintained as hitherto.
Information regarding INWARD CARGO and all matters relating to freight and passage will gladly be given by
Tel. 30332
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
AGENTS
1, Connaught Road, C.
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
TO
AUSTRALIA
CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND,
CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC.
NEXT SAILING
MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER, 1940.
For Freight or Passage, apply to :—
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents
Hong Kong, China & Japan.
FOR:
Tel. 30332.
MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY
WEDDING GROUPS SPECIALITY.
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TEL. 28765