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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 through the '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
gay French- and Quebec, 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
OR
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel Systems
FOR
MODERN
PHOTOGRAPHY
POST OFFICE
Small Packót Post to all countries In suspended.
The air mail rates to New Zealand have been increased to Letters $1.50) per 2 oz., Postcards $0.75 each and now cover air transit to Auckland, Now Zealand. The blue air mall labol muat be affixed to all correspondence tondod for this service.
in-
Parcel Post Service to China via Halphong is temporarily suspended. Printed papers and books not for sale) can be only accepted.
Shanghal
Amay
INWARD MAILS
THURSDAY
Japan and Shanghai
U.S.A,
and Manila-(San
date, 20th July).
Francisco
Air Mail by "Pan-American Air-
ways Direct Service"-San Fran- cisco date. 6th August. Shanghat
Shanghai
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Japan and Shanghal Calcutta and Straits Shanghai,
U.S.A.. Honolulu, Japan and Shanghal-
(San Francisco date, 20th July).
SUNDAY
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 15, 1940
THE
BLUE FUNNEL
/REGULAR AND FAST {
FREIGHT AND
"PASSENGER SERVICES |
To UNITED KINGDOM PORTS
WELL PLACED SAILING AT THE END OF AUGUST
Air Mail by “Imperial Airways Service" For dates and ports of call apply to Agents.
Shanghai
Japan and Formosa
MONDAY.
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Service" Halphong
FOR
DATE & TIME
OUTWARD MAILS
THURSDAY Shanghai (Parcels only) .... 12.30 p.m. 2.00 p.m. Haiphong
2.30 p.m. Shanghai
3.30 p.m.
Saigon, Ceylon. India, East
and South Africa
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu. U.S.A. and Europe vla "Pan-Ameri- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser- vices."*
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
K.P.O,
Reg..
Ord..
5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O:
Reg.,
Ord.,
5.00 p.m 7.00 p.m.
Tel. 30332
FRIDAY
Straits
8.30 a.m.;
Shanghal
Bangkok
Shanghai
Sandakan
Rangoon Parcels only Saigon and. Bangkok
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
AGENTS
1. Connaught Road, C.
WEDDING GROUPS "SPECIALITY.
AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE US-
PRESIDENT,
LINER
SAILINGS
KING'S STUDIO
TEL. 28755
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu
S.S. PRESIDENT PIERCE
S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
S.S. PRESIDENT TAFT
To New York and Boston
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,
Bombay and Capetown
6.8. PRESIDENT HARRISON
S.S. PRESIDENT POLK
S.9. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO 9.6. CITY OF LOS ANGELES
To Singapore & Penang
August 20 September 29
SATURDAY
Shanghal and parcels only
for Tientsin Shanghai
to
9.00 am. 10.30 a.m. 12.30 p.m. 12.30 p.m.
5.00 pm. 7.00 p.m.
9,30 a.m,
Air Mall for "Imperial Airways
vice" Indo-China,
and Durban thence by Sea Service to United King- dom.
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
-Reg- Ord.
Manila
SAILINGS FROM HỒNG KONG
O. S. K. SUBJECT TO CANCELLATION
NEW YORK vía Japan, Los Angeles and Panama, Call Direct at Cristobal, Boston, Philadel- 12.30 p.m. phia and Baltimore-
SANTOS, Ser-RIO-DE-JANEIRO,
& MONTEVIDEO
BUENOS AIRES via Singapore, Colombo, Durban and Cape Town |MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR, DAR-
̈ES-SALAAM," BEIRA, LOU="
RENCO MARQUES, DURBAN, ALGOA BAY, CAPE TOWN & SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS via Singapore & Colombo BOMBAY & KARACHI via Şin- gapore, Penang and Colombo.. CALCUTTA via Singapore, Bela-
wan Deli & Rangoon KEELUNG via Swatow & Ainoy
5,00 p.m. 5.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m.
*Superscribed Correspondence Only.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS CANTON
-Tosan Maru
22nd Aug.
Brasil Maru
19th Sept.
Sumatra Maru 23rd Aug.
12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces- FOR FULL PARTICULARS OSAKA SYOSEN KAISYA
sion.
12.30 p.m.-Variety_with_Gracie Fields, PHONE 28061 OR APPLY TO
Michael Moore, The Mills Brothers.
and Les Allen.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-}
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Charlie Kunz at the Plane. 1.13 p.m.-Hawalian Selections,
with
Roy Smeck and Ferera and Panluki, 1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press. August 29
Weather Forecast and Announce September 7
ments.
Music, with Jack September 13 1.45 p.m.-Dance
"Payne, Ambrose, and Geraldo. 2.15 p.m.---Close down. (8.00 p.m.~Variety, with Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph, Warner and Dar- nell, Phyllis Robins. Arthur Askey. Nervo and Knox, Finnagan and Al- len, Naughton and Gold. Max Miller. Alice Delysin. William McCulloch, and The Merry Macs. Closing Local Stock Quotations. Excerpts from Noel Coward's Shows; Gertrude Lawrence & Noel Coward, 7.30 p.m.London Relay-Ths. News, 8.00 p.m-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements.. 8.03 p.m.-Mozart Programme. 8.10 p.m.-Studio Concert by Walter H.
D. Yoh (Flute) and Mr. Y. K Sze/ (Bass) with John Smith at the Piano. 8.45.p.m.Local Newsletter.
August 17 August 27
To San Francisco & Los Angeles Direct
*S.8. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO,
• Via Yokohama.
✰✰ AMERICAN
September 3
PRESIDENT LINES
“ROUND-WOrld servicE.”
AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTInental and WESTERN AIR AND UNITED AIR LINES 12, Pedder. Street.
Telephone 28171.
9.00 p.m.London Relay-The News &
Topical Talks.
with 9.40 p.m.Singers on Parade",
Sam
Costa,
Paula Helen Clare, Green, George Barclay, Pat Hyde, Al Bowlly, Marjorie Stedeford, Jack Plant, Dinah Miller, Dan Donovanı, Alice Mann and Jack Cooper accom- panied by. Felix Mendelssohn & His Orchestra.
10.00 p.m.-Dance Music, by. Harry Roy, Victor Silvester, Bernhard Ette, Jack Hylton, Nat Gonella; The Or Me and gan; The Dance Band Muggsy Spanier, and Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro, 11.00 p.m.-Cioso down.
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
ΤΟ
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 & Japa
Tel.