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 and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen
wish...
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 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
i Hong Kong
Telephone 20752
FOR
OR
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel System
MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY
WEDDING GROUPS SPECIALITY.
KING'S STUDIO
AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE USE
TEL. 28755
PRESIDENT
LINER
SAILING S
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu
S.S. PRESIDENT PIERCE
6.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
S.S. PRESIDENT TAFT.
To New York and Boston
August 29
September September
Via Manila, Singapore, 'Penang, Colombo,
Bombay and Capetown.
8.S. PRESIDENT POLK
6.9. PRESIDENT GARFIELD
To Singapore & Penang
8.8. CITY OF LOS ANGELES
8.8. CITY OF NEW PORT NEWS,
POST OFFICE
Small Packet Post to all countries.it suspended.
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The public are requested to note par; ficularly the time of closing thi Imperial Air Malt on Tuesday, the 27th August, 1940.
INWARD MAILS
THURSDAY
Bangkok and Saigon Shanghai and Amoy Java and Manila Shanghat and Amoy Shanghai
Sandakan
•
U.S.A.. Honolulu, Japan and Shangha|| -San Francisco date, 1st August). Australia and Manila
Air Mail by "Pan-American Air- ways Direct Service"-San Fran- cisco date, 13th August.
Bangkok
Haiphong
Shanghai
Japan
London and Stralis
Saigon
FRIDAY
Japan and Formosa
SATURDAY
Bangkok and Tourane Formosa, Amoy and Swatow Japan Shanghai
FOR
Swatow
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 22, 1940
THE
BLUE FUNNEL
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND
PASSENGER SERVICES
TO UNITED KINGDOM PORTS
WELL PLACED SAILING AT THE END OF AUGUST
DATE & TIME For dates and ports of call apply to Agents.
OUTWARD MAILS
Fort Bayard Japan Saigon
THURSDAY
1.00 p.m
2,30 p.m.
3.30 p.m.
4.30 p.m.
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu. U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser- vices."
K.P.O.
Reg..
Ord.,
G.P.O.
Reg.. Ord..
Manila
Amoy
I
|PACIFIC & NEW YORK SERVICES
· Are maintained as hitherto.
Information regarding INWARD CARGO
י.
•
5.00 p.m. and all matters relating to freight
5.30 p.m.
5.00 p.m
7.00 p.m.
7.00 p.m.
7.00 p.m.
FRIDAY
Holhow and Haiphong
Manila, Makassar and Sou-
rabaya
Amoy
Straits and Calcutta.
Parcels
Letters
Shanghai
and passage will gladly be given by
8.30 a.m.
Tel. 30332
10.30 am. 8.30 a.m.
11.00 a.m.. Noon. 12.30 p.m.
Straits,. Rangoon & Calcutta.. 3.30 p.m..
ד'
SATURDAY'
Shanghal and Parcels only
for Tientsin
Shanghai
0.00 a.m. 12.30 p.m. Parcels only for Tientsin
6.00 p.m. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Scr- --vice" to Durban and thence by Sea
Service to United Kingdom.
Reg. Ord.
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.
Air Mail for Indo-China, Malaya, Java and Australia by the "Imperial Air- way's Service."
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Reg. Ord. Haiphong
5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m.
"Superscribed Correspondence Only.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-
'sion.
12.30 p.m.-Pat Kirkwood and Henry
Jacques Orchestra.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Variety.
7
17
September 29
October 16
To San Francisco & Los Angeles Direct
*S.S. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO 8.6. CITY OF. LOS: ANGELES
• Via Yokohama.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press,
Weather Forecast and
ments.
Announce-
1.45 p.m.-Haydn's "Oxford" Symphony.
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
6.00 p.m.-Schumann Quartet. 6.34 p.m.-Schumann Songs. 6.42 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
Maxwell
6.45 p.m.-London Relay-a Play by Mabel Constanduros "Companion to a Lady", 7.15 p.m.-Dance Music by
Stewart's Ballroom, Orchestra. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay The News. 48.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements,
August 27 September 23
September September
** AMERICAN ✰✰
PRESIDENT LINES
“ROUND-WORld service.”
AGENTS FOr transcONTINENTAL`AND WESTERN AIR AND UNITED AIR. LINES 12, Pedder Street.
18
8.03 p.m.-Orchestral Selections, Milan and Cordoba
Symphony Orchestra Philharmonic Orchestra,
8.15 pm-Studio Recital by Gaston
D'Aquino.
8.40 p.m.-Weekly Local Newsletter by an Australian Lady Resident in Hong Kong.
Circum. [3.55 - p.m.-Elgar-Pomp and
stanco March -No. 4....London Sym- phony Orchestra,
0.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News
and Toploal Talks,
9.45 p.m.-Varlaty, with Norman Long, Florence Desmond, Flotsam and Jet- Bam, Jack Warner, and Arthur Askoy,
Telephone 28171. 10.10 p.m.-Dance Music, by Gerald,
Billy Colton,, Mantovani, Jack Wilson, Jack Payne, The Organ, The Danco Band and Me.. 11.00 p.m.-Close down.
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE.
AGENTS
1, Connaught Road, C.
SAILINGS...FROM HONG KONG
O.SK. SUBJECT TO CANCELLATION
NEW YORK via Japan, San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles and Panama, Call Direct at Cristobal, Boston, 'Philadelphia and Baltimore...
'SANTOS, 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 Sin- gapore, Penang and Colombo.. CALCUTTA via Singapore, Bela-
wan Dell & Rangoon KEELUNG via Swatow & Amoy CANTON
FOR FULL PARTICULARS PHONE 28061 OR APPLY TO!
Tosan Maru 22nd Aug.
Sumatra Maru 24th Aug.
OSAKA SYOSEN KAISYA
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 & Japan.
Tel. 30332.