Go Empress
ONE MANAGEMENT DIRECT to North America and Europe!
EMPRESS LUXURY
Speed across the Facific 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 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 feel.
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 System
THE
BLUE FUNNE
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST?
FREIGHT AND PASSENGER SERVICES
To UNITED KINGDOM PORTS
WELL PLACED SAILING AT THE END OF 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.
POST OFFICE
a
The arrivals 'and departures of mails from and to neighbouring countries, and coast ports, of which there is a fre-] quency of more than one service week will not in future be advertised. This decision has been arrived at after careful consideration, and the public are requested to cooperate to the extent of forbearing to inquire by
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 23, 1940-
N
YKLINE
telephone the dates of such mails, SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu.
answering such Inquiries makes heavy Inroads on the time of the postal staff.
the
The public are requested to note par. ticularly, the time of closing Imperial Air Mall on Tuesday, the 27th August, 1940.
Small Packet Post to all countries in suspended.
INWARD MAILS
FRIDAY
Air Mall by "Pan-American Air- ways Direct Service"-San Fran- cisco date, 13th August.
SUNDAY
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways. Service" London and Straits
Kamakura Marų
Asama, Maru (starts from Kobe)
.Friday,'! 30th Aug.
Wednesday, 2nd, Oct.
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)
(Convenient connection from Hong Kong).
.....Wednesday, 4th Sept.
Hikawa Maru
NEW YORK via Panama
"Akagi Maru
*Sakura Maru
Thursday, Saturday,
29th Aug.
7th Sept.
| LIVERPOOL via Cape Town
Kasima Maru
...About
25th Sept.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila
Kamo Maru
Tuesday,
27th Aug.
U.S.A.. and Manila-(San Francisco BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo
date, 2nd August).
MONDAY
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Ser
vice". Calcutta, Straits and Saigon
*Atago Maru
Wednesday, 11th Sept.
RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore
*Toba Maru
KOBE & YOKOHAMA
Haruna Maru, Kamakura Maru Helyo Maru
TUESDAY
London and Manila
DATE & TIME
* Cargo only.
FOR
OUTWARD MAILS
FRIDAY
Manila, Makassar and Sou-
rabaya
Straits and Calcutta.
Parcels
Letters
2.30 p.m.
(23) 5.00 p.m.) (24) 8.30 a.m.
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A. and Europe vin "Pan-Ameri- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser- vices."
K.P.O.
Monday,
26th Aug.
Monday,
26th Aug.
.Friday,
30th Aug.
Friday,
13th Sept.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA
General Passenger Agents in the Orient for
CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE
N.Y.K., King's Building.
Reg..
Ord..
5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.;
A
G.P.O.
Reg..
5.00 p.m
Ord..
SATURDAY
S. K.
7.00 p.m. NEW YORK vía Japan, San Fran-
Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Ser- 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 Durban and Cape Town DAR
and Australia by the "Imperial Air- ways Service."
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Reg. Ord.
Telephone 30291.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG
SUBJECT TO CANCELLATION
cisco, Los Angeles and Panama, Call Direct at Cristobal, Boston," Philadelphia and Baltimore.... Tosan Maru RIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS, MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS AIRES via Singapore, Colombo
TSHME : MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR,
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- (24) 5.00 p.m. wan Deli & Rangoon (24) 5.00 p.m. KEELUNG via Swatew & Ainoy ...(20) 8.30 a.m. CANTON
MONDAY
5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.
Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South
Africa and United Kingdom,
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Par. Reg. Ord.
Superscribed Correspondence Only,
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
12.16 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-
alon,
12.30 p.m.-Chopin Programme.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wen-
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.--Variety, with Turner Layton, Sandy Powell, Harry. Roy, and Anna Neagle.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, .. Weather Forecast and Announce
inen:s.
1.45 p.m.-Dance Music.
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
FOR FULL PARTICULARS PHONE 28001 OR APPLY
το
22nd Aug.
ki And
Sumatra Maru 25th Aug.
OSAKA SYOSEN KAISYA
PRESIDENT LINER
SAILINGS
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu
8.S. PRESIDENT PIERCE
S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE 5.S. PRESIDENT TAFT
To New York and Boston
August 29 September 7 September 17
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, 'Colombo, Bombay and Capetown
0.00 p.m.-Variety, with Will Fyffe,) Issy Bonn, Evelyn Laye, The Hill! Billies. Will Kings, Kane's Hawaiians, Arthur Askey, Florence Desmond. Murgatroyd and Winterbottom, and S.9, PRESIDENT POLK Andrews Sisters.
S.S. PRESIDENT GARFIELD
7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tlong.
7.02 p.m.Dance Music, by Ambrose, Henry Jacques, B.B.C. Dance Orch.. Jay Wilbur, and Roy Fox. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.--Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and' Announcements,' 8.03 p.m.-Bach Compositions. [8.20 p.m.-Studio-Two Piano Booltal by Prof. Harry 'Oro, and J. R. M. Smith,
B.45 p.mLight Orchestral, with B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra of Paris..
9.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 0.30 p.m.-London Relay-"World Af
faire"-Wickham Steed.
9.40 p.m.-Light Opera, with Raymond
Newall and June. Knight...........
18.13 p.m.Compositions of Dvorak,
To Singapore & Penang
6.8. CITY OF LOS ANGELES 8.S. CITY OF NEW PORT NEWS..
September 29
October 16
August 25 September 23
To San Francisco & Los Angeles Direct $8.8. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 8.8, CITY OF LOS ANGELES
* Via Yokohama.
September 4 September 18
** AMERICAN ✰✰ PRESIDENT LINES
"ROUND-World serviICE.”
AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL AND WESTERN air. and united Air Lines
Telephone 28171.
with London Symphony Orchestra, 12, Pedder Street.
Friedman,
Borgioli.
Menuttin and
and the Orchestre du Conservatoire. 11.00 p.m.-Close down.