The Empress Way
NORTH AMERICA
EUROPE:
Enjoy the advantages of thir "one-management", route!
NEXT SAILING TO VANCOUVER FIRST WEEK IN SEPTEMBER.
TRANS-CANADA by fast AIR CONDITIONED trains through the Majestic Canadian Rockles.
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TRANS-ATLANTIC by one of Canadian Pacific's Atlantic fleet.
Hong Kong Office.
Union Building
Telephone 20752
O. S. K.
Canadian Pacific
NEW YORK via Japan, San Fran- cisco, Los Angeles and Panama. Call Direct at Cristobal, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
RIO-DE-JANEIRO,
SANTOS, BUENOS
MONTEVIDEO & AIRES via Panama MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR, DAR- ES-SALAAM, BEIRA, LOU- RENCO MARQUES, DURBAN, ALGOA BAY, CAPE TOWN & SOUTH AMERICAN, FORTS vía
·Singapore & Colombo-... BOMBAY & KARACHI via Sin- gapore, Penang and Colombo CALCUTTA via Singapore, Bela-
wan Deli & Rangoon
KEELUNG via Swatow & Ainoy CANTON
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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG
SUBJECT TO CANCELLATION
POST OFFICE
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The arrivals and departures of thalia from and to neighbouring countries and coast, ports, of which there is a fro-11 quency of more than, one service week will not in future 'be advertised. This decision. Jas been arrived at after carerut consideration, and the public are requested to cooperate to
the extent of forbearing to inquire by telephone' the dates of such mails, as answering such inquiries makes heavy inroads on the time of the postal staff.
The Public are requested to nota particularly the time of closing the Imperial and Pan-American Air Malls) on Tuesday, 27th August, 1946,
The General Post Omice will be closed at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, 27th August, 1940,
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Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD MAILS
TUESDAY
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Service") WEDNESDAY
Air
Mail by "Pan-American
Air-
ways Direct Service"-San Fran-
elsco date, 20th August,
THURSDAY
London and Manila
Canada, U.S.A., Japan, and Shanghai-
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 27, 1940
THE
BLUE FUNNEL
LINE
REGULAR AND FAST FREIGHT AND
"PASSENGER SERVICES |
(Vancouver B.C. date. 10th August. To UNITED KINGDOM PORTS
U.S.A.. Honolulu, Japan and Shangha! -(San Francisco date, 3rd August). Java and Manila
FRIDAY
Air Mall by "Imperial Airways Ser
vice". U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai- (San Francisco date. 9th August),
FOR
WELL PLACED SA'LING AT THE
END OF AUGUST
DATE & TIME For dates and ports of call apply to Agents.
OUTWARD MAILS
TUESDAY
Air Mail for Indo-China, Malaya, Java PACIFIC & NEW YORK SERVICES
and Australia 'by the "Imperial Air-
ways Service."
Reg. Ord.
K.P.O. & G.P.O.
4.30 p.m. 5.00 p.m.
Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Ser- vice" to Durban and thence by Sea Service to United Kingdom,
Reg. Ord,
K.P.O. &.§.P.0.
4.30 p.m. 5.00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South
Africa and United Kingdom.
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
Par.
Reg.
Ord.
Manila, Australia and via Thursday Island.
Reg. Ord,
(27) 5.00 p.m. (27) 5.00 p.m., (28) 8.30 a.m.) New
Zealand
G.P.O. & K.P.O.
2.45 p.m.
3.30 p.m.
Air Mall for Manila, Guam, Honolulu. U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri- can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Ser- vices."
K.P.O.
Reg.. Ord.,
Kinai Maru
Brasil Maru
(frum Kobe)
16th Sept.
3rd Sept
G.P.O.
Reg.
Ord.,
Arabia Maru-
Toa Maru
3rd Oct.
3rd Sept.
FOR FULL PARTICULARS OSAKA SYOSEN KAISYA
PHONE 28061 OR APPLY TO
PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu
S.S. PRESIDENT PIERCE
S.$. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
S.S. PRESIDENT TAFT
To New York and Boston
5.00 p.m.
5.30 p.m.
25.00%p.m 7.00p.m.
*Superscribed Correspondence Only.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS
12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-
slon.
12.30 p.m.-Borodin-Quartet in D Ma-
jor....Pro Arte Quartet.
1.03 p.m.-Songs of the Sea.
Whisky Johnny, Sally Brown, Let the Bulgino Run, Blow my Bully Boys, Billy Boy, Blow the Man Down, Rio Grande... Royal Naval Singers (Portsmouth),
1.11 p.m.-Band of H.M. Coldstream.
Guarda.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press, 1.45 p.m.-Dance Music by Ambrose
and his Orchestra.
2.15 pim.-Close down.
8,00 p.m.-A Variety Programme.
St. Patrick's Night....Paddy O'Brien
gives a party.
Frank
Instrumental-Teddy Bear's Plenic:
Mighty Lak' A. Rose Biffo's Quintet.
Vocal-Polly Wolly Doodle; Big Rock
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
Candy Mountain; Underneath the -Hong Kong, China & Japan.
Old Pine Tree: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.... Rocky Moun-1
taineers. August 30
September September
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,
Bombay and Capetown
5.6, PRESIDENT POLK
-8.S. PRESIDENT GARFIELD
To Singapore & Penang
6.8. CITY OF NEW PORT NEWS.
8.S. CITY OF NORFOLK
7 17
September 29 October 16
September 23 October 27
To San Francisco & Los Angeles Direct
*6.8. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
8.6. CITY OF LOS ANGELES
• Via Yokohama.
September 4 September 18
AMERICAN ⋆ ⋆
'
PRESIDENT LINES
“ROUND-WOrld service.”
AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENtal and WESTERN AIR AND United air lines 12, Pedder Street.
Telephone 28171.
Billy Mayerl's Own Selection.... Billy
Mayer (Piano).
A Burlesque Pantomime-"Cinderel-
la"....Effle Atherton, Bertha Will-) mott, Leonard Henry and Company, Melody Trumps No. 2 intro: Is it True what they say about Dixie: Shoe Shine Boy: Lost: Would You; Goody Goody....The Four Acès, Banjo Salos-White Rose: Tony....
Olly Oakley.
Vocal-You've gotta eat your Spinach.] Baby: Oh, My Goodness........... Mae] Questal,
Organ Solo-Sleep, My Little One.........
Reginald Foort,
0.58 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quofa-
tions. 7.00 p.m.-Studio-A. Talk illustrated by Records. 7.30 p.m.--London: Relay-The NewE," 8.00 p.m.Local Time Signal and Wea-[
ther Report.
Tel. 30332.
KAIPING COAL
FOR HOME, FACTORY & POWER HOUSE
HOME,
on Balleb
FACTORY
AND
Re-
BUNKERS
8.03 p.m.-B.D.C. Recording -- "I
momber"-a Programme of Musical Entertainment of forty or fifty years
ago;
8.33 p.m.Compositions of Sir Edward
Elgar.
9.00 p.m.-London. Rolay-The News
and Topical Talks,
9.45 p.m.-Dvorak-'Cello Concerto In Minor Casals and the Czech Phil- harmonic Orchestra,
10.23 p.m.-Chopin-Polonaise-Fantatales No. 7 In A Flat Major. Arthur Ru- binstein (Piano).
10.37 p.m.-Dennis Noble and the New
Light Bymphony Orchestra.
{11.00. pim-Close down."
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LOCOS
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