THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 5, 1940.
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THE
"Route-of-Wonders"
ACROSS CANADA
Ga Empress from the Orient to Canada, United States and Europe. The Empress Way includes these scenic splendors:
1. SPECTACULAR MOUNTAIN JOURNEY...600 thrilling miles of Canadian Rockies. See Banff, Lake Louise en route.
2. CANADA'S FERTILE PLAINS...the great prairies of the
western provinces.
3. GREATEST CHAIN OF LAKES in the World...Canada's
inland oceans, the Great Lakes.
4. FALLS FAMED AROUND THE WORLD...Niagara Falls. 5. LARGEST INLAND PORT in the World...Montreal, 1,000
miles from the sea.
ENJOY THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS "ONE-MANAGEMENT" ROUTE
NEXT SAILING FROM HONG KONG TO VANCOUVER
FIFTH WEEK IN NOVEMBER
(Omitting Honolulu)
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA
THIRD WEEK IN NOVEMBER
For Full information Consult Your Travel Agent.
Union Buliding
Hong Kong Telephone 20752
OR
h
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel
System
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(Christmas, New Year, etc.). must contain no written matter, except the name and address of the sender, and must be posted in unsealed covers, which must be clearly marked "Greeting Card". The rate of postage lo 5 cents per 2 ounces for all countries, except Hong Kong, China and Macao which is 2 centa por 2 ounces.
Parcel post sorvice to Canton is tom. porarily suspended.
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FREIGHT AND
PASSENGER SERVICES
To UNITED KINGDOM PORTS
WELL PLACED MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER SAILING
For dates and ports of call apply to Agents. PACIFIC & NEW YORK SERVICES
and
Are maintained as hitherto.
Information regarding INWARD CARGO all matters relating to freight and passage will gladly be given by
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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO CANCELLATION
Hokuroku Maru 6th Nov.
Argentina Maru 12th Nov.
(from Kobe).
Manila Maru
5th Dec." Cape Town (Final Port).
Toa Maru
20th Nov. (Accommodation for first class
passengers.)
OSAKA SYOSEN KAISYA
PRESIDENT LINER SAILINGS
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
Via Shanghai, Köbe, Yokohama & Honolulu
8.8. PRESIDENT TAFT
8.8. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
6.6. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
To New York and Boston
778
November 17 December Decembar 28
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,
Bombay and Capetown
8.8, PRESIDENT ADAMS
8.8. PRESIDENT VAN BUREN
$.S. PRESIDENT JACKSON
November 21 December 10 December 15
To San Francisco & Los Angeles Via Yokaḥama
8.8, CITY OF NORFOLK....
November 17
✰✰ AMERICAN ✰✰ PRESIDENT LINES
“ROUND-WORLD SERVICE."?
AGENTS FOR TRAnscontinental AND WESTERN AIR and UNITED AIRLINES 12, Pedder Street.
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Air Mail by sea to Singapore to connect with the "British Overseas Airways.".
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Reg. .. Ord. Calcutta and Straits..
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K.P.O.
Parcels Letters
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Porcels Letters
5.00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.
5.00 p.m.
7.00 m.
• Superscribed Correspondence Only.
RADIO
12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-
slon,
12.30 p.m.-Mozart-Symphony No. 39
-In E Flat.
12.55 pim.--A Mozart Song.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea
ther Report.
1.03 p.m.-Dance Music by Sydney
Lypton and His Orchestra.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press. Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.
the
1,48 p.m.-Billy Mayor! at the Piano. 2:00 p.m.-Reginald- Dixon at
Organ.
2.15 p.m.-Close down.
6.00 p.m.-Schumann - David-Leaguers
Dances, Op. 8.
6.23 p.m. Songs by Elisabeth Schu.
mann (Soprano).
O Vienna, my beloved Vienna ("The Tourist Guide'-Ziehrer); Be prals- ed, thou peaceful night ("The Va- gabond'-Ziehrer); Love's Message (Schubert),
6.33 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tlons.
Dawson
6.35 p.m.-Compositions of Elgar,
Like to the Damask Rose (arr, Hayda Wood)....Light Symphony Orches tra cond. by Haydn Wood, Speak, Musict... Peter
(Bass-Baritone)~with Plano. Serenade In E Minor for Strings, Op. 20-1st Mov: Allegro piacevole; 2nd Moy: Larghetto; 3rd Mov: Alle gretto-Come prima....London Phil- harmonic Orchestra cond. by Sir --Edward - Elgar.
La Capricieuse, Op. 17....Bronislaw
Huberman (Violin) with. Piano, 7.00 p.m.-London Retay-The News. 7.16 p.m.-London Relay -- Topical
Talker Questions of the Hour'. 7.30 pim.-Essie Ackland (Contralto)
and the New Mayfair Orchestra, 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather,
Report and Announcements;
0.02 p.m.-London Relay - Cock-A
Doodle.Dot":
9.00 p.m.-London Relay The News &
News Commentaries.
9.30 p.m.-London Relay Talk:-"Scots
Abroad.
NAKON
9.43 p.m.-A Scottish Programme." 10.00 p.m.-Vocal Variety,
10.80 p.m.-London Relay -Bombers over Declin'.-A Feature Programme. 11.00 p.m.-Close' down.
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MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER, 1940
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