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To SAN FRANCISCO and LOS ANGELES
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Nov. 17
Dec.
7
To NEW YORK and BOSTON
via MANILA,” SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO,
BOMBAY and CAPETOWN
S.&. "PRESIDENT ADAMS"
S.S. "PRESIDENT VAN BUREN"
S.3. "PRESIDENT JACKSON"
Nov, 21
Dec. 10
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Nov. 17
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ON NOVEMBER 4TH
to
...
SAN FRANCISCO" and LOS ANGELES
via SHANGHAI,
КОВЕ,
'YOKOHAMA
可
and
HONOLULU.
A FEW RESERVATIONS STILL AVAILABLE.
Complete Information From Your Agent or:
NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA
General Passenger Agents in the Orient for
GUNARD WHITE STAR LINE
NIK, Kink's Building.
Telephone 30291.
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
To AUSTRALIA
Calling at Manila, Thursday Island, Cairns, Towns- ville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne, etc.
NEXT SAILING.
MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER, 1840.
For Freight or Passage apply to:- 14
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LIMITED POSTAL SERVICE TIENTSIN CHINESE BETWEEN HONGKONG AND
OCCUPIED AREAS
POSTAL SERVICES BETWEEN HONGKONG AND A LARGE SECTION OF EUROPE AND AFRICA have been banned. Letters posted in the usual way and addressed to places in Belgium. Czechoslovakia. Danzig. Denmark. France and French North African possessions, Germany, Holland, Italy and Italian pos- session, Luxemburg, Norway, German-occupied Poland and the Channel Islands, will be returned to the sender marked "No service." However, there is a controlled from the neutral postal service to the above areas. addressec. also. of Arrangement can be made with from the neutral country to the the local Post. Office in case the senders have friends and relatives
L
CONSTABLES GO ON
STRIKE
TIENTSIN. Nov. 2 (Reuter)- The volunteers were called out in Tientsin on Friday night. to patrol the British Concession as Chinese constables
police and special watchmen refused to go on duty at 5 o'clock to relieve previous detalls..
noon.
It was unconfirmably reported that this was the result of a strike movement which had been gra- country to the
dually gathering momentum, a reply (if any) reaching its climax in the after-
intended recipient. The fee does. It is believed the strikers desire not include the cost of postage of better wages and possibly the dis the reply from the enemy terri-missal of certain officers. tory to the neutral country."
The Concession displayed Its The process through which the
The neutral country" referred usual calm despite the unexpected malls. can go is that the letter to is Portugal. From London,
development. should be, in the first place, brief, Cook's will send the original cover
in-those "banned" areas.
HOW TO SEND
items of perso al interest. No re-into enemy territory.
It was learned that there are
who are opposed to the strike.
with no erasures, and contain only to Lisbon, whence it will be sent a number of Chinese constables ference to any place in the Em- The recipient. If he replies, can- They are willing to continue work pire, to Thomas Cook and Son or not send a letter to the Hongkong though they say they are any of their offices, nor to any address. He must address his rethreatened.
being
maps, photographs sketches, etc. ply to the sender's full name, care The-strike-occurred-without-any- should be made in the letter if the of Post Office 596, Lisbon, Portu- previous notice of demands. sender intends to get it through. gal.
CHAIRMAN CHEERED
Two divisions of constables from Lan- The sender's address must not be Such s process and the rigid don Road station are affected but put on the letter.
censorship Imposed by the Gov- It is thought possible others will Such a letter must be put in an ernment are quite inevitable in walk out unless the conference unstamped and unsealed envelope war time. Although it causes
seeking a settlement is successful. "addressed to the intended reci- many inconveniences to letter sen-" plent and this original cover must ders yet it is alte justified in be placed in another envelope view of the checking of espionage, together with a memorandum con- according to authoritativa" circles. taining the full name and address SHANGHAI SERVICE AFFECTED of the sender, and an opened "ad- dressed envelope for the forward- Ing of any reply.
During the meeting Mr. James Turner, Chairman of the British Municipal Council, addressed, the strikers in Chinese.. They ap- The postal services between plauded his remarks, Hongkong and Shanghai are simi- Mr. Turner conferred with Mr. larly affected. The explanation J. S. Chwang. Vice-Chairman of 82 MUST BE ENCLOSED why a Shanghai mall would be the Council. The whole must be sent to delayed for more than ten days Nature of the strikers' demands Cook's in London. together with is that the censors would hold up has not been announced. It is be- $2 to "cover the postage of one a whole bag of mails in case one lieved the instigator was a envelope containing one communi- suspected mail is found in the acting as liaison officer of the Hsin cation to the neutral country, and bag.
Min Hul (New People's Party).
Crowds, including the families' of strikers, milled outside London Road police Station while the ne- gotiations were proceeding.
WEATHER REPORT¦
Royal Observatory, Hongkong. 10 am, November 8. Barometer, (at sea level), 29.91 ins. Temperature, 74 P.
Humidity, 89 per cent. Wind Direction. E.
Wind Force (Beaufort). 4. Temperature; maximum yesterday.
78 F
Temperature; minimum last night,
72 F.
Rainfall for 24 hrs, ending 10th
today, 1.09 ins.
Total rainfall since January 1st
116.70 img.
Against an average of, 82.57 ins. Sunset tonight, 5.45 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow, 6,29 “a.m
4 p.m., Nov. 3. Barometer (at sea level). 29.83 ins.
Temperature. 78. F.
Humidity. 89 per cent, Wind Direction, E.
Wind Force (Beaufort), 4. Maximum temperature, 78 F. Minimum temperature, 72 F. Rainfall, nil.
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE From 4 to 10 Nov. 1840.
HIGH WATER.
Hong
Kong
Days of
Data th
Standard
Time.
'Hu #
Heights
Low Water.
Hong
Kong
Standard
Height.
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GIRLS RESCUED
ship they of
man
Mr. H. Denis, Chief of Police, said: "Police sergeants and N.C.Q.'s are not involved and there is hope.. of a settlement as long as they do not get out of hand.".
BY POLICE
When officials boarded A in the harbour last week found on board three, giris the ages of 18, 19 and three."
FIREMEN CARRY ON Immediately after his statement They were in the charge
of the fire alarm sounded and the women who, it has been since
fire brigade turned out in force to learned, were taking the two discover it was a false alarm. No elder ones to Singapore to enter sooner had they returned to the a brothel,
station when they were again A man and two boys, the called out to the opposite section the of the Concession by another false latter having been sent to Po Leung Kuk, were also taken alarm. The fire brigade and a- not involved on shore from the ship. The man bulance services are has since escaped
in the strike.
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1940. —PAGE 101
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