Steamers
· †BANGALORE
P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
(Companies Incorporated in England.)
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Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading for STRAITU, JAVA & DURMA, CEYLON FINDIA, TRANIAN GULF MAURITIUS, E. & 8. AFRICA, AUB- TRALASIA INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND) AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, RED SEA, EGYPT, EUROPE, ETC.
PENINSULAI & ORIENTAL, FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL, STEAMERS (Under Contract with IEM, Government.)
All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route, and the route and all Malling are subject to change or devielion with or without notice.
RAJPUTANA RANCHI +"BHUTAN
RANPURA *BEHAR
RAWALPINDI CHITRAL CORFU CANTON
Tons | From H'Kong about |
17,000 27th May. 17,000 | 10th June 0,000 17th June
17,000) 24th June 0,000] 1st July
17,000 | -8th July 15,000 22nd July 14,000 5th August 15,500-10th August
+ Calls Casablanco.
Destination
B'bay, M'seilles, Havre, L'don, [Hull, H'bg, R'dom & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Morsellies & London. B'bay, M'sellles, Havre, L'don, | Hull, "H’bg, N'dam & A'werp, Ebay, Minsellica & London, B'Bay, M'sciller, Havre, L'don, | Hull, H'bg, R'dam & A'werp, B'bay, Marseilles & London. B'bay. Marseilles & London. B'bay, Moracilles & London. B'bay, Marseilles & London. All vessels may call at Malta.
BRITISH INDIA APCAR BAILINGS (SOUTIL)
110,000 | 20 May, 10.30 a.m.) S'pore, Port Sweltenham,
0,000 20th Mar
• Cargo only.
TALMA
Penang Rangoon & Calcutta.
SIRDHANA
10,000 3rd June.
DO.
SHIRALA
8,000 17th June.
DO.
TILAWA
DO.
DO.
SANTHIA
10,000 1st July
8,000 18th July
1. I. Apcar Line Steamers have exçolient sccommodation for 1st and 2nd Clas PREPOTLE UTE,
TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN BAILINGS (BOUTIL)
7,000 3rd June.
7,000 30th June
7,000 4h Aug.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
& Hobart
Regular monthly sailings from Ilongkong to Shanghai and Japan and H'kong to Australia.
Hong Konk là Aydney-10 2.
BAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
(-17,000 26th May
17,000
7,000
8th June
TILAWA
[000'01
8th June
CHITRAL
15,000* 22nd June
• Cargo only.
Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
Agents
RANPURA
SHIRALA
*BEHAR -
NANKIN
RAWALPINDI
*SOUDAN
8,000 25th May
8,000 28th May
.7,000 5th June
8th June
Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan, Japan.
Shanghai & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without poties, Parcels
· measuring not more than 5 c.i.t, will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to galling.
For Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freight, etc., apply
E.&O. Bing MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone 27731
Connaught R.C
N.Y.K.
ELINE
BAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu.
Kamakura Maru (ex Chichibu Maru) Wednesday, 24th May
Asama Maru ...
Sunday, 11th June
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)
Hikawa Maru (From Kobe)
NEW YORK via Panaman
"Nostro Maru ...
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco,
Los Angelca, Mexico & Balboa to Valparaiso.
(Starts from Kobe, Convenient connection from Hongkong)
*Tatuno Maru (from Kobe) ....... Saturday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, NAPLES vla Suez.
BYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, Davao, Thursday Island and Brisbane
(Convenient connection from Hongkong).
Wednesday, 24th May,
Saturday, 27th May
27th May...
Terukuni Moru
Thursday,
18th May.
Hakusan Maru.
Haruna Muru
Saturday, Friday.
3rd June
17th June
Kama Maru
Saturday,
27th May
BOMBAY via Singapore & Colombo
*Zinzan_Marui
Friday,
28th May
Ginyo Maru
Friday,
0th June
KANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore
*Kaisyo Maru
Friday,
2nd June
KOBE & YOKOHAMA
Atuta Maru (direct Nagasaki)
Friday,
10th May
Katori Mar
Monday,
22nd May
Yasukuni Maru
Tuesday,
30th May.
Cargo only,
NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA General passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE
KING'S BUILDING
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PRESIDENT LINER
SAILINGS
'SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES
vis
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU
8 A "PRESIDENT PIERCE".
B 8 "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"
88 "PRESIDENT TAFT
B "PRESIDENT CLEVELAND"
.S "PRESIDENT PIERCE"
JS "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"
SAILS MAY- 19th at 12,01 a.m.
JUNE 3rd at 12.00 Noon
JUNE 18th at 12.01
0.12.
JUNE · SOŁK at 12.01 BAKI,
JULY 14th at 12.01
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JULY - 2011 at 10.00 a.m.
And fortnightly thereafter
NEW YORK'AND BOSTON VIA SUEZ
a "PRESIDENT HAYES”.
AS "PRESIDENT POLK",
SAILS MAY 20th at 12.00 Noon JUNE 9th at 12.00 Noon
And fortnigħlly" thereafter MANILA
毋奶奶好
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CLEVELAND":
JUNE · Oth`at "1.00 #1.XI. JUNE 0th at 12.00 Noon JUNE 23rd at 1.00
REL
DENT COOLIDGE" SAILS, MAY 26th Zat: 0,00 (plm.
TAFT" POLK"
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May 18, 1939.
PHOTONEW
Now that the Spanish war is over, long lines of civilians, as shown above, are returning to their homes. This scene was taken at a gate to Madrid, after Gen. Franco's forces took the cily."
President Albert Lebrun of France, who consented to seek re-election, after friends pero suaded him it would be for the good of the country. In the his- tory of the Third Repubile only Jules Grovy. In 1886, had over been re-elected. Term of office will be for the next seven years.
Speedbost records in England, France and Italy crashed as Mortimer Auerbach set five new world records, with his Emancipa- lor. VIL, at -Miami, Fla.;; Rècords were for 24 miles, 1 hour and 3 hours 4-litre class and 24 miles and 1 hour in unlimited class. Engine trouble halted further attempts.
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Lord Stanhope, First Lord of the British Admiralty, Scene in Madrid' as refugees return to find their former home destroyed, during the terrific bombardment who started a furoțe in London recently when he naively | to which the Spanish capital was subjected. Capital city
resisted 32 months of civil war.
revealed air-täid precautions taken by the British fleet,
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50 YEARS AGO
** May 16, 1889. 1. Court News-The Governor came down to-day and had a 'tooth-taken out.
The following petition, which speaki for itself, has been forwarded to Hla Excellency the Governor by a number of residents at the Peak
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Bangkok Batavia
Calcutta
Bombay
Hankow Xtartin Hongkong Ikolla
Rangoon
.Balgon
Beremban
Shanghai.
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Bingapore
Bitlawan
Karach
Agencies: Hlang.
Clive
Bireet
Fairlie
FLACO
Cawnpore
Canton
Cobu
The Undersigned, residants, at the Peak, and others' respectfully, beg to call the attention of the Government' to | "Alor the unsatisfactory state of the new, Amrifner drainage at the Poak. This now agu- tem, which was inaugurated towards the middle of last year, appears to per- petuate all the avil smells that exist in the lower levels of the town, The various roads Along which the under- ground sewage is carried, are thickly studded with ventilating traps and-the. air' around thesa venta is orlously contaminated – with “ the felld gases which ouchpo from the newars. Chil- dren are most liabļo to contract disease owing to the foul air reaching them in a concentrated form, while the tendency of children is to play around these openings. It is our earnest with that the Government will carefully consider the defecte that are apparent in the present system with the view to its suppression or the adoption of remedial measures. For it would be a crying evil it wo import to the higher levels the risks of disease that are so painfully apparent to the lower,
25 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1014, So much has been achieved already during the luat aizty years in shaking ourselves free of the tyranny of alcohol, writes Sir H. 1. Johnston in the Nine- teenth Century, that we may hupe, with no slackening of effort and no lack of martyrs in a good cause, a Anal victory will be achieved; and throughout, the wide world alcohol at any rate, above the strength of light wines and baers
-will be universally prohibited se an article of human consumption.
The brewera will have to turn much of their plant and capital to the manu- facture of ginger-beer and similar drinks containing a negligible quantity
of alcohol.
Koba Kuala
Kumpur Kuching Aadres
Manila
Medan
Pelping
Colombo 1 New York
Halphone Hamburg
(Peking)
Bourabaya Taiping Tion Win Tongkah
(huket)
Thingto
Yokohama
And
Penang FOREIGN EXCHANGE and General Banking. Unxinesa tranäacted. FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year
CURRENT_ACCOUNTS (opened or shorter perioda in Local or Other Cur rencics at rates which will be quoted on application.
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BAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in Local Currency and Sterling willi interest allowed at rates obtainable on application,
The Bank's Bend Office in London undertakes Incecator· Be Trustee' business, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, on forma which may be Ascertained at any of liz. Artencias Da Branches,
RA, CAMIDGE,
Manager
ORATORIO TO-NIGHT
Perosi's "Resurrection" At China Fleet Club
The performance of The Resur rection" by Lorenzo Perosi, which will take place to-night at the China Fleet Club Theatre, is an event being : 10 YEARS AGO..
looked forward to with exceptional Interest in musical circles. The fact May 18, 1920. that it is a work that has not been Owing to the continued drought it ndard here before and also that has been necessary to take steps to conserve
being which,
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while
the water supply on the 18 Island, The Finance Committeo has quite different from the usual type approved the purchase of Storage tanks of oratorio, has yet been universally from England, and expenditure en con- hailed as a masterpiece, lends it tingent works. Four tanks have been particular interest and makes dis obtained and greeted in the Western cerning critics anxious to hear it and part of the City at a cost of about $10,000 and are in operation.
5 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1034.
judge for themselves.
The performance will start at 9 p.m., in the presence of His Excel- Jency the Governor. Proceeds will be "Baer can beat Carners if he'll take devoted to the funds of the Emergen- care of himself," said Joan Willard, cy Refugee Council famous glant heavy-weight champion of the world from 1015 to 1910 when Jack). Dempsey told him low at. Toledo, Ohio,
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The Choral Group, under Mr. E. Gualdi, will be assisted by orchestra formed by Prof. E. G. The so-called Reich "fight tax" has Pelegatti. Rev. Fr. Rigant! will been drastically stiffened to provide a preside at the organ, which has been heary, though at present unspecified, lent by the Salesian Institute. Owing import on persons fearing the country to the indisposition of Miss Chan permanently,
Mei-lan, the chief soprano part will The new measure affects everybody be sung by Mrs. J. T. Choy. posacising fifty thousand marks, or enjoying an income of twenty thousand marks.
Social Items
Miss E. S. Atkins will speak ont "Conditions in Refugee Camps" at St. John's Fellowship meeting at the Cathedral ball at 3 pm. to-day.
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A re-union dinner of former mem- bers of the Chocolate House of the Central British School will be held In the School on May 20, at 8 p.m.
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Mrs. Clift wife of Dr. H. Lechmere Clift, has been a patient in the Qucen Mary Hospital since Monday, follow- ing an operation.
Miss Southgate of Hanwell, Middle- sex, wanted her wedding party to: be a jelly one, so the wedding was planned' as late as could be permitted |(8 pm.), and all guests were asked to come in full evening dress, reports our London correspondent,, A dance followed the reception.
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Mr. Kokichi Kiyoto, described as the only Japanese in the world who can call the President of Bolivia by his first name, is expected back in Japan
shortly on a sight-seeing tour with sister of the Bolivian President.. | his wife. Mrs. Klyoto is the elder
Australia Drinks
More Beer
-Canberra, Australia,
Thirst especially for beer-is", on
Seats may be booked at the office of the Emergency Refugee Council, Gloucester Building, first floor, be tween 9 a.m. and 5 pm: Admission 18.-Dress Circle $5, Auditorium $2. Every scat in the house may be reserved..
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Shanghai's. Undeclared War
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Shanghai Under Fire A de-luxe Pictorial Review of the SHANGHAI HOSTILITIES
Through Four Provinces Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury
with
Correspondents.
Ta Mei Pictorial.
(Bi-lingual)
on the present hostilities,
the Increase "down under" Aus- A Semi-Monthly Publication of 28 trajinns in 1938 dronk 10,000.000
pages moro gallons of beer than the year Photo news. previous. The jump was to 80,000,- 000 gallons, for the year, outd
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HOMEWARDS.
OUTWARDS,
To SHANGHAI, 'YOKOHAMA, KODE AND OBAKA.
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. 20th May
28th Juno
18th May
14th June
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CANTON SWATOW. Phone-11495.₫ Phone 1888.
HONGKONG
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