Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 18, 1939
P & O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
(Companies Incorporated in England.).
Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading for STHAITH, "SÁVAČE BURMA, AUB- CEYLON, INDIA, IRANIAN GULE, MAURITIUS, E. & B. AFRICA,
PONTA THALABIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND • QUEENSLAND RED BEN EGYPT. EUROPE, ETC.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL, FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS
(Under Contract with M, Governmeni.)
"All wesela 'may call at any ports on or off the route, and the route and ali salting are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
Steamer **BANGALORE
RAJPUTANA RANCHI
· **BHUTAN
RANPURA *BEHAR
Tons | From H'Kong about
0,000, 20th May
17,000 27th May. 17,000 10th Juno 8,000 17th June 17,000 24th June 0,000 1st July
8th July 17,000 16,000 22nd July 14,000 6th August
Destination
B'bay, Maeilles, Havre, L'don, Hail, H'bg. R'dom & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marsellies & London. A'bay, Mseilles, Havre, L'don, Hall, H'bg, R'dam & A'werp. B'bay, Marseilles & London. B'Bay, M'scilles, Havre, Ldon, Hull, H'bg, R'dam & A'werp, B'bay, Marseilles & London. B'bay, Marseilles & London. 'bay, Marseilles & London. B'boy, Marsellles & London. All vessels may cali at Malta
PHOTONEWS
RAWALPINDI
CHITRAL
CONFU
CANTON
• Cargo only. † Calls Casablanca.
15,000 10th August
BRITISH INDIA APCAR SAILINGS (SOUTIL)
TALMA
10,000; 20 May, 10.30 a.m.; S'pore,
Port
Sweltenham, Penang Rangoon & Calcutta.
SIRDHANA
10,000
3rd June.
DO.
SHIRALA
DO.
TILAWA
DO.
SANTHIA
DO.
8,000 17th June,
10,000 1st July
8,000 15th July
B. L. Apear Line Steamery have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd Class
EASTERN & AVSTRALIAN SAILINGS (SOUTIL)
TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE
7,000 3rd June.
7,000 30th June
7,000 4h Aug.
Manlis, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Hobart
Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Shanghai and Japan and Ii'kong to Australia.
RANTURA
SHIRALA
NANKIN
Hong Kong to Bydney-10 days. BAILINGS TO BIANGHAI & JAPAN.
17,000₫ 25th May
0,000 25th May
donn 20th May
*BEHAR
7,000 5th June
RAWALPINDI 17,000 8th June
*SOUDAN
TILAWA
CHITRAL
7,000 8th June
1000'01 8th June
Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
• Cargo only.
15,000 22nd June
Shanghal & Japan. Shanghai & Japan. Shanghai & Japan. Shanghal & Japan. Japan.
Shanghai & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. Parcola measuring not more than 8 c£t, will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to waiting.
For Passage Rates, Handbooks, Freight, etc., apply
&& MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone 27721
Connaught R.C.
N.Y.K.
BAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu
Agents
LINE
Kamakura Mary (ex Chichibu Maru) Wednesday, 24th May Sunday, 11th June Assma Maru ...
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)
Hikawa Maru (From Kobe)"
NEW YORK via Panama
*Nosiro Maru
(Convenient connection from Hongkong).
Wednesday, 24th May.
Saturday, 27th May
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) vin Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco,
Los Angeler, Mexico & Balboa to Valparaiso.
(Starts from Kobe, Convenient connection from Hongkong) *Tatuno Maru (from Kebe).......... Saturday,
LONDON, MARSEILLES, NAPLES via Suez.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, Davao, Thursday Island and Brisbane
BOMBAY via Singapore & Colomba
Terukuni Maru
Hakusan Maru
Haruna-Maru
Kama Maru
*Zinzan Maru
.:
Glayo
Maru
*Kalayo Maru
KOBE & YOKOHAMA
Atuta Maru (direet Nagusak!)
Katori Maru
Yasukuni Maru
RANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore
27th May
Thursday,
18th May.
Saturday,
3rd June
Friday,
17th June
Saturday, 27th May
Friday, Friday..
26th May
9th June
Friday,
2nd June
Friday,
19th May
Monday,
22nd May
• Cargo only,
Tuesday, 30th May.
NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA
Generol passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE
KING'S BUILDING
TEL. 30291.
PRESIDENT LINER
SAILINGS
SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES
via
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU
6 S PRESIDENT. PIERCE"
IDENT COOLIDGE"
DENT TAFT"
ENT CLEVELAND”
FIERCE
ENT. COOLIDGE"
SAILS
100 at 12.01. a.m. MAY JUNE 3rd at 12.00 Noon JUNE 16th at 12.01 am JUNE 201 at 12.01 1.10. JULY 14th at 12.01 JULY 29th at 10.00
And fortnightly thereafter ·
NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA SUEZ
SPRESIDENT HAYES!
S "PRESIDENT. POLK”
8 9
B.D. a.m.
SAILS MAY 28th at 12.00 Noon JUNE 9th at 12.00 Noon
And fortnightly thereafter MANILA
DENT COOLIDGE" SAILS MAY · 26th; at: 9.00 pm.
IDENT TAFT"
DENT POLKO
DENT, CLEVELAND"
JUNE 9th at 1.00 a.m. JUNE
9th at 12.00 Noon JUNE 23rd at 1.00 a.m.
AMERICAN
PRESIDENT LINES
Now that the Spanish war is over, tour lines of clyfflana,'as shown above, are returning to their homes. This scene was taken at a gate to Madrid, after Gen, Franco's forces took the city.
President Albert Lebrun of France, who consented to seek re-election, after friends per suaded him . would be for the good of the country. Th the his- tory of the Third Republic only Jules Gravy, in 1886, 'had ever been re-elected. Term of 'office, will be for the next seven years.
Speedboat recorda in England, France and Haly crashed as Mortimer Auerbach set five new world records, with his Emancipa- tor VII; at Miami, Fla. Records were for 24 miles, 1 hour and 3 hours in Hitre class and 24 miles and 1 hour in unlimited claka. Engine trouble halted further attempts.
UFS
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 furore in London recently 'when he naively to which the Spanish capital was sublected. Capital city
revealed air-raid precautions taken by the British fleet, realsted 32 months of civil war.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
STEAMSHIPS.
HÓTELS --
- RAILWAYS -EXPRESS.
TO HONOLULU, CANADA, UNITED
and EUROPE
vis Shanghai, Naganski, Koba & Yokohama KMPRESS OF ASIA via Honolulu ... EMPRESS OF CANADA via Honolulu EMPRESS OF RUSSIA EMPRESS OF JAPAN via Honolula
Kill Kidney
Trouble Quick
Thousands of sufferers from Kidney trouble and Bladder weakness_hava topped Getting Up Nights, Leg Pains. Ciroler Under Swollen Ankies,
STATESousness, Bitterness, Fungupation, Die-
..7.00 am, Fri, May 20. .....Noon, FL, June 9, ,7.00 a.m., Fri, June 23. ....Noom, Fri., July 7.
Air-conditioned equipment on C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains Frequent Canadian Pacifle Atlantic, sailings to European Ports
TO MANILA
EMPRESS OF ASIA EMPRESS OF CANADA
Union
Telephone 28171.
Building
GROUNDS WORLD SERVICES
12, Pedder-Street
.5.00 p.m., Thurs., May 18,-
Fri, June E.
Canadian Pacific
Telephone 20752,
Loss
Imer, Acidity Burning Itchler. Smart- "Oyster (üles- for new discovery called our by a Doo #79-2dently sooth, tones, cleans, and "In 16 mingtas heale, raw sore
vitality to 48 hours.
ZON health Youth or troubles in a GAYA Crater atseta pune bones blood. Briars Guaranteed end ; or money back. Get Cystox at sit chemisis
THE "TELEGRAPH” will send a Staff Photographer to all events of public. interest. Requests should be addressed to the Pictorial. Editor.
A Look Through. The - "Telegraph”
50 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1889. Court Now:-The Governor down to-day and 'had a tooth taken out.
The following petition, which speake for Relf, has been forwarded, to· His Excellency the Govarnar by a number of residenta at the Peak
BANKS
F THE CHARTERED BANK" (OF
·
INDIA;¦'AUSTRALIA & & CHINA.
Pést, Incorporated by Royal Charter 3853
Paid-up Capital
Reserva Labinty of, Proprietors £3,000,00
3,00
HEAD=OPPICAIN LONDON. 75, DishapeɛRES. 1.0.1 BassAgencies in Londoni?: 117/1224) Langpahati Etreet, 2, 0, 1 (Wash kad, neanchi 14/18, Cockayne, Sérent," K‚W.1.'
Jay Stanchacter. Branchi-
12. Mouley Btroot, Manchester, 2. AGENCIES AND BRANCEBE:
The Undersigned, residents at the Peak, and others respectfully: bog to call the attention of the Government to Alor Star
Amritsar the unsatisfactory 'state of the now drainage at the Peak. This new sys- Bangkok tem, which was inaugurated towards the Batayla
Bombay middle of last year, appeara, to, por-
Calcutta petuata all the evil smells that oxist In the lowar, Jayols of the tows. The Yarious ronda njong which the under- ground Bowage is carried, are thickly studded with ventilating traps and the air around those rehta I seriously contaminated with the fotld gesen
Hankow... Harbin
Hongkong
Hantoon
Balkon
Beremban. Shanghai
Макарога
Bilawan
· Išalto .............
Tpob Karachi
Agencies:
Klang
Cilvera
Koba
Bourabaya Telping
Btreat'
Tight
Taiello
Zur
Tongkah
Place
Canton Cawnpore Cebu Colombo Dalhi
Kuching Modras
(Phuket)
Manila Modan
Yokohama
New York Potping
which escape from the newers, Chi!- dren are most liable to contract diseas owing to the foul air reaching them Kaiphans - (Peking).... -in-concentrated farm, whlin.the.Hamburg Ponang SAR
Landency of children is to play around FOREIGN EXCHANGE ́and "Gentral these openings. It is our earnest wish Banking Business transacted.
CURRENT ACCOUNTS opened and that the Government will carefully FIXED DEPOSITS received for One Year consider the defects that are apparent or shorter periods in Local or Other Cur in the prosent system with the viewrencies at Taics which will be quoted on to its uppression or the adoption of application, remedial measures. For It would be a SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in crying evil if we import to the higher Local Currency and Sterling with interest lovel the risks of disease that are so allowed at rates obininable on application. palafully apparent to the lower.
25 YEARS AGO.
May 18, 1914. So much has been achieved already during the last sixty years in shaking ourselves free of the tyranny of alcohol, writes Sir H. H. Johnston in the Nine- teanth Century, that we may hope, with no slackening of effort and no lack of martyrs in a gond enuse, a final victory will be achieved; and throughout the
The Bank's' Head Office" in London undertakes. Execular "& Trusted business. and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid,” on-terma ^which “may be ascertained at any of its Agencies Branches.
I A CAMIDOR.
Manager
ORATORIO TO-NIGHT
wide world alcohol at any rate, above Perosi's "Resurrection" At
the strength of light wines and booru will be universally prohibited as an article of human consumption,
The brewers will have to turn" much,, of their plant and capital to the many-] facture of ginger beer and similar deinks containing a negligible quantity
of alcohol
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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 looked forward to with exceptional
that has not been Owing to the continued drought it heard here before, and also, that it has been necessary to take steps to
one which; while being conserve the water supply, on the
10 YEARS AGO "
May 18, 1920,
interest in bed circles. The fact
that it is a
island. The · Finance Committen has quite different from the usual type approved the purchase of Storage tanks of oratorio, has yet been universally from England, and expenditure on con- halled as a masterpiece, lends It tingent works. Four tanks have been particular interest and makes dis- obtained and erected in the Western cerning critics anxious to hear it and part of the City at a cost of about judge for themselves. $10,000 and are in operation.
5 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1034,
The performance will start at 9 p.my in the presence of His Excel- lenty the Governor. Proceeds will be "Bxer can beat Carnera if he'll take devoted to the funds of the Emergen- Care of himself,” said Jess Willard,} cy Refugee Council. famous giant heary-weight champion of the world from 1916 10-1919 when Jack
Dempsey laid how at Toledo, Ohio.
The Choral Group, under Mr. E. Gualdi, will be assisted by
G. orchestra formed by Prof. E.
The so-called Reich "flight tax" has Pelegati. Rev. Fr.. Riganti will been drastically stiffened to provide a preside at the organ, which has been heavy, though at present unspecified, lent by the Salesian institute. Owing impost an persons leaving the country, to the indisposition of Miss Chan permanently..
Mei-lan, the chief soprano part will The new vicarure affects everybody be sung by Mrs. J. T. Choy. possessing fifty thousand marks, or enjoying an income of twenty thousand marks.
Social Items
Miss E. S. Atkins will speak on "Conditions in Refugee Camps" ct St. John's Fellowship meeting at the Cathedral hall at 3 pm. to-day.
A re-union dinner of former mem- bors-of-the-Chocolate-House of the Central British School will be held In the School on May 26, at 8 p.m.
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Mrs. Clift wife of Dr. H. Lechmore Clift, has been a patient in the Queen Mary Hospital since Monday, follow- ing an operation.
Miss Southgate of Hanwell, Middle- sex, wanted her wedding party to be a jolly one, so the wedding was planned as late as could be permitted (0 p.m.), 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
Seats may be booked at the office of the Emergency Refugee Council, Gloucester, Building, Arst floor, be tween 8 am and 5 pm. Admission LaDress Circle $5, Auditorium $2. be Every seat in the house may reserved.
ON SALE AT BREWER'S BOOK SHOP Alexandra Bldg., Des Voeux Rd. Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury
China's Leading Evening. Dally
Shanghai Sunday Mercury
Shanghai's. Undeclared War
A Permanent Souvenir of the SHANGHAI HOSTILITIES
Shanghai Under Fire
Birst name, is expected back in Japan A de-luxe Pictorial Review of the shortly on a sight-seeing tour with
his wife. Mrs. Kiyoto is the elder sister of the Bolivian President.
Australia Drinks
More Beer
Canberra, Australia.
Thirst--especially for beer-son
SHANGHAI HOSTILITIES
Through Four Provinces
Be with Shanghal Evening Post & Mercury Correspondents.
Ta Mei Pictorial
-. (Bi-lingual):
the increase "down under Aus-A Semi-Monthly Publication of 28 tralians in 1938 drank 10,000,000 pages on the present hostilities,
more gallons of beer than the year Photo news. previous. The jump was, to 80,000,-
000 gallons for the year.
THE
SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC
SERVICE OF FAST MOTOR VESSELSANA A(with Ihmlted, but exceptionally good passenger socommodation). TO ADEN, PORT SUDAN, 'PORT `SAID. Algiers,- ORAN, CASABLANCA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, « (AMSTERDAM), HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, OSLO, GOTILENBURG and other
*ge SCANDINAVLAN PORTS.
HOMEWARDS..
M.V. #TAMARA"" M.V. "NANKING”.
OUTWARDS.
Balling about
„2012 May .28th June
TO SHANGHAI, YOKOHAMA, KODE AND OSAKA.
ALY. "NANKING”.
ALY. "PEIPING"
· Passenger Rates:
To London or Antwerp- Agents: GILMAN & CO, LTD,
HONGKONG
Phone 30908.
18th MAY .14th Juno
£63, 0, 0.
AUG. E, HUXGEN
CANTON -- SWATOW. Phone 11425, Phone: 1028.