P2O BRITISH INDIA· APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS TAKING CARGO FOR
Straits, Java, Burma, Ceylon, India, Persian Gulf, Mauritius, East and South Africa, Australia, Red Sea, Egypt, Europe. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS
and the route
UNDER CONTRACT WITH H.M. GOVERNMENT All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route and all sailings are subject to change or deviation with or without notice.
PENINSULAR
ORIENTAL SAILINGS
&
From
S.S.
Tons Hong Kong
About
RANPURA
17,000
15th May
*MIRZAPORE.. *SOMALI
7,000
28th May
7,000
22nd May
CORFU
"BANGALORE..
NALDERA
CARTHAGE
*BHUTAN
RANCHI
* Cargo. only.
RAWALPINDI. 17,000 29th May
14,500 12th June 6,000 19th June
16,000 26th June 14,500 10th July 6,000... 17th July
17,000 24th July
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Bombay & Karachi. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
R'dam, A'werp and Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, L'don Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
+ Calls Casablanca. all vessels may call at Malta.
BRITISH INDIA
ADCAR
§ Calls Tangler.
SAILINGS
POST
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 11, 1937.
OFFICETE
GENERAL HOLIDAY
On Wednesday May 12, the General Post Office, Kowloon Central Post Office and all Branch Post Offices will be open from 7.30 a.m. to noon for the sale of Coronation Stamps and other business except Money Orders!
There will be one collection from the pillar-boxes and one delivery or or- dinary correspondence as on Sundays and one delivery of registered corres- pondence at 11 am.
All letters bearing Coronation Stamps posted in the ordinary posting boxes at General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office only, before Midnight, Wednesday 12th, will be date-stamped May 12
POSTAL ANNOUNCEMENT
Public are reminded that the postage on Printed Papers, Commercial Papers, Samples and Small Packets must be fully prepaid. prepaid Printed Papers etc., are not forwarded.
VIA SIBERIA ROUTE
Letters, Postcards and Samples for Europe and South forwarded "via Siberia” if so superscribed.
Insufficiently
May 11.
May 11.
May 11.
Airways Pan-American Airways, Plane May 11,
INWARD MAILS
Japan Japan
Hakodate Máru
Kutsang
Amoy
Nanchang
Air Mail by
"Imperial
Direct Service”—London date, 1st
May. Australia and Manila
Taiping
Calcutta, Straits and Europe via Ne- gapatam Letters and Papers London 8th April.
Talma
OUTWARD MAILS
May 11.
May-11.
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m, on the previous day.
For
Straits and Calcutta
Manila, Makasser and Sourabaya
Parcels ... ... .. May 11, 4 p.m. Air Mail for Canton and Districts.
Per
Tuesday
Tilawa
Ord., Tjinegara C.N.A.C. Plane
Reg.,
Ord.,
Tilawa
Ord.,
Date and Time.
Tues., May 11. .May 11, 5 p.m.
Tues., May 11, 8.30 a.m.
Tues., May 11.
G.P.O. and K.P.O.
May 11 Noon. May 11, 12.30 p.m. Tues., May 11. May 11, 6-p.m. Tues., May 11,
Straits and Calcutta
Parcels
May 11, 4 p.m. Air Mail for Swatow, Amoy, Foochow C.N.AC. Plane
and N. China (via Shanghai).
Sheungwan P. O
Reg. Ord.,
May 11 5 p.m. May 11,7 p.m.
G. P. O.
TILAWA
SANTHIA
10,000 8,000
12th May
22nd May
TALMA
.10,000
5th June Singapore,
SIRDHANA
8,000
19th June
SHIRALA
8,000
3rd July
Port Penang, Rangoon
Swettenham,
Calcutta.
Now is the time to visit, Australia & New Zealand
lands of Sunshine and Romance, "Down Under" you will feel a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you---including 25/- for your pound.
Frequent connection from Australia with the following:-
The Canadian Australian Line to the United Kingdom via New Zealand. Vancouver, etc.
The P. & 0. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal,
E OSTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE
BANGALORE,
TALMA.
SIRDHANA.
NALDERA
Reg. Ord...
Reg. Ord.,
K. P. O.
May 11, 5 p.m. May 11, 5.30 p.m.
Wednesday
Bangkok via Swatow Foochow via Swatow Manila
Amoy
Chekiang Newchwang Pres. Lincoln Taiyuan
Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A., Asama Maru
Central and South America, *Can- ada and *Europe via San Francisco, and Europe via Siberia.
(Due San Francisco, 2nd June)
Reg. Ord
Thursday
Shanghai, Japan and *Europe via Corfu
Siberia Straits and Calcutta
Ord., Shanghai
May 13, Noon.
Kutsang
Parcels Gneisenau
May 11, 5 p.m. May 12, 5 a.m.
Wed., May 12, 8.30 am. Wed., May 12, 8.30 a.m. Wed., May 12, Noon. Wed., May 12, Noon. Wed., May 12,
May 11, 5 p.m. May 12, 8.80 a.m.
Thurs., May 18. 10.30 a.m.
Thurs., May 13. May 13, 11 a.m. Thurs., May 13, 2.30 p.m.
BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY SERVICE
7,000
4th June
Pacific
7,000 7,000
2nd July Manila, Rabaul, 81st July Melbourne & Hobart.
Brisbane, Sydney
SAN FRANCISCO
CORFU.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
Cargo only.
6,000
10,000
· 14,500, 8,000 16,000
18th May Shanghai & Japan 13th May Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. 13th May Shanghai and Japan. 27th May Amoy, Shanghai and Japan. 27th May Shanghai & Japan
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