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Speed across the Pacific by luxurious Empress
Victoria liners, then
stop over if you wish.
...and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen play- ground.
NEXT SAILING FROM HONGKONG SECOND WEEK IN JUNE
(Omitting Honolulu)
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from. ship's side at Vancouver take you through the Ma- jestic Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff-600 miles - of travel through Marvelous Mountain Scenery. Niagara Falls and the Great Lakes can be included 88 · optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you wish.
Then Montreal and Quebec, gay French-speaking cities on the famous St. Lawrence Seaway, and Є quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Paci- fic's Atlantic fleet.
NEXT BAILING TO MANILA THE FIRST WEEK IN JUNE.
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OR
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NEXT SAILING
EARLY IN JUNE, `1940.
For Freight or Passage, apply to :-
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"EARLIEST WITH THE LATEST"
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 6, 1940.
MOBILISATION
OF BRITAIN'S LABOUR RESOURCES
London, To-day.
MR. C. R. ATTLEE, DEPUTY LEADER of the House, an- nounced in the Commons that the Ministry of Labour had made an order regulating the engagement of work- ers in the engineering and building industries and of male workers in agriculture and coal mining.
Object of the order is to enable labour resources to be direct-
ed to points where the needs are most urgent.
SOUTH AFRICA APPLAUDS B.E.F. FEAT
London, To-day. Congratulations have been cabled to Mr. Winston Chur- chill by General Smuts, South Africa's Premier, on the feat of successful with- drawal from Flanders.
General Smuts' message ran: "On behalf of the Government and people to. of the Union I wish to convey you our sincerest congratulations op. the unparallelled feat of evacuating the entire BEF from Dunkirk in the face of vastly superior forces.
"The Army, Navy and Air Force which shared in a performance, of South Africa, with the rest of the Commonwealth, is justly proud, and British South Africans salute their
we comrades on a triumph which trust and pray will presage the final victory."
Mr. Churchill has telegraphed his thanks to General Smuts encouraging words.--Reuter.
for
STOCK EXCHANGE EASIER
London,. To-day.
his
On the Stock Exchange yesterday, Sir industrials improved early on Kingsley Wood's: anouncement that would the Dividend Limitation Bill be dropped.
The gains were not fully held owing to lack of support in late trading.
to Gilt-edged were unchanged fractionally easier. Other groups; were generally slightly lower, Wall Street: easy.---Reute
AUSTRALIAN OFFER
Canberra, To-day. Mr. Thorby, the Minister of Health, has proposed that Australia should establish an organisation to "care for sick and wounded Allied soldiers in order to relieve British hospitals. Reuter.
The order, which was issued under the Emergency Powers Regulation, comes into effect as from June 10.
The order makes it an offence for an employer to engage a man other- employment wise than through an exchange or through an approval Trade Union arrangement, or to en- gage a man normally employed in any of those trades for work in other trades.
Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of La- bour, announced he had received the support of both Unions and em. ployers in issuing the new order. He hopes in a few days to announce
the creation of an Industrial Board to advice him upon problems arising from the big transfer of population which may be involved-Reuter..
BOMBING OF HOSPITAL SHIPS
LONDON, TO-DAY.. REPLYING TO A QUESTION, IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, SIR VICTOR WARRENDER, FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE ADMIRALTY, SAID THAT SINCE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR, NINE BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIPS HAD BEEN BOMBED, SHEL- LED OR MACHINE-GUNNED BY THE GERMANS.
They had been attacked despite the vessels' distinctive and unmistakable markings.
Some were bombed more than once. The "Atlantis" was bombed five times. in Norwegian. waters...
The only one to be sunk was the "Paris", which went down on June 2, and but the "Brighton", was holed ran aground, and, "The Mald of Kent" was set on fire-Reuter.
ALLIED CONTROL OF VITAL PRODUCTS
London, To-day. Allied colonial empire co-ordination has given us virtual control of world production of nickel, Jute, shellac, coir, groundnuts, rubber, tin, diamonds, palm oil, sisak, kapok, tea and many tanning materials, while we have a high measure of control over mica, copra and wool-Reuter.
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