Go Empress
ONE MANAGEMENT DIRECT to North America and Europe!
EMPRESS LUXURY
Speed across the Pacific by luxurious Empress-
liners, then wish ground.
•
Victoria
stop over if you and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen play-
NEXT SAILING FROM HONGKONG SECOND WEEK IN JULY (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 as 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 а quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Paci- fic's Atlantic fleet.
NEXT SAILING TO MANILA THE FIRST WEEK IN JULY
For Full Information Consult Your Travel
Union Building
Hong Kong
Telephone 20752
OR
Agent
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel System
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 19, 1940
POST OFFICE
Air mail letters will be accepted for, transmission to Europe by Pan- American Bervice to New York and onwards thence by sea, at $2.80 per half- ounce for the air transport, plus 18 cents per ounce to British possesslona and 25 cents per ounce to foreign countries in respect of sea transport.
An experimental sir service for Europe via United: Staton of America and Trans-Atlantio. Service has also been Introduced, the charge being $5 per half-ounce for letters and postcards $2.50 each. An approximate estim. ate of the time ocoupled in this transmission is twelve days from the date of departure of the Clipper from Hong Kong.
The postage rates via the revised Imperial Airways Service are un- changed.
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD MAILS
Japan
June 19.
Air Mail by "Air France Direct Service”—Paris date, 12th June Straits
June 19.
June 19.、
Shanghai
June 19,
Europe and Straits (London date, 1st May) Haiphong, Holhow and Fort Bayard
June 19.
June 19.
Sandakan
June 19.
Shanghai
June 19.
Calcutta and Straits
June 19.
U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai (San Francisco date,
24th May)
June 19.
Calcutta, Straits and Saigon
June 20.
June 20.
June 20.
June 20.
Formosa, Amoy and Swatow
June 20.
June 20.
Shanghai and Amoy
June 21.
London and Straits
June 21.
Japan, Shanghai and Formosa
June 21.
Shanghai
June 21.
Europe via Suez and Straits-London date, 10th May) Canton
June 22.
June 22.
Japan and Shanghai
June 22.
Japan and Shanghai
Canton
Manila
Straits
OUTWARD MAILS
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 16 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where malls are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 3 p.m. on the previous day.
For
Per WEDNESDAY
Shanghai, Japan, Honolulu, “U.S.A., Central and South America and Canada via San Francisco (No. Parcels for Canada)-and *Europe via San Francisco.
Par..
Reg.,
Date and Time.
G.P.O. & K.P.O. K.P.O.
Ord. ****
Tues., June 18, 5.00 p.m. Wed, June 19, 9.45 a.m.
Wed., June 19, 10.30 am.
K.P.O.
Wed., June 19, 5.00 p.m. Wed, June 10, 5.30 p.m.
PRESIDENT LINER
Sailings
HONG KONG to SINGAPORE direct
First week in July
HONG KONG to SAN FRANCISCO direct
Last Week in June.
** AMERICAN ✩ ✩ PRESIDENT LINES
“ ROUND-WORLD SERVICE,”
AGENTS FOR TRANSCONTINENTAL & Western air
AND UNITED AIR LINES
12, Pedder Street.
Telephone 28171.
Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran, and France (Paris and Northern Pro- vinces only) by the "Air France Airways Direct Service."
Reg.,
Ord.,
G.P.O.
Reg.,
..Wed, June 19, 5.00 p.m.
Straits
Fort Bayard and Hoihow
Shanghat, Japan, Honolulu, U.S.A., Central and South America and Canada via San Francisco and Europe via San Francisco. Straits and Calcutta
Fort Bayard
Shanghai
Haiphong
Saigon, Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South Africa and Europe via Marseilles.
Wed, June 19, 7.00 p.m. Wed., June 19, 7.00 p.m. June 19, 7.00 p.m.
G.P.O. & K:P:0.
Wed, June 19, 6.00 p.m.
Thur., June 20, 8.30 a.m. Thur., June 20, 10.30 am.
Letters, Thur, June 20, 1130 ́a.m. Thur., June:20, 12.30 p.m. Thur., June 20, 1.00 p.m. Thur., June 20, 2.00 p.m. G.P.O. & K.P.O. ́ ́.
.June 20, 2.45 p.m. .June 20, 3.30 p.m. June 20, 3.30p.m.
Ord.,
THURSDAY
Reg.,
Ord.,
Par,
Amoy and Shanghai
Fort Bayard
Reg.,
Ord.,
Superscribed correspondence only.
June 20, 3.30 p.m.
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
то
AUSTRALIA
CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND,
CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC. NEXT SAILING
END OF JULY, 1940.
IF YOU ARE TOO BUSY TO WRITE HOME
Just Post a Copy of the Overland China Mail which gives all the News there IS
Both Local and Coastal
For Freight or Passage, apply to
DON'T
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents
Hong Kong, China & Japan.
Tel. 30332
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