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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)
from
Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains ship's side at Vancouver take you through the Ma- jestic Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff-000 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 a 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 Agent
Unlon Building
Hong Kong
Telephone 20762
OR
Canadian Pacific
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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 24, 1940
POST OFFICE
Air mail letters will be accepted for transmission to Europe by Pan- American Service to New York and onwards thence by sea, at $2.80 por half- ounce for the air transport, plus 15 cents per ounce to British possessions and 25 cents per ounce to foreign countries in respect of sea transport.
An experimental air service for Europe via United States of America and Trans-Atlantic Service has also been introduced, the charge being $5 por half-ounce for letters and postcards $2.50 each. An approximate estim. ate of the time occupied in this transmission is twelve days from the date of departure of the Clipper from Hong Kong.
The postage rates via the revised Imparial Airways Service are changed.
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD MAILS.
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Service"
Shanghai and Amoy
Saigon
Canton
Saigon
Shanghai
U.S.A., and Manila- (San Francisco date, 29th May) Shanghai and Amoy
Shanghai
Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways Direct Service"-San
Francisco date, 18th June
Calcutta and Straits
Haiphong
London and Straits
Java and Manila Manila
Japan and Manila Bangkok
Air Mail by "Air France Airways Service Canton
OUTWARD MAILS
un.
June 24.
June 24.
June 24.
June 24.
June 24.
June 24.
June 25.
June 25,
June 25.
June 26.
June 26.
June 26.
June 26.
June 26.
June 28.
June 26.
June 20.
June 26.
June 27.
Registered and Parcel Mails are closed 15 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 malls are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.
For
Straits (Parcels only)
Straits, Rangoon and Calcutta.
Date and Timo.
June 24, 5.00 p.m. June 24, 5.00 p.m. .June 24, 7.00 p.m.' June 24, 7.00 p.m. Mon., June 24, 7.00 p.m.
Tues., June 25, Noon. Tues., June 25, 12.30 p.m. Tues., June 25, 12.30 p.m. Tues., June 25, 3.00 p.m. Tues., June 25, 5 p.m. Tues., June 25, 6.30 p.m.
K.P.O.
Por
MONDAY
Parcels, Ord.,
Canton
`anghai
TUESDAY
Haiphong
Shanghai
Fort Bayard, and Hoihow
Haiphong
Parcels only for Tientsin
Saigon
Air Mail for "Imperial Airways-Ser- vice" to Durban and thence by Sea Service to United-Kingdom.
Reg.,
.Tues., June 25, 5.00 p.m.
Ord.,
Tues., June 25, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
Reg.,
Ord.,
Tues., June 25, 5.00 p.m. ....Tues., June 25, 7.00 p.m.
Reg.,
K.P.O.
..Tues., June 25, 5.00 p.m. Ord......Tues., June 25, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
Reg.,
Ord.,
Straits, Ceylon and India
Amoy and Shanghai Shanghai
Tues., June 25, 5.00 p.m. .Tues., June 25, 7.00 p.m. Tues., June 25, 7.00 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
Tues., June 25, 7.00 p.m.
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Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu, U.S.A., and Europe via "Pan American Airways and Trans-At- lantic Services,'
Reg.,
Ord.,
Wed., June 26, 1.30 p.m.
K.P.O.
Wed, June 26, 5.00 p.m. ...Wed, June 26, 5.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
Reg., Wed., June 26, 5.00 p.m. Ord.,
...Wed., June 20, 7.00 p.m.
Superscribed correspondence only.
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.
IF YOU ARE TOO-BUSY TO WRITE HOME — DON'T. Just Post a Copy of the Overland China Mail which gives all the News there IS
Both Local and Coastal
Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- tralia by the "Imperial Airways Service."
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
TO
AUSTRALIA
CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND, CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC. NEXT SAILING
END OF JULY, 1940.
For Freight or Passage, apply to :- BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents
Hong Kong, China & Japan.
Tel. 30332-
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