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 optional routes on your coast-to-coast trip. Stop over anywhere you wish.
as
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
Union Building
Hong Kong
Telephone 20752
OR
Travel Agent
Canadian Pacific
World's Greatest Travel System
PRESIDENT LINER
Sailings
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 1, 1940
POST OFFICE
GENERAL HOLIDAY-
On Monday, the 1st July, the General Post Office and Kowloon Central Post Office will be open from 8 am.' to noon, Sheungwan Branch Post Office will be open from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and the other Branch Post Offices will be entirely closed.⠀⠀
There will be..one collection from the pillar boxes as on Sundays, one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11.30 a.m. and one delivery of regis tored correspondence at 11. a.m.
There will also be one delivery of ordinary correspondence at 11 a.m. from the Branch Post Offices at Stanley, Taipo and Un Long.
The Money: Order Office will be entirely olosed.
Smail Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD MAILS
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Service"
Japan and Manila
Shanghai
Shanghai
Haiphong
Palembang Straits Amoy
Saigon
Shanghai
Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways Direct Service-San
Francisco date, 25th June
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July 2.
Shanghai
July 2.
Haiphong and Hoihow
July 2.
Canton
July 3.
Air Mail by "Air France Airways Service
July 3.
July 3.
Shanghai
July 3.
U.S.A. and Manila (San Francisco date, 11th June) Air Mail by "Imperial Airways Service"
July
July
Formosa, Amoy and Swatow
July 4.
Canton
July 4.
Canada, U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai-(Vancouver B.C., 15 June).. Bangkok and Saigon
July 4.
July 5.
Shanghai
July 6.
· Rabaul
OUTWARD MAILS
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 maila are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.
For
Bangkok
Por MONDAY
Date and Time.
July 1, Noon. July 1, Noon.
July 1, 5.00 p.m.
July 2,8:30 am. July 2, 12.30 p.m. July 2, 1.30 p.m. July, 2, 3.30 p.m. K.P.O.
.July 2, 5.00 p.m. .July 2, 5.30 p.m.
July 2, 5.00 p.m.
Straits
Canton
TUESDAY
Manila, Batavia and Sourabaya Shanghai and Parcels only for Tientsin. Mauritius and Lourenco Marques Manila
Air Mail for Malaya, Java and Aus- tralia by the "Imperial Airways Service."
Reg.,
Ord.,
G.P.O.
Reg.,
Ord.,
.July 2, 7.00 p.m.
Air Mail for Manila, Guam, Honolulu,' U.S.A. and Europe via "Pan-Ameri can Airways and Trans-Atlantic Services."
K.P.O.
Reg... Ord.,
Reg.,
Ord.,
WEDNESDAY
Amoy
HONG KONG to SINGAPORE direct
Air Mail for Indo-China, Iran and France by the “Air France Airways.”
Reg.,
Ord.,
Reg.,
Ord.,
July 2, 5.00p.m. .July 2, 5.30 p.m. G.P.O.
July 2, 5.00 p.m. July 2, 7.00 p.m.
July 3, 12.30 p.m. K.P.O.
July 3, 5.00 p.m. .July 3, 5.30 p.m.
.July 3, 5.00 p.m. ....July 3, 7.00 p.m. July 3, 7.00 p.m.
• Superscribed correspondence only.
.G.P.O.
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
Straits
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. 30382
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