1940-08-10 — Page 12

NEW

Go Empress

ONE MANAGEMENT DIRECT to North America

and Europe!

"EMPRESS LUXURY

Speed across the Pacific by luxurious Empress

Victoria liners, then ...

stop over if you wish and Vancouver in Canada's Evergreen playground.

NEXT SAILING FROM HONG KONG

FIRST WEEK IN SEPTEMBER

(Omitting Honolulu)

Fast through AIR CONDITIONED trains from ship's side at Vancouver take you

the

through Majestic Canadian Rockies-Lake Louise, Banff-. 600 miles of travel through Marvellous 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 Sea- way, and a quick crossing to Europe by one of Canadian Pacific's Atlantic fleet.

NEXT SAILING TO MANILA THE LAST WEEK IN AUGUST

For Full Information Consult Your Travel Agent

Union Building

Hong Kong

Telephone 20752

S.

YORK

via

OR

Canadian Pacific

World's Greatest Travel System

Japan, Los Angeles and Panama, Call Direct at Cristobal, Boston, Philadel- phia and Baltimore RIO-DE-JANEIRO,

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG

TO CANCELLATION SUBJECT

Tosan Maru 22nd Aug.

SANTOS,

MONTEVIDEO & . BUENOS AIRES via Singapore, Colombo, Durban and Cape Town MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR, DAR- ES-SALAAM, BEIRA, LOU- RENCO MARQUES, DURBAN, ALGOA BAY, CAPE TOWN &

POST OFFICE

Small Packet Post to all countries in auspended.

AIR MAIL SERVICE

The air mail postage to U.S.A. and Canada by Pan-American Airways has Been Increased to $3.50 per 1⁄2 ounce with effect as from 2nd August. The air mail rates to other American coun tries etc. via Pan-American Airways have also been increased and a sche. dule of rates is exhibited in the Genera Post Office.

at

The following air mail services are

The present available to

United Kingdom:

By Imperial Airways to Durban and onwards by sea. (via Imperial tc Durban)

$1.15 par 2 oz

By Pan-American Airways to U.S.A

and onwards by Trans-Atlantic Air Service (via P.A.A. & Trans-Atlan tic).

$5.00 per 1⁄2 oz

By Pan-American Airways to U.S.A. and onwards by sea (via P.A.A, c U.S.A.).

$3.50 per 1⁄2 oz, plut

15 cents per oz.

. All air mall correspondence bear the blue air mail label.

INWARD MAILS

SATURDAY

Java and Manila Strails

U.S.A., Japan and Shanghai (Scattle

date, 9th July).

Straits

Japan and Shanghai

Japan, Shanghal and Formosa

Shanghai Salgon

SUNDAY

Japan and Shanghai Straits

London and Straits Sandakan

Shanghai and Amoy

FOR

DATE & TIME

OUTWARD MAILS

SATURDAY

Rabaul. Saigon, Madang. Salamaua.

Austraila and New Zealand via Sydney.

G.P.O. & K.P.O.

Parcels Reg.

Ord..

1.00 p.m. 2.45 p.m. 3.30 p.m. Straits, Ceylon, India, East and South, Africa, Lisbon and United Kingdom.

G.P.O. &.K.P.O.

Reg.

Ord,

5,00 p.m. 5.30 p.m.

Parcels only for Straits, Ceylon, India,

Lisbon and United Kingdom.

G.P.O. & K.P.O.

Parcels

4.00 p.m. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways Ser- Durban and vice" to Indo-China, thence by Sea Service to United King- dom.

Ord.

G.P.O. & K.P.O.

Reg.

5.00 p.m.

5.30. p.m.

Shanghai

5.30 p.m.

SUNDAY

Brasil Maru. 19th Sept.

Fort Bayard

9,00 a.m.

MONDAY

Amoy

8.30 a.m.

Shanghai

Haiphong

Shanghai

SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS via Arizona Maru 2nd Sept. Singapore & Colombo

BOMBAY & KARACHI via Sin- gapore, Penang and Colombo.. CALCUTTA via Singapore, Bela-

wan Deli & Rangoon

KEELUNG via Swatow & Ainoy CANTON.

FOR FULL

PARTICULARS

PHONE 28061 OR APPLY TO

Atlas Maru

9th Aug.

Kaisyu Maru Sirogane Maru 15th Aug. Sirogane Maru 21st Aug..

OSAKA SYOSEN KAISYA

PRESIDENT LINER

SAILINGS

To San Francisco and Los Angeles

Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu

S.S. PRESIDENT PIERCE

S.S. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE

$.3. PRESIDENT TAFT

To New York and Boston

August 29 September September 13

Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,

Bombay and Capetown

S.S. PRESIDENT HARRISON

8.S, PRESIDENT POLK

To Singapore & Penang

9.5. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, S.S: CITY OF LOS ANGELES ..

Fort Bayard

Bangkok

10,30 a.m.

:.. "Noon.

12.30 p.m.

12.30 p.m.

2.30 p.m.

"Superscribed Correspondence Only.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-

sion.

12.30 p.m.-B.B.C. Dance Orchestra and

The Street Singer.

1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Wea-

ther Report.

1.03.p.m.-Hungarian Folk Music by Nagyari Imre and His Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra.

1.15 p.m.-Songs by James Melton and;

Frances Langford.

1.30 p.m.-Reuter and Rugby Press. Weather Forecast and Announce- ments.

1.45 p.m.-Carroll Gibbons (Piano) and

His Boy Friends,

2.15 p.m.-Close Down.

6.00 p.m.-Beethoven "Kreutzer" Son- nta, Cortet (Piano) and Thibaud (Violin).

6.33 p.m.-Closing local Stock Quota-1

tions.

76.35 p.m.-Songs by Benlamino Gigli

August 20

(Tenor).

6.45 p.m.-London Relay-A North of

England Programme.

7.15 p.m.-Alfredo Campoll and

Orchestra.

His

7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.. September 29 8.03 p.m.-Light Opera Selections.

The London' Palladium Orchestra and Columbin Light Opera" Com- August 14

pany with Orchestra, August 278.27 p.m.-Chabrier-Cotillon

To San Francisco & Los Angeles 'Direct

*S.S. CITY OF SAN FRANCIsco,

• Via Yokohama.

September 3

** AMERICAN ☀ ★

PRESIDENT LINES

“ROUND-WORLD SERVICE,”

AGENTS FOR TRANSContinental AND WESTERN AIR and United AIR LINES 12, Pedder Street..

Telephone 28171.

-

Ballet Music.

London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati. p.m.-London Relay London

0.45

Log.'

9.00 p.m.-London Relay The News|

and Topical Talks,

9.45 p.m.-A. Variety Programme_with The Western Brothers, Ann Penn Murgatroyd and Winterbottom, Judy Garland, Max Kester with John de Grey, A and Bob Harvey, Arthur Askey, Steffani and Hle Silver Song- stero, Ethel Waters, and Elsie Car Hale.

11.00. p.m.-An hour of Dance Music by Ambrose, The Organ, The Dance Band and Mo, Tommy. Dorsey, Jack Hylton, Orquesta" Tiplea Francisco Canaro, The Casa Loma Orchestra, Red Nichols, Victor Silvester, Oscar Nabin, and Hal Kemp. 12,00, midnight-Close Downt

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1940

THE

BLUE FUNNEL

LINE

REGULAR AND FAST

FREIGHT AND

PASSENGER SERVICES

To UNITED KINGDOM PORTS

NEXT SAILING 2ND WEEK IN AUGUST

For dates and ports of call apply to Agents.

PACIFIC & NEW YORK SERVICES

Are maintained as hitherto.

Information regarding INWARD CARGO and all matters relating to freight and passage will gladly be given by

Tel. 30332

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,

AGENTS

1, Connaught Road, C.

TRAVEL A.-O. LINE

TO

AUSTRALIA

CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND,

CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC.

NEXT SAILING

MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER, 1940.

For Freight or Passage, apply to :—

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE

Agents

Hong Kong, China & Japan.

FOR:

Tel. 30332.

MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY

WEDDING GROUPS SPECIALITY.

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TEL. 28765