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REGULAR AND FAST PASSENGER SERVICES
FREIGHT AND
To UNITED KINGDOM PORTS
THREE WELL PLACED SAILINGS
IN FEBRUARY
For dates and ports of call apply to Agents
NEW YORK SERVICE
Occasional Sailings.
Information regarding INWARD CARGO
and all matters relating to freight
and passage will gladly be given by
Tel. 30982
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE,
FOR
AGENTS
1, Connaught Road, C.
MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY
THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1941.
MAILS THREE QUICK ONES, SO
Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended.
INWARD MAILB
SATURDAY
Rabaul and Manila. Canton
Swatow
A
SUNDAY
Australia and Manila,
WEDNESDAY
Air Mail by "Pan-American Airways Direct Service-San Francisco date, 15th January,
Java and Manila. Canton
Australia and Manila,
Sandakan
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
United Kingdom and Straits.
FOR
DATE TIME.
OUTWARD MAILB
SATURDAY
Air Mail by Air to Rangoon to connect with the "British Overseas Airways".
Reg
Ord,
Reg.
Ord.
K.P.D.
4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m.
G.P.O.
4.00 p.m. 4.30 p.m.
Air Mau by Sea to Singapore to connect with the "British Overseas Airways".
K.P.O. & G.P.O.
Reg.
Ord.
Shanghai,
Japan,
4.30 p.m. 5.00 p.m. Honolulu, U.S.A., Canada, Central and South America and *United-Kingdom via San Fran- cisco. (No Parcels for United King- dom).
Note: All Malls for United Kingdom will be forwarded with or without superscription.
Parcels
K.P.O.
4.00 p.m: 5.00 p.m.
DRINKS ON THE MAJOR
IT WAS "DRINKS on the Major for one battery of south-east A.A..gunners who bagged three Dorn. ier 17's inside one minute.
The bombers were blown to: pieces in mid-air.
Their destruction was a triumph for youth-the crews mainly con- sisted of Inds of nineteen and twenty.
The gunners described how the three Dorniers formed the spear- head of a squadron bound for Lon- don. They emerged suddenly from a cloud.
"The call to action stations cume,
said one of the gunners, "and we ran to the guns.
"The batch of Jerries came through the clouds at about 15,- 000ft., and we let it rip.
other two were falling in flames -the shells had burst close to them."
The Major's comment was "Ex- cellent marksmanship."
He explained. "The crew had been in operation were just getting a wink of sleep all night and when the alarm was given.
"We have a grand lot of chaps here, and the Jerries are getting a hot time, I can assure you."
Most of the men were Terri- torials before the war. The Ma- Jor's home is at Crayford.
Wreckage from the three "We were right on the targe: bombèrs was strewn over many The very first round blew the fields miles apart. The German leader to pieces with a direct bombers turned tail just after
Inside sixty Bcconds the this drubbing.
hit.
TRAVEL A.-O. LINE
TO
AUSTRALIA
CALLING AT MANILA, THURSDAY ISLAND,
CAIRNS, TOWNSVILLE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE, ETC.
NEXT SAILING
EARLY IN MARCH, 1941
For Freight or Passage, apply to:
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE
Agents
Reg.
Ord.
5.30 p.m
G.P.O.
Parcels
4.00 p.m.
Reg. Ord.
.5.00 p.m.
$.30 p.m.
Straits
5.00 p.m.
BUNDAY
Hong Kong, China & Japan.
Tel. 30332.
Cantort
5.00 p.m.
MONDAY
Manila, Batavia, › Mauritius, Lourenco Marques. and
South Africa via Durban... 8.30 a.m.
TUESDAY
Manila, Madang, Salamaua, Rabaul, Australia and New Zealand via
Sydney.
K.P.O. & G.P.O.
Parcels
1,00 p.m
Reg.
2.45 p.m.
3.30 p.m. 3,30 p.m.
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YOUR
FOLKS
ALL
WEDDING GROUPS SPECIALITY.
KING'S STUDIO
AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE USE
PRESIDENT
LINER
SAILINGS.
TEL. 29755
To San Francisco and Los Angeles
Via Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama & Honolulu
S.8. PRESIDENT. TAFT ...............
6.8 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
9.8, PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
To New York and BostonTM
January 19
February 5
February 22
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang, Colombo,
Bombay and Capetown
$.8. PRESIDENT MONROE 8.8. PRESIDENT GRANT 8.8. PRESIDENT JACKSON
TO MANILA
9.8, PRESIDENT CLEVELAND 8.8. PRESIDENT COOLIDGELIN 3.8. PRESIDENT. PIERCE" V
February
0
March 23 March 23
January 29 February 15 February 26
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