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HONGKONG.CANTON & MACAO STEAMERS

JOINT SERVICE OF THE HONGKONG.CANTON EMAÇÃO STEAMBOAT CO LTD THE

CHINA NAVIGATION CO.,LTD

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CANTON LINE

WEEKLY SAILING

THE

SHORT

SAFE

SEA

WAY

by the

British Line

DAILY SERVICE

(including Sunday)

MACAO LINE

Note:-All vessels equipped with Wireless. QUEEN'S BUILDING, CONNAUGHT ROAD

Telephone 20101

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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

CONSIGNEES' NOTICES PENINSULAR and oriental-

SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

MESBAGERIES MARITIMES.

-CONSIGNEE NOTICE.

THE 8.8.

1

BRINGING CARGO FROK MARSEILLES via SAIGON.

YONSIGNEES aro hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasurë and Valuables are

STRAM NAVIGATION Cola

STEAMER

AN HONG KONG

FROM LONDON, GIBRALTAR, MALTA PORTSAID, ADEN, COLOMBO AND TRAITS.

CONSIGNEES of Cargo by the

above-named Vessel are hereby in formed that their goods have been land- fed & placed at THEIR 118K in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon where esah Consignment is being sorted out Mark by Mark and Delivery can now be

obtained

to

Optional goods have been landed hare anless instructions were given the contrary Six Hours before arrival of the steamer.

Goods not cleared within 8 days in-

rent.

being landed & stored into the godowncluding date of arrival will be subject to of the Hong Kong Kowloon Wharf and Godown-Co., Ltd., Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.

All Claims must be sent in to me on or before the 17th June, 1940, or they will not be recognised.

Damaged Fackages will be examined by the Company's Burveyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas in the provende uf the Consignens at 10.00 am, op Saturday, the 2nd June, 1940, 20

Consigners must have a Revenus Oficer in attendanos "when any dutishle goods are examined by the Company's Surveyou.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by sa in any caso whatever."

R. OHL

Hong Kong,

· 1840.

Agent

[861]

THE

-No Fire, Insurance has or will be affected by us in any cass whatever.

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godown for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's surveyors, Messrs. GODDARD & Douglas, at 10am. on Monday and Thursday, within the Free Storage period

Consignees are specially notified that it is necessary for a Revenge Officer, to be present at the examination of damaged dutlable

•All (1 8o.

against ške Steamer mnat be presented to the Undersigned an or before 10th Jaly, 1840, or they will not be recognised

· No« Claims will be aimitted after the Goods have left the Gedawzi, MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & Co., Ageng Bong Kong, 19th June, 1940.

[860

BLUE FUNNEL

LINE

REGULAR AN FREIGHT

*SE PASSENGER

TO UNITED KINGDOM PORTS, NEXT

SAILING. EARLY JULY. For dates" and ports of call apply to Agents.

PACIFIC AND NEW YORK SERVICES are maintained as hitherto,

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

Butterfield & Swire,

TOL No, 201

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"THERE WILL ALWAYS

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BE AN ENGLAND" Troops From Down Under" In England To Do Their Bit

LONDON, June 21 (Renter)--Convoyed by the Royal Navy, a large contingent of Australians, New Zealanders, Tasmanians and Maoris have arrived in England, travelling thousands of miles without an enemy submarine being able to ret near them. As they came ashore, shouting singing and "cheering, they look- ed, in the words of a B.B.C. observer, a fit as a fiddle, as happy as cricket and as tough as nuti.

He asked are man what he thought of the situation. The man simply replied. "we knew it is going to be tough"

chief

Back From France

Canal Zone Sabotage

PANAMA, June 21 (Reuter).

There have been plots of

possible Nazi-Fascist action

SATURDAY

JUNE 22, 1940.

FOREIGN MAILS

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, and JUNE, 1940, 9:30 AM

Air mail letters will be accepted for transmission to Europe by either by attack or by $2.80 per half-ounce for the air transport, plus 15 cents per ounce sabotage and there is evito British possessions and 25 cents per ounce to foreign countries in dence that the United States respect of sen transport. authorities are taking these An experimental air service for Europe via United States of seriously.

America and Trans-Atlantic Service has also been introduced the

eftist the Panama Canal, van-American Service to New York and onward thence by can, at

The Canal Zone unit of the charge being $5 per half ncs for letters and postcards $2.50 American Red Cross unit has put each. An approximate estimate of the time occupied in this trans- out a call for registration of tram- mission is twelve days from the date of departure of the Clipper first aid work and also as motor, ed and experienced women for from Hong Kong, drivers. The Red Cross is

The postage rates via the revised Imperial Airways Service are also unchanged. collecting information and pre- As they came ashore and got paring plans in case an evacua- into the trains waiting to receive on from the Canal Zone Is them, an Australian army band necessary.

LINER DETAINED --

Small Packet Post to all countries is suspended. INWARD MAILS

From

LONDON, June 21 (Reuter) played "Waltzing Matilda" and "From war torn France we arrived "There Will Always Be An Eng- Meanwhile the Italian cer, here this evening." states Reuter's land" This band was only form-Conte Biancamang, which is an-

correspondent in France ed a few months ago and quite a chored off the Pacific entrance to Air Mail by "Air France Airways Service” from a port in the South of Eng-number of the men in it had the Canal, is under guard and 'land.

never played in a band before they described by the local newspapero Manila "We arrived in a vessel which.joined the army.

as a "potential trojan horse.” in 'äddition to its normal com-

The ship was placed under guard Canton plement of passengers, brought over 1,300 refugees.

H

"Many have come from Brussels from where they have been driven slowly southward by the German ""Few had slept in a bed for a

advance.

week or more.

NOTABLES ·ABOARD

Great Significance CANBERRA, June 21 (Reuter) Announcing in the House of Re-l presentatives the arrival in Eng-

land of contingents of the Aus-:

Java

Shanghai.

tralian Imperial Force and New Zealand Expeditionary Force, the Prime Minister, Mr. R. G. Menzies a Dutch firm, which was demand, May). said it was of the greatest sign- Ing $87.000 for cargo delivery Alt Mall by "Imperial" Airways Service"

four days ago after an action to Japan and Shanghai, the Astatic Petroleum Company, London and Straits, recover $81,000 alleged to be due to shanghal. London, for fuel and other sup- Saigon. plies at various porta.

Japan and Shanghai. against the Conte Biancamano by U. S, A, and Manila (San Francisco date," 29th

Today another action was taken Shanghai and Amoy ...

"On board the ship were Bir Gcance to the rest of the world Maurice Peterson the former that at this critical hour Austra-

charges.

Saigon

Shanghai and Amoyuki

French Minister, M. Pierre Cot lani and New Zealand troops had RICE SMUGGLING and s

*

Baron Robert de Rothschild, the joined troops from Canada in the French dramatist M. Henri Berns-heart of the Empire. tein and the Belgian Foreign The decision to disembark the Minister M. Jaspar,

forces in Britain was based on the TOKYO, June. 21 (Havas)- The Czecho-Slovakian Minister, consideration that the troops Curiosity on the part of the me- M. Ossuski, was not on board, He should be located where their tropolitan police led to the dis returned at the last minute to assistance would be of the grea-covery of an ingenious scheme to Bordeaux to look after six Czecho- i test service to the Allied cause.

smuggle rice from the country Slovakian airmen.

side into the city..

One of the British officers on

board was among the last to leave CABLE NEWS the Maginot Line

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London and Straits Haiphong

Jara and Manila, ressed lately a sudden overwhelm Japan and Manila.

Japanese men and women pro-Manila

ing love for the beauties of the Air Mail by Imperial Airways Service” countryside and were leaving the Japan and Shanghai capital regularly for brief: hikes.

Haiphong ALEXANDRIA," June 21 (Reuter)

The hikes turned out to be The French colony here has tele more than pleasure trips for the London and Straits

Japan. graphed President Lebrun, Marnikers returned with knapsacks Japan and Shanghai. shal Petain and General Weygand, full of rice This small scale London and Straits. that they will join the French co-smuggling contravenes regula Japan.

Both sides face the same inexor-lony in Cairo in their appeal to tions governing the transfer of U. B. A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai able enemy the desert. Miles of continue the struggle with communication must be maintain- "Franco-British Union which will other.

arice from one prefecture to an Francisco date, 8th June), ed, rations distributed to distant ensure Anal victory,”

Canton Fifty-six hikers were caught shanghai and Amoy outposts, troops transporter, and

red-handed each carrying be- gandakan.. casualties evacuated under the ISTANBUL, June 21 (Reuter)-tween five and 34 quarts of rice. blazing tropical sun across water- Turkey is hastily putting the less wastes constantly swept by finishing touches to her state of scorching sandstorm.

military preparedness. New mea-

BERNE,

June 21 (Reuter)

I sat with 'troops gathered out- aures are being taken as precaution Bodies of French troops crossing side the wireless van listening to against repercussions in South-into Switzerland at the frontier a news broadcast from London.feast Europe of the developments posts are being disarmed and in- They had not washed for days; in France.

terned they were bearded and caked with

congealed sweat and sand, but thes *BORDEAUX, June 21 (Reuter)——— listened with cheerful faces and The Government has announced BERLIN, June 31 (Reuter)-A when the broadcast ended they its decision to leave Bordeaux in Rome report to the oficial der left for war stations.. The Irish order to avoid useless destruction man news agency states that the soldiers remarked: "We will show of the town by the enemy.. French Government has asked the them at home how to win the war," These British soldiers, including Dominion and Indian troops, are magnificent and their spirits high, A great difference between the British and Italian forces fighting on the Libyan frontier is that the

There was a large attendance at British have got their spirits.up

MONTEVIDEO," "June 21 (Reuter, St Teresa's Church, Kowloon and the enemy have not. 4] ' The 10,000, US.S. Quincy, heavy Tong. yesterday evening for the Even captured Italian officers, cruiser, has arrived in Montevideo special Way of the Cross which entertained at the British held on a good will cruise of the east was held as a supplication for headquarters officers' ́mèss, do not coast of South America.

peace: This will be continued for attempt to hide their feelings of

the duration of the war will be reiler that they are now in "triend-

oberved every Friday. 1y hands."

| Italian Government as well as the OTTAWA, June 21 (Reuter)-It German Government to inform is reported here in Parliamentary them of the conditions for an circles that Mr. Mackenzie King is armistice. forming a partial National Gov- ernment.

EQUALLY ANKIOUS From conversations with prison- ers it appears that the Italians and the natives under them, are equally anxious, and have not got their hearts in the war.

•

CAIRO, June 21 (Reuter)-An Italian plane is understood to have teen shot down near Sollum, Egypt Festerday morning. The crew who set fire to their machine, were taken prisoners

Volunteer Orders

USA and Mantia (San Francisco date

June).-

Canada, USA, Japan and Shanghat - (Vancouver

B.C. 15th June.)

OUTWARD MAILS

Registered and Parcel Mail' are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given below unless otherwise stated, and where walls are advertised to close at or before 9 am registered and parsil malls are closed at 5 pm, on the previous day. When mails are advertised to close atter & p.m. Registered and Parcel malls are closed at 5 p.m.

AND SATURDAY Shanghai and Japan Parcels only for Tientsin Shanghai. Shanghai and Japan,

For

Date and Time

Bat. 22nd

6.30 AM 19.30

12:30 PM

4.30 21:

KPO

Reg. 6.00 PM

Ord

6.30 PM

Airmall for Indo-China, Iran, and France by the Reg.

5:00

"Air France Airways"; pueTATESÄURERS JAR DARI

Ord. Air Mail for "Imperial Airways-Service" to Dur GPO, & KP.O

ban and thence by Sea Service to United-King-Reg.: dom. ABNT I ..... . Manila

6.30.

Ord.

6:00 PM 6.30PM

6,30 PM

Saigon and Bangkok.

5.30 PM

SUNDAY

Bangkok

9.00 AM

Japan.

9:00 AM

Manila,

9.00AM

Shanghai Amoy

Cuthill and those detalled. Arms drill Dress: Mufti

MONDAY

Canton

EN. Thursby, Captain Japan.

Adjutant, HKVD. Corps. Swatow, Amoy and Formosa.

AFFILIATED UNIT

Nursing Detachment, H.K.V.D.C.

The next lecture in Home Nur

MONTREUX, June 21 (Reuters- Nearly 2,000 disarmed

Continued from Page 8 Italian air raids have hitherto troops and as many civilians have Depot training with R.A.B.C.

French caused very little damage and are arrived at Neuchatel 1rom the June 25, ELQ 5.30 pm Bet regarded by the British troops Frontier. merely as exciting interludes

The Italian tanks are of interior

NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuter- material. Even our small arma The entire output of a firm which have penetrated their armour and manufactures and machine guns killed the crews Insive,

are being sent to Britain This There have been several cases of means 5,000 tommy-guns at pre- Italians hoisting a white flag and sent and the factory is trying to then firing on the advancing Bri-speed up its output as fast as tish tanks which are now not take possible. ing any chances

On one occasion an Italian off- cer held a white fag in one hand and a hand grenade in the other. BEST OFFENSIVE SPIRITUA

Straits (Parcels only);

0.00 AM 9:00 AM

Mon. 24th

·7:15 AM

9.20 AM

10.30AM

Reg

45K

Ord

3.30 PM

OPO

Ord

15,00TH

sing will be held on Friday, June Straits, Ceylon, India East and South Africa and Reg. 146 M 28 at 5:30 p.m. in the St. John's United Kingdom. Cathedral Hall, ADEN, June 21 (Reuter)-Vig- tors here, from Asab, the Italian Bandaging Class in the evening

July 1, Vol. H.Q. 10.30 am No port and air base in Southern Eritrea, state the aerodrome le Wednesdays at 3.45 p.m. Transport

At ARP EQ, Happy Valley on Canton

British Wireless adds that the burning and the town empletely will leave Queen's Fler, Connaught Haiphong offensive spirit which is being dis-deserted as the result of British Road, at 5.30 pm. played by British troops in engage air raide ments in Libya is regarded in Lon-re

don as affording the main con- ROME June 21 tribution to the success of these Italian encounters.

that chu

It was in the course of one of and hist these encounters that the Italian marked General Lastrucel was captured, que Lastruce was general engineer of the the Tenth Army in Libya, and had previous experience as general engineer of the Italian Empedit Bary Force in the Spanish C172)

rezim

The under-mentioned were at Fort Bayar

Parcels only tached to Military Hospital for The training during the period shown:

Haiphong Japan Min TCG, Jex, 17.6.40 to 248.40; Miss V Beaumont: 17.6.40, to 24.6.430, Will all members who have re- enrolmen and Mobile. Jesse completa and return

same without delay

MIEST MAB Brande,

Nursing Detachment,

HKVD

Air Mall Zoz

Pri

TUESDAY

thence

Parcele 5:00 PM

Ord

$47.00PM

7.00PM