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Thursday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
May 18, 1939.
& O-BRITISH INDIA (APCAR) AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES
(Companies Incorporated in England.)
Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading for STRAITH, JAVA & BURMA, CEYLON INDIA, IRANIAN, GULF, MAURITIUS, LAN BARAFRICA, PIRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW PRAZAND" AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, RED BEN, EGYPT,, EUROPE, ETC..
PENINSULAR & ONENTAL, FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS (Under Contract with IIM. Government.)
All vessels may call at any ports on or off the route and the route and all sailing are subject to change or dayiation with or without notice.
Steamers Tons From II'Kong about {
*BANGALORE
RAJPUTANA RANCHI +BHUTAN
RANPURA *BEHAR
RAWALPINDI CHITRAL
CORFU
CANTON
6,000
20th May
17,000 27th May. 17,000 10th June 8,000 17th June
17,000| 24th June 4,000 1st July
17,000) 8th July 16,000 22nd July 14,500) 8th August 15,8001 10 August
• Cargo only, Calls Casablanca,
TALMA
SIRDHANA
SHIRALA
TILAWA
SANTHIA
Destination
B'bay, M'seiller, 'Havre, L'don, |Hull, H'bg, 'R'dom & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marsellies & London. B'bay, M'asilies. Havre, L'don. Hull, H'ba R'dam & A'werp, B'bay, Marseilles & London, B'Bay, M'icilles, Havre, L'don, Hull, H'bg. Rīdám & A'werp. B'bay, Marseilles & London, B'bay, Marseilles & London. B'bay, Marseilles & London. B'bay, Marseilles & London. All vessois may call at Malta
DILITISH - INDIA APCAR BAILINGS (GOUTAL)
10,000₫ 20 May, 10.30 a.m. S'pore,
10,000
3rd June,
8,000 17th June.
10,000 1st July
8,000 15th July
Port Swettenham, Penang Rangoon & Calcutta,
DO.
DO.
DO.
DO.
B, L. Apcar Line Steamers have excóllent accommodation for 1st and 2nd Class passengers.
TANDA
NANKIN
NELLORE
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (BOUTIL)
7,000 3rd June.
7,000 30th June
7,000) 45 Aug.
Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
& Hobart
Regular monthly sailings from Hongkong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong so Australia.
RANPURA
SHIRALA *BEHAR NANKIN
RAWALPINDI *SOUDAN TILAWA CHITILAL
• Cargo only.
Hong Kong to Bydney-19 days, ' SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
|17,000/25th May
8,000 | 25th May
6,000 26th May
7,000
8th June
17,000 8th Juno 7,000 8th June
0GQ'ot 8 June
115,000' 22nd June
Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
Shanghal & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan.
Shanghal & Japan.
Shanghai & Japan. Japan.
Shanghal & Japan.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. Faresin measuring not more than 6 c.f.t, will be received at the Company's Offen up to. noon on the day previous to walling.
P. & O. B'ding.
Connaught ë,
For Pamage Rates, Handbooks, Freight, etc., apply
Agenba
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Phone27721
N.Y.K.
SAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES via Honolulu,
Sunday,
LINE
Kamakura Moru (ex Chichibu Maru) Wednesday, 24th May 11th June Asama Maru SEATTLE & VANCOUVER (Starts from Kobe)
Hikawa Maru (From Kabe)
NEW YORK via Panama'
Nosiro Maru
(Convenient connection from Hongkong).
Wednesday, 24th May.
Saturday, 27th May
"BOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco,
Los Angeles, Mexico & Balboa to Valparaisa. (Starts from Kobe, Convenient connection from Hongkong) *Tatuno Maru (from Kobe).....
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila, Davao, Thursday Island and Brisbane
Saturday,
27th May
LONDON, MARSEILLES, NAPLES via Suez.
Terukuni Maru
Thursday,
Hakusan Maru
Saturday
18th May. 3rd-June
Haruna Maru .....
Friday.
17th June
Kama Maru ....
Saturday,
27th May
BOMBAY vin Singapore & Colombo
*Zinzan Maru
Friday,
*20th May
Ginyo Maru
Friday,
0th June
BANGOON & CALCUTTA via Singapore
Kaisyo Maru .....
Friday,
2nd June
COBE & YOKOHAMA
Atuta Maru (direct Nagasaki)
Katori Maru
Yasukuni Maru
Friday, Monday, Tuesday,
inth May
22nd May
30th May.
• Cargo only,
NIPPON YUSEN KAISYA
General passenger Agents in the Orient for CUNARD WHITE STAR LINE
KING'S BUILDING
TEL. 30291
PRESIDENT LINER
SAILINGS
SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES
vin
SHANGHAI, KOBE, YOKOHAMA AND HONOLULU
8 8 "PRESIDENT TAFTU
6 S "PRESIDENT PIERCE"".
8 6 "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"
38 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND".
S "PRESIDENT COOLIDGE"
S "PRESIDENT PIERCE"
SAILS
JUNE 16th
MAY 19th at 12.01 0.00. JUNE 3rd at 12.00 Noon
nt 12.01 JUNE 30th at 12.01 JULY-'14th at 12.01 A. JULY 29th at 10,00
And fortnightly thereafter
NEW YORK AND BOSTON VIA SUEZ
"PRESIDENT HAYES"
6 8 "PRESIDENT POLK"
S
3S "F
ал Ал
SAILS
MAY 20th at 12.00 Noon JUNE 9th at 12.00 Noon And fortnightly thereafter
MANILA..
POLK"
at 0.00 p.m. JUNE 9th at 1.00 aju. JUNE 9th int. 12.00 Noon JUNE 23rd at 1:00 0.10.
SIDENT COOLIDGE" SAILS MAY 26th
TAFT!
CLEVELAND"
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PRESIDENT LINES
ROUND WORLD SERVICES
12, Pedder Street
Telephone 20171,
PHOTONEWS
Now that the Spanish war is over, long lines of civilians, as shown above, are returning to their homes. This scene was taken at a gate to Madrid, after Gen. Franco's forces took the city,
TUES
President Albert Lebrun of France, who consented to seek re-election, after frfenda per- suaded him it would be for the good of the country. In the his- tory of the Third Republie only Jules Grevy." 1886, had over been re-elceled. Term of office will be for the next seven years.
Speedboat records in England, France and Italy crashed sa Mortimer Auerbach sot five new world records, with hla Emancipa- tor VII; at Miami, Fla. Records were for 24 miles, 1 hour and 3 hours in 4-litre class and 24 miles and 1 hour. In unlimited class. Engine trouble halted further attempts.
A Look Through
The "Telegraph"
50 YEARS AGO
IN MMay 18, 1880.
Governor Court News.--The
Cama down to-day and had a tooth taken out.
Tha, following petition, which apsaks for itself,kha bosti-forwarded to His Excellency the. Doyarnor. by a number of realdents at the Peak:-
BANKS
THE CHARTERED BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA & UHINA. 'Incorporated by Royal Charter. 1853-
Reserve, Liabiuty of Rropriators £5,000,000 Reserve und winLEARED
Ator
HEAD OFFICEYLANDÓN,
28 Julshopigste, 2.0,1. Mah-Arencies; in Lontani 117/121, 1dganall Street, 1, 0, 3, 24/11, Cackspur #traet, R,W.L. Mancharter Branchi 12, Momley Bireet, Manchester, A.
AGENCIES AND BRANCITES:
Hankow Stor Amritsar, Bangkok Balavia Bombay Calcutie
tho The Undersigned, rasidumis at Peak, and others respectfully beg to call the attention of the Government to the unsatisfactory' state of the 'now drainage at the Peak. This now sys- tem, which was inaugurated towards the middle of last year, appears to por petunto all the syil smells that exist in the lower levels of the town. The
Bircet varique.roads alɑng, which the under-
Talvile ground sewage la; carried, are thickly studded with ventilating traps and the Pinco
Singapore 'Sitiawan
Bourabaya Taiping
Stangoon
Harbin Hongkong
Balgon Seremban
Bhanghai
Ipoh ...Karachi
Agencies; Klang
Koba
Tientsin
Lumpur
Tongkan
Kuching
**(Ehuket)
Madras
Tringto
Cawnpore
Manila
:Yokohama
Medan
New York
Delplug
Poking)
air around thoxa vents is orlously Canton contaminated with the fetid grae Cebu which escape from the sewers. Chit-} Colombo drea aro mest lable to contract disease Delhi owing, to the foul air reaching them | Haiphong In a concentrated form, while the Hamburg: Penang- tendency of children is to play around FOREIGN EXCHANGE and these openings. It is our earnest wind Banking things transacted. that the Government will carefully FIXED DEPOSITS recurved for One Year
CURRENT ACCOUNT opened consider the defects that are apparent or shorter periods in Local or Other Cur- in the present system with the view rencies at rates which will be gunted on to its suppression 'or the adoption eť | application..
General
and
remedial measures. For, it would bé a: SAVINGS ACCOUNTS also opened in erying evit if we import to the higher | Local Currency and Sterling with interest Tovale the risks of disease that are so allowed at rates obtainable on application. painfully apparent to the lower.
25 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1014 Bo much has been achieved already during the last sixty yenes in shaking ourselves free of the tyranny.of alcohol, writes Bir H. II. Johnäten in the Nine- teenth Century, that we may hope, with no slackoning of effort and no lack of martyrs in a good cause, a final victory will be achieved; and throughout, the wide world alcohol-at any rate, aboye the strength of light wines and beers ill be universally prohibited, no An article of human consumption, ved
The browers will have to turn, mujh of their, pinnt and expital to the manu- facture of ginger-bear and similar drinks containing a negligible quantity
of alcohol,
apply on
The Bank's Head Office in London undertakes Exxscular & Trustes businos, and claims recovery of British Income Tax overpaid, en terms which may be ascertained at any of its · Agencies & Branches
1. A. CAMIDGE,
Manager
ORATORIOTO-NIGHT
Perosi's "Resurrection" At China Fleet Club
The Resur The performance of rection," by Lorenzo Peroal, which will take place to-night at the China Fleet Club Theatre, in an event being looked forward to with exceptional interest in musical circles.
The fact
- 10 YEARS AGO
May 18, 1920. that it is a work that has not been Owing to the continued drought it heart here before and also that it has been necessary to tako stopa, to: 1
which,
being the water
the la one consorva
while Island. The Finenes Committen has quite different from the usual type Approved the purchase of Storage tanks of oratorio, has yet been universally from England, and expenditure on con hailed as a masterpiece, lends it tingent works. Four tanks have been particular Intercat and makes dis- obtained and erected in the Western cerning critics anxious to hear it and part of the City at a cost of about judge for themselves. $10,000 and are in operation.
5-YEARS AGO
May 18, 1934. "Baor can beat Carnera if he'll take CATO of himself," said Jens Willard, famous giant heavy-weight champion of | the world from 1915 to 1919 when Jack Dempsey inld him low at Toledo, Ohio.
The performance will start at 0 p., in the presence of His Excel- iency the Governor. Proceeds will be devoted to the funds of the Emergen-
y Refugeo Council.
an
The Choral Group, under, Mr. E Gualdi, will be assisted by orchestra formed by Prof. E. G. The so-called Roleh "Alght tax" has Pelegatu. Rev. Fr. Rigant! will boon drastically stiffened to provide a preside at the organ, which has been henry, though at present unspecided, lent by the Salesian Institute. Owing impost on persons leaving the country to the indisposition. of Miss Chan 'permanently..
Mel-In, the chief soprano part will be sung by Mrs. J. T. Choy.
The now measure affects everybody Possansing fifty, thousand marks, or "enjoying an income of twenty thousand Emarka.
Social Items
Miss E. S.. Atkins will speak on "Conditions in Refugee Camps" at St. John's Fellowship meeting at the Cathedral hall at 3 pm. to-day.
A re-union dinner of former men- bers of the Chocolate House of the Central British School will be held in the School on May 26, at 8 p.m.
Mrs Clift wife of Dr. H. Lechmere Clift, has been a patient in the Queen Mary Hospital since Monday, follow- Ing an operation,
་
Miss Southgate of Hanwell, Middle- sex, wanted her wedding party to be a jolly one, se- the wedding was planned as late as could be permitted (6 p.m.), and all guests were asked ome in full evening dress, reports our London correspondent. A dance followed the reception.
to come
Mr. Kokichi Kyoto, described as the
Seats may be booked at the office of the Emergency Refugee Council, Gloucester. Building, Brat flour, be tween 9 a.m. and 5 pm.. Admission is-Dress Circle $5, Auditorium $2. Every sent in the houso may be reserved.
ON SALE AT: BREWER'S BOOK SHOP
Alexandra Bldg., Des Voeux Rd.
Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury
China's Leading Evening Daily
Shanghai Sunday... Morcury
.Shanghai's.. Undeclared War
Permanent Souvenir of the SHANGHAI HOSTILITIES
only Japanese in the world who can Shanghai Under Fire
call the President of Bolivia by tils
UPS first name, la expected back in Japan 4 de-luxe Pictorial Review of the
SHANGHAI HOSTILITIES shortly on a sight-seeing tour with his wife. Mrs. Kiyoto is the elder
Lord Blanhope, First Lord of the British Admiralty, Scene in Madrid as refugees return to find their former home destroyed, during the terrise bombardment who started a furore in London recently when he naively to which the Spanish capital was subjected. Capital city
revealed air-raid precautions taken by the Brilib fleet. resisted 32 months of civil war.
CANADIAN PACIFIC
STEAMSHIPS - HOTELS
- RAILWAYS - EXPRESS
Kill Kidney
Trouble Quick
Thousands of wakturaen from Kidney trouble and Bladder weaknem have stopped Getting Up Ngwellen Ankles, Leg Painu, Circles Under”, Eyes,
DIE
TO HONOLULU, CANADA, UNITED STATES Neve Lab Forma fuching, danart-
and EUROPE
via Shanghai, Nagasaki, Kobo & Yokohama EMPRESS OF ASIA via Honolulu .... EMPRESS OF CANADA vis Honolulu EMPRESS OF RUSSIA
KMPRESS OF JAPAN via Itonolulu
7.00 a.m., FTL, May 26. ....Noon, Fri, Jane 9. .7.00 a.m., Fri, Jane 23. Noon, Fri., Jaly ·7.
Air-conditioned equipment on C.P.R. Trans-Continental Trains Frequent Canadian Pacifio Allanile sailings to European Ports TO MANILA
EMPRESS OF ASIA
· EMPRESS OF CANADA
Union
Building
5.00 p.m., Thurs, May 18. June 2.
Telephone
20752
Canadian Pacific
sindex.
ing, Actúity and Loss of Vigour by a Doo- tor's now discovery called Cystex (Biss- fox), Gently soothes, tones, Disana, and raw sore. kidneys. In 15 minutes Bringe
The tarte vurifying your bloog. Our
new tienith, youth and vitality in Guaranteed lo and your, troubles în 6 days of money back. Get Cyster at alt chemisfa
THE "TELEGRAPH" will send a Staff Photographer to all "events" of "public Binterest. Requests
should be addressed, to the Pictorial Editor
gister of the Bolivian President. Through Four Provinces
Australia Drinks
More Beer
Canberra, Australià.
Thirst--especially for beer-ison
with Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury -Correspondents.
To Mei Pictorial
་ ་
(Bi-Lingual)
the increase *"down" under" Aus-A Semi-Monthly Publication of 28 tralians in 1938 drank: $10,000,000
pagar on the present hostilities.
more gallons of beer than the year Photo news..
previous. The jump was to 80,000,- 000 gallons for the year.
SWEDISH EAST ASIATIC
SERVICE DE FAST MOTOR VESSELS BE "(with limited, "but acceptionally good passenger'nocommodation)" TO ADEN, PORT SUDAN, PORT. SAID.. ALGIERS," ORAN, CASABLANCA, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM, ' (AMSTERDAM), HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN, OSIA, GOTHENBURG and other SCANDINAVIAN PORTS.
M.V. "TAMARA” M.V. "NANKING"
· HOMEWARDS,
Salling about
29th May 26th June
TO SHANGHAI, TOKOHAMA, KODE AND OSAKA.
·MV. “NANKING” MV. PEIPING? Passenger Rates:
To: Londoa or Antwerp Agents: GITAMAN & CO. LTD,
BONGKONG
Phone: 30068.
14th June
KATUYGENS
11495. Phone 516386
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