With regard to mails for those with homes on the other side of the Pacific, the Shanghai Maru, leaving Shanghai on November 17, will con-neet with the President Jackson, due in Vancouver and Seattle on December 8 and mails by this ship are due in London on December 21. The same ship, leaving Shanghai on November 25, will connect with the Empress of Japan, which is due in Vancouver on December 14, Then there is the Nagasaki Maru. leaving Shanghai on November 29, io connect at Kobe with the President Taft, and mails by this ship are due in San Francisco pu December 21. Finally, the Shanghai Maru, leaving port en December 3, will connect with the President Jefferson, with mails due in Vancouver and Settle on December 22.
The Jean Laborde is also the only ship which will take letters via Pan-American Airways to reach San Francisco before Christmas -Day; as already noted, she sails on December 1l, and P.A.A, marked letters are due on the West Coast on December Mails to Australia will be sent from Shanghai by all available steamers to catch the Taiping, leaving Hongkong on November 16, due in Sydney on December 4; the Kamo Maru. leaving Hongkong November 27, due in Sydney December 16; and the Tanda, leaving Hongkong December, 3 due in Sydney December 22. Air mails, via the Qantas Service, should be posted to catch the Jean Laborde, leaving port December 11, and are due to reach Darwin on December 21.
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