The Archive · 1938

Emp. of Asia Due This Morning

Passengers Arriving at

12.30 p.m.; F. Roussel Sailing for Kobe At 11 o'clock this morning, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Asia will be tying up at the Shanghai Hongkew Wharf Co.'s Hongkew Wharf from Victorian and Vancouver, via Japan. Passengers will be brought up fo the Bund by tender, being due off the Customs Jetty at 1230 p.m.

The Asia sails south to Hongkong and Manila, completing the balance of her westward voyage, at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning from the same wharf. Tenders will leave the Customs Jetty for the ship at 4 and 6 o'clock this afternoon, while the last tender will leave the jetty at Il o'clock tonight.

The all-white Messageries Maritimes liner Felix Roussel, now lying at Hunt's Wharf, sails at 8.30 o'clock this morning for Kobe. She is due back in Shanghai over the week-end, being scheduled to sail on Tuesday, August 2, for Hongkong, Saigon, Singapore, Colombo, Djibouti, Port Said and Marseilles.

Also due to sail on August 2 is the P. & O. mail and passenger liner Rawalpindi, bound "for Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Port Said, Malta, Marseilles, Gibraltar and London. The local office's preliminary announcement states that the passenger tender will leave the Customs Jetty promptly at 1030 o'clock that morning while, as usual heavy luggage will be received into lighters lying alongside the jetty between 2 and 3 o'clock the previous afternoon,

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