WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1932.

THE CHINA

MAIL

P. & 0.-British India The End Of The Party.

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

ATRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA. PERSIAN GULF,

WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALAȘIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

8.8.

- TRANGALORE

CORFU *KIDDERPORE COMORIN

**BHUTAN

*RANPURA

KAISAR-I-HIND

SOUDAN

RANCHI CARTHAGE NALDERA RAJPUTANA CORFU COMORIN

RANPURA

CHITRAL

From

About

Tonn

Hong Kong

1932.

1933.

6,500 12th Nov. 15,000 19th Nov. 6,300 23rd Nov. 16,000 3rd Dec. 6,000 10th Dec.

17,000 17th Dec. 12,000 81st Dec.

6,800

7th Jan. 17,000 14th Jan. 14,000 28th Jan. 16,000 11th Feb. 17.000 25th Feb. 15,000 11th Mar. 15,000 25th Mar. 17,000 8th Apr. 15,000 22nd Apr.

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Destination.

(Continued from Page 10.)

I'

the

WATER STORAGE.

DECREASES.

Constant Supply Maintained.

The monthly return of the Island

down like the wings of a bat and full right,” he whispered, feeling down settled on the landing. Others began the squatting figure until he captured to put out the lights at the edge of a clenched hand. "It's only me. Water Works for the month of Oc- the hall, til the children were all stay with you." And grasping the gathered in the single, central radi- other Lightly, he listened to the eas-tober this year, shows a decrease of auce of the chandeller, while the bats ende of whispers his utterance had 57.9 millions of gallons in the total squatted

round on hooded wings and caused to fall. A hand touched waites for that, too, to be extinguish

and Asidų,

Francia are on the hiding a tall girl said, and then the was lens intense, more bearable, he The total storage is 2,040,94 this light was gone, and the carpet wavered hoped, but it retained. He knew that year, as against 2,098.88 for Octo-

der his fest with the sibilance of it was his brother's fear and not, his footfalls, like

like small, col draughts, own that he experienced. The dark to her last year. creeping away into corners.

him was only an absence of light; the

With an estimated population of "Where is Francis?" he wondered. groping hand that of familiar child.

384,250, the consumption of gallons join him he will be less frighten Patiently he waited to be found. ed of all these sounds." "These soundly” He did not spenis again, far between per head per day was 31.5, as were the easing of silence, The squeak Francis and himself touch was the of a hose board, the cautious closing nost intimate contmunion, By against an average of 32,3 for Oc- of a cupboard door, the whine of

the joined hands thought tober last year, with an estimated nger drawn along polished wood, could

cour flow more swiftly than Peter stood in the centre of the lips could shape themselves round population of 381,250. dark deserted fluor, not listening, but words. He could

experience the The Mainland Water Works re- waiting for the idea of his brother's

Whale progress of his broliter's whereabouts to enter his brain. But emotion, from the Benp of nie turns for October show a total Francis crouched with fingers on

the storage of 627.44 millions of gallons ears, eyes uselessly closed, sind numb steady pulse of fear, which now went as compared with 665.92 last year, ed against impressions, and only sense of strain could cross the 5

on and on with the regularity of dark. Then voice called "Coming" and, as though his brother's self pos- session had been shattered by the sudden

cry, Peter Morton jumped with

What in his brother was

bookcaso close to Peter's head, and he storage, as compared with, last આરોગ aware of how Francis's fear con-year's figures for the same month. tinued, in spite of his presence.

Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colomba & Bombay, Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, M'selles, L'don, Havre, H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Hull Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & Londen,

Bombay, Marguilles, London, Havre, H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay. Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bontbay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

* Cargo only. Calls Casablatica. Calls Karachi & Bedi Bunder Frequent connection from Fort Bald for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireaus, Smyma and other Levant Porta by, steamers of the Khedival Mall Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

SANTHIA

TAKADA

SIRDHANA

1932.

8,000 13th Nov. Singapore, Penang & Calentta.

3.30 p.nl.

7,000 28th Nov. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. 8,000

9th Doc. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.

SASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).

panic, that admitted no

no ideas except those which ministered to the flame, was in him an altruistic emotion that

Way of

the unexpected contact

cause he was, if not Prancis himstairs.

KL leust

go OR

to

อา

panie

h intensity heart beat. Peter Morton thought a decrease of 38.60. am here. You

With an increase in the estimated novin't

be Afraid.

The

lights

population from 291,900 last year will

rain soon. That to 305,700 in October this year, the utle

tha movement, is no- average consumption Increased 1.6 his four. But it was not his own four.

Only Joyce, only a burning Mabel Warren." He bombarded

theper head, from 17.6 to 19.2. drooping farm with thoughts of safety. A constant supply throughout the but he was conscious that the fear con-hill and high level districts was tinued. "They are beginning left the reason unimpaired. "Where, if whisper together. They are tired of those houses where connections to to given during the month, excepting I were Francis, should hide?" Such, looking for us. The fights will go on roughly was his thought. And be soon. We shall have won. Don't be rider mains have already been cut

afraid. That was only someone on the off. A constant supply was main-| a mirror to

the anawor

I helleve it's Mrs. Henne-Fal-tained in Kowloon. immediate. "Between the oak con. Listen.. They are, feeling for bookcase, on the left of the study door, the lights." Feet moving on a carpet rainfall was recorded at the Royal During October 87.255 inches of and, the leather

settee," Peter Mor- hands

brushing wall, a

a curtain pull-Observatory as compared with 74.87 unsurprised by the swiftnessed apart, a clicking handle, the open- Car Was of the response. Between the twins ing of a cupboard door. In the case inst year. there could be no jargon of telepathy, above their heads a loose book shifted They had been together in the womb, under a touch. "Only Joyce, only and they could not now be parted.

Warren,

only. Mrs. Henne-Fal- Peter Morion tiptoed towards Fran-

A crescendo of reassuring cis'x hiding place. Occasionally a thought before the chandelier burst, board rattled, and, because he feared Ike fruit

2

tree, into bloom. to be caught by one of the saft.

quea The voices of the children ters through the dark, he bent

"Where's and shrilly into the radiance. unlied his laces. A tug struck the Peter?" "Have you looked upstairs 7" flour, and the metallic sound set a "Where's. Francis?" but they were host of cautious feet moving in his silenced again by Mrs. Henne-Falcon's Kut Sang, British str., 3,643 tons, direction. But by that time he was in scream. But she was not the Arst 'to his stockings and would have laughed inwardly at the pursuit had not the noise of someone stumbling on his abandoned shoes made his heart trip in the reflection of another's surprise. No more boards revealed Peler Mocton's

progress.

Mabol con,'

rose

notice Francis Morton's stillness, where he had collapsed against the wall at the touch of his brother's hand. Peter continued to hold the clenched fingers, in an arid and puzzled grief. It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realise yet wondered with an

On stockinged feet he moved silently the full paradox why it was that the

and unerringly towards his object. Instinet told him that he was near the wall, and, extending a hand, he laid the fingers across his brothers" face.

Francis did not cry out, but the leap of his own heart revealed to Peter a proportion of Francis's terror.

14's

obscure-

pulse of his brother's four went on, when Francis was now where he had been always told there was no more terror and no' mere darkness.

THE END.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR PARCEL MAILS FOR GREAT BRITAIN

Christmas and New Year Parcel Mails for Great Britain will be closed in the General Post Office at the times given and despatched by the following steamers:

Steamer Bangalore Corfu

Date of Closing Date Due at London Noon 11th November ... 18th December 5p.m., 18th November... 23rd December

INWARD MAILS.

WEDNESDAY, Shanghai and Amoy

TANDA NANKIN

NELLORE

1932. 7,000 2nd Dec. 7,000 31st Dec.

1933, 7,000 1st Feb.

Shanghai

Shanghaf

Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney &

Melbourne.

Salgon

Manila

Shanghai

Regular monthly sailings from and Hong Kong to Anatralla.

Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan

Hong Kong to Bydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union 8.8. Company'a steamers to the United Kingdom via New

Cealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, ate. ~

The F. & O. Royal Maß Steamera to London' ead

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Scen The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for. Bouthampton and London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN. ·

RANPURA

•SOUDAN MALWA KAISAR-I-HIND -RANCHI

BURDWAN -CARTHAGE

- NALDERA *SOMALI RAJPUTANA CORFU "BANGALORE

COMORIN

Cargo only.

1932.

17,000 18th Nov, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

0800 25th Nov. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 11,000 26th Nov. Shanghai & Kobe. 12,000

2nd Dec. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000 16th

Doc. Shanghat, Kobe & Yokohama." 6,600 29th Dec, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 14,000 30th Dec. Shunghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

1938. 16,000 13th Jan. 0,800 25th Jan. 17,000 27th Jan.

15,000. 10th Feb.

Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,. 6,600 23rd Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 24th Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,

All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. All Cabins are Atted with Electris Fans or Punka Louvre System. Stäamars on London and Australian Kines are fitted with Tamdria. Parcels measuring zot more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Com pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to asiling, onde

For further information, Passage,. Freight; Handbooks, etc., apply to:---

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.

Agents.

NOVEMBER 9.

THURSDAY,

NOVEMBER

Shanghai Japan and Shanghai

FRIDAY, Australia and Manila Manila

NOVEMBER

Japan and Shanghai Amoy

.Anhui

Idomeneus Conte Verde .Angkor

10. .Serooskerk Luiderkerk

Ixion

Terukuni Maru

11. Taiping

Pres. Madison Bangalore

.Santhia

.Hong Peng

Ginyo Maru

Europe via Negapatam (Letters only London,

November 18

Japan-

OUTWARD ‘MAILS.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER D. *Straits_Aden' and *Europe via

Marseilles

K.P.O.

Registrationa

Letters

..1 p.m. .1 p.m.

Shanghai, Japan and Europe via

Siberia

Swatow

. Straits, Ceylon, India Mauritius, East and South Africa, Egypt and Europe via Brindisi

Rgistrations

Letters

Bangkok

Shanghal

Amoy

Samehut and Wuchow

Formosa

Saigon

Idomeneus (Due Marseilles, December 8), G.P.O.

Registrations

Letters .....

Van Heutaz.

'Angkor

Conte Verda

1.45 p.m. 2.30 p.m.

.1.30 p.m.

..2.80 p.m.

(Das Brindisi, December 1)./ Registrations Nov. 5, 3.15 p.m.| Letterà Michael Jebsen:

Nov. 8, 8 p.m. ..B p.m.

City of Lille

Tainan

....4 p.m.

3.30 p.m. 1.8:30 pm

8.80 p.m.

Tai Hing

!..4 p.m.

Panama Maru Halvard NOVEMBER (10..

Chengtu

..5 p.m.

6 p.E.

Tinhow Hydrangea

THURSDAY, Hoihow, Pakhot and Haiphong Salgon Mauritius Reunion and

*South Africa

Swatow

Superscribed Correspondence only,

ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.

Sunday, November 6. Halvdan, Norwegian str., 761 tons,

Capt. Roseholdt, from Bang- kok, buoy No. C3.-Thoresen & Co.

Capt. F. Mooney, from Amoy,

Co. buoy No: B1.-J.M. Phasianella, British str., 393 tons,

Capt. J. Y. Lee, from Tamsui, Taikoktsui Anchorage.-A.P.C. Planorbis, British str., 3,406 tona, Capt. W. Fretwell, from Balik- papan, North Point Wharf, A.P.C.

Monday, November 7. Atagosan Maru Japanese str.,,

2.487 tons. Capt. S. Imai, from Milke, buoy No. A12.-M.B.K. Bencruachan, British str. 3,750 tone, Capt. Riddle, from Singa- pore, Kowloon Wharf-Gibb, Livingston & Co.

Chengtu, British str., 1,338 tona,

Captain - W. J. King, from Swatow, buoy No, B20.-B. & S. City of Lille, British str., 4,052 tons, Capt. H. Parry, from Iloilo, Holt's Wharf-Bank! Linc. Daviken, Norwegian str., 1,775 tons, Capt. G. Svane, from Canton, buoy No. BZ.-J.M. & Co. Halvard, British str., 1,217 tons,

Capt. A. Hall, from Saigon,} buoy No. B13. Wo Fat Sing. Kuefchow, British str., 1,222 tons, Capt. E. H. Histed, from Can- ton, buoy No. 05.-B. & S. Kiungehow, British str., 1,545 tons, Capt. J. S. Anderson, from Can- ton, buoy B15.-B. & S. Kwangtung, British

Btr.. 1,572 tous. Capt. J. H. Hodgkiss, from Swatow, buoy No. BB.- B. & S. Mannawili, American atr, 4,580 tons, Capt. P. F. Johnson, from Osaka, buoy No. A6.-States 8.9. Co.

Mainam, Danish str., 1,789 tons, Capt. V. L. Relater, from Swa- tow, buoy No. A5-John Man- ners & Co. New Mathilde, British str., 842 tone, Capt. R. Mitchell, from Canton, buoy No. B10-YIk Tal & Co.

Pong Tong, British str., 1,001 tons; Capt. R. E. Freckelotn, from Salgon, busy No. 87.-Sheung Lee & Co.

President Jackson, American str., 8,877 tona, Capt. J. Griffith, from Manila, Kowloon Wharf.. Dollar Line.

Soochow, British str., 1,594 tons,

Capt. H. Gifford, from Canton, buoy No. 821.-B. & S.

CLEARANCES.

:

Monday, November 7. Chekiang, for Shanghai.. Chengtu, for Canton.. Hirundo, for Swatow. Hydrangea, for Swatow, Klungchow, for Pakhol. Kwangchow, for Bwatow. Lyecmoon, for Swatow. .10.80 a.m. Phasianella, for Amoy.

Taiyo, Maru, for Manila. 1.30 p.m. Tanda, for Shanghai. 3 p.m. Tenkal baru, for Hongay.

Tonkin, for Haiphong. Tainan, for. Canton.

SOME'S

ESIDENT.

1

VOIDHANA

ALDUNDE

DOSANOLLES

►MANILA

Weekly Sailings Transpacific

TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK

via PANAMA.

Fortnightly Ballings.

TO SEATTLE and VICTORIA:

Fortnightly sailings on Saturdays.

Pros. McKinlay Tues. Nov. 22 Pres. Madison....Nov. 12 6 a.m. Pres. Grant...Wed. Dec. 7 Pres Cleveland Pres. Lincoln Pres. Coolidge

Wed. Dec. 21 Pres. Taft +Wed, Jan. 4 Pres. Jetteravn

I'res. Madison

..Nov. 26

.Dec. 10

.Dec. 31 Jan. 7

ROUND TRIP FARES TO EUROPE & AMERICA. Special through rates to Europe via United States. Direct connections with all Atlantic lines. Cholce of rail lines across United States and Canada, liberal stop-over privi legen for sight-seeing. Full particulars upon application.

Fortnightly via Svez to Europe & America

Fortnightly sailings via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Bombay,. Suez Canal, Alexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston.

Prex. Harrison Pres. Hayes

Pres. Pierce

8 #..

8 a.m. ....Sun. Nov. 13 Pres. Monroe......Sat. Dec. 24 Sat. Nov. 26. I'res. Yan Burca ..Sat. Jan. 7 Sat. Dec. 10 Pres. Garfield.....Sat. Jan. 21

TO MANILA

Next Sailing, Pres. Harrison. Nov. 13, 8 a.m.

Pres. McKinley Pres. Cleveland Pree. Hayes

Pres. Grant

Pres. Taft

Pres. Pierce

Pres. Lincoln

W

Nov. 15. Pres. Jeferson .Nov. 19 Pres, Monroe

Nov, 20 Pres. Coolidge .Nov. 29 Pres. Madison

.Dec. 3 Pres. Van Buren .Dec. 10 Pres. Wilson .Dec. 13

.Dec. 17

.Dec. 24

.Dec. 27

.Dec. 31

.Jan. 7

.Jan. 10

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on NOVEMBER 18th.

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Time in Transit.

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