1932-11-19

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Passengers to LONDON (Overland).

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For Shanghai

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& Japan

Dec. 2 Dec.

Dec. 2 Jani. 4

& Italy Nov. 30 Dec. 11 Jan. 2 Dec. 11

Feb. 1

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ASAMA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER,

Wednesday, 30th November. Wednesday, 14th December. Wednesday, 11th January.

28th November. 28th December.

HIKAWA MARU (starts from Kobe) Monday, HIYE MAHU (starts from Kobe).. Monday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez,

THE CHINA MAIL.

As It Was In The Beginning HELPFUL HINTS FROM

breaths.

(Continued from page 7.)

PASSENGERS.

Deck "Whippet Racing."

motherhood, us a sleek helfer or a the carcase, prodded wantonly at young hind knee-deep in fern. Her the thing he had killed in the first

"It is surprising these days how back was turned to the watcher, and flush of his triumph. The Red helpful the public is and how in- she breathed in long, panting haired Woman was still in her old terested it is in passing along any

position. She saw a man, taller and thoughts it may have for the bet Then the Strong Man sprung, broader at the shoulders than the terment of the service or for the lion-like, and struck her down, and men-folk of her people, triumphing entertainment of the passengers, atified her first scream as it was over the great beast that he had and many of the recommendations born. Her eyes, green as a cat's,jalain, dominant In the pitiless and suggestions have merit; states were wild with hato and fear. Very struggle for life. She thought the Shipping review." There is, swiftly he bound her with raw vaguely of an antlored stay lording however, a certain proportion that thongs, until she was more helpless it over the hinds that looked for hisia somewhat comic. For instance, than a new-born babe. No one had protection, with the little calves he the other day we had a note from seen anything, save the brown hawk had fathered running by their

a passenger who was our guast on that sailed in dipping circles, spying|bellies.

one of the recent cruises who must for rabbits.

"Ah! Look!"

have been very much impressed The woman's voice was sharp with with the horse racing, and his sug- was night, and in the vast circle of silence the grey wolves a new fear, for another head was gestion was that he thought the lifted mournful voices. It was thrust into the cave, a cruel, mane promenade deck running around. night, and a bright fire of dry wood less head, with narrowed blinking the ship would be ideal for whippet crackled in the midst of the cave eyes, and lips that twitched and lift- racing, which would be a grea! that was the Strong Man's den. ed over the big, yellow-white fangs. source of amusement to the passen. The sweet wood smoke went up to] The lohess was infinitely more) the roof, and down and out of the dangerous than the Hon.

Now, can you imagine lining up low entrance that framed a patch Strong Man heard, saw, and leapt aix whipnets and letting them race of stars, for the cavern was high on backward. His heel touched one of around the deck without the turns the broken face of the highest cliff. the hot earth-stones, and reeling, he banked? What a wild yelping and Like the den, it was bone-strewn, struck the rock floor heavily, lying hullabaloo there would be, and what and, save for a heap of furs at one where he fell. But the lioness had B mad scramble on the turns. Furthermore, I have no doubt that The Strong Man squatted beside The Strong Man knew that he had some of the beasts would be sure the furs, and devoured half-cooked been stunned-for how long he did to jump overboard in the excite meat, frizzled on the hot stones of not know-and he knew also that he ment of the race-but what of It. the hearth. A wolf-dog sat behind was lying perfectly still between tre

so long as the passengers have a him, expectant, and gulped the paws of a great rank-smelling beast." good time "Cunard News hunks that the man tossed over his of which the hot breath stank in his Anchor."

end, bare.

already sprung.

gers.

The

shoulder. Amongst the skins, and as nostrils. As he lay, he stared up far from him as might be, crouched into two globes of greeny-goldenj

time used la Standard, or mean

The

the Red-haired Woman, drawn to light that interested him very much. HONG KONG. TIDES. gether like an alert cat, and watch A darkness lay in each, as a rock' ing him with stubborn, hating eyes. slab looms at the bottom of a river-

The When he remembered he threw her pool, and a baleful phosphorescence time of the meridian of 120 deg. E a picea of meat, which she, stili awam behind the glassy gold. He00b. Is midnight, 12hrs, la noon. watching him, bolted.

knew that in minute or two the heights are referred to the datum of the largest scale Admiralty chart of She had been in the cave nearly lioness would kill him, but he was the place and should be added to the a week. Twice she had cacaped, not at all afraid, and did not even depths given on the chart unless pro- seded by an asterisk (*), when they only to be tracked, dragged back, wish to turn his head. and beaten. During the beating sheSuddenly the luminous globes that should be aubtracted from the depths.

November 19 to 25, 1932. would muke no sound, but writhed had fascinated him were hidden, dumbly, and bit at the man who there was a shock, a gasping sound, struck her. She would neither half-wail, half-groan, and he was the lioness: scrape skins nor fetch water in the rolled partly over as 24th December. • uncouth water-vessels of fre-jerked herself sideways. Then on Sat.

hardened clay, but crouched all day overpowering weight collapsed upon over the fire (which was the only him, and, semi-suffocated, he strug- Sun.

tended), and retreated gled blindly with some bulk that thing she

Mon. into her corner when the man came twitched and silvered and half- in. And her captor was not satis moved. He was atill alightly dazed Tacs. ffled.

when he sat up, all mottled with

HAKUSAN MARU

Saturday,

HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

28th November. 10th December.

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta.

KITANO MARU

Saturday,

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

20th November. 24th December.

29th November. 11th December.

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Columbo:

† TOKUSHIMA MARU KAGA MARU

Tuesday;

Sunday,

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panamız. BOKUYO MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.

Tuesday,

6th December.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piracus, Genoa

Monday,

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Perang & Rangoon.

and Valencia,

† DAKAR MARU

† MALACCA MARU

† TOTTORI MARU

+ RANGOON MARU

KASHIMA. MARU

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

TANGO MARU (Kobe direet)

† Cargo only.

Tuesday,

Thursday,

Sunday, Saturday, Tuesday,

12th December.

20th November. 8th December.

20th November. 26th November, 29th November.

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LONDON, ROTTERDAM,

HAMBURG & ANTWERP

Via Singapore, Colombo,

Aden, Suez Port Said

NEW YORK via Japan, Los Kwanto Maru

Sat.,

Angeles and Panama. Call

Direct at Cristobal, Puerto.

Colombla, Boston Philadel

phia & Baltimore

RIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS, La Plata Maru

Tuca,

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS

AIRES Via Saigon, Sin-

gapore, Colombo, Durban,

Port Elizabeth and Cape

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DARES SALAAM, BEIRA,

DURBAN, PORT ELIZA

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Wed.,

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SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS.

Vip Singapore & Colombo.

MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, Sydney Maru

SYDNEY: WELLINGTON

Mon

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vin Singapore,

Belawan Deli and Colombo

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Honolulu Marp

Penang and Rangoon

JAPAN PORTS

Burma Mara

Hayra. Maru.

Tues

Thurs Sun...

JAPAN via Tokie & Keelung Canada Baru

KEELUNG via Swatow and Ornton Maru Amoy (every, Sunday) Hozan · Maru

Soni..

vla Swatow and ‡ Dell: Maru

Zamby (10 a.m, "overy' other)

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Date

Things had not turned out as h, warm blood. The lioness lay as Wed. jin his dim mind, had expected. So quietly as the lion now; and a foot

High Water Low Water Standard Ht. Standard Ht.

Times.

Times. Nov. H. M. F. H. M. F. 19..

07 65 1.7

20. 00 05 7,5

21..

00 54

08 4 1.8

00 42 2.0

22. 01 56 6.0 10 34 2.1

he had broken several tough wood of wood stood out behind her left Thurs, 24 shoulder. splinters in the endeavour to s.t them right. He could not under- (Continued on Page 13.)

stand it all. The dog would obey his yell when the quarry broke cover; and when the bushy-tailed, prick-eared creature was stretched by the embers the 'den was well guarded. And the women of the cliff-dwellers, who slapped cach other's faces over differences of opinion, and tolled up and down the cliff-tracks with wood and water,] cringed to their overlords as the dog! feringed to his lifted Ast; and waited! submissively amongst the children for the broken meats of the gorging bout, when the tribe had killed well, No, he could not understand it.

The woman made a movement amongst the crackling furs, and sud- denly, he grew blindly angry with her. There was but one way to cow a half-tamed beast, there could be but one way to break a disobedient woman. And ere this he would have saved her some teeth for a necklace had she' pleased him. Somehow this thought made him jangrier than before, and, the meal having come to an end, he reached for a stick. The woman shivered a

10th Nov.little, huddling, herself closer, and the dog alunk cringingly away from him: it could also remember beat- inge. The man's hand was almost 20th Nov. upon her, when-Wough Wough! Yap-yap-yap! Wough! Wough!

The barking was querulous with fear, and they heard the gr-r-r-r of 23rd Nov. ja retreating anarl, Then came a sharp yell of mortal pain, a whin- ing, and a pause, ve

The man grabbed a hammer-like club, weighted with stone, and stood irresolute. The woman, drawn away. from him, was absolutely still, 5th Dec. watching the semicircle of luminous night with. big, strained eyes. There seemed to be a long silence (he had forgotten the couple of dead cubs thrown down at the cave-mouth to be skinned at dawn). Then a dark 30mething came between the en- 22nd Nov. trance place and the glitter of a constellation; paused, and a heavily- 24th Not

maned lion, half in, half out, was ~27th Nov

9th Dec.blinking stupidly at the flame, snuffing the mantulat in deep snuffs. 20th Nov. There was just the fraction of a 27th Nov second's check, the wild beast's quarter of a heart-beat's pause be tween eight and action, and the 1ht Dock Strong Man had swung up his stone- handed club, had sprung shouting, and swiftly there followed the dull crack of shattered bone.ACTION It was over. The lion, lay quite quiet, with hin, akull; smashed, and tho Strong Man, with one foottion.

Fri. 25

1933

18 14 6.1 22 19 4.7

03 25 6.1 11 10 2.3

18 20.5.5 23 44 4.1

05 15 5.6

18 45 6.2 12 00 2.5 07 00 5.5 00 46 3.3

19 11 6.8 12 41 2.8

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