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CHICHIBU. MARU'
TATSUTA MARU
ASAMA MARU,
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER,
Wodnesday, 80th November. Wednesday, 14th December. Wednesday, 11th January,
28th November. 28th December.
HIKAWA MARU (starts from Kobe) Monday, HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe).. Monday, CONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM vin
Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez,
HAKUSAN MARU
Saturday,
HARUNA HARU
Saturday,
KATORI MARU
Saturday,
28th November. 10th December. 24th December.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE vin Manila & Porta
KITANO MARU
Friday,
25th November.
ATSUTA MARU
Saturday,
24th. Decembar.
29th November. 11th December.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
+ TOKUSHIMA MARU KAGA MARU
SOUTH
Tuesday,
Sunday,
AMERICA (West Const) vią Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama. BOKUYO MARU
Tuesday,
6th December.
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama.
LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piracus, Genoa
and Valencia,
† DAKAR MARU
Monday,
12th December.
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
↑ MALACCA MARU
Tuesday,.
TUTTORI MARU'
Thursday,
29th November. 8th December.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
KASHIMA MARU
Saturday,
† PENANG MARU (Moji direct)
TANGO MARU (Kobe direct)
Monday, Tuesday,
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Tues.,
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE RED SECOND
(Continued from page 7.)
QUICK RETIREMENT IN THE NAVY.
Promotions Bring Brief Service.
"He was like a boy, so eager to afternoon, driving like mad, his (Reuter's Special Mail Service.) be off, Couldn't wait a minute, passenger had been strong as a
London. so they got started without delay, lion, but here in the hotel he be- Fourteen Captains are being pro- On the Jersey side of the Hudson came positively senile, barely able moted to flag rank, and all but two Tube, when Harry stopped at a to be helped up to his room, of these are being placed on the telegraph office, Mr. Whipple al-Then he took his little handbag retired list after 24 hours as active most lost, his good humour; but and locked himself into the bath- Rear-Admirals. Harry was insistent on that one room. Nothing was heard for In all nineteen promotions and point.
half an hour but water running retirements in the higher ranks of
"It wasn't a very cheery mess-Into the tub. Then he came out, the Navy have been almultaneously age he sent to Flo. Just a couple apparently quito rofreshed, very announced by, the Admiralty. of lines to say that he was motor-elegant in his blue allk pyjamas; They start with Admiral the ing back, dead-broke, and if she "Harry couldn't help admiring Hon. Sir Hubert Brand, who has [didn't want to see him she could his appearance as he sat up in been placed on the retired list at wire a certain little hotel in Cleve-bed, nibbling at an invalid's sup- his own request "to facilitate the land where he had stopped on his per. He looked like a one-eyed promotion of younger officóru." way East. When Hurry had carl, with his white moustache and Vice-Admiral Sir Vernon Haggard finished this he looked up and mane of silvery hair.
is promoted to Admiral and is also'j found Mr. Whipple at his elbow, “An hour later, when Harry got voluntarily retiring. reading over his shoulder. This into his own bed, he Baw Mr. Consequently, Vice-Admiral P. would have been annoying, of Whipple sleeping on his side; his H. Hall-Thompson becomes an Ad course, but the old fellow's smile face would have been noble if it miral while Rear-Admirals M.E. was a protective. He even insist hadn't heon disfigured by that Dunbar-Nasmith V.C., Commander led on paying for the telegram; he ugly patch. On the floor, very in Chief on the East Indies Station, was like a guardian angel, trying close to him, he had at the little and the Hon. Matthew R. Best, Ad- to bring two loving hearts to black bag. It contained medicine, miral Superintendant of Malta are gether.
he had explained, and sometimes promoted to Vice-Admiral and re- "So they were off again. Won in the night his heart was jumpy.jappointed in that rank, derful person to travel with, this "Harry's heart was jumpy, too.
ARCHITECTURE.
Mr. Owen's Address.
| Mr. Whipple, pleasant and easy-He kept dreaming and waking.
going. He enlivened the trip with Once in the small hours, lying] stories of his youth. He was a re- there, facing the other bed, he got| tired watch manufacturer. As a creepy notion. In the sort of young man he had squandered twilight you always find in hotel
A very interesting lecture on money in Paris and Berlin, and rooms he looked over at Mr.
decided that he architecture was given by Mr. W. didn't regret a cent of it. Harry Whipple and
One eye H. Owen, B. S. Tech., A.R.I.B.A., certainly couldn't have asked for wasn't sleeping at all. Д better
travelling, compnaian. was wide open, gazing at Harry. to the Institution of Engineers and He wasn't a nervous passenger, in It gave the boy the fidgets so that Shipbuilders of Hong Kong, at the spite of his ill-health. Speed was he couldn't stand it any longer. Volunteer drill hall on Wednesday good for him, he said, just what 'Anything wrong, Mr. Whipple?' last.
Among thoes present were Mr. the doctor ordered. Seventy miles he asked. It had an unexpected an hour seemed to be his prefer- effect. Mr. Whipple's voice was P. T. Farrell, President, the Gon- Jonce; and when Harry showed soft, but it had a queer, threaten- venor, Mr. F. P. R. James, M.C., signs of slowing down the old gening sound, 'You let me alone!' A. M. I. Struct. E., and Messrs., A. tleman would suggest, "You don't That was all.
Webster, S. T. Williamson and H. mind stepping on it, do you? It's,
Rex. Latham, E. E. S. (Hon.
like that.
* * *
very exhilarating.' Neurotic "At dawn Harry was awakened by Librarian), people, you know, take notions his friend's gentle touch and the ad-, In opening his lecture, Mr. Owen nonition, We'd better be stirring if said there were many ways of deni- we're going to make Cleveland. I'veling with such a subiect as "Archi- athul my bath, and I'm feeling much tecture." He said he would endea-
stronger. And I've ordered a hearty breakfast sent up. Mr. Whipple was
vour to make clear the intimate again his amiable self, anxious for connection between architecture the road and another day of whole and the man in the strect, and in some speeding.
doing so, would show that the burning
"Their first stop over was 6th Dee. Harrisburg, a hundred and eighty
five miles. Mr. Whipple wasn't satisfied at all, wanted to push on, but it was raining cats and dogs, and Harry had a little sense left,
NEW YORK via Japan, Los Kwansai Maru
Tues.,
27th Dec.
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Direct at Cristobal, Puerto.
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Tues.,
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MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, Sydney Maru
SYDNEY: WELLINGTON
Thurs.,
Mon.,
& AUCKLAND via Manila
BOMBAY via Singapore, Argun Maru
Penung and Colombo
Sun,
...Thurs.,
Sun.,
Fri.,
San
Sun.,
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Sumatra Maru
Penang and Rangoon .... JAPAN PORTS
Havre Maru „...............
JAPAN via Takao & Keelong Canada Maru
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"So
fin spite of the way he was behav road, sam they were out on the general Interest in the subject was
their way westward a
ing about Flo. So his passenger little faster than the law allows. Mr not merely a matter of culture but 29th Nov.gracefully compromised with a Whipple, regardless of danger, went a matter of vital cucern both to promise that they'd be off early in on talking in his fatherly, helpful the individual and to architecture the morning and make Cleveland way. He believed in the Golden Rule, itself.
he said. Always consider the other if possible; and a jump of four fellow's feelings.
Most people, continued Mr. hundred and fifty miles is a good
another "And
thing, said Mr. Owen took it for granted that ar- 8th Dec. bellyful for anybody that's crazy Whipple:
affected those young man in a big, rich chitecture only country like ours should be given his people who came into contact with about mileage.
opportunities.
All this along the it, but a few people realised that rond, whiszing by town after town, they themselves affected architec "That first night they found a Harry Wynne, dying in the face ture,
It had its emotional appeal for a boy good hotel, where Mr. Whipple of fate, desperate for a turn of luck, dually, and in others collectively. sank exhausted in a dark corner That afternoon, when they stopped of the lobby and let Harry make for a sandwich, Harry began
that in Mr. Whipple he had
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in some casea indivi-
SCOT'S TRAIN TRIP. 5th Dec.all the arrangements. The old realise
gentleman insisted on the best found a powerful friend; so between
(Reuter's Special Mail Service). double room in the house. Since bits of wayside food he blurted out
London: 4th Dec, the operation on his eye, he said, the problem of himself and Flo
An Edinburgh man
has he was nervous about sleeping alone.
"The effect on Mr. Whipple was travelled 1,709 miles for ten And here was another of magical. It's a crime,' he said, 'that shillings. 1st Dec.his peculiarities: he had to take a fine, smart young fellow like you
medicinal baths night and morn-should be hounded for money on
He did this by buying a seven- 27th Nov. ing doctor's orders.
eve of his wedding. Son, I think day ticket while on holiday on and well the Scottish border. His travels "As I remember it out of the you'd better stick by me,
see what we can do." 9th Doc.
Harry Was
fool nonsense,
they
the
at the rate of 14
STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS.
dim and mouldy past," said Judge choking on his sandwich, trying to in Carlisle and the border dis-1 27th Nov. Brinkerhoff dispassionately, "love frame & proper acceptance speech, but tricts were
4th Dec, is a form of narcotic which super- Mr. Whipple rubbed his hands im-miles for a penny.
induces a hypnotic monomania patiently and urged: We'd better be or we'll never make directed toward a fixed idea. And pushing on, 1st Dec. that idea is usually a lot of dama Cleveland to-night."
"Did make Cleveland?" I ask
The R.M.S. "Empress of Aala" Jed. "With Harry the fixed idea was "Oh, yes. They stopped at an old-arrived at Vancouver on November Flo. But, in spite of his fuddled fashioned hotel, the one where Harry 22 (Tuesday), at 2 am, leaves state, the boy couldn't help won-had asked Flo to send her telegram. Vancouver on December 8 (Batur- Mr. Whipple approved heartily of the dering about Mr. Whipple and pince, said that modern hotels get on day) and la due here on December those medicinal baths." All that
22 (Thursday). She leaves for and when he was limping to the elevator and his medicinal bath Manila on the same day. the clerk
a Westero gave Harry a Union envelope. The message
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nerves;
turned
Harry
hot and cold; he crumpled
The RM.S., Empress of Japan left Vancouver for Hong Kong, via
In his pocket, and was jumping to-Honolulu, Japan ports and Shanghai, word the telegraph office to send good on November 19
now!
and fa
ows about a rich patron and bright due at Hong Kong on Decem prospects
eets when the corner of his eye ber 9. She will leave for Manila
It on a pile of tabloid papers on the on the same day
nawa stand.
froze
"A picture on the front head; he smooth sehl-brown. every other idea out of his
a
hardly kiew 'how ho got up to his toothbrush. This was a long, to [room; he was trembling tho way proc another brace themselves to eat renture in the tabloid lance at the pic
cowards and brave men do when they take
meet the
thing,'
| FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1932.
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Returning
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December 28th
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held the sheet under his nose, swallow. "Harry, up on his chair, waited, ed the scarehead whole, felt sa though watched. Now Mr. Whipple was at it had hit him like a dose of polson tending to his moustache, adding thirty
the pit of the stomach. He years to if with the artful aid of
careful and gave t
the spy a Scared
It with the compare it aco in
the mirror and read the black "He stole softly into the room, ex-streamer Hofstaller
ler Mansion Murder pecting to face the danger there. But Traced to Spick Rooney. And the Mr. Whipple was taking his caption "Notorious long-wolf killer medicinal bath Water was running who cheria millonar's bulla Mo To AUSTRALIA. Callfor at Manila (P. 16.), Thursday la. Calron Townsville in the tab
was day afternoon
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in the mirror He
chair and
up and looked straight at e got on over. In a mirror above the wash him
Whipple
There stand he saw Mr.
death WAN
in that
stare and and the sort of hypnotism. Suddenly, the bath- hu had taken off his path eye he had kept covered was fast as room door burst open like a bomb good the other one. He was very Harry went head over heels and found like an actor-an actor making a little black gun rammed againat his
per He had a stomach.
Deface://7 the crack in the transom.
(B7
at some
hia patch,
and Mr. Whipple wasn't looking so beno- was rubbing it into his hair, turning, hand gripping the gun the other point volent now, as he crouched over, one
减
a beautiful nooth silver. It would
have been mny if it hadn't been ing at the tabloid on the floor and he blood-curdlin for he hadn't got said in a voice not at all like Mr. around to his monatache yet. He had Whipple's, Hid, you've brought me only washed it, so far, and it was a ze (Continued on Page 11.)
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