1932-11-26

LLOYD TRIESTINO

FORTNIGHTLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE FOR

BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

vis Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Buex & Port Sald Taking Cargo on through Bill of Lading

to Flume, Genoa, All tallan, Adriatle, Levant,

Black Sea and Danube Ports l'assengers to LONDON (Overland).

NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG

5.8. TERGESTEA

CONTE ROSSO

FUSHAMA

CONTE VERDE

HIMALAYA

For Shangha!

For Singapore

& Japan

& Italy

Nov. 30

Dec Dec. Dec. 2 Jan. 4

Dec. 11

Jan. 2 Dec. 11 Feb. 1

Attention is called to the e.s. Conte Rosso and Canto Verde which will do the voyage Hong Kong Venice in 21 and 22 days respectively thus enabling London Passengers to reach destination the day after disembarkation at Venice. For Freight and Passages apply to:-

Queen's Building,

Tel: 28021..

DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents.

YKLIN

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

CHICHIBU MARU

TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER,

Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday,

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

HIKAWA MARU (starts from Kebe) Monday, HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe).. Monday,

28th November. 26th December.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM- via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez.

HAKUSAN MARU

Saturday,

HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

KATORI MARU ·

Saturday,

26th November. 10th December. 24th December.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta.

KITANO MARU

Friday,

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

25th November. 24th December.

29th November. 11th December.

Honolulu,

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

+ TOKUSHIMA MARU

KAGA MARU

Tuesday,

Sunday,

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan,

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panania, BOKUYO MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama,

Tuesday,

Gth December.

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

and Valencia,

† DAKAR MARU

Monday, 12th December.

CALCUTTA vìa “Singapore, Pening & Rangoon,

† MALACCA MARU

Tuesday,

† TOTTORI MARU

Thursday,

29th November. 8th December.

Saturday, Monday,

26th November. 28th November. 29th, November.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

KASHIMA NARU

† PENANG MARU (Moji direct)

TANGO MARU (Kobe direct) ...... Tuesday,

† Cargo only,

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

Telephone 30291. -

(Private oxchange to all departments.)

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

Tues,

BAIGON & BANGKOK

.... Seikai Maru

NEW YORK via Japan, Los Kwansei Maru

Tuca.,

Angeles and Panama. Call

Direct at Cristobal, Paerto,

Colombia, Boston Philadel

phis & Baltimore

REVIO, SANTOS, La Plata Maru

MUN

À BUENOS

AIRES via Baigon, Sin gapore, Colombo, Durban,

Port Elizabeth, and. Cape

Town

MOHBASA, ZANZIBAR Hawaii Maru-

DARES SALAAM. BEIRA.

LOURENCO MARQUES,

DURBAN, FORT ELIZA-

BETH, CAPE TOWN and

PORTS.

Via Singapore & Colombo.

MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, Sydney Maru

BYDNEYWELLINGTON

SOUTH AMERICAN

& AUCKLAND via, Manila

BOMBAY

la Singapore, Argun Mara

Fenang and Colombo

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Sumatra Maru

Fepang and Eangoon ...

JAPAN PORTS

· JAPAN 'via Takao & Keelung Canedo Maru

Tues.,

Thurs.,

Mon

Thurs.,

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE REAPER

(Continued from page 7.)

SLOOP VERBENA TO RETURN HOME.

Long Service On

Africa Station. `

(Reuter's Special Mail Service).

Capetown.

came rustling the tail young corn the dark and that now it was too and drying the ground. He was late. When he heard the tractor: very cold when he awoke to zee Llaze into life he carried out. Then The sloop Verbena, after serv- the morning sun,-

he whimpered and lay ahiveringing more than ten years, on the He Africa Station, has sailed from It was some time before he re-close to the hardened earth. membered where he was. Then he hoped for one more night in which Simonstown on her way. to! realised how tall the corn was, how to run away. How big was the England to pay off.

The Verbena will be relieved: completely hidden from the outside Geld? How long would it take? A world. Shut off in a little world tractor, he remembered, was quack-by the sloop Milford, which was

recently built at Devonport. of green corn, and blue sky ander than a horse.

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red brown earth. Then, suddenly, And then the slow, ever decreaK- The Verbena will spend some while he breathed the fresh morning circular journey of the reapor time on the West coast before England, ing air, he realised his hunger and began. And the sun roso scorch-finally leaving for shook the peas from his aproning hat. Last night he had for-where she is due about December upon which he had slept last night. gotten to go and drink. The outsides of the peas wore Suddenly, terrifying in its sharp- hard.. but they were some-ness, a shot rang out....They had]

his teeth thing to get

into.seen him....another shot....he And he lay upon his back and must run, run for his life. He was gazed up into the perfect blue of on his knees....another shot, and

The following warships were in the sky, as he ate. What would then he saw the rabbits hurrying happen to-day? he asked himself. towards him down their runs. Rab-port yesterday:-- Basin. Tamar,

at once...

BRITISH AND FOREIGN WARSHIPS.

Wild Swan and Verity.

East Wall-Bridgewater, Taran- tula and Witch.

Bruce.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1932.

SPECIAL

EXCURSION

for the

CHRISTMAS

HOLIDAYS.

HONG KONG TO MANILA AND RETURN

LEAVING HONG KONG

by the

EMPRESS OF ASIA

South Wall-Whitshed, Wishart. North Arm-Suffolk, Keppol and

West Wall-Kent Whitehall and Veteran.

Dock.-Cicala, Qawold

and

Returning

Of course he would be found and bits....yes! the rabbits were what North Wall-Sandwich, Wren, taken back. He would surrender they were after....rabbits, not How he dreaded the him.... He lay flat again on his sound of the guns when they went face. A shot rang out once more, off......

Anything, he decided, quickly followed by another. Like a was better than that.

child, he lay crying on the ground. So all day long he lay and] He would show himself, surron- munched the peas in the sun, and der....and then, because there waited and never heard a sound.might still be one more chance, he Not once did he rains himself hesitated. And all the while, the Labove the tops of the corn. In the tractor droned its regular journey afternoon he took off his tunic and round and round, while the shots lay on it, and aun-bathed in his came, staccato, and set him shiver- vest. His face was very red as the ing. Sometimes in terror he bit sun began to est, and he was very his hands....and then because thirsty. He could not understand some shots spattered on his face why they had not come to fetch and etung him, he fainted, into him away. But he looked forward peace. to the dark, when he would be able to crawl to the water's edge and drink.

When the sun had set, turning the greenness of the corn to black in its reddened rays, and dark had come, he crawled like a great snake through the steras, so that he left only a suspicion of a trall. Down, always down hill he went, until he came to the edge, and could see a gully to the left which ran to the water. Down this he crawled and buried. bis burning face in the coolness. He was very careful not La splash nor make a noise. 'And when he had washed his hands and face, and had drunk his fill, like a dampened cel, he slithered back and curled up in his nest to sleep.

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The peaa lasted for four days and then he ate the unripe, starchy corn, rubbing it between his hands," Morning and evening he heard the prison bell, and always he crouch- led lower in his nest. On the sixth day a rabbit, came and looked at him, and he watched it greedily as It scampered away down its run. There was wire around the rim of his apron, and he made a snare and set it in the run. When he awoke on the seventh day, stiff and brown, and very hungry, the dead rabbit was lying there. Suvagely he rip ped it to pieces with a dint, and ate the dripping flesh from the bones. When he had finished his face was covered with blood, but a now satisfaction was his, and he set the snare again.

On the twelfth night he went foraging and stole two eggs from a hen-house in the next field, but he dived like a hare for the corn when he saw the Tights of a car on the main road, a mile away."

It was on the eighteenth day that while he lay stripped naked, 6th Dec. brown as a borry, his eyes shining with health, he thought of the fu ture....The corn was getting very 27th Dec. brown and yellow. The harvest would be gathered soon....and then...then ho must go..before they found him there....It was curious, that his emotions seemed 29th Nov. dead. He watched the rabbits playing in a run and saw a great hare come up along his own track. He was part of it all with them. Bth Doc. Like them, he did not care what would happen when the harvest was reaped. He stole two chickens that night and ate them in the dark. He also found a knife in the hen-house, which he took to skia his rabbits without dogmt

5th Dec..

He had been in the corn three- weeks and four days when he heard the beginning of the end... In the morning men came with 4th Dec scythes to how a way for the reaper to begin its work. When he first heard it he lay silent, breathing

Havre, Maraa "l Havana Maru

Sun

19th

Fri,

KEELUNG via Swatow and Hozan Maru

"Amoy (everyKother Thurs-(Canton "Maru há

· day)

Sun

TABAO VIR Swatow and Dell Maru Sara

Amoy (10 Km, every other Thursday

•Thurs.

For Further Particulars Please Apply-to-

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA

the 280613

.Dec..

1st Dec. very hard, but later as the day. wore on he gained more courage 27th Nov. and sat up and listened. All day long he heard ever and again the 9th Doc. sound of steel on stone and men's voices. Lata, before sunset, there 27th Nov reached him the sound of a tractor, 4th Dec, blaring its way, bringing up the reaper to be ready for the work in 1st Doc, the morning. And after there. was silence and dark and his own

All night he lay in terror-ho never slept and then after the ful anguish of the dawn, he reall ted that he

dave: escaped in

Osiris.

No. 1 Buoy-Hermes. No. 2 Buoy Medway and sub- marines.

No. 3. Buoy.-Devonshire, U. S. S. Houston.

U. S. Armed Yacht Isabel. Portuguese cruiser Adamastor. He came to, to see a great hare in his track which had led to the Continued from previous column)-} water, and to hear the tractor very.. The tractor wheels passed with very near. His mind was numb as in a few yards and then the hare he watched the hore wait for the rushed madly out, screaming with great iron wheels of the reaper to pain, and fright. He saw it turn, ass, and then spring for freedom saw it rise up and spring back to ....there was a shot....two shots,,wards him through the golden deafeningly close, and then the stalks.... He heard the other ani- hare came scurrying back again. mals about him....running to

It sat panting close to him,wards him. Suddenly a roar like hanging in its tracks until the thunder....a pain like fire between tractor had passed-and then once his eyes....and then blackness more it sallied forth. The wall of down a great tunnel, where he was He heard falling....falling on to velvet.... corn was very thin now. someone say,

nothing, nothing any more. "....Packed thick with them,! "Drilled by every blessed gun in I'll bet...."

the field...." the farmer said, look- And then two more shots were ing down at the corpse in the little fired....The hare came back again, circle of standing corner, bleeding from the ears and oyen. Then the police came and carried The man lying on the ground was the simulacrum, "Convict 47,” baek sick.

Ito gaol.

1933

HAVE you returned your firms

particulars for insertion in

the "Hong Section" of the 1933 DOLLAR DIRECTORY?

Firms who have not yet attended

to this important matter are re- quested to do so immediately.

Secretaries are also reminded to forward all information concerning

their clubs associations, etc.

TO FACILITATE THE EARLY PUBLICATION OF THE NEW ISSUE THE PUBLISHERS WILL PROMPT APPRECIATE THE RETURN OF ALL FORMS.

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