SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1932.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND)..
·MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS. -
TAKING
CARGO FOR
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COMORIN
**BHUTAN
RANPURA KAISAR-1-HIND
†'SOUDAN
RANCHI CARTHAGE NALDERA RAJPUTANA CORFU COMORIN RANPURA CHITRAL
1933.
1932.
15,000 3rd Dec.
Noor 8,000 10th Doc.
17,000 17th Dec. 12.000 31st Dec.
6,800 7th Jan.
17,000 14th Jan. 14,000 28th Jan. 10,000 11th Feb. 17,000 25th Feb. 15,000 11th Mar. 15,000 25th Mar. 17,000 8th Apr. 15,000₫ 22nd Apr.
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles & London,
Bombay, M'seilles, L'don, Havre, H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre,
H'burg,
R'dam, A'werp & Hall, Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marsoilles, & London. Bombay, Harseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marsailles & London. Marseilles & London. Marsellles & London.
Cargo only. + Calls Casablanca,
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- `stantinople, Fireans, Smyrna and other Levant Forts by steamere of the Khedivial Mail Steamship. Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
SIRDHANA TILAWA
TALMA
1932 Bih Dec. 8,000 10,000 24th Dec, 10,000 7th Jan.
Slugapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutts.
THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN
(Continued from Pape 12.)
THE CHINA MAIL.
moment that this was the first time
I had over heard Zann play the work of another composer.
4
Louder and louder, wilder and wilder, mounted the shrieking and whining of that desperate viol., The player was dripping with an uncanny perspiration and twisted: like a monkey, always looking frantically at the curtained win- dow, In his frenzied strains I could almost see shadowy satyrs and Becchanale dancing and whirl- ing insanely through seething aby- aser of clouds and amoke and | Hghtning. And then I thought: I heard shriller, steadier note that was not from the viol: a calm, deliberate, purpose- ful mocking note from far away in the West.
A
At this juncture the shutter be gan to rattle in a howling night- wind which had sprung up outside as if in answer to the mad play- ing within, Zann's screaming violį now outdid itself, emitting sounds
had never thought a viol could omit. The shutter rattled more loudly, unfastened, and commen?- ed slamming against the window. Then the glass broke shiveringly under the porsistent impacts, and the chill wind rushed in, making the candles sputter and rustling the sheets of paper on the table where Zann had begun to write out his horrible secret. I looked at Zann, and saw that he was past conscious observation. blue eyes wera bulging, glassy and sightless, and the frantic playing had become a blind, mechanics), unrecognisable orgy that no pen could even suggest.
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MONDAY,
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DECEMBER -
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Shanghal Manila Straits Japan
Changchow .President Grant .Menelaua .Sydney Maru
DECEMBER 6.
TUESDAY,
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don, November 10 Japan and Shanghai..
WEDNESDAY,
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His
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THURSDAY,
A sudden gust, stronger than: the others, caught up the manus cript and bore it toward the win- dow. I followed the flying sheets in desperation, but they were gone. before I reached the demolished panes. Then I remembered my old wish to gaze from this window, the only window in the Rue d'Ausell from which one might see the slope beyond the the wall, and the city outspread beneath. It was very dark, but the city's lights always burned, and I expected to tham there amidat the wind. Yet when I rain and looked from that highest of all gable windows, looked while the candles splittered" and the Insane viol howled with the night-wind, I saw no city spread below, and no friendly lights gleamed from re- membered streets, but only the blackness of
illimitable; врасе junimagined space alive with 'motion -and music, and having no semblance of anything on earth. And as 1 stood there looking in terror, the
see
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for wind blew out both the candles in 1st and 2nd class passengers.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). before me, and the demon madness
W
1982.
NANKIN
NELLORE TANDA
7,000 Bist Deck
1933, 7,000 1st Feb. 7,000 3rd Mar.
that ancient peaked garret, leaving me in savage and impenetrable dark- ness with chaos and pandemonium
of that night-baying viel behind me. I staggered back in the dark, without the means of striking a light, crashing against the table, Manila, Rabani, Brisbane, Sydney & overturning a chair, and finally
Melbourne.
groping my way to the place where the blackness screamed with shock- ing music. To save myself and Erich Zann I could at least, try,
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai, and Japan whatever the powers opposed to me.
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney-10 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-...
Once I thought some chill thing brusbed me, and I screamed, but my scream could not be heard above that
The Union 8.B Company's steamare to the United Kingdom via New hideous viol. Suddenly out of the Galand, Vancouver, Ban Frandsen, etc.
The P.&O. Royal, Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & G. Branch Service of steamera to London via Sans.
blackness the madly sawing bow struck me, and I knew I was close to the player. I felt ahead, touched)
found and shook his shoulder in an effort to bring him to his senses.
He did not respond, and still the viol shrieked on without slackening.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and the back of Zann's chair, and then London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
†NANKIN
RANCHI *BURDWAN CARTHAGE
NALDERA *SOMALI RAJPUTANA CORFU *BANGALORE COMORIN RANPURA
OUTTRAL
1832.
7,000 5th Dec.
Noon 17,000 16th Dec. 6,500 29th Doo 14,000 30th Dec.
18,000 18th
Jan 6,800, 28th Jan. 17,000 27th Jan. 15,000 10th Feb. 6,500 28rd Feb $16,000 24th Feb. 17,000 10th Mar 15,000 23rd Mar
Carge only, Calli-Nagoya,
Shanghai, Meji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Koba & Yokohama.
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe &
Kobe & Yokjkama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Shangbai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama, Shanghai, Kobe; & Yokohama. Shanghal, Kobo & Yokohama. Shanghat, Kobe a Yokohama.
All dates are approcimals and subject to alteration wit
All' dabins are Atte
Parcsia
pany's Office up to
I moved my hand to his head, whose
Japan
Yasukuni Maru .Aramis
DECEMBER 7.
.Hawaił Maru .Tottori. Maru ..Deucalion
.Chenonceaux
DECEMBER 8.
.Sirdhana
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AMERICA V SUEZ STRAITS ANG INDIA;
INTER PORT.
TO NEW YORK Grandmark.
TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA A INTERPORT
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Weekly Sailings Transpacific
TO SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK
TO SEATTLE and VICTORIA.
.Dec. 21
Jan 7 Jan. 21
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Fortnightly sailinge on Saturdays via Manila, Straits, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Alcexandria, Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, New York and Boston.
Pres. Pierce Pres. Monroe
TO
Next Sailing,
"Pres. Pierce 7
Pres. Lincoln Pres. Jefferson Pres, Monroe
.Dec. 10 Pres. Van Buren .Dec. 24 · Près, Garfield
MANILA
Pres. Taft
Jan. 7
Jan. 21
Dec, 3, 6 p.m.
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CONNECTING WITH SS. MAYON TO CEBU, ILOILO,
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Halvard
DECEMBER 3.
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2.30 p.m.
3.30 p.m.
4.80 p.m.
4.30 p.mL:
4.
.8.80 a.m.
9' a.m.
́0a.m.
Bangkok vie Swatow Swatow, Amoy and Formosa ....
MONDAY,
Shanghai and Japan Bangkok via Swatow 2.24 Swatow
Amoy
President Taft
DECEMBER
Com, Henri Riviere
Kwangchow
9 a.th.
Chinhua *.:
TUESDAY,
Batavia Letters for "Saigon-Marseilles Air
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Canton Maru DECEMBER
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mechanical nodding I was able to across the great dark bridge to the HONG KONG TIDES. stop, and shouted in his ear that we broader, healthier streets and boule must both flee from the unknown varda, we know all these are ter- things of the night. But he neither rible impressions that linger with The time used in Standard, or mean answered me nor abated the frenzy me. And I recall there was no time of the meridian of 120 deg. Li 100b. is midnight, 18hrs. Is noon. The of his unutterable music, while all wind, and that the moon was out, heights are referred to the datum o through the garret strange currents and that all the Ughts of the city the largest scale Admiralty chart of of wind soomed to dance in the twinkled the place and should be added to the darkness and babol. When my Despite my most careful searches depths given on the chart unieke pre- ooded by an asterisk (*), when they hand touched his ear I shuddered, and Investigations, I have never should be subtracted from the depths. though 1 knew not why since been able to find the Bue knew not why till I felt the d'Ausell. But I am not wholly sorry, still face; the, leo cold, stiffened, alther for this or for the loss in unbreathing face whose glassy eyes undreamable abysses of the closely- bulged uselessly into the void. And written sheets which alone could then, by some miracle, finding the have explained the music of Erich door and the large wooden bolt, Izann.
plunged wildly away from that glassy-eyed thing in the dark and
from the ghoulish howling of that
STEAMERS MOVEMENTS,
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accarsed viol whose fury increased The E & A 8. Nankin left Bun even as I plunged. Manila, for this port on Thursday,
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