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ASAMA MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.
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HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe) ... Monday,
Saturday,
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24th June.
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YASUKUNI MARU
Friday,
HAKONE MARU
Saturday,
SUWA MARU
Saturday,
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE vin Manila & Ports.
ATSUTA MARU
Saturday,
9th June. 24th June, 8th July.
24th June.
KAMO MĀRU
Saturday,
22nd July.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
+ TOTTORI MARU
Monday,
12th June.
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Thursday,
29th June.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,
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Thursday,
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Tuesday,
13th June.
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↑ TOKUSHIMA MARU
Thursday,
8th June.
↑ YAMAGATA MARU
Thursday,
15th June.
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† MORIOKA MARU (Moji direct)
++
Monday, Saturday, Friday,
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Kwanto Marú ....Thurs.,
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Wed.,
RIO.DE-JANEIRO. SANTOS Buenos Aires Mar Thurs.,
MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS AIRES vie Saigon, Sin- Santos Maru .....
Port Elizabeth and Cape
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MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR. Arizona Maru
DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA, Arabia Maru..... LOURENCO MARQUES,
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MELBOURNE,
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THE CHINA MAIL.
THE OPTIMIST
(Continued from page 7.)
He had in fact as much chance of playing junior leads as he had of the heavy-weight, championship. But be would not know it. Need was a stimulant to resource, he told him. self, but need bad Miranda by the throat.
For thirty valiant years she had sought the silver lining. Now she was at the end of her tether. There was one hope left.
1
ARRIVAL
OF SHIPS
Sunday, June 4.
"Get to it. All set? Now, Max, Hai Ching, British str., 1,322 tons, you enter singing. Beryl, don't take | that business with the beer bottles too fast. We'll try this scene out."
In a couple of minutes he had passed the little scene for shooting.
"O.K. Cameras !"
The specialists cleared for action. The red "Silence" warnings glowed. The cut-in men raised their slap sticks. Even the most distant car penters froze. As each in turn signalled "ready" the silence grew till the huge vault seemed full of it.'
There are the queues, laddie," said she. "Suppose we gave them Sir Peter and Lady Teazle, or
Then, with the clatter of slap Rosalind and Orlando, while they wait for the doors to open? It sticks for a signal, the scene began. Beyond the volces and the move- might... bring in something."
Orments on the stage not a word was Clotho, Oh Lachesis, Oh Atropos, of your charity snap these heard for all that tense activity.
And then from the Casino came a sorry threads,
Aubrey's jaw set hard.
He sneeze!
Madame Clotho, was that really hurried out. clench his teeth and
You've got the poor He could not speak. On the second necessary! landing an ominous click set him devil on the mat anyway. [exploring the roof of his mouth.
Suppressed emotion had been too much for his dentures!
Those three old ladies would have their little joke.
A fury possessed him that he, master of so many high-sounding Issue of other brains, lines, the could never make his tongue serve his own need.
Most
He loved Miranda dearly. loyally she had shared the hard
"Cut," anapped Bergerst. "What in thunder...."
That complex miracle of con- catenation fell to bits.
Capt. Farrar, from Swatow, Douglas Wharf-Douglas Lap- raik & Co.
Havana Maru, Japanese “atr. 3,450
tons, Captain 1. Tsuda, from Singapore, Kowloon Wharf.— O.S.K.
Malay Maru, Japanese str., 3,250
tons, Capt. F. Tabata, from Sakito, buoy No. B27.—M.S.K.
Morioka Mara, Japanese str., 3,095
tons, Capt. M. Sumi, from Sin- gapore, buoy No. A8.-N.Y.K. New Mathilde, British str., 842 tons, Capt. D. Thomas, from Caston, buoy No. C4.—Yik Tai & Co.
Trier,
German str., 5,401 tans, Capt. T. Thele, from Shanghai, buoy No. Al-Melchels & Co. Wing Lee, British str., 651 tons, Capt. J. E. Harvey, from Hoi- how, buoy No. B4.--Wo Hop & Co.
CLEARANCES.
Sunday, June 4.
“Oh, my God!" moaned Beryl. Amagisan Maru, for Hongay. She was an egoist!
Canton Maru, for Swatow. "There he is!" cried a property Daviken, for Swatow. man, and gave chase. "After him!" General Pershing, for Shanghai.
Aubrey was dragged forth, terri- Halvard, for Haiphong. fied by his own temerity, yet cling-Hellas, for Swatow. Hunan, for Canton.
ing desperately to his purpose.
"I mu-musht shpeak to Misha-Hydra II., for Bangkok. encounters of their long life, and Might Something gave way. Juno, for Swatow. yet, in this ultimate pass, he couldragments of porcelain and pink Kalgan, for Swatow. vulcanite that had impeded utter Linan, for Foochow.
only break his false teeth!
He would do something, though.ance shot forth. "Mr. Bergerat" Michael Jebsen, for Swatow.
he urged, "I must→→→→ ·
Moricka Maru, for Moji. To-day, by some means or other, he
"You'll see enough of Mr. would get to see the inaccessible
Bergerat to last you a lifetime, Ou Chao, for K. C. Wan. Bergerat, that producer whose
Sunning, for Swatow. they said. grimly, as with torn unerring judgment and unswerving collar and pinioned arms they ran
Svale for Swatow. search for perfection in every detail
Tean, for Canton. him to the chief. of cast and Bcene had become a
"Here's your bird, sir, clean Trier, for Manils. | legend.
nutty."..
Wing Lee, for Canton.
Bergerat had kept the famous Anita Colonna in a tank of water
#1
an
for five hours till the wreck scene in 5th June "Derelict" satisfied him, though 22nd June
Anita had protested that she had not applied for job in aquarium! He had raked. London for the blind beggar in "Phantoms of the Market Place." Bergerat is the
Great Fanja drum of producers, before whom even the stars tremble and lesser lights keep their distance.
22nd Jone 19th July
7th June
6th July
Mon.. Wed.,
5th June
5th July
Tues.,
Sat.,
20th June 24th June
CALCUTTA via Singapore,
¡Belawan Dell, Penang
Hamburg Maru +Celebes Mark
Tues Sun.,
and Rangoon
JAPAN PORTS
JAPAN vin Takao & Keelung Hozan Maru ......Sun., KEELUNG via Ewatow and
Amos (3 p.m. every Sun- day)
TAKAO
Swatow and Deli Maru Amoy (every other Thurs- day}
++Omita Ports Marked.
20th June 2nd July
Aubrey got into the big entrance hall as usual, mainly because it was no one's particular business to keep him out. Eagerly he studied the agenda sheets till he found the one he wanted.
"STUDIO IV. 10.45 a.m. "Phantoms of the Market Place," Emil Bergerát.
To shoot the inn parlour sequences, Mr. Max Holdenough. Miss Beryl Arndale.
scenes:
To work out trial Messrs. Holdenough, Irons, Bal- lard, Misses Arndale, Moore, and Company."
The doors of the studio were close at hand.
Studio IV. was a vast, echoing with fragments of a hall littered 11th June bedroom, a church, the bridge of 2 liner, and the porch of a derelict
Thurs.,
18th June
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The carpenters were busy getting the inn ready.
Later the technicians blew in, arcs were wheeled up, "mikes," like spiders on the ends of webs, swung into place, casual principals floated on, and at last came Bergerat, with his-satellites, in a hurry to begin.
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For a second the group etanned the haggard, hairless, toothless, hollow- cheeked, wild-eyed man, shorn in the struggle of every shred of youthful fanatically clung.
camouflage to which he had so "My precious tata," cried Max Holdenough. The Optimist!"
There
was a titter, and then Aubrey spoke, resonant, tremulous,
ecstatic. At least he wax face to
face with Bergerat.
"I'm just the man you're wanting. Mr. Bergerat. Just give me a couple of minutes and.
"Cut it out," said the property man, shaking him,
HONG KONG TIDES
Time Meridian 120 deg. E. (Zone- B); ooh. is midnight, 12h. is 2000. Heights are referred to the datum of the largest scale Admiralty chart of the place and should be added to depths, unless preceded by an asterisk
when they should be subtracted
June 3 to 9, 1933,
Date
June
Sat.
Aubrey took no notice. He was Sun. beyond noticing. He raised a thin arm towards the shadowy girders. Mon. Some scattered phrases of a speech long long, rehearsed remained to him.
High Water' "Low Water Standard Ht. Standard Ht.
Times.
Times.
H. M. F.. H. M. F.
05 22 4,6
3.. 05
3.5 10 48
16.06 48 23 25
4. 05. 56
05 55
18 09
18 09
4.4
1.8
2.7
12 16 12 16 2.7 5. 06 82 5.8 00 NA 21
4.3 13
19 45
13 30
Tues.
6.07 10
07 10 6.5
60
1.A 2.4
21 00 4.2
14 12 1.0
7.. 07 60
02 60 7.1 01
22 01 4.2
22 01 42
16
04
ሰ...
8
08 33 7.7
02
05 2.8
22 58 4.2
15 56 *0.1
09.15 8.0
02 43 3.0
Wed. "I'm not amateur, I'm bred and
Thurs. trained to the work."
"Run him out," barked 0.C. Fri. cameras.
The guard pushed.
"Curse you," cried the struggling Aubrey, suddenly, with such a voice s that with which Barak might have blasted Meroz.
23 53 4.1 16 45 0.3
STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS.
The R.M.S. Empress of Japan left| "Stand still," hissed Bergerat, in Yokohama on June 3 and is due at that still tone of his that shakes Hong Kong on June 9, leaving Hoag the stars.
Kong for Mauila the same day at His eyes bored into the shrinking‡3 p.m. man. His face was as the face of one who has seen a vision,
"Let him go."
All stood away from the man now. breathless, half frenzied, with scant grey locks swept wildly across his brow, cavernous cheeks, and under the tqra
collar the webbling, stringy neck.
For ten seconds Bergeråt stared, then-"Say something, man," he Steamer
Go on, Don't
Baid.
"Recite.
díther."
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are being 'Curse you."
landed at their, risk into the Godowni of the Hong Kong, and Lowinon Wharf & Godown Company, L Lowloon, whence and or from the pazy's Bill of Lading.
"To be or not, to be Aubrey, "that is
began
"It is a far, far better thing that
I do now," cried Aubrey, sonorously "than I have ever done.
That'll
"Maybe it is," said Bergerat, "good enough for me, register, Blake?”.
may be obtalced
not be Landed unless notice has been given 18 hours prior to vessel's arrivals, but carried an from part to port to the "Like a trumpet, chief."
final port t of call to which the option "Good Fix this fellow up for
artends
No siaims will be admitted, after the mad prophet in 'Herodias. I've the Goods havs left the Godown, and been combing the world for him for all Goods remaining undelivered after six months. I must have him he 9th - instant, will be subject to bound to us for at least five years.”.
All claims
ims against the vessel unnat He turned to Aubrey, “Good busf-
|be presented to the undersigned on or ness for both of us, but why in before the 18th instant, or they will thunder couldn't you have come not be recognised. before?" Ban
:
All broken, chafed, and damaged To be intoned Aubrey, trium-where they will be examined on the Goods are to be left in the GodownA, phantly. "And to think that th Instant, at 10 am, by our aur Miranda" paid four guiness for that reyors, Masara. Goddard & damned toupee!"
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