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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu,

CHICHIBU MARU

TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

Wednesday, 7th June. Wednesday, 21st June. Wednesday, 6th July,

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

Saturday,

6th June.

24th June.

HEIAN MARU (starts from Robe).. LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM vis

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez.

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.

+ BENGAL MARU

Thursday,

29th June.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

Los Angeles. Mexico and Panama. RAKUYO MARU

Thursday,

8th June.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genos

and Valencia.

↑ DARAR MARU

Tuesday,

13th June.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

↑ TOKUSHIMA MARU

Thursday,

8th June.

↑ YAMAGATA MARU

Thursday,

15th June.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

† MORIOKA MARU (Moji direct)

++

Monday, Saturday, Friday,

5th June. 10th June. 16th June.

FUSHIMI MARU

KAMO MARU (Nagasaki direct)

+ Cargo only.

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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

NEW YORK via Japan, Los | Sanyo Maru

Angeles and Panama. Call

Mon.,

Direct at Cristobal, Puerto.

Kwanto Marú ....Thurs.,

Colombiz. Boston Philadel-

phia & Baltimore...

gapore, Colombo, Durban,

Wed.,

RIO.DE-JANEIRO. SANTOS Buenos Aires Mar Thurs.,

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS AIRES vie Saigon, Sin- Santos Maru .....

Port Elizabeth and Cape

Town

MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR. Arizona Maru

DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA, Arabia Maru..... LOURENCO MARQUES,

DURBAN, PORT ELIZA-

BETH. CAPE TOWN.

PORTS ia Singapore &

Colombo

MELBOURNE,

4 SOUTH AMERICAN

SYDNEY; WELLINGTON & AUCKLAND direct ....

BRISBANE Sydney Maru

Melbourne Maru

BOMBAY & KARACHI Hague Maru

Singapore, Belawan Deli,

+Andes Maru +Penang & Colombo ......

.... Wed.,

Turs

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

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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

For Further Particulars Hesse apply to:-

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SHIPBUILDERS,

SHIP REPAIRERS,

BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND

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casina.

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."

CONSIGNEES.

LLOYD TRIESTINO.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

J

MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1933.

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PACIFIC

"EMPRESSES"

ARISTOCRATS OF THE PACIFIC

SPEED

Offer the Utmost in SIZE-SPACE - LUXURY

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June 21 June 23 June 20 July A Emp. of Japan June 16 June 18 Emp, of Asia July 3 July 6 July 7 July July 11

July 21 Emp. of Canada July 14 July 16

July 19 July 21 July 28 Ang. 2 Aug. 12 Emp. of Russia July 26 July 28 July 30 Aug, 1 Aug. 3

SPECIAL LOW SUMMER

EXCURSION

fares

To HONOLULU and Return from

1st Class Tourist

G$365

G$196

VICTORIA, VANCOUVER,

SEATTLE and Return from

432

240

NAGASAKI and Return

Y216

KOBE and Return

225

YOKOHAMA and Return

255

TO MANILA

EMPRESS OF JAPAN EMPRESS OF ASIA

Leave

Arrive

Hong Kong. Manila

June 9

June 26

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INWARD SERVICE. THIEFNIAS" Doe 6 June "From U. K. vis Bingapren "CONTE ROSSO”.

**TROILUS** From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI,

Dan 9 June From New York via PhiĢipěnON, PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO,

SUMMER CRUISES. Special round trip rates from Hong AND SINGAPORE..

Kong to Shanghai, North China Ports and Japan and re- torm from Jube to Beptember. "Tchah!" said Bergerat, "some-CONFIGNEEB of Cargo are kareby thing with guts. As you said informed that all Gooda

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!"

COMMODITY PRICES RISE.

In the case of datiable cargo. Con zizzesi, are requested to inform the Imports & Experts Ones that they have auch goods for examination.

Die Firs Insurance has been, effect

Bird of Lading will be countersign.

Specially rednead from are quoted for cargo stanusaTE with Nafted pressenger socommodation.

For freight, panings rates and information apply to the undermentioned.

All bookings are subject to the provisions of the Com

Butterfield & Swire,

Agents.

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