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24th Mar. 7th Apr.
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM.
YASUHUNI MARU
........ Friday;
16th Mar.
HAKONE MARU.
Saturday,
31st Mar,
SUWA MARU
Saturday,
14th Apr.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta.
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Saturday,
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Saturday,
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Thursday,
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Tuesday,
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Saturday
17th Mar
Wednesday,
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Monday,
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Thursday,
15th Mar.
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Thursday,
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Sunday,
29th Mar. 8th Apr.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
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Saturday,
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Monday,
.. Friday,
17th Mar. 19th Mar. 23rd Mar. KAMO MARU (Naganak) direct)
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Sat,
Į
NEW YORK via Japan, Loj Toka Maru
Wed.
Angeles and Panama. Call Kinai Maru
Direct at Cristobal. Puerto.
Colombia, Boston Philadel Kwansai Maru
Sun.,
Thurs.,
21st Mar, 1st Apr. 15th Apr.
phia & Baltimore
BIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS. La Plata Maru
24th Mar.
Colombo, Durban. Port
Elizbeth and Cape Town
MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR Arizona Maru
Tues.,
Sat.,
MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Buenos Aires Maru Wed, AIRES vla Singapore,
BETH
DARES-SALAAM, BEIBA Arabia Maru
LOURENCO MARQUES
DURBAN, PORT ELIZA
CAPE TOWN
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THE CHINA MAIL
INTRIGUE
(Continued from Page 94)
"Bare feet are cut by broken glass, Excellency!" smiled thinly.
The Borgia
"We Commacios go always steel- shod, Eminence!"
The Cardinal straightened his little red skull-cap. ›
"Steel may be an obstacle as well as a remover of obstacles, my sont": Once more be shrugged scarlet-clad shoulders. "Ebbene! I shall not eat, this midday, that I may be better able to appreciate the wonders of your.....Portuguess cook!" (The Borgia were of Spanish origin).“
From his window in the Com- macio place that evening the Car- dinal watched the flaring lights of the flambeaux as long lines of torch-bearers clad in the green and yellow parti-coloured livery of the Duke marched into the great court- yard to take up their positions. In half an hour the banquet would be- gin.
On each side of each step in the sweeping curve of the marble stair-) case, and at four-yard intervals along the wide plazze with its slen- der carren columns and pointed trefoll arches, stood a man with a faring, smoky torch in a broad-lip-a ped from holder.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1934.
Newest Monster of the Deep
“EMPRESS OF BRITAIN"
A new ocean giant will soon be plying its course across the Atlantle between New York and France. It is the Normandie, the world's largest liner, shown above in drydock at St. Nazaire, France, prior to being launched on it first trip. This picture shows the bow of the new-ship,
at his elbow. In all gold dish Italy there were no peaches like those from his Eminence's gardens
CONSIGNEES.
at Forli. He never travelled with- THE EAST "ASIATIC CO, LTD., out a supply of them.
With the artistic delicacy of
a
COPENHAGEN.
"DANMARK"
and
The kaping shadows pleased his Eminence. There was no moon, and the fountain in the centre of the courtyard seemed to be spouting molten bronze-towards a dark-blue connoisseur, he stripped the skin The Danish Motor Verse! sky spangled with brilliant stars from the glistening flesh of the
Cardinal that recalled to the
an fruit. That done, for a moment he having arrived from Copenhagen, Ozlo, Gothenburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, call-bell Hamburg oriental image which compared the studied, abstractedly, a
Genos consignees cargo are hereby informed nightsky to a black horse decked standing on the table by his side. of with pearls. The beauty of the The bell had been sculpted by the that all goods are being landed and chiaroscuro suited the Bergia's pre-great Benvenuts Cellini and repre-placed at their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowne, "of sent mood. It reminded him, quite sented Adam and Eve standing on The Hong Kong and Howloon Wharf where delivery pleasantly, of Life and Death; of the world, their bodies-one on & Godown Co. Ltd., the unsteady brightness of Life as either side of a tree around which can be obtained as soon as the goods
ara landed. compared to the ever lurking, always was colled the Tempter-forming No claims will be admitted after the in the end triumphant, darkness of the handle. Eve was handing Adam goods have left the godowns and all Death
the fatal apple.
goods remaining undelivered after the With a curicas little thrill the subject to rent.
17th In fact, the possible nearness of
March, 1984, 4 p.m., will be death to three separate and distinct Cardinal observed that Eve's small
All bro
broken, chafed and damaged to be left in the Godown, people had been occupying his golden hand held, not a whole apple, goods are
where they will be examined by Eminence's thoughts ever since that but a half fruit.
Messra. Anderson & Ashe on the 16th Like sunlight on yellow ivory, March, 1934, at 10 .. morning. Those three were: Duke Sigismondo of Commacio, Lorenzo Blow smile dawned in the Borgia's Gismondi, and his young wife, face. Madonna Beatrix. To which of:
ba
All claims against the vessel musi presented to the Undersigned with Putting out his hand he rang the in ten days 25th Apr. them, first, would.....or should bell, a forefinger-tip caressing the they will not be recognised.
tiny half apple as he did so.
......death come?
Placidly looking down into the The pomp and glitter of that by courtyard, the Cardinal churchman banquet pleased even the critical only in name-pondered the ques-eye and splendour-surfeited soul of tion. If Lorenzo Gismondi's wife the Borgia.
of the ship's arrival, or
No Fire Insurance will be effected: Bills of Lading will be countersigned
JOHN MANNERS & CO. LTD., Agenta. Mercantile Bank Bide. Hong Kong, 10th March, 1934.
and Apf. 5th May. died......to-night (and very short-The soft light of more than a ly she would probably wish to die), thousand candles was flected in a there would be no war. Sigismonda mass of gold-plate, flushing the im would no longer want to get rid of maculate whiteness of great banks Gismondi.......If Sigismondo were of lilies and causing the gold-and- to die auddenly.... .to-night, his silver threads in the wall-tapestries
to glow like thin streaks of living Steamer army would be disbanded.
A thin lower lip was pinched fire, so that the eyes and wespons meditatively. So much depended of the fingers took on a strange upon "urgency" and "the. conse-realness. · 3rd Apr.quience" in these cases.
MELBOURNE, BRISBANE Brisbane Maru
BYDNEY; WELLINGTON Melbourne Mara & AUCKLAND direct...
Thurs.,
Sat.,
BOMBAY & KARACHI vůj Kaisho Maru
Sun.,
5th Apr. 5th May.
18th Mar.
Singapore,
Penang
and Celebes Maru
Tues.,
Colombo..
CALCUTTA
via Singapore, Hamburg Maru
Hague Maru Belawan Deli, & Bangcon
Tues., Sun,
20th Mar, 1st Apr.
JAPAN PORTS
Himalaya Maru
Canton Meru .......
Bat., Mon., Sun. Sun,
24th Mar. 12th Mar. 18th Mar 25th Mar.
Thurs,
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Amoy
TAKAO via SWATOW and Deli Maru.
AMOY
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A Special Reduced Fares
FROM HONG KONG
A.M. MARCH 21st
(Passengers embark MARCH 20th.)
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MAY 21st.
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From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI, In the centre of the main table PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, He would
& SINGAPORE, talk to the Duke again during the were set four high-backed chairs banquet. There was still time: embossed with the ducal arms in Glamondi had not yet started. colours. Outwards from this prin- informed that all Goods are being
LONDON SERVICE. Meanwhile, he reviewed some of the cipal table ran three other tables anded at their risk into the-Godowns
14 Mar. Marsailles, London, Rotterdam, instances in which murderous in-like the arms of an "E" one from of the Hongkong and Kowloon Whart PATROCLUS",
& Glasgow. trigue had effected its purpose and the centre and one from either end. and Godown Company, Ltd, at, Kow-
21 Mar, Casablanca, London, · E'dam, important political ends had been
The warm, heavily perfumed air loon, whenes and/or from the wharves | "PHILOCTETES"
H'burg & Hall. delivery may be obtained.
SERVICE. Optional Cargo will not be landed LIVERPOOL · successfully served the strangling was filled with music and a babble of the Princes of Biseglia, Viteloso, of conversation and laughter. Duke here, unless notice, has been given 48 Sigismondo had not understated hours prior to versers arrival, but and Piero de' Medici...
carried on from port to port to the The black-and-orange chiaroscuro the wonders to be provided by his anal port of call to which the option
Spanish cook. The soul of the extens 22nd Mar. was beginning to pall.
extenda was rejoiced by No claims will be admitted afte the Taking from a pocket a slender gourmet Cardinal folding knife with a mother-of-pearl the sight of smoking piles of Goods have left the Godown, and al Goods remaining undelivered after the handle set with emeralds, the Bor- sausages made of pigs brains, of 14th instant, will be subject to rent. gia opened its' thin gold blade, and mortadella di Cremona, Ferrarese All claims against the Versal most magnificent peach from sturgeon, Lombard quails and pea be presented to the Undersigned on or cocks stuffed and decorated with before the 23rd instant, or they will
not be recognised de pr oysters, which were sprinkled with All broken, chated, and damaged gold-dust. Gold-dust was held to Goods are to be left in the Godewas, [where they will be examinad of the strengthen the heart.
The Cardinal's thin nostrila 14th Insight, at 10 Tim by our qulvored with delight when allerveyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, In the case of datiable cargo, con- these delicious odours" assalled vigness are requested to inform the them. Malt
Imports & Exports Office that they Duke Sigismondo was gorgeous in bave such goods for examination,
No Fire Lomance haa, barn affect. clapet-coloured satin and cloth of gold, His broad, chest and should-Bill of Lading will be counte
countersign, ers were ablate with jewels and
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