THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934.
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K.S.
*KIDDERPORE
From
Trong trong Kong
Abnat
1934.
6.300 14th Apr.
15,000 21st Apr. 6.800 28th Apr.
ICARTHAGE
*SOMALI
INALDERA
CORFU
BANGALORE
10.000 5th May 15,000 19th May 4,000 20th May
MANTUA
BAWALPINDI
BHUTAN
11,000 2nd June 17.000 10th June 6,000 23rd June
KAISAR-I-HIND **BEHAR
RAJPUTANA + SOUDAN
RANCHI CARTHAGE +BURDWAN
RANPURA
12,000 80th June
6,100
Destinatios.
S'pore, Penang. Colombe, Bombay &
Karachi.
Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London." Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Bull. Bombay. Maracliles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg. Rotterdam, Autwerp & Hull.
Bombay, Marsailles & London.
By DO
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Marseilles, Havre, London,
Kull.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Thrilling Sea Rescue After Collision
As their own ship sinks to a watery grave of the cordis in a fog. At right, Captain C. A. Kelly, of the Grand Banks, Nova Scotia, the crew of the freighter) Black Eagle, and Captain Allan Murray (right) of Concordia is taken aboard the Black Eagle while one the Concordia, pictured on arrival at New York. Cat- of the shipwrecked mariners elicks his camera to tle aboard the Concordia were the only victims of the record the scene. The Black Eagle rammed the Con-wea drama, the Concordia's crew of 61 being saved..........
FIGHTING
INFANTILE
PARALYSIS
Vaccine Found By New York Doctor.
A Fighter In Ermine
(Continued from Page 12.)
ped and for a matter of minutes made no movement. I
watched.
another
Until that spring when Red was And as I watched I saw six months old. I shot them both.weasel come out of the woods and Because that weasel family must go directly to the Arst,
The newcomer circled, and the EXPERIMENTS. ON MONKEYS have chicken blood; must eat the
very grouse eggs from under my other kept moving around to face And after it. All at once the two were tug- faster-mother hens. New York. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
that humiliating encounter, when ging ercely at the mouse. To my 7th July Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London
A vaccine which may render
mo- Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
my brother and I and Spots near- astonishment after several
its persons immune to infantile ly caught one of the little ones, I ments the first animal let go Bombay, Marseilles & London.
That prey; then the other did also. They by Biore
final vengeance. Marseilles, Havre, London paralysis is being developed Hamburg Rotterdam, Antwerp & Dr. William Hallock Park, who with evolver when the pelts tween them.
time I accounted for an old one faced each other, the mouse
Now the newcomer: for 40 years has been director of of all of them were half-way began a comical series of hops ather and leaps, again in a circle around
17,000 14th July 6.700 21 July
17,000 28th July
15,000 11th Aug.
0,000 18th Aug.
Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay. Marseilles & London.
13
ber
Bambay, Marseilles, Havre, London, the Bureau of Laboratories of the changed. I winged the
Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & New York City Health Depart later, when it was in magnificent the ether. This kept up for some Hull.
17,000 26th Apg. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
ment.
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TALMA
TILAWA
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• Calls Rangoan
1934.
7,000 15th Apr. 8.000 29th Apr.
Singapure. Penang & Calentia.
DO
10,000 13th May
по
DO DO
10,000 27th May 8,000 10th June
time. Finally the crouching, white winter ermine-as the city
waiting one ran off a few yards furriers call it,
stopped. The manoeuvres of the Dr. Park, who has not yet tried.
Did that persecution drive the other were repeated. Plainly my beings -elan away from their ancient pre-female neighbour was being wooed. vaccine on human
experiments have thus far serves? It did not.
Soon they passed from my sight,| It required only the first thin As also wessels passed from my licen made on monkeys-says that
November anow to show me weasel mind for some weeks. Then I be it has been impossible so far to tracks-Red's, it transpired-lead came witness and recorder of extend the period of immunisation ing in and out from under the what was to me the fizal epi- beyond two weeks. There will be scattered roots of a birch standing sode in the biography of her whom
on the sunny slope among apruce I called "Red, Unafraid."
nu practical value to the serum saplings. The lake's rim was but Early in June, on a Sunday
atil this period can be extended two rods distant. I set a trap at morning. I had stolen out at sun- for at least a year.
a Jikely exit. It was ignored. rine to the lake shore to see the "We believe we have progressedpeed it in another spot. The world begin. Spring downs on some distance in recent wecks," tracks always came and went clee- Adirondack lakes are like that- Dr. Park said, "toward developing where. I tried watching. gun in newly coined gold pieces tumbling a practical' means of preventing hand. Nothing over emerged-ex from the Day Maker's mint,
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for not curing-paralysis. Of course, cept when, anecen, the inmate stole had sat on a log looking out across 1st and 2nd class passengers.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, how long it will protect people or two. (She always killed more had given way, meanwhile, to a
1934.
NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
7,000
NELLORE TANDA
Melbourne.
7,000 4th May. 2nd June 7,000 30th June Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & 77,000 3rd Aug. 7,000 1st Sept.
NANKIN
7,000 20th Sept.
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Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
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TALMA
MANTUA
TILAWA TANDA *BHUTAN
BAWALPINDI
1984.
S'hal, Mojl, Kobe & Ozaka.
we intend to confine our experi-out. slipped into the henhouse the unbelievably peaceful surface ments to monkeys until we are per- through an obscure rat-hole and for more than an hour, I suppose. fectly sure. We want to establish drank the life blood of a leghorn The audible dew-drip from above
from the illness. It might be only than she could eat). December shimmering, dance of sun-and- for six months but we think it is came on, colder and colder. Never water dimpling reflected on the for life."-Reuter,
more than one set of tracks around under sides of the young leaves those roots. Not a family, not overhead. Warmth
coming pair even; in there only a lone ace into the light rays pouring in from that could be as clever as six... over the summit of Baldy.
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The winter drew to its close at A sound caused me to turn my last. White, quick, lithe, remorge-head. From where I sat I could less, the lone weasel slew her way look up the slope, where the birch to maturity and strength and wiɛ-latood among little spruces. In dom. Once set upon a trail she fact. I could see the weasel's many "Main Street" in the foreign never ave up. Red squirrels thresholded doorway, Something The Union 6.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New quarter is Old Compton-street, might dart over trunk, branch and was moving there. At once I saw Zerland
Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
just north of Shaftesbury-twig, hastening in pante when it was not a weseul. A largè The P. & O, Royal Mall Steamers to London and
avenue. Here are situated they learned they were followed, black snake was issuing from be- The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and macaroni factory and the chief They might jump wide and far to neath the roots, and in its mouth London via Panama Canal.
foreign food stores and wine tree or snowdrift or to rocks bewhat on earth was the beast shops. Here you can buy at a low-yet on and always on pursued carrying? Was it my weasel? dozen bookstalls any European the weasel. Grouse pr ptaftigan, No. I could see it was nothing so paper you fancy,
slumbering stupidly in the cavity it large. But it was reddish and One shop specialises in the
had made for itself in the snow, slender. It was a weasel baby. vegetables of the French coun- would awake hardly soon enough Now the reptile had wholly 6,000 18th Apr. S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
tryside not the costly "pro realisa lis doom; Red's terrible emerged and Was
器 taking 15,000 19th Apr. S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama.
meurs" that are rushed over to Amoy, S'haf Moji, Koba & Osaka. 10,000 20th Apr. 11,000 3rd Way Shanghai, Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama, capture the cream of the British grip at its throat made struggle general direction toward
useless, White-foot-mice were water's edge not far from me. 10,000 4th May
Amey
market before our own farmers' 7,000 6th May: S'haf Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohame crops can ripen, but homely sought out and killed In their Where, I marvelled, was
S'hal, Maji, Kobe & Yokohama. 6,100 18th May
underground nesta. The mother of that litter? Away hunt- 17,000 17th May
things, dear to the French house-COAY Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.
sat st, 8,000 18th May
S'hat Moi
Moji, Kobe &
Osaka
wife's heart, like salade de mache, white hares, rather abundant in ing, probably.
The smaller head, with its furry eu body floated up through the mud- the vicinity during autumn, one by hypnotised by the sight. 8,309
Kobe & Yokohama,
Kobe 80th May
obe & Yokohama, nutty crosnes, eschalots and
one disappeared.
beautiful morning suddenly be cumbrance, tossed itself from side died depths, 12,000 Btet May
multi-coloured aubergines,
The rest of the litter under the '8,000 1st June Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
S'hai 3rd June 7,000
Kobe
There is another shop were. All this I saw and knew about, as came cold, aloof, allen, menacing, to side
Writhing wildly the tortured birch? Well, next morning when The little weasel—and it was a 0,700 12th June
Kobe Yokohama.
you can buy an altogether as bunter, trapper and man of the 17,000 141
June
Kobe & Yokohama,
tonishing Belection of cheeses Woods des and knows what is go very young one crosswise in its snake rolled closer and closer to I had dug down among the roota 8.000 15th June Amoy, Moll, Robe & Oak... 7000 29th June.
with odd names like, Strachino, Ing on about him. In the spring, captive's jawn, gave out a last the lake shore. In one tremendous and stones to the den, I found it Amoy, Moji, Kebo & Osaka. 1 17.000 28th June- Shanghal Kobe &
Cacciovallo, and Provolone! one thought, when that demon again faint squeak which I painly heard. top the batting pair, went over the deserted. Then suddenly, as I Yokohama. 7,000
July
S'hai Holl, Kebe, Osaka, & Yokohama Italian stocks practically nothing comes to my chicken runs, I will I reached down for the walking low bank into the water, Perhaps stood leaning on my shovel, an 10,000 18th July Amoy. Shni, Moli, Kobe Onks, but different types of olive,act the super-avenger from whose stick at my side. At that moment the things was done by accident. Ideá dashed into my mind. Was perhaps by intent, for this snake it really, Bed that had perished; or 6,000 11th July
The cafes, the Utile bars and decision no creature may appeal.the snake saw me and stiffened:
Well, in water was" it, her, gallant mate? 18,000 12th July
But now a red streak shot out can manoeuvrR BEI 7,000 6th Aug.
the clubs are unknown to Lon Epring cameOne dawn from doners from outside the quarter, rear window I saw another ep of the underbrush. At the tree as on lang. At any rate, this was Returning from the house In hip I finally of replevised the but each has its own particular sode in the life of the birch tras roots it stopped a split second, its one chapes of film,
body, from the Inke. It character and its own special wessel, Mottled again with, rud-Then It-Red, the mother-saw. I ran over to the spot. She had
"male wensel, Red, had All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, dientele, drawn, it may be, from dy fur, Wassel was joping down Five leaps took her to the reptile's been submerged at once, but even All Cabins are atted with Electric Fans or Punka Louvre System.
one town in Italy, or French the trail from the lake, coming in head.
sacrificing herself un- tatingly. And she had chosen Steemera on London and Australian. Idnes wre Atted with Laundries.
partner well. He had carried Parcels measuring not more than 5'en, ft, will be received at the Comworkmen of one trade that oddly graceful, undulation
To know them all would tako stream with which they travel, The 1 pany's Once up to Noon on the day previous to railing,
remaining young, alsowhere to For further information, Fassage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply bolone month of wandering, but if Hain high labore its body was a victi
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She sank her, furlops teeth then the weasel had no thought of paused
side of its scaloy throat sorrender. In its death snake released the Imp beneath the surface the and Its coll thrashed about clung to her, powerful, door with But presently & Marící It was a ne bubbles told their stor
over Red,who knew
fear, the drowned. And, woon; the, sas
all, of course, oultry presently. But
can afford it, after
-more- supposa