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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.
ASAMA MARU
TAIYO MARU
CHICHIBU MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.
Wednesday, 9th May at 10
23th May
Wednesday,
Wednesday,
HIKAWA MARU (starts from Kobe) Monday,
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM
6th June
21st May
HIYE MARU starts from Kobe)...
Monday,
4th June
HAKOZAKAJ MARU
..: Saturday,
12th May
TERUKUNI MARU
HAKUSAN MARU
Friday. Saturday,
25th May
9th June
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila &. Porte
KITANO MARU
Saturday,
26th May
ATSUTA MARU
Saturday,
23rd June
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo,
HAKODATE MARU
Monday,
7th May
GINTO MARL
Friday,
TOKIWA MARU
Tuesday,
11th May 20th May
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,
Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama.
THE CHINA MAIL.
WHICH OF TWO?
(Continued from Page 9).
or 2
Gradually something-whether it
a hope. or Was a guess, memory-focused his attention on the centre page. His eye went up and down its columas abstractedly. but with purpose, like an owi quar- a..tering a stubble-field. The centre garish. patternless mosaic of little dramas. The more! he studied It, the more obvious it did become that in most of them hol could have played no part, since the protagonists (where these
page
3 Was
were
men) were either dead, or in prison. or at any rate not in a position to apecified where- exchange their abouts for an English railway em- hankment.
HEIYO MARU
Monday,
NEW YORK via Panama.
TSUYAMA MARU
Friday,
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genoa good his escape.
28th May
18th May
and Valencia.
TOYOOKA MARU
Saturday,
12th May
CALCUTTA vin Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
MURORAN MARU
Tuesday,
8th May
+AKITA MARU
Tucoday,
15th May.
IGENOA MARU
Tursday,
20th May
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
Saturday,
5th May
HARUNA MARU..
Friday,
11th May
ATSUTA MARI: (Nagaruhi direc). Friday,
18th May
Telephone 30291... (Private exchanges to all departmenta). For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA
+ Cargo only.
MALACCA MARU (Moji direct
S. K.
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION
NEW YORK via Japan, Los Hokuroku Maru ..
Angeles and Panama.
via Singapore,
New Cruiser Starts Tests
An excellent photo of the U, S. S. New Orleans, new 10,000-ton cruiser aunched about a year ago, as she steamed down the East River, New York, from Brooklyn Navy Yard at the start of her frst test trip. She will probably make a "shake-down" cruise to European waters.
The
man
LLOYD TRIESTINO.
NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.
columus Lwo But there were which stood out. with almost too much plausibility, as conceivable in- terpretations of his past. One was that devoted to the chartered ac- countant who had murdered his wife. The crime appeared to have Ibeen planned with skill and fore- made sight. Its perpetrator had
The police were offering a reward for information and the leading to his arrest, column concluded with a summary pocket. Then he scrambled down of the circulated description, sup-the embankment.
the train Half a mile away, plemented by a photograph, reason- ably clear, of a youthful, entirely chugged with boorish self-import-
"CONTE VERDE" undistinguished face. The murder-
felt a a beech-wood. er had a small moustache. Thence out of the inviolable beauty of Steamer
PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO, description stated that his hair was
& SINGAPORE. red, his age 30, and his height 5ft, great sense of clation as its curved From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI
and rippling flank bore down Din. It was not known what clothes him. He waved his hands and
grinned, uttering incoherent little CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby he was wearing.
"If I wasn't for the moustache," noises of pleasure, like a dog. Those informed that all Goods are being thought the man, caressing the re-blank faces, gazing out of its win-landed at their risk into the Godowns and Godown Company, Ltd., at Kow. assuring smoothness of his upper dows in a state of suspended curiof the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf
cross-section At least, it osity,
of loon, whence and/or from the wharves lip, "that might be me.
eurprising and delivery may be obtained.
Optional Cargo will not be landed might if I've got red hair....'
Grinning at the fantastic neces strange. For him, alone of all the
hours
prior to vessel's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the kity, he tried to pull his hair down world, there was nothing stale un- here, unless notice has been given 48 over his eyes; but it was too short der the sun.
"Wish
mirror," he I had
The passengers leaked down at dnat port of call to which the option No claims will be admitted after the thought. It was absurd, not even him in vacant, ephemeral surmise. extends.
Be The train dwindled into the dis- Goods have left the Godown, and all knowing what one looked like.
left 11th instant will be subject to rent rides, a mirror would have helped tance, foreshortening itself with a Goods remaining undelivered after the with the second column, for that too surreptitious air. contained a photograph. It was alone. photograph of the young clerk who
Д
were
humanity, new.
He W09
on
All broken, chafed, and damaged where they will be examined on
tbe
our
All claims against the vessel must be presented to the Undersigned on or The man climbed <nce more on to before the 20th instant or they will
not be recognised. had inherited a fortune from his the embankment.
It doesn't much matter which way! eccentric employer. He was believ
by led in be ignorant, as yet, of hiago, he thought: and set off after Goods are to be left in the Godowns,
the employer's the train, walking on the sleepers. 11th instant, at 10 6.0. good luck: since
In the case of dutiable cargo, con death he had been away on holiday. They imposed on him a mincing, irk-surveyors, Messrs. Goddard & Douglas. signees are requested to inform the and his present whereabouts were some gait. To someone In the fields
He was described, not unknown.
below him it would have seemed as imports & Exports Office that they very constructively, as being 28 if he was coquetting with the sky have such goods for examination. years old and foud of tennis. photograph, evidently an old one, showed a pleasant, boyish face. as smell of clover: dog-roses in devoid of characteristics as a loaf hedge: the braggart plumage of a The hair appeared to be dark.iny all the tiny threads in the tex There was no moustache.
ture of a country summer affected As he looked nl it, he became him like wine. His head was turn- conscious that his heart was beat-jed. ing faster. He fell a lttle dizzy.
Mon.,
Call
Kwanto Maru
Direct at Cristobal. Puerto.
Fri.,
14th May 1st June
Colombia. Boston Philadal. phia & Baltimore
BIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS.
Santos Maru
MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Rio De Janeiro Maruj
Tue., Sun.,
24th May 24th June
AIRES
Colombo, Durban, Port
Elizabeth and Cape Town
DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA.
MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR Manila Maru
Africa Maru
LOURENCO MARQUES.
Tues., Tuce..
5th June 6th July
DURBAN, PORT ELIZA.
ΒΕΤΗ, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AMERICAN PORTS via Singapore & Colombo
MELBOURNE,
BRISBANE, Sydney Maru
Tuce..
SYDNEY: WELLINGTON Brisbane Maru & AUCKLAND dirbet....
Mon.,
5th June 6th July
BOMBAY & KARACHI vs Havana Maru
Sun..
13th May
Singapore,
PenLEF and
Shunko Maru
Sal.,
Colombo
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Borneo Maru
Belawan Deli, & Rangoon
Sun.,
Sumatra Maru
Fri
JAPAN PORTS
Hamburg Maru
Wed.,
Fri.,
Sun.. Sun.,
11th May
Thurs
17th May
JAPAN via Takao & Keelung Canada Maru
KEELUNG via Swalow and Hozan Mara
Canton Maru Amoy
TAKAO I SWATOT and Dell Maro
AMOY
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SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS,
BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS, OXY-ACETYLENE, AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
The line.
He was supremely happy,
The d
A
This is the sort of place for me,
No Fire Insurance has been effect Bill of Lading will be countersign. ed by
DODWELL & CO., LTD.
Aguata. Hong Kong, 5th May, 1994. canerete and personal thing in the vacuum in which he so strangely Doubt had been Conjecture, in evicted by desire. the absence of all other inental pre- The man who had lost his occupations, had crystallised into be
"If that's me." be sald aloud, he thought; I'm going to live in the found himself. 19th May I'm in luck."
country after this.
He spoke in a voice shy and shaky He was thinking of the legacy.
A mile further on the line dived
20th May with excitement, like a child who
1st June sees a parcel brought into its nur-into a firewood. It was cool under ef
aery and cannot help asking, "Is the trees: Pigeons cooed and clat-memory was now firmly convinced 9th May that for me?" But, like the child's, tered in their upper branches.
A
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MONDAY, MAY 7, 1934.
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that he was none other than the missing clerk, heir to a fortune. Hel his voice expressed the barest mini-green woodpecker fled away up
Round a bend in the road he came Hie instinct told ride, defying enchantment with wild went forward gaily, mum of doubt.
The man walked on 13th May him he had found his Identity. He laughter.
through the dappled shade, smiling. on a policeman. The policeman was 20th May was relying on his instinct..
On the other side of the wood leaning on his bleycle and mopping The distant rumble of a train throbbed along the heavy, sweet air. there was a little bridge where the his forehead with a dirty The rail began to vibrate gently railway crossed a lane.
I'm tired of walking on against the base of his spine. The
PACIFIC SERVICE. man Blood up, folded his precious sleepers, thought the man: I might
his
(via KOBE & YOKOHAMA.) as well try the lane. and put it into
Some way away, he, could see a
"Wittenden," said the policeman,TANTALUS" square grey church-tower, set in a quilted clump of beech and chest looking at him with mild curiosity. "Thank you." The man was star-
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handkerchief. The man approached these hirs with a tremulous, eager smile. "Can you tell me the name of that village?" he asked, pointing up the lane.
Roofs, half-hidden, showed
nuts. here and there among the trees. It ving for conversation.
it?"
"Hot, isn't
looked like a small village. The lane! went towards it. He slithered down "Ar," said the policeman judicious. the embankment into the lane and, "it is that."
Nevertheless he put on his helmet, headed for the tower, gratefully with the air of one capable of rising lengthening his stride.
He still felt that keen delight in everything about him. He shuffled through the fine white dust, kicking
took a
superior to circumstances at the call of duty.
With some vague idea that a con-i tradictory gesture might prolong it up like a child, till his shoes were their meeting, the man took off his fantastically white;, he genuine pleasure in watching the shabby felt hat and wiped the sweat wrinkles behind the tom caps, which from his forehead. The policeman had placed his foot on the step of closed and opened with every ate his bicycle; preparatory to galolog the saddle by that method of sur
and thus retained a little seam of the original black at their bottoms. He knew, by now, that he had been prise attack from the rear which is still prevalent in rural districts.
a townsman wall his life. He had when he saw the hat taken off, he
Several.emo-] never seen dust like this before.
tlons, half-disguised, marched clum- He felt tremendously expansive, Paused, and stared.
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He wanted to meet one of his ally across his large, red face, like Enjoy Your Short Leave in Australia, and Hew Zealand, Hong Kong, Sydary-19 Days... strange, intriguing fellow-creatures, Shakepearean army across the
He longed for someont to share stage. Then be seemed to come to 17 decision. With a valedictory the story of his most extraordinary experience; but more than anything grunt, he achieved the saddle, and he wanted someone to confirm his pedalled off up' the lane, ponderous- marvellous slice of luck.
ly, but at a good speed.
The man put on his hat again, rather-mefully. This new li
life was
In his own min it had come to need very little chirmation newspaper in his pocket was his only no certain sanctuary, after all; the
pre gutriders of discontent were "häff- link with reality and the
tered mering on its doors. Like a child tation he pat on a clams it
(Continued on Page 11). him was the nest approach to
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