WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
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Lines
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TAKING CARGO FOR
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PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS,
(Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
5.3.
From
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1934.
Destination
6,000 26th May Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull
7,000 30th May 11,000 2nd Jane
5,000 12th June 17.000 18th June 6,000 23rd June
**BANGALORE
ì
*MIRZAPORE
VANTUA
•ALIPORE RAWALPINDI BHUTAN
KAISAR-I-BIND +BEHAR
12.000 30th June 0,100 7th July
:
RAJPUTANA +*SOPDAN
RANCHI CARTHAGE
BURDWAN
RANPURA CORFU
↑ SOMALI
MANTUA
13,000 14th July
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Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London
THE CHINA MAIL.
Star Hostess to Constellation of Wampas
Colleen Moore (centre), screen star winner of the first Wampas Baby Stars achievement trophy is shown as she acted as hostess, to the 1834 crop of baby stars in honour of her appointment as their big sister." Some of the beauties shown at this Hollywood party are destined to climb the film heights.
GERMAN-BULGARIAN THE URN
BARTER PACT
The ceremony, she said, would beļurn.
(Continued From
Page 1).
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp Soya Beans Exchanged conducted by herself-the widow, the experience to the faithful Miss
Bull. tombay, Marseilles & London,
Marseilles, Havre, London
6,700 21st July/Romas Rotterdam, Antwerp &
17,000 28th July 15,000 11th Aug.
6,000 18th Aug.
Hall.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Formburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & Tombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,
Hull, Bombay, Marsellies & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. 11,000 22nd Sept. Marseilles & London.
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Afterwards, in recounting
For Dye-Stuffs. "Oh," she protested, wiping away a Hoskins, she said: "I felt suddenly,
brave tear. "I feel strong enough. that I was in the presence of a "THAWING" FROZEN CREDITS It won't be too much for me. 1 dazzling light and out of the centre [do It because I know that it is what of it came a voice which I seemed
Horace would have liked." Berlin,
to recognise as that of Horace. German frozen credits in Bul-There were to be six virgins Sitting up in my berth, I heard it! garia are to be "thawed" by dressed all in white, who would do say, "You have shut ma ini You means of a barter agreement of a dance symbolising the great ques-have suffocated me! Let
tlon-"O Death, where le thy sting? free! And then suddenly the light soya beans against dye-stuffs.
The agreement has been con-10 Grave, thy victory?" She herself disappeared and I found myself sit- cluded between two groups con-would sit a little to one side, holding ting upright in the dark cabin, con- trolled respectively by the Bul-the urn, and on placing it in the acious that I had just participated garian Government and the Ger-rock, she planned to read an ode of in a marvellous experience. So 1 man dye trust.
her own composition, which began, rose, and unscrewing the Itd of the * Cargo only. † Calla Cesablanca.
Under the agreement the Bul-"There is no death; one only steps urn, left the ashes open to fresh
and beautiful
Air. I have Frequent connection from Fort Said for Passengers and Carge to Con-gurian Government will under-across.
She had written already to the never heard 'the voice, nor seen the Kantinople, Fireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the take the cultivation of soya beans
on a large scale, and will turn members of the Sorosis Club of light, from that day to this.” Khodivial Mall Steamship Co.
over the whole output to Ger- Poseleta, Arkansas, of which she was But there was a part of the ex- many.
still a member, inviting them to at-[perience which she neglected to re- Against this the Bulgarian tend the ceremony.
late: indeed, it was a secret shared, government undertakes to facili- On hearing the plan, the fat and strangely enough, only by the tate a supplementary import cynical Mrs. Throsaington, whose gaunt, red-faced Norman stewardes, quota of aniline dyes to Bulgaria somewhat abstract and technical who took care of her cabin. This to a total value of £25,000-Reu-mind Lydia Wimpole had always die woman was a realistic creature, liked and distrusted, asked with an whose whole mind and soul were air of innocence, "But where can wrapped up in keeping her row of you find six virgina who can dance? [cabins in perfect order, so that sho
You idiot! That white) stood by and read an ode of And how can you make certain that might thus earn large tips and was my husband!"
[her own composition. As sha read, hasten her rétirement from a aca- She threatened the stewardess six virgins (only the Southern a question which Mrs. faring life to open a safe at Headin. with dismissal, with imprisonment. Press, either through modesty or Wimpole dismissed with a sport, She worked mildly and thoroughly. She would sue the company. She an unwarranted cynicism, referred Two weeks after the service at absorbed by that single passion was still making wild threats when to them as young girls), also dress- the house in the Rue Spontini, pas- which blotted out even her fatal the stewardess suddenly aware ed in spotless white, executed a sengers of the Paris found in their tendency toward seasickness.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1934.
*TILAWA
10,000 27th May 2.80 p.m.
SANTHIA SHIRALA
8,000 10th June 8,000 24th June
• Calls Rangoon
Singapore, Port Swottenham, Penang,
Rangoon and Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
- DO
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)
TANDA NANKIN NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
1934.
7,000
2nd June 7,000 80th June
7,000
7,000
1st Sept. 7,000 20th Sept.
Melbourne.
ter.
UNION LINK WITH GOLD COAST.
New Steamship Service Inaugurated.
they are virgins?"
It was
MAN LOONG
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Tel. No. 57088.
"You fooll
•
Mrs.
that she had for three days been "dance pantomime" on the theme midst a large, rather forld woman, So, on the morning following the handing about a corpse fled in "O Death, where is thy sting?" Cape. Town. who dressed always in white and remarkable revelation which came superstitious horror down the cor- A little later, pictures of the With the sun glinting on her wore a long white veil which ipated to Mrs. Wimpole, she set to work ridor.
ceremony appeared in the illustrat For two hours Mrs. Wimpole' lay ed dailies and in the news reeks of Brd Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & multi-coloured funnel and grey behind her as she walked. She as usual in the cabin, making the
hull, the German liner Ussukuma seemed to spend most of her time dust to fly, putting fresh water on more dead than alive on the berth, motion picture houses. The news steamed into Table Bay after an on deck, going round and round the withered tributes of Mrs. Wim-and at the end of that time when reel bore the title, "Arkansas widow absence of three years.
tirelessly weather had no effect pole's admirers, throwing out of the arose she had recovered the plans and carries out novel burial She was completing the first upon her. She appeared even on the porthole fruits that had gone sweet serenity which she had dis-service for her late spouse. Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan voyage on the new West and days when bobe but excellent bad, emptying cigarette ashes.
played at the funeral. She again Korace Wimpole reads ode at final and Hong Kong to Australia.
South African service inaugurat- sailors could raise their heads from By eleven she had finished berummoned the terrified stewardess, resting-place of husband, while Hong Kong to Sydney - 19 days.
ed by the three German African their pillows. She was conspicuous work, and by the time Mrs. Wird-and this time she appeared calm young girls dance Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
to the music of The Union 5.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Naw Lines, which connects the Gold even among the usual collection of pole, in a cloud of white vells, and beautiful.
Mendelssohn's Spring Bong." And Coast and the Congo with the curiosities included in the passen-descended, the cabin was all 'in
"You must not be afraid, my then on the screen appeared the Union for the first time. ger list of a transatlantic liner, and beautiful order, the flowers were good woman," she said. "If you ample figure of Lydia Wimpole, clad
Previously occasional cargo gradually it became known that she neatly arranged, the clothes hung ships were the only vessels run was Lydia Wimpole, widow of an where they should be, the berth keep silent, I shall not hold you in towing white robes, a wreath of responsible. It was an accident, tuberoses pressed low over her grey ning on this route. Cocoa and Arkansas oil magnato, and that she reatly made up. Only one thing Only never mention the subject to hair above the nose-glasses. In one ground nuts, which previously wore white in place of the conven-was changed. The urn, the sacred anyone!" And she sped the be-hand she held the parchment scroll had to be transhipped, may now tional widow's weeds.
{urn, embossed." with the mratio be brought direct from the west coast to Union ports.-Beuter.
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The F. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamars for Southampton and
London via Panama Canal."
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
•BEHAR KAISAR-I-HINT SHIRALA
NANKIN
*SOUDAN RAJPUTANA SIRDHANA TAKADA
RANCHI NELLORE
TILAT GE
*BURDWAN RANPURA SANTHIA
TANDA *SOMALI
1914.
6,100 | 80th May 12,000 81st May
8,000 1st June 7,000 ard Juna 6.700 12th June 17,000 14th 'Juna 8,000 15th June 7,000 29th June 17,000. 28th June
1000 5th July 10.000 18th July 15,000
July 8,000 11th July 27th July 17,000
8,000 27th July 7,000 6th Aug. 7,000 7th Aug.
*Cargo only.
Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hat, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy Shal Mejl, Kobe & Omuka.
Shal. Moli, Kobe, Ozala & Yokohama THE ANSWER WAS
Amor
Mojl
DEATH.
It
+
voyages from which she read the "odo" She was, the more Interested symbols of three religions, had been wildered stewardess two
ncarer her ambition to retire by beginning, "There is no death; one came to learn, a devotee of every moved, irreverently moved!
pressing a thousand franc note only steps across!".- thing occult, and was preparing to stood on the shelf above the wish-
graciously into her red and bony In the background.. leapt the present to the World a new faithstandi
hand.
figures of six virgins, who had plained would be the Esperanto of never very nice to servants, new Mrs. Wimpole screwed the lid care- Eda McCloskey, teacher of Greek an eclectic religion which she ex- Mrs. Wimpole, who was by nature
When the door was closed again, learned dancing from the Henrietta Crossing the fully back on the urn, and placed it Poise in Little Rock. It finished. They also learned that she was cabin, she took down the sacred once more among the bonbons and with the final gesture of the widow placing the empty urn in the niche. travelling with the ashes of the de- urn. One glance was enough to with resen ceased Horace Wimpole, which she convey the whole of the horrible
It was this part of the story And when sufficient time had been carried in a special travelling case truth.
|which she never told, aven to the allowed for the news and pictures The ura was empty! made for the purpose, of purpla
faithful Miss Hoskins.
to percolate through the country, it Belgrade. leather embossed in gold with the In her fury she rang all the bells Six weeks after the lamentable was announced that a female
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Kobe & Yokohama.
Moji, Kobe & Osaka. & Osaka. Kobe & Mo Kobe
Ouks, & Yokohama Worker's Throat Severed Amoy, Shal, Mojl, Kobe & Osaka.
With Saw. Shanghal, Kobe 4 Yokohama,
Shanghai, Kobe & Yorahams.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Amoy". S'hai_Muji, Kobe & Osaka.
S'hat, Kobe & Yokohama.
Shanghal," Kobe & Yokohama,
religions.
red with anger."
S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Oraka & Yokohama Two workmen Albert Aner-esoteric symbols of three religions, at once, but fortunately none ressecident, the newspapers of the Messiah had appeared bringing à shek and Marko Benedeti, were In the large outside cabin of Mrs. ponded but the gaunt stewardess. Middle West and South printed the new religion. The Messiah, Lydia sawing through a
an Iron pipe at Wimpole the urn occupied a pro- She faced the wild Mrs. Wimpole story of Horace Wimpole's burial Wimpole by name, had of course set
minent place among the flowers and Cher yells all awry, and her lovely They referred to Horace as a man up headquarters in California. * Did you oil the saw?" asked boxes of bonbons sent to the steam- serenity all, vanished) with a dumb who had acquired great wealthIt was all a great success, and no Albert impatiently.
jer by admirers and disciples. In-look of astonishment.
|through the discovery of oil on hia one knew, of coursă, save the widow?
Belevar.
* "Of course it is olled," snapped deed, it bore an absurd resemblance Brandishing the urn at the land in Arkansas. With his wife and a Norman * kxstewardess," now Marko,
to one, impre box of bonbons in a stricken stewardess, Mrs. Wimpole he had lived in Paris for several mistress of a bavette at Hardin, "I don't believe it," Albert re-cabin which had the air of belong-cried, "What have you done, you years, but like a good American he that Horace Wimpole had escaped plied
ing to a prominent music hall stupid fool! What have you done" had chosen Arkansas as his final at last somewhere in the middle of Ell show you it is oile {actres
And the stewardass, Judging from resting-place.
the Atlanti Doom. ! And no one, cried the enraged Marko and heOn the night of the fifth day out the violence of the gestures and the Hathes, contained in an urn not even the widow or the an draw the saw across bla mate's the widow was seized in the middle article which Mrs. Wimpole held designed by his widow, were placed stewardess, ever knew whether or
Death was neck
of the night by an Intanse convic heroically aloft that her agitation in the niche of a rock in the highest not Horace Wimpole bad really ap Marko is under
Instantaneous, tion that someone some spirit oncerned with the urn, replied, part of the Ozarka : during the peared in a "blåse of Ught in mid- Waw in posanunte dion with it, cadamiaimply emptied the course of an impresiva cremony, Adantie, crying out, "You have sexing her to remove the lid of the cigarette ashes out of the porthole! At which kik wife, (dressed all in me in! You have suffocated me!
Let me be free!"
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notios. All Cabins are fitted with Elecizie Fans or Punks Louvre Bysimon Steamers on London and Australian Zingare atted with Laundries, Farcals" measuring not more than 8 cu. ft. will be received at the Cow jany's Office up in Noon on the day, previous to wailing.dk
For further information, Fangs alatt, Handbooks, ots, apply to * MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., ¿PRO, Bulking: Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong, Agentario with murder-Beater,