FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO
FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
5.9.
**BANGALORE
•MIRZAPORE MANTUA *ALIPORE RAWALPINDI +*BHUTAN
KAISAR-I-KIND **BEHAR
RAJPUTANA **SOUDAN
RANCHI CARTHAGE
BURDWAN
RANPURA CORFU
**SOMALI
MANTUA
4
RAWALPINDI
From
About
Tone Hong Kong
1934.
Destination.
THE CHINA MAIL.
Serene and graceful as a bird, the new United States Army bombing plane, City of Oakland, is pictured
she awaited her n aiden take-off, following her christening ceremonies at Oakland, Cal. The great ship is a twin-motor ed, low-wing monoplane, capable of 215 miles an hour and weighing almont seven tons.
“SHUNTIEN”
SATISFIES
ON TRIALS
6,000 26th May Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, New Passenger Boat For
7,000 30th May 31,000 2nd June 6,000- 12th June 17,000 16th June 6,000 23rd June
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull,
S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay Marseilles & London. S'pore, Penang, Colombe & Bombay. Bombay, Marroilles & London. Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Hull
Marseilles & London
Marecilles, Havre, London
12.000 30th June. Rotterdam, Antwerp &
6,100
7th July
17.000 14th July 6,700 21st July
17.000 28th July 15,000 11th Aug.
6.000 18th Aug.
17,000 26th Aug. 15,000 8th Sept 7,000 18th Sept.
11,000 22nd Sept. 17,000
Kull. Bombes, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp. & Hull.
↑ Gall. Camblanca.
China Navigation.
ACCOMODATION FOR 53 1ST CLASS PASSENGERS
The Black Diamond Tree
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"Are you still engaged?" I ventured to ask.
"No, I broke it off. When I dis- we were left alone with the port Har-covered that I had gone mad what else boys pushed over a box of elgarettes, could I do? Unfortunately I told the "Well," he said, eyeing me with a facts to Rosa's people who didn't kind of aly self-deprecatory humour, love me much. Very soon the country- why do you think I'm doing this side heard that I had filted Rosa and living here all by myself, with all the owned to being off my head, people of my own kind living around put the complete tin hat on me. Peo- me hating me like an adder."
ple can tolerate a pretty bad hat, but: "I didn't know I beag awk-not a bad hat who is also a lunatic. That's why you find me living like this. wardly.
dreams of coming_near Nobody of two friends who live at a distance, my own set, except one or
me. Well,
That
The single-screw cargo and passenger steamer "Shuntien,” hull by Messrs. The Talkoo Hencham, and you saw a bit of it to "Oh, but you guessed. You know Dockyard & Engineering Co. tonight. He'll tell you all about me if that's my story. Imagine how glad the order of Messrs. The China you go and see him to-morrow. I
Navigation Co., Ltd... proceeded don't want to embarrass you, but you evening."
am of your company if only for one. la sea on Wednesday for her offi- as well hear my story first,
cial trial,
The vessel's dimensions are
it won't bore you! "Carry on," I said.
300ft. by 46ft, and 25ft, and she a pretty useful scandal about
"Well, in the first place there has two complete steel decks, long which I didn't deserve. In promenade and boat decks, poop, second place I'm mad."
If
was
"It's pretty tragic," I agreed. "Why don't clear out? Travel. Do janything." me will I have to be in residence for cle- can't. Under the terms of the the ven months in the year, else the es
tate passes to a cousin. My father
and forecastle. A. double bottom I took a sip at my port without, I had thought of all that. I have no in fitted for water ballast and hope, too evident an air of nervous-profession and if chucked it I should ba a beggar. Besides, any man with
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SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK THE SUNSHINE ROUTE 18 Days To San Francisco Via Shanghai, Kobe Yokohama and Honolulu
Fortnightly sailings:- Pres. Wilson Pres. Hoover Pres. Lincoln Prox. Coolidge
...June 6, 8 .. June 16, 6 a.
July 4, 6 a.. July 14, 6 art.
EUROPE NEW YORK Inquire for round-trip tickets to Europe In connection" with Lloyd Triestino Via Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Suer and the Mediterranean
Pres. Harrison .......... May 25, -8 a.m. Pres. Hayes... Pres. Johnasa Pres. Monroe
June 9, 8 a.m. June 23, 8 .. July 7, 8 a.m.
SEATTLE, VICTORIA THE EXPRESS ROUTE 17 Daya To Seattle Vian Shanghal, Kobe and
Yokoham
Fortnightly sailings >--- Pres. Jackson .... May 26, 8 am, Pres: Jefferson June 8, midnight Pres. Grant ............June 23, 8 a.m. Pres. McKlaley July 7, 8 a.m.
MANILA
THE MOST FREQUENT
SERVICE
NEXT SAILINGS
Pres. Harrison May 26, 8.00 am. Pres. Wilson....May 29, 6 р.. Pres. Jefferson June 2, 6.00 p.m. Pres. Hoover ..June 7, 9.00 p.m.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
PEDDER BUILDING, HONG KONG, CANTON BRANCH ~NO. 4, SHAKEE ROAD.
BARBER WILHELMSEN LINE MONTHLY SERVICE
PACIFIC
COAST
U.S.A
To
PANAMA CANAL
ZONE
AGENTS:
ATLANTIC COAST.
U.S.A.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Bombay, Martellles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
fresh Full.
water. There
are three neas,
"It's all right," he laughed. "I'm not any backbone ought to stay on and Marnellles & London,
large cargo holds and tween decka-violent, and if I were you could cope fight the whole thing out." 6th Oct. Bombay, Marseilles & Londen. Tubular steel derricks, fitted on with me. And I can sasure you that
"I wish I could help you," I said. Samson posts, and operated by my insanity doesn't take a form which "It is rather odd that you should tell who * Cargo only.
steam winches, deal with weights umpleasant to anybody but myself. me you are mad. Most people" Frequent connection from Fort Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-windlass is fitted forward, a steam you all about it or will it bore you wered
up to 10 tons. A powerful steam Forgive my egotism. I meet so few are really mad don't know it
people that I can talk to . May I tell "Then I can assure you," he ass- stantinople, Pireasa, Smyrna and-other Levant Ports by steamers of the steering gear is fitted direct on to stiff?”
ception, that I am one of the ex- Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
the rudder head and controlled by "It certainly won't bore me," I pro. "If you really are," I said, "I think telemotor from
misod. the navigating
I can tell you what form it takes. "Thanks. Then I put it into very Porsecution mania. You think the bridge. The steam winch is fitted few words. You seem to have heard whole world's against you" on the poop for warping. Electric of my father-or me-for I was curs- In other words, I am deluded about hear quite clearly the creaking of one light is fitted throughout, wireleased with his name. He was a popular all I have just told you?"
of the old plum-tree's branches. There i telegraphy and a direction finder man, hard-riding, hospitable, absurdly "A good part of it, perhaps,"
generous on public platforms, and low- have been installed, and ampled by everybody who hadn't too much rather sadly..
He shook his head and laughed something dangled from that
was good cause for that creaking, for cold storage space is provided for to do with him. In his own home and
heavy I only wish you were right.
lower limb
foot or two of provisions, etc.
among his servants he was an un-suffer from delusious of another sorting gently by the neck Well, I had rope, and the shape of a man swing- speakable brute, Ho bullied my mother I don't want to discuss them, though, seen what I was told to see hated me for not being like himself. aaked alowly.. to death-eneered her to
death. Ha "Anything to do with plums?"
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
Singapore, Port Swettenham, Penang
Rangoon and Calcutta. S'pore, Pang, Calcutta & Rangeon.
TILAWA
1984.
10,000 27th May 2.90 p.m. 8,000
9th June 8,000 24th June
Calle Rangoon
1. Call. Fort Swettenham.
*SANTHIA SHIRALA
1934.
7,000 2nd June 7,000 30th June
TANDA NANKIN NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
7,000
- DO
1
Queen's Buildings.
[POLITICAL GAME IN RUMANIA
(Continued from Page 8)
I dressed and paced the room for the of their members who were accused He wanted for a son. something bra- Good heavens, not-Oh, I see what remainder of the time of darkness, and of complicity-in-the-murder-of-M... tal and brainless, the vicious ald-you're getting at.
with both the burners of electric Duca last December, in the army fashioned squire. By some freak of perhaps to do with that tree of black the slow passing of those small hours, and politics as well. General Cau-
Well something light turned on. I shan't easily forget nature he begot something that grew diamonds.
up
First-Class Cabins Accommodation is provided on the promenade and upper decks in double and single berth cabins for B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 53 first-class passengers. The 1st and 2nd class passengers.
lounge is situated at the fore end of the promenade dock, finished in sensitive and, I suppose, scholarly. I was sorry for Karboys, but in no nor how long it seemed to take the tacuzene was among the accused. In return hated him like hell. way nervous of him. When at last 1 creeping dawn to grow to full day M. Vaida-Voevod, the former Prime EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South; hardwood and tastefully painted.
The dining saloon is on the upper vou about two inquests, if you trouent to bad I could not guess that light, I went down and out in the Minister and one of Rumania's
The people around here will tell
was about to pass the most wretched garden as soon as the sun was up deck, is panelled in light oak and ask. The first they'll hardly re-night of my life. My room was large but not in that same garden in which elder statesmen." spoke in their de
It was kept de-airy and comfortable, with two tell while Harboys heard me stirring and
the plum tree stood. After
Bom fence. capable of seating 65 persons. The member much about. smoke room, finished in fumed oak,ly quiet. That was on old Stackr, double windows in the wall facing my came.down to join me. The sight of solved before the Rumanían elections The Iron Guard was officially dis- our butler, who had been in the family | bed, 3rd Aug. Manila, Rishani, Brisbane, Sydney & is situated on the boat deck. service for forty years, He was ex- I don't know what time it was when my face brought him to a halt, and he 7,000 1st Sept.
Melbourne.
last December-at a date late enough Accommodation for 44 second-pected to be pensioned off. In one of i woke. I should think it must have altered an involuntary ejaculation of 7,000 20th Sept.
dismay,
to make it impossible for its leaders class passengers is arranged in the his charming fits of temper my father been about two in the morning.
suddenly sacked him. We all loved poop, with a dining saloon adjoin-old Stacks. Too old to get another as one is apt to wander in a strange anything the matter?"
"You don't look well," he said. "Is to appeal to the High Court against I woke up wondering where I WAS, ing.
the dissolution before polling. day. Job, and too proud to blackmail my room. Then I remembered, and as
I've had a most damnable night Unofficially it remains in being, 50 Open berths for 60 steerage pas- father by airing his grievance, the remembered I was conscious of a face mare or-or something,” I said. *I sengers, have been arranged in the poor old man committed suicide. bending down closa over mine. It was thought I woke up, and there was does its Legion of Death, whose hun- forward tween deck.
"It was a nice quit, friendly sort man's face, clean-shaven, elderly, in most filthy face bending over me,
dred members have a list of the of inquest. The coroner happened to describly ovil Ship's Company's Quarters
and menacing, and dirty yellowish face
governing whom they have sworn to be my father's lawyer, and he sat round as the mean. It was the round-
"My God" exclaimed Harboys, and assassinate. The Captain's house and chart without a jury. No awkward ques est face I ever saw. And it was yel-bis own face sprang alight with amar- room is on the boat deck with the tions were asked. Verdict-Suicide lowish and slightly luminous like the ment and
M. Duca was first on the list. While of Unsound Mind.
"Nothing but Should personal feeling prevall over is in the fore We had the devil's own row, He loved I heard nothing. tion for the crew
"That finished me with my father, lips, were moving as if in speech, but face?" he cried,
"Nothing but a face and very round Lupescu, it is possible that King public need in the matter of Mme. castle, stevedores, and talleymen power, and he'd brought me up to be I have being in the forward tween deck, entirely dependent on him. I have no describe no intention of trying to and indescribably evil,"
excess of terror which Harboys began to tremble all over Carol might be the next. There officers and engineers on the poop profession, and he could have made me froze my soul inside my body. I tried with excitement.
were plots against Rumanian kings deck, and petty officers on
a pauper. There is no entail on the frenziedly to push the thing away from the
know what happened: then. I
(and a very short-lived Rumanian and he could have disinherit me, but there was nothing tangible know what happened. He made property upper deck, amidships.
but me,
Yes, Republic) before he ascended the look at the plum tree. that. A few months later, went of its own volition.
and you built by the Tafkoo Dockyard, con-believing himself, to be suffering from
Thank heaven perity would remove much of the There was no body attached to it. It's all true, thenf stets of one set of Brown Curtis an incurable disease, he followed the floated, bobbing alightly like a child's it's all true. I didn't bellare before economie discontent on which the
example of old Stacks, turbines driving a single screw,
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days,
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The Union S.S. Company a steamers to the United Kingdom in New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The
P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and wheelhouse above. Accommoda- London via Panama Canal.
*BEHAR
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
1934.
Shangbal, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, S'ha, Moft, Hobe & Osaka,
0,100 B0th May KAISAR-I-HIND 32,000 81st May SHIRALA
8,000 1st June
S'hal Mojl, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohams 7,000 Ard June
Kobe & Yokohamaa. 6.700
Kobe & Yokohama.
NANEIN
*SOUDAN RAJPUTANA
BIRUHANA
TAKADA BANCHI
NELLORE
MEAWA CARTHAGE *BURDWAN
RANPURA· SANTHIA TANDA *SOMALI
+
By0u
12th Jans 17,000 144
14th June 8,000 15th June 7,000 29th June, 17.000 28th June 2th July 7,000 10,000 18th July 15,000 12th July 6,000 11th July 17.000 28th July
8,000 27th July 7,000 5th Aug. 7,000
7th Aug.
Cargo, only,
Amoy, Bhai, Mojt, Kobe & Osaka,
Amoy, Bhai Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama
Shal Moli, Kobe, Oanka, &Tokohama
S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, Amby Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
Shanghal, Kobs
Yokohama
S'hal, Kobe & Yokohama.
Amoy, S'hai Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
ed
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moon seen through a thin crowd. The thing like holy enough, some- ||
The machinery, which has been venge the thought of a richer re- jabout it. After a moment or two. figo and low till me what you saw, throne, But a rising tide of proa-
"But this time there was no hushed:P: balloon, and fronted me once more couldn't belless. The Face you saw present agitation feeds. And in his through single reduction gearing up inquest. My father had written a those dreadful lips mos. Once more was my father's. The thing you four years' rule Carol has proved
across the foot of
my
wad
al-hanging was Stacks, the butler. They
61, Mojli Kobe: 'Osaka & Yokohama/every way successful, and a mean, and convinced the coroner and Go and look down at the piam trés."{enchint of met I see them every |
Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notios.
All Cablás, are fitted with Electric Fans or Puika Louvre Bystem, Sbeamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries.
speed of 10 nota was obtained.
MIRZAPORE DUE TUESDAY
ARRIVALS BY THE SARPEDON
and supplied with superheated letter to the coroner, explaining that though there was silence in the room both hanged themselves from that himself statesman enough to meet steam from two Babcock & Wilcox he had taken this step because of my kava for the thumping of my own heart same tree. Oh, man, man, you don't his country's need. water tube bollers, coal fired by gratitude and the gentral wicked--had not the least doubt of what they know what you've done for me."
ness of my life. I had to go into the were saying. The
The words
were · convoy- And he came to me laughing hys- mechanised stokers.
witness-box, and I didn't cut up at all
alled
oma medium terically and wreng both my hands. to my consciousness by some me The medical evidence revealed other than my ears. The trials, which were witnessed well.
"You seem pretty pleased about my hypochon- by a large party of guests, were into me that my father was
"Go and look down at the plum tree, having had a perfectly vile expen-
"I said, not very graciously, Jury that I was A
I lay stiff as a board and dripping i was a liar, besides being a Scoundrel and an ungrateful son. My with swant, but the Face seemed to night." father was popular in the county, re- know that I had understood, for
understand. And you brought Hong Kong from the United Kingdom The following passengers, arrived in member, and I, not much more than asently [boy, who had not my father's gift for flame.
St Laded!?
like a slowly expiring
ing mug-in to share the treat↑ir
via-Ports on the ss. "Barpedon" yan- "You don't understand!" making friends, publicly branded his Whole minutes must have passed be-Man, man, they're real.
cried. Others beer. & Mrs. J. P. Ar The sz. Mirzapore left Moji for moral murderer and a man to be shun- forail could move : I knew what I had siden me can 360 them. Something Barrett, Mr. H. G. Bloom Mr
Ardron, Miss ned by decent people."
todo. Hong Kong at 5 p.m. yesterday****
know which plum true wax can be done' exorclams N. Booth, Min.“ N. "Booth, hiss and is due here on at about 8 am you could have lived that down tennis courts and the black diamond should get it done, then, I said Booth, Mr. O, B. Cranston,
"I should have thoughtAt mu en to
"that meant. My windows overlooked the something Jon Tuesday
"Yes," he agreed moodily, "E sap-ten I did not know what horror briety, and pretty quick
Chanston, Miss M, Fox, Dose might have lived. It down, but awaited my gaze down below, but I He put bir hands on my shoulders,
ders, Commdr. Hamilton, for one circumstance. One had to get and. The 24 naval oficers of the son stack to ma, in the teeth of her muro, that other Hajrors, would
Felse,, I was his syan, shining; **
Heavyside, Mr Be Hemingway, Str. N. Jacob, Mr. B. B. Joseph, Mr. & Mer I knowingly anicled that foul time on Livermore, Mr. § 1. K., Mazon, {in Marseillent visi
{to, whom I was engaged. I have blundered, som
somehow across the you. But for my own sake I can't help Mrs. F. McIntyre, Mr, F. H. Mot- Master Mason, Mins A. Mason, Dr. the several photographs of her about the floor, and looked out and down. being glad. I'n try to make it up to
place. Perhaps you have noticed My windows were open and there you fu some way. Zalak
tram, Mas R. Reynolda, Mr. B. D. Sea- what it of light from the stars means to ma.. I can go back to Round LH. Tarte T
brook, Hon. Mr. Justice J, S. Thomas Through"the""" will right could, I'm not med after all.”
¿Parole, meumring Aneh, mors, than 3.ca. Do will be, zsostved, at, the Comapanasa" squadron now. sjakoopa: parent's" withen, and that was the girl and reiterate its operator WOLE I'M NOtry for your sake that.
pany's Office up to Noon on the day previons to saliing,
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to Paris, T
I nodded.