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PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS.
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•ALIPORE RAWALPINDI **BHUTAN
KAISAR-I-HIND **BEHAR
RAJPUTANA + SOUDAN
RANCHI CARTHAGE **BURDWAN
RANPURA CORFU **SOMALI
MANTUA
RAWALPINDI
TBANGALORE
CONORIN
• Cargo only.
From
Tons Hong Kong ·
About
1934.
5,000 12th June 17,000 16th June 4,000 23rd June
12,000 80th June
6,100
Destination.
THE 'CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1934.
Capone's Florida Estate and Reported Buyer
A view of the beautiful mansion on the Miami, Fla, estate of Al Capone the Chicago gang In Atlanta Penitentiary, for which, it is report- leader, who is now serving an 11-year sentence
ed, Birs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Magraw (inset), a prominent New York society woman, is willing to pay $250,000. Mrs. Magraw recently went to Miami, presumably to negotiate the purchase.
WATER
his
Ideath.
When the moon was high overhead he looked up and thought at first that he was dead. For something cool and wet was passing his lips and (Continued from Page 10) For a moment Maraby ceased bringing joy and sweetness to his throat-God!-how lovely it was it S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay.
pounding of the face beneath him
must be death......Then, as the Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, and turned to Leon. Then, with an coolness formed down his parched Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp oath, he struck Leon across the face xullet de knew that he was hot dead
Hull.
"You let it go-you let it go!" he for the fourth man was stooping yelled "God in heaven-what did you to him, holding the water-bottle to
his lips and pouring gently.
"You no tell" whispered
Marseilles & London.
Marschiles, Havrs, London
7th July Rotterdam, Antwerp do that for?"
17,000 14th July 6,700 21st July
17,000 28th July 15,000 11th Aug. 6,000 18th Aug
17,000 25th Aug 15,000 8th Sept 7,000 15th Sept.
11,000 22nd Sept. 17,000 6th Oct, 4,000 13th Oct.
Marseilles & London.
And Leon cringed back and mut-
Marseilles, Havra, London tered: "Not help it, cap'n. His hand fourth man.
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp
Hull
Marseilles & London.
Bomb Marseilles & London.
CUTTY SARK NOT TO BE SOLD
Annual "Clean-Up" Starts A Rumour.
MANAGER'S' DENIAL
Falmouth, May 10. On
in Cornish quays and weather-beaten Laverns old sailors. the are talking once again about the last of the racing tea clippers, & twisted too quick-not help it, really,
His Cutty Sark. Every now and then cap'a". He added, with cunning head sank back, and the last drops rumours fly around the old ship enough to know how to divert Mars-of water trickled down his stubbly like wheeling gulls. She is going by's wrath from himself: "Shall we chin and dripped on to his chest. kill him, cap'n?"
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Landon, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London, Bombay, Marselles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
Maracules & London. Bombay, Marscffles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. 15,000 20th Oct. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
↑ Calls Camblanca,
Frequent connection from Fort Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- Lantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Porta by steamers of the Ebodisial Mall Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
*SANTHIA SKIRALA +SIRDHANA
1934.
8th June 6.000
8,000 24th June 8,000 8th July
S'port, Pang, Rangoon & Calcutta, S'pore, Penang & Calcutta,
- DO
• Calin Rangoon
+ Call Port Swettenham.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation
1st and 2nd class passengers.
for
Darrent could not answer.
to sen again, they say, or she is
111212-
In the morning he could hardly off to visit her mother Clyde, or Even in the faint light of the moon believe that it had happened. Yet she is leaving Falmouth to ride at and stare Darrent could in he felt stronger, better-and noth-other moorings.
This time the rumour is that she Maraby's eyes the homicidal glint he ing could have had that effect but
"Kill him?" Maraby water.
has been sold or is in the market, knew so well.
It was towards dusk on the fifth and that perhaps she will be put Bnarled, as if meditating the matter, "Yes, we'll kill the swine--if he isn't day that Maraby went out of his back into commission. Again the mind. He arose suddenly like a rumour is untrue, I was assured killed already."
Darrent, almost phynotised till monstrous animal, bellowing and yesterday by her owner's
His eyes ager. then, fought his way into words.shrieking for water. "Maraby," he began, weekly. All at stared out of his head like glass "Captain Dowman (the owner) once strength came to him, and he beads. He tried to jump over the has no intention of selling Cutty said curtly: "Maraby, if you kill side, but Leon sprang tigerishly on Sark" he told me. "These tales down. "Wind coming up, Cap'n," time of her anual overhaul. Wo that man and we ever get to port, to his shoulders and brought him always seem to get about at the
Maraby swang round,
Leon cried, hoarsely, and indeed it are beginning in a few days' time you know what you can expect."
"So you're still alive, ch? And was so, for the sail no longer hung to give Cutty Sark a fresh cost of what the hell's it got to do with lifeless but bellied out strongly in paint and a general clean-up'
a wind from the east.
ready for the summer you?"
Maraby's strength. "I've warned you, Maraby. If you
in his when many visitors will look over
kill him...........
delirium, was as the strength of the old ship. I expect that is how
to his feet and the story started." But strength was already ebbing twenty. He rose away from him, and the dryness of flung Leon away. But the half-
words. breed came back to him on the re-yara, but like all aallors' yarns, it his mouth was stifling his He added, more quietly: "Besides, bound, and pinioned him with his brings back memories of the it's a fool thing to do, anyhow. The larma. The two men struggled to-white-winged clipper shipa push- fellow knows how to handle a sail gether, swerving and' lunging. Sud-ing their noses through the rear- If a wind springs up he'll soon get denly, locked together, they felling forties and adding their excit-i
over the side....
ing chapter to the story of the sea. us into port."
Darrent moved instinctively to
Memorable Voyage Maraby muttered something, but
Sixty-five years have gone since the consideration evidently weighed help them, and then had fainted.
the end, he knew, for Cutty Sark first parted the waters' with him. He dragged the Chinese It was
nor Leon could of the Clyde. To-day, after all her
adventuros and record-makingi
"1
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, slowly and lumberingly to his feet neither Maraby
NANKIN NELLORE TANDA **NANKIN
1934.
1st Sept. 7.000 20th Sept.
7,000 30th June 7.000 7,000
Hong Kong to Sydney — 19 daya.
Melbourne.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
12
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New terribly cut and swollen, but there Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
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It was dark when he wakened. runs, she is as trim and ship-shape see? Find him quick.....or. And, with a sudden spasm of weak-Clouds were racing over the sky; as ever she was. Capt. Dowman 3rd Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney&ness in himself, he let the burden the waves were bigger, rolling the has kept her in perfect condition. fall again and buried his face in his little bost up and down their hollow Her back and white huil, her white troughs and heaping against the masts and her white-tipped yards hands.
are unchanged from the days when All that happened on the fourth black horizon.
The fourth man sat, no longer at she made Melbourne in under 70 night. In the morning, when the
them the prow, but underneath the sall, days, covered 368 knots in one aa Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan garish sunlight enveloped
again, the man was at the prow as scanning the sea with the same tonishing day's run, and look part in the historic race with her great and Hong Kong to Australia.
he had been before. His face was calm and patient stare.
"P'raps you lak some water, rival. Thermopylae, during which a strong westerly gale split several was no different look in his eyes--heh?" he said.
"Water-yes-water." There was calls and carried her rudder away, only that same patient watch over
On one memorable voyage she the infinite sea. Almost, indeed, one still magic in the word.
The Chinese took the water bottle raced the P. and O. mail steamer and could have thought that the
from his pocket and dipped it over Britannia from Cape Gabo to were smiling.
wave Sydney. When the captain of the Still the calm persisted; still the the edge of the boat. A little boat rocked in the gentle sway swelled up and filled ft. "Cap'n P. and O. boat was told that a saff- of the waves-waves no bigger than and Leon velly dead," he remarked, ing vessel was coming up astera
across to Dar he exclaimed, "Nonsense, maal THE those on a large pand. And then, passing the bottle at last, came the fifth night. The rent. "But you not dead. You You must be dreaming." But he You live. Soon saw it was no dream when the moon rose and the stars gleamed like velly good man,
amazing Cutty Sark passed him! pin-holes in a velvet curtain. Every-we come shore, no fear."
And as Darrent, wondering, put and beat him to port. thing was very beautiful and clear. Darrent would dle that night, he his lips to the water, the fourth man decided, and be drawn instantly into added: "Cap'n Maraby tink I know (Continued at Foot of Next Col) that stream of living water that was
The F. & O. Branch Service of steamets to London via Suez. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton
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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
*SOUDAN RAJPUTANA BIRDHANA
TAKADA
RANCHI NELLORE TILAWA CARTHAGE *BURDWAN RANPURA SANTHIA TANDA *BOMALI TALMA
40
CORFU MANTUA
1934.
6,700 12th June 17,000 14th June 8,000 15th June 7,000 20th June 28th June 17.000 7,000 10,000 18th July 15,000 12
28th
Jaiy
12th July 11th July
Bath July
7,000 6th Aug. 7,000 7th-Aug. .10,000, 10th Aug.
15,000
9th Aug. 11,000-28rd Aug.
17,000 28th
8,000 27th July
• Cargo only,
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kebe & Yokohama. Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Amoy, S'hal, Moll, Kobe & Osaka,
Yokohama Shanghai, Kobe
Moji, Kobe, Oaks, & Yokohama **ghal Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghel, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama, Amoy, Shal Moji, Kobe & Osaka. S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai. Kobe & Yokohama. Amey, Shal, Moli, Kobe & Onaka. S'hal, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohamik.
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notios.
All Cabins are fitted with Eletrie Fans or Pinka Louvre Systein. Bteamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries.
exex
PENINSULA hotel guESTS
Capt. Dowman bought her from the Portuguese, to whom, for some unaccountable reason, she was
old, and ever sincs she has re- mained in the security of Falmouth
Harbour save for one short voyage to the salghbouring harbour of
The following in the list of guests Howie, Mra. laquer, Mr. A. E. Isia, Fowey, in 1924. Now she is hay-
Dr. A. Nelson Jones, Col. and Mrs. L residing at the Peninsula Hotel.
and Mrs. C, G, Colflogwood Ochs, Mrs.
M.Noble, Mr. K&F.
Mr. F.A. Firth, Miss E Mies A. Refle,
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“TWO-GUNS-WHITE-CALE"
US, DOCTOR FALLS DOWN WELL.
Accident While Trying
To Rescue Dog.
Atlanta, Georgia. His love for a dog nearly cont Dr. R. S. George his-te.
The doctor. crawled under.
Mrs. A. and Miss Artloth, Mr. and C. Lewis, Miss M. Mannic, Mrs. Ping a well-earned rest as a train-
Glacier Park, Montans. Mrs. J. E. Barnes, Miss G. Bean, Mr. Mason, Mr. B. J. McGann, Mr. W. Ling ship for boys entering the B. C. R. Bloom, Col and Misses Boyd, McKenzie, Mr. J. Milch, Mrs. K. Moen, Navy and the Merchant Service, a
Chief Two-Gups-White-Calf, of Mr. J. T. Bridge, Miss P. W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. V. Morgado, Mr. duty which Capt. Dowman ap- Mrs. D. J. Bryte, Mr. B. G, Butler, Muckle, Mrs. F. Muzzell and child,parently intends that she should
will gratify the Blackfoot Indian tribe, is dead vacant house to get his dog which ton, Mra. Cogan, Mr. Mr. H. Nits, Mrs. A. Miss Carrington
on. This
following several weeks' Illness. B. Noble
had fallen into an old well. He Rev.
Mr. O. IL. Carry
Falmouth, who come
The Chief, was considered, by Daniels,
M.Parker, Visitors to Mr. W: A. Dowley, Maj. V.
Mr. A E. Ott, W. G.
from all parts of the world to ad- Duclos, Mr. W. J. Dyment, Mrs. B. Mr.
Mr. C. Mr Capt. T. II. E. mire Cutty Sark in her grand old visitors to the Park, to bear a strik- carefully examined the sides of the ing resemblance to the face of as well and found, to his satisfaction," G. N. G. E. Friaque, Mr. and Mr. C. L. Shank, Mr.
Indian which adorns öne side of that the footholds were secure and Mrs. Galletly and child, dr. and Mrs. Mr. J. R. Bindlinger, Mr. G. A. Smith,
began to climb down, G. Bwan
the America nickel coin.. CF. Gambell, Mr. L Garner, Mr.
Smith, Mr. E. Grant
He was about 85 years old and His foot slipped and he fell ap Geare, Mrs. B. II. Gibb, Me, Le Mrs. B. Thompson Mr G. Tantra nothing. Him velly wrong
1. M. Tyrrell, know how water of big river come
numbered among his friends proximately fifty feet. Firemen The best morning, soon after several Presidents and other noted were called out to rescue him.
His only Infurlós were a fractur dayn, Hy ran ashore on one of people who have from time to time
of the met and talked with him athibed ankle and avete bruises about the Inlands at the mou
#awallidy In Glacier Fark-Reater, the hips KAC Houders.- mighty AmazoT
Mr.
ago,
Paresia memauring not more than 8 cu. ft. will be received at the. Com oilson, Mr. and. Mes, de MESRA BENDER Sn and child, right out far, into, big, s00..
Sany's Offics up to Noon on the day prevlon to sailing
[T. - M. Gregory, Mr. and
and
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