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MANTUA RAWALPINDI
BANGALORE
CONORIN
From
Tons Hong Kong
About
1934.
6,000 23rd June
12.000 30th Juar
6,100
Destination.
London,
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1934.
Action Plus as Anti-Nazis Demonstrate
S".. from the latest anti-Nazi demonstration infof German lineage.
At the left Louis Glickman,
New York following the attempt of the anti-Hit-one of the 41 arrested, is hustled to a patrol wagon
leriter to stage a parade through Yorkville, a dia- and right shows the demonstrators with signs that trict populated largely by German-born or Americana (started the rioting.
Bombay. Mergelles, Hare, Londra LONDON TO TRAVEL The Body In The Broad
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7th July Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp Solid-Tyred Omnibuses
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17,000 28th July 16,000 11th Aug. 6,000 18th Aug.
17,000 25th Aug. 15,000 8th Sept. 7,000 18th Sept.
11,000 22nd Sept. 17,000 8th Oct. 6,000 19th Oct.
15,000 20LB Oct.
Hali.
Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, Landon
Bombay. Rotterdam, Antwerp &
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Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Holl. Full
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Bombay, Marseilles & London.
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Frequent connection from Port-Bald for Passengers and Cargo to Can stantinople, Pireaus, Smyron and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Ebedivial Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1934
+SHIRALA
†SIRDHANA
TAKADA
8,000 25th, June 8,000 8th July 8,000 22nd July
S'pore., Penang & Calcutta, DO - DO
• Calls Rangoon
† Call Port Sweltenham.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South,
1934.
NANKIN NELLORE TANDA NANKIN
7,000 30th June 7,000
sad Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.
Melbourne.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
To Disappear.
EIGHT LESS EACH WEEK
a wet
An empty
(Continued from Page 10) Ispirits dropped a little. Then 1. looked out of the porthole lazily and I did care. I had no intention of saw the slate-coloured sky. stupping and causing the alightest spirits dropped a little more. Then My glimmer of suspicion. Occasionally. I awoke-and they dropped further in taking a corner, the foot of the still. I began to feel that being a body came against me and I kicked murderer on the Broads on London. In a year's time London will it away, but that was all. It was day in October, with have no more omnibuses running gruesome, but it was not dangerous. stomach, was no joke. on solid tyres. Even now there
On we drove through the dark-
I got out of my bunk at last. A are only 424 left.
What had been Gilraith and swim would freshen me. ness.
Throw- Every omnibus in the service I. It soon began to rain. All the ing off my pyjamas I gingerly crept has been built since 1927, and better for me. Through Newmar-on to the deck. The broad, of the eight senior members of the ket we sped and then out into the course, was absolutely deserted, for fleet go out of commission every open country again. Then through the rain was pouring down; and as week. Their place is taken by Norwich, and at last through Wrox I stepped to the side, stark naked eight of the newest "S. T. L." ham. The tiny town was in dark as I was, the wind and rain seemed models. in which the engines are hess.
That was good. I had no to lash my skin with a cruelty that fitted at the side of the chassis. fear of my last lonely mile to Swift might almost have had design fe and which have a more
pro-house. nounced streamline appearance
hind it. I was just about to dive I certainly need not have had any when I realised that I was perched] than the older type.
fear. I did not pass & soul on the exactly above the apot where I had work of a London omnibus is 19 ped the car at the edge of the plank vious night.
Although the average day'e road in the dark and rain... I stop-tipped the corpas overboard the pre- hours, the vehicles do not wear leading to my wherry, which could for me.
This was too much out "they just go out of fas-just be seen by the side of the tiny water into which I had plunged that I could not plunge into the hion like a woman's dress." ac-broad. In a trice, I had the body something else such a little cording to an official of the out of the car and down into
while Transport Board.
my before. So with the rain still whip,
The
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President
AinerS
S.S. "PRES. JOHNSON"
will sail for
મ
Manila
Singapore - Penang
Colombo
Bombay
Suez → Port Said
Alexandria
Naples
Genoa-Marseilles and
NEW YORK
AT 8.00 A.M., SATURDAY, JUNE 23rd.
S.S. "PRES. LINCOLN"
will sail for
MANILA
AT 6.00 P.M. TUESDAY, JUNE 26th.
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE AMERICAN
TINT
MATE
PEDDER BUILDING, HONG KONG, CANTON BRANCH NO. 4, SHAKEE ROAD.
BARBER WILHELMSEN
PACIFIC
COAST
US.A.
MONTHLY SERVICE
To
PANAMA CANAL
ZONE
AGENTS:
LINE
ATLANTIC COAST. U.S.A.
DODWELL & CO., LTD. Queen's Buildings.
little cabin. He was a big fellow. ping my akin, I went back to my on to my room well content. After At the end of each day every but I could have carried a ton then, cabin, not without bus is inspected, adjusted, oiled, and it was not a second's work to feeling that the body under
irrational re-fuelled and washed. "wash and brush-up" alone takes stowed in the cabin, there to prebled by wind and rain.
get what was left of hira safely water was fortunate to be untrov-about three hours.--Reuter.
pare him for his last journey.
HOT STUFF TO GIVE THE TROOPS.
war
a few casual telephone calls the girl the at the exchange started gossiping|
the all-absorbing subject. A wretched breakfast followed calls for Mr. Gilraith after lunch on She said there had been four or five I lít no light. I knew just where and the gloomy day wore gradually Friday. the heavy weights and chains I had come down in torrents and I could everything was. In the locker were, through.
She knew four The rain continued to voices, but that of the last was a provided. 1 fastened these to the hardly stir from the cabin till even-
stranger,
I had
The usual rustic com-
of the
SHE KNEW WHAT SHE WANTED
Cabaret Girl Seizes Opportunity.
YOUTH DUPED FOR $25 corpse, first thrusting the hat he ing, so that I spent the day maroon- A detective, I discovered, had ar- Jack Payne's Band Athad been wearing into the evercoated fairly close to my victim. rived early in the morning and had
pocket.
Prague. Chelsea Hospital.
In a pocket of his cont In the evening the weather im-questioned a number of members of
She was named Nelly. She dan- elipped what Was left of lozenged, and then I heaved the body way across the fields to the village had not been touched since the dis- hardly refuse his sparkling part- the proved a little and I aquelched my the staff. At last he sent for me. ced well and talked vivaciously. He was in Gilraith's room. which So Ferdinand Svoboda could Paris. on to the deck and over the side public-house. French
veterans heard With hardly a sound it slid under pany was there, and I was not feel appearance of its owner on Friday. ner at the night-club in Sumperk modern "hot jazz" for the first the water into half a dozen' feet of ing quite so depressed when I re- 3rd Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney time when Jack Payne took his mud and fifteen of water. It would turned late at night.
He asked me the usual questions, Moravia, when she asked him for 7,000 1st Sept.
and I answered them readily. band to the Invalides (The French Inever emerge from that.
It his address. 7,000 29th Sept.
Chelsea Hospital).
tested the depth of the water and sion altogether,
Sunday drove away my depres-was soon obvious that I knew noth- "Here, put it on my photo- Sergeant Ygonel, the oldest the
the sun ahone ing about the case. Then we began graph!" she cried gaily. consistency of the mud brightly, I had a dip first thing friendly chat. We had been And Ferdinand gave rein to Regular monthly callings from Rong Kong to Shanghai and Japa pensioner who was invalided out thoroughly enough to know
of the army in 1870, listened with the weights I had attached of the day I basked in the sun until time, and he had been talking about!
that, off the bank this time--and the rest standing at the window all this gallantry. with a professional ear for he that body was gone for ever.
"My wish," he wrote beneath was once a bandsman.
it was time to refurn to London. theorica. He had realised that the her charming picture, "is that This was the comment he made would ever be able to find him,
Gilraith had gone, and no one
I shut up the wherry and started cause of the disappearance lay with the beautiful lady of this photo- to Reuter's Correspondent:
my car, and then, looking over the the last telephone call. All the graph may get whatever she de- "Not at all had quite good
My day's work was done, and placid water, I said good-bye to the other calls had been traced, he ex-sires!" in fact. Any one of them could returned to the cabin and prepared broad for ever. It was a glorious-plained, but he could not trace this have got a job in my old band -
to start my customary week-endly peaceful scene. There was not gruff-voiced stranger. and we had a high standard." programme. In a second the Iample ripple on the water. The sun was "Was it from a call office?"
Ferdinand has now received a Crippled warriors waved their was alight and the oil stove burn-shining brightly and everything was asked innocently.
bill from a jeweller -to the crutches in enthusiasm when ing. Then I began to prepare my basking lazily in its rays. Could "Yes," he answered.
amount of £25 for a diamond the performance ended. -Reu-evening meal.
Even if anybody anything be more peaceful?
ring. the curse of it. It's impossible to should pass this deserted spot every- The last I saw of my wherry as trace the man that way."
The jeweller greeted him with thing would seem normal.
smiles when Ferdinand called for I drove away was the sun shining I nodded agreement. No one passed, I sat down to on its portholes, which reflected its
rays with a fiery brightness that There was nothing on it with the
We strolled over to the table, an explanation.
He shewed him the picture of My appetite was not of the best had something demoniacal in it.
Nelly. exception of the ordinary imple- Through my brain were rushing the
"May. get whatever she Then, with the pride of an arments. The telephone stood by the sire" he quoted. words, "The perfect murder."
tist who had done one thing well, I blotting-pad, just as it always did. I had carried out without a flaw drove back to London.
And Nelly has got it—a £25 I had an The top sheet of blotting paper in diamond ring.-Beuter,
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vin New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London vis Suez.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
TAKADA
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
RANCHI NELLORE TILAWA
SANTHIA TANDA *SOMALI TALBIA CORFU MANTUA
NANKIN BANGALORE RAWALPINDI
1984.
7,000 28th June 17.000 28th June 7,000 6th July 10,000 13th July 15,000 12th July 6,000 11th July 17.000 24th July
Joly
8,000 27th
6th Aug 7,000
7,000 7th Aug. 10,000 10th, Ang 15,000 9th Aug 11,000 23rd Aug. 7,000 2nd Sept. 6,000 8th Sept. 6th Sept.
10,000
Carro only.
ter.
Amoy, S'hal, Moll, 'Kobe & Osaka. Shanghal, Kobe 4 Yokohama.
1
S'hai Moi, Kobe, Osaka, & Yokohama DOG'S DEVOTION TO eat the food I had brought with me Amuy, Shal, Meji, Kobe & Osaka.
Kobe & Yokohama.
Shanghai,
Kobe & Yokohama S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amay, Shed Hoff, Kobe & Osaka.
Moji, Kobe, Ouska & Yokohama
Kobe & Yokohama.
Shane, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
S'hal, Kobe & Yokohama,
S'hal, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama, Shai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokofiama Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghal, Kobę & Yokohama,
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Panka Louvre Bystem, Steamers on London and Australian Linas are fitted with Laundries.
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MASTER.
Resents Efforts To Remove Body.
1
"That's
the perfect murder. There was not excellent run, and slept perfectly the blotting pad wae virgin white. a clue. No one knew that we had again that night-in spite of the
With a flourish, he added his name and address.
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de.
A
It was a foible, in our office that out the top sheet, and turned it over. Moss, Vale. N. S. W.
seen each other after lunch, no, one fact that my wife was worried about heads of departments should have. There was a faint pencil scribble The faithfulness of a cattle knew that we had even spoken to something she did not want to dis- clean blotting paper every day. I in one corner, dog towards its master was it each other. No one knew anything. cuss.
was supposed to make for efficiency. Obviously Gilraith had had a lustrated by its reluctance to Of the arst part of that week-end Next day I arrived at the office The cleaners changed the top sheet pencil in his hand when answering leave his dead body,
I will say as little as possible. It to find, to my affected surprise, that every morning and put in a new his telephone calls, and had been A farmer named Yates, 72 of was, practically November, and you the whole place was agog, and my piece, or, if the old was only very idly scribbling while talking. Wingello, collapsed and died in know what November can be like on department was absolute pande slightly used, turned that over and number of aimless strokes had been his house. Becoming suspicious the Broads if it tries. This year It monfum I was told that Gilraithput it back again.
drawn over what he had scribbled, of his father's absence from was certainly trying,
had disappeared. I was horrified. I looked down at the blotting pad but some words still showed through burning off operations on the I slept like a top. I had a cou-Yes. He had sat out for Ilford, was and involuntarily smiled at this it farm. Yates son searched for ple of stiff whiskies before turning seen to leave the office by the ser curious concelt. The other was I could see that they were four him and found the old man ly-in. It was an interesting discovery geant at the door, and then vanish-looking at the virgin whiteness of in number,
The dog resented the efforts ways imagined myself to be could ing towards Liverpool-street. Then ing dead rear a fire.
that a normal citizen like I had al-ed utterly. He was last seen walk the pad, too,
In silence, the detective indicated "Changed every day?" he asked that I should read them. I did. so, of the police and ambulance af- carry out a cold-blooded murder there was a blank. There was not lightly, as though in answer to my tendants to remove the body, and then enjoy a good night's rest. the slightest trace! Then affair thoughts. and had to be tied up outside the So I awoke in a pleasant frame was..so queer that they had already "Yes I answered. "O turn house before they could do so of mind. Then I heard the patter called in the police Renter
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of rain on the cabin 'roof, and my That did not worry me. I passed, “I son," he said, and bent, took
They were "Liverpool-street. Three Croome,
I looked at the man and know the KIMO. WAS up.
My name is Crooms!