P.& 0.-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,
THE CHINA MAIL; FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934.
Couricen thousand eight hundred and forty-three happy holidaymakers can't be wrong, or so the Canadian Pacific Steamships expect to prove this iummer with four short ses cruises by the Duchess of Richmond between Montreal and New York.
During the last three summers two Duchess liners have made between them eleven of the nins day trips, the popularity of which has been shown by the fact that 14,843 passengers were carried om these vacation cruises.
(Under Contract with H.M. Government.) Adventures On Danascot THE PLANT
9.8.
t*BEHAR
From
Tone Hong Kong
About
1984.
Destination.
7th July Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp - & Hall
5,300 14th July 17,000 14th July 6,700 21st July
17,000
28th July 15,000 11th Ang. 6,000 18th Aug.
6,100
KIDDERPORI RAJPUTANA +*SOUDAN
RANCHI
GARTHAGE **BURDWAN
RANPURA CORFU
+SOMALI
17,000 25th Aug. 15,000 8th Sept.
7,000
15th Sept.
KANTUA RAWALPINDI
BANGALORE
11,000 22nd Sept. 17,000. 6th Oct. 6,000 13th Oct.
COMORIN RAJPUTANA +BHUTAN
*Cargo only.
15,000 20th Oct. 17,000 3rd Nov.
6,000 10th Nov.
S'port Penang, Calcutta & Bombay. Bombay, Marseillas & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havra, London Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Holl
Dartellles & London. Marsellies & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull
Marseilles & London. sraellies & Londen, Bombay, Marsellies, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Marielllen & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marselles, Havre, London, Hamborg, Rotterdam, Antwerp á Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London Bombay, Marsellies, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Holl
† Calls Camblænes,
President LinerS
S.S. "PRES. COOLIDGE"
Will Sail For
MANILA
AT 9.00 P.M. FRIDAY, JULY 6TH,
S.S. "PRES. MONROE"
Will Sail For
MANILA, SINGAPORE, PENANG, COLOMBO,
Adventures On Danascot THE PLANT BOMBAY, SUEZ, PORT SAID, ALEXANDRIA,
Told By Jorgenson
Capt. Declares 27-Foot Yacht Is "A Great Little Boat”
(Continued from Page 10)
I didn't quite know what to think .I mean, it was auch a weird thing to do. In order to think it out a little better I sat myself— somewhat heavily—on the rear
The car went! bumper of the car. down under my weight-not much mind you but enough to start the petrol in the tank splashing.
The tank had been fall all the You see, I'd never doubted
She's great little boat and she had left Japan at approximately behaved
marvelously," declared the same time the Dnascot did. time. Captain S. P. Jorgensen, Shanghai Bad weather delayed both boats the man's word, and when he'd said Licensed pilot, who returned here on the return trip. We arrived at he'd run out of petrol, I'd believed carly last week after four full Shanghai at 7 pm. Sunday and him. And even when I found the wecke of adventure that included anchored the boat in the canal tank full I thought he had been mis- crossing the East Chins Ses twice below the Shanghai Power Com-taken and that the car was suffer- and a rather extended visit at Na-pany."
ing from some trouble he'd taken to gozaki.
The Danascot made the trip be lack of petrol. Well, the casiest: Recounting the trip he made from Shanghai to Nagasaki in four way to find that out is to get in and with Mr. M. D. Jensen, his only and one-half days. They remain-step on the starter; which I did.
The starter made the usual clank- companion on the voyage, Captainjed in Japan for some time having Jorgensen anid to a representative the engine overhauled. Their staying and whirring noises, and the of the China Press:
was also extended because of hay-engine atarted as easily as you like! I revved her up a bit to make sure ing been becalmed. "Weather Fine-Too Fine" "You know all about our trip Boat Flies Danish Flag the carburettor wasn't choked or истова. About our return; We
Built in Shanghai along Danish anything like that; but there left Nagasaki 4 p.m. Monday (June pilot boat lines, the Danascot is nothing wrong at all. 18). The weather was ine-in 27 feet overall. She is sturdily Obviously the car was a perfectly
Was
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Carge to Con- dantinople. Pireaus, Smyrna and, other. Levant Ports by steamers of the fact it was too fine. We were built and has a broad beam. The sound one, and that man had planted Khedival Mali Steamakip Co.
more or less becalmed with light boat flies the Danish flag, it on to me. Why should he do a head winds. With the help of our though she is partly owned by #thing like that? And the only ex- motor, which we had overhauled Scotsman.
planation I could think of was that
TAKADA
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
*+SIRDHANA
8,000
TILAWA
1934.
7th July 10.30 8,000 22nd July 10,000 5th Aug
S'pore, Penang & Calcutta,
DO DO
• Calle Rangoon
ist and 2nd class passengers.
† Call Part Swottenham.
NAPLES, GENOA, MARSEILLES and direct to
NEW YORK.
AT 8.00 A.M. SUNDAY, JULY 7TH.
DOLLAR AMERICAN
STEAMSHIP LINE
MAH INF
PEDDER BUILDING, HONG KONG. CANTON BRANCH — NO, 4, SHAKEE ROAD.
BARBER WILHELMSEN LINE
PACIFIC COAST U.S.A.
MONTHLY SERVICE
To
PANAMA CANAL
ZONE
AGENTS:
ATLANTIC COAST.
USA
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
Queen's Buildings
PARIS DETERMINED TO BE GAY
at Nagasaki, we reached the The French yacht Gabriel II it had been stolen. Grote Islands at 1 p.m. the follow-which also returned Sunday, la
I fished about in the cubby holes of the car and I knew he was pull- ing day.
I had the 64 feet in length and is powder you know those little shelves for Ing out to pass me. "At this time the weather was with Diesel engine. She WAE very threatening, with heavy built by M. Verdier, director gea-apa and things on each side of the accelerator down to the floor boards; the car wouldn't go any faster. I swells and a falling barometer. At eral of the French Municipal driving licence. And it wasn't til altered the ignition, the mixture 4 p.m. we decided to make for the Council, who plans to sail the then that I began to see the joke, anything I could think of-but the Recent Events Taken
Mesima group, inasmuch as we yacht to Europe at some future didn't want to turn back and the date.
ever, behaved marvelously
instrument board-and I found a
The
That #cence was mine!....Then, car was doing all, it could.
The cycle drew alongside. sea was raising. It was blowing The yacht was piloted by Lieut.of course, I realised that the car B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for very, very hard. The boat, how de Pirey of the French Navy. She must be mine, too. I switched on rider shouted to me to stop and I even also carried aboard on the trip the roof light over the back scats think he saw I wouldn't. He drew on ahead, got level with my offside though we were carrying plenty Mr. Verdier, Mr. A. Leonard, Mr. and looked over......
Have you ever had the feeling of front wing and started to close in a piece of ice silding over those on me, forcing me into the bank little knobs on your backbone? at the side of the road. I was something in the back of the
There was frantic. I couldn't stop with that Well, I felt it then.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, of sall
1984.
NELLORE TANDA NANKIN NELLORE
7,000
7,000
7,000
7,000
2nd NOT.
Melbouras.
Junk Balls 'Q. K. "Let me say at this point that
the funk type of sail with which
Srd Aux Manila, Rabaui, Brisbane, Bydney & the Danascot is rigged, is perfect- 1st Sept, 29th Sept.
ly satisfactory except for tacking. Under ordinary ..conditions the boat will actually steer herself.
"We found shelter at one of these islands, but owing to shift-
four different times. The pearl fishermen, who alao anchored
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan ing winds we had to shift anchor
and Hong Kong to Australia.
Hong Kong to Sydney - 10 daya.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following :---
The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New there to
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
The P. & O. Branch Service of steatners to London via Suez,
The New Zealand Bhipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
NELLORE
7,000
TILAWA CARTHAGE BURDWAN RANPURA SANTHIA
PANDA
10,000
1934.
7th July Delight. 13th July 15,000 12th July 6,000 11th July 17,000 26th July 8,000 27th July
7,000
5th Aug. 7th Au
Aug.
www 7,000 10,000 10th Aug 15,000 9th Aug 11,000 23rd Aur
8,000 24th 15,000 20th Sept 7,000 2nd Bapt. 6,000 5th Sept. 6th Sept. 7th Sept.
*SOMALI TALMA CORFU MANTUA SIRDHANA COMORIN NANKIN BANGALORE RAWALPINDI 19,000 TAKADA
8,000
* Carro only:
be sheltered from the storm, were a great help to us in piloting us around. The lightkeeper
on the island
B. Sourochnikoff and two Chinese Isodaha.
PURE-BRED CATTLE PROBLEM
Climate.
SOUTH AFRICA SURVEY
Johannesburg (Transvaal).
car
thing behind me
I thought my only chance lay in lying face down on the floor and
on the road, blood all over the mat. I went hot keeping my position
I didn't see where I was
Too Tragically. EDUCATION MINISTER'S VIEW
Paris.
A brilliant week of galety is to be the key-note of this year's "Grand Week" in Paris, finishing up with the magnificent pageant of the "Grand Prix."
Brilliant social gatherings will
and sporting events.
An effort is to be made to re gain some of the lost tourist traffic and to show the world that the French capital can tage something other than riots.
Degeneration Due To and sticky across my head. I got We tore along at over seventy, with alternate with popular festivitica
out on to the road to see the num his cycle not a foot away from the ber plates.
An air pageant at Le Bourget, I stood like
the wheel, fearful a fool, wing. I held reading them over and over, in case that the slightest bump would an imposing Naval and Military yet tattoo, and for the first time on I might be reading them wrong....throw the car against him .... It was my car.
I had to keep going. I saw his record, a road race for motor-cars Do pure bred cattle degenerate up to where the car I'd thought was the car.
I rushed to the corner and locked tensed body in the ghostly lights of in Paris on the lines of the Monte Carlo race are to be additional at- Itractions this year. under South African conditions? mine had been. It was gone. How xoing; there was just a streak of A famous West of England judge easy it must have been with two something going past me, and the at cattle shows, Mr. A. Hard-cars exactly alike and how often do seemingly stationary figure of that was also of great assistance. He wick, who is touring the Union you read number plates?...........I ten
rider. told us that to his knowledge that with the British farmers, said membered the greasy spanner and
Then something snapped inside. we were the irst foreigners who that it seemed that they did.
went to the front of the car to hold let go of the wheel. I couldn't had ever visited the island. We
Recent events have been "taken left this more or less uninhabited conditions," he said, "but from lights.
"It is possible due to climatic my hands to the glow of the side-have stood another second of that
too tragically in certain neigh- island-it is very rugged and al- what I have seen it is obvious grease......my hands were cover- nerves out.
Of course, it hadn't been awful strain-it was tearing my
bouring, countries, declared "M. most devoid of trees or vegetation that even imported animals deed in blood!
The car went off the road and Alme Berthoud, the Minister of —at 4 a.m., June 21, after having generate after being in this coun
Then I lost my head. Oh, I know charged the bank at an angle. She National Education in an inter anchored for two days.
view.-Reuter. try a year or two. Sometimes you'll say you wouldn't have done seemed to leave the ground, then Japan To China, 21⁄2 Days! this degeneration is more mark the same-I know all that! But came down on her side,
we passed the led in the progeny, but it has also have you ever been in a meen like "An hour later
I don't remember any more till I lighthouse and crossed to S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Tekbhams North Saddle Islands in two days several Red Poll breeders, that it
the happened, as I have heard from this? just get hold of the came to in the police station, with in my garage; they found that Shanghai, Mejl, Kobe & Yokohama Ampy, S'hal, Mall, Kobe & Osaka.
one idea that I must get out to some the doctor and a lot of policemen note, on the hall table, and that's and 21 hours from Japan to disappears. Degeneration is a Shal Kobe & Yokohama.
China in two days and 11 hours lack of constitution, and I think onely spot and get rid of this standing about. I wasn't hurt about all they needed, It seems. the shock, had knocked me out. They said that as I didn't have a Thing. S'hat, Moss, Kobe & Yokohams, Here we struck another depres-it can be avoided by not attempt- Aray, Shai, Mojt, Kobe & Osaka.
I drove and drove with the en- When I'd recovered sufficiently the coat on I must have been in a hurry sion blowing from the southeastling to stick to the European type,
one stood to leave Shangbal, Kobe & Yokohami
the house. They say it Shal, Mofi, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama and heavy sons. The Danascot but by crossing occasionally with gine roaring at my head. I couldn't policemen came nearer; Shanghai, Moff, Koba & Tolchama
go fast enough and I couldn't get out from the rest. Then it started. isn't Nicely for anyone to know my weathered it all very will.
the national brieduta
My car?.... How came the body habits as well as mysterious man Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
"We came alongside the pilot Mr. Hardwick said that from way from lighted roads! I could-
was this did. Everything's against me. Amoy, Shal., Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
bost at 8:80 p.m. the same day, what he had seen cattle breeding n't think clearly enough to remem to be there? ....
And so I've been in this prison got oll for our engine was no joke In South Africa, ber and way which led out to open other man like? What was the Through no fault of the engine The farmers did not have Eng country...I was just turning and number of his car? Where was for three weeks.... next week I
can now?
Where was stand trial-for, murder! But tha we previously had to drain the oil lah pasturage and careful veld turning in a nightmare of jazzing the petrol
the spanner? Did I know the dead story I've fust told you is true-I because of a lot of engine trouble management was one of the pro-ights and houses
swear before God iữa time!: I know
S'hai Moji, Kobe, Osaka, & Yokohama Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Mojį, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanphat, Moji, Kobe & Yokohamn. Amey, Shal Mejl, Kobe & Oaks.
All dates are approximate and nubject to alteration without, notios, All Cabins are fitted with Electric, Fans or Punka Louvre Systezi- Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundrini, Farvels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Com "many's Onion up to Noon on the day, everlane' to malling,
For forüber information, Passage, Wesight, Handbooks, ate, apply to 1 -
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., P. & O. Beiding. Conninght Rd. 04 Hong Kong,
Here we
What
..
For quite a while we actually ran blems to be settled by the must have been doing nearly man?... the engine on soap water. This broeders'..
seventy when the police patrol spot- They broke me before I'd start-I haven't an aubt I've nothing-- le quite an advertisement for the The quality of the beef export-ted me. I saw the single bead-lighted. They were so cold-sun- nobody to corroborate my story........ Ford engine.
ed from the Union, said Mr. of his motorcycle growing larger belleving. I couldn't describe, the Harvey you're my, opiniel; you Danaacet Meéta Gabriel Hardwick, would have to be and brighter in my driving-mirror, man hadn't seen enough of him. must make them believe my story "After leaving the plot boat at greatly improved if South Africa is dazzled me and I couldn't shake Obviously I hadn't seen the sumber you mati, Åre pom king to bet 2.9m. we arrived at the pilot ata was to hold its own with the Ar- it off. I kept him behind for a of his car or I shouldn't have me hang for a murdes I didn't do? tion 12 hours later 40 miles of contine, which was exporting long way but ple we struck open thought it was julne."). And the Hargy! You've got to get me out the best which was as good as that country-he light wa From the dead man was-014 Amith! | of this! Youën qef to on ma out nch -- yacht. Gabriel II, which produced in England-
the orside Well, they found the petrol cab) of thisf
mot