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LLOYD TRIESTINO
FLOTTE RICHITE LLOYD TRIESTINO-HADITIMA ITALIANA-SITMAR
EXPRESS PASSENGER SERVICE
8.8. "CONTE VERDE" for Shanghai 2nd Aug.
Freight Service.
M.V. "TERGESTEA” for" Shanghai & Japan M.V. "TERGESTEĄ” for lizly vis ports ............
17th July
15th Aug.
Dodwell & Co., Led. Agents
YKLIN
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General Passenger Agenta in the Orlent for
Cunard White Star Line
SAN FRANCISCO vla Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.
ASAMA MARU
• Calls Nagasaki.
16th Aug. Wednesday, 15th Aug. at 10 am. Wednesday, 5th Sept. at 10 am.
Monday, Monday,
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM
CHICHIBU MARU (Omit Shanghai). Friday, TATSUTA MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER,
HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe)
HEIAN MARU (starts from Kebe}
80th July 18th Aug.
KASHIMA MARU
Saturday,
21st July
YASUKUNI MARU
Friday,
3rd Aug...
HAKONE MARU
..Saturdays,
18th Aug.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
KAMO MARU
Saturday,
28th July
KITANO MARU
Saturday,
26th Aug.
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo,
+MAYEBASHI MARU
GINTO MARU
... Sunday,
Saturday,
29th July 11th Aug.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,
Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama. BOKUYO MARU
80th July
17th July 12th Aug.
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1934.
GUN-FIRING IN FOG SANCTUARY
Best Method Of Warning Ships.
BEAM SIGNALS SCORNED
•
(Continued from Fage 9).
Stonily Axel watched him go. It
Listless, he left the house. No was good of Will to come and offer use.
Nothing mattered --nothing advice, but what was there to do? existed except the spidery yellow He could not withstand the allen fog of slavery which had come to The sinking of the Nantucket One needed a world of courage to choke and to deaden all free-born Lightship by the liner Olympic, do that And his last vestige of folk
So Axel, hands dropped to his with the loss of seven lives, has courage had gone when they batter aroused widespread discussions ed his poor nose to a pulp in that sides and his head bent, strayed among the veteran American terrible school fight at Abo years down the Highstreet, strayed out mariners along the New York and years ago. At Abo! Some of Raino, struck the high road and water-front concerning the effi- thing bright crept into his blue walked on-until the sharp nasai cacy of government fog signal eyes. He had loved Abo. His warning of the patrol crushed his beautiful white-roofed school, close spirit again and again. You could stations.
Several captains and officers, to the old cathedral. Axel stood, not even walk in peace. You were who navigated their vessels one brown hand on the door knob, in bondage. You were a conscript
ed clerk to the allen. The very next across the Atlantic before the and remembered. modern radio beams, direction These things chased the allen out day you would be chained to a finders and powerful sirens came of his mind for several minutes. desk, straining your ear to catch into use. are expressing them- Those were glad, daring, happy the alien's meaning and then trans- selves in favour of the old days of his. at Abo. Their tiny late it into Finnish and put it down fashioned gun firing at intervals house near to the quays, where the on paper so that the alien might of a minute and a half to, two russet sails bobbed up and down be better equipped to go on throws minutes, which, they insist, could and the rough pavement shone of ing his hateful tentacles, round be heard distinctly in fog with an early morning-all glistening about Raino. out the danger of being mistaken and silver from the overladen fah- for any other signals.
He went back to the little tow
ing nets, sprawled along the stones. and plunged into a deserted by lane Guns Praised
And then the cathedral How he which ran alongside the silent sta- Captain Thompson Lyon had run up the friendly lichened tion. He knew the entrance would marine superintendent of the steps to press his blood-caked, burn-be-picketed, and so he avoided it. United States Lines, said yestering face against the surprising He found a gap in a tumbling-down day that guns were the earliest coolness of the grey stone in the hedge and slipped through it. methods used for fog signalling porch. The cathedral had then He found himself in the station to ships at sea. Two of the guns, taken away his desire to burst into yard. He chuckled as he crossed in use for more than a hundred tears, made him aware of his the ralls and climbed on the plat years to warn ships of their ap-thirteen years so that he was able form. The allen was not as clever proach to the dangerous rocks to run back home with nothing less as he pretended. There stood al around the British Isles, are still than a painfully effortful swaggor sentry at the gates, and the inside being fired with efficacious re-in his galt. "Had to get my face was left unguarded. Not a soul sulta. One is at the Fastnet,, 36 bandaged, Mother. Oh, we had was visible. And there, right down miles from the entrance to glorious scuffle at school. Hakko by the signal-box, ́Axel saw an en- Queenstown Harbour, and the
went for me and I just pald him gine.. other is at Eddystone. ten miles back. It was such sport.”
"Yet Will sold there were no from Plymouth. Captain Lyon
It had hurt, of course. But the traina," he reflected. "The one. I said the Fastnet gun was fired at cathedral had helped with the heal-saw yesterday must have left by two-minute intervals and the ing. It was his one day of cour, now. But what is the engine doing Eddystone gun every minute,
He walked towards it, forgetting Skippers in the days of the "ge. One day of it. No other here?"
came later. 10,000-ton ships or less, who
on his heels. Will be caution. He knew his Axel swung seemed to know every wave from was right. He could not run away. presence inside the station meant Sandy Hook to Queenstown, There were no trains to carry him a broken rule. He did not care. would bring their ships over
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safely in Winter with. for over the blessed frontier into Fin-It was an alien rule. throughout the voyage, the vete land. He would have to remain ran mariners said, depending of-and face a life which would be dis ten upon dead reckoning to steer dating because the allen would
their ships across.
plan it all. And Raino had no old cathedral to sweeten the bitterness Less Confusion Claimed When the experienced skipper of this uprooting. They had closed And suddenly, came within landfall of the Irish the tiny kirk. coast he would stop his ship and wildly, Axel knew he was hungry listen for the Fastnet gun. for a glimpse of Abo. He had not When he heard it, he would start been there for nearly twenty yeara. his engines again and creep in He had always meant to go back. Now there were no trains. So Will toward Queenstown Harbour.
had said, and WIll knew. Captain Lyon said.
A moment later Axel found him
very
SOCIALISM SOUGHT BY INDIAN.
Baronet's Heir Makes Prophecy.
Bombay.
"Lead this country on the path
of Socialism which has brought Monday,
contentment to the classes. in In his opinion, he added, it Tuesday,
might be worth while to experi-self opening the door and gruffly England," pleaded Sir Cowasji Sunday,
ment with gun firing at Nan-accepting a slip of grey paper from Jehangir Junior, heir to the LIVERPOOL vin Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genoa tucket. Such a signal, he said, one of those detestable aliens. The Baronetcy and member of Indian
NEW YORK via Panama.
†TAKETOYO MARU
†ASUKA MARU
and Valencia,
CALCUTTA via-Singapore, l'enang & Rangoon.
*PENANG MARU
Sunday,
INAGATO MARU
Wednesday,
20th July 8th Aug.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
KITANO MARU (Nagasaki direct). Friday,
SUWA MARU
Sunday,
FUSHIMI MARU
Saturday,
20th July 22nd July
4th Aug.
+ Cargo only
Telephone 30291
O. S.
S. K.
SAILINGS FROM BUNG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.
NEW YORK via Japan, Loa Tokai Maru
Angules and Panama. Call
'Direct at Cristobal, Puerto.
Reloiçbia, Boston Philadel obia & Baltimore
#10.DE JANEIRO, SANTOS,
Montevideo Maru MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS AIRES vla
La Plata Maru Singapore, Colombo, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town,
DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA, Hawali Maru
LOFRENCH MARQUES ·Arizona Maru
BETH. GAPE TOWN,
PORTS in Singapore & Colombo
MELBOURNE,
BRISBANE, Melbourne Maru
MOMRASA,
ZANZIBAL,
DI RBAI. PORT ELIZA.
* SOUTH AMERICAN
SYDNEY; WELLINGTON Sydney Maru
&. AUCKLAND direct ....
Colombo
BOMBAY & KARACHI, vln | Hokushin Maru
Singapore, Penang
CALCUTTA, via Singapore, Havre Maru
Belawan Dell, & Rangoon
4AN Via Tukan & Keelung Panama Maru
was not likely to be mistaken for man
coast.
FOREIGN VISITORS NOT WANTED.
Shensi's Request
waited, dallying
something
on
+
World Fellowships of Faiths.
Sir Cowasji presided at the meeting and earlier in his speech Prophesied: "The time is coming when a more equal distribution of the world's goods is possible ånd should be achieved."
the Round Table Conference. The occasion was 8 insolently
public a siren, a forhorn or any other threshold. kind of danger signal used to challenging in his deep-set dark meeting to celebrate the Inter warn ships approaching the eyes. Axel read the paper and knit national Goodwill Day under the joint auspices of a number of as: his pale eyebrows.
"I speak very little Russian," he sociations including the League of Nations Union, Y.M.C.A., and said curtly and in Finnish, "Do you want an answer? I-I am unft for military service. I have many papers from doctors and he ndded lamely, "I had smallpox and roy heart is bad."
The man grinned. His own Fin- The Shensi Provincial Govern-nish was hard to listen to, so Axel
When Tie was in England before ment was reported to have tele-thought, but he had some sense of the War, he added. Socialism graphed to the Shansi and Suiyuan humour.
was looked upon with the great- authorities asking them to stop for- "Don't worry, comrade, we are est suspicion and it was the eigners from visiting the province not expecting you to write with Conservatives themselves who as it is busy with Tts bandit-suppres- your heart. You will just be the brought about the most ultra- sion campaign in northern districts. clerk to the garrison. No love cer-Socialistic reforms in England. respondence there," he chuckled "India will have to do the same." "See? And you must begin to— Reuter..": morrow. So long."
Thurs.,
12th Aug.
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*24th July 28rd Aug.
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Sat,
Tues.,
4th Aug.
He went off, but Axel stood still. TYPHOON SIGNALS. crumpling the hateful grey slip in his suddenly hot hands.
A clerk? Well, this was not sa bad. But "must begin to-morrow."" "Must."*· He felt as though the From TRIESTE, VENICE BRINDISI thick fog of sheer bondage had
PORT SAID, SUEZ, KARACHI,
ADEN, BOMBAY, COLOMBO,
begun creeping all round him. ̈à
PENANG & SINGAPORE ---- Jelerk, because the alien, happened to Consignees of Cargo are hereby In
4th Sept. formed that all Goods are being land the short of men who understood
ed at their risk into the Godowns of any Russian and because his, the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Axel's, physique would be no good &. Godown Company, Ltd, at Kowloon, in the ranks. A slave clerk, he, whence and/or from the wharves de-Axel, a born Swede. And why? livery may be obtained.
Because Raino happened to stand
Optional cargo will not be landed
here, unless netice has been given 48 ve miles away on the wrong side 5th Aug. hours prior to vessel's arrival, but car- of the frontier.
5th Sept. fried an from port to port to the final He looked round the tidy little-
port of call to which the option { gho
shop. He hated it now since it was
extends.
19th Jaly
No claima will be admitted after the virtually owned by the allen, Well, B1st July Goods have left the Godown, and all let them come and smoke his best Goods-remaining undelivered after the cigarettes and push their dirty 21st Inat. will be imbject to rent hands into his fragrant tobacco 20th July | All- claims against the vessel-must}
1st Aug. be presented to the undersigned on or jars and mishandle his best cigara. before the 80th Inst. or they will not Let them But be would not allows be recognized.
them to make a bonded clerit of
Sun.,
Wed.,
and Tamahoko 'Maru'
Thurs., Tues.,
Himalayn: Maro
Sumatra Maru
Frig Wed.,
24th July
him. He would ..
Goods are to be left in the Godown
Fri
10th Aug where they will be examined on the
Yet his power of grabbing a Lés
yto Swalow and Hozan Maru
Gun
Canton, Marn,
Sum
via SWATO FAnd Dell Maru
hat they
Parts: Marked.
have such goods fórlaxaminationglas No Fire Insurance has been effected,
Hille of "Lading will be chui
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29th July the case of dutiable cargo, con
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