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Sunday, 16th Sept at 1.m Wednesday, 3rd Oct, at 10a.m.. Wednesday, 17th Oct,
Monday,
HEIAN MARU (starta from Kobe). Monday,
17th Sept. 1st Oct.
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HAKOZAKI MARU
TERUKUNI MARU
Saturday,
Saturday
Friday,
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Paris.
ATSUTA MARU ................................. Saturdayy, KAMO MARU
... Saturday
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TANGO MARU
15th Sept,
29th Sept. 12th Oct.
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August la the buglest month in the whole year for those two friends of foreign visitors, the oficial interpreters of the London Transport Board. One of them stands at Charing Cross and the, other in the Haymarket, and be- tween them they speak all likely languages.
The interpreter at Charing-cross is modest about his accomplish- rents. Three flags embroidered on his sleeve advertise that he speaks French, Italian, and Spanish; but, he admits a knowledge of German, Russian, Danish, and Norwegian~| and as for obscurer languages, "It's wonderful how you can get along. with a few words and gestures."
The man in Haymarket is off- cially equipped with French, Ger- man, Italian, Spanish, and Dutch, but he has half a dozen subaldiary tongues as well. His proficiency
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genoa in German is indicated in a way to
CALCUTTA via Singapore, l'enang & Rangoon,
and Valencia,
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...Saturday
16th Sept.
+TOKUSHIMA MARU
Saturday,
29th Sept.
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,
HAKUSAN MARU
Thursday,
18th Sept.
KAMO MARU (Nagasaki direct)
Friday,
21st Sept. 20th Sept.
HARUNA MARU
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Saturday,
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KIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS, Buenos Aires Maru Mon,
via Singapore,
Antler ali varieties of national con- sciousness, for he wears the Re- publican, Monarchist, and Nazi
Buckingham
Regular Customers"
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An early photograph of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg, President of Germany until his death last month, showing the war veteran at the front with the ex-Kalser during the Great War.
The Turtle-Back
(Continued From
Page 9).
Intimate friends in their
for
"Sibyl didn't want to miss the sed trip. The Count suggested
"We sat in silence until it began martin; a count's mother-in-law Auge side by side on his sleeve. to get dark. The storm had in would be in a position to keep
Solving London's puzzles for the creased-it. was a regular south several visitor is a full-time job. The in-westerly gale--the rain came down proper places. "Caumartin terpreters are repeatedly answer-in sheets.
didn't rush his Ing inquiries for
to a large "I hesitated to make the obvious fences. He confessed Palace, the Abbey, the Tower, the suggestion: the girl came to my res-yacht-now at Southampton-and Invited Zoo, Hyde Park, Croydon Aero- drome, and three or four of the cue by saying. 'We'd better make a palace at Bordighera.
a night of it and What about the Tremarrions to be his guests West-end stores. But it is not
on the yacht and stay with him at dinner?' everybody who merely wants to
Bordighera
A few weeks. "I borrowed the tarpaulin for. a know. the way.
waterproof, and scuttled off to the Mother was impressed; but she was "I often have people asking me boat; found some tinned stuff and a wretched sailor and preferred to recommend them a good thea-a couple of quarts of champagne, the Blue Train. Itre," the interpreter states. "Some- left over from the last moonlight 16th Sept. times they want me to tell them the picnic and hurried hack to the cave
best place to go for lunch or dinner We found some driftwood farther that a titled ladywell known in but I never risk that. I even up the cave and lit à roaring fire; society--be asked to chaperon her. have 'regular customers-foreign then we started on the fizz-which He would arrnage everything: the visitors staying in some of the brought the girl out of her trauce. parents could go overland and meet "Over the bully beef and biscuits, their daughter on her arrival at hotels near here. They come along
we Bordighera. every morning, and ask my advice washed down with more fizz,
became quite friendly, I told her about what to see that day."
The interpreter finds foreigners my age and golf handicap. much quicker in the uptake than seemed interested: said that the English.
An English Inquirer couldn't help the former. but might Sibyl had the modern girl's disin- often needs to be told twice how to reduce my handicap. If I could take clination for travelling unchaperon- reach & street just across Trafalgar-more time off-from my regular.cc-ed, but she was considerate-saw the Count's polnit about not upset- square; but the foreigner under-cupation of boat-sinking.
"After dinner she told me her ting everyone's plans-and decided stands at once. Street interpret ing has its trials. One of them is name was Sibyl Tremarrion. Ito sail Caumartin said 'good girl,'
NEW YORK via Japan, Los Hokuroku Maru
Sun.,
Direct at Cristobal, Puerto
Angeles and Panama. Call Kwanto Mara
Colombia, Boston Philadel- Hokai Maru
Sat. Sun.,
18th Oct. 28th Oct.
pala & Baltimore
MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Santos Maru
Wed.,
24th Sept. 24th Oct.
AIRES
Colombo, Durban, Port
Elisabeth and Cape Town.
DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA,
MOMBASA, ZANZIBAR Arabia Maru
Fri,
5th Oct
LOURENCO MARQUES. Manila Mare ........
Mon,
5th Nov.
DURBAN, PORT ELIZA-
BETH. CAPE TOWN,
& SOUTH AMERICANI
FORTS via Singapore &
Colombo
MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, Brisbane Mara ......
SYDNEY: WELLINGTON Melbourne Mara
AUCKLAND direct ....
Sat., Sat.,
8th Oct.
Wed., Thurs.,
4th Oct.
Thurs., Then..
20th Sept.
2nd Oct.
JAPAN PORTS
Havre Maru
Mon.,
10th Sept.
JAPAN via Takan & Keelung KEELUNG vin Swatow and Canton Maru
Amoy
Hozan Maru TAKAO via SWATON and Deli Maru
AMOY
Kohno Maru
Tues.,
11th Sept.
Sun., Sun,
Colombo
and
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via Singapore, Hamburg Maru CALCUTTA
Belawan Deli, & Rangoon Hague Maru
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"Sibyl joined the yacht at South- She ampton. The first jolt was an in- Ifluenza excuse from the titled lady.
"During the run down Channel the Count's manner freshened.
the inquirer (usually a woman), who congratulated her and histed that and tore up the telegram has been misdirected by Bomeone I'd like to know more. She said it elec, and vents her resentment on wasn't good form for a wrecker to 6th Nov.the interpreter who is trying to put interrogate his victims, Would I Sybil felt vaguely uneasy: later on
her right.
please make up her bed. the other, he was preoccupied at meals. There The Interpreter does not agree side of the fire-hunters always seemed no reason for this as the 19th Sept. with most tourists as to the best sleep the other side of the fire to sea was perfectly calm. After an
holiday season. He recommends keep off wild animals.' December, when London is at its brightest and buslest.
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AT 23
When Charles Warner, 23
"I fixed her up a couch with the tarpaulin and cushions, and one for myself-the other side of the. Are-with sand and B cushion: then we finished the fizz-which in duced her to confide in me.
"Apparently I'd torn it complete
hour in the wireless cabin Caumar- tin coolly announced that they must call at St. Malo on important busi-
деце.
"The yacht arrived in the even- ing and anchored inside the mole. After dinner the motor-launch was lowored to take the Count aahore: before leaving he said that they
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9th Sept. years of age, entered the witnessly by sinking the launch Sipy would sail for Lisbon at daylight.
Lisbon! Siby! began to feel. ser 18th Sept. box at Aldershot county court was in a terrible jam.
"She lived in Cornwall. Her ously alarmed. Thurs., 20th Sept. he said that he could not read.
Judge Barnard Lailey: Per-father had retired from India with:
"After Caumartin's departure haps your mother kept you away a respectable fortune and a dis- Siby strolled about the deck watch- from school. Are you delicate? reputable liver. He bought a fine ing the lights of St. Malo and "LYCAON"
Warner: I went to school place at Trevose where they lived Dinard, and wondering what on
NEW YORK every day.
the strenuous life of country people earth the Count was up to ashore. The Judge: I wonder how with money. Sibyl spent a lot of In passing the cook's galley she "MARON": much it has cost the country to time at sea. In a moter-launch. noticed a commotion and stopped to educate you.
which her father picked up cheap investigate. Beppo, the Italian after the war. Tremarrion precook, was the centre of a gesticulat- ferred dry land: he did himself ing group. The little man had well, golfed, and fished by day, and gashed his hand and was bleeding toasted absent friends at night. profusely. The girl waved the "Whilt taking the cure at a crowd aside and took Beppo to her Continental resort for untidy livers cabin, washed the cut, drew it to he met a wealthy Count, Emil gether with plaster, painted it Caumartin. They became very iwith fodine, and bound up the friendly, and in strange contrast cook's hand with her own handker to Tremarrion's Cornish: heighbours chief. Beppo burst into tears, Caumartin was interested in India. Pardon, Signorina, p'raps he kill Like Tremarrion himself; the Count met but I tell you something. He never seemed to tire of the subject told her."
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Good listeners are rare he was in-Emile Caumartin wasn't vited to Trevose, aut
count, didn't own the yacht-which "The Count was a pretty little belonged to a syndicate of crooks devil; "fashionably dressed, nicely -and had no palace at Bordighera manicured, smelt, like a beauty or anywhere else: He was the colour. Sibyl's men friends woro ringleader of a gang of Inter rough tweeds, had chipped finger national jewel thieves, confidence nails, and smelt of tobacco,
mden, and, contrabandists. "Instinctively the girl shied at "Caumartin, was badly wanted by the perfumed nobleman; but the police of several European Cornish, hospitality is proverbial, countries, but so far had escaped Sibyl did her best to amuse him, arrest. Beppo didn't know what which wasn't easy.
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The Count the game was with Sibyl he did Enjoy Your: Short Leave in Australia and New Zealand, Hong Kong, Sydneyoniy Days, played no outdoor games and mow couldn't hit anything that wan't wash perfectly quiescent.
IRiviera Sibyl tried him utter hunting, but Casal Caumar
seemed to stract hounds
that the yacht anywhere near the They might call at Lisbon, or go to South Amar- ordighera, no!
STEAMER 3 Due Bonu TAIPING CHANGTE expect to get TAIPING
that!': ex-CHANGTE
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penly
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