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RAJPUTANA **BHUTAN
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CHITRAL
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15,000 17th Nov, 6,100 24th Nov.
CARTHAGE **SOUDAN
15,000 7,000
1st Dec. 8th-Dec,
RANPURA CORFU **BURDWAN
RANCHI
NALDERA
**SOMALI
-- RAWALPINDI “
RAJPUTANA
* Cargo only.
17,000 15th Dec. 15,000 29th Dec. 1,000 5th Jan.
13,000 12th Jan. 16,000 26th Jan
7,000
2nd Feb. 17,000. 9th Feb. 17,000 23rd Feb.
Destination.
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & -Huli
Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marsellloa, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &
Hull.
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
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'bay, Mars., Havre, London H'burg
Rotterdam, Antwerp and Rull, Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Murs, Havre, London, Ham burg. Ram, Antwerp and Hull. Bombay, Marseilles and London.
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1934
The first lifeboats of the Morra Castle, the liner burned off the Jersey const during a storm, to reach shore, are seen as their passengers are taken off at Spring Lake, NJ,
UNCONTROLABLE
GIRLS
Bewildered Parent In
Police Court
MAGISTRATE'S ADVICE
Eater Of Lions' Hearts
*
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(Continued from Page.10) lof that friendly human sound, fight- Ing his way through the under- Slowly, second by second, doubt growth, his breath coming in crept into his mind. Was he walk-hoarse sobs from his parched throst." ing in the wrong direction, or per- haps walking in a circle? Walking And then, the very bowl of heaven Two Italian girls from Turin in a circle! Was it possible? He seemed to crash down as a great stood in the dock at Marylebone shrugged his shoulders. He, Petrus beast hurled itself upon Police Court last month. They Jaarsveld, who had walked through Wildly, gallantly, he fought his last! had no names because they were more jungles than any living man battle in the stygian blackness of afraid of their people hearing that in Africa, he could not misk bls the jungle night. Then it was all they had stolen stockings, hand-way. kerchiefs, and perfume from
over, and then coldness of merciful West End store.
Both had been in London only two months, and had acquired only a smattering of English, so B WO- man interpreter was employed to translate the evidence.
age.
him.
B Disdainfully he Bung doubt back blivion tightened upon his body.
into the mire where it belonged, and Five minutes later, natives arm- trudged on....He was beginning fed with torches, shields and assa to feel tired. Now, suddenly, he gais, came upon the scene. There, thought of his Sixty-nine.by the light of their torches, they An old man. Bah, not too old to killed the leopard where it lay, know the ways of the jungle.... But crouched upon the body of their he was feeling tired, thirsty too. It master. Side by side on the ground was getting late. Ha must
get they placed their shields and home before darkness can. He this improvised stretcher, laid him had no gun.
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on
whom they had called by a noble- sounding name. They made ready, to lift him on their shoulders and
The two girls, known as No. 1 and No. 2,
were attractive and different.
Both had the rich, warm beauty: of Italy, dark slumbering eyes, glowing complexions without On he walked.." The light began go on their way, but at that in- to fade from the sky. Now, as if stant, the light of a torch fell upon with evil intent, the tree tendrils a white object half-hidden in the caught at his feet and made him undergrowth. trip.
Sweat poured off him in the small dead dog to which, by It was the body of trinkling streams, thick and heavy with heat and the returned.
The air seemed circuitous routes, the leopard had fecund sap of the rich vegetation.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cang to Con-make-up, and slender figures. stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedivial Hall Steamship Co.
No. 1 was alert, quick-witted, sparkling, all sunshine or tears.
No, 2 had dark eyes, big soulful, with a halo of raven and a complexion of wax.
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DO
1934.
10,000 9th Nov. 8,000 24th Nov. 7,000 8th Dec. 10,000 22nd Dec.
S'pore, Jenang and Calcutta, DO
Calls Rangoon
DO
+ Call Port Sweetenham,
and
hair,
Mr. Snell, the- magistrate, tried
Gently the black men placed the
And then they passed on
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Suddenly he found himself in little white dog upon his master's First sailings from Hongkong: MS. "NEPTUN" 31st Dec., 1934. to get the girls' names. He told what appeared to be a game-path. breast. them, through the interpreter, that With renewed belief in his know their way through the jungle their so far as he knew they might be ledge of the jungle, he followed it, torches glowing like ritual candles accomplished thieves wanted in only to come up against a thick, im- about the Eater of Lions Hearts their own Turin.
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EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South,
1934.
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hoth were remanded in custody.
Father Asks Advice
(The End).
HASTY DECISIONS
(Continued From Page 8
The tempestuous petticoat pro-all about him. The dark, sinister vides a lot of trouble in the police night of the jungle seemed to be court.
atarred with a thousand eyes, all A timid-looking little man asked peering at him. The leaves of a what he should do with his two branch felt cold as the fingers of a I cannot help reflecting that. In daughters, one aged 24 and the dead man as they brushed against setting himself seriously to the other 21.
་་ his face.
task of reducing the numbers of "They won't get up in the morni Slowly, insidiously, 63 the road accidents, Mr. Hore-Belisha Jing," he complained.
minutes slipped by, panic began to should first of all have endeavour. Regular monthly sallings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan laziness, and when I protest they In his ears the voice of the jungle existing in our present road ad- "They lose their jobs through coil itself around hie weary mind. fed to evolve order out of the chaos and Hong Kong to Australia.
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they locked themselves in the seal the yelp of jackals, the guttural one of the most prolific causes of "I brought in a policeman and He heard the whining of hyenas, opinion of the best authorities that lery. I have tried locking them calls of sentinel baboons. Wilder accident is badly engineered and out, but they break the windows, and more ruthless, as time slipped surfaced roads. and the neighbours are beginning by, grew the voice of the jungle. Until we get a central adminis to complain.
Staggering with exhaustion, his tration, with plenary powers over "They are trespassers, keep them heart beating like a sledge-hammer, all main and secondary road con- out," advised Mr. Snell.
suffocatingly, he fought against struction, we shall never have "I try to," groaned the afflicted panic. He must go on, must tear uniform system of highways which The P. & O. Branch Service of stemmers to London via Bues. The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and parent, "but they are too much for the night-drenched voil of the jun-are safe for modern traffic.
me. They are just like wild cats. xle and once again breathe the cool However, 28 such. They steep half the day, and kick air of the plain. He must go on.schemes as I have in mind would safety upa row in the night. I don't un The shrill echo of an antelope's Have to be tried out over a rea- derstand them."
warning whistle brought him to an sonable period, they probably The little fellow was obviously abrupt halt. Through the trees he would not commend themselves to SOIL bewildered. He had lost his wife, peered into the darkness,,, moving the present Minister of Transport, and he knew that it needed a wo-his great head from side to side. who seems to be able to make up maa to cope with women.
Again that whistle came, now close [his mind in a matter of a few Mr. Snell told him to throw the lat hand, and the sound was a warn-minutes-only to giris out, and if there was any ing to other animals of the approach more quickly...
alter it even Dr. trouble to bring in a constable and fet a marauding beast-allon or a convince them that he meant busi-leopard.g
AUDACIOUS BURGLA Slowly, stealthily, Petras Jaars- This case is one of many. It is veld began to pick his way through
LECTURES VICTIM ··· queer but true, that trouble in mo- the dense blackness about him... dern homes is caused not so much There it was again; that shrill waru Ought To Be Ashamed by erring sons as by wayward ing. He must keep his head. daughters,
Of Luxurious Lining Nearby allon or a leopard lay in wait. He must keep his head, must Mrs. Takeda, a wealthy widow States Department of Agricultor the effect of arth keep cool. If only he had found his living on a large estate near Sheng ture. gun. If only he were less weary bal, woke with a start recently to His feet felt like lumps of lead find a strange man standing beside The creeping tendrils on the ground her bed caught,and stung his ankles,
*SOUDAN CARTHAGE SIRDHANA TANDA
TAKADA RANPURA *BURDWAN TILAWA CORFU NANKIN
SANTHIA
RANCHI
TALMA *SOMALI NALDERA NELLORE SIRDHANA RAWALPINDI
7,000 81st Oct. 15,000 2nd Nov, 8,000 1st Nov. 7,000 4th Nov. 7,000 15th Nov. 17,000 16th Nov. 6,000. 25th Nov." 10,000 20th Nov, 14,000 30th Nov. 7,000 2nd Dec. 8.000 13th Dec. 17,000. 14th Dec. 10,000 27th Dec, 7,000 26th Dec. 16,000 28th Dec.
7,000, 2nd Jan. 8,000 10th Jan, 17,000 11th Jan,
*Cargo only.
Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama. Shanghal Kobe and Yokohama Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe and Osaka S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka and Y'hama Amoy, S'hal, Moll, Kobe, Osaka, B'hat, Kobe and Yokohama. S'hai, Kebe, and Yokohama, Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka, S'hai, Kobe, and Yokohama. S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka, Yoho. Amoy, S'hai,, Moji, Kobe, Osaka. S'hai, Kobe, and Yokohama. Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka. S'hal Kobe and Yokohama. S'hal, Moji, Kobe and Yokohama, S'hal, Mol, Kobe, Osaka, Yokohama. Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka, S'hal Kobe and Yokohama.
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OPIUM SMOKING PURGE-
·IN SINGAPORE
Before making his get-away with
registered oplum amokers before head jerked back.
To rid Singapore of all non- What was that? His great the small sum the woman had in
There i
the New Year is the ambition of again And Petrus Jaarsveld the Government Monopolies De smiled in this beard, Volces were already resulted in the arrest of calling, shouting They had come while partment The campaign has ringing in his ears, human voices, ald over 200 Chinese in the course of to look for him his servants. a few daya..
began to run wildly in the direction
IN PEKING
James Thorp Ends
Year's Work
Dr. James Thorp is now in
A bet between a Tamil and Peking. He has for the last Sikh as to who could eat the most year been making an extensive had a tragic sequel in Singapore. tour through China, as chief soil Both men ate hearty meal and technologist of the National Geo-washed it down with samshu. The logical Survey of China, and is Tamil returned to his house loaned to China by the United ing from
drink and
THREE NOTORIOUS REDS CAPTURED
purse, the ... burglar reproved: Three notorious Communist
living
such lux chiefe, including Lo Pang-fan and to feel ashamed, e Lo Pang-ya, have been caught by #the Garrison troops at Jihtien in the suburbs of Foochow, when they attempted to enter the city military sples under disguise..
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