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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1935
NORDEUTSCHER
P. O.-British India LLOYD PAR
Apcar and
Eastern Australian
Lines
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(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. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
From
Tho
tlang Konz About
1935.
RAJPUTANA
BANGALORE
17,000 23rd Feb.
0,000, 2nd Mar.
15,000 0th Mar.
15,000 23rd Mar.
6,100 30th Mar. 16.2008th Apr.
0,100 18th Apr.
CHITRAL
CARTHAGE
**BHUTAN + CATHAY
+*BEHAR
CORFU
Destination."
Bombay, Marseilles and London.
Marseilles, hyre, London, Hamburg
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall. Marseilles. & London
"DO
Marelles, Havre, London, Hamburg
Roterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, Lendon Hambug, Rotterdam, Antwerp Hull. 15,000 20th Apr. Marseilles & London.
* Cargo. only.
† Calla Casablanca.
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EAST SERVICE
Two New Vessels de Luxe On Run This Year
(By Orrie Mueller)
CASH CARGO
(Continue
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Silently, Butler got out. Besidet Ahern Looking out, he saw that]: him Keaton was lined up, while he had got him. The motorcycle Skid covered them both and order-slewed round and came to a stop, ed Ahern: "Make It 'fast!" head-on towards the car. Slowly, Ahorn. slammed up the hood of Ahern slumped out of his sent. He the armoured car, turned a petrol- slipped,, inertly, to the gound, and cock, and a moment later the sharp lay grotesquely, one leg caught in One of the most essential pre- fumes of running petrol filled the the machine, which still puttered." requisites for the success of air. He let the hood, down again Butler had a straight target to' Garman shipping in internation and reached inside the car proper, the engine of the cycle. "He sent al competition is the efficiency First he took out three rifles and one of his heavy bullets Into it. of German ship-building and the the supply of cartridges, carrying There Was a splutter as the vital co-operating ship's outfitting in these to the motor-cycle. Then, part went out of commission, and dustry:
grinning wider than ever, he trans- then silence. Skid crouched out of It is clear that only the employ ferred the canvas bags, grunting sight behind his steel shield. ment of the best of German mate with satisfaction under the rich There was a moment. Then the rial and men animated with the load.
answer came. The rat-a-tat of the' true German seamen's spirit can de Butler, addressed Skid. "You machine-gun crashed out and a¦| velop to the full, ita propagative won't get 50 miles with that cargo." shower of bullets flattened them- force to the benefit of Germany's "How far do you think you'll selves against the front of the national traffic and economic policy get?" Skid sneered. The petrol armoured car. A wave of them Recognising this, shipping in began to drip, then stopped running smashed against the bullet-proof national-socialistic, Germany is ad altogether. The tank was empty. wind-shield, crystallising the glass
tional- consciously towards
"And" who's going to believe you in blotches where they hit.. gradual reconstruction and building-weren't in on the job?" Skid) Keaton scrambled into the back up of its fleet,
taunted.
of the car. "He wants the truck
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A start has already been made. Neither Butler nor Keaton re-now," he said. "Ul He can
Inquire for round-trip tickets to December 14, last year, the plied. They saw only too well the siphon his gas into our tank and,
Europe in connection" with... Lloyd Scharnhorst (approximately 18,000 spot they were in. Under no cir-use the car to get away."
Triestino Via Manita, Singapore, tona) was launched at the yards of cumstances were they supposed to The sharp crack of the bullets on" Colombo, Bombay, Suez and”, the the Deutsche Schiff-und Maschinen-stop their car or open the doors the wind-shield kept on. The glass
Mediterranean bau-Aktiengesellschaft. The Gnet between deliveries, and it would had been constructed to withstand Pres. Monroe.....Feb. 18;′′8 a.m. senau, a sister-ship" of the
Pres. Van Buren same take a lot of talking to explain why safely a reasonable number of
...Mar. 2, 8 a.m. Mar. 16, 8 a.m. size, is under construction at same they had done both, to say nothing bullets. It couldn't hold up inde-
Mar. 30, 8 a.m. yard.
of accounting for the quarter of a finitely under the terrific pound, of million in cold cash.
a machine-gun at twenty feet. Ahern reported everything set. Skid knew that, knew it wouldn't The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, built for account of the Hanseatische Skid grunted, gave: Butler and be long before it gave way and his Schiffahrts-und Betriebs-Gesellschaft Keaton his last order: "Inside your bullets would be crashing into the! m.b.H., Breman, will be placed on fort! And stay there until we're interior of the car.
Butler and Keaton knew it, too, the Far East service of the Nord-gone. Then you can get out and
realising they had to do something deutscher Lloyd, Bremen, in the push!"
autumn of, this year,
Butler and Keaton piled into the to atop the untiring rain of lead on spring and
Keaton pulled the the wind-shield. respectively, thus giving it the armoured car.
door to and character of an express service.
aat back, swearing.
Butler frowned once more along his riflesights. He fired, alming | These two ships, the Scharnhorst "They got us, Fred." [and Gneisenau, are to make the run "Not quite." Butler's words for the opening where the machine from Bremen and Hamburg to were clipped. He had watched gun protruded from the shield, hop- Genon, via Rotterdam, Southamp-every movement of the looting of ing to get through it and to the ton, Palma de Mallorca and Barce-the truck, "They forgot the fourth man behind.
With the echo of his shot the lona in 9 days and thence on to rifle alung in the turret," Shanghai, via Port Said, Colombo, Keaton let out a joyful exclama-machine-gun stopped fring. Penang, Singapore, Manila and tion and started up. Butler grab- "You got him!" Keaton crled! Hong Kong in 23 dayar After bed his arm, warned: "Sit tight exultantly..
.us. Butler ipoked-out through his Shanghai, Yokohama and Kobe are for a minute. They can Bea
I'll ease loop-hole. At first he thought! to be called at. On the homeward Act as if you're licked.
Keaton was right. Then he could] Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Convoyage Belawan will be called at in hack and locate it."
addition to the above mentioned Slowly, Butler edged his way be-see, the sun reflecting on the place. stantinople, Pireaus, Smyras and other Lurant Ports by steamers of the ports, and the French port of Mar-tween the separated front seats and where his bullet had merely left a at instead into the rear of the armoured car; lead smudge on the motor-cycle Khedival Mall Steamship Co.
of Genoa. This route will be cover. He groped for the high-powered shield. Behind the sidecar guard ed in 24 days.
rifle, found it, eased it from its he could discern movements. Apart from the speed of these pling. He knew it was loaded, with "No such luck," he said: "He's vessels, these modern express
a clip of five cartridges. He check-putting in a new belt. And this steamers will have such superiority ed this with swift, practised fing-one will carry our wind-shield,"
Bullets splattered again against in their Interior architectural ar-jera, while he glanced about. What
he wanted was rangements and constructional tech-f
more ammunition. the glass. It began to splinter and definite cracks. Several nical features that they can well lay But the cartridge racks were show
Five bullets and stalled bullets got through, their force claim to being the type of a.modern empty. fast German tropical ship, thus armoured truck to stop two men on weakened by the obstruction. Then meeting all demands made of them a lightning-fast. motor-cycle with a they began to get through with as by passengers and shippers. Both machine-gun and practically an much life as when they left the mouth of the deadly machine-gun, Tourist-class, and each steamer can Kenton had been giving Butler a singing past Butler and Keaton, nccommodate altogether-300 passen-curt report on the activities of Skid who flattened at the sides of the car
Continued from Fags 8.) EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, gers in both classes. The artistical and Ahern. They were stowing and amacking against the rear. designing of the entire appoint- their cargo. They were getting in. Any instant now they would be
There are many difficultles. Why ments has been entrusted to the They were starting up. They were riddled inside what had become, in-
stead of a fort on wheels, their is there physical evil in the world, architect, Woldemar Brinkmann, of
such things #8 Butler got to the slot in the front steel-walled slaughter-house,
disease, earth- Bremen, a former collaborator for
"Get down on the floor," Butler quakes and so on? Why is there many years of the late Professor of the turret just as the motor- Paul Ludwig Troost, the creator of Cycle was swinging around. He ordered his partner. At least one moral evil, things like cruelty?
Miss Eve Becke, the B. B. C. the interior architecture of Europa! thrust his rifle into the slot, took of them could be safe from the hail INTENDED TO
|singer, has: married Count Caneva of lead that sometimes cressed Columbus, Berlin, and many other aim and fired.
df Rivarolo, who heard her voice BATTLE WITH EVIL Morddeutscher Lloyd ships. ̧
A rell reached faintly inside the their bodies and had
often during, the past two years car. Butler had meant to get schedule to pick them off.
The answer seems to be that we over the wireless. "As long as you're up," Keaton are intended to battle with those He first heard her while laten- gritted, crucifying himself against things, and find a way to conquering in Italy to a broadcast pro- the side of the car, "I'm up." them. There are some who believe gramme, found her name, and fre
Butler grunted in answer to the that the world was created -good,
TAKADA
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1985.
8,000 10th Feb. 8,000 tet Mar. 10,000 15th Mar.
S'pore, Penang and Calcutta.
DO DO
• Calla Rangoon
† Call Port Sweetenham
SHIRALA
TILAWA
seilles will be touched
B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for steamers will carry 1st class and arsenal!. 1st and 2nd class passengers.
TANDA NELLORE NANKIN
1985.
7,000 2nd Mar. 7,000 3rd Mar.
7,000
2nd Apr.
Manila. Rabaul, Bishann. Sydney.
Melbourne, and Hobart.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia,
Hong Kong to Sydney - 10 days.*
No Additional Charge for Deck Cabins,
Crehmtra carried-Laundry-Burgeon-Stewardess.
E & A Cullins and Bervice are unenrpanned. Frequent connections from Australls with the following:-
The P. & O. Branch Bervice of steamers to 'London via Sues.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers, for Southampton and
London via Panama Canal.
off.
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for ita
on
FEBRUARY 16th
Excellent Accommodation for 12 Passengers
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Queen's Buildings
BELIEF IN A GOD
Agentà Telephone 28021
HE FELL IN LOVE WITH A VOICE
Then Met Its Owner
COUNT MARRIES RADIO SINGER
When
1st Class Attractions For those passengers travelling 1st class there is an open-air swim-
the absolutely up-to-date AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holiday. ming-pool on the sun-deck with ation of
(Sardug, Fishing, Shooting, and Climate to mult all. Your English (lido-like deck-space, in the Imme-safety devices that have been in-gameness of his partner. He was and then by some mysterious cos.quently listened for her after- diate vicinity of which is a gym-stalled in the new steamer. Over planning to take the one chance mic act, of choice turned away from the came to London he money is worth 25 per seat, mere),
Ban Dock Swimming Pool nagium and a bar, Besides this, and beyond this special training the left. It was take it now or never. God. The idea is highly specula chanced to recognise her voice at
space has been set aside on the sun-lentire crew of the Scharnhorst will with his two remaining bullets he tive, but it is plain that something deck for the children to play, and do all in their power to contribute had to hit one mark to make an-is wrong with the world and with He proposed to her soon after- a party and made himself known. as a towards making the sojourn on other. And if he missed either, ourselves. “ The Unloa 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom is New yet further space to serve
wards resting-place. For those not desir- board of all passengers, no matter both he and Keaton would be on The remedy seems to be the in- Esaiand, Vancouver, Ban Francisco, acc
Miss Becke said that he had The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and
ing to take par in the games en of what nationality, as happy and the floor in another way. One crease, of that, intelligent co-opera-visited her flance's home in Italy A fourth time he sighted. He tion with God which, St. Paul several times, and had stayed at the wide aports-deck, there is a as comfortable as possible. veranda-cafe, whence one can fol Three features in particular will fired. He saw the front tyre of the (Romans vili., 19) calls the man-is villa in Capri. "We are going low the games over a quiet cup of distinguish the Scharnhorst and motor-cycle collapse, letting the festation of the sons of God to Capri for our honeymoon, but coffee, tea or other refreshment. Gnelsensu. These are their beauty, machine down several inches. At Till that time comes, what have will be very busy until the The foremost side of the promenade speed and safety. And in view of the same time he noticed, because we got? We have altogether a spring, so we will not be able to deck is taken up by the large social this, one might be allowed to ex-of this, an inch of Skid's head ex- great store of experience of God. leave London until then. We tr hall. Annexed to this is the spacl press the conviction that the renew-posed above the shield. Skid didn't There are some who would rule all tend to live in London after the ous smoking-room, to the one side ing of the Norddouscher Lloyd's seem to be aware of what had hap- that out as a delusion; but if it is
honeymoon." of which is a bar, and to the other Far East Service will not fail 'in its pened, for he made no movement that, it fe à very large, delusion, |a writing-room "with library, propagative force, for the efficiency to crouch lower in the sidecar, but which has prevailed in a great The tourist class, too, on the of shipping in New Germany. sent his stream of lead pouring into many different forms, over as great Scharnhorst, will have a social-hall, The Scharnhorst, and Gneisenau the truck. He was working it back variety of people, and has caute A REAL EXPERIENCE dining-room, ladies' drawing-room, will give testimony of the spirit in and forth now, and it was a mat- them to do a great many things OF GOD and children's play-room, also an which national-socialistic Germany ter, of seconds before he mowed which they did not at all want to open-air swimming-pool, and play- greets all peoples of the world Ju them down. ground for children. All the ap general, and the compatriots living With his lagt büllet: Butler fired pointments are such as is demanded among them in particular,
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
*BHUTAN
TALAWA
CARTHAGE
NANKIN
SANTHIA
BEHAR
1925.
0,100 21st Feb.
10,000, 21st Feb.
15,000 22nd Feb. 7th Mar. 7,000 8,000 7th Mar, 7th Mar. 4,100
Cargo only.
S'hai, Kobe, Yokohama, Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka,
S'hai., Kobe, Yokohama. S'hai., Mojl, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama, Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama,
ungAll dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notios,
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Panka Louvre System Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries: Parcels measuring not more than 'em. ft. will be received at the Come any's Once up to Noon on the day previous to sailing. AANGE
For further information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply
MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO.
F. & O. Buliding Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.
of a ship engaged on voyages to the
tropics, and this has been borno; in mind particularly in respect to the
location, size, and furnishing of the HONG KONG BROADCASTING cabins in both classes.
Captain Stein In Command The command of the Scharnhorst has been given to Captain W Stein who for
¿perso
train
One hundred and Items, Including dance prog European and Chinese concerts,
1) lectures, and broadensted";
This is the point at which rell- glous people stand. They have, and The argument from experience is have had, a certain experience of
at the exposed inch of Skid. There not only an appeal to the famous God. It seems to a religious-man was a shriek, the muzzle of the mystics like Teresa or John of the that God has caught hold of him, machine-gun swung around, spray Cross, whose experienos is very and that his experience is real. Ho ing a last few bullets wild over the striking, but of a quite - special then, if he is a thoughtful person, clearing as Sidd threw up his character. It is not even only, an begins to resson about Itaurant hande, Then he was hanging over appeal to the evidence of raptures He also examines the historical the side of the motor-cycle,
or ecstatic states. credentials of his belief, and tries Shakily, Keaton got out of the It is not even an appeal merely to discover the worth of the all- re car," Butler, sweating, followed him to what is called devotional experi-gious tradition which is embodied in long ence, though of course, it includes in the Bible and in Christian his moment, as if free that. It is an appeal to the whole tory. But while he is doing this ocated, experience of all religious people, lin keeps on saying his prayers and Bald then, There are a great many people who trying to live a Christian life every to the bank fin their religious bellef helps day. His conclualons in the Belda to live a better life than they of reason and of history are auöcts uld live without it
Ted by his spiritual experiences
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