PO.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
4COMPANIES 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, “Ac.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY 'DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS, (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
8.8.
f.com
Tentang Kour)
Abart
1935.
Destination.
15,000..9th Mar. | Marucilles &- Londen ..
6,500 16th Mar. S'pore, Penang, Columbo,
15,000 23rd Mar. Marseilles & London.
CHITRAL
*ALITORE
CARTHAGE
**BHUTAN CATHAY +*BEHAR
15,200
CORFU
**SOUDAN
0,100 30th Mar.
6th Apr. 6,100 18th Apr.
15,000 - 20th Apr.
7,000 27th Apr.
17,000 4th May
"RANCHI
NALDERA
*BURDWAN
RANPURA
RAJPUTANA
16,000 18th May,
}:
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1935
FITTING OUT THE
QUEEN MARY
How Work Is Making Progress
HAPPY AUGURY FOR THE CLYDESIDERS
Three months after her launch: Ing-an event which was outstand ing among the occurrences of 1934
tke 73,000-ton Queen Mary may : seem to have passed from the public ken, to reappear as a figure of topical Importance only when. in the spring or early summer of 1936; the great Cunard-White Star
Jiner goes down the Clyde to run
her trials and begin her sailing. career on the North Atlantic.
But to the people of Clydebank and Clydeside the Queen Mary is still a lively and practical interest, Workmen are still swarming over The and Inside the big vessel. riveiers and platers who have been dispensed with since the launch at the end of September have been replaced by carpenters, Joiners, en- gineers, electriclans, and other tradesmen essential to the vast and complex task of fitting out a ship of her size and importance.
The name of the Philadelphia Biddles was once associated only with banking and social affairs", Two of them who have recently forsaken the drawing room for public affairs are Francis Biddle (left), chairman of the National Labour Relationa "Board, and his cousin Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., who has been named United States Minister to the Irish Free State:
THE RINGED WORD
(Continued from Page 10)
"Must you have the whole fifty?" | sair Arthur. "Saythirty"
What She Means To Trade! Actually, about 3,000 men- mostly 'joiners and fitters of one Bombay kind or another--are now employ- ed on the liner; but that figure affords but a small idea of the full "Well, say thirts," said Mark. total of workers who are finding "It's so plebelan to haggle. employment in auxiliary trades all day?" over the country through the equipment necessary for the Queen Mary.
Marelles, Havre, London, Hamburg
Roterdam, Antwerp & Hull Marsailles & London.
Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London Hlambug, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.. Marseilles & London.
Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg
Rotterdam; Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marsellles & London
DO
6,000 25th May Marseilles, Havre, London, Rotterdam,
Antwerp. & Hull. 17,000 1st June Bombay, Marseilles & London.
17,000 15th June
BRITISH INDIA-APÇAR SAILINGS.
1985.
TILAWA
SANTHIA TALMA SIRDHANA
10,000 15th Mar
and Ca cutta. 'pore. Tenang and Calcutta,
-do
-do- -đô-
TAKADA
8,000 29th Mar. 10,000 12th Apr. 8,000 20th Apr. 7,000 10th May:
A short time ago a Govan firm was given the order for the liner's 24 'steel lifeboats (unsinkable and fireproof); Belfast mill-girls aro
get let in for manslaughter"
"The other way,” said Arthur,-"là to kill you. **
Mark nodded. "By God," he said, To-"that's tho first sensible thing you've thought of to-day." He rose l have to go to the bank."`
from his chair and came near. He "'ll come again. I'll come here peered into Arthur's face, smiling. at half-past ten. It'll be on my "Only you haven't got the guts t usual way home from the village, do it!"
pass here every night." "Yes," Arthur nodded. Mark drew at his cigar.
The door slammed and Arthur, was left alone.
For an hour or more the taunt
busy weaving the ship's linen; at By the way," he said suddenly, took the reins, driving his mind Rugby men are working on her "talking of that chap Chalkhill about. turbo-generators; others in Edin Did you ever see him after that?"
Conway Mark. Conway burgh
Mark. All dark associations of are putting the finishing touches to her steering gear; and
evil. The enemy principle of life. In other centres people are en good the way you shoved the whole again to look out books, from the "Well, I must say it was pretty He became calmer" and', began gaged in carrying out sharea, small
all of which are essential to the
No"
PRESIDENT LINERS TOURIST CLASS
The New Comfortable Way to be Bconomicall
If you are of those thrifty travelers who like to find soonomy that is not gained of the expense of every other thing, you will delight in Fresident Linen Tourist Class. All outside staterooms...each with hot and cold running water...splèndid cuisine and service that is famous the world over make Fusi dent Linem very low Tourist Class free real travel bargainal
SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK:"" THE SUNSHINE ROUTE 18÷Bay To San Francisco Via Bhanjskal, Kobe, Tokobama and Honolulu
Fortnightly sailingus-
Pres. Wilson. Mar.-18, 6,00 m.m. Pres. Hoover. Mar. 25, Noon Pres. Lincoln.Apr. 9, M'night Pres, Coolidge, ....Apr. 20, Noon Pres
Claveland May 7, Midnight TRUROPE, NEW YORK Inquità for round-trip tickets to Europe in connection with Lloyd Triestino Via Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Suss and, the
· Mediterranean
Pren, Garfield Pres. Polk Pres. Adzina. Pres. Harrison Pres. Hayes
..........Mar. 16, 8 am, .Mar. '80, B .. „Apt. 13, 8 mm,] ¡Apr. 27, 8. a.m.
May 11, 8
SEATTLE, VICTORIA THE EXPRESS ROUTE: 17 Days To Seattle Vis Shanghal, Kobe and Yokohama
Fortnightly sailings:-
Pres, McKinley Mar, 14, 6.90 s.m. Pres, Grant...Mar. 30, 6.00 .m. Pres. Jokerson ..Apr. 13, 6.30 a.m. Pres. Jackson Apr. 27, 6.00 mm. | Pres. McKinley, May 11. 6.00 năm.
MANILA
THE MOST FREQUENT SERVICE
NEXT SAILING
Prex, McKinley. „Mar. 9, 6.00 pan. Pres, Hoover :.Mar, 14, 9.00 p.m. Prés. Garfield .Mar. 16, 8.00 a.m. Pres. Grant w...Mar. 28, 6.00 p.m. Pres.: Polk
Mar. 30, 800° R.M.
BOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINUS 'AMERICAN MAIL LINE
BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY SERVICE
NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES,
M.S.
on
and
PANAMA CANAL Ports.
Next Salling
"TAI PING YANG”
MARCH 18th
Excellent Accommodation
for 12 Passengers
DODWELL & CO. LTD.
Queen's Buildings
Agenta Telephone 28021
Chalkhill was silent, good," said Arthur." A chronic "I'm afraid the chap was no
drunkard: that's how it happened -- apparently,"
or large, in a variety of contracts, thing on to him." He laughed. shelves. What was the answer, to "Ruined him completely, didn't it?" that passage? He sat down at his
•Cargo only,
'Calls Camblanca
"I don't know what became of desk and wrote in silence. Later Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- complete design of the world's him. I've told you often enough he read carefully through what he tantinople, Piraeus, Smyrna and other Levant Forts by steamers of the greatest liner.
I was acting in pure ignorance. I had written. Scene At Night Khedivisì Mail Steamship Go.
As she lies in the fitting-out understood there was a certificate Reasons why I should: basin alongside the berth from it wasn't for you, I'd seek that chap to remove him would be a moral regularly signed. I'd no ides. If 1. Because in general principle which she was launched, the Queen Chalkhill out now and make every good. A bloody, bawdy, lacherous, Mary is now visible to the public reparation to him. I'd give him treacherous villain. only stern on to the river, or money: but you drain me of every from a distance on the Dalmuir penny. Then, it was impossible that murder is always wrong by 2. Answer Aristotle's arguntent ingapore Port Swettenham, Penang aide, lengthwise on the one side for me to do anything. I was just discovering what murder is Vari- From the latter aspect she appeara getting, the grant-and the radio-aus definitions. American law dis to resemble a huge, long block af logy job. I had to put things in tinguishes degrees of murder. In light-grey buildings running from their true perspective." the dwelling-houses which adjoin
early English law to kill a Norman Messrs. Brown'a yard down to Several times he made as if to
Arthur paced about the room was murder, to kill a Saxon-was not. B.L. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for the river's edge. At night this a speak: then began in a calm, oven-son of sound memory and discretion Coke's Institutes: "Where a per- 1st and 2nd class passengers.
pect takes on a fairyland-like Bug toned voice. gestion from the numerous crane
"unlawfully killeth any reasonable now through a fault in my reasor ́EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, lights, and the myriad lamps which but perhaps you'll listen while King's Peace with malice afore wrong, I pray for merey. Let my "I can't tell how to appeal to you, creature in being and under the rather than my will the act is hang from desk structures. Above try to explain a point. Cancer is a thought."
death explate the fault." deck the Queen Mary has not foul disease: every year It causes. grown so very much since her suffering and misery. To conquer creature: not
But Conway is not a reasonable He could add nothing. He felt 2nd Apr. Manila, Robaul, Brisbane, Sydney launch-the huge superstructures it, to go any distance in conquer-Coke's carefully chosen definition. and punish its agent?
quibbling, calmer. Can God direct an action "People don't always fall over edges by accident, do they?" said which will make her immensity ing it, would be of incalculable more pronounced are only begin benefit to the world. In a purely greater moral good to be chosen in following Conway stealthily up the
3. The cancer research. The Almost before he knew it he was Chalkhill.
Arthur felt his mouth turn dry. ning to take shape.
One thing more. Just as the reconsider anything you can to acep-fter the means.
physical way: I'm not asking you to favour of the less." The end justi- hill. Foot by foot, Conway lurch. He tried twice to speak, and failed. sumption of work on the liner lastica) about. It might happen that
ing in front. It had happened so Chalkhill watched him impassively. Regular_monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan viving hope on Clydeside, so she knowledge: some intuitive twist from Busenbaum, which, taken in stumbling perilously along the edge.
year made her a symbol of re-in my brain there is some special liccant media; famous catch-phrase corner now, the dark figure in front thur, at length,
4. Cui liellas est finis etiam often before. The were past the "What do you mean?" said Ar-
thur, and Hong Kong to Australia.
"You might fall over that cliff Hong Kong to Bydney 18 dayɛ.
still remains the symbol of Clyde which could turn the corner in the context, goes on to say that the They came to the very point. yourself one night." the decks or holds of the Queen concentrate. I've got to live with but merely indifferent rather than in a flash the puniness of human thur again, bank's faith and confidence. From cancer research. But I've got to means should not be wholly bad Arthur stretching out his arm, saw "What do you mean?" said Ar. Mary, recently there stepped many it day by day-brain and emotions good means. Conway's self-deliver reason: the unconquerable doubt, "Don't you understand?" said bridegroom whose prospects of esperially emotions. Then I beance: the act made unexpected easy the voice in his mind of the one Chalkhill "Perhaps I counted on continued employment on the com- lieve my mind would give the ans the means surely no more than reality. Suddenly Mark tripped: you understanding too quickly. pletion of the liner led to dozens wer: almost like an unconscious "Indifferent. Various other people swayed for a moment on the very The idea is too familiar to me. The Union 8.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New bank and Dalmuir. A happy ship, job the one thing that counts most cluding Chalkhill.
of New Year marriages in Clyde instrument. It's a kind of creative my money ought to be helping, in-edge. From the darkness Arthur During these last two years, I've land, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P. & O. Röya! Hall Steamers to London and
happy augury.
touched him lightly on the breast, reasoned it out almost every day."
1935.
NANKIN NELLORE TANDA
7,000 7,000
3rd May
7,000
1st June
Melbourne & Hobart,
!
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for cheap Holiday.
(Burdur, Fisking, Shooting, and Climates to suit all. Your Ragħh money is worth 25 per cont. more).
"No"Additional, Charge for Dock Cabina; Sun Deck Swimming Pool
Orekontra carries Laundrym Burgson Stewardens.
E & A Cuisine and Servies are unsurpassed.
Frequent connections from Australia with the followingsm
The P. & D. Branch Hervica of steamers to London via Exes.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for, Southampton and London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
1935.
NANKIN
*BJUDAN
TALMA
CORFU
NELLORE
RANCHI SIRDHANA BURDWAN
TAKADA
7,000 9th Mar.
7,000 20th Mar.
S'hat, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama,
S'hal, Kobe, Yokohama,
14,500 22nd Mar.
S'hai., Kobe, Yokohama.
7,000 3rd Apr.
17,000 4th Apr.
8,000 4th Apr.
8,000 17th Apr.
7,000 18th Apr.
Shai., Moji, Kobe & Yokohama,
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy.
S'ha!,, Moji, Kobe & Canka,
S'hal., Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, Shai, Hoji, Kobo & Osaka,
Cargo only,
CATTLE UNCOVER HOARD OF COINS
isn's under control.””
Märk said nothing,
mere
....
5. A kind of self-defence: choice and it was done. A crash came up There was an abnormal fixity in between felo-de-se or Conway, the as the carcass fell a hundred feet his eyes; a glance unnaturally in- "Now comes the point I can't do lesser of two evils.
below and then blank silence tent, but expressióuless. it. You interrupt. Day by day
This paper finished he folded it During the next few days, the "I'm not revengeful, Clifford. you all me up with other problems up and put it in his pocket. I lay amazing release grew more and But when I think of your actions in and violent, maddening emotions on his breast as a final argument, more intoxicating. The inquest re- the past, your life now-the speci Money Of Stuart Period I shall never do it like that. Isn't The night was falling dark and moved his last qualms. He saw his ousness of it your cancer grant,
it in your own judgment,worth cloudy, life changed in in Instant; an hour your reputation, I make certain com Cattle grazing on a farm at leaving me alone fox the sake of the He realised that he had forgotter ly pain gose for ever. Already, his clusions. I don't know what crimes Higher Muckleford, near Dora job? Take a settled amount to go to the bank for the money, mind was making revelations in his yon may have committed since; chester, during the week-end laid Take half my Income: or three- The wind was too high to-night work. In the library, where the that's not the point. Is the grin 10,000 21st Mar, Amoy, Shal, Moll, Kobe & Omaka bare a hoard of coins. Mr G. quarters and leave me in peace for him to hear footsteps in the winter sunlight streamed, the whole ciple. I tell you again here's Chell, the farmer, found 100 of For a moment he hoped against distance; the moon was in darkness thing was unreal-in vanished night- nothing personal about this”! It's them, including sovereigus, half hope, as Mark appeared to hesitate, and the chalk-pit lay on the hill mare NONE rational. 'I can quote you authori- sovereigns, and crowns of the that it might still be ended this side unrevealed, a deeper element A stranger was shown in to him ties for it. There are times when Stuart Period. An inquest on way.**
In the darkness. No footsteps in Arthur looked at him long and murder becomes morally right. I the treasure trove is to be held. I wonder you go on wasting your the distance: no warning cought he uncertainly.
don't suppose you could understand It was at Maiden Castle, the am breath," Mark said. “Do you would appear suddenly,oses (Chalkhill,” he said at length. that Has it ever occurred to you; cient hill fort, about five miles think I'm going to be mixed up with His heart was beating. Even now・ "You can't have forgotten me.” Clifford that murder might be from Higher Muckleford, that a bankers' orders and instructions to he was fighting the doubt that he "You've changed."
morally Inescapable?" hoard of early Roman gold coins solicitora? : We'll go on with the could do it; the dark decision and” “I've been through" - "It,” (sald) In a sudde was found last summer,
informal way thank you. That its wavering doubt border gleaming Arthur quickly. "I've been anita, ma," behind the decision like s rim of dering how to ind
Cuwel Bay we won't go on this light. The decision now covering my affairs have been way, It's too portant. There the doubt behind it; with: Impartial have been wondering if 1 could help
you won't com clipse of reasons" against it. Or you I've made up my was it.
MANCHUKUO TO ESTABLISH CONSULATES GENERAL
bout here for same
Arthur, sprang
You'r
But
access of terror;
feet!
the realised that
Chaikhill,
ing at him
All dates are approximate and subfset to alteration without noties
"All Cabiga are fitted with Electric, Fans of Punka, Louvre
: Steamari on London and Australian- £žner are fitted
Parcels, measuring, not more, than
MACKINNON
Aing Connaught
ACKENZIES
Kong
Ha