PO.-British India
Apcar
and
Eastern Australian
2
Lines
(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 HM Government.)
R.S.
+BURDWAN
RANTURA
*ALIPORE
RÄJPUTANA
*4SOMALI
MANTUA
CARTHAGE · ↑ BANGALORE
RAWALPINDI
KAISER-I-HIND
+BHUTAN
RANCHI
*BEHAR
NALDERA
SOUDAN
RANPURA
TILAWA
SANTHIA
TALMA
From
About
Tom Hong Lead
1935.
Destination.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1935
JAPAN'S INTEREST IN AUSTRALIA
Speculative Eye On Minerals
IRON DEPOSITS GREAT ATTRACTION
LIFE
*How
(Continued from Pope 10)
“Know?”“”“ echoed `Kief.
With a shout Kief sprang up to should I not know? Such white the platform, amazed to find that ness, such purity, such feminine re- he could still reach it at the height serve and modesty!- Ah me, ah to which it had grow. The rabbit me and he sighed, while all the gave a little shrill cry-the first grey sisters, who had tried so hard sound he had ever heard it utter, to be bold for his sake, sighed also, and, turning, ran into its hutch. Its Kief fought with his fellows to legs scuttled up behind it in a Reports from Western Austra- lia that Japan for the second jumped from the highest boughs to ran.
show his courage; he swung and cariously ungainly fashion it time, has evinced keen interest
At the back of Ref's head, show his strength; he walked in the enormous iron deposits inland fro drawn to his fullest height, sion and pain which swung in
to at the back of all the fury of pas the islands of Yampi Sound.
of the
25
situated 70 miles from Derby at upright like a man But the rabbit mist of red before his eyes, was yet "She is so very some cool, critical onlooker at the the head of King Sound, have led took no notice.
intimate to the publication here of an pure." he said.
game, who, appraised with" a
grin description
He brought fruit and flowers, the shrill, silly squeak, the clumsy islands by a recent visitor. Mrs and placed them as a votive offering flight of the overfed creature the Ernestine Hül. traveller and on the edge of the little platform:same gibing critic that is behind sli jwriter
be even stole the Mem Sahib's silver our brains: observant yet untouch- These islands, she says. "have thimble, which she had dropped in ed. save to a jeer or a shrug, by long been regarded as an unex-
the veranda, and offered that, too,y fury of the emotions. ploited treasure of the northwest before the shrine. But the rabbit We are all conscious of this sub- coast of Australia, and are "one only switched its pink pose at the critic, and yet it influences us not of the largest pure iron deposits fruit and flowers.
"She is too at all. Neither did it influence the world." On two of the proud to touch them," thought Kit Kief. He stretched his long black) islands alone it is estimated sadly. But in truth it was only arm into the darkness of the hutch. that there are 22.000.000 tons of that the creature was too well fed and caught the rabbit, the touch of iron in sight, ready to be ship-to be hungry. Ramdor found the the soft far tingling through him. Iped. Once coveted by the silver thimble, and took it back to It was very solid, which seemed Queensland Government. and his mistress, telling her who had strange even then, for he had later by the Japanese, these stolen it, and where it had been thought of it always as a creature islands for some years have been found, and all the story of the black too intangible for mere flesh and the leasehold of Australian Iron monkey's devotion.
bone-an infinite depth of white- and Steel Company.
"But why?" asked the Mem nesa Sahib. Settlement Made
"That stupid White Rab-
Its solidity and bit!***
its struggles, above all its foolish cry, filled him This company made the foun- "The Bandar Sahib," answered with furs.
He pressed one Marseilles, Haze, London Hamburment upon one island, with com- Kief was great amongst the mon pulled and pulled. The slender walls
miniature settle Ramdor, for
foot he recognised that;
against the wall of the hutch, and fortable residences, a wireless keys, ao savez
that the rabbi- cracked. station. electric light plant, and stoopid. He deep in bove
The little pinnacles and Zamais
gables that Ramdor had shaped an established transport
mo fin voir que’qu' chose o”
with such pride in imitation of the When Mrs. Hill visited
"Ah!" sighed the white woman bungalow shook. the islands, in their most isolated "it will soon pass." But it was of sound of splintering wood.
There was 3 position less than a year ago, themen she was thinking, after all aperture cracked and widened, and The settlement had been, abandoned and not of monkeys. And it did the rabbit, striking frantically with temporarily with practically no not pass, it only changed.
mining work attempted. But Kief fought with no coolies that
its hindpaws, was dragged forth. although passing blacks utilized summer. He ever gave up all his and the quivering pink nose.
There was blood on the white fur The the residences, and the schooner splendid antics among the which traded with Perth was for and the strength of his limbs, the from its head, and it panted trees, brilliant eyes seemed to be starting sale. the leases were still jealous-stretch of his muscle, was no longer piteously. ly guarded with a view to early a joy to him. All day he sat and hesitated Should he let it go the For a moment Kief development.
gazed at the White Rabbit, and the wretched
6.000 25th May Marseilles, Havre, London, Rotterdam,
Antwerp & Hull 2,000 1st June
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
3.900
6th Jeme 12.000 15th June
7.000 22nd June 11,000
29th June
14.500 13th July
6.000 20th July.
17,000 27th July
r1.00 10th Aug
6,000. 15th Aug. 17.000 24th Aug.
6,000 31st Aux
www.
Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Holl Bombay. Marseilles & London.. Bombay. Marseilles & London Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London,
Retterdam, Antwerp & Hull Bombay, Marseiles & London:
Bombay, Marseilles & London Marseilles, Havre, Londen, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall. Bombay, Marseilles & London.
&
Bombay Marseilles. Harve, London Hamburg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Fall 16,000 7th Sept Bombay. Marseilles & London
6,000 14th Sept. 1 Bombay Marseilles, Harve, London Hamburg Antwerp, Rotterdam» & Hal 17,400 21st Sept. Marseilles & London
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
1935.
10,000 26th May
8,000 7th June Singapore, Penang,
Bangvon, and
10,000 21st June
Calcutta.
SIEDHANA TAKADA
8,000 5th July
7,000 19th July
• Calls Port Swettenham & Eangoon
{dations of a
B.L. Apear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for and 1st and 2nd class passengers.
19$5
terrified
cresture--or
every
11
PRESIDENT LINERS TOURIST CLASS
Travel on Famous President Liners at New Low Cost!
There is no reason now why even the thriftiest person may not traval on lange, fost Presiciant Lines. The new Tourist Gloves brings these celebrated linens to you at fares that are com- perable with the very lowest. See the comfortable, outside staterooms and the ample deck space. Ask to look at some manns. Then buy your ticket "President Liner Tourist Cicosa.” SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK THE SUNSHINE ROUTE 18 Days To San Francisco Via Shanghai, Kobe, Jokohama and Honolula
Fortnightly sailings:-.
Pres. Taft June 4 Maight Pres. Coolidge Jun. 15, 11.00 am Pres. Pierce July 2, Midnight Pres. Hoorer....July 13, 10.00 am Pres. Wilson ...July 30, Knight
EUROPE, NEW YORK Inquire for round-trip tickets to Europe in connection with Lloyd Triestino Fit Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Suez and the Mediterranean
SEATTLE, VICTORIA -- THE EXPRESS ROUTE 17 D To Seattle Via Shanghai, Kobe
Yokohama
Fortnightly sailings:-
Pres Grant May 25, 1.00 Pres. Jefferson Jun. 7, Maigh Pres. Jackson.Jun. 21. Maigk Pres. McKinley, July 5, Taight Pres. Grant July 19. Maight
MANILA
THE MOST FREQUENT SERVICE
NEXT SAILING
Pres. Johnson May 25, 8 m. Pres. Jahnson May 25, $.00 2.12. Pres. More ...... Ju 8, 9 Prea Taft May 25. 6.00 pati Pres. Van Buren June 28
Pres. Jefferson June 1, 6:00 pm Prea Garfield July 6, 8 am Pres. Coolidge June 6, 9.00 pămă Pres. Polk
Pres. Monroe...June B. 6.00
July 20, 8 am
BOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE
BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
MONTHLY SERVICE
Το
NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES. and
MV
on
PANAMA CANAL Ports.
Next Sailing
"TAI YANG"
18th JUNE
ARRIVAL DATES"
San Francisco & Los Angeles Panama Canal
Zone 22nd July
12th July
DODWELL & CO
Queen's Buildings
herself
Agents
New York
29th July
LTD.
Telephone 28021
ROTARY MEETING
YESTERDAY
Speakers Of Great Interest
A beachcomber, with his wife courtyard seemed like a golden set should he wring its neck-the gap- and children, has set up a home-iting for his love, and the scarlet ing foolish thing that had brought stead camp on the mainland flowers the silken banners of his to him such weeks of pain? * weten only. † Galle Ünisblanca §.Calls Port Sudan
shores of Yampi Sound. The passion: while the heavenly calm of Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Coo-islands
form
the Buccaneer the White Rabbit remained
Then suddenly the velvety tantinople, Piraeus, Smyrna and other Levant Parts by steamers of the Group and are in four chains, changed
brushed his lips. He felt again the Kedivial Mall Steamship Co.
unrivaled on the far-flung Aus- Kief's coat grew dull, his skin him from head to foot, and
touch of the white fur thrill through tralian coast for their
the scenic hung loosely upon him, and touches beating heart against his grandeur. They are "a wonder- of grey appeared on either temple, The creature was no longer divine,
own.i land of beauty and interest," while he would shiver as he sat but its heart beat, and it was velvet writes Mrs. Hill, with a wealth there in the blazing sun of minerals and sea products that there was some word that she might
Surely and thistledown to the touch. is almost unlimited."
even yet speak, some gesture of re- Kief braced together his
With a deep shuddering breath Power From Tides
cognition she might make, if only muscle, clasped the rabbit with one ishe would! The largest of the islands is) Then, quite suddenly,
arm, flung the other above his head, only seven miles long by three day, as the other monkeys dozed and drew himself up; leapt to an- one mid- and leapt snatched at 蛊 Bough, miles across. The group cannot among the cool depths of the trees, other and another, with the golden be reached by vessels of heavy and the White Rabbit sat blinking fruit falling all around him-in- draft Coral reefs, sandbanks on its platform beneath the shadow credibly long leaps; catching by one and drew aside the curtain.
intricate channels make of its hutch, a terrible fury gather-hand, swinging by its tail, till the their position unsafe. even small boats without local know-fury of rage against the whole ed
fored in Kief's shrunken breast a depth of the mango-grove was reach weakly on her bed, and, peering out,
The Mem Sahib raised EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, ledge. There is also a tremen-world, and of rage and love com- dous strength of tide, with a rise biped against the pink and white
saw Ramdor as he stood mechani- and fall of 34 feet in the day. purity over which he had wasted ring and chattering and leaping out of the house together in childish, The dozing monkeys awoke, stir-ically fitting the little broken pieces It is realized, however, that these his strength. 6th July Manila, Pobaul Brisbane, Sydney for water power in mining opera- abnormal tides offer facilities
of his path. But he heard nothing incredulous grief. save his own panting breath, felt It gathered in his heart,
The Mem Sahib called, then tions.
At yesterday's meeting of the swelled there; it surged up the back nothing save the touch of the flesh beckoned, with a hand that was in-
and fur beneath his arm, had The islands
nofcredibly thin and transparent. The Rotary Club, in the Roof Garden of of his neck and into his brain like thought but for flight to the moun-man saw her, and, crossing the the Hong Kong Hotel, Mr. M. K. Lo composed mainly of quartzite. basalt and jet of molten lead. The poinsets his
to stretch out their
and yard, stood by her window. Mrs. Hill describes tias, seemed
President, took the chair and con- "The rabbit is gone, Grande them as a geologist's paradise, prawling fesh-like petals, and
gratulated Mr. M. J. B. Montargis Madame. abounding in rich ores overswept
The black bandar has. with mica. Some of the islands blood-colour, with the curtains of go-trees, and crossed the rough, carried it away."
spread, till all the yard was of a He passed the border of the man-broken the house my house and on behalf of the Rotary Club on his are 600 feet high and deeply trees black around. The drainpipe broken ground, fighting
Tears ran un-frecent appointment as Hong Kong his way checked down his face, while he Councillor of Foreign Trade for wooded. In years to come she on which the hutch stood leapt to through the thorny vieille-fille: stood and drew patterns with his France. considers they will be one of the the height of a pillar, the rabbit reached the canefields, and sped on great toe upon the yellow gravel, as tioned, was already a Knight of the Mr. Montargis, he men outstanding tourist resorts of ew to a gigantic blur of white, and or, threading the maze of green all black people do when they are Legion of Honour Union S.3. Company's steamers to the United Kingdon via New fact that so keen an interest in ence to mock at his pain, while be
Australia-and conclades, "The seeming by its monstrous indiffer-ways with a sure instinct.
in a state of grief or embarrass- Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The land rose in a gentle slope.;ment.
"It was love, Grande them is now shown by a foreign rond it he saw the house, with the The air that whispered along the Madame. He loved it, and he has most interesting paper of the Dr. V. Golonbew, of Hanoi, read The P. & 0. Boyal Mail Steamers to London, and
power should draw attention to half-open shutter and the flickering cane-rides freshened. Hief's brain carried it away." The New Zealand Shipping Company's stammers for Southampton and their possibilities and to
Angkor temples and the Kazer London via Panama Canal,
their curtain, like the white of an eye, began to clear. He saw
"Love is not enough."
civilisation of Cambodia, and Mr. leering and suggestive.
mind's eye his own home, and the "And ah, Madame my beautiful Gareth Jones, a former Secretary mountain stream The palm-trees; one, it was so white!"
of Mr. Lloyd George, described aa and the ferns. A sultana fowl had| "It is not enough to be white,dinary day in the statesman's life built a nest among the reeds. He sighed the woman "The yard to-day. would steal it, line it with mose, looks very empty, Randor, as if the root it with banana leaves. It life were gone out of it, too.” And, would make a home for "ber." He turning on her side, the sighed once
be more
TANDA KANKIN NELLORE
7,000 1st June
7,000 7,000 2nd Ang
Melbourne & Hobart,
Regular monthly sallings from Hong Kong to Shanghat, and Japastironstone. and Hong Kong to Amstuala.
Bong Kong to Sydzay — 19. days.
AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holiday (Saring, Flaking, Sheeting, and Climates to suit all. Your age No Additional Charge far Deck Cabins. Sun Deck Swimming Pool- Orchestra. carried-
4—Laundry-Surgess-Stewarden.
may in. worth 25 per cost, more).*
£ A Celzs and Service ass unsurpassed. Frequent conections from Australia with the following:-
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,
TALMA
NANKIN
*BANGALORE
1825.
MANTUA
11,000. 30th May
10,000 30th-May
7,000 8th June
6,000 11th June
CARTHAGE
14,500 18th Juns
SIRDEANA
8,000 13th June
RAWALPINDI 17,000 27th June
TAKADA
7,000 27th Jane
Cargo only.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka, Shai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. Shai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Shanghai Robe & Yokohama Amoy, Shai, Mofi, Kobe, & Osaka Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama. Amoy, Shai, Moli, Kobe, & Osaka.
All dates are opproximate and subject to alteration without notice. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Tam or Punkca Louves Systusa. Marmers on London and Australian Lines aze fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than & cu. ft. will be received at the Com- wry's Office up to Noon on the day previous to waiting.
#ce further informadon, Parsage, Freight, Handboots, etc, apply to
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. >&1 Building Connaught Rd. C. Hong Kong
value."
are
and
Winners Announced In Sincere
Window Display Competition
forests.
www zzountains
in his
A little That
very
SCHOOLMISTRESS FINED
Excessive Caning Of Small Boy
The window display competition naught Road, Central, is maker of would be very good to her; organised by the Sincere Co., Ltd, the best forecast of the competition would visit her often. which has created much interest in and wins the first prize, valued at condescension
evening Batador this kind of commercial art during $200.00. The second prize, valued thought, but with it a new tender Governor Sabib's house for white crept into his tradged all the way up to the the last fortnight, has now come to at $75, goes to Mr. Chn Tank ofness.
The rabbit had ceased to flowers. a close and Monday witnessed the No. 29 Stanley Street, while public votes being opened and third prize, valued at $25,-will be grasp, and as Kief paused at last!death hung palpably to their deli- the struggle. It hung heavily in his they were for, for the scent of The monkeys knew what checked at Sincere's Roof Garden. divided by the few tie-winners to shift it from one arm to another cate nostrile in the heavy sir. The At the Kowloon Magistracy yes- The results are announced as be-Messrs Lan Yeung, Ma Man he saw that the pink eyes were low-
Kwong, Li Tsak of No. 2 Square glazed, the twitching nose motion beneath the moon, lay silent and school mistress, was fined $25 for yellow stretch of gravel, whitened terday Ko Yut-pak, aged 50, a Order of popular choice1st,Street and Li Taak of No. 29 Stan-less. Window No. 10 by B.AT. Co., 2nd, ley Street. There are five, the-win- The White Rabbit was dead, afted like sprawling black spiders aged 10, a boy, at No. 74 Portland deserted, with poinsettias silhouet assaulting a micor, Wang Hop No. 6 by Sincere Co (Perfumery ners each of 4th, 5th and 6th martyr to a misplaced ideal, and upon it Mfrs) Ltd, 3rd, No. 5 by Ka Lun prizes, seven the winners of 7th somewhere behind the agony of Before it was yet sunrise the her school.
Street, first floor, where she kept Knitting Co., 4th, No. 4 by 2. H. prize, five tie-winners of 8th prize, grief and remorse which ravaged figures of women with veiled heads In passing sentence Mr. Wynne Langston, 5th, No. 2 by Atwater six tie-winners of 9th prize and 10 Kief, stripping him alike of youth, came creeping up the drive, and Jones' expressed the opinion that Kent Mfg. Co., 6th, No. 9 by Taba-tie-winners of 10th prize, queria Filipina, 7th, No. 1 by Tsun Chinese
and hope and courage, for a year presently a long, long wailing cry when corporal punishment metad D. Hutchison & Co., 9th, No. 16 by Mr. F. S Ip of the World News out. It was a beautiful rabbitter swung back a little upon its de- became a case of common assault Tan Silk Mills, 8th, No. 3 by Johm
at least, his sub-critic smiled and swept the silence. With the first out to children by school teachers Witnesses to the above include shrugged. "The only possible way cool breath of dawn the closed shut passed the bounds of reason, it Tootal 10th, No. 11 by Hong Kong Service, Mr. Hon Man Kon of Cen- very white, very pure but Brewers and Distillers, 11th, No. 17 tral News Agency, Mr. Cheung
el
by Wahl Company and 12th, No. 7 Yam Tau af Sun. Ah Newz Agency Someone
by Shang Ngai Knitting Factory, and Mr. Tong Pik Chuen of Hong-fastened it by. Its hasp to the
lang back the shi Me leng Toe, of No. 42 Con-Kong News Service.
fective clasp, showing the gleam of land was aggravated by "their post- white once more. The new fragi-tion. comedy of a new day had begun. More than 20 can
THE ENT
found on the child's body.