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CHICHIBU MARU
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.
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Wednesday, 30th Oct. Wednesday, 13th Nov. Wednesday, 27th Nov.
9th Nov.
HIYE MARU (Starts from Kobe)... Saturday, HEIAN MARU (Starts from Kobe)
Monday, 25th Nov.
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM.
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-FUSHIMI MARU
HAKOZAKI MARU
Saturday, 26th Oct Saturday, 9th Nov. Saturday, 23rd Nov.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports..
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BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo.
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"GINYO MARU ~
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast)
Los Angeles, Mexico and
Monday,"
28th Oct Wednesday, 6th Nov. Tuesday, - 12th Nov. via Japan, Honolulu. Panama.
BOKUYO MARU
Saturday,
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†NOTO MARU
Monday, Friday,
9th Nov
4th Nov. 13th Nov.
Genoa and Valencia
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Sunday, 10th Nov.
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Tuesday,
29th Oct
+TSUSHIMA MARU
Friday,
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Friday,
8th Nov. 15th Nov.
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Tuesday,
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Monday,
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22nd Oct 28th Oct. 8th Nov.
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MAYFLY PLAGUE
IN MORAVIA
Town Thickly Strewn With Their Bodies
FLIES THAT LIVE A FEW HOURS ONLY
Prague.
A plague of flies, whose dead bodies littered the streets in hundreds of millions: "every night, has been distressing the citizens of Uherske Hradiste, în Moravia
Every morning the pavements and roadways were found cover- ed with a shimmering white, powdery-looking substance which at first sight resembled
snow_
It was the dead bodies of mayflies, which breed" on the Ibanks of the river "Morava.
They live their few hours in the sunshine. and die during the night
John Barrymore and his prstegee Elaine
Jacobi (Barrie)
pictured before the "Great Love" stalked out of the Iscobe" River- side Drive home, after a quarrel.*
UNCHARTED CREEK
(Continued from Page 9)
"Dirty weather," he soliloquised.
Clouds of mayflies clustered The creek, which had steadily "Better get out a kedge. I round the streetlamps and on been narrowing, now broadened pose."
WANTED TO KEEP THROAT SAFE
•
Reason For Dropping Prosecution
the
snake He
the glass of lighted windows out into a sort of lake bordered He rowed the dinghy out with LIVERPOOL. via Port Said, Beyrouth. Istanbul, Piraeus, every evening, often almost with rushes and mud and with no the anchor, the warp sliding over
the light. Next discernible landing-place. It was the transom like s obscuring morning their bodies were found the quietest anchorage that old stood up and cast the anchor over-
The covering the ground to depths Lee had ever come across.
board Again there was no splash. utter desolation of the place, "and
Old Lee did not like it. He sat as great as half an inch.
The street-cleaners could not the profound silence, broken only down and would have rowed fram- keep pace with
the Plague-by that solitary old gull that had tically for the yacht only that his Reater.
followed the Pterodactyl right imbs suddenly seemed deprived af from the beacon, gave him
the power of movement as his ears feeling that he was the first ma registered the unmistakable sound to enter the place.
of a cry, such as might have been This feeling was soon found to uttered by a human, or by some be untrue, however, for dancing iz sea-bird, and yet seemed somehow
He fancied it the glittering reflection of the unnatural fast-setting sun he spied a black from the north shore, bat although spot which could be nothing but he peered nervously in that direc a small mooring-busy. Rather ation he could see nothing in the New York. strange thing to find in such a fast-gathering dusk. Herman Gerofsky, a factory deserted place; so strange, in fact, Pulling himself together with an effort, he rowed hurriedly back to owner, does not believe in taking that he decided to pick it up.
the yacht, made the dinghy fast, be risks.
pointed the and tumbled thankfully into the Fri
After he had had Joseph Pterodactyl towards it, and 25 cabin and the welcome roar of the] Mo 11th Nov Sansone arrested on a charge of they came level with it put the
theft from the factory, he de-
He lit the spirit-lamp that hung cided, when the case came into hem down, ran up forward and court, not to proceed with the neatly landed the buoy on the deck in gimbals from the ceiling, made charge. The magistrate asked with the boathook. He as quickly the tea, and opened a tin of bully- cast it back into the sea, however, beer. The stove he left burning jhim to explain.
"Well," said Mr. Gerofsky, for it was thick with grem slime for the sake of its noise.
Having eaten, he took out his Joseph's father is my barber and weed and full of tiny crabs Twice a week I sit in his chair and worms. It was smaller than pipe, lit up, and reluctantly began Thies, 5th Nov. and my throat is at his mercybe had thought, and was attached to search for the charts.
Nevertheless, the magistrate to a very thin line: Old Lee sur-eventually found them at the bot-
on a mised that the bugy marked
tom of a large locker where he decided to hold Joseph
kedge-anchor slipped many years stowed oilskins, sea boots, sail charge of theft-Reuter.
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NEW YORK via Japan, Los Kwanto Maru
Angeles and Pazama.
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BIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS) Montevideo Maru MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS LaPlata Marn AIRES
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25th Oct.
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DARES SALAAM, BEIRA, Arizona Maru
Tues
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AMERICAN PORTS via
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BOMBAY & KARACHI, vis †Himalaya Maru
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· CALCUTTA, via Singapore, Argun Marn
Belawan Deli, & Rangoor
Havana, Marn
JAPAN via Takao & Keelung | Nagoya Mawa
JAPAN PORTS
3rd Dec
Wed Fri
6th Nov. 6th Dec.
and ¦ Iwatesan Maru.
Wed, 30th Oct. Mon.,
4th Nov.
Fri, 1st Nov.
Wed, 23rd Oct
Sat,
2nd Nov.
...
KEELUNG via Swatow and Hozan Maru
Amoy
*No 25, Kyodo M. Canton Maru TAKAON Tiz Swatow and Fakaken Marn
AMOT
**Cargo: only
Sud
27th Oct. Thurs, 31st Oct. Sark
3rd Nov. Thurs., 31st Oct
BRITISH PILGRIMS AT LOURDES
Accordingly
stove.
He
an covers, fishing tackle, and various reason biscuit tins containing a miscel
ago by some yachtsman in emerrency and for some never retrieved
lany of oddments. He soon picked
A few moments later he dropped out the particular chart he wanted, suchor. The water seemed to and unrolled it on the table, plac close over it in silence. withouting the cup and saucer on one end and a book on the other to prevent it from rolling up again.
Impressive Scenes At splash or ripple.
Basilica
Lourdes
His scalp tingled
He gazed at it thoughtfully, and "Coming over dest, I am!” he muttered as the only reasonable drew noisily at his pipe. The explanation of the phenomenon.chart was just as he expected. It There are now over 2,000 "A" me eyes playing me tricks, marked the beacon and the Croach curling_round to the north-west, British pilgrims at Lourdes too!"
He turned with a shiver, paid but there was no indication of a One thousand, with 50 sick people, come from England, and out more cable, and slipped the second creek continuing straight
in a south-westerly direction. 1,160 from Dublin, with as bight over the winch-wheel
(Continued on Page 11) many as 200 sick
Having stowed sails, he went be- The scene is the afternoon. low and started up the primus. when the sufferers are wheeled “A cup of tea'll taste good." he in their invalid carriages to the thought as he pumped the stove. great square outside the Presently it purred gently and Basilica, to receive benediction broke into a comforting roar. There was no mistake about that Besides the large number of myhow! ;) Bad British, there are also many French and foreign pilgrims Reuter.
Himalaya Mara Direct call at Persian Fulf Ports Bashire Moha is most impressive.
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