***** THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1950.
GIRLS PAGE
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE the BOYS and GIRLS
CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
SAILINGS TO
"SHENGKING"
Hechung
"YUNNAN".
.Shengkud
"HUNAN"
Tientsin
"BOOCHOW"
Bangkok
"PAKHOI"
"HUPEJI"
"YOCHOW""*
́"SHENGKING"
"FENGNING"
Bangkok
Tientuln Singapore,
Semarang, Sourabaya & Macessor
Keelung
Djakarta, Semarang, Sourabaya & Macastor Singapore, Penang & Belawan
Yokohama, Nagoya,
Osaka & Kobo Djakarta, Semarang, Sourabaya & Macassa
"ANKING".
"SZECHIVEN”
"FUNINO"
3 p.m. 3rd Jan. 10.a.m. 4th Jan.
10 am, 3th Jan,
10 nm. 7th Jan. 10
7th Jan,
Crossword Puzzle Pete's Corner
10 a.m. 8th Jan,
Djakarta,
15
IK
10 am. 10th Jan,
27
3 pan. 10th Jan,
1
125
8 m. 11th Jan,
2+
10 nm. 10th Jan
20
23
13
10 a.m. 10th Jan,
• Balls from
8 am. 20th Jan. Custodiazi Whart
ACROSS
1
Near
ARRIVALS FROM
Tientsin
"ТАКНОГ"
Robe
4 p.m.
5 p.m. 3rd Jan. 5th Jan,
3
Food fah
"SOOCHOW"
Kobe
pan. 5th Jan,
Pard notice in a newspaper Senler (ob.)
"SHENGKING"
Keelung
7am.
8 Jan,
9
Ixlividual
"FENGNING"
Yokohama
10th Jan.
10 Behold!
"FENGTIEN"
Indonesia & Sandakan
10th Jan.
11 Green vegetables
“POYANG”·
"FUNING
10/11th Jan.
18th Jan
"HUPER"
Kobe
Singapore
A.O LINE LTD:/C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE
SAILINGS TO
Sydney & Melbourne
Sydney & Melbourne
"CHANGTE”
"TAIYUAN"
"CHANGSHA"
"CHANGTE"
"TATYUAN"
"CHANOSHA"
73 Red vegetable
16 Weight of India.
16 Hindu queen
17 Vehicle
18 Doctrine
FIND
DO YOU KNOW?
"NAME" THE FOODS
the words across and Put one of these names in the wards down—every end each empty space and you'll has four lettere, and you will have a kind of food. gut eight wLRYÏS, Here are the cher
Across: 1, A little wild an!- mal; 2, A boy's name; 3, Part of a pair of spectacles; 4, Ono of your joints. Down: 1, Good stuff to drink; 2, A cooking gilaco; 3, Adjective for a solitary person; 4, Language of the Irish.
CODED MESSAGE
1. further,
2,
to
3.
r
4.
G. B
8. ]]
Flo
Suo Frenk
Толь
Ben
Nana
FRENCH CITIES REBUS
Use the warda and pictures Puzzle Pete has substituted a and you will have little trouble simple code for the correct finding the four French elties letters in his message about Puzzle Pete bay concealed
clue for his reins: France, but gives you
its solution by saying that the eleventh word is "Caucasus". Can you solve the code?
Gabodfi Npvou Cmbod, fihitin npvoabjo jo Fvspqť xítu pg ulf Dbvdbtyt, sittt 26,892 gitu bopwi tik miwfm.
21
18th Jon.
Winglike part
24 Peruse
22nd Jan,
23
20th Jan,
Distinct part
Jupan
Boy's nickname
ARRIVALS FROM
16th Jan,
27
Vegetables are good to
Kure,
20
This
You
20th Jan,
3
Postscript (ab.)
Australia
Mani
25th Jan.
Kobe
BLUE, FUNNEL LINE
Scheduled Sailings to Europe via Aden & Port Said.'
Marseilles, Liverpool, Arr. 7,30 a.m. 4th Jan,
31 Pronoun
32 Township (ab.)
Snakes
DOWN
2 Large plant
3 Type of lettuce
5 Freclude
On the sheltered sile
"PERSEUS"
"AGAPENOI"
"ASCANIUS"
Hamburg
& Glasgow.**** London, Rotterdam &
Sails 11 6an, 8th Jan,
25th Jan,
4 Preposition
Dublin
25th Jan,
*PYRRHUS"
Liverpool.
& Glasgow
6th Feb.
"AUTOMEDGN" "ATREUS"
23rd Feb.
24th Feb.
10 Rodent
17
18
Arrives
Soare
Liverpool
Marseilles,
Dublin & Liverpool
London, Rotterdam &
Hamburg
Scheduled Sallings from Europe
BALL
G. "ASCANIUS"
8. "AGAPENOR"
G. "PYÁRNUS"
8. "CALCHAB"
G. "AUTOMEDON"
8. "ATKEUS"
Q. "PELEUS"
S. "MENTOR"
***
Hong Kong
In Port pan. 3rd Jan.
Liverpool
Saited
Balla Rotterdam
do
Sailed
do
5th Jan.
9th Jan.
16th Jan,
18th Jan,
Q. Loading Glasgow, before Liverpool
B. Loading Swansea, before Liverpool.
10th Jan
Love to excess
12 Measure of area
14 Half-em
Surrenders
10 S
20
21 Article
22 Roster
17th Jun. 23 On top
23rd Jan.
30th Jan,
25 Indian
Bih Feb,
13th Feb.
Carriers" option is proceed via oiler poria to
load & discharge cargo.
J
22nd Feb.
ER DE LA RAMA LINES
"AJAX"
ARRIVING FROM US. ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST PORTS.
"DONA NATI"
SAILING for
"MENESTHEUS"
"DONA NATI"
KINGSTON. NEW
YORK,
5th Jan. 20th Jan,
via
SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES & CRISTÓBAL
20th Jan. 4th Feb.
Lathay Pacific Airways Ltd
Houte
Departs Hongkong
BK/Bangkok/Singapore. (DC-4) 720 a.m. Mon, Thurs.
Ανίτες Π.Κ. (ou return) 6.45.m. Ture. Ft. (Connect at Bangkok with U..A. to Rangoon)
443 pan. Tuen, (DON) 1.45 aja. Tues, **IK/DO)
HK/Haiphong
(DC-3) 0.45 am. Thurs. 4.15 p.m. Thur". HK/Saigon/Singapore (DC) 10.45 am, Tuca.. +0.45 pm. Wed. HIC/Manila/B.N. Bornes (DC-3) 1,15 a.m. Tues. Fri. 4.43.pm. Wed. Bat.
All the above subject to Alteration without notice. For passage and Freight Particulars please apply to
ICONNAUGHT RD C Tel 30331 8 BRANCH OFFICE 50 Connaught Rd. West, 25875: 32144, 24878
BEN LINE
From rut
ARRIVALS
FROM
U.K.
Japan
“RING MALCOLAI" ..U.K. via Singapors
.U.K. via Singapore
"BENALBANACH"
"BENVENUE"
"BENATTOW"
"BENREOCH"
"DENMHOR"
"BENCRUACHAN" "BENALDER"
"BENVENUE"
DENALDANACH"
"BENREOCII"
"BENATTOW"
"BENMITOR"
- "TIỆNCHUACHAN
"DENALDER"
Japan U.K.
Japan ..U.K. via Singapore
BAILING S
་ ་
Dirret to Singapore, thenco Liverpool. Antwerp, Rotterdam Sand Hamburg,
Avonmouth, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Antwerp. Direct to Singapore, thenco Genos. London, full and Hamburr. Kure, Kobe and Yokohama. (and aan
Singapore, Havre, London, Rotterdam and Holl.
Direct to Singapore, thenoo Liverpool, Dublin, Homburg Land Autwery.
DUE
on or abt, 8th Jan,
sil: Jan, 10th Jan. 17th Jan. 19th Jan,
for sodium
28 Exclamation
(Solution on Page 16)
*
can
MIX-UPS
about France
learn three facts
by rearranging
the letters in each row of words:
SAY O IF CABBY
NEAT RAIN TOE ITEM
FAN COO JAR
DIAMOND
Here's a diamond centred 011 CORSICA, one of the Island possessions of France. The second word is "a male off- spring"; third "a sernglio"; Bfth "artless"
and sixth "Irozen water." Complete Puzzle Pete's diamond.
R CORSICA
A Curious Birthday Party
-It's for Isabella, Who's Eighty Years Old- By MAX TRELL
KNARF and Honid, shadow-children - with turned-about
the
the names, Were sitting quietly near the win- dow,
when they heard the sound of music.
Ex-
"It's marching mùsię!" claimed Kuarf, jumping to his feet. "It's i parade" cried Hanid also jumping her feet. Then Knart and Hand stood very still, listening to find out expelly where the marching musle come from. To their as- tonishment, they discovered that it came from somewhere up near the top of the stairs, inside the house. They hastily zan upstairs. But they found nothing,
music although sounded louder and they
could distinctly hear the tramp, tramp, tramp of many feet, eyes.
Found It at Last "It's up in the attic!" Hanid
sald.
the
They ran up to the attic. And there,
in the great dim space under the sloping roof, they came on the parade at last,
It was parade of clothes- pins, empty jam jars, curtain rods, a rusty hammer and six bent clothes hangers.
*
10-18
The curtain rod knocked on
the trunk three times.
But her dress,was torņ and one shoe was missing and her face was dirty.
my
sald
Eighty Years Old "Isabella,
dear," Roddy, "do you know what to day, is?"
"It's my birthday," cald Isnhella.
Then Roddy and all the other! curtain rods shouted: "Yes, it's your birthday! You're eighty years old!"
a "But I don't really feel old,"
said Isabella.
The music came from bucket and a horn and an old mandolla with one string. The Icader was a bruss-headed curtain rod. He was taller than all the others.
The tin horn and the bucket
and the mandolin with one string played an old fashioned waltz. And Roddy and Isabella
piles
among the of old boules and old magazines and old shoes and old boxes and oki chairs and old broken mirrors and old pictures.
MY NAME'S CAL, WHATS
YOURS
O RY
in
WORD SQUARE
Rearrange the letters in each row to form a good word and then rearrange the rows of words BO they will read $10 same down as ocross:
AART AAERİS AEPRIS AECRR AIPRISIT
*
•
ANIMAL QUIZ
1. Dogs and cala cannot dis- tharulah colour. True OT False?
2. Prairie dogs live in burrows.
True or Falso?
3. Lions can climb trees. Trus
or Fulser
TRIANGLE
Puzzle Pete has based his triangle on RETIRED The second word is "a symbol for tellurium": Khird "to fondle"; Lith
fourth "a Hindu and
"more lacking in
sixth "rounded." Complete the triangle:
RETIRED
P&O B.I. E&A
COMPANIES
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL 5.N. CO.,
PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
Ontwards "CARTHAGE” *CORFU" "CHIUSAN”
Leaves London Due Hongkung
11th December
6th January
20th January
12th Jorruary
9th February
17th February
Via Bouthampton, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Fenary & Singapore
Homewards
"CARTHAGE"
*CORFI
"CHUSAN”
Leaves Hongkong
Dun London.
16th January
10th February
11th February
14th March
21th February
20th March
Accepting cargo for Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Hombay,
Outwards "SHILLONG”
Homewards "BUNDA"
Aden, Port Said & Kandon
FREIGHT SERVICE
-
From U.H.
Fot
10th January
Japan
Balla
7th January
For Singapore. Port Swettenham, Penang. Colombo, Aden, Port
Bakk Genoa, Marsailles, Casablanca. Tripoli, London, Antwerp. Natterdam
Hamburg
With herty to call at Bombay it inducement offers Tanks available for carriage of Oil in Balk. Space for refrigerated cargo. Limited Passenger accommodation,
BRITISH INDIA S.N. CO., LTD.
due 6th Jan. walls 8th Jan.
"WARORA”
RETIRED
(Answers on Page 16)
"SANTHIA"
"SIRDHANA"
Stamp Of The Week
TN the lonelier valleya Southern Ger-
many, where the village folk are keen hunters, they still talk of Der Freischutz, a legendary marksman who made a pact with the devil and was given six bullets which would hit what- ever the riflemart chose, Tile devil, however, decided the target for Д seventh.
Today, the man who
the
spread
legend in music - round the world is honoured
this
by
stamp
from Eastern Germany.
He is
Carl Maria. van Weber. And his Freischutz opera has been played wherever, opera lovers meet..
It is Weber's greatest work--perhaps because he bad a little of the devil in his
own mischievous, mercurial temperament.
He was born a weakly boy and his domineering Zalber set out to make him, outshine his famous cousin, Mozert.
DOUBLE LOCKET
1. Cut out 2 SNAPSHOT PICTURES of friends in 1inch circles.
2.GLUE the
lothespin pictures together.
back to back and put
Round and round the attle danced round and round the they marched! Finally they attic, in and out stopped in front of a battered old trunk with its ild nalled on The curtain rod held up his hand and everyone was silent. Then he went up to the trunk And then, at last, the birth- and knocked three times,
Knart and Hanid stood to one bade all her
day party was over and Isabellu
friends side, near the head of the attle. She climbed up the states, watching everything that ladder again and into the trunk. was happening. They wondered. And the empty jam jos jung why the curtain rod was knock- ed aside and the clothes 2nd Feb, ing on the trunk. They soon
ers let the hrwy d down the curtain drove
again and the rusty hammer back the nails, and rod in a brassy volce, "Are you
everyone marched away and there?"
the disappeared into
darkest corner of the attic.
And Knarf and Honid went downstairs, back to their room, glad that they had been to tho party of the eighty-year-old doll,
10th Feb, 14th Feb.
Loading on or aht.
9th Jan,
11th Jan.
20th Jan.
21st Jan,
5th Feb.
11th Feb.
Kure. Kobe, and 'Yokohama.
19th Feb.
• Calls Manila & Bandakan..
All vessels accepi Carro for Aden, Sues and Port Said.
f
W. R. LOXLEY & CO., (CHINA) LTD. Agents York Building
Telephone: £4165.
found out.
"Isabella!" cried
"I am. Roddy!" answered a sweet, little voice,
Lid Nailed 'Down "Come out, Isabella!"
"I can't, Roddy! The lid is nallod down!"
Then the rusty old hammer banged up to the trunk on his thick wooden leg and pulled the nails out of the lid of the trunk with his two iron teeth.
Instantly the clothes hangere ren forward and lifted up the heavy lid. It was so heavy that | they bent under its weight. But finally it was lifted all the way up. When this was done, the empty jam jars who were round and stout and strong. stood on the edge of the trunk and kept the ld from falling back. Then the clothespins hold hands one on top of the other and side by side and formed a fadder which leaned against the trunk.
•
The next minute n
a doll. down the Indder,
came
Knart and Hanid zaw that she was a doll that had boo put in the trunk тапу увага ago. She was dressed in" old- fashioned clothes. Sho.. had „long, blond half and large tilue 3-
them between Zin.squares of GLASS
1-19
Rupert and the Diamond Leaf-16
Befoes he knows what is haper seen anything like it. "Are you pening Rupert's "giem “leap-hat "fueling all cght? **
exerind him higher still sad aconse think so,” apuntata Rupert shakily. a wide nuncca of gaan soil bi a faiz lovely, but i can't imagin Janda in #thick: fish. For a what's happened to me. Did you jected; the Chades stand speeche¦ notion?" "After jumping so high; 1 - Jos. -Xhas, ghey fun acetior to help; - didn't fuit, dron, Lifosted. Bes ́a
my bow did you do kontine Taikki buzzer (ulti
*I've never dowa for a pikes (S
At 12 Weber had written an operetta, "The Power of Love and Wine." These two ingredients were so power- ful in his own life that they caused him to neglect one of the best jobs he eve Fad-secretary to Duke
Ludwig of
Frederic, banished from that tile
This did good because made him work. He roved round Europe winning hearts with sweet, in- simuating melo-
nli
his
dies.
But his health
was running out. And the end came in London, two months after he finished the opera
Charics Kembl", which,
paid him £1,000 to write for Covent Garden Theatre. Weber was buried at Moorfields Chapel for 18 years, then
[ moved to Dresden.
The stamp is face-valued 50 pfennigs; set of 3 costs 9d. in London. Perforation 13. JAA
3 Twist a fine WIRE into a loop and put it at the top corner with the ends along the sides.
4. Fasten the glass squares together with colored MYSTIC TAPE or ADHESIVE TAPE.
PUTA CORD THROUCH THE LOOP AND WEAR · IT AROUND YOUR NECK!
Don't forget
your
Rupert
Annual
due 16th Jan.
#ally 17th Jan. to 10th Jne. walls 20th Jan.
from Japan
for Strata, Ran- goon & Chitarona from Calcutta, Rangoon & Straits for Japan from Japan
Straits,
goon & Caloust
P. & O./B. I. JOINT SERVICE Jur. 7th Jan,
'ORNA"
sails 8th Jan,
"ORMARA"
duo 18th Jan
"OKHILA"
sells 17th Jan. que 23rd Jan. erita 24th Jan.
from Japan for Singapore
Flan
Colombo, Hambay, Karachi & F. Gut from.P. Gulf Karachi, Bombay Colombo, & S'pore. for Japan from Japan for "Singapore Colombo, Bombay. Karachi, Bahren, Khorramshahbr Barth
EASTERN &`AUSTRALIAN S.5. CO., LTD.
"NANKIN"
due 4th Jan, solls Bilt Jan.
from Japan for Sandakan. Bolihan, Brisbane, Bydney, Melbourne Si Adelaida
All vessels have liberty to call at any poris on or off the route & the route & sailing are subject to change or amendment with or without notice.
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