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UNION BUILDING.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1937.
CHINA CLIPPER
"Telegraph's" New Serial From The First National Picturo stary by Commandor Frank Woad, U.S.N.,
CHAPTER FOUR
With Hap Stuart as chief navigat- Ing officer, the Chinn Clipper took off, on schedule. It was race against time now. To-day was the 25th, and the Clipper had to reach Macao by midnight, on the 30th, to fulfil its mall contract.
No ong thought of leaving the office. Reports were coming In every half hour over the two-way radio telephone system between the Clipper and the Alameda office. Between the half hour intervals they gulped down cups of steaming coffee and watched the clock.
the
At one o'clock on the 20th, regular report falled to come through, The electrically-controlled wall map Indicated that the Clipper was some where hotf way between San Francisco and Honolulu.
They were silent us Bey sat around the operations office. Dave, with hands behind him, stood in front of
the huge map. Dad Brunn, slumped in a chair, kept his eyes on Dave. Dad felt tred-more tired than he had ever been lin his entire life. His heart pained him more often now.
Collins stood by the Tom
auto- matic printing machine as it ticked all out the weather reports from sections of the Pacific. Jean, like Dad Brunn, kept her eyes on Dave as she sat behind her little secretarial desk in the corner.
one
Finally, Dave broke the silence: "Should have her report by now. Why doesn't call in?"
a'cluck Hop
No one answered, and Dave called
to the radio operator in the adjoining
roobi.
"Try em again.”
The operator pulled a switch and spoke into the microphone in a dull monoter "Alameda unling China
Culling, Clipper, Alameda
China Clipper.
He cut the switch back, but there was no answer.
Dave resumed his position before the map. His nerves were almost gone.
Suddenly a faint voice brake over The radio loud speaker. It was the radio operater on the Clipper:
"Chino Clipper calling Alameda. China Clipper enifing Alameda."
The operator threw the switch. "Go ahead, China Clipper."
They listened breathlessly to Hap's report:
"One o'clock report. Latitude 28.10. North-Longitude 144:30 West- Tem- perature Plus 18-Altitude 0000-Wind 14 knots northeast-ground speed-151- Weather clear-visibility unlimited- celling unlimited. that is all...' Dave sank down into a chair the first time in hours. So far every- thing had gone well.
_In_the_lite.
for
same day the Ching_hours_of_the.
Clipper reached
Ilonolulu, refueled, and took off for
Midway. At seven o'clocit that evening two reports came into the | Alameda operations office at virtually the same time. One was from the Clipper. I had sighted Midway and was preparing to land. The other was from Shanghai, o special weather report. Tom read it to Dave:
The Barometer's down another two tenths. Guam, Tokio, Singapore, and all airway situations are un- changed excepi Manila. They report squalls, heavy winds and rain."
"Dy the time Hap gets there.. that weather will be blown over,"
said Dave,
"I hope so answered Tom. glanced toward the chair where Dad Brunn had been ting. The chair empty now. Dad's heart had Was hurt him too much, and he had been taken to a hospital late in the after-
noon,
Dave followed Tom's glance "Call him
hit up at the hospital. Teil everything's going well!"
As Tom went to make the call, Dave turned back to the wall map. To-morrow, if all went well, the Clipper would land at Wake.
On the
27th
the huge flying boat nosed Into Wake Island, refueled, and took off for Guam. Arrlying there on schedule. Hap lost no time in pointing the ship's nose towards the Phillipines,
to
At noon on the 29th, the regular half-hour report carne through Alamedo:
"China Clipper calling Alameda, Latitude 120 North-Longitude 141 Enst
200 Miles west of Guam Allitude 2000. Temperature plus 10 Wind force 20 knots Northwest. Ground speed 138...that is nl...
Tom, standing by his weather map, called Dave to his side.
"I don't like the looks of the wea- ther around Maniin," he announced. "What's the celling there," asiced Dave, tensely.
Tom studled the map. "Two thousand feet. East of there It's zero. Hap'll have to fly by Instru ment to get through this stuff-be in pea soup most of the night Beyond Manila there's süll a 'bad storm”
"Send him the dope and tell him
go on." answered Dave.
Lo
10:30 that night Alsmede time, Hop landed at Manlia. To the wesward a storm was reging, and experienced pllots urged him not to attempt to lenve.
But from the Alameda office came Dave Logan's orders:
"Refuel and leave. immediately." That was Hap's only message. They didn't tell him that Dad Brunn had passed away a few hours earlier, (To be Continued.)
23
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
1 School game-literally. (Two
words, 5, 8).
7 Injure, with a show of grief. * Describes the Exchange which a sub. goes, short.
11 Release.
In
12 The dictator takes a Ielter for
one who is himself no scholar. 13 One says it with regret.
is She
as good as an after supper walk.
17 Reel, like the quadruped thot
ran into the old railway, ·
19 Is father short-handed, here, in
the East?
21 A good piece of pavement, 23 It certainly sounds as though the patriarch used his eyes. 24 The magistrate is cold onl
cheerless
when he gains A
pound.
25 Let it stand always in the best
etchings.
20
Eyes like this have a hard look to find fish in unlikely surround- Ings.
30 No, neither the Cattle Market nor a place for neckwear barter. (Two words, 5, 0).
29 Somewhat plump.
DOWN
2 Abraham has been thus des-
cribed. Quick, now!
3 Why does this shilp carry an
in big letters?
4 Rosettes which may be carried.
5 Unattractive form of infant.
Go and tell it, as at Cambridge. 7 They tell the public from the
driver's seat.
Some old beldam is at the bot-
tom of this, tampering with the crense.
10 Not really race-cords, though
the only cards for races.
14 The conflict that's on both sides
of the good, according to a popular hymn.
15 Do you like a bargain? Yes?
Well, here you have value, I believe.
18 A stuttering
deat
20, The Lord Protector.
21 Clay is a form of surgery.
22 Herts town absorbs nearly all
of this line.
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About
Destination.
13th Mar. Marsollles, Havre, London, Hamburg.
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. 18th Mar. Stralls & Bombay.
outside
ancestor.
that's
From
8.8.
Tons
Hong Kong
0,000
5,000
CARTHAGE | 14,900
*ALIPORE
0,000
"SOUDAN
7,000
17,000
15,000
BURDWAN 0,000
26 He takes beer. when over a
hundred!
27 But did this foreign Parliament
swindle mother?
.
Yesterday's Solution
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27th Mar. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
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3rd Apr. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17th Apr. Marseilles & London.
24th Apr. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,
Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.
Calls Tangler.
† Calls Casablanco.
All vessels may call at Malta.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILING
ERO
SANTHIA 8,000 14th Mar. 10.30- TALMA 10,000 SIRDHANA
8,000 SHIRALA 8,000 TILAWA 10,000
30th Mar. Singapore,
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8.00 a.m. Mar. 8.00 a.m. Apr. Noon May 8.00 a.m. May Noon May
EUROPE, NEW YORK AND BOSTON
Via Manila, Singapore, Penang Colombe, Bombay, Suez Canal, Naples, Genoa and Marseilles, Pres. Monroe Pres. Adums Pres. Harrison
Pres. Polk
Pres. Pierce
Pres. Van Buren
TO SEATTLE, VICTORIA "THE EXPRESS ROUTE”
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26 Pres. McKinley 21 Pres, Grant
1 Pres. Jackson 10 Pres. Jefferson 29 Pres. McKinley Pres. Grant
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MANILA
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8.00 am. Mar. 17 Noon
Mar. 10
0.00 p.m. Mar.
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20
8.00 a.m. Mar. 31
3
8.00 a.m. Mar. 17 Pres. Monroe 8.00 u.m. Mar. 31 Pres, Cleveland
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NANKIN NELLORE TANDA
7,000
7,000
7,000
3rd Apr.
1st May Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney,
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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
SIRDHANA 8,000 CATHAY 15,000 *BURDWAN} 0,000) SHIRALA Rawalpindi NELLORE 7,000 "SOMALI
0,000 17,000
8.000!
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18th Mar. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan,
19th Mar. Shanghai & Japan.
28 Mar. Shanghai & Japan.
1st Apr. Amay, Shanghai & Japan.
1st Apr. Shanghal & Japan.
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Sailings from Hong Kong:
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Pres. Doumer. 19th Mar., 1937. Andre Lebon 3rd Apr., 1037. Jean Laborde .10th Apr. 1937, Porthos
2nd May 1937. Aramis
.14th May 1937.
To
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Balling about 3rd April .28th April
STEAMER
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in Port
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4 Apr.
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