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P.&O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian

Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

About Ships and the Sea.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MR. H. M. TOMLINSON REVIEWS

"THE HARBOUR MASTER."

An Attractive Novel.

corner of the background. Mr. Spenlove, the chief engineer, to whom landladies` and many other kinds of ladies, were confidential, as well as his captain, and Greek sharks, and strange mademoiselles j from Marseilles who were dispersed by the war for the delight of heroes, is reminiscent. That's the point. Shrewdly observant, he is humane and tolerant, but thinks and hopes ho is cynical, which gives hia fun a ferocious exaggeration at times, though undesigned. He has scen and heard much of the places and people that contribute essentials to

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA. PERSIAN GULF desperate in its exactions on time doubt Mr. Spenlove, were those of shore-a ahore made as significant

WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA,

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8.8.

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From Town Hong Kong |

About

Destination.

If a true novel must be a story, allowed. But I agree that Mr. the vast and tumultuous spectacle with a plot, and have plenty of McFee was bound to assume some of modern life, though they are but characters and incidents to give it disguise, even whiskers. That way vague rumours to most of us; and suspense, here we are; a good story he felt more comfortable and could here he sets it down, while smoking it is, too. It is also as free of the ease his mind in greater freedom. cigars and recording the adventuras vice of haste as is that of "Lord I couldn't help noting, too, that of Captain Fraley and the French Jim." though as hindside foremost, with one exception the interrogatory girl Francine to tourists while his if less involved, and not quite so voices, issuing from the unseen to ship is lying off a tropical American

and space. Yet it does not relate women passengers. How Mr. McFee as Salonika is made, and a Liverpool a simple problem in an intricate must have revelled in his assumed boarding-house, and the apartment way-and the essentials of the whiskers as he answered them! house in Manhattan where lived famous story of "Lord Jim" are They asked for it, and they got it. Emily Simpson; I had forgotten her simple, after all, but indicates No; Marlow

never voyaged the and her family, but they are as quite simply a complexity of pro- oceans in the same way as Mr. good as the rest of the people and blems, all related; and these, by the Spenlove. Never with such people, places. time we think we know everything Would he even have known what, This novel, in fact, has the at- and the inevitability of the doom those lady passengers were talking traction of an autobiography by a which overtook the harbour master about? What had he seen of pet-dublous observer of the modern and his beautiful young mistress is ting parties? And did he ever go scene, who himself was secluded, made clear, involve the prospect of into a tearoom decorated in orange much of the time, with his ma- the general levelness of England and and black in Eighth Street, and chinery down below; so that when America, to our wonder and alarm. notice an ocelot chained by the fire-he did come up at intervals from That fact puts Mr. McFee's book in place? When the just appraisement attending to that lower mechanical a class apart from the work of is made, the jungles Mr. Spenlove power our scene in upper daylight, Conrad, says Mr. Tomlinson reknows make the Bornean forest of which he knew but rumours, viewing the book in the Manchester seem as right As the Garden of burst suddenly on him with a Guardian.

Eden; and he has, in the ordinary startling explosion of sunlight and I see an early review calls it a course of his duties, witnessed the inexplicable activity; and therefore rigmarole. Call it anything you capers of barbarians that would he got the sense, unusual to most please. That cannot matter when make Malays put

their of us who are part of that activity, Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre, you find yourself, and fairly soon, parangy and creep indoors to in that the antics of our modernity sitting on the edge of your chair, voke Allah the Compassionate; bar- have not a few of the alarming as it were, and leaning forward, barians rich enough to buy his ship symptoms of lunacy. Nor is that no clues may be missed which and all in it, except the integrity virtuously

he only wonders. the exasperating Mr. Spenlove, the of her stupid master. & Hull marine engineer who tells the story, Antwerp •

Never mind the story in this & Lendon. chooses to let fall idly in the erratic book- though you will, for It The Harbour Master. By William. Marseilles & London.

wanderings of his speculations while moves, and you must follow it; but! Junotterdam, Antwerp

Marseilles, London, Havre

& Hull, following the destiny of the harbour here is the most curious book about Marseilles & London.

master. And I waited in greater ships and the sea you have ever patience for the clues, and with an read. It brings the literature of By Marseilles & London.

increasing interest in his irrelevant the sea up to this year of grace. commentary, because there was no Incidentally, I think its portrait of resisting that seaman's sly humour, a British master mariner is as

An illustration of the difficulty when once the idea that possibly he faithful and revealing as any facing shipowners was given by the was going to be profound about know. Captain Fraley, R.N.R.. who Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Council- nothing much hud gladly vanished, became harbour master of Puerto lor J. G. Nixon, a director, when It vanished in the early pages. For Balboa through no fault of his own, presenting the prizes in connection it must be confessed that there was was only stupid where we can be with Messrs. Richardson, West- a lurking apprehension when first shrewd enough; but watch him garth and Co.'s Hartlepool appren he raised his voice. It was easy to closely about his job! He served tice scheme. suspect that Mr. Spenlove was Mar- in the Mediterranean in the war;

1932.

**SOUDAN

•KIDDERPORE 5,300 26th Feb. NALDERA

16,000/ 27th Fet,

Noon 6,800 5th Mar.

CARTHAGE

15,000 12th Mar. RAJPUTANA

Mar. 17,000 20th ++*BURDWAN 0,500 2nd

Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marseilles & Lordon.

Marseilles, London, Havre, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Anwarp & Hull. Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

CORFU

15.000

H'burg, R'dam, A'werp & Hull

9th

RAWALPINDI

17,000 23rd

RANDURA

**SOMALI

17,000 7th

0,800

14th

May

CHITRAL

15 000

27at

May

RANCHI

17,000

4th

June

11th

NALDERA

**BANGALORE 6,500

Apr. Apr. Marseilles London. Apt. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

Mayelles, London, Havre,

16,000 18th June

KAISAR-1-HIND 12,000 2nd July

RAJPUTANA

MANTUA

**SOUDAN

RAWALPINDI

RANPURA

MALWA

17,000 16th July 11,000 30th

0,800 8th Aug.

Juty

17,000 13th Aug. 17,000 27th Aug,

11,000 10th Sept.

Marseilles & London.

Barseilles & London.

Bombay.

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ажду

*

indignant;

*

he

McFee. London: William Heinemann. Pp. 416. Bg. 6d.

net.

13,000 MILES FOR CARGO.

He said that a ship recently left low turned up again, talking this and there is an account of the the Tyne in ballast and travelled; time on the deck of a liner doing ramming of a submarine, and peeps! 19,000 miles before it could obtain the Caribbean with American at much else, obviously veracious a cargo that would pay, and he

unadorned, tourists. A preliminary restiveness and

which put

this added that ships frequently went may be excused in a jealous reader volume among the other authentic out 12,000 miles in ballast to Aus- who knows that Marlow has nothing records of our great tragedy. tralia in the hope of getting a more to say to us.

That tragedy, however, is but a freight to bring back.

Well, Mr. Spenlove has much mare, luckily; or we hope so. He has said plenty here, and said It remarkably well. This is Mr.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). McFee's beat book by a long way.

TANDA

NANKIN NELLORE

3932 7,000 4th Mar. 7,000 2nd Apr. 7,000 30th Apr.

Matula, Rabau!,

Brisbane,

* Melbourne

Regular monthly sailings from and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Bydney

I won't say that I did not faintly reaunt Mr. Spenlove's very obvious beard, and also his bland acceptance of the fact that we were sitting passively in the dusk on the liner's deck, listening to a story which must surely have kept him longer from his beloved engines than any

Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan hard-case shipping company ever

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union S.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom vis New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & 0. Royal Mail Steamde to London and

The P. & G. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

RAJPUTANA

BANTHIA

*MIRZAPORE *NANKIN

KASHGAR TALMA CORFU

1952.

17,000 26th Feb.

6 am. 8,000 27th Feb.

? a.m. 6,700 4th Mar. 7.000 7th Mar. 9,000 10th Mar. 10,000 11th Mar. 16,000 17,000 24th

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohatan.

Amoy, Moji, Kobe, Y'hama & Osaka.

Moji & Kabe

S'hal, Moji, Koba, Osaka & Yhams. Shanghal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, Shal, Mojl, Kebe & Osaka. Mar. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Mar. Shanghal. Kobe & Yokohama. MATOV, Moll, Kabe & & Yokohama.

Moji, Kobe, Osaka &

& Yhama. Kobe & Yokohama.

RAWALPINDI

A STEAMER

25th

7,000

4th Apr.

RANPURA

6,800 17,000

5th

Apr.

7th

Apr.

Kobe & Yokohama.

A STEAMER

8th

CHITRAL

15,000

TILAWA

RANCHI

Apr. Amoy, S'kal, Mofi, Kobe & Oaths.

Shanghai. Kobe & Yokohama. 21st Amby, Mejl, Kobe & Yokohama. 22nd Apr. 10,000 *BANGALORE 6,500 80th Apr. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

TANDA

17,000 5th May Shanghal. Robe & Yokohama.

БЕН 8,000

Moji, a

Kobe Osaka; ́ 7,000 6th 16,000 18th 6,000 29th KAISAR-I-HINDI. 12,000

NALDERA BHUTAN

Shaghal, MAYAF'Amu Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. May Shanghal. Moll Kobe & Yokohama. May Shanghs!, Kobe & Yokohama 2nd June Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. RAJPUTANA 17,000 16th June Shanghai, Robe & Yokohama

SOUDAN

8,200 28th June | Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

* Cargo only, † Calli Nagoya.

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