1932-11-29 — Page 11

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1932.

THE CHINA MAIL.

P. & 0.-British India The Occupant Of The Room POLICE RESERVE,

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian 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.)

9.8.

Tonn

From Hong Kong About

COMORIN

**BHUTAN

RANTURA KAISAR-I-HIND

**SOUDAN

RANCHI CARTHAGE

NALDERA RAJPUTANA CORFU

1932.

15,000 3rd Dec.

Nond 6,000 10th Dec.

17,#00 17th Dec, 12,900 31st Dec.

11,900 7th Jan.

17,000 14th Jan. 14,000 48th Jan.

1933.

16,000- 11th Feb.

Destination.

Itambay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, M'acilles. L'don, Havre,

Huri, B'dam, A'werp & Hull Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & Londen..

Bonibay, Marseilles. London, Havre,

are, R'damn, A'werp & Hull, 'lure. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17.000 25th Feb, Bombay, Marvellies & London. 15,000 11th Mar. | Bombay, Marseilles & London. 15.000 25th Mar. 17,000

Marseilles & London.

COMORIN RANPURA CHITRAL

8th Anr. 15,00 22nd Apr.

Marseilles & London.

Marseilles & London.

• Carge only. † Calls Casabla nen.

(Continued from Page 10.)

Orders for the Current

Week.

Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe, Inspector General of Police. Chinese Company.

"Hallo! There's that beastly two o'clock in the morning. They cupboard" he exclaimed to himself, watched him with an air of wonder- involuntarily, yet aloud.' It held all ing what was going to happen next. the clothes, thu swinging skirts and But something

of his curious Training Course-Part I, AI coats and Summer blouses of the earnestness, even of his late fear, dend woman.

For he knew now communicated Itself to them, and recruits will attend at the Chinese or other that she was the sound of the key grating in the Company's Headquarters on Tues- .dead. . .

lock made them both jump. day, November 29 at 5.30 p.m. for At that moment, through the open!

They held their breath as the instruction. windows, rushed the sound of fall-creaking door swung slowly open.

Training Course-Part 1. All re [lng_water, bringing with it a vivid All heard the clatter of that other||

realisation of the desolate, snow key as it fell against the wooden cruits of the Chinese Company will swept heights. He saw her-pesi-floor-within. The cupboard had attend Central Police Station for tively saw herlying where she been locked from the inside. But it Squad Drill on Thursday, December had fallen, the frost upon her was the scared housemaid, from her at 5.30 p.m. Dress--Blue Uniform cheeks, the snow-dust eddying about position in the corridor, who first and Cap with White Cover.. her hair and eyes, her broken limbs

Emergency Unit Reserve. saw-and with a wild scream fell

Defendu. The defendu class will pushing aruinst the lumps of ice. crashing against the banistera.

For a moment the sense of spiri- The porter made no attempt to

meet in the gymnasium'at Central 'tual lasaitude of the emptiness of save her. The schoolmaster and Police Station on Friday, December life vanished before this picture of himself, made a simultaneous rush 2 at 5.30 p.m. Members from Re- broken effort-of a small human towards the door. now wide open. servo Units are cordially invited. force battling pluckily, yet in vain. They, too, had scen.

Sgd. D. L. King,

D. S. P. (R). against the impersonal and pitilesse There were no clothes, akirt or Potencica of Inanimate Nature and blouses on the pegs, but they saw

Hong Kong, November 28, 1932. he found himself again, his normal the body of the Englishwoman sus- self. Then, instantly, returned again pended in mid-air, the head bent

BRITISH AND FOREIGN' WARSHIPS. that terrible sense of cold, nothing forwards. Jarred by the movement of unlocking, the body awung, slowly

ness, emptiness.

And he found himself standing round to face them.. Pinned opposite the big cupboard where her upon the inside of the door was an port yesterday:- clothes were. He suddenly wanted hotel envelope, with the following

to see those clothes-things she had words pencilled ja straggling used and worn. Quite close he writing: Istood, almost touching it. The next] second he had touched it. His knuckles struck upon the wood.

Why he knocked is hard to say.. It was an instinctive movement pro- [bably. Something in his deepest self dintated it-ordered it. He knocked at the door. And the duli sound upon the wood into the still- ness of that room brought--horror. Why it should have been done so he found it as hard to explain to him- self as why he should have felt im- pelled to knock. The fact remaine that when he heard the faint rever- inside the cupboard it beration brought with it so vivid a renliga- tion of the woman's presence that he stood there shivering upon the floor with a dreadful sense of anti- cipation; he almost expected to hear an answering knock from within- the rusting of the banging skirts

locked door slowly open towards

The following warships were in

Basin. Tamar.

North Wall-Sandwich. East Wall-Tarantula,

North Arm-Suffolk and Bruce. West Wall-Kent. Dock.--Cicala, Oswald and

Osiris.

"Tired unhappy hopelessly depressed.. ... I cannot face life any longer.

All is black. I must put an end it.

1 meant to do it on the mountains No. 2 Buoy-Medway and sub- but was afraid. I slipped back to marines. my room unobserved. This way is easiest and best.

THE END:

71

No. 8 Buay-Devonshire. U.S. Gunboat Asheville. Portuguese cruiser Adoastor.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

CHRISTMAS MAILS FOR CANADA & U.S.A.

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Mail for Parcels for

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Frequent connection from Port 8d for Pansengers and Cargo to Can. perhaps-or, worse still, to see the Registered Mail

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BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1932,

SIRDHANA TILAWA

TALMA

8,000 9th Dec. 10,000 24th Dec. 10,000 7th Jan.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, - Penang & Calcutta.

.

for Canada and

U.S.A. Ordinary Mail for Canada and

And from that moment he de- clares that in some way or other he must have partially lost control of himself, or at least of his better judgment; for he became possessed by such an over-mastering desire to tear open that cupboard door and! Isee the clothes within that he tried Jevery key in the room in the vain

effort to unlock it, and then, finally, on before he quite realised what he was doing rang the bell!

B.I. Apenr Line steamers have excellent accommodation for obvious or intelligent reason at two 1st and 2nd class passengers.

But, having rung the bell for no

n'clock in the morning, he then stood waiting in the middle of the floor for the servant to come, conscious

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South), for the first time that something

TANDA

NANKIN

NELLORE

1932. 7,000 2nd Dec

4 p.m. 7,000 31st Dec.

1933. 7,000 Int Feb.

Regular monthly sailings from and Hong Kong to Austraila.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

outside his ordinary self had pushed! him towards the act.

It was almost like an internal

Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney a voice that directed him.... and

Melbourne.

thus, when at last steps came down the passage and he faced the cross and sleepy chambermaid, amazed at being summoned at such an hour, he found no difßeulty in the matter

Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japas of what he should say. For the

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:---

same power that insisted he should open the cupboard door also impelled him to utter words over which he

The Union 8.8. Company's steamera to the United Kingdom vía New apparently had no control. Eoaland, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

Tha P. ★ O. Royal Mail Steamers to London ead

The P. & O. Branch Borvies of, stoamary to London via Szes,

"It's not you I rang for!" he said with declalon and impatience. "I want a man. Wake the porter and

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and send him up to me at once-burry! London via Pabama Canal..

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

*SOUDAN

KAISAR-I-HINI

TILAWA

*MIRZAPORE †NANKIN

RANCHI *BURDWAN CARTHAGE

NALDERA 2 "SOMALI RAJPUTANA CORFU *BANGALORE - COMORIN

8,800 30th Nov. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

1932.

Noon

I tell you, hurry!"

And when the girl had gone, frightened at his earnestness, Min-

U. S. A.

}

5 p.m.,

Forwarded by Emp. of Russia

1st December 9.15 д.м.

2nd December

10 a.m.

Emp. of Russia

2nd December

Emp. of Russia

Date' due at

Vancouver, B. C. 19th December Vancouver B. C. and Seattle 19th December Vancouver B. C.

and Seattle 19th December

CHRISTMAS LETTER MAIL FOR GREAT BRITAIN

BY THE

"SAIGON-MARSEILLES AIR MAIL SERVICE”.

The Christmas Letter Mail for Great Britain by the Saigon- Marseilles Air Mail Service will be closed in the General Post Offer

Tuesday, December 6, per s.a. "Aramis" as follows:-

Registered Mail

12.30 p.m., 6th December 1.00 p.m., 6th December This mail is expected to reach London on December 19.

Ordinary Mail

Japan

INWARD MAILS.

TUESDAY,

Shanghai and Swatow Shanghai

Straite

WEDNESDAY, Shanghai and Swatow Manila

Calcutta and Straits

Japan..... Calcutta and Straita

Shanghai

THURSDAY,

NOVEMBER

29.

Tokushima Maru

..Klungchow

..Diomed

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NOVEMBER 30.

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OVER

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AND

NEW YEAR

HOLIDAYS

--TO

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BY THE

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NEXT. SAILING

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on DECEMBER 17th.

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FOR 12 PASSENGERS.

Shantung

Emp. of RussÏS

Suisang

.Tanda

.Tilawa

DECEMBER 1.

Time in Transit.

Tantalus

DECEMBER

2

.Kaiser-I-Hind

Conte Rosso .Comorin

Hong Kong to San Francisco,. Hong Kong to Los Angeles Hong Kong to New York ..

25 Days

Fares. G$190.00

26

G$195.00

G$310.00

Europe via Suez (Letters and Papers) Lon- don, November 3 and Parcels, October

FRIDAY,

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·TUESDAY,"

NOVEMBER 29.

Hniching

Tal. Hing

Pres. Grant

Apoey

4.30 p.m.

Norviken Borneo

.6 p.m.

5 pm

turn realised that the words sur Swatow, Amoy and Foochow prised himself as much as they sur Samshui and Wuchow prised her. Until they were out of Manila his month he had not known what Straits exactly he was saying. But now he Swatow understood that some force foreign Saigon

12,000 2nd Dec. Shangha!, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. 10.000 2nd Dec. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobo & Yokohama, his mind and organs. Te black de

6,716 Brd Dec. Moji & Kobe.

to his own personality was using Shanghal, Japan, Honolulu, UBA, *Canada, Central and South America and Europe via San Francisco

pression that had possessed him a

7,000 4th Dec. S'hai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama, few moments before was also part 17,000 36th Dec, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

6,600 20th Dec.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Kobe & Yokohams.

14,000 30th Dec. Shanghai, Kobe

..1933.

10 on 18th Jon. Shanghal, Moji,

10,000

of it. The powerful mood of this Vanished woman had somehow momentarily taken possession of

Hoji, Kobe & Yokohama. him-communicated. possibly, by Shanghai, Kobe &

6,800 25th Janghanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

17,000 27th Jon.

15,000 10th Feb. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokoliams.. 6,500 23rd Feb, Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 24th Feb. Shanghai, Kobo & Yokohama. 17,000 10th Mar. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 16,000

-23rd Mar. | Sharghat, Robe & Yokohama. Cargo only. †Calls Nagoya,

RANPURA

CHITRAL

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WEDNESDAY,

the atmosphere of things in the Shanghai, Japan and "Europe via room still belonging to her. But Siberia

Chichibu Maru

*(Duo San Francisco, Dec. 21),

Registrations ....Nov. 29, 5. p.m. *Lettora .......Nov. 30, 8.30 am.. NOVEMBER 80.

10.80 à.m. 12.30 p.m.

KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

In Lots of not

1/2-4: Dellvérest to Peak Distelet (above Bower Road), $28,00

· person.

Delivered fo Bowen Road FandƐ LoWET. Levels, $21,00

even now, when the porter, without Sandakan

Soudan Mausang

coat or collar, stood beside him in Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, the-room, he did not understand

East and South Africa, Egypt why he insisted, with a positive

and Europe via Marsellies fury admitting no denial, that the key of that cupboard must be found and the door instantly opened

Diomed

Tulum

KPO. Registrations Dies Letters

(Due Marseilles, Dec, 29). G.P.O.

Road,

Delivered to

..1 p.

Registrations

1.46 pm

1. p.m.

Letters

2.80 p.m.

•per: ton.

Tal Yuan

THURSDAY,

Suisang DECEMBER

Dell Maru Hydrangea

8.80 8p.m

*Saperscribed Correspondence only;

Amor Amoy

The scene was a curious one, After some perplexed whispering with the chambermaid at the end of the passage, the portar managed to find and produce the key in question, Neither he nor the girl know clearly Amoy and Formosa via Swatow what this excited Englishman was up to, or why he was so pasalonately intent upon opening the cupboard at

Swatow

Orders should iba sont in' writ- ing at least 24 hours before the Coal is re- quired.

All orders must be accom

panied by Cash, Cheque or Compradors Order

able

to "Tbs. Kailan

8.30 p.m. 5pm.

$28.80 ton,

Kowloon, $19.00

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION,

Head Offleet TIENĮ

DOLWELL & CO. LTD., Agents, Hong Kong.