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LLOYD TRIESTINO

FORTNIGHTLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT BERVICE FOR

BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

via Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Suck & Fort Bald Taking Cargo on through “Bills- of Lading

to Flame, Genon. All Italian, Adriatic, Lorent,

Black Sea and Danube Ports

Passengers to LONDON (Overland). NEXT SAILINGS. FROM HONG KONG

For Shanghai

& Japan

8.8. TERGESTEA (cargo vezéel)

CONTE ROSSO

CONTE VERDE

FUSIJAMA (cargo vessel)

HIMALAYA

For Singapore

& Italy Dee. $

Dec. 11

Dec. 11

Dec. 5 Jan.

Jan. 2 Feb.

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'TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

TAIYO MARŲ

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER,

Wednesday, 14th December. Wednesday, 11th January. Saturday,

21st January.

26th December.

21st January,

HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe).. Monday, HEIAN MARU (staris from Kobe). Saturday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

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HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

KASHIMA MARU

Saturday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Porta

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

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Saturday,

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-$4th December, 21st January.

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Tuesday,

6th December,

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CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon

TOTTORI MARU

+ YAMAGATA MARU

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11th December.

Thursday, Saturday,

8th December. 17th December.

Wednesday, Wednesday,

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

† MORIOKA MARU

YASUKUNI MARU

KAMO/MARU (Nagasaki direct)... Friday,

+ Cargo only.

7th December. 7th December.. 28rd December.

For farther information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

Telephone 30291.

THE CHINA MAIL.

The Music Of Erich Zann

'(Continued from page 7.)

Those haunting notes I had re-down the unseen slope at the glit membered and had often hummed toring roofs and spires which muat and whistled inaccurately to mylle outspread there. Once I went self, so when the player at length up to the garret during theatre laid down his how I asked him if hours, when Zann was away, but he would render some of them. As the door was locked..

CONSIGNEES.

LLOYD TRIESTINO.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

Steamer,

From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI. “CONTE KOSSO."

PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO

AND SINGAPORE.

CONSIGNEES n Cargo are hereby informed that all Goods are being of the Hong Kong Kowloon landed at theirk Into the Godowns

Wharf, & Godown Co:pany, Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the harves delivery may be obtained. here, unless notice has been given 48 Optional Cargo will not be landed hours prior to tessel's arrival, obu carried on from port to port to tha anal port of call to which the option extends.

rent,

I began my request the wrinkled, What I did succeed in doing was satyrlike face lost the bored placito overhear the nocturnal playing dity it had possessed during the of the dumb old man. At first I | playing, and seemed to show the would tip-toe up to my old fifth same curious mixture of anger and floor; then I grew bold enough to fright which I had noticed when climb the last creaking staircase to first I accosted the old man. For the peaked garret. There in the a moment I was inclined to use narrow hall, outside the bolted door persuasion, regarding rather with the covered koyhole, I often lightly the whims of senility; and heard sounds which filled me with

No slaims will be admitted afte even tried to awaken my host's an indefinable 'dread-the dread of the Goods have left the Godown, and weirder mood by whistling a few of vngue wonder and brooding my all Goods remaining undelivered after, the strains to which I had listened stery. It was not that the sounds the 8th instant, will be subject to the night before. -

were hideous, for they were not; But I did not pursue this course but that they held vibrations sug- he presented to the undersigned on or All claims against the vessel must for more than a moment, for when gestion nothing on this globe of before the 17th instant, or they will the dumb musician recognised the earth, and that at certain intervals not be

recognised. whistled air his face grow sudden they assumed a symphonie quality Goods are to he left in the Godowns All broken, chafed, and damaged ly distorted with an expression which I could hardly conceive as where they will be examined on the wholly beyond analysis, and his produced by one player. Certain 8th instant, at 10 am, by our sur long, cold, bony right hand reached ly, Erich Zann was a genius of veyors, Mesara. Goddard &

Douglas. out to stop my mouth and silence wild power. As the weeks passed,

In the case of dutiable carge, Con- the crude imitation. As he did the playing grew wilder, whilst the Imports & Exports Office that they signees are requested to inform The this he further demonstrated his old musician acquired an increas- have such goods for examination. eccentricity by casting` a started ing haggardness and furtiveness No Five Insurance has beod effer? glance toward the lone curtained pitiful to behold. He now refused ed. window, as if fearful of some in- to admit me at any time, and

Bill of Lading will be countersign ed by truder a glance doubly absuré, shunned me whenever we met on

DODWELL & CO. LTD. since the garret stood high and in the stairs.

Agents, Hong Kong, 2nd December, 1982,

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

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THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAFTS.

“BENGLOE"

10.

Messrs. Goddard & Douglas, 5th. December, 1982, at .

GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD., Agents. Hong Kong, 29th November, 1032,

PASSENGER LIST.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1932.

ONLY

£12

"BIG

י. '

AN IDEAL

XMAS

First Class

Special Excursion

TO

MANILA

AND RETURN

6 GLORIOUS DAYS ON ONE OF THE

FOUR"

As December 25th this year falls on Sunday, Christmas will be observed on Monday, December 26th, and Boxing Day on Tuesday, December 27th. In addition, Saturday, Decem- ber 24th will be a partial if not a whole holiday, therefore there will be holidays on four days.

The itinerary of the Cruise will be as follows:-

Thursday, Dec. 22. Safi from Hong Kong by EMP. OF ASIA Friday,

Saturday, Sunday, Monday,

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Tuesday,

Wednesday, in

23. En route

24. Arrive Manila early morning

25 In Manila

26. In Manila. Leave in evening for Hong

Kong

27. En route.

28: Arrive Hong Kong early morning

The fare £12.0.0 each person includes first class accom- modation and meals on board. from departure Hong Kong, December 22nd to arrival Hong Kong, December 28th,

The itinerary is ideal, the weather In Manila is at its best. The EMPRESS OF ASIA in due back in time for busi- ness December 28th and three days before the New Year festivities in Hong Kong."

Canadian Pacific and Philippine Tourist Association re- presentatives will meet the EMPRESS OF ASIA to give as- sistance and information regarding trips ashore,

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accessible above all the adjacent Then one night as I listened at roofs, this window being the only the door I heard the shrieking viol point on the steep street. 18 the swell into a chaotic babel of sound, concierge had told me, from which a pandemonium which would have one could see over the wall at the led me to doubt my own shaking aummit.

sanity had there not come from be-: The old man's glance brought hind that barred portal a piteous Blandat's remark to my mind, and proof that the horror was real- with a certain capriciousness I felt the awful, inarticulate cry which a wish to look out over the wide only a mute can utter, and which and dizzying panorama of moonlit rises only in moments of the most The Steamship, roofs and city lights beyond the terrible fear or anguish. I knock- hilltop, which of all the dwellers ed repeatedly at the door, but re- CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby in the Rue d'Ausell only this crab-ceived no response. Afterwards I informed that all Goods are being bed musician could see. I moved waited in the black hallway, shiver-landed at their risk into the hazard-

vis and/or extra hazardous Godowns) toward the window and would have ing with cold and fear; till I heard of The Hong Kong and Kowloon drawn aside the nondescript cur- the poor musician's feeble effort to Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., whence taine, when, with a frightened rage rise from the floor by the aid of a and/or from the

wharves delivery even greater than before, the damb chair. Believing him just conscious may be obtained. lodger was upon me again: this after a fainting it, I renewed my the Goods have left the Gorlowns, and No claims will be admitted after time mationing with his head to rapping, at the same time calling all Goods remaining undelivered after ward the door as he nervously out my name reassuringly. I heard the 6th December, 1932, will be sub- strove to drag me thither with both Zann stumble to the window and feet to rent. handa. Now thoroughly disgusted close both shutter and sank, then All claims against the steamer with my host I ordered him. to stumble to the door, which he fal- must bo presonted to the. Undersigned release me, and told him I would go leringly unfastened to admit me on or before the 20th December, 1032,

or they will unt be at-once. His, clutch relaxed, and This time his delight at having me as he saw my disgust and offence present was real; for his distorted Goods are to be left in

All broken, chaterecognized.

chafed and damaged the Godowns, his own anger seemed to subside. face gleamed with relief while he where they will be examined on the lie tightened his relaxing grip, but clutched at my coat as a child clut

a.m., by this time in a friendly manner, ches at its mother's skirts.

To comply with the General Bond- Shaking pathetically, the old man ed Warehouse Regulations consignees forcing me into a chair; then, with

appearance of. wistfulncas, forced me into a chair whilst he must have a Revenue Officer in st crossing to the littered table, where sank into another, beside which his tendance when damaged dutiable he wrote many words with a pen-viel and bow tay carelessly on the ends are examined.

No Fire Insurance has been effect- cil, in the laboured French of a floor. He sat for some time inaced. foreigner.

tive, nodding oddly, but having a Bill of Lading will be counter. The note which he finally handed paradoxical suggestion of intense signed by, me was an appeal for tolerance and fand frightened listening. Subse- forgiveness. Zann said that he quently he seemed to be satisfied, was old, lonely, and afflicted with and crossing to a chair by the table strange fears, and nervous disor-wrote a brief note, handed it to ders connected with his music and me, and returned to the table, with other things. He had enjoy- where he began to write rapidly ed my listening to his music, and and incessantly. Tho note im wished I would come again and not plored me in the name of mercy,

The following passengers left for mind his eccentricities. But he and for the sake of my own cur, Vancouver by the "Empresa of Rus- could not play to another his weird losity, to wait where I was while ala" which sailed at noon to-day harmonies, and could not bear hear- he prepared a full account in Ger- Mr. L. R. Andrews, Mr. M. Ber- ing them from another; nor could man of all the marvels and terrors ry, Dr. T. M. Burton, Mr. & Mrs. J. he hear having anything in his which beset him. I waited, and y. Blood-Smyth, Miss F. Berger, room touched by another. He had, the dumb man's pencil few. Mr. & Mrs. A. D. Bennett, Mr. A.. not known until our hallway con It was perhaps an hour later, Button, Lt. H. E. Brooks, Mr. C. W. versation that I could overhear his while i still waited and while the Cumming, Mr. Chen Chang Lok, playing in my room, and now ask-old musician's feverishly written Miss E. Campbell, Miss D. Camp- ed me if I would arrange with sheets still continued to pile up, hell, Mr. & Mrs. Chan Yee Suen, Blandot to take a lower room where that I saw Zano start as from the Lt. W. T. Colman, Mr. Cheung Yam 27th Dec. I could not hear him in the night.hint of a horrible shock. Unmis- Ting Mrs. Chan Wal. She, Mr. He would, he wrote, defray the dif- takably he was looking at the cur- Chung C. Wing, Mr. K. K. Chau, ference in rent:"

tained window and listening shud Mr. Chu Chỉ Kong, Mr. C. Encarna As I sat deciphering the execra- deringly. Then I half fancied I cae, Mr. J. M. Flores, Mrs. J. Ful- heard a sound myself; though, it kor, Mr. Fung On, Mr. & Mrs. W. L 24th Dec. ble French I felt more lenient to was not a horrible sound, but rather Gerrard, Mrs. T. E. Glantberg, Mr.

ward the old man. He was a ric tim of physical and nervoure sufdistant musical note, suggesting a Mr. Kwok Chun Tin, Mrs. Kaw an exquisitely low and infinitely C. H. Honre, Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Hicks, fering, as was I and my metaphy player in one of the neighbouring Yuan K, Son, Mr. P. H. Lofee, Mr. 8th Dec. alcal studies had taught me kind houses, er in some abode beyond. K. Lum, Mr. Lee Sik Pui, Mr. Lui

ness. In the silence there came n slight sound from the window the lofty wall over which I had Wai Nam, Mr. Lul Bing. Sam, Mr. & the shutter must have rattled in the never been able took. Upon Zann Mrs. K. C. Lee, Mrs. E. A. Macnee, night wind, and for some reason I the effect was terrible, for drop Mr. Mak Ho, Mr. R. A Meredith, Mr started almost as violently as did ping his pencil, suddenly he rose, Mr King Ho, Mrs. J. E. Maughan, Asized his viol, and commenced to Mrs. K. Nagal, Mr. J. S. Osborn, ed reading I shook my host by the end the night with the wildcat Mr. & Mrs. GPickering, and hand and departed as a friend playing I had ever heard from his family, Mr G. R. Payne, Mr. Faul dr { bow, save when listening at the Au, Mrs. Pang Moo Yin, Mr. & Mrs. The next day Blandot gave me a barred door. K. S Robertson & family, Miss M. more expensive room on the third It would be useless to dea 5th Dec floor, between the apartments of an cribe the playing of Erich Zatn on family, L. D. M. Sundt, Capt, J. W. F. Riley, Mr. & Mrd. Schunist & aged moneylender and the room of that dreadful night. It was more Schart, Mr. Soo Pui Chen, Mr. W. To AUSTRALIA. - Calling at Manila (P.Is.), Thursday 1. Cairns, Townsville a respectable upholsterer. There horrible than anything I had ever J. Sawyer, Mr. Tung Bin Yu, Mrs. was no ono on the fourth flour, over heard, because I could now Mr. B. Temple, Mr. J. Turner, Mrs. BRITISH STEAMERST CHANGTE TAIPING BURNERS)

It was not long before I found see the expression of his face, and C. Van Hee, Mlas M. H. Van Hee, 9th Dec that Zann's eagerness for my com- could realise that this time the mo Major & Mrs. Eardly-Wilmot, Ma 13th Dec.

pany was not as great as it had tive was stark fear. He was try for J. W. Watts, Mr. & Mrs. Wong 9th Dec seemed while he was persuading Ing to make a noise, to ward some Shuk Xin, Mr. Wong Yui Cho, Mr. me to move down from the Afth thing off or drown something out L, Y. Wu, Mr. Wong Sui Ngor, Mr. 4th Dec.torey Ho did not ask me to call on what, I could not imagine, awest 11th Dec him, and when I did call he appear though I felt it must be. The

HC Wong, Mrs Yeung. She, and of uneasy and played listlessly

Mrs, K. 5. YIKE

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Erich Zann. So when I had finlah-

was always at night in the slept, and would admit no on liking for him did not

the attic room and the weird musić seemed to hold an odd fascinati for me,

I had a curious desira

of that window, over

Jag

fantastic deliri and Ical,

1, yet kept to the last the 'qualities of supreme genius which

know strange old man possess

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