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Passengers to LONDON (Overland).

NEXT SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG

FUSIJAMA (cargo vessel)

* CONTE VERDE

MARIN SANUTO (cargo vessel)

For Shanghai

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& Japan

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Jan. 1

Jan. 1 Jan. II

Jan. 4

Feb. I

• Passenger vessels proceed only as far as Shanghai. "Attention is called to the s.s. Conte Rosso and Conte Verde which will do the voyage Hong Kong-Venice in 21 and 22 days respectively thus enabling London Passengers to destination the day after disembarkation at Venice.

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Saturday,

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(Continued from page 7.)

CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS,' LIMITED.

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

"BENARTY"

tinker with it. He was there for interruption now, and in his twenty minutes endeavouring to soundless room pore once again coax the reluctant engine Into life. over those calculations and re- The Steamship,- Collingwood didn't miss a solitary searches which were to make him sound of that performance. Half-master almost of the secret of life. CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby way through it his

papers were Within a fortnight his soundproof informed that all Goods are being pushed to one side and he was pac-room was constructed. He rented landed at their risk into the hazard ing up and down his room; then the an empty basement in Kensington cu and/or extra hazardous Gedown same frightening, click happened in and had the pernot room built in of The Hong Kong and Kowloor his brain that had occurred at tea, a huge cavernous kitchen. There Whart & Godown Co., Ltd, whene and he found himself rushing bare- were difficulties in its building and and/or from the wharves deliver, headed on to the pavement almost he superintended it all personally.

may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after speechless in expostulation with the There could be no windows, ac that the Goods have left the Gotowns, and surprised motor-cyclist. A police- the contriving of proper ventila-al Goods remaining undelivered afto: man happened to be standing near, tion and the supply of artificial the 27th December, 1932, will be sub- and, after listening to the lurid light presented problems.

jeet to ront. ront. The beginning of John Colingwood's re- three men-experienced craftsmen must be presented to the Undersigned

All claims against the

steamer marks, the man in blue advised him-who built it for him were as on or before the 10th January, 1933 to go back to his house. Culling-tonished at

his knowledge of or they will not be recognized. wood made an effort, managed some-(materials

All broken, chafed and damaged and practical detail. how to get control of himself, and When it was finished he told thewhere they will be examined on the Goods are to be left in the Godowns, went Indoora. He lay down in amen to shout in unison outside 27th December, 1932, at 18 a.m., by

Goddard & Douglas.

cold aweut for half-an-hour and felt jwhile he was within. They did his Messromply with the General Bond

sick. During that half-hour he took bidding and startled the street. stock of things and made resolu- Collingwood, separated from themed Warehouse Regulations consigneos tion. At twenty-nine, with years of by a two-inch thickness of pernot tendance

must have a Revenue Officer in at

A

He

was

whon

GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.. Agents. Hong Kong, 20th December, 1982.

SPECIAL

A TREAT

for the

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1932.

life before him, he was fumbling on heard not

damaged, datiable single sound. So goods are examined the threshold of Knowledge which grave-silent was it in that room of No Fire Insurance has been, effect- would be a blinding revelation to his devising that he almost doubt-ed. mankind. He was being defeatedjed such complete success.

Bill of Lading will be counter- Не in his ceriain quest for that know-came out through the double and

signed by, ledge by one thing and one thing sleeve-fitting doors and enquired if only Noise. Noise, moreover, they had indeed made any noise. threatened to spoil the other great "Noise" the foreman exclaimed, happiness in his life. Noise was "shouted our blooming lungs out, his enemy. And suddenly, quite guv'nor." clearly and dispassionately, he saw Collingwood smiled. that he must conquer noise, making satisfied. A working bench and its conquest a stepping stone, in his writing table were moved in there, greater march to knowledge and the and the floor became littered with fullness of life. The act of decision packing chees full of books. Noise made him feel better. He rose, was beaten. Here knowledge could went to his workroom, and without be pursued completely undisturbed ļu qualm folded and put away his in allence as profound as the abeo- papers. They must wait until he lute non-noise of interstellar space. had conquered the terror that had Collingwood's nerves were better already at the prospect of this laid its hand on him,

From that day onwards John haven. He called on Una, Keyne Collingwood turned the most bril-and asked her to visit him and see Bant scientific mind in Europe to-his triumph bofore he handed over wards the problem of noise and its its secret to be commercialised prevention, or rather (to speak more (which incidentally would mean a accurately) towards the problem of large fortune for him). isolating the human individual from On the morning of the day on the evil effects of sound waves. He which she was to come he locked. set himself the problem of design-himself in the pernot room to get. ing the absolutely sound-proof roon; a few hours' work done before she and, if possible, the absolutely should arrive,

sound-proof house. He knew littleHe had hardly settled down at enough about his problem to start is table and begun to sprend his with. First he read all the known notes out before him when his head authorities on the subject. In less was jerked up. There was a noise. than a month he had digested and A bluebottle was in the pernot mastered all they had to say and room buzzing. It buzzed with realised the weaknesses and limita-sendish insistence, almost with their scanty knowledge. malevolent deliberation, it seemed Then he applied himself to the as though it knew and enjoyed the practical side, visiting architects, torment it caused him. And by its. builders, masons, curpenters, acous-ery nature the walls and roof and tle experts-anyone and everyone (Continued on Page 15.) who might help him.

tions of

Three months sufficed for that' and in thirteen weeks from first taking his resolve Collingwood was already experimenting with small scale models of a sound-proof room. An amazing variety of materials littered his living quarters asbestos fibre, ironwood, seaweed, burst straw, rubber treated with vinegar, everything that Was re- commended to him he obtained and experimented with.

But where others failed he suc ceeded.

This did not surprise him, since he approached the problem on the lines of cold logic and strict science. There is a result and for that result there is a enuse. Abolish the cause and you abolish the result. It may take time and trouble, but it can be Mon., 6th Feb., 1933 done. Science says so. And John

Collingwood did it. He found as substance-a curious pulpy Wood growing in Jamaican swamps- which is impervious to sound waves. 24th Dec. Just as light will not go through a 9th Feb. brick wall, so sound will not go

through pernot.

Sound hits up against pernot and 30th Dec. stops. It can get no further. That is if the pernot has been treated in the particular way and with the particular impregnation that John Collingwood discovered between three and four one very hot sum mer afternoon, when the monster of London, all unheeding of him and his activities, was roaring louder than ever in his ears.^

Sat.. Thur,

Fri..

4th Jan.

Theory which John Colling- wood loved-made it quite clear that he must succeed. Experiment 2nd Jan, proved that he had. His mode} was sound-proof, absolutely, utter ly and completely.

Brisbane Maru

Wed.,

& AUCKLAND via Manila BOMBAY Via Singapore, Havre Maru.

Penang and Colombo

Tues.,

3rd Jan.

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JAPAN PORTS

Himalaya. Maru

Panama Maru

Mon..

Tues..

Tues.,

KEELUNG via Swatow and Hozan Maru

Amoy

Son

Canton Maru

Mon.

Thurs

JAPAN và Keelung

TAKAOvis Swatow and Del Maru

Amoy (noon every other

Thursday)

tOmits Ports.

For Further Particulars Please, apply to:--

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Telephone 28061.

27th. Dec.

He lit a cigarette and went for a 9th Jan.walk in Kensington: Gardens. He felt a little shaky. To kill the thing which threatened to kill him 25th Doc.he had worked harder for thirteen 2nd Jan.

weeks than he had ever worked before. In the very struggle to 88th Dec conquer it noise had become more of an obsession with him than over. It was torment to walk in the street, and any small recurrent sound made him so desperate that ho feared at times for his reason.

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