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N.

K.LINE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghal, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

CHICHIBU MARU

TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe)

THE CHINA "MAIL.

MURDER MOST CONFIDENT

(Continued from page 7.)

NETHERLAND S. S.

COMPANY.

Three 13,900-Ton Ships

To Be Converted.

Co.'s

To every room Peto Joman sub- had done it! and this was how it

Netherland Steamship Jected this swift and thorough | felt to be a murderer . . a killer steamers "Manocran," and "Mapia," scrutiny. He smiled as he thought. taker of life!

Ho was all about 10 years old and of 13,900 Saturday, 14th Feb. at 2 a.m. how Slack had helped him by keep-slightly giddy and his pulse was tona deadweight capacity, were to Ing no clocks upstairs. He tip racing, but otherwise he felt an be converted to motor ships, and tood down to the ground floor. extraordinary lightness and clear their speed raised,

Wednesday, Wednesday,

Monday,

HEIAN MARU (starts from Kobo). Monday,

22nd February.

16th March.

20th February. 18th March.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez.

SUWA MARU

FUSHIMI MARU

HAKOZAKY MARU

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday,

18th February. 4th March. 18th March.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KITANO MARU

Saturday,

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

25th February.

26th March.

10th February. 16th February, Honolulu,

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo,

GINYO MARU

† GENOA MARU

Friday,

Wednesday, SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan,

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama. HEIYO MARU

Friday,

19th March.

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama. LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piracus, Genes

and Valencia,

Tuesday,

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

DELAGOA MARU

+ MURORAN MARU

†AKITA MARU

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

+ LIMA MARU (Moji direct)

TERUKUNI MARU-

14th February.

Wednesday,

8th February.

Wednesday,

15th February.

Tuesday,

Wednesday,

15th February,

ATSUTA MARU (Nagusaki direct). Friday,

+ Cargo only.

14th February,

17th February.

For further information apply to:- NIPPON YUSEN - KAISHA

Telephone 30291. (Private exchange to all departmenta.)

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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

MONTEVIDEO BUENOS

Thur,

Thero

an almost tvia

unnaturalness of thought. It seemed as though The order has been placed with silence in the hall. The one door to his brain was acting apart from his Workspoor, and fastead of the the right of the entrance was shut, body, and while he stood trembling existing 4,200 i.h.p. steam machin- and it was towards this that he his mind was working at an in- éry running at 86 r.p.m. and giving

credible speed.

in

crept atoalthily.

a speed of 12% knots lended, two His heart was beating wildly as The clocks!... He must get the geared Diesel engines totalling he slipped back the catch of his re-clocks! He pulled himself together 6,500 s.h.p. will be installed volver and placed his hand on the with a start and looked at his wrist-dach ship, and this will enable the door-knob. He would count three, watch. It WAB one-thirty-five speed to be raised to 161⁄2 knots. he thought. That ought to be Joman paased his hand over his They will be fitted in the same

Black always eat with his brow and wiped away enough.

the sweat, machinery space. The two engines back to the door at his desk in the with his glove.

will be geared to one propeller window. He would be going through

It had taken him exactly thirty-shaft, which will run at 86 r.p.m.

his papers this minute. ... Pete five minutes to conceive a murder, the ongines themselves tuming at Joman curled his lip, Probably plan an alibi, and execute a killing 225 r.p.m. It is not yet settled those very papers relating to the He found himself wondering in a whether Vulcan or other couplings Jermyn Street Safe Deposit. His cold-blooded manner whether next, will be used.

hand turned the door knob over so time he did anything like this he The engines will be of the Sulzer slightly. Perspiration stood out could not speed up the schedule. He typu. Each will have seven cylin- in little beads on his forehead as he snatched the clock from the mantel- deri 560 mm. in diameter and the gripped his revolver. He would piece, smashed the glass, and set piston stroke will be of 840 mm. count three, fling open the door the hands at 1.13-two minutes be- A direct-coupled scavenging pump and fire... just below the left bore he, Pote Joman, was being will be fitted to each engine and

shoulder-blade was the best place. photographed, Then he threw it the sanitary, circulating and oll

еп-

into the fender with all his strength. pumps will be driven off the The grandfather clock in the hall

Slowly and methodically he set gines, so that very few independent seemed to be ticking with uncanny

Chairs auxiliaries will be required. Alr- loudness, but to frenzied beating of about wrecking the room.

[he overturned, vases he smashed, less infection of fuel will be em- his heart. Yet he felt no fear,

He stood ployed and it is anticipated that simply a strange nervous elation and books he tumbled. which set him shaking with anti-back, panting from his exertions, the fuel expenditure will be 25

No tona dally. elpation. But he must not shakeland surveyed his handiwork

auxiliary Diesel-engined

His trigger-finger would have to be one who saw the room in its present! An steady...

below the left shoulder-condition would hesitate to assert generator of 35 kw, will be install- that there had been a fight. Joman; ed and the two existing turbo three! blade... one... two..

The smalled grimly at the body over the generatore, each of 15 kw, will' There Waa no report.

He was about to leave when remain on board. The hull will be the watch on Black's lengthened and tank experiments determine wriet. He bit his lip he had al-are now proceeding to

the length. Those were the little things that wove the hemp! most missed iti

lailencer had done its work well. desk.

Just a dull plop as Reuben Slack he noticed was sprawling over his desk, a thin trickle of blood appearing through the singed circle in his back.

Peta Joman licked his dry lips and

replaced his gun in his pocket.

CONSIGNEES

LLOYD TRIESTINO. NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

"GANGE"

He

0th Feb. Steamer,

From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI, PORT SAID, BOMBAY, COLOMBO

AND SINGAPORE. -

Arablu Maru

:

Fri,

24th Feb.

NEW YORK via Japan, Los

Angeles and Panoms. Call

Direct at Cristobal, Puerto,

Colombia, Boston Philadel-

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RIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS, Santos Maru

AIRES, via Saigee, Sin.

gapore, Colombo, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town

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MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, SYDNEY: WELLINGTON & AUCKLAND via Manila:

BOMBAY & ‡KARACHI via Singapore, Belawan Deli,

Penang & Colombo

CALCUTTA via

Singapore.

18th Feb. 19th Fob,

20th Feb. 4th Mar.

Helnan Maru

+Paris Maru....

Biol.. Sun.,

Honolulu Maru

tBelawan Doll, Penang &

Sumatra Maru

Rangoon

JAPAN PORTS

Humburg Maru

Mo Sat.,

Wcd.,

8th Feb.

Tues.,

KEELUNG via Swatow and

Canton Marn

Sun,

Amoy (every Sunday)

Hozan Maru

Suz

7th Feb.

12th Feb, 19th Feb.

Thutz.

9th Feb.

JAPAN via Takao & Keelung Canada Maru

Amoy (every other Thurs- Dell Mara day)

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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.

He lifted the inert arm and tried to PORTUGUESE SLOOP

turn back the hands of the watch, but his gloves were in the way. He removed them. Setting the hands at 1.13, he brought the "dead man's wrist down with great force on the desk. One more glance to make sure that the watch had definitely stopped, and Fete Joman was out

LAUNCHED.

Second Of British

Contract.

The second of the two second-

into the hall and about to leave by class sloops which Messrs, R. and the way he arrived.

W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Com- Suddenly he stopped in his tracks pany, Limited, Hebburn-on-Tyne, and gazed ahead with wide-open are building to the order of the eyes. The grandfather clock! He Portuguese Government, WAS had almost forgotten iti Silent, Inunched at Hebburn on November The vessel, the Goncalves

CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby witness to his crime, it stood there, 28. informed that. alt Gooda are being its pendulum swinging, loudly tick-Zarco, has an overall length of 1267 ft. 7 in., an extreme breadth landed at their risk into the Godowns ing out the seconds.

wharves delivery may be obtained.

Optional Cargo will not be landed here, unless notice has been given 48 hours prior to vessel's arrival, but carried on from port to port to the final port of call to which the option extends.

of the Hong Kong and Kowloon As quickly and as quietly as of 36 ft. 7 in., and a depth to Wharf & Godown Company,

Ltd., at Kowloon, whence and/or from the possible, Joman laid it on its side, upper deck of 17 ft.

set the hands to tally with the other She has been specially designed clocks and then drove his foot for service in the Portuguese through the panelling..

Colonies, and is built with a long Five minutes later he was hurry-forecastle deck extending over ing down the street, satisfied that three-quarters of her length. The protective not a solitary person had witnessed stem is raked and his arrival or departure.

paravanes can be fitted if required." Arriving at bis at Pete Joman The main armament comprises sank with a sigh of relief Into an three 120-mm: guns, two forward aft, the forward, 'guns easy chair and poured himself a stiff and one

No olaims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 9th Instant, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the vessel must whisky, which he drank neat. What being superimposed to allow both be presented to the undersigned on or a murder!

arca of fire. And what an allbi! Hej to have maximum before the 18th instant, or they will was so proud of his accomplish-For anti-aircraft duties, two 40- not be recognised.

All broken, chafed, and damaged ment that he could almost have told mm. pom-pom guns are mounted.

The sloop is provided with Goods are to be left in the Godowns, his friends how clever he had been. where they will be examined on the It was not everyone, reflected Pete, gyre-compass installation, 9th

instant,

at 10 am. by our sur veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Dangles.

П

echo

who could plan and execute a kill-sounding gear and submarine fog-

signal reception apparatus.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1933.

SPECIAL SAILING

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'EMPRESS OF BRITAIN”

THE WORLD'S

WONDER SHIP

to EUROPE

FROM HONG KONG-

6 A.M.

FEBRUARY 15

YOKOHAMA. MARCH 9th

to Cherbourg and Southampton on the luxurious liner "Empress of Britain"

world completing a

cruise. See Peiping-Japan · Honolulu California Panama Canal. Spend a day and night in Balboa — Havana and New York.

Arriving Cherbourg, Southampton April 18th.

Shore trips included at ports call.

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LIVERPOOL SERVICE.

The In the case of datiable cargo. Con- ing so neatly, so astutely. signees are requested to inform the

And then Peto Joman went white, twin-screw propelling machinery Imports & Exports Office that they

been constructed at the His gloves! Where were his has

the St. Peter's Works of the builders, No Fire Insurance has been effect-gloves? He bounded across

**GLAUCUN" single-reduction room to his overcoat and went and comprises

have such goods for examination.

ed.

Bill of Lading will be countersign-feverishly through the pockets. Beared turbines of the Parsons

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Hong Kong, 3rd February, 1983.

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"God!" said Joman, and sanka.h.p., on trial. Steam is supplied He remem by two water-tube bollers of the shaking into a chair. bored now, the watch on Slack's three-drum Yarrow type.

The vessel was laid down- on wrist... he had

removed gloves to reset the time... they October 9, 1931, and is a sister- must be on Slack's desk this very ship of the Goncalo Velbo minute, waiting to be discovered! Engineering.

his

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He gulped down two neat whis kies and felt slightly calmer. He had his alibi...why should he worry? An alibi they couldn't.

The R.M.S. Empress of Canada. break there was no need to arrived Shanghai on February 8pany's worry... and yet... Hell! (Fri) at 5 p.m., left Shanghai on Photographs cannot lle, and February 4 (Sat) at 2 p.m., and hadn't be a photograph of himself was due at Kobe to-day at 8 a.m. in front of the big clock taken at She leaves Kobe to-day at 4 p.m., one-fifteen? The clock said so and Yokohama on February 8 photographs don't liel Reuben} (Wed.) at 3 phu

Slack had been murdered at two The B.L. 8. Takada will leave minutes to the quarter (there had Amoy for this port to-morrow, and both a struggle then, and his clock is dus here on February 8. had been smashed), at which time

the murderer must have been fight-

Ing the murdered! At that time when I called on Mr. Slack. His He, Joman, was posing for a tin-type charwoman will tell you that I photographer, and It took 16 called." minutes to reach Slack's place from breakable, alibi, in spite of his in- Nevertheless, in spite of his un- that spot.

disputable photograph, they took He sat back in his chair and him away, smiled once more. No, they could Ha reserved his defence. Let the not break his álbil;

prosecuting counsel try to tip up The detectives arrived an hour that alibf_the_jury would know Later,

They had found his gloves that à photograph cannot lờ.. and traced them to his fiat.

Three weeks later they hanged Those," said Joman with a bim smile, why, yes, those and mine,

The but I'm afraid you've made a mis- take.""I left them there yesterday

clock beneath which he had beni photoprophed had not been going for months.

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