1933-03-09 — Page 11

THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1933.

(Continued from. Page 7.)

P. & 0.-British India ABU_WIDN

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND).

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR

#TRAITS, 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, &e.

were such that one would not be sur

THE CHINA MAIL

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POST OFFICE NOTICE.

SAIGON-MARSEILIES AIR MAIL SERVICE.

Letters (Ordinary and registered but not insured), Postcards, and {"Autre objēts" (Commercial papers, Printed papers and Samples) will conditions be accepted for transmission by this Service. Rates and prised to meet a hippo in them to re shown in the schedules exhibited at the G. P. O. and Kowloon day. Old All Pasha was rather

Office. like a hippo himself, a creature of an THE AIR MAIL SERVICE from SAIGON to EUROPE is weekly. earlier epoch and of primitive pas- The HONG KONG-SAIGON connection will be maintained by the re- sions.

He seemed to be intensely gular fortnightly sailing of the FRENCH mall steamers and on alter- superstitious too: he always wore an nate weeks by any available steamers that can make the connection at amulet round his neck, and One SAIGON. finger carried a ring carved with a]

Letters for the route should be marked "Saigon-Marseilles 'Air speil. He might have been a fine Mail Service" and handed in at the G. P. O. or Kowloon Post Office. figure of a man In his youth, for he

had a powerful frame. He must Telegrams sent via Radio for Addressees in China may be ad- indulged himself without restraint dressed to Telephone Numbers.

to have loaded it so with fat. The great head on its columnar necki might once have looked strong, if not noble. Now the flesh on it hadj coarsened and sagged; the eyes, In their time large and lustrous as

dull and en- water-buffalo's, ware gorged with blood. Marco, helping to lift the old man out of his an- cestral bed for the journey, had thought wint a bloated old bully he looked.

A deep chuckle It was

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY Marco crossed the flat silently in his

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10 a.m 15,000 11th Mar. Bombay, Marseilles à London,

Noon 15,000 26th Mnr.

6,100

17,000 8th Apr. 15,000 22nd Apr. 6,800 29th Apr.

17,000 6th May 14,000 20th May 16,000 3rd June KAISAR-I-HIND 12.000 17th June

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

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1935.

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* Call Port Swettenham & Rangoon.

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INWARD MAILS.

THURSDAY,

MARCH 9.

.Hunan Shanghai and Amoy Europe via Suez (Letters and Papers) Lon-

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FRIDAY, MARCH 10. U.S.A., Canada, Japan and Shanghai.(Seattle,

February 18)

Amoy Japani

Australia and Manila

Japan, Shanghai and Europe via Siberia

(London February 16)

MARCH SATURDAY,

Shanghai and Swatow Manila Straits

startled Marco. the old man again. He would wake the other two patients.j

rubber-soled shoes, and entering Ali Pasha's room he shut the sound- proof baize door behind him. He switched on the shaded light. Yes, the old man was fast asleep, his eyes shut in his strong, brutal face on. Its tremendous bull neck. Dr. Smithson, the resident physician,, had said that that bull neck would probably be the end of Ali Pasha'Rabaul one of these days. He was talking, Amoy articulately now, with long pauses Swatow and deep chuckles. What was he Amoy saying?

country. Salgon Marco had no difficulty in under-Amoy standing the Arabic.

Born in the

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OUTWARD MAILS.

THURSDAY,

FRIDAY,

Wallahi, ya Abu Widn, they are Bhanghai and Japan happy enough.... Slaves, are they? Japan, South Amerlace Ports and Well, what if they are slaves? And Europe via Siberia

what if the English have forbidden Swatow, Amoy and Foochow the keeping of slaves?

I am the Hoihow, Pakhoi and Haiphong ruler of this part of Egypt, not the Straits

English....

So, Abu Widn, you Foochow

East and South Africa, Aden, Egypt and Europe via Marseilles

Parcels

K.P.O.

March 10, 4.30 p.m. Registrations..March 11, 9 am.

10 a.m. SATURDAY,

have been an honoured guest for Straits, Ceylon, India, Mauritius, weeks in my poor house while you worked in this markaz, and you |would report the presence of slaves¦ in my house to the Mudir? Ah, well, the Mudir is in my hand... To Cairo, is it? No. Abu Widn, I should not report it to Cairo. They are happy enough, look you. What, would they do if they left this house? Especially the women. Who would marry them now?... No, Abu Widn, I would not report it]

Cairo. Be advised by # friend...."

to

a

There was a long pause and series of deep chuckles which shook: the whole great bulk on the bed. Ali Pasha was evidently very pleas-

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for ed with himself. Marco wondered': fat and 2nd class passengers.

|idly who Abu Widn might be. The

words meant "Father of Ear." Egyptians always were fond}

an

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Hoihow, Pakhof and Halphong Australia (except places North of Brisbane) and New Zealand via Singapore and Brisbane ..............

MARCH 9.

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Tilbadak

Hydrangea

Kiungchow

Shunchih

Talamba

MARCH 10.

Ranpura

Ba.m.

Mar. 18 Pres. Monroe

Apr. 1 Pres. Van Buren

TO MANILA

8 a..

Apr. 15

.Apr. 29

Next Sailing, Pres. Cleveland Mar. 12,8 p.m.

2.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m.

Pres. Hayes

Pres. Hoover.

3 p.m.

$.30 p.m. ....4.30 p.m. 5 p.m.

8.30 a.m.

Heiyo Maru

10.80 a.m.

Haiyang

1 p.m.

Kingyuan

I p.m.

Glenoglo

1.30 p.m.

Kucichow

3.30 p.m.

Corfu

(Due Marseilles, April 7).

G.P.O. Parcels ....... March 10, 5 p.m. Registrations..Mar. 11, 9.45 p.m. 10.30 a.m.

9.90 a.m.

Letters MARCH 11.

Com. Henri. Piviere

Corfu

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8.45 a.m. Letters

9.30 a.m.

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2 European, and they used it much them. For the sake of his wife must dle, that his soul may be fres more freely than they attempted to and child he must restrain the im-to come with us, the Afareet.” " pronounce a real name that they pulse to instant revenge. The great At this dreaded name All Pasha 1st Apr. Manila, Rabaol, Brisbane, Sydney & Cound at all difficult. He supposed bulk lay breathing alertorously on gave a gasping groan. 2nd May

that this obstinate person Melbourne.

in the the bed, so helpless, Marco turned "But first, I think, a little sport' 2nd June

Pasha's reminiscences must have brusquely and walked across the with you. Shall it be the knife, Ali| been a Frank.

landing. He leaned out of the win- |Pasha, or the bowstring, or the club,}] The thick voice resumed, this time dow, staring at the setting Scorpion. All Pasha 7" Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan in a tone of command.

There'Was 'a' much ̈reater way.'*' Marco leaned over in the black "Ya Mohammed, listen. You seek

dark, and feeling his way under the a boon of me? Abu Widn must not! About the same time on the fol- clammy dewlap drew the back of

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go back to Cairo. Arrange it and lowing night Marco entered All the knife across the great Ali Pasha in the mud of supplication outside proof door behind him. In his began to tremble violently. Its my door....No, it will be easy, hand he carried an ordinary table-great brown eyes would be glaring The fool. is always gazing at knife and a length of string. Cross-impotently in the dark.

and birds or beetles. He saw the bunch ing the room to the window he pull- "Nay, the knife would be too of 'deek sultani" brought in the other ed the shutters quietly to. Now swift Shall we try the bowstring, day, and he asked me what coloured that the glimmer of the starlight Ali Pasha?"

eggs those purple birds laid. Allah, was excluded the Foom was filled Marco held the string tightly nna arif? Tell him you have ▲ with the most absolute darkness. across the thick neck for a few nest to show in the reeds.

Marco eat himself down in the seconds. He noted with satisfac-| He knows the 'deek sultani' makes a chair by the bed-head and clapped tion that it was swelling. He could noise like tuning & kamanga. Your his hands gently. He clapped them feel the veins thickening and pulsing brother can hide in the roads and several times, till he was rewarded|under his fingers. imitate that. When he stops and by a grunt from the bed and the "No, not the bowstring, Ali Pasha. listens with his head forward. ...'accompanying sounds of one re-It means a pretty struggle for a Yes, use, the casting-net. He's a luctantly awakening from a heavy minute, but it is over too soon. You fighter. He told me that's how he sleep. Then in a loud harsh chose the club for me. I think the loat his ear. But the weights whisper he began: "Ya All Pasha, club were best for you. As slowly as I will, bone by bone." All Pasha round the edge will make the net ya Ali Pasha."

1933.

8,000 10th Mar. Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Oezka.

Ga.m. 17,000 10th Mar. | Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

10 a.m. 6,000 19th Mar.

Shanghai, Kabe & Yokohama. 8,000 24th Mar. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 24th Mar. 17,000

4th Apr. Shanghal, Kebe & Yokohama. 7,000 6th Apr. S'hal. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yhama.cling to his body and hold his arma "Min?" asked the old man's uttered a strangled cry from bis 6,800 18th Apr. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokobama. close to his sides. Yallaḥ, wul voice. It was still thick with sleep, congested throat. "Yes, bone by 14,000 20th

20th Apr. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

but it had a startled intonation. bone, as I was killed. The Afarect 16,000 4th May Shanghai, Maji, Kobe & Yokohama. nebi yahfuzzuk.

will make ne sport of it. But first 7,000

Marco found himself trembling as "Who is it?" 4th May S'hai, Maji, Kobe, Osaka & Y'hama. 0,100 18th May Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 12,000 18th May

Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. 11,000 1st June Shanghai, Meit, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000

18th June Shanghai, Koba & Yokohama. 6,800 18th Jane Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 17,000 20th Jane Shanghal, Kobe & YokohamAE. 17,000 18th July | Shanghai, Kobs & Yokohama.

* Cargo only. †Calla Nagoya & Yokkaichi,

All dates are approsimate and subject to alteration wilkent molios.

a cold certainty began to form in "It is Abu Widn," answered the net; I was forgetting the net. hia brain. All Pasha's voice sank Marce, in the same serie whisper.

A man dies happler when a net smothers him so that he cannot stir

to inarticulate grumblings, then There was a pause. suddenly burst out:

"Abu-Widn is dead. He died a hand to defend himself or a leg "Yes, by the head of the Prophet,'many years ago.". that is his torn eari Now go away. "It is Abu Widn, looking for his

to escape. First the et, then blow

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and lose it in the marsh, and forget head, which All Pasha cut off,” ready, All Pacha?" you ever clubbed a Frang! to death. Marco could imagine the old man At the last words Marco resched The following unclaimed tåle You hid-the body well? Sank it clutching at his amulet, for he heard up and released the mosquito net so gram" are lying at the 'office of with weights in the swamp? Good! his arms move under the bedclotes that it fell across the bed. With a Great Northern Telegraph You can take your sister away. Not and his lips were muttering pray-strangling choke All Pashe raised Company (Limited).

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from Kobe, pulse to strangle as he lay the man of his ninety-nine attributes. Steamers on London' and · Australian Lines are fitted with Landrian who had had his father murdered. Marco did not intend to give him Ten minutes later Doctor Smith- Schles, P. & 0. S.N. Co, from Parsals massering not more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Come. They were behind that sound-proof time to recover,

son: straightened himself after a Shanghái. y'a Omes av to Noon on the day previons to sailing.

door. Just a brief, shrewd grip "For all those years I have brief examiation. He eyed the great Puan Chee-chem, c/o Wa Hon - For further information, Fassage, Fraight, Handbooks, ato, sypky toɔnoon the gross throat and it would be searched. Then I went to my pontorted face and distended veins. Hong, from Shanghai,

over. But he must not. The friends, the Afareet. They said: "The only wonder is," he said, marks would show too plainly. Dr. Let us go get All Pasha, He will that a man with a neck like that Smithson would be sure to notice know where to look. But first he didn't die of apoplexy years ago.”

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Hong Kong, March 1, 1933.

Superintendent.

Max Kanis, Gloucester Building, from Farnborough, Kants;

C. C. CLARKE,

Manager. Hong Kong, March 2, 1989.