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SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

TAIYO MARU

CHICHIBU MARU

TATSUTA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

Thursday, 23rd March midnight

Wednesday,

Wednesday,

HIKAWA MARU (ataris from Kobe) Monday,

12th April. 26th April.

27th March. HIYE MARU (starts from Kobe) ... Wednesday, 10th April LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Snez

TERUKUNI MARU

Friday,

HAKUSAN MARU

HARUNA MARU

Saturday, Saturday,

31st March. 15th April. 20th April.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

25th March. 22nd April

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

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Wednesday, Tuesday,

29th March. 11th April.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama. BOKUYO MARU

Monday,

1st May.

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Panama. LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piracus, Genoa

and Valencia,

† LIMA MARU

Sunday,

16th April

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

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Wednesday,

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Saturday,

29th March. 8th April.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

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† TOKIWA MARU

GINYO MARU

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22nd March..

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TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that

our cabina we hadn't much ready money left, but Bill said he knew how to get some. as we walked. The pearls were mostly the size of good, large drinks since he got the pearls, but "Bill had gone pretty slow on peas, and seemed to go down about six or eight inches on to a bard, gambling was grey sand, but to that depth of six never give up. We can afford it and from the sea to the cliff the course what you never can do. Sc or eight inches along that 50 yards now, he used to say, which is of beach was entirely composed of we went ashore at Port Said and them. From sea to cliff was about took our pearls with us, as wo'd the S/S. "Hakozoki Maru" 15 yards, so that if you multiply none of us trust all that out of our having cargo on board from Japan that by 50 yards for the length and sight. And we came to a house ports, was touched by S/S. "Manila by half a foot for the depth you Bill knew. Now wasn't it a cur- Maru" at Moji on 11th March, of solid ious thing that Bill, who wouldn't 1938, and in consequence General will see how much was

trouble to put another two hundred Average has been declared. pearls I haven't done the sum my- self. They didn't go out under the thousand pounds in his pocket, was

The "Hakorali Maru" is expect Bea; it was nothing but dead oyster keen as mustard to make a bundred jed to arrive here on or about 19th shells there. A funny

pounds or so in a Port Said gam- rent scoooped round that bay; we bling den? And it wasn't that he'd instant, and the consignees of could see it doing it still, though altered his mind about his pocket-cargo are requested to sign G. A. Bond at our Office, paying a de- the shells were all empty now; fuls of pearls being enough; he was

little cur-

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but once it must have idly gather never going back to that bay. Again Posit of three tenth (0.003) per ed those pearls and idly flung them and again I suggested it, but there cont. of the valuation of their con on to the little beach and roamed was some sort of terror about that signments before Bills of Lading away into the Indian Ocean beyond little white beach of pearls that will be countersigned for delivery. the gee of man. Well, of course, seemed to have somehow got hold there was nothing to do but to all of him; or else it was some sort of our pockets, and we set about doing general principle, perhaps inherit- jed from simple folk for number- that; and it was a very curious

less 'generations, that seemed to thing-you may hardly believe mej -but it was all I could do to get warn him there was something un- Bill to fill more than one pocket natural and dangerous about Of course, we had to swim back to vast a display of easy wealth as lay the ship, which makes a reasonable on that beach in clear sunlight. 1 explanation, but it wasn't Bill's often wondered what it exactly From reason at all. It was simply a fear was, that terror of the lovely little: he had of growing too rich. "What's beach. It never quite caught me. it worth?' he kept saying of his unless at moments at the turn of one pocketful. Over two hundred thought there may have seemed

to be something lurking; but what- CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby thousand." I said at a guess.

Informed that all Goods are being Can't see the difference between ever it was it must have been last landed at their risk into the Godown two hundred thousand and fouring and strong to have kept that of the Hong Kong and Kowloon

man in London leaning against a Wharf & Godown

Ltd, Cor:pany,

at hundred thousand,' Bill would say.

Kowloon, whence and/or from the wall, and making no effort nerves delivery may be obtamed. "'There's

ever likely to as I judge-to go

1 Optional Cargo not be landed | East into sunlight, and help him here, unless notice has been given is self to that wealth that in a gener-hours prior to vessel's arrival, but ous drunken moment the good fel-carried on from port to port to the

Sinai low had given to me.

a lot of difference, Yes, when I've spent the two hundred thousand,' Bill would go

(Private exchange to all departments.)

I'd tell him.

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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

"Well, there you are, I'd say. "'And when will that be?' Bill would answer.

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"I wasn't keen on the gambling No claims will be admitted after myself, but it seemed only friendly the Goods have left the Godown, and to keep an eye on the other two. So all Goods remaining undelivered after "I saw his point. "And another thing he was very and came with them.

I slipped a revolver into my pocket the 22nd instant, will be subject to

And I was keen on. Bill seemed to have read

All claims against the vessel must of men who had come by big for-probably drawn too by that feeling be presented to the undersigned on or

Jone used to have that, if the name before the 1st April or they tunes; won lotteries and one thing of Port Said should turn up in a not be recognised. 10th Apr. an another; and according to Bill

All broken, chafed, and damaged they went all to pieces quickly, and conversation, one has seen all that Goods are to be left in the Godowns, there is to see there. One liked to where they will be examined on the Bill was frightened. It was all 1 could do to get him to fill the other be able to say, if any particular 22nd instant, at 10 m. by our sur 21st Apr. pocket. The Portugee was quietly dropped fifty pounds there,

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filling his, but with an uneasy ear taking in all Bill's warnings. You know there was something a bit frightening about all that wealth

will

In the case of dutiable cargo,"

"Con- signees are requested to inform the that they Imports & Exports Office have such goods for examination.'

No Fire Insurance has been affect ed.

"I dropped more than that. "Anyway we came to the house; and Bill and I and the Portugee (went in; and soon we were playing There was enough of it to have

and winning. The stakes aren't ed by financed a war or to have ruined a

high downstairs, and you usually good-sized country in almost any win there. In fact, that downstairs

than a few minutes after my poc-

T

B of Lading will be countersign-

DODWELL & CO., LTD. Agents.

other way. I didn't stay more room reminded me of a trial of Hong Kong, 10th March, 1939. kets were full, to sit on the beach grain over grass leading up to a trap. Upstairs the stakes were

and let the pearls run through my much higher, and upstairs we ask eggs, not to mention a taste in my fingers. Then we swam back to the ship. I said to Bill, Whated to go A Greek ran the show mouth that I always get after about one more load of pearls? downstairs, the sort of Greek you chloroform."" For it agemed a pity not to. And Bill said only 'Up anchor." And

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5th Apr.

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Mon., Mon.,

20th Apr.

3rd Apr.

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Celebes Maru

JAPAN PORTS

Himalaya Muru

Mon.. Sat.,

Fri.,

20th Mar.

might meet at night in the shadier' "And the pearla?" blurted out parts of Port Said, and very often the broker.

"The pearls," said Jorkens, and a the Portugee said, 'I expect that's did: the man upstairs was a Greek

smile shone for a too, but not the kind that you sad

moment. 1st Apr. best,' And the half-wit stopped would count on meeting; he seem-"Men found unconscious at nigst

his song and got up anchor, and 24th Mar. we turned homeward towards

Aden.

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Sun.,

26th Mar.

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"In little more than a fortnight we came to that cindery harbour safe with our pearls. And there we sold a few in a quiet way, with out waking the right suspicions, and paid the half-wit a thousand pounds for his wages and went on

led worse than what I'd been warn-jin the streets of Port Said never

ed against. As we walked in he have pearls on them." - looked at us, each in turn, and it Jockens remained shaking his was when he looked at you that his head for a long time. "I suppose eyes seemed to light up, and the not," said someone to break the blood seemed to pale in his face, silence and bring him back to his and all the man's power and energy tále. went to those eyes.

*** High stakes here,' he said.

"No," said Jorkens.

And after a while, in a voice that|

"I nodded my head, and Bill and seemed low with mourning for his

to Port Said, The three of us the Portugee began to babble some-few weeks of fabulous wealth, took cabing on a large ship bound thing.

Jorkens gave us what was left of for London. In order to sell our

"Got the stuff?' anapped the his tale. "I never saw Bill or the pearls, and late one evening, we Greek

Portugee again. Living or dead I came into Port Said and were to "The man's style irritated me. I never found trace of them I took [sail next morning. By the time suppose I lost my temper, Cer-the policeman back to the house of we'd paid off the half-wit and paid tainly Bill and the Portugee looked the Greek, and was easily able to

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be said 'Pearls, in quite a funny over the house, and I could neither pany's Bl of Lading [small voice. I was just going to say what had happened nor where say yes. It was like a page in a It had happened, while the Greek book, like a page with a picture of was swearing by all kinds of a man to a dingy room with pearls things, that to him and the police- in his hand, just going to speak; men were holy, that nothing -had you turn the page and come on happened at all. How they'd made something quite different, nothing the change I was never able to see. to do with pearls, no room, and no- So I just withdrew my charges, and body speaking. Just silence and gave the policeman backsheesh, and open air. And then the voice of a got back to the ship, and never saw man coming up out of deeps of any of my pearin again, except one silence, saying the same thing over that got lost in the lining, or ever again; but with words that didn't saw trace again of the upstairs. ļas yet bring any meaning. A long Greek. I got that one pear! in the time passed Hike that. Then the lining' fitted on to my tle-pin. Car-: words again, and this time they rappas or Carrapaccas I could not: seemed to mean something, if only find an any map, and no one one steadied onself and tried to questioned in twenty saaports had think

ever heard of either; so, that one Ha fainted In the street, pear! back in my tie-pin was all I man was saying.

jgot out of the kindly advice of the, I was in street right enough: Jdrunken man by the wall." could see that as soon as I looked. "But the latituds and the longi- And a man I had never seen before tude," said Terbut, with the quiet was saying, that, to a policeman jair of one playing a mate. Fainted indeed! There was a lump “You see, that,” said Jorkeng on my forehead the size of two"was what I couldn't remember."

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