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OF SHIPS
Tuesday, March 28. Automedon, British str., 4,781 tona, Capt. B. Cubley, from Shang- hai, buoy No. A4.-B. & S. Nagato Maru, Japanese str., 4,324
tons, Capt. S. Okada, from Shanghai, Kowloon Wharf.— N.T.K.
Poo Sek, French str., 1,219 tons, Capt. M. Paul, from " K. C. Wan, CM.S.N. Wharf.— Wo Hop & Co.
Wednesday, March 29.
looked almost fragile-yet the war lutely nothing, that was the awful often taught us that a stout heart part, and his, brother might live may be found in a weak body. Un-through the day, but certainly on til the excitement of the greeting the morrow he would die. And all had passed, the. padre, forgotten, the time John. knelt by his brother, rested himself upon a large pack-powerless, helpless, In agony. Ing case and smiled on the world Silence, dead silence. He tried to and the dwellers therein, whom he shout, but the words stuck in his loved Instinctively.
parched throat. There was no one near him alive'except his brother. Tai about an hour before Suddenly a quiver shook bis spare dawn-already a thin line, as if frame. He determined, cost what made by a red pencil, marked the it might, to carry his theory into leaden sky. The silence, only did practice. It would be a last kind- turbed by occasional shouts and ness; he could not refuse it to the Ginyo Maru, Japanese str., 6,128, far-off calls, seemed All the only person he loved. The mute
tons, Capt. A. Ito, from Singa- more intense after the bell appeal in that eye was unanswer-
pore, buoy No. A6.-N.Y.K.. of a few hours estlier. The ex-
able.
Hozan Maru, Japanese str., 1,583 citement and exhilaration of battle Slowly, almost mechanically, he had given place to agony and hor- proceeded to take his brother's ror. The scent of death was every-pocket-case from his pocket, as he where, the indescribable reek of knew he would wish him to do; he blood which we may pray that our felt in the other pocket to see it children and, our children's, chil-there were other papers he could dren may never know. John Mil- take charge of. Then he took out ligan raised himself painfully and his revolver and deliberately point- looked about him, but he could see ed it at the shapeless features that| nothing and hear nothing. He confronted him. His nerve failed sank back again exhausted, and him. It was more than he could tried to close his eyes.
His head ached dreadfully, and that eye seemed to change to
His arm sank, but the appeal in he guessed both his sight and hear look of reproach. Again he raised ing were impaired, at all events for o time. But the sharpest his weapon, pointed, and, turning
pain
his
do.
1
his head away, fired. . . . from came
foot. Laboriously he tried to feel in.
Bee
ล
the dark what damage he had "By Jove! Do you that sustained. He succeeded in pull-chap? Must be a Boche deliber ing away the remains of hisjately robbing one of our wound- boot, and, ever practical, he tried
led?" vainly to recall what had been An R.A.M.C. officer, descending taught him in his lessons of first the hill, was speaking to the sub- aid. His hands, sticky with blood, altern who accompanied him. fumbled at his shirt. He tried to Are you sure it is a Boche?" bind round his wounded heel. There had been a night attack.
"Of course it is. Don't you see his grey coat? Wish I had my glasses, though, the light is
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He broke off with an exclamation
tons, Capt. T. Kawamoto, from Swatów, O.S.K. Wharf.-O.S.K. Hydrangea, British str., 561 tons,
Capt. P. W. Grierson, from Swatow, Chiu On Wharf.-Chiu On & Co.
Krouviken, Norwegian str., 1,519. tons, Capt. T. Kvamme, from Hongay, Wanchal Anchorage.~~ Wallen & Co.
Nankin, British str., 4,348 tons, Capt. M. B. Skinner, from Moji, buoy No. A3-M.M. & Co.
Norviken, Norwegian str. 1,779
tona, Capt. R. Jensen, from Canton, West Polut Wharf- J.M. & Co.
Rangoon Maru, Japanese str., 3,637 tons, Capt. Y. Imamure, from Sakito, buoy No. AB.-N.Y.K. Rhexenor, British str., 4,995 tons, Capt. Holden, from Miike, Taikoo Dock.-B. & S. Tsinan, British str., 2,100
tons, Capt. J. Beck, from Canton, buoy No. B3.-B. & S.
CLEARANCES.
March 29. Adrastus, for Manila, Anshun, for Amoy.
Orders had been received to take bad" the enemy's position at all costs. They had succeeded, but the of horror and indignation. enemy's retreat had been protect- ed, as usual, by their artillery, he cried. "Shot him after riding Automedon, for Singapore.
"My God! Did you see that 7" which had wrought fearful havoc his packets." As he seized a rifle Cremer, for Swatow. in the attacking ranka. Milligan himself had been wounded, as far made a movement of restraint; but Hengshan, for Saigon.
and took careful sim, the subaltern Ginyo. Maru, for Shanghai. as he remembered, very early in the other shook his head im-Kwaisang, for Swatow. the fight, and lay now at the base of a wooded hill, waiting for the
patiently and fired.
New Mathilde, for Canton, stretcher bearers. At the present two bodies first, and as he came Sinkiang, for Swatow.
The R.A.M.C. officer reached the Pres. Hoover, for Shanghai. moment they were fully occupied | where the fight had been hottest upon them he gave a
great cry. Svale, for Swatow. "John Milligant" on the other side of the hill. Mil-
he exclaimed, Tilkembang, for Amoy. puzzled.
To Chu Kung, for Swatow.
ligan found the waiting unendur "And his brother, I think," add Tainan, for Shanghai.
jable, and he tried painfully to
crawl in the direction from which ed the subaltern,
he imagined succour would come.
The English are not a talkative
He wondered with a heavy heart People at any time, and on such an how his brother had fared. He en-occasion as, this words were ob vied for the first time the believers viously superfluous.
WARSHIPS IN PORT
The following warships were
Basin Tamar,
North Wall.-Folkestone.
in
South Wall-Bruce, Verity.
Wall-Oswald, Rainbow
East
and Moorhen.
Wild Swan, Wren,
North Arm-Wishart, Whitshed,
"We had better any nothing' in that great consolation, prayer. As he crawled along he stumbled/
about this," said the officer after Port yesterday:-- every now and then, sometimes a pause; it is the simplest way, against the root of a
though I don't understand-----” tree, some- times against a prostrate form.
"I think I understand every thing," said the subaltern slowly, Complete silence reigned, inter-
"but I shall say nothing." rupted by an occasional groan of
For the sake of the regiment, agony, which made him shudder. Yet he might have been worse off, you know," added the officer. he told himself.
"Yes," replied the junior, "for He might have been killed or, worst of all, suffer the sake of the regiment:"
And, as if in mockery, the warm Jed some awful wound that had not
killed him outright. As it was, he rays of the morning sun shone
down on that might be lame for the rest of his
and death. fe, but he would certainly be in- valided home.
A faint light enabled
him al
to avoid obstacles in his path. His tunic, torn and caked with mud,] was grey rather than brown. He had long ago lost his cap, but still 0th Apr. had his revolver in its case. Hej
scene of desolation
West Wall-Eermès.
Buoy No 2-Medway and Sub Imarines.
No. 12 Buoy.-Whitehall, Dock-Keppel, Odin and Otus. Foreign: US. S. Fulton, Chin- ese cruisers Fuk On, Fefhsing and Likin. French gunboats Argus and Algol.
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8th Apr. was not dead, but suffering awful eastward from New York the ven torture, greater than the human (sel will make the following ports. mind is capable of realising. before returning to New York on Foam, flecked with blood, drip- June 20:: Medelra, Gibraltar, Al- ped from the corner of his mouth, geciras, Algiers, Palma, Ville and he even retained the use of one franche, Naples, Monalna, Athens 2nd Apr.
eye, which, as he could not speak, Rhodes, Halfe, Jaffa, Port Bald, Thurs. looked in mute appeal at his Suez, Djibouti, Bombay, Colombo, Fri, brother, Did he recognise him? Rangoon, Penang, Belawan Dell, John thought not. What could he Faknam, Slagapore, Batavia Sat do?
Sourabaya, Booleleng, Macassar, As in a dream bla conversation' Balik Papan, Zamboanga, Manila, Bun, with the padre returned to his Hong Kong, Amoy, Shanghai, China Mon. brain, and his whole body quiver wangtao, Chemulpo, Miralima, ed. So this was to be the test, Kobe, Yokohama, Honolulu, Hilo, Tues. land, of course, he could not set up San Francisco,, Los Angeles, Bal-
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