1933-06-27 — Page 11

TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1933.

THE CHU

AMATL

P. & 0.-British India THE GIRL FROM THE

Apcar and

Eastern & Australian Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

TAKING CARGO FOR STRAITS, 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, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

A.A.

MANTUA RAWALPINDI

ALIPORE

**SOMALI

RANPURA

RAJPUTANA

BANGALORE

RANCHI CARTHAGE +BHUTAN

NALDERA CORFU +*SOUDAN

From

Tons Hong Kong

About

1935.

11.000 1st July 17,000 15th July 6,000 20th July 6,800 22nd July 17,000 29th July 17,000 12th Aug. 6,000 19th Aug, 17,000 26th Aug. 14,000

Destination.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London,

& Hull. R'dam, Antwerp H'burg, Bombay, Marsellies & London. Bombes,

Marecilles & London

Havre,

London, H'burg. & Hull. F'dam, Antwer

Antwerp & Marseilles & London.

Marseilles & London,

London, H'burg, 'g'dam, Antwe

& Hall. Marseilles &

London, 7th Oct Bombas

Marseilles & London.

London, Hamburg,

& Hall.

9th Sept. Bombas

6,000 16th Sept. 10,000 23rd Sept. 14,000

6,800 14th Oct.terdam, Antwerp

MANTUA RAWALPINDI 1*BURDWAN

COMOREN CHITRAL

15,000

11,000 21st Oct. 16,000 4th Nov. 6,000 11th Nov. 15,000 18th Nov. 2nd Dec.

Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marsellies & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Cargo only. † Calls Carablanca. Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo.to stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of Khedival Mail Steamship Co. །,

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TAKADA SIRDHANA

TALMA

TILAWA

SANTHIA TAKADA

1933.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

Con-

the

8,000 10th July Singapore, Penang, R'goon & C'eutta. 7,000 22nd July 10,000 5th Aug. 10,000 10th Aug. 8,000 2nd Sept. 8,000 18th Sept.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

BL. Apear. Lixie steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.

POLICE RESERVE.

FLAT OPPOSITE Orders for the Current

(Continued from Page 10.)

Week.

General.

Orders by the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. face, which shrieked out to be seen Wolfe, C.M.G. Inspector General It was a favourite axiom of his that, in the first glance by this slip of a If you wanted to learn a language pro-

of Polica. girl perly, it was necessary not only to read not even the lightest twitch of

There was no movement; no sound;

the Life Saving Class. There will and study that language, but, as 3004 as was possible, to think in it. Similar-shoulders to tell the girl of the sud-be an examination on Water Drill

den darkness which descended

apon the [19, K one wished to play a part pro-wind of the man noug" before for the Life Saving Class

perly, one

think in the terms of that part and avoid all other which shut out from him even the Wednesday, June 28 under Sub

actually thoughts. It needed practice, but then sound of her voice as she faished her Inspector R. J. Hunt. Police So does everything else, and Garton rentence; and when he turned to be Launch will leave Blake Pier st believed in practice

again the horror in his face was per His practice stood bim in good stead feet-perfect this time because It was 15.30 hours sharp. on this Sunday night in the lift, for, perfectly natural, he mattered hoarse-

Chinese Company. as it bore him upwards, his mind con

Strength Constables R58 Yung tained not a singlee thought about his 1. right. It couldn't have been

Wing Po, R71 Wong Cheun. Fak kitchen.

She passed through his front door, and R 98 Chan Ping Fri have been Ho spent the time studying the pro, and when she had gone he leaned permitted to resign from the Chin- file of the girl who shared the lin with him. He knew her by sight. She against the wall and gave way to sud-ese. Company, as from 23 June.

are right

suice:

den, helpless, silent laughter.

Ten minutes later Garton stood alone 1933. in his sitting-room. A glass contain-

Training Course-Part II-All:

lived with an elderly servant in the flat opposite to his, and he had enjoyed many opportunities of appraising the ing whisky was before him an the recruits will attend at the Chinese trim

figure and the unmistakable table, and into it he tipped, abstract breed and beauty of her face.

Headquarters to-day:

Active Curriage, and glanced appro- }

vingly at the lines of her slim

room.

on

He followed her along the corridoredly, a pinch of white powder from a Company's

at 5.30 pm, for instruction. led to their fats, admiring her

Presently he came out of his trance

Indian Company. body she heard the many footsteps ap

Training Course-Part II-AI) proaching along the corridor, and there as she bent to fit the key into her use a smile upon his lips as he faced recruits of the Indian Company lock. Behind him talked the lift-man the men who crowded the smail hall residing in Kowloon will attend carrying his bags, and even as he him- and locked in on him. self bent to the unlocking of his own door, his mind we not busy with any He was the first to speak, and his Chi Woo Street, Kowloon

of action plan

were directed towards the large, Wednesday, June 28 at 5.30 p.m. to fill the moments words which must follow the discovery in his blue-coated figure who stepped into the for instruction. kitchen

All recruits of the Indian Com- notebook in hand. "If ever," he drawled, "you take it His door swung open, and, as he into Crossed the threshold, he was vaguely conscious that the girl across the cor sidor was having trouble with her key. With a curt order to the man to place his baga in the tiny hail, be switched raised his glass and swallowed its con- for instruction."

and pushed open the door tents. of his sitting-room. The man Was zome steps away down the corridor be fore he heard Garton's terrified "Good. God!” and when he came running back he met Garton on the threshold, his face blanched with horror, his breath coming in short gasps.

on his lights

head

your to make a man commit pany residing in Hong Kong will suicide by hanging, officer, then don't attend Chinese Company's Head- forget the chair."

And, with a broadening of his smile quarters. 17, Queen's Road Central, at the wondering faces before him, he on Thursday, June 29 at 5.30 pm.

CLEARANCES

June, 26.

Anhui, for Swatow.

"In-in the kitchen!" gasped Gar-Emp. of Asia, for Manila. ton. "Somebody hanging there. Eng Lee, for Canton.

The man pushed past him, and there Heimel Maru, for Hongay.” was another gasp of "Good Gawd!"

It was at this point that the girl, Heng Shan, for Samarinda. who had by now just succeeded in Hunan, for Canton, getting her door open, turned, and, Hydrangea, for Swalow, seeing the state of her neighbour and Taiyuan, for Canton. the hurried return of the liftman, came Leverkusen, for Hamburg. across the corridor, her pretty faco

Yushun,. for Canton. filled with inquiry.

Yatshing, for Swatow.

་

She was in time to see the liftman

That's coming out of the lighted kitchen.

"It' Mellish,

didn't turn up toda

why'e

The girl entered the kitchen and stood just inside the door surveying the scene before her. Her hand flew to her throat, and she stood there as unable to wrench herself away from that dreadful sight.

In those moments every tiny detall of that room imprinted itself upon her mind: the small gas-stove in the cor- ner, and near it the one small table; the little dresser with its cap-boards opposite the door, and, hanging from the centre of the bundle that had ceiling, the pathetic once been Mellish Fortunately for her, the face, by now protruding black and swollen, with its tongue, was turned away from her.

Presently she turned back to the amall hall, and-Garton, shocked by the whiteness of her face, muttered hoarse- {ly:

"I'm most frightfully sorry! I-1 shouldn't have let you go in there. Let me offer you some brandy or some-} thing."

STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS

Revolver Practice-A revolver practice for members of the Indian Company will take place on Thurs- day, June 29 at the Kennedy Road Range unde. Sub-Inspector Hop- will kina. Only those detailed attend.

Flying Squad.

The instructional patrol of the Hong Kong Section will take place on Friday. June 30. Fall in at 5.15 p.m. sharp. At Central Police Station. Dress-White Unl- form and Cap with White Cover.

Emergency Unit Reserve. Motor Patrol and Riot Drill A motor patrol and riot drill will be carried out by members of the Emergency Unit Reserve on Fri-

Members will falii in at No. 2 Police Station at 5,80 The P. & O. Line, Ms. Ranpura,ip.m. sharp. Dress-optional. (Sgd.) D. L. KING. from Singapore with the outward

D.S.P. (R). English Mails, is due here

Hong Kong, Tuesday, June 27. June 28.

The E. & A., s.s. Nankin from day, June 30. Moji, is due-here on June 28

POST

on

OFFICE NOTICE.

Telegrams sent via Radio for Addressees In China may be ad- dressed to Telephone Numbers.

Full details may be obtained on application at the Radio Counter.

BANDDENG-AMSTER DAM AIR SERVICE.

Letters (ordinary and registered but not insured) and Postcards under the condi- He went into his sitting-room, and will be accepted for transmission by this Service when he returned with the brandy in tions in force for the Salgon-Marseilles route and at the rate one gloved hand and Mellish's note in EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, the other was astonished to and that scheduled below.

NANKIN NELLORE TANDA NANKIN

i

NELLORE

TANDA

1935. 1st July

sho had

The Acroplanes leave Singapore at 5 a.m. on Thursdays each 1. gone back to the kitchen and was standing on its threshold, her head week and the Hong Kong-Singapore connection will be made by the moving this way and that as her eyes! took in again every detail of that regular fortaightly sailing of P. & 0. mail steamers and on alternate weeks by any steamer that can make th econnection at Singapore, The time of transit Singapore to London in 7 days. The first de apatch will leave by the s. "Kaisar-I-Hind" on June 17.

7,000 7,000 4th Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sriner & le room. She turned as the heard 8,000

him come, and accepted the brandy with a look of gratitude. 7,000 80th Sept.

2nd Sept.

11

7,000 8,000

3rd Nov.

2nd Dec.

Melbourne.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days,

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

"I found this note," he said softly. "Poor devilt"

He handed Mellish's note to the lift man, who read it and gave it to the girl.

The lift man, at a suggestion from Garton, departed for assistance, and the latter was left alone with his He took both glass and neighbour.

The Union 8.3. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom: via New note from her and made a gesture to-

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & 0. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

BIRDHANA

BANPURA

NELLORE

*BANGALORE

1953. 7,000. 29th June 17,000- 29th June 7,000 6th July 6,000 12th July.

RAJPUTANA 17,000

TILAWA

CAN

TANDA

*BHUTAN

CAR

SANTEIA

CARTHAGE:

TAKADA -NALDERA

NANKIN

SOUDAN CORFU MANTUA

"BURDWAN

18th

6000 18th July. 10,000 17,000 27th. July 10,000 27th July,

8,000

6th Aug. 8,000- 9th Ani: 14,000 / 10th. Ang.. 8.000 10th Aug 8,000 24th Ang.

16,000 241 Aug. 3rd Bept. 7,000

6,800 5th Sept.

14,000 7th Sept.

12,000 21st Sept

Amoy, Shai Moji, Kobe, & Ossica. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Shai, Moff, Kobe, Osaka & Thama Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yoko

Shal, Moji, Kobe &

Kobe & Yokohama.

& Osaka,

its,, Kobe & Osaka.

S'hai, boji, Kobe,

wards his sitting-room.

"You would like to sit down for a moment, be said gravely. "Perhaps

"Little

I-I can't more brandy tell you how: worry, am that you should have

He this this seen looked towards the kitchen door.

"I think I'll go back to my own flat, thank

k you very much which he

She turned to the

hastened to hold open for her.

I am wanted at ali," she said, "I'll wait up for time."

~TH

tell

they come,' them when Garton answered. "I hardly think you will be troubled. It seems quite straightforward case, and-and there Is this note which he left"

His voice and manner were kind and reassuring

He held the door open for her and

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. yet she seemed in no great hurry to

& Thams. Osaka & Shanghai Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy,

go.

She looked down at the little & Osaka: Most Kobe & Moll Kobe & Osaka, handbag her fingom were playing with Kobe & Yokohama and when she looked up at him agaib Shanghai, o Osaka & Yhama: there was a little pazzled frown" be; } tween her brows. For the fraction of

Becond Garton kewr &

sudden tighten.

Moji,

Yokohama.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama

Shangbel, Moff, Kobe & Yokohama ing of the throat think," she said

6,100 4th Oct.. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokoham

RAWALPINDI 17,000 5th Oct.

• Cargo: only.MAN

All dates are appropimate and subject to alteration without notice. All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Pinks Louvre Systems Steamers on London and Australian Lanes are fitted with Laundries, Parcels masuring not more than 6 cu. ft, will be received at the Com- pany's Office up to Noon on the day, previous to

But you

There

with a backward glance to the

it could have been sülcide?” was exactly the correct In his eyes, and

Amount of surprise

voice as he asked her.

Fotocdidn't you

Why notice, your mother backward.

She gave and and auddenly Garton strode past her, the threshold of the kitchen.

sunk almost to. The girl, volcs, sunk whisper,

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