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LLOYD TRIESTINO

FLOTTE RIUNITE LLOYD TRIESTIND-MIDITIMA ITALIANA-SITM12

EXPRESS PASSENGER SERVICE

S.S. "CONTE VERDE" for Shanghai'

S.S. "CONTE VERDE" for Italy (Lendon)

3rd Sept. 14th Sept.

Freight Service.

S.S. “MONCALIERI" for Italy via porta

M.V. "COL DI LANA" for Songhai & Japan 11th Sept.

8th Sept.

Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Agents

YK.LINE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

ASAMA MARU

CHICHIBU MARU

TATSUTA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

HIKAWA MARU (Starts from Kobe

18th Sept.

HIYE MARU (Starts from Kube) Monday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez.

THE CHINA MAIL,S

NOBLESSE OBLIGE

(Continued from page 7.)

REVOLUTION IN SHIPBUILDING

Electric Welding Replaces Rivets.

GROWTH OF THE PROCÈSS

Almost

THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933.

process of

ONLY

movement had told him all he want-l ed to know. It had also told him just over two years. Then bribery that a blind man cannot see the dif- and prolonged intrigus unlocked his ference between the appearance of prison doora, and the last of the im- half-starved old beggar and perius and quasi-imperial Ivano-with silver buttons whose job is Hercules in an imposing uniform

every shipyard voffs, almost destitute and physical-worth every bit of £800 a year. Sou-thoroughout Great Britain is now! ly a shattered wreck, found refuge harin would have given twelve employing the new in England.

months' pay to see Vladimir Ivano-electric welding of ship's plates Arrived in London, the unbending stare of triumph-to have been able practice of riveting, states the voff writhe under his insulting in place of the long-established pride which even two years in the to gloat over the Prince's agony ofDaily Mail." Lubianka prison had failed to break humiliation as he took an alms of So great has been the develop caused him to shus the society of food from an ex-serf. Also, Sou-ment in this new process of ship- to spit on the car building in the last six months such Russian refugee friends as hadharin intended

tons as he thrust them contemp-that several prophesy that before known him in the days of his great-tuously into those thin, aristocratic many years have passed the ness. They, on their part, respect-hands.

clangour of riveting will no long-

ed his desire to be left alone, and But the damned fellow could see jer be heard. obedient to the wish be expressed nothing,

The first shipbuilding order to

was for the first all-welded vessel a 1,000-tone barge over to be constructed on that river.

whenever he chanced to meet one off Alexis Souharin's eyes blazed as be placed on the Tyne this year them, forbore to make inquiries. he traced those worn features line They drew painful inferences from by line, wrinkel by wrinkle. There the patches on his boots and the heat was no longer any doubt about it mending of the edges of his coat-It was indeed the slayer of his - Light-weight Welder. cuffs. They knew nothing of where father."

Since then the process has been or how he lived.

"Do you know who is speaking to adopted at yards all round the Only his ex-chef, Vonier, who you, Vladimir Ivanovo?” he de coast a revolution in ship con- now ruled at the Hotel Babylon, manded hoarsely;

Alexis struction which will have a pro- Souharin." And once more, he lack-found influence on British indus-

[try.

knew that.

"3 am

Three times a week, Vonier cook-fed words. ed three culinary masterpieces with "Give me the three parcels, if you For welding, the plates are laid his own hands, put them into three have them," said Prince Vladimir edge to edge and the workman round, silver dishes with lids, and quietly. Whenever he was accosted with a single instrument which packed the dishes in three white car by his real name he did not deny weighs about half a pound joins tons. And late at night on Monit; but the scar on his face became the two as strongly. as if a days, Wednesdays and Fridays, afrighteningly livid-just as it did riveter's gang had done the work. tall, stooping man with a hatchet whenever he was angry.

In some yards the welding face would come to the back door of "Kneel and beg for them, then, process is only used for repairs, the Babylon for them. To no one thou wine of an Ivanovoff!" suari-in some for internal work, but in else would Vonier trust that "handed Soubarin in peasant Russian; a great many others whole ships ing-over.". For him, the man whose and his chin jutted.

are being built without rivets.

The use of the electric welder

tocrat.

Wednesday, 6th Sept at 10 am generoalty thirty years ago had The great vein running down the Wednesday, 4th Oct. at 10 a.m. made him rich enough to retire had centre of Prince Vladimir's fore is growing everywhere and a Wednesday, 18th Oct. at 10 am. he so wished was still a great aris-head swelled like a twisting, lue-reorganisation of shipyard labour

black snake.

has already begun. Monday,

4th Sept.

Now, as you know, the Hotel "Give me the food, you dog!" he

Trade Conference. Babylon is an imposing building; answered, also is Russian. imposing from Alexis, its gigantic

And coming forward, reached out It will spread rapidly in the

next few months and a confer outside-porter, up to its famous mai. two exger, claw-like hands.

Now back doors of the Hotel ence between the trade unions) tre d'hotel. Cannetti. neither of whom, it is said,ever forgets a name Bablon, you will remember, give on and employers has been held to or a face. As it happens, both of to a narrow passage-like way unit-discuss the whole situation. them are Russians: at least, Can-ing two pulsing traffic arteries, Sou- The speed with which ships| netti's mother was Russian, which harin had silently placed the three are built and the number of men explains why, when Alexis Souhar-packages on the pavement prepara-employed in building them will in applied for the vacant post of tory to seizing that scraggy neck in undergo profound changes.. outside-porter, Cannetti appointed a murderous grip....just above the Discussing the outlook a direc- taxitor of Messrs. Harland and Wolff, him. But Alexis's efficiency and ob-frayed collar-edge-when sequiousness, not to mention the chugged by.

Ltd., the big shipbuilding firm. imposing appearance he made in the The sight of the brand-new car said: "Electric welding is of the grey-and-silver Babylon uniform, with its smart-looking driver, and utmost importance to the future impressed favourably even the the glimpse to be caught of a couple of the British shipbuilding indus- French Ambassador, who gave him in expensive evening dress seated in try. I believe the amount of elec a half-a-crown tip.

it, wrought a sudden revulsion of tric welding in new ships w The Monday on which Vonier feeling to the barly porter of the steadily increase. Electric weld- went to Paris to attend the World Babylon. The civilisation of which ing at present is of greatest use Gastronomie Conference naturally he was the petted servant had its in the superstructure, where the necessitated other arrangements eyes upon him.

plates are thinner than they are

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Ist Sept.

being made about the handing over The thought was like a bucket of on the hull below the water-line. of the three cartons on the follow-icy water thrown over a quarrelsome

X-Ray Tests.

"A tall war-cripple of the

name

ing Wednesday and Friday. So dog. His great hands dropped "Research work has been going) Voniar carefully instructed his smartly to his sides; the two slant- friend Alexis, who was to take ing rows of silver buttons rushing on for some time, and experts quarter of an hour's leave from the from the tops of his wide shoulders have been experimenting with to almost meet at bis patent-leather X-rays and radium to find a means hall porter for the purpose.. waist belt twinkled repeatedly in the of detecting at once whether of Krashinoff will call for them," lamplight as he took quick, deep there has been faulty work in

breaths. Obviously-to kill this ac-welding. said Vonler. "Are you sure you

"I do not think that one need remember the name!....Krashinoff: Cursed Ivanovoff now would cost him

his own life.....He would take an pay any attention to the reports. that's it...."

And so

evening off next Monday or Friday, tha an electrically welded ship and follow him To-night he should lacks the rigidity of a riveted ship Prince Vladimir Ivanovoff.

go free-after he had answered one and is apt to go out of shape.

Rigidity is a question of design. He straightened his cap.

"The most certain advantage "Where is my sister Nadia, Ivano- as I see it at the moment is the off, you foul murderer?”

reduction in weight made possible]

Alexis Souharin met

But there was much more to that meeting than the mere handing over of three cartons.

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