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FLOTTE KACHITE LLOYD TRIESTINO-MADĪTIMA ITALIANA-SITHAR

PASSENGER EXPRESS SERVICE

8.5. "CONTE VERDE" for Italy (London),.. 14th Sept. 8.S. "CONTE ROSSO" for Shanghai

30th Sept.

Freight Service.

8.S. "MONCALIERI" for Italy via ports M.V. "HILDA" for Shanghai and Japan

13th Sept. 12th Oct.

Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

Agents

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YK.LINE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghal, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

CHICHIHU MARU

TATSUTA MARU

ASAMA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

HIYE MARU (Starte from Kobel

Wednesday, 4th Oct. at 10 a.m. Wednesday, 18th Oct. at 10 a.m. Wednesday, 1st Nov. at 10 a.m.

Monday,

18th Sept.

2nd Oct.

HEIAN MARU (Starts from Kobe) LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM via

. Monday,

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Suez,

HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

16th Sept. 30th Sept.

KASHIMA MARU

Saturday,

14th Oct.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday,

KAMO MARU

Saturday

23rd Sept

21st Oct.

BOMBAY via Singapore, l'enang, & Colombo.

†BENGAL MARU

Friday,

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan.

Los Angeles. Mexico and Panama. BOKUYO MARU

20th Sept. Honolulu.

Friday.

25th Sept.

NEW YORK via Panama.

LISBON MARU

Friday,

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul,

18th Sept. Piraeus, Genoa

and Valencia.

LYONS MARU

Monday,

18th Sept.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon,

†YAMAGATA MARU

Friday,

15th Sept.

TOTTORI MARU

Friday,

20th Sept.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

YASUKUNI MARU

Wednesday,

13th Sept.

KAMO MARU (Nagunak) direct)

Friday,

15th Sept.

THAKUDATE MARU

Monday,

18th Sept.

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SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

NEW YORK via Japan, Los Hekuroku Maru

SAL., Tucs..

16th Sept. 3rd Oct

Angeles and Panama. Gal

Direct at Cristobal. Puerto.

Banyo Maru

Colombia. Baston Philadel.

phia & Baltimore.

AIRES in Balgon: Sin.

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS La Plata Maru

#IO-DE-JANEIRO, BANTOS. Montevideo Maru

Fri Fri

22nd Sept.

20th Oct,

Kapors. Colombo, Durban:

Port Elizabeth and . Capa

Town

BETH

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MOMBASA ZANZIBAR: Hawaii Maru

DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA, Arizona Maru LOURENCO MARQUES

DURBAN, PORT ELIZA.

SOUTH AMERICAN

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MELBOURNE, BRISBANE,

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Hamburg Maru

Fri Tues

INTHE PYLON

THE CHINA MAIL

(Continued from Page 7.) ¿

ARRIVAL

OF SHIPS

September 11.

tons, Cipt. G. Johnson, from Kobe, Stonecutters.-States 5.3. Co.

He cursed them many times after tightly in his hand. Again he seem-| that. He cursed them when stormsed to, move by the strength in his smashed down his crops yet did themeres alone. His breathing grew California, American str., 8,343 no harm; he cursed them when one more and more laboured. It rasped of his best horses broke leg harshly like the working of a saw. stumbling into a ditch a few yardı At last, he reached the bottom ofj away from the pylon; he cursed the prchard and gazed up at the them when his ploughman, who had pylon. It was almost dark now, and worked for him for 15 years, ac- the tapering line of the lattice work cepted an invitation to live with a seemed to have acquired something son in Canada; he cursed them when of the menace of night, the cross a blight damaged his fruit, and alarms at the top and hanging insula tramp set fire to his barn; and like tors Juggesting a satanic conforms- Job, he waited with savage stubborn{tion of human arms and hands. patience to see what disaster.would · "Bad-cess to ye." He meant to happen next.

shout triumphantly, but the words

Was

Keifuku Maru, Japanese str., 4,242

tous, Capt. Sugie, from Naga aaki, buoy No. B27-M.B.K... President Hoover, American str.

Tin

12,986 tons, Capt. F. E. Ander- son, "from Manila, Kowloon Wharf.-Dollar Line...

Seng, Chinese str., 943 tons Capt. Kwok Shau, from Fort Bayard, Salkong Wharf.-Wo Hop and Co.

CLEARANCES

September 10.

Early in the new year he fell it, came barely above a whisper. and his housekeeper, a relation, who His eyes fell to the red-painted as stubborn and opposed to notice, and he was about to tie the (change as himself, treated him with handkerchief there and return to an equal amount of Ignorance and the house, content then to die, superstition: strange, cvil-smelling leaving a damning Indictment herbal remedies and poultices that against the wires-for with such might deal affectively with a cold, worn testimony of evil from the but had little effect on bronchitis. dead could Lawyer Toms fail to get The bronchitis turned to pneu-them removed?-when he had a bet- monia, and at last the doctor was ter iden. Once, many years ago, he Anhui, for Amoy. called in when I can't do any had been "papered" for debt, the Col. de Lana, for Shanghai. thing except sign the certificate," he bailiff insisting on bringing the thought to himself.

|summons up to the loft where he

was to deliver it personally.

Mr.

"Tell me, doctor," said Wyborn weakly, "it's them dratted

wires that done it, ain't it?"

General Lee, for Manila.

Mr. Wynborn's lips twitched with grim humour. He gazed up again Hydrangea, for Swatow. at the pylon, at the cables drifting Maranona, for Sydney.

the away vaguely into "H-8-8-9-8-don't know what you bottom brace rod. It was firm and Could he? He put his foot on the mean—————--8-8-I had better cold. Then inch by inch he began

The doctor made a soothing noise] like a man grooming a horse.

have the district nurse in. chest is all blistered with woman's stuff."

Your that

"Wait a minute, doctor." Mr. Wyborn laid hold of the doctor's! sleeve, his face flushed, his eyes unnaturally bright,

"If them dratted things kill me, they'll have to pay, won't they? They've done for theirselves? Tell me they'll be taken down and burnt, und I'll die cheerful."

night.

to lift himself up, a sudden out- flame of energy sending him seram- bling to the rod above, and the one above that. His night-shirt lifting: grotesquely in the airless night, moving up with extraordinary con

tortions.

Twice he stopped and peered up. The cables were nearer now, and much thicker. They assumed aminous

an

Borneo, for Canton.`.

STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS

The Ben Line 8.8. Benrinnes left

Singapore via. Manila for Hong Kong on September 9 and is duo to arrive here on September 17.

The RMS. Empress

of Russia aspect, like some figure loving Shanghai on September 11 is due at Hong Kong on Spetember "H--9-8-8," said the doctor, "of carved out starkly on a cliff face.

He climbed higher yet. His 13, (Wed.) at 3 p.m. and leave course you won't die light chil};

strength was failing him fast, but Hong Kong for Manila on Septem- He brought he would get there he knew he ber 14, (Thu.) at noon,

would get there.

temperature--"”

out his thermometer and shook it. "Open your mouth."

Mr. Wyborn's knotted fingers let go of the sleeve; he fell back on his pillow.

Through the window the bottom cable could just be seen, black, like an inky Hne, against the pale pink of a winter's afternoon. "Bad-cess to 'em."

He reached the topmost brace. The B., & Apcar Line 8.9. One insulator was not five feet Takada left Mojl for this Port on away. Wrinkled, brown, ugly, it the 9th instant pm, and is due exerted a curious attraction for him, here on the 14th instant a.m. He wanted to throw his arms round and embrace it, then tear it down and fling himself down with it.

He resisted the impulse. Break- kaob wouldn't do much harm. He would have the accursed

The district nurse came and wenting one with bustling vigour, sandwiching

they did for witchcraft. ·

HONG KONG TIDES

Time Meridian 120 deg. E. (Zone- 8); vol. is midnight, 12h. is noon. Heights are referred to the datum of He fumbled for the paper and the largest scale Admiralty chart of the place and should be added to reached up, to tie the red handker depths, unless preceded by an asterisk chief round the cable, where ft) when they should be subtracted.

a life that was ebbing between two thing removed altogether-burnt, as that had just begun; and having confined to the house keeper that he would not last more than twenty-four hours would be seen. "Not that he mightn't go minute"-abe mounted her bicycle and pedalled away.

any

The housekeeper looked into the bedroom, but Mr. Wyborn was asleep at least his eyes were closed and he was breathing heavily. She nodded to herself several times and

retired to the next room.

of it. He steadied his feet on the His finger wavered, a foot short

on brace rod and tried again. There! Now he could..

Date

September 12 to 18, 1933.

High Water Low Water Standard Bt. Standard Ht.

Times.

Times. September H. M. F. H. M F Tues.

12.. 01 20 6.0 10 10 2.0

At the power station ten miles away, the engineer In charge was showing round a visitor. Suddenly the high-pitched monotonous hum of the dynamos was broken. Vicious Wod. blue james crackled. On the

13..

02 01 0.0 1} 50 2.4

For some time Mr. Wyborn kept: his eyes closed, then opened them at switchboard a dial flickered wildly, Thurs. 14 .. length and glanced stealthily about

"Excuse me!" The engineer ran. Fri.

him. The sun had set and the Tulled out switches. The dynamos room was in shadow. He sat up

in bed and listened intently. There alowed right down with a harsh, Sat,

protesting sound, almost human; was no sound from the other room. then regained their Impersonal hum.

Sun. Blowly and unsteadily he got out; of bed, and swaying from weakness, face. "Short circuit on the cables

The engineer returned, wiping his Mon fell forward rather than walked to

a little table by the window. He

somewhere."

The visitor brightened. All these

hung there for some time, then seat-machines were very marvellous, of ing himself, fumbled in the drawer for pencil and paper.

In thick, uneven, characters, he began to write, pausing every now and again with his eye on the door. But nothing disturbed him.

course, but just the least bit boring. That might be more interesting, But a short circuit on the cables!

"What was it?" he said.

15..

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"A bird, perhaps, making contact Motor Vessel: with the earth somehow. Might be

He traced the last letter, and an airplane. I remember once a holding the paper up to the waning chap with a parachute coming down light, read it over.

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"The wires killed me. Sworn this 27th day of March, Joseph

6th Oct. Wyborn."

7th Nov,

He folded up the paper and tied it carefully round the middle with a red silk handkerchief," "Then' · he

His eyes, feverish got to his feet. ly bright, were wide open; and · it) seemed that by their strength alone 8th Oct. The dragged himself across the room, through the door, which stood {alighfly ajar, and down the stairs, night-shirt of, thick white material moved forward · Uks z

"Was he killed?

"Killed!" The engineer laughed. "100,000 volts would blast him out of existence-burn him to a cinder.”

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