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LLOYD TRIESTINO

FLOTTE RIUNITE LLOYD TRIESTINO-MADITIMA ITALIANA-SITMAR

EXPRESS PASSENGER SERVICE

S.S. "CONTE VERDE" for Shanghai S.S TONTE VERDE" for Italy (London)

4th Nor. 18th Nov.

Freight Service.

M.V. "HILDA" for Shanghai & Japan M.V. "HILDA" for Italy via poris

14th Oct. 9th Nov.

Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Agents

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THE CHINA MAIL.

Soaked In Seaweed

(Continued From Page 7).

PORTUGAL'S

DIFFIDENT

DICTATOR

A Firm Friend Of Britain.

Lisbon.

added musingly, looking out of the As I stood at the wheel about mid-broad, old-fashioned port-hole at the night, I saw the captain approach in stern of the cabin, at the heaving cabin-waves of the Soutn Atlantic. "I am the darkness carrying the boy by the hind leg. The lad was expecting pirates at any time, and a bright little fellow, whose merry taut will take out quite a few of! DR. SALAZAR INTERVIEWED

However" and here he disposition had already endeared him them.

Firm friendship with Britain, to me. And I watched with some in-pressed the bell for a calu-boy- terest to ace what the captain would "kindly ask Mr. Tompkins to step

her old ally, is a corner stone of do to him. Arrived at the stern of this way."

"Tompkins," said the Captain as the foreign policy of Portugal's ex- the vessel, Captain Bilge looked]

moment and the bosun's mate entered, "be good schoolmaster-dictator, Dr. Antonio cautiously around a then dropped the boy into the sca. enough to stand on the locker and de Oliviera Salazar, he declares In For a brief instant the lad's head stick your head through the stern an interview with the "Diario de **The present Government is a appeared in the phosphorous of the port-hole, and tell me what you think Noticias," waves. The captain threw a boot of the weather,"

"Aye, aye, sir," replied the tar conscientious friend of England at him, sighed deeply, and went

witr a simplicity which caused us and I will do my best to make our Alliance not a mere 'flower of below.

Here then was the key to the my-to exchange a quiet amile.

Tompkins stood on the locker and economic, financial and political stery! The captain was throwing

Interests to our mutual advan- the crew overboard. Next morning put his head and shoulders out of rhetoric' but a reality based upon

the port. we met at breakfast as usual

fallen Taking a leg each we pushed mm tage," he said. "Poor little Williams has uverboard," said the captain, serzing through. We heard him plump into a strip of ship'a bacon and tearing the sea. at it with his teeth as if he almost! meant to eat it.

"Captain," I said, greatly exerted, stabbing at a ship's loaf in my agita- tion with such ferocity to almost to drive my knife into it-"You threw that buy overboard!"

world economic

Turning to international affairs, Dr. Salazar expressed the opinion | | "Tompkins was easy", said Cap that the London Economic Con- tain Bilge. "Excuse me as I enter ference had failed and that is' failure added fresh proof of the in inter- his death in the log."

"Yes", he continued presently, "it weakness of democracy

Economic warfare between the will be a great help if they mutiny, national affairs.

But I shall nations will continue, he declared. suppose they will, sooner or later. It's customary to do so. "I did," anid Captain Bilge, grown take no step to precipitate it until because there le no central power suddenly quiet, "I threw them all we have first fallen in with pirates. to direct the

I am expecting them in these lati policy. But if military Disa fever and intend to throw the rest.

tudes at any time. Meantime, Mr. nient is ever to be achieved there Listen, Blowhard, you are young. ambitious, and trustworthy. I will Blowhard," he said. rising. "if you must first be economic disarma. can continue to drop overboard one ment for "thle in the surest means confide in you."

stepped or two more each week, I shall feel of destroying a state of mind which

provokes war itself." Perfectly enim now, he

Although he has been Portugal's to a lacker, rummaged in it for a extremely grateful.”

Three days inter we rounded the Wednesday, 18th Oct, at 10 a.m.moment, and drew out a faded piece Wednesday, 1st Nov. 1 10 am.of yellow parchment, which he Cape of Good Hope and entered "Iron Man" for the past five years, spread on the table. It was a map on the inky waters of the Indian Dr. Salazar retains the simple son of a hard-working In the centre of it was Orean. Our course lay now i zag. lastes of his curly years, when he In the middle of the circle Zags and, the weather being favour was the wae a small dot and a letter T while able, we sailed up and down at a farmer. There is nothing of the

and unlike Signor Mussolini at ene side of the map was a letter furious rate over a sea as calm ac bombastic drumbeater about him [S. and against it on the other side glass.

a letter S.

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On the fourth day a pirate ship Herr Hitler systematically

Reader, I do not knoy avolds popular demonstrations. appeared. I asked. "What is this?"

queried If you have ever seen a pirate ship. When he can snatch a few days appal the trem affairs of state there is noth- "Can you nat Kucks?" Captain Bilge. " is a desert in-The sight was one to

The entire shio Ing he likes more than to rush off Intuulest heart. land."

sails were was reared. It is looked after by "Ah!" i rejoined with a sudden was painted block, a black flag hung to the little farmhouse where he

fort the masthead, the Rash of intuition, "and N 18

black, and on the deck people dress an old servant who still calls him North and S 18 for South "

"Blowhord," said the Captained all in binck walked up and down"Master Antonio," and his sister arm-in-arm The words "Pirate who teaches in the village school striking the table with such force as to cause a loaf of ship's bread to Shup" were painted in white letters lives there. There Dictator seems bounce up and down three or four on the bow. At the sight of it our never so happy as when he is help- That part crew were visibly cowed. It was a ing to prune the fruit trees in his times, "you've struck it.

spectacle that would have cowed a orchard or helping the farm-hand with the few cattle on the little of it had not yet occurred to me."

[dog. "And the letter T7" I asked.

The two ships were brought side farm of his boyhood, far from the "The treasure, the buried trea-

They were then inshed 'Madding crowd' and the cares of sure," said the Captain, and turning by side.

the map over he read from the back tightly together with bag string and politics-Reuter,

In a moment the

our deck,

of it-The point T Indicates the binder twine, and a gang plank laid spot where the treasure is buried between them. under the sand; it consists of half pirates swarmed upon

is rolling their eyes, gnashing their

teeth and fibng their nails.

Ja million Spanish dollars, and buried in a brown leather dress-suit Case "

"And where in the island?" 1 quired, mad with excitement.

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I went forward to the men's quar-pale. "Blowhard," he said "the Coddard & Douglas. 7th Nov. tera plain room in the front of ship is winking. One of the pirates, 7th-Dec..the ship, with only a rough carpet (cheer accident, of course, I blamoed,

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We put our ear to the ship's well. pattern, and small brass beds-with

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The men were put to the pump HONG KONG TIDES Sunday morning, and the men'were; 6th Nov, mostly sitting about in their dress and worked with the frenzied effort which only those who have been

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(Continued on 'Page 13.) Sun, (noon) 16 O. absurd, sir, and if you will allow ma Bun, (noon) 22 Oct. 1o say so, the men are far from

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