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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1933.

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MANTUA RAWALPINDI **BURDWAN

COMORIN

• HITRAL ANOMALI

KANCHI

CARTHAGE

1 BANGALORF

NALDERA CORFU

4 BHUTAN

PANPURA

* BERAR

RAWALPINDI

SOUDAN

COMORIN

CHITRAL

RANCHI

CARTHAGE

From Ton Hong Kong

About

10.33

11,000 21st Oct. 17,000 4th Nov. 11th Nov, 4,000

Destination

Marseilles London. Rombay, Marseilles & London, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. 15,000 18th Nov. Bombay, Marsellies & London. 15.000 2nd Dec.

tombas, Marseilles, & London. stant 9th Dec. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

17,000 15,000 30th Dec.

6,000

Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

10th Dec. de Antwerp & Half. ̧

6th Jan. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, "R'dam. And & Hull.

18,000 13th Jan. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 15.000 27th Jan. Bombay, & Londen.

6,000 3rd Fob.

17,000 10th Feb

6,800

17/0 24th

6.800

17 Feb.

THE CHINA MAIL.

THE MIGHTY WATER TRAVELLING

(continued from Page 12.)

A LOST ART

IN AMERICA President

U.S. Tourists Lack Appreciation.

embankment, flinging an immenso Be withdrew a few paces, uphill cloud of ice-cold spray before it; among the trees, and uttered the fund then, the spray having sub- threat ery which mountaineers use sided, the body of the water, stop- course, rose and rose, because it carries far. He saw the ped in its

"NOT ELASTIC ENOUGH" startled movements of the men when until it washed over the top of the it fell suddenly on their ears; but mound, just as the sea, on a rough

New York. then the lamp was quickly hidden, day, washes over a harbour break-

The art of travelling is lost on and he could see nothing more, but water.

"Heavens! if it rises higher!" the American public, aecording | onty near their voices. Their speech was Italian, and Caspar could only Campar cried; but still it rose and to Dr. W. Beran Wolfe, psychia- trist, who returned recently guess at the meaning of the words.rose.

It rose till it covered his feet. from a 54 day cruise in which ha They think they are caught," hel concluded. "They are arguing how It rase till it got about his knees, visited 12 countries.

and almost reached his waist. Its Dr. Wolfe, said he had spent him to the considerable time on the voyage

to escape. but what is that?"

For he had heard another sound icy temperature froze

ክር felt the current studying the American ** -the sound of running water in the marrow and

it would tear him traveller and decided that the jgorge below; and he knew what that dragging as if

"simply does not know how to! forebodes. The dam, up the valley, from his perch.

He clung and clung, however, travel," was beginning to yield; the pent-up

"Our group was composed of} flood war now beginning to escape. tightening his tired muscles as hel The water now realling the channel had never needed to tighten them representative people from cities of the Gietroz was the precursor of before, doubting whether it would of all sizes, and men in all fields the mighty rushing wave that was be possible for him to hang on for af endeavour," Dr. Wolfe said. instant; and then of "Almost exclusively each passen- presently to come. If he let the another thieves escape they would go down sudden, the waters sank, almost as ger carried into Europe his own town environment. It the bill, and meet it, and be over.rapidly as they had risen, and dry home

land appeared again, while the flood never left them in Funchal, In But, though they were

Thieves, raced on to do its work of devasta-Rome, in Kotor, or in Scan-

'dinavia. and though he was their victim, betion further down the valley.

"Thank Heaven!" said Caspar, asi would not suffer that. At the top

"Few of them were clastic

whelmed.

then

flood! The food is coming!

The flood!

Run to the top! It is your chance!"

of his voice he called his warning to he climbed painfully down, drench- enough to get anything out of ed and frozen and half dead, and our Journey. They went into The turned to take stock of the damage. sacred places, into ancient build- His had disappeared. Not Ings, into places of rare his- You must not go down the hill!!one stane of it remained standing torical lore, and came out com-

on another; while, as for the men paring the coffee to only

the coffee. whom he had tried to rescue in they get back home in Main

fact that they had Street." Pernaps they did not hear. Per-spite of the haps they heard, but did not under-robbed him, he could not even see

willd. Perhaps they

understood, their bodies.

"But I warned them," he said to but thought that the warning was La trick to draw them out of the himself.

house and trap them. Caspar had

no means of knowing.

**I did my best for them. could not have done more."

HONG KONG TIDES

Dr. Wolfe said he listened to remarks of the tourists in every city and found they were shrug 'ging their shoulders and telling each other how much better things were back home.

"They said Oriental dancers "Quick! Quick! Don't you hear the water? This way, this way be-

were not as graceful as the fore it comes," he called again; and

troupe at the Rialto Palace back London, Hamburg-then he once more caught sight of Time Meridian 120 deg. E. (Zone- home, that the taxicabs were out Antwerp & Huil.

the figures of the two intruders. E): ooh. is midnight, 12h. in noon. of date and couldn't compare Marseilles & London

They had supped stealthily out of Heights are referred to the datum of with the cabs in Milwaukes and Haryre, London, Hambur,

the largest scale Admiralty chart of one of the windows at the back of

the place

and should be added to that the hotels were shabby and Marsellles & London, the ma, and were peeping cautiously denths, unless proceded by an asterisk not up-to-date," the psychiatrist round the corner to see whether there when they should be subtracted, derlared. "In the venerated buildings of Mediterranean cities, instead of drinking in the beau- ty and lore of early civiliza- Standard HL tions. they were beefing about Timer. this and that and comparing It October H. M. F. H. M. F. to the bank building at home.

21.11

and Mar. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam Antwerp & Hull.

Marselfler & London.

15,000 10th Mar. 15,400 24th Mar

17.000

7th Apr

Marcilles & London.

Marseiller & London.

15,000

2144 Apr Marseilles & London.

• Cargo only. 1 Casablanca.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinopic, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedivial Mall Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APÇAR SAILINGS.

TILAWA SANTHIA TAKADA SIRDHANA

TALMA

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isss.

10,000 28th Out

8,000 11 Nov. 7,000 24th Nov. 8,000 9th Dec. 10,000

23rd Dec. 10,000 3th Jan.

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CORNI

Doubtless their was clear. plunder was in their pockets, and they were watching their chance to get away with t But Caspar did not think of that.

He stepped out from behind the tree and showed himself, shouting Sat still louder than before:

Date

October 21 to 27, 1933.

Low Water

22

Sun. "Fools! Idiots! What are you [doing! You have no time to lose! Mon. 20

Come this way! I'll guide you."

And at the men did not hear, Tues. or did not understand or thought that they were being lured into the open to be trapped.

So they shrank back into the shadow. and erept carefully round the house, with their knives in their hands ready for use in case any one should be waiting for them on that Ride ulso.

"This way! This way! As quick

as you can before the water comes!" Caspar was still shouting, as he

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, struggled up the final steep ascent.

NELLORE

7,000

TANDA

7,000

1921

3rd Nov. 2nd Doc.

NANKIN

7.000

NELLORE

TANDA

7,000 7,000

NANKIN

7,000

3rd Feb. 3rd Mar 30th Mar.

Melbourne.

High Water Standard Ht.

Times

05

15

5.8 04 24 1.4 As the tourist came out of St. 8.0 16 69 3.4

12 04 5.4 05 15 14 Peter's in Rome. Dr. Wolfe said 22 53 8.1 10 28 37 he remarked to a traveller from

24

Wed. 25 00

Thurs 28 01

Fri.

19812182

06 16 1.4 a large New Jersey city. "Well,

14 60

20

we haven't anything like that in

New Jersey, have we?"

The tourist snorted.

"I should say not," he replied.

02 1.7"We wouldn't have anything so.

02 20

00

10

10 old-fashioned in

30 5.0 Reuter.

POST OFFICE NOTICE.

our city."-

The Public are reminded that letters must not be enclosed in He thought that they were fol. SMALL PACKETS. lowing. How could they be such

fools us nol to follow? But he had.

no time to stop and make sure; and

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unded in at the General Post Office and Kowloon Office.

"It comes!" he called; and there,

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that instant, shone through a rift

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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

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*SOUDAN

1938,

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16,000 1st Dec. 10.000 ЗБС Дел

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6300 17,000

7th

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*Cargo only.

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in the clouds, so that he could see

SUNDAY

OCTOBER 22,

If.

A huge wave of filthy glacier water, hundreds of feet high, was tearing down the valley, filling it

Japan Japan

.Rakuyo Maru ....Lycaon

MONDAY,

OCTOBER 23.

Straits Manila

TUESDAY,

.Machuon ...Pres. McKinley OCTOBER 24,

ПOME,

FACTORY

Shanghai: Shanghai Saigon

.Patroclus .D'Artagnam ..Athos II

OCTOBER (26.

AND

BUNKERS

Yasukuni Maru „Tokushima · Maru

Empress. of Canada.

Pres. Hayes Ajax

with mountain sides

vicious switch, and rolling along fragments of rock and blocks of glacier ico with an almost deafening roar, It was moving almost at the speed of an expreas train; and Caspar could see that, in another thirty seconds! it would be on film.

High as the wave was, the eininence on which he stood, so far as he could judge, was higher; but it did not follow that the eminence. was safe on that account. It block- ed the track which the flood would haya. to take. The water would. come up against it as against a accond dam and then-

Hegven help me!" Cáspar pray- ed; and he did not trust himself to

THURSDAY Japan and Shanghai..... Straits

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27. Canada, U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shanghai'

(Vancouver.B.C., 7th Oct.).......... U.S.A., Honolulu, Japan and Shaugbal (San Francisco, 29th Sept.) **.

Straits

stand on his platform, but clung to Ampy.

the ploe tice with both arms and Gangkok via Swatow

OUTWARD MAILS.

SUNDAY,

logs, tightening his muscles round Amor and Formosa via Swatow

Swiatow

He had hardly done so when the Foochow via Swatow, ainaki [food struck the hillock. It struck

it as a sea wave strikes a stone Straits

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Swatow, Amoy and "Foochow

Hai; Ning

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