1933-10-28 — Page 11

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1933.

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From

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About

1933.

17.000 4th Nov. 6,800 11th Nov.

15,000 18th Nov. $6,000 2nd Dec 6,800 9th Dec.

17,000 18th Dec 15,000 30th Dee. 4.000 8th Jan.

16,000 1300 Jan. 15,000 27th Jan

0.000 3rd Feb.

17,900

19th t 5,000 17th Feb

Destination.

Boshay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamborg.

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

Marseilles & London.

22, Havre,

London, Hamburg,

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Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

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dam, A

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Seventh Hubby :

Kenneth McConnell, scion of an old Scottish family, who is scheduled to be the seventh husband of Mrs. Eugenis Bankhead Hoyt (lower). sister of Tallulah Bankhead, screen star, and daughter of Senator Bankhead of Alabama. Of the six times she has been wed, three of the lady' ventures were with Morten Hoyt, Washington, D. C., millionaire.

THE SIXTH SHOT

(Continued from Page 10.)

High up in the air this time old

Bambay.

Marseilles

London mbay Marseilles & London.

Bill tossed that two-bit piece, their Bombay,

London.

don, Hamburg, eyes trying to follow it as it went

out of sight in the darkness.

ESTACION Antwerp & Hull.

& Antwerp.

IL

Marseilles & London.

Harve, London, Hamburg, seemed to stop up there awhile an if lingering, then off yonder a little way it hit the frozen ground with uting. It bounced, spun round, then rolled off into a rut beside the

17.000 24th Feb.

6,800 3rd Mar,

Ratterdam Antwerp & Rall 15,000

Marseilles & London. 10th Mar 16,000 24th Mar Marseilles & London. $7,000 Tth Appe Marseilles & London. 15,000 21st Apr Marseilles & London.

e. Havre, Londen, Hamburg.

Marseilles & London.

* Cargo only

† Calls Crabianew.

rond.

Krass

THE CHINA MAIL.

AIR FORCE OR NAVY?

(Continued from Page 3).

THE NAVY CANNOT HE SUPERSEDED.

"

· AVIATION—ÂND THE FUTURE.

face the menace of shot and shell number of bombs, which can be re- leased either singly or in salvoes, from the guns of the ships.

President

Liners

FASTEST TIME HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO Speed With Comfort.

| so that a squadron of 10 or 12 bom- Weather Most Important Factor Truly artificial conditions these,bers engaged in simultaneous salvo with the dice loaded against there on the same target would pro vide an interesting little sum of navy. The most important factor,' however, is yet to be mentioned destruction. There are few things a tremendous The Weather. It was decided that more drastic than if the weather was unsuitable for bombing attack carried out from flying on Friday the exercise would the air with all the deadly speed. not commence until Saturday; if and energy of modern invention.

lu all, Britain has 1434 aircraft unsuitable on Saturday the exer- at her disposal. Italy has 2384,

Pren. Taft France 3000, and Russia 1500 alr

cise could, by mutual consent, be postponed until Monday.

Would a hostile fleet wishing to planes in the first line. but her bombard or otherwise harass or grand total is unknown.

coasts in time of war be inclined

Airminded Italy

The airmindedness of Italy is

to arrange the time of attack so that the weather was suitable for quite remarkable, and at present the defending aircraft?

attac-

well in advance of other nations. This, I believe, is largely due to: Not only defenders, but kers also, would be affected by the the lessons learned by Signor Mus- absence of aircraft; but an attack-solini himself when in the air ing fleet could bombard the assistance of the air: whereas,

without

force.

I regard Lord Wakefield as one |of our great aviation protagonists. in unsuitable weather, no defence He is trying to do for Britain what could be made if only aircraft were Mussolini has already done for Italy. He realises to the full the vital truism that nothing stands still in the, gir.

available for defence.

It is the duty of our defence forces our Pence Machines- not) only to save our conta from inva-

sion, but to preserve the peace by quelling disorders when they first and disorders Invasions arise. will not wait on weather reports.

ten- There has been a marked

dency in certain quarters in recent years to decry sea power; but let us not imagine that air power cap supersede it so far as our country.

Our

our Empire, is concerned. well-being, even our very exis- tence, in this country depends on sea-borne trade.

In Irak, North Africa, and on the North-West Frontier of India in

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I Wis particularly impressed trip to New York conveniently and inexpensively. Everest airplanes possessed for the with the admiration and awe our

average Indian mind. Old men walked in, in some cases more than 200 miles, to get a glimpse of the "wonder birda" of which they had heard such fabulous tales. There was also some fear that the dignity: of the gods who inhabit the higher) peaks of the Himalayna might bel

look down

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Artificially designed peace-time exercises are of benefit to the country because of the valuable traged by the "birds" who could

upon themi technical experience gained by, wittingly established an immense

in our defence

respect for aviation. They all bent down now over the those who serve

forces. The theoretical result,

long experience of spot where it seemed to have run

whatever it

may be After there in the deep rut, wolle old Bill however,

should not be taken as an Indles-Oriental, and especially frontier, pulted the dead weeds and

British Government, in retaiping Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- carefully, tenderly, almost lovingly tion that our navy can be super-mentality. I am convinced that the the right to carry out air-bombing stantinopic, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the side. There was no sound but that saded by any other urm as

of hand-breathing men. Even old first line of defence.

Our sen-girt Empire has a good the frontier, is acting wisely. Bull's face looked queer and drawn

It is at once the most economical) as he struck the match. They peer-friend in the sea; but that good

method both in lives and money, ed down into the rut washed full friend must be treated with jus and has a

salutary moral effect, of silvery sand, that glistened in the tice. Neglect, or abuse, may cause which is more than half the battle flare of the match. There was not to become our worst enemy.

in the East. quarter here.

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1933.

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Further down the road now the

old man, hie hands trembling, pull-

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The pistol came slowly down;

HONG KONG TIDES

Time Meridian 120 deg. E. (Zone- B): ooh, is midnight, 12h. is noon.

ed the dead grass aside, struck a strange and quiet came the voice of other match, and looked ยา and down the shining sand, then still Nank: "I done shot,"

A moment the old man stood, un-Heights are referred to the datum of the largest scale Admiralty chart of farther, then back, his movements

certain, uncomprehending, wonder the place, and should be added to growing more eager, his face woring if the gun had shot and he had deaths, unless proceded by an asterisk He struck fire to the dead grans not heard. But yonder stood Bud (Arhen they should be subtracted. and weeds that overhung the gully ahve, and there had been no fash tiny at first, then brighter, hghting the suspicion rushed through his und that even Nank Morgan had up their faces like crimson fool-

lost his norve and had not pulled lights, Bud went back to the log.

Then an inkling of the trigger. sat down, and buried his face in is what had really happened dawned o hands. Nank stood beside the old

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7,000 7,000 3rd Mar,

7,000 30th Mar.

7,000 80th Des Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney

Brd Feh

Melbourne.

October 28 to Nov. 3, 1933.

Date High Water Low Water Standard H. Standard Ht.

Times.

Times. M. I. M. F. 03 56 6.8 11

159 2.11

38

45

19 47 5.0 12 42 2.3

06 54 0.3 00 41

October I.

28

19 27 6.5 23

29

05 35 6.5

Mon.

30

20 07

07 64 6.2

20

20 30

30 4.6

1..

個

02 20

20 55 7.1 14 12

2..

09 35 5.4 03 02

Away Fri.

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ex-

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and Hong Kong to Australia.

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man, watching the flames and the on him, and he hurried to Nank, Sun. smoke that dimmed the face of the ine suspicion and the question both

The old man got down in his excited eyed. moon now.

"You played a trick on us," pant- once more on his knees, struck a

"You never stuck no cart-Wed. coals. ridge in this gun.""

With hands that trembled, the Thurs., them, Bud rose and hurried to and once more they all stooped while old man snatched the gun old Bill held close to the fugitive from him, unbreeched it, and

posed the cartridge. "Strike...a face of the coin his last match.

gully.

"Here it bel" he announced.

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17th Nov

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Bud staggered to his feet.

"I'm a dead man," he said, and turned away, "dead an' bound for hell"

He wok his place beside the rock

here! I played a trick, did I? See

21 19 7.6 14 97

10 20 5,4 03 45

21. 43 7.8 14 59 3,5

that ca'tridge? See that ar dent in no gal! Git out of my way; git out the cap what the plunger hit? See of my way with that gun. Nank.

”"་

it? I played a trick, did I?" Me an' you have been to hell to- Here's my hand, Nank He counted the empty cells back gether. to the one that lay under the ham-Morgan!".

in the road, tearing his shirt open mer. There were four of them. And so, they shook hands there in

at the throat as if the night were The old gun that had barked faith- Dead Man's Field, locking Into one

hot.

"Hurry up," he said.

fully In many a fight had "snapped" "Is there anything, Bud?" asked in this snapped on the second shot. "That would have been me,” said Nank as he took his place with the

Nank.

.

gun.

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Kobe & Yokohama.

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another's. haggard eyes.

"It's all my fault," said, Nank. "I didn't have; no business buttin', in to-night, She's yours, Bud. She don't care nothin' for me. I bught Old Bill did not speak with rehot to have butted in. I'm going I've had my fling. Only you can sentment, that had left him now. back to town to-morrow."

Old Bill McCorele turned away

"It don't make no differenca now,

tell my al ma it was fair. You can tell my ol' ma it was fair

last words."

"It is you, young man!"

It was just a question of doing the

can tell-tell. Phobe Abernathy right and fair thing, of seeing and shuffled on down the road alone ain't so coward. That's all, boys through, to the end this fight that in the moonlight. Back there was had begun, He turned to Bud, place for him. Young men This here's fun, I say. Them's my coming toward them like a sleep, didn't know their minds any more. The world dad fallen on degenerate Old Bill took his pipe out of his walker.

days. He had been swept aside Jjka mouth. It had gone out long ago, here gun anapped on the second that regarded him not.

"Bud Campbell," he said, the prophets of old by a generation "Ready," he asked.

Belind Yonder the gun camp dp slowly, shot. That shot was yours that him lay the moonlit Beld. Below Bohind it Nank's face shot is still yours. If the gun enape him the valley and the shadows. A steadily. was white as paper.

again, it is still yours-yours till mile, down the road he passed the "Ready," sald Bud. "This here's the gun do go off Hit's the right cabin of the Campbells. There was a pretty night, ain't it, old Bill an fair thing; hit's the only right light in the window, The Widow McCorcle-moonshine an: 'all.” jan! far thing.","

Campbell was sitting up for Bud, "Shoot!" aid old Bill and swal- A moment Bad stood look Farther on, he passed the cabin of All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice, lowed hard.

and wer down staraly, inig the old than the one Afgant. There, wina a light in All Cable are filed with Electric Pans or Panka Louvre Systems. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with beundries Still Nank stood, pistol level, facé dinching with Then he cried out the window kare, too.

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