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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1933.

THE CHINA

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P.&O.-British India French Train Wreck Where Twenty-Three Died.

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From

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About

1931

+SOMALI

4800

RANCHI

CARTHAGE

2th Dec.

10.251. 17,800 18th Dec. 35,000 30th Dec.

4,000 6th Jan.

16,000

BANGALORE

13th Jan (5.400 27th Jan

6.400 3rd Feb.

17,800

10th Feb

6.800 17th Feb.

17.00

24th Feb. 6.800 3rd Mar.

NALDERA CORFU **BHUTAN

RANPURA **BEHAR

RAWALPINDI

+*SOUDAN

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CHITRAL

**BURDWAN

BANCHI

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101 Mar. 36,000 24th Mar 6,000 31st Mar.

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Antwerp & Hull.

Motterdam &

& London. London, Hamburg, Antwerp

Marseliles & London.

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Mm Antwerp & Hull

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1938

8,000 8th Dec.

10,000 21st Dec. 8,000 6th Jan.

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DO

DO

DO

DO

8,000 20th Jan.

7,000 3rd Feb.

• Calle Rangoon

The locomotive of the crack Cherbourg Express is shown in the bed of the Bouloir Biver, mear Everens France, following its plunge from the 38-foot viaduct. The disaster cost twenty-three lives and injuries to scores of passengers.

The Million-Dollar Bond RADIO MUSIC

Robbery

(Continued from Page 12.)

"Gand Lord,

"The sealed package is removed from the trunk and vanishes, as Miss Farquhar puts it, into thin air. We will dismiss the thin air theory, which is not practicable at Do you Poiret!

the present stage of science, and know, I'd give a considerable sum consider what is likely to have ba- Jof money to see you make a thor.come of it. Everyone asserts the ough ass of of yourself-just for incredibility of its being smuggled

jashore" You're so confoundedly con- Jonce.

"Yes, but we know--" "You may know, Hastings, I do take the view that, alaco

IN HOTELS

AN OFFENCE

Infringement Of Copyright.

APPEAL COURT'S DECISION

London. The Court of Appeal has de- cided that reproduction of music coiled!"

"Do not enrage yourself. Hast

by means of wireless receiving | inga.

In verity. I observe that not. there are times when you almost it seemed incredible, It was iner- sets and loudspeakers in hotels

¡dible. Alas I suffer the pen.

Two possibilities remain and public houses for the enter-

it was hidden on board-also rather tainment of customers of guests

detost me! alties of greatness "

The le

his difficult-05 man puffed out chest, and sighed so comically that board." I was forced to laugh.

10

over.

it was thrown

cork un 11. do you

**WILD mean?"

"Without a cork."

is an infringement of copyright. Hammond's Cradford Brewery Tuesday BAW us speeding to

Compapny Ltd. of Bradford, was Liverpool in a first-class carriage.

appealing from the decision of 1 atared. Poirot had obstinately refused

the Jenlighten me as to his auspicions

"But if the bonds were thrown, Mr. Justice Maugham, în |~~1) F Certainties. He contented overboard, they couldn't have been Chancery Division, in favour of himself with expressing surprise sold in New York."

the Performing Right Society, "admiro your logical mind, Can-that I, too, was not equally nu at

Ltd.

were The caso arose

out of songs played by an orchestra in Ham

the with the situation. I disdained to Hastings. The bonds were' sold in

argue, and entrenched my curiousi- New York, therefore, they

overboard. You ty behind a rampart of pretended not thrown indifference.

where that leads us?"

Once arrived at the quay along- aide which tay the big transatlantic ed." fliner, Poirot became brink and inlert..

Our proceedings consisted age was thrown overboard, and the of interviewing four successive bonds were sold in New York, the

l'eople in a hotel at Brighouse stewards and inquiring after a package could not have contained {friend of Poirot's who had crossed the bands. fe there any evidence owned by the appellants heard that the package did contain the the performance on a wireless to New York on the 23rd.

Remember, Mr. Rigeway "An elderly gentleman, wearing bonds! glasses.

"Where we were when we start-mersmith and broadcast by the B.B.C, with the authorisation of "Jamain de la vie! If the pack-the Society, who owned the copy-

right.

A great Invalid, hardly never opened it from the time it set belonging to the manager of

Lon- the hotel. was placed in his hands in The description appeared to tally don."

moved out of his cabin."

B. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for with one Mr. Ventnor who had oc

1st and 2nd class passengers.

cupled the cabin C 24 which was

next

The Society maintained the "Yes, but then-"

authorisation granted to the Poirot waved an impatient hand. "Formit me to continue. The last B.B.C. to broadcast meant that

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, Although unable to ace how Poirot moment that the bonds are seen as such broadcasts' should be re-

NANKIN

NELLORE

TANDA WANKIN NELLORE TANDA

1781.

Both De

3rd Feb.

7,000 7,000 7.000 Яrd Mar.

7.000 30th Mar. 7,000 4th May. 7,000 2nd June

Melbourne.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan and Hong Kong to Australia

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

to that of Philip Ridge way.

had deduced

me.

Mr. Ventnor's exis-bonde is in the office of the London celved only by people within tence and personal appearance, [and Scottish Bank on the mara their own domestic circle. Was keenly excited.

ing of the 23rd. They reappear in

For the Brewery Co. Sir Arthur "Tell me," I cried. "was this New York half an hour after the Manila. Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & gentleman one of the first to land Olympia gets in, and according to Colefax K.C. developed the argu| when you got to New York?" one man, whom nobody listens to,ment that what happened in the hotel was not & performance The aleward shook his head.

actually before she gets lu. Suppos within the meaning of the Copy- "No, Indeed, sir, he was one of ing then that they have never been

There was a per- Is there right Act. the last of the boat”

on the Olympia at all? I retired crestfallen, and obser- any other way they could get to formance in the cinema at Ham

WBS head by He New York? Yes, the ved Poirot grinning at

Gigantic mersmith which

cinema by thanked the steward, a note chang. Southampton on the same day as people outside the ed hands, and we took our depar- the Olympia, and she holds the re-means of wireless.

cord for the Atlantic. Mailed by Lord Justice Romer: Do you "It's all very well," I remarked the Gigantic, the bonds would be say that the only people who in New York the day before the performed were those who play. heatedly, "but that last

Jed at the cinema?

Sir Arthur: Yes. The idea that "All is clear, the case begins to theory, grin as you please!"

"As usual, you see nothing, Hast-explain itself. The sealed packet the copyright owner can authorise ings. That last answer is, on the is only a dummy, and the moment a performance in public and thes contrary, the coping-stone of my of its substitution must be in the authorise the extension of the num theory."

office in the Bank. It would be an ber of hearers of the performance

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The P. & O. Hoyal Mail Steamers to Londen and

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Bnswer

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and must have damped your previous Olympis arrived.

London via Panama Canal..

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1935.

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8.000 15th Dec, 0,500 28th Dec.. 15,000 29th Dec

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28th Jan.

15th Dec.

7,000 15,000

4th

9th Feb.

6,000 22nd

15,000, 28rd Feb. 17,000

pth-Mar.

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Cargo only.

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Kobe & Yokohama. Kobe

& Yokohama Moji, Kobe

4 Yokohama. Kobe & Yokohama.

Yokohama.

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:

I flung up my hands in despair. easy matter for any of the three is quile wrong. Once he has au- "I give it up."

men present to have prepared a du-thorised a performance he has ex- When we were in the train, plicate package which could be hausted his right.

Mr. Hann Collins, for the Society, speeding towards London, Poirot substituted for the genuine one.

in acoustic repre- wrote bully for a few minutes, Tres bien, the bonds are mailed to said there was

en-a confederate in New York, with sentation at the hotel, which was in staling up the result in an

instructions to sell as the Olympia fact, a public performance. The velope.

"This is for the good Inspector is in, but some one must travel on persons who gave that performance- McNell. We will leave it at Scot-the Olympia to engineer the sup were those who took steps to create land Yard in passing, and then to posed moment of the robbery." : the sound brought about by the

the Rendezvous Restaurant, where

us,"

"But why ***

tuning-in of the wireless set to receive those particular tunes.

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Dionising the appical, the Court NO DICTATOR FOR the sea,

I have asked Miss Esmee Farquhar, "Because if Ridgeway merely to do us the honour of dining with opens the packet and and it a dum

my suspicion lisa at once to Lon-held that there was an effective Iz "What about Ridgéway?” (4 don. No; the man, on board in the tervention of a separate kind. by "What about him?" asked Poirot cabin next door does his work, pre- the defendants in a performance with a twinkle.

tends to force the lock in an ob- that was going on. That constitut "Why, you surely don't think➡vious manner, so as to draw fumeed separate performance pro- you can'tare!

diate attention to the theft, really hibited by the terms of the Copy" "The habit of incoherence is unlects the trunk with a duplicate right Act. Reuter. growing upon you, Hastings. As a key, throws the package overboard, matter of fact, I did think. If and walts until the last to leave the j

',

BRITAIN

(Continued from Page 8.)

Complete Control

We must see, of course, that the rates of duty in the colonies against

Let us develop the re- sources of these, rast rich lands of the Colonial Empire.

And let us at the same time all work together for the Parliament of the Empire,

No doubt the self-governing Do minions would limit any participa- tion on their part in parliamentary government here.

The Dominions are our partners.; Ridgeway had been the thief-boat, Naturally, he wears glasnam 111 with bronchitis at his home in foreigners are high enough toIt is a Ilniited pirtnership. That' All dates are approximate and sulfest to alteration without notice. which was perfectly possible-the to contest his eyes, and is an' in the country-enfin, that stodgy secure for our people complete con- is how we should regard them un All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans or Punka Louvre 'System.

CABO would have been charming; à valid, ince he does not want to run old man, Mr. Shaw! There are trol of these colonial marketa. til they show ■*disire to enter into

·Htnamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundring,

piece of next, methodical work" the risk of meeting Bidghway. He criminals In Hugh places some- Nobody who is a colonial subject complete partnership: Parsels' mensuring not moreʻdhaw; B. en,·ft will be received at the Com- “But not so charming for Mins stepk aphora. În New York, and re- tiizes, my friend.. Ah, here we are. will object to that, They will all If we pursue the path of the Em- pany's Offce up to Noon on the day previous to sailing,

Farquhar

turns by the first boat available,” Mademoiselle, I have succeeded!|refolce if they get in exchange the pire movement va may be sure it For further information, Paige, Freight, Handbooks, de, apply to--"Ponably you are right. There But who which was he?′′- You permit?"

free entry to our market at home will not be long before the Do- MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO, fore: all is for the boat. Now, “The man who had: a dopslemje e And: beaming, Poirot kissed the with tariffs against foreigners. minions knock at the door, saying, 1.0 Building Chener đi Bà. C. Hong Kong.

Hastings, let us review the case. I key, the man who ordered the lock, Fatonished, girl lightly on either Let us confer that purchasing with the certainly of a warm wel- can see that you are dying to do so. | the man who has not been severely (cheek!

"power on "our fellow-citizens over come," "May we come in?”

Agentu

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