1933-12-30 — Page 10

THE CHINA MAI

Blessing The Hounds.

SATURDAY

LLOYD TRIESTINO

FLOTTE DIUNITE LLOYD TRIESTINO-MADITIMA ITALIANA-SITMAR

PASSENGER EXPRESS SERVICE

6th Jan.

8.S. "CONTE VERDE" for Shanghai

B.S. "CONTE VERDE" for Italy (London)

18th Jan.

Freight Servicė.

B.S. "MONCALIERI" for Italy via ports

19th Jan.

Dodwell & Co., Ltd. Agents

YKLINE

✅N.

BAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports' and Honolulu.

ASAMA MARU

TAIYO MARU

CHICHIBU MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER.

Wednesday, 10th Jan, ať 10 a Wednesday, 24th Jan at 10 am Wednesday, 7th Feb. at 10

Friday,

1

. 22nd Jan. 3rd Feb.

HEIAN MARU (starts from Kobe).. KIKAWA MARU (starts from Kobe). Saturday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM vis

Singapore, Penang, Colombo & Saez

Every year, on St. Hubert's Day (November 3), the Baron de Rothschild's pack of hounds are blessed at the French village of Vieux-Moulin,, after a chapel ceremony at which a' single bound' is the principal communicant. After the ceremony huntamen, and ladies go to the forest to bring back astag for the feast that closes the St. Hubert's Day rites:

The Mummy's Foot

(Continued from Page 9.)

He poured the gold coins into a sort of medieval alms-purse hang: ing at his belt, repezting:

"The foot of the Princess mouthis, to be used for a weight!"

log suddenly emitted a jet of blue flame.

My eyes accidentally fell upon the desk where, I had placed the foot of the Princess Hermonthis.

Instead of remaining quiet-as Her behoved a foot which had been em- paper-balmed for four thousand years-it

FRANCO-POLISH TRADE

Negotiations For Pact End In Failure.

NEW TARIFTS. OPERATING

Paris.

A new and in some items prohi

The Franco-Polish trade negotia commenced to act in a nervous man- Then turning his phosphorescent ner; contracted itself, and leaped tions which opened some time ago

over the papers like a startled frog have ended. In failure...... eyes upon me, he exclaimed in voice strident as the crying of a cat One would have imagined that it which has swallowed a fish-bone: had suddenly been brought into con-

"Old Pharaoh will not be well tact with a galvanic battery: I could bitive Polish tariff has just been put pleased; he loved his daughter-the distinctly hear the dry sound made into effect, despite the French re dear man1"

by its little heel, hard as the hoof "You speak as if you were a con-of a gazelle.

until the negotiations were tar- temporary of his: you

Suddenly I saw the folds of my are old [enough, goodness knows! but you do bed-curtain stir, and heard a bump-minated.

quest that it should be postponed

not date back to the Pyramids of ing sound, like that caused by some It is understood that as a retalia- Egypt," I answered, laughingly, person hopping on one foot across from the threshold.

the floor. I must confess I became tory measure the French govern

I went home, delighted with my alternately hot and cold; that I felt ment intend to remove from certain

a strange wind chill my back. acquisition.

Polish goods imported into France

With the Idea of putting it to

The bed-curtains opened and I be profitable use as soon as possible, I held the strangest figure imaginable placed the foot of the divine Prin-before me.

TERUKUNI MARU

.... Friday,

6th Jan,

HAKUSAN MARU

Saturday,

20 Jan.

HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

3rd Feb.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KAMO MARU

Saturday,

27th Jan.

KITANO MARU

Saturday,

24th Feb.

BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

TANGO MARU

Thursday,

11th Jan.

+METEBASHI MARU

Monday,

20th Jan.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu.

BOKUYO MARU

Monday,

20th Jan.

Los Angeles. Mexico and Panama.

NEW YORK via Panama.

†TAKETOYO MARU

Monday,

and Valencia,

DURBAN MARU

Monday,

15th Jan.

CALCUTTA vla Singapore, l'enang & Rangoon,

+YAMAGATA MARU

Saturday,

†MORIOKA MARU

Monday,

6th Jan. 15th Jan.

tic.

BBANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

†AKITA MARU (Moji direct)

Thursday,

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

KITANO MARU (Niganaki direct). Friday, Telephone 30291.

4th Jan. 6th Jan. 19th Jan,

+ Cargo only.

15th Jan.

LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genoa

(Private exchanges to all departments).

For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA

O. S. K.

.

SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG SUBJECT TO ALTERATION.

Colombia, Boston Philadel

SAIGON & BANGKOK

NEW YORK via Japan, Los Hokuroku Maru

Angeles and Panama. Call

Wed.,

Direct at Cristobal, Puerta.

phia & Baltimore

RIO-DE-JANEIRO, BANTOS.

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Bio De Janeiro M.

AIRES via Balgos. Sin Montevidio Maru gapore, Colombo, Durban,

Thurs

Sat

Port Elizabeth, and Cape

Тогд

MOMBASA ZANZIBAR Manila Maru

DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA,

Wed.

DURBAN, PORT ELIZA

LOURENCO MARQUES, Africa Mara

Mon

BETH. CAPE TOWN,

FORTS Singapore &

Colombo

& SOUTH AMERICAN

MELBOURNE, DRISBANE Brisbane Maru....Thurs,

SYDNEY WELLINGTON

the benefits of the minimum tariff: secorded to Poland.

Every effort it is stated was made

by the French foreign office as well

cess Hermonthis upon a heap of It was a young girl of a very deep papers scribbed over with verses, in coffee-brown complexion, like the themselves an undecipherable mosaic bayadere Amani, and possessing the work of erasures; articles freshly purest Egyptian type of perfect es by the commerciai negotiators of begun; letters forgotten." The effect beauty: her eyes were almond the ministry of commerce to reach was charming, bizarre, and roman-shaped and oblique, with eyebrows agreement over purely commercial so black that they seemed blue; her

Well satisfied with this embellish-nose was exquisitely chiselled, al-difficulties in view of their potential ment, I went out with the gravity most Greek in its delicacy of out-repercussion on the political rela and pride becoming one who feels line; and she might indeed have tions between the two countries.

French ability, to bargain with that he has ineffable advantage over been taken for a Corinthian statue

all the passers-by whom he elbows, of bronze but for the prominence of Poland has been rendered more in- of possessing a piece of the Prin- her cheekbones and the alightly elastic by France's new commercial quota policy which cut Polish im- cess Hermonthis, daughter of African fullness of her lips. Pharaoh.

Her arms, slender and spindle-parts by 75 per cent.--Reuter.

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I looked upon all who did not shaped, like those of very young possess, like myself, a paper-weight girls, were encircled by a peculiar so authentically Egyptian, as very kind of metal bands and bracelets ridiculous people; and it seemed to of glass beads; her hair was all she ma that the proper occupation of twisted into little cords, and every sensible man should consist in wore upon her bosom a little Idol- the mere fact of having a mummy's figure of green paste, bearing a

whip with seven lashes, which proved | foot upon his desk.

Happily I met some friends, it to be an image of lala, Her brow whose presence distracted me in my was adorned with a shining plate of infatuation with this new acquisi-gold, and a few traces of paint ro-

"MONCALIERI" tion: I went to dinner with them. Heved the coppery tint of her cheeks. From TRIESTE, VENICE, BRINDISI When I came back that evening,, As for her costume, it, was very PORT SAID, SUEZ, MASSAWAH,

ADEN, KARACHI, BOMBAY, 24th Jan. with my brain slightly, confused by odd indeed,

COLOMBO, PENANG & a few glasses of wine, a vague whiff Fancy a pagne or skirt all formed

SINGAPORE VIA SAIGON. of Oriental perfume delicately titil-of little strips of material bedizened lated my olfactory nerves: the heat with red and black hieroglyphics, of the room had warmed the natron, stiffened with bitumen, and ap-informed that all Goods are being bitumen, and myrrh in which the parently belonging to a freshly un-landed at their risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf 25th Jan

and Godowa Company, Lady at Kow- 24th Feb. Paraschistes, who cut open the bandaged mummy

loos, whence and/or from

be

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bodies of the dead, had bathed the In one of those sudden fights of corpse of the princess; it was a thought so common Indreams" perfume at once, sweet and pene heard the hoarse falsetto of the trating-a perfume that four thon-|bric-a-brac dealer repeating like 3rd Jansand years had not been able to monotonous refrain the phrase 8th Feb. dissipate.

had uttered In his shop with I soon drank deeply from the enigmatical an intonation: black cup of sleep: for a few hours Old Pharaoh will not be well all remained opaque to me, pleased: he loved his daughter, the

Yet light gradually dawned upon dear manj*****

the darkness of my mind; dreama One strange circumstance, which

4th Jan, commenced to touch me softly In was not at all calculated to restore

their silent. Might

my equanimity, was that

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BOMBAY & KARACHI vis 18hogen Marn

Tues

Singapore, Belawan Doll, Havre Maru 1Panang & Colombo ......

2nd Jan

Wed,

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†Belawan Doll, Penang

and Rangoon

JAPAN POETS

- JAPAN vis, Trias Koeling Canada Maru

KEELUNG via Swatow and Canton Marn,

LÁMOTY

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The eyes of my soul were opened; parition had but one foot; the other will notPURE THE M

and I beheld my chamber as it was broken off at the

3rd Jan actually was; I might have believedShe approached the table where Goods are to be left in the Godowns,

myself awake but for a vague con- the foot was starting and fidgeting Tid: January 1986 310mm sciousness, which, assured me that I about more than over

End Janalept and that something fantastic supported herself upo

was about to take plaos.

The odour of the myrrk had pearly-gleaming

augmented In Inten

a slight headache,

the desk I saw.

and I felt Although she

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