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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934.

P.&O.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian

Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS,

TAKING CARGO FOR

STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY

DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

$.S.

INALDERA

CORFU

BANGALORE

HANTUA

RAWALPINDI +*BHUTAN

KAISAR-I-HIND

"BEHAR

RAJPUTANA

+*SOUDAN

RANCHI CARTHAGE

+BURDWAN

RANPURA

!

Tans Hong Kong

From

About

1934.

16,000 6th May 15,000 19th May 6.000 26th May

11,000 2nd June 17.000 18th June 6,000 23rd June

12.000 30 June

6,100

Destination

Bombay, Maracles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

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Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &

Rull.

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

Struggle for Power in La Belle France

PREMIER DOUMERGUE

FRENCH FASCIST SAJUTE

President

LinerS

FASTEST TIME HONGKONG TO SAN FRANCISCO Speed With Comfort.

SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK THE SUNSHINE ROUTE 18 Days To Ban Francisco Via Shanghai, Kobe Yokohama and Honolulu

Fortnightly saillaga:--- Pres. Pierce

May 9, 8 m.

Pres. Coolidge ...May 19, 2.. Pres. Wilson June 6, 8 am, Pres. Hoover ...June 16, 6 a.m. Pres. Lincoln ....July 4,16 s..

NEW YORK

Via Manila, Bingapore, Colombo,

Bombay, Buer • and

MediterranaAN ·

Pres. Adams

Pres. Harrison Pres. Hayes Pres. Johnson Pros. Monroe

SEATTLE, VICTORIA THE EXPRESS ROUTE 17 Days To Seattle Via Shanghai, Kobe and Yokokams

Fortnightly sailinga:—

Pres. McKinley ..May 11, midnight Pres. Jackson....May 26, 8. Prea. Jefferson June 8, midnight Pres. Grant ....June 23, 8 a.m. Pres McKinley July 7, 8 a.m.

•

MANILA

THE MOST

SERVICE

FREQUENT

NEXT SAILINGS

Pres. McKinley ..May 5, 6.30 p.m. Pres. Coolidge ..May 10, 9 p.m. Prea. Adams.... May 12, & Pres. Jackson May 19, 6

LEON DAUDET

MARCEL BUCARD

That an attempt to overthrow the government of Premier Gaston Doumergue will be made in the near future in the belief of keen political observers on the Franch scena. Not only are the Communista, emboldened by the Stavisky scandal, more powerful than ever, but L'Action Francaise, the royalist movement, under Leon Daudet, took a new lease on life following the rioting of February. However, the growth of Fanciam 18 the greatest menace to the government. The National Confederation of War Veterans, numbering 3,500,000 ex-soldiers, is demanding a new deal. Fascist in principle, the group la sfiliated with other more militant veteran bodies, notably the Croix de Feu and Les Briscards, whose lender is Marcel Bucard. It is an open secret that members of these organizations are drilled and armed. Nor do their offleors make any secret of the fact that they intend to fight if their demands are not met by the government.

G.P.O. IN BRITAIN No Robbery

7th July Bombay, Maraeilles, Havre, Lendon Sir

17,000 14th July

Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

Marsellies & London. Marseilles, Havre, London

0,700 21st July. Kotlerdam, Antwerp &

Kull.

17,000 28th July Bombay, Marseilles & London. 15,000 11th Aug. | Bombay, Marseilles & London,

6,000 18th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,

Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp Hull. 17,000 25th Aug. Bombay. Marseiller & London.

*Cargo only. ↑ Calli Camblancs. Calis Tangiers

GIVES UP MORSE

Kingsley Wood And

The Telegram.

"NOT ALWAYS BAD NEWS"

London.

(Continued from Page 10)

patch of blood on his trousers, and then as the steps came to the next compartment he dived under the seat.

SOVIET HONOUR CHEMIST

Features On Series Of Stamps.

CENTENARY TRIBUTE

Moscow.

on a

EUROPE

the

May 12, 8 a.m. May 26, 8'.m. ..June 9, 8 x,M. June 25, 8 -1. July 7, 8 a.m.

DRASTIC FARE REDUCTIONS TO. NEW YORK.

D.M.

And now the Dollar Steamship Lines announce their Hong Kong New York, all water scenic trip, at lower-than-ever cogle, To the: East Coast of America, via the Panama Canal and with a visit to Havana. First Class G$575, Tourist Class G$920.

Never before has it been possible to travel on these modern luxury liners at rates as low as those offered you to-day. Step aboard a friend-

ly President Liner at Hong Kong and take this opportunity to make you trip to New York "conveniently and inexpensively.

DOLLAR

STEAMSHIP

AMERICAN

LINE

MALL LINT

PEDDER BUILDING, HONG KONG, CANTON BRANCH — NO. 4, SHAKEE ROAD.

BARBER WILHELMSEN LINE MONTHLY SERVICE

PACIFIC COAST

U.S.A.

To

PANAMA CANAL

ATLANTIC COAST.

U.S.A.

ZONE

AGENTS:

DODWELL & CO., LTD.,

Queen's Buildings-

"Second lunch, please!" said the

A special series of postage stamps "It is an injustice to the tele-voice at the door. A pause, and thei

footsteps faded back again along the have been issued in Sevlet Russia Igram to regard it as a particular corridor.

In honour of the world-famous declared Pilligrew wiped his forehead and, chemlat, Dmitri Mendeleef, author conveyer af had news," the Postmaster-General, Sir Kings-crawling from the seat, brushed the of the Table of the Periodic System

dust from his knees and took down of Chemical Elements.

This year Hey Wood, al a luncheon of the

his belongings from the rack. He is the centenary of his birth. Norwich Chamber of Commerce.

buttoned his cost and crammed his The stamps are in four values. "Comparatively few of the 45,-hat over his ears and gazed very They are printed with the jubilee, Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargn to Con-000.000 telegrams despatched each carefully around him. Nothing was date 1934-1934 and a picture of

left to reveal that there had been the great chemist Imposed concerned nantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Lavant Porta by steamers of the year," he added, "are

second person in the compartment replica of his Table. Chediviai Mall Steamship Co.

with unhappy events-even of the He took a deep breath and walked Mendeleef wrote many books an down the corridor. Both the next chemistry. The most widely known sporting variety."

Out of every five telegrams, he compartments were empty. In one is "The Principles of Chemistry" continued, four were concerned his coat and hat and flung them on 1870. He was awarded the Davy with business matters. The public the rack and then went along the Medal of the Royal Society in 1882 S'pore, Pang, Rangoon & Calcutta. were certainly getting very skilled passage towards the restaurant car.and the Copley medal in 1906. He

People saw only a stout man in a died in 1997 in St. Petersburg Beggars A Menace To Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. in the art of the composition of pale-grey suit, his head in his hands Reuter.

the telegram, and showing an in and his eyes closed. Overcome by ordinate desire for personal thrift the heat, perhapa-feeling a little tonously. Only in life you couldn't at the public expense.

sick. There was Awent on his fore-see the end of the tunnel. The

*TALMA

TILAWA SANTRIA

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS,

*Call: Rangoon

1934.

10,000 13th Mny

10,000 27th May 8,000 10th June

- DO -

of them he put his bags, took off which he wrote between 1868 and WALKING DEATH IN¦£10,000,000

NEW YORK

Public Health

The business-reply telegram ser-head and his eyes were curiously lamps censed to shine and the trainWELFARE COUNCIL'S WARNING!

bright. The actions of the last half to move: and silence: and Blackness, had

hour seemed unreal, like deeds of

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South:\completed the reorganization of the grotesque and fore-shortened, every slow grinding of the brakes to

NELLORE

1934.

New York.

SOUTH AFRICAN

RAIL PROJECT

Long Stretches To Be Relaid

AIDING THE UNEMPLOYED

Cape Town.

A beginning will be made very

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for vice, started last December, 1st and 2nd class passengers.

already over 170 users.

dream; yet he would fire that shot He pulled himself together-jerk- * The Post Office had practically and watch thai huddled body.jed back into consciousness by the

The thousands of beggars infesting A hour of waking life. He ordered standstill. Pilligrew rose to his Now York's streets are "an alarm-shortly on the Government's telegraphic equipment on the most roast beef, and, as he poured out the feet, planked down some silver on ing menace to public health." This £10,000,000 scheme to re-lay and up-to-date lines. Construction of salt, wondered why his heart thump- the table, and walked very brickly warning has been issued by the city strengthen long stretches of rali- 2nd June Manila, Exbaul, Brisbane, Sydney & line plant for purely telegraphic ed so heavily and his fingers shock along the corridor till he came to

till the stream of salt wavered, mak-jhis compartment. purposes had ccused.

ing a pattern on the side, of the There were two men standing The telephone system was now plate. His ears were strained to waiting for him. He knew they able to provide, without any sacri- catch some sound, some shadow of were watching him as he pulled awakening suspicion. He had con-back the sliding door. He scarcely Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan fice of telephone facilities, multi-sciously to crush back behind his saw then he only heard someona

Australia. and Hong Kong to

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

TANDA NANKIN

NELLORE

TANDA

NANKIN

4th May.

p.m.

7,000

7,000 7,000 30th June

7,000 7,090

3rd Aug. 1st Sept. 7,000 29th Sept.

Melbourne.

Frequent connections from Australls with the following

The Union S.8. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via Suez.

London viz Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

floor.

the

now

Welfare Council.

way track and at the same time to Out of 370 beggars examined:-give work to large numbers of un-

employed labourers. From 150 were suffering from dis- further details which are eases, frequently in acute and available, it becomes clear that the

Government's highly contagious stages;

experiment will break new ground for social pro- 110 were chronic alcoholics,jects of this sort in South Africa.

and 25 were drug addicts.

:

tudes of line channels capable of brain the thought of crooked ask if he had heard anything re- service for telegraphic purposes figure stumbling down the corridor,sembling the sound of a shot. And

It is understood that work will as well. This was due to the in-leaving small drips of red along the be only heard his own reply, husky

-an attempt at surprise:

The council has appealed to the be begun on the main line some- troduction of voice frequently The people around him seemed at "A shot? No.....Why?"

where in the Cape Province (the The New Zealand Shipping Company's stemmers for Southampton and working for telegraphic transmin- once vivid and unreal, ilke drawings

It was no good. He knew in public to put an end to street bes\exact locality has not been ascer alon, which enabled no fewer than cut from cardboard-like grotesque heart it was no good-that he only ging by refusing to give.

tained.) Here will be erected marionettes, dancing in some colour-[struggled in a trap. He felt afck, Officials estimate that 25 per cent, what will virtually be a "model eighteen telegraph channels to jed pattern. He could only sit over: The man next door has shot of the beggars have been in New labourers and their families under village," accommodating about 200 be provided out of one telephone his plate, eating nothing and wish- him,” said the Volce, and then went]' line."

ing deep inside him that it had on in an impersonal tone, as if it York less than a year, and were at-ideal conditions. The old Morse system was now never happened-hoping even that it were speaking to someone, beyond tracted by stories of the easy lv- This "model village" the fore-

"He was wearing

runner of other which will be Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama, a thing of the past. It had been might all be a nightmare. He knew the window.

ing to be earned by begging. replaced by the teleprinter,

established all over the Union- he dared not go back again........ grey overcoat. Grey suite "There] Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Onaka.

and The train roared suddenly into a was a hat pulled down over his fore- Many have been arrested over and will be absolutely self-contained. the Post Office had converted prae- tunnel blackness. It every second head...." S'hai Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama tically the whole of its main tole by the flash of lampe along 6th May

The workers will be comfortably. over again. One' old man has a rehoused, they will be able to get all graph system to teleprinter work the walls. Life was like that-the "It was the wrong hat," replied cord of 56 arrests for vagrancy their supplies from shops on the

years streaming by like lamps, mono- the Voice.

spot, and there might even be a bloscope provided.

MANTUA

TILAWA

TANDA

*BHUTAN

RAWALPINDI

SANTHIA

*BEHAR

KAISAR-I-BIND

SKIRALA NANEIN *BOUDAN

RAJPUTANA SIRDHANA TAKADA RANCHI

NELLORE

·TILAWA CARTHAGE *BURDWAN TANDA

1934.

13,000 10,000

7,000 8,100 16th May

17th 8,000 18th May 8,100 BOLH

3rd May Brd May.

17,000

May

12,000 81st May

9,000

7,000

Lat Jona

3rd June 12th June

0,700 12th 1.700 17,000 14th June 8,000 15th Jane 7,000 29th June 17.000 28th June 10,000 18th July 6,000 11th July 15,000 12th July

7,000

6th Aug.

* Cargo ouly.

5th July

S'hai, Moji, Koba & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama, Amoy, Shai Molly Kobe & Osaka,

Koba & Yokohama. Shanghel S'hal, Molly Robe & Yokohama.

Mo

Amoy, Shal, Moll, Kobe & Ozaka. S'hai Moji, Kobe, Osaka & YokohamJU

Kobe & Yokohama. af, Kobe & Yokohama.

Kobe & Osaka,

Kobe

Amoy Amoy; S'ha

& Osaka. Bhangbal, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hai Moji, Kobe, Osaka, & Yokohama Amoy, Shal, Moji, Kobe & Ošaka. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. 'S'hal, Hoji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama

را

All dates ore approximate and subject to alteration without notice. All Cabine are fitted with Electric Fans or Punka, Louvre System. Bokmers on London and Australian Lines are fited with Laundries. Parcels measuring, not, mora síkanel om, diervill be received at the Com pany's Office up to Noon on the day previona to aliing

For further information,, Famage:Freight, Handbooks, ste, apply to

MACKINNON MACKENZIE & CO.

P. & 0. Buliding, Commanght Ed. C., Hong Kong.

Agents

ing.

"Well?" anked Pilligrew.

Beuter.

Scene of San Salvador Blast Where 170 Died

General view of a street in San Salvador, Balvador, following the dynä-↑ destroyed' 40 buildings, Fire following on the heels of the blast Ignited- suíte explosion at the docks which killed 170 persona,“ injured" 600. und | 40,090 gallons of gasoline and added to the LETTOT.

Preference will be given to those applicants who have fairly large families-men with four to alx children-so that each. "village" will have about 1,000 inhabitants all told.

The work on which the labourers will be engaged is estimated to, last about two years. The object of the Government, however, is to make the scheme more than a series of "rallef works." With this' end in view; the men will be encouraged by the offer, of special facilities to save money.dat

After two years of employment under these conditions and with the inducement to save money, it is | hoped that many men who are at present in desperate strafta will be given a fresh start in lifs-Reuter,