1934-05-18 — Page 12

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934.

P.& 0.-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.)

$.5.

CORFU **BANGALORE

*MIRZAPORE

MANTHA *ALIPORE RAWALPINDI BHUTAN

KAISAR-I-BIND +-BEHAR

RAJPUTANA **SOUDAN

RANCHI CARTHAGE +BURDWAN

HANPURA CORFU **SOMALI

From

About

Tons Hong Kong

1934.

15,000 10th May 6,000 20th May

Destination.

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

7.800 30th May S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay

11,000 2nd June 6,000 12th June 17,000 16th June 8,000 23rd June

19.000 30th June 4.100 7th July

17.000 14th July 4,700 21st July

17.000 28th July 15,000 11th Aug. 6.000 18th Aug.

17,000 25th Aug. 15,000

8th Sept. 7,000 185th Sept

Bombay, Marseilles & London, S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &

Rull.

Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Maraeilles, Havre, London Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Bull.

MANTUA

11,000 22nd Sept.

* Cargo only.

Calls Cambience.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1934.

"TILAWA

10,000 27th May

8,000 10th June 8,000 24th June

Singapore, Penang,

Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta,

DO

SANTHA

SHIRALA

• Calls Rangoon

THE

CHINA MAIL.

To June Bride and Groom

After an off-and-on romance of many months that nearly drove the gossips frantle it is reported from a reliable source that Russ Columbo, deep-voiced crooner (lüset) and Sally Blane, film star, will set all minds at rest by getting married in June.

BIG LEGACY

FOR BRITISH

FREEMASONRY

£70,000 For Founding

Of Charity,

FIVE TRUSTEES APPOINTED

London.

The announcement of a legacy

of £70,000 to Grand Lodge and

the re-election of the Duke of

RACING PIGEON'S RECORD WIN

First In Race That Was Not Held.

Hagen, Germany.

FELIPE

[Continued from Page 10)

Stephen Raddington's eyes were! mild, and of a faded, unimpressive] grey. When he was in the Tropica scarcely anybody realised this, be cause he wore large,, enigmatic blue, The spectacles against the sun. rest of his features were commend- ably hawk-like; with his iron-grey hair and tanned skin he would have done credit to any magazine illus- tration. Looking at him, you were impressed, if not intimidated; and Stephen Raddington, who was a aen- sitive and observant man, always noticed this.

As a result, he lived in a state of! considerable perplexity. His im- pressions of his external self he got from two sources: from the shaving, mirror, where he saw those timid, watery eyes, the centres of pallid oases in a desert of unnatural tan: and from his own conversation, which was conducted in & high- pitched, rather soothing rolce. Ho could not see that the blue glasses invested him with an air of inscruta

dove-like bility, from which his tones borrowed a veiled menace that they were never intended to convey. His ineradicable diffidence was taken for a baleful assurance. Ingenuous- to a fault, Stephen Raddington found his personality strangely mis-

construed.

He had been a schoolmaster

in

WEATHER UPSETS PLOTTER Sheffield for eight years. Then, his health breaking down and a legacy eropping up, he had come to Central America to write a careful book on' His pre- the Hayan civilisation. sence on the board of inquisitors ho owed solely to his politeness.

A carrier-pigeon has just won a race which was never held.

For years a member of the Hagon Pigeon Society had aspired to win

The new President had thought he

Connaught as Grand Master of the "Grand Tour from Insterburg

(East Prussia)," but without would be interested, and Stephen

hered.

& Purposes, in administering the Rangoon

fund.

Sir Stanley Machin, presenting-Reuter. the accounts, said that during the past year a further £269.863

had been spent on building the

B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for new Freemason's Hall.

1st and 2nd class passengers.

A donation of 250 guineas to

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, unanimously voted. Sir Kynas-

TANDA NANKIN

NELLORE TANDA NANKIN

1924.

7,000 2nd June 7,000 30th June

7.000 3rd Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Erisbane, Sydney & 7,000

Melbourne. Zat Sept 7,000 20th Sept.

the Indian Earthquake Fund was ton Studd, ex-Lord Mayor, in proposing the gift suggested that individual lodges might also contribute.-Reuter.

WHY GREAT NATIONS

FADE AWAY

WEIGHTY GROUNDS

FOR DIVORCE Husband Grows Angry As Wife Grows Fat,

THROWN OUT AT 10 STONE

Chicago, Illinois.

A great observer

Jed awkwardly in his chair.

He would have been astonished if

When Mrs. Laura Johnson mor- unimpressive way the man

settled

PRESIDENT LINER TRAVEL SERVICE

Extends To Every.Port You'll Touch

Wherever you may travel...to Europe through the Suaz, to the Pacific Coast of the United States, to New York via the Panama Canal, or up or down this China Coast, you'll find an American Mail Line and Dollar Steamship Lines office or agent to serve you whenever you set foot on shore...Plan to take advantage of this world-wide unique service that is free.

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

Fortnightly unllings:— Pres. Coolldgs ...May 19, § a.m. Pres. Wilson June 6, 8 a.26. Pres. Hoover June 16, 6 s.m. Pres. Lincoln ...July 4,16 a.m.

NEW YORK'

EUROPE Inquire for round-trip tickets to Europe in connection with Lloyd Triestino Via Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Suer and the Mediterranean

Pres. Harrison ...May 26, 8 .m. Pres. Hayes Pres. Johnson Pres. Monroe

June 9, 8 RUTH, June 28, §.3. July 7, 8 am,

VICTORIA

SEATTLE, THE EXPRESS ROUTE 17 Days To Seattle Via Shanghai, Kole and Yokohama

Fortnightly sailings:—

Pres. Jackson ....May 25, 8 mm. Pres. Jefferson'..June 6, midnight ]'Pres. Grant ...June 23, 2 Pres. McKinley Jaly 7, 8 a.m.

MANILA

TITE MOST FREQUENT

SERVICE

p.m.

NEXT SAILINGS

Pres. Jackson

.. May 19, 6 Pres. Harrison May 26, 9.00 am. p.m. Pres. Wilson....May 29, 6 Pren. Jefferson ..June 2, 6.00 p.m.

DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE

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

BARBER WILHELMSEN LINE

MONTHLY SERVICE

To

PACIFIC COAST

PANAMA CANAL

ZONE

U.S.A.

ATLANTIC COAST. USA.

AGENTS:

DODWELL & CO., LTD., Queen's Buildings

Then he

want to

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

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & English Freemasonry were the Full.

he evolved a had not liked to disillusion him. success. This year chief events at the Quarterly

Besides, he was interested, though. Bombay, Marsellies & London.

plan. Communication of the United Bombay, Marseilles & London.

While carrying his pigeons to the rather appalled. Bombay Marseilles, Havre, London, Grand Lodge of England at Free-station in a basket, he took out his of his fellow-men, Stephen knew far

Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & mason's Hall, Hull.

best bird, with the control ring more about human nature than hel The £70,000 was left by the

His was essentially a Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

working knowledge, in the best sense late Captain Frederick Phillips already on its leg, and brought it realised. Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London, of Barnstaple. It is to be de-back home with him.

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & voted to the founding of such

After strenuous calculations he of the expression, and unblassed by Hull.

a Masonic charity as the Grand succeeded in working out the time any preconceived ideas on the sub- Marseilles & London,

at which the other birds would beject: except one. Stephen Radding- Master may think fit.

No stipulations are made by arriving from Iasterburg. A little ton was never able wholly to con- before that time he took the tram vince himself that he was right; so the testator beyond the expres-out to a suburb, and gave the that his admirable flair for human Frequent connection from Fort Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-sion of a wish that the Royal pigeon to a confederate with in-nature served him about as well, for nantinople, Pireaua, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Masonic Hospital may be remem-structions when to release it. ipractical purposes, as a flair for Thedivial Mall Steamship Co.

Then he went back to the win-Greek lambics. The money is to be vested in!

He eyed Felipe now with embar the names of five trustees, and ning post to await his "success." the Duke of Connaught will ap-

Sure enough, his pigeon came in rassed pity. He felt uncomfortable point a small committee to as- easily first-in fact no other birds himself, and saw that Felipe, behind sist Mr. J. Russell McLaron, Pre-arrived at all.

his flamboyant nonchalance, was un- were closing in on him. In another,executed to-morrow in private: that sident of the Board of General Instead came a telegram saying comfortable too. Hardly surprising, moment he would have told them he will be shot in the prison yard "Birds not released on account of the thought; going to be shot to how Flores came every to the Can-n the presence only of yourselves stormy weather. Race postponed." marrow. Poor devil......He shift-tina de los Cuatro Vientos, and and, I suppose, a priest. will tell you what you sometimes slept there.

But then they made a mistake: know.""

They took him, to his unbounded he had been able to read the inter-quite a pardonable mistake, but a pretation Felipe put upon his per-fatal one. They all saw how near surprise, at his word. His mild sonality. Intrigued by this addition they were to getting what they assurance made them realise how to his audience, and stimulated by wanted; de la Torre, thinking to much they had blustered, how much on bluster: he impressed the opportunity of winning fresh press home their advantage, lost it relled sympathies or defying fresh hos-for them altogether. For some them enormously. They did not tility, Felipe

nevertheless minutes he had held back from the even ask him how he knew, but asid dubious. Here was a tough nut to rapping crescendo of their questions, good-bye to him with fulsome grati- crack; behind the malevolent blank letting his imagination play upon the tude, as though for something al- of those blue glasses be imagined scene, savouring it nastily.

ready accomplished. He was going narrow piercing eyes, The careless, Seddenly he stood up, thumping down to the coast next day, to de-

the table with a thick white hand, cipher stele in a awamp, ried Frank Johnson in 1928 she himself in his chair hinted at con-

They arrested Flores that night, weighed 8xt. 5lb.

sclous power. Still, it was all grist There was silence, save for the ir-

the prisoner's acted on information given them by She is now suing for diverce, the to the mill of Felipe's dramatic regular rasping of following allegations being set forth sense; and there was really very breath. Then, in a soft, compelling Felipe, and shot him a week later.

to If you go to Carrayala, you are in the petition:

little left of Felipe except his drama- voice, Juan de la Torre began

speak of what would happen on the almost bound to see, at the corner It has revived the Roman idea

At 9st, 91b. her husband gave her tic sense.

The cross-examination began, Its next day; of the market-square, the table of the Cantina de la Vittoria (which is the only one with preten- fication of its head such as was AI 10st. 5lb. unkind remarks tempo was quicker than usual, its crowds, the firing party.......

It was a conventional, not a very sions to exculsiveness), a man in a evidenced by the erection of pro-were passed.

atmosphere more tense; the third to "Rome and Au-

At first, vivid, picture that he drew; but it blue and sliver uniform, five times vincial altars

At 11st. 6b. she was thrown out act was nearing a climax.

In as magnificent as any worn in the gustus."

again and called "Fat."

Felipe was magnificent. Hot in de served to defeat its purpose. Germany under Hitler has also: At 11st. Ib..she broke the scales fiance: indomitably sullen: suavely Felipe's mind his own vision of the Carrayalan army.

He will be the centre of a flatter- its tens of thousands of irrecon- and was thrown out again. . and scornfully evasive: sometimes scene, forgotten in his agony, sprang

to life-comforting, ingly silent group, and even though cilables, now imprisoned, as the All this, Mra, Johnson alleges, courteous and resigned. Ho mocked {price of authority.

constitutts cruelty, since she had his judges indirectly, by treating so strengthening, at all costs to be you do not join it you will hear him Force is worshipped, as in Rus- "no control over the course of na-lightly the pass they had brought achieved. His body stopped quiver- (for he talks in a remarkably loud ing. He drew himself up. He was and dramatic voice) pruising a man sla and Italy, and how the system ture."-Reuter. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.will settle down into a permanent

who used to be a friend of his; S'hal., Mojl, Kobe & Yokohama,

To-day, for the new man's bene-at bay again, no longer cornered.

They could do nothing more with though to his courage and his mag Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. consortium no man can yet sea.passed in a single day is to put it, he even revived the suggestion S'hai Moji, Kote, Osaka & Yokohama None of these systems allows ΟΣ

and an Emergency Bill of a deep friendship behind his him. Late in the afternoon he was nanimity, it appears, no words can Kobe & Yokohama.

dobate or reasoning, and Kobe &

& Yokohama.

they everything at the disposal of the loyalty to Flores; he gave them sent back to his cell, still under sen- do full fustice. Several years ago, have no place for variety for opin- Government. Kobe & Osaka.

glimpses of it-little pegs for sentence of death; still with everything when he, Felipe, lay under sentence of death for an affair in which their & Osaka

lons.

allowing to look forward to..... Any such Government will throt-timental deduction-by am.

Tired and angry, the committee of political principles had involved both Complete Powers & Yokohama

of them, this incomparably high- Kobe,

tle "the importance of adventure himself here and there a break in Shal, Mofl Kaba & Osaks. Alaric, when remonstrated with for the promotion and preservation the voice, a bitten-off betrayal of judges adjourned to the nearest can-

Kobe & Tokohama.

for plundering Rome and asked of

Professor warmth. civilisation," an

He had lately dropped Lins. Garrulous even in defeat, it souled comrade, this never sufficient- what was left to the people, re-Whitehead puts it

this motif from his repertoire; its was some time before they askedly to be lamented friend, had come plied: "Your soul."

'All "ordered" schemes stop the effect on the bored tribunal had al-Stephen Raddington for his upinion. forward at the eleventh hour: had He looked uneasily, though they taken the whole blame upon himself; But modern dictators will not enterprise of the individual, mors ways been negligible, and its Imi- allow even this.

or less. They are static and not plied support of another candidate did not know it from one to the and had secured, at the cost of his In England, extremists are en- dynamic.

for the lime light was not wholly to other. The blue spectacles lent him own life, the liberation of the pre- sent speaker from a death as terri deavouring to prepare us to sub- No official dare experiment In his taste. But it was worth trying a sphinx-like, oracular air.... mit to a dictatorship which they his affairs. "Theirs not to make on the newcomer. Felipa over-acted "You really wish to know what 1 ble se it was ignominious.

It is a moving recital. promise us, and they are meeting reply; theirs but to do and dia.”, grossly. with a volume of success which is The more of official management. Actually, they gave him a worse tilian Spanish sounded oddly in their conclusion Felips will rise, finish his De drink, square his padded shoulders, [disquieting.

there is, the leas room is left for time than ever before: they were cars, like Sir attempts at improvement, for the making the, most of their last "Yes," they said. Stephen Rad- and go out. On your way back to Stafford Cripps tells us, is to be insight that demands experiment, chance. Once Rivers leant forward dington did not believe them, the hotel you will see him, immobile planned to take over complete for uncovering faults and abusos jand hit him hard across the mouth; "There is only one thing," he said, and resplendent in the sunshine, And they sent the sergeant out for in a high, gentle voice, "that will outside the big new cinema they have Powers, only subject to a single that need a remedy, vota of Parliament.

In short, disintegration, has set a whip, though they did not use it. make that young, rean betray his bulit on the alte of the Teatro Felipe came gradually nearer the accomplice, He does not fear the Nacional, where no one ever muted breaking point. He felt weak and death you are offering him. But plays. Felipe is commissionaire dizzy; the realition of martyrdom send to him and say that he will belthere.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan

and Hong Kong to Australis.

Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days.

Frequent connections from Australis with the following:-

[Continued from Pope 8)

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New of worship of the State and del-a cross look. 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,

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and| London via Panama Canal.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN,

*BEHAR KAISAR-I-HIND SHIRALA NANKIN

COZEMANA

SIRDHANA TAKADA RANCHI NELLORE

CITAWA MA

BURDWAN RANPURA SANTHIA TANDA *SOMALI

CARTHAGE

1934.

0,100 80th May 12,000 91st May 8,000 1st June 7,000 3rd June 12th Jung 6,700 1201

14th June 4,000

000 15th June 7,000 20th June 17,000 28th June 7.000 5th July 10.000 18th July 18,000 12th July 6,000 11th fur 17.000 27th July 9,000 27th July 7,000 5th Aug. 7,000

7th Aug.

* Cargo only.

Sharghat S'hat Mol Amoy,

Moj

Bobe & Yokohama.

S'hat, Kobe & Yokohama, Amoy, Shai Mali, Kobe & Osaka. Shai, Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama,

All dates are approxima's and subject to alteration without notice.

All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fana or Punks Louvre System. - Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring not more than 5 ca, fh, will be received at the Com pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing,

For further Information. Passags, Fralekt, Handboska, eta, epply to i

MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.,

Agenta.

P. & P. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.

Legislation, leaders

ригрозев,

7

Once that is gained, there can in and the strength of the nation be no revoke." Inevitably the soal tree will be sapped by the can cumulated savings of every onelker of over-swollen bureaucracy,

him to.

more once

think?" he asked. His correct Cas-

At its