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SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1934,

P.&0.-British India

Apcar and

astern & Australian

Lines

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

TAKING CARGO FOR

TRAITS, 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.)

From

6.5.

MANGALORE

Tone Hong Koor

About

1934.

15,000 10th May 1,000 28th May

IZLAPORE

NTSIA

PORE WALPINDI BUTAN

11,000

7,000 30th May 2nd June 5,000 12th June 17.009 16th June 6,000 23rd June

Destination.

THE CHINA MAIL.

Bringing Insull Back to Face Justice

Thes. Exilona, American freighter on which Samuel Insull, former Chicago utilities ezar, and his officiel "escort," Burton Berry, Third Secretary of the American Embassy at Istanbul, voy.. aged from Smyrna, Turkey, to the United States. Insot Captain Wenzel Habel, commander of the Exilona.

The Passing Of Chantie

The

Curlew

(Continued from Page 12.)

drifts, no man can say, but some- thing penetrated the great carcass so that the bear halted, and, turn- ing, upreared himself, as though to put an end to so, outrageous a situation.

NEW ISLE SPOUTS FIRE.

Volcanic Activity In Chisima Group

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

The dery little island which Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall

bobbed up in the Chishima group S'pore,

Penang, Colombo & Bombay.

He stood like a giant of a man,

Chantle, seeing this, realised that in January was spouting fire and Bombay, Marseilles & London. S'pore, Penang, Colombo & Bombay, his lean arrow-shaped head turned

savagely at the pestering team, his her race was nearly run, and what smoke recently according to Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marsellies, Havre, London, long black claws distended, his man- there was left for her to do must wireless message from the capain

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp &

sive forearms reaching nearly to the be done very quickly. Therefore

At his she crept up as close as she dared, of the ss. Otaru Maru, Bombay, Marseilles & London.

centre of the igloo dome.

The circumference and height of Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antworp aflanks danced the dogs, we wet, the butt of Metauk's epear into a the island have also greatly in-

Marseilles, Havre, London weak with and, dropping on one knee, wedged

staggering as they attacked, their cranny of projecting ice, sloping the creased since it was first observed, Bombay, Maraeilles & London, 6,700 21st July Bomburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & enmity.

Marsellies, Havre, London yellow bodies fired with an ancient weapon forward so that it pointed in February, the volcanic activity It was a battle of the directly at the great white chest. died down but the presen eruption "Come, O coward with the spirits reported to be bigger than that Rull

strong against the weak, to which

of a fish." she quavered shrilly, which accompanied the island's Bombay, Marsellies & London.

there could be but one end. Bombay, Marseilles à London.

As Chantle crept into view the "and I will throw your entrails to birth, Marsellica, Havre, London,

BAR-I-HIND MOEAR

12,000 80th June 6,100 7th July

17,000 14th July

KAPUTANA

PIGUDAN

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THAGE PRIROWAN

MYPORA,

MOMALI

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17,000 28th July 15.000 11th Aug. 6,000 18th Aug.

17,000 25th Aug. 15,000 8th Sept.

Bull

Rotterdam, Antwerp &brute dropped to all-fours, recognis-/the dogs."

Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Karseilles & London. Bombay Marsellies, Havre, London, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp Bull. 11,000 22nd Sept. Marseilles & Londen.

7,000 15th Sept.

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Inquent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- ple, Pireuus, Smyrna End her Levant Ports by steamers of the Bedrial Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

Rangoon

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

1934.

LAWA

10,000 27th May

Singapore, Penang,

Calcutta.

INTELA

8,000 10th June

ALA

8,000 24th June

- DO

Cala Bangeon

ing a new and different opponent.

The white pyramid swayed for-

was now

The man smell came to him, and he ward to bring this pigmy assailant stood, swaying with a slow rocking within reach of the thick forearms. late had roamed the frigid spaces

Chantie involuntarily shut her of the North. motion, while Instinct moved dis-

The life of the white bear was turbingly in the aleck akull. Then eyes, for the lean head the old woman heard a roaring indirectly above her own. Then amid now theirs, and flowed mysteriously the furious barking of the team she through every vein. Their faltor- her ears that came from her Own pounding heart, and made one weak heard a choking grunt. The spearing heart-beats steadied, their chill- shoft quivered and bent. She could ed limbs grew warmer, till present- uncertain thrust.

For an instant thus while the vast

hunter.

It was only a pin-prick, and drow see nothing, the world being blottedly sleep crept in through the igloo no blood, but it roused in the beast out by the huge overhanging body, door and spread its beneficent cloak the inherent timidity of man which but her stiffened arm grew suddenly over the home of Metank the

wet. lurks in all animals, great and

But there was one whom steep did small, so instead of one swift stroke of the broad paw that would have weight seemed to polae above. her; [not reach. Chantie sat silent in the erushed out whatever life remained till, with a crack, the shaft splin-gloom, waiting for the sands of life She managed to light in Chantie's withered body, the lord tered in her grip, she felt some-to run out. of the North lunged at the frenzied thing stinging and searing bite into the stone lamp by using a little of fell the bear's fat, and laid the rest of dogs and began to shuffle toward her side. Then the heavens the distant hills. Simultaneously and crushed her into the snow. The the meat close by the faces of the the old woman,

who by this time last thing she heard was a muffled sick ones so that by no chance could had cast away

all fear, perceived barking that sounded as though it they miss it.

She pulled in the sinew fishing- that with him would go all prospect came from a long way off,

She struggled back to conscious-line and rebaited the bone hook. If BL Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for of food. And it was for food that

she had made ready to die.

ness a Httle later, feeling that her pass that. She arranged the broken now he would not and 2nd class passengers.

It must be that in times of utter side was on fire and her face buried a salmon came

ita stained blade by all human weakness and clothe it-it hard to breathe. Slowly her eyes Metauk's side, that her son might self with prodigious if transitory cleared. She was partly under the not accuse her of carelessness, for

scarce on Beau-i powers. In such periods the vital bear, which was lying still with the good spears were

rent flanks, fort Sea. Then because her breast flame achieves an unwonted bril-dogs guzzling at his

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, stress humanity is able to discard in fur, close and choking, making spear with

1934.

7.000 2nd June 3,000 30th June

Melbourne.

3rd Aug. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney &liance before it flickers into dark-while the double-edged spear pro-was burning so that it hurt horribly ness, and mortality scales hitherto jected stiffly from the prono carcass. even to breathe, she pulled the hood Chantie had ΤΟ feeling of of her walrus-skin tunic over her unconquered heights. So it was

the floor: with Chantle, the Curlew.

triumph, but only of extreme weak-head, and lay down on few ness. The fire and the frenzy had with her face against the igloo wall.

7,000

7,000

STIN

1st Sept. 7,000 29th Sept.

The knowledge that those

quier monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shangha! and Japan who were left to her, and whom she passed, leaving her an old, old There was nothing more she could Bong Kong

Hong Kong to Australia. -

Sydney 19 days.

Frecent connections from Australia with the following:-

loved with all her pagan soul, were woman, wounded to the death, and remember to do. salvation depended on the oblation with her final offering yet unmade. Hours passed. Unorri, the North

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Naw sick and starving, and that their There was little time now in which Wind, ceased to moan, and over the

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whole stark wilderness spread a of her own worn-out body, was all- to make it, sufficient. The strength of youth She managed to twist herself strange calm. The stars came out and flowed back in a swift, penultimate free, and with ultimate effort dis-and with them a quivering Auxera tide, bringing with it a strange fire lodged the spear. The dogs took no that shook its gleaming banners in of her. being too busy the zenith and shed a soft radiance that crept through vein and sinew notice and revived wild memories of daya stuffing their empty bellies with hot over the home of Metank.

The satiated dogs curied up long past. Her Angers stiffened meat. The spear she found over the spear, and she stood up-but a poor cutting instrument, and slept, while four gaunt forms stole towards the right, straighter than she had stood it took precious moments to hack down from the hills

Even stiffened body of the white bear. Oulibut went off a lump of dripping flesh. since the day when into the igloo with the walrus tusk as she toiled at this the strength All else was motionless, breathless ran out of her like water, and her and empty, a vast and stinging vold on top.

Her stiff fingers became caked with a above which the springing dome of She was not old any more.

diamonded sky rose with a great voice came back, displacing the grisly glaze.

Then the snow fell again like ajencircling sweep. raven-like croak of later years, and

It was nearly morning before & Osaka.

with that volee, vibrant and con- ghostly blanket in which she pitted:

she Addressed the her dwindling vitality against the Metauk moved. He felt better! &Yokohama temptuous,

dwindling figure of the lord of the onslaught of storm and bitter cold. and not nearly so hungry. His fide & Onaka.

She did not think at all, but only opened more freely. Turning, lis North:

"Are you then a rat and the son laboured, her lips set tight, a mouth touched ment. It was frozen difference! He of many rala that you run from a strange flicker in her glassy eyes. solid, but what curlew? Do your knees knock to-And with every movement it was as began to tear at it, driving in his gether while you seek shelter with though the spear were penetrating strong teeth with ever-increasing Presently he stopped eat- own tortured side. The final energy. wife who hides under the her your

ing and puckered his copper-colour- anow that she may bear you a son oblation was nearly made now.

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LESS CHINESE IN MALAYA.

Result Of Vigorous Immigration Move.

MA CHAN-SHAN AT HANKOW.

At sales ore approximate and subject to alteration without notice. pall your heart out and give it to too swollen, but every fibre in his derisively, is it perhaps that an Federated Malay States has bech man of the Hellungkiang Provin

On Visit To Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang.

"Is It then Pituluk who has kili-

Accompanied by several former WAA

According to information from

volunteer leaders, Chinese organisations, Manchurian ike that of the small cross-beaked sleeping-bag. felt something fam-led the bear that I dreamed

Chinese population in the Gen.. Ma Chan-shan, former Chair- birds that come when the sun is liar touch his mouth. He could climbing on the roof of the igloo, overscus warm. Stop, therefore, that I may not open his lips because they were or," and here the hunter chuckled the

with no feathers in constantly decreasing as a result cial Government, has arrived in Marahal Chang famished body thrilled to the taste aged curlew the dogs."

Rauch-Hang. Vice-Commander of Blers of London and Australian Linus ara fitted with Laundries.

Now whether it was the dogs of fresh meat. There was no ask her tail has gone out and brought of vigorous immigration measures Hankow to visit

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at his heels or the ing whence it came,

In 1931, 17,879 Chinese residents the Bandit Suppression Forces, ac that snapped ce up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

1932 cording to a Chinese report from But Chantic, the Curlew, did not left the Malay States, in

Hankow. farther information. Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc, apply to effect of this stream of derision Tilligos or Nanook put the question. North?"

112,452, and in 1983; 10,135. pored out by the ancient crone as strength from the wild body that so she stumbled gasping through the but all three lay and sucked in answer.

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