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..... Friday,

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Saturdays,

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Saturday,

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Saturday,

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Sunday,

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 9, 1934.

NEW MOTOR TANKER Between Eight And Eight

SOLHEIM

Maiden Voyage To

West Indies.

BUILT IN NORWAY

•

(Continued from Page 9.)

pocket-book, And keys-half a dozen on a ring. The largest, Manners

Yale

He

He had to brace himself again to

key

The thin pink nose fairly quiver.uessed, was the pass-key to the cell

Then there were two ed with his earnestness as he pleaded keys. For a second Manners stood in thought for a confession. He mouthed out fingering these,

deep hardly But he had no time to spare. platitudes that "Manneras The motor tanker Solheim, built heard; his attention was curiously must do his thinking while in action. by the Nakskov Skibsvaerft to the distracted by that Hapsburg lip open the cell door; every one of his The big order of Hvalfangerselskabet Norge But the Governor went on pleading, actions after that must be made with SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu.

opened the door; of courte it (Chr. Nielsen and Co.), Larvik, has and Manners began to feel himself out a trace of hesitation. CHICHIBU MARU (Omit Shanghai). Friday, 10th Aug.

Three

weeks in a cou would. He stepped out into the cor TATSUTA MARU

Wednesday, 16th Aug. at 10 a.m. left on her maiden voyage to the weaken.

demned cell are bad for a man's ridor with his heart pounding against He felt himself his ribs. His mind was racing through Wednesday, 5th Sept. at 10 am. West Indies.

The principal dimensions of this strength of win.

He tried to remember the entrance to vessel, are, 460 ft. length between being driven into a confession, and a long terles of mared recollections.

Es- the

be had seen prison;

it several perpendiculars, 69 ft. 6 in. moulded he did not want to confess.

main pecially he did not want to give anytimes, when they had taken him out breadth and 34 ft. depth to deck. She has a carrying capacity cause for satisfaction to the Gover to his trial and when they bad brought

him back to dic. And, the Governor went on of 12,500 tons dw. on 27 ft. 4 in.nor.

He had gone more than once to the gone there that very draught, and her loaded speed. is a talking, and Manners stared ins chapel-he had

cinated at that long Hapsburg chin. morning (to-day was Sunday) with a little over 12 knots.

The Solheim is built to the highest "You see what I mean?" said the warder at each side of him. Most of

all was he trying to remember class of Lloyd's Register, with two Governor.

certain door in the wall of the long

in 16 transversal longitudinal and

corridor "Oh, shut up," said Manners, and bulkheads, dividing the ship into 10 his irritalion burst all bounds. centre deep-tanks and 10 wing- With a single stride forward he cell and chapel doors. Once, as he was, brought himself within effective being led past it, the Governer had tanks.

come through it, alone, shutting it be Total Capacity

range. As he came forward his

him. It was the door into his The total capacity of the main right fist came up in an upper-cut private apartments. Manners was sure. As he walked down the corridor he cargo tanks is' about 18,300 cubic into which was compressed all the tried call before his mind'a ere

up additional hold baffled rage which seethed within what he remembered of that door. He metres. while an forward carries another 1,000 double him. His fist landed on that long could remember the colour of it; he bottom in way of the engine-room, chin with a hard, clean smack which could remember the brass knob. With he assured himself that huge effort arranged for carrying fresh water echoed sharply round the cell, and a

which earrounded the small Yale key- assured LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genoa and fuel oil, the latter holding 1,276 the Governor fell to the floor utterly he had noticed the tiny brass plate

tons of fuel, sufficient for a voyage stunned. Not for nothing had Man-hole. Another huge effort jof 25,000 miles.

Iners been an amateur boxer of rehim that the keynote was on the left- hand side of the door-it would never The two duplex steam-drive; pute.

do to hesitate in front of it. pumpe have a capacity of 325 tons "Ere, I say," said the lively war- per hour, which enables a full cargo der.

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Tuesday, Thursday,

30th July

17th July 16th Aug.

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Saturday,

14th July

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Saturday,

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†MORIOKA MARU

Saturday,

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†PENANG MARU

Sunday,

29th July

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

KITANO MARU (Nagasaki direc). Friday, SUWA MARU

20th July

BOKUYO MARU

Sunday, ... Friday,

22nd July

27th July

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23rd Aug.

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Sat

Tues.r

to be discharge in about 20 hours. Both he and his stolid

The master and officers are housed

were on their feet in un

amidships and the engineers and They sprang at Mannera.

lively warder gripped him

crew aft.

one

corri which he found himself. It'

was a door rather different from the

One of the two Yale keys in his pocket would open it; he could not tell which. It would be a frightful risk partner to fumble, but it was a risk be must instant take. After all, It was an even

The chance. He put his hand in his poc- roundket and gripped one of the keyi rendy.. He thought, as he did so, that pro- key of those two chance galded into his fingers.

The propelling machinery consists the waist; the stolid warder tried to bably his life depended upon which of two B. and W. Diesel engines pinion his armas.

There

with a total output of 4,000 j.hp.)

But Manners was too strong for and the auxiliaries comprise two! Diesel-electric generator sets of 100 them. Rage and desperation gave 1.h.p. each and two oll-fird bollers, him a lunatic's strength. the latter supplying power for the was plenty of muscle in his slight form. He tore his arms free. One pumping machinery and the winches and windlass, and for steaming out

the tanks.

GIANTS OF DEEP AT WAR

Thrill For Hundreds Of Bathers.

Durban. (Natal).

With such feverish rapidity had his

more then half a dozen strides yet.

(Continued on Page-11).

CONSIGNEES

mind worked that he had not taken,

'CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.

hand gripped the stolid warder by the back of the neck the other arm held the lively warder pinioned.! One fierce mad wrench achieved its object. The head of the atolid war. der crashed against the head of the lively warder with a noise like two wooden boxes struck together. That one blow might have been sufficient, but Matiners was too in sane to check bimself. He brought The Steamship. those unresisting heads together

From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP, LONDON AND STRAITS,

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of

be

A fierce battle between a again and again, until his strength Consignees of Cargo are

herby of the ebbed from him and he let the two informed that all Goods, are being giant eagle ray and one

landed at their risk into the hazardous biggest sharks

off limp forms fall to the ground. ever seen Durban Beach was witnessed by Manners staggered back across and/or extra hazardous Godowns

The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf hundreds of bathers. So savage the cell and surveyed the wreck he& Godawn Ca., Lid, whence and/or 4th Aug was the fight that the lifesavers had made. The whole affair bad|from the wharves delivery may 4th Sept. called all bathers out of the only lasted a few seconds; and per-jobtained

No claims will be admitted after haps it was not more than two or

the Goods have left the Godowns, and The lifesavers noticed a com three more before Manners recover all Goods remaining undelivered after motion in the water some 30 toed himself sufficiently to think the 14th July, 1931, will be subject to 40 yards out and thought it was clearly. Even then his first thought rent. a school of porpoises and went was that he was at leat alone, com be presented to the Underalgued on All claims against the steamer must 5th Aug to warn the bathers. Suddenly, paratively speaking, for the first | or before the 28th July, 1934, or they 6th Sept. two huge fins, black and white, time for three weeks; that he could will not be recognized.

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Wed.,

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20th July

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Fri., Wed.,

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All broken, chafed, and damaged 20th July it. The two monsters closed nor's unconscious body recalled, bim Goods are to be left in the Godowns,

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A man cleanly knocked where they will be examined on

July, 1934, at 10 a.m., by Messen 13th minutes the struggle continued out, like the Governor, does not take Goddard and Douglas. up and down the breakers which long to recover. For a single split No Fire fazurance has been effected were discoloured with blood.

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Hong Kong, 7th July, 1934. man's Pool heavy splashing next should make a wild attempt to es- to the pier attracted attention

It tape.

whether he

ago.

and a giant ray was seen,

The chances against escape were

LLOYD TRIESTINO. disappeared, but, about 30 yards still enormous he knew, but there away, a monster shark with a was a chance, which was more than

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES five minuter fin about three feet long was there had been seen patrolling up and down-With an enormous effort he steadied

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his handkerchief crammed Whipping the course cover from the the Hong Kong and Kowloon Whart long pillow of his bod: ke wound It& Godown Company, Lid, at Kowloon,

He was

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round the Governor's head. about to bind The Governor's Arme when he remembered and he tore off Optional cargo, will not be landed the Governor's coat and waistcoat here, unless notice has been given 48

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