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+ SOUDAN

RANCHI

- CARTHAGE

**BURDWAN

· RANPURA

CORFU

↑ SOMALI

Tons Hong Kong

From

About

1934.

Destination.

6,700 21st July Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

17,000 28th July 15,000 11th Ang. 6,000 18th Aug.

17,000 25th Aug. 15,000

8th Sept. 7,000 15th Sept.

MANTUA

11.000 22nd Sept. RAWALPINDI 17,000 6th Oct.

BANGALORE

6,000 13th Oct

COMORIN RAJPUTANA **BHUTAN

CHITRAL

15,000 20th Oct.

17,000 3rd Nov.

6,000 10th Nov.

+

Bombay, Marseilies & London,

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

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

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

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

Bombay, Marseilles & London.

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

Bombay, Marcelles & London.

Bombay, -Marseilles & London,

Hull.

+Calls Cazablanca.

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1934.

Paul Codos (left) and Maurice Rossi being greeted after they came down at Floyd Bennett Field, New York, after dying the Atlantic on what was to have been a Parli to California non-stop flight. Their plane (arrow) is shown from the air a moment after it landed. As may be seen, only a handful of persons were there to greet the pair. This is the same plane in which they flew non- stop from New York to Syria.

LIVES OF MEN (Continued From GREAT SEA

Page 10)

MYSTERY MAY

BE SOLVED

Disappearance Of Kobenhavn.

A

WRECK BELIEVED FOUND OFF AUSTRALIA

PRESIDENT LINERS

are

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with Every Stateroom, Outside, Large and Airy

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SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK THE SUNSHINE ROUTE 18 Days To San Francisco Via Shanghai,

Kobe Yokohama and Honulnim ·

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

Fortnightly sailinga pike

Pres. Grant ....Aug. 18, 6 am. Pres. McKinley 2.8ept. 1, 6, 8,19, Pres. Jackson..Sept. 15, 6 .. Pres. Jefferson Sept. 19, 6 0. Prea, Grant .Oct. 12, Midnight

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"And now, with passion, he wish- hand. His head was bursting, but Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London,jed that his limbs were completely he felt his body dissolve in a fear Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & free. If he could, he would have that was partly an ecstasy; he was thrown away his diving-dress and alive, as the shark was alive; they 17th Nov. Marseilles & London.

air-pipe and flung himself to the were both of them leaping, living surface. His slim, naked body was things. And then, in audden like oiled silk and he felt confident blood-fury, he ran amok-slashing that he could dodge a shark; for he and rending and stabbing as so was a superb swim-diver. He felt many of his race were wont to do

• Cargo anly.

that his cumbersome garments, on land.

protection,

The greatest sea mystery of the Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Carge to Con- though physically a

An hour later, on board the lug-decade may be near solution if it stantinople, Pireaus, Smyrns and other Levant Ports by steamers of the were in too many ways a handicap, ger, the Australian stooped with can be proved beyond doubt that Khedivial Mall Steamship Co.

and he doubted, before many mo- some curiosity over the prone wreckage recently washed up on out helm or steersman, is pictured" ments had passed, whether he figure of Saung Lo. He had been the coast of Australia is from the as relieving the tedium by playing could reach the surface before the hauled aboard unconscious, though lost Kobenhavn. The sea guards at dice with the devil the stakes shark had conquered its fear and

apparently uninjured. Strangely, well her secrets, and the world has his own soul. had reached him. {

Vienna however, he had lost his shell-net.waited five years for news of the Still he watched, feeling the lift

"Even stranger than the ghost Saung Lo regained conscious Danish training ship which sailed ships of fiction are the ships of time ago, has now been sold up. A Vienna night club, closed some of his body through the lightening Singapore, Fort Swettenham, Fenang water, sensing the nearness of the ness, but he did not tell the Aue-out of Montevideo December, wood and steel, ships of fact, which The actual claim which led to the

Rangoon and Calcutta.

was 1928, bound for Australia.

in modern times have sailed our forced sale was for 94. The sale S'pore., Penang & Calcutta.

great fish as it circled around. He tralien about the shark. It

"The Kabenhavn," says a bulletin

One of these, the realised only 7-but this more than could see the rows of serrated the sort of thing the Australian

seas unmanned. -- DO

teeth in the open jaws, and the would laugh at and only half- from the Washington, DC. head-Hudson's Bay steamer Baychime, covered cutstanding liabilities. large, unswerving eyeballs. These believe. He just said, in the quarters of the National Geographic has haunted Arctic waters for the clipped pidgin English he had Society, "was a new, fivemasted,

past three years. Loaded with a B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for world that was his own; he must learned from the Kanakas: "Plenty steel bark, the largest sailing ves valuable cargo of furs she was

fight, and fight to the last. He big feller shell down below, Tuan, sel in the world, equipped with

auxiliary engines and a powerful caught in the ice of Wainwright, there was no mistaking the sturdy had once battled with an octopus, Bimeby I fetch him, to-morrow."

Her captain and crew lines of the little Guiding Star. EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, and several times he had had obs-

But by the morrow Saung Le was radio. On December 21 she report went ashore, resolved to wait until Most Famous Mystery

ed all well. She was then 400 miles the spring break-up to work her cura struggles with things he could dead-of heart failure,

"Perhaps the most famous my- out, well started on her course free. not name; but this was his first

"It gets most of 'em sooner of through the South Atlantic, the

stery of all, a puzzle that has defied enemy shark-the first of

the later," commented the Australian lonelicet waters in the world. That

solution for over 60 years, is the 3rd Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney species that he had not easily philosophically to his visitor from was the last word ever heard from

question of what happened one day scared away.

the mainland. "All these fellers her.

"One night a territe storm broke in December, 1872, on board the Through the glass panes of his stay down too long and go down too Crewless Kobenhavn Dodged Reef her on her wandering course.

her loose, from her moorings and set Mary Celeste. Countless ingenious helmet he viewed it with a warm quick-and it's no nae warning

At theories have been advanced. Sir bodily fear, yet still with his mind j'em, they don't take any heed: ...

"One month later the settlers on intervals she is reported by the Arthur Conan Doyle fashioned from

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1934.

**TAKADA

8,000. 21st July at 3 p.m. 19,000 5th Aug. 8,000 19th Aug.

• Calls Rangoon

† Call Port Swettenham.

1st and 2nd class passengers.

TILAWA SANTHIA

NELLORE TANDA

· NANKIN

NELLORE

1934.

7,000 7,000 1st Sept. 7,000 29th Sept. 7,000 End Nov.

Melbourne, and Hobart.

were the perils of that

decret

in

Alaska

Storm Breaks Loose

Reuter.

Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan racing sweet and cool. He must Not a bad little feller for a Malay, Tristan da Cunha, an isolated rock captains of whalers and trading his explanation & romantic novel, fight. It would come to that in a but a dam' fool when all's seid and halfway between Brazil and, Good vessels. Eskimos have salvaged but no one will know the true story. and Hong Kong to Australia.

moment, and to be ready for it, done. ...".

Hope, were greatly excited by the most of her cargo, and twice she has On November, 7, 1872 the brig Mary Hong Kong to Sydney 19 days,

approach of sailing vessel. She been boarded by parties of white Celeste put out of New York har- *AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND for a cheap Holiday, with his two hands, he dropped his

Ten thousand miles away, about seemed to be steering aimlessly, men from passing ships. But al-bour for Genos, her hold filled with (Surfing, Fishing, Shooting, and Climates to suit all. Your Eagliah loaded net of pearl-shell and drew

from an outside pocket a knife the same time, another man died with a light sail set, before a gale ways the eludes capture, drifting barrels of alcohol. On board was money is worth 23 per cent more),

that he used for prising open the of heart-failure. He was 75 years which was driving her straight for onward with the ice pack into his wife, their small daughter, and shells. It was a good knife. But old, a millionaire, and head of the the island's jagged reefs. Just as northern mists.

the captain, Benjamn S. Briggs, he was sorry to have had to let great firm of Amalgamated Ocean disaster seemed inevitable ahe veer- "Some 10 years ago Atlantica crew of seven men.

Products, Inc. Indirectly he emed aside and drifted safely past, not shipping was for months endanger- "Five weeks later the British Suddenly the jaws leapt at him, ployed Saung Lo, though neither 400 yards offshore.

ed by the erratic behavior of the ship. Del Gratia found, the Mary had ever heard of the other's exist "There was no sign of life on Governor Parr, a disabled British Celesta 300 miles west of Gibraltar.

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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

RANPURA

1934.

Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

and he felt ___ thòir saw-liketeath

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and grate on the metal of his helmetence. For some weeks before his board, and she was riding far down schooner, abandoned by her crew fn Her sails were set on a starboard and drag down to his shoulder and death this old man had been try at the stern, indicating some dam mid-ocean. Superstitious sailors tack and she was ploughing ateadily arm. The graze was. tentative, ex-ing to frame a merger between his age. Otherwise all was in good credited her with supernatural con- eastward, but their ignals to her She carried, in met with no reply. Worried by this perimental, and insufficient to company and a rival one, with order, and there could be no doubt trol over storms. break through the canvas and rub- view to economies in the produc- of her identity. She was the lost her hold a fortune in Canadian they, salled along side and hoarded ber. But it was enough to make tion, and marketing of pearl-shell, Kobenhavn. By the next day when lumber. Twice steamers put off her, finding to their astonishment contact in Saung Lo with some. He attended a board meeting lu de- it was calm enough to put out in from Nova Scotia to tow her aghoro that she was completely deserted, thing that fused mind and body fance of his doctor's orders; he boats she had vanished forever and salvage her cargo, but each The decks were, absolutely in order, made speeches, drafted figures, and whatever the fate that overtook her time after they had boarded her a no sign of struggle, mutiny, fob- into elemental decision,

He swung his arm and struck went to Chicago for a conference. crew, It must have been disastrously sudden storm forced them to aban-bery, or murder. In the ship's Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokoham with the knife into an obstruction. Then he died suddenly, one night, sudden to have prevented even a don the attempt. Months later she cabin were the Captain's watch, fwireless raessage: Scarcely less appeared off the Azores, where again money, and compasses. They found that was apparently hard and im- in his sleep."

All the newspapers had columns strange is it that her wreckage efforts at salvage met with the same Mrs. Briggs sewing machine with pervious; yet with such effect that in an instant the whole under-sen about him and about the wonderful should turn up halfway around the defeat. Her final fate, like that of a garment half-stitched. In the Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. S'hai, Moll, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama World was alive with leaping and work he had done for the pearl world in Australia,

lashing fury. His vision darken Industry One of them said: "It

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17,000 28th July 8,000 27th July 7,000 5th Aug 7,000 7th Aug. 10,000 10th Atig. 15,000 9th Aug. 11,000 28rd, Aug. 8,000. 24th Aug.

15,000 20th Sept.

7,000 2nd Sept.

BANGALORE 6,000 8th Sept

RAWALPINDI

TAKADA

"BHUTAN

19,000 6th Sept. 8,000 7th Sept. 6,000 Brd Oct.

*Cargo only.

Amoy, Shal Moll, Robe & Osaka.

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S'hai, Kobe & Yokohama.

S'hat., Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

Amoy, Stal, Mojl, Hobe

Osake,

Shanghai, Moji Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai Kobe & Yokohama

Amoy Shal, Moji Robe & Oaks S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.

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ed; he could not see anything at would be no exaggeration to say

all he was buffeted about in Bud that he gave his life for its

den currenta;" once the "rough;

scaly carcase struck him like, the

blow of a huge fist and lifted him high.

ANCIENT CHINESE MSS. DISCOVERED

His mind still functioned - he knew that he must, amidat" ́all | these commotions, preserve the The discovery of number. thin tube through - which the, sir valuable gld Chinese manu reached his lungs he must post

pone, somehow, the discovery of Cent

from

flesh and blood behind, the steel valua and rubber. He waited, hall- dated blind, with the knife poised in his for the frontier

decree,

the others, remalus a mystery. ***** [forecastle were the seaman's chests, Ghost Ship Legends Many "Not so the fate of the barquen-their money, and even the remnants "Many are the legends, songs, tine Gulding Star, whose crew were of a meal. The ship's log was lying and stories inspired by ghostly, stricken with fever on a voyage open, the last entry dated eight crewless, ahips, wandering on year from Netherlands India to Hobart, days previous. Chronometer, and after year, alone on a wide, wide Tasmania. A bad storm struck her, sextant were missing, and the ship's |Bea. Coleridge paints a ghastly and with men too ill to handle the boat-an open yawl-was gone, picture of a spectre bark, sailing sails, they were soon blown away. "Obviously the Mary Célests had without wind or tide. A skeleton A Dutch steamer finally sighted her, been abandoned in great haste-but, ship on whose deck sits a woman. rescued the three surviving mem- why? Poks fly, those aboard feared Life-in-Death, dicing with her combers of the crew, and left the ship an explosion: få her Hold, put off nion, Death, for the soul of the adrift. Years later an old mariner, hurriedly with no provisions, then cients Mariner. Dice seem to be once master of the Guiding Star, awaited ay disaster which falled to the major port on hese weird saw a strangely familiar ship at docur. Too late they may have. artake bar, only to find The mythical Captain of the anchor in Batavia. She was paint tried to

black, new houses on her deck, her calling steadily farther out of and a Japanese crew on board, but reach

mned.