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YK LINE

N.

General Passenger Agents in the Orient for

THE CHINA MAIL; WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1934.

NEW "ECONOMY" Wimpole's

ENGINE

British Shipowners Interested.

Woe

(Continued From

Page 9).

Mr. Eustace Chasuble was to lec-fand questions followed, and votes of ture that night, that very night, in thanks followed those, and the the parish hall of Bugmarsh. His farmers ambled out of the hall. But theme was to be-how blunt, how little Wimpole still sat

upon his SEVERE SEA TESTS direct it was-"Pigs" No more chair like one hypnotised, his pale

than that "Pige." The lecture grey eyes staring from his head. British shipowners, engineers had started at seven o'clock. It was "Now's your chance to escape!" Cunard White Star Line

and shipbuilders are showing now half-past seven. Even if Eus-sald Wimpole to himself. But his SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu. great interest in a new "econotace Chasuble continued for another limbs would not obey him. A palsy,

CHICHIBU MARU (Omit Bhangbul). Friday,

10th Aug.

|my" engine which is a combina-hour there would be ample time to a terror, had descended upon him.| TATSUTA MARU

Wednesday, 15th Aug. at 10 am. tion of high-pressure reciprocat-catch his train.

He was aware that Eustace Chasuble ... Wednesday, 5th Sept. at 10 am. ing engine and low pressure tur-i Could he repudiate this oppor- came striding like a tree over to

bine.

tunity, after so many years; to make him. Chasuble opened his mouth The engine installed in the amende? His heart filled with plty, and apoke. steamer Adderstone, 11,500 tons. Once more, the phantom of little "If it's some more advice about of the Lamport and Holt Line, Chasuble stretched out its hands, the Large Black Fig you're wanting, was put through severe sca tests stared mournfully and reproach-[sfr................"

ASAMA MARU

SEATTLE & VANCOUVER

HEIAN MARU (starts from Kobe)., Wednesday, 15th Aug. LONDON. MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM

YASUKUNI MARU

HAKONE MARU

SUWA MARU

Friday, ....Saturdays, Saturday

3rd Aug. 18th Aug. Ist Sept.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KITANO MARU

Saturday,

ATSUTA MARU.

... Saturdayy,

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang & Colombo.

+YAMAGATA MARU

Monday,

25th Aug: 22nd Sept.

8th Aug.

GINYO MARU

Saturday,

11th Aug.

†TOKIWA MARU

Tuesday,

28th Aug.

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu,

Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama.

NEW YORK via Panama.

†ASUKA MARU ....

TATAGO MARU

Sunday, Tuesday,

ONLY

£12

BANK

HOLIDAY

ΤΟ

CRUISE

MANILA

AND RETURN

6 GLORIOUS DAYS

ON THE

EMPRESS OF ASIA

A carefree holiday, excellent accommodation, best of

food and service, no hotel bills, and no household worries

No American visa required for passengers making Round Trip by same steamer. August 2-Sail from Hong Kong by "Empress

of Asia."

A

Thursday,

It

Saturday,

on the Tyne recently, and a sav-fully upon him. Perhaps it was Then suddenly Wimpole found ing in steam consumption of 36 his own vitriolic review that had words, or, words found Wimpole. per cent. over the average nor-driven little Chasuble from the He must now and for ever deliver jmal triple-expansion engine of rivers of poetry (even though he himself from this phantom, even the same power is said to have had, made them smell like sewers), though the phantom had taken to been obtained.

and caused him to abandon Illes for itself so strange and terrible The reciprocating engine oper-mangel-wurzels, gazelles for pigs. shape. ated silently and efficiently un-

No, he must express his regrets "Your book of poems," he cried, der all conditions, and ran at 300 for his intolerable unkindness. At "called 'Gangrene and Lilies.'. r.p.m. free from vibration.

last, at last, the chance he had not was me. I wrote, the review. My At 300 rpm. the propeller dared to hope for had been granted name's Wimpole! Sir, I assure r.p.m. were 75, and the vessel at him. True that Chasuble had not you......" tained the, speed of 12 knots.

thrown himself before a train or "You!" exclaimed the other. "So LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus, Genoa than 8 lbs. of water per i.h.p-what if he bore with him to the

The main engine used less tossed off a flask of strychnine. But you're Wimpole!"

Wimpole saw his vast arm shoot hour, and fuel consumption for grave a crushed, a broken heart? through the air towards him like all purposes wass less than 7

"Piga".....a curious theme.....Jove's thunderbolt. He ducked. lbs. of oil per i.h.p-hour, which is equal to 1 lb. of coal per i.h.p.-the door and across a vestibule. He in a gigantic hand.

Wimpole pushed his way through He found his tiny Angers crushed hour for all purposes. The per- heard a voice, assured and resonant. "I've been wanting to meet you formance showed saving of The chairman had obviously not for years, Mr. Wimpole!" the vast over 40 per cent. on fuel as com-Anished his introductory remarks. voice boomed. "The only critic who pared with the performance of Wimpole pushed open another door. took any notice of my book. Thank the vessel before the rew en-

It squeaked frightfully. A hundred you, Mr. Wimpole, thank you! I gine was installed,

large faces turned towards him, can't say how grateful I am! Come large as a harvest moon and red as round to the Pig and Whistle and jan apple-ninety-eight in the hall, let me try and tell you! No? Mr.

two upon the platform.

Wimpole, no! I'll take no refusals!"

Mr. Wimpole blinked.

12th Aug. 4th Sept.

and Valencia. +DELAGOA MARU

Wednesday,

15th Aug.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, l'enang & Rangoon,

†NAGATO MARU

Wednesday,

tHAKODATE MARU

Wednesday,

GENVA MARU

Wednesday,

8th Aug. 15th Aug. 29th Aug.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

FUSHIMI MARU

Saturday,

Friday,

4th Aug. 17th Aug. 17th Aug.

ATSUTA MARU (Nagasaki direo). Friday,

HAKOZAKI MARU

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BIO-DE-JANEIRO, SANTOS, La Plata Maru

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4th Aug.

FRENCH BID FOR BIGGEST SHIP

"Normandie" Tonnage Increased.

A hundred pairs of eyes concen- trated upon Wimpole. All these healthy faces, these breeches and gaiters and leggings and glde,

whiskere......There was one empty!

chair in the middle of the room.

ESTIMATE NOW 79,280 TONS The chairman pointed at it with a The fact, recorded, that the been the lecturer he had Interrupt- peremptory gesture. It must have moat recent official measuremented, not the chairman.. The chairman of the C.G.T. liner Normandie sat in the centre of the table before has increased the original tona bell and a flask, nage, the figure being now 79,280 held a bundle of notes in his hands instead of 68,000, has given rise and resumed his interrupted flow. to a crop of wild stories in the popular Press.

The lecturer

He roared, he bellowed, like the bull of Bashan. Not because he The owners and builders have

UNION'S RIGHT OF NEUTRALITY

Nationalist Leader's Warning.

PARLIAMENT ATTACKED

Moorreesburg, Cape. South Africans' right of neu trality was stressed by Dr.

Nationalist Party; in a speech at Moorreesburg.

been accused of making all kinds was angry with anything or any Malan, the leader of the Capel

body, but because.. that was his of alterations to the vessel, in natural mode of utterance. He was 4th Sept: cluding increasing her length]

MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS

Thurs., Buenos Aires Maru Mon.,

AIRES

23rd Aug. 24th Sept.

Colombe, Durban, Port

Elizabeth and Cape Town

MOMBASA ZANZIBAR Hawali. Maru

DARES-SALAAM, BEIRA,

Sat,

DURBAN, PORT ELIZA-

LOURENCO MARQUES. Arizona Maru

Тиев.

.BETH.

CAPE TOWN.

SOUTH AMERICAN

PORTS via Singapme &

Colombo....

MELBOURNE, BRISBANE, Melbourne Maru

Sun.,

SYDNEY: WELLINGTON Sydney Maru & AUCKLAND direct ....

Wed

BOMBAY & KARACHI via Tamahoko. Maru

Singapore, Rensing and Pacific Maru Colombo

Tues Fri..

CALCUTTA

via Singapore, Belawan Deli, & Rangoon

Himalaya Maru Borneo Maru

Wed., Mon,

JAPAN PORTS

Hamburg Maru

JAPAN via Takan & Keelung

Panama Maru

Mon.,

Fri.,

6th Aug.

10th Aug.

KEELUJO via Swatow and

Amoy

Canton Maru TAKAO via SWATO and Dell Maru

AMOY

Hozan Maru

Sun,

Sun.,

Thure..

12th Aug.

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He

and even cutting her in two for a genial gentleman and hearty. the insertion of an additional must have stood six foot and one or Itwo inches in his stockinged midships portion, with a view to

He said that if any Govern- ment involved South Africa in war because Great Britain was

the retention by France of the feet. But he looked smaller because involved, let them remember honour of owning the largest ders. He had huge red hands. His imperialistic feeling which swept of the enormous bulk of his shoul-1914 and the wave of anti- knees were like the nobbly ends of the country.

5th Aug vessel afloat. 5th Sept.

The London office of the C. G-

No Government T. have now issued an emphatic lopped branches on the trunk of an could fly in the face of that, and 31st July denial that they have made any

if it did, South Africa would bej There was an especial species of a republic in 18 months. 3rd Aug. major alterations to the ship.

loak.

The Normandie. they state, is Pig, one gathered, that had won Mr. Dr. Malan also said that the It present Parliament would go. now structurally complete, down Eustace Chasuble's affections. fat Aug to the smallest detail; the en-was entitled the "Large Black Pig down to history as the "Dead 20th Aug.gines are in and ready to turn,

He recommended its virtues to his Parliament," but he described

Monday, Wednesday,

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and the work in hand is merely audience. His audience shook their the Status Bills as the greatest the fitting out and decoration of heads in slow and weighty approba- victory of Nationalism.

tion, and tapped with their gnarled the passenger quarters.

Dealing with the agreement || "PATROCLUS” Their one desire, they add, is sticks on the ground. "No breed between General Hertzog and 6th Ang.to build a vessel to suit their proclaimed Mr. Chasuble, could the Head Committee of the Cape "OALCHAS"

and trade, achieve such popularity without Nationalist Party, Dr. Malan said own requirements

speed of any other ship.

LIVERPOOL "AGAPENOR".. One "MENTOR"

9th Aug. without reference to the size or genuine merit, in the production the passing of the Status Bille both of pork and bacon: in the pro- did not mean the agreement had duction of those cuta known as been fully carried out. 'Medium', 'Fat', or 'Lean Sizeable point of the agreement was that Slowly a sweat of terror gathered future. Governors General of upon Wimpole's brow. He tried to South Africa must be South

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rise from his chair. grated on the floor." He stumbled over somebody's stick. A hundred pairs of eyes concentrated upon him once more Wimpole relapsed upon} his chair. His heart tolled a muffled

dirge within him. Mr. Chasuble

returned to the Large Black Pig..

"The great weight to which the Large Black Pig was bred formerly

BOMBING OUTRAGE ON P.M.R.

Peking Sends Demand To Chibli.

has now given way to greater The Peking Branch Military quality, and at an early age it yields Council has fnstructed the Chibli a long, deep-sided car-case of 160lb, Provincial Government and the to 190lb, dead weight, light in the railway authorities to bring to book shoulder, fowl, and offal....." at an early date culprits respon

"They can't stop me" thought sible for the bombing outrage on Wimpole, "Blaking away when it's the first train that left for Mukden all over. God help me!!

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