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LONDON, MARSEILLES. ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1934.

MAURETANIA IN

NEW GUISE Resplendent In Coat

Of White.

FOR TROPIC CRUISING '

Mauretania.

I

Horse Of Death

wife.

(Continued From

Page 9).

"Then a man with grey hair and "What do you wish to know?' | a black moustache came on and bow-asked the poor man, retaining even ed awkwardly. He was followed by in these trying conditions a profes a thin woman dressed in a dirty sional air. white garment that gave out a faint "Oi want yew to answer me just General Passenger Agents in the Orient for

rustle. Her sunken eyes and this one tere question. Wot's the Resplendent in her new coat of tired face suggested-oh, everything orse as 'll win the Bridbury Stakes Cunard White Star Line

white, the Cunard Line's great that was horrible and degrading and next Thursday? Now, none o' your SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports and Honolulu,

liner Mauretania looks better to ugly. Then her husband. In a fee rotting, nonsense. CHICHIBU MARU (Omit Shangbai), Friday,

I know na 'aw 10th Aug. at 8 a.. day than ever.

Well, not a new ble voice, gave an epitome of what yew.can tell these things, and io! TATSUTA MARU

Wednesday, 15th Aug. at 10 am. coat, perhaps for she has been he proposed to do. He muttered this 'ere case, yew've got to,'

white now for about a year—but Wednesday, 5th Sept. at 10 a.m. comparatively new at least for the about the various universities which little piece of well, blackmail car- some unintelligible Information "So that was it, you see a polite

15th Aug.

had presumably honoured him, show-ried out quite securely in this old It seemed strange at first to seeing us at the same time a silver barn, with an unfortunate and tres- 1st Sept.

our old friend divested of the medal at his breast. Then he made passing witness in the shape of an dignified black hull which has been some passes over his

The inquisitive member of Parliament. accepted. everywhere as a matter of thin woman shivered and fell back- "Torino, I could see, was smiling course-but there is no question but with some skill-on to the sofa pathetically. I wondered what he that her gleaming white paint Im-where she lay motionless.

would do. Hore was surely a test parta a life and sparkle'more in

"Then we were invited to put any of his genuineness. On the other keeping with the Mauretania'a co-question we chose to "the lady in hand it might merely be a test of lourful career.

the trance.'. I watched the audience his artistry. Which it was. I' We do not know whether he carefully. They did not quite know leave for you to decide." was repainted for decorative or what to make of the thing, and no- "What did he say?" I asked, un- practical purposes but it is safe body spoke. So, in order to set the able to refrain longer from the in- to aesume that it was principally ball rolling, I asked a question about terruptions which long experience! the latter. Experts can provide

a certain colleague of mine, and the has taught me are exceedingly dis- bales of data to prove that white

reply was what shall I say?-well, tasteful (except at certain well- paint reflects the rays of the

it was skilful. It was ao skilful that marked moments) to John Chester. sun instead of absorbing them as it aroused my admiration, and feel- "He sald a thing which gave him does black. Comparative tests have ing that I was expected to say some my sympathy. He looked at that

degrees in vessels, clapped my hands. proved that often temperatures thing, I murmured 'Quite right, and hulking bully of a Larkins and said: depending on the colour of the duly impressed, followed suit.

The audience."Then you believe in my wife's hull,

powers of clairvoyance?' "'Any further questions you "The man's lower lip stuck out as Importance of Colour

would care to put?" asked Torino. he played with his revolver. 'None Colour, therefore, is of consider-

""The winner of the Bridbury' that', he said, and I could see that able importance on ships running Stakes?" asked somebody behind me, he was suspicious of trickery. Nono [into tropical waters, and that la Į turned round and saw the dirty- of yer long words as a feller can't just what the Mauretania has been faced son of my landlady.

make 'ead or tail of. O wants n doing of late.

Been Formerly

""Alas! we cannot answer any plain answer to a plain question. only in the North Atlantic lanes, such question, Torino's tones were Then, we can say good-night. Now, where for well over 20 years she apologetic. The law of the land...wot's the 'orse as'll win the Brid- held the coveted speed record the police... He trailed off into bury Stakes? O thinks Of knows, against all competition, the famous some explanation.

hut Oi wants to 'ear rewer old

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four-funneled giant is now seen For a moment I feared trouble-woman say the same thing,' Не frequently in the picturesque parts Claniston is a sporting village-but smiled grimly.

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