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TAKING CARGO FOR

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RAJPUTANA

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JEYPORE CHITRAL BEHAR

*CARTHAGE **SOUDAN

From

Tons Hong Kong

About

1984.

17,000 3rd Nov, Noon 6,000 10th Nov. 6,300 14th Nov. 15,000 17th Nov. 6,100 24th Nov.

15,000

1st Des 7,000 8th Dec.

RANPURA --CORFU-

+BURDWAN

RANCHI

NALDERA

**SOMALI

RAWALPINDI RAJPUTANA

17,000 18th Des. 16,000 29th Das. 6,000 5th Jan.

17,000 12th Jan. 10,000 26th Jan, 7,000 2nd Feb.

17,000 9th Feb. *17,000 23rd Feb.

Destination.

Bombay, Maravilles & London.

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. S'pore, Penang, Colomb, Bombay. Marseilles & London.

Bombay, Marselles, Havre, London

Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hall.

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

Bombay, Marsellies & London.

bay, Mara, Havre, London H'burg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp and Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

DO Bombay, Mars., Havre, London, Ham- burg, R'dam, Antwerp and Hull Bombay, Marseilles and London.

*Cargo only. + Calls Casablanca,

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BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

TALMA SIRDHANA

TAKADA

TILAWA

1934.

9th Nov. S'pore, Penang and Calcutta.

10,000

8,000 24th Nov.

7,000 8th Dec.

10,000 22nd Dec.

Calls Rangoon

DO

www.DO DO

+ Call Port Bwestenham

B.I. Apear Lina steamers have excellent accommodation for tet and 2nd class passengers.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER- 3, 1934

A cruise that leaves the besten track of world tour ships to explore the changing worlds of Africa and Bouth. America has been planned by the Canadian Paclite for the 21,000-ton liner Empress of Australia this winter.

In three months, 96 days to be exact, this great white

will circle the dark continent of Africa via the Medi Pilner will

terranean and the Indian Ocean, cross the South Atlantic, calling at lonely Tristan da Cunha, to visit the South American continent and the West Indies. There are alto gether 16 ports in 22 different countries on the schedule for this new Mediterranean-Africa-South America tour. Departure will be from New York on January 18 and return there on April 24

Spanish Monument

Arguetina

Madeira, Gibraltar, Barcelona, Monte Carlo, Nice, Naples, and Athens will be visited during the European part of the cruise, then Palestine and Egypt. In East Afrios the Empress of Australia's cruiss party will spend three days, vialling Mombasa in Kenya Colony, the Island En routs to Lerence of Zanzibar and Dar-es-Salaam, the capital of Tanganyika. Marquan, Portuguese Past Africa, a call will be made at Majunga Bay, on the French island of Madagascar,

Two whole weeks are spent in fouth Africa, forming part of the experienos of the cruise party, which will reach Durban on March Calls at. Durban and Capetown are on the liners, schedule, but fire optional excursions by special Zulu Malden

trains will be made through the Interior Victoria Falls, Johannesburg, Fretoria, Bulawayo, Kimberley, the diamond mines and goldfields, Pietermaritzburg, the Big Game Reserve and Kruger National Park are some of the highlights of these excursions,

The Western Hemisphere will be reached again on March 28, when the Empress docks at Buenos Aires. Two days will be spent in this gay capital of the Argentine and a day at Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. The coffee port of Santos, Ban Paulo, and beautiful Río Janeira will be the Brasilian place of Interest visited, then the final ten days of the cruise will be -pent in the Caribbean waters, calling at La Brea and Trinidad, Port of Spain;-Kingston, Jamaica, and Havana, Cuba,

The Old Lady Of Hiccup-On-Stour

"Two hundred pounds?" she was

(Continued From

Page 9).

"What do we do when the couple almost shrilling. "You call that a of hundred's gone?" she demurred.

"Throw ourselves off the Palace: fair price?"

"I do," said my befogged cousin. Pier?"

"By then I shall be back in the "I paid over two thousand for it."

"Pah!" said Viola, and walked swim," declared George. "Brighton out on him with such feeling that teente with stockbrokers in brother she collided with me in the door-ly, expensive. vain.": way.

"True," she agreed. "But-No,

A glare was all I got for being it's too late!" in her way. Seldom have I seen a gentlewoman so lost to all sense of decorum.

"Viola seems upset." I remarked, as pleasantly as possible.

#

He *started. "Too late?"

"But, Viola, think ag But Viola was no longer. In 4

THE TRAGEDY OF

A GAMBLER

LOST HIS ALI AT MONTE CARLO

"SYSTEM" TO BEAT BANK

The suicide of a man who thought he had a system for beat- ing the bank at Monte Carlo was the subject of an inquest at West minater recently.

The man was William Henry! Rainbow, 62, a retired railway: traffic superintendent, formerly in } service in India, who gassed him-i self at lodgings which he had re- cently taken at Pimlico.

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passengers.

Surgeon and stewardess carried. Electric laundry and barber shop on board.

"Yes. The dle la cast. I am leaving you. Needham is calling for me with the Greville-Gissing in

The widow said that she last She turned away half an hour:" # :*

resolutely "I must go upstairs and saw her husband over three years "She's gono:

sxid crackers,"

ago. He preferred to live on the George, and gave me briefly the pack."

Continent and went to Monté minutes of their meeting.

Carlo. He thought he had a sy-sai, "Obviously," I smiled, "ahe is in the grip of something stronger than kitchen without due care, she had

thoughtful mood. Leaving the stem and lost all his money.

Her husband had been employed; herself-in legal parlance, a guilty

just knocked her head-on the hang- in India as a traffic superinten- passion."

She went on her way dent, and retired on a gratuity of For Freight & Passage Apply To: MELCHERS & CO. ing ham. He stiffened. "Viola is my wife," he said with calling heaven to witness her mar- £5,000 or £6,000.

tyrdom to pigs. dignity.

"

The fact human."

"I refuse to believe it."

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However, it was a pig-and the Greville-Gissing that saved her from herself.

In due course she came back

-"

An Unlucky Meeting

Three or four years ago her hus- band met someone who persuaded him to go to Monte Carlo and told

Interesting route via Philippnes, Sandakan, and New Guinea. First sailings from Hongkong: M.B. "NEPTUN” 81st Dec., 1934,

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BARBER him that he would make a good]

I laid a hand on his shoulder.,

old fellow." I said earnestly, rid yourself of these down-stairs with her baggage to thing" there. She ad been to stout old yeomanish notions. Get find George still muttering. "So be Monte Carlo with her husband, but 1st Dec. Manila, Rabnul, Brisbane, Sydney away from the soll for a moment it," "Kismet," and the like. But he returned because he said she spoil-

and imagine yourself back in roused himself and began to pleaded his luck. Throgmorton-street. In a word. his case anew. She sat down in the

"This le another of those tragic face facts. What more natural kitchen rocker and, as women will than that a romantic woman, yoked who do not wish to argue, closed cases of people who, in their en- deavour to get something for noth a clam like yourself, should her eyes. Presently he wearied of hanker after a he-man who stops his mondlogue, and a brooding in, lose all their money, lose their wives, get separated from their ailence fell upon them, broken only familles, and end up with their by the tick-tock of the old grand-heads over He ground his dentures.

& gas stove," the "My advice to you," I said, "is father clock.

It was a soothing sound that al-coroner sald old but sound. Thousands have fol-

The coroper recorded a verdict lowed it and confessed themselves ways reminded Needham Masters of delighted. You must win back your the call of the jungle Jeebies at sun. of suicide while of unsounded mind, Sea Deck Swimming Pool-woman before it is too late. Cash down. Viola was just going to stop

to

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away from Hiccup to Brighton or and a python when she awoke with and where formerly Viola had seen she now saw a human embodiment The Union 8.8. Company's steamare to the United Kingdom vis New somewhere where Nature has been a start to find herself alone and inceness carried almost to a fault

speeded up Be once more the gay semi-darkness. ⠀ •

of the Spirit young lover. Give her, in effect, a She glanced round at the clock of the Spirit of the Midden.

and was shocked to find that it was "Take the beastly thing away, well after eight, She had been can't you?" gibbered this smeared

Well, unlike so

like so many of these given to understand that by this apparition. "What's the matter husbands, my cousin did not ignore time she would be alpping her after-with it?" the family solicitor's warning. dinner coffee in the Lord Warden At When Viola next darkened his door, Dover. Her little red mouth tighten a couple of hours later, he told her edats he had been thinking things over.

She eyed him 'curiously. "Are you alckening for *some thing

TANDA TAKADA BANPURA *BURDWAN TILAWA

CORFU

NANKIN SANTHIA RANCHI TALMA

SOMALI NALDERA NELLORE BIRDHANA RAWALPINDI

1934.

7,000 4th Nov. 7,000 15th Nov. 17.000 18th Nov. 0,000 26th Nov, 10.000 99th Nov. 14.000 80th Nov. 7.000 Pod Dec. 8000 18th Dec. 17,000 14th Dec. 10,000 27th Dec Amoy, 8'hai, Moll, Kobe, Osaka." 7.000 28th The B'hal Kobe and Yokohama.get 16,090 28th Des. Skal. Moil Kobe and Yokohama, -7,000 2nd dar S'hai, Moil, Kobs, Osaka, Yokohama.

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"Yes," he acknowledged "for the

"It's past her bedtime," explained George. "She always gets fretful

if she's kept up too late. You "Where on earth can Needham should have called earlier.!?" have got to?" she mused grin * Viola clutched at the lintel for for no woman likes her romantic support. For a long moment—while time-table to be trifled with thus. the scales, which of late had so Now she realised what had so seriously impeded her vision, fell

old gay life. For the theatres and rudely awakened her. From with- from before her eyes she just the night clubs and the early edl out across the Midden came the gaped. Then her eyes danced and. tions of the morning papers, we sudden renewal of a hideous commos quite helplessly, she laughed and used to read at that coffee-stall down tion. Forcine noises that could laughed,

Yra

on the Embankment. It's still proceed only from the prize sow Here George's cousin paused for Annie, gosded - beyond - endurance, refreshment, and the Irishman, who there, Viola.

was anxious to get on with his story mingled with unmanly cries.

Viola jumped up and rushed about the horse, morted with im over to the door. At the staggering patienos

"And the

-"How do you know!

He took her hand

"My dear" he said tenderly, "we've both had our fill of Hiccup I am two hundred in hand. - La push off along the coast to Bright and start afresh.

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