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P. 20.-British India Apcar and

Eastern & Australian

Lines

(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.

*TAKING CARGO · FOR

EFRAFTS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF, WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS,

5.9.

(Under Contract with H.M. Government.)

Tonk Hong Kong

.17,000

From

About

1935..

8th Feb. 173,000 23rd Feb. 6,000 2nd Mar.

RAWALPINDI

RAJPUTANA

BANGALORE-

15,000 15,000

9th Mar. 23rd Mar.

6100 30th Mar.

CHITRAL

CARTHAGE

**BHUTAN CATHAY

**BEHAR

CORFU

• Cargo only,

Destination

Bombay, Marseilles and London.

-DO---

Marseilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Retterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London

-DO-

Mareilles, Havre, London, Hamburg,

Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull.

& Londoni.

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1935.

Three film stars demonstrate how to be happy though married in Hollywood. They follow the simple procedure of taking the better hulf along and here we see 'Robert Montgomery and his wife Cupper), Al Jolson and Rugby Keeler Jolson, and Mr. and Mrs. Clark Gable (right) attending the races at the new Santa Anita track.

16.20% 19th Apr. Murelles, as Landes jairs Landon HIGH COTTON CROP Mr. Brittle Comes Back

Dombay, Marseilles, Havre,

Hambug, Rotterdam, Antwerp &

Kull.

75,000 20th Apr. Marseilles & London."

+Calls Camblance. Frequent connection from Port Sald for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pirados, Smyrns and other Levant Porta by steamers of the -Khedivial Mail Steamahly Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

*SIRDHANA

TAKADA

8,000

8,000

* Calls Rangoon

1885.

3rd Feb. 10.00 a.m.

Rungoon & Calcutta. 15th Feb. S'pore, Penang, and Calcutta,

+ Call Port: Sweetenham

***B.l. Ápear Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South;

1985. -

TANDA NANKIN

7.000 7,000

2nd Mar.

2nd Apr.

IN HONAN

Should Be Increased

In Future Years

LARGE TRACT OF FERTILE LAND AVAILABLE

Chengchow.

(Continued from Page 9)

Charles commenced the lathering

against his thumb. "A customer she's rather fond of."

"An actor, sir," Mrs. Jukes sup of Mr. Brittle's face. After that plemented, not without pride. And, there felt a silence, broken only by forsaking her chair by the cash the loqunelty of the parrot.

register that she might move. to-

Had it not been the end; had it wards the fire, the better to con- not been that Mr. Brittle had come verse with the new patron of her Chinese farmers in western to bid the bird good-bye, he might modest saloon, she added: "I think| Honan enjoyed during the past have turned in his chair and ban-you know, the name, sir. Are you year a rich cotton crop, totalling tered with her as it was his practice not Mr. Hammilton Drew?" no less than 380,000 bales, of an to do; again, he might at the end Drew Biled, but against the far- estimated value of $17,000,000, of his shave, have gone towards her away look that stole and brooded in according to Mr. Liu Yu-chen and playfully tweaked one of her his eyes, it was a smile tinged with manager of the Loyang Branch claws the while he rummaged in sadness. "Is it, madam 7" he ask- of the Shanghai Commercial and his pocket for the tit-bit she expected, with the same magnificence of Savings Bank who recently tour-led of him. As it was, however, his voice that had stirred a thousand ed Western Honan to investigate courage deserted him; he got up audiences; that you remember "The its cotton-producing conditions. from his chair without even daring Master' ?!

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These figures, Mr. Liu asserted, to look at her; he extended his hand "Who could forget, whoever saw showw that cotton cultivation in only to Mra. Jukes and the deferen-t7" she said in simple tribute. "I that part of the province has tial Charles, and rather too dazed, remember you, "The Master, sir. I} Singspire, Fort Swettenham, Penang made rapid progress since the rather too ill to grasp the warmth remember Mr. Brittle, and"-her

previous year.

Two reasons were given by Mr. of their Christmas wishes, he walk-voice dropped, as a mark of rever- Liu for this rapid progress. Ined slowly out of the saloon, a broken ence "I remember Cathy Dawn.

tragic figure.

When the stage lost Cathy Dawn, the first place, distribution of

Polly alone regarded it as a part si improved cotton seeds by the of a new game. She looked to- Cotton Control Commission

It lost Edmund Brittle," he fin- among the cotton producers re-her neck; she moved excitedly up sighed, shaking his head. "And, wards the closed door; she craned ished for her. "Poor Brittle!" He sulted in the fine and rich crop and down on her perch, belleving he's a customer of yours, you say?" harvested. In the second place, that any moment the door would "He comes here every day, air." the circulation of rural currency swin open again to admit Mr. Brit- was facilitated by the low- interest loans extended by vari-when the seconds lapsed into mine won't come back, will he?"

tle with some fresh banter. But ous banks to the cotton co-opera-utes without his doing so, she real- Įtive societies.

Mr. Lou concluded by express-ised that he wasn't playing with won't come back," she said strange Hagia Sophia Becoming Kiangnan Company To ing his belief that a much big-her after all. And then, if ever ay.

Byzantine Museum was near to being ger cotton erop in Western How bird's heart

But she was wrong. nan is possible in future years broken, it was hers.

It is true that Mr. Brittle meant St. Sophia has now been closed in view of the large. tract of fer-}

There may have been a mute to return to his rooms; it is true that as a mosque after having been tile land available for planting.

questioning, an appeal in the eyes he meant to carry out this terrible used, as such over since the Otto- that she turned upon Mrs. Jukes, resolve; but chancing to look at a man conquest in 1453, and is now but whatever it was, Mrs. Jukes street vendor's barrow load of to become a museum of Byzantine got up alowly from her chair; she Almeria grapes, he remembered Art.

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"Been in this morning?"?

She nodded. "Not long gone, air."

FAMOUS ISTANBUL MOSQUE

MUNICIPAL RAILWAY MAY BE LEASED

She shook her head. "No, he

Take Over Line

AGREEMENT DRAFTED

Nanking. Beginning from March 1 next, the management of the Nanking rubbed her fingers tenderly into Polly's love of them. He realised Some time ago the Byzantine Municipal Railway, which runs the feathers of the parrot's head, that in taking leave of her without Institute of America received per- from Hsiakwan to Chungcheng and she said, not without a tremor: so much as a word or look he had mission to remove the whitewash Street will be transferred from "Poor Mr. Brittle! Mr. Brittle's committed the unforgivable sin of and other coverings under which the Nanking Municipal Govern 1. Mr. Brittle's sad. But he loves breaking faith with her, and filled the internal mosaics of St. Sophie ment to the Klangnan Railway Polly, doesn't he? And he'll soon with remorse at the thought of had long been concealed,

Company if the draft lease-con- come back."

To what he'd done, he parted company As these were Christian. In tract is formally signed by the Polly cocked her head on one with some of the last pence he poe-character it was felt that their re-two parties concerned. During the twelve months of side. She lifted up one claw, then sessed, and turned tiredly, painfully appearance unsuited the building It is stipulated in the contract 1984, 192,623,000 gallons of milk put it down again and tightened It

for Moslem worship. !

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TANDA

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

SHIRALA CHITRAL

*BHUTAN. TRLAWA CARTHAGE NANKIN SANTHIA BEHAR

1935.

7,000 8rd Feb. 4.p.m.

··8,000 7th Feb.

15,000

8th Feb: 6100 21st Feb. 10,000 21st Feb, 15,000 22nd Feb 7,000 7th Mar 8,000

7th Mar. 6,100 7th Mar.

CargoTM only.

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Agents

He

didn't look towards the

have been used for manufactur- over her perch didn't you lathered face of the man who sat “Of what would you be sure, cipal Government on the date of

Wales.

·

that the Klanguan Railway Com- ing purposes in England and "Yes, you

heard,:;

pany. pay to the Nanking Mun!- Bald Mrs. Jukes. "Now, what d'you in the chair that he'd vacated those, son? What would you have transfer, a security fund of In addition several tens of say to that?" millions of gallons have been "Poor Mr. Brittle! the bird see him hold up his hand as a signal words again, spoken with a tendered at $8,000, and the term of ¡few minutes before, and he didn't tell you?" They were the Master's $30,000. The monthly rent is used for butter and cheese screeched, without besitation. Poor for Charles to put-down his razor: ness so again, spoken with a ten the lease is set at 20 years. making on farms.

Mr. Brittle!" She repeated It Cheese is the principal milk again and again.

he looked only towards Mrs. Juke, derness so infinite that it caused The contract, will place all the product

and, tightening his grasp over the one to draw one's breath property, now belonging to the produced in the creameries during the past year,

little big of grapes, he said in a "Tell me, he imported, gazing Municipal Railway including It may have been that she wanted tired, very weak voice: "There fixedly into the mirror, "tell me track, rails, coaches, Idcomotives, followed by butter, condensed milk and, fresh cream:

to give volce to her sentiments; it there was something I forgot."" that I shall and Vanessa,

housen and all fixtures and furni Vanessa the triumph of Cathy ture, fo, the management of the The production of, cheese in may have been that she found a cer- Strange, but they were words in the factories amounted to 552,-tain consolation in the acquisition one of his last lines in the miracle Dawn's career.

Kiangnan Railway Company.L 000 cwt., which is probably a of a new expression; but when, play "The Master", and watching "My aun, came the Master's Redemption of the Railway by record in the history of the Eng-some minutes later, the door opened him intently in the mirror some reply, "be not afraid lish factory, cheese Industry, to admit a new customer, she was strange fores compelled Drew to And as though the curtain had the expiration of the Ighse is

In 1924 only 210,000 cwt of still, saying it, although her take his cue and utter:

been: rung" down, Drew cheese was made in the factories; enunciation was not so clear that You have worried, my. son; too looked over his shoulder.

everyone would have been certain much. You must think not of "Lay Sture EASTERN KWANTUNG'S of whom she was speaking, these things.

there was a catch In For all that, however, the man, Mr. Brittle started violently," "Sturdy, that was great, who, was little younger than Mr. The colour drained from his face, It?!! Brittle himself, did not fall to de- leaving in its place a deathly pallor. But there came no and as Charles turned away he little bag of grapes dropped of recognition from

to rub the parrot's suddenly from his hand. But

figure

LONGEST, BRIDGE"

The longest bridg Kwantung,apanning klang, has cost c

interco teen

to

10007

socmed head he asked

hear that bird say. Poor slow the ft Mr. Britt 57" ochow and

to notice; he bac ards

into it he took

"gald Charles, taking

"I would not li

up a razor and testing its keenness. I could be sure."

Mr Brittle had

lines, but the serenity.

the Municipal Government upon;

turned and clearly provided for, but it is alko

stipulated that if ever the Klang sald, and nan Railway Company, he should voice; wish to purchase the Railway, the Ban't Municipal Government will be

to negotiate.

had been fulfilled

THE ENDA

of the

istruction of the contem

extension of the Railway Street to the ding to the con- dertaken by the

Government)

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