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TATSUTA MARU

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Wednesday, 17th Apr. at 10 am Wednesday, 8th May at 10 am Friday,

24th May

ASAMA MARU

SEATTLE. & `VANCOUVER...

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Monday,

29th Apr.

HIKAWA MARU (Starts from Kobe). Monday,

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LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM

KATORI MARU.

Saturday,

18th Apr.

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27th Apr.

10th Mar.

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27th

Apr.

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Friday,

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Saturday,

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12th Apr. 19th Apr. 27th Apr.

Sunday,

Tuesday, Thursday,

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THE BLAIRGOWRIE

DISASTER

Men Who Behaved

Like Heroes

TRIBUTE FROM EUROPA'S COMMANDER

A tribute to the wireless opera tor and captain of the Blairgowrie was paid by Capt. Scharf of the German liner Europa, when she called at Cowes Hoads on her way from New York. The Europa was

New York the first ship to answer the SOS calls from the Blairgowrie."

Capt. Scharf said the captain and wireless operator stuck to their pasts to the end. They behaved

There were three fewer companions for Bruno Hauptmann in the death house at Trenton after the week of March, 11. This trio passed Hauptmann's cell on their last mile. They are Connie Carpone (left), Michael Mula (ceatre) and George Destafano, cOD victed of the Trenton holdup murder,

like men," he said, "and deserve our COVERED ALL NIGHT

membrance He kind and serious remembrance."

added that if he could obtain the names and addresses of their rela tives he would like to write and tell them how brave, the men were.

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she could. And she saw the short-

| barrelled. .88. Also, she saw the' She heard herself any that it was wicker basket heaped with the The Europa was 10 hours search- 15 miles down the mountain to disarray of socka ing for the sinking ship in a hurri- Shoshone. The man still sat facing Atop that pile of socks was a bali cane of 90 miles an hour. “During her, his reddish eyes fastened on of darning yarn. Also there was a

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4th May 3rd Jun.

Мор

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Mon

6th May

Thurs.,

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Sat.,

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JAPAN PORTH

Thura.,

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Sun, 8 p.m. 10th Apr.

Thurs.,

18th Apr.

JAPAN via Takao & Kedung Canada. Maru

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such truly mountainous waves," said The pistol was still in his hand, but goose egg, and with a handle. It Capt. Schart

The made no threat with it. His was a device a housewife uses to "In getting our lifeboats ready to manner indicated that there would insert inside a sock, to inflate it go to the rescue, six of our seamen be no threat unless Mary Ryan tried while she darns a hole in the toe. were seriously injured by being to leave the tent.

"Sight of it gave Mary Ryan, an thrown about by the rolling of the But if all he wanted was the car, idea. Flushed by the boldness of it, liner. So big and strong were the why, didn't he take it and go? The she finished sewing on the button. waves that 10 of the thick plate-drumming of rain answered Mary Then, with the gray coat still glass windows on thepromenade Ryan The road down to Shoshone spread flat on her lap, she leaned to deck, 65 feet above the water-line was steep, narrow, In apots treach the left and reached down into the were smashed by them;"

erous. Few drivers would care to chest. She could feel the Intruder's The Europe could find no trace of risk it in the dark of a rainy night. hard gaze upon her. Therefore she the Blairgowrie.

This man, she realised, would wait did not dare to bring the 38 out untl dawn, then commandeer, the where he could see it. Ryan car and escapes.

Instead, with her hands deep in Then why, in the meantime, the chest, she put the 88 into the didn't he demand the ignition key? wicker basket and beneath the plle

SAILORS' WIDOWS HARD LOT!

Sea's Heavy Toll Of Life This Winter

LITTLE PROVISION FOR DEPENDANTS

The woman's heart skipped another of socks. When she lifted the bas- beat when she solved that one. The ket out the man saw only the reason was, of course, that since he materials for a session of darning. was wearing George's corduroy suit "Go right ahead," the man said.

the ignition key together with "I'll be movin' on pretty soon. George's wallet would, already be in And I'll leave your car, at Shoshone." his pocket.

She knew very well that he would Groping slowly through the blind-not leave the car at Shoshona.. In- ing miat of her terror, Mary Ryan stead, he'd drive swiftly out of the came finally to a decision. She state with it. But she must pre- would fight. She herself owned a tend to believe him. Her cua right The loss of 26 lives in the steamer short barrelled .88 revolver. George, now was to sit tight and darn Blairgowrie brings home the lack of though never dreaming it would be socks. So she placed the sewing provision for the widows and children of our sailors.

needed, had left it here as a de basket on a small table at her right.. fence for the camp.

With black yarn she threaded a "The public responds generously It was loaded and at the bottom darning needle. when there is a colliery disaster or of the chest at Mary Ryan's left. several pairs of socks and scattered Then she took other disaster, but too many forget Her decision, was to take it, shoot them over the grey coat on her lap. those who go down to the sea in this marauder exactly as though he Without using the darning ovald, ships, a seamen's official said were an invading beast, then rush she began making stitches. At "And yet the trade of the Empire away to find George. was built by the seamen me

Intervals she looked up warlly. The "Don't start nothin' you can't man's hard gaze was alert, as im- "I am sure people are not un" finish," the man growled,

personally ruthless as the gaze sympathetic to the fate of seamen,

Had he rend her mind? The which a cat might fix upon a corner- and yet the total subscriptions for pistol in his lap was pointed at her ed mouse

18th Apr. the four big losses of the last year His finger was crooked in the trig The gun lay flat on his knee. came, to little over £15,000. It is ger guard. If she leaned to the One of his hands gripped it. The nothing like adequate, and we have left and brought her 88 from the other reached to one side and pour been trying for a long time to in-

camp chest, he would shoot frat, ed a cup of tea. Over the rim of terest the public in this great need. No doubt of that.

Losing Breadwinners.

the cup, as he drank, he watched "Just keep right ahead sewin' on Mary Ryan darn socks. "If these fellows are in the Sea that button sister," the man warn- With the socks spread flat on her men's Union they get a funeral aled, "Then me an' you won't have lap, it was an awkward and un- lowance of $15 or so, but what a no trouble. Come daylight. I'll be natural way to darn. The man, that to a family whose bread-winner pullin' © out.”.

though, wouldn't know it. It should is cut off suddenly d

The thing to do, she decided, was be easy to fool him. Hot and allve Last October 26 lives were lost in to seem to take him at his word. in the woman's brain were two cam- the British steamer Millpool, and an- She must seem to surrender. So paigns of attack. She was prepar other 27 lives were lost, a month now she took a stitch at the button.ed to launch both of them. later in the British steamer Saxilby George's grey town coat was still One was pe Thus, 79 men have perished in three spread flat on her lap

was passive. The other was tractive, a direct, frontal attack. The disasters in five months. In addi- tion there have been a number of smaller ship and trawler disasters.

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After another stitch, she glanced passive scheme, she admitted, mighty (via KOBE NAGOYA & YOKOHAMA) covertly down into the open chest not work. Nevertheless, it must be at her left. The invader, seated tried. To throw the man off his three paces away from her, could guard, she said she not himself see into that chest. But There's bread and butter and A some fish."

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