1935-09-02 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1935

P&O-BRITISH INDIA-APCAR AND EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN LINES

Straits

MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS

TAKING CARGO FOR

Java, Barma. Ceylon. India Persian Gulf. West Indies,

Southe

Mauritius East and

Africa, Queensland Ports, and Red Sea, Egypt. Constantinople. Greece. Levantine Ports, Europe,

PENINSULA & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY. DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS

UNDER CONTRACT WITH HIM. GOVERNMENT

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS

S.S.

From

Toas Hong Kong

About

- 1935.

*KIDDERPORE

NALDERA

5,000 16,000

3rd Sept

+"SOUDAN

·KANPURA RAJPUTANA **BURDWAN.

CHITRAL CATHAY +'SOMALI

RAWALPINDI CORFU RANCHT

Sept. 7,000 14th Sept

17,000 21st Sept. 17,000 5th Oct. 6,000 12th Oct.

15,000 19th Oct. 35,000 *,000

2nd Nov. 9th Nov

* Cargo only. † Calls Casablanca.

Destination

Straits, Colombo & Bombay. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marsellies, Havre London, Ham- burg, Antwerp, Rotterdam, & Hull

Marseilles & London

Bombay. Marseilles & London.

Bbay, Mars, Havre, L'don, H'bz.

R'dm, A'werp & Hall Bombay, Marseilles & London

Calls Port Sudan

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargote Constantinople, Piraeus, Symrna and other Levant. Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co. BRITISH INDIA

SIRDHANA TAKADA TILAWA SANTHIA

APCAR

When the Countess of Covadonga (then Senorita Edelmira Sampedro, a commoner of Caba) was married to the Prince of Aarias, he was the Crown Prince of Spain, and their romance`seem- ed to be promising. Then the Countess went to the United States alone. The former Prince joined her after six months. They are shown re-united; buying an airline ticket in Miami, Crown to fly to Cuba, where the Countess will visit her parents.

Death On The Elevated

(Continued from Page 9.)

ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND

Remarkable Case Of Nonagenarian

EATS IT AT ALL MEALS

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SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK THE SUNSHINE ROUTE 18 Days To San Francisco Via -Shanghai, Kobe, Yokohama and

Honolulu

Fortnightly sailings

Pres. Hoover.....Sept. 7, & all Pres. Cleveland, Sept. 25, 6 Ball Pres. Coolidge...Oct. 5, 6 am. Pres Taft ......Oct. 23, 6 - Pres. Hoover ...Nov. 2, Noon

EUROPE, NEW YORK Inquire for round-trip tickets to Europe in connection with Floyd Triestine Via Manila, Singapore, Colombo, Bombay, Suez and the

Mediterranean

Pres. Johnson ..Sept. 14, 8 am. Pres. Monroe Sept. 28, 8 am Pres. Van Buren Oct. 1 8 2 Pres. Garfield ...Oct. 26, 8 x Pres. Palk ...Nov. 9, & 1.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA THE EXPRESS ROUTE 18 Days To Seattle Via Shanghai, Kobe

: and Yokohama Fortnightly sailings.—

| Pres. Grant ...Sept. 13, M'night Pres. Jefferson Sept. 25, I am. Pres. Jackson..Oct. II, M'aight Pres. McKinley .Oct. 25, I Pres: Grant... Nov. 9; 1 a

MANILA

THE MOST FREQUENT SERVICE

NEXT SAILING Pres. Geant Sept. 7, 6 pm Pres. Johnson Sept. 148 Pres. Cleveland Sept 17, 6 pm Pres. Jefferson Sept. 2, 6 pm. Pres. Coolidge..Sept. 26, 9 pm.

BOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES AMERICAN MAIL LINE

BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE

MONTHLY SERVICE

To

NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES.

M.S. on

and

PANAMA CANAL Ports: Next Sailing

"TAI

"TAI PING”

from contemplation of the passing Jlights and addressed his remark to He met her gaze boldly and. half the man in front of her. 0 Bombay, Marseilles & London.

smiled. Swiftly she avoided his She noticed his right hand was Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-gaze and looked through him out in his coat pocket, whilst he rested burg Rotterdam, Antwerp & to the passing pageant of lights his head on his left; propped Hal 17,000 16th Nov. Marseilles & London

that danced outside the window as against the window. A large gold 14,000 30th Nov. Bombay, Marseilles & London

the train roared up Ninth Avenue fring shone on one of his fingers. 17,000 14th Dec., Bombay, Marseilles & London.

His broken nose and small rat-like "Max is sort o concentratin' British

Perhaps the most remarkable of eyes had struck terror, into her to-night."

nonagenarians, Colonel heart; and she tried desperately There was a muffed guffaw. It veteran of the 10th Hussars, who Robert Spottiswoode, aged 94, a to conceal it. For the first time was the man in the right-hand now lives in County Cork. this evening she began to regret corner who replied, and she red- her hasty decision. Vince might dened at the inference. Oh, why the Indian Army. He went out to The Colonel began his career in have been drunk and coarse in had she chosen to travel alone? India, served seven years there, SAILING 5 some ways, but she felt she would Particularly in New York, where and came back on leave before the

be glad of his protection now she hardly knew her way about. Suez Canal was made. With nervous, twitching fingers The man in the left-hand corner)

He is the most virile noñagen- she opened her bag and sought for seat palled oat his cigarette case, arian to be met anywhere, takes Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and a letter she had received from her selected one and snapped it closed a cold bath every day, and gave up

father the previous day. She felt again. In the silent poise of the hunting.only a few years ago-not San Francisco & Los Angeles Panama Canal New York she had to do something or she three men, it seemed almost a because he could not see his fences would cry out

[significant movement .. for it but because he thought it was Her fingers trembled as she broke the tension flooked at the letter. The silence

time to grow old gracefully She looked at him as he lit it in the compartment and the dullland he returned her gaze, examin-for the 10th Hussars dinner. He

comes to London scream of the train outside wereling her keenly. His eyes were lives on beef; cold for breakfast beginning to get on her nerves. very penetrating, and hers waver-and hot for his other meals Over the top of the letter she ed in front of them and sought found herself examining the feet the relief of the window, where of the man opposite. His shoes the white track of Broadway glim- REMARKABLE FEAT were small, well-shaped and of mered four blocks away. Huge good quality. His legs

BY TWO GIRLS were buildings towered into the sky. crossed and the trousers hung well and their dark slender shapes from the knee.

1935

8,000 13th Sept

10,000 11th Oct.

7,000 27th Sept.

$,000 25th Oc£

Calcutta.

Calls Port: Swe:tenham

Now is the time to visit, Australia & New Zealand

lands of Sanshine and Romance, "Down Under you will feel a new being and even if you are not inclined towards Surfing Fishing. Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you-including 25/- for your pornd.

On the way down your life aboard will be as you wish, quiet or hectic for the E & A will humour your every whim

And by the way, there is no additional charge for Deck Cabins and there is of course a Sun Deck Swimming pool, an Orchestra and a fine Laundry.

A Sargeon and Stewardess, are your disposal and last but not least we had almost forgotten-the cuisine will set you listening eagerly for the gong!

Regular Monthly Sailings from Hong Kong to Strnghai and Japan.. and Hong Kong to Australia.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union SS Co.'s Steamers to the United Kingdom via New Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & 0. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. & 0. Branch Service of Steamers to London via Suez. The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for London in Panama Canal

NANKIN NELLORE

1933.

Southampton and

7,000 7,000

2nd Nov. Melbourne & Hobart.

He

18th SEPT..

ARRIVAL DATES

12th & 14th Oct

every year DODWELL

were vividly outlined in a glaring Cairo To Cape Town By Hardly daring to examine his background of light.

| face again, she turned to the

letter.

Suddenly, the train clattered into a station and stopped." perhaps you might man- With beating heart Dorothy half

herelf

and a woman middle-aged They

Motor-Cycle

Miss Florence Blerkiron...and

Queen's Buildings

OKAPI OFFICIALLY NAMED “CONGO”

Strangest Animal In London Zoo

SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT FOR FEEDING

Zone 22nd Oct.

& CO

Agents

2. 29th Oct.

LTD.

Telephone 28021.

FAMOUS BUILDING TO BE REMOVED

Familiar Landmark In Lincolnshire

THE "MILL ON THE FLOSS” OF GEORGE ELIOT

age to convince Vince after your rose when the door swung open Miss Theresa Wallach, two Eng- visit that you would prefer to and two more passengers entered.lish girls who have motor-cycled live in England. Of course you They were a man

from Cairo to the Cape, arrived So many names have been must do what you think best and both

A familiar Lincolnshire" land- Cape Town on July 29.

officially bestowed upon the Zoo's mark, the chimney attached to the my child, but mother and slumped down into the seat beside

Their worst adventures were in okapi that recently the authorities Old Mill on the east bank of the would hate to think of you sober. They looked like caretakers, the Sahara, where a big end broke settled the matter once and for all. River Trent at Gainsborough, has far...

and their homely appearance gave deep sand. Sand was their writes Craven Hill, FZS. She smiled grimly to

been demolished.

A row of cot her a sense of security. Gradually biggest trouble wherever they met

The name "Congo" has now been tages, which formerly housed the Yes, she would live in England all confidence returned to her. Shelit, for the motorcycle was equip-fixed to the peddock fence: mill staff and their families, has right, but there would be no Vince was glad now that she had not got Ped not only with a sidecar but EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILING 5 afraid, terribly afraid.

No Vince; then suddenly she felt font. She had only two more sta-with a trailer.

Congo's "visiting hours have also been removed, and the next also been decided

step in clearing the site is the de- The evil faces and the vulgar utes in the train.

tions to go and at most ten min-

The girls often met wild""For the present," Dr. Vevers, molition of the mill itself. animals, and usually they found it the superintendent, stated, "Congo This is the mill about which stares of the men were now "begin- ning to obsess her.

She sighed with relief,

best to keep silent and still until will be on view only from 10 to 12 George Eliot wrote in "The Mil She wanted With a whining crescendo the the animals went away of their in the morning and from 5 to 6 on the Floos. At one time there 4th Oct. Kamla, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney she could gaze out of the window she closed her eyes, half in sleep.

to move to the corner seat, where train slid out of the station and own accord.

in the afternoon, weather permit was a rivulet running- past. and ting detachment, but a

discharging into the Trent, on one paralysis gripped her limbs. Deswoman beside her examined the new that the man in front and fined to his shed."

Under her shaggy eyebrows the was afraid

1601

up, but she! "At other times be will be con-of whose hanks the mill stands. When George Eliot wrote her book perately she tried to regain her other passengers and then stared the man in the left-hand corner self-control, but will power fed in front of her.

A special feeding pole 12. feet the stayed for some time at from her and she felt herselfi

were looking at her. And she re- high, with elm branches dangling house near by. With the relief of restored conmembered the man in the left from the end, has been fixed in waiting, waiting..........

The mill itself is now in a dan fidence the girl was thinking of hand corner had his hand in his Congo's paddock so that visitors gerous condition Once again her eyes sought the

how welcome her bed would be. coat pocket....

can obtain a good view of him feed-chimney was felled half the side in front. The headline danced be terribly fatiguing. She was over feet when the train alid into the newspaper on the lap of the man The evening had been fatiguing Mechanically she stood to her Eng

was ripped off

"POLICE HUNT FOR DARING

wrought. She opened her eyes and next station and followed the old! saw that the train was passing couple out. KILLER"

over Broadway. The train tore On the platform she swayed and There was a peculiar feeling in over the metals with a grinding the woman caught her. te pit of her stomach. Perhaps crackling noise. It seemed to "You're lucky, it was he, this man, right in front twist and turn like a mad thing with your life.” of her. Boldly she forced herself Over points it rattled and the to look up again and meet his hights dimmed and went out for a gaze. The eyebrows were bushy minute.

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

*BURDWAN

FAJPUTANA

NANKIN

TAKADA

CHITRAL

TILAWA

"SOMALI

CATHAY

SANTHIA

cargo only.

1935.

4th Sept. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokolisma. 5th Sept. Shanghai, Kobe & Tokohama.

6,000 17,000

7,000. 5th Sept. Shanghai. Moji, Kobe, Osaka Yokohama. 7,000 5th Sept. Amoy, S'hai, Moi, Kobe & Osaka. 15,000. 19th Sept. Shanghai, Kobe, & Yokohama. 10,000 19th Sept. Amoy Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osake.

7,000 1st Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

· 15,000 3rd Oct. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

8,000 3rd Oct. Amoy, Shanghai & Japan,

ALL DATES are approximate and sub-

ject to alteration without notice. All Cabins: Clls well

are fitted with Electric Fans or Punkca Louvre System.. Steamers. OD London “and: Aus- tralian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Par- cels measuring not more than 5 cat will be received at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing.

on the

Po O

For further information, Passage, Freight, Bandoooks, etc., apply to The Agents o

MACKINNON MACKENZIE.CO

PCO BUILDING. CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, HONGKONG

fore-ber.

nervous

to

Miss, to escape

The train jerked and sped on Her eyes followed it

"I-I don't understand. Are they

and nearly met across his fore- And in that minute an icy finger gangsters?** head. Frantically she searched touched her heart.

The old woman eyed her keenly

someone of

"Aye, and they'd fast bumped

her memory to recall the photo-"Get out at the next station if late the words. graph of the killer, which had been you value your life billed all over New York yester It was the old woman's hoarse day. She could remember nothing voice that, whispered the words in except an evil face and closely-set ber She drew back in terro eyes Closely-tet eyes Then and could hardly

until the kin

this heat 11 end in

in the left hand

on her.

She

BODY IN BLAZING

FIELD

Strange Suicide

When the

FAMILY'S FLOATING

HOME

Wagtails Rear Brood On Motor-Boat

Stanley Smith, of Langley-gar- dens, Barking, was playing with A pair of wagtails which raised other boys in a field at Barking a family in a nest built in the when he saw that the grass was locker of a motor-boat that speeds She was barely able to artícn- alight. He went

spot and up and down the Hamble river, and Baw the body of

raising another family of five in He fold of his discovery at an exactly the same way. inquest subsequently at Wathams When the first batch of fledgel tow.

Evidence was that the man, owners removed the nest.” Mr. and wings flew away the motor boat's George Belsham, aged 53, of Mal Mrs Wagtail built another one, and mesbury-terrace, Canning Town, now five birds have hatched out. had been depressed by unemploy, The parent birds fly up and ment and fl-health. Death was down the river and alor due to disinfectant, poisoning, ampton Water after the

Suicide While of Unsound kind win not go on board nil the was returned.

is moored

The girl looked at her stupidly. She was still trembling.

They

What "The bloke sitting front of you?

END)