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THE CHINA MAHL, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936

RADIO

TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME

THE OTHER BED

(Continued from Page 9) Who was the woman? How bad she got into the room: Was it My first thought was that my an attempt to compromise me?! wife had arrived in the early And so on. hours and turned in without dis. Her eyes puzzled me. They turbing me. It was the sort of were wide open and set in a stony thing she would have done. I stare.

The pupils were distend- inter-led. I touched her cheek. It was

The following programme will reached across the space

be broadcast to-day from thevening and drew back the coverlet jdry and icy cold, and chalky white. Hong Kong Broadcasting Station The woman's face on which The lips were colourless. Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 gazed was not my wife's! įmetres. (845 KC's).

Eddie Harkness and his Orchestra from Studio

"New Books Worth Reading" 1230-213 p.m. - European Pro-

gramme.

12330 p.m.-A Variety Concert. 1 p.m. Local:

Werther Report.

Getting out of bed. I cantious-

It was an almighty shock. I rolled back the coverlet and can tell you. I was stunned, stag-found that she was lying on top gered, bewildered. A dozen ques-of the counterpane in Black tions came tumbling into my mind evening frock. A pair of black

satin shoes lay on the floor.

I bent over her. She was not

Time Signal and POPULATION OF breathing. I felt her pulse. There

1.03 p.n-Cinema Organ Solos by

Bild Dixon

115 mA Relay of the Hong

FRANCE

Kong Hotel Orchestral Luncheon Pro Discouraging Figures

!gramme.

1.30 p.m.--Reuter. Press Bulletins. Rugby Press News, Local: Weather: forecast, time and announcements.

1.40 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestral Luncheon. Pro-

kamme.

2.15 p.m. Close Down

4-7 p.m.-Chinese Programme. 7-11 p.m.--European Programine. 7 p.m.-A Light Concert.

Come Back to Sorrento

Charles Kullman (Tenor).

Poissons D'Or' (Debussy)

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS Pianoforte Solo

3.8.

RAJPUTANA +"BHUTAN

CHITRAL *BEHAR

RANPURA

**SOUDAN

RAWALPINDI ..

CORFU *BURDWAN

From

Toas Hong Kong

About

Destination

Disclosed

was not the flatter of a beat This woman, this utter stranger, was dead in my room?

Remember, I was young then. Young and inexperienced. I sup- pose I should behave differently: “CHINA MAIL" SPECIAL

Įnow. I suppose I should ring for Paris, To-day.·

the night porter and send him The grave disquietude which for the manager. has been gaining ground

în But then I could think only of France steadily because of the the scandal that would ensue were) unsatisfactory fuctuation of po-that woman to be found dead in pulation, has. risen considerably the bed intended for my wife. I because of the statistics just pub thought of my young wife and her lished by the Premier's office for love for and trust in me. Would 1934 and 1933. The figures for her affection, her faith. survive 1935 are still subject to alterna-such a test? Was it fair that she Ricardo Vines,tions, but the changes, if

should be faced with such an or any, would not affect the main-conclu. ¡deal: sion to which these figures lead, I thought of the inquiry, of the. The number of marriages demob pointing their beastly fingers: clined from 298,192 in 1934, tojat me I thought of the papers. Eva Turner (Soprano)|289,463 in 1935, while the births of the filthy innuendoes that would.

declined from 677,353 in 1934, to sprinkle their columns. I thought |; 638,881 in 1935, that in 38,484 less, of my friends turning away from while deaths increased from me in disgust. I thought of the 634,525 in 1934, to 658,357 in charge of murder that might well 1935, an increase of 23,832 be the outcome of the affair.

Pacing the room. As a great national campaign is

I tried in process to

propagate larger make up my mind what to do. families, the figures prove exceed-looked at my watch. Only ten ingly discouraging-Trans-Ocean minutes had elapsed since. I had Service

awoken with that strange monition of something (wrong.

Flute Solo-

Carmen-Fantasy,

¡Sang-

Homing (Del Riego)

Sung-

Marcel Moyse. |

17,000 16th May Bombay, Marseilles & London.

6,000 23rd May Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham- burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull 13,000 30th May. Bambay, Marseilles & London.

6th June Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham- 6,000

Down in Demerara (Traditional) burg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & El.

Raymond Newell (Baritone) and 17,000 13th June Rombay, Marseilles & London. -

the B.B.C. Male Chorus. 7,000 20th June

Landan, Ham-Cello Solo-

& Hull Antwerp

A La Guitare (Nolek) 17,000 27th June Bombay, Marseilles London 14:500 11th July Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Hong- 6,000 18th July Marseilles,

borg,

Harm- Antwerp & Hall.! 17,000 25th July Bombay, Marseilles & London. 16,000 Sth Aug. Bombay. Marseilles & London

s borg!

6,000 15th Aug. Marseilles, Havre, London Ham Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay Marseilles & London Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

22nd Aug. 5th Sept

RANCHI

NALDERA

*SOMALI

KAISER-1-HIND

11,000

RAJPUTANA ...

17,000

CHITRAL

15,000

RANPURA

RAWALPINDI

CORFU

CARTHAGE

19th Sept. 17,000 3rd Oct. 17,000

17th Oct. 14,500 31st Oct. 14500 28th Nov.

• Cargo only.

Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

Calls Tangier

+ Calls Casablanca. all vessels may call at Malta.

Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Istanbul, Firaeus, Symrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA - APCAR

SANTHIA

TALMA....

SIRDHANA

SHIRALA TILAWA

2,000 27th May

10,000 6th Jam 8,000 20' June 8,000 4th July 10,000 18th July

Singapore,

Adolphe Frezin.

Casanova-The Memory of a

Kiss," (J. Strauss)

Arthur Fear (Baritone).

¦ Instrumenta:—

Fete Champetre-Polka Song-

Beautiful Garden of Roser

Charles Kiliman (Tenor). 730 p.m.-A Relay from Daventry. The

Orchestra. B.B.C. Dance

directed by Henry Hall

7.50 p.m. From the Studio. "New Books Worth Reading" by, D.E.A.

8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal. We ther Report, Stock Castations and

| 8.65

George Scolt-Wood

Tea Room.

Announcements.

Piano-Accordeon). 1. In Little Gipsy SALLINGS2 Lulu's back in town.

Port

Swettenham. Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta

Now is the time to visit, Australia & New Zealand

. lands of Sunshine and Romance,

"Down Under" you will feel a new being and even if you are not - Inclined towards Suring, Fishing, Shooting or Mountaineering you will find that the Antipodes have plenty to offer you.-including 25/- for your pound.

On the way down your life aboard will be as you wish, quiet or bectic 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 à Sun Deck Swimming pool, în Orchestra and a fine Laundry.

A Surgeon and Stewardess are at your disposal and last but not -We had almost forgotten--the cuisine will set you Estening eagerly for the gong!

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

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:- The Union S.S. Co.'s Steamers to the United Kingdom via New

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The P. & O. Branch Service of Steatters to London via Suez The New Zealand Shipping Co.'s Steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Canal.

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS.

TANDA

NANKIN

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7,000 5th June 7,000 3rd July

Manila, Rabaal, Brisbane, Sydney 7,000 1st Aug. Melbourne & Hobart

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN

RAWALPINDI

SIDHANA

NANKIN

"BURDWAN CORFU SHIRALA

RANCHI

TILAWA

SOMALI

NELLORE

17,000 28th May Shanghai & Japan.

8,000 28th May Amoy, Shanghai & Japan 7,000 4th June Shanghai & Japan. 6,003 10th June Shanghai & Japan. 14,500 11th June Shanghai & Japan.

8,000 -11th June Amoy, Shanghai & Japan. 17.000 25th June Shanghai & Japan.

10,000 25th June Amoy, Shanghai & Japan.

7,000

7th July Shanghai & Japan. 7,000 7th July Shanghai & Japan.

ALL DATES are approximate and sub-

jeet to alteration without notice. "All Cabins "All's well"

are fitted with Electric Fans or Punks Loave

3. Stars and Stripes for Ever--

March.

!4

The Whistler and his Dog.

5.

Top Hat--Selection.

6.

The Big Broadcast of 1995,---

Selection.

1. "The King of Burlesque"

Selection.

CRUSADE AGAINST

TIPPING

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I must get rid of the body. I decided. Get it out of the room. I concealed it with the coverlet opened the door, and peered UD and down the corridor.

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There was no one about. It was The French and the Italians still with the breeding stillness have a better way. At the end that reigns lover the upper of the voyage the passenger, gions of an hotel before dawn. when paying his account for drinks and extras. gives a lump and there. Boots and shoes, put ¡Pendent globes glowed wantly here sum to the chief steward, which out to clean. marched covers all claims for service. right and left. There is an unwritten. fixed minimum for every port, which ridor solved the problem. I tipto

A bathroom just along the cor- is never more, and usually lessed to it and looked in. than the minimum he would

It

in that er-happy position. You return home

was

ver

00 the

following

the hotel

"That night she joined a party of friends. A rather bohemian crowd.

8.25 pm.--Song Hits from Talkies staff were dealt with piecemeal tersecting the corridor on the right

pay in a ship where the saloon empty. Leaving the door ajair.occupied Room 59, I think, Den- evening. She booked a room

I made sure that the passages in-i

"Am I likely to forget it? If the passenger thinks he has had special attention he gives was a risk, you see, that a “boots"

and left were deserted. There But- more. But in no case is he ex-might surprise me.

"Come on, eat the cackle-” "All right, Risby. All right." pected to tip individually, and

the bedroom, Fullerton chuckled. "I'm coming I crept back to the stewards never indicate by the slightest sign that

picked up the shoes, and carried to them now. they desire it.

the slight body of the woman to

2 At the Codfish Ball

Captain January." y. Early Bird

"Captain January." 8.45 p.m.-Concert Waltzes. My Darling ("The Gipsy Baron"]

(J. Strauss}

Roses of the South (J. Strauss)

3 pmA Relay of the Daventry Aews Bulletin (Copyright by Reuter) and Announcements.

9.20 p.m.-A Classical Programme Choral Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart))

Berlin Children's Mozart Choir.

In Italian Liners

"As it happened, I was staying

"She and a man she had never

met before became separated from

the others.

"This chap took her to

gome

the bathroom. I lowered her into at the hotel that night Coinci-dubious resort of the Tottenham the bath, put down the shoes and, dence, eh? But, then, coincidence Court Road, and there, I take it, In the Italian liners the shutting the door. returned to my is about the gratuity is entered in a book by

commonest pheno-he slipped some kind of dope into menon there is. You encounter her wine.

"She was still in sufficient pos- "I didn't know friend Denver session of her senses, however, to

room.

im

of a representative of the staff my breath and pull myself toge the passenger, in the presence After pausing inside to regain it every day.

India is the worst country for ther, I made a thorough search in these time. Our paths did not become suspicious of his inten- | Aria—Within these sacred Walls tipping I have visited.

("The Magic Flute") (Mozart)

native hotel servants of this about to betray her presence. But

The fest there was something lying cross till four or five years later. tions She waited till his back Ivar Andresen (Bass) generation have been spoiled by there was nothing.

"Well, I'm an early riser. Even was turned and stole out of the Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67

when I'm in town I like a walk place She found a taxi and was (Beethoven)

foreign tourists, and they

Then I tidied the bed, turned before breakfast. That morning driven to the hotel. Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, con- gather like flies when an

un-back the coveriet, switched off the was no exception to my rule. My

"She was feeling pretty groggy ducted by Sir Landon Ronald fortunate traveller is about to light, and slid in between my own travelling alarm-clock aroused me by 10 Big Ben from Daventry. leave..

then no doubt the drug, Eddie Harkness and his Orchestra The Chinese are better: you ve..

cold sheets. It was just ten toat quarter to six, and I

sprang whatever it was, was beginning to il p.m.-Close Down.

straight out of bed like the Spar-work-but she managed to enter. will find your stay in a Euro-

itan I am.

the hotel without drawing atten- I lay awake till the maid came pean-managed hotel made plea-

"I went to the bathroom. Ition to her condition and hurried sant by the judicious expendi-with a cup of tea at seven. There ture of a few silver dollars. but was nothing in her manner to dis-latched the door, dropped my gear they are not rapacious. and

¡turb me.

At half-past she in- a chair and crossed to the taps.

"Losing count of the landings, 1 Inever invent services for which formed me that my bath was ready Lying in the bath was a girl suppose. Instead of continuing to

a black evening frock. and, to my dismay, indicated the

the third floor, where her "You could've knocked me down was, she turned off at the second. bathroom along the corridor.

Not wishing to make her sus-that I could do for a while was to in the identical position. To 59,

with the proverbial feather. All

"She made her way to another.

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Ow

you have no need."

Tipping has undergone curious transformation

z in

Japan. Formerly, if you stayed picious, I entered. The body had

up the stairs.

She was a lovely creature, Deyour room, Denver.

jas I worked out afterwards. ver, but I suppose you weren't in

I realised that it was not a care

hell

TOOL

To

was

at a provincial hotel, the bill been removed.. I don't mind ad stare and gape. would be comparatively small mitting that I missed my bath but the landlord would expect a that morning.

"It was not till she reached the a state to admire. Suddenly she door that she remembered "present" much greater than The rest is mystery as far as moved."

that Under the name of the N... the amount charged.

I'm concerned (Denver concluded)..

she had forgotten to "Good Lord!" Denver ejaculat-key. She was still fumbling in collect ber North Europe Line, the Nippon

"Lose Dignity"

I don't know how she got into my ed. Yusen Kaisha have recently estab-i

room. I don't know how she died.

her bag when a servant happened "Yes, she was alive, but mori-along and, realising what lished a new fast freight service and room-boys in modern cities don't know what happened after I and laid her on a heap of towels, key,

To-day, the smiling waiters.

I don't know who she was. 1 bund. I bent and lifted her out wrong, admitted her with a house- between the Far East and North like Tokyo and Yokohama are placed her in the bath Europe. The fleet consists of five pleased to receive a modest sum motorships of 9,100/9,400

No doubt the business was hush-for ringing bells and raising merry effect by then. She dimly remem- "The drag was exerting its full tons in recognition of their services, deadweight, with a maximum but it is never asked for, even led up

bered shutting the door, kicking speed of 19.5 knots. Two of them by such indirect though com- I didn't make any inquiries, for

"I nipped back to my room, dug off her shoes, crawling into bed, are their ships and the pelling methods as we know in obvious reasons. When my wife out a flask of brandy, and made and pulling the coverlet over her. other three are owned by the England. I have had to leave arrived I made an excuse

and her sip some of the spirit. The "After that there was a blank hurriedly without being able to transferred to another hotel As the first ship of the Line, find the servants I wanted to

I rubbed her wrists and ankles till she opened her eyes and found This is the first occasion I've till presently she was able to sit me looking down at her." the m/v Kashii Maru (K Line's tip, and on returning weeks told the story to anyone. For further information, Passage. Freight, Handbooks, etc, apply ship) will arrive at this port this later have been received with

up and show some interes in life. "What then?" inquired Denver Fullerton spoke from the morning and will leave for Ham-the same unfailing courtesy. Ishadows. So you put her in the of course, at finding herself in

"She was scared and dismayed, hoarsely. burg via ports at 7 pm. to-day. have wondered at this, and one bath." he drawled.

"Oh, I found a dressing-gown It has been decided to have the day I asked why they did not

such circumstances. She was hor-and smuggled her up to her room All eyes fixed on his dark, sarried and bewildered when I ex-exactly over yours. inspec-arrange for someone

I never saW to take donic visage.

plained how I had come to dis-her again. I suppose she was so What--what

her:

ashamed of herself that she beat Un-Denver blurted out.

"I gave her another draught of it back to the long grass by the- expected:

“I suggested that one us brandy and she began to tell me first train.” - "We would lose diguity if we might be able to solve the mystery about herself. She had come up Thank the Lord!" tors will run between Blake Piet showed that we expected, the for you," Fullerton went to deto London on the previous day on Denver.

Inurmured and the ship every half hour, honourable guest to give (commencing from 2.30 p.m.

us liberately, as if he were enjoying a shopping expedition, intending my mind.” ¡money.

the situation: "It seems that Fmlto spend the night in town and

*atem

Steamers or London and Ans- on the

tralian Lines are fitted with Laundries, Par- tels measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Company's Office, up to Noon

on the day previous to sailing.

to The Agents:—

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of shippers and others from the

4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Kowloon Wharf them. to-day.

Steam-launches conveying visi-

I thought The answer was

of

"You've taken a load off

(THE END)