1952-01-26 — Page 14

: "HANHANG”

"FUNING"

"SZECHUEN"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1952.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE the BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

CHINA NAVICATION CO., LTD.

SAILINGS TO

&

1x nisin Venka

Kobe Okinawa. Yokohama, Максун, Osaka સ

-11 am. 30th Jan,

5 p.m. 30th Jan,

Kole

Singapore &

Penang

**HUNAN"

Tientsio

10 a.m. 10 a.m.

"POYANG"

Kerlur;

Noon

"SOOCHOW"

Bangkok

"SINKIANG"

"POYANG"

"KWEIYANG"

"SHANSI

10 a.m. 31st Jan 1st Feb 8th Feb.

7th Feb. 10 a.m.

uth Fab. Penang

18 am, 19th Feb. Djakarta & Sourabaya 10 p.m. 22nd Feb.

.Singapore

Ever Visit With the Goldfish?

-You Don't Listen, You See What They Saylim

By MAX TRELL

NARF the sitadow-boy with

the

turned-ubout Tame, was landing in front of the aquarium watching Alphonse

! and Suzanne, the goldfish.

to

Both Alphonse and Suzanne had their mouths up close to the glass, and it seemed Knart that they were trying to hiy Me something to listened as closely as he could without being able to hear any- thing.

Pay

Bails from Custodian Whart

ARRIVALS FROM

SINKING"

Keelung

7 a. 28th Jan,

Bangkok

Tientsin

9 a.m. 28th Jan. 1st Feb.

.Moji

Kobe

5th Feb

6th Feb.

"I

wish I could hear you're trying to say, " said aloud at last.

what Knart

10-15

"HUNAN

"POYANG"

"SOUCHOW""

A.O. LINE LTD./C.N. CO., LTD., JOINT SERVICE

"CHANGTE"

→TAIYUAN"

Kure Заррин

SAILINGS TO

& Kobe

p.m. 30th Jan,

12th Feb.

"CHANGT“

Sydney & Melbourne

19th Feb.

At that moment, Mr Funch, who was sitting in his chair on

other side the

of the

INKIM, called over. "What's the trouble, Knarf?"

"I wish I could hear what you're trying to say," said Knari.

"CHANGSHA"

Japan

27th Feb.

"CHANGTE"

"TAIYUAN"

"CHANGSHA"

"CHANGTE"

ARRIVALS FROM ..Australia

Manila .Australia & Manila

& .Australiu

Manila upan

&

6 p.m. 26th Jan

8th Feb.

Can't Hear Them "Alphonse and Suzanne are I tryng to say something and can't hear thèm.”

saying just as well as Mr Punch was able to see what they were and saying, began leaping up down

13th Feb.

10th Feb.

ZOO'S WHO

P&O B.I. E&A

"OBUSAN”

COMPANIES

10th January

22nd January

7th February

SWEDISH ENGINEER

USED BODY HEAT OF 18 COWS IN HIS BARN TO SUPPLY WARMTH TO HIS 5 ROOM

HOUSE....

PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL S.N. CO.

PASSENGER/FREIGHT 'SERVICE

Ontwards "CARTHAGE"

"CORFU"

Leavor London

Arrival Hongkong

∙11th February 10th February

10th March

Vis Southampton. Port Bald, Aden, Bombay, Colombo,

Penang. & Singapore.

Homeward "CARTHAGE" "CHUBAN" "CORFE"

Leaves Hongkong Due London 15th February 17th March 23rd February 21st March 14th March

14th Apri

Accepting carce for Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bem-

bay, Aden & Lenton.

FREIGHT SERVICE

Doe Hongkong

Outwards "SHILLONG" "SOCOTRA”

From

13th February

London & Continent

14th February

BLUE FUNNEL LINE

Scheduled Salilags to Europe via Aden & Port Bald

Marseilles, Liverpool &

"PYRRHUS"

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7th Feb.

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... Manila

"CYCLOPS" "PELERS"

Dublin

Liverpool

21st Feb 25th Feb.

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6th Mar

G CYCLOPS"

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Sails Kalteruam

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Dia

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ilo

22nd Feb

25th Jul

1st Mar.

51: Feb

11th Mar.

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121 Fel

16th Feb.

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18th F

24th Mar

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ist Apr.

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“Really?" sald Mr Punch. He got out of his chair and rame walking over to where Knard was standing.

"My goodness," crled Knatt, "they're trying to jump out of the water!"

Mr Punch hastily formed his Lips to say: "No! No! No!"

"See?"

Their sad Knarf. mouths аге moving but sounds are coming ourt."

Finally Alphonse and Suzanne no stopped jumping up and down and swam quietly in front of the glass inside the aquarium they had been doing just # before:

"Ah," said Mr Punch "I see whet your trouble is. Goldfish don't talk like ordinary people They speak without making any sounds. You've got to read Their lips."

Knarf looked surprised. "Yes," continued Mr Punch, "instead of listening to what they say, you've got to see what they're saying.".

"Can you read goldfishes' lips?" Knart asked.

"It really is a pity," Mr Punch said to Knarf, "that we can't visit the goldfish, and the goldfish can't visit us. They live In the same house with usin fact, in the very same room... and yet were not really com- panions at all

Have to Stay Put

"They

need water and we need air. 1 we swan in the way they do, we'd water the

into

"Certainly," said Mr Punch. "Well, what are Alphonse and drown. If they came out the air and sat in this Suzanne saying?"

room as we do, they'd soon die So they must stay where they where are, and we must stay we are"

"I'll tell you In a minute," said Mr Punch. Then he put his eyes up close to the glass of the aquarium and watched the noving lips of Alphonse and Suzanne. "Ah! I saw every word they said. They said why doesn't that Httle boy drop in and have a swim with us?

Like to Swim

"Oh," said Knart. "That's a

very good idea. I'd like to drop

Knart thought this was sad, too. But we can talk to each other, that's one good thing, Mr Punch."

Mr Punch nodded. "It would be wonderful." he went on, "if we could do all the things that all the creatures in the world

could do. I mean, if we could

a fish, fly like a swim swim like into the aquarium and with Alphonse and Suzanne. bird and still be able to walk But how can I? I'm not a fish." and run and talk and sing and

laugh and play like people."

Mr Pinch, who kept konking "I think we can a little bit," at the two goldfish intanschlie, suddenly exclaimed: "Ah! They said Kaarf. "We can go saling want me to drop in, too. They're in a ship, and that's sort of like very silly goldfish. I know what swimming. We can go flying in I'll do," Mr Punch said the an aeroplane and that's sort of

like being like a bird'

next moment. "I invite them to jump out of the aquorlum and join us for a walk."

No sooner did Mr Punch tay these words than Alphonse and Suzanne, who must have been able to see what Mr Punch was

CROSSWORD

"Hmm," sald Mr Punch. "That's right."

Then he gave Alphonse and

SLOTHS ARE NORMALLY RIGHT SIDE

UP WHEN THEY ARE UPSIDE DOWN... D006 OFTEN SMILE.”

THE

Floating

Bottles

By DAN MURDOCH

THE U.S. Navy is con- stantly charting the ocean currents of the world. It uses a lot of high class scientific machinery for this, but it also does it with Shipa and planes bottles. drop these bottles overboard the at various places in world then the Navy waits for the mall man.

Sealed inside each bottle is a message printed on special paper, in six languages English, French, German, Spanish, Por-

and tuguese, Esperanto. This asks anyone finding message the bottle to All in his name

the and address, and

cxact place and time he picked it up. He returns this information the Navy's Hydrographic In- Washington, which stitute in

records of all battles afloat. By comparing records, Navy experts decide how far the bottle floated, how fast, and in what direction. This helps them figure out the speed,

keeps

range, rents,

to

and course of seo cur- especially after several have made the same bottits voyage in about the same time.

The beat official record so far was made by a bottle dropped off the western coast of Mexico and picked up at Leyte, in the Philippine Islands.

It look that

bottle one year, four months, and 26 days to go 6,000 miles.

THE

A 14-year-old Welsh boy found t on the southwestern beaches of England 13,000 miles away, Most battles are found not in mid-ocean, aftor they are washed ashore. Sometimes the finders get strange ideas. One 18-year-old Irish girl sent this letter back with her message.

"I hope the man who deals with this is a fat man, if so I will surely get a reward, but if it is a thin man, indeed, I have a poor chance, as a tat man is always generous and romantic and I intend to fall in love and marry a fat man”

Another man who found a bottle asked the Navy for $900.65-he got confused by

"RETURN

WASHINGTON D.G

Suzanne a pinch of food and THERE are 趋 few unofficial the official stamp on the gov said, not loudly but quite plain- ly:

records, though, that beat ernment envelope that says, "We like you very much, that one. For instance, an "Penalty for Private Use to Alphonse and Suzanne. Perhaps officer on a fruit company boat Avoid Payment of Postage, One day we really will be able in the Caribbean sea dropped a $300," to drop into your aquarium bottle on his own, with a mes- and have a real visit."

sage to be mailed back to him. 55 cents he'd paid in post.ge, He didn't even get back the

Link Belt

4Cutasmall slit at top of one link and slip on buckle

1Cut a BUCKLE from an OLD BELT, en

5. Join links like

and the girl didn't get any re ward or even information about how fat the man was who dealt with her mesoge. But each gof a nice thank-you Istier, and a beatiful oces may 26

THE Navy makes no cash re- wanda dar anding in pesane

2.Cut a pattern this...repeat until long enough. going battle exporting you to

for links from...

folded PAPER.

UNFOLD

PATTERN

FOLD TO SUP THROUGH NOTCH

6.Make last link like this...

co-operate because you want to "help" modes volence?"med

After lots of: bottles and lots of using Navy experts have,

· rectally, decided that the wind, contrble a bottle as much as "current adom

Homewards

"SOUDAN"

Leaves Hongkong

For

15th FebruRTY London & Contigent

Port swettenham,

Accepting cargo for Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Aden, Genoa, Marseilles, London Hamburg, Antwerp & Rotterdam, with liberty to call at Bombay If inducement offers.

Tanks available for carriage of oil in Bulk. Limited passenger Space for refrigerated cargo.

accommodation

BRITISH INDIA S.N, CO., LTD.

"WARLA"

due 29th Jan.

"SANTHIA"

sails 30th Jan. dur 2nd Feb. salls 4th Feb.

duc

Pth Feb.

sals 10th Feb. due 21st Feb,

"SANGOLA”

"WARLA"

sale 23rd Feb.

from Chittagong via Singapore for Japan from Japan for Singapore, Penang, Rangoon & Calcutta from Calcutta. Rangoon Penang, & Singapore for Japan

from Japan

for Liditagong

via Singapore

(These voutly have refrigerated cargo space>

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due 3rd Feb. sale 8th Feb.

"UMARIA"

due 8th Feb.

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from Karachi,

Bombay, Colombo

& Singapore

solls 10th Feb. for Japan

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1

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