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EARLIER TELEGRAMS.
(Reuter's Service to the China Maß)
BRITISH SHIPSTILOINO
T-DUSTRY.
LONDOX, October 7th The court formed under the Industrial Courts Act to consider the war-time in- Crease granted to shipyard workers decided that the increases of from 45 to 33 per cent, be reduced to 10 per cent, swing to the slump in the industry; It is expected that the reductions will re- vive the demand for new ships.
BRITISH TOOLS FOR KUSSI
LONDON, October 7th. The Soviet Government has placed Large contracts for steel tools with Shei- field firms.
RECONSTRUCTIO (OF DEVASTATE REGIONS.
BERLIN. October 6th.
THE CHINA MAIL.
CHILDREN'S CORNER.
FAIRY SKIPPING.
"Do come and ses how big my sweet peas are growing Mother," cried Tim.
they were all as he had left them only one of them was broken in the middel
PETER PAN.
THE PRETENDING FRIEND.
Whate'er the weather is like you
know
He had only sown them a few days before but there had been so much I have to rest for an hour or so, rain and then two days of hot sunshine Aud sometimes 't serias an age. and the seeds had sprung up rapidly. It's no good making a fuss you see,
Nurse looks at her watch and sayı "Why they are big Tim," said his "At three mother when he had put down her gardening things and had come over to look at them. We must find some sticks for them to climb."
There was a big bundle in the corner so that Tini had plenty for the one row of sweet peas.
Twist the tendrils round the sticks a bit Tim." his mother said "And then they will climb up more
What is a tendiril?" he asked, for
M. Lonchear and Herr Batheast have | quickly,” signed & protocol declaring that France and Germany desire to co-operate in the reconstruction of the devastated regions he did not know much about plants of France. Arrangements are made for and had only just started having the largest possible supplies of machin- garden of his own.
materials. ery, implementa nad raw
The little green twisty bit that Consignments will be effected on both sides though private organisations The grows up the stalk," answered his total value of the supplies up to May mother." You see how it holds on. PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGS (South) 1. 1923, must not exceed seven milliards And she took a tendril and wound it
of gold marks, with the reservation that supplies must be used only for the purround a strick and it hung on as it
nothing would ever move it again.
But something did move it as you will hear!
Fr
$. S.
Tons
Boogtood (about)
Sou❘ 15th fet 5.400 18th Dec.
25th Oct. 11th Nov.
"KHIVA"
· DUNERA"
*BARDINIA " "KARMALA
6,000
9,000
Destination
MARGYLLES, Londor & A'werp. Singapore, Colombo & Bombay. MARSEILLES, LONDON & A werp. MANZILLES, LONDON & A'werj-
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS (South)
poses cf reconstruction.
The execution of the protocol will be supervised by a Commission of three; Amely Frenchman, German and another chosen by mutual agreement or by the President of Switzerland.
2.
OPPAU EXPLOSION,
Tast evening, just before Tim went off to bed he took down a can of
Then up you can jump my dear."
And so I talk to ray 'cending friend, He is so good and loves me to end And listens to all I say.
sometimes wish he would talk
instead.
He only cotnes when I am in bed. I don't think he has a voice.
But it's rather nice to feel he's there, He seeing more real than Teddy Bear
And Mother i far away,
So when I go for my rest and sleep
As soon as ever in bed I creep,
a
I call for my 'tending friend
PETER PAN.
What word becomes shorter when ssyllable is added!
Short
Mr. Yeral Drer. 76 years old,
water for his garden and afterwards known to the pioner foreigners in sat down for a moment on a bank Tokyo and to the older Japanese of near by, wondering if he would soon the city as one of the three oldest find some flowers now that his plants pioneer foreigners in Japan, died on were growing at such a rate
September 24 at his home, No. 11 Shiba Park. Mr. Duer came to Japan) from England in 185 szd it is belier- ed by many foreigners there that with the exception of Captain Brinkley and Innab Conder he was the oldest foreign resident of Tokyo.
PARIS. October uth. At Coblentz, the German Commissioner in the Rhineland has coureyed to the French High Commissioner the hearty
And then he suddenly heard a small thanks of the German and Bavariar Governments for the active assistance Voice say. Ten skipping ropes please rendered by the French ofcials to the for Madara Fling-the-Foot. Do you victims of the explosion at Oppau.think that you could spare them. We (South) Horas.
would bring them back in ar bour's time. UNIFIED ROAD NEGULATIONS.
GREGORY APDAR"
4,700
|
10th Oct.
Daleutta, via Singapore Penang and Rangoo
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS
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TO
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3,600
"KARMALA
9,000
5,300
Bt 5 he
4,100
Seth Uct.
*TURILLA
"ST. ALEANS"
SPECIAL
loth "et.
Daylight. 10th Oct 12tb Uat.
& JAPAN
Amoy only.
Shanghai and Japan Amoy, Shanghai and Kobe.
Yokohama direct.
STEAMER.
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All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice.
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Storer and Sailing dates are liable to be cancelled or altered without uice Parcela Measuring not more than 2 fx 2 It will be received at the Company's Office up to noon on the day previous to railing.
PARIS, October 7th.
"Oh certainly" a voice replied, and it seemed to Tim as if it came Twenty-one States, including France, from his biggest sweet pea plant. Britain. Italy. the United States and Japan, attended the International Road But will you send your most Conference spened on the initiative of delicate fingered fairy to fetch them France with the object of unifying road because these rupes are new and very regulations throughout the world."
FIRE ON A LIER.
CAPETOWN, October 7th. The Court of Inquiry into the fire oa the Commonwealth liner Port Augusto, cabled on September 25th. found that every cadeavour had been made to extin- guish the fire. The Court completely exonerated the captain. officers and crew and declared that the fire arose in coast quence of the spontaneous combustion of fine clearfield coat shipped at New York.
RUSSIAN FAMING RELIEF,
BRUSSELS, October sth. The International Russian Farine Re- tief Conference has met. Eighteen States represented. including Britain. France, the United States, Germany and China M. de la Croix, the Belgian ex- Premier, preaided.
were
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The Conference discussed Dr. Sansea's Mr. Hoover's agreements with the fficacy of the guarantees obtained and the best means to empley for the dis tribution of supplies. Afterwards they discussed the advisability of sending a Committer of Inquiry to Bassia.
Various speakers strongly favoured Waiting for private initiative without wa official support, especially for the relied of the children. opinion was held that a preliminary inquiry was indispen
9. sable before any demand could be made
to
thin."
'I will call Cobweb Fingers," the first voice replied and in a moment the daintiest little fairy came tripping along and began to unwind the tendrils from the biggest plants.
According to investigations made by the Japanese Department of Com- munications only one steamer of more: than 1.000 tons gross register was launched in Japan last renth, where-
as August, 1920 six vessels aggrega- ting 31,470 tons were launched from Japanese shipyards. The one vessel referred to was a steamer of 7,300 teas balt at the Osaka Iron Works, From 1st January to 31st August, 34 vessels aggregating 139,900 tons were
Tim would never have seen herif he had not heard the conversation launched in Japan which had gone before. She was to slight that one might have mistaken her for a moonbeam and her fingers were indeed like cobwebs,
She gathered the tendrils carefully and was carrying them off when all of a sudden she saw Tim and she would have rushed past him only be called out, "Oh please may I come and see the skipping with my tendrils?"
At that she stood still and said in such a tiny divery voice that Tim could only just bear it. "If these ropes are yours of course you have the right to see them used. Follow me slowly please and do be careful not to step 02 me."
Tim was delighted when he heard this and crept as carefully as he could behind Cobwebs Fingers along garden path, through a gap in a bush and out on to a space on the grass where there
the respective Governments for itter was a fairy ring. The toadstools all vertion on large scale.
round it must have sprang up sudden.
Dr. Nansen, interviewed, said the soluly because Tim was sure that they tion of the world problem of unemploy had not been there that morning. ment lies in saving from the grip Eight little fairies were standing on of famine. Everyone must help. The Soviet is sincerely doing everything pos one side of the ring and opposite them, sible but is incapable of saving its people farning herself with a grass, was without foreign aid.
Madam Flag-the-Fout.
STOL TION IN ALBÛNIA.
GENEVA, October 7th-
1
Here are the skipping ropes Madam." said Cobweb Fingers and when she had handed round eight of The League of Nations Council tas them and given one to the teacher she approved the appointment of a Commis- took up her place at the side of the Japan ports. Through bills of lading issued to all Oversion of three, representing neutral Pow-ring.
ers, to proceed to Albania to investigate land Camon Points in U.S.A. and Canada.
the situation.
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RUBBIR I¯GSTRY.
Then the lesson began and it was really rather funny. The ropes were so twisty that the fairies often fell over them or jumped in the wrong place and their toes became tangled up. Tim even laughed aloud once and at this sound they all stopped and Madam Fling-the-Foot looked severe- ly at him.
LONDON, October 6th.
"Oh I beg your pardon," cried Tim In connection with the abandonment? of the Rubber Producers Corporation who was feeling rather uncomfortable cheme it is stated that the support was as be know that he must have been smaller than expected. Owners of 709,000 very rude. "I thought that all fairies acres of planted area provisionally ap could dance and skip and jump and proved of the principles out of a total and do everything, he added rather planted area of 3,320,000 acres. minimum acreage considered necessary to lately. give effect to the scheme had been fixed at 2,200,000 acres.
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VIGRISON AN KISHIDARI HOJO, NAMAZUZA, BAZ, S "Of course all fairies can dance," NEW, EASAPA EBAI KAMIY). said Madam-Fling-the-Foot. "They MADA. and OYUBARI, even dance in their cradles (which sounded to Tim rather queer) bat na fairy has ever skipped before.'
"Then why do they start now?" asked Tim.
"Because the king has commended: it," replied Madam-Fling-the-Foot, and then the lesson went on.
Tim tried hard to keep solemn but really the ropes grew twistier and DIPHTHERIA is usually contacted twistler and Cobweb Fingers became
when the child has a cold. The cold prepares the child's system for the tangled up with the fairy next to her. They pulled and tagged and at last reception and devolopusent of the dipb; theris germ. When there are cases of Cobweb Finger's rope broke with a diphtheria in the reighbourhood children-snap and she fell head over heals. At
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this Timp laughed out loud once more.. At once the fairies and the fairy ring vanished and he found himself sitting on the bank again by his garden,
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