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From Han Kouz About
1932.
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15,000 3rd Dec. 1*BHUTAN
6.000 10th Dec. RANPURA
17,000 17th Dec. KAISAR-I-HIND 12,000 81st Doc.
.1933. **SOUDAN
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15,000 22nd Apr.
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1932.
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1932.
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THE VANISHING TRICK.
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"Pd be better in London," he said "I'm not going back, anyway-not for anything, not even if they and mo." don't want you to go back, said, "What's it to me? I shan't ge about saying I've seen you. Let's) have the bill-that's what I want."
He glanced at me--he still didn't
move.
"You won't?" he said. "No I was scored when I saw you, but I don't much mlad. Anyway, "
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Date of Closing
5 p.m., 18th November... 23rd December.
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Christmas Letter Mall for Great Britain via Suez.
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I interrupted him, made him fetch | the bill sent him running, for it. I The Christmas Letter Mail for Great Britain via Suez will be hadn't got time to wasto. But in
closed in the General Post Office on the 19th November por 8.8. "Cor- and way I was sorry when I'd gone left him looking after me from the fu" as follows:-
I didn't want to acare him. Perhaps if I hadn't been in such a hurry 1 might have but that can't be helped now.
door.
Well, I I did my show and & second again a bit later and caught a show train at seven. In the train I thought
of my little man. My bollef, was that he'd be back at Birling soon. To stay hidden for ever-no one can do it, not in this country. Anyway, he wasn't
the type. But I felt sorry for him. remembered that
woman.
In London, during the next week, I hadn't much to do one evening job and one kids' party-It was near Christmas. For Boxing week I was
booked music-hall down near Put-
noy.
I knew the place-always going
to turn into a cinema, but never did, though they showed pictures on Sun- day. It was twice nightly for me, but you have to take what you enn geti nowadays.
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INWARD MAILS.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER
17.
Shanghal and Amoy
Calcutta and Straits....
Australia and Manila
Szechuan Strdhana ....Atauta Maru
Europe via Buez (Letters & Papers, London,
...Ranpuru Oct. 20 and Parcels, Oct. 13)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18. U.S.A., Canada, Japan & Shanghai (Seattlo,
Oct. 29)
Japan and Shanghai Japan and Shanghai
It was on the Wednesday in that week
firat that It happened-the
I had house. My act started at 0.50.
girl working with me, one I'd often had before it's worth it, for a week. Amoy
Swatow
President Cleveland ..Shinyo Maru
.Corfu
OUTWARD MAILS.
THURSDAY,
For the box trick she wore a special Shanghai and “Japan
152
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on while Amoy ..... rig-used to
to go and put showed the box to the audience. this Wednesday night she'd gone as usual, and when I'd finished showing if she the box I looked was ready, Shehere-but. in his my little man, the wings I
sae was looking walter's clothes,
with straight at me
queer kind of in- tent expression-standing quite stali.
I was scared. I couldn't think how he'd got there or what he was doing, particularly in those clothes.
dered, too, all in the same
1 won-
moment, Hofhow and Pakhoi when:
had happened to my girl. I felt Straits and Calcutta
had happened to my gir something
I felt something had gone wrong, and
Was going to go more
wrong if I
didn't stop it.
NOVEMBER 17.
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FRIDAY,
Letters NOVEMBER 18.
Kingyuan
Kumbang
Parcels
Letters Haiching
Fulda
Swatow, Amoy and Foochow
But before I could do anything my Manila and Parcals only for
to the little man was walking on stage, stil staring at me with the
I
same expression. He walked a bit stlifty,
almost. somehow mechanically,
might have turned him Suppose I
pushed him off. But almost thing better than a acene on the anything's stage, and somehow I couldn't push don't know why
was
he feel queer.
to
him aff -- The
way made me he'd determined through
walking
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I thought vanish again that it my box, and wouldn't be easy to stop him.
I just felt I'd better be quick. I wanted to get him in and get him vanished be- Fore anything happened.
I introduced him to the audience- Baid what I was going to do and so on,
*Superscribed Correspondence only.
Then I saw what he meant and I ask-1
the usual thing. While I was speaked him if he hadn't seen anyone with ing,
he
UNCLAIMED TELEGRAMS.
I felt the audience go quiet-ame on the stage. He stared and began
The following unclaimed tale B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for sort of hush-all of
Ito look a bit frightened, I thought. B sudden.
1st and 2nd class passengers,
Blanced over my shoulder-my little He said he'd seen no one-absolutely Tama are lying at the office of Great Northern Telegraph man was still
still there, but he wasn't no one so I knew I'd seen a ghost. I the
of Der looking st me
now-he
he was looking at didn't tell him-just went on dressing. Company (Limited) the box. Then he began to get in of and after a moment I heard the door mark EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). his own accord. I hadn't time to won shut. I think he'd decided I was mad
Notra, from Tientsin. der about the audience, I had to at- and didn't like staying with me.
Lisham Co, from Hamburg.. tend to the box. I wanted to be sure When I was dressed I went out. The
Notra Co., from Tientsin.. got in the right way. He did, but manager was there and several others he seemed to fall in, and for a moment stage hands and folk from other almost thought he really had fallen. aets--but no one spoke. They Just! It was queer, but I had to get the box stared at me. Then I saw my assis shut. A kind of murmur had started tant. She looked white. I asked her in the audience, and I fumbled, trying
she'd been. where
She said she'd just td
be quick.
As soon as I stood up and been coming on just leaving her Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan turned round, the murmur stopped-dressing-room when she'd torn half
dead silence.
got on
bit of patter, then turned the tear. It was a founy back to the box, and as I turned, but I didn't ask any more. I just from Davidston Po
my stuff for my I'd bond the saw out of the corner of my eye my told
Tanager
Otto Hassing, Swiss Consulate, and went out. It was
a from Singapore, staring at mo, pale, I thought
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1933.
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1st Feb,
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RANPURA
SIRDHANA
1932 8,000 18th Nov. Amoy, S'ha Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
6 am... 17,000 18th Nov, Shanghat, Kobe & Yokohama.
6,800
25th Nov, 11,000 20th Nov. *10,000
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$,000
me
her skirt off on a nail ghenta
girl asistani standing in the wings in the early still IN
couple of dic
A fine
F. V. JENSEN,
Superintendent. Hong Kong, November 9, 1932.
The following unclaimed tele grams are lying at the Eastern Ex- tension Telegraph Co.'s office
Jim Andrew, 8, Connaught Road,
F. Laurence, passenger, Empresa:
Morris Davis, Gloucester Hotel,
Just motioned to her to stay there. pub and had
Mrs. F. Hooke, Steamship Kamo Then I threw the box open-and paxt Then I walked about the streets a bit Maru, from: Tenterfield, N.3.w. moment I was trying to get it hat, as and began to feel better. Only quick as I could. My little man was didn't go home. I had a room still there, but he was all crumpled and Kennington and I knew I should sit of Russia, from Shanghal. crushed, his head snched in-blood there thinking. I wanted company. So dripping ont of the bom
I went to an hotel and had
another that I don't know quite what drink and took a room there and went
except,
that I was trying to to bed with the light on happened.
100 the box shut becauNG I didn't want I suppose I slept because I found it from Vrededorp. the audience to see got it shut then remember the curtain coming Was
was morning and the light still barns
Then I remembered and I wen of the hall down. The manager
dored if I really had been mador and two on the stage
of the hands picking up the box to carry it off. Tidreaming the night before. In day- ]
Look out
light you can't believe these things to say something "Look put it down! #9. but
they paid, so easily was still wondering while
and had breakfast, Then attention,
and I found myself in the Kat dressed
I bought a paper, and on the inside was drunk.
from Shanghai. b.
Praeg, 67, Des Voeux' Road,
C. G. CLARKE,
Manager. Hong Kong, October 27, 1982.
HONG KONG TIDES.
The time used is Standard, or mean
001. is midnight, 12hrs in noon. The
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohamaak was with the next turn starting anu page a paragraph jumped at mar de time of the meridian of 120 deg. E Shanghal & Kobo Amoy, Moil, Kobe & Yokohama. the manager telling me I 2nd Dee. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama: Of course, that was silly-you can't do Hotel: Trayu fu ghatta Netznik ara referred to the datum of
17,000 10th Dec. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama,
6,660 20th Dec. Shanghai Kobo & Yokohama. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.
14,000 30th Dec.
1088.
10,000 18th Jan Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
6,800 25thy Jatt. Blianghaj Kobe Tokohama.
17,000 27th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe E
15,000. 10th Feb.
Shanghai, Kobe &
6,500 23rd Feb
Shanghal, Lobe. “
ma.
15,000 24th Feb.
Shanghal, Kobo de Yokohama,
Cargo only. Calla Nagoya,
All' dates, "Dre appropimata, and subject to
are fitted with Electric
ding,
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Walter Glasy Magnolia Hotes Russell-square, was the place and should be added to to listen wanted the box opened and that thing in it taken away.
killed last night through falling depths given on the chart: unleasPTO- went over to the box and opened the
down the lft shaft from the top ceded by an asterisk (*), when they top quickly-upt the sides. You can
Agor
there he had his own room, should be subtracted from the depths wherecurred just before belleve
but it was empty er not me
The tragedy Not even a spot of clean empty, NetNET blood.
After that
I remember sitting down and the manager shaking my by the shoulder. He told me to get out
even
o'clock, shortly after. Createy
had been visited in his room by s
officerely D
nah clothe hotel:
at
was fired. He said it several Limits, bus Sunday, apparently stay after
14ldn't care. I just sat there, and after a bit I saw there was quite
Crowd, staring
you
at mo. I looked at the
still empty How could
110
up and went to my dressing- and the manager, followed me
I only wanted to get out of the theatre,
the manager, he was
Thy you set
officer
for a few
had Haft and then opened gate on the top landing atapped into the shaft.
lift
It is understood that the police officer had no
with any criminal proceed
quiries were being made for on behalf of his wife, with, had not lived for several
The name was right, was right I know I'd seca
he was walking
Anyway
next Coliston)face the
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