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THE CHINA MAIL.
New Spanish Custom to Prevent Revolt
This looks the a wholesale holdup-and it is, but revolt, in which seventy-five persons fort their lives. within the law. Workers coming from factories in Scenes like this are common throughout the entire Barcelona, Spain, are being rarelled by police for republic as the government takes measures to prevent bombs and other arms, following the recent anarchistí a recurrence of anarchist outbrenica,
CHILDREN
AS ECONOMIC
BAROMETERS
THE GRASS FIRE
(Continued from Page 10.)
place and saw me helping you put "Come out of there, you damn out a grasa fire when nobody with fool?" Jake shouted at him. "You'll ant sense at all would ever have be cooked and ready to eat if you started one in this kind of-weather? People in this town know I don't don't get out of that fire!"
Carl's hat had fallen off and had associate with crazy men. They That's already burned into a handful of know me better than that.
think His whiskers were why I don't want them to grey ashes. aged close to his face, making I've lost my mind and gone plumb| him appear at a distance as if hejerazy with you."
"I wouldn't even spit on a blade
you
Underweight Going As Depression Lifts.
AMERICA'S SCHOOL SURVEY
Philadelphia. Doctors are pointing to the weight of school children as a new econo mic barometer for predicting good!
had had a shave, and his peg legi Carl opened his mouth, but Jake times and bad.
was charred. If he had stood still had not finished. They say this new indicator re-all the time he would not have been veals last year that the depression hurt, because the fire would have af witch-grass now if I thought it| was on its last legs, with under-
burned away from him; but Carl would help check that fire Bombay, Marsellos, Harve, London, weight disappearing among 500,000 ran right into the hottest part of started. Why the townspeople
Hamburg, Rotterdam Antwerp & school children studied.
it, almost out of sight in the smoke would think I had a hand in start- Hull.
The discovery was disclosed at
His woollen pants were ing it, if I went and helped you! Bombay. Marseilles & London.
the 23rd. Convention of the Penn- and flame,
smoking. his coat was dropping off check it. Nobody would believe me syvlania Medical Society by Dr. Allen M. Kerr, Chief of the Medi-in smoking pieces, and a big black if I tried to tell them I begged you circle was spreading on his shirt not to fire your field in the begin- cal Service of Pittsburgh schools.
where a ppark had ignited the blue ning, and then went right out and Dr. Kerr said he used 1928 as a
cotton cloth.
helped you fight it. The towns- "normal" year, and made records of the weights of 500,000 school children. With these weights as. his standards, he continued the study, and before the depression actually had arrived, he found the
He grabbed Carl and dragged and start a fire in a hayfield when average school child losing weight, him away from the flame and threw it hasn't rained yet this spring. I'm indicating less income at home.
him down on the ground where thejno fool, Carl Abbott, even if it does The downgrade for almost three
had already burned over appear that I'm associating with gruse after years
that Wis constant.
Carl's wooden leg was burned com- ono naw."* Then, in the middle of last year, pletely through, and as he fell to the underweight average began to
The ground it broke off in half. All diminish. From 12.6 per cent, at
Calle Cambianca.
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7.000 8,000 18th Feb.
1934.
4th Feb.
TALMA
TILAWA
10,000 10,000
4th Mar. 18th Mar.
Singapore, Penng & Calcutta.
10 -- DO
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8,000 1st Apr.
DO
Calls
Pori Swettenham
↑ Colla Rangoon.
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Jake jumped out of his buggy people have got better sense than and ran into the hayfeld calling to believe a tale like that. They Carl. He could not sit there and know I wouldn't do a fool thing like see a man hura himself alive, even you went and did. They know that if the man was Carl Abbott.
I have better sense than to go outį
or eight
Carl said.
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"But you can't let my stock and to the barn and jerked open the stall CHEERY CAMP LIFE buildings burn up," the height of the hard times, it fell that was left of it was a charred you wouldn't do that, would you,
IN CANADA An explosion of smoke, dust and [Jake? I've been a fair and honest fame burst into his face, but the inches long. Carl had made the friend of yours all my life, haven't two horses and the cow bounded out B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 10 12, then 11, indicative of better pointed stub about six
feeding for children, a sign that
peg himself, and. Instead of using
(Continued from Page 8). 1st and 2nd class passengers.
coming good times were
buck.-
1, Jake7 And didn't I cast my vote the moment the stall wak as Jake had advised him to do, for you when you wanted to be road thrown open. The horses and cow Reuter.
he had made it out of white pine,
Presently the good food and the commissioner?"
ran across the yard and leaped over feeling of economic independence. “So I can't, can't I? Well, you just the brush by the roadside and dis- however lowly, heartened them. to carry around. Jake dragged him by the collar to the gap in the stone stand there and watch me try to appeared into the field on the other They attacked that waste as if it
stock and buildings:ide.
had been the physical body of the Awall and dumped him in the road, save your
Jack knew it was a stroke of depression. They cleared away the Carl tried to stand up, forgetting And this is no time to be talking the burned-off peg, and he tumbled politics, either. Wouldn't help you, chance that enabled him to save the snow, hacked through the forest. over into the drain ditch and lay anyway, not after the way you did stock, because if the horses and cow laid hare there helplessly.
"You would go ahead and
1934.
NELLORE
7.000
3rd Feb.
TANDA
7,000
3rd Mar.
NANKIN
7,000
80th Mar.
NELLORE
7.000
4th May.
TANDA
7,000
2nd June
Manila. Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney &
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7,000
30th Juno
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7,000 3rd Aug.
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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
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1934.
6,300 20th Jan, 7,000 4th Feb 35,000 9th Feb, 30,000
9th Feb. 4,000 22nd Feb.
Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.. Amoy, S'hai, Moji & Kobe.
Kobe & Yokohama. Kobe & Yokohama.
Amoy, Maji & Kobe.
DUCK SHOOTING BY AEROPLANE
Experiment In The British Isles
TRIP ENDS IN COURT
London.
because, he said, it would be lighter
are
act
the
barn, trees.
Ducking The "Reds"
These
the roots of the great there in that hayfield. I told you had been farther in not to go and fire that field, and you nothing could have induced them to
After the trees, rocks. like a damn fool, after all, wouldn't went right ahead like a dame fool leave it. The only way they could had to be priced from the ground Jake said. "It's a pity and struck a match to it, just as if have been saved would have been and trundled in wheelbarrows to you ?" didn't let you stay out there and had been talking to myself away to blindfold them and lead them the stream. The earth had to be For the first time in history make ashes. They would have been over in another part of town. No! out, and there would have been no levelled and graded scientifically alive. I'm not going to do anything about time for that. The flame had plafter the fashion of engineers. By Union S.S. Company's alcamera to the Unflest Kingdom via Now an aeroplane has been used for worth more than you
game hunting in the British
When the towns-ready begun to reach the stalls. April 10 the work was done, and Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
Meat ashes make the finest of dress-it-except talk. Isles.
people ask me how your farm and Carl realised by that time that the camp contained 100 men, The experiment was made bying for any kind of crop."
Carl sat up and looked through building came to catch on fire and there was no chance of saving any- Naturally an enterprise of thin The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and Mr. Anthony Bridgeman Gibbons, London via Panuma, Catal."
of London, and a friend who the gap in the stone wall at the burn up your stock and woodiet, Tithing else. He saw the smoke and sort: could not be Anished. without flame leap through the roof of the attention from Communists: These shot at wild ducks from an aero-smoking hayfield. The fire line had tell them you fired it.”
and Carl found a heavier stick and barn the moment that Jake opened destructive gentlemen hailed the plane near Port Merion (Vales).already reached the woodlot,
He felt terribly scheme as exploitation. They en- They "bagged" one bird but it flame was beginning to shoot from hobbled down the road towards his the stall doors,
tered the camp as workers and cost £15-the amount of the fine the top of the pines and hemlocks. house and buildings. The fire had sick all over,
Jake went over to the tree and spoke sedition in the evenings. imposed at the local police court. Two hundred yards further away already run through the woodlot by
He climbed into Some of the men were persuaded. He had that time, and, as they came around untied his horse. Mr. Gibbons was charged with were Carl's buildings.
Carl These went back to their soup kit was the buggy and sat down. permitting the use of a firearm team of horses' in the barn and a the bend in the road, flame
stood looking at his burning build- chens. But the great majority cow. There would be no way in the licking at the house and barn. from an aeroplane.
Jake walked behind Carl, coming ings, and he was trying to lean on were sensible, reflecting that there He stated that his whole idea world to save them once the fire had was to enjoy a novel kind of reached the barn and caught the dry down the road, and led his horse the big stick he had found up the was nothing else.
hay.
instead of riding in the buggy. He back-road. sport.
Jake tossed Curl stick and watched Carl try to run, and he Jake whipped up his horse and He said that he piloted the
At least one Communist, having aeroplane over the river estuary watched him hobble the best he thought once of putting him inte started home. Carl turned around so that his friend could shoot the could down the road towards hia the buggy, but he did not like the land saw him leave, but he had announced his Intention of dring
the bulidings, undorwent the idea of doing that. Townspeople nothing to say, house and buildings. ducks.
"Whoal Jake said to his horse, deal by water, in the stream. "What are we going to do?" he would say he was riding Carl around "There was no danger to those!
So the work goes on. Nobody "We can't let my in his horse and buggy while the pulling on the reins. He turned on the ground," he said. "It begged 'Jako.
around in the buggy seat and called supposes that it is more than a was impossible to shoot down stock and buildings burn up, too." stock and buildings burned up,
"What we?" Jake said.
You from the aeroplane, and we got
When they got closer to the house, to Carl. "Well, I guess you'll have makeshift. When prosperity re under the birds and shot, up at and who else? You're not talking the roof was ablaze, and the barn befter sense that to do a thing like turns the camps will close. Yet it them."
to me, because I'm having nothing was smoking. The hay in there that again, won't you? Next time cannot be an evil thing to give res- In imposing the fine, the chair-to do with all this mess. I told you was dry, and it looked as if it would maybe you will be anxious to take pect to eight thousand poor devils who have been caught by the storm. man. of the Bench said that he what not to do when you came up burst into flame any second. Carl some advice." considered the case a very serious here a little while ago, but you were hobbled faster when he saw his Carl glared at Jako, and Furned jone, vinkke
so damn, smart, I couldn't get any buliding burning, with nothing to say to stand and "It has been referred to as thing through your head. That's "Help me get my stock out, Jake," watch the fire. Then suddenly be All dates are approximate and subject to alteración without noiles.
sport." he said, "but to my mind why I'm having nothing at all to do, he begged. You won't let my stock hosted at akes
whiting on a pole. Carl had cut All Cabins are Aibed with Electric Fans or Punka Louvre System,
K burn up, will you, Jake?”.
"By God, the haydald is burned down a young pine and he was Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries, it is an outrage, an act of hooli- with all this messa
Jake tied his horse to a tree be over, ain't it?" he said, hobbling trimming it to replace the peg that Parcela measuring not more than 5 cu. ft. will be received at the Coganism, and an absolute negation Carl protested, feebly. He tried Bruk pany's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing. M
Made of sport
to set up and run down the road, side the road and ran across the way? Wall, that's what I set out had burned off in the hayheld. He | wished to make the new one out of **For farther Information, Passage, Freight, Handbooks, etc.,"epply to zme Mr. Gibsons was also fined £2 but be tell each time he attempted yard to the barn. He could not to do at the start. 1 TË MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO., - for falling to keep his airing up to stand up!?
stand there and see a team of horses Jake whipped up his hores and pak, but oak, was the kind of wood "ding, Conasught Rd. C., Hong Kong,
tarted for home, When be looked that "Fake" has told him to us to date. Costs amounted to 28.Why do you think I'd have peo- and a chr burn aliva, even if they Agmis.
Reuter
Baring that they passed your did belong to Cart Abbott. He ran back for the last time he saw Carl the fire.) placent,
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9th Mar.
15.000 23rd Feb 0.000 22nd Feb. 17,000 6,000 tth Mar. 6,800 21st Mar. 18,000 23rd Mar, 7,000 28rd Mar. 7,000 5th Apl. 8th Apl. 10,000
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