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CHITRAL
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er & London.
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10,000
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10,000
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DO
H.000
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7,000 15th Apr.
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8,000 29th Apr.
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TANDA
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IN LONDON AND EDINBURGH
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THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE
[Continued from Puge 10.)
be
never
were
hunted up Gus that morning before {preaching started and made sure tha. Fred Jones, the marshal, came running he was in condition to enter a house up just then all excited, deputising of worship. But things were citizens right and left, and got every done that way in, Georgia. People hody herded out of the show grounds liked Gus, and they let him do as he and closed up the carnival.
pleased. What happened to Gus after that! When Gus came stomping down the nobody knows exactly, because some aisle that morning, rattling the col of his friends prised him loose from lection bankel as though the little dark-skinned hoochie-coochie warming up a crapa game, he was er Baneer.
and carried him away in an drunk as a horse-trader on court-day. The first steps have now been automobile to cool off. Later that But it was the people's fault; they taken towards the erection of night they brought him back to town should never have made Gus a des three great public buildinge which and locked him up in the barber-shop cun to begin with, unless some ar will be future landmarks in Lon-so he couldn't get out where the mar rangement to keep him sober on Sien-
shai was certain to get him if he show-day was agreed upon. don and in Edinburgh.
dhimmelf on the street again that Gus was standing there in the aisle! Two official committees are busy night.
by himself. The other deacons with the task of choosing archi- Gun didn't go home to his wife that marched down to the table in front of tarts for these, the most sought-night. because he was in the back the pulpit, glancing back over
room of the barbershop pulling on two shoulders to see what the matter was after State commissions of mo-
for three new bottles at three o'clock with Gue, but scared to go back and dern times.
when the rest of the crowd decided it get him. They didn't know what he was time to call it a night and to go might say or do if they tried to make home and get some sleep. They lock-him follow them. ed Gus in the back room to sleep i
the
taff.
It
Air,
supposed to be there in the shape rupting their service, too.
"Shake it up." Gu
had
their
way
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JAPANESE EXPORTS TO SOUTH AFRICA
Growing Trade Shown In Returns.
for Government offices and for a pet him ready to take up collection was standing WP, aniffing Gus'k whisky-man-citizens of Washington County: supplied by the Department of
tion.
£1,000,
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over,
Gus looked fike on the inside.
A. Jat
The London project is for real Government building on the
By that time, the church was rank around looking and talking Gus climb. House and site of Montagu
with the smell of Gur's liquor, and aled up on the radiator of an automo historic Whitehall gardens. "Early the next morning Clyde Young the people were sniffing the air, and bile and held out his hands for alience, will house the Ministries of the barber, went down and shaved Gus turning around in their news to look People standing off at a distance posh
and patched up his clothes a little; at him. Gus was staring at the girled closer, saying, "Shhh!" in order to Labour and Transport, the Sta-
in the choir, and hear what Gus was about to say. tionary Office and many minor de-and at about eleven-fifty, ten or fifteen singing Lite sola
sermon minutes before the
at the shaking the dimes and quarters in the
had been a Gus shouted, waving his hands
"Citizens of Washington County," collection basket as if partments which are now acatter-church was due to end, Gus walked in
kitty-pot in
Saturday night craps looking the crowd over just as he did and in various offices ed about
sat down in a rear pew. for
when he took the stump for the county which the Government has to pay right, because he was a deacon then.
Gue was supposed to be there all game in the barber shop.
Then, suddenly, Gus shouted. He
primary.
BIG DISPARITY IN BALANCE heavy rents.
and it was his duty to help take up must have been heard all the
"Citizens of Washington County, In size it will rival the County the morning offering. But Gus was across town in the Baptist church, dis
I'm not here to-day to ask you if you
Pretoria (Transvaal). anicka- yelled at the are satisfied with your tax EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, Hall, across the Thames, and its
he was in, all liquored up again fresh
ments; I'm not here to-day, folks, to The success of Japan's concentra- probable cost is estimated at £2. that morning in the barber-shop. Clyde girl singing the solo. 000,000,
The church was buzzing like a bee ask if you believe there is a better tion on the South African market Young had brought Gui an eye-opener
The congregation man in the county than Gus Strest Is emphasised in the latest returns in no time The two Edinburgh projects are when he went down to shave him and hive
smeil; the organist stopped playing I'm here to-day, folks, to ask if you the church. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & Scottish National Library. For
Nobody paid much attention to Gur the accompaniment for the sole the think there's another man in the en- Customs and Excise covering the Melbourne.
each of these latter the urchitect when he walked into the church and girl stopped singing, and everybody, tire county who can increase the mem- Union's trade for the nine months
Was ring bership and attendance and double the
ending September 30 last, must be a Scotsman.
a seat in the back. The minister including the minister. Loub
a church like the man
While imports from Japan reach-. For the Whitehall building the saw Gus, and likewise a dozen or more open-mouthed at Gus Streetman. Dur-collection in
of the congregation who turned around ing all that time Gus was standing you are now facing!" architect chosen will receive a li to see who was coming to church as there in the aisle rattling the money The marthat came running up just ed a total value of £1,465,027 dur-
sololat. It then and But nobdy knew the condition and looking at the
opened the doors of the ing the first nine months of the first payment of £10,000 and if the late. Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan scheme is not carried be will re- Gus was in. He did not show it any was a
strange thing and Hong Kong to Australia.
ferked Gus down from the radia
of only £182,892 to Rong Kong to Sydney 13 days.
ceive another £5,000 as compensa-nore than he ever did. He looked she did look a lot like the hopchie-con-lock-up. He walked over to the car present year, the Union sold goods
tor and hustled him inside the little to the value Frequent connections from Australia with the following —
For the Edingburgh build- sober as the minister himself.chie dancer with the carnival
Gur sat still and quiet in the back! When everybody was hoping that brick building, The crowd greased Japanese customers. Significant as The Union S.5. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Newings the fees will be £2,000 and of the church and the wormon vas the worst was over Gua shouted around the lock-up, trying to see what this disparity in the trade balance time It was then
fake to up the again.
"Shake it up!" he yelled at the girl. of the ones who were not sugared in the returns revent the even The nomination of an architect morning offering. It was customary
for the descons to walk down to the "Shake it up. Baby!
pushing and shoving and elbowing to-imore important fact that while The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and for the Whitehall building is in front of the pulpit, pick up the collec. Nearly everyone in the church knew wards the windows Were. shouting: Japan was making headway on the Gue South African market the Union's the hands of a committee consist- tion baskets, take up the money, and what Gue was talking about, because Hooray for Gur! Hooray for
progress in making Japan a good ing of Mr. Ormsby-Gore, First then to march back down the aisles most of the men had been to the show Hooray for Gus Streetmant
While the crowd was milling around customer for South Commissioner of Works: Bir Giles while one of the women in the chob grounds the week before, and either
had seen or had been told about the the windows of the lock-up, Gus' duce was negligible. sang a solo. Gilbert Scott, President of the R.
hoochie-coochie brown-skinned Gus went down and got his basket little
face suddenly appeared behind the 1. B. A.; the Earl of Crawford and all right, and took up all the money dancer in the tent for men only, and bars of one of them. He shouted for Comparing Japanese, exports to Balcarres, Chairman of the Royal on his aide of the aisle without miss all the women, of course, bad heard attention and raised his hands for the Union for the first nine months Fine Arts Commission; Bir Wiling a dime. Then, when all the dea about her,
Gus was getting ready to yell sllence just as if he were canvassing of last year with the correspond cons had got to the rear of the liam Llewellyn, president of the church, they began marlong da being, but before he could do it a bunch
in step, again, and maybe do something shock the county for the Democratic Wing period this year, in spite of Royal Academy; and the Chief slowly, down the aisles
"Go home and think it over, folket falling price values Japan's export pulpit where the minister was waiting of the elders and deacons jumped on Architect of the Office of Works.
comes around bring out the family £1,465,027, while Union exports to In view of the possibility of de-o say a prayer over the money and to him und hustled him out of the church he yelled, and when election day trade Increased from £828,684 to
pronounce the benediction. The girl in a hurry
The minister pronounced a hurried and let's pile up a landslide for Gus Japan rose from £112,257 last year lays due to political causes, the singing the solo was supposed to time
to £42,892 this year, a smell áð- · President of the I. I. B. A. has herself so she would get to the end and short benediction, and ran out the Streetmani".
street Somebody in the crowd shouted: of the piece just as the deacons laid back door and around to the
Vance of £50,685 as against the been asked not to include in bis the collection baskets on the table in to see, what was happening to Gus foHooray for Gual"
the pulpit
church. list of "possibles" any architect front of the
front of the
Gas hold up his hands again, advance in Japan's The elders, and deacona hustled Gunaflencing the crowd outside the win £638,348-Reuter.grea over 55 years old.
Everything worked smoothly cough, The architect who is chosen will until just about the time that the rest into an automobile and drove off with dows.
of the deacons
"Vote for Gus Streetman, folks!" he WORLD'S SMALLEST got about halfway him. at fifty miles an hour, The spend about a year in preparing down the aisles on their way back to minister and the rest of the congre he yelled. "Everybody votes for Gus his plans, and when these have the pulpit. This soloist was standing cation came running down the strof Streetman! Go Streetman for dear: been approved the working draw up in the choir singing her plese, the when they reached the gaol nearly
the behind the car,
cont" ings will take him a further per-organist was playing, the accompani-Wh
by Just then the marshal came up be ment, when Gus stopped dead in his overybody in town was down there tod of about 18 months. '.
tracks, playing hayoc with all the that time to see Gus Streetman got hind Gus and hustled him away from The committee which will choose Fitusi, jo
locked up.
The Bantist church had the window and purund him into one the architects for the Edinburgh The olders and the minister should turned out, and all the Baptists are of the lock-up cages. After that there
have had better sense
than to have there on their way home, to soe. what was nothing to stay for any
Josked out of projects has been constituted to have
made Ghe Streetmana descon, to be was taking place. There was a
de- because Gus reassure those anxious that the gin with; but Gus had carried them lay of ten or fifteen minutes while and the crowd, turned away, and start
home for Sunday dinner, Every Hussein Bey, a 86-year-old Turk beauty of the city should not be off their feet, just as he did the somebody was married. It will include the and up the collection again the world.
wasn't a member body wa
out of the lock-up it claims to be the smallest man in Always at would get being, though, that Gus living at Pandirma, in vatera when he was canvassing for `re, tho·maraha); p for Fred-Jones, sident of the R. L.B A, the Pre-won't. Gus's fault any more than it Bunday morning Parcels, measuring not more than: 5 ́cu. ft,' will be received at the Com-sident of the Royal Incorporation (as the fault of the poor ones upon American.". The marshal: had the onlyiday. In August 30 Mart, Mela M
who made
Journal*): And The Atlanta the following week, the cond Bun
* He is only 14 inches tall. of Architects in Scotland and are in most of the blame should I key to the sol there war and Gang shots stories
they were
Calways, very smartly presentative of the Royal Fina whom DEV
the pride Arts Commission for Scotland, pat. And on the other hand, even if couldn't he put inside until he came
he was to be a deacon, somebody con and unlocked the doors, Router202 292
・ While everybody nected with the church should have
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*BURDWAN CHITRAL TILAWA
CARTHAGE TARADA NELLORE
NALDERA SIRDHANA
*BANGALORE
CORPU MANTUN· *BHUTAN
1934.
6,000 22nd Feb. 16,000 23rd Feb. 10,000 21st Feb. 7,000..... 4th Mar, 17,000
9th Mar, 8.000 0th Mar 0,800 21st Mar. 28rd Mar. 7,000 23rd Mar. 10,000
15.000
8,000
Sth Apl.
8th DCH Apl. 8th Apr. 8,000 18th Apr. 15,000 19th Apr. 11,000 3rd May 0,100 16th May
*Cargo only.
Shai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Shai, Moll, Kobe & YokohamIA. Shonghai, Kobe 4 Yokohama. Amoy, S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka.
Kobe & Yokohama.
Sangha Kobe & Yokohama.
Sie, & Yokohama.
Moji,
Kobe & Osaka, & Yokohama. Amoy S'hal Moji Kobe & Osaka. S'hal, Moj, Kobe & Yokohatna.. S'hal. Kobe & Yokohama. Shenghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama,
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