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1934.
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6,000
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. 5,300 14th Apr.
15,000 21 Apr. 15,000 28th Apr.
16,000 5th May 15,000 19th May
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(Continued from Page 12.) "Oho! And Hife-sized statue of time!"
you can make
·mant
“Oxi, mon officier."--" "What, a genuine Hercules?" "Say Apollo, mon officier.". farsar, what you like so long as you can have, it ready by Saturday. night Can you?"
There will be no hitch, For ¡quéray ?!! asked
the Colonel anxiously.
"None whatever, sir," replied the Heutenant. The atatute imali ready in camp, and will be in post- tion here n time. for the lamp to be fixed to the raised, hand.”
"Hand Weing pierced or adapted, I suppose?” aid the Colonel.
"Yes, sir" replied the lea "Qui, mon officier. I can...
tegant, whose informaton was in- Or, rather, I could, if I were given deed to that effect. I am inform- certain help and facilities. And ed, by a legionnaire who has been there were no Interferences. And helping that it is a magnificent no questions. Dan alt
"Anything you like, mon
do you want?" - | Any mortal thing in reason.
"H'm A
What for?"
hundred
piece of sculture, exactly life enfant.size, absolutely "life-like, and in What every way Juli-what you want,....... Might have been designed for the purpose."
men
francal
"A hundred franca; three to help me: a covered cart to take No, sir. My rascals don't want "You haven't seen it yourself?'" the statue to the theatre; and s tent to ourselves. We should have absolutely ready and in position. anyone to see to until it is to be excused all duties until Sus-...Of course, the time has been {day." -
very short indeed, and it is not quite ready yet; and one can un- der and their not wishing any jone to see it until it is....”.
Colonel. "Want to spring it on us! "Quitet Quite!" agreed the all its glory-complete, eh?". "Yes, sir. I thought it beat to humour them. I guarantee they'll have it here to time all right."
**Materials, tools.
P
Experi
assistance....
"Very well. Given the money and the other facilities, you can guarantee the statue?"
"Oui, mon officier." "You know what'll happen if you get a hundred don't get the statue!"
franca and I
block of stone?"
Spanish Maine, smiled. "Where are you going to get the "That'll be our secret, mon of. ficier."
"And how soon can I see some thing? Some proof that the statue is—what shall we say ?----
4,000 25th May Bomburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & come to life?"
2nd June 16th June
Hull
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
DO
Mon
Menc
Dark eyes and: oliva skla enhance the regal robes of Him Mercade „Gonzales, of, Négator; fonora, Max- leo, who recently « was "crowned “Queen Mercedes, tha - First of Mexico, during. Mardi Gras festival at Nogales
FORCEFUL HAND LORD FISHER
(Continued from Page 81.
OF
"Well, I'm relying on you. enfant," said the Colonel once red ink thinks he is going to run again, smiling indulgently. · the submarine service, he is mis- A great taken; I shall go to the Cabinet" The garden party was Ruccess. The dinner,if possible, Mr. Churchill always wrote all his an even greater one; so much so minutes in red ink, so Lord Fisher that it was almost with reluctance wrote his in green, pe that the Colonel's guests at length
To the other he said: "Why rose from table to attend, the can't that fellow Keyes go to sea theatrical show in the Palace of and fight like Tyrwhitt!" It was Varieties. "Not at all, mon officier; un' it
meant for. my ears, and meant to is in place in the foyer of the hand and the lady of his choice have mentioned, I had a written or-
As, with the General on his left hurt. As a matter of fact, as 1} 6,000 23rd June Bambay, Marseilles, Havre, London, theatre."
Hamburg, Rotterdam, Antwerp & "Ahai That's curious. Looks upon his right, the Colonel entered der forbidding me to go to sea in
Hull. 12.000 80th June Bombay, Marseilles & London. to me as though you are going to the foyer, followed by the large a destroyer, and they would nei 6,100 7th July Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London steal one, ready-made; and that's gathering of guest, he felt that give me a cruiser; it is true ̈Í hád
Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & what you want the covered cart
this was one of the great moments had to ignore the order two or for, eh? And the tent to bide itmiration from the ladies, the en-enough.
of his life. The little cries of ad-three times, but it was Rombay, Marseilles, Havre, H'burg,
in?" Rotterdam, Antwerp & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London,
"The statue. will be there
comiums, the worde of warm praise Bombay. Marseilles, Havre, London place when the Colonel's guests music in the Colo l'a cari.
from the General and his staff were
Big Stir At The Admiralty. Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & enter the theatre, mon officier-pro-
From that moment it was a dent] vided I am given what I need, no
It was, Indeed,
letter to me. I felt free, and took is they said, questions are asked, and there is
wonderful; and the roseate the earliest opportunity of getting no interference.... Otherwise,
glow of the shadea lights it looka brezh of fresh salt air in the can promise nothing. In fact, I
ed so real, so permanent. It was Helfgoland Bight. The open sei must withdraw the offer."
faimost unbelievable that at ́s wave
was so. refreshing, inspiring and
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Call Purt Swettenham,
IN
well.
move at his bidding.
definité
"But, look here, man. How can oversight.... Yes, at a wave of his atmosphere of the Admiralty, in of his wand it had arisen almost comforting after the depressing 1 absolutely assure the Colonel (wand....And some day he'd wave that the statue will be there?... Marshal's baton, and not only a
which it seemed only possible to see the dangers and difficulties of If I give him my word that I am battalion but great armies would an undertaking, Instead of the going to produce the thing by the night and I don't do it...
goal beyond them, Yes, and there was the status, It would be difficult to
exagger- "Have no fear, mon lieutenant; mised. Excellent
exactly as Forqueray had pro-ate the extent of the itir which If you agree to my terms, a perfect)
young For Lord Fisher's re-entry into the statue of Apollo will be in the re- queray! A pushful young man, naval administration caused in the a pushful young Admiralty and throughout the quired placed at the proper time." and known as
Lieutenant Forqueray gazed long to some putpone on this occasion. years earlier had been halled with man, but he had certainly pushed Service. HI retirement' four B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for and hard into the eyes of Spanish 1st and 2nd class passengers.
Maine.
A magnificent statue. A veri-la sigh of relief by the Navy gen- "So be it" said he "Everything gleaming, holding afolt a lamp.
table Apollo, Indeed; white and erally, but I could not help feeling you ask.... And God help you
that now
we were engaged in Splendid. Might have come bloody, ruthless war his masterful And thus it had come about that straight from Athens; from the personality and the unbounded Lieutenant Forquetay, self-con- | Naples Museum; from the Ecole des energy he would devote to the pro- fident optimist, incorrigible gamb- Beaux Arts any old where. Might duction of material, linked with Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney á ler, ambitious, and pushing young be the work of Praxiteles, Pheldias, the vision, determination and en-
man, took a chance and definitely Myron-any old body. (Seen after terprise of Winston Churchill promised to provide the statue the dinner and a bottle or so of most who was entirely responsible for colonel had undertaken to produce, excellent wine, anyhow),
recalling him-might well be of in- Of course, it would be all right. Look at the muscles and the finite value in the conduct of the
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Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghal and Japas Spanish Maine and his scoundrels face. Somehow much more real-wer.
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The eyes. "Whit
Nor would Spanish Maine kavel
B heidifud statue, dared to make the promise had he Colonel!", said the Indy. "I really not seen his way to fulfilling it, do think that it is the crowning
Wherever
and They must know of a statue that touch. A marbló statué kere, in
they could get, or must know of the heart of Maroc. some way of making one. Prob-did you get it?”
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Shi, Mofi, Kobe & Osaka. Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama, Shanghai, Moll, Kobe & Yokohama. quired. Amy, Shal, Moll, Kobe & Osaka.
Moll, Kobe & Yokohama,
i
On about the seventh day of the contest over my future, the follow Ing letter from Lord Fisher was sent down to me by hand;
ably it would be a case of theft, ]: “Get It?” smiled the Colonel, pat- since no questions were to ting the hand, that lay upon his asked, there' WAA to - be sleeye, “Did you say 'get it? .... secrecy and concealment, and We produced it, my dear Indy,'as wo the thing was not to be on view un-¡produced all the rest of the theatre. til the moment, when it was re- Our own sculptors!"
"Beavens above wondered the 8,000 8th Apr
Perhaps not a case of theft so Indy, "Is there anything, the 6,000 18th Apr
S'hal, Kobe & Yokohama. 15,000 19th Apr
much as of sudden borrowing and Legion cannot do? "One would say 11,000 3rd May
Shanghai, Moji,
|that statue was the wˇk of a Great Kobe & Yokohama, quick return. 2,000 6th May Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
Anyhow, "the" less one know | Muster,' and '■ couple: ́of thousand- 6,100 16th WAY
S'hal, Moll Kobe &
& Yokohama
[about të the better; and those who] years old. "It" might "mimost 17,000 17th May
Kobe 4,100-30th Way
Shanghai, Koji, Kobe Yokohama, aktie catire it would be all Heavy curtains leading into the
no questions would, be told alive, yo 7,000 3rd June
·6;700 12th June 10,000 4th May
Cafes only:
Sh
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On the afternoon of the great day the Colóbel zidă a tour of spection of the theatre. A wonderful piece of work
the Tan binh
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| pantera" decoraters,
holsterers, painber
| artista" of the b
The
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