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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934.
م و مريوم
A Sumatra rubber plantation suena which: ade;mil
Harbor of Batavia, Dutch ladies'. capitel.
Pair of the huge oil production barreled for export.
Holland's Bast Indies colonies, the third largest colonial empire in the world have been thrust: into turmell as a result of the asserted gradual, "Invasion" and "trade penetration" of the posses
With alons by Japan, coupled with internal financial troubles which bave lessened Holland's hold. the Netherlands thousands of miles away, and the Dutch navy dwindled to a mere handful of ves- sels, white residents and natives of Java, Borneo, Madura, Sumatra and the smaller islands of the archipeligo are fearful that Japanese forces would not hesitate to seize the possessions in the event of war.
TEACHERS LATE The Wedding...
TO CLASS'
Sharp Rebuke By Lecturer
INSISTS THAT DOOR BE
GUARDED
(Continued from
Page 10)
alik-ribboned bridles. There wereįtionary," someone remarked. more than a hundred guests, a "Don't know what it is," declar- great dazzle of white dresses and ed Silas, lifting his glass, “but it| white buttonholes, and my Uncle wants a hem of a lot o' washing Silas looked magnificent. "There down."
was a sort of purposely devilish I could see my grandmother fum- splendour about his light grey coating, her lips set thin with exaspera- considerablo number of and trousers, his yellow carnation, [tion. "You won't catch me at an- teachers, who no doubt have had his canary-waistcoat, and his grey other wedding with Bilas," she words to say to their pupils on the square bowler rakishly cocked said, "as long as I live, Not if I subject of punctuality, were sharply askew as though to match that know it." rebuked for being late for a lecture everlastingly devilish look in his at the City of London Vacation blood-shot eye. Course in Education.
comers.
"Silas," she said to him, severely, when the feast was over, "you ain't. responsible."
"I know" he said.
"Well," said my grandmother, The lecturer, Sir John Marriott, "it might be a skittle-match to look
"If you go singing one of your the historian, ruse to speak at 8.80, at Silaa."
pub-songs with that girl," she the time appointed, but he had not The church was full, and I re-warned him, "I see you know about spoken two sentences before the member my grandfather saying to it." door at the back of the hall swung me: "Don't want to hear a lot o' He cocked his eye at her with: open to admit a little group of late
popery and hymn-singing, do you ?"
purposeful devilishness, and we stayed outside together,
It was late in the evening, just; Sir John waited a moment and looking for nests in the churchyard after the May dusk had begun to began again. Once more the door yews and reading the names on fall, when my Uncle Silas and opened to admit some more late the tombstones until the adding Georgina sang their song. My Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con-students and Sir John, with some was over.
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closed. "I want that doar closed." church door opened and the gueste more disgusted with Silas for en- he said, "and not opened again until and the congregation began to ticing the girl or with the girl for I have finished."
flock into the churchyard that I saw making a promise to sing a duet) As people continued to enter, he Georgina.
with a men who had been drunk [repeated his request and then wait- "Ain't she flash?" whispered my since noon. She retired to the ed another few seconds. Late-grandfather. "Didn't I say co?" house, excusing herself when she comers still continued to arrive, and She was unforgettably lovely. AB found that the dew was falling. he sat down and refused to speak she came from the church porch, But I stayed outside, in the until the door was closed and guarda with Abel, who looked more than warm Illac-heavy air, and listened. posted outside to prevent any more ever solemn and simple in his suit The guests had been dancing on people from entering.
of blue serge, la bowler hat and the grass to the music of two fid- When this had been done he his light brown button boots which dies and a plano brought out of the
squeaked a little, she seemed to me house. There was such an atmos Nearly half an hour later Sir more beautiful, more spirited and phere of laughter and happiness, John was interrupted by another more enchanting than perhaps she and besides the fragrance of lilac and may-blossom a strange odour EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, teacher trying to creep in unnoticed. really was
She was very dark, her black hair of bruised grass and noon-dalsies Sir John saw him at once. and and eyes shining vividly against her that the dancers had trampled exclaimed: "No, no. I began this
white wedding dress. lecture at 9.50. It does not begin seemed full of a half-angelic, half-gina stood at the entrance to the Her face down. My Uncle Silas and Geor 7,000 29th Sept. Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney & at 9.55. and by now I have said most wicked vivacity and the conflicting marquee, and Silas took the girl's 7,000 2nd Nov,
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of the things I want to say." lights and expressions of pure arm in his and they sang "I'm nafvety and passion. She Was Seventeen Come Sunday," without across the churchyard and in the the Addles or the piano. Uncle Sir John Marriott, who was lec-wedding-y in a moment, and I did Silas had the ugliest voice in the Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghel and Japan turing on modern Italy, said that not see her again until we were all world; and the girl's contralto he did not think there was any fear sitting about the long tables in the seemned exquisite beside it. She and Hong Kong to Australia.
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and thither, juggling with food and drink, madly trying to serve every- lone at once,
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And at the table-head, next to|
||Gilas, and opposite him Lord Henry both Houses of Parliament was, to Georgina and Abel worked. Lord and Lady Hester, for whom
all intends and purposes, & dictator. Sir John did not agree with this,
Henry put on an eyeglass and rend
Will you come to my mammy's
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When the moon shines bright
and clearly?
And I'll come down and let you
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And my mammy shall not hear
mo.
"Yes," said my grandmother,
although it might have been, true speech," Ee heev greet pleesyah," who listened, after all, from the
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of Mr. Lloyd George during the and so on, which we all applauded house, and that's what she will do in the wide world are you doing man? Can't, you drive straight?? i war. At other times it was not by banging the tables, making the if I know anything."
glass and crockery dance and ring. All the time iny Uncle Silas and My grandfather could not drive trué. Mr. Asquith was no dictator, nor was Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. Mac-After him, I remember, my Uncle Georgina were singing, Abel was straight my grandmother, reach- Shanghai, Man, Kobe okohama Donald was certainly not a dictator, Silas rose with a sort of noble un- watching her. His eyes never ing auddenly across the sleepy The undoing of half the world, steadiness to his feet waved his flckered or changed their expres face, took the reins from his and he continued, had been its attempt hands, almost pitched forward, slon of wide, minte adoration. He slapped them across the back of
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7,000 81st Oct.
15,000 Sad Nov, 8,000 2nd Nov. -7,000 4th Nov.
Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.
Westgate Appoints A Beach Inspector
Complaints men and women dictatorship was the result of the drink to steady himself, and began anything for her, but as if he Lord, I'd Georging that girl if lounging on about and won premature adoption of Parliamen along, tipsy speech, which we half would forget or forgive anything she were mine. Kissing Bilastades with com
drowned with our table-badg
she did. He seemed almost stupe- and he wasn't the only one she waist have caused Wa tury government
He anked those who
present regime in can remember is a kind of refrain When the song was over my the word! Somebody's going to
he gared Uncle Bilas kissed Georgina with led a fine.old dance if I know any-fer to report on all bathe Italy to remember that England had that he kept repea
wicked ad lond amack
thing about it: There's going to ("Indecently had its period of
orship. It with a sort of.
Abel smiled with the serenity of be trouble afore the year's out
the Council Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe and Denka was the dictato
we'll pure adoration, while the guests But there was no dance and no Councillor WiF
rigg, sald S'hal, Moji, Kobe, Osaka and Thama that made
the trouble. Georgina died suddenly, Westgate should set an example to began for in childbirth, the following spring other resorta, kore Porn
hear the My Uncle Silas is dead, too. But frightened I shall never forget their song, the cuckoos, as girl's spirited, loveliness, the feast Across the in the marquee, the smell of lac And and wine and bruised:- grase, Bug
the Bound the cuckoos tradicting the nightingales."
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[The End]
The Chairman, Councillor C. E.
complained that
on the promenade and
In the nude., and
of young@men and giris sunbathed with their costumes down wajata.
They must make an example of koffenders against decency; he said,