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per S. E. Levy and Company. of lives. Unanswerable, that. His steamers told him this was the tea-
He was done for.
laconic
to room, with people trapped within,! stamp: their shouts unheard in the general pandemonium. Only a amall group of officers and men directed the last He had eventually found a Greek operations from the bridge.
It was easy to clamber on board. owner who sympathised with such misfortunes, and overlooked them He rushed to the companion, down knowing that he was getting a first-into waist-deep water, that swirled class captain at a rate of pay no round him as he staggered along tramp-steamer bo'sun the sloping passage to the tea-room ordinary
He ever door. Jammed, right enough. since MacRobert had commanded threw himself against it, hampered the Constanduros, a wreck of a man by the depth of water. He batter- in a ship that long ago should have fed with his fists, kicked with his gone to her rest on the bottom, or feet, pushed and pulled. He found
career Franco-British have finished her
in the a piece of wreckuge, part of a wooden beam, and with this he support assured Russia of election breaker's yard.
He could not face Helen, his wife, made a fresh attack, while the to the League. Many well-inform- Jed leaders in League circles be-But more, he feared the candid, water swirled higher and higher. Far Suddenly a panel gave. He batter- lleve that the Soviets joined in worshipping eyes of his son. order to gain the maximum support better had he gone down with his ed It away, smashed in another. of League members in the event of lost 'liner, his condemnation miti-The water reached, his armpits.
SOVIET IN LEAGUE? would have looked at; and
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Assurance of
a clash with Japan in the Furigated out of respect to the dead, East or with Germany on the west. He came out of his tortured reverie
Jon
RUSSIA'S SHARE OF COSTS Delay in reaching an agreement terms of Soviet membership was due largely to technical mat- ters such as Russia's share of the cost and appointment of Soviet
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"Here, mays well go up top-side. Come on, you!".
On the seats, huddled together and standing up. were the trapped passengers. a handful of men and women, and a young woman who held in her arms a calm-faced boy.
MacRobert shouted. The door,
A siren shrieked. It seemed to breaking up, gave suddenly, and he
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The rest was nightmare. Push- The steamer swung, with incredible ing, cursing, struggling, MacRobert! swiftness in emergency, out of the got them to the campanion, and up to the outer deck. The steamer EASTERN LOCARNO PROVISO
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MacRobert roared an order, mis-heeled further, with a sickening
the by understood, did not wish to apply
Levantine lurch, and her rall came level with interpreted
Bea. MacRobert staggered formally for membership in the
an anchored League until it was certain the steeraman in panic zeal. The wheel the Eastern Locarno Pact would be ground over. The lumbering bows down the stope to
swung. They swung to starboard. buoyant apparatus, and cast it Some of the men assisted concluded.
The white glistening superstruc-loose. For this reason France redoubl-tures of the steamer leapt towards him to get it overside. One after "RECTOR" ed her pressure upon Poland for a her, rose above her fo'c'xle-head. janother they leapt, some on to it, modified pact in an effort to obtain There was a sickening jolt, a rend-jothers into the water beside it. both ing and tearing of steelwork, yells Polish adberence which
a long; MacRobert remained, with his France and Russia considered of agony and fear, then
throbbing silence succeeded by a wife and son. He pointed. 15th Sept. essential.
shriek of escaping steam, by the "Go on-quick! Good-bye, Helen.
Good-bye, Ronnie!" 18th Oct.
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boy gasped, recognition 28th Oct
upon the Poles to withdraw their voice above the din that bellowed. The
Helen clotched demand for a permanent seat on in started rage: "You-lunatic!" breaking slowly.
Cold at her husband's arm,
trying to MacRobert stared, aghast.
Her eyes the League Counel) providing the Soviet Government was awarded sober, he saw what he had done. pull him to the side.
Then instinct conquered, he leapt were anguished. the seat.
He shook his head. The deck for the telegraph, and ran to the
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CacRobert, clutching the rail,
Не ed the opening address, and later M.two faces pressed against a port watched ready hands reach out to Rickard Sandler, the Swedish For-hole on a lower deck-a young drag those two to safety.
They were waved. Hia brain was clear, he eign Minister, was elected Presi-woman and a child.
torn away abruptly, their place knew precisely what lay in store, The Canadian Prime Minister, taken by a man's face, mouth wide either way. He chose his way.
"Scared," he whispered. "Dawn- the Rt. Hon. Mr. R. B. Bennett was open, hawling inaudibly and distort-
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Owing to the lack of pro- Take charge, you!" he yelled at ly. The deck lurched. There was press made in Disarmament, M. Hulsh, and tore off his coat. He an explosion that seemed a long Sandler proposed a postponement, discarded his carpet slippers, clam-way off. A audden staggering until the next Assembly, of the combered on to the bridge rail, and drop. The rushing of a great for vocation of the Committee to plunged over. After the first rent, and an irresistible pull down- 20th Sept
harmonise the Kellogg Pact for out-numbing shock of the water closing wards. He wrapped both arms 12th Oct. lawing war, and the League Coven-over him, he began swimming round the rail and clung.
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TAIPING a sieve, heavily listed. Bosts were gers were trapped in the tea-room, TAIPING out, the long buoyant deck. seats and gave his life to save theirs. CHANGTE
His wife and little son, by tragle had been flung Clear, and wa
coincidence, were among those. rescued
of people clung to them."
Ope case of meningitles was re ported In the Colony during the
Robert looked at the porthol
48 hours, ended September s.! was open, Eman's shoulders Jammed
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