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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1934
To-day's Short Story.
PERSONAL
cere-
A future queen and representatives of four royal houses were among the bridesmaids chosen for the wedding of Princess Marinu of Greece to Prince George, in the most elaborate marriage mony anywhere in the world in the recent years. These six were among the bridesmaids.
BARGEES AND THEIR CROSS-WORD PUZZLE REVEALING THE OLD
FLOATING HOMES
CONTEST
Women Being Attracted Four Winners Of Theatre
In Greater Numbers
10,000 BOATS REGISTERED
Tickets
The cross-word puzzle published
in the China Mail yesterday run
to know by the management of the King's
tries.
SECRETS OF MECCA
Daring Feat Of Filming
Sacred Pilgrimage
BRAVING IBN SAUDS. PROCLAMATION
By Harold Wimbury
VERYONE in the village was] She had met Paul Lefevre in
going to the funeral of Paris, and wanted him, in iorence Lefevre except her weeks after she had returned to life-long friend Maragret her aunt's house in the village she Dudeney.
had persuaded that complacent She was afraid of her eyes-guardian of hors to javite Paul for afraid they would betray the hope a visit. With a year they were aroused in her by the passing of married up there at the church Florence.
whore a very different service wäs How they would talk about her proceeding now, wedd absence! Her ears burned, imagin- ing the gossips.
Buzz-buzz-buzz.
"
How eerily silent the village was The bell. had' cessed its lament. What was Paul thinking Margaret glanced at the clock. as he set awkwardly in his pow Ten minutes to three. Should she amid the solemnities? He hated riak it after all? Undecided, sha shadows; loved laughter. It had! went up the gloomy stairs and put been his gay insouciance that so on her hat and coat. She saw rapidly won every heart. To Mar herself watching the procession...garet he had been a revelation. and Paul would be there...half breathing into her aheltered exis- the village would talk to her, tence the very spirit of adventure. sympathising with her in her loss. "Like a flower in the desert," he No, she couldn't do it. Afraid had said to her, you waste your of her tell-tale eyes.
sweetness unrecognised." And he! Pity she hadn't planned an in- had pressed her hand, helping her disposition. Too late now that Mrs. over a stile. In that moment Dudley had been in and seen her something bloomed in Margaret's dressed in black as if to join the starved heart. others walking up the hill. She
sat down again In the little front) -- room, her fingers tugging at the new black gloves,
The tolling bell hammered at her brain. They would be whis
pering up there now. "What can close friends they were, Florence
have happened to Margaret? Such
and Margaret."
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TO-MORROW'S STORY
To-morrow's story will be "What's In A Name?" by* J. J. Bell.
"You mustn't say things like
THEY had been, indeed, the that to me," she had stammered.
greatest of friends overall her fragile body trembling. since they had romped together in "Why not, why not " He laughed the school playing fields. The gaily. "Shy English rose." only time they had been apart was He could dip into romance and, when Florence had gone to Paris leaving those dangerous waters, and Berlin to finish her education. shed all effects with carelese
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had been both a joy and a pain
se,
It will surprise many
Theatre in connection with the For many centuries there was Finishing schools and foreign ehrug. But to Margaret the mat there are nearly 10,000 bonts regis forthcoming picture. "The Cat's scarcely a town in the world more travel were not for Margaret even ter was different. Fevered nights tered as dweilings on the inland Paw", featuring Harold Lloyd mysterious to the mass of mankind in those days when her father was she tossed in her bed thinking of waterways and canals, and that brought in a large number of on-than Mecca, that arld spot in desert alive, but Florence always had Paul, whispering to him in absence
Arabia, to which it la obligatory on what she wanted.
thoughts she would never apeak in close upon 10,000 people live in
The following were the senders all devout Mussulmans to journey at
his company. them. The old horse drawn canal of the first four correct solutions least once in their lifetime. Cer- FLOOD SAFEGUARD boat, however, is rapidly disappear-opened, for which they will each tain daring European spirits have ing, and the motor boat is taking receive two dress circle tickets from contrived in disguise to enter and its place; but this has not yet had the King's Theatre Management: leave the Holy Moslem, cities, but the anticipated effect of displacing dit Information Bureau, No. 9, Queen's sanctuary all have had to rely Mr. K. H. Li, Commercial and Cre-for their pictures of this remote the women and children. On the Read Central. contrary, the speeding-up of the Miss B Moses, Messrs. McDonnell hitherto principally on the written passages, and the fascination of and Gorman, Ltd., Exchange Building, word. using motor power has attracted women more than ever. There are 377 women among the bargees,' and they not only know how to handle the craft, but take a pride in mak-
consummation of the Moslem's
But; 33. These; 40. HI; 42. Sere; 43. ment of his life.
IN LONDON
City Now Considered Impregnable
stances
after a time the joy outweighed
the pain. The thought that Paul belonged to her old chum was
bitter-until, to ease that "hurt. London is now considered to be
she began to tell herself that in Bridge and Sos, No. 9, Queen's Road which Mecca has been wrapped, is Thames in all
Mr. C. A. Goldenberg, Messrs. T. J. The veil of secrecy, however, in impregnable to flooding by the some indefinable way he belonged Central,
being gradually withdratvn. But not
more to her. That was the mad, normal circum- Mr. Percy C. S. Chan, No. 2, Ying until the last year or two has it
irresponsible way of him; his Fal Terrace.
Within the last eighteen months flexible heart responded to any The correct solution is as follows: been possible to see a fine film of (Across) 1. Mudelein Carrolls; 13. the ceremonies of the Pilgrimage carried out by the L.C.C. Of 1,485 eedle swings to the pole.
a great deal of work has been emotional call as readily as the ing them as homelike as possible. Eno; 14. Bk; 15. Va; 16. Seal; 17. Ram- those ceremonics which are the owners of riverain property who, at
The children brought up in theber: 21. Enoch, 24. Eva: 25. Elsas;
Margarét found herself at length canal boats and knowing no other 27. Union; 29. At; 30. Everything: 33.
the behest of the L.C.C., have been deliberately scheming to gain his home, are as sturdy us any other New; 34. Ma; 35. Ragged; 30, Um; 38, hopes, the supreme, religious moraising their frontages, 1,224 have company, his praise, his flatteries section of the population. The only at 44. Una: 48. Pe: 50. St: 61, Sen: Recently in London, a film called complied with the requiremente, her lonely bed, feeling his arma and every night took memory to difficulty is that of ensuring their 52. Ta; 59. Nat; 57. Een; 58. Er; 50. "The Pilgrimage to Mecca," was! and work on the remainder is in
about her after they bad danced to With the speeding-up of the canal 66. Lea; 69. Et: 70. Vet: 72. Heroic: shown. It was taken by the wife progress.
As a result the Thames is ad-gether, hearing his voice as it rose traffic this difficulty may solve itself. 3. Baal; 74. Drue; 78. Int; 79. Thugs; of an Indian Moslem, Hajj Qassimi
80. Eik,
Ali Jairazbhoy, and depicts the equately protected from. Hammer ringingly or fell warming in an- The number or bargemen and boat-Į (Down)-1. Merkel: 2. Ana; 3. Don: Pilgrimage as it was in 1992. Lagt smith nearly as far as Greenwich, wer to hers. She shut her eyes 5,771, and 34 of these are women. Racine; 9. Os; 10. Lee: 11. Lava; 12. year also in London, a similar flm Greenwich, Woolwich, and a part only to see a sort of flood-litTM pic-
of Limehouse remain to be done. In Poplar there are 625 bargees, in Slate: 19. Berated; 19. Estate; 20. Rah; was taken by a Moalem from the!
The Victoria and Albert Embank- 22. Nugget; 23. Hoed; 26. Sleena, 28. Dutch East Indies. Stepney 515, Bermondsey 606, N; 31. Emus; 32. Nasal: 36. Uh; 37. The taking of these pictures was ment was strengthened and, raised Greenwich 503. Holborn has one M: 41. Spiel: 44. Use: 45. Nee: 46. a daring feat, for it was done, feriwhere necessary some nine months solitary boatman, and there aro Ann; 47. Loretta; 49. Caravan; 53. Nil:) none at all in Hampstead.
education.
Er; 60. Ice; 61. Chf; 63. Ave; 64. Lap
men living in Greater London la 4 Lally; 5, Nh; 6. Eke; 7. Avon; 8.
ago. 54. Ace; 55 Tea: 56. Char; 58, Eve: the most part, surreptitiously. The
61. Cheese: 62. Frolic; 05. Peat; 67. Wahabis, who are in control of the
ture of him.
To Margaret, Florence's unvary- coveted her friend's hatred so that, ing kindness was a torture. She obversely, she could feel a just!- fication of her love for Paul. Once she thought the revealing crisis
These are settled on land with Oil; 68. Lco; 71. T: 72, Iugh; 74. Oh: Holy Places of Islam, discounten- FOREIGN CARDINALS had arisen. She had persuaded ___their__families,but there are still 6 Rut: 18 Yos;-77,-Dip; 79. Tn:-80ance the pictorial representation of
a large number whose homes are on Es.
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their boats, and the proper boat- woman is very reluctant to leave her trim little cabin home on the water for any house ashore.
While new motor boats are gra-
CHINA'S FARMING
POPULATION
Comprise 73 Per Cent. Of Whole
anything ao sacred as these hallow- ed rites of their faith, and although King Ibn Saud makes no objection to an occasional photograph of Mecca and Medina, he is understood to have proclaimed against the filLaing and the subsequent publica tion of the actual religious core Įmonies.
· LEADING.
| him to take her on the river. Land- ing far up-stream, he had stepped ashore and was in the act of lift- First Time For Manying her from the boat when
Years
Florence walked into view along the bank. Margaret's face flooded,
Gasparri, the number of foreign
Owing to the death, of Cardinal with colour, bat Paul had called
to his wife gaily,... Cardinals now exceeds that of the "Here's a pretty thing," he cried Italian ones for the first time in as children do playing forfeits. number 27, while there are only 26 thing many years. The foreign Cardinals and what will I do for this pretty
Italian Cardinals at present.
"You shall paddle back to the As the full complement of Gar- house, replied Florence, entering occupy 73 per cent. while labourers, Railway Engine Orders dinala is 70, there are at present into the spirit of the game "pack a NANKING SUCCOURS only 3 per cent.
Nanking.
dually being added to the canal fleets and the old craft are passing out, it is a fact that there are still on the Norfolk Broads many wherries whose age run well into their second According to statistics compiled TURKEY BUYS FROM centuries. Sturdy old craft; indeed, by the Agricultural College of the that may even outlive some of their Nanking University, of the whole latest rivals.
population in China, fanners
REFUGEES
Drive For Clothing
Large catate owners occupy
9
par cent, who possess 43 per cent.
GERMANY
Placed
дооп
Beventeen vacancies, and it la gen- tea hamper, and bring it back for erally expected that, when the Con- . It's such a heavenly after- clave meets on December 17, the
The rencontre shook Margaret.. Parting that night she hadman- Taged to be alone with Paul, for a
minute.
of the land in the country 50 now engaged in making consider new wearers of the purple roben.
The Turkish Government is just Pope will nominate a number of per cent, of the farmers have no able extensions to the existing rail- land. at all, while 44 per cent of A city-wide drive has been the whole nation have only 6 per of additional locomotives for that way system and requires a number launched by various women's or
cent, of land.
The unequal distribution of land: The locomotives previously order- ganisations in Nanking to secure clothing and medicine for refugees makes farmers standard of living ed by, the railway administration in areas recently recaptured from becoming lower and lower. The from German firms, having proved the Reds by the Nanking forces, is estimated at only 26-dollar
YELLOW RIVER ON RAMPAGE
Dykes Burst In Chihli
yked
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FORD MOTOR CAR SALES
·· SOARING HIGH-
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The Dan
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the mile long, kas Motor Company is the
in Chihl, and for almost four
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purpose.",
satiafactory in every way, it has
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LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
One case, ofedipht
DIPHTHERIA RIFE
IN NANKING
Sufferers Are Mostly School Children
An epidemic os
heria is
W
TE mustn't see so much of BAA each other,” she whispered. "It isn't fair to Florente." And de- spite the way in which he waved off the matter, she avoided him for
week Then she wrote.
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