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Wednesday,
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Friday,
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Saturday,.. Saturday,
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Saturday,
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Saturday,
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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1934
The First Solo
(Continued. From
- Page 93.
STOCK MARKET DULLNESS
(Continued From Page B).
£12 (1st Class)
£8 (Tourist)
HOLIDAY
CRUISE
on the
EMPRESS OF
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Arrives Manila 22nd
Passengera may remain on board and will be provided with meals and accommodation without extra charge during ship's
stay in Manila Leaves Manila 23rd December. - Arrives Hong Kong early morning 23th December.
HOMEWARD' SAILINGS
Now those who imagine Tokyo to corrugated fron, and you havé sqme be a collection of houses made of thing like iknimy wood and paper are at fault; only 4 minute ago the city had been "Grains: In view of the seasonally
neatly divided up like a slab of tof increasing feed needs we would sug the slums are like that.
fee by its Intersecting highways, but gest purchases of coarse grains on Japan, having made billions of
now the streets were no longer ap setbacks. The Government report yen out of the Great War, spent parent, as straight lines; they had fe confirming shortage in crop. much of it in making Tokyo: the been obliterated by the sprawling wheat: Total sales 22,827,000 bus- London of the East. There are de- ruins of shops and houses. Every hela. Corn: Total sales 11,695,000 partment stores on the Ginza which who had rushed clear of tottering
where bodies were lying-of those bushels. would do Oxford-street no discredit ruins only to be brained by the and steady, with Government selling "Cotton: The market was slow You stand on an escalator to mount showers of tiles that shot down from absent. the first seven floors, and spacious the roofs. A few fire-engines were "Rubber: The market was firm lifts take you up the rest. The roof out, but these were unable to probat quiet. may be laid out as a sort of animal ceed more than a few yards in any supplies continues.
The accumulation of Total sales: park. There you may sip your beer direction because of the debris in 78 lota Beater. S in the sunshine and watch monkeys the streets. In any case, all pipes
Market Factors grinning at you through the bars, having gone, there was no water: The following telegrams were re- rabbits friaking on green lawns, and The Air-cadet Matsumato saw ceived by Messra, 8. E. Levy and Co. herons standing contemplative be some strange sights. He saw from Reuter:- side tinkling fountains. And if you tramcar, which should have followed Favourable factors:-(1)
The are in a religious mood, there is a its lines round to the right at Saku- continued increase in mill produe- Shinto shrine at your service. All radamon corner, derail itself and tion. (2) The possibility of an un- on a shop roof,
plunge forward into the most of the derstanding being reached between That much mention of the opulence Imperial Palace. He saw huge oll the Administration and Utility Com-
Hong Shang Naga- Kobe Yoko Honolulu conver of the capital is necessary, because tanks lean sideways with gaping panies on power policies, resulting
Kong hai saki Mokohama
Victoria on this particular day-the day of bellies while their contents poured in a better earnings outlook for Empr. of Russla..Jan. 16 Jan. 18 Jan. 20 Jén. 22 Jan. 24' ́*
Leave Arrive Leave Leava Leave Leave Arrive Air-cadet Matsumoto's first solo into the streets and into the river; utilities.
Feb 1 (8) The lack of selling Empr. of Japan...Jan. 28 Jan. 31- flights September 1, 1928, and he watched the flames go racing over pressure.
Fab. 3 Feb. 5 Feb. 11 Feb. 15 Empr. of Asia....Feb. 13 Feb, 15 Feb. 17 Feb. 19 Feb. 21
Mar. 1 factor:-Specula-Empr, of Russia.Mar. 8 Mar. 10 Mar. 12 Mar. 14 Mar, 16
Empr. of Canada..Feb. 26 Feb. 28
Mar. 3 Mar. 5 Mar. 12 Mar. 17. Mar. 25 Empt. of Japan'..Mar. 22 Mar, 24 Mar. 27 Mar. 29. Apr. 4 Apr. 21 but he, will not land at 12.05-and within reach, for no other reason production this year is 1,881,000,000
The Government report on corn Empr. of Aala ...Apr. 5 Apr. 7 Apr. 9 Apr. 11. Apr. 13 Apr. 20 Apr. 28 no one in their right senses would than that his brain had given way. bushels and an acreage of 87,486,000. expect him to.
lie stw women and children trodden In view of the numerous govern At 11.67 Matsumoto's face was underfoot.
mental conferences there is a likeli- the normal yellow of a healthy young Flying over the Zoo at Ueno Park, hood of some result, or announce- Japanese. At 11.59 It was a kind he heard a succession of sharp re-ment, of a constructive nature. of dingy grey,*
ports above the pandemonium that Wall Street is expected to be Because at 11.58 began one of the rose from the cages, In conformity steady with movements mostly con- greatest earthquakes in the history with the ata ng "earthquake or-fined to minor fractions either way. of the world.
ders issued by the police, the mas-The constructive Industrial trade On that night and on the two sucsacre of the more dangerous beasts news is seemingly discounted and, ceeding nights the people of Karul-had begun. In one case the keepers with traders apparently disposed to zawa (which is a hundred miles were too late; a maddened elephant await fresh incentive, a narrow and jaway) were to stand on their hill-galloping for the exit found it al-Indecisive market is anticipated.
sides and watch the flames of the ready jammed with struggling burning capital like a second sub-humans.
LIVERPOOL via Port Sald, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus. Genoa glancing at his watch, the Air-cadet the surface. He saw a hatless Unfavourable Matsumoto sees that the time is policeman on the Klosubashi Bridge tive indifference. 11.57. He is due to land at 12.05; slashing with his sword at everyone
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(Someone had screamed In their market report, the set in the sky. The casualties were that the tigers were loose.) to total 60,000 odd; the loss in huge brute, treading them down like poration, correspondent for Mesars wealth 5600 million yen.
cabbages, crashed out of the gar- E. A. Pierce arid Company New And the novice pilot Matsumoto dens and went careering down the
York state: was in the air when it all began. streets with portions of the gate
Now if you want an Impression beating like flails about ite fanks. tory but the market was subjected of what the Air-cadet Matsumoto Matsumoto flew on.
to tax selling and the continued un- 24th Jan. saw in his fight over Tokyo, take And then the second quake came certainty over the national policy
one large hearth-rug and spend the-to settle the ruina more comfort toward utility and railroad morning building a town of toy ably athwart the streets; to bring panies.
Sat.,' Mon...
22nd Dec.
Wed.. Mon.,
"Stocks: Trade news is satisfac-
com-
bricks on' it. Build houses and down the buildings that were still "Grains: There was firmness early public buildings and railway stations standing; to twist steel girders into on the better foreign tone and the 2nd Jan. and so on, using all the toy motor-shapes even more fantastic; to im-correction yesterday of the visible 4th Feb.ears and engines you can find, prison more hopelessly still the poor supply. Corn and wheat both; Then, when he lunch-bell goes, wretches trapped beneath the debris, weakened, but recovered later, even- take two corners of the rug, and Dense columns of smoke began to
ing up prior to the Government re [give a sharp jerk towards you. If rise; a conflagration had started port after the close. Trading was
any of your houses remain standing, wherever a wooden cefling had fal- moderate. or any of your engines on their len in on top of an open coolding fire and dull. Liquidation and scattered "Cotton: The market was email 4th Jan lines, jerk again, and again, and And Matsumeto's thoughts turned 7th Feb. again. So you will represent the at once to his mother. The flimsy There was no evidence of "pool" hedging offset the active price fixing. successive quakes which began at houses of the poor do little damage selling. There was belated Decem- two minutes to noon on September when they collapse, but in a fire ber liquidation due to circulation 1, 1928.
they are so much tinder-wood. But even then you will have little He whirled his seaplane round in
¡notices. real idea, because there were no a vertical bank that could not have steady here with a small volume of "Rubber: The market was again 20th Dec. mid-day meals cooking inside your been bettered; and opened his throt trading. London was steady, but 2nd Jan. little houses when they collapsed-tle wide. nothing to start a fire. There were
dull and featureless. The holocaust of the last few 23rd Dec. no gas-pipes to be twisted and minutes had worked a strange men-mate of wheat and corn le practical- "Flashes: The Government esti- broken, no tottering gasometers and tal change in the Air-cadet Matly the same as preliminary returns, 11th Jan.pil-tanks to feed the flames. The sumoto. Now he joggled his feet The reports caused little comment 24th Dec. again, your bridges didn't buckle, confidently on the rudder-bar; he on the part of the Trade."-Reuter. 27th Dec. and your railway lines didn't wrig- held the control-stick with a touch gle like snakes. In Tokyo all these that was delicate but Arm; he told things happened while Matsumoto's himself that his seaplane was going 19th Dec. horror-stricken face was peering to do exactly as she was told.
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Amer. Smelting full senses to find himself fighting Auburn for the control of his machine, Case which was now being tossed about (Continued on Page 11.)
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