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lat Mar.
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... Saturday,
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"THE CHINA" MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 19
CHINESE ACTORS
FOR RUSSIA
Raising Finance For Mei Lan Fang GOVERNMENT WILL PROVIDE
$50,000
Nanking, February 1.
In order to enable Mr Mei Lan- fang, famous Chinese female impersonator, and his troupe, to stage a series of performances in Russia at the official invitation | " of the Soviet Government, it is learned that the 'Government his decided to bear part of Mr. Mel's expenses on the trip. The total expenses of Mr Mei and his 28 fellow-actors are estimated at $180,000, which will be secured from the following sources: first- ly, contributions by Shanghai | gentry; secondly, Government subsidy; and, thirdly, amount to be raised by Mr. Mei himself..
Persons in Shanghai have con- tributed $100,000, and Mr. Lei has raised $90,000. For the re- maining $50,000, Dr. W. W. Yen. Chinese Ambassador to Moscow, has submitted a petition
On what doctorn predict will be his last Christmas, Benny Hendricks, 0-year-old Larkuville, Pa., boy who is turning to stone, is taken to Wilkes-Barre by his mother to visit Santa Claus. Gifts from sympathetic persons throughout the nation were show- ered on the unfortunate bog,
Penn an Genoa inistry of fore put on to the Swedish Panopticon
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Beyrouth, Istanbul, Piraeus. Genos
Wednesday,
Thursday, Tuesday,
and Valencia.
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Friday,
15th Mar,
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & tangoon.
PENANG MARU
Friday,
15th Feb.
†HAKODATE MARU
Friday,
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Friday,
8th Mar,
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Friday,
KATONI MARU
Saturday,
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15th. Feb.
2nd, Mar.
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he could see neither head nor tall,
questing on behalf of Mr. Mei Foreign Affairs, re-
that the sum be paid by the Government. It is said that Mr. Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan, has approv-seal gun, which in itself weighed aa big one, an old bull, carrying Johan Emil took down his old but he saw enough to know it was ed the request, and that it has béen decided to appropriate the quarter of what would be a load for many dollars' worth of blubber, if Thursday, 14th Feb at makinight amount from the "Reserve Fund" man, and began to load it. Hojal was as it should be. He went of the national budget.-Chekiai knew exactly the charge of powder, on with eyes astare through the Agency.
cut away the edges of the home-loophole. Queer, anyhow, that the made bullet of inch calibre, wrap-seal did not take a look round now (ped it in a piece of leather and ram-jand then. But the sun was Bo med down with the ramrod, while beautifully warm, and he was the old woman, barc-legged beneath sleeping like a fat old rector who her kaltted petticoat, grumbling un-has a curate to do the work for der her breath, shook the coffee him.
They were Osterlund was now almost within Four silk Alatures closed down, roaster over the fire.
Shanghai last" week,
fine beans and their fragrance soon range. He raised himself softly. being the Hwa Sheng
filled the room, atoning for her he even ventured to get up' on his Kung Da In Chapel, and the Yung son's lack of obedience.
knees the ball lay motionless- Heng at Ying Fan Chiao, and the Yu Lai at Koo Ka-wan. The fila tures still in operation number 23rd Mar. only eight or nine.
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MONTEVIDEO & BUENOS Santos Mara
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Thurs., Thurs.,
21st Feb. 21st Mar.
SILK FILATURES CLOSING DOWN IN SHANGHAI
these and
now
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They drank their coffee, and the and far away he saw a swarm of old woman herself poured a good seals on the earth-coloured rookery for that was the custom in those But now he saw also that there was dram. of spirits into her son's cup, he had observed through the glass.
days.
a channel of blue water imme. Osterlund had dressed with a diately alongside. white shirt outermost and a whito) Now he was within ranges · Ho aheepskin cap so as not to stand knew his gun and he knew himself. out against the ice. He picked up He had put bullet in bullet at 50 [his ́skridstang in the shed and start-paces once, when they had a party led out to sea.
at Trutkobben, and, being in ilquor,
The skridatang is a ski, much he had wanted to show off the re- longer, wider and thicker than an markable qualities of his gün-not ordinary running ski. The hunter to speak of his own sobriety—no Hes on it and works himself forward he was in no doubt about that. on the ice with the help of his No-now he dared not crawl any hands and feet. In front is a place further. It was plate-ice and was Consignees of Cargo are
for the gun and at the foremost beginning to ring at the edges as hereby Informed that all Goods are being point a square piece of white sall-they broke off. Now he sighted in landed at their risk into the hazardous cloth with a spyhole through which God's_name-carefully and,, well- and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the gun-muzzle projects. The seal and fired.
"DENMACDHUI"
The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf takes it for a lump of ice, so long The seal did not stir. & Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or
But the
from the wharves delivery may be as he does not perceive Ita approach.shot echoed terrifyingly out over obtained.
The white clad marksman is.. well the expanse, He rose. The seal
No claims will be admitted after concealed behind the cloth. In this lay there still. 19th Feb. the Goods have left the Godowns, and manner it is possible, against 8th Mar. all Goods remaining undelivered after
the 13th February, 1935, will be sub-across the wind, to get quite close Hundreds of seals threw them |ject to rent.
to a seal and within range,
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and Tallin Maru
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-Colombo
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4th Mar.
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Fri,
22nd Feb.
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Sur.
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the steamer must Besides the gun Osterlund Osterlund ran forward to hin be presented to the Undersigned on brought an axe, his good harpoon seal. But the seal was no seal. or before the 27th February, 1935, or they will not be recognized.
and its lines in case the seal, when It was a barrel, as big as a petro- To comply with the General Bonded wounded, should go down into somo leum cask or bigger, frozen into LIVERPOOL Warehouse
Regulations consignces ice-hole. It was Important' to seize the ice.
MENTOR But even at close range 14th Mar,must have a Revenue Officer in attend-the occasion to strike when he came it looked like the contours of a fat
ance when damaged dutiable goods are 10th Feb. examined.
up for air, make the line fast round grey seal, sleeping deeply and All broken, chafed, and damaged the harpoon shaft and play the calmly in the sun. The bullet was Goods are to be left in the Godown, diving beaat. For on ice one can there, however, in the middle of 21st Feb. where they will be examined on the not hold a wounded seal when it the barrel. He peered into the 12th February, 1936, at 10 am, by dives, one must have a harpoon shaft bullet hole. It looked like blubber Mesars. Goddard and Douglas.
No Fire Insurance has been effected of such good material and of such inside. Osterland took out his Bills of Lading will be countersign-calibre that one can lay it crossways knife and got out a bit of the con- over the ice-hole. If one'a own tents, smelte, tasted, smack- GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.
strength is insufficient.
ed his lips. Then he sat down on The ice was rotten. There was the ice looking frightfully foolish. every kind-plate Ice which cracks The cask contained wax. and rings out far in calm weather, Osterlund's first sensation was ice that looked like thousands of disappointment. He had wanted a bottle bottom. Bet close together, seal. But as he cotinued to sit on ice that had the effect of stalactites the ice and thought over his posi and ice that looked like entangled tion, he found that a cask of Wax white snakes.
of getting on for four hundred- to
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It was not easy to get along on weight-and his calculation was all this, and for warmth Osterlund not very far wide of the mark-- had put on his sealskin boots made was worth a lot more than a seal. of the skin of the grey scal, with At the same time he reckoned that the blubber adhering to the inside his hunting trip had been observed and drawn together with a cord at from the lighthouse. He was not the ankle. These were only suit-liked by one young jackanapes of Jable in severe cold. In thaw they an assistant keeper. Consequently became like gruel, and the oll goes he would have to report his find through double woollen stockings, and let it go to auction by the One may get one's feet frozen in Customs.tra that way if it comes on cold after At an auction at this lighthouse a'thaw and one does not get station,
tion, far removed from all ashore,
honour and probity, it was not Osterlund had set his course and likely that many would overbid Was moving by the sun. There was him, if he wanted to haverhis law- not much raised ice to afford cover ful booty himself. So there were
and suddenly he saw something possibilities of profit here. He be black between two ice blocks not gan to cut the cank loose and, by far off, Swiftly he ducked. The ice ingenious application of the skrid-TAIPINGA here was level, and he softly and stang and harpoon line, got it with CHANGTE silently got the bakridstang ready, great difficulty on to the ica, It TAIPING set a course and began to work him was a tough job, and it was not
STRANERI CHANGTE.
self forward with hands and feet. before duck that he had the way ở AUSTRALI
Occasionally he raised himself
His
mother "scolded"
hifel, he is made
stions,
Little "and" lõhked over the edge of and made coffee. the sall. He had been z right cat there
seal sleeping. Trus
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ALICE, ILONDON, (via Australia) from £127,15.0°
(Australian Newspapers on file),
Apr.