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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935
THE "COMMODORE Thirty Rounds
VANDERBILT"
First Streamlined High Powered Steam Locomotive
(Continued From
Page 9).
"Come back here, you young The officer addressed the upstairs Jack-a-napos," he bellowed, between window: "This is Sheriff Nichols fright for his protege and wonder talkin', Sam Walton! You'd best that he had not instantly been shot surrender, for we're comin' In after down.
you, if you don't." Revolutionary designs are in- Jim Styles, turned towards him Instantly the man showed him- corporated in the "Commodore wih a grin.
self, waving a white rag. In the Vanderbilt," the world's first "I tell you he began; but light. "Come on in, sheriff," he streamlined high-powered steam the sheriff cut him off sharply invited; "why didn't you say who locomotive, which has just been "Come back here, and stay back; or it was in the first place?" He else you go home," he ordered laughed shortly as he added: "I'm 20th Mar. at 1 am. bullt for the New York Central curtly; and Jim decided that, since all out of shells any way; but I
6th Apr.
he certainly didn't want to be sent hate to see good ammunition gone Wednesday, 17th Apr. at 10a.m.Lines.
nam-home, it was wise to ober.
for nothing." The engine has been
There were no further shots from There was a crash behind him, 23rd Mar,
ed after the founder of the
the window.
and he threw up his hands. Jen- 6th Apr.
Company, and, together with its
"He has fired thirty rounds:kins, supported by the Webster tender, weighs 228 tons, has a maybe he's through," the sheriff
twins, had smashed in the door. length of 96 feet, and can travel suggested doubtfully,"
"Hold im right in that room," "I'm bettin' one of us plugged the sheriff bellowed, and started on at a speed of 90 miles an hour or
im" Niles Worley commented.
Wednesday,
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“I tell you—" Jim Styles began
the run for the back door, by which
The upstairs room was a meas
With the exception, of, the driving and trailing wheels which oracularly, but the sheriff aflenced the deputy had gained entry. have been left partly uncovered, jhim again with a sharp "Hush.up!"
still under the reaction with chipped plaster, empty shells, the entire engine is enclosed He was within a metal covering, which is from the fright Jim had given him and a bullet-scarred dresser drawn finished in a gun-metal shade of "Oh, all right," the youth an-to the centre of the room for a lacquer, with striplings of silver, swered,, sulkily, Wind scoops lift smoke and gases high above the train..
FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETING
$76,482 Supplementary
ExpenditureTM.
ITALY'S PROBLEMS IN ABYSSINIA
(Continued from Page 8)
breastwork. Sam Walton WAB [backed up against the wall, and the Webster twins had him covered; but he had a friendly grin on his
face, as if to say he bore no hard feelings, only, the joke was on somebody else.
""Tis a shame to give you all. this trouble, sheriff," he said.
་་
There is, for example, Italy'"You see, I thought you were a overwhelming superiority in the bunch of hijackers, after some air; but what are they going to home-made wine I keep in the cellar bomb? The only, town of any im-for home, consumption, you un portance is Addis Ababa-a great derstand."
"Home-made wine hell!" the village of tin huts inhabited for the Supplementary expenditure
"Come across most part by cosmopolitans sheriff exploded. amounting to $76,482 will be pre- Bented for consideration by the Greeks, Armenians, Indians and with the sparklers."
The Italians could presum- Walton looked astonished. Finance Committee, following the Jews.
"Sparklers?" he repeated blankly. Legislative Council meeting to-ably bomb any government into
"Yeh, The Fulton diamonds, if morrow, This sum is detailed capitulation, but that would not
concern the fierce Ambaric high you want me to be specific. To- as follows:-
Public Works Extraordinary landers, the Gallas, or the Donaklis, night's gunplay is goin' to cost you (Kowloon) "$12,000; Public who have very little respect for the an extra ten years.”
"Now, go easy, sheriff," Works Extraordinary, (Hong government in any case. Kong) $5.000, Medical Depart-
Test For New Italy Walton protested mildly, "I never ment, $12,000; and Charitable Every man in Abyssinia carries killed a man yet, nor aver aimed to Services $47,482.
arma and knows how to use them.-not even a hijacker. See here!"
From his pocket he drew forth Only a prolonged and enormously: expensive guerilla warfare could a handful of bright objects-steel- reduce the provinces, and they jacketed bullets which apparently would stay peaceable only so long had been pried from the shells that as the garrisons remained in force. littered the floor. A number of For about fifteen centuries the faoap pellets on the table suggested Italians have never won an im ja harmless substitute for thes portant. battle. Whether their bullets....
WANCHAI TRAGEDY
European Shipmaster Found Shot
CAPTAIN C. A. MUTTON IN 'SERIOUS CONDITION
San
training of the last few years is Sheriff "Nichols' was not unaware enough to create a nation of sol- that the men he had hastily de- diers remains to be seen. If it has putised were barely able to stifle done so, no greater triumph has their real feelings; and it would be been achieved by a single man, a joke on hiin if Sam Walton could Captain C. A. Mutton, well-
could have make his story stick. He'd be the no more severe test known ship's master, was found at been chosen than the conquest of butt of ridicule; and the thought his residence, No. 215 Wanchai Abyssinia. It is an object which atung. He glared at Jim Styles;} Road, second floor, with a bullet any patriotic European can BPbut there was no sign of laughter wound in his head yesterday morn-plaud. Its accomplishment will be there, though the boy's eyes were 8th Apr. ing.
of service to the world, and, for-allght with excitement. The sheriff 6th May
When discovered, he was rushed tunately, they world may be allowed glanced around the circle, and his to the Government Civil Hospital, to play the part of spectator. It neck swelled as he reddened with where he is now recovering as well will be the supreme trial of Mus- as can be expected.
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18th Mar.
17th Mar. 24th Mar.
Captain Mutton, who fa 59 years
solini's regime.
anger,
+
"Listen, Walton," he said, do We can, with clear conscience, Ilberately, "you were hangin' around the Fultons country place to-night,
of age, had been for many years fold our hands and await the news master of the sa Wing On, on the on the wireless, Hong Kong-Macão run, but fol- |lowing the sale of that vessel some little time back he was thrown out of employment.
Cinema Notes
while the ball was on. Jim Styles saw you, and mentioned it to me.”
"That's true;" but there were a flot of other people there. We were all attracted by the laughin' and dancíp, I guess. You could see the whole show through the open win-
(Continued on Page 11)
(Continued from Page 8.)(.) quest for thrills, so diligently that Three cases of small-pox with four she has forgotten love and redows, 31st Mar.deaths, even cases of diphtheris, of mance. And Chris has been a de which four proved fatal, une case of voted husband and patriotic diple scarlet fever, five cases of typhoid mat so long that he missed youth's fever with one death, and four cases pleasures.
Cynthia wresta Chris
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