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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1935
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AL "CONTE VERDE”. 1st June 4th July & GANGE 1.1, "CONTE ROSSO". 1st Aug 15. "CONTE VERDE, 1st Sept.
Imagine two- age-scarred
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They hunched their vast "shapes skinned humans of prehistoric days out of the green beneath the sam paddling along at shat of evening less blue of space, and for untrod on some barbarons-errand, and sudden leagues around them stretched denly from a sweeping creat like a paradisal savanna what we Salisbury Plain descrying, on the poor thronging clock-vexed men call nearer horizon the awful monoliths Silence. Solitude.
of Stonehenge. An experience re- In telling of these Vats it is sembling that was ours this summer difficult to convey in mere words day.
even a fraction of their effect upon We came at once: to: a standstill our minds. And not merely our minds amid the far-dung stretches of the They called to. some hidden being For Singapore. Colombo; Bumbay, Suez. Part-Said, Brindisi Venice. unknown plateau on which we had within on that, if not their coeval,
(London. by rail) & Trieste. refound ourselves, and with eyes was at least aware of their
fixed upon these astonishing objects, quisite antiquity. |KA "CONTE ROSSO". 1th May
stood and stared. 9th Jane "CONTE VERDE“ 13. “GANGE
-------- 12th July 9th Aug. "CONTE ROSSOTM |54: "CONTE. VERDE“ 9th Sept.
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archangelic them Vati Vats they were notz daemonic construction, clearly they but rather sunken reservoirs, vast had remained unvisited by mortal semi-spherical primeval cisterns, of man for as many centuries at least an area many times that of the as there are cherries in Damascus bloated and swollea gasometers or beads in Tierra del Fuego. which float like huge flattened bub-Sharers of this thought. we two bles between earth and heaven un-dwarf visitors had whispered an # Zer the sunlit clouds of the instant or so together, face to face; Thames.
and then were again mute. But no sunbeams dispread them- Yes, we were of one mind about selves bere. They lay slumbering that. In the utmost depths of our in a grave, crystal light, which lap-imaginations it was clear to us that ped, deep as the Tuscarora Trough, these supremely solitary objects, if above and around their prodigious not positively cast out of thought, stone plates, or slats, or slabs, or had been abandoned. Jamine; their steep slopes. washed But by whom? My friend and li by the rarefied atmosphere of their had sometimes talked of the divine site, and in hue of a hoary green. Abandower; and also (if one can, As we gazed at them like this and may, distinguish between mood
The discovery, of three tattered Canvasses tentatively identified as lost masterpieces of Titian, in" "a vault in his father's home at Staf
may ford Springs, Connectient, make Reed Lawton wealthy for
worth for Titian paintings are tmnes. Mr. Bawton is seen with two of them, kept under guard in the Roosevelt Hotel New York.
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from afar they seemed to be in the dreamer) of It. Here was the CANADA AND JAPAN Japan July 12 July 14
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number, as I remember, about nine, and person, between the dream and but they were by no means all of a vacancy of His presence; just as size. For one
Two of the one may be aware of a filament of rotundas were smaller in compass His miracle in the smiling beauty: than the others, just as there may that hovers above the swaying be big suails or mushrooms-in a grasses of an indecipherable grave family, and little ones.
stone.
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MAY VISIT CHINA
Ottawa, Canada.
But any object on earth
Looking back on the beatless and CANADIAN ICE-HOCKEY TEAM majesty or magnitude that recalls rayless zoonday of those Vats, I the pyramids is a formidable spec-see, as I have said, the mere bodies tacle. And not a word passed be of my friend and me, the upright! tween us, scarcely a glance, as with bones of us, indescribably dwarfed
The year 1935 will be notable extreme caution nad circumspection by their antediluvian monstrosity, Canada for the inauguration approached-creeping Laman Yet within the lightless bellies of of friendly sporting contests with pace by pace to view them nearer these sarcophagi were heaped up. Japan, and it is hoped here that
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A fit of shivering came over me,!
ENORMOUS
I recollect, as thus advantaged - Ij scanned their
sides, shaggy with tufts of a monstrous moss and scarred with yardwide circumambulations of lichen.
Gigantic grasses stooped their fatted seedpods from the least rough ledge. They might be walls of ice, so cold their aspect; or of a matter discoverable only in an alien planet.
they may become annual events. The ball was set rolling by the "Battleford Millers," on out-
DRUG ADDICTS IN standing ice hockey team from
TIENTSIN
Several Hundreds
More Cured
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which is Saskatchewan, touring Japanese cities-
дож
Now it is announced that for the first time in history an inter- national golf match is to take place at Niagara Falls (Ontario) More than 800 drug addicts between Japan, Canada and the have been cured in the clinic! United States from July 11 to Not though they were horrific opened by the authorities in July 13 Each country will be to the eye-ot that they were in Tientsin and plans are being represented by a team of six themselves appalling to the soulmade to increase the number of professionals.
The match has
It seems likely that soon
professional
મૈં
The
team
Far rather they seemed to be em-beds for the growing number of been made possible by the pro- bleins of an ineffable peace: harm-people who are coming for treat-jected United States tour of six Japanese professional golfers! Hess as, centuries before Noah, were ment.
the playing leviathans in a then It is stated, says a Chinese this summer. privy Pacific. And when one looked message that more than a hun- close on them it was to see myriads dred persons come to the clinic Japanese baseball team will visit
The total Canada for the first time. of animated infinitesimals in crevice daily for attention. and cranny, of a beauty, hue and number of addicts in Tientsin is Japanese
estimated at over 120,000 so that which played against Babe symmetry past eye, to seize.
Indeed, there was a hint remotely even if they were cured at the Ruth's Americans in Japan, is human in the looks of these Vats, rate of 400 each month, it would now in the United States and is The likeness between them resem-be 25 years before the city wonin trying to arrange fifteen matches in Canada. These games, if con- bled that between generations or be clear of them.
The provincial government is firmed, will take place during the mankind, countiess generations old
considering plans for future early summer in various Cana- Contemplating them with the un-
warks
dian cities. paralleled eqanimity their presence
Much interest is also being at last bestowed, one might almost
taken here in the reported have ventured to guess their names.
în advancement of ice-hockey And never have I seen award or
China
. This
is Canada's tur! so smooth and virginally
national winter game and it is, emerald as that which heaved itself
probable that in the future it will against their brobdingnagian flanks.
be a regular thing for Canadian My
friend and I, naturally
teams to tour the Far East- Retter. enough, were acutely conscious of four minuteness of stature as we
COINCIDENCE OF TWO FILMS
Mr. Ruggles. And Mr. Clive
There is a curious link between stood side by side in this unrecord-"Ruggles of Red Gap" shown at ed solitude, and, out of our little the Central recently, and “Clive of round heads peered up at them India." In the former Mr. Charles 21st May with our
eyes. Obviously their Laughton plays the part of Ruggles 24th Jun
and the and with hím in the cast is the muscous, incrustations families of weeds flourishing in real Mr. Ruggles as the check their interstices were of an age to suited democrat. Mr. Ronald Col daunt the imagination.
man plays the part of Clive and Their ancestry must have rooted with him in the cast is a descen- itself here when the dinosaur and dant of Lord Clive, Mr. Colin Clive, the tribes of the megatherium roam- as one of the opponents of the ed earth's crust and the pterodactyl great proconsul in the House of clashed through its twilight-thon Commons Committee.
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sands of centuries before the green acorn sprouted that was to afford little Cain in a fallen world his first
6th June leafy petticoats.
8th July
I realised af at a sigh.........why' ales the Sphinx, why the pri 19th May mary stars have blazed on in un- diminishing midnight lastre during 3rd June
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Man's brief history, and his childish Smuggled artificial silk valued constellations have scarcely by aat over $80,000 was found by be presented to the Undersigned on or All daims against the steamed zzzzat 20th May single inch of heaven changed in Chinese Customs
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1985, or they their apparent stations.
Chingwantao in a special train will not be recognized They wore that air of lovely for European and American “To comply, with the General Bonded 21st May
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