THE CHINA MAILE, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
for STA
COLLECTORS
By A. E. L
HE French Philatelic Societies 50 c
Tare pressing the Government 1 fr.
to reprint the Lyautey series of
150,000 50,000
1 £50 Str.
120,000 10,000 be a second
But there may
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Commemoratives THE Budapest University Ter
centenary stamps will be!
Morocco on the ground that specu-printing. lators have taken the whole stock. On the other hand, many collectors have written to the French philate lic press saying that their orders for single sets addressed direct to issued some time after the middle the Moroccan Post Office were of this month The values will be duly, executed.
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THE
6. 10, 16, 20, 32 and 40 £ the 6, 16 and 20 f. showing Cardinal
BRITISH COAL MINING: INDUSTRY IMPROVES
Output Last Year Highest Since 1938
London, To-day. According to the 14th annual report of the Mines Department the output of the British cost- mining industry last year was the highest since since 1990. Coal exports increased as a result of the new trade agreements.
The "vaine of the agreements with Norway, Sweden, Dentsack, Iceland and Finland is shown by an increases of British coal ex- ports to those countries from 3,591,000 tons in 1931, to 8,989,000: tons in 1934-British Wireless Service.
According to cables from Aus-Peter Pazmany, the founder, and WOMAN'S LEAP FROM
tralia, the "Tin Can mail. bas the remainder the act of signing now been discontinued. It is the deed of foundation of the stated that the surviving postmen university. asked for a rise and apparently got-the sack!
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From Die Postmarke we learn
Assassination Isane
HE first anniversary of King
WINDOW
Attempt To Escape From Fire
CRASH TO PAVEMENT
London
Wine Of Friendship
By Leonard R. Berey
DON CARLOS had one to Carlos's well-practised ability
the open latticed windows to suit another's requirements in of the residential office of wine or commercial wisdom lent Messrs. Moir, Carlos and Co. him a plastic expression. 30, nod- general brokers, Madeira, with ding and smiling, he accepted an a wholesome appetite for the order for ninety tons best British morning's expected showing of bunkers. Captain Kemp had profitable tourist ships, luxury seated himsel without in cruisers, and the like, when he vitation and set angularly in his received something of a shockmouth one of the firm's decoy The night had anchored only one cheroots, which gave his host the vessel and shet" as Carlos chance he wanted. would have said an unusually dissolute-looking, if frequently
calling, freighter.
Now Carlos's was a conserva- nature and he disliked changes. ·So noticeable a trans- formation in jovial Captain Dick's craft was, to say the least. disturbing.
A peremptory knock at the door. behind him, lozenged "Private." confirmed his fears. The abrupt
MONDAY'S STORY
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Powder and Tablets.
From all dispensaries and drug stores-- Sole Agents:
BORNEMANN & CO.
Monday's story will be "The Purse," by Colin Howard.
Prince's Building...“
"Ze steamer Careena, where]
jannouncement of a Captain Kemp once was my beloffed Capitaine from that very steamer warned Dick, is it not? Carlos mildly him that he would not see Captain insinuated. Dick this voyage at least.
*Friend of the late Captain! Any substitute for Captain Dick, were you-poor old. Dick
was unbearable.
Steves?" Kemp leapt at the bait.)
The
that recept Trends by high be commemorated by a Yugoslavian Lithuanian postal authorities 10-stamp
set of the values, 25 p cluded the circulation of 288,000 375 p. 1.50 d. 1.75 d. and S.50 d. litas stamps and 399,300-5 litas. The designs will show respective A woman, aged about 50, jump- which were either forved or print-iy Alexander as a child, boy, youth, ed from a window of a fat she Dick ed without authority and placed on regent and king, the latter in the occupied above a greengrocer's mariner who thrust by the stam-Ah well! Every dog has its day. sale at the post offices. for the bene-admiral's uniform in which he shop when a fire occurred recent-mering clerk compared with his Many a fierce bark, if not actual hite. I've known as mate beneath him Gone! He dramatically
bowed and wondered concerning
Returning to his desk Carlos Paused. the change in the good ship light in Kemp's green eyes.
Carlos was contemplating
ft of the promoters of the fraud met his death.
Jubilee Issues Obsolete
HE New Zealand Jubilee At
printed
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a philatelic
copies
Careena's masters.
by in Columbia-road. Bethnal predecessor unfavourably. He was Green, E tamps were withdrawn on Esch on August 15,
exhibition
humptions Mr. and Mrs. At
Walker were the Luxem-aroused to find their bedroom full June 22
burg Post Office issued an imperf. of smoke. A fire had broken out The Jubilee issues for Cook 2 fr. + 50 C stamp showing in the rear part of the shop. Islands. Niue and Samoa became Clervaux. 75,000 obsolete on August &
were Mrs. Walker opened the bed- We understand that the 2d, Avs-
room window and rot out on to: The following were the quan- the windowsill tralan Jubilee stamp was also tities of the Central American pointed from Plates 3, 5 and 6 23 Olympic Games stamps of Salvador hours who urged her not to jump, Ignoring the shouts of neigh- well as from Plates 1, 2 and that received the "Habilitado" she crashed on to the pavement. which we have seen already. orerprint viz:-
Postage set.
27,700 15,000
Bermuda used a special first-
39,400
Her husband was also injured
in getting out. Both were taken to hospital and detained. The 40,000 fire was under control in 20 35,800 minutes.
day cachet for the Jubilee issue, 5 c. worded. "First Day Cover-Hamil.8 c ton. Bernida Jubilee Issue 10 May 6, 1935.”
36,400
15 c
35,400
Air Mail atta
15 c 25 + 30 c 55 c
40,800
39.200
i col
39,900
M
£60 Ceylon Elock
R. Graca has shown me one of the most interesting items
I have seen in Hong Kong. It is
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to the
Awakened By Shouts
"My poor, dear fren, he sigh- ed, not wishing to obtrude the profitable past into a preliminary
"Gone like yesterday, a brief spell in the Brazils where I am just from, with a full draught cargo of light sugar" Kemp ar
HARD PUNISHMENT present.
FOR THEFT Mediaeval Methods In China To-day
rogantly
asserted "Timex re-
quire younger men of imagina- tion like me. I had our midship re-ballast tanks stowed full with a **mand with returning from banish-couple of thousand extra sacks
Pun Pat. 50, charged
on
six
The South West Africa Jubilee 37 e stamps became obsolete at the end philatelists in the
Mr. G. Pasco, a chemist, said: at the previous hearing that he crew's quarters and engineers" ment before due time, who alleged of the best, would have filled the of June
country con--I was awakened by the shouts of had had flesh cut from his heel as bunkers to sink as to the Plin- cerned will draw the attention of Help and Fire. On looking out a punishment for theft in China, soll mark if that hadn't served." the postal authorities abuses which will arise.
of the window. I saw Mr. Walker was yesterday sentenced to run to the fire alarm post in months hard labour by Mr. Mac-acknowledged
Well-assumed " admiration New 70 pf. and 80 pf, Danzig
Hackney-road to call the brigade fadyen at the
all this through a block of six Ceylon, of the values are to be added to the car had jumped from the window of
"He was burnt and cut
Central Police triple lens glasses. Carlos. was current 2 Rupies, carmine
Court
waiting, watching. and rent set, and the 15 pf. is to the first floor after telling his pale green with a double impres change colour, while the high wife to remain behind while he sion. It is only one such sheet value 5 and 10 gulden pictorials summoned the fire brigade known to have escaped the press have been withdrawn. The sheet has been broken up into blocks, as the owner is unwilling
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Hans Anderson Series MURTHER details of the Hans Andersen Danish stamps are
to part with single stamps. The lucky person who can afford the £60 to aquire this block will cer-as follows:- tainly have a piece de resistance Value Colour. in his collection.
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New high value 3.50 sch. and 10 sch Austrian stamps are in pre- paration. One million copies have been printed of the "Chancellor Dollfuss" stamp in its new colour. *.
Some time this month the cen-) tenary of the 1835 Rio Grande do Sul revolution will be commemor- ated by a Brazilian stamp issue.
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and
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Design.
He
"Before he could get back, she had jumped too."
Filled With Smoke
Des Voeux Road, Central
ITALIAN VERMOUTH
BUT SEE IT IS
MARTINI
Sole Agents:
CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & CO., LTD.
Ice House Street
THE ASIA
Telephone 20075
ANNOUNCE
COY.
"The medical report bears, out "You only haff not tell what is THIS WEEK'S MONEY-SAVING SPECIALS your story," stated the magistrate ze trouble with my de-car fren”, yesterday, but that is no excuse Capitaine Dick?" he gently re- the expiration of your banishment for returning to the Colony before minded.
Taken
a long vorage of
(27th Sept. to 5th Oct.)
$0.43 per ti
70
per tin.
"Tee “H!!" size 1 lb.-
term You will be sentenced to unless I'm to be scappered which Champignons "Anchor" size large Miss Betty Samber, who lives what can be done for your heel ply came.
six months, and while in gaolI ain't, siree!" the bombastic re- in an adjoining shop, said: “I was will be done"
Carlos rose to escort his caller fawakened by shouts of Fire," and
out
"Rebecca he briskly
called
emotion as her vanity box could for his stengrapher, who appear ed registering as many shades of
found the house filled with smoke. I awoke my mother, and my five
aged six We hurriedly got down the stairs without waiting to ¡dress.
"BOX AND COX” IN Brothers and sisters, the youngest HOUSE WALL CUT
TIGER'S DEN
Too Many Cubs at Whipsnade
London.
"Mr. and Mrs. Walker were leaning out of the first floor win- dow shouting for help.
We shouted to them to wait for the
Whipsnade is now faced with firemen.
the problem of having too many "Mr. Walker then threw some tigers. Ranee, the tigress, ex clothing out of the window, and To provide funds for monuments pects her third litter of cubs at jumped to the ground. to O'Higgins (in Lima), Rodo (in the end of this month, and conse- "Although two policemen tried Montevideo)
Canning (inquently the three born last year to persuade Mrs. Walker to wait. Santiago), the Chilean Govern-will have to leave home to make she followed her husband, falling ment proposes to issue a long set room for the newcomers.
heavily. of stamps with O'Higgins' por trait in the following values and a "Box and Cox” arrangement with At present last year's cubs have quantities, viz:-
the parent animals. When the
10
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5 1,500,000 50 c 400,000 parents are in the pit the young 4,500,000 1 p 300.000 tigers are shut up in a sleeping- 1.20 p. 200,000 den, and when they want fresh
20 c. 4,500,000
25 c
30
40 °C.
100,000 5,000,000 100,000
2 p. 100,000 air the old animals go indoors.
50,000
No Model Father
15 p
10 p. 20,000
RAILWAYMAN'S RECORD
50 Years As Engine Driver
Oz
as an
But as Ranee's mate Tom-is One of three brothers who fol- not a model father, he cannot be lowed in their father's footsteps. We note a statement in Die trusted in the nursery, and he Mr. Robert Edward Abrahams, of Postmarke to the effect that a will soon have to take turns with Bury St. Edmund's, retired section has been established at his wife in the use of the pit. August 8 after 50 years the head post office in Prague where special commemorative can last year will have to be moved
This means that the cubs born engine-driver on the LNER cellations can be applied to postage elsewhere; they will either go to the first train that steamed into His grandfather was guard on stampe after the period of use of Regent's Park or have a special Bury St. Edmund's Station. such cancellations has elapsed enclosure made for them. The hope is expressed that this practice will be speedily discon-
Ranee's first cabs, born two years ago, were provided with a
EGGS ON SUNDAYS
THROUGH
Burglars Get Away With $400
afford "Take down this order.
Celery, Utah “S & W” size No. 2 Grapefruit Juice "S & W" size picnic Greengages, English "Beanlah” size No. India Relish "“Heinz" size 11. ozs.
Kipper Snacks "Charlack" size 3% oza please. He listed several cases Lime Juice Cordial Mountserrat size quart and bottles of mature and "green Oranges, Californian “Sunkist” size small wine "To be sent off to the Peaches, Y. C. “Sunkist size 2. Careena as backsheesh,” he in- Sardines in Off “Paramount" size 150 grms.
Strawberry Jam “C. & B" size 1 lb.
formed. London. His wits had been at work to Burglars cut through an 18 inch wards the best means of restor
50 per fin -18 per tin
28 per tin.
48 per bot
.10 per tin.
80 per bot.
.04 each
32 per tin
18 per tin.
32 per tin.
ALL GOODS RECENTLY ARRIVED STOCKS
AND GUARANTEED
CALL EARLY FOR A WIDE SELECTION Oi-Kwan Building, 63-65 Des Voeux Road, Central
wall and stole £400 from a shop ing former friendship. What was ALSO OTHER EQUALLY ATTRACTIVE PRICED VARIETIES in Upper Tooting-road. SW, re-weariness or illness but lack of cently.
sweetness, and why should not The shop was one of the branch he, Carlos, convey the crimson premises of S. Frost and Com-juice of an island symbol to a pany Ltd. provision merchants bereft man vis that man's rival? The thieves first broke into the Again he stared through open next door premises, which were lattice windows down upon the empty, and then with a hacksaw bay, where the Careena was al- and other tools cut a hole in the ready loading from dirty coal wall
lighters, looking, with rust, and blistered paintwork like a yellow fever ship upon which the bay's) occasional curse of black fish had fallen.
ACCUSED MAN REMANDED
Attempted Murder Charge
London
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Chief Engineer McGrainger had been far more at home on a rum-runner during the time of Prohibition than aboard his pre- sent sugar ship. For long he had Tevered on the thirsty natiize of
charged on remand at Lambeth
Joseph Henry Collins was his rightful domains for-, extza the cargo and the encroaching upon
Police Court recently with having]
stowage space. attempted to murder his wifely on the most noticeable wine- A foot of his had planted firm Frances Collins, aged 57, at case of three just boarded, pro berwell, and with having wound for straw-skepped house in New Church-road. Camminent nose crinkled in conter
tinned as it deprives these special most attractive home when they For every egg laid by her heas Czecho-Slovakian cancellations of left their mother, but they are on Sundays a Bedfordshire woman ed his daughter Ivy, aged 25, with What's all interest and value. No doubt now too large and powerful to be puts aside a penny for the Bed intent to do her grievous bodily
5 ore Green A Swan
safe companions for their younger fordshire and Hertfordshire harm.
7 ore Lilac Andersen's Portrait brothers and sisters.
10 ore Orange A Mermaid
lo ore Red As:7 ore.
20 ore Gruy-hs 7 ore
30 ore BineÅs 7 ore
The stamps will appe the end of this mon
New Elephant House
The new elephant house at Whipsnade, with its most, is prov-
ing a great attraction. As was
Church Schools Fund. She has Collins already sent £1 38. 58.
[evidence being
Appointments
expected, one early visitor recent Government
ly received a shower bath, but.
having had their little joke, the elephants than behaved in a
bad
Hency the Officer
SMART HATS.
FAL
NOW & GET A 2ND ANNIV
RY GIFT
FULL LINED FELTS. NOVELTY MIXTURES CURL BACK MERIMS LIGHT WE FELTS
Invited
China Empori