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THE CHINA MAY; TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1936
George O'Brien, the screen's most daring adventurer, is in "Whispering
Smith Speaks.
which will be shown at Alhambra Theatre soon.
the
GERMAN RULE IN
THE SAAR
(Continued from Page 6.1
The following is a compara- tive list of prices supplied me by housewife in Saarbrucken.
3
Warning To Drivers
CANADIAN PACIFIC
`(Continued from Page. 7),
lorry panted up a steep incline, wavered at the top as Okey chang- The voice spoke again. It wased up, and then began to run down woRLD'S a pleasant voice, and in spite of the long slope which fed into the GREATEST the fact that the owner of it had town of Wellington whose lights TRAVEL to shout to make himself heard above the wind and the clatterias could be seen two miles away in
the distance. of the lorry, it was reassuring.
SYSTEM
EMPRESS OF CANADA
SAILS FOR
VANCOUVER VIA SHANGĦAL, JAPAN & HONOLULU, AT NOON FRIDAY, APRIL 3RD.
May May 31
Yoko
"Sorry I jumped up without. The hill was a dangerous one, asking. it went on, "but I don't having a steep slope and a sharp think you saw me, and I didn't bend half-way down. As the lorry want to let you go by without ask-gathered speed. Okey slipped it out of gear, and the shattering ing."
anvibration of the engine died away This was not the voice of escaped convict, not at any rate to give place to the rattling and
fan. as allowed for in Okey's scheme banging of the chassis and body-
Hong Shang Vara habe
DUTM Honolulu turiw- saki Kong hai of things He glanced at his paswork.
The wind, came at them with senger as a car approached with
Laure Arrive Leate Leave Leave Leave Arrive bright headlights, and what he renewed force, driving short bursts
* of rain through the chinks in the Canada Apr. 3 Apr.
Apr. 8 Apr, 10 Apr. 17 Apr. 22
May saw reassured him further.
The man at his side wore a big framework of the cab, and buffet/Russia Ap: 17 Apr. 19 Apr. 21 Ap. 25 Apt. 25
E/Japan May 1 May 18
May May 8 May 14 May 19 the ing the whole affair as though it E/Asia
June May 13 May 17 May 19 May 21 May 23 prosperous-looking overcoat,
ap. would sweep it into the ditch at ErCanad
June 3 June, 3 June 12 June 17 collar of which was turned
E/Russia June 12 June 14 June 16 June 18
June 18 June 20
June 19 abost meeting the turned-down the side.
Jane 26 June 28 £/Japan
3 July July 14 2013 2 Jaly From the spaca brim of his hat.
July 10 July 12. July 14 July, 16 July 18 E/Asia
July 29 July 31 Aug. between two eyes and a mouth re-ners swept at them and the driver Canada July 24 July 26 tarned Okey's gaze with a quiz-wrenched sharply at the steering E/Russia Aug 7 Aug. 9 g. 11 Aug. 13 Aug. 18
wheel. With a screech of tyres E/Japan Aug. 21 Aug, 2
Aug. 28 Aug. 25 Sept zical smile.
But the driver was a cautious the lorry veered over, and skidded.
To San Francisco, Los Angeles man. A hundred yards farther on bumping into the nearside kerb
Panama - Havana New York Southampton a cluster of lights from a petrol and scraping sideways on all four Then it righted itself to: station decorated the roadside, and wheels.
down the
EMPRESS OF BRITAIN as they drew nearer the lorry slow-gather further speed jed down in answer to Okey's brak-straight. ing. But before they had reached them, the passenger's voice spoke ara again, and this time it was pitched in a different key.
"What are you stopping for?" Okey did not reply, his powers
Her husband is a mechanic at of invention not being equal to the one of the Saar mines, and a occasion. But the pressure of his member of the Nazi party:
foot upon the brake increased.
"Keep going." snapped the pas Aug. 1934 Aug, 1935
(franes) (marks) Increase isenger, and this time his voice was "Keep 3011
and peremptory. 18 pic harsh 14 F..going. my friend, or by G!”
200
טה,
.75
Okey brought his foot of
the
The first of a series of wide cor-
The passenger shook the driver's)
"Slower, you fool!" he shouted angrily.
"Right-o, guv'ner!"
Okey put his foot to the brake. but nothing happened.
"Slow her up, I tell you!" shout- led the other again.
Okey turned a triumphant face in which the eyes shone like &
He gesticulated with! fanatic's. ane hand at the doorboards.
"Can't!" he yelled back. "Brake's
23 brake with alacrity as he felt a gone!"
pc
20 p.c.sharp prick in his ribs. He turn-
The other sat forwards sudden-
50 p.c.jed a seared face sideways and sawly and made a grab at the wheel..
"Fool! Idiot! Didn't I say slow
down? Why didn't you do as I
The two eyes beneath the hat said?”* The German prices are estimated
The only result of his efforts at 6 francs to the mark better than were ablaze like those of a wild
animal and the smile had gone. was to make the lorry swerve still the current rate of exchange. Wages have remained un-Okey Budge's poor wits dissolved more wildly across the road, miss- changed. The miner who re in a walter of fright. He licked ing a car that was climbing to- ceived 600 francs a month under his dried lips and muttered shaki-wards them by a matter of inches. the French administration now,
The road was now leaping to-
Bread
Pork
Meat-beef 8.40
4.80
.17 1.60 1.00.
25
CHICHIBU MARU
Wednesday, 1st Apr.
Suga:
210
80 C.
TATSUTA MARU
Wednesday, 22nd Apr.
ASAMA" MARU
Wednesday, 6th May
SEATTLE & VANCOUVER
HIYE MARU (Starts from Kobe)
HEIAN MARU (Starts from Kobe). Saturday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP & ROTTERDAM.
FUSHIMI MARU
Monday, 6th Apr.
25th Apr.
Exxx Eutter Lard Potatoes Onions
45 each
.12
8.001b
1.60
1.50
.50
.09
.78
¡Cabbage
8p the glint of a knife in the other's
phand 20 60. p.c
Saturday,
HAKOZAKI MARU
TERUKUNI MARU
Saturday, Friday,
28th Mar. 11th Apr. 24th Apr.
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BOKUYO MARU
Thursday.
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9th Apr.
24th Mar. 17th Apr.
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Thursday.
9th Apr.
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ceeding in a series of great bounds, Bout each one covering more ground
gets 100 marks a month and has "OK, mister. No 'arm meant." wards them at a terrifying speed, to pay the compulsory Nazi "How far are you going?" rap-and it seemed as if they were pro- levies which he did not pay be-ped out the other. fore. These are now, I have "Welington, guvner. been informed, about 20 per five miles on."
"How much petrol have cent. of his wages, and are in- creasing steadily. Rents have gott
three "Somewhere about also gone up, and the rates for light and gas are 25 per cent. higher than under the French administration.
Unemployment
Although building trades in!
than the last. Then with a sud- you dea screach of metal, the bonnet top broke loose and flapped riot- gal-ously for a moment before com
ing adrift and clattering off into loza."
"Drive on, and keep going until the darkness your petrol runs out."
"But"
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The wet road gleamed in front
AJAX
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"Jump when I tell yer!" shriek-
vards
DIOMED
Okey Budge leant across to his passenger and shouted in his ear: "Do as I say, 'you hear? I "We shan't get round this next. want to go to the other side of bend," he screamed. "I'm going the Saar are good. unemploy Stamford if this antiquated coster jump. You'd better da whe ment is still a grave problem.rption of yours will get us as same!" There were 32,646 registered unemployed at the end of Defar as that." cember, an increase of 25.2 per Dumbly the little man acquiese-of them, stretching down
On the ed, but the seeds of revolt began sharp corner cent. over November. basis of total population of the to take root in his heart. He took ahead. Saar, there are 40.3 unemploy-a humble pride in his lorry, and
to hear it disparaged brought re-ed Badge to his now terrised pas led to every 1,000 persons.
The latter nodded, He pressed the acce-senger. The iron and steel trades, sentiment.
lerator and the framework under face working with fright. provide German which now
ACTORE them Jurched forward again, lorry danced madly armament industries with raw
force that road from side to side and, as it materials, have, of couse, shown vibrating with
But threatened to shear off every bolt approached the grass bank at the marked improvements. coal mining, which is the Saar's in the chassis, and to rattle every near side, Okey Badge gave the
tooth out of the heads of its two word. chief industry, suffered
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serious slump when the Saar occupants.
"Hell!" shouted the passenger. In the same instant the lorry returned to Germany. loss of the French markets hasWhat sort of a secondhand iron- swerved back again into the mid-
store d'you call this?"
dle of the road, and as the driver! the been a serious blow to
Okey preserved a grim silence looked back through the window miners.
Italy is now Germany's best He clenched his teeth and matter in the back of the cab he customer for coal. Exports fored to himself as he glared at the his late passenger rolling help Thurs., 23rd Apr. the past six months have been road ahead. Trees, hedges, tele-lessly down the slope in a confused graph poles loomed up and drop moddle of arms and legs. But 24th Apr. as follow:
iped behind, and the lorry roared Okey did not jump. Instead, he June
and backed its way along in a coared the obedient lorry to pandemonium of noise that drown-standstill lower down, and backed. ed even the roaring of the wind. into a convenient gateway. Any- In seemed as if at any moment one but a stranger would have re- the whole machine might sucenzjalised that Okey Budge, simple Iron exports have also into the force which hammered be though he may be, was not so sim- creased, as these comparative neath the bonnet, and disintegrate ple as to lose entire control of his
into a thousand small pieces over faithful old lorry. figures will show:
Bat Twenty minutes later 1934. 1935 the surface of the road. August
..155.137 168,864 everything held together, and the tonkhed police sergeant et
Wellington Folice Station was con- Te September 167,474 184,045
fronted by in shy, wizened little October, 158,551 178,675 November 148.272 169,342 National Socialists and loyal to man, who seemed to have difficulty the Hitler regime. But amongin explaining what he wanted At State Subsidies
the Saar population there is last the sergeant was persuaded to go out into the street where an The manufacturing indus-grumbling and discontent.
The position of the Jews in antionated motor vehicle waited tries, such as glass and house- hold goods, have been existing the Saar is daily becoming more by the kerb: almost entirely on Government desperate. Under the terms of "There els, mister muttered subsidies. Since March 1, when the Saarland Commission, the the little min, pointing to a bundle the Saar was formally incor Aryan paragraphs and the new of sacking on the floor of the cab, convulsive was making porated with the German Reich, Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws which the Reich Government has been cannot be applied until after movements and groaning between CHANGTE providing 40,000,000 marks a March 1, but the Nazis are act- frantic oaths. month in subsidies, Wages are ing in anticipation. still very low in the Saar A
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Aufi-Jewish Drive Herr Bueck is a close friend notorious Franconian leader.
TAIPING "That show m. Secondhand CHANGTE ¡iren store!"
The little man-ruuted to him-
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and Earon von Stumm. another large coalowner, are all ardent
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key he went his quiet way to zlost Jover his glass of beer.
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