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Terrible Ordeal Described
LOST IN THE DESERT
"Ordeal by Hanger.”
By George
* R. Stewart, With an intro- duction by Eric Linklater. (Cape. 12s. 6d.)
SHUDDERS AND SHOCKS
Everything In This Thriller
NO TIME FOR DAMPING QUESTIONS
Yellow Jacket By Edmund
Saell. (Skeffington, 78. &d.)
The first murder in "Tellow Jacket occurs at 2 BEANCE in
It would be easy to give a false America, where the familar “Chin-| impression of this book. Its title exe" Pennington (the inscrutable is grim. But it does not prepare detective with the home-made the reader for the awfulness of cigarettes) and his "feed," the FOR 3 PEG RAZORS the ordeal to which the person-narrator. find themselves - up ages of the story were subjected. against "something big-some- writes H. E. Wortham in the thing new-something incredibly |Daily Telegraph...
horrible." And no wonder, for These 50-old emigrants, who there also reappears the arch- tried to follow a new trail to Cali-jenemy Chanda Lung, whom rex- fornia without map, and with the ders of Mr. Snell's earlier books slenderest indications of their bad innocently left for dead. route, paid a cruel penalty. Death Back in England events move came to 42 of the S9 who formed quickly if inconsequently. Chanda the original party; death by grad-Lung shows consideration and a ual starvation to men and women sense of the dramatic by seriding already worn out with fatigue. To warning cards to his victims, but add to the poignancy of this odys-jit doesn't make much difference. sey, which has become a classic among the tales of the pioneers who opened up the Far West, lit- A famous engineer is killed and İtle children shared its terrors.
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On A New Trail
Everything Happens
46
This lonely cow sought refuge on the porch of this ranch from the spreading waters of the flooded Brasos River at Waco, Texas, where thousands, were made homelem and plantations were setšonsly damaged last mouth. The floodwäters reached the unprecedented wark of 41 feet.
DRIVING BAN IMPOSED
Man Barred For Three Years
MOTORIST ACQUITTED OF
MANSLAUGHTER ·
On the direction of Mr. Justice Greaves-Lord, at the Old Bailey last month, a motorist was found not guilty of manslaughter. After [his acquittal he was
for dangerous driving, and qualised for three years.
fixed
£30 dis-
The man, Robert Michael Wemyss |Arbuthnot, aged 22, motor dealer, of Lancastermews, W. pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter of Miss Violet Maud Robson, of Lan- caster-gate, W.
It was stated that Miss Robson was one of two girls in the front seat of a car with Arbuthnot when he drove four people hack from a night club in the early hours of |July 7. While turning from Ches- ter-place. W into Sussex-place
ADVENTURE IN | HE WENT TO THE the car struck a kerb and a board-
ALGERIA'
With The Foreign Legion
WIDE VARIETY OF ANECDOTES shrivelled under Pennington's pro-Adventure in Algeria By Brian (Herbert Jenkins, 10s.
6d.)
CROSS-
DOG TRACK
Then Tried To Cheat The Tote
fell ing, and the young woman dou ал excavation, receiving fatal injuries.
*Arbuthnot has stated," said Sir Henry. Curtis-Bennett, C defending that another he was blinded by the headlights of an other car the back of his car or the pavement and a tyre burst. Owen Max Kreft, of Battersea He wrenched the car off the pare- Park-road, Battersea, whe
hasment, and knocked down a lamp- been living for some
years by post and struck aboarding.***
ALLEGED FRAUD. CHARGE
the
ROMANCE AND
·HUMOUR ·
Another "Quinneys” Story
["Joe Quimey's Jodle." By Horace Ward Annerley Vachell.
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Mr. Quinney take the stage once.
Yet I think that Mr. George Ste-tection; firm houses disintegrate Stuart wart can rightly claim that he has upon their occupants; but even retold this story with all its ghou-the blowing up of the yacht with lish details of cannibalism in a all hands is overshadowed by the The best part of this book is the "doing a bit of boxing." went to spirit of literary integrity: He has unforgettable tragedy of the Re-description of the author's term the greyhound races at Wimbledon. He handed in to the Tote a been at scholarly pains to draw union Dinner. That, surely, should of service in the French Foreiga upon all the original sources. And have been carnage enough, bat Legion. This is remarkable for "forecast-pool" ticket for the se- if he extenuates nothing of theno: there are reports of black the matter-of-fact, unromantic cond race three races after horrors of which he tells his magic in Majures to be exploded, style in which it is written. Mr. race had been run. pages are marked by a restraint and in France, immediately after-Stuart scouts the notion that most The clerk thought that the ticket: which makes his final summary all wards, a nursery of deepsea mon- of the legionnaires are fugitives had been tampered with and paid the more impressive.
sters display its revolting possibi-|from justice. If they were they Kreft with three marked £1 notes ilities.
would have little chance of enrol-and. 48. Sd, in cash. "Yellow Jacket,” as you may ment; for the recruit must under-
*Went 50-5** The story of the Donner Party gather, is a high-speed thriller. 180 a series of searching
This was said at Wimbledon last began on the borders of Utah The fever-heat is unrelieved examinations on his past
month when Kraft, who is 22 These emigrants many of them throughout. So intent, in fact, is The tales of barbarism and was charged on remand with steal- of wealth and substance-started Mr. Sneil or avoiding boredom at cruelty on the part of non-com-ing by a trick £3 4s. 3d. from again, but this time shares the their trek from Springfield, Illin-one extreme that he steers too missioned officers are also fiatly Electric Totalisator. Ltd., Wim-honours. It is the same Joe Quin- ois. Until they reached the Con-close monotony at the other; but contradicted: Until a few years bledor Stadium.
ney, that familiar figure in-fiction. tinental Divide their intention was at least he leaves the reader noago many of the corporals and ser- Kreft said that be and a man with the same rough tongue, ready
the usual California time to ask damping questions. '.
geants were Germans, who had whom he usually met at
answer and soft heart. Time has trail through Idaho along the Ore-
soldiering in their blood and were Stadium went 50-50 in the fore- perhaps mellowed him a little, but gon River. But as they were lab-
unable-while the Treaty of Ver-cast pool. He get the ticket from he still knows how to get the best ouring up the Pass which is the
The only person watershed between the Atlantic land of eternal summer which had sailles was still observed to en- this man and they shared the win-of a bargain.
These ning.
who meets him on his own ground and Pacific, a horseman met the lured them from the nearer Mid-list in their own country.
If he had known it was a forged his grand-daughter Jodie. caravan bearing a message from a die West, took on another tone were excellent men to serve under.
ticket he could have walked out of
Together they search for anti- certain Eastinga.
They found themselves in a water, says the author..
the Stadium after getting the Mr. Stuart lost his money as a This young and adventurous fig-less desert Their cattle began to
With ure who had explored the Sierra suffer. Men of the plains, they result of the Wall Street "Crash" money, but he waited and had aques, scenting treasures in auction
were faced with mountain ranges of 1929. For two months be was
winning bet on the last race be-sales in old manor houses.
beginner's luck, plus Joe's teach- told them of a new and shorter
whose very
existence they had almost penniless in London, Then fore he was arrested.
ing. Jodie makes good. route to the coast. He promised
He was remanded. hardly suspected. They had to the generosity of a C.LD. man and to meet those who wished to take it. While the majority of the cara-make a road up and down passes an unexpectedly returned loan of
for their.wagons.
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As Good As A Doctor
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be
for less beaten track, a few
persuaded to follow his advice
And all the while they were los- Thus on July 20, 1846, 20 wagons of the emigrant train left the main ing in the inexorable game with
He passed the interviews easily body-which got through safely-time. Disease, bad water (or enough, but his short sight would were have disqualified him, but for : a and started on the new trail. Sixty-nobe), the Indians these
Children often manifest symptoms two-years-old George Donner was enemies that might be overcome. small tip to the orderly who mon-
of kickness at awkward times. Your elected as its captain, and so gave But if the winter snows trapped thed the test letters behind the
child awakens in the night in a state feverishness, or crying with colie, his name-zow enshrined in the them before they reached their doctor's back..
stomach-ache, bowel trouble, nomenclature of United States goal, the penalty was starvation.
Mr. Stuart saw service in Afri-i To quote Mr. Stewart:
teething pains. It is too late to get topography in Donner Lake - to
During the last two days, as they ca, and was offered a commission.
The publication of the seconda doctor and you spend hours of the company which was to meet
marched, half-mad with hunger, what Then someone broke his glasses "Century of Humour is a happy worry will morning nature in her grimmest mood.
strange thoughts had grown in their He had to go to the doctor for addition to a series whose reputa-ready at hand the child's sumering With a vix of Baby's Own Tablets minds?
Man might eat beef-
tion is such that one looks forward and your anxiety exa tasally good!. Man might eat borze, too, as new pair, and this new doctor
Pleasant tasting Mr. Stewart gives a vivid pic-the need came, and mule. He might swathed in red tape-ejected Limito a fresh arrival. This new vol-(quickly overcome.
ume of humour is a worthy rival and easily administered because chil- ture of the caravan. Patriarchalet bear and dog, and even coyote from the Legion.
and owl. He might also and the re- George Donner had taken the road lentless logic drove on--yes, Still hungry for adventure. Mr. to the first, and has the added at dren like them, and guaranteed ab solutely pure and harmless, you can with 12 yoke of oxen, five saddle might also eat man.
Stuart undertook to walk across traction of illustrations by Fou-give Baby's Own Tablets with the even. the horses, milch cows and beef cat- From further quotations, as the the Sahara. He paid his way by gasse. It is to be hoped that autmost confidence
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due youngest and most delicate infant in tle. His three wagons "overflow-ordeal by hinger grows ever grim- dowsing for water with a ed with the horns of plenty." He mer, I refrain. Yet in extennat-of copper wire. One of the offer-course.
Many of the stories have the Mildly, laxative, their first action carried $10,000 in cash. And on ing nothing Mr. Stewart succeeds ed forms of payment was a wife.
charm of old friends. "The Pot in to tly ease and clear the little the prairie the Donner family, as in making the cannibalism, which
one's digestive tract. At the same. One is introduced to some amus-well Inn," by H. C. Wells; "The time they sweeten the stomach, ac- one or two of the others, were in the popalay mind of America waited upon by their own servants became the chief fact of the Don-ing characters, particularly Abby. Grey Parrot" by W. W. Jacobs; celerate digestion, silay feverishness and enjoyed such, delicacies as ner party's disastrous trek, almost the guide, who could, like a con-and The Rabbits,” by A. A. and teething pains, esse
theja minor episode in a story of the juror, produce almost anything Milne, are extracts from books cold, induce calm, health-giving sleep THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION fresh butter churned in
wagon-and old brandy.
will to live. Here we read of from the voluminous folds of his which have long been firm fav- in a perfectly natural way. Chemists But they had not gone far on men, women and children put to burnous. Like his guide. Mr.curites, and the admirers of P. G. everywhere sell the new trail before what had the final strain of body and spirit, Stuart produces a surprising var-Wodehouse and Denis Mackail hitherto been a pleasure trip, anjand showing constancy, strengthiety of interesting, extraordinary will and contributions which will
and amusing anecdotes.
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