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MUTT AND JEFF
EVER SINCE JEFF GOT BEANED WITH THAT BALL HE'S ACTING QUEER? MUTTS' GET OUT THERE ON THIRD
AND COACH HIM!,
YOU LITTLE, FOOL, THAT WAS A HOME RUN YOU HIT! YOU SHOULD.
HAVE RUN HOME!
HUH?
NOW DO LIKE I TELL YOU! TAKE A LITTLE
·LEAD-THERE GOES THE BALL!
IT'S A HIT! RUN! RUN HOME YOU SAP! RUN HOME!
[TESTING 1984, 59 31 4. Thales)
EXIT.
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 23, 1938
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EWO
THE DAILY SHORT STORY
THE FATAL MISTAKE.
Men gain notoriety
for
words
curious She couldn't listen to those things. With Police Inspector Isaac again. Yet she was compelled to. Ranny it was an expression. "The "No one need know why I am doing point is just here," he would prefix a this. Suffice it to say I will be hap- sentence, and what followed would pier dead than alive. . . My body will usually be so astounding in its re- be found on the ground below the velation that people of criminal pro- north window of my studio pensities came to dread the sound of storics.
those words. To the underworld In-
four
She had spector Ranny became known by that. It sounded like Albert.
made it sound like Albert. She had phrase. It marked him.
thought herself very clever.
The man whom. Inspector Ranny had
Livia Bergen knew this. The pa- pers had made quite a human interest story out of the idea, and she remem- sent out came back and whispered bered reading it. She stood with her something in his chief's ear.
back to the wall, flattened out against
"Fifty thousand dollars!" she heard
it, which pose was, actually, for sup- Ranny ejaculate. "Insurance?” port rather than for the dramatic
Livia pressed even closer to the wall. possibilities one might have expected The fools! That wasn't it. That her to be suggesting. For Livia was wasn't the reason she had killed him. an actress.
She had plenty of money. Earl had
This proved what fools they "The point is just here" Inspec- more. . . . tor Ranny had begun, and stopped were. It proved she was right. She abruptly, darting a quick, curious look had been able to outsmart them. She the More clever than in her direction. In this moment her was clever. histrionic accomplishments proved police. . . . Yet, if they proved she had valuable, for she conjured a faint, sad killed him, what difference did the mo- How could they prove smile. She wondered if her, face was tive make?
man.
By Carlton James.
·
as white as she felt it must be. She it? It was silly, this sense of dread and wondered if the barely perceptible horror that that stupid phrase had trembling of her hands had been dis- conjured. What could he know? She The cerned by the mild-mannered police had thought of everything
note had been typed on Albert's. ma- chine. How could they guess the man- Dwarfing all this was the sound of her she had lured him to the window those hated words. It was like a and then fallen against him? death knell. She tried to remember The fools! They must know she had whether the newspapers had said the not the strength to lift a big man man only employed the phrase when like Albert
he was absolutely positive of the facts. A sort of summing up. She was afraid the newspapers had said And that meant he knew she killed her husband.
to carry him all the way across the room..
it. Inspector Ranny cleared his throat had again. She seemed to stop breathing. There was no longer a trembling in her limbs. There was no movement or Inspector Ranny turned his eyes sign of life about her at all. Life had away from her and said something to flowed out of her, leaving only the one of the men who had come in with shell that was her body leaning there him. The man nodded and went out. against the wall. She-her being, her Then Ranny walked over to the win- personality was something detached, dow, opened it, and looked down. A waiting with a curious sort of amuse sort of horrible cold Wave passed ment for Inspector Ranny to begin his through her body. She could see even sentence. more plainly than he the sight that greeted his eyes: The hideously crum- pled and broken form of Albert lying in a heap four stories below.
.
her.
Now he was ready. He was coming across the room toward her, looking very sober, but harmless, almost apolo- getic. That was what warned Ranny turned away from the win- Men didn't look apologetic unless they dow. Deliberately he crossed to the had a painful, duty to perform. desk in the centre of the room. It was a paper-littered desk, containing
She knew ages and ages before he
a typówriter. It was the desk where started to speak that whatever he said Albert had sat and written his plays. had come to distinguish him
would be prefixed by the phrase that
He had sat there and created the play
among
that had borne her to stardom. Star- other men of his calling. dom and the meeting with dashing
"The point is just here, Mrs. Ber young Earl Ystas, her leading man- gen, you told us nothing in the room her, lover.
had been disturbed. If your husband. Inspector Ranny picked up the sheet had committed suicide he couldn't have returned, after killing himself, to close of paper that a moment before he the window through which he had had placed on the corner of the desk, and spread it out in his hands. He jumped, now could Inspector Ranny reached out to catch the slowly crum- cleared his throat. She wanted to.
BEER S
scream at him. She wanted to snatch bling form.
the paper out of his, hands and filing (Copyright, 1988, By The Agroclat- the pieces hysterically into his face. ed Newspapers.)
THI No P LIKE
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 23, 1938
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GERMANY SOUNDS WARNING Non-Intervention Accord Well Received, But
Diplomacy And Political
Realities
Berlin, To-day.
The accord reached by the Non-Intervention Com- mittee has been well received in Germany al- though a note of warning against premature
er,
MR. CLYNES-
RETIRES
London, To-day.
Mr. J. R. Clynes, Labour lead- was presented with an Ad- dress by his colleagues, to-day when he relinguished the Presi- dency of the General and Munici- pal Worker's Union:-Reuter.
optimism with regard to the immediate future ITALY, FRANCE
is sounded in the German newspapers. The diplomatic tussle to dispose of the Spanish pro- blem, says the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt," has undoubtedly made considerable headway. Moscow has been compelled under the combia- ed pressure of Germany, Britain, Italy and France.
ANGLO-GERMAN TRADE TALKS RESUMED
London, To-day. The exchange of views between Dr. Wiehl, leader of the German delegation to the Anglo-German trade negotiations in London, and Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Economic Adviser to the British Government was resumed yesterday afternoon.
AND BRITAIN
London, To-day.
FLOODS HOLD
UP OPERATIONS
Shanghai, To-day.
Apart from reports reaching here of a further advance by the Japanese in the Yangtse region, everything goes to indicate that the flood disaster is continuing to hold up the military operations in China..
According to Japanese accounts, the column of Japanese troops which had been advancing south- wards from Luchow in the Anhwei province have effected the juncture 35 kilometres north of Anking with the column that had been advanc- ing northwards from Anking. In the Commons at question- Other Japanese detachments which was Had pressed forward from Tsien- asked by Mr. Arthur Henderson, shan along the same road are re- (Labour) what representations ported to be engaging Chinese It deserves to be noted, however, had been received from the Ita-forces in the mountainous region that there still remains the old dis-lian Government that the coming west of Tsienshan. An attempt of crepancy between word diplomacy into effect of the Rome Agree-the Japanese to take the town of and make-believe at the conference ment be expedited.
Taihu seems to have been frus-
time, the Prime Minister
the
in
table and that of political realities. Mr. Chamberlain replied: "In the trated, by the Chinese defenders..
asked
views whether The question is
There is no confirmation here of course of an exchange of France and the Soviet are really which, from time to time, have taken reports about landing Japanese
the prepared for the sake of peace with place between two govern-forces in the neighbourhood of
whichments, measures Italy to rescind
Government Swatow. Italian have served during the last few have made plain their desire, A spokesman of Japanese marine months to prolong Spain's cruel which the British Government fully authorities here has declared that the agreement all reports to that effect are incor- agony.
participate, that should be brought into force rect.-Trans-Ocean. at the earliest possible moment con- sistent with the fulfilment of pre- requisite conditions."
As regards France, this comment gome- goes on to say, one can be
what more hopeful in this respect now that the Popular Front policy
has broken down.
"In Mr. Henderson, then asked:
Italian view of the fact that the Government have suspended nego
Govern- tiations with the French ment, will the Prime Minister give an assurance that. the Italian Gov- ernment will not be permitted to drive a wedge between this country a judgment and France."
RESERVED ATTITUDE It is understood that the present talks are mainly concerned with
Likewise the "Deutsche Politische the drawing up of a programme for the negotiations proper which will Korrespondent," expresses the view that there is ample reason for ad- follow in due course.
A further meeting between Dr. opting a reserved attitude when it Wiehl and Sir Frederick Leith-comes to pronouncing Ross has been fixed for this fore-on the present prospects. It alleged
noon.
numerous instances of violation of non-intervention committed on the Spanish Republican frontier hopes they will not be repeated.
and
The Premier said: "I have no reason to suppose the Italian Gov- ernment wish to drive a wedge be- tween us and the French."-British Wireless.
a
NEW FRANCO OFFENSIVE
Saragossa, To-day, General Franco's forces launched new offensive on the entire The main
Terual front yesterday.
thrust was carried out with great vigour and made on the road from Terual to Sagunto in southern dir- ection.
Other strong detachments are smashing their way eastwards from Teruel. Strongly fortified Republican defences have been By
several points. Neither must it be forgotten, de BRITAIN'S ARMS peterday at noonal
The prospect of reaching an accord-on the main points at issue are regarded by competent British circles to be much more favourable than they were a few days ago. It clares "Korrespondenz," that there is hinted that the British delega-is still a lively shipping going on tion which visited Berlin probably
in Spanish coastal failed at the time to appreciate the German standpoint and had drawn are no less suitable for transport of war material than land communi- too hasty conclusions.
cations. Ocean.
Trans-
FLOATING DOCK REACHES THE FAR EAST
Following a
Moscow, To-day.' voyage of 11,000
waters which
TRUCE RUMOUR
CREDIT TO TURKEY
London, To-day.
"the Insurgent troops had advanced nearly four miles. A later report received at half past three in the afternoon says that the Insurgents were 20 miles south of Teruel and six miles south of Puebla de Valverde.
.'
The important town of Sarrion Replying to a question in the has been completely encircled by House of Commons yesterday, the the Insurgents. General Franco's Chamberlain, forces have also resumed their ad-
This semi-official German ' com- mentary points out that rumours Prime Minister, Mr. about a truce in Spain can at the said that in concluding the arma-vance on the coastal sector and are present moment serve only to revivements credit agreement with Tur-reported to have captured several the broken powers of resistance of key, the British Government had not heights south of the Mijares River. asked for guarantees that the arms Republican Spain.-Trans-Ocean.
to be delivered by England to Tur- key would not one day be used against England itself.
miles through ten seas a floating LOSS OF GERMAN
dock intended for the Soviet Pacific Kamchatka 'fleet and destined for
Peninsula has arrived at its destina- tion according to reports received here yesterday.
The Soviet press has followed the progress of the dock for the past several months and emphasises its importance to the naval armaments in the Far East.-Trans-Ocean.
CITIZENSHIP
Berlin, To-day,
Another long list of persons, 74
England would not have extended a credit of this sort to Turkey had it not been able to repose full con- fidence in the friendly ties existing between Turkey and England. Trans-Ocean.
*
altogether, who have been deprived DIPLOMATIC CALL
of German citizenship, is published in the "Deutsche Reichsanzeiger."
The list includes Gottfried Tre- viranus and his family. Treviranus was a politician who played a pro-
ON PREMIER
room
-Trans-Ocean.
NO NEW FLOTILLA THIS YEAR
London, To-day. After further consideration of [the adequacy of the destroyer strength of the Navy, and of the new construction programme, the Government have decided not to include a flotilla of destroyers in the current year's programme. This information was given to the Com- mons by the Parliamentary Secre- tary to the Admiralty at question- time. British Wireless...
London, To-day. Mrs. R. J. Stevens was this morn-minent part in the Bruening Gov- Yesterday afternoon in-his: ing fined $15, through a representa- ernment and left the country upon at the House of Commons, the Prime
A forty-four-year-old widow, Wong received Mr. Norman Yee, was this morning, charged before tive, by Mr. K. M. A. Barnett at National Socialism coming to power. Minister the Kowloon Magistracy, when The name of the film comedian, Davies, the American Ambassador Mr. W. J. Lockhart Smith, at the Cen- -summoned for allowing her dog to Otto Wallburg, whose real name is at Large, and the German Ambas-tral Magistracy, for the possession of wander in Argyle Street without a Otto Wasserzug, also appears in the sador in London, Dr. Dirksen.
list. Trans-Ocean.:
British Wireless.. muzzle.
0,492-heroin pills and öight taels of raw oplum, at 190 Queen's Road West. The case was remanded for 24 hours.