THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 9, 1940
THE HOPKINS MANUSCRIPT
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Cranley.
On the afternoon of New Year's Eve I helped to strap her luggage upon the back of Robin's old bicycle, for the own had broken with
chain of her
agc.
I walked with her to the crest
of the downs. I waved to her until she was out of sight upon the road to Mulcaster, and returned to my home alonc.
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the day when it's all over and I come home
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I spent hours in those winter even- ings writing long letters to Pat and Robin. I told them all
manner
of
little details; some so trivial that I felt almost silly to write them down, but I felt somehow that it would amuse and cheer them.
tricity supply was gone for lack of fuel and my radio died with it.
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During that winter
last the semblances of organised life passed into memory: the towns were back For a little while I sustained myself once more in the chaos that followed with one grim resolve. Fiercely the moon's fall. The Mulcaster elec- told myself that Pat and Robin would soon return: fiercely and desperately I worked to keep our little catate prosperous and worthy of their home-
I used to send Jim, a boy from the coming. I told myself that they might village who worked for me, to Mul- return quite unexpectedly-if only for caster now and then in the hope of a few days' leave--and I devoted my securing news. I sent him with a few whole life to that one abiding thought. eggs or vegetables in an
Twice I had letters from Pat, and to exchange them for candles and oll, once from Robin, Pat was working but usually he returned empty hand- in 2 big derelict factory, converteded with vague rumours that the army into a hospital, at Antwerp; and most of her companions were French and German girls.. 'We are terribly busy," she wrote, "and horribly short of the things we need. All the armies are moving castward now-away from the moon-and we hear the strangest
rumours.
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Robin sent me a brave, cheerful letter from 'somewhere in Austria.” It was written on a serap of tattered, dirty paper. "We are an awful look- ing crowd of rogamuffins
there's been some kind of alliance, because there are Germans and Spaniards and Frenchmen all fighting with us we had our first scrap yesterday... a crowd of black men came swarming out of a forest.
our guns are awful, but we put up a good show .I could do with a couple of good fresh Beadle eggs... I'm longing for
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WANTED: One or
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PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received instructions from Liquidators and others to sell by Public Auc-
tion on Friday, the 12th, January, 1910.
commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 35 Hankow Road, Kowloon. A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
comprising:--
Bedsteads, Divans, Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Chesterfield Suites. Side- boards, Dining Tables, Chairs. Cabinets, Desks, Bookcases, Tea-
Perambulators, poys,
Rattan Furniture, Wardrobe & Cabinet Trunks, Camphorwood Trunks, etc., etc.
Carpets, Rugs, Cutlery, Brass, E.P., Aluminium, Glass and Por- celain Ware, Curios, Clocks, Table Ornaments, Smoking Sets, Electric Table Lamps & Hea- ters, Gramophones, Pictures, Oil Paintings, Porcelain Sinks, Tea Sets, Crockery, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
also
A Few Pieces of Blackwood
Furniture and
1 Electric Refrigerator "Gib-
son"
1 Sextant
1 Pair Binoculars
1 Enlarger with Lense. “Zeiss
Ikon
:2 Cameras
1 Radio "Victor"
1 Radio "RCA”
1 Radio "Blue Spot"
On View from Thursday, the
11th. January, 1940.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 9th Jan., 1940,
LITTLE MAN, YOU'VE HAD A BUSY DAY!
"Encirclement" is still a 'magic word in Germany. It has become a movable menace, however,
The "Voolkischer Beobachter," official Nazi newspaper, publishes the headline: "England's Russia."
Encirclement
of
WEATHER REPORT
DOCTOR CHARGED
A 50-year-old medical doctor, Li 'Ki-fong, was brought before Mr. R. A. D. Forrest at the Central Ma- gistracy this morning charged with unlawful possession of poisons and possession of morphine Marsh Road yesterday..
at No.
1,
It was stated that nine different kinds of poisons were found in ac- cused's premises.
Mr. Alfred Y. Hon appeared for defendant, while Detective Inspector W. N. Darkins was present for the Police.
Defendant was remanded 48 hours for further enquiries, and was re-
The Royal Observatory reports that | lensed on bail of $500. the anticyclone over China has in- creased endeavour
considerably In Intensity; pressure is highest to the north of
of
Shantung.
The depression has deepened and was fighting "black men" and getting is now centred to the north of Hok- beaten every day. Government con- kaido. trol had gone with the collapse communications and the silencing of radio, but the "War Ministry" still scoured the country with lorries în a hunt for able-bodied men.
One day I sent Jim to Mulcaster and he did not return.
I do not know when the conviction first came to me that I must leave my home. It may have been upon that
bitter
January morning when I ploughed through the snow to find my dear old Broodie dead beneath her perch. The passing of Broodle seemed to break my last link with Beadle, for day by day I grew more certain that my sanity depended upon escape from this overwhelming solitude.
The idea came to me quite suddenly, and I wondered why I had never thought of it before.
I would go to London!--to Notting Hill to the house of Uncle Henry and Aunt Rose! There were certain to be some people in that great city: there would be news: possibly some semb- lance of organised society.
It was no use trying to send a letter in advance, and our solitary train had long ceased running. I would have to walk, but I would do so leisurely, tak- ing ten days to cover the seventy miles. I fixed upon the first of June, when the days were long and the nights were 'warm.
On my last night I wrote a long letter addressed "To Pat or Robin" telling them where I had gone, giving them my address in London and ask- ing them to come to me upon their return. "Then we shall all come back together," I ended, "and Beadle Valley will be like it was before you went away." I pinned the letter on the library table, drew the shutters over the windows and groped up the dark stairs to sleep the last night in my home.
TO-MORROW :
"Chaos
The End"
You no longer are... of the younger -generation if you think.... occasional night of - dancing.
dawn
an
until
Mrs, C. Russ, of No. 9 Kimberley Road, reported the loss of a wrist watch valued at $50, between the Gloucester Hotel and her residence on the night of December 31.
NEW
TROOP TRAINS
COLLIDE
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Paris, To-day. Two trains bringing back soldiers on leave collided yesterday. Seven were killed and 18 injured.--Havas.
Reuter adds that the accident oc- curred near Orly on Saturday.
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