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ADVENTURES OF THE TWINS.
BUDDY BLUR BOTTLE READS.
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The next person to read for the visitors in the Meadow Grove School was Buddie Blue Bottle.
MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1921.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
COMMERCIAL NEWS.
Now, being a little short of readers, Mr. Scribble Scratch, the fairy schoolmaster, couldn't find enough small ones to go around, so Buddy had to take a large one. But he couldn't hold it at all, not even when he used all six of his hands, or feet, or whatever it is that a fly holds things with.
THE HONG MOH WRECK.
Crew Arrives in Hongkong. On Saturday there arrived by the ss. Hydranges the Chief Officer, Second Engineer and the Chief Engineer of the ill-fated Hong Mob, from 'Swatow. The Second and third Engineers and the doctor of the vessel came here on Sunday by another boat.
In a conversation with the officers We learned that the Hong Moh left Hang- kong on the 2nd instant, at 5 o'clock in the evening, and arrived off Swatow at about 11 a.th. the next day. She could not get into Swatow as there was not enough water to go over the bar. The Hong Mob waited till 4.30 p.m. that day and as there was still no water she left for Amoy. It was on the passage to Amoy that the ship struck the rocks. She struck Boat Rocks, about three miles from Lammock: Light, at about 7.20 that same evening. By 2.30 the next morning she broke into half. At the timo that Hong Moh left Swatow weather was rough, a north-east wind blowing.
the the
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OHINESE AÈRIAL DEVELOPMENT.
Mr. Tan Choo Ban, B.A., & military aviator from Manila, is now visiting Malayasia with a view to organising a Company whose business it will be firstly to exhibit aviation, and secondly to run a business-line with China and the Philipines by air, trans- porting passengers, mail, and goods.
MAKING MEN INVISIBLE. Mr. H. G. Wells' dream of an invisible man' bas almost boen realised by a Russian scientist, Doctor Vassilieff, who is now revealing the results of his long experiments in Paris, according to the Daily Graphie's correpond- The impact at the time the ent. Dr-Vassilieff claims to have! vesael struck the racks was so succeeded in discovering a method sovere that everybody im of making the human body trans mediately rushed for their life parent. Strangely enough, the belts. The Hong Mob was doing method is similar to that imagined en knots an hour when she by Mr. Welle in his romance truck, and water immediatelyThe Invisible Man" (published looded the engine room and the in, 1897). The organic matter is ships lights went out. Thero impregnated with a liquid, the wore rocks within six feet of the secret of which Vassilieff is ship on the ship on the starboard retaining until the publication of ide. The Captain was on the his book on the subject two months fience. Paris journalists, bridge at the tion. It Wan "xpected that the ship would at after seeing specimens submitted any moment slip into deep water by Dr. Vassilieft. confirm the From the rocks, and passen scientist's declaration. They say zera were soon resigned to the that the transparency achieved is worst fate, Most of the pas not that of crystal, but of gelatine. sengers, as soon as the vessel "The degree of transparency can. struck the rocks, got into the life- not be augmented to invishility boats and remained there till by my composition, says Dr. morning. After the ship broke Vassiljeff, "as the inatter would into half some of them were he dissolved." He has experi- washed off the poop.
niented on living animals, such as There were three rafts on the frogs and mice. Transparency ship, but most of them had disap- began in the feet and the tails.) peared by morning. Communica. but at the end of a week the tion could not at first he establish- | Birbjects died. Dr. Vassilieff. od with the after part of the ship claims. however, har he ha as there was a twenty foot space, ¦ succeeded in giving transparency caused by the ship breaking into living flowers by impregnating. half, but a rope was later con- the surrounding soil. The dis nected to the other part and by covery is deemed to be of im this means some of the passengers mense importance to scientific succeeded in getting to the fore progresu, part of the vessel. The fore part of the ship was on the rocks. and evidently the after part wae suspended as she broke in half through the coal bunker.
Some of the passengers tried to swim to the rocks, but very few reached them. Others took to the riggings and several of them succumbed owing to ex- posure, Others fell into the gap between the vessel where they were smashed to places. There were rocks within six feet of the ship on the starboard side.
When the Hung Moh strick the rocks distress signals were sent up, but no vessel came to her assistance; presumably noņe were in the vicinity. The Shanei came on the acens next morning at about 10 o'clock. The Second So Nancy laid a reader on the teachers desk, and Buddy walked Engineer, of the Hong, Moh, Mr. over it calling out each word as he came to it and then passing on Harold Velge, and one Chinese to the next. Buddy wasn't a very good reader, for all his eyes were passenger straight away swam to so big but he did remarkably well. This was why. I'll tell you, al- the Shansi, and were picked un at 4 p.m. by means of ropes. The though no one else knows it. The teacher's desk happened to Shansi was standing by a mile off our old friend, the Magical Mushroom, who could speak every
the Hong Moh. She could not language, ino, and, when Buddy came to a hard word like repre-come neater owing to the bad hensibility" or "intempestivity," the Mushroom whispered it into stute of the weather.. She could
his ear..
This was one page Buddin read: "When the monarch survey.not use her boats and had to be ed his recent territorial acquisitione, obtained by such devastating content with standing by and
looking an. warfare in which valuable ammunition had been wasted and devoted
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Buddy wasn't a very good reader, for all his eyes were so big.
retainers had laid down their existonces, he fell into a melancholic
every from which none of his vassale could arouse him."
After reading the last word as glibly as if he'd been saying his A B C's, Buddy buzzed back to his seat.
My, my" said Mr. Double U Chuck," whose little boy is this, Mr. Scribble Scratch? He's very smart 1"
Scribble Boratch bowed proudly and explained who Buddy was. Would you mind explaining just what he was reading?" nykod Mr. Owd.
Poor Soribble Beratch pulled his forelock desperately, but it didn't help a bit. "I haven't any idea," he had to confess, "but it Founded all right, didn't it ?."
(To be continued to-morrow.)
Captain Holmes was on board This ship with the other officers, except the Second Enginder, for two days after the catastrophe. On the 5th instant, the remainder of the crew, with the Captain. left the wreck and tried to swim to the Shansi. All the crew were hauled up on board the Shansi by means of ropes, but when the Captain was pulled in it was found that he was dead.
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We understand That enquiry into the stranding of the Hong Moh will be held some time next week.
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