THE ·HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1932.
BELGRADE EXPRESS DISASTER: MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL AFTER THE SMASH
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A wrong turning- crash into the blind end of a platform...Then this awesome scene of wrecked locomotiva, cara stand on end, cari lying on their sides, care reduced to mere splinters.
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Youthful "Blackshirts" drummed up Mahatma Gandhi's interest in Fascism, as in shown by this picture, taken during the Jadian leader's visit to Rome.
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Gems of Peril
CHAPTER XLIV
J. J. Jupiter was the first man on desk. Although "J was past his ustini early refining hour, he was still dressed. He was there when Captain Bemlercks came hur. rying down from the bridge, and together the two men retired to the port rail. Bales and Mary Film j,15t}.
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ther. leaning eu Lur Phil 4.) standying the prospect in every di- cretion. They were all very inuch The sanay which must have been discouraging.
He avoided The Bandward side, Mary observed, But whether this "What's the matter, emptats due to her presener there, or
1:0 Lize Віброза which consisted of
Hates inquired somewhat nervously xlassy sea out of which old Fort
Ho had fandsman's inordinate | Jefferson prison
reared its uply
fear of neident on sea, and event best she did not knew. Mary felt a childish impulse to rush Presently, to give hin the range to the captain and cling to his hand until the danger was over.
"We're fast on a reet," Captain
or the beat, and also because his restlessness, had begun to get on her nerves, she resolved to ge below
Hendricks was explaining to aire and take a mag. She met a atoward Jupitur. "She's apparently ntanha tray, headed for Dirk's states hurt--the engineers say she's mak
room, and stopped him. She rear- ing no water below. but she seeins ranged it a hit to make it more in- to be well stuck."
viting. Then the lud the steward Want while she wrote a note, It we only three words.
"Can you get off by yourself?", Mr. Jupiter asked.
"We'll have a fry it it tomorrow; morning. I'm afraid we'll have too have a tug out of Key West though to give us a pull."
"Do what you think best." Mr. Jupiter answered mildly
I shouldn't have come in 19 night," the captain continued, "but the moon made it almost like day, and Fve haven around here so much
"Battered but not shattered," was Mr. Winston Churchill's description of himself when, es pictured here, the British staten. man left a New York hospital ic return to his hotel.
Mary pulled a book from the ruck was impresalve particularly to a T +124 side of the salon and sent man whose courage was not or the that alou, too. She promised her.|physical sort, Mary, Ustening to self that she would drap, în and see the encounter between the two with! Dirk after he had lunch,
a loudly beating heart, opened her
Once she heard an altercation outdoor a trifle when on Loma had on doek. De Lama was berating one Captain Hendricks was still steward because he had forked upstanding there.
the liquor cabinet. at Mr. Jupiter' "Keep your door loved," he said i order, as it turned out. Mary dis very low. "The steward just sur-
I thought I could make it even in missed it from her mind, until a
a fog. This change! isn't used ex; violent knocking ni her door forevd rept for small fishing craft, and her to take notice of it." apparently some of the boys have drifted over. See that mid-hannel buoy there?"
prised him trying Mr. Jupiter's
door. That's what he's so hot and bothered almat. Though I reckon
De Loma was in a towering. he'd like to have a drink, at that.; white-hol raste.
Good thing Jupiter's got the only "What's this all about ?" he snarl-boat- think he'd try to row lo He pointed to what looked like an ed, “Am 1n givet on this dartu | shore." upturned funnel to Mary. It was, dabing-amark or am I not? Why "Are we off the reef yet?" she floating almost in the shadow the can't I get service from these deaf asked hopefully, ship cast on the water.
mutes you've got for waiters on this All morning the crew had worked Mid-channel buoy, and it's stick tub? I want a drink, and I want at the job of dislodging the strand- ing right up on top of a reef with it now, do you hear! Teil this cubed "Gypsy," first dropping on an- only about five feet of water overta toas out that key! What does he it! Forturately we were coming in slow, Just barely turning over. "Where are we?" Bates asked. "Just half mile from the old pier at Fort Jefferson where I in- tended to make fast. In another five minutes we'd have been there That's Dry Tortugas there a couple
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think I am, a baby?"
"Take your troubles to Captain Hendricks, He's in command." Mary replied.
"Yes? Well, there's something want to know-why doesn't that radio operator send my mes-
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chor off the bow and trying to pull bor forward with a winch and then repeating the performance off the stern. But the lovely white-and- gold yacht was firmly seated upon a rock, and there she remained, as alluring a sight as Circe of old to the tired and grubby fishermen now plying toward her.
"No luck. We're here till we can
Mr. George Boyd is shown at the White Houss delivering the debt moratorium massure for
the President's signature after the Senate had ratified it.
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This is not New York's naw Cathedral of St. John the Divina. It hasn't been complated! This is a model of the edifice, recently unvelled. The model weighs one ton, is nearly 13 feet long, woven feet wids and eight foot high.
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of miles off the starboard beain." "Docsn't he?"
They turned to look, and the ray "No. If he didt, I'd have had an- get a tug to pull us off." The cap- of the big lamp in its white towerswers before now. What's happen-tain shook his head. "He'll be swept across their faces and off into ing to my trunks? Damn it, if that balmy before then. You know what "Didn't you get any barracula?" There was no other explanation. the moonlit night.
hotel seizes them, I'll hold you re- I think?" He whispered almost "No. No luck there.” Mr. Jupi- | She almost ran to her own cabin, "I'm
gleefully. "I think it's that old ter called n deck hand to bring locked herself in and let the tears ing theg fishing in the mornsponsible!" Mr. Jupiter said cheer-
Mary smiled shakily
prlson that gets his goat! He's so their catch up from the dinghy "I | come. Then. realizing that sho fully. "How about it, Bates?" "You flatter me. As I said he jittery now he can't ent. And when wouldn't want to try to bring one could not go up on dock again with
"Fine."
man's of those into that cockleshelf. Got out exciting curiosity, she sent a "We'd better be getting a little ore Captahe Hendricks is the man appetites fall on shipboard,
either musick or got the fear of the boat lou captain replied. his half-completo "picture puzzle." to see
steward to ask Bates to loan her Yet?" sleep. Ought to be out by six any: | "That
hell-fire in him."
"Sorry, sir," the way. They bite better early in the
From his choice of exploliven it In mid-afternoon the fishermen "And now there's something the If she must be a prisoner she could morning. Everybody back to bed
the sullen De matter with the radio. Tried to get at least be doing something useful. now. There's nothing we can do to was apparent that Captain Hen- arrived, and oven
(Continued on Page 11.) help, and we'd only be in the way dricks had already been seen, and Loma was at the rall to watch their Key West to order a tug, but it added his refusal to that of his coming aboard. Any kind of ac wouldn't work. Couldn't raise any. subordinates. De Loma waa aptivity was better than the stillness one." A sudden thought made him The day that followed was one of pealing to Mary as a last resort and utter lack of human association look suspiciously in De Loma's dis unutterable tedium left behind while the fishing party ila was almost beside himself, and from which he had been suffering: raction. If I thought anyone had
his bravado was fast crumbling. "Oh, what marvellous luck!" tampered with it”. cruised happily about. Mary sat in Mary shut the door and an instant Mary called out involuntarily us De Lomn brought his oyce back a deck chair, a book in her lap later she heard the captain's low, the boat came alongside and she from a moody contemplation of watching the unexcited inbours of
saw several shining fish in the Fort Jefferson prison, turned and We've a sick man in that enbin bottom. "What Bro they? I walked away. The captain's specu- It was not very entertaining but it down there, De Loma, I suggest never saw such beautiful fish be-lative gaze followed him.
you lower your voice. Better still, fore." Both Mr. Jupiter and was better than nothing. ------
were grinning an they Dirk was either asleop or feigned The burning sun drevo Bruce and stay up on dock, What were you Bates
bothering Miss Harkness about? climbed out, albeit rather stiffly, it when Mary went down to see Louise downstairs, where they Miss Harkness is not to be at- and came on the gangplank, him. His stony unresponsiveness -played interminable games of soll-
noyed!!
"Kingfish," Bates replied, and was beginning to wear her spirits taire. De Loma prowled the ship
they're rightly named, too. What a down at last. It was not human, like a caged animal. He bad run
Do Loma obeyed without a word, fight one of those fellows gave me! he felt, to be no stubbornly resist out of cigarettes long since, and his
There was something about the Ho knew I was an amateur so he ant even to the ordinary claims of nerves were all a-jangle. He roved
friendship. He must hate. hor. from one end of the ship to the sturdy figure of the captain that unve the works."
for those
the distant fishermen through a stendy voice. telescope loaned her by the captain.
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