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THE
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HONGKONG
GEMS OF PERIL.
TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1932.
Continued from l'ago 3.): You can actually see them front out here sometimes. The breeze has gone down, too, and that's ways a sign. And the baromeler's dropping. Don't believe it will be much of a blow coming from that direction, though. I sure wouldn't want to see much wind, with un *tuck
up here on this reef like this,'
low are you coming on that radio?" the other asked crossly. as if making the youth beside him directly responsible for it.
A NEW ARRIVAL.
{DUTCH VESSEL'S FIRST VISIT.
A new arrival in port yesterday was the Dutch vessel Abbekerk, which arrived from Sabang, under the com- mand of Captain Fries. She carried
general cargo of 1,000 tons fur Honkong, and 0,160 tons of through cargo,
The Alibekerk is a steel screw vesel fitted with electric light and wireless. She has a gross tonnage of 6,400 tona and a net tonnage of 1,132. Her MerBurements Bro follows: length 1725 foot; breadth 0.2 feet; and depth 28.9 feet. Her Port of Registry is The Hague,
The Abbekerk
owned by But the sailor continued cheer.
Scheop ful. "Sparks told me there wasn't Vereenigde Nederlandische
Mants, and her Hongkong ngents are a chance to get it working. Somg the Java-China-Japan Line. She was body's jimmed it proper. Ho formerly named the Morton Abbey, thinks we'll just have to stick it and later the Rheinland. out here until some fishing party comes along or the patrol comes
steru.
even
around to check up on the light, drops of rain hit her and before she Captain said we'd wait another could move the stormt broke. The wind Inshed at her clinging skirts| lay and then if no one showed up which were soaked in a moment. he'd send a couple of men along She fled down the gangway to the the keys in the dinghy,"
"You mean you could make it to comparative shelter of the lower deck. Breathless, whe leaned Key West-90 milles--in that?" against the bulkhead and pushed. De Loma pointed down at the the wet hair out of her eyes. small tethered rowbont bumping The "Gypsy was stirring un- awkwardly about beneath the easily on the reef na the, sen anl wind pushed and tugged at her. "Sure. If the weather held As Mary felt her way along she good When you get tired of row-poed Mr. Jupiter's window. His Ing you could just þeigh her on a snore sounded
above the key and take a rest. They're only storm, but what was that other a few miles apart. And farther in Houd? Lite someone stumbling you'd be bound to pick up a fishing against n
chair. party that would take you on in to The Fly was in there. She knew wet help.
it. She could feel his presence. In Why has someone tried that the darkness of the room be must before this?" De Loma demanded. In able to see her head silhouetted "We've laten out on this reef injagaian the opening. She turned this damned sub for four days." and ran blindly back alang the She must get someOK. "Well, you age, this is the only deck. wool boat. That rackleshell up) Where was Bates' room? She had | there (Mary held her breath as never thunght to find nut and now they turned to look up at the Ufe-she wanted to know so desperately, bout behind which she was erne al- Bruce. She turned and pushed Į ed) 19' may good-that is, for open his door. much of a row. And we'd have to "Bruce Bruce! Get up! Some- Take the only two prirs of mars one's in your father's stateroom [" we have. If a storm should come| "What?" Roused audtienly from up and the party and to get over sleepi Bruce sat up so quickly he to Ford Jellersoa it would nimost knocked her over.
"The Fly! He's in your father's room. Quick!"
She
COMING SHORTLY TO THE KING'S
Janet GAYNOR Charles FARRELL
in
Herely Mary Ann
Henry King Production
As a penniless waif he loved her-as a lady of wealth he shunned her -until-romance fo id its way,
ARREST OF REDS.
́ROUND UP BY JERUSALEM POLICE.
Jerusalem, Feb, 1. Eleven girl communists and 23 men have been arrested in the city and suburbs.
Two of the arrested persons are Fingleaders long wanted by the police-Renter's Specin) Service.
ticklish business in tha: tub.
Crouched under the bont, she
hnd hated Bruce, but she had been too intent on the conver- sation to notice the little black could have kissed him for the quick- cloud of which the sailor hides with which he grasped the spolen, which had grown until it situation. Leaping from bed, he covered half the western sky. An fumbled an instant on the table,
Stay breath she stood still, too frighten- occasional spurt of wind ruffled the and was out the door.
ed to move, afraid to step for foar sea, which otherwise lay glasily
there quiet under the moon.
Mary was after him, though, beof the unknown. fore he could take half a dozen The two men apparently became trities. As she rounded the bulk- hend which hid Mr. Jupiter's door conscious of the approaching
from that of Bruce she heard the storm at almost the same moment heavy impact of two bodies, and "Sou? What did I tell you" the two shots au close together they andler printed. "Here she comes.eemed almost
Something
WAN
me,
*pa of 0
"Bruce!" she screamed suddenly, terrified by the stillness. As sho started forward, a plunging form came out of the blackness, struck her and hurled her bodily aside. She was knocked off her balance, her hend hit something hard and she slipped down in a dend faint.
To be Continued.)
HARBOUR ROUND SERVICE
It won't be a had one beentise you itched headlong onto the deck at can see the edge of it there along her feet. For the the horizon, but it, will be plenty damp while it lasts. Better get under cover, sir. I've got to get my eltekins."
where he The Fly Blond after the other had gone, staring at the rolling-ap mass of cloud. Suddenly he snupped his fingers, straightened with sudden decision and she saw him take something from: his pocket. There was # abarn elfck, then be melted along the deck in the same noiseless way he had come
A wisp of stray cloud flying ahead of the storm blatted out the moon just then. Mary scrambled fran her hiding place and ran back along, the top deck. There W2009 etPl fight enough to see that the deck below her was deserted,
What ought she to do? Rouse Butes? Was it really the click of a cartridge chamber she had heard, or might it have been the snapping shut of a cigarette rase? Hardly that for the only other smoker on board was Bates, and that young mun would have swallowed his available supply of tobacco rather thun share it with The Fly.
While she hesitated, the frat
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