THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1932.
MORE SCENES FROM THE SHANGHAI BATTLEGROUND: FIRE DISASTERS.
PROCLAMATION.
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HICKSPA
二十八日星四下午四時
定推力特一九三二年一月
味
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AT THE RACES!
Shanghai residente randing the "State of Emergency" Proclamation posted outside the Mun!
cipal Building both in English and Chinese. The decision to declare such a state is coating the S.M.C.
a lakh of hele weekly,
Another conflagration In the Chapsi and Klangwan districts following intensive bombardment from Japanese artillery located on the Rifle Rangs. Picture «bowa the seat of the blake behind
the North Railway Station.
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BEGIN HERE TODAY
Clinieken ensime povikiðir innate and on
string hunts and prepared them Ante, Ciril and Mary Fenners Fenwick ve surreptitiously, and
with news- | with their grandparents, unes wealthy, now so, papers ready to hand for coverings, Teppers the husht. The water her carry home ready to be cooked total siten chill The grand for the evening ment.
in poveland that Ante's and Colly's caMPU-
parents are known reqje tady na "Bedt Once, for a few happy months, kud "Brand" and they linist on keeping OP- pretence of their former wealth,
ste hnd attempted short-story wrk-
Anne, 28, and Celly, e do secretarial working, but the following flood of fat When the evity pens Anur has tween negel velopes bring rejections and
y
wl Mary-France, 18, IN MATE IN schoni.
to Philip Heroyd, young lawyer, tur ightdrowned her courage, or her enu-
Cecily briner Barry Mckeed home to diener,
ceit, and dissolved her ambitions Shehu known him only short time Jus in for authorship,
She had not told Fallios in hot with blu Mary-'tances and jail about the short stories.
She
ser friend. Ermintrude, are excited about the had be afraid that he would tense arrtent of a stock vompany sins knu Ear! De Armont, They the town next her, as he had teased her about the Meanwhile Anne, at work, te mberrable be-graphology, the French in six easy
day, impins by meet him
cano Phil-down ant telephone
CHAPTER X
Her eyes went past the orchid- to the witle sulit street bord, When Mr. Redfern had conceived the idea of lowering his rent by moving Trom the west side of the river to this small place on the
and-bluck bathtub in the window
lessons, the cross-word puzzles. Her defence had been that they killed time. It was hard for Phil
had nothing to do all day but kill understand why a person who in should so often complain of earings in the evening; and yet, mbtedly. David too was tired after the encounter with Goliath.
a messenger boy riding along out?
east side he had said that it would there turned his bicycle sharply is much pleasanter for Miss Pen-i
and dismounted at the curb. Aun'a
wick. They were closer to the breath caught, but only far the mu- street, here, and she could look out ment it took the boy to discover ot the window and watch the peo- ple passing and the trafic all day the number next door.
lang.
Phii sometimes had sent flowers
to her at the offer. Phil, only last
He had meant it kindly. He year, had said that he hadn't nervei knew, na Ann knew, how light her is telephone to her after the way he duties were: a few letters and bills had acted, and had sent a long let-
to be sent, a few items to be posted ter by messenger.
be made out on Saturdays, and
Singa
Ann liked her yet, and
A
Following the dropping of bombs by Japanero aeroplanos on Chapel serious fires continue to "rage in Chapel.-There being no possibility of fighting the fires, they have by now-devastated-the- larger part of Chapei, causing damage which runs into millions of dollars.
Photograph showing crowds of Japanese outside the Shinto Tampla on Chapoo Road, when funeral servicnt were bolag held for the Japanese monk Rev. Hidea Mizukanu who died from in- juries received from Chinees rowdies. Thu sarvice was quint and undemonstrative and police had little trouble with the crowds.
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Phil once in the books, an occasional tele- phone call to answer, pay rolls to she haut fallen into the
'habit then, Phil's check wet against hers | urm, outside the Happy Hour Pool an impression of extreme trust- nothing more to be done except for of playing with them in her mind, because he was so happy the first Rooin, resting rather than wait worthiness, nor of rectitude; but, arranging and rearranging afternoon she was allowed to come ing. Standing go, he made no par- probably, he not blackly a scurrying day or two around the them as boys arrange their stamp downstairs.
[icularly attractive picture, though villainous-uo few persons are. Brat of each month.
collections. Phil's failure to call Five o'clock. Suppose he did not well
She looked again at the clock. he was young and tall, slender and He looked at the watch on hia
formed. A Mr. Redfern managed to her to-day was not au noticeable
hasty opinion wrist and found the time past four keep his ailing business alive only put beside the evening he had left telephone at all? Suppose she went, might have granted him good o'clock. He raised his eyes and by constant personal ministrations, her house at 10 o'clock and telom, and began to wait there for looks; but a more discriminating
I did a little readingopractor. A Stark reallem Ann was alone mast of the time in iphoned from
hig drug store 20 message, and it didn't
come?
7 observer would have remarked that J, O. Bariz,
Carlson Dentist. He the office. She read library book: minutes inter. Nothing had been Suppose she waited all evening the dark bright eyes were set the Androw
a lighter and more novels of the lighter, neatly medi-wrong that evening; he had wished and all to-morrow, and all to-morrow closely together under the over-finished on ocre sort; fictionized biography, or to hear her voice again, to be cer- evening? Suppose she wore to be hanging brow, and had this same romantic vein, Hung Chin Sec, n newly popular philosophy; poetry,tain that she really was. Phil's in now, at five o'clock on the fifth observer been recently to a zoo he Chop Suey Parlor, and lowered his sometimes, if the bladings were surliness last evening did not day of April, to wait all her life, might clean and pretty, though poetry count for much beside the time she long for a message from Phil that poid have noted bore an anthro- | eyes agnin to the street.
similitudo,
A block
away, by the window of often made her and. She wrote had scalded her hands, and Phli never came?
The lower part of the face was Peggy-Louise's Beauty Shoppe, letters to the fow people she knew had gone mad, and telephoned to n The telephone bell rang. She better: the jaw gave an impression stond the fat little kid who had ged it right. No harm in Mary-Frances's cheeks were ho
trying. Ho lighted another and her hands were cold; her knees who did not live in Portland-let-ductor, and declared that he could snatched the receiver and paused of strength, and the mouth was bean in the restaurant last night, cigarette and strolled acrose the were rickety; her throat; bad
Hits and with her was the pretty girl street. pink and pretty,
cramped, and her stomach was in- they required a "real letter" in an- bo hurt.
noke. "Hello.'
Leolh, which
friend, Earl had no interest
Mary-Frances glanced slantwise poverished and wavering, but awer (Ann Fenwick writen auch
Tho
Burlincas and the failure to "Ann, angel . . ." Cecily's voice he yawned and ho often yawned →→
You can't said · Ermintrude, dandy letters 1) and so, often, never call her, both together, grew small trilled higher and sweeter than wore jumbled every which way and gathered from her manner in theo in coming" he breathed in a sort of sick squeal; “you just answered them at all. She sawed put besido those two weeks when Janun).
revealed some old dentist's prodi- restaurant that she would probably le is coming.
positively can't wor a little, but gulitily-It didn't look she had been ill in bed and a box
wality with gold. Further descrip- stand for a pick-up. The girl
It is to be feared that the uret The youth known for the present tion of Earl DeArmount is dimeult. friend, a peach, probably would not Tennyson did it more elabonged of any ally, rather than any wall to be sowing in an offles. Dur: of flowers with a package of notas tag the sonson she went to a near to be read every half hour all day an Earl DeArmount stood, hat because no one knew the first thing stand for a pick-up; but she might rately but, perchance, with no swift aufge of affection, caused by market and bought peas and had arrived anch morning—and aslant and stick suspended from his about him. He did not generate come along with her felend it be more renuine emotion. At least, (Continued on Pare 12.)
ters
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long that the recipients felt not live in a world where Aun could to moisten her lips before she norely owed profusely withe fat little kid, though he had from under har long curling lashes.!
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