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WHAT HAS Harranco Titus FAR: Wishing to avoid an impetuous French auctor from whom she has been probing military no creta, Nina
Asara, beautiful young #panish singer, encour agos a fitriation that involves him in a thuel with a handsome young Don. Meantime she con Jars with the Marquia da Melito and undertakes to go to Bayonne as a government "apy. On the way the driver of her coach eights a most of bandits.
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haps I won't be so discouraging." With this Don Diego had to be content, nu he watched her carriago vanish along the dusty road.
Nina's mind worked rapidly an ho entered the gdy city of Layon- ne, across the French border. Not a minute was to be lost. She made crrangements to do some numbers in a cafe that evening, realizing this would provide the best moana of coting one of Napoleon's aldos.
Ifer reasoning was accurate. In the cafe were.binny officers whonO uniforms bors the insignia of Bons parto. As she sang a haunting love lyric, with all oyes in the room fixed on her in fascinated approval, Nina moved from table to Lablo. With casual, raving eye she manag- ed to study the badges designating the rank of the Napoleonie guard. No one could possibly have suspect- ed her motives, for she appeared
"Drive on! Hurry! cried Nina. The driver needed no urging. He whipped up the mules. Nina and Loin were dinging for dear life as the coach rolled from side to side.wrapped up in the song.
Major Julian de Rougemont was "They're heading un off" Thea seasoned campaigner of middle boy was terriño. And, look! yours. He sat with a half dozen There's one behind us!"*
officers, and his eyes glowed undor In the dust, in the distance, a the speil of Nina's provocative song. solitary rider was following the When the singer caught a glimpno coach at top speed. Knowing he of the badge he wore, ahe knew that couldn't possibly escape the bri- her goal had been attained. He was gands, the driver pulled the mules ona of Bonaparte's personal alden- to a stop. As the lone rider ap-de-camp! proached, the driver and the boy
Knowing that ho was the one per- put their hands up in sign of sur-gon who would know most about render. But as he whirled up to the Napoleon's pinns, and concentrating coach in the next moment, the driver nil her attention on him, Nina sang duffed his hat and bowed smilingly. Nina was bewildered, unable to bo lieve her eyes. For the lone rider was Don Diego.
"You!" Nina exclaimed. "It's really me,"
Don Diego amited. "I wasn't killed. As a mat tar of fact, I never got to that duel. 1 G, ralept."
For a moment the bandits had been forgotten.
"Thank heaven you've come!" Nina said.
and smiled na never before. The Major, though he tried to re- main dignified in the presence of he follow-offleers, foll the growing spell of the singer's capricious chal- lenge. When she passed.close to his table, and playfully pleked up his hat, he raised no objection.
Then, just at the moment when she fell her triumph assured, there was a slight commotion at the outer door. Nina turned. Her hoart #oem- It was Don ed to stop beating.
"Comet Do you think I could stay Diegot
"The King will leave
Madrid soon," he whispered.
away after that klas?" Don Diego He had followed her to Bayonne, anid with passionato fervor. "No- But I she so much as recognized thing could discourage me after him now, sho would ruin the mis- that. I don't care about that other sion on which she had come to man. I don't care how many mon France. There was no question of a there are in your fo!"
cholce, no matter how much it hurt her. As he drow a chair up near her, smiling eagerly, she ignored him, and continued to flirt with Major de Rougemont
"Well," Ninn broko in drily, "there are about twenty of them, right now" he potated toward the fast approaching belgands.
And If you don't care about Supping away to her dressing them, I do" she exclaimed.
room amid the wild plaudits of the Quickly, Nina handed Don Diego, crowd, Nina walled angerly. It was in full aight of the onrushing brig-only a few moments before the anta, her money bag. As the lender Major, as bashful as a schoolboy, of the brigands caught this transac appeared.
tion, he yelled for his band to fol- Apologizing for having run off low the Spaniard Riding hard, with his hat, Nina shrewdly extract- blundering his way through the ed an admission that he had come woods, Don Diege managed to on to Bayonna on personal business throw them off the trail. An hour for the Emperor, later, Don Diego caught up with "As & matter at fact, I've just Nina's coach, which had proceeded been made one of his sides," said along its way to Vittoria, Nina wel de Hougemont proudly. comed his warmly, and in the syca of the driver and the boy, Don Diego was a hero.
"Hi ide! Let me touch yaul" cried Nina, playing her part por footly. "If you only know how I Nina's stop in Vittoria was a brier felt about Napoleon!" overnight one. Her mission there "I hope you can learn to fool Just was to pick up a confidential men- as warmly about ons of his aides." sage from a servant at the inn. The said the Major, thoroughly taken lattor was prepared to recognize in by her artifion.
her. As he brought up bar bags
In another moment the Major had
and found himself alone with Her disclosed the fact that it was his be whispered:
job to handle the forthcoming con-
The king will leave Madrid soon. ference between King Ferdinand It has been arranged for him to and Napoleon, for the alleged pur-. stop here in Vittoria before he pose of cementing a better inter- crosana the border into France. If national relationship.
you get any information you are to
"I can't imagine anything better,"
send it here, so we can keep him smiled Nina.
from going any farther."
"I hgren with you," said the
"And the means of sending it-Major. "I think we should set an "Go to the market place in Bay example ourselves. Shall we start onne. There will be a man selling with dinner some time?" chickens and live stock. He wil have carrier pigeons ready for you, He will know you if you say Vit
torla.*
The problem for Nina now was
Then, abruptly as a thunderclap, there was a knock at the door. She Answered. A buge bunch of roses was carried in, with Don Diego's card. The Major rose in irritation, Nina saw her prizo alipping from
her country betayed.
to escape from Don Diego, whoshell the gentleman I do not wish
company, the beautiful young spy
would not help admiiting to her to see him, at any time." she said quickly. She turned hurriedly to do
self, was becoming increasingly en
Joyable. But he might seriously in Rougemont, torfere with the carrying out of her Tission.
"You were going to any-," nho asked nervously,
As xhs prepared to leave for Bay- antio, and he rose up smilingby_to)me" tomorrow, bor side she said determinedly:
"This has to be good-bye."
"You can't go off this way and
leave me stranded,” hoʻrolorted,
"I had hoped you might dine with the Major said, clearing his throat, "There's a de Hightful caID="
Don't you think it would be plenannter ·tete-a-tete, · In your
*T'm sorry. There are reasons why rooms?" asked Nina.
I can't possibly have anyone with: The Major fall for the bait. He me."
prassed her hand, smiled expectant- "When am I going to see your and bowed bis way out. Nina had won her first victory! But her again?".
You go back to Madrid," said axultation was mingled with sor- Nina, her heart softening, though row she realized she might never the lines of her month were firm, Don Diego again. "When I come back, well... per-).
(To Do continued)
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COMMONS APPROVES OF VOTE TO PAY EXPENSES OF H. K. REFUGEES
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London, Mar. 9.
Introducing the Foreign Office supplementary estimates in the House of Commons to-day, including a grant of £5,000 to Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, former Ambassador to China, Mr. R. A. Butler, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour, said he was happy to say that Sir Hughe's health was improving steadily, and they sincerely hoped it would be restored so as to enable him to continue to render the conspicuous service to his country which he had given in the past. (Cheers).
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MARCH
10, 1988.
Americans Sympathies With China
"American sympathies are definite- ly with China In her struggle with Japan," declared Mr. Alfred Ander- son, retired publisher of the Dallas Dispatch, Houston Press and Memphis
ព an interview yesterday Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Anderson is making a world tour aboard the Empress of Britain.
Sentiment in Amerienn newspapers,
declared, is
#nu- very much Japanese
"The Sino-Japanese conflict is one
of the major running news stories of the day, and American newspapers can't get enough material from their correspondents in the Orient.
"Although the unofficial boycott of Japanese goods is evident in the United States, I have found, strangely enough, that it is stronger abroad.
entered
For instance, during the present tour, shop in a wayside port
and attempted to buy a small curlo,
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ond maintenance, in that the grant to the British Ambas- to-day between Lord Perth, British passage to, Hongkong, but as many of them were sador was unprecendented, but he Ambassador to Rome, and Count in straightened circumstances they said that any case of this sort must be Clan, Italian Foreign Minister, and were unable to pay this preliminary considered on its merits in the future.it is not believed they will meet again
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matter tom. 10-morrow of the Fascist Grand
Council, which will discuss future. Referring to Britons who had fleet ment that this was not to Hankow. Mr. Butler Rave assur-be condoned by the payment of Anglo-liallan relations and the ques
tion of Italian volunteers in Sprin. position of monetary grant by the Japanese. ance that the future
Colonel Josef Beck of Poland had NANKING PROTECTED Hankow would be carefully watched.
with Signor Replying to question by his last conversation particularly the possibility of estab fishing a zone which would be free Arthur Henderson (Lab) with regard Mussolini this afternoon, thousands air in Mussolini's und as far as possible from the war to the events in Nanking, Mr. Butler of feel in the should ever reach Hankow. assured him that the Japanese, a private bomber In which the Duce over the reclaimed piloted him
Mr. D. R. Grenfell (Lab) form-cording to his information, had taken
the steps to send a suitable officer to see Portine marshes and over Rome. lally moved
reduction
na recurrence of such vote. He declared that asking Bri-there was
Colonel Beck will have an Inter- iew with Count Clano to-night and tish refugees from China to pay the events.
With regard to the refugees from will return to Warsaw to-morrow. cost of their conveyance was very
and And
the Shanghui, Mr. Butler said that be- It is believed Count Cisno shabby.
ho suggested Jiipune should be asked to foot thetween August 17 and August 24, last Colonel Beck have afirmed Italo- in Central bill, and also to pay the grant of year, 4,058 persons, Including 3,800 Polish common interests in
Knatchbull- Britons had been sent to Hongkong. Europe, and their desire to See £5,000 in Sir Hughe
About 3,300 of these Britons paid for diminution of tension there. There Hugessen,
their accommodation in Hongkong, is no indication whether anything only 500 becoming a charge on the has been said about Poland joining a Sie Edward Grigg (Cons), while in Government. Many of these people Five-Power Pact with Britain, Ger-
many, France and Italy-Reuter.
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no way questioning the propriety of had money which they were unable the grant to the former Ambassador, to obtain from the area of hostilities, pointed out that it created a new and therefore it was perfectly legiti precedent, and he asked whether it mate for the Government to ask Lie
was to be generally applied in cases to repay.
Mr. Arthur Henderson asked
a
of other distinguished officers being wounded or killed in the discharge question with regard to those not in
of their duty in the diplomatic sera position to pay, and Mr. Butler, replying, said the Government had
INSURGENTS START A NEW OFFENSIVE
a
Saragossa, Mar. 9. After consolidating gains on the
vice.
Mr. G. le M. Mander (Lib) uso been actuated by humanitarian prin- Teruel front, the Insurgent offensive asked whether the Japanese Govern- ciples. ment had been pressed to repay to
started to-day on a 60 miles fron!!
Saragossa. Mr. Grenfell's motion was defeated near
Insurgent planes estimates made a number of raids on Govern- the British Government the grant to by 209 10 111, and the
ment trenches-Renter Bulletin. Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen." He cerled 207 to 110-Reuter.
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