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Th&FIREFLY
Halsey Rainal
Copyright 1937-Loew's Inc.
WHAT Han Harpened Thum PARÍ
Nina Acara, beautiful young singer, known as "The Firefly) in Impalled by patriotic seal to act as spy for the Spanish government. Evading handsome Don Diego, who has been paylug court to her, she goes accretly across the French bardor to Hayonne. Here she again meeta Diego, who has follorand hor; she reallace ahe louca kim, but bega him not to eaclt out her company aguin until they are inchi Madrid, Bho learns of Napoleon's plans to tako King Fordinand of Spain into custody, through it flirtation with Majör de Rouge- ment, one of Napoleon's aider Preparing to send a message of warning by carrier pigeon, she discovers that soma counter-any has substituted another bird for her own. In caporation ahe hastens to Diego's house. There, when she askň Diego to take a menuga for her, who is inter ruptet by a member of the French Intelligence Servicë, who informa her that Diogo le roas Capinis Andro, of ine Frenc Police.
Chaptor Six
Nina knew that her mission to Bave pain was now ended; but thin realization was overshadowed by the stunning shock of Don Diego'a true position. He belonged to France, to the enemy country • • • Her one chance was thint through sheer bravado, she could pass off the code message in her possession as harmless,
"I don't know what you're talking about" she told St. Claire, as he started to read the parchment he had taken from her.
"I have only a moment.
alone."
I had to speak to you
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¡ly, commanding him to bring a member of the Intelligence Bervice. As the door opened to admit him, Nina saw that it was Dan Dlogo! They stared at each other, Diego fearfully realizing the cause of hila own présence there. Ordered to do. code the menzuge, he complied.
“Verify_this map and return. We *cill attack on the Steenty-first,” was the message.
Commanding that Nina be placed under arrest, de Rougemont ùsung Into antion. The Httle cart Niva useit waa ransacked, and a carelor pigeon discovered. Diego was ordered to send a reply in the camo code, stating that these were indeed tho French positions. Then da Rougo- ment ordered alt French ilaca to be changed, lie was wall pleased with this stroke of strategy. Now let the Spanish and English pitiek omply positions!
As he watched the pigeon mak- ing its way straight toward th Engilsh Ines, a nudden resolve camin to Diego. Ito made his way hurriedly to the low bullding trans- formed into a temporary jail.
"I'm going in to spexit to the prisoner," he said to the guard, who Jooked at him euriously.
Nina's heart beat wildly na the door opened. She was willing to dio ...but a moment of panic overcame her as the realized the time might be near. When she saw it was, Diego, she managed to gain com plete control of herself. She looked spoke gently.
him, cooly, defiantly. Diego
"I have only a moment. I had to speak to you alone."
"Why?" "Nina demanded, "You've done your duty. Your conscience is clear."
"My conocienco Diego anja quially. "As if I cared about my, conscience! All those years I've dreamed of you. Of the time when · this terrible war would be over." IIo! broke off, unable to continue for al
finally snid, "Didn't you know you'd
“Resorva one table alone, order vinent. "Why did you do this?" lo ona flaming omelette, 'n be with you tomorrows." The officer, roading staud, knitted his brows. He could
bo recognized? That it Dicant death
if you were caught?"
The battle
Nina's face suddenly lighted up with hops. "The battle for Vittoria," she said in a low voice.
not hold her on the strength of this. At that moment, a great booming
"You have till nine o'clock toof cannca resounded. leave the country," he said grimly, had started! Nina drew her lips together. Hold- Ing her hond high, he left the room. She caught just a fleeting glimpse of Don Diego's tortured Diego was puzzled by the tone she face as slie panned him ... | had adopted. Another burst of can-
non cams, this time much closer. Napoleon's coup d'olat was success- "Something's wrong,” Diego salu, fal. Within a fortnight his brother, quickly stepping to the window. Joseph Donaparte, had been Inatal-They're not attacking the center." led as Spanish ruler in place of the "Wo__ never intended to attack
through lawful Ferdinand.
center," answered
tha
The people wore bitterly resont-Nina, "But we wanted to make you ful. When the new monarch ar-think that we were going to do so rived in Madrid he was grested that you would weaken your side with brooding.allence in some quar positions. That's why I came up tern, open insulis in others.
The aftermath was inevitable. A atray shot...retaliation by a French soldier...opos rebellion.. brutality ...massacro...and a fierce do fenan by the tremendously outnum bered loyal Spaniards. The only hopa, it appeared, wan Wellington and his English army,
Viltoria.
hero with that map, I wanted to.ho caught. My orders were to be dis covered with that map. But nover send it. We left that strategy for you."
the
Gradually Diego grasped meaning of her words.
"You mean -- that carrier pigeon - they knew we were the ones who sent 1E7" "Yes!"
Diego called for the guard and rushed from the cell, Nina's taunt- ing laugh followed him.
Nina, trying ineffectually to ban- Lab Don Diego from her mind, had been lying for the day when she could once again bo of nomo servico to her stricken land. The moment was here at Inat. Garbing herself in The next moment abo realized he the carefree, Hypay raiment of the might have rushed to his death. He Basque country, she stole across the was running toward the bridge. horder to French headquarters in Whoa he reached it, a shell struck. A Nina watched, horrified, he Boated with nome ather dancora pitched to the ground. She scream- beside a campfire, on the outskirts ed calling his hams again and of the town, her heart began to again.'
"The battle was soon over. Thanks pound wildly an nhe enuight sight of de Rougerment (now wearing the to Nina's bravery, the French had insignia of a general). If so, did he been fooled into changing their know her real entity? Would he strong position for a much weaker recognize her? She rose and began one. It was the Marquis bluel
who finally found Nina in her cell, to weave back and forward in a
safe but stony-eyed. Amid groni provocative hucolle dance.
Do Rougomont halted his horse, cheers, she was led from the fall.
The courtyard had been turned He watched the group. His purziad
into a first-aid station. Nina looked eyes were fixed on Nina. As Nina began to plng, his face lighted up. around desperately. Her eyes wont He gave a lerso, whispered com-awitly from man to man. He was mand to an adjutant, then rode off, gone...no...In a corner she saw The orderly hurried over to Ninn, Diego lying on a bed of straw, heav who stood waiting, half in exalta-ly bandaged about the arm, cheat
and shoulders. She rushed to him. tion, half in dread.
"Come to the general's rooms," turned from her. She took his hand, His eyes were closed, his taco De Rougemont was overjoyed to murmuring softly, almost a Moo her, and Nina prelended to be
"I'm here. Diego, I'm bo elated at the reunion. As he turned
be sold.
for a moment to dismiss the at-
whisperi
Didgo's eyes opened. For a brief
tendant, Nina ripped open the band moment, he stared; then his face
of her cost collar, taking from there
lighted up. "Giannini," he whisper
a small piece of paper: Turning, deed. "Don't leave the... don't go. Rougement, saw her and sternly ho
"I won't. I won't... ever," Nina demanded the paper. It was a map, said, kneeling to kiss hina, abviously at the French linen,
De Rougement recalled the prior-I
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 14,
-1938.
"Bloodiest Struggle In History" Recalled By Anniversary
JAPANESE VICTORY
IN MUKDEN
BATTLE
PA
,;
By W.G.G.
..
"Towns without people, ten
tintes fook,
And ten times left, and burned
at last.
And staring dogs that came to
look,
For owners when the column
passed."
fusion and an unnamed dread rested on all, Intensified by the strange and ominous darkness.
That evening the gates of Mukden were not shuf, lest some struggler should spend the night in the outer darkness in which anything could happen. And within the walls the entire population was hypnotised
with terror.
Lender Outwitted
During the night the wind in- creased to gale force tid moaned neross the Manchurian plains. was as the groaning of the spirits of the slaughtered,
"A sound...
the trailing skirts of
of As
Destiny: Passing unseen to some immiti-
Hable end
SLAUGHTER THAT KNOWS NO EQUAL
their supplies, lang, so far from were short of munitions. One course lone was possible. Kuropatkin took it. On the evening-of March 10
the retirement. began
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Probably the greatest victory in the whale of that war was the mastered With her grey henchman-Death." agony of that munitionless retreat At midnight under the protection of the Russian forces, who two days before were confident of victory. But
the stars in their courses had fought | |- against Sisera,"
on .their
the muin
of that gale of dust, the Japanese crossed the Sha-ho and army moved from the centre to join
The Japanese, following Oyama, the forces of Nodzu in the South. Herc the attack was prepared, entered Mukden, The Russo-Japan- Kuropatkin, who expected it from ese War was over.
Statistics of the slaughter vary the centre and had his armies drawn Thursday was the great festival of up in readiness,
out but it would seem that those nearest be was to
to the real estimate ore: Japanese, the Japanese Army. Since 1805 this witted.
"Army day has been observed as
At daybreak the Japanese ad- 47,152 killed, 11,424 died of wounds, Commemoration Day," with great vanced and then began that "blood- 21,002 died of disease. The last religious and military rites, Alest struggle in history." Like demons figures are significant as indienting thanksgiving for victory at the Battle who saw in the skies the Beckoning the effect of rotting bodles outside These figures were com- of Mukden.
faces of their ancestors the Japanese Mukden. When the Japanese army entered fought, hacked their way through piled by the Statistical Bureau of the Japanese Army. The Russian esti- masses of flesh and blood, that city, in 1005, the Russo-Japan- The Cossacks
horses mute of their losses at the Battle of ese war ended. To-day, in count dashed. ns "plereing knives of hell" Mukden was 45,700 killed and 110,000 less shrines and temples, soldiers in in and out of the Japanese ranks. died of wounds and disease. full military dress will render thanks It was carnage described later by This is the victory and the tri- to Kojin Samu, the God of War, and the brilliant Japanese Chief of Staff, umphat entry into Mukden the ancestral spirits. The High General Kodama, us awful Japan will celebrate to-diny. Command whi Attend
Yasakuni slaughter that soaked the ground For following weeks the plain be- Shrine, at Toranomon, Tukyo, with blood."
fore Mukden became one great fune- Sir Ian Hamilton has said that the
At least 250,000 men were fighting ral pyre, where the bodies of the Battle of Mukden (the World War hand to hand. Even Tamerlane, who fallen Japanese were burned, while notwithstanding) was "the bloodiest built in Asia his pyramid of 70,000 throughout Japan there was the un- struggle in history." Certainly there human skulls, might well have shud- ending roll of funeral drums as the the have been battles where more com- dered at this landscape splashed with countless rickshaws followed
ashes of the brave to their resting batants took the field, but for de- blood. moniacal fighting and cornage his-
But it did not Inst long. The Rus- places. tory can record no equal, Russians' Retreat
The words of Admiral Togo to the flect tht stormed Port Arthur in 1904 became the battle-cry of the great host that was landed on the mainland of Asia and explains the ferocity of the fighting. Those words
were the enemy is ahead. Advance
and slaughter him. If you should dic, then a ready welcome awaits you among, your ancestors." Fired with this assurance of glory, whether winning or losing, the Jap- anese advanced into Munchuria. They swept in triumph everywhere. The advanced host of the Russians retreated, leaving half-empty towns They for the Japanese to infest. were falling back on Mukden.
From February 19 to March 10 a series of battles took place on great curve, 100 miles in extent, the centre passing in front of the town of Mukden. It is stated that st times half a million men were en- Kaged and at no time were there less than a quarter of a million in the field.
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The Japanese sought to hasten... the issue as they had constant sup- The plies of new troops coming up. Russians, on the other hand, so far from their base and connected with It by a single line of rail, endeavoured to delay the decisive struggle until large reinforcing army arrived. This would not arrive for at least three weeks. Meanwhile Kuropatkin fought with strategy and cunning. False Confidence
Till March 9, the vantage was on So con- the side, of the Russians. fident were they that, relying on the arrival of the Baltic Fleet, they had actually named the day when they would march in triumph through Tokyo. Time after time the Japanese armies smached themselves against the Russlon wail, which proved ad- amant. It refused to yield.
At the northern end of the curvo the Japanese under Kuroki followed attack by attack, the advancing army marching over the bodies of those slaughtered in the preceding battle. But never an inch was given without great losses. In the extreme south the Japanese General Nodzu tried en- elreling tactles, but he was no 'more Luccessful. Eventually he retreated to the river Sha-ho, and there was temporary quiet in the south,
The centre, where the main army was held in reserve under Oyama, leader of the campaign, and his bell- llami Chief of Staff, Kodamn, was watched day and night by Russian scouts, for Kuropatkin expected the greatest attempt to be made there. He had assembled his Cossack cav- alry ready to meet this advance.
That it was not made bewildered him, although it fited in well with the strategy he himself was relying on the arrival of the fresh Russian army.
"Heaven's Vengeance"
On the afternoon of March 9, the unexpected happened. A strong wind sprang up from the south, and blinding dust storm enveloped Manchuria. A British war corres- pondent in Mukden declared that the dust was so thick that it darkened all the land, and from the window of his hotel a wall 18 feet away was not visible. The Chinese residents
of the city became panic-stricken, and cried out: "Surely Heaven is on the side of the Japanese."
Into the city poured the affrighted country people, who saw in the
from storm a vengeance
Heaven. Along the old stone streets rumbled all that afternoon and evening farm caris of every description, drawn by horses, mules, and cows.
Mon walked one after the other with poles on their shoulders; from which were suspended ·all・・ their worldly belongings. -Women:" with children in their arme sought refuge
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